hunting in 1986

In Lindu.

A cold wind blew outside the window, and a cloud covered the sun for an instant, dimming the light.

After drinking a few glasses of wine in Zhao Xing's shop, Wang Yuan planned to leave with a cigarette between his elbows.

Zhao Xing was drunk and sleepy, when he saw Wang Yuan was about to leave, he suddenly said:
"I heard that Zhou Li is pregnant again?"

"Ah? I don't know either." Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, his uncle was concerned about whether his sister-in-law was pregnant or not, and he sighed again:
"It's been so many years and it's time to let it go, find a good woman and live a good life, people can't always live in the past, we still have to look forward."

Zhao Xing sighed and did not continue talking.

Wang Yuan left the store with a cigarette in his mouth, and rode his motorcycle to the house. If Zhao Xing couldn't figure out some things, it would be useless for others to say more.

chu chu chu ~
When Wang Yuan returned to Wangjiatun, he happened to see his younger sister Wang Xiaodie and Xiaoyu, Xiaohua and the others playing sandbags, swish swish~ sandbags sewed in rags were flying around in the air, You get one point for catching the sandbag, and you lose one point for being hit by a sandbag.

rub rub~
The children not only have to concentrate, but also have to run back and forth constantly, sweating profusely.

"Xiaodie! Are you playing here?"

"Second brother, have you gone gawking?"

A little yellow dog was lying on the small mound next to it, and it was unknown who raised it and barked at Wang Yuan. The latter glared at it and ran away with his tail between his legs.

"Go to the city to buy some milk powder, remember to go home by yourself when it's time for dinner, don't let our mother look for you everywhere."

"Oh, I see."

Wang Yuan rode his motorcycle back home and handed over all the milk powder he bought to Li Yan to put away. He had just turned on the TV and watched for a while when the rustic Xiaodie and Xiaoyu came over.

Humph~
He ran into the back room like a crazy girl, and rummaged through the boxes without any politeness:
"Second brother, have you bought something delicious? You can't buy nothing, right?"

"I just know how to eat...there is still sugar, I'll get it for you." Wang Yuan asked Li Yan who was cooking, and it turned out that she put the bag of sugar into the drawer on the left of Kangqin.

There are all kinds of candies in a bag, including crisp candy, rice candy, white rabbit milk candy, fruit skin, fruit candy, rock candy and so on.

You can choose whatever you like to eat. Uncle Zhongshan's daughter "Xiaoyu" was a little shy, so Wang Yuan coaxed her to bring her a few pieces of candy.

"Don't think that you can take whatever you want, it's just like your own home here."

"Uh-huh."

Xiaoyu glanced at him weakly, then unconsciously moved his eyes to the big white cat sleeping on the kang, the sun was soft, and the smell of the big white cat sleeping curled up in a ball with its neck twisted ah.

Wang Yuan smiled and said: "This big white cat thief can sleep, and does nothing all day long, eats and sleeps, Xiaoyu, do you have a cat at home?"

"No, my mother dislikes cats that shed fur and have fleas on them." Xiaoyu said pitifully. She also wanted to have a cat, but her mother wouldn't let it.

"Haha, did your dad go to work again?"

"Well, it seems to be going to Heishan Tun'er." Xiaoyu finally became less nervous after eating sweets beautifully.

Her family did not have much land and it was difficult to support the whole family. Her father, Zhang Zhongshan, worked for the Chicken Raising Cooperative, and often had to ride a bicycle to other villages.

Although it is very hard, it is really not easy to find a job in the countryside of this era.

Sudden.

There was a sound of milky dog ​​barking outside, and the three hounds rushed out at the sound, so fast that they slammed the door of the house with a loud bang.

Wang Yuan and the others ran out quickly, and it turned out that the little yellow dog they had just seen came here.

"Hey? Why did this little dog come to our house? Whose family is it?" Wang Yuan hurriedly drove the three hounds away. The little yellow dog was cowering, its legs were trembling, and it almost died of fright.

"Oh, Xiao Huang!"

It turned out that the little yellow dog belonged to Xiaoyu's family. She quickly hugged the little dog, looked left and right, and was relieved when she found that she hadn't been bitten.

After the cooked meal was cooked, Xiaoyu was supposed to stay here to eat, but she was worried that her mother would lose her temper if she couldn't find her, so she carried the little yellow dog home.

After lunch, he felt sleepy, and Wang Yuan lay down on the kang and fell asleep. When he woke up again, it was already past 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

He was woken up by Li Yan, and in a daze, Li Yan directly stuffed the two children into his arms:
"What time is it and I'm still sleeping, get up quickly, Xiaoping is here, I'll go out and have a look."

