Chapter 33:

Zhang Jin got up early in the morning and went back to the old mud house next door where Grandpa Zhang lived when he first came to Woniu Village, where no one had lived for seven or eight years. It has become a utility room for Grandpa Zhang and Zhang's mother to place sundries.

For example, when the educated youth went to the countryside and returned to the city, they gave Grandpa Zhang several large water tanks for grain, jars for pickled vegetables, etc., which are now placed over there.

Originally, it was said that Zhang's mother wanted to pull it back to load grain when she got married, but Zhang's father and Grandpa Zhang are well-known carpenters here, can the carpenter's family have less granaries? The granary made for myself was definitely more practical than a water tank, so I didn't use it.

Grandpa Zhang's side was originally usable. But in order to marry Zhang's mother, Zhang's father came back from the mountains with two hundred-year-old camphor wood, and built a set of exquisite medicine cabinets for his grandfather, which is said to be very valuable when sold in the city! He also changed the Nanmu cabinet that he accidentally got when he was fighting the landlord's old fortune into three or four boxes as a dowry.

Now the three or four boxes, two of the small ones were taken by Zhang's mother to put clothes, and the other two big ones were kept as Grandpa Zhang's shoes to contain some precious medicinal herbs.

Well! Thinking of that box, Zhang Jin couldn't help but think about what his father thought back then, the box was too big, and he could still fit it in his squatting now.

Naturally, when Grandpa Zhang had bought a lot of large water tanks himself, he didn't use them much. As a result, it has been idle in the old house.

Zhang Jin vaguely remembered that the last time he saw the tank, Grandpa Zhang was still complaining that there were too many tanks, the area was too large, and there was no place for his good wood. I said it was going to give it to someone, but because it was popular for everyone to make cabinets, I didn't want it.

It's just that I don't know, if he gets it away today, will Grandpa Zhang or Grandpa Zhang feel sorry for the big vat in the house is gone.

Zhang Jin thought about it for a night last night, and finally decided to use the eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs in the space to make pickled eggs. In this way, when he eats at school in the future, he will be able to take one or two out of the school to add food.

Even if you bring it to your family once in a while, no one will suspect anything. After all, this thing is sold everywhere, and his grandfather also likes to get some medicinal food from time to time to improve the health of the family. Even if everyone's health improves, they will only think that it is the effect of medicinal diet.

However, because he got up too early, when Zhang Jin arrived at the old house, it was not yet dawn. When he walked into the old house, even if he took a flashlight, a timid teenager still scared himself into goosebumps.

The old house is really not big, and there are only three mud houses, and it is almost clear what to place at a glance. After Grandpa Zhang moved away, except for a few jars, a few jars, and a pile of very thick wood that Grandpa Zhang didn't know where to go, he didn't put any coffins like other old people in the village. Otherwise, Zhang Jin's little guts would never come in. Although Grandpa Zhang also told his grandfather that a few pieces of wood in the old house are the coffins he is going to make for himself in the future.

Zhang Jin turned on the flashlight as a thief and walked through the entire old house, because there had been no food in it for a long time, and in the end he didn't even touch a mouse.

But when he arrived at the room where the tank was placed, when he saw those 'behemoths', Zhang Jin was entangled, this tank was too big! The capacity of one is at least four or five hundred catties of grain. Even if you only take one of them, as long as someone comes here, you will be found quickly.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jin felt that it was better to take away everything that could be used, and then tell his grandfather that he was useful.

With his understanding of his grandfather, this kind of thing he doesn't need is basically not at ease. And seeing that when he told his grandfather yesterday that he was refining qi at the third level, his grandfather was surprised and excited, and he probably wouldn't ask too much.

What if you ask? Zhang Jin thought again.

"Just tell him to refine the medicine himself!" Some pictures suddenly flashed in his mind, Zhang Jin's eyes lit up, and he had an idea.

Zhang Jin, who figured it out, took away the jars and jars in the old house, as long as he thought they could be used, a total of eighteen, including five large jars, eight medium-sized jars, and five small jars for me.

