Return to the small mountain village in 1986

After returning from Gaojiacun, Gao Mingcheng rested for two days.

Gao Yue and the others have almost learned how to drive. It is impossible to take them out to learn to drive every day. However, Gao Mingcheng promised that the next time he returns to the village to shake honey, he will let them take turns driving.

This kind of opportunity to drive was rare, and both of them were very happy. Of course, Gao Mingcheng, who didn't have to drive, was also very happy.

After Gao Mingcheng got free time, he began to take care of the baby to relieve the burden of many beautiful women.

However, although Duomei no longer has to take care of Xiao Xuxu, she is not idle either. She wants to sell goods in a clothing store and make bayberry wine from the bayberries brought back by Gao Mingcheng from Gaojiacun.

Although fresh bayberries are delicious, eating too much of them can turn your teeth sore, so after you first get enough of them, your family won’t touch the bayberries very much.

Naturally, the remaining bayberries could not be discarded, so they prepared to make bayberry wine.

The technical requirements for making bayberry wine are very low. Just wash the bayberries and drain the water, then put them into the soju together with rock sugar.

After soaking for a period of time, the bayberry inside must be fished out, so that the bayberry wine will not become turbid and the color of the wine will be much better.

In addition to making bayberry wine, you can also pickle and make bayberry preserves. This can be boiled with sugar and then dried in the sun.

When making bayberry preserves, you can add a little ginger or a little perilla, and the flavors will be different.

Some people also like to add dried prunes. After they are cooked, they can be eaten as a side dish to go with porridge.

Duo Mei also made a pot of bayberry preserves. She chose to add a little bit of ginger. In addition to rock sugar, she also added some honey before serving.

Honey is very rich in nutrients, but it will lose a lot of nutrients when it encounters high temperatures. Therefore, it is best to use warm water to soak honey in water.

Because the quality of the bayberry is good, it tastes very good after being simply boiled and dried. The meat of the bayberry is very thick, and when you bite it, it is sweet and sour, which can make your mouth salivate.

Put the prepared dried bayberry in a water-free and oil-free can, and you can eat it slowly.

After the bayberries were processed, the pears were also processed.

Pears have a high water content. If they are dried and made into dried fruits, then a pear will not have much pear flesh and the taste will be average. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng chose to can the pears.

The cans and bottles that we eat at home are never thrown away. Instead, they are cleaned and used to store various foods.

In addition to storing food, it can also be used for homemade canning.

The method of homemade canning is also simple. Peel and cut the pears into pieces, put them in a glass bottle, add sugar water, close the bottle cap tightly, and steam them in a large iron pot.

After being cooked and sterilized at high temperature, canned food can be stored for a long time.

When Gao Mingcheng explained the production method and principle, Gao Shufang and others were amazed and said: "It turns out that this is how the cans are made."

Now that we have ways to process the bayberries and pears, we can’t leave out the watermelons. The sweet and delicious watermelon husks can be eaten directly, and the remaining watermelon rinds can be sliced ​​and dried to make dried vegetables.

Before slicing the melon rind, you need to peel off a layer of the green skin and the bitten parts inside so that it is clean. After washing, you can slice it and dry it in the sun.

These tasks can be done as you go, so they are not too tiring.

Of course Gao Mingcheng doesn't care about these things, it's Duomei and Gao Shufang who are responsible for them. He now took Xiao Xuxu to the kindergarten.

The kindergarten was built last year. By the end of the year, it had been fully constructed and furnished, and then soft furnished. It has been vacant until now.

Now when you walk into the classroom, there is no strange smell in the air, and brightly colored cartoon paintings can be seen everywhere.

These cartoon paintings are all done by art teachers from the school. They are good at painting and are willing to make some extra money.

In addition to the paintings on the walls, tables, chairs and small blackboards have been set up in the classroom. In addition to these, there are also some teaching aids, which can also be said to be toys.

Some of these toys were bought by Gao Mingcheng in Yangcheng, and some were bought in the provincial capital. They were all bought on the way when going out. After going back and forth, they saved a lot.

In addition to toys, there are also a large number of children's books, mainly picture books and fairy tales, as well as some serialized popular science magazines.

These books are arranged and placed in different classrooms according to the depth of the content. The lower grade books are naturally simple picture books, while the upper grade books are more complex.

Gao Mingcheng saw Xiao Xuxu sitting on the ground and playing with toys seriously, and said with a smile: "Son, when school starts in September, I will send you to study here too!"

