Chapter 13: Ascending the Mountain (I)
The mango seeds are wet and dry with the sweat of the farmers, and the alternating summer solstice makes the weather slowly start to heat up.
The fields are green, and whenever Zhang Xiaojie looks at the green of these fields, she always has a sense of satisfaction, it has only been more than two months since she was reborn, but it is long and fulfilling for Zhang Xiaojie.
Zhang Xiaojie has become an authentic ancient peasant girl, worrying about food every day. The two taels of oil last time have long been used up.
Zhang Xiaojie, who has not eaten meat for more than two months, will subconsciously swallow saliva when she looks at the humming pig in the backyard, and looks at the group of chickens growing up in the yard, and her head will be full of roast chicken, roast chicken, and stewed chicken.
Even Ma Yuan would laugh at Zhang Xiaojie and say that she had been hearing chicken stew and stew recently, saying that she only knew how to eat meat.
But Zhang Xiaojie felt that if she didn't eat meat, she would die of hunger, she never thought that meat was so delicious before, but now Zhang Xiaojie regrets the big fat meat that she disliked back then, and she can't wait to go back and eat it now.
Just when Zhang Xiaojie was drooling at the chickens running around happily in the yard again, Zhang Dashan walked in, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled on his face, "The weather is quite hot this year, but the crops in the field are growing very well."
Zhang pinned his head with a needle, looked up at Zhang Dashan, and said, "That's it, the weather is good this year, and the vegetables in the backyard are growing well." “
"yes, yes, you see I'll go to the mountains if it's okay these days, right?" Zhang Dashan took a water scoop and drank a sip of water, thought about it and said.
"Go to the mountains again, this is not Xiaojie," Zhang said this, realizing that he couldn't say it, so he admonished, "Okay, don't go too far this year." “
"It's okay, isn't this Xiao Shi starting to go to private school, the master can say that Xiao Shi is smart, and if you want to study, you have to spend a lot of money, I know it in my heart." Zhang Dashan said happily with a proud look on his face when he said about Xiao Shi.
"Dad, you're going up the mountain? Take me there, right? Zhang Xiaojie heard that when she went up the mountain, she no longer looked at the group of corns, and the green light came to Zhang Dashan.
Zhang thought that his youngest son, who was already in private school, heard that Zhang Xiaojie was going up the mountain before he could speak, and immediately said: "What are you doing on the mountain with a girl's family, your father is not going up the mountain to play, you are not allowed to go." “
"Mother, I'm going, I can help, I also know medicine, I can help." Zhang Xiaojie vetoed her request when she saw Zhang's mouthful, and seeing that her father Zhang Dashan didn't help, she could only turn around and hug Zhang's arm and be coquettish.
"It's very dangerous for your father to collect medicine, where is it that you can try your luck with a little doll? No way. Zhang's heart was a little soft when he saw Zhang Xiaojie being coquettish like this, but when he thought of the danger, he still refused.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaojie resolutely disagreed, her eyes rolled and said, "Didn't my mother ask my father not to go to such a dangerous place?" I'll go and help watch my father, right, mother. ”
Zhang's originally didn't want her husband to take any more risks because he had an income of ten taels of silver this year, you must know that someone in the village was hungry last year and went to the mountains to be eaten by wolves, and he still had a few children to raise, so he naturally didn't want Zhang Dashan to go to that dangerous place again, but Zhang Dashan said that the bundle of the small stone cost half a tael of silver this year, as well as those books and pens, and the total amount of zero and zero went to almost two taels of silver.
Even if you don't do anything, it won't take a few years, and the Zhang family can only compromise, and when I heard Zhang Xiaojie say this, I felt that it was okay. Okay, he said, "Okay, let your father take you, but you can't go too far." ”
"Okay mother, don't worry, I'm sure I'm looking at my father" Zhang Xiaojie immediately responded when she saw Zhang's promise.
