Chapter 5 The county seat The county seat!

Wu Neng wanted to cook for dinner, but there were really no ingredients at home, just a few peppers and tomatoes and a few pickles, Wu Neng wanted to make a tiger skin pepper, but unfortunately saw the amount of oil, or gave up, and finally the mother fried a chili, and then added a tomato egg soup, and the family finished the meal without a word. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the forty years of Wu Neng's life in the previous life, he worked as a chef for six years, two years as an apprentice, two years as a master, and then went out to open a Hunan restaurant, and finally because of an illness, he spent all his savings, and his health was not as good as before, and he finally failed to persist in the chef's line, but he has long remembered this item of eating, although he is not a famous chef, but at least the dishes fried by ordinary people taste much better, despite this, but the taste of his mother's cooking, after eating for a lifetime, he tasted his mother's taste again, this feeling still made Wu Neng's eyes almost wet again, not to say how good the food fried by his mother tasted, but a kind of aftertaste!”

In addition to mosquitoes and stuffy heat at night in the countryside summer, after eating a meal, Wu Neng snapped more than a dozen times, and under the dim light of five watts at home, countless flying insects and moths surrounded the electric light, as if the sky was full of dark shadows in the small room ......!"

After eating, my mother cleaned up the dining table, and my father took a mat and two stewed leaf fans and called Wu Neng and went out.

At this time, the flat ground outside the ancestral hall has been covered with all kinds of mats, as well as all kinds of rocking bamboo chairs, some old men actually played kerosene lamps to spread out the shelves with a small square table, played chess, most of the women and the like still get together Taoist routines, in the era of extreme lack of entertainment life, the big and small things that happened within a radius of ten miles and eight miles, can be said for several days, occasionally a middle-aged man inserted in the women's topic to say a sentence or two of yellow jokes, provoked a burst of undisguised laughter in the women's group, provoked more loveless middle-aged men to go up to play haha, to be happy!”

Wu Neng was shirtless, leaning on the mat with his back, the south wind in the night blew on his body from time to time, and his body was comfortable, so that his body couldn't help but relax more, and the children of all families also gathered together to discuss the world of children, Wu Neng felt a burst of emptiness, this era seemed to be incompatible with himself, but he also enjoyed this era, this may be the most beautiful era in his mind, the most simple era, in fact, it really came to this era, Wu Neng found that this era in the eyes of his parents, may be a depressed era!”

Wu Neng looked up at the starry sky, the sky full of stars seemed to be telling something, Wu Neng's mind was messy, the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, he didn't think of anything, he fell asleep in a daze, a cool breeze blew, Wu Neng suddenly woke up, the full moon in the sky was already in mid-air, and there were more than a dozen mattresses scattered around, most of them had gone home, Wu Neng estimated that the time was three or four o'clock, and he wanted to sleep again, but he couldn't sleep anymore.

Originally, the fourteen-year-old body was sleepy, but there was a forty-year-old heart in this body, and many years of insomnia thought that it would disappear with rebirth, but it was still brought over.

Just thinking about it, suddenly the father opposite him got up lightly, the father didn't stop much, he was ready to go home to pick peppers to go to the county seat, now it is estimated that it is more than four o'clock, walk for more than two hours, and arrive at the county seat at six or seven o'clock, which is a good time to sell vegetables.

Wu Neng also climbed up and said: Dad, I also want to go to the county seat to play, I will follow you.

Wu Jianwen was a little surprised that Wu Neng was sober so early, and it was not surprising that he wanted to go to the county seat to play, children of this age were crazy everywhere during the summer vacation, and it was good to go to the county seat with themselves, the father and son returned home after cleaning up the mat, and the mother had already woken up with the first cry of the rooster at midnight, and also burned the fire, preparing to make breakfast for the family, was making breakfast, the father also changed into liberation shoes, packed his luggage, a towel dyed yellow-brown by sweat, and the small sack bag specially prepared by the mother to contain the change was also put aside, and the father had a blue-gray sweatshirt that had been shampooed white, and there were obviously two holes in the undershirt, and a boss pants on the lower body, a pair of semi-new liberation shoes on the feet, the so-called boss pants, is the style of old, big cotton pants, many middle-aged people who work wear this, to prevent mosquito bites and the like.

Mother He Xiulan was making breakfast, and the door of the second uncle's house on the other side also squeaked, and the wooden door was also pushed open, the second aunt yawned, combed her hair and looked at Wu Neng's family on the other side, and said: Xiulan, you guys got up too early, just to catch the market, not to pick up money, what are you anxious about?

Mother He Xiulan didn't say much when she heard this, she only said a word, she couldn't sleep, so she continued to make breakfast, and Wu Neng on the side secretly thought: The second aunt is too bad at talking, and the ugly side of rural women can be found from the second aunt.

