Chapter 19 New Occupation
Mo Zhishu felt that Ah Gong and Grandma raised Mo Guoqiang and Mo Lao Er, and helped them marry wives and start families, but in the end they failed to get a return, so they quietly left the Mo family's yard to open another stove, and felt very uncomfortable, the educated youth house is in the east of the village, seven or eight hundred meters away from the village, it is still a remote residential area, people like the lively group life, no one is blushing at that place, there will really be no educated youth in the future, whether the house is sold or distributed in the team, it must be given priority to Mo Ah Gong, so now Mo Ah Gong's family lives in it, and it can be regarded as entering a new home, Mo Zhishu proposed:
"Second brother, you are now a new family, a new family is living a new life, no matter what, you have to be lively! If you don't even have a warm pot, it will be too cold, others don't talk about him, and a few of our old brothers don't want to go! Let's come to discuss, at least one table or two tables should be set up, everyone will follow to make noise, let the people in the village know that you live there, go around often, and it won't be deserted!"
Mo Ah said: "Won't this be too public? After all, the house is still public, and we are only borrowing it temporarily." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Let's just say that the brigade is assigned to you to live? Second brother, you pick herbs all the year round, although you have not learned diagnosis and treatment, and you dare not treat people, but anyone in the village who has a little injury or pain will come to you to get some such and such money, and you never charge money. In the past six years, and in the first two years of the past, when malaria and cholera broke out, you opened a cauldron to cook potion in the village, and gave it to everyone for a few days, and even the nearby villages came to rub the medicinal soup in our village, and there were fever patients in most places in the county.
The fifth uncle and grandmother also followed: "That's it, second brother, this is a big deal to enter a new house and open a new stove, you have to watch the day and pinch the right time! Make a good start, and in the future, it will be all satisfactory and smooth! I took the time to ask the old man Zhao of Beicun for you today--tomorrow is a good day, and the good time to enter the new house is between half past four and five o'clock in the morning!" When the time comes, I will shovel a stove of fire, add dry firewood on it, bring it back to you, enter the house and burn it red, and then ask Xiaoman to carry a pumpkin, roll it all over the house, and then ask my second sister-in-law to take a big dustpan and turn it on the fire...... Hey, hey, in the future, all wishes come true, reunion and prosperity of the six animals!"
Ah Gong was shocked when he heard it, but he was also moved, Mo Zhishu glared at his wife speechlessly, thinking that she was too direct to speak and didn't understand obscurity, you must know that now when you talk about this, you will still be accused of engaging in superstitious activities, but you can still take the position of the secretary of the brigade, but your family is like this?
The fifth uncle and grandmother didn't care: In the countryside, who is not like this? In those days who broke the four olds and opposed superstition, the old people and women in their families worshiped the God of Wealth and the Lord of the Land during the New Year, and they worked harder than anyone else!
Ah Gong finally listened to the persuasion of Mo Zhishu and the fifth uncle, and came back to talk to Grandma and Xiaoman, and neither of them had an opinion.
Grandma said: "Let's start the stove and pass it away, then listen to the branch secretary, set up two or three tables tomorrow, call the old brothers and old women, and bring the children over to be lively." I can't see or move, and I have to invite my five siblings to come and cook food, and the dishes and chopsticks may not be enough......"
"You don't have to worry about the food and wine at the table, I told my fifth brother and sister, just give her the money at that time, and arrange it all by her - she didn't look carefully when she had a relative in the sixth team to buy piglets, and she bought a black pig that couldn't be raised, and after feeding it for more than a year, there were only forty or fifty catties of water, and we bought the whole one, and tomorrow we asked two young men to secretly carry it back and slaughter it, it is estimated that the pork is enough, and you can get some lard!"
Grandma listened to Grandma's words, nodded and said, "That's fine." ”
Ah Gong said to Xiao Man again: "Tomorrow, you take care of your grandma, there are children coming, you can take a look twice...... Well, tomorrow morning I'm going to cut some bamboo, weave a hood and put it on the well, so that the children don't have to go to the well to play in the water and accidentally fall down!
Ah Gong muttered about his preparations, Xiao Man looked at the sweat of his body, and went to get a few buckets of water to wash his hair and take a shower, in the summer, taking cold water is just cool, Grandpa can also take a cold shower, but Grandma can't, since he can't fire for the time being, he still waits to go to the secretary's house and boil hot water to wash Grandma.
That night, he still lived in Mo Zhishu's house, Mo Zhishu and his wife invited a few of their own families, all of whom were cousins of the same age as Mo Ah Gong and Mo Zhishu, and five or six old brothers sat together for a little discussion, and a clear division of labor, and then they went home to rest, after all, they still have to go to work tomorrow, and they can come to help when the work in the production team is done.
Ah Gong actually doesn't want to trouble everyone, the new yard is very good and doesn't need to be repaired, Xiao Man also remembers that Ah Gong and Grandma said to move in their last life, and there was no ceremony, this life is different: it is not that Ah Gong and Mo Er's Uncle Mo and Aunt Mo had a quarrel before they split up, but Xiao Man led it, Mo Guoqiang kicked down Ah Gong and Grandma's thatched house, and there was no place to stay overnight, so he could only go to Mo Zhishu's house to spend the night.
