The Beihetao called by Songtun is actually the Hetao where the three brothers and sisters caught fish in Zhou Wanwan, because it is in the north of Songtun, they call it Beihetao.

This loop is the riverbed before the diversion of the Gancha River, which has long since dried up and been abandoned, stretching for hundreds of miles, like a huge scar lying on the ground.

Zhou Wanwan hadn't been here for three or four years, and the few small blisters they had caught fish under the riverbed were still there, but the sand and big rocks were nowhere to be found, all covered by dense reeds and tall artemisia grass.

The riverbed is also covered with artemisia grass and shrubs more than a person high, stretching into the distance, and it is no longer possible to see what it looked like when you didn't look closely.

The eldest uncle's family dug several large pits on the edge of the Hetao, took soil and mud on the spot, and the adobe was beaten on the grass by the Hetao.

The uncle had already cleaned up a large area on the edge of the loop in advance to dry adobe. More than a dozen people walked in the venue, sweating like rain and mud, picking mud, and taking off the blank.

"Hello! Come here! Ya'er knew that Zhou Wanwan was coming, and she kept paying attention, and when she saw her happy, she hurriedly called her loudly, and jumped and waved while shouting, a twelve-year-old girl, still as lively as when she was a child.

Zhou Wanwan waved happily at her with a handful of wildflowers in her hand, "I'll go say hello to my uncle and go to you!" ”

Bud nodded vigorously. Ye Er, who was next to her, also waved at Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Yang, "Brother Yangzi, you use a bicycle to bring Nan Nan over!" What are you doing with such a bury and so clean dress? All the good clothes are ruined! ”

Ye'er is still as sharp and direct as when she was a child.

Ya'er made a face at Zhou Wanwan, and Zhou Wanwan ignored her. Obediently smiled at Little Pepper Ye'er, "Sister Ye'er, you beat the adobe so neatly!" I'll come over in a moment and you'll teach me! ”

Ye'er is a donkey. Two kind words were taken, "Don't learn this!" I'm tired! Wait until you're a few years older! In a while, you come and drink the water we brought with you, and don't drink theirs! ”

There are two large buckets of water on the edge of the field, a Hu Scoop, which is ready to be drunk by the people who work, and whoever is thirsty will go over and drink two sips of the Hu Scoop, and everyone is not divided between each other. No one dislikes anyone.

Ye'er is fifteen years old, and she already has some little girl's thoughts, so she brought her own water. I didn't let my two sisters drink with the big men.

Li Houhua is in his fifties, but his body is very strong, and he is not inferior to a young man at all in his work. Seeing Zhou Wanwan's brothers and sisters coming over, he picked up two large buckets full of yellow mud. While instructing Zhou Yang. "Look at it, it's mud and water, don't rub her" and then left in a hurry.

This work is tiring for big men to do, and a little girl came to see the excitement every night, and Li Houhua was not strict enough to let such a young child do this kind of work.

Li Jinhua was much more enthusiastic, he happily ran over to see his little niece, teased her for a while, and let Zhou Wanwan leave with a smile.

Zhou Yang sent Zhou Wanwan to the place where Ye'er and Ya'er worked. Coaxing Ya'er to avoid labor and watch the children for their family full-time:

"Ya'er, Brother Yangzi is here. You don't have to work, go play with the girls! Brother Yangzi will do your work for you! When I came here just now, I saw a large flower over there, and it was blooming well! You two go pick flowers and have fun! ”

"I saw wild strawberries too! It's all red! "Zhou Wanwan also helped. Ya'er is only twelve years old, and doing too much heavy physical work is not good for her health. And there are so many people, there is really no shortage of what she does.

Ya'er was immediately convinced, her eyes lit up, and her fleshy little face smiled like a sunflower, but when she looked at the leaves beside her, she didn't dare to agree immediately, "I'll play with Nan Nan for a while, and I'll come back to work after a while." ”

Ye Er didn't object, that is, she agreed. Ya'er winked happily at Zhou Wanwan.

