MTL - Attack Stream of Life-Chapter 37

A low drooping purple nose, like a string of purple wind chimes, when the wind blows, they touch each other, laughing silently.

"Ah, is it an eggplant?"

He couldn't help but stop and watch, but the little girl from the host family covered her mouth and laughed, "Is there no such thing in the city?"

"I've eaten it, but it's the first time I've seen it growing on a tree." He smiled a little embarrassedly. The living peasants were still much fairer, very handsome, with a little baby fat, and this smile seemed extra shy.

On the opposite side is a little girl who doesn't know anything yet. She doesn't appreciate the color of a man, but she still covers her mouth and smiles - this child has only lost two front teeth, which is embarrassing.

The housewife who was in the kitchen came out of the room, saw him holding the straw hat that had been wiped, and knowing that he came to return the hat, she politely said, "It's not a big deal, There is no shortage at home, why are you in a hurry to pay it back?" Then he greeted his daughter, "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you hurry up and bring a bowl of water."

The girl made a face at him, squeaked into the house, and flung the two pigtails in a straight line.

"This child." The woman laughed and scolded.

"I just bought a new one from Uncle Sanshui's house, why do I keep it?" He said, returning the straw hat. The straw hat was washed and dried yesterday, and even the broken brim was carefully repaired, and it smelled of soap.

The woman liked it when she saw it. She took the hat and felt that the weight was a bit wrong. At a glance, there was a small oiled paper bag inside, a square oiled paper bag, stained with oil stars Turned into translucent, packaged properly, tied with a thin red thread on the outside, carefully and cleanly, just like the young man in front of him.

"The sesame cake I bought in the town before, a little thought."

"Why is this so embarrassing?" The woman hurriedly pushed back. Although it has been seven or three years, the food supply in the village is still in short supply, especially refined grain. The value of work points in their village is not high, and they only earn a hundred yuan at the end of the year. After deducting food rations and living expenses, it is not bad to have a surplus of twenty or thirty yuan at the end of the year.

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The family is so old, fifteen years old, and a half-old child in the country. He ran all the way from the capital to this remote area to take his things, just like bullying a child. The woman took the cake and felt it was hot.

The little **** the side may have seen her mother's dilemma, and she covered her mouth with one hand and pointed at the eggplant tree, "Brother Zhaoming was just stunned at the eggplant, I think he was greedy and wanted to eat."

The woman was delighted when she heard it, "There is nothing else in the mountains. These things are the most. Xiumei, you go and cut some."

What's different in the south. But our eggplants are the best when cooked in vegetarian dishes."

The young man was even more embarrassed, blushing and thanking him repeatedly.

"What are you polite? It's not worth anything."

The woman liked him even more when she saw him like this, as if she was moved by the soft heart of a mother.

Just turned fifteen, a high school student, very knowledgeable about human etiquette.

"You have come here by yourself across more than half of China. If you need anything, don't be polite and ask someone in the team to tell you. It's not easy to come here, you are young. Don't look at the poor village. A little bit, everyone's heart is good, it's just that few people understand what you are saying, so they don't dare to approach. After a long time, you will know. "

The woman is the female director of the village, and she is one of the few literate women. She can speak some Mandarin. Although it has a strong dialect flavor, there is no problem in communication. Therefore, many educated youths like to come to her. There are only a few people in the village who can speak Mandarin, and she is the most enthusiastic.

Young men and women are also avoiding it.

All romantic feelings are no match for the harsh reality, bread or love, you have to make a choice.

As always, the women's director will be concerned about the life of the new gays.

"Hey, please."

"Look at you, you're so polite. Okay, let's go back to dinner."

At the foot of the mountain, the place where the stage in the village used to be is the resettlement site for the educated youth. The place was in a weedy clump, not far from the village, just like their group, not far from the villagers.

This house was built by old educated youths. I heard that at the beginning, everyone borrowed to live in villagers' homes, but there were many inconveniences, such as eating habits, living habits and so on. The villagers themselves felt inconvenient. Later, something happened on both sides, and they felt embarrassed to meet each other.

