Return to the small mountain village in 1986

The car was driving on the dirt road in the village, but within two minutes, it stopped again.

Gao Mingcheng stuck his head out of the car window and saw Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman sitting on the rocks by the pond to enjoy the coolness. At their feet, there was a 28-bar bicycle. Next to the bicycle, there were two more Bag of sweet potatoes and basket of vegetables.

"Brother Mingcheng!" Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman stood up one after another. After saying hello, they bent down and loaded the things into the car.

As soon as the National Day holiday came, Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman went back to the village. They came back on bicycles. As soon as they came back, they started working in the fields. They had to hoe out the dead vegetables and loosen the soil. , so that you can sprinkle seeds such as cabbage, radish, lettuce, etc., and after a while, you will have some vegetables to eat.

"Want to help?" Gao Mingcheng lowered his head and looked at Gao Zhuang's things.

Gao Zhuang bent down to carry a bag of sweet potatoes into the car, and said with a naive smile: "No, just a little something, it will be ready in a moment."

After loading the bicycles and vegetables into the bed of the car, Gao Zhuang opened the door and asked He Xiuman to sit in the back seat, next to Li Fei, while he sat in the passenger seat.

"Brother Mingcheng, luckily we met you, it saved Xiuman and I a lot of energy!" Gao Zhuang said with a smile. If Gao Mingcheng hadn't just returned to the village, they would have continued riding bicycles back to the county today. In that case, People will definitely be very tired.

Gao Mingcheng smiled and asked: "You brought so many sweet potatoes to the county? Did you bring them all?"

Gao Zhuang shook his head and said: "No, I only took a small half of it. I put the other half in the cellar, planning to save it until the Chinese New Year and then take it out to eat. Oh, there is also some left for planting."

Hearing Gao Zhuang mention kindergarten, Gao Hong immediately said: "Mingcheng, kindergarten is going to be in class tomorrow? I'll go there to see it tomorrow!"

There were all familiar people in the car, and everyone spoke casually. In a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, the car drove all the way on the national highway in the mountains.

This year, their family has indeed planted a lot less sweet potatoes, but this lack of planting is compared to the past. In the past, their family was also a big sweet potato grower. There are so many sweet potatoes that they can’t eat them all every year, and they have to make sweet potato powder to eat. .

Li Fei nodded in agreement. There wasn't much of a way to go next, so just take a walk.

There are two doors in the kindergarten. There is an iron gate in the front and a wooden door in the back. When the grandmother and her family go in and out, they mainly use the wooden door.

Gao Zhuang said: "My grandma said that Yuanyuan and Xuxu like the dried sweet potatoes, and the children in the kindergarten like them too, so I plan to make some more."

Li Fei, on the other hand, quietly blushed with embarrassment and lowered her eyes, not daring to look at anyone.

Gao Mingcheng smiled and said: "Okay, if you want to go see it, you don't need me to accompany you specially. My sister-in-law is already familiar with the kindergarten. When you and your sister-in-law have a baby, send it to the kindergarten. I will keep him in the kindergarten." Have fun.”

When they heard the sound of the car, they immediately looked towards the door. The next moment, the two children called out "Dad" in a crisp voice.

Gao Hong laughed and said yes.

Gao Zhuang doesn't like sweet potatoes, but he can't resist the love of sweet potatoes. In the famine years, he relied entirely on sweet potatoes to survive. Therefore, Grandma Xi believes that sweet potatoes are a life-saving food and insists on planting a lot of them every year.

The iron door was closed tightly at this time, but through the gap, you could see Xiao Yuanyuan and Xiao Xuxu still having fun there.

When we arrived at the county town, we followed the road and the first thing we arrived at was the kindergarten.

Seeing the car stop, Gao Hong turned his head and glanced at Li Fei, then whispered: "How about we get off the car here and walk back?"

"Mingcheng, Feifei and I will get out of the car first." Gao Hong opened the door and got out of the car with Li Fei.

Gao Mingcheng had already seen his wife and children, and he didn't have much thought to send Gao Hong and others home, so he said, "Okay, don't forget to take your things!"

"Okay." Gao Hong went to the cart to get his own things. They didn't have much, just a few kilograms of oranges and two two-pound bottles of honey. After picking up the things, both parties said goodbye and went about their business.

Gao Mingcheng helped Gao Zhuang move the sweet potatoes into the backyard of the kindergarten. This bag of sweet potatoes was not light, weighing seventy or eighty pounds.

Grandma Xin and Duo Mei had already come forward. As for the two children, they came jumping up and down, looking here and there with their eyes, looking for something to eat.

However, when Gao Mingcheng brought back this time, there weren't many things he could eat directly, only oranges and honey.

Seeing the curious expressions on their faces, Gao Mingcheng handed over an orange to each of them, and finally gave two more to Duo Mei, and said: "You can eat and see our own oranges."

Duo Mei looked at the green orange in his hand and said, "It's not fully mature yet."

"It's sour and sweet. I know you like to eat it, so I picked so many of them." Gao Mingcheng pointed at the basket of oranges and smiled proudly.

The navel oranges I bought before have been eaten by many delicious people, and now these oranges are just good enough to continue eating.

Duomei peeled an orange. The orange peel was green, and the color of the orange flesh looked lighter. After eating a piece of orange, she found that it was indeed sour and sweet. This taste is a bit sour for ordinary people. But for many beauties, it suits her taste well.

In an instant, her appetite was whetted, and her whole mood was lifted. She ate one orange in a few seconds, and then went to peel another.

While she was eating the oranges, He Xiuman had already entered the kitchen with a vegetable basket, and she started preparing dinner.

It's already half past five, and it's really time to make dinner.

He Xiuman took out the inner pot of the rice cooker and scooped out the rice and started to prepare the rice. The faucet was outside. As she walked towards the sink, she said: "Brother Mingcheng, sister-in-law, you are eating here tonight. I I’ve cooked your food!”

Duo Mei was stunned and hurriedly said: "When Shufang came here to play before, she even asked me to go there to eat at night."

He Xiuman didn't give her a chance to refuse, and said directly: "I've bought all the rice, so I'll eat it here!"

Hearing this, many beauties looked helplessly at Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Just eat here, I'm too lazy to run around. I'll go and say something to Shufang and bring them some oranges to eat."

Gao Mingcheng asked Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu to stay here while he got in the car and went to the clothing store. The two sides were not far apart. After a while, the car stopped at the door of the clothing store.

At this point, there were no customers coming to the door. Zhang Jinling was cooking today, so Gao Shufang stood at the door chatting with the merchant next to her. When she saw Gao Mingcheng coming, she immediately called her second brother and asked her sister-in-law and Xiaoxu Why didn’t Xu come?

Gao Mingcheng said: "We are eating at the kindergarten in the evening. I am afraid that you will cook too much, so I came here to tell you, oh, I went to the mountains to pick some early-ripening oranges today. They are a little sour, so I didn't bring you many. , let’s take a few pounds to eat first.”

Gao Mingcheng handed the oranges packed in small bags to Gao Shufang and asked if the business of the clothing store was good today.

Gao Shufang smiled and said: "The best business is on National Day, when many people come to buy clothes. Today is so-so, but it's okay. Second brother, please take today's payment with you."

Gao Mingcheng nodded and followed Gao Shufang into the clothing store and came to the innermost counter.

Gao Shufang took out the key, unlocked the drawer, and then handed the account book and payment in the drawer to Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng counted the numbers and found that there was no problem. (End of chapter)