Chapter 3: Goldfinger (Part II)
The sky has just dawned, and the crystal dew is still condensed on the new green blades of grass, and there is no time to moisten the land. But the villagers of Xiaohe Village have already started their day's work.
Spring ploughing is half of a year's income for farmers who rely on the sky and the earth to eat, so farmers never hesitate to pay hard work.
The smoke of the cooking in the courtyard of Zhang's house at the end of the village has risen, and Zhang's mother has already started a fire in the stove to cook some breakfast, after all, spring ploughing is now the time to exert strength, and there is no way to eat oil and water or eat three meals, otherwise there is no strength to plow the land, and the family has no ploughing cattle to rely on the child and his father.
After seeing that the porridge in the pot no longer needed firewood, Zhang's mother wiped her hands and walked out of the kitchen, and walked to the room where the children slept to wake them up.
"Xiaojie, Erya, Sanya, stone, get up faster, Xiaojie, why are you always lying in bed recently, you are seven years old and a big girl, it's time to learn to help your mother do things." Mother Zhang looked at the sleepy-eyed children on the bed and said.
"Mother, my sister has been so lazy recently, I helped feed the chickens and pigs yesterday," Xiao Shi was the first to jump up from the bed and threw himself into Zhang's mother's arms. "Mother, I also help!" Sanya said positively.
Squirmed in Zhang's mother's arms, saw that several sisters were up, and thought that the second sister and the third sister were all playing with me, which was not bad, so she twisted and said, "Second sister, third sister, there is also help." After speaking, she looked at Zhang's mother as if she was waiting for a compliment.
"You're a little monkey, you're only four years old and you'll be able to choreograph your sister, but it's amazing, you," Zhang's mother smiled and patted the little stone on her buttocks.
"Alright, it's all up, and the meal is ready." Zhang's mother saw that she was almost awake, so she went out with a small stone.
When she opened her eyes and saw a familiar and unfamiliar room, Zhang Xiaojie completely woke up, it turned out that all this was true, she really crossed over, and she couldn't go back. Since this is the case, I will be Zhang Xiaojie from now on, Zhang Jie has died in the previous life, eh...... Although the cause of death is a bit strange. These thoughts flashed through Zhang Xiaojie's mind.
"Sister, why are you in a daze again, you've been in a daze since yesterday, are you okay?" Erya looked at Zhang Xiaojie with her eyes wide open and tilted her head, and asked curiously. "No, Erya, I was thinking that we could go outside today to see what wild vegetables are now, I didn't go out yesterday, Sanya should go together or play at home with Xiaoshi?" Zhang Xiaojie restrained the inappropriate expression on her face, and said happily to Erya and Sanya.
"If you want to go, sister, you have to take me, and the little stone, we can also help!" Sanya, who was obediently dressing herself, hurriedly expressed her determination to go out to play, and even agreed to Xiaoshi's share, which is worthy of being a twin.
"Sister, okay, then let's get up quickly, it's time for my mother to rush in a while." Erya, who is only 5 years old this year, already looks a little adult, although she is only one year older than Sanya.
"Okay, then let's hurry up~" Zhang Xiaojie replied while dressing neatly and feeling that she has now become a short-handed and short-legged little Lori. After seeing Erya and Sanya, who were also dressed almost, he stepped forward and took Sanya out of bed, and wanted to hug it down, but he gave up this idea when he saw that his short hands and feet were not much higher than the bed.
After Erya got out of bed, they went out together, and saw Zhang's mother washing Xiaoshi's face, while his father Zhang Dashan was sitting in the yard weaving some baskets, and the green bamboo pieces were flying on his father Zhang Dashan's fingertips. The rest of the baskets were braided.
