When summer came, the grass on the mountains began to darken and yellow, and the children had a new activity, stealing edamame and peanuts, and taking them to the forest to burn and eat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There is a kind of peanut edamame at home to lead the way (like a traitor, leading someone to steal his own home, this was normal at that time), the big thief, the small one went home to pick up firewood, in fact, it was also stealing, and the adults would definitely be beaten when they saw it. A group of hairy children gathered on the edge of the forest to eat with black ash on their faces, and they were inevitably beaten when they went home, which was the fun of children in mountain villages.

Until the autumn harvest, I couldn't see the groups of children running around, and they all automatically stayed at home and worked. No matter how naughty the child is, when he has his own work, he will stay at home and work.

Breaking buds, digging potatoes, shaving sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes), picking edamame, turning peanuts, washing tomato seeds, washing cucumber seeds, picking eggplant peppers, picking kidney beans, these are all children's work.

Zhang Xingming and his brother also carried a small basket and followed their grandmother to the field to break buds, and their faces would always be marked red by the buds leaves, and they felt a little sweaty and painful. The bud rice stick is broken back to hang up and dried, the bud that has just been peeled is soft to the touch, like a puddle of water wrapped under a layer of skin film, and so on for a few days, it becomes hard and hard, at this time it is necessary to pick off the bud that hangs to dry, the family sits together, rubs the bud, twists the two buds horizontally and rubs together, the bud rice grains fall off, the bud bones are piled on the side, this can be burned, the bud rice grains have to be dried again, otherwise they can't be put down.

Every house is spread all over the yard, and the old chicken secretly chatters a few bites on the side, knowing that it will be beaten, the chicken is crazy and rushes directly to the pile of buds. Zhang Xingming and his brother have to watch the chickens and geese in the yard, and the ducks will not stay in the yard to eat buds, and their goal is the small stream and the big river.

Dry it during the day, put it away in a sack at night, pour it out to dry during the day, and so on and so forth, until the whole body of the bud rice grains is hard and can be put down, then put it into a sack and put it in the barn. Zhang Xingming and his brother were liberated, and they didn't have to sit on the edge of the bud pile in a daze every day.

Digging potatoes and shaving sweet potatoes has nothing to do with Zhang Xingming and his brother, they are still young. This is a job that requires strength and skill, although Zhang Xingming's strength in this life can be done, but just think about it, there is no need to be different, or do something that a child should do, such as burning the sweet potatoes dug up by grandpa on the edge of the ground and eating them, and eating them with a black face, which made grandma laugh.

The buds are put into the warehouse, the potatoes and sweet potatoes are put into the cellar, and the leeks are grown with the harvesting, and three to four stubbles can be cut a year. Pick up the green onions and garlic, leave the seeds in the ground, and the rest must be taken back, and they will grow old again. The cowpeas should also be harvested, and a little should be left to eat fresh, and the rest should be cut with a knife and dried, and left until the winter to be eaten with water.

After these are done, I have to cut the stalks of the buds and sorghum and take them back. The sorghum stalks are thin, not tired, and the bract rice stalks are thick and hard, which is a real strength work. This little boy couldn't do it, grandpa took a sickle, started from the ground, and put down the straws one by one along the ridges, Zhang Xingming and his brother followed behind, and the cut straws were neatly gathered together one by one, and the half-ridges were piled up.

When all the straws in a piece of land were put down, my grandfather bundled them from the beginning, tied the piles that Zhang Xingming and his brother had saved into two bundles each, and put them on the ground after the bundles, piled them into a straw stack, and used it to burn the fire when cooking. The sorghum stalks had to be handed over to the squad, which was chopped up for the winter rations for cattle, sheep, donkeys, and mules.

Sorghum stalks also have a very important function in the countryside at this time, each family will harvest some, cut it into 10 cm pieces, and then split it from the middle and put it in the latrine for ...... Wipe your butt, or shave your butt. Until the 90s, you can still see such toilets in rural areas of Northeast China.

