Chapter 8 Planning and Vision
Zhang Cuihua put down the things in her hand and washed her hands, just in time for dinner at home, seeing this scene and listening to the woman's praise, Zhang Tao's mother's originally expressionless face immediately smiled. www.biquge.info She knew that her second son had done all this, and it seemed that this had happened for some time, and she didn't remember any day. However, these made Zhang Cuihua's heart full of joy and pride - her own child is finally sensible, but she doesn't like to show off these things to others, and today she only let others see them by chance.
Under the reluctant and envious gaze of the woman in the village, Zhang Tao had already cleaned up the kitchen. If she hadn't rushed home in a hurry, it was estimated that the woman would have not only tasted a little dish and left with praise endlessly, she would definitely have eaten dinner at Zhang Tao's house before leaving, just an ordinary fried cabbage, it seems that Zhang Tao fried flowers, and the taste is much better than what she made herself. This also made the woman even more unappreciative of Zhang Tao. Not only is her reading grade good, but her housework is also so beautiful, it is estimated that her two bear children will suffer from their ears tonight, and I am afraid that they will be destroyed countless times by other people's children.
Then it is estimated that it will not be long before the entire neighborhood will know that the son of Zhang Cuihua's family is very sensible or something, not only has good grades in school, but also is very good at housework or something. At this time, life in the countryside was still relatively monotonous, there were only a few televisions in the whole village, and the average team had less than one television set, and some teams had to go to other villages to watch TV without a TV set.
Therefore, most of the people usually stay at home after eating, while some women sit and chat with the good people who are going to play with the sweaters they are knitting, chatting about the short things in the parents, and the things that are obedient and sensible to the children of the family, such things will not be known to the whole village for a long time.
After dinner, it was already completely dark, and Zhang Tao's house immediately lit the kerosene lamp. Zhang Tao and his nearby villages do not use electric lamps now, the electricity bill is too expensive, and they have to pay for the wires themselves, and most people use kerosene lamps at home. After the hydropower station of the reservoir in the village was repaired, the hydropower station was funded by a nearby state-owned coal mine, and because of the reservoir and land occupation in Huangpu Village, the electricity fee given to them by the mine was half that of other places, so the nearby villagers used all the electricity here.
In the countryside in the middle of winter, with the orange kerosene light, Zhang Tao's three siblings were doing homework around the table by the fire, while Zhang Tao's mother was sitting on the side knitting sweaters for Zhang Yan. The sweater that Zhang Yan is wearing now was worn by Zhang Tao, but because this sweater was worn by Daniel Zhang, left for Zhang Tao and then left for Zhang Yan, many places have rotted. So Zhang Tao's mother took advantage of the fact that she was not busy at night to knit a new sweater for her little daughter.
Daniel Zhang was listening to something while doing his homework, and Zhang Tao knew what he was listening to as soon as he saw his reaction. He was listening to the sound of the TV coming from the only family in the village that had a TV set, and it seemed that a martial arts TV series called "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" was playing at this time.
At this time, the evening programs in the countryside were very boring, most of the homes did not have electric lights, even television sets were rare, and even novels were rare in the countryside. Occasionally, there will be a movie event organized above to go to the countryside, and that time is the most lively time in the whole village. The old and young in the group will go out, everyone will sit in an open-air square in the village with stools or something, and then watch "Railway Guerrillas", "Gunshots on the Plains" or something on it, and occasionally some martial arts movies will be screened.
At that time, the most common thing children did was to run behind the movie screen to pick up bullets or swords or something, but unfortunately they never picked them up. Zhang Tao also did this kind of thing when he was a child, and now that he thinks about it, he feels that the children at that time were really innocent, and people couldn't help but want to laugh.
The days when there are no movies are watching TV, and if the people in the village are fine, they will go to the only house in the village that has a TV to watch TV. The family that put on the TV seems to be lively, and when the TV series is played, the sound will be turned up very loudly, and then everyone in the village can hear it, and everyone throws away the things in hand and runs over to watch the TV series.
But Daniel Zhang don't think about watching TV tonight, now that the final exam is approaching, Zhang Cuihua can't let them watch the TV series, they have to review well to cope with the exam. And Zhang Tao was completely unresponsive, after decades of edification, he couldn't watch the TV series at this time.
"The cold wind is sluggish, the snow is drifting, the long road is long, walking on the song, looking back at the stars, the past is like a cloud of smoke, I still remember the time of parting, leaving the snow in vain. Love in the snow, love in the snow, dream in the snow。。。。。 As if to satisfy Daniel Zhang, soon a melody came over. Daniel Zhang was not in the mood to do his homework when he heard this familiar melody, his heart was like a cat scratching, and he turned his eyes to look around, but his face immediately became depressed after seeing the reaction of other people.
