At this time, the members who got up early in the morning also carried their working tools and went out one after another, preparing to go to work. The keen-eyed members of the commune watched our family walking back, then noticed me following behind and asked: "Lao Li, Li Cungui, did your Xiaoliang find it? Where did he find it? Nothing happened, right? This night was amazing. It's so annoying. Just find it, just find it." Some members said, "Last night, the captain also said that if Xiao Liang doesn't come back today, he will organize us to search again today. Now that Xiao Liang is back, let's go back and rest. "
Seeing everyone talking like this, my father hurriedly clasped his hands and said, "Thank you everyone for your help last night. It made everyone tired. Now that Xiaoliang is back, I am here to thank everyone. We will all come home to drink another day." The father said At this point, he still turned around and told me, "Xiao Liang, why don't you hurry up and thank everyone? Everyone suffered a whole night looking for you last night."
I hurriedly shouted to the villagers who gathered around me, uncles and aunts, and bowed deeply to everyone.
"Xiao Liang, thank you elders for your concern and letting everyone worry." I quickly said to everyone sweetly.
"Okay, okay, you guys should go back quickly, we should go to work too."
After everyone finished speaking, they all walked out of the village. Father watched everyone leave. He turned to his mother and said, "You and Xiaoliang should go home first. I'm going to the captain's house. I worked hard to find Captain Xiaoliang last night. I'm going to ask the captain to come to my house for a drink tonight. Thank you very much to the captain." After saying that, my father walked quickly to the captain's house. And I followed my mother and walked home.
The southeastern Shanxi region is a hilly area in the Taihang Mountains. There are both majestic mountains and small plains, but most of them are composed of hills. Therefore, the local living conditions are very unique. Although the living conditions at that time were improved compared to those before liberation, they were still relatively poor. At that time, people could not afford to build houses, and it was not like now where you have to get permission from the state to build a house and plan it for you, and you cannot build randomly without permission. At that time, people built their houses according to the terrain. There were simple adobe houses, and many more cave houses with several holes dug according to the mountain. The courtyard walls were made of adobe and fences, and even the courtyard gates were made of bricks. Made of fence. If you find large blue-brick houses with tiles on flat terrain, they were owned by landlords before liberation. Later, the local tyrants distributed the land to the common people who had no houses. At that time, people still liked to live together in cave dwellings, and they also liked to live together because of their surnames, such as Lijiazhuang and Wangjiatun. When you hear the name, you can tell that they live together as a family. My family lives in Lijiazhuang, because all the people living there are named Li, and the team leader is also named Li. My uncle, who graduated from the fifth server, lives in a three-hole cave dwelling not far from my home.
My family also lives in a three-hole cave dwelling, and the courtyard wall is the same as that of most villagers. It is surrounded by soil and fences, and the gate is also made of fences and two wooden boards, but the yard is very large. To the east of the yard is the pigsty. My father made it out of adobe. There was some plastic sheeting on top, and next to the pig pen was a chicken coop built by my father out of tree branches. On the west side of the second yard are piles of coal, dry firewood, poles and buckets for carrying water and other miscellaneous things. The easternmost cave in the yard is our kitchen. My brother and I sleep on the earthen kang in the kitchen. The cave in the middle is where my parents sleep and entertain guests, while the cave in the west is used to store working tools and has farmland. Use plows, shovels, hoes and other things.
My mother and I came to the door of the house and found that one of the fence gates was open. Heizi ran in first. My mother looked at me lovingly and said, "Xiao Liang, hurry home and rest for a while. Mom will cook for you." My mother and I walked into the yard as we talked, and my mother went to collect firewood to make a fire for cooking. I quickly walked into the kitchen on the east side, and as soon as I walked to the door, I heard my brother's voice coming from inside.
"Xiao Liang, is that you? You're back."
I responded quickly. "It's me, brother, and I'm back," I said and walked into the kitchen. As soon as I entered the kitchen, there was an earthen kang made of adobe. In front of the earthen pit was a cooking stove, and there was another stove under the stove. The flue passes through the Tukang and leads to the chimney outside. In winter, the stove not only cooks the food, but also warms the Tukang, so sleeping on the Tukang is very comfortable when the weather is cold, but every time I suffered a lot in the summer, it was too hot on the earthen kang, so every summer, my brother and I would roll up a mat and sleep under the apricot tree in the yard. Not to mention how beautiful it was at that time, we could sleep and have fun. We had yellow apricots to eat, but we had a lot of big bumps from mosquito bites on our bodies. But at that time, when we were little, we still liked to sleep outside the cave with our big fan. This year, because my brother broke his waist after a fall, the doctor in the village told him not to get cold due to the cold. I couldn't sleep outside, so until now my brother still slept on the earthen bed in the cave dwelling.
At this time, my brother was lying on the mat on the Tukang in his undershirt, with a quilt draped around his waist.
When my brother saw me coming in, he moved and wanted to sit up. However, because of my waist injury, I moved twice but still couldn't sit up smoothly. I quickly put down the herbs in my hand and walked up, supported my brother and said, "Brother, don't move around. Your waist is injured. Come and I will help you sit up slowly." After that, I took it and put it against the wall. He took the mattress, and then slowly helped his brother to sit up from half-lying against the window. Then he covered his brother's waist with the quilt. "Brother, is your waist feeling better? Have you taken medicine?"
My brother touched my head distressedly and said to me with a smile. "Xiao Liang, my brother's waist injury is quite serious this time. Even if he takes some anti-inflammatory drugs, it won't heal for a while. It seems that my brother will be a useless person this year, and he can't work in the team. I don't have any work at home. I can't help, and I have to drag my parents to take care of me, so you have to work after school every day, thank you for your hard work, Xiaoliang."
I quickly took my brother’s hand, comforted him and said to him:
"Brother, what are you talking about? We are a family, the two of us are brothers. Don't say these unofficial words in the future."
Then I attached myself to my brother's body and whispered into his ear. "Brother, don't worry. Look what I brought you this time." Then my nephew whispered to the bunch of herbs here, this is the magic medicine. If you take these medicines, you will be able to heal soon. Back to working in the fields as before. "
My brother opened his eyes wide, looked at the packages of herbs placed on the window sill, and said to me in disbelief.
