Chapter 3:

"Second brother, my mother said that if you don't come back until four o'clock, you don't have to go to the field. Harvest the rice from the paddy field and make dinner. Today, my grandfather brought a big pig's head over, saying that it was burned and that he would send half of it. "Grandpa is so good, their family hasn't eaten meat for several days.

The day before yesterday, the uncle's family killed a chicken, and she listened to what her second cousin said, stewed a big pot, and their family didn't have enough to eat, just that fragrance, and she could not eat meat for a month if she left it in her stomach. The third brother said that the cousin was showing off and deliberately greedy for everyone. Hmph! She's not hungry.

"Oh!" Zhang Jin entered the room and looked at the big clock hanging on the wall, and sure enough, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon. Due to the unified holiday of the city's primary and junior high schools today, when he returned to Nanshan Town from Dongyang County, it took him almost an hour to wait for a tricycle to come to them. As a result, I came back more than an hour later than usual.

After listening to the little sister's words, Zhang Jin walked directly into the bedroom, but when he saw the pig-like bed in the bedroom that was made by the eldest brother and the third brother, and the eldest brother carried it back and threw it away, he frowned before he had time to wash the dirty clothes.

In the end, he didn't even put down his backpack, turned around and returned to the hall, put the backpack on the square table in the hall, and began to dig out things.

"Hehe, second brother, where are you going to sleep with grandpa at night?" Zhang Xiao saw that the second brother didn't put the backpack in the bedroom, so she guessed her second brother's thoughts. "I told the third brother that you want to come back and ask him to clean up the bed, but he still didn't get it. ”

Zhang Jin glanced at the complaining little sister lightly, first took out the Guanyin statue from her backpack and put it on the 'god cabinet' (the big cabinet that used to be placed in the middle of the hall, a bit similar to the current TV cabinet), and then took out a big bag of sweet and crispy.

"Wow!" Zhang smiled, his eyes lit up again when he saw the delicious food.

Zhang Jin untied the bag and took a few pieces for her. Zhang Xiaomei couldn't wait to stuff it into her mouth without thinking about it. She can't eat such delicious biscuits once a month, in fact, let alone a month, there are very few people who can have snacks to eat here. Of course, sweet potatoes and peanuts grown in the field are counted separately.

Zhang Jin glanced at the big clock in the hall, thought about it, took out a clean plastic bag from the drawer of the god cabinet, took out some sweet and crispy and put it in.

"The second brother is going to send it to his mother?"

"Well, are there any more steamed buns?"

"Yes, my mother didn't burn it until noon. It's in God's Ark. ”

"Then go to the field and bring them something to eat. ”

"Good. Seeing that the second brother took so many biscuits into a small bag, Zhang Xiao directly forgot about Zhang's mother's explanation to help the second brother collect food. Thinking that if I send it over in a while, I will definitely be able to eat a few more pieces, so I can't wait to leave now.

Zhang Jin doesn't look elegant and elegant, he often gives people a tall appearance, and he doesn't seem to be interested in anything, but in fact, this guy has another attribute, that is, foodie, in terms of eating, he likes trouble very much.

In the words of the rural people, it is good (read four sounds) to eat.

So he took out the pot and helmet bun that his mother had baked at noon, and instead of bagging it directly, he took it to the kitchen and cut it into palm-sized triangles. Divide it in half and add some home pickles, or brush some homemade chili sauce, or serve with sliced cold cucumbers and tomatoes. Anyway, there are no duplicate ones. At the end, I thoughtfully took out a few homemade pickled garlic and served them. This is something that his father and eldest brother love to eat.

After tying up the prepared dry food one by one, Zhang Jin gave it to Xiaomei with confidence and let her take it to the field. In rural areas, when farming is busy, it is common to eat dry food. Otherwise, you won't be able to work. Of course, this is also subject to conditions. Some poor people's dry food is also part of the main meal.

Sending the little sister away, Zhang Jin began to deal with the pig's head meat in the kitchen, now the sun is still big outside, and it is not too late to start harvesting rice at five o'clock, but the pig's head meat must be burned now, otherwise it will not be able to catch up with dinner in the evening.

Boil the pig's head into the pot, Zhang Jin began to collect grain, as a man, he didn't take the grain in the rice field seriously at all, the big deal was to make it slower.

By the time the third brother and the younger sister came back from the field to help, he had already gathered the grain and was making dinner.

Dinner is decided by Chef Zhang, which is very worth looking forward to in the eyes of a group of small people in the Zhang family, even if it is basically all vegetarian, the taste is better than what Zhang's mother, who doesn't like trouble, usually makes at home. At the end of the meal, Brother Zhang said that he would follow the second brother in the future.

Naturally, it was Zhang Laoer's white eyes, still with resentment.

It's a pity that Zhang Laosan is heartless and heartless, and he is even better than his second brother, so he blinded Zhang Jin's eyes for a long time.

"What's wrong with staying with your grandfather. Zhang's mother knew her son too well, and she grinned, "How comfortable it is to sleep alone." ”

"Yes, yes!" The eldest son, Zhang Junbao, repeatedly conformed to his mother, but unfortunately the gloating tone was audible even to the deaf.

Zhang Jin pursed his lips and glanced at his eldest brother fiercely. The heart said: If you have the ability, you can go! Grandpa's pile of ancient books, why don't you memorize them?