After taking the jar, Zhang Jin was not in a hurry to go home, but simply practiced the qigong method in the courtyard of the old house, the effect was not as good as yesterday, he did not absorb the oriental purple qi, a little bit was probably the breath of aura, and there was no contrast with yesterday's majestic breath.

However, when I opened my eyes again, it was dawn again, and I walked out of the courtyard of the old house and met a certain uncle who was carrying his head out early in the morning and was ready to go to the ground.

"The second child is so early!" The uncle smiled and opened his mouth first.

"Uncle." Zhang Jin pursed his lips and smiled, in the end, it was difficult to open without Chrysostom, and replied politely: "Well, I exercise." ”

"You're still exercising, but I know you made a big cart of firewood for your grandfather yesterday. Why do you have to sleep more this morning! ”

"I'm going to be on the street in a moment."

"Oh! Ha ha! The uncle laughed as if he understood what was going on in it.

Zhang Jin didn't say anything more, smiled shyly, and walked into the courtyard where Grandpa Zhang lived now.

Grandpa Zhang once again took credit before Zhang Jin, and was cooking in the kitchen at this time.

Zhang Jin walked in, took a basin and a towel, and talked about the tank by the way.

Grandpa Zhang really didn't care much, and muttered: "You have a good relationship with your grandfather, yesterday he was still saying that he wanted to get a batch of wood to put over there, and when it was cold, he would work at home, and he was worried that he would not be able to put it down." "Don't be too anxious for quick success, if you want to try your hand, there are still a few Dan recipes handed down at home, all of which are simple." ”

"Oh!" Zhang Jin nodded in response.

Grandpa Zhang said again: "I won't go to the street in the morning, you will bring money and go to the street with your brother and them to cut a few catties of meat and come back, and see if there are any fish, I have a guest here at noon today." ”

"Then I'll be back early."

"It's right to come back early." Grandpa Zhang looked like, 'Is it possible that you still want me to cook'.

Zhang Jin didn't say anything, and went to wash his face with the basin.

As soon as breakfast was over, Zhang Wenhao ran into his grandfather's yard and said loudly: "Second brother, mom told you to hurry up, we are all leaving." ”

"Didn't your mom say she wasn't going today?" Grandpa Zhang said.

Zhang Wenhao's eyes swept over the breakfast at his grandfather's house, and he pouted a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of his grandfather, but just said as if he had to say: "Big brother said last night that his quilt was not warm, and my mother said that I would let my father drive over today and make a few quilts for us." ”

Oh! Grandpa Zhang nodded, then waved his hand and said, "You go back first, and your second brother will come in a while." ”

"Oh!" Zhang Wenhao saw that there was nothing to eat at Grandpa Zhang's house, so he naturally didn't want to stay, so he explained and turned to leave.

When he left, Grandpa Zhang said to Zhang Jin: "I still have a basket of eggs in the house, about seventy or eighty, you can bring them later, if you meet your eldest sister on the street, just say that your mother brought them." ”

Zhang Jin nodded and didn't say anything.

"It's not easy for your eldest sister! is as high-spirited as your mother, but unfortunately her vision is not good. ”

“……”

Yulin Street in Wutongpo is a small market in Nanshan Town that gathers more than a dozen nearby villages, and it is open every two days of the lunar calendar.

Because it is located in a village like Woniu Village, which is the only way to get out of the mountain village, it has developed quite prosperously for decades.

Primary schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, credit cooperatives, post office offices, livestock □□ markets, rice and flour mills, oil mills, wood mills, pesticide and fertilizer seed shops, bicycles, diesel car repair shops, etc., for a small market, the five organs are also complete.

In addition, there are three houses on the street that kill pigs and sell meat, as for other private activities, the buying and selling of bed sheets, blankets, flower cloth, tobacco, alcohol, firepaper, firecrackers, sweets, biscuits, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and daily necessities. Most of them are their own people on Yulin Street, using their own houses on the street to convert into small storefronts, and they don't even have a business license.

No more! After all, whether it is the people on Yulin Street or the nearby villages, everyone is basically living a self-sufficient life, and basically every household has too many firewood, rice, noodles and dishes to eat.

Even if you use cooking oil, many times you take your own peanuts or sesame seeds to the oil mill on the street or squeeze them yourself.

