After dinner, the aunt's complexion improved a lot, because Zhou Ya gave her another set of jewelry and told her the price. Although I was very distressed that the link I accidentally gave away was worth more than 200,000 yuan, I felt better now that I had another one that was more expensive.
But when he thought that he had given away more than 200,000 yuan, he was still depressed when he should have been. Even the way he looked at my uncle's victory was wrong.
This made my uncle Shengli, who was a little drunk after eating and drinking. He originally wanted to go to the market to find someone to play mahjong for two rounds. When he saw the look in his wife's eyes, he just went home and went to bed dejectedly.
"Not at noon. Wait until we go together in the evening. The little devil at noon will grab your legs and drag you into the deep water and drown you."
The adults sat together and chatted after dinner, while Jiejie was making noises about going swimming. Compared to his unreliable father, the cousin in front of him, who was much older than him, was similar to Superman in his eyes. Basically, everything he wanted since childhood could be found from his cousin.
Of course, Yang Dongxu, a cousin, is old enough to be the young man in front of me, so there is no way he can spoil this guy. So when this kid made trouble in front of him at home, he didn't beat him less.
And every time he was beaten, Jiejie would be beaten a second time when he went home to complain. So slowly he started to feel a little love-hate towards his cousin. And children feel a bit bitchy. The more you ignore them, the more they like to look at you.
"Then I'll go home and take the cart with me. I'll go play in the trench first, and then go to the pond in the evening."
Why is it noon and ghosts are showing their shadows? This is still a deterrent to children. After all, how could children living in rural areas not hear a few ghost stories growing up?
The belts that Jiejie mentioned were actually the inner tubes of trucks. Some inner tubes are too full to be used and pose a safety risk, so after being fully inflated they become swimming rings for rural children.
Nowadays, people who have such a swimming circle are treated like big brothers among their friends. It would be even more incredible if we could steal a big iron basin from home and put a set inside it to turn the tire into a boat.
There is no one to teach children in rural areas how to swim. Basically, all those who know how to swim grew up under the soles of their parents' shoes.
However, children are also smart and know that if they sneak into the pond secretly, they will basically be beaten severely. If you go to Zhaizihao, which is relatively shallow, it's basically no big deal.
After all, the deepest part of the trench in the house only reaches the chin of the older child. The occasional deeper pool is not considered dangerous.
If something does happen to drown, an older child can easily pull it out. If it really doesn't work, just shout and an adult can pull it out with a quick dive and the risk is not high.
After all, the trenches on the old house are right here. Except for Yang Dongxu, who widened and deepened the trenches on Yang's house to prevent them from being useful due to building a house, the trenches on other old houses remained the same.
And there are several families living inside, and people often pass by on the road next to it. Unlike the big pond, if there is any danger, the water surface is so big that it is difficult to save. Even if the children come back and call someone to come back, it will delay the effort.
So under the stick, the children in the village basically understood that it was fun to swim in the big pond because the water surface was larger, but they could only go into the water when there were adults. Normally, they could only play in the house trench, but also It must be done with older children.
Looking at the older children in the village, all of them were running to Zhaizihao in their underwear just after eating, not caring at all that getting into the water right after eating would cause indigestion.
In fact, not only did they not care, but few parents in the village cared either. After all, children in rural areas are hardy and lively. Who didn't soak in the water for an hour or two in the summer when they were young?
After dinner, we went to Zhaizihao to play crazy, and then came back with my hands wrinkled. We took a slingshot and walked around in the woods and bamboo pole gardens around the village.
It’s not necessarily about hunting birds, it’s also possible to kill a hornet’s nest. No childhood is complete without a bruise from a wasp sting.
Just like this, the cat was bored and wandered around all afternoon. In the evening, he and the adults went to the big pond to play wildly. By the way, they took a look at the nearby ditch to see if they could touch some fish and shrimp. They didn't care about the harvest, which was mainly about the process.
This is life during weekend housing prices. Except for a few children who are excellent in both character and academic performance, other children do not have this time consumption at all.
Of course, there are more than one or two children who are beaten every day if they don’t do their homework. A child who plays truant after poor grades will be beaten more severely than if he sneaks into the lobby and gets caught.
In short, if the child doesn't study well, if he's beaten... and if it still doesn't work, then he'll be beaten again. He'll be beaten until he graduates and hasn't learned well yet, and his body has been beaten to a point where he can work.
If you disobey, you will definitely be beaten. If you continue to disobey, you will be beaten. Being naughty and making trouble is also a spanking. The childhood of rural children is basically incomplete without being spanked. And being beaten is not an occasional thing, it is a common thing, especially for boys.
"Get some rest at home. You don't need to be busy over there. It smells bad over there in the summer." With nothing to do, Yang Dongxu was going to go to the pig farm to help.
As a result, Yang's mother drove her back, and by the way, she put her grandson, who was still missing him, into her son's arms. Obviously he didn't want his son to go to the pig farm, but he just said casually, mainly because he couldn't let his grandson go to avoid being smoked.
In fact, the smell of the pig farm is not very big. After all, the Yang Jiadong pig farm was originally to make money, but now it is just a way of making a living and having something to do to avoid boredom.
Therefore, a very good septic tank was built at the pig farm very early. When the manure fields are pumped out in spring and autumn throughout the year, the smell is not good for a few days, but the smell is not very strong at other times.
At least even if the wind blows and the place is downwind, people on the market won't be able to smell the smell of pig shit. Besides, the pig farm is still some distance from the village, and the surrounding wasteland has also been bought by the Yang family.
We didn’t plant crops or build a chicken farm or anything like that, but we planted a lot of trees. The most common place for many children in the village to hunt birds or cicadas is in the woods.