"Haha!" Grandpa Zhang was in a good mood when he was full of wine and food, and saw that the family here was bullying his second grandson, so he didn't help or say anything, and said with a smile, "Gong Jin, grandpa heard that you were lucky today, and the five cents were trapped into a hundred yuan woolly bear, not to mention, but also to a Guanyin and a jade pendant, just right, I heard that when they were eleven, what kind of lottery was going to be held in the town, let your mother take you to see it, and buy some clothes by the way." ”

"Well, I've heard about that, too. Dad Zhang said, "I heard that the biggest prize is a van." Then the first prize is 10,000, the second prize is a motorcycle, the third prize is a color TV, and the fourth prize is a bicycle. ”

"Dad, let's go smoke a color TV, and everyone in the village Liu Lao bought a color TV, and Xiao Liu is showing off. Zhang Laosan and Zhang Wenhao said unashamedly.

The eldest brother was unceremoniously disdainful: "You think the color TV is yours, you can smoke it when you say it, and you don't have a backache when you stand and talk." ”

Needless to say, the next thing is the quarrel between Zhang Junbao and Zhang Wenhao, these two brothers seem to be born with a mismatch, obviously several years apart, but they can still quarrel without saying a word.

Zhang Jin, who is about the same age as Zhang Junbao, eats hard when others are talking, and when the eldest brother and the younger brother quarrel, they put down the dishes and chopsticks and wipe their mouths, get up and hold their backpacks and go to their grandfather's house, which is two or three homes away, which is only three or four minutes away.

As for what Zhang's mother announced after dinner, tomorrow will be busy for another day, and if the weather is good the day after tomorrow, let Zhang's father watch the rice field at home and lead his children to the town to buy clothes, he doesn't care about it at all, anyway, they are required to wear school uniforms during school classes, and they can wear them when they go home and go to school when they buy them.

The most important thing is that he doesn't have high requirements for dress, unlike the eldest brother who has already talked about a girlfriend who is said to be from the city, and the younger brother who has just entered junior high school and knows how to touch his hair and pretend to be Chow Yun-fat chasing beautiful women, Zhang Jin, this kid, don't look at his appearance, is outstanding among the three brothers of the Zhang family, and even the seven or eight grandsons of Grandpa Zhang and his peers in the village.

Helpless, this kid in his/words, people who don't study sixteen or seventeen are married, he just doesn't open his mind, so far there is no concept of liking between men and women, that is, teaching each other, people are also hazy, so that the 'teacher' can't wait to beat his chest, saying that he is too dirty.

In the countryside, buying clothes is also a big deal, basically except for the New Year, no one will have anything to do to buy a piece of clothing, there are many children, the clothes are worn by the eldest after the second child, and then the third and fourth have been lined up. may have to go to someone else's house after arranging their own family. It doesn't matter if there are more patches, it means that there are more people who wear them, and there are more people who wear them, and this dress is not more popular, and the superstitious ones will feel that the clothes can bless the healthy growth of the child.

However, for families who go to school outside the home, in order to make the children decent at school, they will buy some clothes for the children who are studying during the change of seasons.

That's basically the case with the Zhang family this time.

With the bait of buying clothes in front, the two brothers of the Zhang family are more motivated to work. The second Zhang Jin has always had strong self-esteem, he doesn't like to be left behind, and he also took out the strength to eat milk when he started working, so he was scheduled to finish the work at least three days later, but they ended it before the sun went down in the afternoon.

This end basically indicates the end of the Zhang family's autumn harvest, and then only the rice connected to the rice stalk needs to be beaten down and dried.

However, as long as the three adults of the Zhang family do it, Grandpa Zhang, Zhang's father and Zhang's mother are all people who love children, otherwise they would not adopt Zhang Xiao when they have three sons and one daughter.

While there are many children in Woniu Village, every family also has a lot of land. Generally, this farming work takes ten days and half a month, or even longer, and the fatigue of facing the loess with his back to the sky all day can be imagined.

Originally, the three sons of the Zhang family were sixteen or seventeen years old and still went to school, but it was very dazzling in Woniu Village, and there were people in the light and dark who were arranging to laugh at the old man of the Zhang family□□ who wanted to eat swan meat, and married a foreign daughter-in-law who wanted to smoke on the head of his ancestor and raise a college student.

How many years have passed since the reform and opening up, and there has not been a single college student in the entire Nanshan Town, and the sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man is the time to have strength, so it is better to stay at home and have more land. Parents can still be more idle, and no matter how difficult it is to find someone to take out to work, the family can also have an income.

It's just that these three brothers are sometimes bastards, and they can be tossed more naughty than any kid in the village, but it's a fact that people study well.

And now the three brothers have proved with practical actions that they are not the 'useless scholars', the same amount of fields, at least two or three days behind other people's homes, the three brothers in one afternoon and one morning to mow up. It's like the harvester on TV.

So, in the afternoon, when Zhang's father and Zhang's mother were pulling rice in an ox cart, some people who bent over to work in the fields had hairs on their mouths and sneered. In this regard, Zhang's mother has been driving the cow with her head held high, and by the way, she squeezed her eyes with Zhang's father, and her feelings were overflowing.

It's just that these three brothers don't know that after they cut the last acre of rice, they hula and ran into the river, taking a refreshing cold shower is secondary, and the main thing is that they want to catch fish and shrimp in the river and get some 'meat'.