My village can't be like this

Chapter 16 A New Member of the Family (Please collect and recommend)

Unknowingly, with the wailing of the naughty little ones and the joy of the adults, September comes quietly.

This means that the school in the village has opened, which is nightmarish news for the children.

Some children didn't finish their summer homework because they had too much fun during the summer vacation.

And some children simply don't like going to school. They have to get up early every day, sit for a whole day at school, and have to do their homework. Just thinking about this picture is terrifying.

And the adults at home are naturally very happy.

During the holidays, not only do you have to be busy doing things, but you also have to watch the children at home. The tough children are always the most worrying.

I am also afraid that accidents will easily happen whether they are climbing high or jumping low, or going to play in the big river.

So as soon as the school starts, the adults will be sent directly to the school, and the teacher will help manage it.

Of course this is not the main reason.

September is here, can October be far behind?
What does golden autumn and October represent in people's hearts.

It represents the harvest. This year is a bumper harvest year. In addition to the public grain handed in, I believe that every family will have a lot of grain left over. They can also buy more meat for the New Year and more clothes for their children.

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On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here.

The weather was fine that day, with no accidents, rain or anything like that.

After dark at night, the round moon hangs in the sky, and the bright moonlight spreads across the earth.

In the yard of Zhang An's house, Zhang An lifted a table and placed it in the yard.

Wang Fang put the prepared moon cakes, fruits and sugar on the table, offering the moon.

Everyone in the village would do this. Zhang An didn't know about it in other places, but in the surrounding area, it was a custom that has been handed down from ancient times to the present.

After the monthly payment is completed, the family begins to share the mooncakes and other food on the table.

The full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion.

In this poor age, at least people are not displaced and their families are scattered.

Although the later generations earn more money, they are all separated from each other and work hard.

In Zhang An's memory, since he left the mountain village, he has been out of town basically every year except for the Spring Festival.

Adding up the two lifetimes, this is probably the first Mid-Autumn Festival that I have spent with my parents in more than [-] years.

At this moment, a happy smile appeared on Wang Fang's face, and she kept praying to God to bless her family with health and safety.

Why is there no wealth?This is because there has always been a saying in the hearts of the locals.

It's called when the water is full, it means don't pray too much for all the good things to happen to you, it means that disaster is about to come.

Therefore, comparing the two, safety and health are more important.

. . .

When the end of the month was approaching, Zhang An didn't expect his father Zhang Jianguo to buy a horse back.

It turned out that I wanted to buy a horse before, but I didn't buy it because I didn't see the right one.

But everyone in the village knew that Zhang An's family had the intention of buying horses.

As soon as the news came out, people in the nearby villages also knew about it.

Zhang Jianguo didn't go out in the morning, and planned to go to the field later to drain the water.

But someone came to the door and called him away.

When he came back, he led the horse back.

It turned out that there was a family in the Maocaoping stockade next door, and the men lost a lot of money gambling outside.

Now people came to ask for debts, but the family didn't have that much money, so they had to sell the livestock.

But in such an urgent situation, you will definitely not be able to buy a good price in a hurry.

So when the villagers heard about it, they came to inform Zhang Jianguo.

The horse is a local southwestern horse, which belongs to a large breed of horse. It is suitable for carrying goods, pulling carts, and plowing land, and has good endurance.

Just a little grumpy.

This horse wasn't well fed. It was obvious from a glance that it wasn't well-fed. Perhaps Baomi wasn't willing to feed it a few times.

The whole horse is thin, and the shape of the spine can be seen on the back.

So it can't be sold for much. Originally, the other party asked for 1000 yuan, but everyone knew that the other party was asking for a lot of money.

But Zhang Jianguo returned only four hundred. The other party must be in a hurry. The horse must have more than this amount of money, but in a hurry, he couldn't find a buyer. If the horse was paid to a few debtors, it might be even lower.

In the end, the people in the village also made peace for both sides, and Zhang Jianguo paid 600 yuan.

The other party wanted to ask for more, but Zhang Jianguo didn't open his mouth.

The nearby village elders had already spoken once, and Zhang Jianguo also added money to save everyone's face.

So it was difficult for everyone to continue persuading, and finally the other party decided to sell it, because even if it is sold now, it may not be able to sell for so much money.

Under the witness of everyone, Zhang Jianguo went home and took 600 yuan, counted it to the other party face to face, and took the horse away after the other party verified it.

There were still some harnesses, but Zhang Jianguo wanted Zhang Jianguo to buy them for an extra 100 yuan.

Without thinking about it, Zhang Jianguo said no, and then led the horse and left.

It doesn’t take so much money to find a new carpenter for a pair of saddles, and 100 yuan for a bad saddle?

Later, I could hear the voice of the woman in the other party's family cursing, of course she was scolding her own man.

This horse is really skinny, maybe the owner didn't feed it well, and he will be busy in a while, so he has to feed some corn and put on fat in a few days.

I asked the old carpenter in the village to help me make a pair of saddles and other carrying equipment.

There is no need to think about the car, it costs a lot of money to buy a new carriage.

When the time comes, see if anyone sells it. Just pick one up, and it doesn't matter if you can't find it.

The next day Zhang An took the horse out to graze, and he found that the horse had a bad temper.

Pulling and not going, hitting backwards.

In the end, Zhang An got annoyed and directly sent it to the space, and after pressing it with his mind and giving it a hard pumping, it was considered hardened, and he didn't dare to lose his temper again.

"What a scumbag, you're so used to it, you won't feel comfortable without a beating."

After leaving the space, the horse probably knew that Zhang An was not easy to offend, so he finally obeyed obediently.

After two weeks of feeding the Tiantian space spring water with the corn, the situation has improved a lot.

No bones can be seen on the back. In fact, everyone knows that feeding pure corn can gain weight, but it is not so fast, and it is more due to the effect of the spring water in the space.

One day Zhang Jianguo took it out to carry things, but when it saw that it was not Zhang An, it lost its temper again.

After being found out by Zhang An, he found an opportunity to lead it out, and then gave it a hard meal. Now that the skin is solid, even Wang Fang didn't dare to go crazy when he led it. In its eyes, this two-legged beast terrible.

At the end of September, Zhang Jianguo basically observed the conditions of his crops in the fields every day.The rice in the paddy fields is starting to turn yellow.

But it's not yet harvest time, and it should take more than a week to wait like this.

But the corn in the field has already matured one step ahead and can be broken back.

The mountains in the mountains are not as flat as the plains. They are not only flat and large, but also whole.

Zhang An's family's mountainous land is considered to be in good condition. When the land was distributed, the village gave some convenience because the family had an only-child certificate.

There are two large areas in the five-acre mountain, but the rest are small terraced fields.

Going to the fields to work was as early as possible rather than late, so the family got up very early, and after getting some food, they went up the mountain and started breaking corn cobs.

The road up the mountain is very narrow, and the carriage cannot go up at all.

People who have livestock will bring them back, and those who don't will pick them up from the mountains.

This kind of situation is very common. Today's people can carry more than 100 catties per load, but it will not work in future generations.

For example, Zhang An's family had no horses last year, and Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang picked all the crops.

Having a horse this year will make it a lot easier. As for Zhang An, he is a guy who can't carry a pole, so his energy is wasted.

Picking a shoulder pole also pays attention to skills, and people with good skills are easy to pick, like Zhang An, who will blister his shoulders after picking it for a while.

(End of this chapter)