Chapter 10 Uncle

The three of them sat down to drink tea and chatted about family life.

Uncle Li Sicheng is sixty-five years old this year, and this is his last village head.

The eldest son Li Junwei is just forty this year, and he and his wife Liu Xiaohui opened a small restaurant in the county, and the transportation is inconvenient and has not come back for more than half a year, and the daughter Li Yuning is fourteen years old this year and is in the third year of junior high school in the county.

The second Li Junan has been working outside for many years, and found a daughter-in-law named Wan Jia, who has to wait for the Spring Festival this year to go home, and his daughter Li Yuduo follows the eldest brother Li Junwei, who also attends primary school in the county.

The third Li Junhua is still in the village, but he also went out to live separately, and just now the aunt also called him, asking him to come over for dinner with his daughter-in-law, and meet Li Junge by the way.

Li Junge picked up the previous topic and asked: "Uncle, the traffic is inconvenient this year, what the fourth grandfather said just now is really a thing, not only Lijiagou, but the entire Panao Township will be affected, right?"

Lychee, longan and green olive are the specialties of the whole Jiachuan County, and they are also important cash crops, because of the higher latitude, the ripening period is two to three months later than that of Guangzhou and Fujian, so the price is better, and many families in Lijiagou rely on these three kinds of fruits to earn enough for a year.

Li Sicheng said: "Alas, because of this matter, the hair of several township chiefs and village chiefs is gray, as long as we pull lychees to the dock in previous years, many of the purchased goods will be collected, and they will not be sold at all." It's troublesome this year, and the boss of the tree in previous years won't come this year, and the village has to get a charter boat for a month, and the cost is unbearable. Besides, how to sell and divide the account is also troublesome. ”

In previous years, there will be bosses in the city to see the trees and flowers, as long as you say the price after you see it, pay a part of the deposit to the farmer, the tree will be wrapped by you, and the fruit will be yours in the future, and the balance can be pulled away when it is ripe, which is a kind of primitive futures trading.

This year, the waterway was cut off, and the guests of Baoshu did not come, and the lychees in a village could not go out.

The three of them talked for a while, but there was nothing good to do.

chatted until almost noon, Li Junhua and his daughter-in-law Chen Xiaoya also came over. Li Junhua is Chinese New Year's Eve five today, a man who is not tall but very energetic, his daughter-in-law Chen Xiaoya is a rural woman, and his son Li Yusong is just eight years old this year.

They were very enthusiastic when they saw Li Junge.

The family sat down to prepare for dinner, Chen Xiaoya went to the kitchen to help, and after a while, she put a plate of preserved pig's trotters, a plate of preserved meat, a plate of salted edamame peanuts, and a few cold dishes, beckoning the men to serve first, and she and her mother-in-law made a few more hot dishes.

The uncle asked the fourth grandfather to sit on the top, and he sat on the left, and was about to beckon his son to sit down next to him, Li Junge pulled Li Junhua over, and said with a smile: "Brother Hua will sit next to me, beating me is his follower, let's have a good chat." ”

Li Junhua smiled: "Ouch, I don't dare to call you a follower, you are a college student, and you work in a big city, your cousin and I are still a mud leg." ”

Li Junge said with a smile: "It's not like a fart, at that time, I followed you up the mountain to catch birds and go down to the river to touch shrimp during the summer vacation, and I still taught you my swimming skills." ”

The aunt brought a plate of fried bacon with garlic sprouts and put it down, and said with a smile: "It's not what's wrong, Junge was really a leather baby when he was a child, and the two of them secretly cut my bacon and went to the river to roast and eat, I'm afraid that I will find out and smear the bacon knife with stove ash." The two babies didn't think that the knife edge was so neat, and the adults couldn't see it at a glance. ”

A table of people laughed. Li Junge said with a smile: "I learned another trick, when I have a baby in the future, I will definitely tell him to cut the bacon diagonally." ”

Seeing that the uncle was picking wine, Li Junge said: "I just drank plum wine at home yesterday, uncle, I think the orange wine is good, or we will drink this at noon." ”

The uncle took out the orange wine and poured a big bowl, and then put it into everyone's bowl.

The aunt and sister-in-law acted quickly, and soon made a few vegetarian dishes, a pot of sauerkraut and bitter bamboo shoot soup, and the two women sat at the bottom, which was all right, and everyone began to move chopsticks.

The uncle picked up the wine bowl and said, "Come on, come on, Jun Ge finally came back, let's go together, even if it's a pick-up." ”

Everyone drank a few laps, and the uncle said: "Junge, uncle, I am also old, and I can't do it after finishing this village chief, we are all old people in our generation, and we only know how to dig and eat in the field, and we can't make any way to make money." These years have been pretty good, supported by lychee longan, and the younger generation has gone out to work, and the family is still passable. Alas, it's this last year that the waterway was cut off, which was a bit of a disturbance. Forget it, no matter what, it's up to your generation next. ”

Li Junge said: "Uncle was right to organize everyone to plant fruit trees, when the Li family in Xiahe still laughed at our village, and then he didn't rush to plant with us, these years the village has had a good life, uncle, you have made a lot of contributions." ”

Uncle waved his hand and said: "Your uncle is now a dog meat bun - he can't go to the table, and now several villages are college students and village officials, and some of them are still doing well." There are ideas, momentum, knowledge, and a lot of things in the brain. Alas, it's just that my Lijiagou is too remote, and people don't want to come, if you don't want to mix outside, it's appropriate to come back and be a village chief. ”

Li Junge hurriedly shook his head: "Don't do it, just my lazy temperament, not that piece of material." But I am responsible for the affairs of the villagers. Liang Yatou is not in Panao Township as the deputy head of the township, she is going to come to my house for dinner this weekend, by the way, there is Wang Congjun, who used to come to my house often The Wang Bapo, he is now the deputy director of the county government office, and I will inquire about the waterway when the time comes. ”

The uncle laughed when he heard it: "How did you choose this nickname, it's worse than your second skin." ”

This has brought back the parents from the major events in the village.

