"Mother, my grandmother secretly gave me a cloth ticket today, and it has been put in the wooden box in my house."

In the summer, when she saw that her mother Su's beautiful phoenix eyes had a tendency to be round, she quickly explained: "It's not what I want, it's my grandmother who asked me to make a padded jacket for the New Year, and the two of us are pushing around, and the eldest aunt came back crying." My grandmother hurriedly wrapped the cloth ticket into the waist of my cotton pants. You don't think it's the time to come and go, right? I've thought about it, and in a few days I'll go to the county with you to tear some cloth for my grandparents and make padded jackets for them during the New Year, and I won't do it. I'm afraid you'll have to take some cloth tickets then, don't be reluctant. ”

When Su Meili heard this, why did her daughter still pick things out and pout?

The fathers and sons of this family are walking two steps ahead, and what this dead girl says, they can hear it clearly. I haven't said anything yet, my daughter gave me the reluctance to buy things for the elderly, why is this child so lacking in heart! I haven't seen a child who provokes the feelings of my father and mother, so I slapped my daughter on the back when I thought about it, and I didn't forget to say: "What am I reluctant to do?" Your grandmother has not been with us for so many years? The delicious food is close to you to eat, you don't know when I do, you go back to accompany your milk to chat, your milk will prepare a small snack for you, not to mention that a few children of your uncle's family know that your grandmother is biased towards you, as far as our family Dongzi knows, he is not qualified to worry about grandma's things, it should be like this, if there is a cloth ticket, the old man should make it first, and if there is a delicious food, the old man should eat it first, and what is good is thinking about them. ”

Summer was happy when she heard it, and her mother was quite smart about life. Knowing this, Xia Aiguo can be quite useful when he listens to it. She was very afraid that Su Meili would live too carefully, and just tearing cloth to make clothes for her grandmother would not have her grandfather's share, so she deliberately asked Su Meili to express her position in front of her father, and the purpose was to appease and appease her mother: "I knew that my mother would definitely agree, and I said that I was making you anxious." It turns out that you like to stare at me every now and then, and you haven't seen me recently? I miss it so much! ”

Su Meili was amused by her daughter's appearance of playing with Laipi, and the grandfather who walked in front didn't know that it was because she ate chicken every year? The night on a snowy day is calm, and I am inexplicably a little happy.

Xia Aiguo: "Your mother and daughter don't talk about this outside, so that people can hear the ears of the sister-in-law, and the old lady should look at her face for two days." ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and Summer took her mother's arm and quickly chased after the figures of the three people in front of them......

When I opened the door and entered the house, it was quite warm. However, Xia Qiu still poked the stove again, added some wood and threw it into it to burn it better.

Water was boiled on the stove, and everyone was ready to wash. Xia Aiguo threw four pieces of halva on the kang, and Dongzi pounced on it with a snort. Xia Aiguo took the opportunity to slap him on the buttocks, Xia Dong was like a conditioned reflex, throwing away the three pieces in his hand, picking up one piece and stuffing it in his mouth, and with a hippie smile, he climbed up the kang without taking off his shoes.

It's really unpleasant to look at it in the summer. Ay! It's all poor. How can a child as old as Xia Dong not love snacks? I can't even eat enough candy bars, and the children really make me worry and add to the fire. What to do?

Since the summer came to this era, after seeing everyone's craving for food, I have always felt that this craving is not real hunger, but a sense of tightness about not being able to eat with an open belly.

In the summer, while my father and mother went to the outhouse to fetch water, I stuffed my piece of candy into Dongzi's mouth. Dongzi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and threw herself on Summer's shoulder, and the two sisters were like guarding a big secret together, hugging and laughing on the lying kang and making a mess. A few people in the outhouse, listening to the quacky laughter, all felt that those two were really children, and they were still demons when they were so old!

Summer mornings are woken up by ice. Xia Dong's little broken child, after running outside like crazy, put his cold hand on Xia Xia's face when he entered the house.

Summer is a little angry when you get up, and when you get up, you're going to beat him. If you want to talk about the original sister, Xia Dong is really a little scared, because she doesn't care about him in the summer. But in the past few days, my sister is very good at talking, and always gives him a smile, he naturally thinks that his sister is a paper tiger, and he can't get much suppression when he reacts, so he makes a grimace and turns his head and runs. Summer shouted angrily: "Let Daddy kick you again!" ”

I lay down in a daze for a while, and in the summer I heard the voice of a woman talking in my father's house. I wondered, who did Su Meili talk to early in the morning? Hurry up and get up.

