In order for her grandson to go up the mountain to bring rice, Zhou Guilan specially went to the stall selling meat in the ginseng market opposite, bought a pork belly, and came back to make braised pork.

On the morning of September 18, the old lady got up early, stewed potatoes with braised pork, and stewed a pot of fragrant rice.

Remove the meat and vegetables from the pan while they are hot and put them in an insulated lunch box.

Fill the other side with boiling water, tighten the lid of the water bottle, and then buckle the insulated lunch box to death.

There is a special cloth cover on the outside of the insulated lunch box, which is similar to a schoolbag and can be carried.

The old lady pondered for a moment, and then put the horse spoon and fried some small dried fish.

Fried fragrant and crispy, put a little dried chili, and then put vinegar to cook, full of aroma.

After the dried fish is fried, put it in a small canned bottle and stuff it into the pocket outside the cloth cover of the insulated lunch box, so that it is just right.

Xu Haiyuan also finished eating and cleaned up, so he took the lunch box carefully prepared by his grandmother, slanted his shoulders and back, and was about to leave.

"Wait a while, decorate some sand fruits, and eat them when you are tired from work.

Do you still have cookies at home? Bring you some? ”

Zhou Guilan grabbed two handfuls of sand fruits from the basket, stuffed them into her grandson's pocket, and wanted to bring another pack of biscuits for her grandson.

"Milk, no need, I'm going to work, not to the autumn outing.

Don't bring me so much food, my classmates will laugh at me. Xu Haiyuan was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand and ran away.

Zhou Guilan took the biscuits, looked at the eldest grandson and disappeared as soon as he smoked, and shook his head.

"This kid, what if you can bring more food? Others want it yet.

For such a big child, the stomach is like a bottomless pit, how can a meal at noon be enough? ”

"Milk, my brother doesn't want it, give me the biscuits."

At that end, Xu Haiqing jumped out, salivating and telling his grandmother to ask for biscuits.

"Just finished eating, and you haven't even been ten minutes yet, and you want cookies again?

If you don't have enough to eat, go back to the house and eat. If you're full, what do you need cookies for? ”

Behind Xu Haiqing, his sister Xu Jinping hugged her arms, looked at the back of his head coldly, and said coldly.

"Well, I'm not full, I'll go back to the house and get some food."

Xu Haiqing shrank his neck in fright, turned around and went back to the house to row another bowl of rice.

"The rice this morning was so delicious, and the braised pork and potato stew were particularly fragrant.

Milk, where did that rice pot go? Keep it for me, I'll gnaw it during the day. ”

Xu Haiqing touched his round belly and said contentedly.

Xu Jinping rolled her eyes, but she couldn't help but scold her brother again.

"After eating, hurry up and learn, did you write the Chinese characters and pinyin that you left yesterday?

I'm telling you, if you don't finish writing, don't want to go out today. ”

"Oh, can't I write it? Write, write, write, let me write every day. ”

Xu Haiqing muttered while going to Westinghouse to do his homework.

On the other side, Xu Haiyuan came out of the house with a lunch box on his back, met Huang Shuqing and them on the way, and then went to school together.

When I went to the school, I saw several cars parked at the gate.

The car was transferred by Su Anying to Guo Shouye.

The ginseng land of Donggang Primary School is on the side of the small mountain village, on the way to Xinglong Township, more than 20 miles away from Donggang.

Normally, teachers go to work by bicycle, but today the mallet is very old, and the 500-zhang mallet is quite old, so the teachers can't be transported back by bicycle, right?

Principal Gao found Su Anying and wanted Su Anying to help her get out of the car.

But the cars of Su Anying's company are all half-cuts, and even the mallets and children, those half-cuts are not enough.

So I found Guo Shouye, transferred a few buses from the Forestry Bureau, sent the children over in the morning, and picked them up in the afternoon.

There are four classes in the sixth grade, and each class gathers at half past six in the morning, and after counting the number of people, the teacher takes the students out of the school and directly on the bus.

No matter what it is, the car bucket behind it can sit on people.

Directly put down the rear compartment of the car bucket and set up a springboard, and this group of thirteen or fourteen children staggered on the bus.

A driver recognized Xu Haiyuan and hurriedly shouted at Xu Haiyuan to sit in the front driver's building.

Xu Haiyuan felt that he was not good at this special, so he refused the driver's kindness and sat in the back of the car with his classmates.

The students are all sitting in the car bucket, and the teachers are no exception.

So except for Principal Gao, the vice principal, and the director of teaching, all the other teachers sat in the car bucket.

Fortunately, the school prepared a lot of sacks, which happened to be spread in the car.

The children sat directly on the sacks, talking and laughing along the way, and laughing and laughing to the place.

Before departure, the school has already assigned tasks, and after arriving at the place, each class is responsible for how many strings to take into account.

Male teachers basically hold three-toothed guns, and strong female teachers also have to carry three-toothed planers.

Other female teachers led the boys to the ginseng shed and cut the ginseng leaves, and the girls followed the teacher to pick up the mallets.

Anyway, most of the country children have a job in their eyes, and no one dares to be lazy, so they are all very serious about looking for work.

Don't worry about it, even if it's a child, a lot of people can be useful.

By noon, most of the 500 hammers had come up.

Not to mention, the mallet of Donggang Primary School is good, it can be big, body or anything, and there is not much rust or rotten scars.

Principal Gao picked up a three-toothed mallet all morning, making his tired back ache.

"It's noon, let the children rest and eat.

Oh, it's not easy, it's weird and tired, let's take a break to eat a little bit, and then work in the afternoon. ”

The principal has spoken, who dares not to listen?

Besides, this morning was really tiring and panicked, so the teachers put down their tools, and the children also stopped what they were doing.

Everyone gathered at the head of each pond and took off their school bags from the stumps, branches, and pillars.

Naturally, the schoolbag contains not books, but dry food.

"Don't eat yet, there's a small ditch over there, hurry up and wash your hands."

Look at your little hands, how dark it is, how can you eat without washing your hands? ”

Over there, the teachers of each class saw it and hurriedly urged the children to wash their hands.

The children ran to the ditch, washed their hands, and then came back to open their schoolbags and take out the food they had brought to eat.

"Xu Haiyuan, what kind of food did you bring? What is it? ”

There was that curious, and when he saw Xu Haiyuan open a very strange box, he came over and asked.

"Oh, this is the insulated lunch box issued by my father's unit, and my grandmother asked me to bring rice."

Xu Haiyuan said as he opened the lid of the insulated lunch box.

At one end are two small aluminum lunch boxes stacked on top of each other, with vegetables on top and rice on the bottom.

Whether it's vegetables or rice, it's all hot.

The plastic bottled water next to it is also hot.

When I opened the lunch box above, it was braised pork and stewed potatoes, but compared to what I ate in the morning, there was more meat and less potatoes.

It's September, and it's not too warm on the mountain, so it's still nice to have a hot meal.

Xu Haiyuan was also tired and hungry this morning, so what else to say, bow your head and eat.

"Oh, you also brought braised pork, it's so good."

Someone next to him saw it, and his greedy saliva was about to come down.