Reborn Scholar

Chapter 29

Meng Shi took the bowls and bowls home. At home, grandma and aunt's family were also eating, and the smell of fried meat wafted in the yard.

Put the bowls and chopsticks in the basin, wash them with pressure water, wash the dishes with a loofah to absorb oil, and there is no detergent at this time. If the pots and bowls are too oily, they are usually washed with washing powder...

Meng Shi would rather burn some hot water to remove the oil, and then wash with a loofah than detergent.

It is a well-known saying that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, and it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is impossible for Meng Shi, who is accustomed to life after 20 years, to get used to the current life.

While washing the dishes, Xu Ning ran over again, holding the rice bowl in his hand, which was full of meat.

"I have meat, it's so delicious. Hmph, I told you not to give me stewed eggs, and I won't give you meat either." Xu Ning said intentionally.

Meng Shi didn't even want to look at him.

This kind of child belongs to the category of being spoiled since childhood.

Thinking about it, the aunt gave birth to five daughters in one breath, and finally gave birth to a boy. Can she not be spoiled?

It can be said that the whole family dotes on this little ancestor, giving them what they want, scolding those older sisters for not taking good care of him when they cry, and the older sisters never dare to argue with Xu Ning for anything!
Not to mention the elder cousin Xu Ping, she has completely inherited the character of her elder aunt, and she is exactly the same when she is sarcastic; the second cousin Xu Fan has completely inherited the character of her elder uncle, shy and cowardly, shy and introverted. Even her own marriage was completely decided by her aunt, who married her to a bastard for the bride price... let alone; the third cousin, Xu Yuan, is not very good-looking, but she has a solid heart. People are also motivated, and later married a chef and the family lived well; the fourth cousin Xu Qing, who is very beautiful, is the prettiest of the four sisters, and has a lot of mind, it can be said that her heart is higher than the sky, always I want to marry a good...

The characters of the four sisters can be seen from now on.

The eldest sister, Xu Ping, is older, and is usually used by her aunt as an adult.Second cousin Xu Fan and third cousin Xu Yuan have been taking care of Xu Qing and Xu Ning since childhood.

Xu Qing is beautiful and attractive, Xu Ning is a boy, and gender determines everything.

Therefore, it was Xu Fan and Xu Yuan who had the most aggrieved lives at home.The little overlord Xu Ning said one thing, but the two sisters dare not say two.

At this moment, Xu Ning came over to show off. Xu Fan and Xu Yuan had already had dinner, but they stood on the side without saying a word.

Meng Shi knew that Xu Fan was really cowardly and had no scheming at all.

But Xu Yuan...it's hard to say, this person is a master at pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Xu Ning was a little annoyed to see Meng Shi washing the dishes on his own and completely ignoring himself.

"Meng Shi, are you deaf? I can't hear you when I talk. Do you want to eat meat? If you want to eat meat, you climb up on the ground as a cow and let me ride around, and I'll give you a piece of meat to eat." Xu Ning looked embarrassed said.

Meng Shi really wanted to look at the sky speechlessly, she really didn't remember these things when she was a child, and she only remembered that Xu Ning was a naughty child, but is it really that bad?

She doesn't think naughty is a derogatory term. Her younger brother, Meng Xiangfei, is a well-known villain in the neighborhood. : I don't know what it will be when I grow up!
But who would have thought that the younger brother would be completely different when he grew up.

Shy, introverted, reticent, and especially soft-hearted.

At that time, Meng Shi didn't know how much he hoped for his younger brother's character, he still wanted to be as lively and cheerful as he was when he was a child, even if he was chased and scolded by his parents, he was still naughty!

Glancing at Xu Ning, his clearly childish face made one feel a kind of indifference and harshness.

"Xu Fan, I want to ride a horse!"

Seeing Meng Shi ignoring him, Xu Ning immediately became angry, and turned to shout at Xu Fan who was standing on the side like a wooden man.

Xu Fan is five years older than Xu Ning, and is already fifteen this year.

She was supposed to have fun when she came to grandma's house, but since she came in, as long as the aunt and Xu Ning didn't call her, she just stood there blankly.

At this moment, when Xu Ning yelled, Xu Fan ran over quickly, not daring to resist at all.

"It's outside, I'll let you ride it when I get home!" Xu Fan whispered.

"I don't care! I want to ride now! Xu Fan, will you give me a ride? If you dare to give me a ride, be careful that I will beat you to death with a bamboo stick!"

Xu Ning's voice was extremely... harsh.

