Chapter Seventy-Two: Nature

In late July, the chickens of the Zhou family began to lay eggs, and of course the eggs of the Zhou family could not be eaten by everyone, so they had to be kept to sell the money to buy some daily necessities.

At that time, in the countryside, every family raised chickens, but basically every family did not eat eggs, and the brigade supply and marketing cooperatives bought two cents a piece, and sold the necessary daily necessities such as salt and matches bought in the supply and marketing cooperatives. There are some children who go to school and don't have a pencil anymore, so they take an egg from the chicken coop and go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to change it directly. At that time, there was a very vivid metaphor for this phenomenon, called "chicken butt bank", which means that the pocket money of rural families for a year basically comes out of the chicken butt.

Of course, the Zhou family is the same, of course, not a single egg is left, but even if a few are not sold, they all go into the mouths of Zhou Hongxiang and Zhou Hongying, and no one else wants to see it.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhou Wanwan to let Mrs. Zhou's mother and daughter take advantage of this, and soon, the Zhou family found out that Zhou Hongying had a strange disease that could not eat eggs, as long as she touched the eggs, she immediately had a rash all over her body, which was painful and itchy, no matter what, it had to hurt enough for a day and a night to disappear.

Mrs. Zhou was distressed and anxious, because of this disease, several children of Zhou Hongxiang's family also got it, and the doctors in the county hospital said that this is called allergies, and it would be good if you don't eat eggs in the future.

Thanks to the doctor, her words saved half of the Zhou family's eggs, and Zhou Chunxi didn't have to go to the county every other month to deliver eggs to several children of the Qian family.

By the beginning of August, the farm work had come to an end, the grass in the field had been hoeed three times, and the crops had been sealed and could be hoeed. Crops such as sorghum and corn have already blossomed and set ears, and no one needs to bother to serve them anymore.

When the pink and white potato flowers were spread all over the ground, the production team began to put the kang to wipe the walls.

This is the best time to repair adobe thatched houses in the northern countryside. Every year, the production team will pick this period of time when there is little rain, dry air and idle farming, and concentrate on pulling a pile of loess for each family, which is used to pick up the kang and wipe the wall.

There are many men in the Zhou family, and all the work was completed in two days, and everyone worked hard for a summer, and they could finally take a breath and rest.

At this time, Zhou Hongying brought back a message from the school that she was selected to go to the township to watch the performance of the * Zedong Thought Propaganda Team of the major teams.

Mrs. Zhou asked for a long time before she understood. The little girl didn't go to the show, but to watch other people's performances. But this is also a very long-faced thing, why didn't people choose someone else? It still shows that Zhou Hongying has something outstanding!

In fact, Mrs. Zhou didn't know that Zhou Hongying's outstanding thing was that she raised her hand quickly. The teacher saw that she was too positive and chose her. And the main reason why many students don't go is because they have to be a spectator early in the morning and sit until dark, so the school requires the students who go to bring a lunch.

This meal stumped a lot of children, and the family only drank mush every day, how to bring it? So Zhou Hongying, who has no worries in this regard, is even more responsible.

Zhou Hongying wants to bring food. Of course you have to bring it. The Zhou family just divided the wheat, so they brought steamed buns, and they had to be white-flour steamed buns.

Mrs. Zhou asked Zhou Chunliang to carry dozens of catties of wheat to the mill in the township, this time instead of grinding whole wheat noodles, but molting the wheat and grinding white noodles.

On the day Zhou Hongying went to the township, there were two white-flour steamed buns stuffed in her schoolbag, and she was so excited that she sat at home early and waited for Zheng Xiaoling, who went to watch the performance together.

The two white-flour steamed buns in the schoolbag exuded the unique sweet smell of fresh wheat, so greedy that Zhou Hongying opened the schoolbag every once in a while to take a look, and in the end she couldn't hold back. I pulled off a piece of steamed buns and ate it, and after a while, I didn't hold back and pulled off another piece.

By the time Zheng Xiaoling came to Zhou's house to look for her, the two white steamed buns had already been eaten by Zhou Hongying. Zhou Hongying woke up like a dream, and cried as soon as she wowed. She and her classmates have blown out, and she wants to bring white-flour steamed buns, what can she do now?

