Bandit Reborn

One, the three of us work together to open a kiln. "

"That's fine, I'll clean up, and I'll go to your house to find you the morning after tomorrow." Li Chengkui agreed, and at the same time wanted to let his elder brother come to eat at home, but Li Chengxiao seemed to have less clothes when he came out, and he was in a hurry. go home.

8. Winter

After returning home, Meng Guangqing kept pestering his father and wanted to follow him into the mountains to play, but his father didn't agree, and his mother didn't agree, Meng Guangqing wanted to make trouble again, and finally his elder brother just said something that made him lose his energy, " You don't go to school anymore? Mr. Be careful to beat you!"

Meng Guangqing was too impressed by his master's torture of dipping his whip in cold water in his previous life. Playing truant was beyond his imagination. Now that the habit has become natural, Meng Guangqing slouched and died down.Children in this era do not have winter and summer vacations when they go to school. He has to go to school until the end of the year, and the husband will receive an annual gift before he will have a holiday. The holidays are also very short, and school will start again after the fifteenth day.

Li Chengkui did not go to slaughter pigs and sell meat the next day. He rented an ox cart in a neighboring village in the morning and stayed at home for half a day in the afternoon. , and moved the three children's rabbit cages to a sunny place.

Early in the morning of the third day, when the three brothers got up, their father had already left. Meng Guangqing was looking at the mountains not far away while walking on the way to school, and was very yearning for it.

His father had been away for four days, and he came back with an ox cart on the afternoon of the fifth day. The cart was full of charcoal. Meng Guangqing didn't know good or bad, but that night there was a little smoke No, there is still a smell of wood in the room, Meng Guangqing thinks that his father should not be bragging, the charcoal he burns is really good.

Li Chengkui went to the mountain and not only burned charcoal, but also hunted two pheasants and a hare back.The few men who went into the mountain to burn charcoal had nothing to do after cutting the wood. They set up various traps around the charcoal kiln. On the one hand, they prevented wild wolves from sneaking up on the mountain in winter.

Both the pheasant and the hare were dead and frozen hard. Meng Guangqing pulled out the tail feathers of two pheasants to make a crossbow in the spring.

Their family didn't have any dried vegetables. Li Chengkui didn't have a wife all these years, and his life was spent. The family planned to cook these prey again, but Li Chengxiao's wife came into the courtyard with a basket.

"Didn't you cook? I don't see any smoke coming out of your kitchen. In summer, I picked some mushrooms from the mountains and dried them. This stewed game is the best. I was thinking that if you don't have it, I will send it to you." Come here soon, it's still too late to soak in warm water."

"Thank you so much, sister-in-law, sit down." His mother Cheng gave up her seat, took the mushroom and smelled it, "Oh, this mushroom is really good, it smells so good! I'll soak it first, sister-in-law Sit down for a while, I have something to deliver to your home."

"Look at you, can I get some gift in return for the delivery? You give me the basket quickly, and I have to go back to cook." His aunt stood up and followed to the kitchen.

"Sister-in-law, sit down, or I have to run, and you just took it home, and there is nothing good, just made some bacon a few days ago according to our San'er's method, San'er It’s not the same taste as the bacon we used to make, it can be kept for a long time, I make a lot, you take it back and hang it under the eaves and keep it, it will take a while before you can eat it.”

"Really? Then I'll just take one back and I won't need so much."

"Hey, take it back, you forgot what the father of our child does? This thing is not rare in our family, you can take more..."

The two women were pushing and shoving in the kitchen. Meng Guangqing slipped into the backyard and found some sweet potatoes from the cellar. Disliked by the cold water in the well in early winter, Meng Guangqing begged his father to help wash and dry them before burying them in the ground. In the charcoal basin.

Stewed pheasant and mushrooms were not yet cooked, and the family of five were not idle, sitting around the charcoal pot and eating roasted sweet potatoes. His mother hung a small pot on the charcoal pot and boiled a pot of red bean porridge in it, but it took Slowly simmer through the night and don't drink until the next morning.

