happy apocalypse

Chapter 17

When we got home, my aunt and the others still didn't come back. I thought it was getting dark, so I wanted to make dinner with Jiang Zhi first.By the way, practice the firewood burning technique learned in the morning.

We followed my aunt's steps to start a fire, first using dry straw to start the fire, then adding pine branches, and then adding wood blocks when the fire was a little stronger.

I don't know if there was a problem with any step. We didn't light the fire, but the smoke filled the room, which made the two of us keep coughing.

At this time, my aunt's voice came from the yard.

"What's wrong, what's wrong." Auntie shouted anxiously to the kitchen from the yard.

We hurried to the yard and said, "Auntie, you are back, haha, we wanted to make dinner first, but the fire didn't start."

As soon as my aunt heard what I said, she understood, and my uncle walked into the kitchen quickly to clean up the kitchen we had been passing by.

"Auntie, we followed your steps to start the fire in the morning, why is there smoke when there is no fire?" I was very puzzled by this, so I asked.

"It's so easy to burn firewood. It's not enough to just watch and learn. I'll teach you step by step in a while." Auntie smiled when she saw our smoky faces.

Jiang Zhi and I looked at the soot on each other's faces, you touched me, and I touched you to play.

After we were all cleaned up, my aunt asked us.

"Xiaozhi, I heard that you are going to collect mountain goods in our village?"

"Yes, auntie, we want to collect some wild goods." Jiang Zhi stepped forward to take the things from auntie, and put them on the table in the room.

"Why do you suddenly want to collect mountain goods?" My aunt and uncle asked while washing their hands.

"It's not that I wanted to collect it suddenly. I wanted to collect it before we came. Didn't we open a vegetable store in City D? Now the store only sells some vegetables and fruits. It's too monotonous. I want to come to my aunt to collect some mountain products. Go back to buy and expand the variety of products sold. Originally, we thought we would come at this time, thinking that your mountain products from last year would have been sold long ago, and you can bring some wild vegetables when you go back. I didn’t expect that today at Aunt Qin’s house I know, you still have several mountain products from last year that you haven't sold, so just sell them to me." Jiang Zhi explained.

"Before we came, one of Jiang Zhi's old classmates begged him to bring back some mountain goods. He wanted to provide welfare for the employees of the unit. We didn't dare to promise him at first, because we were afraid that there would be nothing, but now it looks just right." I handed it to the side. After passing the towel, speak for Jiang Zhi.

The little uncle said at this time, "If this is the case, it will be just right."

Jiang Zhi saw that his aunt and the others had no doubts about our collection of mountain goods, so he took the opportunity to ask his aunt about Lao Jiatou.

"Why do you ask him?" Auntie said suspiciously.

"It's not that Xiaoyi likes this place very much after she came here. She wants to come here for vacation in the future. She just wants to buy a house here. It's more convenient. I heard from Aunt Qin in the afternoon that Lao Jiatou passed away and no one inherited it. His house. I just want to ask if we can buy it." Jiang Zhi was talking about me.

"What kind of house do you want to buy? My aunt and I will live here. If you want to come and play, do you want to live elsewhere? Xiaoyi, you can just come, come whenever you want, and come to live at my aunt's house. My aunt's house has plenty of places. "After my aunt criticized Jiang Zhi, she made a promise to me again, seeing that I am still very popular, I thought about it again.

"Little aunt, listen to me, we must live at your house, not my aunt's house. However, the environment here is so good, Xiaoyi said that she also wants her parents to live for a while, to experience life in the mountains, Take care of your body." Seeing that his aunt was about to speak again, Jiang Zhi hurriedly continued. "If my father-in-law and mother-in-law come, I will definitely be able to live with my aunt." He nodded after seeing his words. "However, my father-in-law and mother-in-law must live inconveniently. Don't the old people have old ideas, and no one's home is as comfortable as their own! If you want to live in my aunt's house, they will definitely not bring it. They are afraid of trouble you. Auntie dont you agree."

Auntie cares about her heart, if it were her, she would not live in it, and even if she did, she would not live there forever. As the saying goes, "Golden nests and silver nests are not as good as your own doghouse."

"That's right, but you can't buy Lao Jiatou's house if you want to buy it." Auntie nodded in agreement.

"What's the matter, is there a problem with him? It's still a problem with the house." Jiang Zhi and I were surprised when we heard what my aunt said. Could it be that there was a problem with the house?

"There is nothing wrong with his house, but there is something wrong with the old Jiatou. You don't know, this old Jiatou usually imitates the sorceress at home and draws pictures on yellow paper every day, calling them symbols. After all these years, I haven't noticed What did he draw, and I didn't see what great things he did with the talismans he drew." My aunt was very disapproving of Lao Jiatou's behavior of drawing talismans.

Unexpectedly, if what my aunt said is true, then this old Jiatou is still a member of Taoism, but according to what my aunt said, it should be that he has never touched the threshold of the spell of talisman in his life, otherwise he would not be in this small mountain village. , I was so poor that I finally died and I had to send it with everyone's help.

You must know that in modern times, there are also Taoist masters who can draw talismans, and each of the talismans they draw is hard to find.So they live in a villa and drive a luxury car.Of course, there are also some out-of-the-world experts who disregard the mortal world and live in seclusion in the countryside, but there are still very few people who do not seek fame and fortune. Xiang Lao Jiatou's situation is not like an out-of-world expert.

