From Hedong Village to the south, along the Daixi River, around the two mountains is Dongyu Village, and then cross the river to the valley in the west, which is Xiyu Village.

If such a day is quite dull, then it is Qin Wei's two cousins from Xiyu Village who broke this peaceful life.

In fact, the poor are most afraid of the New Year, Qin Wei went home during the winter vacation, and the work of the production team was basically over, but Qin Yuhan was selected by the village to go to the Yellow River to "get married". The so-called ex-husband means that the HM area on the bank of the Yellow River has to transfer labor from various communes to the Yellow River section under its jurisdiction every year when the Yellow River freezes or cuts off in winter, so that the sediment washed from the upstream will increase the riverbed in the spring of the following year, causing the danger of bursting the embankment. So during this time, only the mother Zhang Suzhen took care of the children at home, until the end of the year, Qin Yuhan came back from the Yellow River, when he came back, Qin Yuhan was like a layer of skin, the whole person was already covered with skin and bones, so Zhang Suzhen quickly found the five eggs left by his frugality, which was the most precious in the family, and made a delicious and nutritious meal for Qin Yuhan.

Zhang Suzhen also took out the wine that had been stored for many years and let Qin Yuhan drink it to his heart's content, Qin Yuhan was naturally overjoyed, but Zhang Suzhen was sad, she knew that her man was the pillar of the family and must not fall. And Qin Wei on the side said to his father:

"Dad, if I draw you again in the future, I'll do it for you."

Qin Yuhan didn't say anything, as he spoke, he picked up a glass of wine and said to his son: "Okay, come, you have also grown up, you are a man, give me this glass of wine." ”

Qin Wei had never disobeyed his father's words, so he picked up the wine glass and drank it all, he had never drunk alcohol, so after a few minutes of effort, he stood unsteady and got drunk.

And Qin Yong and Qin Ping, who were only a few years old next to them, watched their father eating eggs and drinking wine, silently, just snorting on the side, while their eyes were staring at the eggs on the plate motionlessly.

Qin Yuhan noticed his youngest son and youngest daughter at this time, and he was also reluctant to go, thinking, Qin Yuhan, Qin Yuhan, you really lost the face of the Qin family, but I didn't expect it, but it was a bastard who let his children watch you eat and drink spicy, greedy but didn't dare to make a sound!

But before Qin Yuhan could speak, Zhang Suzhen had already seen the expressions of the children, so she took them all out, raised her hand and beat them, and suddenly the child cried again.

Speaking of this paragraph, Qin Ping was already choked, and he said to Qin Xiao: "I was really ignorant at that time, my father was cold and hungry on the edge of the Yellow River, and he suffered so much, but when he came back, he still had to covet his eggs......"

However, Qin Xiao said disapprerovingly: "Auntie, I don't think so, I don't think a family can be so hierarchical, although the parents are elders, but the child is innocent after all, you and your uncle are still so young, many things are instinctive reactions......"

My aunt interrupted Qin Xiao's words and said unhappily: "Don't say it, your generation is even more selfish, you don't know at all, although your grandfather Qin Yuhan was talking and laughing at that time, he had actually encountered ** annoyance!" ”

Qin Xiao said suspiciously: "What trouble?" ”

Aunt Qin Ping said: "At that time, your grandfather dug up the mud in the Yellow River, always barefoot, in the cold riverbed, and then it was so deep and then the silt, and finally his feet were frozen, broken, and frostbite, when he came back, I only remember that he tore the cotton jacket into two pieces and wrapped it on his feet and slowly paced back." ”

My aunt then choked up and said: "You are studying medicine, so you naturally know that once a person freezes, blood circulation will be blocked, and it will not heal after the rupture. ”

Qin Xiao suddenly realized and said, "The Seven Spirit Flowers are scattered, our Qin family's Seven Spirit Flowers are scattered!" ”

The aunt was even more angry, and said uncontrollably: "The Seven Spirit Flowers are scattered, you know that the Seven Spirit Flowers are scattered!" Don't you know that at that time, our Qin family could no longer practice medicine alone, how could there be medicine? To exist is to walk capitalism! And the Chinese medicine hall in the village has long been banned, where to get the seven spirit flowers scattered? At that time, Mo said that Hedong Village, even the entire commune, may not be able to find strychnine and saffron! ”

Qin Xiao was silent, and after a moment of silence, he handed over a tissue to his aunt and said, "Auntie, don't be sad, I was wrong, I really don't know the situation at that time, you go on, how did grandpa get along later." ”

The aunt took a tissue, wiped her tears, calmed her feelings, and continued: "Thanks to your father's chance......"

