Chapter 10 The first seven into the mountain
At ten o'clock, Dang Qing, Du Guoan, Du Jianguo, and Du Jianmin came to Lao Qitou's grave with the paper figures, paper horses and other things that Chen had found someone to tie.
Lao Qitou is not from Shanao Village, but his family is gone, and when he is injured and demobilized, he doesn't know where to go, so he listened to Du Guoan's words and came to Shanao Village to live together, plus he has never married a wife and had children in his life, and he injured an arm and a leg when he was demobilized, so he stopped thinking about starting a family, and lived a more comfortable life alone, until Dang Qing's grandmother couldn't afford to be sick when she heard the news of her son's daughter-in-law's death, and Xiao Dangqing hugged him and cried. began a life where two people depended on each other.
Lao Qitou really treats Dang Qing as a granddaughter, and he is afraid that she will be bullied because she has no parents and relatives, even if she spoils this child so much, she is still excluded by other children from time to time, so that Lin Ping coaxed Dang Qing so little bit. The old seven heads were so angry when they knew that Dang Qing gave Lin the enlistment quota he asked for from the old chief, and when he saw that Dang Qing was deceived and didn't know it, he was sad and couldn't afford to be sick, and he just explained the aftermath and died.
"Grandpa, I know it's wrong, I will definitely go to the army and live up to your expectations. Lin Ping, that brute, I will never read it again, don't worry, I know that he is not sincere to me, I was fascinated by lard before. Dang Qing knelt in front of the grave of the old seven heads, kowtowed three times and promised.
Take out the prepared dumplings and roast chicken, set them up, light candles, light incense and insert them in front of the grave. poured a glass of wine and spilled it in front of the grave and said: "Our house was burned down by Lin An and Lin Ping, I know that the one who ran last night was Lin Ping, I didn't catch him, and there was no way to clean him up, and the days to come will be long, grandpa, you see if he will have retribution, I still want to kill him, but I know that you want me to serve the country like my father and mother, and I can't do anything wrong." ”
Dang Qing set fire to the paper and money that Du Jianmin had brought over, and continued: "Lin Ping doesn't want to go out if he wants to be a soldier so much, I will see now if he can go out without this quota, I can't kill him, but I can watch him suffer in the pain of getting and losing." I must live well, let him regret it slowly, regret treating me like this, do you say grandpa? ”
Du Jianmin and Du Guoan never knew that Dang Qing would hate Lin Ping so much, they always saw that she was sticky to that kid, and she looked like she was going to marry him, but she didn't expect the death of Lao Qitou to hit her so hard, and she had such a big hatred for Lin Ping, although they also knew that such a Dang Qing was not good, but none of the three men in the Du family said a word about Dang Qing, so it was better than the guy who was dedicated to Lin Ping.
Du Guoan didn't have too deep a concept of Lin Ping, but he knew that this kid had a lot of thoughts, and his face was sweet and bitter. But that's all there is to it, but Du Jianmin doesn't think so, he and Lin Ping are classmates, and the two of them don't deal with each other in school, and they are disgusted when they see him arguing between Wan Caifeng and Dang Qing. I heard Dang Qing say that Lin Ping also had Lin Ping's share in arson this time, so I thought about going back to the police station to report the informant, so that if I have a case background, there will be no drama in the future, whether I am a soldier or join the party, it can be regarded as a small favor for Dang Qing, the most important thing is that I am happy!
Dang Qing chattered a lot of things with Lao Qitou to reassure Lao Qitou, promising that he would take care of himself, Du Guoan also chatted for a while, and the four of them packed up the sacrifices and went back.
Back at Du's house, Chen set up lunch and asked Dang Qing to eat together, but Dang Qing couldn't refuse, so he sat down. Take out today's offerings from the basket, at this time, the value of food is not to put the sacrifices on the grave and not bring them back, but to bring them back after the worship is completed, and everyone will share them.
Seeing the roast chicken that Dang Qing took out, several children's eyes were green, but none of them went up to coax and rob, they all obediently waited for Chen's distribution, and Chen was not polite to Dang Qing, although meat is rare, but today Dang Qing can be so sensible, Chen is still very pleased, it is not in vain that her old man helps Dang Qing so much, and she eats this meat with peace of mind.
Dang Qing took out the dumplings again, asked Du Jianguo's daughter-in-law to help heat them up, and put them on the table for the Chen family to distribute, but he didn't hide his secrets at all. Dang Qing thinks that this thing can make the Chen family happy, and it can be regarded as a little more comfortable, no matter how you say it, she is not less taken care of by the Du family.
Du Guoan was also very relieved when he saw Dang Qing doing this, so he asked his youngest son to get a bottle of wine, and drank two cups of dumplings, but he didn't dare to drink too much, for fear of making a mistake at work in the afternoon.