Before dawn the next day, Mo Xiaoman was gently woken up by Grandma, the fifth uncle and grandmother really helped to prepare, Grandpa carried a back basket, holding a small clay stove in his hand, inside was the red fire shoveled out by the fifth uncle and grandmother from the stove, there were a few dry firewood on the fire, Xiao Man held a horse's head pumpkin in one hand and Grandma in the other, Grandma also held a dustpan in her hand, left Mo Zhishu's house and walked on the road, a gust of wind blew, and the firewood in the stove was burned, just enough to illuminate, the family tried to walk as fast as possible, and walked back to their new home when the fire was still strong and bright。
The next ceremony of entering the new house taught by the fifth uncle and grandmother, Xiao Man completed it while laughing, and she never imagined that she would have such a happy and funny moment: pushing a pumpkin around the house like a fool!
You can cook things when you put it into the fire, and Ah Gong asked Xiao Man to boil a big pot of water first, and as soon as the water boiled, the person who carried the pig arrived.
Taking advantage of the hazy sky, he knocked the pig out directly, and then stabbed the knife to take the pig's blood, killing a pig quietly, because in this era, it is not possible to kill pigs indiscriminately. If a rural family wants to slaughter a pig by themselves, then you have to raise two pigs, and sell the largest one to the national non-staple food purchasing station according to the national unified purchase price, and then determine the number of catties, and then you can get the pig killing index, with the index, you can slaughter the other head and sell it, and the price of pork can be higher than the purchase price.
As the saying goes, there are policies and countermeasures, in the past two years there are a lot of slaughtered pigs privately, not a big deal, generally no one stands up and talks nonsense, the local folk customs, some things in the township people will not be too serious, after all, who has not raised pigs?
This black pig that can't be slaughtered is not big, even if Ah Gong doesn't buy it, the owner of the family will secretly kill it in the near future and sell the pork secretly, and no one will report him, not even the cadres of the brigade.
But on the bright side, everyone still has to be pretentious, just don't let people get the handle.
The three young adults who killed the pig were very neat, and it would be finished after a while, the pork and pork bones were picked and packed in a basket and carried into the house by Ah Gong, and the pigs were put in the water and they used taro leaves to pad the bamboo basket and took them away, and took them to the river to soak and clean, and said that they would wait for Ah Gong to pick them up and cook them, and a few young people went to work on the production team.
When everyone left, Xiao Man and Ah Gong tidied up the yard and did some trivial work.
When the work was finished at noon, Mo Zhishu and the fifth uncle came over to take a look, and told Ah Gong to wait a little later to boil and stew pig bones and other things. The chimney checked and consolidated the four walls, and by the way, two low houses were built with waste bricks and stones on the side of the vegetable garden, one was stacked with firewood, and the other was made into a pigsty.
In accordance with Xiao Man's requirements, cut the bamboo strips and weave two kinds of thick and thin mats, and set up simple ceilings for the two upper bedrooms, and then Xiao Man collected some newspapers and pictorial pastes, which were both beautiful and blocked all kinds of dust.
Grandma pursed her lips and smiled - of course her Xiaoman is smart, the little brain is clever, she went to the market and came back, chattered and asked many questions, grandma and grandpa answered patiently, she has long seen it, this ceiling, or seen in the supply and marketing cooperative, today to see that there are helpers at home, she wants to do the same, grandpa grandma is naturally according to her wishes.
In the countryside, you have to wait until the evening to eat and drink, because you have to work during the day, and you can enjoy it completely leisurely and comfortably at night.
That lively moment finally came, adults and children gathered together, the yard was full of laughter and excitement, the women gathered around Grandma and said all kinds of auspicious and obedient words, Ah Gong was busy before and after, his face was so excited that his face was red, and the girls who usually don't like to take care of Mo Xiaoman were willing to come close to talk to her at this time, and pull her to play together, Xiaoman tried his best to grasp his attitude, from not daring to laugh to gradually let go, and slowly integrated, but fortunately, most of the little pot friends were thick, and no one felt that her change was strange and abrupt.
There are a lot of people who heard the news, relatives and neighbors, a total of a production team, all brought gifts to congratulate, this few catties of rice and that two catties of beans, the gifts in the countryside are so simple and simple, but full of affection, come to the table, originally expected to be three tables, and finally become four tables, plus a table is not very formal, for children to sit on the large table, it is considered five tables, the sun-dried grain flat is full, crowded, Mo Zhishu and the production team leader pulled the wire out, connected to a 100w large light bulb, illuminated the yard as bright as day.
The food is all in charge of the fifth uncle and grandmother, the fifth uncle and grandmother have married their daughters and daughters-in-law, and it is not once or twice to deal with such things, they are busy but not chaotic, while doing the things at hand, they command several daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law in the Mo family who came to help with a sharp voice.
Adults and children entered the table to open the table, the sound of bowls and chopsticks clanging, the tempting aroma of wine and meat overflowed the small courtyard, floating into the air, and when the lively and lively meal was halfway through, the door of the courtyard was pushed open with a bang, Mo Xiaoman turned his head to look, and reflexively tightened in his heart - the group that walked in was Mo Guoqiang and Mo Laoer's two families!