Chapter 157 The Back Garden (for Dongdong**'s Addition)
Thanks to Li Xiuhua's words and deeds, so that Zhou Wanwan can enjoy this sumptuous dinner without any words.
The pheasant is fragrant and fat, the mushrooms are tender and delicious, the lion's mane mushrooms that have absorbed enough chicken soup are more flavorful than the chicken, and they refuse to eat a mouthful of meat at a time every night, and the rice has to be stuffed by Zhou Chen to eat two bites, and they pick mushrooms to eat.
Zhou Yang also ate with a mouth full of oil, dripping with joy. The whole two pheasants plus a pot of torn lion's mane mushrooms were stewed in a pot, and several people were all wiped out, and even the broth was eaten by Shen Guodong and Dunzi to make rice, and there was not a drop left!
"It's delicious! It's much more delicious than the chicken stew with mushrooms made by the national special chef in the guest house of the provincial military district! Shen Guodong took a ball of stewed rice and continued to gnaw, with a look of unfinished expression.
Half-sized, eat poor old man. These four half-sized people with long bodies were open to eat, and the remaining three catties of millet were not enough to eat, Zhou Chen put two large bowls of sorghum rice, and finally the bottom of the pot was scraped clean, and Shen Guodong also shouted that he could eat two more bowls.
The two big bowls of rice are gone, and there is still a big ball of pot, Shen Guodong gave everyone a share, holding his share and gnawing it, looking at his posture, he was indeed not full.
Zhou Wanwan lay in Zhou Chen's arms, letting him rub his stomach slowly, and his heart was extremely happy. She could now feed her brothers and watch them laugh carefree all their lives, and there was nothing more she could ask for.
"Later, I'll ask Uncle Xiao Zhang to exchange food stamps for us, and add a few more bowls of rice to a meal in the future!" Shen Guodong was holding more than 200 catties of meat stamps in his hand, which were grain stamps exchanged for fine grains. It can also be exchanged for eight or nine hundred catties, plus the long-term guarantee of Qu health care, they don't have to worry about food at all.
This time. There are generally three kinds of rice sold in grain stores, No. 1 rice is about two cents and two catties, but it is only supplied in small quantities during the New Year's Festival, No. 2 rice and No. 3 rice can basically guarantee the supply, the price is between one and a half to one cent, and the price of a catty of meat is seven cents and six, so a catty of meat tickets for four or five catties of fine grain stamps is a good thing to be robbed madly.
With food stamps. They are not short of money in their hands, and they can buy cheap rice at will, and of course they don't have to worry about food. And they can all eat fine grains. A few half-sized children can eat anymore and are not afraid of starvation.
As soon as a few people finished eating, Xiao Zhang came to pick up Shen Guodong and go back.
"Give me a week off, I won't go back yet." Shen Guodong didn't take it seriously at all, and said it lightly.
Look at Xiao Zhang's face is full of opposition. He glared. "My grandfather promised me that as long as I passed the exams, he would let me arrange my own schooling. I passed all the exams this semester, and I scored 78 points in Chinese last time! ”
Seventy-eight points is the highest level of Shen Guodong's language learning, and he thinks it is worth mentioning.
Xiao Zhang reluctantly left. The chief of staff really doesn't understand this kid's temper! How could you casually agree to such a condition for him!? If you pass, you can skip school casually? If you don't lock this kid in school and watch, how much trouble will he have to cause!
Xiao Zhang didn't know that Grandpa Shen's condition was not agreed to casually. Ever since he saw Shen Guodong studying with Zhou Chen's brother and sister, he knew that his grandson would pass the exam this time. Agreeing to him on this condition is to give him a chance to go out and have a look.
Big and small. How can you always be locked up like a house cat or a dog!? I have to let him go out and run more since he was a child, and see too much. After a lot of experience, no matter where he goes in the future, no matter what he wants to do in this life, he can take fewer detours than others, and it is easier to make a career.
Grandpa Shen used his experience of running a single gang at the age of 12 and going to Nanyang at the age of 17 to educate his grandson, wanting to train his courage. There is no way to comment on whether this approach is good or bad. But he missed one point, that is, Shen Guodong, the child who has been lacking the most since he was a child, is to be aggressive, if you encourage him, the consequences are really not easy to say......
Uncle Zhang left a bunch of concerns, and left with a lot of worries and two hundred pounds of meat tickets.
Zhou Wanwan encouraged Shen Guodong, "Go find mushrooms again!" ”
Of course, Shen Guodong actively cooperated. A few people went to the back garden to turn the artemisia grass, and the harvest was very rich.
Zhou Chen found a large pile of potatoes that had grown in the northeast corner, growing big and knotting, stretching out cracks in the ground. Zhou Chen happily calculated, these must have at least five or six sacks dug out, enough for them to eat this year. Coupled with the ridge in the Zhou family's own field, they don't have to worry about next year's seeds.
After being happy for a while, Dunzi turned around and found that the thing behind him that he had always thought was a wild bracken. Such a large area, the water grows smartly, and it is very tender.
Shen Guodong's harvest was the most abundant, he found two large nests of wild eggs!
Zhou Chen hurried over and stopped his attempt to give Lian Woduan an to him. Leave one or two in the grass nest, and maybe there will be pheasants to lay eggs every day, just like in the western woods!
After turning around, I found several more pieces of various wild vegetables, a few sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and a watermelon seedling and melon seedling that had already ripened a lot of fruit.
"We don't need to clean up this back garden at all, just leave it like this, maybe something good will grow in the future!" Shen Guodong is addicted to treasure hunting, and he is ready to continue to develop it.
"Will those woods grow mushrooms?" Zhou Wanwan asked, pointing to the pile of rotten wood used for firewood.
