vines and melons

Chapter 35

Today, Fang Wannian has resigned from his post as the principal of the health school, and is sitting at home for medical treatment and writing.

He followed Fang Jie to the Upper Court, and after looking around and asking about everything, he said, "It's all right, it's just that I'm overworked."

Guizhi took out the money from under the pillow and gave it to Fang Jie, telling her to give the medicine money to grandpa.Over the years, Gui Zhi never asked her uncle for help, she was afraid of causing trouble to him.

Fang Jie secretly put the money on the case while her grandfather was picking up the medicine, and when her grandfather got the medicine, she picked up the medicine and ran away.When Fang Wannian came back to his senses, Fang Jie had already run away.

When Fang Jie came in with the medicine, the hungry and flustered Fang Qiong who was sitting on the edge of the bed ran over and asked her sister to scoop up noodle soup for her, and she smacked her lips from time to time while talking.

Just now, Fang Jie went to call grandpa, and Aifen went to her home to ask Fang Qiang to roll out noodles and cut pickles. Fang Wannian was giving Gui Zhi the pulse. Pickled vegetables mixed with ground sesame oil, Fang Qiang brought a small half pot of noodle soup.When Fang Wannian left, Fang Qiang and his wife smiled again and said, Uncle, don't worry, we will cook her mother's meals these two days.

Now, seeing her sister's pitiful appearance, Fang Jie felt very distressed. She put down the medicine, first scooped half a bowl for her sister, then another bowl for her mother, and finally half a bowl for herself.To tell the truth, she also wanted to eat it when she smelled it. Just now, there were so many people that I was too embarrassed to say it.

Gui Zhi had no appetite, and put it down after a few mouthfuls.

Fang Jie regretted that her mother didn't eat such a delicious meal.Their family usually eats their own pickled radishes.She vowed that when her mother was ready, she would let her drink noodle soup with shredded mustard greens mixed with sesame oil.This became her little dream.

When her mother was ill, Fang Jie naturally took over the housework. She did all the eating and washing the dishes. She couldn't reach the stove, so she stood on a small stool.After washing the dishes, she learned how to make medicine for her mother.She learned to cook and decoct medicine when she was less than 8 years old, and learned to stir and carry water when she was 10 years old. The hook was too long, and she was too short to carry it, so she folded the iron chain of the shoulder into two. If you don’t know how to let it go (put your hands on the potter’s wheel and turn it casually), then stir it upside down, fill the bucket with water, and stir it up in one breath if you don’t have the strength, then sit on the handle of the potter’s wheel to rest for a while, and you can’t carry two full buckets. bucket, just pour a bucket of water into two half buckets, and if you can’t pass the threshold, you put down the hook, lift the bucket of water in front of the threshold, pick up the hook again, and slowly move the bucket behind the threshold. It hurts when I touched the heel, and the water soaked the trouser legs.When she grows up, she doesn't dare to release the bucket, because the bucket is easy to fall into the well, and it's a boy's job to go to the well to catch the bucket. There are no boys in her family, so no one fishes, so she never I didn't let go of Pula.When she was in the third grade, she learned how to grind flour. Her mother divided the half-sack of wheat or corn into two halves, and tied the middle tightly with a rope. On her back, there was a bump on her chest, a bump on her back, and she carried it on her back with her right hand. She went to the flour mill and put the flour bags in line at the flour mill. During the busy season, she took her younger sister to school, and her younger sister stood beside her.

One day, the harvest year came and brought a small grind of sesame oil.

With the sesame oil, the ready-made noodles at home are short of shredded mustard greens.Fang Jie asked her mother for money to buy mustard lumps, and Gui Zhi said that she should learn to plan carefully in life, and eat them like pickled radishes at home.Fang Jie didn't refute, she knew that her mother said that to save money.

That day, after Fang Jie listened to the cowardly talk about how he went to the supply and marketing agency to steal eggs and cakes without being caught, the idea of ​​stealing came to her mind.

In order to let her mother eat the delicious food that Fang Jie thought, she really went to steal it.

(End of this chapter)