At that time, Qin Yuhan had been pretending to be nothing, but he and his wife Zhang Suzhen knew that going to the Western pharmacy was useless, it seemed that there was no way to return to heaven this time, and Qin Wei had already seen the strangeness in this, so he asked his mother how to cure his father Qin Yuhan's chilblains, so his mother Zhang Suzhen secretly told him:

"Actually, our Qin family has an ancestral secret recipe, called Seven Spirits Flower Powder, as long as you find this seven-flavor medicine, your father will naturally prepare a good medicine that can save him."

Although Zhang Suzhen didn't know how to prepare the Seven Spirits Flower Scatter, she had been following Qin Yuhan all these years, and she also knew what the Seven Flavors Monarch Medicine of the Seven Spirit Flowers was. So Qin Wei didn't say a word, and went to the cooperative pharmacy in the county overnight to look for these medicines, but he went around the county for a whole day, and after he came back, he only found the five-flavor medicine, but he didn't find a single one that sold saffron and strychnine.

In Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Suzhen also asked Qin Wei to kill the pigs that had not grown up in the family, and poured everything in the family to make a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal. But Qin Yuhan continued to talk and laugh, not to let the children be frightened, he ate when he should eat, drank when he should drink, but no one could see the worries in his heart.

After the New Year, it is necessary to visit relatives and friends, and at that time, a basket of steamed buns can go to relatives. Qin Wei knew that his father couldn't walk, and his mother had to take care of her husband at home, so he was the only one to visit relatives this year.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, it was to go to Dongyu's aunt's house, Zhang Suzhen had four sisters, all of whom were descendants of Qiu Laokui, and there were no men in this generation, and the fourth daughter Zhang Suzhen was also passed over to the Zhang family in Hedong Village for various reasons, of course, it was not Zhang Zhengguo's family, as for what the reason, the aunt did not know.

Therefore, among the four sisters, only Zhang Suzhen has her surname Zhang, and the other three sisters are surnamed Qiu. This time, his mother allowed him to eat two steamed buns back and forth on the road. Looking at Qin Xiao's story, you may think that Hedong Village is very close to Dongxiyu Village, but in fact, it is because they drive most of the distance every time. At that time, the family couldn't even afford a bicycle, so Qin Wei could only go on foot, set off early in the morning, and could only see the shadow of Dongyu Village at noon.

But Qin Wei was still reluctant to eat the two white-flour steamed buns on the road, he thought to himself, these two should be saved and let his father eat them, after all, these steamed buns are used for New Year's greetings to relatives, and he has no right to ask, but the two steamed buns promised by his mother can be decided by himself, and he poured Dongyu Village, and his aunt will also entertain him, just eat more by himself.

Dongyu Village is actually located on the side of the mountain, and the land is naturally not as good as Hedong Village, so the harvest is not as high as Hedong Village. At that time, the exaggeration was no longer marginal, and the annual yield of grain per mu reported by the commune reached several thousand catties, and who dared to say that it was wrong, and the villages had to take out almost all the grain and hand it over to the state. And Hedong Village relies on the good quality of the land, high yield, and can barely survive, while Dongyu Village is different, and this year's harvest is very poor, so when Qin Wei came to his aunt's house, he understood the actual situation of the family at a glance.

But fortunately, my aunt still has a lot of sweet potatoes, which can barely support it. However, what made Qin Wei feel speechless was that after he ate the sweet potato polenta prepared by his aunt and was about to go home, he found that several of his cousins and cousins were eating the white-flour steamed buns he gave him by the window of the east house!