Hearing what he said, a trace of fear appeared in Xu Fan's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, she slowly lay down on the ground, acting as a cow for her ten-year-old brother to ride.

When Meng Shi looked over, Xu Fan's face and neck were flushed, and his eyes were fixed on the ground.

It's very simple, this scene must be a common occurrence in their own home, the Xu family is used to it, but now at grandma's house, uncle's daughter is still watching, Xu Fan will feel embarrassed no matter what .

However... self-esteem is nothing compared to the fear of being beaten by a younger brother or a mother.She still knelt and crawled on the ground, letting her younger brother ride on...

Xu Yuan was standing on the side, without any sense of presence, but he didn't make Xu Ning angry, and let her kneel down for him to ride.

Xu Ning rode on Xu Fan's body, grabbed Xu Fan's ponytail with one hand, and patted Xu Fan's ass backward with the other, shouting, "Drive, drive!"

If Xu Fan crawled a little slower, Xu Ning would ruthlessly pull Xu Fan's braid. The pain caused Xu Fan to burst into tears, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Meng Shi had already washed the dishes. If she watched this scene any longer, she didn't know what she would do.

She kept telling herself in her heart that this is just a child's game. When many children were young, their parents would let them ride like this...

But, no matter what, she has seen those children riding on their parents, at most two or three years old, completely ignorant, not a ten-year-old child like Xu Ning!
Taking a deep breath, Meng Shi carried the bowls and chopsticks to Grandpa's kitchen, then turned around and walked east from the north hall door, until he walked to the east wall.

Between the main hall in the north and the wall of the east courtyard, there is an alleyway more than two meters wide, and there are huts inside.

The current hut is very simple and primitive.

When Meng Shi was reborn and came back, the most unacceptable thing was such a primitive hut, it was disgusting.

But there is no way to accept it. Fortunately, the bathrooms in the buildings in the town use sewer pipes. Although they are not the flush toilets of later generations, they are much cleaner than the primitive huts in the countryside, at least not disgusting.

The old house here is naturally the original hut.

The part inside the courtyard wall is a ramp made of stones that allows people to squat down and discharge the excrement in the middle. After flushing with water, all the excrement can be flushed into the pool outside the courtyard wall.

That's right, there is a manure pond outside the courtyard wall, and now the manure ponds in rural areas are open to the air, which is convenient for picking manure when fertilizing the field.This is why there were always various accidents in the past, such as drunk people in the middle of the night, falling into the cesspit and drowning.

When Meng Shi was about to come out after using the toilet, he looked up and saw the red pomegranates hanging all over the branches.

That's right, there is a pomegranate tree planted on the east side of the courtyard wall. It was planted by my mother when she married my father. Mengshi was nine years old, and it has grown for ten years.

It's just that the pomegranate tree in grandma's house is taken care of by grandma, but the one here is not so lucky.

My mother's personality is a bit like a grandmother's, she is very straightforward, a woman can support a family.But grandma likes to embroider, make clothes and shoes, and likes to take care of those flowers and plants. The yard is full of fruit trees and flowers, but my mother doesn't like these things at all.

In the past, when she was young, her and her younger brother's clothes and shoes were all made by grandma, and mother couldn't do it.Of course, grandma can do it, but it's a pity that grandma never has time to do it for their siblings.

Far away, this pomegranate tree was planted outside the east wall, next to the cesspool, and no one took care of it. The tree was crooked and deformed, but it probably was a good variety of tree, and there were a lot of pomegranates.

This season is the season when pomegranates are ripe, and the branches are full of red ones, which is really beautiful.

Looking at where the pomegranate grows...

Meng Shi couldn't help but smile slightly.

Holding a very long hoe leaning against the side of the hut, she carefully and laboriously broke off a branch with two pomegranates hanging from it.

Then, Meng Shi put all the hoes and shovels that were leaning against the east wall into the main room where grandpa lived at the back.Instead, a taller stool was moved and leaned against the east wall so that people could step on the stool and climb up to the top of the wall.But the top of the wall, which is only 1.7 meters high, does not seem to be dangerous.

Immediately afterwards, she smiled and clapped her hands, and walked out of the hut with a pomegranate.

She took the pomegranate to the well and cleaned the skin, and she was going to take it to her brother to eat.

"Pomegranate, pomegranate! Meng Shi, you stole the pomegranate!" Xu Ning, who was "riding a horse", jumped off Xu Fan's body as soon as he saw what Meng Shi was washing. During the jump, he accidentally stepped on Xu Fan's body. In an instant, Xu Fan covered his hands and began to cry, but he didn't dare to cry out.

