Chapter 16 (5) A Hundred Years of Ancient Acacia
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After listening to Lao Qian talk about this group of "workers" learning willow weaving, He Yuan, Lao Zhuang and others all laughed.
A-Ning smiled and rubbed his stomach, Shi Suo wiped the gun next to him, and said happily: "Great, this group of dog-like guys, I don't know what kind of cage can be made." ”
The willow weaving club in the city was also soon opened. The location is located in the backyard of a closed commercial bank, spent a few rents, leased down, after the trade union, the chamber of commerce launched, the registration is very enthusiastic, two days of effort, the participants reached hundreds, no way, can only be carried out in stages, He Yuan and Lao Zhuang and others hurriedly discussed to find an address again, open a branch.
"It seems that everyone's enthusiasm is so high, first, the form of the willow weaving club is popular, and second, everyone's trust in us." Professor Wan said with emotion.
"People are like dry firewood, the key is to see if you can light a fire." He Yuan was also very satisfied with the cigarette pouch in his mouth.
A Ning is very busy, at night, in the willow weaving club, she acts as a teacher, teaching everyone to knit, during the day, but also to organize a few backbones, key training, and strive to train a group of teachers as soon as possible, and then expand the scale of training. Seeing that she was a little busy, Hu Xuan reminded her: "You pay attention to taking time to rest, don't exhaust yourself." ”
"It's okay," Aning smiled, "I've never been so happy to do something." ”
In the willow weaving society, generally by A-Ning to teach the weaving of willow weaving, straw weaving, and then by Professor Wan and other cultural intellectuals to teach literacy, tell about the current affairs outside, inspire everyone's patriotic enthusiasm, workers, clerks, ordinary people while weaving handmade products, while listening to people's reasoning, learning culture, all feel both fulfilling, and excited, the fame of the willow weaving society is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of people signing up is also increasing.
That morning, A-Ning came to find Hu Xuan, "Do you still have any money?" Get me some first. ”
Hu Xuan took a few banknotes to her, and A-Ning said: "Liu Xiaoya in the Liubian Society, her mother is sick, and the family is so poor that she can't open the pot, it's pitiful to think about it, I'll help them buy some rice." ”
Liu Xiaoya's family only has a mother and daughter, usually living by odd jobs, very poor, this time to participate in the willow weaving club, very positive, the best grades, A-Ning likes this little girl very much, but these two days did not come, to ask others, only to know that the mother is sick.
"I'll go too." Hu Xuan said.
The two of them bought half a bag of rice and carried them to Liu Xiaoya's house, in a narrow and dark shack, Liu Xiaoya's mother was lying on the bed, and Liu Xiaoya was sitting on the ground, weaving a wicker basket in her hand. Seeing A Ning and Hu Xuan coming, Liu Xiaoya was very surprised, "Sister A Ning, why are you here." ”
"I heard that my aunt is sick, let's take a look." A Ning approached the bed, Aunt Liu said: "It's okay, I just fell my leg when I went up the mountain to collect medicine, these two days, I heard the little girl always talk about you, I can't wait to fly to the willow weaving club in a while, I just blame me for not being angry, my family is already poor, and I broke my leg." ”
Liu Xiaoya took the rice from Hu Xuan's back, her eyes were red, and she said to Aunt Liu: "Mom, look, Sister A-Ning and they brought rice, I'll make some porridge for you, you didn't eat yesterday." ”
Seeing that this family was so poor, Hu Xuan was shocked, and he said to A Ning: "In your club, can you advance some wages to Xiaoya first?" ”
"I'll tell Teacher He about them."
Aunt Liu had a look of shame on her face, "Alas, since her father died, our mother and son relied on odd jobs, I went out to pick some mushrooms and herbs, and I didn't starve to death. ”
A-Ning handed over the money to Liu Xiaoya, "Buy some medicine for your aunt, buy some food, heal your injuries early, and you can go to the willow weaving club as soon as possible." ”
"Hmm," Liu Xiaoya took the money, and her eyes were red again.
Hu Xuan said to A-Ning: "We have to discuss, for an extremely difficult family like Xiaoya, we have to take care of it, otherwise, I can't eat, where will I have the energy to work in the society?" I'll have to talk to them. ”
A Ning asked Aunt Liu: "You went to Wuliu Peak to collect medicine, why were you still frightened?" Did you encounter a beast? “
"It's not a beast, it's a human encounter," Aunt Liu said: "Wuliufeng is full of woods, grass, and the terrain is very dangerous, but there are herbs and fungi or something, and there are the most, that day, when I went, I only cared about digging herbs, who thought that I was ambushed......"
"Ambush?" Both Hu Xuan and Ah Ning felt strange.
"Yes, that day, when the mountains were as quiet as usual, I walked on a narrow path with a platform of several acres in front of it, and I had been to this place, and I knew that there were all kinds of wild grasses there, so I kept walking over it, but I heard a voice near the platform. Originally, there were people in the mountains, but there was nothing, people who collected medicine and herded sheep, and I often encountered them, but the voice of the conversation that day was a little strange, not one person or two people, but the voices of several people, messy, as if they were quarreling. ”
Liu Xiaoya brought a handful of sour dates, "Sister Ning, Brother Hu, this is the sour dates picked by my mother, you can taste them." ”
The small sour jujube is red and red, very bright, and it looks like a small red agate in your hand, taste one, sweet and sour, and it is extraordinarily fresh. Hu Xuan said: "It's delicious, Aunt Liu, you go on, who is quarreling on the mountain?" ”
"I heard the quarrel, I also felt strange, I walked a few steps forward, but found that on the platform in front, behind the half-human tall weeds, several soldiers in yellow uniforms, were arguing, this time, I was startled, if I met the people, it was nothing, when I met the soldiers, I had to quickly dodge, I quickly retreated, at this moment, from the side came a shout, 'What are you doing?' Where did the spy come from? Two vicious soldiers, armed with guns, came out of the grass beside them, and this section of the road, which was quite narrow, was so frightened that I fell off the cliff without stepping on it. ”
"Damn the GI, just go to the mountains and quarrel." Aning said.
Hu Xuan suddenly asked, "Aunt Liu, did you hear what they said when they quarreled?" ”
Aunt Liu thought for a while, "After listening to two sentences, it seems that someone said, what about General Tang?" The same goods, don't be delusional. Another person said, if the plot is successful, won't it save a lot of trouble? There were other people yelling, but I didn't hear them clearly. ”
"Oh," Hu Shu nodded.