Simply hang a pigtail and go out. Su Meili looked at the sky outside, and then looked at her lazy girl: "Xiaofang has helped me make clothes for half a day, and when you are better, you actually got up." Hurry up and wash your face and eat, and you little sisters will go into the house and chat. ”

Summer carefully observed the best friend who was most recognized by the original owner's memory. Wang Xiaofang, no wonder she is called Xiaofang, not to mention how long it looks, just rush at her braid that is as long as her ass balls, it is really thick and long!

Summer grinned and smirked at people: "I slept a little late last night." What's that? You don't need to help my mother, you come into my house and sit on the kang, and I'll go into the house after I clean up. ”

Xiao Fang smiled shyly at Summer, and her face turned red before she could speak. The slightly rough face that was a little red in the mountains looked so generous: "Hey, it's all my fault, it's early, my uncle came to visit the door and brought some walnuts, I'll send you some in a hurry." You don't have to be in a hurry, you don't have to teach me to read today, I'm just here to talk to you. Saying that, she smiled at Su Meili and entered the summer cubicle.

In the summer, she was not idle to ask her what about her father?

Su Meili glared at Xia, and Xia sighed in her heart. This Su Meili is looking for anger early in the morning. Why did I provoke her?

"Your father and your brother went up the mountain to catch pheasants."

Summer listened to the silence. No wonder Su Meili performed spicy when she got up in the morning, she was angry that she went to her uncle's house yesterday to pour her pheasant that was going to be made for the New Year.

Hurry up and eat with your head bored, you can't debate who is right and who is wrong, and it's not a matter of reasoning. My mother is not a person who picks the door, and she is not reluctant to give it to her grandmother. It's really hard to eat something these years, especially meat, that's why she's so precious.

She is used to living a careful life, and she is always afraid that she will starve to death like in previous years, she is so insecure, so she loves to store things so carefully.

In the summer, she pretended not to understand her mother's accusations, and quickly cleaned up and went into the house to find a Xiaofang in the village.

"Why don't you keep something at home? You have a lot of children, and life is more difficult than mine, so don't take it to my family in the future. "Summer gets straight to the point.

In the memory of the original owner, this Wang Xiaofang's family is difficult, and I can't wait to have so many pairs of pants at home, the kind that whoever goes out wears. The main reason is that her family is very capable of giving birth, five children, she is the fourth, two brothers and a sister above, and a younger sister below.

Because of this order, it is not taken seriously at home. She couldn't go to school in the summer, so she often came to play in the summer.

In the summer, he taught her to read. From this point of view, this little Fang girl is a motivated person.

Most of the girls in the village of their age had never read much. When I was seventeen or eighteen years old, I got married and had children, so I read the first year of high school in the summer, and I couldn't wait to be the only one in the whole commune.

Not only her, but his brother can also be ranked, and there are very few people who have graduated from junior high school, so Comrade Xia Aiguo has a vision.

It's going to take a few more years, and Summer thinks her father can't be an ordinary person, so he has to be a good person.

According to her mother, before she could speak at the age of three, her father began to read and write with her in his arms. Later, I asked someone to find a relationship, which was really a trick to dig a door and steal a hole. sent her and her brother to school early.

There is no way, if you don't slip around, the teachers dislike them for being too young to go to school, and they are afraid that they will make trouble.

Fortunately, I like to pretend to be quiet outside in the summer, and I like books. And Xia Qiu, who has been an honest child since he was a child.

Xia Aiguo's move was ridiculed behind him. said that he slapped his swollen face and became fat, and he had never heard of anyone in the countryside, no matter the girl or boy, he was provided with a place to study.

How much does that cost? If it weren't for Xia Aiguo's ability, the skills he learned from the old carpenter since he was a child, and his identity as a child of the village cadre's family, at least the roof of the summer family would have a layer of red tiles.

In this process, even Su Meili, who was a mother-in-law, was shaken, but Xia Aiguo insisted on going his own way, and in the end, it was his grandfather Old Man Xia who made a decision: "Don't listen to those who are in the ground!" Live your own life, not to mention reading flowers, those who are literate are more rational than those who have not read books. As long as the child is reasonable, it is not bad. ”

After Old Man Xia made up his mind, he privately instructed his grandmother, you have to carry Xia Aiguo behind your back, and subsidize Su Meimei. It's no trick to do this, Xia Aiguo wants to save face.