So later, the village provided manpower and educated youths paid, so they quickly repaired the resettlement site for educated youths, with mud bricks and blue tiles.

After they moved out, they became self-sufficient and occasionally bought things from the villagers. Or the smell is far and near, and the distance is far away, but the relationship with the villagers has eased, which is also a pleasant surprise.

He stepped on the compacted mud and hit the ground with a long stick all the way. Due to the remoteness, snakes and insects were occasionally seen wandering in the grass, so he used this method to scare away these little guests .

In the countryside, the environment is very good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there are many mosquitoes, snakes and ants. At first, people in the city didn't like to see something crawling on the wall and bed when they opened their eyes, but now they have adapted. Even learned that the villagers raised geckos and toads. Only a few lesbians still insist on smoking the house with wormwood every day, and everyone else is not surprised.

The educated youth point is a row of six rooms, one is the kitchen, and the other five are the rooms of the educated youth. The first two batches had a large number of educated youths, occupying four rooms. This group consisted of three people, and they were all male, so they took the last room.

The room is not small, so it is more than enough for three people to live in one, and everyone has a lot of space.

The conditions in the countryside are like this, and you will get used to it.

"Zhao Ming, are you back?"

"What's in your hand?"

"It's eggplant, it looks delicious."

"If you have oil and meat, you can make eggplant boxes."

"I think steamed is good."

A big fan. The eaves in the south are very wide, cool and ventilated, and it is a good place to enjoy the cool.

At this time, if you serve a cup of hot and bitter tea, the day seems to be more beautiful.

Because the educated youths grew up in a similar environment, they were 'exiled' here, and their psychological needs made them hold together and form a small group with a small number of people, so they were more united.

It’s been seven or three years now. At the beginning, most people still thought about finding a chance to go home after two years. It's been almost five years, and the second batch is two years away.

Those who can go back have gone back, and those who stayed have been prepared for the worst of the long-term war of resistance, and they are relatively calm. Everyone will exchange extracurricular books or talk about things in their hometowns, so the educated youth The interior is relatively harmonious.

The ones who really can't stand it and can't go back are two of them who are local sons-in-law. Although they are still educated youths in name, they have already swept away people internally and are not considered companions.

"The director took it at home, steam it and eat it." Zhaoming smiled and gave the eggplant to several lesbians who were cooking.

The educated youth have a clear division of labor. The male comrades have to chop wood and fetch water, and the female comrades cook and cook. Among them was a baby-faced girl whose surname was Yu. The family used to run a restaurant. Her ancestor was a royal chef. She learned a good cooking skill from her elders.

The girl surnamed Yu was frying the rapeseed in the pot, and when she saw the eggplant, she said, "The eggplant is only on the market now, so you have to eat it as it is, and I will make a vegetarian steamed eggplant for everyone. "

The people who enjoy the cool under the eaves are very enthusiastic about the venue.

Zhao Ming went to the house and scrubbed himself with the hot water that had been prepared for a long time. He has two kettles, one for drinking and one for washing. Although the weather is getting hotter, he still likes to use hot water, especially the coolness brought by the evaporation of hot air, which is more comfortable than taking a shower directly with cold water.

He also had to apply medicine. He soaked some safflower in white wine and made it into wine. If he rubbed it hard several times a day, he felt that he might not be able to get up the next day.

But they are different from the villagers. They are not used to it. Every muscle is sore and sore, like an ant biting it. However, if you don't work, you can't do it, there's no work points, and no money.

Can you expect it to be mailed from home? Most families are not rich enough to often support their children who go to the countryside. Even if it is mailed at home, it cannot be a large quantity, and the postage is expensive nowadays. So you still have to rely on yourself.

It is May, the village is rushing to harvest rapeseed, and they follow. When there is no free time throughout the year in the countryside, after the rapeseed is harvested, winter wheat and soybeans must be harvested, and then rice is harvested. After the first season of rice is harvested, the second season of rice is transplanted.

So the villagers were looking forward to the rain, but they were unwilling to rain. When it rains, you can skip work and hide for a day of leisure. The crackling next scene also dissipated the heat, and I could take advantage of this free time to find some friends for a drink and gossip.

