2. Dried mulberry fruits
There is no forest in Xiaomian Village, and it can't be compared with other places with their backs to the woods, they go up the mountain to cut down a tree when they need wood, but they can't cut down trees casually when they make steel in Xiaomian Village, and someone originally mentioned that they cut down the two trees at the door of Tang's house, and they were persuaded by the village chief, the village is so big in total, and the households are very concentrated, and a few trees that were finally planted have to be cut down, there is no such reason.
Besides, it is impossible to stop when one or two trees are cut, and the village will not be bare at that time. Therefore, at this time, everyone still relied on the branches saved by each family, among which the Tang family handed over the most, and handed over the non-wood saved and the branches that were usually picked up. When the public canteen was first opened, only the grain stored by each family, rice, flour, chickens, ducks and geese, and so on, were collected. It wasn't until the recent rise of steelmaking that everyone went home one after another to get their own iron pots and send them to the public canteen.
"Students, cheer up, let's work together to complete the task. Considering your young age, we have lowered the requirement that each person smelt ten catties of iron every day. Mr. Jin, who spoke, was a college student who had just come down from the provincial capital, and when the commune was built, he was transferred to Xiaomian Village to study "construction" with everyone. He still speaks with a bit of a northern accent, not awkward, but learning to feel like a circle in his mouth, some classmates secretly learn him to speak, often causing the whole class to laugh.
To be honest, what is the concept of ten catties of iron, Tang Qing doesn't know at all. In her last life, she has been living in the city, only when she went to the farmhouse with friends to see the vegetable field, usually go to the supermarket at most to pick a little organic vegetables, plant flowers at home, crossed over to find that the ten-year-old friend in the class is also going to the field, shocked speechless.
There are no tools in the village that specifically weigh these iron materials, and they have always walked around from the hands of the village chief to judge whether the amount of refining is qualified or not. According to Tang Qing's observation, the relationship between Tang's father and the village chief seems to be very harmonious, and there should be no such thing as being deliberately difficult.
Sun passed the dried mulberries a week, and everyone in the class took a little bit, except for a ten-year-old girl who apologized softly: "Classmate Sun, you help me and Tang Qing say thank you, I won't eat this mulberry, I have a cold recently, I'm afraid of nosebleeds." "The person who spoke was Wu Xinlian, and she usually played with Tang Qing like a person. Since the last time Tang Qing was pushed down by the boys in the class, she stood by and watched, and the relationship between the two was vaguely estranged.
Tang Qing, who crossed over, actually didn't take this kind of child's prank to heart, but out of fear that he would not be able to play the role of Xiao Tang Qing well, he deliberately kept his distance from Wu Xinlian. On the other hand, this girl is indeed a little evil, and she often looks at the classmates around her like a big sister, and when she gets a little closer, Tang Qing feels cold in her heart.
"Xinlian, don't eat it if you don't feel well recently, I won't eat it either, I heard my mother say, it's better for children not to eat mulberries, they won't grow tall, and they will have a stomachache if they eat too much." There was a girl in a yellow shirt next to Wu Xinlian, puffing out her cheeks and saying. This girl is a little round, and her whole body is dressed in light yellow clothes, and the ten-year-old child is not very tall, and it is dark outside in the middle of the night, Tang Qing can only see an outline, and she is almost her favorite Minion before. In addition, she just stuffed a handful of mulberries in her mouth, and the words she said were like muttering, which was even cuter in Tang Qing's opinion.
It's a pity that when the little girl said this, she was thanking her, and the classmate who reached into the cloth bag to grab the mulberry retracted her hand in a curt.
Although Sun Zhou was reluctant to share the things given by Tang Qing to others, he was not used to seeing someone dislike Tang Qing's kindness like this: "Yellow duck, don't eat if you don't eat it, and if you eat it, you have to say that Tang Qing's is not good, you are not ashamed." "
This little girl in yellow clothes happens to be surnamed Huang, and Sun Zhou loves to give nicknames to others, and she used to be called Tang Qing Fool Qing. But the ten-year-old girl was sensitive, and her eyes were red at the moment: "Sun Zhou, you are, your whole family is." "
Tang Qing held his forehead, and was just about to make a round to round things up, when Wu Xinlian, the โกโก on the side, stood up and pulled the little girl who was about to cry: "Xiaoting, everyone knows that you mean well, Sun Zhou didn't understand it, he has always been like this, let's not worry about him." She looked at this little girl, her eyes didn't know why there was some pity, Tang Qing stared at it, and felt that Wu Xinlian was strange in her heart.
The little girl named Huang Ting swallowed back her tears: "I don't care about this kind of bad boy, the mulberry tree was originally from the village, my mother said it, now is the new era, good things are everyone's, and I am not wrong, children can't eat more mulberries." "
Huang Ting's mother works in the village clinic, there are no doctors in the clinic, only an elderly doctor Zhang, and when people in the village see some minor diseases, Huang's mother just grabs some medicine.
Tang Qing was a little embarrassed, and smiled: "That's the case, in short, it's not good to eat too much of anything, it won't be a problem to eat a little, this kind of dried fruit is still full of nutrients." โ
Everyone chimed along and said, "yes, yes, my parents also said don't eat too much, it's okay to eat a little." But no one reached into the sack and took the dried fruit to eat.