Cucumbers, eggplants, kidney beans, tomatoes, peppers, these are not to be harvested, eat and pick, can be eaten until the next frost, after the frost, you can no longer pick and eat, you can't chew when you are old, just take it to make seeds, cucumbers and tomatoes to wash, have turned the whole yellow cucumber and red purple tomatoes to crush, put in a large pot and add water, mature seeds will sink to the bottom, floating on the deflated seeds will be thrown away directly, the seeds are not alive.

Sorghum and soybeans are planted privately by the individual, and a large area is the collective property of the team, and each family has a share, and the rest must be handed over to the state. The team will also divide pork and mutton from time to time every year, not much, each family will share a little meat and a small pot of bone broth, which is not counted in the work and is the welfare of the team. Sometimes in the fall, sometimes at the end of the year.

The people in the fort will drag their families to the team yard on the day of the meat distribution, like a market, they can mix a delicious meal, but Zhang Xingming and his brother have never participated, and grandpa and grandpa only went to get some meat and soup back.

The autumn harvest will last for more than a month, and the same will be recovered, the same will be handled, and the year's work will be completed.

After the autumn harvest, it is time to go up to the mountain, and every family, men and women, young and old, carry a sickle with a pocket and a large basket, and set out into the mountain.

Daisen is rich and generous, with a variety of wild fruits, yamanashi, mountain dates, hickory, hazelnuts, round dates (mountain kiwi), mountain grapes, plums and chestnuts. All kinds of wild vegetables, vegetables, cat's paws, pepper seedlings, monkey legs, stinging seeds, dog treasure (bellflower), screw turn, yellow flower, mushroom, fungus, large leaf celery, small leaf celery, water cress, the mountain things are too many to tell the name, every household has a bumper harvest, the big bag and basket are picked back, dried, boiled and cut, rammed, from September to the end of October, as long as you are willing to work, there is a harvest in the mountains.

Rural people are very willing to work hard in the mountains, children eat a little, mainly to sell some money, want to sell more money to carry out their own sales, most of them just wait outside into the village to collect.

By the end of October, the weather was cooling, and gradually there were fewer people going up the mountain, except for the children, of course, until the heavy snow closed the mountain, which would stop the children from going up the mountain.

The children are also happy in these months, the mountains will take care of everyone, the adults have the harvest of the adults, and the children have the gifts of the children.

Not to mention all kinds of mountain fruits, sour berries all over the mountains, a large piece of Pufen as soon as it grows, you can eat and play with the mushroom Niang, you can't eat the bitter mushroom Niang who can only play, the children are seven or eight in a group, a group of more than a dozen soaked in the mountains all day long, even eat and play, and hand over the harvest to the adults with a full basket at night, and get a few words of praise rarely.

Drying vegetables, pickling sauerkraut, renovating the cellar, receiving potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, and cabbage into the cellar, beating vermicelli, grinding rice and flour, winter will come to the earth in this busyness. (Green onions are generally not in the cellar, they are hung under the eaves, and they are eaten when frozen)

Another important activity before the heavy snow comes in after the autumn harvest is to sift the house grass.

At this time, the countryside is full of thatched houses, and after a summer, the thatch has turned black, and that is because of the natural decay of the thatch. After the autumn harvest, when they are free, most families begin to clean up their houses. It is necessary to turn over the house grass and replace it with new grass and spread it, otherwise the house grass will rot and it will leak next year. The strong laborers in the village were organized, and one by one they helped to lay the old grass and put on the new grass, spread it evenly and compact, and then crush the old grass with a guillotine, and wipe the wall together with the yellow mud, and re-paste the dry and cracked places that were washed away by heavy rain in summer, and the whole grass house will take on a new look.

Three or five people are busy working for most of the day, the house is ready, drink a sip of hot water, smoke a cigarette, and pay one dollar per person. People with good conditions will also take care of a meal, and those who are almost in good conditions will not eat if they want to manage the meal, they all know the roots, and they are afraid of going out and being scolded.