Zheng Xiaoling's father is the secretary of the brigade, and the Zheng family is better than other peasant families in terms of food, but she didn't bring white flour steamed buns, and her mother only baked her a black flour cake with her. She was able to come to Zhou Hongying for the sake of the white-flour steamed buns she brought. Now that the steamed buns are gone, Zheng Xiaoling turned around and left.

Mrs. Zhou was also so anxious that she turned to grind, and it was too late to make it. The school will leave immediately. In the end, there was no choice but to let Zhou Hongying go first, she immediately gave her a pancake at home, and the family sent it over.

Zhou Hongying doesn't do it, she has to make white-flour steamed buns! She said it all, how could the steamed buns be replaced with cakes in the end? Then she has no face.

Mrs. Zhou had no choice but to agree. In the end, Zhou Hongying steamed a dead noodle steamed bun and asked Zhou Chunliang to send it to the township.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the steamed buns in Zhou Chunliang's hand and smiled evilly, when Mrs. Zhou scooped the noodles, she did some tricks and feet in the water, the two dead noodles steamed buns couldn't be steamed for a hundred years, the outside was so hard that the teeth were stiff, and the inside was broken A package of black and moldy dry flour, such steamed buns made Zhou Hongying show off her strength, and it was estimated that she could remember it for a lifetime.

Zhou Hongying ran back from the township alone without waiting for dark that day, and cried at home for several days and refused to see anyone. In the end, Mrs. Zhou had to steam two more white-flour steamed buns for her to take to school, so that she was willing to go to school.

Zhou Wanwan was very sorry, she didn't know in advance that Mrs. Zhou had steamed steamed buns for Zhou Hongying again, otherwise she would play again to see if Zhou Hongying still had the face to go to school.

The production team was idle, the work of the Zhou family was finished, and the three Zhou Yang brothers and sisters were planning to go to Xiaohan Mountain, when Shen Guodong suddenly came to the door.

As soon as Shen Guodong entered the courtyard of Zhou's house, he hugged Zhou Wanwan. Before Zhou Wanwan could react, Zhou Chen rushed out, in order not to cause bloodshed, Zhou Wanwan could only greet Shen Guodong first: "Brother Shen." ”

Shen Guodong smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth, "Hold it tight, hold it tight!" Oops, it's going to fall! As he spoke, he deliberately let go of his hand to scare Zhou Wanwan.

Zhou Wanwan knew that he was scaring people, but for a while, she had no choice but to hug his neck and prevent herself from falling.

Shen Guodong's treacherous plan succeeded, and he smiled even more arrogantly at Zhou Chen, who was about to snatch people from his arms, and showed off very scoundrelly, "You see how much you like me!" ”

Zhou Chen was helpless, there was really no way to take this Shen Guodong. Although he behaved very badly, he was really good to his sister, and Chief Shen was his sister's savior, so he couldn't be too rude to him.

Shen Guodong didn't care what Zhou Chen thought, he hooked a small bench with his feet, sat down with Zhou Wanwan in his arms, and then explained to her very seriously why he hadn't come to see her for so long: "My grandfather is sick and hospitalized, old problems, this time the toss is a bit big, I have to accompany it!" It has only been a short time since I was discharged from the hospital. ”

"But I'll be able to see you more often in the future. My grandfather transferred to the Erlongshan Dry Rest House for treatment. Erlong Mountain is the hill that is more than ten miles away from Suilin, the mountain looks very small, but the hot spring is famous! Many retired veteran cadres of the provincial military district went there to recuperate. Shen Guodong laughed as he spoke, "My grandfather can't stay over there." If you are in good health, you will make a fuss and want to go back to Tunzi, and I will come back to see you after the holidays! ”

Zhou Wanwan's shining black eyes didn't know how to answer Shen Guodong, what are you doing with a little milk doll for me a half-year? Flipping rope jumping bands and throwing galaha?

Shen Guodong looked at Zhou Wanwan's crystal clear little face, with big black crystal-like eyes, and pinched her cherry pink almost translucent little finger in his hand, and his heart softened suddenly. "Have you eaten everything you brought? Forget about the sugar, is that fish delicious? It's rare to see such a big fish in this place, and I'll bring it to you later. ”

Zhou Wanwan smiled and nodded, in order to avoid extraneous branches, she didn't want Shen Guodong to know where those things went, so she only said sweetly: "Thank you, Brother Shen." ”

Shen Guodong didn't ask for much, and with this sentence, he was so happy to pick up Zhou Wanwan and turn around several times, "Thank you!" Tell Brother Shen what you want to eat in the future, and I'll give you the whole thing! If I can save you, I can afford to feed you! ”

Zhou Chen watched with trepidation on the side. The more Shen Guodong looked at it, the more unreliable he became, his sister was held by him, and Zhou Chen's heart never let go.

