Chapter Forty-Seven: It's Raining! Collect the clothes!
Zhang Tao was born on the 13th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, just during the traditional Zhongyuan Festival. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoThe midyear festival here is different from other places, and at the beginning of July, the whole village will gather in the ancestral hall of the village to worship, and call to pick up the ancestors. Every house will burn some paper money or something, and set off firecrackers.
Then, starting from the morning of 11 days, the whole village will eat and cook according to the family's day to worship the ancestors. On the evening of the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, the whole village gathered at the head of the village to burn paper money and put some food to worship again, this time it is called sending the ancestors. During this period of time, after twelve o'clock in the evening, all the children were not allowed to go out, and it was said that the ghost door was opened for fear of encountering something unclean.
The second rain was on the first day after the Midyear Festival, and although Daniel Zhang was reluctant, he was pulled by Zhang Tao to the position of the reservoir inlet, and Zhang Tao used the same method as last time, so the fish caught this time was not less than last time.
But this time there was no need for his mother's help, Daniel Zhang's strength improved significantly after being trained for a period of time, and the two brothers directly carried the more than 100 pounds of fish back.
Although Zhang Tao also likes to eat fish, he is annoyed if he eats it often, but he still can't suppress his hobby of catching fish. So when he saw the rain, he instinctively picked up the guy and ran to catch the fish, and he always had a special pleasant satisfaction when he saw those fish caught in his own net.
After returning home, Daniel Zhang was immediately happy when he saw Zhang Cuihua's surprised look, he felt that his mother would definitely accuse Zhang Tao this time, who let him catch so many fish. Zhang Cuihua did mean this, she thought that Zhang Tao caught so many fish and was going to dry the fish to sell, and she was about to speak Zhang Tao first.
"We don't have to deal with it all, we just get a small part of the fish to dry and sell it, and the rest is all ground into fishmeal and fed to the pigs, we didn't have much fishmeal last time, and it won't be long before we feed it." After listening to Zhang Tao's words, Zhang Cuihua thought that this was indeed the case, and she didn't say anything.
Daniel Zhang watched in disappointment that his mother let Zhang Tao go so easily, and he had to deal with those fish later, and his face immediately became depressed. Sure enough, it's still like that, and I will never want to have the upper hand in front of this younger brother.
After dinner, the family gathered around to process a dozen catties of larger fish, and the rest was washed and directly put to dry, and there was no need to clean up the internal organs. In fact, there are many people who like to eat small fish that do not clean the internal organs and dry them, and they have a bitter gourd fried small river fish, which uses small fish that has not cleaned the internal organs, and the two with bitter taste are put together, and the bitterness is bitter.
However, there are many people who like to eat this dish, and it is said that this dish has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying and brightening the eyes. Zhang Tao doesn't know what the effect is, but if their children here eat this dish when they have prickly heat in the summer, they can see obvious results.
Towards September, Daniel Zhang's junior high school admission letter arrived, which meant that the summer vacation was coming to an end. They started junior high school before elementary school, and they had to go over to see what class they were in, and there were several classes in one grade of junior high school.
Zhang Tao's house is not far from the middle school in the town, so his brother does not need to live in the school now, and will not see the situation until the third year of junior high school to determine whether he wants to live in the school.
"Summer and summer passed quietly and left a little secret, pressing on the bottom of my heart, pressing on my heart, and I can't tell you. The evening breeze warms my heart, and I think of you again, how sweet, how sweet, how can I forget. Can't forget you, write you in a diaryγγγγγ "School is almost in session, which means that the summer is gone, and some children have begun to sing this song.
At this time, a few strangers came to Zhang Tao's house, and under the leadership of Zhang Tao's head teacher, there was also a cadre from the brigade. Zhang Tao immediately knew what was going on after seeing those people, they were from the district central primary school, and they came to draw students with good grades. The one who took the lead was the principal of the district central primary school, and he was also the only responsible teacher Zhang Tao met in his previous life.
They came to invite Zhang Tao to study in the district central primary school, where the quality of teaching is much better than that of Zhang Tao's village primary school, and the district seems to have plans to gather all the students with good grades in the district into one school to cultivate. In his previous life, Zhang Tao didn't go when he was in the third grade and transferred to the fourth grade, because it was far away, and because their family was very short of labor at that time.
It didn't pass until the sixth grade of primary school, and at that time, there was a lottery in the district primary school to form two top classes. This time, Zhang Tao didn't agree to go over, it was too far, he didn't like to live in school, and living in school meant that he wouldn't be so comfortable in his life in the future.
And the food is also poor, a week on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday to go home, usually from their own home to bring food and rice. The dish is the kind of dried vegetables, which can be eaten for a few days after cooking once, and Zhang Tao felt bitter after a sixth grade in that day, and now let him start from the third grade, he really can't stand it.