Meng Shi glanced at Xu Ning, "I picked it from my tree, is this also called stealing? Hmph."

After finishing speaking, Meng Shi ignored Xu Ning and walked out with the pomegranate.

Of course Xu Ning knew where Meng Shi's pomegranate tree was, but he didn't see it this time, so he forgot it for a while.

Right now, he didn't bother to pay attention to Meng Shi, so he hurried to the hut on the east wall.

Seeing that there were so many pomegranates growing on the pomegranate tree, Xu Ning's mouth was watering!

After all, these days, parents are not willing to buy fruit for their children at all, and the only fruits here are apples, oranges and pears, and bananas are rare.The price is quite cheap compared to later generations, but no one is willing to buy it.As for pomegranates, it is only occasionally that a certain family plants a tree in the yard, and children can taste it by chance. There are not a few people who have never eaten pomegranates.Of course Xu Ning's family didn't either.

Looking left and right, I saw a stool.

Boys are not easy to move. Climbing up and down is common. Xu Ning himself often climbs trees and picks dates at home.

In addition, the east wall was not very high, so Xu Ning didn't even hesitate. He stepped on the stool and climbed up to the top of the wall.

Farmers are very frugal, and they will never spend money to buy things they can get by themselves.

The old hall in the north is still built with adobe.

What is Adobe?That is, loess, water, and wheat straw are mixed together to form a thin mud, which is evenly blended.

Then nail it into a square frame with a length of about forty centimeters, a width of about 25 centimeters, and a thickness of about fifteen centimeters.

Fill the reconciled mud into such a four-square frame, fill it with porcelain, and it will take shape soon after the sun shines. This is a piece of adobe.After removing the wooden frame and drying the adobe thoroughly, it can be used as bricks to build walls.

Just like this, not every family can afford to build a house, let alone a blue brick house.

Facing east and west, the south hall where grandma lives in the south of the whole house is made of blue bricks, which is very good.

As for the east wall, it is easy to repair.

The half-meter-high bottom is built with adobe, and the top is made of broken bricks that are not suitable for building a house when building a green brick house. They are glued together with yellow mud and built up layer by layer. of.Who would be willing to use cement on the courtyard wall at this time, that is the behavior of a prodigal son.

The broken bricks themselves are not smooth, and they are glued together with yellow mud. There is nothing in a short time, but after a long time, the rain will wash away the yellow mud that sticks to the bricks, and the bricks will become loose. .

It can be said that the upper half of the east wall can be pushed by Meng Shi with his hands, which is not an exaggeration at all.Sometimes after a heavy rain, the courtyard walls of many houses will fall down, and they will be built again after falling down. Still, no one is willing to use strong and durable cement.

And Xu Ning stepped on this wall.

The top brick was already wobbly.

Xu Ning grabbed the branches of the pomegranate tree with one hand, and walked along the wall to where there were fruits.

That's right, the pomegranate tree has grown deformed due to neglect. The main pole is upwards, and it is divided into two thick branches, one goes north and the other goes south.

Obviously, the branch to the south grows thicker and bears a lot of fruit, while the branch to the north is very thin, with only scattered leaves.

Unfortunately, under the branch to the south is a big cesspit!

Xu Fan and Xu Yuan also ran over. Seeing that Xu Ning had climbed onto the wall, which was still shaking and almost falling down, both of them looked terrified.

If Xu Ning fell down and got injured, the two of them would definitely be beaten, and the beating was not light!
"Xiao Ning, come down quickly, this wall is not strong, you will fall down!" Xu Fan's tears hadn't been wiped away before, but now they flowed down again.

Xu Yuan also hurriedly said, "Come down, Xiao Ning, don't fall into the cesspit!"

"Go away, you two don't care, I'll pick the pomegranate, you two don't even want to eat it!" Xu Ning ignored the two of them at all.

Children are like this, the more you say it is dangerous, the more he has to try, the more he has to prove that he can do it and not fall down.

At this moment, Xu Qing also came over after eating.

Except for Xu Ning, Xu Qing ate the most fried meat.

For Xu Fan and Xu Yuan, it would be nice if they could eat a piece.

Xu Qing came over after eating and drinking, and laughed when he saw pomegranates, "Pomegranates, I like pomegranates the most, Xiao Ning quickly pick one for me, you are the best."

"Okay, I'll pick one for you right away, not the two of them."

"Okay, don't feed them." Xu Qing clapped his hands and said, "Hurry up, the one on the east side of your hand is bigger, that one is much bigger than the one on this side."

