Chapter 9: A Good Father and a Loving Mother

"Grandpa, father, mother, how are you in heaven? I have a son now, you must be well, I think our family can cross here, it should be you who protect us, and our family will definitely survive happily. ”

Zhou Jiao looked at the corners of Zhang Guoqing's red eyes, stretched out a hand to pull his hand, and said coquettishly: "Brother, you see that your son doesn't look like a pig who has eaten and slept." You help move it to the left, you lie on my right, rest early, and have something to do tomorrow. ”

"Well, I'll go to the main room first and say something, so that our mother won't have to rest here. Feed every 2 hours in the evening. Do you take out the newborn baby with milk powder and a bottle and try it at night to see if he eats it? By the way, you take out a dozen diapers, as well as 2 pig's trotters, a pound of red dates, and two packs of milk powder, you should also prepare one, and you can look at the rest of the meat, and I will go out before dawn tomorrow and come back from a circle over the bright road.

Those rags are treasures for my mother, don't throw them away, wrap them up for me directly when the time comes, I guess the children of the second sister-in-law's family will use them. ”

Zhou Jiao knew that the youngest daughter of his second brother's family had just turned 2 years old, and the diaper was just about to be used, and the impression was that the little girl was ruined by Lin Juhua, and she had never seen her clean up, nor did she have milk to feed, and Zhang's mother, who was still a grandmother, was soft-hearted and boiled rice porridge to feed her. A few times when she finally stewed egg custard at home to feed her, Lin Juhua took advantage of Zhang's mother to turn around and ate it all by herself, making Zhang's mother so angry that she only scolded. It's like a chick, and it's very extensive. Zhou Jiao couldn't help laughing out loud when she thought of this.

When Zhang Guoqing arrived at the main room, the kerosene lamp in the room was still on. The kerosene in the kerosene lamp costs a few cents to light it at night, and the kerosene lamp in the countryside is dark unless it is necessary. So Zhang Guoqing was still a little surprised, was he still going to be on duty in the middle of the night?

"Mother, just now the baby has been fed and slept, today you and my father have not rested, this time you hurry up to sleep, don't have to get up at night, be careful that the sky is frozen, I wake up at night, you can rest assured."

Zhang's mother nodded in a daze, and told Zhang Guoqing that the child must call her when she cried, she was afraid that they would not take care of her. Dad Zhang didn't see him, and he took off and slept with him. Zhang Guoqing carefully blew out the lights and closed the door.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, as soon as the baby woke up and cried, Zhang Guoqing immediately picked up and soaked the milk powder, and the small things to eat quieted down. He didn't wake up Jiaojiao, he was weak after giving birth, and it was good to sleep a little longer, and the little bad guy who changed his diaper was comfortable and went to sleep. didn't cry like other people's children, he really deserved to be his son, he was smart.

Just eat breast milk at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, and then adjust it to midnight milk powder, and add milk powder once during the day, so you are not afraid that Jiaojiao's breastfeeding body will not be able to bear it.

I felt movement in the yard in a daze. Zhang Guoqing got up, saw that the sky was gradually breaking outside, and cleaned himself up in the faint light.

Walking towards the kitchen, the sister-in-law in the kitchen is making breakfast, the rural people get up early, no watch to see that it should be more than 5 o'clock now, as the eldest sister-in-law, more than ten years of busy day by day, it is not easy.

As for the second sister-in-law, she has to get up and cook pig food later, otherwise when the pig is hungry and screams, his mother will clean her up.

In the past, after the family had breakfast, the men of the family would go to the backyard to take care of the vegetable garden, or to clean up their own land. Nobody was hanging out, that's what second-rate people do. The women also had to wash their clothes and clean up the house and yard before they went to work at half past six. When I came back from work in the afternoon, I had to shoot pigweed.

Zhang Guoqing couldn't find his mother, and he wasn't used to shouting loudly. I greeted his sister-in-law and took two dishes out early. At this time, Zhang's mother happened to pick vegetables from the backyard and walked to the kitchen.

