Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Road Encounters
But how could he tease a few big ones, and soon he was about to cry by a few big ones, and then sat alone by the wall inside, silently putting his fingers behind his back and picking at the wall behind him, and the newspaper on the wall had been picked by him, but no one noticed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
When Zhang Tao came over, he happened to see this scene, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching again, if he continued to let the little guy pick it down, it would be his aunt's turn to be depressed next. I feel that the adults at this time are so boring, and they play this trick of amusing children hanging and watching rats every year. In fact, there is a more boring trick, Zhang Tao When they first arrived at the aunt's side, a guy in their village stopped a three or four-year-old child, but he chose the time when his parents were not far away, and then asked how many fathers he few.
The kid just started to answer one, and the guy said that they were wrong, and then hinted at the kid that everyone else has several dads, and your dad is too few and shameless. The child who was stopped didn't understand anything at this time, and when the guy asked again, the child immediately shouted loudly, "I have ten fathers。。。。。 ”
Then all the adults around laughed, and only then did the guy who stood in the way let the little kid leave. Looking at the bad taste of these guys, Zhang Tao was depressed, it seemed that the children here had been so tormented, and when they met a group of unscrupulous adults, everyone had an unbearable childhood.
Zhang Tao stopped He Ming when he was about to smash all the newspapers in the back, and told him to take the firecrackers outside together, so as not to make him cry later. He Ming saw that Zhang Tao called himself, and he didn't care about picking the newspaper behind him, so he immediately got up and went out with Zhang Tao to set off firecrackers.
After resting at the aunt's house for one night, they had to go back the next morning, first go to Zhang Tao's house to rest, and then go directly across the river to Zhang Tao's aunt's house, just in time for lunch. In fact, there is no fixed time for the New Year's meal, and you can catch up with a meal when you walk to that relative's house at any time. The rice is steamed, as long as it is hot, the meat is also cooked, it is good to heat it, and then two more dishes can be fried, so the New Year's meal is basically eaten non-stop, and the more guests are entertained in a day, the more you eat.
After eating at my aunt's house, I went to my second aunt's house, which was in the southeast and was the innermost mining site of the town's state-owned coal mine. If you usually can stop a coal car on the road or something, but there are no coal cars during the New Year, and the drivers who pull coal also have to celebrate the New Year, so you have to walk at this time, or more than ten miles. The only thing that is better is that the road here is not a mountain road, but a relatively spacious road, which runs coal trucks.
Zhang Tao actually doesn't like to go to his second aunt's house very much, this family is the most snobbish, and every time he goes to her house to pay New Year's greetings, he always has a straight face, and he will say some things about Zhang Tao's mother during the New Year. Every time she went to Zhang Tao's grandmother's house, she often quarreled with Zhang Tao's mother, and she felt that the two of them were not like sisters like life and death rivals, so Zhang Tao had a very bad impression of this aunt.
Zhang Tao's second aunt is a worker in the mine, and his second aunt also mixes a system, that is, he goes to work at the mine's tap water supply point every day. They have to go to work every day, 365 days a year, and they have to turn on the pumping machine at regular intervals in the morning, noon and evening, so the family lives at the water point. Then there is a small fish pond in front of the house, there are one or two acres of paddy fields that do not need to pay public grain, and there is a group of water ducks, and life is much more comfortable than several other families.
After eating lunch at my aunt's house, the group of people rested for a while, and then continued to walk over there. It's another dozen miles away, although Zhang Tao's soul is an adult, but thinking about going so far, his heart is still not so comfortable. I have to wait a few years, and in a few years, they will slowly have motorcycles here, from Jialing to South 125, at that time, because there are more people who go out to work, there will be more shuttles on the road, and there will be some private shuttles, so you don't have to pay New Year's greetings.
Because it hasn't rained for a few days, the road is still relatively easy to walk, and the mud road here is very different from going to the aunt's side, because there are coal trucks passing by all year round, and the road here is black, and from time to time you can see small puddles on the road that are pressed out by coal cars. At the same time, because there is a coal mine here, there are many more villages on both sides of the road, and you can still see shops and other things from time to time.
When he walked in front of a village, Zhang Tao saw several bear children playing with a new type of firecracker - torpedo. Because the people here are close to the coal mine, many people still work in the coal mine, so the economic conditions are stronger than those in Zhang Tao's village, so the children here are also "richer" than Zhang Tao, and the things they play are also high-end and fashionable.
