Chapter Twenty-Seven: Picking the Mountain
Liang Xiaoju is a hard-working and good child, she was idle in the big yard of her uncle's house for two days, and on the third day, she asked Xiaoman to take her out to work. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Both of them are half-old little girls, the rice in the team is ripe, but it is not yet time to announce the harvest of the sickle, the production team does not need half labor, the work is not earned, and the family has not bought chickens, ducks and piglets, so there is no need to hunt wild vegetables for the time being, and it is really idle, so you can only go up the mountain to chop firewood.
Grandma stopped them from going up the mountain in order to prevent accidents, saying that they had a fire banquet that day, and Mo Zhishu pulled four or five bundles of firewood over with an ox cart, and there was still enough to burn for some time, and tomorrow Grandpa will come back with firewood.
Xiao Man understands Grandma's thoughts, and Grandma doesn't know Xiao Man, how can anyone who has been working since childhood easily have any accidents? Grandma is just worried about Liang Xiaoju, in case something happens to Liang Xiaoju, it will not be easy for relatives to talk to each other.
Liang Xiaoju rolled around on the clean long stone under the pear tree, and shouted at Xiaoman: "It's so boring! There is not one more person in this place, and I am about to suffocate to death!"
Xiao Man spread his hands: "In this case, there are few people in the family, and the people live in a different place, everyone goes out to work in the daytime, and there is no time to run the door, how can it be more lively than your family?" Do you want to go home?"
Liang Xiaoju glanced at her vigilantly: "I don't want to go home! My house is lively, it's too noisy! It's still so good, quiet!"
Xiaoman is funny, this girl, it's a contradiction.
Seeing that it was still very early, Xiao Man went to discuss with Grandma: "I'll take Xiaoju out for a while, we won't go up the stone mountain, just go to the soil slope to cut thatch, okay?"
In the newly remodeled kitchen, a firewood stove has to be chopped into small pieces of about a foot, and when it is burned, it is enough to throw it in, and the kitchen with a wood-saving stove is usually cleaner.
Thatch can also be used for fire, generally used for a large earthen stove, set up a large iron pot, cook pigs and boil a large pot of porridge or something, the most suitable, but the kitchen with a large stove will inevitably have grass ashes, can not keep clean, the open stove, the four walls will be smoked and burned black.
I don't have a big stove at home, so I cut two loads of thatch and put it back, but it can be used as a fire.
Grandma was also afraid that Liang Xiaoju would be suffocated, so she told Xiaoman: "Then go, be careful when you take the sickle, don't carry heavy burdens, and tie two bundles of thatch the size of a head per person, just do it!"
Liang Xiaoju was also very happy when she heard that she could go out, and she agreed with Xiaoman, and the two of them took a sickle and a two-pointed log and left the house together.
When you go out, you have to deal with the people in the village, and when you enter the new house that day to invite a banquet, plus Liu Fengying made a fuss, Xiao Man showed her face, she was a little popular in the village, and everyone she met on the road said hello to her, even the dogs running on the village road collided head-on, and wagged their tails at her, Xiao Man kept smiling, and it didn't feel ordinary.
Liang Xiaoju naturally didn't know that Xiao Man had been abused by Liu Fengying since she was a child, and she was even despised in the village, and thought that she was already so popular, and looked at her with more and more envy and jealousy.
The jealousy between children, except for a few special ones, is purely jealousy, and there is not much malice, and Liang Xiaoju belongs to this category.
Xiao Man knew that Liang Xiaoju was a little willful and hypocritical, but her essence was not bad, last night the two of them slept until midnight, Xiao Man was suddenly dragged awake, and heard Liang Xiaoju muttering in a daze: "If you fall out of bed, I won't look at you!"
When the two of them slept together, it was very likely that she was squeezed out of bed by Liang Xiaoju, but Liang Xiaoju was able to pull her back in time, which shows that she has good thoughts in her heart.
