Chapter 4 Roasted Wheat Kernels
"What about the Gregorian calendar?"
"It seems to be May 18th! He's right? ”
"Yes, Xiao Wu who I picked up from school with you the day before yesterday, I remember it clearly!"
Yang Xingwu heard his father's words, thought for a moment and asked:
"Isn't it almost full?"
"Yes, there are still three days to go!"
"What's wrong? What's the matter? ”
Wang Zhaodi saw that her son asked in such detail, and hurriedly asked.
Hearing his mother's concern, Yang Xingwu didn't hide it, after all, he looked like a weak scholar, and he couldn't do anything, but with the help of his family, he could do it.
Thinking of this, Yang Xingwu said:
"When it comes to the season of eating wheat kernels, you say that the people in our village can still eat some food, but those people in the city eat commercial grain, can they eat it?"
"What can they eat? It's almost the same to buy flour directly with food stamps! ”
Wang Zhaodi was disdainful when she heard her son's words.
"Da, mother, what if we take Mai Ren to the city to sell it?"
As soon as these words came out, the scene of the hot meal was suddenly silent.
The little sister who was eating saw that the atmosphere on the dinner table was not right, and the action of drinking soup suddenly became smaller.
Yang Xingwu saw the atmosphere at the dinner table, and his heart suddenly tightened, didn't he say that there was no problem with agricultural and sideline products? Why do the family members have such expressions? Could it be that the intelligence is wrong?
Thinking of this, Yang Xingwu hurriedly asked:
"Da, mother, is there something wrong with the eldest brother?"
Yang Chunsheng looked at his son with a complicated gaze.
"No, if you get caught, it's speculation!"
"Didn't you say that agricultural and sideline products are fine? Why don't we sell some food? It's all grown in the ground! ”
"That's what those people think, but who knows what those people think! You! Don't toss, study hard! ”
After Yang Chunsheng finished speaking, he stopped talking.
When Yang Xingwu saw this situation, he hurriedly looked at Wang Zhaodi.
"Don't look at me, you're right, it's better not to touch this thing, if it's an egg, I can still believe it!"
Yang Xingwu saw that his parents were very resolute and immediately changed his strategy.
"Da, you also know, now is the season to eat wheat kernels, sell some wheat kernels, and buy some coarse grains when the time comes, so we don't have to starve, do you see how hungry my little sister is?
And let's pick a few catties first to try it, if it's useful and then pick, if it's useless, we won't do it, it's really profitable, let's bring the villagers to do it together, and then the villagers will have to thank us, even if something really happens, so many people, it is impossible to deal with it! ”
Yang Xingwu said and kicked his little sister, Yang Xiaohong didn't hear anything else, but the temptation to eat a full meal was too great.
I couldn't help but echo it.
"Da, mother, why don't we try! I'm hungry! ”
Hearing his daughter's words, Yang Chunsheng suddenly fell silent.
Wang Zhaodi looked at the family, all of them were yellow and thin.
Although it is now a semi-idle state, the family can't even eat a steamed bun at noon, and the steamed vegetables are confused with soup, all of which are thin, and even a dry meal a day can't be guaranteed, thinking of the few cornmeals in the kitchen, Wang Zhaodi gritted her teeth and said:
"Hey, why don't you try it! There is not much food at home, and it will take half a month to harvest wheat! Then the family will be out of food! ”
"Yes! Why, why don't you try it! If something happens, say I did it! ”
Yang Xiaolan also agreed.
Yang Xingwen looked at the family and was silent.
When Yang Chunsheng saw this scene, he secretly said that he was useless, he couldn't even support his family, and he made up his mind when he thought of this.
"Zhong, then try, tomorrow morning, let's cut some points and explore the way in the city!"
Hearing this, Yang Xingwu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Whew! That's great! ”
Yang Xiaohong was immediately happy when she heard her father's words.
Yang Chunsheng looked at the smiles of several people, and became more and more firm in his inner thoughts.
The family had a happy lunch.
After eating, Wang Zhaodi went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, and the rest of the people went to rest on the kang.
Yang Chunsheng looked at Yang Xingwu and said:
"It's better!"
"Hmm!"
"Then go and see your grandfather, he came to see you when you were unconscious, and now you wake up and go over!"
"Tube!"
Yang Xingwu got up as he spoke, and Yang Xingwen on the side hurriedly took his younger brother out of the house, walked two or three hundred meters, and came to his grandfather's house.
As soon as he walked into the courtyard, Yang Xingwen shouted.
"Grandma, I've brought Xiao Wu to see you!"
Hearing the shouts of his grandson, several people came out of the house.
Seeing people, Yang Xingwu hurriedly shouted:
"Grandpa, grandma, second uncle!"
"Hey, Xiao Wu is okay!"
"Good grandson, are you better, what's wrong?"
Liu Cuihua stepped forward to take Yang Xingwu's hand as she spoke, and looked at it carefully for a long time.
"Milk, I'm much better, but I was too tired some time ago, so I slept a little longer."
Hearing this, Liu Cuihua was suddenly unhappy.
"What do you mean to sleep for a long time? You've been injected, and you still say it's not serious, you kid, why are you working so hard? It's our fate to be admitted, and it's our fate to fail the exam, don't be so tough in the future! ”
Listening to his grandmother's nagging, Yang Xingwu nodded in agreement, and it took a while to let him go.
After talking to his grandmother, Yang Xingwu came to his grandfather and second uncle again, and the two asked a few simple questions and asked Yang Xingwen to take his younger brother home to recuperate.
Not long after arriving home, Yang Xingwu saw his grandmother come over with his second aunt, sent ten eggs to the family, and chatted for a while before leaving.
Seeing this scene, Yang Xingwu sighed with emotion,
His father has five brothers and sisters, two of whom starved to death in the great famine forty years ago, and now there is still a father, a second uncle, and an aunt.
After experiencing life and death, the family became more and more united, although they occasionally quarreled, but there was never ambiguity in the face of right and wrong.
Seeing this scene, Yang Xingwu liked this era more and more.
The next day, just after dawn, Yang Xingwu got up and just wanted to work in the field, when he saw his father and eldest brother pushing the green ears of wheat that had been cut in half of the cart.
Seeing Yang Xingwu get up, Yang Chunsheng said:
"Don't go! The body is just right, don't get tired! ”
"Don't worry! I'm fine! ”
Yang Xingwu said and jumped on the spot twice, Yang Chunsheng saw that his son was indeed fine, so he was relieved.
The three of them immediately pulled the cart and were about to go to the city.
Yang Xingwu thought about it and hurriedly stopped it, put a lot of firewood in the car, and took a few matches, and then pulled the car out of the house.
It was already noon when they arrived in the city, and Yangjiazhuang was about sixty miles away from the city, and the three of them walked for almost eight hours.
Yang Xingwu overestimated his physical strength a little, people in this era, when they walked, they were fast and fierce, and their endurance was still full, unlike him who walked more than 20 miles and then wasted, and was still pulled by his eldest brother and father in the car.
The three of them discussed it and went directly to the gate of the elementary school.
When he came to the school gate, Yang Xingwu lit a fire, put the ears of wheat on the fire and roasted them, the school bell rang, and many students came out of the school.
Yang Xingwu saw the students after school and immediately shouted:
"Wheat kernels, roasted wheat kernels, delicious and inexpensive!"
Hearing the shouting, many students gathered around.
"How did you sell it?"
"Three cents for one, five for two!"