Zhou Yang was not at ease, he took Zhou Wanwan and hugged him in the past, Shen Guodong refused to let go first, but Zhou Wanwan threw herself into her eldest brother's arms with her little arms open, and he could only reluctantly let go.

Zhou Yang first expressed his sincere gratitude to Shen Guodong for sending something to his sister to eat, and explained to him that his sister was still young and couldn't eat anything. I hope he doesn't send anything over in the future.

Shen Guodong waved his hand completely indifferently, looking like he took Zhou Yang's thanks and politeness as a deaf ear. The three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family were very helpless.

"We're going to go out of the tunzi, are you going?" Zhou Yang began to send off the guests tactfully. We're going out, and you're not going home yet?

"Good! Is it to fight sparrows? Shen Guodong gently pinched Zhou Wanwan's small hair curls and studied them. was slapped off by Zhou Chen. He was not angry, and gently poked Zhou Wanwan's pink and tender cheeks again.

"It's not. I can't find any sparrows now, so let's go to Xiaohan Mountain, which is quite far away, ten miles away. "So you better not go.

"So far away! I'll hold you! Shen Guodong can find a reason to snatch people from Zhou Yang's arms.

Zhou Yang and Zhou Wanwan turned around at the same time to avoid him, and Shen Guodong was not embarrassed at all. He smiled heartily, "That's fine! I'll hold it later. ”

Zhou Chen returned to the house and carried the schoolbag that had been prepared a long time ago, and the four of them set off.

Xiaohan Mountain is in the west of Sanjiatun, and it is completely two directions with the township. However, you can go to the countryside by road, and to go to Xiaohanshan, you can only take the rural dirt road that can only accommodate two ox carts. Fortunately, a new windbreak has been planted on both sides of the road, which can provide some shade of sunlight.

Not far from Tunzi, Zhou Chen took out the small flatbed truck he had hidden in advance from a pile of tall grass. Shen Guodong became interested as soon as he saw this car, and he studied it for a long time, and finally learned from Zhou Chen, and invited everyone to sit down with great interest.

Zhou Yang has always felt that although this Shen Guodong is not bad, he is very unreliable in doing things recklessly, how dare he take his sister to take the car he pushed. Zhou Chen could only sacrifice himself and let Shen Guodong run a long distance. Not to mention, don't look at the road is not good, sitting in the car is really not very bumpy, Shen Guodong is very energetic, and he runs very fast, and finally Zhou Chen is addicted.

Zhou Wanwan saw that Shen Guodong was about to lose interest in the flatbed, and quietly released a flock of sparrows and two pigeons from the space. This time, Shen Guodong was energetic, and he couldn't take care of the flatbed truck, so he took the slingshot and began to run after a group of birds.

I have to say that Shen Guodong's physical strength is really extraordinary, just running around and tossing for ten miles, he is not tired at all when he walks to the foot of Xiaohan Mountain, and he can even go all the way to pick a handful of wild lilies for Zhou Wanwan.

Xiaohan Mountain covers an area of three or four hundred acres, although there were no towering ancient trees in the past, and there were no big beasts, but the grass and trees were flourishing and lush, and it was very vibrant.

Now Xiaohan Mountain, and Nanshan are in the same disease, the big trees are basically stripped of their bark and died, half of the shrubs are also killed by drought, and the grass and trees that survived the catastrophe have been recuperated after a spring and summer, although the branches are luxuriant, but they cannot completely restore the original appearance.

"What can there be here? It's going to be dead when you look at it. Shen Guodong followed the Zhou Yang brothers inside while talking to himself. Then he asked Zhou Wanwan: "Are you afraid?" There's a big tiger in there! Come to Brother Shen, Brother Shen will protect you! ”

Zhou Wanwan shook her head vigorously, saying that I am not afraid, I will not go!

