Seventy cannon fodder is a ruthless man

Chapter 39
Meng Tao followed the tractor back to the village. A few bags of fertilizer were transported in the bucket. The weight of the bucket did not bounce so much. Meng Tao sat on the quilt wrapped in thick kraft paper. Besides buying two I have a new quilt for the bed, half a bag of stretched cotton for pillows and winter jackets, I also bought a small steel pot for cooking, an iron pot for cooking, and a large copper pot for boiling water, stacked on my knees Hold it like a baby, otherwise it will be ruined.

In addition, I bought a small wind stove, a few dishes, a pottery basin for washing vegetables and dishes, and a pound of coarse salt. I bought two pounds of rapeseed oil with an oil ticket and put it in the space.

Chopping boards, chopsticks, spoons, spatulas, vegetable baskets, back baskets, etc. There are carpenters and carpenters in the village, which are easy to do.

When Wang Shuifeng asked Meng Taohua to move to Tian's house, he also took away all the pots and pans that were used for daily use. Now the kitchen utensils used by the educated youth are not from the Meng family. Fortunately, Zhou Shian and Bao Shunfeng used the reason that Mr. Meng's bones were not cold. Stop the furniture from moving, otherwise Wang Shuifeng will remove it.

Washbasins, buckets, warmers, etc., you can buy them in the provincial capital and take them out from the space. When I went to the commune today, Meng Tao refused to accompany Zhou Cuiling, because it was for convenience.

The tractor stopped in front of the brigade warehouse, and the tractor driver was busy carrying the fertilizer to put away. Meng Tao took advantage of the situation and asked the warehouse keeper to borrow a pole and two large baskets, loaded everything, and carried it home.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Meng Tao was not busy putting things away, and locked them all in the room, changed into old clothes, and returned the poles and baskets first, and then took advantage of the fact that Captain Bao Shunfeng didn't come back. The knife hit the big green hill behind the village.

If Bao Shunfeng saw her, he would definitely have to call her to go to work with the production team, but that would not work, her work was not finished yet.

Climbing to the halfway up the mountain in one breath, Meng Tao didn't feel tired, she still had strong legs and feet, and she was full of energy. At this time, she deeply realized the benefits of space to her body. She did not have such physical strength in her previous life, and in the past Meng Taohua was used to farming. , Climbing down the mountain is no problem, but she was injured a few days ago and suffered a concussion when Tian Xianglan knocked her. If there is no space, she will never recover so quickly.

Meng Tao went up the mountain to chop bamboo. She entered the space last night and saw that all the melon and bean seedlings had climbed up the stone platform. She had to set up a shelf. Otherwise, the stone platform of only ten square meters would not be able to settle.

Those antique tables and chairs collected in the provincial capital are always stacked in the space. It's going to take a few years, and it's very frustrating.

Finding a green bamboo grove, Meng Tao chopped more than 30 long and straight bamboos as thick as an arm, shaved off the branches and leaves, no matter how long or short they were, and put them all into the space, and went in at night to build a shelf.

Once you have chopped bamboo, you should go to chop wood. When you go up the mountain, you have to carry the firewood back. You need firewood to boil water and cook.

Meng Tao picked up a bunch of dry firewood branches in the forest, tied them into two bundles with rattan, picked them back and burned them at night, and then went to the weeds to cut miscellaneous wood to make firewood. The dry firewood branches came from big trees. It falls naturally from the top, it is relatively brittle, the raw wood is thick and tough, and it is resistant to burning after drying. Meng Tao can understand this from the memory left by Meng Taohua.

Chopping firewood is also addictive, especially when encountering a large piece of good firewood, I just don’t want to stop, and occasionally I encounter wild lemon trees, full of lemon fruits, some of which are still green, and some are already showing. It is golden yellow and smells very fragrant. Meng Tao picked a lot of them and put them in the space. Adding a slice of lemon to the boiling water is very delicious. You can also make pickled lemons, candy and salt, and if you have ducks, you can also Cook a lemon duck to eat... Meng Tao's saliva is about to flow down the more she thinks about it.

Looking up at the sky, it was cloudy and there was no sun, and I couldn't tell when it was time. I should have lunch. I was busy taking out a box of biscuits from the space to chew on. These are imported biscuits that Shen Yu bought from nowhere. For many West Pointers Meng Tao, the taste is alright. If she is thirsty, she can peel a fresh lemon. It is a little sour. She can eat it, so she can deal with it for lunch.

After all, the biscuits are snacks. I felt a little full, so I stopped eating them and continued to chop firewood. Meng Tao decided to cut all the pieces of firewood, and then bundled them up and put them in the space to take home.

In the future, every time she went up the mountain to chop wood, she would pick a load of wood, and two load of wood would be added to the stack. Others would not know her secret, but they would only think that she was really a hard-working and capable girl.

I don't know how long it took to cut, but Meng Tao raised her head to look in front of her, and finally realized a fact: she couldn't cut all the firewood on the mountain.

So he resolutely put away the knife and started pulling the rattan to tie it up. After a long time, he tied it into more than 60 bundles of firewood. Pack half of it, and leave the other half in piles on the mountain, and come up to carry it later when you have time.

He chopped a thicker piece of firewood to make a pole, and picked up two bundles of dry firewood to go down the mountain.

When I got home and saw that the educated youth had come back to make dinner, I asked Qian Liang who was wearing a watch, only to find out that it was six o'clock.

The educated youths started working together and took turns cooking. Today it was Qian Liang and Qian Xiaoyun’s turn. Qian Liang was sitting in the yard washing vegetables and shallots. Qian Xiaoyun was busy in the kitchen. When he heard Meng Tao came back, Qian Xiaoyun ran out to ask her. Do you want to eat together? Meng Tao didn't refuse this time. She nodded and agreed. Now that she has food, she can add some food to join her.

Unload the firewood in the other corner of the kitchen. She wants to build a pile of firewood here. Today, there are only two bundles, and it will gradually increase. One day, I will cut a few bundles of grass to cover it. In the firewood room are the firewood of the educated youth. And farming tools, she didn't plan to go in and squeeze, if they found her firewood kept increasing for a long time, she was afraid it would arouse suspicion.

He went back to the room and scooped up half a bowl of rice, then took the oiler to the kitchen, and told Qian Xiaoyun that this was the newly bought rapeseed oil, so he could pour more cooking, Qian Xiaoyun waved his hand: "No, no, we live in your house. , you are the landlord, it's okay to have a meal together."

Meng Tao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, we will eat it together often in the future. Let's wash the rice and cook it, or it will be half cooked."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and looked around the kitchen. The big stove was still there, and the big iron pot on it should have been given by the brigade. The educated youths used it to boil water and hot water. The two-eyed small stove was cooking while cooking, and the other wall was leaning against a wall. The bulky large cupboard is one person tall and has three floors. The upper floor has a sliding door, and the middle and lower floors have double doors. It was made by a carpenter by Mr. Meng. The wood used was good, and it would not get damp or moldy for so many years.

Meng Tao stood on tiptoe and looked at the upper level of the cupboard, and said to Qian Xiaoyun, "The eight of you can use two levels to store things. I will use this upper level in the future."

Qian Xiaoyun nodded: "Then you have to buy a lock and lock it yourself, and we lock it too, because when I go to work, the gate of the courtyard is closed like this, and no one knows who comes in. Besides, Tian Xianglan used to live here, she The kids at home love to dig around and rummage around, we dropped things a few times and had to be careful."

"Okay, I know."

(End of this chapter)