"Not all wood grows mushrooms." Zhou Chen patiently explained to his sister, "It has to rain when the mushrooms grow, and you can't bask in the sun yet, so in August, the second brother will take you to the mountains to pick mushrooms." ”
"Put the wood in the haystack and let them grow mushrooms!" Seeing that Zhou Chen was about to explain to her again, Zhou Wanwan hurriedly added, "That's how the monkey's head grows!" ”
"Try! If you don't try, you know if it works! Shen Guodong also helped Zhou Wanwan speak.
Zhou Chen and Zhou Yang's eyes lit up, yes, put the wood back again, maybe a monkey head can grow.
Several people hurriedly put the wood of the long monkey head back in its place, and moved a pile of wood next to them at Zhou Wanwan's insistence.
A few people laughed and coaxed their sister, saying that they were waiting for her wood to grow mushrooms and stew chicken to eat.
After washing and lying on the kang, Zhou Chen asked Shen Guodong: "Just let them stay on the mountain for a night?" ”
Shen Guodong nodded nonchalantly. "It's cheap for them to stay overnight!"
"Zhou Lan and Zhou Qiang are not sensible, even if they don't care, the others will be thrown up the mountain!" Dunzi has been bullied since he was a child. has the deepest experience of the viciousness of children, so he is also the least interested in seeing the bad children of the Zhou family who have bullied Zhou Yang's brothers and sisters.
"That Zhou Lan, is she really as big as us?" Shen Guodong noticed Zhou Lan for the first time, and he didn't believe that this skinny child, who might fall at any time, was about the same age as Zhou Wanwan, and they were all children of the family, which was too different.
"She's miserable. Didn't stand up to a good parent. Zhou Chen was concise and to the point, and he didn't want to mention Zhou Chunxi and his wife at all.
"I didn't have a good sister, if the eldest sister had gone out with Zhou Lan at that time. Nor would she have suffered such a great sin. Zhou Yang has a very strong sense of responsibility, so he can't get used to Zhou Ping, who doesn't care about his sister running away.
Zhou Wanwan listened carefully for a long time before she figured out from their small talk that they didn't just let go of the Zhou family. Instead, he drove them to the mountains. and brought back all their clothes.
A group of people who were only dressed in ** didn't dare to go out of the mountain if they wanted to run back, so they could only hide in the mountains and wait for Shen Guodong to remember and give them clothes.
Shen Guodong said, "You suffer or your children suffer, choose for yourself!" You strip naked and feed the mosquitoes on the mountain, and your children go home to sleep. ”
The Zhou family all went. Even Mrs. Zhou went. Except for Old Man Zhou, who was paralyzed in the yard and no one cared about him, and Zhou Chunliang, who was indifferent to Zhou Xia, everyone took the initiative to ask to suffer for the child.
Old man Zhou forget it. Zhou Chunliang dare not go? If you don't go to Zhou Meihua, you have to go.
Xue Shuiqin dragged his severely twisted and bloody arm to kowtow to Zhou Chunliang, and Shen Guodong looked at it with a smile next to him.
If Zhou Chunliang goes, it will be a crime, if he doesn't go, Xue Shuiqin will have to hate him to death, and his good days will come in the future.
Zhou Chunliang still went. He really didn't want to go, but if he didn't go, Shen Guodong wouldn't leave. If Shen Guodong doesn't leave, the children in the family may suffer more, and the others will be anxious.
Mrs. Zhou's authority is not good for others, but it is still very effective in Zhou Chunliang. So he went anyway.
Zhou Chen sneered, for the sake of other people's children, Zhou Chunliang could go to the mountains to strip naked and feed mosquitoes, their brother and sister grew up so big, he, the father, didn't even hug him a few times.
Before leaving, Shen Guodong connected Xue Shuiqin's bones. It's crippled when I pick it up, but I don't have to be so scary.
Xue Shuiqin was so painful that she died again.
As for the children of the Zhou family, of course, they didn't throw them in the mountains and didn't wait for death. Except for Zhou Hongying, several older children are exchanging labor for sugar in the vegetable field behind the school.
Shen Guodong gave twenty handfuls of candy and asked him to use the sugar as bait to coax these little girls until the evening and not leave the school for a single step. Twenty yuan is better than seeing the ancestor now, and he is guaranteed to complete the task.
As for the children of the Zhou family, they have candy to eat, and they can still come out to let off steam, so they don't have to worry about being beaten, of course they are willing, and they don't want to leave.
Zhou Qiang was sent to Dagaotun by Zhou Chen and Dunzi, and they told Aunt Shen that Shen Yufen, as a family member of a bad element, was punished for labor, and she had to fight at night tonight, and she couldn't see the child, so let her watch it for a day.
Aunt Shen scolded Mrs. Zhou for her sin, so she hugged her little grandson and made noodle soup for him.
Zhou Hongying is not treated so well. When Zhou Chen called her, he told her that the team would impose a special punishment on her and let her work alone. Then he took her to the loop, pointed to a blister and told her to fill it with stones, fill it up and go home.
Zhou Hongying hurriedly and obediently filled in the stones, she had received all the strange punishments in the past half a year, but filling the puddles was already good. At the beginning of spring, their family of three still turned over the ground that had not thawed, so they had to do it obediently, and if they didn't do well, they wouldn't let you go home, and they had to kneel on the frozen ground.
Therefore, when everyone in the Zhou family was stripped of their clothes and fed mosquitoes in Xiaohan Mountain, and they were worried about what crime the children were suffering now, several older children of the Zhou family had already returned home and fell asleep with sugar. Even Zhou Hongying, who saw that no one cared about her, ran home to sleep.
But it was a hard night to sleep tonight, and they were having a somewhat difficult conversation. (To be continued......)