big sister headed home

Chapter 39

Lying on the bed'Dou Hua tossing and turning and unable to sleep'Looking at the dark roof with her pillowed arms'I feel very tired'Arguing is the most troublesome thing'I made a marriage today, so I have a master, It’s unbelievable. People in ancient times got married early. Dou Qing is 13 years old this year. She can marry a wife when she is 15 years old. Do you have to pay attention to good girls earlier? Dou Cui is only ten years old. Don’t worry about it.” Dou Lin should go to school when he arrives Age' should let him go to school to study early...

Dou Hua thought wildly in her mind, "Think about everything" and finally remembered Jiang Ermeng, and the two agreed to go to the mountains to dig herbs in five days' time. I wonder if we can meet as scheduled?Alas, even love and communication have to be sneaky.

Dou Hua thought a lot of things in her mind, and finally fell asleep unknowingly. The next day she rarely got up late, and Dou Qing and the others didn't bother her. , Dou Qing went to clean the yard, the rabbit pen and the donkey shed, and a new day began again.

The weather has been fine for several days in a row. Dou Hua and her younger siblings will weed the wheat field every few days. The wheat grows strong when there is less grass in the wheat field. As the weather gets warmer day by day, the wheat seedlings grow very fast, and they already have knees. It is taller, some seedlings are beginning to ear, and the wheat will be harvested in one month. This is something to be happy about.

There are accidents in everything. It was originally a sunny day, but the day before Li Douhua and Jiang Ermeng agreed to go up the mountain to dig herbs, a few dark clouds suddenly floated from the sky, staying in the sky above their place, accumulating more and more. The thicker it is, the pressure is very low. At night, there are constant thunder and lightning, and the rain falls.

After seeing such a heavy rain, Dou Hua understood one thing in her heart, that is, tomorrow's agreement must be in vain.Dou Hua felt a little regretful in her heart, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was nothing.

Facing the sudden rain, Jiang Ermeng's happy and anticipating celebration was washed away by the rain, and he was very depressed. The rare opportunity to meet was lost just like that.

At first, there was a thunderstorm for half the night, and then it fell intermittently for a few days. The common people who cultivated the land were the happiest. They saw that the wheat was about to head and grout. Come quickly, this rain is really a timely rain.

There was enough rain, not only the ground, but also the ground in front of and behind the house was wet and greasy. After stepping on it, it didn't take long for the soles of the shoes to be stained with mud, and the soles and uppers were also half wet. It is very uncomfortable on the feet. Dou Hua misses the modern rubber and plastic soles, as well as those leather shoes, which are waterproof and non-slip.

During these rainy days, Dou Hua's family basically stayed at home. When it wasn't raining, they would go out to gather some grass, dry it in the firewood shed, and then feed the rabbits.

Dou Hua's house is getting more and more lively. There are bees in the back of the house, a donkey shed in front of the house, and a rabbit pen and a chicken coop under the corner. The chicks in the hen coop are too small, and the rain is too cold and humid , I have to raise them in baskets and raise them in the kitchen, and when the rain is over, they will be raised in the yard.

The little chickens in the kitchen inevitably had a bad smell. For the first time, Dou Hua felt that there were too few rooms in the house. There were only three main rooms. The middle one was the kitchen as well as the living and dining room. The first room is a bedroom, and the bedrooms are both light and dark. The light room is built with a kang, and the space is larger. The dark room is a room for sundries, which is relatively narrow. The valuable ones are still useful, and none of them are willing to throw away.

There are two bedrooms with a kang, one used to be lived by Dou Sanshan and his wife with their two children, now it is lived by Dou Hua and sisters, and the other is lived by Dou Qing and his brothers.The dark room of Dou Hua's house was also repaired with a kang, and now there are no people living in it. It is uncomfortable to live in a dark and narrow dark room.

Dou Hua doesn't like this kind of house layout, and she doesn't have any personal privacy. If possible, she prefers to have a bedroom alone, arranged in the way she likes, and can sleep as she likes, how comfortable it is.

If I earn more money this year, I may be able to build a big house next year. The house doesn’t have to be big, but it must have more rooms, and a single room is best. Every house must have windows. light and spacious.

When Dou Hua thought that she was going to get married at the end of next year, she felt embarrassed, and felt that it was imperative to repair the house. At that time, she also said that she would let people move to Doujia Village. They didn't even have a house. Should they sleep on the street?

The more I think about it, the more I feel that big things like building a house need to be put on the agenda. Although I can't do anything now, it's better to have a plan in advance. When Dou Hua is free, she starts thinking about what kind of house she will build in the future. Such an idea was in her heart, and she didn't mention it to others. What she has to do now is to earn money quietly and in a low-key way, so that her younger siblings can live a good life without worrying about food and drink. During those two months, the family didn’t even have a chicken or vegetables, so they spent a period of bitter spring by picking wild vegetables to eat.

Dou Hua’s core is the thoughts of adults. It’s okay to suffer a little. It’s just suffering for Dou Qing’s young children. Children are no better than adults. They can’t eat well, and their nutrition can’t keep up. The little face is sallow, the hair is yellow, and the whole person is not energetic, not even a little childish, pitiful.

Ever since Dou Hua dug up medicinal herbs and sold them for money, Dou Hua was quite willing to eat them. The coarse-grain pancakes were hard and hard to swallow, so they stopped eating them. When she had the conditions, she bought white flour and tried to eat some fine-grained pancakes. The food, a few small ones are eating well, after more than a month, the little face is obviously fatter, and there is more flesh on the body, Dou Hua can see it in her eyes, and she is determined to let her eat more. A few small ones eat and drink well, not to say they are better than others, but just as good as they are.