The aunt sent Qin Wei out, and when she saw this scene, she was immediately very embarrassed, so she hurriedly squeezed her eyebrows and asked the children in the house to get inside quickly, so as not to let her nephew Qin Wei see it again.

Qin Wei also knew that this made his aunt very faceless, so he pretended not to see it, took the empty basket from his aunt's hand, and said goodbye to his aunt and left. What Qin Wei didn't know was that after he left, a few boys in the house ate white-flour steamed buns, but they were severely beaten by their aunt. -- This is also what my cousin told him when he grew up.

However, Qin Wei returned home, took out the two white-flour steamed buns that he had been carrying in his arms for a day, gave them to his mother, and turned around and left. The mother took the steamed bun, and her heart was both happy and distressed.

The next day, I had to go to Xiyu Village, this time Qin Yuhan told Zhang Suzhen that Qin Wei must have breakfast before leaving, this time Qin Wei had no choice, so he had to eat a bowl of sweet potato porridge and a white flour steamed bun, and then he was allowed to leave. Although Qin Wei wanted to save it for his parents, why didn't his parents know that he was also growing up? Although Qin Wei said that he was reluctant, the feeling of chewing the snow-white white face in his mouth was an unforgettable comfort for all his beings - if you bite into it, you don't have to worry about hitting your gums or biting the grit, and if you chew it, you will have an inexplicable sweetness, instead of eating sweet potatoes sticking to your teeth, your tongue can't pull it off, and you don't dare to chew hard.

Climb over the mountain, take off your shoes and wade across the river, and then put on your shoes and enter the valley, and you will arrive at Xiyu Village, but it is already noon.

When Qin Wei came to the second aunt's house, he realized that there was no worst, only worse, not only the second aunt's cousin who was a few years younger than himself staring at the steamed buns, but even the second aunt and her brother-in-law were also polite, and from time to time they glanced at the steamed buns in the basket, as if they wanted to count how many there were at once.

The second aunt was married to the village, so when he came this time, he brought two baskets of white flour steamed buns, which was actually the last white flour of the Qin family. The other basket naturally wanted to see his mother Zhang Suzhen's biological father, that is, Qin Wei's own grandfather.

Master Qiu Hengshui is an old eight-way, because he was injured in the early battle, he quit the battle early, and his life at home is good, although he has not been following the army, mixing an official and a half-job, but he has always been taken care of by the military region, and food stamps are allocated every month.

Naturally, Qin Wei was willing to eat at his grandfather's place, and the second aunt also hoped that so, their family could get by, and it was all up to his father to give him some leftovers every once in a while for him to bring back.

Grandpa was very happy to see his nephew, Old Man Qiu was still very strong, and he spoke loudly, Qin Wei was kowtowing to the New Year when he met, but the old man picked him up, and Qin Wei couldn't kneel at all.

Old Man Qiu asked Qin Wei if he had ever drunk, Qin Wei replied: "I drank it, but ......" He was originally going to say that he was inadvertently drunk by his father that time, but where did Old Man Qiu hear this, and hurriedly said:

"Drink is drink, what's the matter!" So I asked my wife to serve wine and had a drink with my eldest nephew.

Although the old man said that he was Qin Wei's grandfather, this grandmother was the old man's successor, not Zhang Suzhen's mother, but she was also kind, prepared meals on the side, and did not mix in the affairs of the two old men.

In the past, Qin Yuhan accompanied his father-in-law to drink, but this time he didn't come, so Old Man Qiu asked what was going on. Qin Wei didn't want to say it, but he was used to being obedient at home, and when the elders asked, he told the truth, don't tell his father-in-law the truth about the injury, Qin Yuhan forgot to explain it to Qin Wei.

After listening to Qin Wei's words, Old Man Qiu immediately got up and said, "Stinky boy, why didn't you say it earlier!" ”

Saying that, Old Man Qiu led Qin Wei out alone, and the grandmother who was preparing the meal in the house saw this and asked, "I don't stop eating eggs, why are you going?" ”

Qiu Lao also dragged Qin Wei to the courtyard gate in the morning, and only threw a sentence from a distance, "Keep doing it, eat it when you come back!" And he departed.