However, the rain also delayed harvesting and drying of grain, resulting in a decrease in grain production. What is food? That is the life of the farmer.

This kind of mood is the same as that of a charcoal seller, 'poorly with only one shirt, worrying about charcoal cheap and wishing the weather is cold'.

It is not like working in the city to ensure income.

So the peasant brothers are the most sensitive to seasonal and weather changes, there is no way, it is closely related to their own survival. This is the harvest season, even the lazy people in the village will get up and work.

Why, I have to grab the rice in front of the Dragon King, and then dry it and collect it.

This critical time is often only two or three days. It is early and the grain has not grown to the best time, and the production will be reduced. It was too late, just in time for the rainy days, and the grains were too late to be dried and placed to grow buds, reducing the yield.

To remember for a lifetime.

There are five old educated youths here, all of them are the first batch, most of them are not unwilling to come like Zhaoming, but come with the great dream of building the countryside. The poor reality hit the head, the countryside neither needed them nor welcomed them, causing them to swirl with gold stars.

Afterwards, those who were related at home and those who cried and called their mothers were picked up. There were various reasons, such as having a job or being ill.

However, the mentality of the group of people left behind is not bad. They seem to be prepared for a protracted war. Get married, but live your own life in peace.

This mature mentality also affected the second batch of educated youth and Zhaoming three young people.

The fried peanuts and steamed broad beans are served with a large bowl of tea, and you can have a delicious life when you are young.

"It's like this bowl of steamed eggplant." An old educated youth used chopsticks to pick up a bit of shredded eggplant, "When I first ate it, there was only a green and astringent taste of eggplant, but then there was a little garlic paste. Fragrant, spicy, the aroma of rice wine, and a touch of saltiness. The originally plain eggplant taste suddenly changed."

It's cold, it's very refreshing to eat in summer.

More than ten educated youths sat around the table, and with one chopstick and one chopstick, the small stack of eggplants was quickly eaten up. After physical labor, the food is always particularly fragrant, even if there is a lack of salt and less oil, and enough food fills the stomach, it is also very satisfying.

"Oh, it's better to eat cold dishes in summer."

Surrounding, it highlights the original light taste of eggplant." There are also comments from old gluttons.

"Otherwise, plant an eggplant in our yard, take care of it in a short time, and enjoy it this time next year." A pomp of eggplant with a big purple nose.

"That's not bad. In the past, when I was in the city, even if I went to line up early in the morning, the vegetables I bought were always withered. Isn't there a deserted yard behind us? You can grow some local vegetables. You can also raise a few chickens and pick up eggs every day." The newcomers expressed their opinions.

This inspires the old educated youth. When the old educated youth came, he didn't think about living here for a long time. He didn't think long enough, and he didn't even think about using the abandoned garden behind. But at this moment, seeing that it is impossible to go in a short time, you have to plan for the long-term life in the future.

Before they used to spend money to buy eggs and vegetables from the villagers, although it didn't cost much, it was not a long-term solution. Now the new friend wakes them up.

"I see it, but I don't know if the village is willing."

"Why don't you agree, and you haven't violated any policies, we just planted and raised according to the head, and nothing can go wrong. No, let's talk to the captain, the captain is not bad, I don't think it will deliberately toss us."

This proposal was approved by everyone, so a meeting was held immediately at the dinner table, and everyone raised their hands and voted unanimously. Then a representative was selected and asked him to talk to the captain tomorrow about this.

"Why me?" Zhao Ming pointed at himself in surprise, "I've only been here for two months, isn't it appropriate?"

"You are tender, the elders will love you when you are young and tender."

"Lovely, look at how cute these little dimples are."

"You are the youngest here, so you can talk."

The seniors expressed their opinions one after another. To sum up, Zhaoming has a good appearance, a young age, and a high probability of success.

"You just go there and do what you usually do, they like polite and shy handsome young men. We can't, this body is as sun-dried as millet, no matter how good-looking the smile is No power." Said the old man.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to answer.