"You two mothers" Zhang Dashan sighed helplessly, and when he saw that Er Ya and Sanya also had an expression of wanting to go, he walked over and hugged the two of them, "You two can't do it, look at such a small one" After speaking, he also laughed.
"Daddy is bad, don't take Sanya" Sanya writhed in Zhang Dashan's arms.
"Daddy, I'll follow my sister." Erya was quietly picked up by Zhang Dashan and looked at Zhang Dashan with wide eyes.
"That's not going to work either!" Zhang Dashan didn't have time to refuse Zhang's words. "Erya, Sanya, you obediently follow your mother at home."
Erya saw that Zhang's stern refusal, so she didn't speak, lowered her little head and gave up, but Sanya didn't do it, the little stone in front of her was going to private school, and she couldn't take herself to play now, and she couldn't cry now, "Mother, don't take me" said over and over again, without her, crying and choking in Zhang Dashan's arms, and finally Zhang Dashan coaxed and said that he would bring her the small fruits on the mountain.
In the end, after the angry Erya got out of Zhang Dashan's arms, he dragged Erya out to play, as if he was angry with Zhang Xiaojie.
After resting for a while, Zhang Dashan went to the vegetable patch in the backyard to tidy up, and Zhang took advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set to mend the clothes that already had many patches in his hand.
Zhang Xiaojie saw that Zhang was not detaining himself to learn to mend clothes, so he secretly went to the backyard, you must know that Zhang Xiaojie also can't sew clothes, you can ask Zhang Xiaojie to carve a radish flower with a kitchen knife, but there is no way to sew clothes, you can only pierce yourself.
When I came to the backyard, I saw that Zhang Dashan was carefully hoeing the weeds near the spinach with a hoe, and the backyard was completely different from when he first wore it.
Zhang Dashan is weeding spinach growing on the right side of the backyard, next to the eggplant, at first saw the eggplant grow out Zhang Xiaojie was still a little surprised, after all, the eggplant was introduced during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, after eating it, I found that it was not as delicious as it is now, and it is not so big, maybe it has not been genetically optimized, but it is more eggplant than the modern one.
Then there is the courgette that has climbed on the shelf, that is, the cucumber, at first Zhang Xiaojie said that this is a courgette and was despised by the second and third girls, thinking that Zhang Xiaojie was talking nonsense, but fortunately the Zhang family didn't hear it. There are also some beans planted.
When the vegetable field first began to grow seedlings, Zhang Dashan made a fence to fence it, for fear of being eaten by chickens.
"Why is Xiaojie here?" Zhang Dashan turned his head and saw Zhang Xiaojie squatting on the edge of the vegetable field, looking at it and said, "Are you worried about going up the mountain tomorrow?" “
"No, I just want to ask my dad where we are going to the mountains tomorrow?" Zhang Xiaojie asked.
"Xiaojie hasn't been there, I'll tell you, our village is on the way to the east of the village to go up the mountain, where those hunters used to go, there are fewer fierce animals, safer, tomorrow we will go up from there, and then go to the lower mountain on the left, where there are more medicinal herbs, and there is a Qin pepper forest, I will go to pick a little bit every year." Zhang Dashan said to Xiaojie while hoeing the grass.
"Dad, what is Qin Jiao?" Zhang Xiaojie said with some curiosity.
"Qin pepper is the kind of round little fruit that my father picked before," Zhang Dashan didn't know how to describe it, so he said the form.
"Oh, I see, isn't that hemp fruit?" Zhang Xiaojie suddenly thought that the fruit of hemp in his memory should be Sichuan pepper, which turned out to be called Qin Jiao.
"Yes, that's it, I'll pick this tomorrow" Zhang Dashan thought that he couldn't go to pick far anyway, so it was better to take Xiaojie there to find Qin Jiaolin for several years.
"Okay, Dad," Zhang Xiaojie saw that he was asked, and said in his heart, "Ma Yuan, don't you hate rabbits the most?" ”
"What? What are you calling Uncle Ben? Ma Yuan's arrogant and stinky voice sounded in Zhang Xiaojie's heart.