Most of the villages now have land. As long as you work hard, you can always grow a round belly. The crops can be planted twice a year, one season of winter wheat, and then you can plant millet, corn, sorghum, beans, etc. Most people grow millet, corn, and sorghum more, and the yield is higher. They are all grains that can be eaten as food. Beans, peanuts, and cotton are economic crops, unless the grains grown by ordinary people are enough to pay taxes to fill their stomachs. Some people use the land to grow them. Although they can be exchanged for money, nothing is more important than food.

In the era of famine, people who have money may not be able to buy food, so people usually leave more food as a reserve in a good harvest year, just in case. This is the wisdom of the people who have survived for many years. This is the reason why you don't panic when you have surplus food.

Finally on this day, the sky cleared and there were no clouds in the sky. The big sun shone on the earth, driving away the dampness and coldness. There will only be a shoe print on it, and the mud will not come off.

Dou Hua and the others stayed at home for a few days. The weather was rare and the air was exceptionally clear. The air was filled with the smell of green grass, leaves and soil, which was the smell of nature.

Dou Hua brought Dou Qing and the little ones, Xiaohuizi, and a straw basket behind her back. She planned to take the little ones here for a spring outing, enjoy the scenery, walk around, and feel the nature It's beautiful, but her leisure and leisure, a few younger ones can't understand, but they are all very happy, it's good to be able to play with the eldest sister.

The group of them walked along the dirt road and unknowingly came to the pagoda forest. They had come here to pick mushrooms, and it was here that Dou Hua discovered her special ability in medicinal herbs.

"Sister, look, the pagoda tree is about to bloom. Wow~ there are so many pagoda trees. In a few days, the entire forest will be covered with pagoda trees." Dou Lin looked up at the strings of unopened pagoda trees hanging on the tree. Sophora japonica is still blue and small, and they will bloom in a few days.

"Yes, there are so many Sophora japonica flowers, it will be beautiful then." Dou Hua said, "Let's come back in a few days to enjoy the flowers."

"Okay, let's come together." Xiao Dou Hong clapped her hands and applauded.

"Let's just gather some grass on the outskirts of this forest. We won't go inside. It's very slippery inside now. We came late, and there are probably no mushrooms, so we won't go in."

Dou Hua and Dou Qing carried straw baskets on their backs. She didn't think about walking so far, so she just walked here and came here. She didn't want to go deep in the woods. The incident of encountering jackals while picking mushrooms She still had lingering fears, this time she only brought a hatchet and grass knife, not a bow and arrow, so she thought not to venture into the depths of the forest.

"Well, let's cut grass here. The grass here is pretty good." Dou Qing pointed to a piece of green grass not far away and said. The rain has been falling intermittently for five or six days, and the grass is moistened by the rain. It is desperately absorbing nutrients. Nothing grows faster than these grasses, and some of them grow to the height of human calves.

"Well, that's it, little Huizi, go and graze by yourself, don't go too far, I don't care if you get lost and eaten by jackals." Dou Hua said to Xiao Huizi, after Xiao Huizi went out, there was nothing. People lead it by the rein, but it is obedient, honestly following behind people, strolling together, and bowing its head to eat a few bites when it sees the green grass. Along the way, its stomach is round.

"En~" Little Huizi raised his head and howled, as a promise, he flicked his tail, looked left and right with his big head to find the target, found a piece of fresh green grass, and ran with his little hooves. In the past two years, Little Huizi was afraid of being hungry, but now he would eat his stomach to the full whenever he had the chance, and he no longer wanted to suffer from starvation.

Dou Hua didn't care about it, and told Dou Lin and the two young ones not to run far away, so they cut grass with Dou Qing and Dou Cui, and picked up fresh and fresh cuts. The rabbits raised at home should be especially careful when eating grass. , During the chat, Jiang Ermeng also talked about some tips on raising rabbits. Despite his big and thick appearance, he is quite careful and knows a lot. Some of them are from his own experience in raising rabbits, and some are related to The old people in the village learned it, and Dou Hua remembered it in her heart.

Jiang Ermeng said at that time that these wild rabbits not only love to eat grass, but rabbits can eat the wild vegetables that people eat. Many of these weeds have certain medicinal value, such as dandelion, plantain, and purslane. What's the matter, rabbits can eat less often and get sick less. After hearing this, Dou Hua thinks it makes sense. She occasionally feeds some wild vegetables to the rabbits. These rabbits are still a face, and they don't get sick. In view of this, Dou Hua thinks It is necessary to dig some wild vegetables for these rabbits frequently, and now wild vegetables are everywhere in the field, so it is very easy to find.

"Your sister, do you think there are mushrooms here?" Dou Lin found a cluster of mushrooms in the grass nest, seven or eight of different sizes.

"Well, dig out the big ones, and keep the ones that are too small." Dou Hua said.

"Hey, I see, little girl, let's dig together." Dou Lin called Dou Hong to dig together.

Dou Hua and the others were digging wild vegetables and hitting green grass, and Dou Lin and Dou Hong were looking for mushrooms nearby. When a group of people were busy, suddenly there was a cry from the little gray, and they were running with their pattering hooves. With a sound, Little Huizi rushed out from the bushes, struggling up and down while running.

Dou Hua and the others took a closer look, and saw that Xiao Huizi was carrying a person on his back.

(End of this chapter)