Volume 1 Spring Bamboo Shoots Chapter 44 The Big Red Dates Are Sweet and Fragrant (II)

One of the three jujube trees is on the ridge on the side of the house, and the other is at the back of the house. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info don't need to be instructed, as in previous years, first hit the back two trees of the house, and then hit the side of the house when you return.

The tall jujube trees are covered with small lantern-like jujubes, bright red and white, and exude an alluring sweet fragrance in the sun. The mountain carving stood on the ground, waved the bamboo pole, and hit the nearest branch to the ground, and the egg-sized dates smashed down with the leaves like hailstones, and several people scrambled on the grass regardless of it, and stuffed it directly into their mouths when they caught it, regardless of whether the mud was dirty or not!

We have three or four kinds of dates here, long dates, wood dates, medicinal dates and egg dates. Long jujube is long, wood jujube is not big, it looks very common, these two kinds of jujube are not delicious when they are red and ripe, and they are astringent and not sweet when eaten raw, and they are only suitable for drying jujubes. The medicinal dates have a small bitter taste, and most of them are dried and sold to medicinal material companies. There are only eggs and dates, which are clean and large, with less nucleus and small residues, and the water is prosperous and sweet, no matter whether it is green or red, it is all the same delicious.

These three trees in my house are all egg dates, and they are the most delicious dates in Xinghua Village.

The mountain carved dozens of dates with a pole, and one person picked up a few and ate them. Standing under the tree, the mountain eagle deliberately coughed a few times and said in a strange voice: "Comrades, I am the secretary of the county party committee and sent it. ...... specializing in dates and work"

Everyone watched him laugh "giggle-ha-ha".

It's not that these words are funny, but that he imitates the tone of a certain cadre and the story behind it when he says this sentence makes people laugh.

It is said that a certain cadre sent down from the county came to the stage to speak at a mass meeting at the grassroots level, and the cadre stood on the stage and put on an official tone, coughed loudly into the megaphone a few times, and said in a procrastinating tone: "Comrades," the audience was silent, and he continued: "I am the secretary of the county party committee." The people below were startled, and said in their hearts that this person was the secretary of the county party committee, which was terrible. After a while, he said "sent", and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was not the secretary of the county party committee, but only sent down. Unexpectedly, his next sentence was even more terrifying: "Specializing in women", the people in the audience were stunned, and the county appointed someone to specialize in women? When will you be able to play hooligans in the open? In the next sentence, he said "work".

In short, as soon as this cadre came down on the phone, he was frustrated and dragged out his tone, and the crowd in the audience was stunned for a while, and the jokes were widely circulated. There are several such jokes, and our mischievous mischievous ones learn one from time to time, which always causes a burst of laughter.

When he had laughed enough, Huang Shiren stood under the jujube tree and shouted loudly: "Now I announce that I will pick up dates later, and I am not allowed to eat them again, and I will eat them when I have finished picking them all and taking them home and washing them." Otherwise, you'll have diarrhea.

This is true, eating too many raw dates is indeed easy to diarrhea.

At the beginning of the operation, the mountain eagle and Hu Hansan climbed two jujube trees respectively, waved bamboo poles, and beat them from top to bottom, bouncing and rolling on the grass under the trees like hail under the jujubes. A few of us stood aside and looked up. The two of them swung their rods the tree, and Huang Shiren shouted loudly below, instructing them to knock down all the jujubes missing from the branches.

After they finished playing and changed directions, we went to pick up the draft under the tree.

In the noise and laughter of shouting, we quickly beat down all the three trees of jujubes, before this year has been a great drought, the jujube production has been reduced, the good only filled a basket with another basket, about only seventy or eighty pounds, broken skin cracks picked up more than half a basket. Huang Shiren and the mountain carving carried the big basket, Hu Hansan and Zeng Xiangkun carried the small basket, I carried the basket, everyone happily returned to the front yard and moved the dates into the hall.

My sister Xiaojing was very excited, carrying a small basket with more than a dozen red dates, and singing and dancing in the hall to learn the movie "Red Detachment of Women":

The big red dates are sweet and fragrant,

Give it to our relatives to taste,

A jujube and a heart,

Hey, hey, my heart is towards the Communist Party.

Hey, hi!

A jujube and a heart,

My heart is towards the Communist Party.

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There were a lot of melons and fruits piled up along the walls of the hall, all of which were round and fat golden pumpkins and long-haired winter melons full of hoarfrost. My mother walked in with two small buckets of water, poured some broken dates into the bucket and washed them, and told me to go to the kitchen to bring the clean dustpan, and poured out almost a handful of dustpans, saying that it is rare once a year, so let everyone eat enough one by one, but also have to pay attention, don't eat too much, beware of diarrhea.

Mother has long since returned, and she is cooking over the fire. In the past two years, I led a few of them to harvest the dates, and my mother didn't bother to take care of it, so she let us toss.

Huang Shiren and the others have long been accustomed to it, and several people are like hungry ghosts who have just been released from the cage, unceremoniously arguing and grabbing, biting and chewing. Zeng Xiangkun was infected by them and quickly adapted. After all, everyone is from the same village and goes to school in the same class, so they are very ****** to let them open their schoolbags, take the bamboo tube liters for measuring rice, and pour two liters of good dates into each schoolbag, and let them take them back to taste the rest of the family. This is also the old rule of the year, not much, each family is about two or three catties, so it means something.

My sister was a little stingy and muttered distressedly:

"Mother, take less, we won't ......have it later."

The mother laughed and scolded: "You are a stingy ghost, good mother-in-law! There's not enough for you to eat. ”

Everyone looked at her and laughed.

In our Xinglin Village, except for a few stingy ghosts, the neighbors are like relatives, who have fresh fruits and vegetables or good things, basically will give each other gifts, fully interpreting the essence of distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors and "one person eats alone, and everyone eats full of flavor".

Mother has always been generous. Like our family, a hundred pounds of jujubes, when she sends them to her neighbors and those who are close to her on weekdays, it will be very good to have half of them left. Don't blame my sister for being stingy, to be honest, sometimes even I feel a little distressed. Of course, I just think about it, I understand that this gift is mutual, and I don't eat less things sent by other people's families, and there is a reward for giving. This is what the old saying goes, "If you don't go out of the threshold, you can't get in at the door."

The dates were also gone, and the big guys poured into my small house, bragging, looking for chess and flipping books. After laughing for a while, I saw that it was noon, and made an appointment to go to the brick kiln of Hu Han's three houses in the afternoon to see the kiln.

The brick kiln of the three families of Hu and Han is coming out of the second kiln, and those people who come out of the kiln are either Lei Gong or Hua Face, but they are not tired, and they want you to give you a hand, and you wipe my hand. During this period, there is also a constant fight, which often attracts the women who have nothing to do with the onlookers and laughs, which is a rare entertainment in the countryside.

I stood by the pillar on the steps and watched them walk out of the courtyard gate, and a gust of wind blew through me, and that strange cold feeling hit my face. I raised my eyebrows, and before I could catch it carefully, I heard a commotion from the north of the village from a distance, and Huang Shiren, who was out of the courtyard, obviously also heard it.

I heard it clearly, and I could faintly hear someone shouting in terror:

"It's amazing! Come on! The kiln has collapsed, crushing people to death...... Come on......"

I made a big stir, my brain "buzzed", jumped down the steps and ran out of the courtyard, and soon I overtook the three eagles who were also running hard, and rushed towards the brick kiln of the Liu family in the north of the village.