Because Pujiang County has many mountains and little land, the per capita cultivated land area is less than one mu.
In order to encourage people to open up wasteland, the government encouraged farmers to open up wasteland and expand planting as early as the early 1960s.
Precisely because ordinary people have their own piece of land, the agricultural and sideline products in their hands are relatively abundant.
When Su Mingzhe came to the material exchange conference, many urban residents had already taken up their seats.
Many market brokers saw Su Mingzhe, a child carrying a thick bundle of leather goods, and immediately became interested and came over to say hello.
Su Mingzhe asked a few, but these brokers kept the prices very low.
In the end, Su Mingzhe didn't bother to pay attention to them, and went straight to the leather goods stall area, spread a layer of blue floral cloth on the ground, and then put the best-looking deer skin on top, waiting for the recipient to come to the door.
He came to the Materials Exchange Conference not really to make money by selling fur goods.
If Su Mingzhe really wanted to make money, he could make millions in minutes.
The reason why he came to the material exchange conference was actually to find an excuse for himself to spend money in the future.
As the morning passed, many people came to inquire about the price. Because of the price issue, Su Mingzhe didn't sell a single piece of fur.
It was almost noon when someone came over and gave me a fair price.
Su Mingzhe had more than 30 pieces of leather goods, including rabbit skin, deer skin, deer skin, suede skin, sheepskin, etc.
The other party took a small abacus and calculated for a while, and finally gave a total of two hundred and twenty yuan.
This price is similar to the two hundred yuan that Grandpa estimated before.
Since the prices were about the same, Su Mingzhe made the move.
After settling the money and goods, Su Mingzhe was about to leave, but was unexpectedly stopped by the other party:
"Little brother, my surname is Zheng. People around here call me 'Zheng Wu'. I want to ask, do you have any fox fur at home?"
"No."
Su Mingzhe glanced at this guy and was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by him again. He said with a smile: "Little brother, I collect fox skins at a high price. Complete and high-quality fox skins, fifty-one, even if it's For ordinary fox skins, as long as the skin looks the same as other furs like you, I will give you twenty-one at least."
"I see."
Su Mingzhe glanced at him again, as if in response, but in fact he didn't take it to heart.
Every walk of life has its own taboos.
Hunters are more taboo about hunting five kinds of animals: "Hu, Huang, White and Willow Gray".
The first kind of 'Hu' is the fox.
The other four are: yellow - weasel, white - hedgehog, willow - snake, gray - mouse.
With his strong strength, Su Mingzhe didn't have to care about these taboos.
However, he may not care, but his grandfather Su Shitou cares very much.
When Su Mingzhe went hunting in the mountains, he was warned by Su Shitou Qian and Wan that he must not break the old rules and avoid the "Five Immortals" when he encounters them.
Su Mingzhe would definitely not worry his grandfather just for a little money.
After leaving the leather goods area, Su Mingzhe walked from the foot of Tower Mountain to Shuimen Gate, walked back and forth, and bought some things needed for home.
When he felt that there was nothing left to buy, Su Mingzhe arrived at the entrance of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Pujiang is still called Puyang Town Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Su Mingzhe took the prescription he had written long ago and went in to grab the medicine.
The people at the traditional Chinese medicine hospital will naturally check the prescription. After checking the prescription, they will also ask if they want to help fry it.
The traditional Chinese medicine hospital can also help prepare traditional Chinese medicine. Of course, this requires a fee.
Su Mingzhe shook his head directly.
He bought Chinese medicine because he wanted to go back and make pills himself, keep them well, and let his grandpa take them slowly every day.
The process of making pills is just very tedious, but actually not difficult.
Su Mingzhe returned home and spent more than a day boiling all the medicinal materials into several bottles of pills before the elementary school started.
These pills are enough for Su Shitou to take for three to five months.
Seeing his grandson working so hard to take care of him, Su Shitou felt both relieved and moved, but also a little sad and distressed.
He suffered many injuries when he was young, which led to great physical deterioration in his old age. Even daily activities could only be done slowly and cautiously.
It just so happened that a body like this could never die. It had to endure itself and take care of its relatives.
Su Mingzhe naturally has no complaints about taking care of his grandpa.
It is all lies to say that there is no filial son in bed after a long illness.
There are countless families taking care of bedridden elderly people. There are many families who complain, but there are even more families who have no regrets.
Su Mingzhe is particularly concerned about his grandfather.
After all, grandpa is his last relative in this world.
If grandpa is gone, Su Mingzhe will become a real "lonely person" in this world.
Therefore, whether it was physical emotions or spiritual needs, Su Mingzhe was willing to take care of his grandpa without any regrets.
What Su Mingzhe didn't expect was that grandpa's heartache never got better.
The pills he made for my grandpa to calm the nerves and exorcise evil spirits took him for more than three years.
In the summer of 1973, Su Mingzhe, who was only thirteen years old, was admitted to Pujiang High School.
