"Xiaoli is good, you are not allowed to go into the water to touch fish in the future, I know that Xiaoli wants to contribute to the family, and I can wait until I grow up. Grandpa touched Hongyun's head and whispered, his voice a little tired.

Hongyun felt strange, looked up at his grandfather, and saw that his grandfather's face was not very good, "Grandpa, sit down." Xiaoli will rub it for you. "After all, my grandfather is over 80 years old, and he has been tired for the past two days, although he is in good health, he is still tired in the end.

Hongyun helped his grandfather to sit on the bench and sat down on the bed, and then went to pour boiling water, poured it a little colder, and brought it to his grandfather to drink. Although he is young, his arms and legs are not so flexible, and his strength is almost there, Hongyun tries to be as slow and steady as possible, and he doesn't want his grandfather to worry and wants him to rest well.

Not long after, my sister also came back, and as soon as she got off the ground, she was called back to get water, the sun was too poisonous, and the adults were sweating a lot, and they were so thirsty that they forgot to bring a water bottle on the first day.

"Little sister, grandpa, what are you doing at home?" Hongfang saw Hongyun idle at home, very unhappy and jealous.

"My mother asked me to cook with my grandfather, as well as the food of my second uncle and aunt's family and my grandfather. Hongyun replied, and Hongfang took the water and left satisfied.

People, just can't see others idle, so jealous of people, even if it's a sister, this is still a good fortune to cross the 30 mark after the fact that the sister gave herself a lot of sets because of jealousy, although I don't know where I am worthy of jealousy.

Hongyun began to collect firewood and grass to start the fire, "Grandpa, I'll go pull some wheat stalks." After seeing that my grandfather agreed, he went to the public wheat field to pull the wheat stalks. Wheat straw is the easiest to burn, and it is used to start a fire in the countryside, and after threshing wheat every year, each family will pile up the wheat straw left over from beating the wheat into a wheat pile and pile it in the public wheat field for cooking for a year. The remaining bran is thrown into the fermentation tank to ferment as fertilizer.

By the time Hongyun returned home, his grandfather had already started washing rice and was ready to cook. After the fire is burned, add some firewood, boil the water on a high fire, and then boil it for a while, then take out the green and thick rice soup, and then stuff the rice with low heat, there will be fragrant pot rice, which is difficult to eat again in later generations, and the green and thick rice soup is rarely there again.

When cooking rice, let Hongyun watch the fire, buried a few sweet potatoes and buried them under the fire, and my grandfather killed and pickled the fish, and went to the vegetable field at the door to pick green cabbage, beans, eggplant, and cut some leeks.

"Xiaoli, boil some water on the other stove. "My grandfather poured out the snails, washed them, and burned them in a pot, and the cooked snails made it easier to pick the meat.

Grandpa asked Hongyun to go to the village shop to buy a pound of pork, ready to burn pork vermicelli, Hongyun listened to his grandfather's plan, and his saliva was about to flow out. In the past, the pork was all authentic local pigs, which were absolutely naturally fed, fragrant to death, and pork vermicelli was a must.

Busy and busy, waiting for the whole family to get home, has a full table of meals ready, the embarrassment is that the dishes and chopsticks are not enough, which is a common thing in the countryside in the past, relatives and friends are borrowing from neighbors. The second uncle and second aunt asked Honglan Hongxiu to go home and get the dishes and chopsticks.

While waiting, Hongzong Chao couldn't help but grab it, and was beaten back by Li Xiulan, and howled in his throat.

"Xiaochao, good. Grandpa Hong Jueguang hugged Hong Zongchao and angrily said to Li Xiulan, "Eat a little kid, what's wrong?"

Li Xiulan argued: "The adults haven't eaten yet." ”

The second uncle Hongmian and the second aunt Liu Waxmei played a round on the side: "It's okay, the child is greedy, it's okay to eat something." ”

As soon as Li Xiulan dragged Hong Zongchao from her grandfather's arms, she started fighting, and her luck was blinded, what is this for?

"Xiulan, stop, the family is eating, why are you beating the children, and you don't let people eat?" Grandpa stopped Li Xiulan, "Hurry up and sit down." Li Xiulan still listens to her father.

"Father-in-law, I'm sorry, Xiulan has made me spoiled. Grandpa apologized to Hong Jueguang.

"It's okay, it's all family. Come on, come on, all sit. At this time, Hongxiu Honglan also took back the dishes and chopsticks. It was a good meal, but the atmosphere was gone. After eating in a hurry, he and his grandfather went to the field to cut wheat, leaving Hongyun alone to take care of the house.

