Chapter 13 Settle on the House of Educated Youth
Dinner was held at the secretary's house, Mo Ah Gong said that he had just got some white rice, scooped some out and took it to the kitchen to cook, and was pushed back by Mo Zhishu and his wife at the same time, the fifth uncle is not tall, and her temperament is very enthusiastic, Mo Ah Grandma taught Mo Xiaoman to call her "fifth uncle", presumably Mo Zhishu ranks fifth among the brothers in the clan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The fifth uncle and grandmother said in disgust: "Second uncle, if you want to do this, it will make it difficult for us to be human beings! My fourth and fifth boys were swimming in the reservoir back then, and the brothers sank into the water one by one with leg cramps. The old man in our family didn't pay attention to it when he was young, and he had bone pain, and it wasn't you who gave him medicinal herbs and taught him to soak a jar of medicinal wine, and drank it all year round...... You're welcome, you're at home!"
After hearing this, Mo Ah Gong smiled and didn't say anything more.
The fifth uncle and grandmother had a daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law as helpers, and they didn't want Mo Xiaoman to enter the kitchen, so Mo Xiaoman sat beside Mo Ah Grandma obediently and waited for dinner.
Take advantage of this effort to take a few more glances at Mo Ah Gong, she remembers that Ah Gong only knows herbal medicine, never treats people, in her previous life, she was burned by Liu Fengying pouring hot oil, and people have a fever and only one breath left, Ah Gong didn't know at first, and after knowing it, he was anxious to urge Mo Guoqiang to send him to the hospital, seeing that Mo Guoqiang really refused to send it to the hospital, and then dragged on and his life was not guaranteed, Ah Gong had to get some black and cool medicine paste for her, and then decoction and medicine poured down, it was also a big life, survived, and the burns slowly improved, but left a scar all over his body, ugly, she only thought that Ah Gong was a blind Mongolian doctor, and now I heard that Ah Gong will also dispense medicine and wine to treat rheumatism and bone pain, I can't help but be a little surprised: Does Ah Gong understand Chinese medicine?
Dinner was put on the table, there were no big fish and meat, but the fragrance made Mo Xiaoman salivate, there were many family members, and the dishes were not one dish at a time, but in pots, the kind of yellow tile pots with a diameter of one foot and a depth of five or six inches: a pot of scrambled eggs with leeks, a pot of stewed pumpkin, a pot of fried beans, and a pot of bacon fried sauerkraut, plus a pot of loofah soup!
The staple food is a large pot of white rice, not adulterated with grains!
This is the specification of hospitality!
Mo Xiaoman's eyes swept to the table, and his eyes circled the pot of bacon and fried sauerkraut, there were not many pieces of bacon, but the oil was refined, enough to moisten the sauerkraut, that fragrance, it was really unbearable!
Wash and dry the mustard greens, cut them into fine pieces, mix with rice grains and a little salt, fill them into the tile jar and pickle out the sauerkraut, the local families will do it, this sauerkraut pickling method is not known by which generation of ancestors invented and handed down, it is estimated that there will be a hundred years without a thousand years, every year the mustard greens are harvested at home, pickled in a large jar, enough to eat for a year, even if there is no oil fried in summer, just eat halal, it is enough to drink porridge with rice, and fill the stomach to a full!
There is bacon in this pot of sauerkraut tonight, and a few cloves of garlic, sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions, and fry a few red peppers, this taste is not too beautiful, for Mo Xiaoman, it is comparable to the delicacies of the mountains and the sea!
Children can't be on the table, Mo Ah Grandma can't see for fear of rudeness, refuses to serve the table, Mo Ah Gong is the guest tonight, on the table and the secretary push the cup to change the lamp, drink a little wine and say some wine, Mo Ah Grandma and Mo Xiaoman are sitting behind Mo Ah Gong, each holding a bowl of white rice, a spoonful of scrambled eggs and a spoonful of bacon fried sauerkraut.
Mo Ah Grandma's face was calm and she ate slowly, as if she was listening to Mo Ah Gong's words, Mo Xiaoman's expression was much richer, after many years, and then she ate the sauerkraut in her hometown, she was happy, took a bite of rice, cherished a chopstick sauerkraut, the taste was very beautiful, but she was very hungry, so she had to chew two chews and swallow it quickly, she didn't even notice it, she ate this meal so that it was called an eyebrow flying dance!
Mo Zhishu couldn't help but be happy when he saw Xiao Man like that, and came over to add two pieces of bacon to her and Mo Ah Grandma, and once again praised Mo Ah Gong for picking the right one, among Mo Guoqiang's children, nothing else can be done, this Mo Xiaoman is the best!
Women and children put the bowl away after eating, a few young and old men on the table are still drinking slowly, talking about the past and the present, before it is time to sleep, the fifth uncle and grandmother accompanied Mo Ah Grandma to sit in the door of the platform to talk, each person takes a big fan, fanning the wind can also drive away mosquitoes, Mo Xiaoman was invited by a few four, five or six years old children to play together, and it was difficult to be enthusiastic, and had to dig out a little childlike innocence, and ran and jumped with them to play for a while.