Gao Mingcheng indeed plans to send Xiao Xuxu to kindergarten after the kindergarten starts. As long as Xiao Xuxu can adapt, it will be good, so that Duomei will be able to relax a lot.

You know, daycare institutions in previous lives usually admitted children aged one and a half, and little Xuxu was already over one and a half years old.

Although he thinks so, Gao Mingcheng does not plan to recruit children as young as one and a half years old, but as young as three years old.

His kindergarten has just opened, there are not many kindergarten teachers, and there is not much experience in running a school. It is troublesome to take care of children who are too young.

Besides, he plans to take the high-end route. The decoration and teaching aids of the kindergarten are considered to be the best in the county!

I would like to ask, which kindergarten now has piano, drums, guitar, flute, and other musical instruments?

And the toys he prepared for the children are all not available in the county. I guarantee that after the children see it, they will definitely cry and beg their parents to send them here to study!

Gao Mingcheng continued to say to Xiao Xuxu: "Sister Yuanyuan will also come over and study with you, okay?"

When he heard the words "Sister Yuanyuan", Xiao Xuxu's eyes lit up, he nodded immediately and said in a loud voice: "Okay! Xuxu wants to study!"

Gao Mingcheng smiled slightly, good, he fooled the child!

"Then you continue to play here, and I'll go outside to water the flowers and plants." Gao Mingcheng said, getting up and finding a watering can to water the flowers and plants in the yard.

The weather is hot now, and the flowerbed here is not big. There are only some common green plants planted. If they are not watered in time, the flowers and plants will easily wilt.

While watering, Gao Mingcheng saw that in addition to the standing elephant slide, there were two swings, seesaws, horizontal bars, parallel bars, hanging rings, and a small sand pit in the wide yard.

The sandpit was left over from the construction of the house. Gao Mingcheng simply had a sandpit pool built in the far corner, which could be used for younger children to play in the sand and older children to use for long jumps.

Gao Mingcheng looked around and thought about what else to prepare. After thinking about it, he felt that he needed a few children's bicycles, the kind of children's tricycles that are cute and suitable for children to ride.

Gao Mingcheng silently made a note in his mind, planning to buy a few cars when he goes to Yangcheng next time to buy goods.

As for what else he had forgotten, Gao Mingcheng didn't put too much pressure on himself. At worst, he would just buy it when he found something was missing. As long as I don't have internal friction, I'm in a good mental state!

After taking care of the flowers and plants in the kindergarten, Gao Mingcheng returned to Xiao Xuxu and played with toys for a while. Because he didn't come here every day, Xiao Xuxu had fun playing with every toy.

One day passed in a flash. When Gao Mingcheng returned to the clothing store with Xiao Xuxu in his arms, he was still sighing that it was so easy to raise a baby!
But after returning to the clothing store, Gao Mingcheng could not continue to relax, because he learned the news that Gao Mingwan was injured while driving a sports car!

Xiao Jinfeng called him to tell him the news, saying that Gao Mingwan had a conflict with someone while driving a sports car and was hit several times. Although his bones were not broken, it was still serious and he needed to rest for a while.

Xiao Jinfeng said: "When a driver drives a car on the road, it is inevitable that he will encounter an accident. Mingwan was injured while protecting the goods, so the company will give him a bonus so that he can rest in peace. Mingcheng, I have to go out these days. If you have time to do some work, go see Mingwan."

Gao Mingcheng said: "Okay, I understand."

After putting down the phone, Gao Mingcheng told Gao Shufang and Duo Mei about the incident. Gao Shufang immediately became anxious and said hurriedly: "Is the third brother seriously injured? Second brother, let's go see him now!" "

They are both brothers and sisters from the same mother. Gao Shufang indeed cares more about Gao Mingwan than Du Mei and Zhang Jinling.

Gao Mingli, who had already got off work, also said: "Let's go see it together!"

Since he already knew the news, he must go to visit as soon as possible, so Gao Mingcheng took a look at the kitchen and decided to bring a watermelon, thirty eggs, a jar of bayberry preserves and two pounds of dried noodles.

After taking the things to the car, Gao Mingcheng greeted Gao Shufang and Gao Mingli to get in the car. As for Duomei and the others, they did not go together, but stayed in the store to cook. They would also have to eat when they came back from visiting the patients.

It took seven or eight minutes to drive all the way there. When we arrived at Gao Mingwan's home, we heard the cry of a child in the distance.

Perhaps knowing that her father was injured, little Shasha cried very hard.

Hu Yinchen was walking around outside the yard with little Shasha in her arms, humming and coaxing the child to stop crying. When she heard the sound of the car, she immediately followed it.