Li Junge said to the uncle again: "By the way, there is another thing, the fourth grandfather wants to make a family history for our Li family, and write the ancestors from Demao Gong to the present. ”

When the uncle heard this, he was overjoyed and surprised: "Ouch, this is a big event in our clan." After speaking, he looked at the fourth grandfather: "Uncle, can you eat this body?"

Li Junge said: "This matter is a lot of work, so I think that the fourth grandfather will be in charge, first pull out a clue, and then slowly collect information, this is not the baby is going to have a summer vacation, leave the work of flipping books and copying to them, and you can also get some things out in a summer vacation." ”

Uncle listened very happily: "This is a good idea, the village is full of babies during the summer vacation, no adults control Tiantianguang knows that he is naughty, this year I will drive them all to the ancestral hall, the fourth grandfather detains them, who dares to blow up the hair, Huang Jing stick to greet hard!"

The uncle is an older generation, and what he believes in is the set of "good people under the yellow wattle stick".

The fourth grandfather smiled and said: "Your education method is not good, I think so, vacate three rooms in the ancestral hall, divide them into three sections according to age, do two hours of homework in the morning, and then read books to help me check the information, and I can also tutor the children by the way." After noon, they left it alone and went home. In this way, they can learn and play, and the babies will not come back from the summer vacation to herd sheep. ”

Uncle smiled and said, "I don't know much about these, in short, it's a good thing, what do you say I should do." ”

After eating at the uncle's house, the fourth grandfather was left to chat with the uncle, and Li Junge and Li Junhua wandered around the firewood mountain of the uncle's house.

In addition to their own paddy field slopes, every household in Shudu Mountain Township also has a large area of firewood mountain, and the diligent people plant bamboo trees and fruit trees on the mountain, and the lazy ones are the native miscellaneous trees, which are the source of firewood at home in the old time.

Li Junge and Li Junhua walked side by side, Li Junge saw a lychee forest, there were about six or seven trees, all of them were old trees, the branches were luxuriant, and the treetops were all small green and tender fruits the size of a fingernail, and the small protrusions on the husks were small, so he said to Li Junhua: "Yo, the fruits are good this year." ”

Li Junhua sighed and said: "In previous years, the spring of the fruit trees was decided, and these trees had to have an income of forty or fifty thousand yuan every year, and this year it is estimated that there will be a famine." ”

Li Junge comforted: "Isn't there still two or three months left, I will always figure out a way." ”

The two of them then walked up the hill, passing a small forest of bamboo.

Li Junhua smiled and pointed to the bamboo forest and said, "Piwa, this is still planted by you, look at how well it grows." ”

Li bamboo is also called tea pole bamboo, wild bitter bamboo, just bamboo, the diameter is three to five centimeters, the pole height can be up to more than ten meters, the rod shape is straight, the material is tough, the thickness is uniform, the node length is moderate, the resilience is strong, and it is not easy to be moth-eaten. Li bamboo is most famous for its production in Huaiji County, Guangdong, and has been exported in large quantities for the manufacture of ski rods, because it is light, the Americans have also plasticized Li bamboo to make aircraft parts, and now it is widely used to make fishing rods, ski poles, platforms, chairs, bookshelves, screens, bird cages and other high-end handicrafts, known as the "king of bamboo".

Lizhu is a variety of bitter bamboo, which can also be used in medicine, and is named bitter bamboo leaves, bitter bamboo shoots, bitter bamboo ru, bitter bamboo drain, and bitter bamboo roots. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood and clearing phlegm.

Bamboo shoots are the treasures in the bitter bamboo shoots series, Shudu people generally make dishes with sauerkraut, bitter bamboo shoots and sauerkraut slices, which can be described as a classic in Shudu bitter dishes.

Li bamboo is relatively rare in Shu, this piece of Li Zhu is still found when Li Junge searched for materials to make fishing rods in Bifeng Mountain, at that time, for the sake of insurance, transplanted some in the back mountain of his own house, and also transplanted a part of the back mountain of the uncle, the Li bamboo of the two families actually survived, and it grew well.

Li Junge looked at the bamboo forest, many bamboos were already over six years old and ready to be harvested, and said happily: "These are all good things, and I don't know if Uncle Craftsman has done a good job of my things." ”

Li Junhua said with a smile: "It should be done, he has had to deal with me several times, and said that you are satisfied with the things this time." ”

Li Junge couldn't stay any longer when he heard this, so he hurriedly ran down the mountain, and said as he ran: "I have to hurry up and take a look, tell the fourth grandfather and aunt, and I'll come to see them another day." ”

Li Junhua wanted to say something, but seeing that Li Junge had disappeared, he had no choice but to mutter: "This kid is still the same temperament." ”