Chapter 67 Winter Life is also abundant
As the old saying goes: Adults are hardworking, but children are never lazy.
Zhang Guangming and his wife work hard every day, and they have invisibly played a leading role in the children.
Therefore, each of the four children is capable.
Zhang Wenya took her three younger sisters to pick up firewood outside the village against the biting cold wind.
The eldest sister is in charge of picking up dry branches.
The second sister is in charge of sweeping the leaves.
The second sister is responsible for pulling the flatbed.
The third sister is in charge of the cart.
Zhang Wenjun and Zhang Wenjie moved forward little by little with their sister sweeping the "whooshing" fallen leaves.
Zhang Wenya picked up some dead branches that were blown down from the tree by the strong wind, and she picked them up.
Zhang Wenhui swept and swept, and after more than an hour, she filled the flatbed with withered yellow leaves.
She immediately worked with her eldest sister to lift the big branches that had been blown down by the wind the day before into the car, pressed them on top of the leaves, and tied them with ropes.
Today they were especially happy because the car was full of harvest.
The eldest sister said happily, "Let's go home." β
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This winter, the new branch secretary was not idle, he accepted the lessons of the previous year, led the masses to dig the river and clear the dredging, and prepared for next year's flood season early, so as to prevent trouble in the future.
Sometimes in winter, there will be strong winds at both ends for three days, Zhang Guangming came back from the carving factory, and as soon as he had dinner, he hurried to the brigade for a meeting.
As soon as Li Yue'e cleaned up, the bell in the production team rang.
Li Yue'e said to the children: "Children, the captain must ask the team members to go to the wasteland today, sweep leaves and hay, and use them to accumulate fertilizer.
I'm leaving, the weather is bad today, you are all at home obediently reading villain books, and you can also draw? β
The children smiled and agreed and nodded happily.
Zhang Wenya looked at her mother's distant back, she turned her head and said to her sisters: I'll pull the flat car, you see that the weather is like this, our parents are not idle, let's go pick up hay too. β
The two younger sisters readily agreed.
Zhang Wenya went to bring the flatbed truck, and the two younger sisters were about to leave while pushing the cart.
The little sister pursed her lips unhappily and said, "My brothers and sisters are gone, it's so boring for me to be at home alone, I'm going too." β
The eldest sister said: "No, no, you are too small, the wind outside today is too strong, it will blow you down."
We'll be back in a minute, are you waiting at home? β
Zhang Wenjie pursed his lips unhappily, sat on the stool again, picked up a pencil tip with an unhappy face, and scribbled absentmindedly on the paper.
Zhang Wenya held the cold handlebars on the flatbed car with her two small hands, and passed through the kitchen to put the cushion made of her mother's corn coat into the flat car, and let her two younger sisters sit on it.
As soon as she walked out of the door, several people felt the cold wind pour their hearts cold.
The north wind carries the snowflakes in the sky and dances wildly.
Zhang Wenya turned her face and said to her two younger sisters: "We have to brave the whistling northeast wind, brave the goose feathers and heavy snow, and go to the roadside outside the village to pick up hay."
We have to be extra careful not to let the scraped branches hit. β
The two younger sisters nodded without fear.
They walked outside the village, picking up hay as they went.
The wind blew stronger and stronger, and they bent their heads and squinted on both sides, only to see the large and small dry branches whirling and whirling, colliding and falling.
Zhang Wenya used her little hands, which were frozen red and purple like mustard pimples, to lift the large and small dry branches and her two sisters onto the flatbed.
Pick up and go, walk and pick up, every step is very difficult.
It is only in such a difficult environment that you can deeply feel the cold of winter.
"Heavy snowfall, ice and snow, freezing weather, bitter wind, violent storms and snow......"
They were talking about the winter words as they checked the branches.
Because the children learned a lot of winter knowledge from nature, for example, in order to solve the secrets of the cave, they would dig down the hole with a shovel, and found frogs and snakes sleeping in the hole.