At this moment, I saw that the courtyard door opened, Captain Guan walked in, said hello to the fifth uncle and grandmother, and walked directly into the hall, and was greeted by Mo Zhishu and sat down to drink together.
I couldn't hear what the men in the house were saying clearly, and after about twenty minutes, Mo Ah Gong suddenly ran out, squatted down to Mo Ah Grandma and asked:
"Old woman, I originally thought that I would take you to the reservoir tomorrow to live for a while, and when the autumn comes, the rain will be less, and then ask Boss Mo to return the few vegetable plots to us, which was the foundation we bought in the old year, and our family of three surrounded a small courtyard and built two houses to live in. I just heard that Captain Guan and Secretary Mo had discussed: At the beginning of the year, all the educated youths ran back to the city one by one, and they never came back, they were originally from the city, and the city would always arrange good jobs for them, and there might be no educated youths in the village in the future! The yard and house that were originally built for the educated youths to live in were empty, so they would give us a place to live first! The yard of the educated youths was very good and firm, and the educated youths would pick it up, and it was clean and bright, with flowers and grass, as well as wells, Drying the valley ping, which is twice as wide as the small courtyard of the Mo family, has seven rooms in one box, and the rammed thick earth wall has been painted several times, and the top cover is full of red tiles...... Our family will live in it first, and if there are really no educated youths in the future, we will discuss it with the team and buy it, okay?"
Before Grandma Mo could react, the fifth uncle and grandmother slapped the fan and said loudly: "That place is very good! It is in the west of the village, the terrain is high, like this hot day, there is always a cool breeze blowing, and the direction of the house is good, only there are more than three families behind the courtyard, the left and right are empty and quiet, as soon as you leave the courtyard there is a highway, and the traffic is very convenient! In the morning and afternoon, the sun is drying in turns on the east and west, but as soon as it is dusk, the cool breeze comes! Every year the team wants to dry the grain, I love to rush to go, sit under the big pear tree to blow the wind and enjoy the coolness, very comfortable! If it weren't for the birds, I would have fallen asleep sitting there!"
"There's a pear tree in the courtyard?
Grandma Mo has been blind for more than ten years, and she can't remember where there is a big pear tree at the entrance of the village, let alone what the educated youth house looks like, so she asked casually.
The fifth uncle said: "The pear tree is big, it is a June pear, it has been a few decades, it bears fruit every year, the pear peel is thin, the core is small, the water is sweet and sweet, it is delicious! Hey, this year, the team picked the fruit, isn't it a family to get five catties?"
Grandma Mo smiled: Living in the courtyard of the Mo family, Aunt Mo is in charge, no matter what the benefits of the team are, it will never be her turn to eat!
Mo Ah Gong asked again: "Old woman, do you think it is?"
Mo Ah Grandma said: "I also want to ask Xiao Man, see if she likes it?"
Mo Xiaoman was already squatting beside Ah Gong at the moment, and without waiting for Ah Gong to ask her, she opened a pair of big eyes with a pair of bright eyes, and nodded a few times in a row, which made Ah Gong laugh, and Mo Ah Grandma also laughed, and the matter of buying the Zhiqing House was finalized.
In 1978, that is, next year, the national college entrance examination will be resumed, and there will be a large-scale recruitment examination, as long as the young people with urban non-agricultural household registration participate in the recruitment examination of various factories and mining enterprises, they can be given priority admission.
In the previous life, Ah Gong and Grandma should have stayed in the Zhiqing House first, and then got the inside information revealed by Mo Zhishu in advance, so they would buy the yard first, but unfortunately Ah Gong had an accident soon!
I remember that after Grandpa and Grandma moved in, Mo Xiaoman also went to see it, and Mo Xiaosu, Mo Xiaofeng, Mo Xiaozhi, a few little girls were arguing in the courtyard at that time, except for Mo Xiaoman, who felt inferior and felt that he was not qualified, the other three were all vying to occupy the room, because it used to be a dormitory for educated youths, and the educated youths came from the city, and they were used to cleaning up the room beautifully and tidyly, with movie star portraits or landscape pictorials pasted on the walls, rural chicks had little knowledge and didn't know what fashion was, but they knew that such a room was what they wanted, and that was enough.
But in the end, none of them could live in, and Ah Gong did not allow it, and spoke ill of them, and even drove them out with a whip.
In his previous life, Mo Xiaoman didn't know why Ah Gong was angry like that day, but now he understands: Mo Guoqiang and Liu Fengying must have been untrustworthy, occupied half of Ah Gong's room, and took Ah Gong's money, but they didn't live with Ah Gong and Grandma as promised.
So when Ah Gong saw a few little girls, his psychology was unbalanced, and he was probably afraid that Grandma would be sad, after all, if he wanted a girl in front of him, Grandma brought it up first.
Grandpa and Grandma left the noisy Mo family's courtyard and lived two years of quiet life in the Educated Youth Courtyard, and both passed away, and the couple were not yet sixty years old.
In this life, Mo Xiaoman must avoid Grandma's accident, hoping that the jewel can cure Grandma's eyes and let the couple who love each other live for a few more years!