Grandma's rice is gone. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info twisted his little feet and went to the Westinghouse. But no matter how she asked, the eldest sister was just crying and didn't say anything. Grandma couldn't help it, so she asked Cheng Linghui to go to the stove room to call her mother. When my mother came, she couldn't ask anything. At this time, the second sister timidly spoke: "I know why the eldest sister is crying." ”

"Why?"

The second sister peeked at the eldest sister, lowered her head and said, "The fourth girl on the front street said that my brother-in-law's family is rich." Generally, girls can't get married. The brother-in-law's sister-in-law is the daughter of the landlord Lao Cai, and the dowry is loaded with three cars. The second sister-in-law is the daughter of the second sister-in-law of the fourth girl and the third aunt. In order for her to get married, her mother's family sold a flock of sheep and two cows to make up three carts of dowry. It's not as good as her uncle and daughter-in-law, and she can't speak at her in-law's house. When the eldest sister heard this, she was not happy. ”

Grandma breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and comforted the eldest sister: "What should I do?" Although our family is not rich, your family affair is the first major event in the top list. Can I still treat you badly? ”

The eldest sister cried: "Milk, you don't have to bluff me." I don't know what the conditions of our family are. Where to get the three carts of dowry? Even if you get together, it can be better than the things of the landlord and the old rich man. Just let me cry for a while. Anyway, when I got to people, I was angry. ”

Grandma was told to stop. Sit aside and sigh. Cheng Linghui saw that the eldest sister was upset with her grandmother, and immediately stopped obeying, and shouted, "Isn't it just a dowry." You won't marry without a dowry? ”

The eldest sister was angry, but grandma didn't dare to scold her next to her. Stomped his feet and said, "Milk, do you care about your Sanhuizi?" ”

Cheng Linghui is grandma's eyeballs, the root of her life, no matter what she does, grandma thinks it's right. At the moment, he bluffed and said, "I think Sanhui is right." ”

The eldest sister cried angrily: "You just favor her, and forget about me to death." ”

Not to be outdone, Cheng Linghui shouted: "Who told you to make grandma unhappy? If you want to die, you will die, who will you scare? ”

Grandma grabbed her and hurriedly said, "Bah, babaa, children's words, children's words." He pressed her head and said, "Kowtow to God, and say that what you just said was a joke." Let God not take it seriously. Cheng Linghui didn't kneel when he stiffened his neck.

The eldest sister cried: "Look at how poisonous Sanhuizi is." I'm your own sister, and I'm dying under the curse of your old age. I died and the old Chang family came to pick up people, you put me in a sedan chair? ”

Grandma scolded: "The more you talk about it, the more unpleasant it becomes." Such a big girl, angry with a **** child. Not ashamed? ”

The eldest sister is still crying. Grandma poured her anger out on her mother. bluffed and glared at his mother fiercely: "Look at the good girl you raised." The mother flinched for a moment, not daring to answer.

Grandma pulled Cheng Linghui up and said, "It's better for me to be Sanhui." Go with grandma, let's ignore them. Cheng Linghui followed her grandmother and stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes at the eldest sister when she went out, so angry that the eldest sister cried again.

Out of Westinghouse, Grandma asked her to play by herself. It happened that the youngest son of the fifth aunt next door came to ask her to rub the barrel of the cannon. Cheng Linghui went. I don't know how the adults in the family discussed the matter of the eldest sister's dowry. Anyway, my father said that he would go to Cangzhou for the New Year.

At this time, Cheng Linghui knew that his father was a soldier under Dingbian Hou Su Gu. It's just that such a big character as Dingbian Hou doesn't know his father, the big soldier, but his father knows Dingbianhou.

When he was trapped in Shilipu by heavy snow, his father had already seen Dingbian. The tenants of the Sun family's shop were locked in the house but ate and drank little, and it was also the father who told Dingbian to wait. This led to the later bowl of gruel every day, and the matter of allocating forage for everyone to feed the livestock.

At that time, Dingbian asked his father to follow him to Cangzhou. My father didn't agree when he remembered that his grandfather and grandmother were old. Now, in order to make a dowry for the eldest sister. My father decided to go to Cangzhou to see if he could find an errand to do thanks to the Hou Ye. After all, when the side is in a hurry, there is always work to be repaired in the house.

It's just that my father is gone. Spring sowing is all on grandpa.

Cheng Linghui really wanted to go with her father. For her as a young girl, the outside world had a fatal attraction. But her father didn't agree to take her anyway. So, this Spring Festival is the most unhappy Spring Festival for Cheng Linghui. The friends came to ask her to watch the old fighter, but she couldn't be interested.

After the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, my father left early in the morning. Cheng Linghui shrank in the quilt to make her ambition. Whoever called her, she didn't get up. After her father had been gone for a long time, she got up again. chased out of the village for several miles. Standing on the halfway slope of Jinma Ridge, I watched my father walk farther and farther away with the salute on his back. It wasn't until I couldn't see my father's shadow that I came back crying.