"Mother, let me go to the city first to see if there is any milk for sale? My sister went directly to report the good news, and when I came back, I went to Zhou's house to report the good news, hehe. ”

After speaking, Zhang Guoqing winked at Zhang's mother, Zhang's mother knew what it meant, and scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, you are naughty, you are all a father." ”

"Mother, wait a minute, if the baby wakes up, you remember to let Jiaojiao feed once, and he ate it once at 2 o'clock in the morning."

"I know, my mother prepares her breakfast first, the old hen soup simmered last night, just in time to get up and get up."

"Oh, mother, your old son has fallen out of favor~ You have a young son, don't want an old son, sad. Haha, mother, do you have anything to bring with me to the city? ”

"Go, who rarens you skin boy, go early and return early. There was nothing to bring, the brown sugar eggs were ready. I haven't eaten it in the morning, so I took a few wowo wo on the road. When you see steamed buns in the city, remember to buy some to eat. ”

"Got it, I'll go first." Zhang Guoqing shook his hand and rode away on a bicycle, and Zhang's mother watched him turn the path and couldn't see his back before returning to the kitchen.

Zhang Guoqing likes this mother very much, and understands that things are not ambiguous, you must know that rural girls live very meticulously and live a lot of care.

After all, just a few years after liberation, the problem of food and clothing has not been solved. Even if Zhangjia Village has a good geographical location, rich soil and rich mountain and forest resources, the families in the village do not have much savings, and the best thing is to be like their family without worrying about food.

Many people in the village rely on centimeters to really eat two meals a day of vegetable porridge, every year at the beginning of the spring snow, every year in the spring, the old and young everywhere dig wild vegetables to survive. Now even if you have money, you can't buy food, and no one can afford to eat high-priced grain.

The Zhang family drinks porridge for breakfast and lunch for three meals a day, and the sweet potato and dried rice for dinner are already considered wealthy. Everyone who has come from that year knows that they don't show their family background.

Zhang's father and mother are shrewd and capable, plus the subsidies of their two sisters, and every year they are divided into fine grains and go to the city to exchange them for coarse grains. The two pigs in the family are sold at the end of each year, and they are also a sum of income for the family in addition to centimeters. At the end of the year, when killing pigs and selling pork, you can satisfy your hunger, and leave another 20 catties for the New Year and gifts.

There are also more than a dozen chickens that lay eggs that are exchanged for daily necessities at home, and a few small ones are also made up every once in a while. Of course, Zhang Guoqing is also in the small supplement, how old is the youngest son in his mother's eyes.

If it weren't for Zhou Jiao, he wouldn't have started a family so early. 18-year-old Zhang Guoqing is tall and close to 180, his mother is also well-raised, his whole body is full of tendons, coupled with great strength, he often goes to Daqingshan to hunt and earns a lot of private money, and often takes it home to open meat.

There is no way to live this day, Zhang Guoqing's father and mother split up early and the children are small, in those years, they are either little devils or bandits are messing around, that is, they can go into the mountains to hide in Zhangjia Village, the lonely old people, women and children in the village hide in the mountains to pick mountain goods, Zhang's father and several brothers and the strong men in the village work together to hunt, and then secretly go to the city to sell wild things and sell mountain goods, compared to other places, this is also a good feng shui place.

Finally drove away the devils, the whole village can finally go down the mountain with peace of mind, the houses under the mountain have long been given to those devils Huo Huo's no, relying on the world in those years to make money, every household is on the same village, helping each other to open houses to clean up the land and reclaim wasteland.

After the establishment of the People's Commune after the liberation and the liquidation of most of the landlords and rich peasants' land and property, Zhangjia Village had fewer people and more land, and the conditions were much better than those in other villages.

Other villages are thatched houses, occasionally there are blue brick houses, and Zhangjia Village leans on Daqingshan, using the stone on the green mountain to build a house directly, spending manpower and saving money, if possible, will buy tiles to pave the roof, and if you don't have money, you will build a thatched roof.