Wu Neng and his father washed their faces with well water and brushed their teeth, at this time, the dried noodles made by his mother also kicked up, the white noodles were clear, and then the red oil and spicy seeds were dialed on top, and the fragrant and spicy smell choked the nose, which made people have a great appetite, Wu Neng, who rarely ate breakfast before being reborn, also felt a great appetite at this time, a bowl of oil-splashed noodles was eaten in sweat, and his father was unhurried with a mouthful of pickles and a mouthful of noodles, and his father also wanted to drink a sip of wine, and after being reprimanded by his mother, he had no choice but to drink the noodles and soup in the bowl, and his dark face was suddenly a little flushed, and his face was full of sweat!”

Wu can eat easy to sweat this habit, this is completely inherited from his father, the mother cleaned up, closed the door, the three of them rushed to the county seat more than twenty miles away, at this time the sky is still a starlight, but the moon has begun to return, after walking for a while, the white in the distance also seems to have a glimmer of light, the roosters in the village began their ancient work, crowing, a rooster crow, a few ringings later, as the moon slowly faded and slowly disappeared!"

This season is a good season to sell peppers, eggplants, bitter gourd and other vegetables, many villagers take advantage of the good weather, all pick in the afternoon, the next morning to pick the county to sell, before leaving the village, Wu Neng has already met three familiar elders, everyone said hello, together along the mountain path zigzag out of this village!"

Wu Neng looked at this trail, couldn't help but feel a little emotional, the times are changing, and this trail more than 20 years later, just widened two meters, out of the trail, to the country road, the so-called country road refers to the road around a lot of villages, everyone is basically along this road to the county, more than ten years later, this road was built into a cement road, and through the bus, Wu Neng's memory seems to be 7 years later, December 1999 to pass the bus, usually on this road all the villagers to the county are step by step to walk over!”

If you can meet a tractor on the road, if you are familiar, a cigarette to say hello, will also be taken by the way, but a tractor basically sits three or four people, the sudden tractor emits black smoke from Wu Neng's side, the car is basically full of people, everyone sits on both sides of the tractor, this dangerous way of riding for these villagers, at this time is a rare enjoyment, but this enjoyment below, is a bloody accident, in Wu Neng's memory, in the past 20 years, fell from the tractor and died, there were at least five villagers who were crushed to death, five of them three old people, two children!”

The most pitiful child is the eight-year-old daughter of one of the tractor drivers, this incident happened in 96, 96 years before rebirth, Wu Neng has graduated from junior high school for three years, and in those three years he helped people look at fruit trees in a farm park in Guangdong, 80 yuan a month, including food and shelter ......!"

Father Wu Jianwen saw Wu Neng looking at the tractor in the distance, and couldn't help asking: I just walked so far, I want to take a car!"

Wu Nengke didn't want to take this kind of nostalgic transportation, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly: I don't want to sit, just take a look!"

At this time, it has walked a third of the way, the sky has begun to blue, the feeling of cloudless sky is refreshing, in fact, it is not yet six o'clock at this time, but the morning dawn in the summer morning, the flow of people on the road has begun to slowly increase, and Wu Nengjia has brought their children to the market to sell vegetables There are many parents, because it is the surrounding villages, most of them usually know each other, and say a word or two of gossip from time to time, but this is physical work after all, my father is still in a muffled hurry most of the time, and the sweat has already soaked the undershirt with two holes, so that the mother is a little distressed, so she asked: Jianwen, I'll dance a meeting!”

The father muttered: I will still pick it, you first think about what you want to buy later, don't forget, the family has almost eaten salt.

Mother oh!"

Wu Neng followed behind his parents, with a pair of plastic sandals on his feet, walking fast, the shoes were still a little slippery, the plastic sandals were obviously a little small, and his feet were squeezed a little stinging from time to time, but at this time in his heart, the wordless pain made him feel a little uncomfortable, seeing his father's back, and his mother's face that looked ten years older than his peers, he felt his incomparable heartache, this heartache had never been felt before rebirth, the closest person gave himself the most true love, often felt that this was what he should be, but he never knew that behind this love, was the heavy sweat!”

Walked for almost two hours, in the suburbs of the county can already faintly see the prosperity of the county, of course, this prosperity is only for this era, the countryside of this era to compare, in fact, the county in front of you is inferior to any township in the future, gray buildings, gray streets, the street is full of stalls for breakfast, the white fog is hot, but the street on the road is not wide, tractors, bicycles, board cars, pedestrians, the sudden sound of tractors, the front of the straight smoke, the sound of bicycles, the rural board car dragging vegetables and fruits, the pedestrians rushing to the market, the noise, the shouting, the sound of the locomotive, forming this unique sense of age!”

Occasionally, you can pass by a car, and the eyes around you are suddenly attracted, until the car horn is pressed, and the pedestrians on both sides and the old man of the cart scolding and scolding get out of the way a little bit to let the car pass, but despite the scolding, but in the flashing eyes, the eyes that are obviously full of envy and jealousy always stay on the car!