Zhang Yan and Zhang Tao are honestly doing their homework, preparing for the upcoming final exams, one doesn't know whether TV is good or not, and the other is completely uninterested. And Zhang Cuihua is humming music knitting sweaters, as soon as he looks at this scene, Daniel Zhang knows that no matter how attractive the TV series over there is, there is no part of himself these nights, or write homework honestly, and go back to school tomorrow to listen to others talk about the plot.
Usually, after Zhang Cuihua knitted a sweater for a while, she would also watch TV with the children, which was also a pastime for the adults in the village. But she won't go during this time, because if she doesn't watch a few children do their homework, it is estimated that they will all herd the sheep and secretly follow to watch TV.
Zhang Tao's homework was completed quickly, and if it weren't for the large number of simple homework, he could do it faster. I don't know why, I've been here for a while, but every night I see a family doing homework around the table by the fire, while listening to my mother talk about some things in the past, Zhang Tao always can't help but feel like crying. Many years later, the three brothers and sisters have grown up, and they usually spend less time at home, so do they have this feeling of being poor but very warm now?
Zhang Cuihua is in a good mood these days, because there is ready-made hot water and hot rice every day when she comes back, and because she doesn't need to worry about things at home every day, so when she knits sweaters, she always hums some red songs she learned when she used to study.
Zhang Cuihua is the only person in their team who graduated from elementary school, and if it weren't for the involvement of a special sport, she should still be the only junior high school student in the team. At that time, their textbooks were to memorize the chairman's quotations and sing red songs, so she could sing a lot of red songs, and when she was in a good mood, she would coax a few out of them.
For example, she is now humming "My cousins are countless, and there are no major events that don't come to the door... "This is from "Red Lantern". There is also "Shajiabang" in "This woman is not humble and not arrogant... Or the local flower drum opera "Playing the Gong and Mending the Pot" or something, they learned these things when they went to school at that time. After a few years, no one paid attention to these songs, as if the whole people were ready to forget about them completely from the nightmare.
"Mom." Zhang Tao shouted softly, waking Zhang Cuihua up from the state of humming. "What's wrong? Done with homework? ”
"Is our family going to raise more ducks next year? Behind our house is the reservoir, and they can be stocked in the reservoir, so that they can lay a lot of eggs a year to sell for money. Zhang Tao said that the water duck is a kind of laying duck, the feathers of the whole body are hemp-colored, at this time there are not many people in Zhang Tao's vicinity of their house in groups, are free-range a few.
"Raise water ducks, don't our chickens and ducks have eggs for you to eat from time to time? If you raise too much, no one will take care of it. Zhang Tao's mother thought that her son wanted to eat duck eggs, so she replied casually that she didn't have the concept of large-scale breeding to make money in her heart.
"Someone takes care of it, we release the ducks in the morning when we go to school, and then feed them, and we can feed them again when we come back from school at noon, and then drive them home in the evening and feed them again, you can rest assured, I will definitely be able to take care of them." Without a gold finger, Zhang Tao can only work hard, at this time Zhang Tao and their duck eggs are very easy to sell, two cents a piece. The state-owned coal mine in the town is still profitable, and the workers in the six Hunan coal mines are living a good life, so this leads to the fact that the meat, eggs and poultry in the town are very good, which is a good income-generating project for Zhang Tao and his family, and it does not need to spend too much investment.
"Well, how many do you think you can raise?" Zhang Cuihua was stunned for a moment after asking, it seemed that she had gone too far to discuss the problem with a child like this, and she seemed to have ignored the age of this guy. What can a 9-year-old understand? However, Zhang Tao's performance during this period made Zhang Cuihua feel that his son was very sensible, so he subconsciously hoped that his son could say some suggestions.
"You can't raise too much, let's raise thirty first, if the benefits are very good, it is easier to raise, and we will raise more in the future." Chickens are fine, anyway, there is a forest behind us, and it doesn't matter if you have more chickens here. But Zhang Tao already had a bottom in his heart, and his answer was very organized.
At this time, raising chickens and ducks still depends on the sky, once the chickens and ducks have any disease, there are basically not too many effective drugs to treat, except for a universal oxytetracycline and chicken plague powder or something, there is no other medicine, so Zhang Tao does not dare to say too much at one time, so if it is not good, the loss will be less.