As the saying goes, you can go up the mountain to hunt a rabbit and pick some mushrooms to enrich your life.

There are also vegetables sold on the street, but most of them are eaten in their own vegetable gardens, basically there is no high price, only a few cents a pound, and it feels like selling for fun. Unless those who sell fish and lotus root during the Chinese New Year, most of the time it is some elderly people who really have no money to spend squatting.

During holidays, there will also be merchants on the street, such as fortune tellers, dog skin plasters, clothes and shoes, etc., mostly from nearby towns or suburbs of the county.

Zhang Jin's cheap brother-in-law, Long Tao, is one of these running merchants.

In ancient parlance, he was actually more like a wandering merchant, without his own shop, running wherever there was a market. With a small number of groceries, but still quite alive, with a mouth that can speak, he mixes like a fish in water in the markets of various towns and villages.

Zhang Jin didn't know the specific process of his sister's acquaintance with Long Tao, but it didn't prevent the three brothers from disliking this flamboyant guy.

But for the sake of my sister, even if I don't like each other anymore, every time the three brothers see each other, they will still call each other brother-in-law sweetly.

Originally, I just ate a hearty game last night, and Zhang's mother meant not to go to the street to sell meat and open meat.

As a result, before the words came out, the two old men made accusations together, reprimanding both of them for slamming the door and pressing it to the side of the door, don't raise their grandson crookedly in the future, it's not okay for a man to pick the door too much.

Although in fact, the three boys in their family seem to have two crooked.

Zhang Junbao, the eldest of the Zhang family, will not talk about it, maybe as the first son, he was pampered when he was a child, and his ability to pick the door is not too obvious, at least his reputation is not obvious, but he is the second ......

The reputation of the second child of the Zhang family for slamming the door made the two old men feel speechless. is a good adolescent young man, how can he be famous in the whole town, how much is this to pick?

If this continues, I am afraid that it will not be easy to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. The girl's family can still say that she can play the house, but if the boy picks the door, it will be said that it is a nest, not atmospheric, and has no ability!

Simply, Zhang Jin's slamming of the door is only for outsiders, and he is still very atmospheric for family managers, and sometimes even a little too atmospheric!

"This bag of cotton will be given to your sister for a while." After the walk-behind tractor arrived at Yulin Street, Zhang's mother carried a bag of cotton in a snakeskin bag and said to Zhang Junbao, "I won't go to see her." Out of sight is out of sight. ”

"Huh!" Zhang Junbao smiled but didn't say anything. He knew that Zhang's mother had a lot of opinions about his eldest sister's lack of showing up for the whole farm, otherwise he wouldn't have seen the eggs mentioned by the second child when he had just set off, and he would have taken down a dozen eggs, leaving only fifty.

"Go and get back quickly." Zhang's mother explained after her sons got out of the car, "Don't talk too much to the dead girl, didn't the second child just say that your grandfather has a guest today?" Mom is going to beat the quilt today, and I guess I won't be able to go back at noon, and in the afternoon, you can walk from this side, just enough to bring the quilt. ”

It is almost an hour's journey from Woniu Village to Yulin Street, which is still close to many villages where you live deeper. For Zhang's mother, who is used to it, it is nothing.

Seeing that her three sons quickly disappeared into the crowd, Zhang's mother turned her head and said to Zhang's father: "Driving, what are you doing in a daze?" ”

"Heh, hehe! If you want her, why don't you go and see her? ”

"Why should I? I raised her that big? so much for her, and ended up raising a white-eyed wolf. I'm still going to see her? I tell you, if you meet you on the street today, treat me as if you didn't see it, and if you dare to run to the cold and ask for warmth, I'll clean you up when you go back. ”

"Heh, hehe!" Dad Zhang just smirked and didn't say anything more. He can understand his daughter-in-law, and he is also a little sad for his daughter, but in the end, his own daughter!

Zhang's mother took her little daughter who was looking at her blankly into her arms, rubbed the other party's head and said, "It's still my little girl, it's my mother's little padded jacket." ”

Zhang's father said with a strange face: "Why did I hear that my daughter is my father's little padded jacket?" ”

"Your eldest daughter is your little padded jacket, why didn't you see her bring you two taels of wine back?"

