Thirty-eighth, work hard in difficulties

During a holiday, Shandan worked hard as if she was abusing herself, and she also talked and laughed, and she didn't want to put any mental burden on her parents. The mother looks at the child's unhappiness in distress, but there is nothing she can do.

From the careful faces of his parents, what Shandan felt was full of soreness!

It's obvious that she hasn't done well enough, but she carefully accommodates her as if her family owes her a debt.

She really wanted to get angry and tell them not to do this, but she was sensible and no longer the rebellious period of adolescence, and she knew that they were taking care of her, for fear that she would be hurt a little more.

They never asked about her grades, and they were silent together.

Shandan knew that they didn't care, they were afraid that it would cause her sadness.

Shandan and his family work in the fields every day, first pulling wheat and wearing a pair of gloves sewn by his mother from old cloth.

Everyone wears gloves with handles, and Shandan mother only sews two small gloves together for the little finger and ring finger every year.

When Shandan was a child, he didn't understand whether his mother was stupid and couldn't sew gloves full of handles, or she was too lazy not to sew. She looked at the family's hands covered with blood, and she blamed her mother in her heart.

But then she learned that the old cloth used to sew gloves and the old cloth used to make shoes every year were dismantled and washed from tattered clothes that everyone could no longer wear.

There are very few new clothes that can be changed every year, and old clothes are of course quite limited, so the old cloth used to sew gloves is not so sufficient, and my mother can only try to make up for it, and each person guarantees two pairs of small gloves to deal with one autumn.

Sometimes, a glove is worn out, and my mother is reluctant to throw it away and has to mend it with a small piece of cloth. If the cloth is uneven, the hand will be stuck in a big bubble, and everyone will still do what they should do without squeaking.

The blood on the hand is smeared with Vaslin, so that it is softer and less painful. Or, if your hands become numb after a long time, you won't feel any pain.

The most painful thing is the mother, every day after the day's work in the field, the mother has to go home to steam steamed steamed buns, the fermented noodles should be added to the alkaline water, the cracked mouth on the hand is so painful to meet the water, what kind of pain should it be to be soaked in alkaline water? !

The mother didn't show any pain, but she would shrink her hand a few times before reaching into the basin and kneading the dough vigorously. Layers of sweat came out of his face.

Shandan will help to cook the pot and steam the rice. She sat on the stove and felt that tears were about to flow out every time she saw her mother's pain, and her heart was full of guilt from time to time.

Tie Dan'er and his father circled cattle and sheep into the pen, and Tie Dan's daughter-in-law and Erlian took the opportunity to rest and sleep.

Everyone is so exhausted.

Shandan felt that his hair was so dirty that he wanted to wash it, but he couldn't find shampoo. Ask where is the mother?

The mother said embarrassedly, "Oh, I'm out of use, and I didn't bother to buy it in the autumn." ”

Shandan had to find laundry detergent to wash his hair, but there was no laundry detergent.

The mother didn't dare to raise her head to meet Shandan's inquiry, and hurriedly said, "I'll go to your second aunt's house and borrow a little for you to wash your hair, wow, you wait." ”

Shandan grabbed his mother, "No need, just wash it the way you washed our hair when we were young." Just add baking soda and salt grains to the water, and I can wash my short hair anyway. ”

Her mother added baking soda and salt grains to the water, and she burst into tears while washing her hair with her aching hands, she didn't know that her family would be so poor! She is also very guilty of her incompetence!

Her mother often taught her, "You must be strong!" If you don't steam (fight) for steamed buns, you should also steam (fight) for chaff! No matter what you encounter in this life, don't let others look down on you! ”

Shandan wants to face her mother, who has been so strong all her life and wants to save face, what kind of shame she gave her! She saw that her mother was not as straight as she used to be when she met the people in the village, and she seemed to have a feeling of ricketism, and she no longer greeted her loudly.

This qiē is all your own fault!

After dinner in the evening, Shandan decided to talk to his parents about the exam and school.

Shandan first handed over more than 1,000 yuan from selling vegetables during the holiday to his mother, and her mother left tears when she took the money, "Pity my baby, how much do you have to suffer to earn so much money?" ”

Shandan stopped her mother's distress, she pretended to be relaxed and said: "It's much easier than pulling wheat, and besides, won't it cost me money to tutor?" I'm just giving you a temporary getaway, so keep it for me. ”

The mother raised her head, looked at Shandan in surprise, and said continuously: "Tutoring! Tutorial! Tutorial! ”

It turned out that her mother had been worried that Shandan would be sluggish and not go to tutoring, although she looked at the child every day and smiled, but she knew how strong her daughter's heart was.

Good steel is easy to break! She has been relieved.

Now, she is finally relieved! The girl is still the girl who doesn't admit defeat! With more than 1,000 yuan, the tuition fee is no longer a problem.

The family is elated! It's as if Shandan was admitted to university.

