Chapter 71: Grandma's Childhood Story
"Auntie is so pitiful!"
Wen Feng heard this time and opened his mouth leisurely, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a little adult, and he also learned to sigh.
"Yes, she sat in place with gold stars in her eyes, and almost choked to death after eating those two steamed buns, and then she came back to her senses, and finally knew her parents' intentions after a long time.
Her parents abandoned her.
She didn't cry at the time, she felt empty in her heart, and walked aimlessly towards the path where his parents disappeared.
I don't know how long I walked, I didn't drink a sip of water, I didn't eat a mouthful of food, and I almost starved to death in the end.
When I was dying, I met my dad and carried me all the way south, and finally my dad left your aunt by his side. ”
"Later, I heard from your aunt that my father carried me and took her all the way, and walked for a long time before I came to the village where I grew up, and somehow I knew the village chief, who always called him a benefactor, and gave my father a house and a few acres of land.
Since then, he has been there for ten years. Those ten years were the best ten years of my childhood in my memory! ”
Speaking of this, Wenfeng's grandmother's eyes were covered with tears, and she was very yearning for the past.
Seeing Wen Feng holding his chin with his hands and listening with relish, his grandmother secretly wiped her tears and continued.
"For as long as I can remember, my dad was a man of God, he really knew everything, he could dance and write, and teach the children in the village to read.
He knows how to help the villagers see a doctor. can speak and be personable, and he is very handsome.
Even though everyone in the village knows that he is single and has two daughters, there are many matchmakers who come to him to tell him about their relatives, and they are about to break the threshold of the family.
The objects of the talk range from the landlord's daughter, the girl who has not yet left the cabinet to the widow's everything, but my father can't look down on any of them, saying that the two daughters are still young and need to be taken care of, and they are afraid of dragging them down, so they all refuse to be kind one by one.
Even when the landlord's daughter was rejected, the landlord did not dare to say anything. So the village spread him more and more divinely.
But only I and your aunt know that it's true that my daughter is still young, but it's really ...... to say that it's to take care of my daughter."
Speaking of this, my grandmother paused and looked at Wen Feng mysteriously, Wen Feng thought it was serious, and she wouldn't be beaten or scolded.
"It's just free-range! Reading and studying, your aunt and I learned with the village children together, and he usually didn't open a small stove for us, unless we wanted to ask him ourselves.
Work? I didn't work much with your aunt, except for cooking three meals a day, I didn't have anything else to do, and when I was young, your aunt was doing it.
My dad never does it, and he doesn't farm, but he gives the land to others to plant, and he will charge a little rent for the grain.
Then he received a little for teaching, a little for medical treatment, and he didn't charge anything when he met a poorer person, and he was not like a landlord if he was a landlord.
So in those days, although we didn't starve to death, we definitely didn't eat too often. ”
Speaking of this, my grandmother knew what Wen Feng wanted to ask and quickly answered.
"I said that it is not often, then there must be a time to eat. I'm going to tell you the fun stuff next. ”
With that, Grandma's eyes began to light up, and she could see that it must be her best time next year.
"Because I was very poor and backward at that time, it was a luxury to study and attend classes, so it was equivalent to two classes a week, and the rest of the time the children worked in the fields with their parents.
And we don't have to go to the field, except for the occasional farm work assigned by my dad to help a single-parent family or the elderly, except for reading and writing in the morning and evening, the rest of the time is wild or playing.
Since my dad has nothing to do when he doesn't go to class or see a doctor, sometimes he goes up to the mountains to collect medicine, fish and hunt.
So your aunt and I just stuck to the back of his ass and had fun. ”
"When I was collecting medicine, my dad and your aunt each carried a bamboo basket, and I usually sat in the bamboo basket on my dad's back at this time and waited for the departure.
They went up the hill with little hoes, and my father taught me how to read medicine with your aunt.
But this is not the happiest thing, the happiest thing for me is that as soon as I go up the mountain, I pester him to pick all kinds of wild fruits for me, sometimes some herbs can be eaten directly, such as licorice, kudzu, wild sugarcane.
In short, I love to eat sweet and sour things. My dad happily accommodates my requests every time, and he never bothers me.
At that time, your aunt and I both knew a lot about pharmacology, but after so long, we have almost forgotten it. ”
"In addition to collecting medicine and hunting in the mountains, this is what I particularly like, and every time I go up the mountain to hunt, I must follow your aunt, because there is nothing more fun than this.
There is a small room at home with all kinds of tools, and every time you go up the mountain to hunt, you bring a different one, depending on what you go up to catch.
If it was to catch birds, especially fierce birds, my dad would catch a few small mice a day in advance, and then bring a bundle of rope, a knife, and a jar of black superglue that he had made secretly. ”
"I have to say that the way he carried the little mice scared me to death.
At that time, the waistband of the trousers he wore was very long, so he rolled up the waist of his waist, then tied it with a belt rope and fixed it, cut a small hole with scissors, and stuffed the little mouse into it.
Then use a small rope to seal the cut out. Because the rolled-up pants are fixed, there is a space like a wheel inside, which allows the rats to move without suffocation, and is easy to carry.
But as a child at the time, I was scared. Then he took us up the hill with his tools. ”
After going up the mountain, he first cut a few bamboo stumps with a knife to make some tree stumps, and then began to take us to look for the fierce birds nearby, which were not afraid of people at all, and some of them stood on high places outside and stared at us as if they wanted to catch us.
After discovering that there were fierce birds nearby, my father found an open space where the fierce birds could be seen, and then chose a direction to insert the stump into it, and the two were about 50 centimeters apart.
Coated with his secret glue, he grabbed a small mouse from his waist and tied it between two tree stumps, making it struggle and beat in the air. Then put some stumps on both sides, all covered with glue, and then took us to the side. ”
"Although it was not always successful, several times I caught different ferocious birds, including mountain eagles and owls at night.
These ferocious birds have very bright eyes and can see far away, and when we dodge, most of the stupid birds quickly see the struggling rat and fly over and spread their wings to pounce on it.
At this point, the wings were stained with so much superglue from the stump, and then my dad immediately rushed over and grabbed it from behind.
Sometimes I use homemade bows and arrows and slingshots to hit quails, pheasants, and so on. Anyway, as long as my dad makes a move, he rarely returns empty-handed.
Every time he caught game, the two of us would survive half to death.
My dad rarely cooks, but his cooking skills are top-notch, and he has to have good food to cook, and he doesn't know how to do it on weekdays. ”