The Du family is a big family, Du Guoan has three sons and a daughter, the eldest son Du Jianguo was there before he joined the army, and the second son Du Jianjun was obtained three years after enlisting in the army, and now he is still a soldier in the army. The youngest son, Du Jianmin, was born after demobilization, and he was about the same age as his eldest grandson, so he was especially loved by the family. My daughter is the third in line and is now in college. Plus the daughter-in-law and grandchildren, the two tables are full.
Looking at so many people in the Du family, I can't help but think of the life of the Lin family in the previous life, although there are many people in the same life, but the intrigue is very powerful, and the concubines often quarrel because of trivial things, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law often fight, and the brothers are also very calculating, and the children are not simple-minded. Living in such a family, everyone will be blackened.
Shaking his head to shake off the memories in his mind, eating quietly, hearing the women discussing the short things in the parents, and the children laughing and playing, Dang Qing was not so sad.
After eating, Du Guoan's family went to work except for Chen's family at home with children, and at this time the wheat was almost ripe, and someone had to watch it every day, preparing for the harvest, and Du Jianmin was instructed by Du Guoan to send Dang Qing's registration form to the town's recruitment office.
Dang Qing said goodbye to Chen, returned to his home, looked at the house that was burned like a dog gnawed, and planned to go to the back mountain to cut some thatch to repair it, although the people here are used to using the wheat festival to cap, but unfortunately Dang Qing's family did not plant, so he had to use thatch, anyway, next year there will be a young man in the village, her house is estimated to be requisitioned, and the village will also send someone to renovate it, and it will be done in one or two months, Dang Qing thought so and did so.
Living alone for a long time in her previous life made her ignore the problem that she is still a child now, and still look at the problem with the mentality of an old man, and she will not think of asking others to help at all.
Go to the cellar and take out the machete that grandpa usually uses and put it in the storage space, take a cloth bag and carry the back basket to the back mountain, there is a lot of thatch in the back mountain, get some back and dry it can be used.
When she came to the back mountain and walked to the place where she set a trap last time, she placed another trap, hoping for the same good luck as last time. Then he walked around the mountain, cut the thatch he saw and threw it into the wood spirit space, and put a little pretense in the back basket. Although everyone is at work at this point, there are still some children or old people who come to collect firewood or look for wild fruits, and summer fruits are the best gifts from the mountains and forests to the people, but no one is willing to let go, especially children. It's not good if someone sees going up the mountain and the basket is empty.
Dang Qing saw some gray mushrooms on the ground, so he picked them and put them into the space, and saw a lot of fungus on some trees, although it has not rained recently, but the tide returns every morning on the mountain, and these mountain treasures are really not lacking. It's a pity that they are all ordinary things, and the precious mountain treasures are really useless here, that is, someone dug up ginseng many years ago, and there are few such things recently.
There was even a cherry tree found, and I didn't remember that there were cherries in the back mountain in my previous life. I don't care when it appears, so I put the back basket on the ground and climb up along the branches, but fortunately there is a storage space, otherwise the cherries are so afraid of touching and pressing the fruit is really not good to store. While picking and eating, she is not too sour, the cherries at this time have not been grafted, but they are not as sweet as in later generations.
She didn't stop until her teeth were about to fall, but she still picked everything she could and put it in the space, keeping it for later.
There weren't many cherries on the fruit tree, and the exercises would be done in a while. After Dang Qing came down from the tree to see that it was still early, she continued to cut the thatch, and dug up some thatch roots, she often boiled thatch root water to drink in her last life, it is said that it can cure asthma, she was wheezing in her later years, and drinking it did have some effect, the most important thing is that it does not cost money. It is said that it can also treat dysentery, and I don't know if it's true or not, but it doesn't hurt to have it anyway.
Before he felt tired for a while, he couldn't stand it, so Dang Qing went to the mountain stream to rest, and saw that there were a lot of rattans beside the stream, so he chose some flexible and soft ones, and made a few small baskets, just enough to put the fruit.
If you make five baskets, you won't get it, this is not valuable, as long as there are rattans, she can make one in ten minutes, so she didn't make so much.
Looking up at the sun, I found that it was still early, and her grandfather's watch was placed in the wood spirit space by her, but unfortunately I don't know if it was because time stood still or for some reason, the watch was no longer gone, and she took the watch as a relic of her grandfather and no longer took it out.
Feeling thirsty, I drank the water from the stream, and at this time there was no tourism, and the mountain spring water here was still not polluted by garbage, and it was very sweet, and the military kettle was also filled with mountain spring water.
I saw that there were a lot of small shrimp in the stream, and I thought that there was nothing to eat at home, and these small shrimp were delicious as long as they were boiled with a little salt and water, so I took a basket that had just been made and went into the water to catch shrimp.
Shrimp is a very cute animal, especially easy to catch, after a while to catch a small basket, Dang Qing is not greedy, see good to receive. After receiving the basket to the wood spirit space, he sat on the big rock next to the stream to dry his feet, put on his shoes and continued to look for edible things around the stream.