The teachers in the district center took a lot of saliva, after all, Zhang Tao's grades are better than in his previous life, and he has been the first in the district for two consecutive semesters, and they are really reluctant to give up this good seedling. But Zhang Tao just refused to go, and it was useless to even Zhang Cuihua doing work on the side.
In the end, the teachers of the district primary school had to regret leaving, but they knew that they would have to draw it once when they were in the sixth grade, and they would see Zhang Tao's results at that time, so they didn't pay much attention to it. This time, they still selected a few other students from Zhang Tao's class, which was not without gain.
Wang Zhongqiu also passed, not because of his good grades, but because of his father's relationship. These have changed a little bit from the previous life, in the previous life, Zhang Tao's class did not take away so many students, and there were only two in the previous life. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Tao and the Chinese and mathematics teachers in his class were also selected to the district primary school because of their good results in the final exam of the class.
Zhang Tao just smiled when he knew the news, this did not happen in his previous life. In fact, the improvement of the grades of all the students in their class has nothing to do with the two teachers, and I don't know if they can still teach such results after they go to the district primary school.
These don't have much to do with Zhang Tao, so he doesn't have any opinions on these, and it's better to mix in the primary school in the village with peace of mind. The little days here are so comfortable, and the teacher doesn't care much about himself, as long as it's not too outrageous, it doesn't matter how he tosses.
When the junior high school started, Zhang Tao accompanied Daniel Zhang to the middle school in the town. Daniel Zhang had three classes in the first year of junior high school at this time, and Daniel Zhang was in the fifty-first class. After looking at the shifts and then at the tuition, the two brothers walked home together. It doesn't take long to get from the town to their home, about ten minutes away.
When we got to the bay, it was getting dark again, and it looked like it was going to rain again. There are still many families in the bay whose rice has not been dried well, and at this time they are hurrying to harvest the grain, and they are also using that kind of wooden windmill to blow open and pack the empty millet -- at this time, they have to pay the public grain, and they must dry the corn and remove the empty husk.
After seeing this scene, Zhang Tao suddenly ran away on a whim, shouting loudly as he ran, looking a little excited. It's not easy to finally give myself a chance to shout out the words that have been in my heart for a long time. "It's thunder! It's raining! It's time to go home and collect your clothes. β
The surrounding villagers looked at Zhang Tao's reaction curiously, and didn't understand why this kid was so excited to collect his clothes. Daniel Zhang in the back seemed to feel that Zhang Tao's appearance was quite humiliating, and immediately slowed down his pace, trying his best to leave himself and Zhang Tao alone, and not let others count himself and Zhang Tao together.
Suddenly, his face changed as if he remembered something, and he hurriedly chased Zhang Tao, no longer caring about whether he was embarrassed or not. That guy ran so fast must be ready to go to the net fish again, he will start school tomorrow, can he have a good night, Daniel Zhang really doesn't want to deal with so many fish at night, it's sad to mention that, he has dealt with fish many times this summer.
It's just that his reaction has been slow, and when he caught up with Zhang Tao, Zhang Tao had already picked up the guy and ran towards the inlet of the reservoir, and when he saw Daniel Zhang chasing after him, he pulled Daniel Zhang over without saying a word. Sure enough, he ran home to net fish, Daniel Zhang really didn't understand why his younger brother was so interested in net fish, and he didn't seem to be bored to eat fish.
Just one fish made a lot of tricks for him, boiled, stewed, fried, steamed, and smoked, all kinds of fancy to eat, even their mother Zhang Cuihua has never seen so many tricks. Extremely depressed, they followed Zhang Tao's buttocks and worked hard, and after the rain stopped, they netted dozens of catties of fish again.
Now the fish in the reservoir have also learned well, and they know that it is dangerous to run to the water inlet, and they don't dare to drill there even if they smell the smell, so the amount is less. Daniel Zhang saw that the harvest had shrunk a lot, and his mood immediately improved, at least he didn't have to be so busy tonight. It's just that Zhang Tao's words soon made his heart rise again, for fear that Zhang Tao would really come again.
"There's a little less fish in this one, why don't you catch another net at night?" Zhang Tao looked at the fish caught in the net and said to himself, in their place, dried fish can be sold for a pound of money. He is now interested in fun and money-making things, and he is obsessed, so he naturally wants to make a little more.
When Daniel Zhang, who was walking behind him, heard this, his foot slipped, and he almost fell, and quickly stopped him: "I don't have time at night, I will start school tomorrow to receive books, I want to rest early." And I have to get up in the morning to exercise, and I won't help you with more fish you have to catch. β
"I won't need you in the future, my little sister and I will use the net to move shrimp in the evening." After listening to Daniel Zhang's words, Zhang Tao rolled his eyes and said. The net he said is a little different from the big one, using the old unused cotton mosquito net cloth cut into tens of centimeters of squares, and sewing the edges with rope. Then use thinned bamboo pieces to prop up the four corners of the square cloth, and then tie a bamboo pole with a rope.