"......" one by one + kind-hearted stuff, what should I do?

The three brothers of the Zhang family, one carrying a basket of eggs, and the other two carrying twenty or thirty catties of cotton, went to the small stalls selling groceries on the street in a dashing manner.

Their brother-in-law Long Tao's stall can be called the first on Yulin Street, and no one dares to call it the second.

Clothes, shoes, trinkets or daily necessities, including needles and threads, are all used in his stall.

Because of Quan, business has been good, every time I come to Yulin Street, everyone in need is looking for his stall. So when you go to the street, just look at the big stall over there, the shouting is loud, and there are many people, which side is Long Tao's stall.

However, today seems to be different, probably because Long Tao has not been here for two months, and the business in front of the stall today is not as good as before.

When the three brothers arrived, two or three people squatted there to choose autumn pants.

"Little treasure! Xiao Jin, Xiao Wen! Zhang Qing was squatting, accompanying the guests to choose clothes, and when he was sure that the guests wanted to buy and collect money, he got up and saw his three younger brothers, and his whole face suddenly became bright.

"Sister." The three brothers shouted in unison. At the same time, they carefully looked at their sister to determine if she was being bullied by a brother-in-law who was not liked by them.

Today's Zhang Qing is wearing a set of □□ into a new, now more popular sports suit, the whole person looks refreshing and fashionable, although her appearance is mostly with Zhang's father, but still with Zhang's mother and Grandpa Zhang's ladylike temperament, now the combination of the two, but there is a feeling of being in the city, which makes people's eyes bright.

After making sure that my sister was not being bullied, the three brothers were relieved, Zhang Junbao brought over a bag of cotton, handed it over and said, "Sister, this is what my mother prepared for you." Mom didn't know how many pounds of cotton you wanted, so she gave you more than 30 pounds of cotton, enough for you to make at least two beds, and you can do it yourself. ”

Zhang Qing's originally bright smiling face suddenly changed color after hearing Zhang Junbao's words, and his eyes were a little red. In the past few months, she knew that her family was busy with farming, and she originally wanted to take the time to come here and take the time to go back to help. And her mother's anger disappeared a few months after her new marriage, and compared to her mother-in-law, she knew that her mother still loved her. Although her husband has been emphasizing in his ears that he was sold by his mother, after more than a year of getting along, she has seen some facts clearly, just like this time, for fear that she would drag him to her mother's house to work, she insisted on not going this way. It wasn't until yesterday that I heard that the farm here was over, so I decided to come over today.

"Sister, this is what my grandfather brought to you." Zhang Jin carried the egg over, "Grandpa doesn't know if you will come over today, so let's bring less so as not to break it." ”

Zhang Qing's eyes were originally red, but after hearing his brother's words, he became even more red! Tears immediately fell.

She is not sensible, not filial, and does not go back to her parents' house, but even so, her family still thinks about her. I didn't talk about it before, basically every week, my grandfather and mother would get her some vegetables and food, and let her take them back, saying that they would buy everything in the town. Let her know how to live life.

But this time......

Thinking of this, Zhang Qing felt that he had really lived so much in vain! After marrying into his in-laws for so long, he can be considered to have figured out that he is a bottomless pit that is not filled, or a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with his head. Every time I bring something back, the other party thinks it should be.

"Why didn't you just tie it into a quilt?" Long Tao, who had just settled the bill with a customer who was choosing shoes, came up and said this.

made Zhang Qing, who was depressed, almost collapse.

The three brothers of the Zhang family were also angry in an instant.

However, before the three brothers got angry, Long Tao noticed Zhang Qing's strange appearance, and immediately said with a sullen face: "What's wrong?" Why did you make your sister cry? ”

"You ......" Zhang Wenhao was an anxious person, and when he heard Long Tao's tone, he immediately wanted to open his mouth to theorize.

It was Zhang Junbao who interrupted him and asked Long Tao: "Brother-in-law, don't talk nonsense, my sister misses my mother." Didn't you say when you got married that you would come to us in a week at most, so that my sister could see my mother once? You haven't been here for two months, have you? ”