Fengcheng old events

Chapter 95
Walk to the train station, buy a ticket and get on the train, transfer to the city, get on the train and sit on Songshu Terrace, and then climb over the mountain with two travel bags on your back.

The bag is switched from the left shoulder to the right shoulder, and then from the right shoulder to the left shoulder. The shoes are full of sweat, and they slip a little when I try hard. At this moment, the shoes are rubber shoes, and the socks are nylon socks, which are wear-resistant and washable, but not breathable and sweat-absorbent. .

After climbing to the Xiling Mountain Pass, Zhang Qingzhi put down his things and rested for a while, opened his clothes to let the mountain wind blow in, stretched his arms, and carried the bag down the mountain.

It's easier to walk here, it's all downhill, so it's much easier.

After the autumn harvest, the land and fields are empty, and the weeds are bent over by the frost and tremble on the ground.The corn stalks that have not yet been harvested stand withered and yellow in the ground, the world is bleak, and the earth is changing from color to monochrome.

Go under the old walnut tree and walk down the slope.

Amidst a burst of milky dog ​​barking, the west door was opened and entered the courtyard. A little black-and-white milk dog jumped and roared, ran over and bit Zhang Qingzhi's trouser legs, and was led into a somersault with one step. He got up and continued. On the way, he followed to the door and was blocked by a high threshold.It can't climb over.

Zhang Qingzhi entered the house, put the travel bag on the kang, scooped half a ladle of well water into the water tank and poured it down, let out a long breath, took off his sweat-alkali shirt, which was already covered in white flowers, and went to I washed a towel in the basin and went to the back window to look out: "Dad, Mom, I'm here."

Zhang Wanzhi straightened up, took off the straw hat on his head and looked over: "Qing Zhi, you are back, did you come back alone?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "Well, I came back alone, and Guixin had to take care of the children. Is the food growing well this year?"

Zhang Wanzhi threw down his hoe, patted his body with a straw hat with the words "Long Live the Great Proletarian Revolution" and walked over: "Let's make it up, it's still like that, anyway, the garden is closed, and there is nothing to eat. Your mother is in the east courtyard to get cucumbers." Plant it."

Zhang Qingzhi asked: "Where is my uncle?"

"Go to the team. This year's autumn rations are distributed, and the team deducted Guixin's rations. Your uncle went to find someone to reason."

"Ah?" Zhang Qingzhi, who was wiping his face with a towel, stopped for a moment: "Guixin food has been deducted? Why?"

"I can't say it, it's inexplicable, who knows why, your uncle went to the team to ask, so you can't be unintelligible."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "It's not right, the Guixin household registration has not yet been registered, and the land and food quotas are there."

Zhang Wanzhi stepped on the wooden pier and stepped on the window to enter the house, hung the straw hat on the wall to wash his hands, and said: "Even if it falls, it will be next year's business, and it will still be here this year." Thinking about it wrong, he said with a smile: "I I even washed my hands."

Wiped her wet hands on her body, and went out from the main entrance: "Your mother is still in the east courtyard."

Zhang Qingzhi put down the towel and followed him out: "Is there still work at home?"

Zhang Wanzhi said: "It's nothing, these cucumber seeds will be finished after falling. You can rest, I don't need you."

Zhang Qingzhi still followed out the gate of the east courtyard, outside there were some cucumbers grown by his family, and Zhang Jingyi was picking melon seeds in the field.

Cucumbers are called cucumbers because they are really yellow but wait until they are ripe.

Ripe cucumbers have big bodies and thick stems, and the whole body is golden yellow, but they can't be eaten, they can't be chewed, and they become sour, tough and old.

Zhang Jingyi squatted in front of the cucumber rack, picked off the old cucumber seeds, cut them open with a knife, put the melon flesh into a basin, and threw the old melon flesh aside.This can only be fed to pigs or chopped up to feed chickens and ducks.

Hearing someone approaching, Zhang Jingyi didn't turn his head back: "Didling, you have a slow temper every day, and you have been doing it for a long time with just that little work in the backyard."

Zhang Wanzhi let out a laugh: "Qingzhi is back."

Zhang Jingyi turned his head and looked over: "Ah? Damn, Qingzhi, when did you arrive?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "Just arrived. Mom, get up, I'll do it."

Zhang Jingyi said: "Okay, this will be over soon, so don't touch your hands."

Now from Zhang Jingyi, there is still no trace of the wife of the family. She is an out-and-out peasant woman, and she is doing her job well.

The change of the environment on people is really silent and thorough, and all the traces are covered up without revealing it.

Zhang Wanzhi squatted down and picked up the knife: "Okay, the child is back, you have a rest, I will handle the rest."

Zhang Jingyi stood up and thumped his waist with his backhand: "Are Jin Rong and the child okay?"

Zhang Qingzhi nodded: "Okay, the child is white and fat, but he is strong."

Zhang Jingyi showed a smiling face: "That's very good. Wait for Da Da to hug me and have a look."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I'll pick you up when our house is divided. Now it's inconvenient to live in someone else's courtyard, the house is too small."

Zhang Jingyi brushed his hair, took off the clip and put it back on again: "Are you sure?"

Zhang Qingzhi said: "It's sure, all of them will be given points."

After tidying up all the melons on the rack and putting the melon meat into the baskets, Zhang Qingzhi carried the basin, Zhang Wanzhi carried the basket, and the three of them came out from the east courtyard and returned to the main house.

On the window sill, there were scorpion seeds, kidney bean seeds, and other seeds that Zhang Qingzhi didn't know.

At this moment, every family will dry seeds in autumn, and it will save a lot of money in spring.Later, when the state promoted this fine variety and that fine variety, gradually the rural areas stopped drying the seeds, and it was useless to dry them. They were all sterile varieties, and they couldn't grow anything, so they had to be bought again.

And now it has become more expensive than grain, and with the addition of chemical fertilizers, the cost of farming has increased by an unknown number of times.Most importantly, most of the seed sellers are foreign companies.

Cucumber seeds are the same as mangosteen seeds, they have to be rinsed with water, the ones that float to the top are the shriveled ones, and the ones that sink are the good ones, and then they just need to be exposed to the sun.

Zhang Qingzhi rolled up his sleeves to wash the seeds.This thing can only be used with cold water, which is still quite cold at this time.

While washing, Zhang Wanli came in with a big cigarette bag and hands behind his back: "Yo, Qingzhi is back, when did you arrive?"

Zhang Qingzhi turned his head and took a look: "Well, sir, I just arrived not long ago."

Zhang Jingyi asked: "Brother, what did the team say?"

Zhang Wanli thought for a while, and said: "This year's promise has been made up. Tomorrow, Qingzhi and I will carry it back together. It's hard to say next year. We won't be part of our family after we get married. It won't work if I say anything. He's justified. Fucking his ancestors, Lao Zhong's family has no good stuff."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "Is it going to my house next year?"

Zhang Wanli filled the pouch with tobacco powder and shook his head: "No, your household registration is not in the village either. It's gone."

Zhang Qingzhi was stunned for a moment: "Huh? I'm not registered, but Guixin's is. She's still a farmer, and she hasn't been registered there."

Zhang Wanli took out the steel-cased Zibao and lit the cigarette for a few puffs: "It's taken away, I read it, and the seal is covered. It doesn't matter if you didn't fall behind, the procedures here are all done. , can't fault it."

Zhang Qingzhi said: "I'm going to find them tomorrow, really, it's unreasonable."

Zhang Wanli shook his head: "It's useless. It's useless for you to find the commune now. You have to go to the county. It's probably a waste of time. Can you come back after completing the procedures?"

(End of this chapter)