"Auntie, as long as the house is fine, no matter what happened to old Jia, hasn't he already passed away?" Jiang Zhi and his aunt said that what we bought was a house, as long as the house was fine.

"Then if you buy it, you usually leave it like this?" My aunt accepted that we were going to buy a house, and now she began to think that we were wasting it.

"Are there any aunts here? Just go and have a look if you have time. If you have nothing to do, I can also ask my mother to stay longer." This statement moved my aunt.I thought it would be great if my sister could come and live here often.

"That's fine, let your little uncle go to the village chief's house to see in a while. The village chief has also been angry. Originally, the village wanted to sell the house and send old man Jia a famine, but his place is far away. Dongtou is close to the mountain, and no one is buying it. If this house is left empty for a few more years, it will definitely be ruined." After the aunt thought about it, she acted very quickly.

When my aunt started cooking, she sent my uncle to the village head's house to ask about the house.

The little uncle came back soon, and the village chief was very happy that someone bought the house, and he didn't push too high a price. He sold it for 20 yuan, and also gave old man Jia two acres of paddy fields and ten acres of pine forest contract rights for 10 years.

The condition of this gift is so exciting to me, but we still asked my aunt and uncle for their opinions.

My aunt still thinks it is expensive.

The little uncle said, the house is worth it.

We plan to go to see the house in the morning, but we are actually thinking in our hearts that as long as the house can be lived in, we will buy it.

The matter of the house is settled in this way, we can eat with peace of mind, and I will behave positively after the meal, and go to the kitchen to wash the dishes.Before I finished washing the dishes, I heard Aunt Qin yelling loudly.

"Shuju, we're done eating." She must have been keeping an eye on us in the yard, seeing that we had just put down the dishes and came here.

"Sister Qin is here, come in, come in." Auntie greeted warmly.

"Then what, I'm here to deliver mountain goods to my eldest nephew." Aunt Qin scratched her hair embarrassingly, maybe she was afraid that we would repent and wanted to sell us the mountain goods quickly.

"It's Sister Qin, you can help, or you say that my little things are not enough for them!" Auntie is quite good at talking, and she solved Aunt Qin's embarrassment with a few words.

"Don't say that, the eldest nephew buys our mountain goods at this time, we will remember him well." Aunt Qin also said hastily.

"Okay, don't chatter now, let's get down to business first." The little uncle still has business to do.

My aunt took out from the warehouse the large scale that my uncle had borrowed when he went to the village head's house.Ready to start weighing. "Sister Qin, Xiaozhi and the others not only buy for themselves, but also bring some for others, so our brothers settle accounts clearly, and the number on the scale shall prevail, how about it?"

"Okay, that's exactly how it should be, why can't the elder nephew lose money."

Then I weighed several sacks of mountain goods.

A total of 643 catties, including nearly 150 catties of pine nuts, 340 catties of walnuts, and the rest are hazelnuts.

Aunt Qin embarrassedly took a basket of freshly dried wild vegetables and asked if they would accept it.We collect, but when the wild vegetables are down to business, there are too many things that are worthless, so the price is lower.Fortunately, Aunt Qin didn't intend to sell it at a high price. She might have been frightened by what happened last year, so she sold it if she could.

We told Aunt Qin to go to the county to collect the money tomorrow and send the money to her. Aunt Qin hurriedly said, "It's not busy, I still can't trust Shuju." After that, she waved her sleeves and went home happily.

Not a while after she left, another villager who had heard that we collected mountain goods came to my aunt's house with their own mountain goods to ask if they would accept them.We do not refuse anyone who comes, as long as the quality is good, we will accept it.

In this way, we were busy for 2 o'clock.There are all kinds of mountain products, such as dates, dried mountain apricots, game bacon, and even domesticated stupid eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs.In fact, we have all these in our space, and the quality may be better than theirs, but seeing the hope in their eyes, the words of rejection can’t come out of their mouths.Anyway, I can't tell, and it's not much after looking at them, so we accepted them all.

A large 100-watt light bulb was also lit in the yard to brighten the yard.

After selling all the mountain goods, everyone was not in a hurry to leave. They all sat or squatted in the yard to find a place and chatted with us.

Living in this ravine, there is no night life.After dinner, everyone either watched TV at home by themselves, or walked to the village with a small bench and a big cattail fan, chatting with acquaintances, and chatting with each other.

Today we were collecting mountain goods at my aunt's house, and the yard was quite lively, so we didn't go back, and we all got together to chat and play cards.The little uncle was squatting on the ground, smoking a pipe and chatting with some old men for some unknown reason.

There are several children in the yard, running all over the yard, and occasionally escaping some pine nuts, hazelnuts and so on from the big bag of mountain goods, throwing them into their mouths and chewing them. They have good teeth.

In fact, the children are not greedy for that kind of food. They have plenty at home, and they don’t want to eat it at home, but it’s a special flavor when a few children get together and eat it secretly.I have a son, and I used to be a teacher (in fact, I still am, but I don’t teach), so I understand the child’s heart.I pretended I didn't see it, and said how much a few children could eat.

The parents of several children were very satisfied when they saw that I acted like I didn’t see the children stealing food, and they had a much better impression of me as a city resident.

At this time, a loud voice rang out outside the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)