At this time, Grandpa, who has passed the seventy-year-old age mark, is aging and disease-causing faster and faster.
Even if Su Mingzhe tried his best, he could only last more than a year.
In the last few months, my grandfather spent 90% of the 24 hours a day wandering around the lake.
Even when he was sober, he did not recognize his grandson Su Mingzhe and kept mumbling the names of his two sons and three daughters.
Grandpa ultimately failed to survive the winter of 1974.
The funeral held by the Su family for Su Shitou was particularly grand. More than a hundred people were buried in the ancestral grave of the Su family in a glorious manner, wearing hemp and mourning.
I don’t know why, but in this world, Su Mingzhe is very emotional, and his tears seem to be free of charge. When he feels a little sad, the tears will flow out, no matter how he stops them, he can’t stop them.
Su Mingzhe didn't want to suppress his feelings.
If a human being cannot cry happily or laugh happily, what is the difference between a human being and a piece of wood?
At the funeral, Su Mingzhe cried wantonly without any intention of covering up.
Drowsily, Su Mingzhe opened his eyes again. It was already dawn the next day.
After having a casual breakfast, Su Mingzhe ran to the Su family's ancestral grave.
This time, Su Mingzhe did not cry. Instead, he knelt in front of the grave where his father and mother were buried together, and started talking:
"Abba, Ama, grandpa has come to find you. I have taken care of grandpa at home for five years. Now it's your turn to take care of grandpa. This is the food I brought you. Please accept it. , I was ignorant and didn’t come to see you very often in the past, but I will come often in the future..."
Su Mingzhe kept talking endlessly, and at some point, he started to cry again.
When the sun was about three o'clock in the morning, Su Mingzhe finally calmed down his emotions, kowtowed to the two tombs a few times, wiped his tears, and then turned around and left.
For the next three weeks, Su Mingzhe remained unmoved. After breakfast, he came to place offerings in front of the two graves.
And the offerings he placed in front of the grave would always disappear the next day, as if Abba, Grandma, and Grandpa had really taken away the offerings.
On this day, the school is on winter vacation.
Su Mingzhe didn't need to get out of school anymore, so he specially prepared rich offerings and came to worship at the ancestral grave.
But when he came to his parents' graves, he happened to see a thin figure circling around his parents' graves.
When the figure noticed Su Mingzhe's arrival, like a frightened rabbit, it suddenly scurried into the jungle in the back mountain in the distance.
"Where did this wild child come from?"
When Su Mingzhe turned around, he could see the other person clearly.
His hair was messy, his face was dirty, and his clothes were torn and stained with mud.
However, Su Mingzhe could detect that this was a young child.
Su Mingzhe laid out the offerings and was about to chat with his parents and grandpa for a while when he was suddenly startled: "Damn, the offerings I gave to my parents and grandpa before were not eaten by that wild child just now." Alright?"
In order to verify what he was thinking, Su Mingzhe frowned, put down the offerings, and left the ancestral grave.
However, he left openly but returned secretly.
Sure enough, the wild child who had just escaped came back, picked up the offerings on the ground, and stuffed them all into his arms. After all the offerings were put into his arms, he ran towards the forest without looking back.
"This little brat!"
Su Mingzhe looked at the back of the wild boy leaving, feeling angry and ridiculous, but in the end he could only sigh and let him go.
There are no ghosts and gods in this world, no underworld, and no heaven.
Su Mingzhe comes to place offerings every day just to comfort himself.
As for whether the offerings were taken away by wild children or eaten by wild beasts and birds in the mountains, Su Mingzhe actually didn't care.
After the wild child ran away without a trace, Su Mingzhe came out again, worshiped his parents and grandpa, and then really left.
On the second day.
Su Mingzhe got up and had breakfast. When preparing the offerings as usual, his hands and feet paused for a moment.
Later, Su Mingzhe came to the ancestral grave with the offerings and continued to present the offerings to his parents and grandpa.
"Abba, aunt, aunt, I'm sorry, I didn't know, the previous offerings were stolen by wild children."
Su Mingzhe laid out all the offerings, and then said:
"I know you are all good people, and you will definitely not blame that wild child, so I don't blame him either. Now I will stay with you for a while. If you are free, eat quickly and let that wild child eat you. The mouth..."
Su Mingzhe rambled on for a while, and as he spoke, he began to laugh.
This time, he stayed at the ancestral grave for a particularly long time. He waited until the offerings were cold before leaving with the basket.
Not long after he left, the wild boy in rags ran over again, and just like yesterday, he took the offerings and left.
"This little brat eats from my parents and grandpa without even kowtow. It's so rude."
Su Mingzhe, who was hiding not far away, saw the wild child running away, and he returned home with a message.
When he got over his anger, he smiled again and laughed at himself:
"I am just asking for trouble. I am getting angry with a wild child who has no one to control me. When spring comes and all things grow, I will just stop giving him food."
I made up my mind.
Su Mingzhe suddenly realized that he had unknowingly gotten over the sadness of his grandfather's death.