Xu Ning took a look, it was not so, a little to the east from where he was standing, hung a pomegranate twice the size of his fist, it must be delicious!

Xu Ning grabbed the branch of the pomegranate tree with one hand, and reached out to the pomegranate with the other.

He stepped on the wall and turned his body outward, and his feet exerted an inward force on the wall. The already loose wall, under Xu Ning's trample, actually arched inward directly in the direction of his foot force!
"Xiao Ning, come down quickly, the wall is about to fall!" Xu Fan cried.

However, Xu Ning's hand was only two centimeters away from the big pomegranate.

Hold on a little longer, and you'll get it.

Finally, he caught the oversized pomegranate.Xu Ning thought, it must be very sweet.

However, in the next second, the wall under his feet collapsed. He didn't hold onto the branch firmly, and threw himself towards the tree.

The big pomegranate was pulled down by the force of his fall, and fell with him.

"Pfft!"

Xu Ning threw himself directly into the cesspit, bringing along his huge pomegranate...

Meng Shi had already arrived at the godmother's house, broke open the pomegranate, gave one to Meng Xiangfei, and one to himself.

The godmother was picking peanuts (the peanut seedlings were pulled out from the ground, and the peanuts were brought on top, because they were rushing for the autumn harvest, so they had to bring the seedlings back to the house first, and then pick the peanuts slowly when they were free), talking to Meng Shi , "How many fields have your parents watered?"

"When I went to deliver food at noon, I had already poured two yuan."

"It's pretty fast. At this speed, it will be over after another day of watering tomorrow." Godmother said.

"Well, after watering, go to Luying to help water my grandmother's house. Godmother, how do you water your land?"

"It's okay, your godfather has already watered more than half of it, there is only a little bit left, and it will be finished tomorrow."

Just then, there was a commotion outside.

The village is not big, and a small matter can quickly spread throughout the village.

So whenever there was a commotion outside, the godmother ran out to see what was going on.

Meng Shi and his younger brother also hurried out.

As soon as I went out, I saw someone going forward.

The godmother pulled a neighbor, "What happened? So what are these people called?"

"Qingshan's sister's baby fell into the cesspit!"

The godmother was taken aback, then turned to look at Meng Shi, "Which child of your aunt's family fell into the cesspit?"

Meng Shi looked surprised, "I don't know?"

From the godmother's house to the east wall of Meng Shi's house, the distance is less than 300 meters.

Before I got there, I saw a lot of people gathered in front of me.

The godmother squeezed in with Meng Shi's siblings, and happened to see the neighbor helping Xu Ning up with a stick.

The cesspit is about 1.5 meters square and half a meter deep. As long as you don't plunge into it and can't get up, you can't drown people, but you can't stand the smell!
If the cesspit is left there, the open air will already stink, flies and maggots are disgusting.

One falls in, stirs...

Vomit, Meng Shi couldn't control it at all, and retched directly.

People who are more than 20 years later, seeing such a scene and smelling those disgusting smells, no matter how strong their willpower is, they will not be able to persist! (Who doesn't believe it, try the farm cesspit by yourself, it's an absolute killer)
The godmother hurriedly said, "Go a little farther away, I knew I wouldn't bring you here just now, you like to be clean, this smell..."

The villagers themselves often have to pick manure to irrigate the ground, and they have long been used to the smell. Although they also find it unpleasant, they will not be as "delicate" as Meng Shi, and they will vomit directly.

So everyone looked at Meng Shi!
The eldest uncle was saving Xu Ning together with the neighbors, and the eldest aunt was crying anxiously, Xu Fan and Xu Yuan were already shocked, and Xu Qing's face turned pale.

Grandma also waited anxiously for Xu Ning to be rescued.

Originally, all the attention was on Xu Ning, but Meng Shi retched.

In an instant, grandma looked over and saw Meng Shi!

What happened was too simple, even when Xu Ning saw the pomegranate Meng Shi was holding, he also wanted it, so he ran to pick it by himself, and then he stepped on the courtyard wall and fell into the cesspit.

At the time of the incident, Xu Fan, Xu Yuan and Xu Qing explained the matter clearly.

At this moment, grandma looked at the unfinished half pomegranate in Meng Xiangfei's hand, it was really stolen.

Grandma is almost sixty, and she is in good health. She smokes, drinks, and drinks tea every day, and she is very chic.

Even at such an old age, he still walks like flying.Of course, at this time, most of the old women in the countryside are like this, and there is no problem at all after falling a few times.