The mother said, "I knew my baby couldn't admit defeat!" A good horse is out of the legs, and a good man is out of the mouth! My baby is a well-known character at all times! Don't worry, Mom smashes the pot and sells iron for you to go to college! ”

Shandan watched his family rejoice for himself, and his heart was full of warmth and touch. She made up her mind to study hard and strive to be admitted to a key university next year! Be sure to straighten your mother's waist and be a man!

Seeing that September is approaching, the crops in the field have not yet been harvested, and the potatoes have not been dug up.

Shandan is about to start school, and Tie Daner took advantage of the last rain of the year to hurry up and plow the land. The father also went to herd the cattle, leaving the mother and daughter to dig potatoes.

Fortunately, Tiedan's daughter-in-law and Erlian had enough strength to dig the potatoes unearthed, and Shandan and his mother picked them up in the locomotive, and piled them together.

At first, Tiedan's daughters-in-law Fan'e and Erlian would not cut them, and from time to time they shoveled the big potatoes in half. Tie Dan'er's mother was very distressed.

Teach them how to chop "first gently insert the spade from the side of the potato seedlings, then shake the spade head to loosen the soil, and then lower the spade a little deeper, and just rip it up." ”

The potato seedlings had lost their lives in the frost, and the leaves withered and dried up. But the potatoes were still shiny and shiny, some were the size of a shoe, and the smaller ones were the size of an apple.

This year, there was plenty of rain and a good crop.

Shandan remembers that when she was in junior high school, there was a great drought one year, and the potatoes in the family were only half a bag of potatoes, which were as big as walnuts, and the smaller ones were only the size of sheep dung eggs. How the family survived the days, Shandan remembers clearly.

This year's crops are well harvested, and the grassland destroyed by the ground wool has grown much better because of the abundant rain, and the cattle and sheep are also fat and strong, and the cattle and sheep at home will double by the end of the year. In the autumn, when the sheep fat is implemented, sell a few big red sheep, and it is time to have an income. If you jump the public food again to get some money, this year's New Year should be more nourishing.

I also changed a few new clothes for my daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, and went to the town to buy fashionable ones.

Tie Dan'er's mother couldn't help but say to her daughter and daughter-in-law while picking up potatoes: "This year's life is better, you go to the town to buy a few fashionable clothes for the New Year, and Mom will pay for it!" ”

"Hehehe, the iron rooster is finally going to pluck its feathers!" Fan'e first made a joke with her mother-in-law.

"The iron rooster can only be plucked if it has hair, our family married a daughter-in-law and built a house for a student, you know that it has been a tight spell in the past few years! This year, I finally paid off the money I owed, and the harvest was good, so it's time to have a good New Year! The mother-in-law said with a smile.

Shandan didn't squeak, she just wanted to finish the work in the field quickly and go to school to sign up for tuition.

Erlian felt sorry for her parents and didn't plan to buy any clothes.

Fan E and Er Lian slowly stopped shoveling potatoes according to the method taught by their mother, and there were four or five healthy and clean potatoes under a pile of loess!

In the evening, Tie Dan'er drove a four-wheeled cart to pull it home and put it in the potato cellar.

Pour one at the mouth of the cellar and push the other in the cellar, and also be careful not to let the potatoes get hurt, otherwise they will be easy to rot.

Tie Dan'er knocked out three side kilns from his potato cellar, and the division of labor was clear:

Push the potatoes into the side kiln and block the opening, and the first kiln will be the seeds for the next year. Seal the mouth with wheat straw to prevent air from entering, so that it will not sprout and rot.

The kiln on the outside is used for daily eating, putting some slightly injured and larger ones.

Another kiln is ready to sell or grind flour, crippled goods or small potatoes.

All openings must be plugged, and the outermost ones must also be sealed, so as to prevent the severe cold of minus 20 or 30 degrees in the north of the Saibei. Otherwise, the potatoes will be frozen, and a year's hard work will be in vain!

Potatoes are the main vegetables in the Mongolian Plateau in winter, and can also be used as a staple food, although the plateau people do not understand its nutritional value, but it is indeed the food that the plateau people have relied on for generations to survive.

In addition to beef and mutton, plateau people like potatoes the most, and plateau people are not used to eating green leafy vegetables: such a thin water thing, a soak of urine is gone, what is the nutrition?

It's like beef and mutton and potato noodles to eat sincerely!

There are countless ways to eat potatoes in the Mongolian plateau, they make steamed buns, dumplings, pies, stewed vegetables, boiled haggis, stewed bones...... Potatoes are indispensable.

The best thing to eat is the pork stewed potato, which is oily, rustling and sweet, not to mention how delicious!

When steaming the noodles, steam a few slices of potato slices and add salt soup to eat, or steam a bowl of mutton and shredded potato soup to dip and eat, that delicious is not to say!

The potato flour is also delicious, chewy and white! With lamb, it is a delicacy to stir-fry or stew.