Under Yang Dongxu's suggestion, poplar trees, which grow faster and are now very popular, were not originally planted on the wasteland. In order to prevent all kinds of poplars from flying around in a few years.
Instead, some miscellaneous trees were planted, such as mulberry trees, locust trees, elm trees, and ailanthus trees. The reason given to Mother Yang and Father Yang was also very simple, that is, some parts of these trees are good Chinese medicinal materials.
Nowadays, growing traditional Chinese medicine in Yangjia Village is very popular, and it has overshadowed the popularity of greenhouse vegetables in previous years. I have learned a lot about Chinese medicine, and I have some understanding of Chinese medicinal materials.
So every year, some mulberry, elm, or ailanthus gum, etc. are no longer known to be medicinal materials but do not know how to get them like before.
Especially when some children want to get pocket money, the most common thing they do in summer is to collect cicada shells and poke hornets' nests. Now there are several more Chinese medicinal materials collected from trees.
Usually when faced with such a situation, parents don't care, but if they sell it for more money. The mother is definitely not at ease, so she will tell her child to keep some of it for you...
Zhou Ya was upstairs sorting out the gifts for relatives in the next few days, but her son had no intention of taking a nap. So Yang Dongxu took him for a walk around the village.
Rural people are used to saving, so there are people everywhere under the shade of the trees enjoying the cool air after eating, even though there are many fans and even air conditioners at home.
But that is basically for children who are worried about the heat while taking a nap. If you have nothing to do, you can just go out and enjoy the shade under the shade of a tree. The breeze is more comfortable than blowing a fan at home, and there are people to chat with.
Xiao Wenchen was running around, and he hadn't been away for a long time, so when the familiarity returned, he was not afraid of naughty buttons or scratches.
After a while, I was playing with a group of children of similar age, and they didn't play with any toys. I don’t know why I’m so happy even though I’m running around chattering and laughing so hard that I’m out of breath.
Yang Dongxu smiled and greeted the villagers. When he met a man, he would pass a cigarette. When a bold woman teased him, he would smile shyly and not answer.
After a while, a group of little kids were attracted by the big kids who were getting into the water in the ditch not far away. They stood by the water one by one. A few bold activists had already begun to pull off their small clothes and prepare to drag them. Went down.
Yang Dongxu hurriedly ran over in three steps and two steps at a time, because Xiao Wenchen was also rushing over there with a group of little kids. Even though they were all four or five years old, their short legs were swaying more and more.
First there was the cry of being unwillingly stopped by the adults, and then the slaps stung my buttocks, making the cries louder.
The cries were accompanied by the sound of adults scolding the older children who had gone into the water in the house ditch, but the older children didn't mind at all. They climbed up the crooked-neck tree next to the house ditch one by one and jumped down, playing more happily. The kid who was stopped cried even harder.
The joy didn't last long before adults came over with bamboo sticks in their hands, and the cheerful children who were playing in the water quickly climbed up to the shore and dispersed.
Although adults don't mind the older children playing in the water in the house trench, they don't mind making the younger ones cry. The people in Yangjiacun are basically related to each other. Some of them are related to a grandfather or a great-great-grandfather.
The parents' generation are basically cousins, and some of the children who are made to cry are even the older children's younger siblings. The younger ones have already received two slaps on the butt, so why don't the older ones be saved for the New Year?
After a period of howling, it finally calmed down, and the little boy started running around again before his tears dried.
"When did you come back?"
The people who came here were not the five people who were familiar with Yang Dongxu. Summer was officially the peak period for fruit demand, and several of them had gone out for long distances and never came back. The visitor's nickname is Xiaoga, who is from Xu Zhai, and he also has a younger brother named Xiaodong.
Not everyone in Yangjia Village has the surname Yang. There are also people surnamed Xu, Li and Sun. However, compared to those surnamed Yang, there are fewer people with other surnames. It has been said that people with the surname Yang are more likely to have the surname Xu.
"I just came back this morning. I heard that you opened a car repair shop in the town. Why are you back here in time?" Yang Dongxu smiled and took the handed cigarette, holding it against the wind and lighting it with the fire Xiaoga sent. He doesn't usually smoke, but it's okay to smoke a few with him in the village occasionally.
"The car repair shop in our area deals with big cars. Now all the big cars are running outside and haven't come back. You can count the number of small cars in the town with two hands. The only ones left are some tricycles and tractors. of maintenance.
There are a few half-pull workers in Xiawangzhuang in the west of the town who are learning how to repair cars with me. They can handle simple tasks, so I will have two days of leisure before those big cars come back.
What do you think if I move the repair shop back to our store? Every time Xiaowu and the others came back, they said it was too troublesome to have to run back and forth to the town to repair the car. "Xiao Ga started to chat while smoking a cigarette.
"If we look at the future, it would be better to put the repair shop in the town, unless the town government can move to our village to work." Yang Dongxu said jokingly.
In fact, he also knew that Xiaoga was just chatting, although because Yangjiacun was wealthy, there were more cars in Shilibaxiang. But Wuli Town relies on a provincial road.
That is because Xiaoga just learned auto repair and came back and the repair station didn't have many regular customers. If he persisted for a year or two and waited until there were more regular customers, the business would definitely be better than if he opened it here in Yangjiacun.
What's more, the repair shop in the town has gained a reputation. Basically, if any car in the town breaks down, they will go there to repair it. After all, the shop has a lot of spare parts. Although the roads in Yangjiaji are also good, the geographical location is not advantageous after all.
Xiaoga has moved back to the market now. When someone else opens a repair shop in the town and becomes famous, he will definitely not be able to take away the business.