Xiaoman does not exclude Liang Xiaoju from staying, and many people in the family are also very good, but she knows that this is unlikely, and Grandpa may not be too opposed, but Grandma is very resolute.
The relationship between grandma and Xiaoju's grandmother doesn't seem to be good, Xiaoman remembers that the eldest aunt entered the door yesterday and didn't say a word to grandma from beginning to end, and when grandpa and grandma argued, grandma sat motionless under the eaves and didn't enter the house, and the aunt didn't squeak when she left her!
Grandma has never been a troublemaker, if Xiao Man didn't tell her in person that she was not Liu Fengying's biological son, maybe Grandma wouldn't have insisted on bringing Xiao Man to her side, if there was discord between Grandma and Auntie, how could she accept Liang Xiaoju?
You must know that accepting Liang Xiaoju will be involved with the Liang family, if the eldest aunt often comes to the door on the grounds of seeing her granddaughter, grandma will be forced to face her, and she will lose her peace of mind.
Ah Gong listens to Grandma in everything, and the final result of this matter is estimated to be that Liang Xiaoju will live in Gongdao Village for a few days as a guest.
Xiaoman felt that he should do his best to be a landlord, take Liang Xiaoju to walk around, and by the way, he hung around in front of the people in the village to brush up his sense of existence.
Gongdao Village is a big village, there are five or six production teams, each production team has its own farming area, the farming area not only refers to the field, but also includes the mountains, forests and soil slopes assigned to the team.
The people of the three teams want to cut firewood to go to the stone mountain in the east, and if they cut thatch, they will go to the undulating slopes of varying heights in the west, there are burn-resistant alpine firewood on the east mountain, and the thatch and dwarf bushes on the soil slopes are also very good for burning fire, and there are berry trees in those bushes, such as the sweet myrtle, which is called the mountain nut by the locals, which is ripe in July and August, so at this time women and children like to go to the soil slope to cut firewood and grass, and pick the mountain nuts by the way.
Xiao Man took Liang Xiaoju to the slope of the team's farming area, and first went into the grass to find the mountain nuts to eat, the ripe mountain nuts are black and shiny, the size of a thumb, the fatter the more sweet and delicious, but you can't eat more, if the stomach and intestines are not strong enough, if you eat too much of this, you will be constipated!
So Xiao Man and Liang Xiaoju didn't dare to eat more, they stopped after eating twenty or thirty pieces, and at this time their lips, teeth, and fingers also turned black and purple, and they were dyed by the juice of Minoru, which is not easy to fade, and it can't be washed off, and it will take three or four days to fade.
Xiao Man was used to farm work in his previous life, and it was no problem to cut two bundles of thatch, but when he returned to this time period in this life, Xiao Man found that she actually gave birth to her hands!
Liang Xiaoju was neat, mowing the grass, hugging the pile, tying it, and then prick it up, and stood there with a sturdy and neat and beautiful firewood and grass.
People can go into the grass again and continue to pick the mountain, Xiao Man is still struggling to tie up the firewood and grass - it must be compacted and tightened hard, otherwise the rope will be loose halfway, but it will be enough to clean up.
Liang Xiaoju picked up the mountain in two pockets, and saw that Xiao Man was still carrying a sharp burden to fight with two bundles of firewood and grass, and couldn't help giggling, and by the way, Xiao Man didn't bother to pay attention to her, gritted his teeth and skewered the firewood and grass with a sharp shoulder, and walked down the hill when he picked it up.
Liang Xiaoju is one or two years older than her, and she is also stronger and more capable than her, even if she runs away, Liang Xiaoju can catch up immediately.
The two of them chased me to the ground, and they didn't rest on the road, carrying the burden downhill through two shallow streams and a large field, and returned to the village directly in one breath, and finally stopped in front of the big fence gate of the brigade headquarters, put the firewood and grass burden on their shoulders to the side of the road, and gasped to rest.