She was born for three days by herself, and she got up in the morning to shoot arrows in the yard. She didn't pay attention to anyone who talked to her. The youngest son of the fifth aunt next door asked her to 'carry the pot', and she became happy.

Chengjiazhuang is a hundred miles in radius and rich in minerals. There are bowl stones, there are iron ore, there are quartz sands, and there are coals. But wood is scarce. Most of the young people in the four miles and eight townships are engaged in pulling feet (engaging in transportation) in addition to farming. Transporting local minerals and bringing back timber from elsewhere.

Children can't make a living by pulling their feet. The older children went to pick coal. The coal was picked from the coal kiln to the coal station outside the city of Zhuanshui. There are also those who drive cattle and pull them. The younger children went to the blacksmith camp to take the blame.

Because there are good iron mines near the blacksmith's camp, and good pig iron is smelted. Almost every household there makes a living from striking iron. The ironware of the blacksmith battalion is famous in Shaxi County. However, if you take the main road to Zhuanshui City or Shaxi County, you need to take a long detour. Mule and horse foot money is a lot of money. Therefore, the daily iron tools of the blacksmith battalion have always been carried over the mountains and mountains by manpower to the outside. The main force carrying these iron tools is the half-grown children in the surrounding area. Of all the iron utensils, the pot has the most power. Because the cast iron pot is heavier than a hoe, sickle, etc., and the pot is round. Binding requires skill and is not easy to memorize.

The children who go to carry the pot can't be too young, they are all about eleven or twelve years old. Because it takes more than 50 miles of mountain roads to go back and forth. Children who are too young cannot walk. On the thirteenth and fourteenth and fourteenth fiveteenth fiveteenth years, they all went to pick coal.

In previous years, Cheng Linghui was making a fuss about going to the blame. It is not allowed at home in any way. One is that she is too young, and the other is a girl's family, and the family is not at ease. This year, maybe my grandmother couldn't stand it and sulked at home, so she agreed.

Cheng Linghui set off with a few friends before dawn. By the time we crossed the two hills and arrived at the blacksmith's camp, it was almost noon. The back pot is all big children with small children. The older children had been in the past, and they were very familiar with the blacksmiths.

The children each picked a pot of the right size. Tie it with the rope you brought. Carrying it on his back, he didn't dare to delay and rushed back.

Cheng Linghui came for the first time and was the most energetic. Climbed to the top of the mountain in one breath, and looked back to see that the little friends were still dangling halfway up the mountain. He took out the salted eggs and white flour buns that his mother had brought with him from his arms. Regardless of the cold mountain wind, eat with relish. When she finished eating, the group climbed up. Gathered around for a moment to rest. Eat something you bring with you and hit the road. By the time we arrived in Zhuanshui City, it was already evening.

The older children led them to the grocery store to hand over the pot and receive the money. Everyone took out a penny or two to buy some maltose or something, and went home to make a fuss.

Cheng Linghui made money for the first time, and she was so happy that she didn't know what to do. When I got home, I sat on the kang and counted and counted, and asked my grandmother to find a red rope to put on, and hung it around my neck before I went to sleep. The next day, the momentum of carrying the pot was even greater.

Although she is only ten years old, she is much more powerful than children of the same age. Hands and feet are also flexible. The second trip is not satisfied with carrying a small pot. Among the iron pots, the smallest is the No. 8 pot, commonly known as the 'Eight Pots'. The second is the 'five pots'. By analogy, the largest is the 'two pots'. As for the extra-large iron pot, it is not something that a person can carry.

The caliber of the second pot is about 80 or 90 centimeters now, which is commonly known as the semi-large cauldron. Carrying it on the back of a teenager, the rim of the pot can reach the calf. Because it's not easy to memorize, I give a lot of money. Cheng Linghui picked such a pot for the second time.

The pot is too large, the weight is still secondary, and the key is inconvenient to walk. Cheng Linghui took a lot of effort to climb to the top of the mountain, and her friends had been waiting for her for a while. I'm afraid that I won't be able to go back when it's dark. I didn't dare to take a break. Then go back.

Anyway, it was finally made for her to carry such a big pot to the grocery store. At that time, I was tired and paralyzed, and I just wanted to lie down on the steps of the grocery store. The grocery store shopkeeper poured her a bowl of water to drink. She was given two extra copper plates.

Cheng Linghui dragged his friends home, and he didn't have the strength to count the copper plates. I fell asleep on the kang. Grandma looked at her red and swollen shoulders and quietly wiped away her tears all night. But when Cheng Linghui insisted on going, she still didn't say anything.

For the third time, Cheng Linghui learned smartly. I chose a small one and successfully carried it to the grocery store.

From the nineteenth day of the first month to the second day of February, Cheng Linghui earned one hundred and twenty or thirty copper plates. This is a lot of income for the children of the Zhuang family. The other children all left a few pennies, and the rest were given to the adults in the family. Cheng Linghui gave it all to her grandmother. She felt that if she spent less, her father would be a little easier.

After February, the Ergusu Academy opened. There are fewer partners who carry the blame. Originally, there were fewer people, and the grocery store would give a little more money. But Cheng Linghui is worried about going to school.