Chapter 8 Zhuang Zihao who is struggling
Makers
In the kitchen, Su Huiniang was cooking breakfast with her eldest daughter and second daughter.
"Jin'er, you go to the backyard to pick some small greens, and we'll make some noodles to eat this morning." Su Huiniang said to her eldest daughter who was feeding the chickens while facing each other.
"Kiki, you go and cut out some of the pork you bought yesterday, and you're fishing for a sauerkraut, and you'll make marinade later."
"Mother, I'll go now." Zhuang Yunjin quickly fed the chickens, put down the work in his hand, and went to the backyard to pick vegetables.
"Mother, I brought the pork and sauerkraut, can I chop them all now?" The second sister, Yunqi, looked at her mother who was kneading the dough and asked.
"No, I'll knead this side right away. Mother will cut it in a while, Qi'er, you go and boil some hot water first, and your father should get up in a while. Su Huiniang looked at the freshly kneaded dough and said to her daughter.
"Okay, mother, I'll go boil water, Dad, I'm tired these days. Now it looks like the farming is busy. By then, my father will be even more tired, and my family now has twenty acres of land to clean up, alas! We can't help that much. Zhuang Yunwei thought about her field and looked at her situation again. This used to be a small amount of land and a lot of people, but now there is a lot of land and a small number of people.
"You, at this young age, don't think about these things, there is still me and your father, there is a lot of land here, there is also a lot of food, and you don't have to worry about not being able to eat as before, although you are tired, but this person just wants to have a head."
"Also, it's not that no one is helping your father, and your little brother, your brother's physical strength, you can't find him a place to make an envoy, this day I actually want to run to the mountains, just like your eldest brother, and don't look at what age he is now, just such a six-year-old little radish head, just hide from his mother, and go hunting in the mountains."
Every time Su Huiniang remembered that this was her youngest son, she felt tired. I'm afraid he has a good one in the mountains. As long as he knew that his son had gone to the mountains, he would be afraid.
"Little brother, he, my mother really has to hone his temperament, and that courage is too big. However, his physical strength is really amazing, he can pick up the hundreds of kilograms of big stones at the entrance of the village, he can pick up and run, if he has no ability, he can't do anything with him. Zhuang Yunqi recalled his brother's ability, and he had to admire it.
"But isn't it, if it weren't for your little brother who has such a skill, my mother can let him run up the mountain, see if my mother doesn't break his legs, it's better than letting him die on the mountain, we can't even find the corpse, our village can actually go up casually in the Wolong Mountain Range, there is nothing on the mountain, that is, the big insects that everyone is familiar with, bears, wolves, and those poisonous snakes which are simple, and there are those things we don't know. Can this money be compared to life, and if this life is gone, what is the use of this money? ”
"Mother is right, this life is gone, what do you need money for, if you don't bring this money in life and don't bring it in death, how can it be compared with life." Zhuang Yunqi looked at her mother seriously, remembering the jealous look in her mother's eyes when she mentioned the back mountain.
Zhuang Yunjin walked out of the backyard with a large handful of small greens in his hand, and was about to wash the vegetables, when he saw his mother and second sister with solemn expressions, and thought there was something big.
"What's the matter, look at my mother and sister like this?"
"What's the matter, even when it comes to your little brother who always likes to run to the back mountain, you also know how dangerous this back mountain is, alas! I think at the beginning, the family is in the most difficult time, your eldest brother is also 12 years old, only to go to the periphery, at the beginning or to follow those hunters, look at your little brother, three or four years old dare to sneak up to the mountain, just a little bit of a big person, when he came back holding the pheasant, saying that something to make us meat to eat, alas! It's all my father and mother who don't have the ability, and they all have to run up the mountain. As Su Huiniang spoke, she remembered that she had gotten up and ran to the border, her eldest son who hadn't been home for three years, and the youngest son at home, who had to worry about the family at a young age, and was obviously still such a young child. The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I felt, and I suddenly cried in a low voice.
Zhuang Zihao accompanied the third sister to go shopping all morning yesterday, and rushed home in the afternoon, and he was very tired, after all, his body was still small and still developing. I can't compare it to adults, so today I made up for it. In a daze, I seemed to hear his mother's cry.
Well, my mother is crying, (my ears are so good) Zhuang Zihao, who was still in a daze, woke up in an instant, and listened to it again, it was indeed his mother Su Hui's cry. He thought, what's wrong with my mother, and I'm still crying. Could it be that someone came to bully his mother in the morning?
He got up as soon as he rubbed the ground, put on his coat, put on his shoes, and ran to her mother's place.
When he ran out of the door, he saw his mother sitting in the kitchen, crying in a low voice, and there were only his eldest sister and second sister around, and the eldest sister and second sister were also comforting his mother. Is this weird? It's impossible for this eldest sister and second sister to make her mother cry?
"My beautiful and virtuous mother, don't cry, this is crying, it's not beautiful."
"The mother wiped her tears, and the crying made her son feel distressed to death."
"Okay, my mother won't cry." Su Huiniang took the handkerchief in her son's hand and wiped her tears.
"Mother, what's wrong with you, why are you still crying, is something wrong?" Zhuang Zihao looked at his mother wiping her tears and asked.
"Yes, child, mother, what's wrong with you. If something really comes out, everyone can come up with an idea. Zhuang Yi also walked out of the room, looked at his daughter-in-law who had just cried, and said distressedly.
Su Huiniang was embarrassed by her husband and children, and remembered the reason why she cried, and said a little sadly: "Don't I think of the poor life before, and the stable life now, and also think of Zirui, I don't know what has happened in the past three years, whether it is life or death, but I am injured." ”
"And you stinky boy, thinking about running up the mountain all day long, this mountain is dangerous, you don't know, if you have a case, we can't find you if we want to."
"Alas, your mother and I are worried every day now, I'm afraid, if something happens to your eldest brother and you, how can I bear it, you are all the meat that fell from your mother's body, and there is that one who doesn't love and doesn't hurt~" Su Huiniang said and cried again.
"Child, mother, you, don't cry, I feel uncomfortable crying." Zhuang Yi hugged his daughter-in-law and comforted her.
"Mother, don't cry, I'll listen to you in the future, where is the eldest brother and my father, and the second brother will also inquire. Don't worry, the eldest brother will be fine, he has a lot of skills and can take care of himself, don't cry, if you cry and break your eyes, the eldest brother will not blame himself when he comes back and sees you like this......" Zhuang Zihao looked at it and cried again as he spoke, worried and self-blaming, but more deeply helpless.
He thought, I'm still too young now, otherwise I can go directly to the border to bring his eldest brother back to his mother, and do something to run to the battlefield, even if I go, I don't know how to send a few more letters back, which now makes her mother sad, alas! It's still too young, it seems that she has to grow up quickly, and she has to avoid her mother when she goes up the mountain, but she can't find out that she is worried.
Alas, it is impossible not to go up to this mountain, I heard what the second brother said, this is seeing that the world is going to be chaotic, and it is accompanied by this natural and man-made disaster. If we don't stock up on more supplies now when there is no big mess, how will we survive in the future?
There is also the eldest brother over there, don't prepare more for them, if a natural disaster comes, the war starts again, the world is in chaos, where is there so much material sent to the border in this country, if this soldier is not fed and clothed, how can he fight with his neighbors when he is hungry, and go to die? If the country is broken, then their life will be difficult, this big brother will definitely die, and the mother will not cry to death......
Alas! This is my life of toil. Let's make more preparations, this food, clothing, salt, this is indispensable.
I wanted to live a peaceful and stable life, but God doesn't give face......