Chapter 7： step by step

Chapter 7 step by step

After dinner, An Zhiqiu and Yang Jiong went to the old carpenter in the village to customize cupboards and boxes, while An Zhixia went back to the house to make quilts.

While there was no one in the house, she took out a four-pound piece from the supermarket and removed the quilt cover and the silk quilt inside the quilt. She spread the silk evenly on the kang, filled it evenly and thinly with two pounds of purchased cotton, and compacted it slightly. Sew on the blue muslin quilt.

This is not a delicate job. An Zhixia made two pieces in one go. Before making the quilt, there was movement outside the courtyard.

An Zhiqiu and the two men pushed the cart swayingly to the door. Everyone stepped forward to help, and two padlocked cupboards, one large and one small, were placed in the kitchen, four large wooden boxes, one for each person, and several bamboo boxes. basket.

As soon as they finished packing, a sturdy man in his forties pushed open the ajar door and shouted with great energy: "Where are you all? I'll come over and take a look, and I'll tell you about tomorrow's winter hunting."

“This is Comrade Fang Youwei, our village chief,” Zheng Lizhi stepped forward and introduced enthusiastically, “This is Comrade An Zhiqiu, An Zhixia, Yang Jiong and Qi Yunlan.”

After greeting each other, everyone welcomed the village chief into the main room.

"It was too late yesterday. I thought you were hungry and tired, so I didn't come over. So, are the conditions in our village more difficult than you imagined?"

"The air here is good, the house is much more spacious than in our city, and there is a kang to sleep on at night. It is also a place where people can live and be their own family for a long time." An Zhiqiu said with a smile. To others, his words sounded hypocritical and polite, but to An Zhiqiu Zhixia's ears were filled with a sour and bitter taste.

My brother has been sleeping on a bench since he was ten years old. It is difficult for him to grow to a height of over 1.8 meters while curled up. The original owner relied on his brother, but the thin young man in front of him didn't live by the original owner as his faith?

"Yeah," Yang Jiong also hurriedly added a nice word: "We live in the city and it looks decent, but a big family is crowded into a few tens of square meters, and there is no time to turn around. It's really not as comfortable as we are in the countryside. "

The village chief nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, "Okay, as long as you get used to it. However, the hardships of going to the countryside are not just about food, clothing and housing. Waiting for spring to work in the fields is the key."

As he was talking, Qi Yunlan came over with a bowl of brown sugar water and said with a soft smile: "Village chief, please warm yourself up first, and I'd like you to come in person."

"It's okay. Even if you come to Hetang Village, even if you are a member of the village, I will always miss you if you don't go there." The village chief waved his hand and did not pick up the drink, but said to the people in the room with a solemn face: " When every group of educated youths comes, I will tell them something ugly first. How much work you do will determine how much food you get, but don’t expect others to help you. Of course, if your family’s conditions are good, then let’s talk about it differently.”

A few people naturally nodded their heads seriously.

"Well, our village is separated from the town by more than ten kilometers. It is not affected by outside events. The villagers just concentrate on farming. You are children in the city. You are all smart people who have gone to school, but I do not allow you to use the customs outside Bring them in, criticize this one today, and fight that one tomorrow, disrupting the peaceful life of the village. "

"Village chief, don't worry. We are responding to the country's call to support rural construction and are working sincerely and down-to-earth. Moreover, to be honest with you, we can't stand those things when we go to the countryside, so we come here to hide in peace," Qi Yunlan said A bold man, his words shocked everyone in the room.

The current situation in modern times is tense, and everyone wants to put a lock on their mouth, for fear that if they say something, they will be heard and reported. The weird feeling in An Zhixia's heart increased again.

"I say this for the sake of the villagers of Baishijia. We have lived here for generations, and they forget about it after making small fuss. There is no need to apply those big principles to them," the village chief frowned and explained patiently. , his voice changed and he said with a smile: "I came here for another thing. Our village is surrounded by mountains and forests, and every year in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, we organize villagers to go hunting for a few days.

Firstly, we want everyone to have a prosperous New Year, and secondly, we are afraid that after the spring comes, the fierce creatures on the mountain will come down and cause chaos.

Of course, people who go hunting will not only be divided according to ten labors, but also get twice as much wild animals.

We are leaving tomorrow. I will come over to confirm the final list of personnel. "

This matter was discussed at the dinner table yesterday. Men all like hot-blooded things, so they will naturally respond positively. Although An Zhixia was also very excited, she knew that she had to hold back on her character and could only wait to go to the mountains to see it in her free time. Find a place for the endless supply of meat.

A group of people discussed the precautions, and the village chief strode away regardless of everyone's attempts to stay.

The sun was rising high, and there was some heat on the ground. Qi Yunlan handed the cool brown sugar water on the table to Zheng Jiaming, who was looking at Baba.

“What should we eat for lunch?” She turned around and asked everyone’s opinion with a chuckle.

"How about some fried pancakes?" Chen Sike thought of the golden and fragrant pancakes in the kitchen in the morning, and couldn't help but said, "I'll bake some more for them to prepare when they go hunting in the mountains. It will take three days."

Everyone didn't have much money in their stomachs, not to mention Nie Yichang and others who were not short of money and tickets, and they all nodded in agreement.

"It's done," Qi Yunlan put away the bowl and went back to the house to get some ingredients and then went to the kitchen.

Liu Yiyue continued to boil the watery rice soup and steamed multi-grain steamed buns on the grate. The difference was that there was a small plate of thinly sliced ​​bacon slices.

Seeing that the kitchen was full, An Zhixia said to her brother: "Let's steam rice and eat it later. I bought two taels of pork belly yesterday, which is perfect for stewing potatoes."

"Sure," An Zhiqiu nodded, "After dinner, Yang Jiong and I went to the old carpenter's house to return the land and arrange the car. There was also a set of freshly made dressing tables and desks in his house. They were originally ordered by others as dowries, but There has been a change in the marriage, which is a blessing for us."

An Zhixia nodded repeatedly, pulled her brother's clothes and smiled: "Put the dressing table in my room, and brother will use the desk."

“Okay, it seems he has an exquisite Kang table there, I will carry it over for you too.”

"It would be better if we could live by ourselves," An Zhixia couldn't help but sigh, her mouth pursed.

Tapping her smooth head with his finger, An Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Let's take it step by step. We can't become a big fat person in one bite."

After saying a few words, she hurried back to the house, thinking that the quilt had not been finished yet.

When Fei Zheng saw her coming in, he smiled with the corner of his lips. He took out a cloth bag from the box and dug out a few spoons of fried noodles. He also put in a third of a spoonful of brown sugar. He picked up the bamboo kettle at his feet and filled half a bowl of water. . The fragrance of grain and the sweetness of brown sugar overflow.

After stirring the fried noodles into a paste, she saw An Zhixia immersed in sewing the quilt. She whispered sheepishly: "I don't have a big appetite alone, and there is no physical work in winter, so I am used to drinking some fried noodles to cope with it. Xiao An, educated youth, you want to Want to try it? It’s filled with flour, bean flour, sesame powder, walnuts, and buckwheat. It’s fragrant and nutritious.”

(End of this chapter)