Zhou Yang instructed Zhou Wanwan to go to work after a few words, Shen Guodong ran over to bring water to Zhou Wanwan, built a simple pergola for her with his hands and feet, took the shirts of the four of them over as a roof, and went to pick the wild strawberries that Zhou Wanwan said, and was driven back to work by Zhou Wanwan.

She just took the opportunity to pick wildflowers and put something over there, to surprise the buds, how could she let others find out.

Zhou Wanwan didn't go to stay in the pergola, just circled around Ye'er and Ya'er, and took advantage of their work to stuff delicious food, small biscuits, candy, jerky, peanuts, and the small satchel she carried with her was like a treasure chest, and there was something delicious when she reached in and took it out.

The sprouts eat with a small fleshy face and bulging face, like a greedy little squirrel. Ye'er didn't say that Zhou was late, and she didn't say that she was afraid of breaking the mud on her body, and talked to her while eating.

Ye Er still takes good care of this delicate, soft, sensible, sweet and beautiful little cousin, and she teaches her slowly if she can't do a good job, anyway, she is still young!

After teaching the detailed process of beating adobe, Teacher Ye'er was too addicted, so he began to gossip with Zhou Wanwan.

"This area is about to be repaired, or my uncle wouldn't be in such a hurry to knock out the adobe. I heard that the migrant workers on the side of Liulin Commune have started construction, and we will only be on this side for a few days, and then we will no longer be able to make adobe in this Beihetao. ”

"What about building a house?" Ye Er asked vaguely, and motioned with her eyes to give her another small biscuit with her eyes.

"Who knows! Find another place to dig the soil! It's just that it's not as spacious as here, I'm afraid that I won't be able to toss, or I can't be so anxious, I found so many helpers, and the eldest brother hasn't been to work in the team for more than ten days. If this were a normal time, the uncle would definitely not agree. ”

Ye Er's little arms, which were thinner than ordinary girls, easily picked up a bucket of yellow mud and moved a place to continue working.

"So busy, my aunt came with Gu Tao and Gu Xing and didn't help my mother work, just make trouble!" It's rare for Ya'er to complain about something, this little girl's personality is like her mother Qiu Cuilan, kind and generous, and there are few things that can make her angry.

"Especially that Gu Tao! One day you know the smelly beauty! I cried to my mother that she was poor, saying that she couldn't eat at school, and the handkerchief she used was new! She also had a box of balsam in her pocket, and she secretly wiped it after washing her hands, thinking who would be foolish and not know! Ye Er threw a shovel of yellow mud into the soil embryo mold, and he was really angry.

"Why did the mother give her the money from selling eggs to our family?" Ya'er was not happy when she heard it. She and her sister were reluctant to buy a new handkerchief. If it weren't for the fact that they always give it to them, they would be reluctant to throw it away when they use it. Why did you give money to that Gu Tao?!

"Mother's heart is soft." Ye Er pursed her lips and stopped talking. Since she was a child, she has felt sorry for her mother's hard work, and she never refused to say anything wrong about her mother.

Zhou Yang: They have also helped the Li family a lot over the years. Food, clothing, daily necessities, scarce fabrics, grain and oil, these things are not missing, and raising chickens alone can increase their income by dozens of yuan per year.

Of course, these benefits are not touched by Li Shuhua's family at all. Since they tore their faces a few years ago, Zhou Yang and they have completely ignored them, and good things have no part in them at all, which is also what Li Shuhua resents the most.

is different from taking care of Sister Ring's mother and daughter without reservation. After discussion, Zhou Yang and the others finally decided not to help the Li family sell eggs.

After all, doing business with the dry rest house is a matter that needs to be kept strictly confidential, and they didn't tell the truth to Sister Ling's mother and daughter. It is only said that there is a way, but as for what the way, it is not revealed at all.

The Li family is full of mouths, and there are a few people who are very uneasy. The brothers and sisters couldn't tell them about it.

Therefore, the living conditions of several uncles of the Li family have improved in recent years. But it was not good enough to help Li Shuhua's family.

