After Li Laoshi left, Mr. Xiaoman sighed: "Fortunately, there are no road constructions! It's easier for us on this mountain, and we can't support too many people."
The road up the mountain was damaged by heavy rains in the summer. When Xiang Dejin and others had nothing to do, they even offered to help repair the previous road, but Jiang Zhi and Xiao Manye said they would not repair it.
People in the same village know where each other's charcoal kiln is.
As long as you are willing and don't need Li Laoshi to lead the way, those people will come to you. But if the road is difficult, there will be less chance of being harassed.
Now the two families can barely make ends meet in the mountains.
Although there are crops grown in the mountains, the harvest is small. The food mainly relies on green rice flour, sorghum rice, beans and various vegetables. The meat is also wild boar and rabbit meat.
If there were any more people, everyone would go hungry.
Jiang Zhi also nodded: "Shengmei's favor and rice's hatred, our fine grains are only enough for the children."
Regarding this matter, Jiang Zhi and Xiao Manye had a perfect understanding, and they didn't even ask the names of the people who came back.
Returning to his home on the cliff, Qiaoyun went into the kitchen and put the egg basket in a daze.
Caixia was hungry and moaned for milk. Xu Errui carried her over. Seeing that Qiaoyun looked wrong, he asked, "Qiaoyun, what are you doing?"
Qiaoyun's eyes were uneasy: "Er Rui, are we going back to the village too?"
It has been almost a year since she went to the mountain. Qiaoyun feels that she is happy every day. She doesn't want to go back to the village again. She doesn't want to see her mother-in-law quarreling with others every day and losing her temper with her family when she comes back.
She didn't like those days.
Xu Errui scratched his head: "Mom didn't say when she would go down the mountain. Don't worry, she has a good temper now. She won't curse even when she goes down the mountain."
He now understands that his mother's bad temper was caused by the past, and it also has something to do with Xiaotian.
Now that Xiaotian has left, my mother's anger has gone smoothly.
Moreover, my mother will sell medicine in the future, and she will have to cultivate several acres of land. Living in the mountains can dig medicine, but it is inconvenient, and she will definitely have to build a house in the village.
But now the medical shed is still there, and even going down the mountain will be a matter of time.
Time passed day by day, and on the 39th, it also snowed in Bajun.
The snowflakes are piled on the treetops and on the edge of the cliff, but they will not fall on the flat ground.
Xiaoman took Nini to build a snowman and ran up several slopes before collecting two buckets from grass leaves.
But the snow turned into water as soon as I squeezed it, and finally I managed to squeeze an iceman 20 centimeters high.
Nini pulled leaves and grass stems and put a full head of wild hair on Iceman.
The weather in winter is like this, rain adds to snow, snow turns to rain, people shiver with cold, wind and cold rain come in turn.
When the sun comes out occasionally, the women from both families will be busy drying quilts, drying straw for beds, and moving out all the things in the house to dry.
Finally everyone, including Peppa Pig, went out to bask in the sun.
Anyway, if you don’t have something to bask in when the sun comes out, you’ll feel like you’re sorry for the sunshine.
He was not idle at other times. Xiao Man took Xiao Man and Xu Errui to find another abandoned charcoal kiln to burn charcoal.
Large charcoal blocks were used for the fire, and small charcoal residues were piled under Xu Dazhu's wooden house to keep out the moisture.
Winter is a good time to repair water conservancy. The two families worked together to deepen and lengthen the canal above the terraces to ensure water for the rice below in the coming year.
The ditch behind Xiaoman's house has also been rerouted, so that flash floods will no longer hit the house when it rains.
Xiaomannai and Qiaoyun made some snacks for the New Year.
There are no high-end snacks and candies, only steamed and dried sweet potatoes, fried dried soybeans, fried pumpkin seeds, and fried rice balls.
But there’s another snack for Berkshire’s kids.
The fruit Xiaoman picked from the mountain is "Lao Genmi".