"No matter how hard it is, is this thing missing? Just don't look down on it. Besides, you're not my teacher. Wang Xiaofang smiled very honestly at Xia.

Summer grinning happily. In my last life, I didn't like the salary was too small after graduating from college, and I opened an online store and did clothing trading as a freelancer, which belongs to the kind of situation where I am laid off before I get a job. I haven't studied in college in my life, but I was issued a work permit, and I am still an iron rice bowl, and I am a teacher for others.

In the summer, I went to the outhouse to find a small hammer, and chattered while smashing: "Then I will borrow flowers to offer Buddha, let's eat it." The two little sisters started to smash the walnuts, and Wang Xiaofang was also busy working together, and the two little sisters were happy to talk and laugh.

This question: Why did you get into the hospital with a cold? What do you usually do at home? Can the New Year in the village be a little festive and lively? The two of you are talking about this hot. A newcomer to brush up on good feelings, it is difficult to become a forest alone, she needs to have a good friend in the village.

Besides, Wang Xiaofang is down-to-earth at first glance and worthy of communication. Another found that her good friend was more talkative than before, and her personality was better to get along with, so she was quite relaxed, and her unguarded cousin herself was quite able to talk about it.

In the summer, I listened to Wang Xiaofang tell the gossip of the friends in the village. Whoever is married; and who worked at home all day and was beaten by her mother; Who else is secretly with whom? She blushed as she spoke, and she blushed a little when she talked about anything. In the summer, whether it is listening to or watching Wang Xiaofang's little expression, it is very happy to come down for a long time.

It was still Xia Aiguo and Xia Qiu who came back, only to realize that it was a little late. Wang Xiaofang was very embarrassed, and quickly stood up to say hello to everyone and was about to leave, just when she saw Xia Qiu taking off the big thick cotton jacket she was wearing on the mountain, her whole face was even more red, and she didn't dare to raise her head again and left.

Summer still wants to send her to the gate, but when she saw that she was running, she shook her head in wonder, what's wrong? My brother undressed and exposed his flesh? When I entered the house, I heard Xia Dong say there: "Why is Wang Xiaofang's face so red." was slapped by Xia Qiu: "It's rude!" How old are they? How old are you. It's called Sister Xiaofang. Summer thought to herself, "Yes, let you hate me in the morning." ”

"Dad, did you go up the mountain and bump into the big luck?" I asked while climbing on the kang in the summer.

Xia Aiguo laughed: "What a hit." The snow closed the mountain, and I couldn't go for a while, so I went around with your brother at the foot of the mountain. As a result, I met the swineherd in our village, saying that the pigs would be killed collectively in a few days, and if enough money was handed over to the commune, our village would share the pork for the New Year. ”

Su Meili was happy when she heard it, and she didn't bother with not bumping into the luck. In previous years, the pigs were killed almost for the New Year, but now there is still half a month before the New Year, and this is the beginning of the distribution of pork? Then you can put some minced meat in the stir-fry, and the children are just right to satisfy their cravings.

In those days, the production team had pigs to raise, because these pigs belonged to the collective property, and every year the village had the task of handing over the pork to the commune, which then transported it to the city. Remove these handed in, by the end of the year, every family can get a few catties of meat, but not the number of catties is the same, you have to take centimeters to offset the number of catties.

This is her uncle Xia Aihua in the summer, so it is not for nothing that her uncle loves to put on an official show.

At this time, the village secretary is absolutely authoritative in the village. His small notebook is related to the problem of food, drink and clothing for any family in the village.

For example, if you catch up with capable women, it's normal for me to give you seven points, and no one has any opinion if I give you nine points. Someone really raised the unfairness, and her eldest uncle replied: "Who makes people capable, top a strong laborer!" ”

And the final change of these centimeter records is actually a matter of how much you eat, how much meat, how much meat your family eats. Everything you do in the countryside has to be calculated by centimeters, and you say that her eldest uncle has no real power.

That is, before the winter, the production team uniformly distributed the collective winter storage vegetables, which were all agreed in accordance with this. Do you think, if the cabbage and potatoes are less, what will you eat in winter? There is no fresh food, so you must starve to death.