Shen Guodong was not discouraged. With a smile, he took the small cart on Zhou Chen's shoulder and carried it. Zhou Chen is not polite, he will take it for him if he wants to.

After getting along all the way, the two brothers of the Zhou family found that this Shen Guodong has a big personality, but he is really not a bad person, and he is quite easy to get along with. Although I like to tease my sister, it's all out of kindness. The two brothers' impression of him has gradually improved, and it is becoming more and more natural for several people to get along.

A few people walked slowly towards the mountain, the grass and trees became more and more lush, and it was a little difficult to walk.

Because they took Zhou Wanwan with them, Zhou Yang, who was more familiar with the terrain, suggested that they not climb the mountain today and walk the meadow at the foot of the mountain.

Xiaohan Mountain is a typical terrain of two mountains and one ditch, the mountains in the northeast are all soil, not as steep as the stone mountains in the south, Xiaohan Mountain is called a mountain. In fact, they are only two gentle earth slopes with a height of no more than one or two hundred meters. The meadow at the foot of the mountain is a ditch between the two mountains, but it is not a ditch, but a long and narrow meadow, with some trees growing sparsely and a few large blisters scattered here and there.

After walking for a while, several people came to rest under a large tree. Zhou Wanwan felt that it was okay here, so while distracting the attention of the three people, she released some rabbits and pheasants from the space, she didn't plan to let her brothers fish this time, and there were no barrels. Second, it is also troublesome to transport.

The three of them soon discovered the prey, and Shen Guodong bore the brunt of it, like a vigorous little leopard, and rushed out with a swish. Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen are also very sensitive. But no matter how many prey they saw, they left one person by Zhou Wanwan's side, for fear that something would suddenly come out of the mountains and hurt their sister. Although there can't be any big animals in this little cold mountain, it can't scare her when she suddenly runs out.

Zhou Wanwan is so anxious, you two look at me like this, how can I have the opportunity to do something again......

Soon. Shen Guodong caught a rabbit back. He walked over with the rabbit's ears, and Zhou Chen was just about to tie up the rabbit with a straw rope, when he saw his arm round, he directly slammed the rabbit into a big tree next to him, and the rabbit's brain burst on the spot.

This bloody scene stunned Zhou Wanwan. Zhou Chen was also stunned for a moment, then covered Zhou Wanwan's eyes and hugged her, and yelled at Shen Guodong angrily: "What are you doing all this bloody place!" Scare the whole thing! ”

Shen Guodong was puzzled, "A dead rabbit, what are you afraid of it?" Seeing that Zhou Chen was about to be anxious with him again, he immediately threw the dead rabbit into the grass next to him, "Okay, okay, show me, are you scared?" "I'm going to hug Zhou Wanwan when I say that.

As soon as his hand stretched out, he saw the blood splashed on it, and quickly ran to the big bubble next to him and washed his hands several times, before he ran back and grabbed his head and smiled at Zhou Wanwan, "Brother Shen doesn't know that you are afraid, come, let Brother Shen take a look, are you scared?" ”

In fact, Zhou Wanwan is really not afraid of this level of bloody scenes, but her health in this life is really bad, and she doesn't let herself see those exciting pictures just as a precaution.

Now that Shen Guodong feels guilty, Zhou Wanwan is a little reluctant. In order to comfort him, Zhou Wanwan had to put her hand on his arm and let him hug him, saying that although I am a little uncomfortable, I don't blame you.

"Are you scared?" Shen Guodong hugged the little girl who was obediently lying in his arms, and suddenly felt that his behavior just now was too undeserved. She was so small, like a delicate little bud, it seemed that a little strength would hurt her, how could he let her see the bleeding and brain-bursting scene.

Shen Guodong did a deep self-examination, and took Zhou Wanwan around again, and clumsily weaved a wreath for her, until Zhou Chen came over to grab someone, and then handed Zhou Wanwan over.

Shen Guodong, who realized his mistake, caught the prey and didn't fall to his death, he directly twisted his head one hundred and eighty degrees, clicked, and killed immediately without a single blood.

The corners of Zhou Wanwan's mouth, who inadvertently saw this scene, twitched, and the so-called inexorable nature was said to be like this. Therefore, no one should try to change a person's nature, it is simply as impossible as resisting the gravitational pull of the earth. (To be continued.) )