Of course, even if they have the same income as Sister Ling's family, it is impossible to help Li Shuhua with all their might. Each of them has its own group of children to take care of, how can they use money to fill the bottomless pit of Gu Tao and Gu Xing.

It's Mrs. Li, she doesn't have any money in her hand, but she still has to keep it for her youngest son to run a job and marry a daughter-in-law!

Li Guohua went to the county food company to work as a salesperson under the introduction of Shen Guodong, and he was a temporary worker. Over the years, I have been tossing and trying to become a regular worker, and of course I need money to run a job at that time. If you marry a city girl, you will have more places to spend your money.

So Li Shuhua couldn't borrow a lot of money when she came to her parents' house. can only rely on the Gu Tao sisters to pretend to be pitiful and fool a little money back.

Ya'er was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered one thing again, and hurriedly summoned Zhou Wanwan over, and muttered in her ear, "A few days ago, when our family was beating adobe, Zhou Xia came over to help, and my father and my grandmother picked her up, and she didn't leave, and then ignored her, she still didn't leave, and cried with my milk, I think my grandmother is going to be soft-hearted!" ”

Zhou Wanwan's heart moved, Zhou Xia has never been profitable and can't afford to be early, she took the initiative to approach her grandmother's house, it must not be as simple as regretting recognizing her relatives.

"If she comes back today, you can stay away from her, you don't know, she is ruthless now!" Ya'er stuck out her tongue and whispered to Zhou Wanwan:

"My mother won't let me tell you, for fear of scaring you, I heard that Zhou Tiezhu's eye was pierced by her, and she didn't fall down the aisle at all! When the snow just melted in the spring, she threw your father into the drainage ditch of the street, and her body was frozen purple and black! ”

Xue Shuiqin finally gave birth to a son, named Zhou Tiezhu like in his previous life, he is four years old this year, Zhou Wanwan has never seen or heard of him being blind in one eye. It can be seen that the whole family knows about this matter, so they keep it secret from her.

"Then my grandma still takes care of her?" Mrs. Li has always been shrewd, how could she not understand that Zhou Xia was vicious and could not be provoked?

"My grandmother doesn't believe it, saying that it's all nonsense from others, and no matter how bad it is, my aunt can't teach such a child." Ya'er also pouted from Ye'er.

Zhou Wanwan is also as helpless as Ya'er. Mother's heart is always biased, Mrs. Li has understood it all her life, and when she is old, she begins to be confused in her children.

Without waiting for Zhou Wanwan to ask carefully, Li Jinhua sneaked over, "Nannan, what delicious food did you bring?" ”

Zhou Wanwan smiled, the second uncle is so old, and he looks like a child hiding from his uncle.

Li Jinhua's appearance has basically not changed, he still has that tender baby face, almost the same age as the thirty-year-old Li Qingyun.

He listens to his eldest brother's shouting and work every day, listens to his wife's instructions to do housework, and even Ye'er and Ya'er can manage him, but he doesn't care at all, he sings two sentences at the top of his voice when he is happy, and when he is tired, he takes a lazy break for a while, and lives happily every day.

Zhou Wanwan took out a small biscuit to feed Li Jinhua, he shook his head and didn't eat it, "The child eats it!" ”

Zhou Wanwan took out another candy cube, but he still didn't eat it. I don't eat peanuts, and I don't eat preserved fruits.

Zhou Wanwan understood, and took out two tender cucumbers. Li Jinhua was happy. "It's still your cucumbers that come down early! The cucumber seedlings in our yard are not yet a foot high! ”

Li Jinhua saw that he was all hands of yellow mud, and he was afraid that Li Houhua would find out, so he didn't dare to wash it. Just open your mouth and wait for Zhou Wanwan to feed.

Zhou Wanwan also called Ya'er and Ye'er over, and the four of them squatted in the pergola built by Shen Guodong to eat cucumbers.

The three of them eat and feed every night.

"Dad, you're so sensible! Knowing that we are hot and thirsty, bring us cucumbers! "Ya'er was happy when she had something to eat, and squatted there as beautiful as a little mouse stealing oil to drink.