The house grass is to be bought, a few dollars. But there are still some families who are very poor, and they can't change the house grass once in a few years, until the rain leaks, and they will make up for the leaks.

When most of the houses in the village have changed their new looks, autumn is far away, the mountains are already golden, the pines and cypresses have faded to emerald and become black, the leaves of other trees have fallen, the mountain wind is also cold, and when you get up in the morning, everything on the earth will be covered with a thin house of frost, indicating that winter is coming.

Families began to put away their summer things, take out the things they used in the winter to dry and sew up, hang curtains on the door, change the window paper, and prepare winter clothes and children's cotton clothes and pants.

The temperature is dropping day by day, the south wind has turned into a northwest wind, and the mountains and fields have completely faded their flowers, and the eyes are full of bleak decay, broken grass and branches. Without any warning, suddenly I woke up one night and was outside in a world of silver makeup.

At this time, I can't tell the difference between heaven and earth, I can't tell the mountain and the road, everything is hidden under the snow, look around, just a piece of white, the pines and cypresses look black in winter, and the white Liaoyuan is black from a distance, like an ink painting. The withered grass was overwhelmed by the heavy snow, forming arched bales on the surface of the snow, undulating and undulating.

Winter is a happy time for children, with all kinds of games such as bird hunting, rabbit hunting, pheasant catching, pear climbing, pine tower picking, ice skating, and so on. (It's rare for rural kids to shoot snow paintings and build snowmen, at least I've never seen one.) ）

Climbing pears is the most exciting activity.

Climbing pear is a means of transportation that every household in the rural areas of Northeast China has, that is, a two-legged wooden frame made of six or nine square wooden squares, with two legs upturned in front of them, like a sled, 30 centimeters high. In winter, this thing is covered with a wooden plank, and it is very easy to pull things on the snow, and a child can pull one or two hundred pounds and run in a flash.

A group of children pull the pear to climb to the hillside, and then everyone squeezes on the pear, along the hillside to rush down, although the lower leg of the pear is wooden, but there is no resistance at all on the snow, the speed of the hillside can reach seventy or eighty miles, and then rush into the snow below the mountain, only to see the snow like an explosion of several meters high snow waves, a child who climbs the pear has become a snowman, rushed out dozens of meters, and then the children laughed down the pear, and then pulled the pear up the mountain, over and over again, happy with the other. Don't look at the speed, but because of the heavy snow, it's not dangerous at all.

Sometimes the car would overturn because of its weight, so the children and the pears rolled down the hill together, all like snow monkeys, and climbed up the mountain with a smile because they would not be hurt because of the heavy snow. Sometimes rush to the snow pit, that is, the soil pit, in winter these soil pits are filled with snow, it looks like the snow surface is flat, if the speed is not enough, the pear will be crushed to the pit as soon as it goes up, the speed of this sinking is very fast, I saw a snowflake flying up the old high, here even the pear climbing people have disappeared from the snow, everyone laughed and went to dig people. The snow under the snow skin is very fluffy, and the shallow ones can get up and climb out of it, and the deep ones have to be helped by others, laughing and scolding to pull the snow away and pull out the people and pears inside. Then the younger children will avoid this place and find a place to slide again, and the older children will start to bet on who can climb the pear and run fast to rush over the pit, and if they slide past, they will fall into the pit again, and they will fall into the pit again if they can't slip over, and they will be dug up and run home to change their clothes, and they will always be scolded.

Speaking of snow pits, for children, it should be the biggest danger in winter, at this time a heavy snow can be more than one meter deep, some places can reach two meters because of the terrain and wind problems, heavy snow to close doors and windows will happen every winter, if a person accidentally falls into the snow pit, basically have to wait for the next year to find the corpse, the hope of climbing up can be ignored. Children will consciously play in familiar places, and will not easily go to dangerous places, of course, there are also those who are brave, so they are beaten by adults, and they no longer dare.

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