"My sister-in-law is here?"

Wang Yuan yawned and sat up. Looking through the window, his sister-in-law Li Ping was unloading the basket on the back seat of the bicycle.

Wang Yuan and his wife went out to welcome them, and the first thing they saw was the stupid chicken in the basket.

In the basket on the left is a big rooster and two stupid hens, and in the basket on the right are 12 chicks.

"jijiji~"

The little fluffy chickens kept barking, and the three hounds jumped up and down, trying to bite them.

"Sister, brother-in-law, my mother asked me to bring you chickens. It's a pity that there are no chickens in such a big yard, and ducks. Besides, after raising these chickens, you don't need to spend money to eat eggs."

"Ah? I'm afraid it's not enough for a dog to bite."

Wang Yuan looked at Li Yan. He had never raised chickens, ducks, geese, etc. in the yard of his house. The hounds were too active and might kill these poultry.

Li Yan also smiled helplessly: "It's all here, so just raise it, my mother is also kind."

Before it was dark, several people built a chicken coop on the east side of the yard, surrounded a small open space, and covered it with a net to prevent them from running out and dogs from entering.

The small range of activities is a bit small, but it will not let the dog bite to death.

"Mom, chick!"

The most excited is the eldest daughter, Xiao Tingzi. Seeing the yellow-haired chicks with bright eyes, Li Yan caught one for her to play with, but soon found that the chicks were about to be pinched to death by her. , and quickly snatched the chick back.

"My dear daughter, you'd better stop playing. If you play for a while, you will die. Go to the house and play."

Li Yan put the little chicken back into the chicken coop, staggered a few times, and the little chicken went to eat crookedly.

"Mom, let me play for a while, I won't pinch it anymore."

"Be obedient, don't you deserve a beating?"

Hearing that he was going to be beaten, Xiao Tingzi hurried back to the house on short legs, and if he was dishonest, he would really be slapped.

In the evening, I stewed a pot of pork ribs, and it was completely dark when the fragrant ribs were served on the table outside.

Huhuhu~
woooooo~
The cold wind is very strong, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, and the thin wind blows in through the cracks of the windows. Listening to that sound makes people feel very cold.

"Oh my god, the wind is cooling down, I'm afraid it's going to snow soon." Li Yan quickly put on a padded jacket. After giving birth to three children, she always felt a little weak, afraid of the cold, and prone to colds:
"Do we still have waste newspapers in our house? The cracks in the walls and windows should be re-pasted."

"Yes, let's eat first, and you will be muddy after eating."

Wang Yuan sat cross-legged next to the kang table, holding a big white flour steamed bun in one hand, and holding the chopsticks in the other hand to put the delicious pork ribs into the bowl, and gnawed directly with the ribs in his hand.

Li Yan and Li Ping also ate big pieces.

Li Yan also took the time to feed Xiaotingzi a few pieces of pork ribs. The stewing time was very long, and the aroma of the seasoning had been completely integrated into the meat, making people want to eat more and more.

"It's delicious. The ribs we stewed are okay, right? It's no worse than the ribs in the restaurant."

"It's okay, isn't the ribs in the restaurant quite expensive?"

"Hey, death is expensive and death is expensive. If we spend the money to stew this pot of ribs, I'm afraid I can only buy a small plate in a restaurant." Wang Yuan sucked the bone marrow after eating the meat, and threw the bones to the dog. them.

Dogs like to eat bones. As soon as they poked their mouths, they grabbed the bones and began to eat big pieces. Kakaka~ The sharp dog teeth directly crushed the bones and swallowed them into their stomachs.

Chatting and chatting while eating, after several people finished eating a big helmet of ribs, Li Yan went to fill another helmet.

"Take a spoon and drink some rib soup. This rib soup is the most nutritious."

After Li Ping finished eating a big steamed bun, she took another one and started to eat. She felt that it was better to be at her sister's house. Not only was there delicious food, but no one talked about her.

Talking about what happened at home, Li Ping poured out bitter water, saying that her mother-in-law would not let her have enough food every day, and she cleared the table before the meal was finished.

"Anyway, it's not. If you say you don't have enough to eat, then I haven't seen you lose weight?"

"I've lost weight. I used to be able to see three chins when I lowered my head, but now I have one."

"Isn't that good too? Hahaha~"

After eating, Wang Yuan found old newspapers, tore them into vertical strips, mixed a bowl of paste and dried them directly.

"Put on your cotton jacket, it's cold outside."