The eldest sister asked her sister: Sister, why are the swallows and geese missing?
The eldest sister told the eldest sister: "They are migratory birds, and they have flown to the warm south. β
She sighed again:
The north wind is howling and the face hurts, and the snowflakes are flying all over the sky.
It was difficult to walk, and I was happy to return.
Zhang Wenjie saw that her sister came back with a cart of licorice, but her sisters were frozen with purple red faces and red and swollen hands, and she was distressed and tears rolled in her eyes.
She immediately went to the kitchen and made a fire to keep her sisters warm.
But the sisters all said, "I'm not cold at all, I'm hot." β
Of course, not only the children of Zhang Zhishu's family, but also the children of the villagers also got a good workout in the bad weather.
It is precisely in this difficult environment that the children cultivated in Makino Flower Village are able to endure hardships and stand hard work and have a strong character.
Zhang Guangming often teaches children that the weather can never be smooth, and there will always be unexpected things happening.
Wind, frost, snow and rain are common things encountered in the wild, if you encounter obstacles, you must be brave to face the difficulties, and you must calmly find a way to solve the difficulties.
So in the past few years, Zhang Wenya and her three younger sisters have been tempered by wind, frost, snow and rain in nature, and have been able to find a way to overcome difficulties in a harsh environment-
In the cold wind, weave weeds and surround yourself.
In the bitter rain, pick a lotus leaf or a large paulownia leaf and put it on your head.
Pick up a branch in the snow and ice to prevent slipping.
The four of them were hungry and filled their stomachs with elm money, acacia flowers or wild fruits, and thirsty to dig some white grass roots or suck some foxglove flowers to quench their thirst.
Whenever the children told their father how to solve difficulties in the field, to overcome all difficulties, and not to be intimidated by difficulties, their father would show a smile of relief.
Zhang Guangming said to the children: You must remember that the future life is also like this, after the wind and rain is the bright road, the sky is clear.
In different seasons, the children of Zhang Guangming's family will ask a lot of questions, and in autumn the children will ask on a twitter:
"Where did the little swallow fly?"
"Why do the geese in the sky fly to the south in flocks?"
Zhang Zhishu told the children: "That's because it's going to be cold in the north, and of course they can't stand the cold climate here, so they have to fly to a warm place in the south with all their might!" β
"In autumn and winter, the birds that fly away, they are called migratory birds, migrate with the climate change," the father told the children. β
When the snow covered the ground, the children asked their fathers:
"Will the grass freeze to death?"
"What about bats, hedgehogs?
Snakes, frogs, bats, all gone, where did they go to spend the winter? β
Father would kindly tell her that the grass would not freeze to death because their roots were deep in the dirt.
All of the animals you're talking about are hibernatingβbats hibernate in their burrows, and bats, unlike other birds, hang headfirst upside down on the wall.
The four of you should taste the richness of spring, the verdant of summer, the abundance of autumn, and the elegance of winter in nature. β
My father often took the opportunity to inspect the crops outside the village, and he would take the children out into the field to let them feel the changes of plants and animals due to the changing seasons of nature.
Zhang Guangming let the children appreciate the changes of the four seasons - in the spring season, they listened to the sound of the murmuring of the river, the song of insects and the cry of birds, and the sound was pleasant.
In summer, you can feel the lush greenery of all things, lightning and thunder, and the sound is shocking; know the tireless singing; Frogs chirp, moaned, and made loud noises.
In autumn, Zhang Guangming let the children learn about the abundant harvest of grains, bringing laughter and joy to the villagers.
Together with the children, he went to listen to the mournful cry of the flocks of geese as they migrated southward.
The eyes are full of yellow leaves flying in the sky, leaving only the lonely Xiao Ran who combs the leaves, and even the wailing sound of the crow is also sad.
What about winter? He let the children feel the snow, wash away the filth of the world, and wish to stay clean and sacrifice to the world.
