Chapter 7: Childhood

Su Qingtong was already alive at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the illness came and went quickly at this age, where is the body after getting older, where is the problem, no matter how hard it is, it can't survive well.

Su Qingtong's hometown is the hilly area of the middle and lower reaches of the Nanhe River, and it is also a famous land of fish and rice, when he was in junior high school geography, the book said that it is composed of 60% of the mountains and 40% of the plains, because of the abundant water, so it is rich in rice, and because of the climate, the local area grows double cropping rice, which is the origin of the land of fish and rice.

No hard work, no harvest, the harvest in the field needs to be exchanged with sweat, Su Qingtong's youth has eaten enough of the hard work of farming.

Every year in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, is the time when the sun is the hottest, she has to climb and roll in the field under the scorching sun, bending over and busy in the field regardless of day and night, not only to rush to harvest the rice planted in the spring, but also to rush to plant the seedlings of late season rice, otherwise it will miss the season and affect the harvest in the second half of the year.

However, winter is the most leisurely season, the original production team has to work to do some odd things, after the farmland is contracted to the household, everyone can sit leisurely and bask in the sun as long as they are busy with things in the field.

There is no sun today, the sky is gloomy, maybe there was a light rain in the morning, and no one was busy in the fields, and in the afternoon, a layer of mist rose between the fields and mountains, which made the world dreamlike, and in Su Qingtong's eyes, there was a kind of simple natural beauty that was completely different from later generations.

Su Qingtong stood on the pond foundation in front of the house, curiously looking at the scene in front of him, in front of him was a little strange pastoral scenery, all of them were adobe houses, looking at some years, there were several low thatched houses, everyone lived together, only one or two were far away, and the lonely ones had an eclectic sense of existence.

The house where Su Qingtong lives is called Qingjiatang, the source of the name is nowhere to be found, it has been used like this, and it is called used like this, and the house on the opposite side of the road more than ten meters away is called Beitan Bay, and there is a house behind the mountain mouth called Beitan Bay, because it is called Beitan Bay because it is backed by the beach.

There is a distance of about 20 meters between Qingjiatang and Beitan Bay, and there is a road in between.

The road is paved with sand, although it is not wide, but there are often people from the commune road maintenance team to maintain it regularly, whenever the road maintenance team drives a tractor to sweep the road, the adults do not allow the children to go to the road to play, otherwise they will come back with dust, naughty even ears with sand.

Zhou Ruohui's family lives in half of the old brick house and half of the thatched house, which is the first one closest to the road in Beitan Bay, and the poorest family in the production team.

Su Qingtong relied on her memory to walk through Zhou Ruohui's pigpen house, through the kitchen, and then through her grandfather's kitchen to a very large house, this hall is the ancestral house shared by the Zhou family in Beitan Bay, and it is also the most sincere location.

At this time, more than a dozen children were playing inside, the boys were chasing and beating like crazy, and the girls were jumping shuttlecocks and hitting stones.

Su Qingtong looked around, and then locked on Zhou Aijun and Zhou Ruohui, who were of the same age, who were squatting on the ground and hitting stones.

A few other slightly older girls were jumping shuttlecocks.

The children who were playing didn't have time to pay attention to Su Qingtong, Su Qingtong watched them play alone, but he was not left out in the cold, but looked at everything in front of him with interest, and there was a kind of sudden awakening from a dream for decades.

An old aunt beckoned to her from afar and asked, "Didn't you go to drink wine with your parents?" Or did you just come back? ”

Su Qingtong looked at Grandma Baohuan in her memory in a daze, it turned out that Grandma Baohuan was still so young at this time, so she replied with a smile: "I didn't go." ”

Grandma Baohuan asked strangely, "Why didn't you go?" So who else in your house hasn't been there? Is it because your mother didn't go for the wedding wine? Why didn't she come over today? ”

Su Qingtong knew that her mother liked to run to Baohuan's grandmother's house the most, because Baohuan's grandmother was one of the few people in the production team who welcomed her to visit the door, so her mother had to report to her house almost once a day.

Su Qingtong said: "They all went, and I was home alone." ”

Grandma Baohuan looked at Su Qingtong suspiciously, as if she didn't believe that Su Xiuqian and his wife would leave their eldest daughter at home alone, and the other grandmother next to her also asked curiously: "Why don't your parents take you to drink wine?" ”

Su Qingtong heard something different from her tone, perhaps thinking that her parents thought that her identity as an illegitimate daughter was embarrassing, and deliberately did not take her to her father's relatives to drink the wedding wine.

Thinking of this, he whispered, "I got sick when I woke up in the morning, and I didn't get better until the afternoon." ”

Grandma Zhou Baohuan said with a regretful face: "Oh, that's a pity, you didn't eat such a lively banquet." ”

Su Qingtong also felt regretful, for children who were growing up, food has a fatal attraction, and now every family is not rich, and there are not many opportunities to eat some meat, but it is a pity that she missed this opportunity to feast.

