MTL - Hello 1983-Chapter 5 Clivia

  Chapter 5 Clivia

   "Hey, Qingshan, why did you push the literary bicycle here, don't break it!"

  In the yard, Liu Jinfeng saw his younger brother pushing a bicycle in, and immediately recognized Gao Wenxue's broken bicycle.

   After all, in the entire Jiapigou, apart from the captain’s family’s bicycle, Gao Wenxue’s is the one, and she has ridden it a lot.

   At that time, if there was a new bicycle, it would be more arrogant than driving a BMW and Audi in later generations.

   "Sister, you haven't been married yet, why are you starting to protect your family?"

  Liu Qingshan made a joke.

   The result in exchange was that Liu Jinfeng pinched the ear and twisted it half a circle.

   "It hurts, it hurts!"

  This time it really hurts, Liu Qingshan grinned: "Sister, I will ride a bicycle to sell vegetables in the county tomorrow, anyway, I can't eat the vegetables in the garden, let's see if I can exchange some money."

  For the time being, there is no good way to come to Qiandaoer, and it happens to be summer vacation, so he is going to give it a try.

   By the way, go to the county town to see if you can find any good business opportunities.

  The quality of life at home needs to be improved, the eldest sister also needs money for her marriage, the second sister needs money for her studies, and the grandfather also needs money for eye treatment.

  He has roughly some plans in his mind, but it will take time to implement them. In a short period of time, no effect can be seen.

   Moreover, if he wants to do something, he also needs start-up capital. He urgently needs to earn the first pot of gold.

   Hearing what his younger brother said, Liu Jinfeng let go and blew on his reddened ear: "Qingshan, the county town is four or fifty miles away, and you have never been there. Besides, can you ride a bicycle?"

   "Sister, just take a look at it."

   After finishing speaking, Liu Qingshan flew into the car, rode his bicycle for a walk around the street, and performed a stunt of bending over to pick up dirt while holding the handlebar with one hand.

   "All right, all right, let's see if you can."

   Liu Jinfeng complained, but with a smile on his face, he went back to the house to cook with confidence.

   When it was almost time for dinner, grandma brought grandpa over, carrying big and small parcels in his hand.

  Liu Qingshan took a look, these were four boxes of presents from the brother-in-law-to-be, except for the two bottles of wine that were left behind by grandpa, the remaining three were brought here.

  Two packs of trough cake, two catties of sugar, plus two bottles of canned food, one bottle of hawthorn, one bottle of orange slices.

  Old Si Caifeng's eyes were rounded at that time.

  Put these things on the kang, grandma touched the little head of the fourth child and said: "This is for your eldest sister to make up. Our Caifeng is sensible, so I can't compete with the eldest sister."

  The little fourth's face twitched all of a sudden, but he still nodded: "Grandma, I know, the eldest sister has a baby in her belly."

  This girl is a ghost, just now when the adults were chatting, she understood it just by playing with her ears.

   As a result, Liu Jinfeng got a big blush in the face, and Lin Zhi hurriedly warned: "Sifenger, please don't go out and tell others."

   "Don't talk, don't talk!"

  Little Laosi raised his fist and said vowedly.

  Finally, half of the trough cakes and canned sugar should be given back to grandparents.

  In this era of scarce supplies, it is really difficult to eat good food.

   Therefore, it tastes extra fragrant, and it has been able to remind people for decades.

   "Dad, Mom, look at your elders, what should I do with Da Feng'er's marriage?"

  Lin Zhi poured water for the two old people, and then started a small family meeting.

  The participants are mainly grandparents, Lin Zhi and Liu Jinfeng. As for Liu Yinfeng, Liu Qingshan and Liu Caifeng, they also attended the meeting.

  Grandpa spoke first: "Literature, no one is here at home. According to the old rules, he is the door-to-door son-in-law of our old Liu family, so we are responsible for handling it."

   "If we follow the old rules, even if they have children, they will have to follow our old Liu's family name."

  Liu Qingshan blinked: The old man has set the tone, but this idea is still a bit old-fashioned.

  Of course, that's what he thought, but he didn't dare to say it out, after all, there were still small bumps knocked out by broom bumps on his head.

  After hearing this, Lin Zhi was slightly taken aback, and her complexion became even paler: Arranging a marriage is really too difficult for this family who can barely make ends meet.

  Even if you don’t prepare a banquet and send some wedding candies to relatives and friends, the two children must make new clothes, right? Gotta make some new quilts?

  Where can I get this money?

  Although the land was allocated last winter, everyone planted their own, and their enthusiasm was high. In autumn, they will definitely be able to harvest a lot of food and pay more money.

   But it will take several months.

  Da Feng'er's belly will definitely show up at that time, it's absolutely impossible, even her mother will be ashamed to face others.

  Liu Qingshan has been staring at his mother, and seeing the frown of his mother, he can't help but feel distressed: For this family, mother is too difficult!

  Thinking that a month later, he was admitted to high school, and his mother had to support two high school students by herself.

  After the new year, the eldest sister gave birth, and the burden of the family was all on the mother's already thin shoulders.

   So much so that when Liu Qingshan finished college, his mother was completely exhausted and collapsed in the corn field.

   And then... never stood up.

   No, all of this will never happen again!

  Liu Qingshan murmured silently in his heart. .

  Obviously, Liu Jinfeng also knew about the situation at home, and said, "Grandma, I'm marrying, not recruiting a son-in-law, so I should go to the literature side to get married?"