"Mother, the meat is divided, you can stuff Dongzi with some rice and eat it with meat." Xia Dong looked up at Su Meili expectantly.

Su Meimei's expression changed, and Xia probably made up her mind there. Su Meili looked up at Xiaqiu and Xia again, and gritted her teeth: "Cheng!" When the time comes, let you eat a full meal, and wait for the New Year to give you steamed steamed buns. ”

Summer listened to this sadness, she was a little annoyed to eat rice and steamed buns as the staple food in her previous life, and she had to find coarse grains to eat by herself if she had nothing to do, and the key coarse grains were quite expensive to sell. And how long has it been since you've been here? As soon as this body heard that it was eating rice, it instinctively secreted saliva. Probably the reason why I always ate millet, sorghum, rice and corn for the past 16 years.

As we all know, the Northeast is a place that specializes in growing rice and producing rice, and the amount produced is estimated to be enough to eat every meal, but rice has to be handed over to the state as a fine grain. Even our ordinary peasant family can't get much in a year.

According to my memory, the little rice I share at home is no longer a dozen or twenty meals a year.

Comrade Su Meili probably experienced the era of the Great Famine, and thrift has become her habit. Of course, her grandmother and her aunt, the people in the village all have this beautiful quality. They always feel in their hearts that the food has been taken away for free, and there is only such a little ration left, if you don't tighten your belt and save a little from your mouth, in case of the next famine, do you want to drink the northwest wind?

Not to mention the eldest sister's mother-in-law, Widow Li, who has always locked food in the cabinet, and is afraid that someone will steal it. And she treats the eldest sister so harshly, and the eldest sister doesn't think much about it, just because there are many old people in this village who are like that. They had gone through the stage of starvation, she was still a widow, and she had to pull the children's land, so she had to save even more.

The masters were very happy after listening to Su Meimei's words.

Comrade Xia Aiguo was happy because he recently took over a job, and on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he made a kang cabinet for the married person's house. The wood is Xia Aiguo and Xia Qiu, find time to go up the mountain, cut it down by yourself, this is equivalent to ready-made materials, he provides wood and makes it for others, you can exchange it for some cloth tickets, and occasionally exchange for some food.

But this time, he told people that he was going to distribute tickets. Listening to the words of the daughter and daughter-in-law that day, although Xia Aiguo was quite satisfied with the attitude of the two mothers and the elderly filial piety, he still regretted that he could not make new clothes for his daughter during the New Year. The girl can stay with her mother's family for a few years! This time he won't change the food, although the food is more expensive, but the girl is getting older and older, and she can't even wear decent clothes, and when her mother is old, how sorry she thinks. Let's do it! Let's see if we can find this kind of work. After pondering, he beckoned Xia Qiu to go to the warehouse with him to tinker.

In the summer, you have to know that her father and her brother are still so tired, not for everyone to eat well, or for her to have a piece of clothing, so she has to cry and shout in distress.

In the summer, her father and her brother did not have time to work as carpenters except when they were busy with the farm, and the rest of the time they went into the mountains to carry the selected wood as long as they were free. Sometimes the bruise on the shoulder is not good, and a new bruise is covered again. Layer after layer.

Especially her brother, who is not picky about food or drink, except for expressing his unwillingness to continue studying, that is the only positive expression of his opinion in this family, and he has been carrying half of the family since then.

Since he stopped studying, he used his still slightly immature shoulders to earn ten centimeters with his father, and learned to be a carpenter together.

After her brother finished the work of the production team after the beginning of spring, he had to help his father and mother sow seeds and plough the fields to grow vegetables in his yard, raise chickens and chop chicken food. After stealing the time, he went up the mountain with his father to carry the wood, and came back while it was dark, and her brother was so busy until the New Year.

For Xia Qiu, even if his sister, who was not a few years younger than him, didn't do any work, he never complained. His father has told him more than once that his daughter will live a good life in her parents' house for a few years, and when she gets married, she will not be so happy, don't compare with your sister-in-law. In fact, he has never compared, he only knows that he is his elder brother, and Xia Qiu, who has a beginning of Chinese, asked himself about the interpretation of this title: What is brother? The elder brother is the backing of the younger sister and the younger brother, even if there is no father and mother, the elder brother's family is the mother's family.