27. Seven days of joy for the New Year (4)
Old man Feng was very surprised to see his grandson talking to a girl, you must know that in Pingjing, his grandson is afraid to avoid places where girls appear, and when he comes to the countryside with him, he also avoids the girls of his relatives' houses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What other books have you read?" The boy asked again.
"Who are you? Why am I telling you? Li Manman was unhappy in his heart, thinking that this child did not have the superiority of the city people, and felt that the country children understood that "Leaving the Riot" was too incredible, so the tone was not too good, and the heart said that the old lady graduated from the Chinese Department in her last life, and taught a lifetime of books, I read a lot of books, but I don't tell you!
"My name is Feng Qiang, I am Feng Zongyu's grandson, and that old man is my grandfather!" Feng Qiang explained, while pointing to the old man sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, "My family is in Pingjing!" ”
"Oh! I see, I don't read many books, my dad has a collection! But last time I bought a lot of old books! Do you want to check it out? Li Manman was not very embarrassed, he was the host, how could he be angry with the guests, and his mental age was much older than that of a little child, so he invited warmly.
Feng Qiang looked at the little girl in front of him, his dark eyes looked at him earnestly, his heart was soft, and he nodded. Li Manman took him to the Westinghouse where he and his brother lived, opened the cardboard box, and asked him to read his book.
"I'm going to open a rental bookstore in a few days, so I bought some used books and comic books in the county seat!" Li Manman explained, "However, there are too few books in the used bookstalls in the county, and I was going to collect all the novels of Mr. Jin." Now I have to take it slowly! ”
"Don't you want to go to school?" Feng Qiang looked at this girl, she looked like she was about seven or eight years old, she should be the age to go to school, and her family's situation was not bad, so she shouldn't be unable to go to school.
"I'm going to school, but I think the teaching progress of the school is too slow, so I told my dad that I usually study at home and go to the exam!" Li Manman explained.
Feng Qiang nodded, understood, picked up a novel and flipped it up, the books he read have always been more serious, and he rarely reads these pastimes, but he didn't expect to read it when he saw it.
Li Manman watched Feng Qiang holding Jin Dada's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" with relish, and didn't bother him, and went out to help his mother cook.
After lunch, Li Tianxue accompanied Old Man Feng to look around, Li Manman and Taotao were ordered to accompany Feng Qiang to play, now Li Manman understood what a bookworm is, he didn't want to go out at all, sat next to the big cardboard box of Li Manman's books, read them one after another, Taotao was bored and dozed off, Li Manman asked him to go to his friends to play, and he accompanied Feng Qiang to read books, Li Manman had read these books before, and now he rewatched them, and it was not bad.
The ancestors and grandchildren of the Feng family lived in Zhu Daxu for two days, and they were ready to go back on the fifth day of the new year.
"Manman, you give me the list of Jin Yong's novels and Gu Long's novels, and I'll go back to Pingjing to collect them for you!" Feng Qiang had eaten the practice meal and said to Li Manman.
"Okay, you wait for me to write to you!" Li Manman was not polite to him, knowing that he was telling the truth, he went back to the room and wrote down the titles of Jin Yong's fourteen books, and recalled the names of Gu Long's novels in his memory and handed them to him.
"If you can find it, collect it, if you can't find it, forget it, I'll do it myself!" Li Manman watched Feng Qiang fold the note carefully and put it in his bag, and said embarrassedly.
"Don't worry! I'll send it to you when I find it! You should also write back to me, and we can discuss our own reading experiences! Feng Qiang said to Li Manman seriously. He felt that he had gained a lot from his trip to the countryside, and the most important thing was a like-minded friend. Later, he learned that this like-minded friend he thought was actually a misunderstanding, but at that time he was trapped in it and couldn't get out.
After the Feng family's grandchildren left, the life of the Li family returned to normal, Li Manman followed his friends out every day to have fun, went to this episode to watch a play today, and went to see the monkey in which episode tomorrow.
On the fourteenth day of the year, Li Manman's sister and brother followed their parents to their grandmother's house, and Li Manman's grandmother's house was on the other side of the Huai River embankment. The Huai River embankment is called the steel embankment in Li Manman's hometown, legend has it that when it was repaired, there was a kind of shrub planted on both sides of the embankment, the branches are soft, and can be bent into various shapes, everyone uses it to weave baskets, weave chicken coops, etc. Li Manman's uncle is the person in charge of this section of the embankment, and the wages are those shrubs, so the uncle is a master of basket weaving, and Li Manman's baskets, chicken coops, and dung baskets are all made by the uncle.
Li Manman has five uncles, the younger uncle is still in middle school, and the other uncles are married, so every time Li Manman and his younger brother go, they will play with a group of cousins and cousins in the dark, from the north end of the village, noisy to the south end of the village, this time it is still the same.