The moment she saw Zhang's mother, Erya rushed over like a small cannonball, hugged Zhang's mother's leg and said, "Mother, I want it too, I want it too, you haven't helped me wash my face for a long time." ”
"Okay, you are a little monkey like your brother, but I haven't helped you wash it for two days, and you are dirty like this, look at your two sisters are still clean!" Mother Zhang put down the small stone, pulled Sanya in front of her, wrung out the handkerchief, and wiped Erya's face.
Looking at the same food on the table as yesterday, there is no oily heart, even Zhang Xiaojie, who has never eaten meat in the morning, after yesterday's day of clear soup and low water, it is all devastated by sweet potatoes, and now I want to eat something with oil.
But thinking about the small room, the small living room, the oil paper falling off the window, and the kitchen I saw yesterday, and the hungry crossing text I saw before, I feel that this kind of meal is still very good, at least there is food.
After eating a piece of sweet potato with gruel, Zhang's mother and father Zhang Dashan went out to the field.
"Sister, we're done eating, let's go out to play~ Sister!" I had already heard Sanya say that Xiao Shi, who was going to take them out to play, slid down from the bench and ran to Zhang Xiaojie as soon as his mother and father went out.
Looking at a few small ones looking at themselves, Zhang Xiaojie didn't care about being entangled and had no meat to eat, and after drinking the gruel in the bowl twice, she put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "We have to feed the chickens and pigs first, and then we can go out to play, and we mainly want to pick wild vegetables!" “
After emphasizing the purpose, Zhang Xiaojie quickly cleaned up the table with a few small radish heads, and came to the backyard through the small door next to the kitchen.
There is a little pig on the left, and more than a dozen little chickens, there is a simple toilet next to the pigsty, that is, a big pit has been dug under the two bluestone slabs, Zhang Xiaojie always feels that this little arm and leg are easy to fall down.
There are some commonly eaten vegetables planted in about 30 square meters on the right, but now it has just started spring, and they have not yet germinated, so I can't see what has been planted.
After feeding the pigs, Zhang Xiaojie took a back basket and a worn-out sickle with three small radish heads to cover the door and went out.
After going out, Xiaoshi and Sanya jumped in front, and the steady Erya and Zhang Xiaojie walked side by side in the back. "Erya, are we going to go to the foot of the mountain in front of the river today?" "Sister, aren't you going to the private school today?" Er Ya asked a little strangely.
"That's right, I didn't find anything last time, so I'll change places this time" Zhang Xiaojie thought that every time she went to a private school in her memory, she was eavesdropping, and she had never dug wild vegetables.
"But it's far from the river, and didn't Daddy say he wouldn't let me go to the other side? They say that there are wolves, and they will eat children. Er Ya said seriously with a straight face.
Was this educated by a little kid? Zhang Xiaojie was a little ridiculous in her heart, "Ah, I forgot, so how about we go closer today, at the foot of the hill behind our house?" "Suddenly remembered the inexplicable call last night, maybe there will be a harvest or not.
Xiaohe Village is named after the small river that flows down from the mountain, and there are mountains on both sides of the village, but on the right side of the village is a large mountain, which is endless, and the mountain is shrouded in fog, and it is difficult to see it realistically.
Although it is said that relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, but few people in the village go up the mountain, legend has it that there are big insects and wolves on the mountain, and they have bitten people to death, and the east end of the village is the plain with land seeds, who wants to go up the mountain and the big insect to fight for their lives.
The villagers of Xiaohe Village all live on the left, and the rich people such as Lizheng and the private school are all in the east of the village, where they are well connected, and they have to go to the east to go to the town or other villages.
There is a hill next to the end of the west village, but the mountain is relatively desolate, but there are some weeds and wild fruits, and there is no food, so here are some people who live with little or no fields, or there are suspicions in the village and are squeezed here.
However, Zhang's family was slightly better, Zhang Dashan still had a share of four acres of land at that time, and Zhang Dashan himself wanted to build a house here.
Walking to the foot of the mountain and looking at the green weeds and some small shrubs, Zhang Xiaojie thought to herself, will there really be something calling me here?