Here in Wangjiatun, the window seams are pasted on the outside, and the humidity in the house in winter is not easy to wet the window paper.

Holding flashlights and brushes, the three went straight out the door.

Huhuhu~
It was really a strong wind to cool down the temperature. The three people wearing thick padded jackets were all shivering from the cold.

"It's really cold, let's hurry up and go back to the house."

"Where's the brush, pass me the brush."

Three people worked very quickly, and the windows of one room were quickly pasted up. As for the other windows-there are no people living today anyway, so let's talk about it tomorrow.

When returning to the inner room from the outside, the whole person is surrounded by warmth, and the body is comfortable.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Wang Yuan took the dogs up the mountain, and when he came back, he had two fat rabbits in his hand, and Li Yan also made breakfast and was ready to eat.

Wangjiatun is quiet in the morning, and more and more people eat two meals a day. Many people will sleep until 8-9 am, thinking they are still asleep.

After eating, Wang Yuan carried the two little guys to grandma's yard to play. Li Yan planned to remove the quilt, wash the quilt cover once, and add some cotton to the quilt core.

Only Li Yan, Li Ping and Xiaotingzi are left at home.

Xiao Tingzi can mutter and play house by himself, while the two sisters, Li Yan, are busy with their work while listening to the voices on the TV.

"By the way, sister, if my brother-in-law is so powerful, can she help me find a job? It doesn't matter how much money I have, as long as I can support myself, I really don't want to stay at home."

"What? Isn't it good that you help our parents raise ducks at home?"

"Hey~ If I don't look for a partner, my mother always dislikes me." Li Ping helped Li Yan remove the quilt, and sighed.

……

After ten o'clock in the morning, Wang Yuan came back with two little guys in his arms, and a small bag of cooked peanuts in his hand.

"Third Aunt stir-fried peanuts. When I stood there for a while, she insisted on giving me some when I left. You can't do without... Well, the freshly fried peanuts are really delicious."

Wang Yuan put the two children on the kang, and then sat down on the edge of the kang.

Many rural people are used to being frugal. They brew their own wine, pickle their own pickles, grow their own tobacco leaves, roll their own shredded tobacco, grow their own vegetables and food, and raise their own chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.

They cut firewood up the mountain by themselves, and even fry the cooked peanuts for wine.

Li Yan also ate a few peanuts, which were really delicious. She told Li Ping what she thought and planned to ask Wang Yuan what he meant.

"Xiao Ping wants to work? It's not hard to find a job, but will my father-in-law agree with you to work part-time?"

"Agree! Definitely agree!"

Li Ping immediately stood up excitedly, and she felt very uncomfortable not being financially independent.

"Well, there are many jobs in chicken farming cooperatives, um, why don't you go to work as a clerk? There are jobs in cities and provincial capitals." Wang Yuan said while thinking:
"In addition, Aunt Xue has opened several clothing stores. Let me tell you about selling clothes. In addition, Aunt Xue has also built a farm.

Xiaofang, Xiaoqing and the others need teaching assistants and the like, maybe they also need someone, or..."

Li Ping looked at Wang Yuan in shock. In fact, she didn't know much about Wang Yuan's situation. She only knew that her brother-in-law had a wild heart. The entire chicken farming cooperative had a flying dragon at home and had even traveled abroad.

As for the size of the chicken farming cooperative and how much money Wang Yuan's family has, she doesn't know.

The wave of laid-offs is surging, and she feels that she is a rural person with little culture and skills. It should be very, very difficult to find a job that is not so tiring. After all, many urban people are unemployed.

Unexpectedly, this matter is so simple in Wang Yuan's place.

"Isn't there a wave of layoffs now? I heard that many urban people have no jobs, and I... I don't know anything." Li Ping asked weakly.

"Aiya~ The wave of layoffs is indeed serious, but it doesn't mean it's completely collapsed. You can easily arrange your work alone. If there are thousands of people, then I can't do much."

After talking about it in detail, Li Ping finally wanted to work at Aunt Xue's farm in Baiwu Township.

The reason is also very simple, she seldom goes to the city, and always feels out of place and uncomfortable in unfamiliar cities.

In addition, she feels that she doesn't know anything, but she still knows a little about farming and breeding. After all, she grew up in the countryside, so working on a farm is quite suitable.

And Baiwu Township is next door, not too far from home, it's always better to feel closer to home.

"That's okay, I'll call Aunt Xue, maybe she has to eat at this hour too?" Wang Yuan found one out of a dozen pieces of paper stuck around the photo frame, and it was exactly Xue. Aunt's phone number.