The snow grains rustle and sound crisp.
The children are full of emotion about the change of the seasons.
They deeply felt the magic of nature, and carved this world so beautifully.
Zhang Guangming deliberately cultivated the children to make the four of them deeply feel that "the earth is like a song", the morning sun is like a glow, the residual sun is like blood, the drizzle is like silk, and the snow is like jade......
Therefore, Zhang Zhishu's children are often intoxicated in dreamlike fields and are reluctant to leave.
The reason why they also know more about nature than other children's children, and they are praised as little prodigies by the people in the village, is inseparable from the influence of their father, and it also fully shows the correctness of Zhang Zhishu's education method.
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As soon as Laba has the smell of the New Year, the street will occasionally hear the sound of children lighting small firecrackers, and those pickers will shake rattles and knock out, and the sound of the drums will attract many children to come and buy things.
What kind of plastic flowers do girls buy, hairpins, hair ropes and other decorative items, and they will look beautiful when they go to relatives.
The boys like to buy balloons, mud-fired cooing whistles, windmills, and other things to play with.
On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, the fish and shrimp in the big lotus pond in the village were fished out, and the lotus root was also out of the pit.
Although it can only give the villagers more than two catties of lotus root to each household, they can also get more than two catties of small fish.
The bustling crowd on the road rushed towards the brigade as if it had been opened like the baffle of the barrage at the head of the village.
The villagers all had smiles on their faces like flowers, exuding expectation.
The accountant of the brigade handed the villagers lotus roots, and the captain handed the villagers fish one by one.
There is no word for the joy of all.
The children jumped and jumped, and sang New Year's ballads in their mouths: Eat Laba and look forward to the New Year.
Twenty-three sacrificial stove officials, twenty-four sweeping houses, twenty-five making tofu, twenty-six steamed steamed buns, twenty-seven slaughtering chickens, twenty-eight decal paintings, twenty-nine slaughtering dogs, thirty children returning skins, and pouting and messing around with the first child.
The flavor of the year in Makino Flower Village is getting stronger.
This year, because of the various paintings and carvings carved out of the carvings, and the various bamboo crafts made and woven from bamboo, they were of high quality and low price, so they sold very well at the rallies in the big city or the county town, and the masses were very happy because of the fact that they made money.
Autumn crops were also harvested to celebrate.
The villagers were rehearsing the program, saying allegro and twisting Yangge, and everyone had a happy New Year this year.
Zhang Guangming gave the two educated youths annual leave, and the two of them happily went home to reunite with their families.
But Professor Guo is alone, just like the poem says: "Alone and weeping".
Zhang Guangming watched the teacher talk about his relatives, and tears rolled down his eyes, feeling that he was quite pitiful.
So Zhang Zhishu invited Professor Guo to his house to celebrate the New Year, but the professor said that he was afraid of affecting Zhang's family, so he refused to go for anything.
Zhang Guangming invited "Xingwu" to see the goods, because there is no "Xingwu" to see the goods, it is not allowed to kill pigs and sell meat.
I don't know when the unwritten rules were formed.
Zhang Guangming was very helpless, after getting the "Xingwu" to see and collect five cents, he slaughtered a pig at home, he first cut off some meat from the pig, sent a few catties to his parents and then sent two catties to Li Hongyun and his wife, and then lifted the meat and his wife to the flatbed truck, and he pulled down the market to sell.
When he returned home, he took his wife to make a new set of clothes for the professor, along with two catties of pork, some pork liver, pork belly, sweet potato balls, candy and home-grown sunflower melon seeds, etc., and sent them to his teacher Guo.
Professor Guo Aimin's neighbors also sent peanuts, soybeans, carrots, etc. to Guo Aimin.
Professor Guo was moved to tears.
Professor Guo said to the villagers: "I am so grateful to you, I have been to many places, whether it is our hometown or the people!" β