One afternoon when they were 9 years old impatiently waiting was the afternoon of the three-day study class of "grasping the class struggle and swearing to fight the battle of double robbery" before the production team carried out the double robbery. The sun was blazing, and lunch was over, and Duolao's parents went into the hall of Willow Branch's house, and discussed with Willow Branch's parents about striving to be assigned to a homework group in the afternoon study class, and Dorao followed in like a tail. Willow Branch heard the sound of Dorao's feet and came out of the room, so all the members of the two families gathered. Duolao's mother immediately asked a question that she was not convinced or believed: Liu Zhi's mother Lan Ying told her many times that Liu Zhi grew a piece of tofu taller than Duo Lao, and she said that she wanted the two of them to compare with each other, what was going on. Using the same method as the train to determine whether you want to buy half a ticket, sticking Dorao and willow branches on the gate, and a book resting on top of his head, the result was that the willow branches rose into the air a little faster, but Dorao's mother only admitted that it was half a piece of tofu.

In addition to the matter of their grouping, a resolution was made at the joint family meeting: Dorao and Willow Branch would forage pigweed in the morning and chop wood in the afternoon during the summer vacation.

Such a resolution is at least the same in every household in this production team......

Now their pigweed hunting is not the first half of the day to get back a few tired and dead yellow flowers and grasses that have been tortured by them, the feet of the "snail" have grown, and the head sticking out of it has also grown. Carry back one basket or half a basket at a time. The varieties are not limited to goldenrod grass, and the location is not limited to the field.

But this time the chopping wood is one level higher than the hunt for pigweed. First of all, in terms of tools, they were given a scythe and a thousand quintals. The first thing that popped out in "Bangs Chopping Wood" was Bangs, he was singing and twisting on the stage with those two props, but it was very easy, but it was a play tool. The real scythe is cold and shining, not to mention that it can be picked up, and the iron is like mud, but it also requires that those firewood sticks can be cut and broken, and the trees with the thickness of the bowl mouth can also be put down. A thousand quintals were actually a small tree of miscellaneous wood, two meters long, sharpened at both ends, and plunged into the chests of two large bundles of firewood, and the people stopped and walked from them, like two huge wings and a very small fuselage.

This is not comparable to a straw shovel and a straw basket.

As soon as the scythe passed, the firewood that had lost its upper body stretched out its tips one by one in retaliation, and as soon as it stepped on it, it casually slashed into your footboard. There are also earthworm-like paths in the mountains, full of small pebbles like wolf teeth, so the woodcutter must have the same good hardware in his equipment: shoes.

These shoes are made of straw that have been passed down from generation to generation. It's called straw sandals. He said that he had watched his father weave the shoes at night. First of all, choose a handful of straw, remove those hairy grass, tie up, regardless of 3721 take a mallet like a bad molecule and beat it until it is obedient, as flexible as ramie, and then draw part of it to rub a chopstick-sized straw rope, and then fold the straw rope into four strands of the length of their own feet, and then hang the four strands of rope on a straw shoe rack and tie their waist, and then use these four ropes as a warp, and then use three straws as a bundle to knead tightly as a weft to weave. After wearing it on your feet, you should find some mud and wipe the soles of your shoes on them so that they can be worn once or twice more.

Unable to wait, the shoemaking began, and the employees of the shoe-making factory and the factory director were a total of two. The "factory director" Duo Lao chose a handful of straw that he thought was okay, sprinkled some danders, tied the straw with straw, put it on the ground, picked up the mallet, and hammered it up. Watching my father pound as easily as playing cotton, once it was in his hands, how could it be so heavy! Willow Branch, the only worker, and a female worker, hammered a wooden stick on the tail of the straw, which was her work area. Looking at the whole scene, it is a bit like the blacksmith in the blacksmith shop is hairing iron. However, the sound became sparse and scattered from a sudden and rhythmic rhythm, especially the big mallet picked up by Duolao, like Cheng Biting Jin went into battle, and after cutting the three-plate axe, he didn't have much strength. He held the handful of grass with his left hand, held it down and turned it over from time to time, and picked up the mallet with his right hand. A bit like Wu Song beating a tiger, Wu Song grabbed the tiger's skull skin and hammered it at least dozens of times in a row, but Duo Lao's tiger fighting style of holding down a mallet with one hand was difficult to continue, he had to ask the willow branch to put down the wooden stick, hold it full-time, he picked up the mallet with both hands, on a whim, it was like a squatting frog shaking the wave drum and beating it, sweating like rain, and processing a straw to almost one.