"Mingcheng! Shufang! You are here!" Hu Yinchen was very happy to see Gao Mingcheng and the others, and hurriedly called everyone into the house.

Gao Mingcheng glanced at Hu Yinchen and found that Hu Yinchen seemed a little older.

Well, raising children is really tiring.

"Xiuxiu, your second brother and the others are here!" Hu Yinchen said with a smile on her face, patting little Shasha on the back and gently coaxing her.

But little Shasha didn't cry anymore, maybe because someone was coming, but looked at Gao Mingcheng and the others curiously.

Gao Mingcheng met Little Shasha's eyes, his heart softened, and he couldn't help but step forward and hug Little Shasha.

In his previous life, he only had two sons and no daughters, so he still liked the daughters of his brothers, especially since this niece was a future academic master. She was admitted to a good university and even studied for a master's degree.

"Shasha, do you know who I am? I'm your second uncle!" Gao Mingcheng teased her softly. Unfortunately, the two-month-old baby didn't understand this, but she seemed to like Gao Mingcheng quite a lot and grinned at him. He smiled, with a string of crystal clear tears hanging on his cheeks.

"Second brother, Mingli, Shufang, you are here! Come in quickly." Wang Xiuxiu came out of the room. Her eyes were red, as if she had just cried.

Wang Xiuxiu and Gao Mingwan have a good relationship as a couple. This time Gao Mingwan was injured, and Wang Xiuxiu was naturally sad.

Gao Mingcheng walked in with the child in his arms and saw Gao Mingwan lying on the bed.

Because of the hot weather, he didn't have any quilt on him and didn't wear much, so the scars on his body could be clearly seen.

Gao Mingwan used iron bars to fight with others, and the wounds on his body were also caused by iron bars. The wounds were thick and long, bruised and swollen, and looked scary.

There were such scars all over his body. He was indeed beaten badly.

Fortunately, there were no broken muscles or bones. They were just skin injuries. They looked serious, but after being healed, they didn't cause any problems.

"Third brother!" Gao Shufang saw her third brother injured like this, her eyes turned red, and her tears fell uncontrollably.

Girls are rich in emotions and have a soft heart. They cannot bear to see such a terrible injury, especially if it occurs to their close brother.

Gao Mingwan was a little panicked when he saw Gao Shufang crying. He said helplessly: "Okay, stop crying. I just coaxed your sister-in-law, and you're crying again!"

Gao Mingwan looked at Gao Mingcheng and Gao Mingli, pretending to be relaxed and said: "My injury looks serious, but it's actually nothing. It will be fine when the swelling subsides. You guys find a stool to sit on, don't stand. "

Wang Xiuxiu brought several cups of tea and handed them to Gao Mingcheng and the others.

Gao Mingcheng sat on the stool, holding little Shasha in one hand and taking the teacup with the other, while Gao Shufang and Gao Mingli took the teacup with both hands.

They didn't understand this before, but after living in the county, they learned a lot of reception etiquette from others.

Gao Mingcheng drank half a glass of water in one gulp, and then heard little Shasha grunting, looking a little thirsty.

So Wang Xiuxiu brought another bottle filled with water and fed little Shasha water.

On this hot day, little Shasha had cried heartbrokenly before, but now she was indeed thirsty and started to drink water.

Wang Xiuxiu breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid of her child crying now, and the crying made her exhausted mentally and physically.

She looked at Gao Mingcheng and said with a smile: "It seems that little Shasha likes her second uncle quite a lot."

Gao Mingwan was also very happy that his daughter might like Gao Mingcheng very much. His second brother was very powerful. He used to be the best in fighting in the village, but later he came to the county and made a lot of money in a short period of time.

My daughter likes him, which is good.

Gao Mingcheng also smiled. He looked at Gao Mingwan. With his eyesight, he could naturally see that Gao Mingwan's injury was not as easy as he said.

Although no muscles or bones were broken, it was very uncomfortable to have been hit by so many iron rods on the body, and the internal organs might have been damaged to some extent.

Gao Mingcheng couldn't say anything sensational, he just said: "You need to take good care of your injury, don't rush to do things."

Gao Mingwan nodded and said obediently: "I understand. Anyway, my daughter is still young, so I might as well take the opportunity to rest for a while and take care of the child at home."

He seemed to be open-minded, with a smile on his face.

Gao Mingcheng asked: "Where did the accident happen?"

When this topic was brought up, the smile on Gao Mingwan's face disappeared, and he said: "On the way back from Yangcheng, I encountered a robber in the next city!" (End of Chapter)