Chapter 29: The Village Girl Goes Missing
"Oh, you've been waiting for a long time, haven't you? Just now I saw that this little chick was very fresh, so I bought a few, and after a long delay, it made you two sisters-in-law wait for a long time. ”
Yang Fang said with a smile and walked over with Cai Xiaoyun and Shen Guizhi.
Each of them carried a basket full of stuff and bought a lot of things.
"No, we just went to buy some books and the books and pencils that the kids need, and we just arrived."
Shen Zhiyao shook her head and smiled, and walked back with the big guy.
When Yang Fang heard this, she said with a smile: "Chunsheng's daughter-in-law has a heart, my kid has been saying that Teacher Shen has taught him well, and he has learned to write a lot of words, more than he has learned in Zhangjiazhai for more than a year." ”
Cai Xiaoyun hurriedly agreed: "It's not, the one in our family who goes home to praise me every day how good Teacher Shen is, and makes snacks for them, it's fragrant." He left two for me to taste, the taste is really good, Chunsheng daughter-in-law, your craftsmanship is really amazing, how did you make it? Can you teach me? ”
"Yes, if my sister-in-law wants to learn, I'll teach you when I go home."
For such inconsequential trivial matters, Shen Zhiyao has always been easy to speak, and Cai Xiaoyun immediately said happily: "Okay, you tell me what ingredients you need, and I will take them to your house at noon tomorrow." ”
"It depends on what you want to learn, do you want to learn frosted peanuts or fried shortbread?"
The school has not been in school for a long time, and Shen Zhiyao has only made these two snacks for the children to eat.
Cai Xiaoyun said: "Fry the shortbread!" I see that your frosted peanuts cost sugar, and I heard that eggs are also used, which are very expensive, so we have to live a finer life. ”
In the entire Wangjia Mountain, there is also a Wang Chunsheng, so their family can often eat some meat, sugar, and white rice, but other families can't even afford to eat white rice.
Where can I make iced peanuts?
Shen Zhiyao smiled and nodded: "That's okay, tomorrow you can bring some flour to my house, and I will teach you how to make fried shortbread." ”
"Shall I bring some vegetable oil?"
Fried, fried, naturally you have to use oil, oil is precious, more expensive than white rice, people in the village have to eat a pound of oil for a week, where can it be wasted? Fried food is a very luxurious thing for the people of the village.
Cai Xiaoyun was so entangled by her son that she couldn't help it, so she gritted her teeth and decided to make something for her son to eat, so she cheekily asked Shen Zhiyao to teach her.
Cai Xiaoyun was embarrassed to let Shen Zhiyao teach her to make fried shortbread, and she also used Shen Zhiyao's oil.
"No, there are still ones at home."
Shen Zhiyao shook her head with a smile, Cai Xiaoyun was not a fool, she smiled and said, "That's okay!" Tomorrow I'll bring a little more flour over, and we'll have half of the fried shortbread. ”
She can't let Shen Zhiyao suffer.
Shen Zhiyao was not hypocritical, and nodded in response.
From Wangjiashan to the town, most of them are downhill roads, they only carry a backpack when they go down the mountain, travel lightly, and can walk in more than an hour, but go back is a climbing road, and also buy a lot of things, the basket is full, go back and walk slowly, tired and rest halfway, and walk for two and a half hours to reach the entrance of the village.
Shen Zhiyao's legs and stomach trembled, and she couldn't help but say loudly: "It would be nice to have a car, this road is really too difficult to walk." ”
Even if you don't have a car, you can have a bicycle, a motorcycle, or a battery car!
Walking on two legs, she really walked with a dry mouth, her legs were weak, the soles of her feet hurt, and she was hungry, and her stomach ached.
This is really not an ordinary life.
She had a clear understanding in her heart that she must get out of the mountains as soon as possible.
"There aren't many cars in the town, let alone in our village."
Wang Xiaguo panted and chased after Shen Zhiyao, panting and saying with a smile: "If there is a car, I and Qiu Harvest don't have to go to the town to go to class every day, we have to walk so far back and forth." The good thing is that we walked fast and it didn't take so long to come back. ”
That's right, Wang Xiaguo and Wang Qiushu go to school in the town, and they are day students, and they have to go down the mountain before dawn every day, and they can't come back until dark.
It's really embarrassing for them to have to walk so far every day.
Pursing her lips, Shen Zhiyao said in a low voice: "You work so hard to go back and forth every day, and waste time, it is better to rent a house and live in the town directly, so it is convenient to study." ”
"No, it's costly."
As soon as Shen Zhiyao's words fell, Wang Xiaguo immediately shook his head and said: "It's not easy for my brother to make money, money has to be spent on the blade, not to mention that we have long been used to it, and we are not tired at all." Renting a house in the town, and having to eat in the town, can cost money. ”
Her brother had mentioned renting a house in the town a long time ago, and letting them all go to the town to live would save her and Wang Qiushou a lot of time wasted on the road every day, which could be used to do more homework, while for their mother, there was a hospital in the town, and it was convenient to buy medicine when they were sick.
However, her mother disagreed!
Her mother said that living in the town was too expensive to spend a lot of money, it was not cost-effective at all, they lived at home, the house was their own, and most of the food was grown in the field, and it didn't cost much money in general.
Her brother persuaded her for a long time, but her mother refused to let go, so she gave up.
It's just that she didn't expect her sister-in-law to think the same as her brother, is this the so-called heart and soul between husband and wife?
Wang Xiaguo felt strange.
"I'll discuss this matter with my mother, or I'll talk to him when Brother Chunsheng comes back."
People in the mountains are conservative in their thinking, and it is difficult for them to accept new things and new ideas.
When it comes to living in the town, the first thing that comes to mind is a waste of money, but it does not take into account the convenience and significance it actually brings.
Shen Zhiyao didn't think she could make sense with Zhang Cuihua, but she just inexplicably felt that Wang Chunsheng would definitely be able to agree with her on this matter.
"Okay, anyway, I don't care about Autumn Harvest or I, and we'll listen to what you adults decide."
Wang Xiaguo smiled and nodded.
When she got home, Zhang Cuihua and Wang Qiushu were not at home, and after putting her things down, Shen Zhiyao walked to the kitchen to take a look, only to see that there was cooked rice on the stove, and there were freshly cut cabbage and a few garlic that had not been peeled on the cutting board.
This is a scene where you are so busy that you leave suddenly, is something going on?
Shen Zhiyao walked out of the kitchen with a beautiful brow in some confusion, and heard Cai Xiaoyun's babbling voice sounding at the door: "Oh, Chunsheng's daughter-in-law, it's amazing, come and follow me to the back mountain to find someone." Menglan's sister-in-law's daughter is gone, and the people in the village have been looking for more than three hours and haven't found it. ”
"My daughter is missing?"
Shen Zhiyao was so shocked that she hurriedly walked out of the yard, turned her head and told Wang Xiaguo to follow Cai Xiaoyun to the back mountain after taking care of her home, and asked as she walked: "Sister-in-law, did you ask what was going on?" How could this man say that he would disappear without seeing him? There is no conflict with the family, right? ”
"No, Menglan's sister-in-law has a soft temperament and won't beat and scold people, her man went to the city kiln factory to burn bricks again, where can there be conflicts?"
Cai Xiaoyun pulled Shen Zhiyao to the back mountain, and said with a frown: "That girl went to cut pigweed with a basket on her back in the morning, it stands to reason that she should have gone home a long time ago, but now it is past four o'clock in the afternoon and no one has come back, and the people in the village have been looking for several hours, I don't know where this person has gone, Menglan's sister-in-law has cried several times." ”