Li Tianxue and several uncles sat and talked, Li Manman's second uncle and Li Tianxue were classmates, but Li Manman felt that the relationship between the two of them was not very good, and Li Tianxue respected Li Manman's uncle the most.
Lin Xiujuan helped her grandmother cook, Grandma Lin was in her sixties at this time, she was relatively white and rich, wrapped in her little feet, and she relied on her heels to walk with her heels, Li Manman once saw her grandmother's feet, her toes were all broken, nested in the center of her feet, and the whole foot was very strange in shape, only the size of a palm, and Li Manman felt that it was too ugly at that time. Later, I saw more and was full of sympathy for my grandmother's hard life.
Although grandma is not a beautiful lady, she is also a jasper from a well-off family, she is very beautiful, and Li Manman's fourth uncle and little uncle follow grandma's appearance, which can be regarded as a beautiful man! Li Manman also looks more similar to his grandmother. Married to grandpa, but grandpa is not a serious business, often away from home, gave birth to three girls and five boys, leaving only the youngest daughter, the other two were given away, pulling a large family, getting married and starting a family for the children, and finally he didn't enjoy a day of happiness, and died of esophageal cancer.
Li Manman and Taotao played at the eldest uncle's house for a while, then followed the eldest cousin and the second cousin to the nearest fourth uncle's house, found the eldest cousin, and went to the second uncle's house, and when they came out, there were three more cousins and brothers, and the third uncle lived in the team site, and only one son was in his arms.
The cousins are all about the same age, and at the beginning, they were very affectionate, but after a while, there was a conflict, either you ate his things, or he snatched my toys, first they quarreled, and then they fought.
Li Manman pulled this, that one made trouble again, coaxed to be a little cousin, the little cousin cried, it can be said that the doppelganger lacked skills, the eldest cousin and the second cousin not only did not persuade but also teased from time to time. Let Li Manman hate it so much.
"Da Hong, you look at your younger brothers and sisters, don't let them fight!" Lin Xiujuan heard the shouts of the children in the yard, poked her head out of the kitchen and shouted to Li Manman.
"Got it!" Li Manman agreed weakly, but he was very unconvinced, why, I'm not the biggest, the eldest cousin and the second cousin are still there, they not only don't care but also flirt! But he didn't dare to do it against his mother, so he had to agree.
"Don't make a fuss! Let's play the game of eagle and chicken! Li Manman raised his voice to suppress the noise and suggested.
"Yes, yes! I'm going to be an eagle! Second cousin Lin Baojuan jumped up and shouted.
"I'm the Eagle!" Taotao is gone, he is a few months younger than his second cousin, and the two of them have not dealt with each other since childhood.
"I'm a chicken mother!" The eldest cousin stood up and recommended himself, Li Manman glanced at him angrily, his cousin is thirteen or fourteen years old this year, he doesn't study well, his grades are a mess, he usually doesn't look like a brother at all, and he earns things with his sister! Later, he became a bastard and made his uncle so angry that he cut off his relationship with him.
"Big brother, second brother, go and help grandma work!" Li Manman said to the two cousins that the second cousin looks very shy on the surface, but in fact, in his hometown dialect, he is a stuffy person, with a lot of bad water in his stomach, and his relationship with the eldest cousin is not very good.
"Why? I want to play too! The eldest cousin looked at Li Manman unhappily.
"Look, how old are our people? How old are you? Li Manman pointed to a group of small radish heads, among which Li Manman was the oldest, nine years old, the rest were only five or six years old, and the youngest little cousin was only four years old.
"Cut, rare!" The eldest cousin looked at his younger siblings, shook his hand and left, and the second cousin also left with a smile.
Two of them were stirring up trouble in the middle, and the remaining small ones were small, Li Manman was the mother chicken, the second cousin was the eagle, and a group of people played in the yard.
The eldest cousin Lin Baochi took a tree stick, walked to the pond with a flick, fished out the fishing net that the family put in it, looked at it again, there was no harvest, threw it back, turned his head to play with his companions, and said that his cousin helped cook rice, sorry, he didn't think about it. The second cousin went home slowly, and there were still fruits sent by my uncle's family last time, and I ate a few pads to feed my hunger.
When eating, there was a table for adults and a table for children, and the eldest cousin and second cousin all took some dishes and ran aside, and Li Manman had to take on the responsibility of managing everyone to eat well. After eating a meal, the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, the ghosts cried and the wolves howled, Li Manman almost didn't eat anything, and his throat was hoarse. No wonder my grandmother used to say when she was in a hurry, let Li Manman and Taotao come to grandma's house after they were twenty years old.