Compared with his father's practice, he concocted it in the same way, but the result was a product like a king on his back. In one afternoon, two pairs were produced, a total of four. One person wears a pair, willow branches step on the oval "shoes", quite happy, one is fresh, the other is the company's products.

These straw sandals are bought, and at the intersection where the parade was last watched, there is a tea straw shoe shop, and there are many pairs of straw sandals hanging on the wall, and a note is pasted on them: "Straw sandals are five cents per pair". The tea there is one cent per cup, one or two tea leaves in it, and if you spend three cents, you can wholesale a large kettle of boiled water, which is the largest private enterprise in the area. But five cents a pair, one cent more expensive than the ancestral spinning top, is one-tenth of the compensation to Li Siqing.

Shouldering a thousand loads, picking up a sickle, and putting on straw sandals, they embarked on another journey with great vigor and high spirits. The handle of the scythe was thicker than the arm of the willow branch, and the thousand tans were stronger than her feet, and the straw sandals on her feet made her have to walk a little "eight" road, otherwise the straw shoes would touch the other foot.

They were familiar with this place, there were too many trees and firewood, and there was still no shortage of wild grass to feed pigs in the ravines, by the streams, and around the cow urine ponds, and they had looked for pigweed here many times. But it was the first time to really go deep into the mountains and old forests and move its true character with a knife.

Overcoming thorns, whether it sounds or imagines, it is brave and heroic and relaxed, but once you get to that mountain, it really makes you overcome thorns and thorns, I am afraid that you will cry! They are faced with something very hard, not just looking at it, but subduing it, cutting it off, and killing it. Then you have to tie them up. The ground is uneven, one foot is unsteady, slipping into or rolling down a deep ravine, slipping or even rolling, it may be covered in blood and broken bones. Holding the tall and low, thick and thin sticks in one hand, and ruthlessly swinging the knife in the other hand to cut it off, not to mention the strength of the strength, you have to be careful that your hands and feet will not be cut together as sticks, and the blood will flow. There are caterpillars everywhere, sometimes you have to grab several of them when you reach out to grab firewood, in addition to the visible caterpillars, there are also invisible caterpillar ashes, it is not a matter of itching, the important thing is that it will swell. There are also caterpillar ashes falling from the trees, and the body, especially the neck, is very itchy, itching to death!

I don't know how many kinds of thorny plants and rattans there are, and some of them have beautiful flowers to lure you to the bait; There are those with sharp thorns hiding under the thick leaves, and there are those that look very affectionate, but when you hold them, they will prick you with blood; There is not hidden,** naked and exposed outside with hideous eyes across your eyes; Some are attached to the ground, very long, and lie on the ground like ropes, waiting for you to step on them; There are three or five combinations to form small forces; There are even factions and factions, Weicheng Group. And often in the depths of these groups, there is a hornet's nest, if anyone is entangled by this group and alarms the hornet, then he will be damned if he goes to fortune telling!

It can be seen that overcoming obstacles is only a pleasure in form, and it is very difficult and dangerous in content.

Of course, overcoming obstacles is talking about opening up a way forward, and it has nothing to do with the two children's chopping wood. Here is a borrowing to point out the hardships and pity of these two children.

What's more, after they have cut it down, they will pick it up the mountain and go home. With a heavy burden on its shoulders, the tofu-like foot wrench made it easier to step on the firewood, and it unceremoniously stepped in. If one of the bundles of firewood they picked up tripped, the whole body would be tripped over a turn of dozens of degrees, and even fall on the wolf's tooth stone and the tip of the firewood.

The rough thousand loads of weight on the immature shoulders will be red and swollen.

What they didn't expect or could think of was that they had to hold the sickle on their bloody hands, and a thousand loads of weight on their red and swollen shoulders, and they had to go through 8 cold and summer months with these two ox chongs.

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