Chapter 19: Bathing

At this time, Gao Mingcheng had already returned to Grandma Xi's house and took a hive out of the house.

Little did he know that an earthquake was about to strike in his house.

Of course, this earthquake, he had expected it a long time ago, and he had experienced it in his previous life, but now it was in advance.

Gao Mingcheng took a bowl of beehives and came to Gao Shouwang's house, and before he entered the door, he smelled a strong smell of meat.

Gao Mingcheng reflexively swallowed his saliva, instinctively arousing the gluttony.

In his previous life, he ate fragrant and spicy food, and he had meat every meal, and he had no special feeling for meat. But now he is particularly hungry for meat because of the lack of materials.

He felt that he could eat a whole rabbit by himself!

Licking the corners of his mouth, he decided to catch the prey again next time, and he had to fight back the tooth sacrifice first!

When you enter the door, the smell of meat is even stronger.

In addition to Gao Shouwang in the house, there are also his father and his brother, Gao Shouwang is the youngest son, his mother is gone, and his father lives with his brother.

Now that it is rare for the family to drink wine and eat meat, he called his father and his brother over together.

A rabbit is made into a spicy rabbit, a pheasant is dehaired and gutted, and stewed with shiitake mushrooms, along with a plate of fried peppers, a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a plate of scrambled eggplant.

"Mingcheng is here, come and sit!" Gao Shouwang came forward to greet Gao Mingcheng and asked him to sit down.

Gao Mingcheng took out the beehive he brought, saying that it was for him.

After getting a bowl of beehives, the smile on Gao Shouwang's face became more obvious.

"Feixia, you vacate this bowl, and by the way, make another bowl of honey water for everyone to drink!" Gao Shouwang shouted loudly, and his wife Dong Feixia was also very face-saving, gentle and virtuous.

Speaking of Dong Feixia, she is also very famous in the village, because she is the only tailor in the village.

If the people in the village want to make clothes, they will go to the town to buy cloth, and then let Dong Feixia make it.

Gao Mingcheng's clothes are mostly made by Dong Feixia.

But until today, he didn't know that Dong Feixia not only made good clothes, but also cooked well.

Of course, this has something to do with her willingness to put spices.

This night, Gao Mingcheng was half-drunk, ate a lot of meat, and chatted with people to the fullest.

Gao Shouwang and his father are the same year, Gao Shouwang's brother and Gao Shouwang's father who were present are much older than Gao Mingcheng, but he himself has traveled extensively and has been reborn, so the four of them talked while eating and drinking, and they chatted very happily.

After coming out of Gao Shouwang's house, silence had returned to the village, and most of the people were ready to go to bed.

There's not much entertainment here, and there are things to do during the day, so everyone goes to bed early at night.

Gao Mingcheng walked on the path in the village in the dark, and tonight the moon was shy and hid and disappeared. However, it is not completely dark, and the outlines of some houses can still be faintly seen.

Back at Grandma Xi's house, the door of his house was closed, which was to leave the door for him.

When I entered the yard, I saw that the room where my grandmother lived was dark, and she was about to sleep, only the light was still on in the tall room.

He slowed down and advanced into the tall room, where he had not yet slept, and was still listening to the radio, but his voice was not loud.

"Brother Mingcheng, the room has been cleaned up for you, it's the one next to me! You say you and I sleep well, and we can listen to the radio together. Gao Zhuang saw that Gao Mingcheng was back, and his expression was a little excited.

He has no brothers, his parents are gone early, and he only depends on his grandmother, for him, Gao Mingcheng is the same as his own brother.

When he was a child, he was thin and weak, and he was often bullied by children in the same village, but it was Gao Mingcheng who helped him and protected him several times, and since then, he has been following Gao Mingcheng.

Since following Gao Mingcheng, the other children no longer dare to bully him.

Otherwise, if you beat him today, Gao Mingcheng will help him fight back tomorrow.

Because of this, Grandma Xi is also very good to Gao Mingcheng, and almost treats him as half a grandson.

Gao Mingcheng said that he was going to live in Grandma Xi's house recently, and Grandma Xi happily cleaned up his bed.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at Gao Zhuang and said unceremoniously: "I hate you for snoring!" ”

Don't look at Gao Zhuangsheng's thinness, but the snoring is not small, and he grinds his teeth!

"Have you taken a shower? I'm going to take a shower first, sweating all over. ”

Gao Zhuang said, "I have already washed it, and I will go to sleep after listening to the story for a while." ”

Since Gao Zhuang had taken a bath, Gao Mingcheng didn't care about him, took a change of clothes from the next room, and carefully put the two pages of gold leaf paper in his trouser pocket under the pillow and hid them.

At this time, their village did not have running water, and the water in the fields depended on the reservoir, and the domestic water for the family depended on the well.

There are three communal wells in the village, and there are also a few wells dug by others, but Gao Mingcheng's family does not have a well, and Gao Zhuang's family does not have one, so they all have to go to the communal wells to fetch water for food.

Because of this, most of the men, women and children in their village are used to bathing in the reservoir, and in the reservoir on the west side, there is a bay called Women's Bay, because of the terrain, there are dense bushes on three sides, so the women in the village are used to bathing there.

The men, on the other hand, would go to another reservoir to bathe.

Gao Mingcheng ran to the edge of the reservoir, took off his clothes in three or two clicks, and then jumped and fell into the water, making a 'pop' sound and splashing.

He took a dip in the water before washing himself.

Stirred by the cold water, the residual alcohol in his body dissipated.

He floated on his back in the water, looking at the sky.

The ink blue is the bottom, the stars are dotted, and the occasional floating clouds are fluttering, which is unpredictable.

The sky of '86 is so beautiful!

Gao Mingcheng sighed, walked from the water to the shore, wet the dirty clothes he had taken off before, rubbed them a few times, even if they were washed, and then wrung them out and threw them on the bushes on the shore.

Then he put on clean clothes, carried the washed dirty clothes, and walked to Grandma Xi's house.

After entering the courtyard, he casually hung his wet clothes on the bamboo pole where he was drying, and then closed the door from the inside.

"I'll go to sleep first." When passing by Gao Zhuang's house, Gao Mingcheng whispered.

"Oh, I'll sleep later." A tall voice came from inside the room, along with voices on the radio.

Gao Mingcheng didn't listen carefully, he wasn't interested in the story on the radio now, he just wanted to study the gold leaf quietly by himself.

Back in his room, Gao Mingcheng lit the kerosene lamp with a match.

This kerosene lamp was also placed here by Grandma Xi before, and when she saw this kerosene lamp, Gao Mingcheng knew why Grandma Xi's room was pitch black.

This is because she gave him the kerosene lamp she used.

A warm current gushed out from the bottom of my heart, and all my limbs felt very warm.