Zhou Ruohui lost the stone and was eliminated again, she stood up unwillingly, and when she saw Su Qingtong, she asked casually: "Are you sick today?" ”

Su Qingtong nodded and said, "Yes, it was very uncomfortable in the morning, but it is much better now." ”

Zhou Ruohui said: "You must have kicked the quilt at night, I get a cold every time I kick the quilt, you are the same as me." ”

Su Qingtong was not so delicate, but she just smiled and said 'um' a few times.

Zhou Ruohui lost the stone again, others saw that they were going to win, she was in a hurry and offered to let Su Qingtong help her pass, Zhou Aijun and several others knew Su Qingtong's skills, so they generously agreed, who knew that Su Qingtong won several levels in a row, not only won this round, but also took the lead in the second round.

caused Zhou Aijun to ask in surprise: "Su Qingtong, why did you become so powerful?" ”

Su Qingtong smiled and looked at these girls who had played since they were young and didn't speak, reliving their lives, they always had to open some hangings, did they think it was a previous life?

The children forgot the time when they played together, until Zhou Ruohui's eldest brother came out of the kitchen with a rice bowl and asked Zhou Ruohui to eat.

The aroma of the food wafting out of his bowl instantly captured the stomachs of the children who were playing, everyone felt hungry, and left one after another, and Su Qingtong also returned home through the fog of early winter.

The parents have already brought their younger siblings home, and they are talking to their grandmother, and there are Chinese cabbage and jar vegetables that have become cold on the stove, and grandma is reluctant to put oil, and the taste of the jar vegetables smells a little strange, and the leaves of the cold cabbage are yellow, and Su Qingtong really has no appetite.

Wang Xuelian grabbed a handful of sugar particles from the plastic bag and stuffed them into Su Qingtong's coat bag, and asked her what she ate for lunch and when she got up, Su Qingtong answered them one by one, Wang Xuelian breathed a sigh of relief, felt that her daughter's body was really good, and she was completely relieved, and when she saw that her daughter didn't eat, she asked her what she wanted to eat.

Su Qingtong thought for a while and said, "I want to eat eggs." ”

Wang Xuelian put two eggs into the boiling kettle, and then thought about it and threw another one in, and boiled three white eggs, Su Qingtong actually didn't want to eat this kind of boiled eggs, but her mother was refreshing, and she didn't want to trouble her too much, so she went with her to get it, and when the eggs were cooked, her mother gave each of the three children one, her younger brother Su Tianhua asked for one, and her sister Su Zitong had a full dinner and gave up in disgust.

Su Xiuqian was greeting her mother-in-law, mainly as soon as she came home, she was in a good mood when she saw the clean and tidy house that was cleaned by Grandma Jiman, and politely said to Grandma Jiman: "Mom, don't work so hard next time you come to the house, you have a lot of things in your own house, and you still come to our house to suffer, so how can we be happy." ”

Grandma Jiman said: "It's not hard, I understand that Sister Xue is working too hard with three children, if it weren't for the fact that I have a lot of things to do at home, I will help your family clean up completely." ”

Su Xiuqian hurriedly said, "Why do you want to bother so much." ”

After being polite to her son-in-law, Grandma Jiman remembered that the pigs at home were not fed, and the chickens and ducks didn't know if they had entered the ducks, so they hurriedly wanted to leave, and Wang Bibiao wanted to stay at his sister's house to watch TV, because it also made the child's temper with Grandma Jiman to stay.

Wang Xuelian stuffed half of the candy and biscuits brought back from the wedding banquet for her mother to take away, and gave the rest to Su Qingtong, she understood that her eldest daughter did not follow her to the wedding banquet, and she did not eat at night, but Su Qingtong looked at the fruit hard candy in her mother's bag with a critical look, she didn't look down on these cheap sugar particles, so she didn't care that Su Zitong came to snatch them.

The night gradually shrouded the earth, and the few lights flickered in the silent night, as if a few fireflies had fallen on a pitch-black curtain, flickering with a faint light.

The bedroom of Su Xiuqian and his wife was full of people watching TV.

As soon as Ming Lezi saw Su Qingtong, he smiled and asked, "Qing girl, this is completely good?" ”

Su Qingtong suddenly saw this familiar person, the expression on his face almost collapsed, and he said with a smile: "Uncle Ming, you are here." ”

Ming Lezi was immediately flattered and said: "I just came here and heard your parents say that you were sick and didn't go to drink, I must be unhappy, don't think that you have eaten a piece of meat, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future." ”

Ming Lezi is a bald bachelor, at this time in his last life, Su Qingtong didn't like him very much, and her dislike at that age was very one-sided, just his baldness and his roughness.

He must come every night, and over time, he has cultivated a good relationship with the Su family, until a long time later, although the surrounding people bought TVs, Ming Leper is still used to coming to the Su family to watch fourteen-inch black and white TVs.