Siheyuan: The Temptation of the Mountains

"Picking up manure means picking up manure, that's the literal meaning. What else can it mean besides this?" Lin Ze laughed.

"Then I'd better not go. I still have to go to school." Lin Hao still understood what Dafen meant, and he shook his head repeatedly.

"Speaking of school, Lin Ze, your entrance examination is over. Are you planning to go to high school?" Lin Zhengguo lit a cigarette and asked slowly.

At that time, the tuition for elementary school was about 2.5 yuan per semester, and the tuition and miscellaneous fees for middle school was 5 yuan per semester. If Lin Ze wanted to study, Lin Zhengguo would definitely send him there.

"I don't want to study anymore. There are not many students in the class."

Lin Ze shook his head. Lin Ze, who had some memory of this, knew that in the late 60s, educated youth in school had to go to the countryside to participate in labor.

Isn't it good to be free? Why did he have to go to the countryside to participate in the re-education of the poor and lower-middle peasants?

"Okay, if you don't want to read it, then don't read it."

Li Xiuzhen cleaned up the dishes swiftly, saying as she did so, "If you don't want to study, learn a skill while you're still young."

"A machinist's certificate, an electrician's certificate, or some other skill, once you learn it you will never have to worry about food and drink." Lin Zhengguo said.

Lin Ze hesitated, compared to keeping his job and earning that meager salary.

Lin Ze likes the freedom of the mountains, but things are difficult to buy and sell in this era.

"Dad, I'm still young."

He is indeed young, Lin Ze is only fifteen years old.

"Well, it's not too late to learn technology at the age of eighteen."

"Dad, my brother can hunt. Isn't that better than you working?"

Lin Hao said with a smile, "It's better to eat coarse food with you every month than to go to the countryside for three days with my eldest brother. The food will change immediately."

"Hey, you little bastard, what are you talking to your dad about!"

Lin Zhengguo picked up the feather duster at hand and pretended to hit him. Lin Hao made a big face at his father, turned around and ran away very fast.

"Haha, Dad, I'll take Sisi out for a walk too."

After Lin Ze finished speaking, he took Lin Sisi's hand, and the two walked out of the gate of No. 95 Courtyard together.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi, a brother and sister, defecating at the toilet door not far away.

Lin Ze was stunned and almost vomited. He hugged Lin Sisi and quickly walked around the two people.

"Pigeon, they pooped, it stinks..."

"Chong Chong?"

"Yes, yes, Erge also had a worm. It was a very long worm."

Lin Ze felt upset when he heard this. Children of this generation are indeed prone to having roundworms in their stomachs.

Lin Ze's mind turned, and a pheasant egg appeared in his trouser pocket.

He took Lin Sisi to the supply and marketing cooperative again and asked Sister Zhang, "Do you sell pagoda candies here?"

Seeing that it was Lin Ze, the prodigal son again, Sister Zhang was delighted and said, "Of course I have it. Do you want it?"

"Yes, I'll exchange this for it." Lin Ze didn't say anything about selling eggs. He took out three pheasant eggs in a row and put them on the table.

"Oh, not bad. Are these the eggs laid by the two pheasants this morning?"

Lin Ze nodded, "How many pagoda candies can I get?"

"Child, I won't lie to you. I'll give you one more, a total of six pagoda candies."

After saying this, Sister Zhang happily put away the three pheasant eggs and made a bag of six pagoda candies for Lin Ze.

Lin Ze opened the paper bag and fed one to Lin Sisi first.

"Dove, sweet, so sweet, so good."

Lin Sisi held a pagoda candy in her mouth, reluctant to chew it, her puffy little cheeks looked very cute.

Lin Ze smiled and ate a pagoda candy himself.

Although he is old, there is no guarantee that he does not have roundworms in his body.

"Where is your second brother? Why did he disappear?" Lin Ze asked.

"Er Gege ran to the alley, to Yuhe on the other side of the alley, to catch shrimps." Lin Sisi said.

Of course, there is the Yu River in Lin Ze’s memory, a river that is about to dry up, with all kinds of weeds growing in the riverbed, and the area of ​​the river water is less than one meter long.

"Come on, let's go and take a look."

After Lin Ze finished speaking, he picked up Lin Sisi and ran into the alley to find Lin Hao.

There are many children by the Yu River, catching small fish and shrimps with nets.

"Lin Hao!" Lin Ze shouted, and all the children in Yuhe looked at Lin Hao.

"Brother!" Lin Hao rolled up his trouser legs high, and when he heard Lin Ze's call, he immediately ran out to greet him.

Lin Ze smiled, opened the paper package, and handed him a pagoda candy.

"Brother, pagoda candy?!"

Lin Hao was excited. He had eaten pagoda candy before and remembered what it looked like.

Lin Hao didn't rush to put the pagoda candy into his mouth. He pinched the small piece of candy and went down the Yu River, attracting a group of children to surround him enviously.

After he had shown off enough, he put the candy into his mouth.

Lin Ze found it funny, so he carried Lin Sisi into the Yu River and walked along the path that others had walked on, and came to the one-meter-wide stream.

"Lin Hao, are there any shrimps or crabs here?"

"Brother, look." Lin Hao showed Lin Ze the basket in his hand. There were indeed a few tiny shrimps at the bottom of the basket, and a crab as big as a knuckle.

"Is this enough to eat when I take it home?" Lin Ze asked.

The other children looked at Lin Ze with a strange look in their eyes, "How are we going to eat this little food when we get home..."

A child reached into the colander he was carrying, picked up a small shrimp, took it out and put it into his mouth to chew it carefully.

"We all eat it straight away, it's so delicious!"

Lin Ze looked at Lin Hao, and Lin Hao nodded heavily.

Well, now Lin Ze finally knew where the roundworms in their stomachs came from.

Lin Ze held Lin Sisi in his arms, looking around in the calf-deep shallow water.

Under the curious eyes of all the children, Lin Ze suddenly reached out his hand, and when he took it out again, he was holding a big crab as wide as his palm.

This time, all the children opened their eyes wide.

"Brother, big brother, how did you do that? This is amazing!" Lin Hao smacked his lips and said, "I have never seen such a big crab in my life."

Lin Sisi, who was standing next to Lin Ze, clapped her hands vigorously, "Big Pigeon is the best!!"

Lin Ze smiled and put the crabs into Lin Hao's basket.

Seeing this, the children jumped into the water, each hoping to catch a big crab.

They all knew that crabs had meat, and if they caught one and took it home, they would be praised by the adults.

Lin Ze was not in a hurry when he saw six or seven children going into the water.

Holding Lin Sisi's hand, he slowly followed the group of children.

Occasionally he would take out a crab or a shrimp from the space, pretending that he had fished them out of the river, and put them into Lin Hao's basket.

As time went by, Lin Hao's basket was filled with five big crabs and six big prawns.

The other children got nothing, and because they went into the river to fish, they didn't even catch any small fish or shrimp.

"Lin Hao, your brother is too old, you are committing a foul by doing this!!!" Li Goudan, the tallest of the group of children, shouted.

"What is a foul?"