Chapter 30
Lin Hanmei has a little pocket money, and the pocket money is given to Lin Hanmei by her aunt, and Lin Hanmei put the money in the cabinet after she got it back. One day, Lin Hanmei inadvertently checked her money and felt that there was less money. Lin Hanmei thought: Could it be that she misremembered the amount of money? I think it's unlikely, because Lin Hanmei has always had a good memory. So Lin Hanmei went to check again the next day and found that it was a little less than the day before, Lin Hanmei knew that someone had moved her money, so she told her father. Dad said, "It must have been taken by your brother, or no one in our family would have moved." It was evening, my brother went out to play, and my father said to Lin Hanmei, "Go wow, find your brother?" Lin Hanmei followed her father.
I found my brother on the avenue to the west, and my brother was playing with Han Qiuyue and a large group of children. Dad dragged his brother out and asked him, "Did you take Hanmei's money?" The elder brother said, "I didn't take it." Dad rummaged through his brother's pocket, and sure enough, he turned out a dollar or two, and Dad asked, "Didn't you take any of your money?" The elder brother said, "This is Wang Changsheng's money, and I am here." Dad said angrily, "What are you doing with other people's money?" "Kicked my brother and took the money back to Lin Hanmei.
Since then, Lin Hanmei has put her pocket money in a box with a mirror, the box was given to Lin Hanmei by her aunt, and the amount of money was written on the box, so that her brother could not steal it.
In the summer, there are people on the avenue who push bicycles to sell popsicle ice cream, popsicle ice cream can be bought for money, popsicle is a dime, ice cream is two cents a piece, you can also exchange eggs for eggs, one egg can be exchanged for two popsicles, only one ice cream.
Lin Hanmei and her brother, who sold popsicles and ice cream on the avenue, would beg their grandmother to give them eggs, but usually their grandmothers didn't give them, and they begged for a long time before picking the smallest egg to give. Lin Hanmei and her brother took the egg in exchange for two popsicles and ate it, occasionally and occasionally, grandma would give each of them an egg, Lin Hanmei and her brother took one of them to change an ice cream to eat, and the ice cream was much better than the popsicle.
Lin Hanmei's family ignored Zhao Huazi's family, but Zhao Huazi's family often came to find trouble. In the summer, there were chickens in the garden, and his father summoned the chickens, and Zhao Huazi's father also had to go to Lin Hanmei's house to quarrel with Lin Hanmei's father, which was unreasonable.
The most annoying thing is that even the road does not let Lin Hanmei's house go. Lin Hanmei's family and Zhao Huazi's family originally had a trail between them to leave, and after Zhao Huazi's family didn't get along with Lin Hanmei's family, Zhao Huazi's father didn't even let Lin Hanmei's family go on that trail, and used the garden to encompass the trail. Lin Hanmei's father had to open a hole in the courtyard wall to the north on the west side, and from then on, Lin Hanmei's family walked from there.
At that time, there was a saying that those who walked from the west road would be poor. Lin Hanmei's father said to others without believing it: "If you go from the west road, you will be poor, why don't I believe it?" Then why are some people so rich when they go from the West Road? He then listed a few wealthy families from the West Road. Lin Hanmei said: "There is also Hu Xiangyang's family. Dad then said: "Hu Xiangyang's family also went to the west gate, and the money was rampant." "Dad's meaning is that Hu Xiangyang's family has a lot of money.
Hu Xiangyang's father was a public teacher, and the salary of a public teacher at that time was five yuan a day. Once Lin Hanmei and her family discussed Teacher Hu's salary, Lin Hanmei's brother said enviously: "I can earn five yuan a day, that's a lot of money." Hu Xiangyang is an electrician, and his family also runs a grocery store and also farms. His family lives in a brick house, which is very beautifully repaired, and he has a daughter named Hu Dan, who is very well dressed.
Teacher Hu taught natural, Lin Hanmei When they first went to school, Teacher Hu taught them a song "Song of the Twenty-four Solar Terms", and as soon as Teacher Hu went to Lin Hanmei's class, the classmates in Lin Hanmei's class began to memorize, and Teacher Hu smiled and said, "Do you still remember?" ”
My aunt came back this year. My aunt found another person to marry in my eldest cousin's village. The old uncle had never been married before, and because the family conditions were not very good, he married the old aunt. My uncle's parents lived in the Hetao, where only four or five families lived. When they got married, they bought two earthen houses in the village of the eldest cousin's family.
When my aunt came back, she had already given birth to a boy with my uncle, and my aunt came back with the child in her arms. I remember that when my aunt was still at my eldest cousin's house, the fourth aunt wrote a letter to my eldest cousin at Lin Hanmei's house, telling my eldest cousin to be kind to my aunt, and the letter said: "Your aunt jumped out of the fire pit. "The old uncle is okay with the old aunt, and the old aunt finally doesn't have to be beaten and scolded.
My aunt's child is not very good-looking, but it is chubby and cute. The first time I came to my grandmother's house, my aunt wanted him to break a rice bowl, saying that it was good to break a rice bowl when she came to my grandmother's house for the first time, but the child just held the rice bowl and didn't break it. Lin Hanmei was still very worried next to her at the time, thinking: Don't fall, my family only has a few jobs. Seeing that he didn't fall, grandma was also very happy.
My aunt came back and rolled very thin noodles for Lin Hanmei, and Lin Hanmei and her brother both loved to eat the noodles rolled by my aunt.
Because my aunt is very capable, I have a good life with my uncle. Seeing that my aunt was finally no longer beaten and scolded, and that her life was passing, my grandmother and father were very relieved.
My aunt stayed at Lin Hanmei's house for more than ten days, and my uncle came to pick up my aunt. The old uncle was medium-sized, with a little dark skin, thick lips, and an average appearance. The old uncle loves to laugh, and he also likes to sing, singing all day long.
I heard that my uncle's house was sandy land, and they only planted wheat, soybeans, and corn. In addition to these three things, Lin Hanmei's family also grows melon seeds, soybeans, potatoes, millet seeds, etc., so let's put it this way, everything you need to use to get a living is planted by yourself.
After the old uncle came to stay for a few days, he went back with the old aunt. Because my aunt loves to eat melon seeds, Lin Hanmei's family brought a lot of raw melon seeds to my aunt when she left.
As mentioned above, the fourth aunt can write letters, but in fact, the fourth aunt went to junior high school, but she didn't study in the last semester. I heard that the fourth aunt studied very well back then. At that time, the fourth aunt walked to school, and the grandmother's house was seventeen or eight miles away from the hometown, and the fourth aunt walked twice a day. Grandma said that it snowed in winter, and it was dark very late, and the fourth aunt had not come back, and grandma didn't know how many times she had been chattering, so the fourth aunt's stepfather went out to find the fourth aunt, and the fourth aunt was happy to come back and said, "My uncle is still looking for me." Later, the fourth aunt may have finally gone enough, so she stopped reading.
Once, the primary school at grandma's house recruited teachers, and the man in the neighbor's house on the left of grandma's house was a teacher in the elementary school, and wanted his niece to be a teacher, but the fourth aunt went to the exam with them, and the fourth aunt took the first exam, but the neighbor of grandma's house said that he didn't want a woman, only a man, and let a man be a teacher. I heard that the neighbor of my grandmother's house was very bad.