There was silence for a moment on the child's side. Sun Yizhou snorted, tied the cloth bag tightly, hid it in his clothes bag, and muttered softly in his mouth, "I don't know the hearts of good people."
"Oh no, no, Hadron was bitten by a dog in the cafeteria. The sound came from all directions, afraid that the sound of steelmaking was too loud for everyone to hear, and someone deliberately took the pot in the canteen and knocked it, and the noisy courtyard suddenly quieted down, but then the voices became more boiling.
The children in the yard still couldn't understand what it meant, and in their imagination, being bitten by a dog was probably like a stumble and a mix.
Tang Qing chuckled in his heart, "Don't be infected with rabies, this place needs a doctor without a doctor, if you want a vaccine without a vaccine, how good is it if something really happens." After being stunned for a few moments, she looked at Huang Ting, and at this time, Wu Xinlian also set her eyes on this little girl.
Someone in the friend suddenly said: "Huang Ting, Qiangzi is not your parents?"
The little girl looked a little dumbfounded: "My dad was bitten by a dog." Saying that, he dragged Wu Xinlian like a life-saving straw and said, "Sister Xinlian, my dad won't be okay, it's just that he was bitten by a dog." Just apply the medicine, my mother knows a lot of medicine. โ
It may be that the little girl's strength is too great, and she grabbed Wu Xinlian too hard, Wu Xinlian frowned a little painfully: "Xiaoting, you go to the health center first, the adults will definitely send your father there at this time." โ
"Sister Xinlian, I'm a little scared, you can go with me. Grabbing Wu Xinlian's hand still did not relax.
"Xiaoting, be brave, it'll be fine. You go see your dad first, and I'll finish the tasks of the two of us today and then go to you. โ
Seeing Wu Xinlian like this, Tang Qing always felt cold in his heart.
While he was stunned, he heard someone call him.
"Xiaoqing. Brother Tang walked around most of the yard and found Tang Qing, the shortest in the group of children, "Xiaoqing, you stay in the yard with everyone, don't run around anywhere." It was rare for Brother Tang to speak to Tang Qing in such a strict tone, and she nodded involuntarily.
"Yizhou, don't run around, help me watch Xiaoqing. Brother Tang turned around and made a "man's agreement" with Sun Yizhou
"Brother Tang, don't worry, if you don't come to pick us up, we will always work here and won't go anywhere. Sun Yizhou patted his chest and said firmly. As Brother Tang's brainless fan, he has always strictly followed Brother Tang's instructions, who asked Brother Tang to teach him to write and do problems, and teach him to play with wooden guns.
Looking at the older and the younger, one proudly feels that he is a big child and can take on the responsibility of taking care of his sister, and the other feels relieved to see that the child is getting older and can help him take care of his sister. Tang Qing only had three words in his heart: he didn't have a face to see. ๏ผ-_-)
"Brother, what happened, hasn't that "big black" in the cafeteria always been very well-behaved, how can it suddenly hurt people, and isn't it usually locked with chains?" Tang Qing was very puzzled.
"I've been in the yard, and I haven't seen anything, just now my father helped send people over, and my mother also followed, and I heard that it seems that someone hit the "big black", and the "big black" bit the nearest Uncle Huang. As for how it came out, it's not clear. Brother Tang was obviously also puzzled, but he still didn't forget to educate Tang Qing: "If you see dogs, cats or something in the village in the future, don't get up, who knows if it will suddenly break out and hurt people." โ
"Brother, I'm not a kid anymore, I know. In fact, Tang Qing likes small animals the most, but in this era, even human vaccines are incomplete, how can anyone be willing to spend money to vaccinate animals. The fluff control can only be red in his heart.
"Whoever saw the "big black" before couldn't walk, every time he passed by the cafeteria and saw it, he turned back three times and couldn't take a step. You can't do this in the future, you were bullied at school and fainted, and you forgot about going home with a high fever? "No matter how worried Tang Qing is, Brother Tang has to go back, and the workload of their middle school students will only increase.
Before leaving, Brother Tang didn't forget to glare at the few hairy children who had bullied Tang Qing before.
"Tang Qing, I'm sorry, we won't bully you anymore. The bear children who had been intimidated by Brother Tang apologized to Tang Qing timidly.
Tang Qing sighed in his heart, if it weren't for you bear children, I wouldn't have crossed over here, but strictly speaking, I can only blame the poor physical system and the timidity of the front, and I fell ill when I was scared at school.
No matter how unwilling I was in my heart, I couldn't deal with a few children who were not half my age, so I could only say, "It's okay." Don't do that in the future. โ
Wu Xinlian on the side didn't speak again, but just added things to the blast furnace very seriously.
In fact, how can such a crude tool make anything good, even if Tang Qing is just a liberal arts student and has not studied physics very seriously, he knows that steelmaking should not be done.
The metal pieces that came out of the ditch were taken away by the village chief and piled up in the warehouse of the public canteen for the time being, and it is not clear what they will be used for.