14. Go up the mountain
The matter of the report book ended so easily, and in the afternoon, the three siblings carried bamboo baskets to go outside to pull pigweed, which was the work they had to do during the winter vacation. The pig food of the two pigs in the house of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info depends on the three of them, and they have a rest during the Spring Festival. At that time, both pigs had already been killed, so naturally there was no need to feed them.
It's a pity that the weather is not very good now, there is always a little cold rain, if it is sunny, there will be a lot more children who go outside to pull pigweed, and the whole field is very lively. Roast and eat taro and sweet potatoes from home, and look for loach and yellow eel holes in the dried up rice fields. And the boys would go and lift the piles of straw that had been detached -- there were voles underneath the straw piles, and in the winter voles liked to build their nests in the straw piles. Hunting voles is what bear children love to do in winter - a large number of children with sticks or directly with their shoes to step on them, and then they are bigger or more than the rats killed, and they will only pull pigweed when they are tired of playing.
After pulling the pigweed back, the sky was almost dark, Zhang Tao squinted at the dark and oppressive sky outside, and he didn't know when it would start snowing that day, what he was looking forward to most now was snow. Because Zhang Cuihua didn't go out to be busy today, the three brothers and sisters of Zhang Tao had a lot less work in the evening, and they didn't have to feed the pigs or cook, these were all Zhang Cuihua was busy, and they sat in the room early while waiting for dinner.
When it was almost dark, the familiar sound of footsteps and the clanging of keys sounded outside the door, and of course the out-of-tune broken gong singing, but the content of the song changed. "The wind blows the peach forest full of trees and flowers, the magpie branches chirp, the brother of the mine has taken the peach blossom luck, and the three sisters have taken a fancy to him, and the three sisters have taken a fancy to himγγγγγγ"
The three brothers and sisters in the room all frowned when they heard the singing outside, and they looked disgusted. A sweet female voice is sung by a man, but the key is that the male voice is very ugly, like a ghost crying wolf. That's singing! It is clear that it is necessary for human life.
Zhang Cuihua immediately smiled when she saw the reaction of the three children: "Your monkey brother has recently had a good relationship, and he fell in love with a handsome girl nearby." Some time ago, when you were still in school, you were already going to Bazi, and you are going to get married on a good day in a few days, so you are in a very good mood now. β
I see! Zhang Tao secretly thought, no wonder this guy has been singing either "Peach Blossom Luck" or "Tea Mountain Love Song" and other affectionate female songs every day these days. It's just a big man singing this song, which really makes people feel goosebumps, and I don't know how his future wife can stand this guy in the future.
At this time, there was no free love in the countryside, and most of them were matched. Probably going through the three processes of blind date - engagement - marriage, the monkey in Zhang Cuihua's mouth is from Zhang Tao's village, that is, the guy who sings a song every day when he returns to the village. It's twentieth this year, and it's time to get married in the countryside.
When the monkey is not singing, he is actually a very good person, and he is very enthusiastic about the adults and children in the village, and is often willing to help others. Moreover, he is a state-owned enterprise worker in the mine, and the mine workers at this time are still very popular, often shouting trumpets and singing that our workers have strength, eating national grain, sleeping in national beds, and paying wages regularly, which is much stronger than farmers in the countryside, so it is relatively easy for him to marry a daughter-in-law.
However, at this time, the life of workers in some other state-owned enterprises was not very good, the efficiency was not good, and the wages could not be paid. However, Zhang Tao's state-owned coal mines near them still have good returns at this time, and in a few years, when all the country's coal mines and other mineral resources decline, and when a large number of workers' brothers and sisters are laid off, their lives will be tightened.
The once enviable workers were not having a better time than the peasants in the countryside, the peasants did not earn money, at least they could still farm and have food, they would not starve themselves, and it was a problem for them to have no financial resources to eat, and the workers at that time became the saddest people. We workers have also become powerless, and we have become the first to lose, and it has become a popular saying that laid-off sisters wipe away their tears and walk into nightclubs with their chests up.
When the monkey sings, the whole village is afraid of him, others sing for money, he sings badly, but he himself still thinks he sings well. Every day when he comes back from work, when he arrives in the village, the keychain on his butt * thighs will be thrown very loudly, and when he sees acquaintances, he will shake his well-groomed hairstyle, the standard middle part, the most popular hairstyle at this time.
Then he would pull the gong and roar the popular songs from the end of the village to the end of the village, where his family lived. At this time of day, adults and children in the village can roughly estimate the time, which is not too far behind the time on the radio.
