Chapter 2 Simplicity and Truth
As a farmer, although it is difficult to see meat, but Yu Dayou's family is more particular about this food, and most people have brown rice and pickles every day, and then come to a bowl of wild vegetable soup to solve it. Although Yu Dayou's family can't afford to eat pork and chicken, but over the years, fish and shrimp have not been eaten, and the countrymen eat but ask for a full meal.
Heat the pot and pour rapeseed oil, wait for the rapeseed oil to smoke Yu Chun poured the mushrooms in, the mushrooms just picked in the mountains are extremely fresh, quickly stir-fry a few times in the pot and a lot of water comes out, the fragrance of the mushrooms mixed with the taste of rapeseed oil floated out, sprinkled with salt grains to continue stir-frying, and finally sprinkled with green onions out of the pot, less than half an hour before and after the pot.
Yu Chun scooped water from the tank and brushed the pot with the old loofah pulp, and made the rape and angthorn fish, as soon as the fish soup came out of the pot, the rice in the other pot was also cooked, and the dishes were served, and Yu Dayou and his wife came back with farm tools on their backs.
"What does it smell so good?" As soon as he entered the yard, Yu Dayou smelled the delicious smell in the air, after a day of farm work, he was already so hungry that his chest was close to his back, Yang Cuilian hung the straw hat on the courtyard wall, and washed his feet with a bucket of water from the well, and after a day of farm work under the scorching sun, Yu Dayou was too hot to do well, took off his clothes, took the bucket in his wife's hand, drew water and poured it directly on his head, and did not wipe it after drenching, and sat down at the dining table shirtless.
Now the weather is very hot, the people of Guoshu Village rarely eat in the house, they all move the table to the yard, open the courtyard door, let the wind blow in, and bring a little coolness, but there are also disadvantages, that is, you must eat before the sun sets, otherwise you will be bitten by mosquitoes.
"Dad, have we finished planting all the seedlings?" Yu Xian asked Yu Dayou while pulling the rice.
In fact, Yu Dayou's family only has two acres of land, which is very little under the average level of five or six acres of every household in Guoshu Village, like those large families who are contracted out dozens of acres of land for others to plant and collect rent, and that kind of rich family that everyone envies without worrying about food and clothing. In the early years, Yu Dayou's family also had five acres of fertile land, just to treat Yu Xia's illness and replenish his body, and three acres were sold one after another over the years. Yu Dayou and his wife can actually plant two acres of land quickly, but every year when the farm is busy, they have to help Yu Xia's grandfather and grandmother plant seedlings first, and then plant their own home.
Yu Xia's grandfather, Yu Debiao, the old man Yu, lived in the west of the village and lived with the uncle's family. Mr. Yu's father was born in Xiucai, and he was a teacher in Guoshu Village for a while, and his family conditions were not bad, and then the qualified people in the village went to the Dongyu people in Longhe Village next door to learn to study, and he closed the school in desperation, and the family background slowly began to decline.
Even so, there is a talented and famous father, the vision of the old man Yu is not low, plus he is good at drilling camps, life is much better than the average villager's family, Yu Dayou brother and sister are still very popular when they say they are married, the eldest brother Yu Daquan married the daughter of a rich family in Miaojia Village, and the youngest sister Yu Xiuhe married a rich family in Longhe Village, only Yu Dayou married Yang Cuilian, whose parents died and only one eldest brother was poor. Since Yang Cuilian entered the door, the eldest lady Miao was unwilling to eat and live with the second room, for fear that the second room would take advantage of her, so she instigated her husband to mention the separation of the family with her in-laws.
"There are two people who are not in good condition, and it is difficult for them to live a good life, how can they let them work for the second elder anymore? But if they really want to take care of themselves and be poked in the backbone, it is better to divide the family directly, give them a few acres of land and let them live out, anyway, they also live in a village, and they will often come and go in the future or a family, and I will help them as the eldest brother. This is what Yu Daquan said to Old Man Yu, I don't know what Old Man Yu thinks, anyway, the result is that when Yang Cuilian was pregnant with Yu Chun, Yu Dayou and his wife moved out to set up their own door.
"It's over, what's the matter, what are you kid going to do with your crooked brain?" Yu Dayou gobbled up a bowl of rice with green vegetables and mushrooms quickly, Yang Cuilian took the empty bowl to add rice to him, and the feeling of being hungry and panicked was in the past, and the second bowl of rice Yu Dayou ate a lot, at this time, listening to the youngest son roll his eyes and ask himself, he knew that he must have something to say later.
Sure enough, Yu Xian got a positive answer, his face instantly blossomed, he put down his rice bowl and went into his room, and when he came out again, he held a cloth bag in his hand, he put the cloth bag on the table and opened it carefully, carefully looking as if it was a rare treasure inside, and Yu was very happy to see it.
"Are you a baby?"
Yu Xian smiled, the cloth bag was finally opened, and the contents were revealed, "The second sister said that this is Ganoderma lucidum, which is a very precious medicinal material, worth a lot of silver, Dad, let's go to the county seat tomorrow to sell it, and come back to buy meat for the second sister in exchange for money." ”
"It's really Ganoderma lucidum." Yu Dayou took the Ganoderma lucidum and looked at it carefully, when he was a child, he also saw Ganoderma lucidum at home, but he remembered that this was a very precious medicinal material, and the average farmer could not afford to use it at all, "Where did you get this from?" ”
Yu Dayou's expression was a little serious, the family conditions were poor, and the money he got was used to raise the body of his second daughter, so he had no savings over the years, and he lived in a thatched house that was in disrepair, and it always leaked when it rained, and it was a good thing that his son was sensible and wanted to reduce the burden on the family, but the five-year-old child took out such precious medicinal materials so that he had to wonder the origin of this thing.
Yu Xian has been clever and able to read words and emotions since he was a child, and knew that his father's serious expression must have thought that he was in trouble, so he hurriedly explained, "This is not stolen from someone else's house, this is what I picked in the back mountain, in the bushes west of the back mountain, blocked by grass and trees, ordinary people can't find it." ”
Knowing that his son was naughty but never lied, Yu Dayou was a little relieved, but when he heard that this lingzhi was picked from the back mountain, his brows furrowed again, "You went to the back mountain?" ”
No matter how clever Yu Xian was, he didn't understand that he said that this Lingzhi was not stolen, robbed, or caused trouble, so why was his father still unhappy, so he only nodded stunnedly.
"The back mountain is not safe, so many people have fallen and injured themselves, didn't they tell you not to let you go?" Yang Cuilian's heart pounded as soon as she heard Yu Xian say that she went to Houshan, and when she saw her husband asking, she knew that he wanted to go with her, so she immediately blamed her husband without waiting for her husband to speak.
Yu Xian originally thought that he would be happy to pick Ganoderma lucidum and sell it for money, but he didn't expect things to develop like this, he was suddenly a little aggrieved, "When I went out in the morning, the second sister told me that I would have good luck going west on the back mountain, and I deliberately avoided the place where the accident occurred, isn't it true that there is no accident, why do you ...... murder me?"
Yang Cuilian didn't expect that this matter was related to Yu Xia, and immediately turned her head and looked at her seriously, "Second girl, what's the matter, how can you let your brother go to the back mountain?" There are so many people on the mountain who have an accident, in case your brother also has three long and two short, how can our family afford this situation! ”