Chapter 20: There is great strength in numbers
Chang'an reminded in a low voice: "There are many things to eat together, you can't say that, just forget it, you have to have a charter." ”
What a charter! Along the way with this group of people, there are people who have been fighting, but this tiredness is not easy.
"Don't go with everyone if you don't listen to the greeting!" Fang Mingyuan roared angrily.
The patriarch hurriedly said, "We all listen to Mingyuan's nephew's words, don't worry, I won't cause you trouble." ”
"Du Ma slipped back to pack up his things, let's leave early tomorrow morning, if you don't have a cart to pull a cart, pack up your things and come to me, and let the money shopkeeper take you first."
When the father and son entered the house, they heard Mrs. Niu shouting at the top of her voice, directing the broken grass curtains to be stacked on the car.
"Mother, don't make a mess, don't clean up the rags at home, load the food tightly, bring more water, load the car on the road, let's leave early tomorrow morning." Fang Mingyuan stopped and checked the sewing basket that was stuffed by the old lady in his car.
Dong Xiaoying held him down, "Don't throw it!" Along the way, the pants were rotten, and I couldn't walk with my butt exposed, and sewing and mending were indispensable. ”
"You didn't bring a sewing basket?" Fang Mingyuan asked.
Dong Xiaoying patted her brain, meaning, put space at home.
The eldest brother Fang Minggui came out with a big vat, "Fourth brother, let's leave early in the morning?" ”
"What are you doing? Can this be taken with you? Put it one, and there will still be a place for the ox cart? "Fang Mingyuan jumped to his feet, what is this!
Fang Minggui looked at the tank, didn't you let you bring more water?
All the families in the village were busy running for their lives, and they were leaving. The old hens that have been fed for several years are killed and shedding, and the chickens, ducks and geese are waiting in line to be bled one by one.
Beckoned neighbors to come to the house to help, tied up the fat pig, would not kill the pig, and stabbed the pig hard.
The patriarch also took the silver money, went to collect the pig's head, and said: "Cook it, let's go, don't let the ancestors complain about us, give the pig's head an offering, and then leave the ancestral hall." ”
Without waiting for the villagers to reply, he turned around and left, carrying a big rooster in his back that he didn't know who's house, and he was not happy, "Why is it so fast, the chicken feathers are so clean, and the bare rooster is not good to put on the ancestors?" ”
The villagers stared, what was the patriarch thinking? And let us brine the rooster out, and put it on the table to look good? Who has that spare time?
The mill in the village lined up, and the flour grinder said: Grind well, don't throw away the grain.
Still in line in the back shouting, don't grind according to the fine noodles, almost in the middle, my family has no livestock to pull the cart, anxious to go first!
Mrs. Niu pushed Fang Mingyuan, Dong Xiaoying went back to rest, and she couldn't quarrel with these two people, don't want it, don't let me take it, what do you want to settle down in the place? Throw it all away and can't spend money on it?
Fang Mingyuan is strange, you take the chopsticks to eat on the road, the kang mat to sleep on the road, what are you doing with the broken grass curtain?
"Second sister-in-law, what did you take? Don't pack the box, put the clothes in the bag and leather pocket, don't ask for the box, take up space. ”
Zhao carried the box and thought, can't I take the box with my wedding?
Zhang came out with a bag of things, the aisle clanged, and Fang Mingyuan shouted: "Sister-in-law, what did you take?" Don't take the bits and pieces that don't work. ”
Mrs. Niu pushed her son and shouted: "The fourth family, quickly, you go back and rest, you don't need you, don't be busy, go back and rest." ”
Turning her face to Dong Xiaoying, the old lady chattered, fried me with good white noodles, use that old oil, and put salt, what kind of oil tea noodles to eat! Boil some water to stir the gnocchi soup, how sweet it is!
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"Yo!" I really can't mutter anyone behind my back, look at it and be heard by other people's daughters! "Is the chick hungry? Come, milk gives you egg brains. ”
Isn't it just steamed egg custard? Think it's chicken brains?