The kind of firecracker called torpedo is actually an enlarged version of the firecracker, but because the shell and lead are waterproof, this kind of firecracker can explode in the water, and the explosion is much stronger than the firecracker. Zhang Tao: When they came over, the bear children were carrying torpedoes and blowing up fish in the roadside stream.
But at this time there was not much water in the creek, and all the fish had found a place to hide, and they played on the side for a while and did not blow up a single fish, at this time a leading bear child cried out, "There are no fish in this creek, if you want to blow up, you have to go to the fish pond at the entrance of our village to blow up, I fried a few crucian carp from there a few years ago." ”
"I can't go there, I blew up a big fish two days ago, but the owner of the fish pond saw it, and the man ran to my house to complain, and all the firecrackers I got for the New Year were confiscated by my parents, if it weren't for the New Year, I might have to be beaten." The other guy with a runny nose immediately retorted after hearing the words of the child who took the lead, obviously remembering this incident very deeply, because this incident caused him to have a lot fewer firecrackers than his friends, and he didn't have so much fun.
"You're stupid, you won't watch that family bomb when no one is around, today their family is going to pay New Year's greetings, wait until we go to blow up no one knows." The bear child who took the lead is obviously more clever, but his cleverness is not used on the right path. The other children were all tempted by what he said, and for these over-energetic guys, it was much more fun to be able to fry fish than just to fry water.
When the group left, they didn't forget to stuff a torpedo into a well-growing cabbage tree on the side of the road, then set it on fire and ran away. When Zhang Tao and the others were about to pass by, the cabbage was directly fried, leaving only roots and a few broken leaves, messy in the wind.
"These melon babies are really lacking in virtue, and a good cabbage was wasted by them like this." Zhang Tao's eldest brother-in-law walked in front, and when he saw the fried cabbage left, he frowned and said, This is the Chinese New Year, if he usually estimates that he will go to lecture those children.
He Ming walked beside Zhang Tao, and when he saw that the torpedoes in the mouths of those bear children were so powerful, he watched the group of bear children leave with a little envy. All he was playing with was a regular firecracker, and occasionally he could play with a few cupolas—the kind that would go straight into the sky and make a sound when lit. As for torpedoes, I guess it's the first time I've heard of them today. The little guy rolled his eyes while watching those bear children go in, probably thinking about whether he should hide a few red envelopes he received during the New Year, and then he could go to the store to buy a few torpedoes to have fun.
Zhang Tao knew what the little guy was thinking at a glance, but the adults in front of him didn't notice this. Speaking of which, the red envelopes received during the New Year secretly hid two to buy snacks and firecrackers, and Zhang Tao had done this in his previous life. It's not easy to be a baby in the countryside, usually there is no pocket money, and it is not easy to receive a few red envelopes during the New Year, but the year is not over and you will be asked to go back by adults.
It's a pity that there are few chances of success, no matter how many red envelopes adults will know, even the place to hide money is not easy to find, Zhang Tao's longest hiding is to hide a dollar in his pillow for half a month, the Lantern Festival has not passed when his mother opened the pillowcase to wash, and the rest of the time is shorter. There are too few places to hide, and children have no human rights, so their pockets are often picked up.
At this time, a dollar is a lot of money for a child, and there are many things that can be done. At this time, the pork was only more than two yuan a catty. Two candies for a penny, and two can't buy two hundred for a dollar. You can buy a thousand firecrackers, and you can buy fifty popsicles for two cents a piece, so you can live a hearty few days.
When it was almost dark, the group finally walked to Zhang Tao's second aunt's house, even if Zhang Tao often exercised at this time, he felt tired, not to mention the younger He Ming, this guy's last part of the road was carried by his father, he couldn't walk at all, and the other older children were not much better, if it weren't for the fact that they had been taken away by adults, it is estimated that they would have gone home long ago.
Zhang Tao has never had a good impression of his second aunt, so he didn't say much after arriving at the place, and even mixed the New Year's greetings and went into the room. What made Zhang Tao feel depressed was that after dinner, his second aunt mentioned that Zhang Tao beat Liu Qing half-jokingly and half-seriously. Zhang Tao ignored her after hearing this, the two children fought in the past, and she still mentioned it when she came to her house to pay New Year's greetings, and she was disappointed when she heard it. Besides, his second aunt doesn't want to think about it, Liu Qing is a few years older than Zhang Tao, is this a little bullied embarrassed to mention?