Wutongzi
This is the seed of the sycamore tree, a native product for thousands of years.
Everyone knows: "Plant a sycamore tree and a phoenix will come."
It is written in "The Book of Songs": "The phoenix sings in that high hill; the phoenix tree grows in that rising sun."
The phoenix will not live unless it is a phoenix tree, and it will not eat if it is not a phoenix tree. This is what it means.
The French plane trees that modern ordinary people know about on the streets were introduced by the French from England and planted in the Shanghai Concession. Their leaves are shaped like Chinese plane trees, so they are called French plane trees.
The poems about Wutong have nothing to do with it.
Wutong seeds taste delicious when fried, and they are also a snack for rural children.
Wutong, also called Qingtong
In addition to food, you also need clothes for the New Year.
It is impossible for everyone to have new clothes to wear.
Xiao Mannai took apart the old clothes and dyed them again. The boards were starched until they were straight. The worn sleeves, elbows and trouser legs were replaced with new cloth, making it another thick new clothes.
Only Xiao Man grew up so fast that he couldn't wear new clothes, so he had to cut off all his old clothes. They looked like some new style, which made everyone very happy.
You can live in poverty, but you can't live carelessly. Every day on the mountain is full and busy.
But in this busy day, discordant things still happen.
In the half month since the people of Xujia Village came back, they learned that most of the families who did not flee had died in the wildfires, but two families were still alive.
Moreover, they also found two names among the stranded refugees: Aunt Jiang and Xiao Man.
Xu Genbao touched his hungry belly, looked up at the high mountains and forests, and said happily: "It's Dazhu and Master Chang Geng. I want to see how they are doing."
There are acquaintances from the village, all of whom are from my own family.
Moreover, Mr. Chang Geng is a kind-hearted person. He once helped his family repair their house. Now that he encounters difficulties again, he will always lend a hand to help.
Xu Genbao's mother, Mrs. Liu, had a sad look on her thin face: "His family, old and young, and even a paralytic, is probably worse off than us. Don't go looking for them. It's better to help your eldest brother build a shack and dig the ground early." "
Next to him, Xu Genbao's wife held her skinny child and glared at her mother-in-law: "We have to work so hard every day that people are starving to death. It's difficult for everyone. Is there anyone in the world who has it harder than us?
It's all your fault for not living up to expectations. You don't dare to join the army because you're afraid of death, and you don't want to stay and work in Yuzhou Prefecture because you're afraid of being tired.
Now when I come back, I asked him to go to the medical shed to find something to eat, but he said he was sorry.
I have no skills but I still want face. I deserve to suffer and suffer poverty. I am just pitiful. My Lei baby is only three years old. He wants rice but not rice. He wants noodles but not noodles. He can’t stick to any meat in half a year. He is really born in the wrong child. "
Xu Genbao and Mr. Liu were immediately shocked into silence.
Genbao's wife looked to the side again. Her uncle's family was still tidying up the shack, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Tian, was hanging a braided straw curtain at the door to keep out the wind.
Genbao's wife spat angrily: "Who are you showing me with that virtuous look? What's the point of touching a chicken coop? If you touch it every day, you can still find gold!"
She was resentful and couldn't stay any longer, so she turned around and left with her child in her arms.
Seeing her younger daughter-in-law's resentful temper, Mrs. Liu sighed helplessly: Why did she fall in love with her appearance in the first place? When she came in to choose food and clothing, the whole family would let her go.
I don’t feel it at ordinary times, but now after the disaster, I still feel it.
Fortunately, the eldest daughter-in-law is a loyal and honest person who suffers a lot if she doesn't like to talk. The three children also endure hardships and don't care about the younger aunt, otherwise they would have caused trouble early.
However, the eldest son has complained several times in private. He did not mention the separation of the family during the year before he fled. If these two are still ignorant when they come back, he will ignore them.
Alas, if Genbao and his wife remain so ignorant, the family will break up sooner or later.