"It's snowing! It's snowing! Suddenly, the monkey's song stopped, and before the others could react, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, with a hint of surprise in his voice. The children in the room all ran out when they heard his voice, and no one was afraid of the monkeys singing anymore. It's really snowing! Fingernail-sized snowflakes flew all over the sky, making the whole world brighten up and white.
The other children were running in the snow excitedly, not afraid of the cold or worried about the snowflakes falling on them. From time to time, they reached out to catch the falling snowflakes, curious to see what the snowflakes looked like. Zhang Tao was immediately happy when he saw the snow outside, it was snowing! This snowflake is what he wants! The snow was very small, and it was really the kind of urea-sized particles that melted quickly when it fell to the ground, and it didn't form snow at all.
And now this kind of snow will usually fall all night, and the next morning, the whole world will be white, and everything will be covered by thick snow, and the snow on the ground at that time can be as deep as Zhang Tao's knees now.
As for the goose feather-sized snow in the textbook, Zhang Tao has never seen it, and the largest snow he has ever seen is the size of a child's fingernails. This is still this time, and in a few years, even the snow the size of a fingernail will not be visible, and it will often not snow for several years, or only a little freezing rain will be over, but the summer is getting hotter and hotter year by year, and the high temperature record is broken every year.
After dinner, it's usually time to do homework, but now it's winter vacation, and there is no need to do homework. There is no TV at home, the whole team only has monkeys, this kind of snowy weather Zhang Cuihua naturally will not let her children go to the monkey's house to watch TV, for fear of disturbing people, and it is cold and wet outside, although it is in her own village, she still does not worry about letting her children go out to play casually, which will be troublesome if she accidentally falls.
So Zhang Cuihua left them all at home and taught them to sing some Peking opera - she could only sing these and some red songs. Zhang Tao took out his bow and arrow at this time to check, and as soon as the snow stopped tomorrow morning, he was ready to go up the mountain. Zhang Cuihua just glanced at her youngest son, this son is very assertive, so Zhang Cuihua is too lazy to worry. She is now busy teaching Zhang Yan to sing, "My cousins are countless, and there are no major events that will not come to the doorγγγγγ β
Daniel Zhang just stared at Zhang Tao on the side to fix his bow, and then listened to the sound of the TV coming from the monkey's house, where the cold wind was still singing. He has no interest in the Peking Opera taught by Zhang Cuihua, all they have learned these years are those songs of love and love, what kind of love and love for you can not be finished, it is all sung by the big stars over there in Xiangdao, Xiangdao, a very rich place. Whoever still listens to this kind of Peking Opera or something, it's embarrassing to say it, it's very old-fashioned.
Early the next morning, Zhang Tao got up early as usual to exercise first, and then got something to eat and went out with his own equipment. Zhang Cuihua knew what he was going to do when she saw her son's outfit, and she was a little uneasy, after all, Zhang Tao was only nine years old now, but she didn't know how to tell Zhang Tao, and in the end it became a reminder "Pay attention when you go out to play, don't run too far, don't go to the water's edge to play, especially those frozen water surfaces, those ice cubes can't withstand a person." β
Zhang Tao responded after hearing this, saying that he heard it. Zhang Cuihua's explanation is not wrong, Zhang Tao in his previous life made that kind of mistake at this time, mistakenly thinking that the ice on the lake would be as thick as written in the book, and he could run a carriage on it. As a result, as soon as he stepped on it, the ice on the surface of the lake cracked, and then the whole person fell, fortunately, the water in the lake was not deep at that time, and there were many adults around, and Zhang Tao was quickly fished up, otherwise it would be a tragedy, even if he did not drown, he would be frostbitten.
After saying hello to his mother, Zhang Tao walked to the back mountain, accompanied by the black panther at home. The black panther is not only tall, but also fast, has good combat effectiveness, and is obedient, so Zhang Tao thought about it, so he took this guy out together, and it was also good to help him hold the prey at that time.
The panther was obviously very excited to be able to hang out with him, running around all the way, finding a place to sniff and pull from time to time, and then lifting one leg to put a little water to make a mark, and then continued to run happily behind Zhang Tao.
By this time, the snow outside had stopped, and it had been falling all night, and at this moment it was covered with a thick white quilt on the ground. As far as the eye can see, the surroundings are all white, with some houses and trees that are not covered by snow, like a black and white landscape painting.