Fengcheng old events

Chapter 81 Don't lose your temper, live well
Liu Zhaofeng went to pour a bowl of hot water for his mother and sister.

There is no water cup at home, not in his family, but in this era, no one has one, they all use bowls.

Zhang Jingyi looked around the house.Green-painted window rooms and wooden doors, scraped white plaster walls, newly played Kangqin and standing cabinets.

Liu Guixin asked: "Brother, why did you build the house before? I haven't heard you mention it."

Liu Zhaofeng said: "Aren't you going to get married? There must be a place. It was built last year, and Shuying's family helped to set it up. It didn't cost much."

Liu Guixin glanced at Liu Zhaofeng: "It doesn't matter if you want money."

Since Liu Zhaofeng came to the tree raising circle, his wages have not been handed over to his family. Zhang Jingyi has never asked his children for money. This is the first time he left Zhangjiabao and came to the tree raising circle.

Liu Zhaofeng looked at his watch and said, "It's almost noon, Mom, what do you want to eat, I'll ask Shuying to make it for you."

Zhang Jingyi turned to look at Liu Guixin. She had no idea and was used to listening to other people's arrangements.

Liu Guixin glanced at the closed door of the back room, thought for a while and said, "Forget it, we're going back, brother, you just live your life well, and come back to see our mother during the Chinese New Year."

Zhang Jingyi listened to his daughter and got down from the edge of the kang to stand on the ground.

Liu Zhaofeng said: "I finally came here, so I have to eat and leave."

Liu Guixin said: "No, it's just that my mother insists on coming to give you something, just to see that you are doing well. My father is still waiting by the river. Let's go, mother."

Zhang Jingyi followed Liu Guixin out, and Liu Zhaofeng sent them out. When they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Zhang Jingyi reached out and took off a little something on Liu Zhaofeng's arm, patted it lightly, and said, "I won't send you off. Walk slowly with Jinbao, it won't be far."

Liu Guixin said: "Well, brother, you go back, I know Daoer."

Liu Zhaofeng came out anyway, closed the courtyard door and helped Zhang Jingyi go.

Go along the narrow alley to the carriageway, come out from the village, walk through the vegetable field to the river.

It was almost noon now, and there was no one on the river, so Liu Zhaofeng went to look in the huts of the punters, and called out to the sleeping punters: "My mother and my sister are going to cross the river, please work hard." .”

The boatman stretched his waist, and the dark muscle lines on his body twisted one by one: "It's going to be late, isn't it? Why don't you stay for a few days?"

Liu Zhaofeng said: "There is something at home, and my mother is in a hurry to leave. You won't come back? Wait for your wife to deliver the meal?"

The boatman took out his watch from the pocket of his clothes hanging in the shack, looked at it, and said, "Go back. I fell asleep just now. I'll go pull the boat later, and let someone row the other end."

He put the watch in his pocket, walked onto the trembling simple pier, moved his arms a few times and plunged into the river like a fish, and when he exposed his head, he was already about ten meters away.

Liu Guixin looked at the back of the punter in the river and asked, "Where is he going?"

Liu Zhaofeng pointed to the other side: "Go and pull the boat. The boat was rowed to the other side when he was sleeping just now."

Zhang Jingyi looked at his son and said, "You live well on your own. I don't need you to hang around here. I have food and drink. You take care of yourself."

Liu Zhaofeng said: "I know, I'm an adult now, mom. You're doing well there too. If you need something, please send me a message. I'll go back to see you at the end of the year."

Zhang Jingyi stopped talking and stared at the wide river in a daze.

The punter was very fast, swam sideways across the river and ran up to the pier over there, and brought the boat over.

Liu Guixin helped Zhang Jingyi get on the boat and sat down. The punter pushed up the pole, and the boat left the pier. Zhang Jingyi turned his head and waved to Liu Zhaofeng who was on the shore: "Go back, don't lose your temper, and have a good time."

Liu Zhaofeng agreed, stood on the bank and watched the boat go away, then turned around and walked slowly towards the house.

When the boat arrived on the other side, the boatman helped Liu Guixin to help Zhang Jingyi ashore. Zhang Wanzhi was sitting on a rock beside the pier, smoking a cigarette. When he saw the two women came back, he stood up and patted his pants: "Why so fast? I left without eating." ah?"

Zhang Jingyi glared at Zhang Wanzhi: "You are the only one who eats too much." Zhang Wanzhi laughed a few times, and the three of them walked to the train station together.

At the train station, Liu Guixin went to the cooperative in the brigade to buy three breads. They didn't want food stamps, and gave one to Zhang Jingyi and Zhang Wanzhi.

This kind of old-fashioned sourdough bread, which is not even seen by children in later generations, is a luxury in this era, and few people can afford it, or they will be willing to eat it.There is also soda in the cooperative, which I really hate to drink.

The three of them ate bread and walked towards the back of the mountain.

Going up the steep slope, Zhang Wanzhi was pulling in front, Liu Guixin was supporting and pushing in the back, dragged Zhang Jingyi up, and then slowly walked home along the National Defense Highway.

The three of them didn't talk much along the way, Zhang Jingyi was just dumbfounded, Liu Guixin didn't know what to say, and Zhang Wanzhi didn't talk much.

Arriving at Xishan Pass, Zhang Jingyi turned his head to look at the tree circle for a while in the mountain wind. From this side, he could see the big river, and he couldn't even see the houses clearly.

Liu Guixin and Zhang Wanzhi didn't urge them, they just stayed with them. The mountain wind blew the clothes of the three of them. Liu Guixin and Zhang Jingyi's hair was blown a little loose, dancing in the wind.

After watching for a while, Liu Guixin said: "Mom, let's go, it's windy, don't blow it."

Zhang Jingyi turned his head slowly, raised his hand to straighten his hair: "Let's go."

Zhang Jingyi couldn't take a steep shortcut, so the three of them could only walk along the national defense road paved with gravel, and they didn't walk back to the yard until 03:30.

Zhang Wanli sat on the stone platform under the window smoking a pipe, and saw three people come in and asked, "Did you find it? Have you eaten yet?"

Liu Guixin said, "I found it. My brother's newly built big tile-roofed house."

Zhang Wanli nodded and said, "Come in and have dinner. It's warming up for you. Tonight you have to live in Beikang again. It burned for a long time, and it will be hot at night."

Zhang Jingyi said: "I'm not hungry, just Jinbao bought bread for me to eat."

Zhang Wanli said: "What is there to do with that little stuff, a piece of bread is not worth a single potato. Eat some, Jin Rong, go clean it up, and lie down and rest after eating."

Liu Guixin entered the room and set up the kang table, brought in the hot food in the pot and set it up. Zhang Jingyi put down the bowl after eating less than half a bowl of sorghum rice, and lay down without pulling his luggage.

After Zhang Wanzhi finished eating, Liu Guixin cleared the dining table, and Zhang Wanli said, "Come out, sit outside and bask in the sun for a while, and let your mother lie down alone for a while."

Liu Guixin thought for a while, went outside, and sat down next to Zhang Wanli on the stone under the window sill.Zhang Wanzhi came out with a cigarette bag and sat on the other side.

Zhang Wanli said, "Isn't it a little bit full of life?"

Liu Guixin thought for a while, then nodded.

Zhang Wanli said: "It's not easy. Your brother goes out alone, life outside is not easy, and it's hard to find a wife these days. Forget it, it's good to live well. Your mother, this is a memory of the past , just let her lie down for a while."

(End of this chapter)