"That's it! It's like your aunt! Your aunt has been sensible since she was a child! Li Jinhua chewed the tender cucumber and shook his head to show off to his daughter.

The whole family mentioned that Li Xiuhua was not sad and sad. Very proud every time.

"It's pretty good." Ya'er thinks it's better to be her own little cousin. She is the youngest child in the family, and she has always treated Zhou Wanwan as her own sister.

"Your aunt is also good-looking! She looks like your aunt! Li Jinhua shrank his body inward, afraid that Li Houhua would find him lazy.

Zhou Wanwan smiled. Perhaps, in the heart of every silly brother, his sister is the smartest, cute, sensible and beautiful! In my mother's heart, the second uncle should also be a very good brother.

"You're smart." Ya'er is still not convinced. She doesn't remember Li Xiuhua. I think my little cousin is good.

"Like your aunt! Your aunt is just delayed, can you marry Zhou Chunliang's brute?! Li Jinhua was rarely angry.

"What else do you bring?" Ye Er hurriedly diverted the topic, Zhou Chunliang is a brute, then he can't be scolded in front of Zhou Wanwan, why is it her father.

"And the water radish, but the water is smart!" Zhou Wanwan went to her small satchel again to take these things made in her own home. Li Jinhua They can eat at ease, the things in the space. The taste is very good, not worse than fruit at all, "There are wild strawberries over there, I'll pick them later, they're all red, they must be delicious!" ”

"I'll go with you too!" Ya'er hurriedly looked at Ye'er to apply.

"Go! Go all of you! That's it! This is not a job that a little girl can do! Li Jinhua grabbed Zhou Wanwan's arm, took a big bite of the cucumber with her hand, and walked through the back door with a few children, "Pick it back and leave me a few more!" ”

Zhou Wanwan didn't look at the sleeves soiled by Li Jinhua's mud hands, and nodded with a smile, "It's too much, the second uncle will have enough to eat later!" ”

In the end, Ye'er stayed and worked, letting her two younger sisters go strawberry picking. There are cattle and pigs here in the Hetao every day, how can there be any wild strawberries, saying that they are going to pick strawberries, but in fact, they are letting them play.

Ye Er smiled and gave her two younger sisters a holiday.

At the beginning, Zhou Yang could still see the figures of two little girls running around, going to pick flowers on the meadow for a while, washing hands in the blisters for a while, a few people aimed at them from time to time, and called back when they ran away, this is grass and ditches, and they are afraid that something will happen.

Towards noon, the swineherd of Songtun accidentally drove dozens of pigs into the field where they were threshing adobe. A herd of pigs ran around on the freshly laid adobe, and a lot of them were destroyed in an instant.

Everyone hurriedly chased and intercepted a group of pigs, and when this group of pigs saw so many people, they were panicked and afraid, and they were even more chaotic, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

In the end, Zhou Yang stopped the people who were chasing the pigs, everyone formed a big circle, slowly drove the pigs together, and the whole group drove in one direction to drive the troublesome pigs away.

However, a small part of the clay embryo that had been laid in the morning was destroyed. The eleven or twelve-year-old little swineherd was so frightened that he wanted to cry, if he was to pay for it, his father would not beat him to death! Li Houhua sighed and waved his hand to let him go.

Then he shouted at everyone to beat the trampled adobe while it was still wet, and if it really didn't work, put the mud away and mix it again, or it would be more laborious to remix the mud.

The sun is scorching, and you have to race against time to beat these embryos, or it will be even more difficult to do otherwise. Zhou Yang and Dunzi were sent to go back to Tunzi with Li Qingyun to pull wheat straw, and no matter how they remedied, they had to lose some and remake the mud.

Zhou Chen went to deliver water to the greedy people, and Shen Guodong suddenly remembered, "What about you?" Why haven't I seen her for a long time? ”

Ya'er, who had been helping by Ye'er's side, also exclaimed, "She went to wash strawberries in the ditch, it's been a long time, why hasn't she come back yet?!" (To be continued......)