Entering the house and closing the door, looking for a map for Chang'an, Dong Xiaoying muttered: "Thanks to me saving a lot of toilet paper, draw paper."
You say, if we don't have these stocks, can we use bamboo chips? Oh, don't pick your fingers! ”
The father and son rolled their eyes with tacit understanding.
"Don't be unconvinced, at that time, the next APP will send a box of snacks, you see, now I know it's useful!"
Fang Changan reminded: "Those broken snack dates are not good, if you leave them for half a year, they will become expired food." ”
Dong Xiaoying didn't listen to her son, it's better than nothing when it expires, what can you eat along the way? Can you bury the pot and cook a big meal for you?
"There are a lot of things in the storage room, there is cooking oil, two boxes of rice, two chickens in the refrigerator, fish, Jiwei shrimp, and ......"
"Mom, can you say no, I'm hungry."
Dong Xiaoying stretched out her hand and stuffed a piece of candy in her son's mouth, "White Rabbit, last time I asked someone to tell you the object, I weighed a few catties." ”
"Is it expired?" Fang Changan doesn't remember the last time he went on a blind date at home.
Dong Xiaoying jumped off the kang to leave, "Hmph! I'm going to see my daughter. ”
Fang Mingyuan instructed, "You stuff sugar in your daughter's mouth, don't let people see it." ”
Fang Yue is enjoying the treatment of grandma, eldest uncle, and second aunt, like a princess, what kind of work is not allowed to be done, and she is still fed egg custard while sitting.
"Oh, don't make a mess, go back to the house with your mother." Dong Xiaoying took her daughter and left.
Zhao knelt in front of her with a puff.
"What the hell is this?" Dong Xiaoying was taken aback.
Zhao was speechless from crying.
Mrs. Niu snorted: "Hmph! Your brother and sister are kind, and they used the money from the family to buy a shop to save your mother's brother, if you don't know what to do, my Fang family won't keep a daughter-in-law like you. ”
Dong Xiaoying stretched out her hand to help Zhao up, "Let's not talk about this, let's pack up our things quickly, and we have to hurry early tomorrow morning." ”
"Brother and sister, my mother's brother is also here, and he wants to go with us." Zhao lowered his head and whispered.
Dong Xiaoying didn't care and said, "Then let's go together!" There is a lot of strength in people, let's go together, and there will be a response on the road. ”
I didn't have time to eat lunch, so I ate a few bites of pickles on dry steamed buns, poured a few mouthfuls of water and continued to work.
The men were busy loading food, grinding flour, and loading the guys into the cart.
The women were busy making dry food and boiling the eggs out of the house.
The vegetables planted in the backyard are pulled out if they can pinch the young seedlings, and they make vegetable soup at night. All the dishes that can be stored are loaded into the truck.
The broken house is worth a lot, and looking at the four walls of the house, pack up, and the two cars can't fit it.
The cattle pulled the cart to load the grain as much as possible, and no one dared to move Dong Xiaoying's things, stacked them on top of the grain, and tied them with hemp rope as much as possible.
A family of four slept sweetly, and before dawn, Mrs. Niu shouted, she was leaving, Fang Mingyuan would show you the way!
Fang Mingyuan rubbed his eyes and came out, did he feel that something was wrong?
"Huh? What about the second brother? ”
Mrs. Niu said angrily: "The cart left in the middle of the night, you go out and Zhang Luo for everyone, our family is ready." ”
On the third watch, the patriarch led people to worship their ancestors, but Mrs. Niu didn't wake up Fang Mingyuan's family.
When it comes to this, the ancestors didn't bless us, why do you worship the ancestors? It's better to pick up things quickly.
There were cattle carts parked in front of each house, and the patriarch came to report.
"Mingyuan's nephew, last night I walked more than 30 trolleys, pulling bits and pieces, in addition, the grain can't be loaded, let them evenly put it on each car, cover it with bedding and baggage!"
The patriarch is timid, but he is a very careful man.
Fang Mingyuan waved his hand to let the stuffy man come over, and shouted at everyone: "Follow me, let's go!" ”