Chapter 6 Reminiscences of the Past
Xie Nuanyi returned home with a small basket, and Grandma Xie was still the only one at home. After all, the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is a rural area, and it is the busy time of spring, and the people at home will not come back until they have a meal. The countryside is good for this, the sun rises and the sun sets. This day is what Xie Nuanyi longed for the most in his previous life.
"Didn't you say mowing the grass? Why did you come back so early? As soon as Xie Nuanyi walked to the door, Grandma Xie saw it, she sat on the threshold and asked while doing her work, "Where is your eldest sister?" ”
"My eldest sister is still cutting miles with people, I'll come back first." Xie Nuanyi replied, she saw the work in Grandma Xie's hands, and asked, "Milk, what are you doing?" ”
Grandma Xie muttered a few words, but Xie Nuanyi didn't hear it, and asked again. Grandma Xie didn't raise her head and replied, "Sew a dress for your brother." ”
Brother, oh, it's Xie Anshi. Anshi's clothes? Xie Nuanyi was a little surprised, aren't all the clothes bought now? Xie Nuanyi stood there blankly watching Grandma Xie fly the needle and walk the line.
She really couldn't remember when it was in her previous life when the clothes and shoes she bought became popular in the village...... So much so that later, she did not see the spinning machines in the village, as well as the cotton players, and the weavers.
Now, do you have it at home?
Xie Nuanyi turned his head to look at the courtyard, there was a utility room on the east side, and there were food and objects in it. In her previous life, she just went in and hid there when she was playing hide and seek with Xie Anshi, and she really didn't look at it carefully at other times.
Thinking of this, she asked tentatively, "Milk, do we have any spinning flowers at home?" ”
"Yes," Grandma Xie swiped her head a few times with a needle, but still didn't look up, "What are you asking for?" ”
"Well, I just wanted to ask." Xie Nuanyi rolled her eyes, and had an idea in her heart, "I saw the bright red in the east, she was spinning flowers at home." ”
"Oh." Grandma Xie replied disinterestedly.
Xie Nuanyi saw that things didn't achieve the effect he wanted, and couldn't help but say again: "Milk, where are the textile flowers in our house?" I'll help spin too, right? ”
"What will you do?" Grandma Xie kept her hands on her hands, "Okay, this year's flowers haven't come down yet, and when they come down, you'll spin them." ”
The flowers didn't come down? Xie Nuanyi then remembered that the cotton hadn't come down yet, and there wasn't much cotton at home, so it should be just one or two points of land. At that point, I guess the family didn't like it, so I let her play with it as a thing, if her interest can last until then. Grandma Xie probably thinks that her child is just a three-minute heat.
"Milk, do we have a loom?" Xie Nuanyi asked again.
"Yes." Grandma Xie estimated that her eyes were tired at this time, or maybe Xie Nuanyi asked too much, she stopped what she was doing, raised her head and said to Xie Nuanyi, "Now everyone is not happy, and the general cloth is bought in the county, and it is also very cheap." Your mother said she was going to sell the loom. ”
Sold?
Xie Nuanyi was taken aback, no wonder he hadn't seen this thing at home in his previous life, so he probably sold it at this time. The question is, is anyone buying this thing now? She didn't feel like she had asked the question.
"Yes?" Grandma Xie wasn't sure, "After all, it's not like it used to be now...... It's really not good, let's chop firewood then......" In the end, Grandma Xie's voice was much quieter, she should have said it to herself. But when he heard these words, Xie Nuanyi's ears were like a thunderbolt.
Chopping firewood? What a waste!
At this time, the wood was too good to be good, strong and durable, and it could not be bought with money later. In Xie Nuanyi's memory, the few chairs, stools and boxes that survived at home were all durable, and they all looked like they had a historical charm. This is something that cannot be compared to what was later crudely made or mass-produced. It's a pity that at this time, we are in a period of impact from the old and the new, and everyone's thoughts are yearning for the new trend, eager to break with the past to prove themselves, and everything in every house is changed batch after batch, thrown batch after batch......
If it's really as grandma said...... Xie Nuanyi's heart ached for a while. But what if it hurts? She looked at her little short legs, sighed, and sat down on the edge of the threshold.
"Isn't it?" Grandma Xie habitually nagged, "Your mother's person...... You said that the good things were put there and didn't hinder her in anything, so they had to be thrown away. ”
"Milk, can't you throw it away?" Xie Nuanyi asked, "It doesn't take up space, it's not good to be empty in such a big place as our house......"
"Why don't you throw her to your aunt's house secretly?" Grandma Xie didn't wait for Xie Nuanyi to finish speaking, and then said, "I secretly calculate every day, and the little family who hasn't seen anything looks like a child......"
Xie Nuanyi knew that this kind of thing was unclear, and the more he talked about it, the more things he said. Especially for an unreasonable and big-mouthed person like Grandma Xie, the more you answer, the more energetic she will become. Xie Nuanyi hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Milk, do we have a mill at home?" I think everybody has it. ”
"Yes," Grandma Xie didn't miss any opportunity to say about Mother Xie, pursed her lips, sighed and said, "It's buried under the wall." ”
Why is it buried there? Xie Nuanyi followed Grandma Xie's gaze, and with some surprise, she pointed to the intersection with the neighbor in the front yard and asked, "Is it there?" Why is it buried there? ”
Grandma Xie said: "Your mother thought it was too big to sneak it away, so she buried it there." Alas, I think back then, the noodles that were ground out were really fine, much better than the current noodle machine, and it still tasted good when eaten...... What a pity. ”
"Why are you still buried?"
"Isn't that broken," Xie Nuanyi thought that Grandma Xie would say something about Mother Xie or something, but she didn't expect Grandma Xie to say with reminiscence, "Divide the family, get up the yard, and those things will be smashed and thrown ......."
"Smashed??" Xie Nuanyi opened his mouth in surprise, is this stone mill also among the four olds? Isn't that a must-have for a farmer?
Grandma Xie remembered the past, her face was complicated, she was stunned and didn't hear Xie Nuanyi's words, and she didn't pay attention to Xie Nuanyi anymore. Xie Nuanyi looked at her grandmother's appearance, and her heart was inexplicably stunned. She squatted to the side with her face in her hands, looked around the yard, and watched that the grass, trees, bricks, and tiles had not left any traces in the future, and had been annihilated in the long river of history.
Later, there were high-rise buildings all around their house, Xie Nuanyi's village is very close to the city, across the river is the county seat, the river is not big, in the east of the village, there is a small dirt mountain not far away. It can also be regarded as a mountain and river, which was a very good feng shui place in the past. But such a good place did not make the people of the village happy and cherished.
With the tide of reform and opening up, people's minds are changing day by day, and they all want to make a lot of money quickly and efficiently. Although it is said that it is close to the mountains and rivers, because the water is not big, the mountains are not high, and there are no rare species, after people come back from working outside, they take local materials and open a series of industrial plants such as paper mills, plastic factories, and sanitary chopsticks. It was shoddy, and the sewage was discharged into the river...... Within a few years, there were no people around the river, and people could smell the pungent smell from afar, and there was no grass around......