In the evening, when Li Xiulan and Hong Mianfa returned home, Hongyun told them about the bad face he found in his grandfather.

"I'm really, at such an age, when I'm tired, I'll rest, let me cook at home tomorrow, his dad." Li Xiulan looked at Hong Mianfa and said.

"Okay, I'll talk to them tomorrow. "Hong cotton hair is also very crisp.

The next day, Hong Mianfa said to his grandfather, "Xiaoli is not at ease at home alone, you can take care of it at home, cook by the way, and now you are racing against time to cut wheat, don't go back to the rain It's too late." After hearing this, my grandfather agreed, knowing his body, do what he can, otherwise he will get sick and have to burden others.

After cutting the wheat and threshing the wheat, they were all anxious to gain time, for fear that the heavens would not be beautiful and wept. Fortunately, in addition to the cloudy day, until the wheat dried for a few days, it began to rain heavily, at this time the ground has been plowed and ready to be watered to grow rice, Hongyun's mint journey can be carried out again, knowing that the monkey has also come out, and the cicada can also be picked up.

The mint that was cut before has been dried in the sun because of the good weather these days, and there is only a little left. Originally, there were four or five bags, but now there is only one bag left. In his previous life, it seemed that it was only a few cents a pound, and this bag was only a few pounds and a few cents, and Hongyun was a little disheartened when he thought about it. Now it's still small, what to do is restricted, I don't know what the current market looks like, and after August, after the cicada is picked up, I asked my grandfather to take him to the county to sell the cicada and mint, and then look at the market. Hongyun thought about it and cheered up.

After the rice was planted, Dad Hong Mianfa went to work again, life returned to peace, and my grandfather was going home. Hongyun was anxious when he heard it, his grandfather left, what to do with his own money-making business, relying on Li Xiulan, he thought about it.

"Grandpa, if you stay for a few more days, I'll catch a sister monkey for you to eat, and I'll make you a mint pillow." Hongyun pulled his grandfather and didn't let him go, "Grandpa, I don't want you to go." ”

Grandpa's popularity is superb, at this time, Hong Zongchao and Hongfang also joined the camp to stay with grandpa, and Li Xiulan also began to persuade: "I'm big, you just stay for a few more days, it's too hot, what should you do if you suffer from heat stroke?" I don't feel at ease when you're home alone. ”

Grandpa looked at the little faces of anticipation, his eyes began to moisten, and he nodded in agreement, Xiulan took care of these children too badly, and she couldn't bear to let the children suffer.

Several children cheered and jumped around their grandfather.

Soon in August, there were fewer and fewer monkeys, and the mint was also cut, but they were all scattered, and there were not many, and then Hongyun ran a long way to cut it, and it was all dried, and Hongyun asked his grandfather to take him to the county to sell these.

Grandpa asked Li Xiulan to borrow a donkey cart, put more than a dozen bags of mint and a few bags of cicadas into the car, and set off in newer and neat clothes.

When Hongfang and Hongzongchao heard that they were going to the county seat, they both quarreled about going, but the car was already full of medicinal herbs, and their grandfather promised to bring them delicious food, and the two reluctantly agreed.

I arrived at the county seat in about half an hour, and went straight to the medicinal material company, fourteen bags of mint were only fifty-five catties, eight cents and five pounds, only four yuan, and only four yuan, six cents and seven cents in the past two months, and Hongyun wanted to cry. Fortunately, the cicada is sold by two, three cents and five cents and one tael, three and a half bags of thirteen and a half catties, forty-seven yuan and two cents and five cents, a total of more than fifty yuan, and the money Hongyun is happy and crazy, and my grandfather put the money for Hongyun.

"Grandpa, a lot of money. Hongyun hugged his grandfather.

"Xiaoli is capable. "Grandpa didn't expect that the cicada was so valuable, he thought it was as worthless as mint, so he picked up Hongyun and kissed it.

More than 50 yuan, a lot in the early 80s, a pig is only about 200 yuan a year to feed a family.

"Grandpa, you look at the car, I'll go to the toilet. "The latrine, the vernacular of the toilet. Grandpa sat in the car and was in a daze.

Hongyun went to the front desk of the medicinal material company, and the front desk also sold medicine, but the platform was too high, and Hongyun ran far away to call people before he was seen.

"Sister, buy some medicine. "The prescription that Hongyun wrote at home from his pocket is terrible, and he can't reach the table. Fortunately, the little girl was more kind-hearted and lively, jumped on the stage and took the note, "Little sister, who asked you to come?"

"Grandpa, grandpa is watching the donkey cart. Hongyun said calmly.