   "No!"

  Grandpa spoke again, "Literature and Ganzi live in the North and South Kang, and the house is similar to a pigsty. Ganzi is an old bachelor, who knows what kind of **** he can do."

  Liu Qingshan thinks about the scene he saw just now. Who can rest assured that Uncle Gan is still walking birds in broad daylight?

  Look for a house again. Now everyone in the village is crowded, and there is no vacant house.

  As for building a new house, even Liu Qingshan dare not think about it now.

  At this time, I heard grandma say: "Zhi'er, I'll give this to you, go to the county to exchange some money, and make arrangements for Dafeng'er's marriage."

  I saw grandma taking out a small cloth bag from her arms while talking, and opening it, there were double gold bracelets inside.

  The surface is a bit old and not so golden, but Baoguang is restrained and still attracts attention.

   "Mom, you can't do it, you absolutely can't do it." Lin Zhi shook her hands repeatedly when she saw it.

  Of course she knew that this was one of the jewelry that the old lady was given by her natal family when she got married.

  In the past few years, other items have been sold off one after another to subsidize the family. Now, this is the only thought left.

   And Liu Jinfeng also stepped forward with red eyes, rewrapped the bracelet, and stuffed it back into grandma's hand: "Grandma, even if I'm not married, I can't sell this thing."

   "It's all new things now. When the time comes, buy some wedding candies and have a reunion dinner with our family, that's all!"

   "Well, this thing will be passed on to you sooner or later anyway." The old lady patted the back of Liu Jinfeng's hand and said with concern.

  Then the old man also said: "Okay, it's settled like this. This bracelet is left alone. It's not suitable for eating or drinking. It's better to sell it to Jinfeng for business."

   Now, no one dares to refute.

  At home, the old man's words mean everything he says.

  For a while, the atmosphere in the room was a bit dull, only Liu Yinfeng was still competing with English books with her head down.

   "Caifeng, I'll give you a trough cake."

  Grandma loved her little granddaughter and opened her share of pastries.

  The outside is wrapped with yellow oil paper, and the four sides are wrapped with thin paper ropes. Although it is separated by a layer of paper, the aroma of pastries still radiates.

  The things at that time were all real materials without any additives.

  In fact, the fourth child has long been greedy. He glanced at his mother, then quickly took it, put it in his mouth, and gnawed it slowly.

   "Brother, you also have a taste, just a small sip, and I will send the rest to Shan Xing."

   After eating half of the sweet and soft glutinous trough cake, the little guy brought the trough cake to Liu Qingshan's mouth.

  Although later generations have eaten and seen it, but smelling the aroma of the pastries, Liu Qingshan felt that this was the best taste in the world.

   "Go, give it all to Shan Xing."

  Liu Qingshan was satisfied after hearing this, waved his hand and said.

Seeing the fourth child bouncing out of the house, grandma sighed: "Fortunately, Wenxue is a good boy. He didn't leave our family's Dafenger behind like Shan Xing's father, so this marriage is even more unacceptable." Hasty."

   Alas, Lin Zhi could only let out a helpless sigh.

  At this moment, the fourth child ran back bouncing back, followed by another little yellow-haired girl, Shan Xing'er.

  Shan Xing'er bowed very sensiblely, and said timidly: "My mother told me to come over, thank you grandparents, thank you Aunt Lin."

  Her mother is crazy, but she is not always crazy.

  Usually, she looks similar to a normal person, except that there are always a few days every month when she falls ill, and sings songs in her mouth, singing all over the place.

   "Look, what a sensible child."

  Grandma touched her brown and dry hair affectionately, and said lovingly.

   At this time, the little mouth of the fourth child began to report again: "Grandma, mother, sister, the Clivia is blooming in the yard, it looks so beautiful!"

  The Clivia is blooming, okay, okay, grandma nodded and lifted her skirt to wipe the corners of her eyes.

  Even the corners of Grandpa’s eyes twitched a few times: Clivia, Zijun, my good son!

  Lin Zhi also had red eyes. This Clivia planted by her husband was the only thought of the family.

  Liu Qingshan is also full of sadness, seeing things and thinking about people, things are right and people are wrong, how can it be human?

   "Go and see, Zijun knows that there is a happy event at home."

  The old man's voice trembled a little, Liu Qingshan hurried up to help his grandfather, and everyone came to the yard together.

  In the yard, there is a small pergola, inside which are placed one large, three small and four potted flowers, all of which are Clivia.

  Several small plants were transplanted from big pots one after another, just like children at home, growing up day by day.

   Lin Zhi took care of these potted flowers very carefully, loosening the soil, fertilizing, watering, just like taking care of her husband back then.

  The flowers also know how to repay, so the growth is gratifying. The plump leaves are black and green, and the surface is shining with a layer of luster.

   It was one of the small pots that bloomed, and the flowers bloomed beautifully. On a pavilion stile, there was a circle of gorgeous flowers, fully blooming the color and vitality of life.

   "It looks good, it looks good."

  Grandma murmured while shedding tears.

  Mother also turned around, and gently wiped the crystals from the corners of her eyes. Liu Qingshan, who was next to her, seemed to hear her mother muttering softly: gentleman, son, gentleman...

   At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said with surprise: "Grandpa, grandma, mom, sister, these flowers are the great wealth my father left us!"

  (end of this chapter)