Grandma quickly ran towards Meng Shi, cursing as she ran, "Damn girl, you just don't look good. Why tease Xiao Ning to pick pomegranates? If you don't tease him to pick pomegranates, he won't drop them." It's in the cesspit. I'll beat you to death, a money-losing bitch, and I don't think you will make trouble in the future!"

Meng Shi had been prepared for a long time, she protected Meng Xiangfei behind her, and both of them hid behind the godmother.

The godmother stopped grandma directly, "Aunt Hua, what are you doing, come and stop Aunt Hua, don't break the babies, it's not their fault."

The two neighbors immediately came over, and each of them grabbed grandma.

"Get out of the way, I don't beat this dead girl to death today, she might cause me many troubles!"

Meng Shi cried loudly with great aggrievedness, "Grandma, are you my own mother? My uncle was adopted by you, and I think my father was also adopted by you. Xiao Fei and I are definitely not your own grandsons. You boiled so many eggs, and you gave them all to Xiao Ning and the others, but you didn’t give any of them to me and Xiao Fei. Xiao Fei was hungry, and I made some eggs for him, but you said we stole eggs to eat and beat us. My parents, grandpa and uncle watered our land in the field, and my mother specially cut some meat and brought eggs back for you to cook, and sent them to the field at noon. You don’t cook, neither vegetables nor meat .I still got beans from Gan He’s house, celery from Siniang’s house, and made a pot of noodles by myself and sent them to the field. Now, Xiao Ning climbed a tree to pick pomegranates by herself, and stepped on the wall to collapse the cesspit. Here, you are going to beat me to death! Why do Xiaofei and I have such a grandma!"

That's right, Meng Shi's uncle was adopted, not his own.The grandma gave birth to four aunts, and only the father had a boy. Then, for some reason, she adopted a younger uncle.

Meng Shi cried loudly, but he spoke clearly.

She hates this kind of crying, but if she doesn't do this, if she doesn't let the people around hear the whole story clearly, in retrospect, grandma can arrange countless times for her mother and her siblings to come, and let the neighbors around All pointing at her mother, making her younger brother a hopeless villain in the eyes of the neighbors...

She didn't want to, but she had to.

Sure enough, when she said that, everyone around her seemed to understand.

Meng Shi was just a child, no one thought that she would deliberately organize words to guide everyone's thinking direction, so they all believed it.

In addition, what Meng Shi said was the truth, and no one was blind, so they could see it.

Having said that, grandma's face became even more ugly, "Damn girl, you still make up your milk, don't you, you little thing already knew that you were such a trouble, and you should have been drowned by you when you were born!"

These days, family planning is tight, and many families want boys. If they give birth to girls, they throw them in the cesspit and drown them, which is not uncommon.

In a word, Meng Shi felt cold all over.

She gritted her teeth, her hands were shaking a little, and her heartbeat was much faster than normal.An emotion called anger almost made her chest explode!
drown her?Grandma dared to say so.When she was born, her grandma didn't coax her for a day. Her mother took her until she was one year old, and she became pregnant with her younger brother. After that, she lived in her grandmother's house and only returned to her own house during the holidays. She lived there until she was in the third grade of elementary school. Because her parents are building a house in the town, she has to go to school in the town before leaving her grandmother's house!

And what is grandma doing?Taking care of the children for the eldest aunt's family and the second aunt's family, why did you ever take care of her?Meng Shi really couldn't understand why grandma would say such things.

"Aunt Hua, hurry up and get some water for the baby to wash, the feces all over her body will be smoked, and I won't be here to teach the children." The neighbor on the side hurriedly pulled the grandma to remind her.

Having said that, grandma couldn't care less about Meng Shi anymore, so she hurried into the courtyard through the collapsed courtyard wall, preparing to boil water.

The aunt also cried and scolded, "You girls are trying to die, don't you know how to boil water and find clothes!"

Xu Fan and Xu Yuan quickly agreed and ran to the yard to help grandma prepare hot water for younger brother to wash.

Meng Shi took his younger brother and went to the field to find his parents.

Along the way, Meng Shi remained silent.

Meng Xiangfei shook his sister's hand, "Sister, are you angry?"

Meng Shi shook his head, but remained silent.

"Sister, don't be angry. Anyway, my parents, me, and grandma all like you. When we grow up, we won't be relatives with my aunt's family anymore." Meng Xiangfei said angrily.

The corner of Meng Shi's mouth moved, but he didn't know what to say.

The younger brother is still young, so logically speaking, he shouldn't be instilled with such thoughts, but how can she accuse him of being wrong?

(End of this chapter)