When the lamps were lit in the evening, their stewed pheasant and mushrooms were finally cooked. The whole family sat around in the warm room to eat. It would be perfect to have another kitten.

After dinner, his mother washed his feet. After Meng Guangqing was tidied up, he lay on the bed and rubbed his belly. He felt that he was a little fatter. He held up a matchstick and observed it carefully for a while, and found that he was pale again. It was tender, but it looked delicious. After biting it himself, Meng Guangqing secretly smiled when he saw the small teeth marks on it.

At this time, there is no mention of climate warming, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and it will soon reach the point where dripping water turns into ice.Going to school in winter is a hard job, especially for ordinary people like them who don’t have a carriage. The three brothers persisted in the cold for more than a month, and finally made it to the 22nd year before the year. On this day, the husband announced the start of the holiday and arranged Let them go early after some homework, and start school after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The three brothers didn't go home directly, everything was so beautiful when they were not going to school, and the cold weather didn't feel bitter anymore.They braved the cold wind and went to the base area to get tools and went fishing on the frozen river. This was what they had planned long ago, but it was a pity that the time after school in winter was too short to implement it.

When they got to the ice, the three brothers wanted to dig a hole in the ice themselves, but they got a good deal. Someone had just fished in the morning, and the hole in the ice that was dug out was not frozen yet, so the three children easily dug it out again. .

"You said, are there any fish in here? They probably caught all of them." Li Hu asked cautiously, squatting on the edge of the ice hole.Meng Guangqing laid a wooden plank there, poured a little water on it, and it froze after a while, making it not slippery for people to step on.

"There are no fish that have been caught, what a fool!" Li Long answered while helping Meng Guangqing hang the bait. Meng Guangqing was busy beside him, and he threw a handful of fragrant bait that melted easily into the ice hole to make a nest. , is now concentrating on observing the water flow.

"San'er, don't fall, step back!" Li Hu was a little scared, and stretched out his hand to reach Meng Guangqing.

"You stay calm, I think you should stop calling Li Hu, call Li Mao, you are afraid of water!" Meng Guangqing turned back and slapped his second brother's hand off, and continued to stare at the water.

"Good intentions are not rewarded." Li Hu muttered, still not daring to get too close to the ice hole.

After a while, Meng Guangqing felt that there were almost enough fish in the water, so he waved to Li Long, "Brother, pass me the hook, and give me the small hook first. The fish that come here are all small fish, and the big ones will come later." Woolen cloth."

Li Long handed him the fishhook, and Meng Guangqing pinched off a little of the bait on it, and slowly put it into the ice hole. He made a float with a feather stem, which was beautiful and easy to use.

Finally, Li Hu couldn't resist the temptation and came over. The three brothers squatted on the edge of the ice hole together, with three pairs of eyes staring at the float. Li Long and Li Hu were excited at the slightest disturbance.

"San'er, move it, pull it quickly!"

"Stop screaming, you two, the fish are scared away by you! That kind of movement is not counted, it is the fish touching the bait, it is a temptation." Meng Guangqing was annoyed by the two brothers, and planned to teach them fishing skills. , but just as he was talking, the fish began to bite the bait, Meng Guangqing quickly raised the rod, "This is the bait, please help!"

Li Long and Li Hu were in a hurry. As soon as the fish basket was ready, Meng Guangqing had already picked up the fish. In this era, there was no pollution in the water. He used double hooks, and he caught two palm-width crucian carp in one fell swoop. He was also excited, so he simply gave each of the two brothers a pair of fishing hooks. There are so many fish that a fool can catch them. As long as they are careful not to fall into the river, the three of them can sell fish tomorrow.

After happily fishing for more than an hour, the fish suddenly stopped biting the hook. Li Long and Li Hu were fishing vigorously. They had just mastered a little skill, and they were just addicted to it. They were very impatient, "San'er, why are there no fish? "

Meng Guangqing looked back at the fish the three of them had caught on the ice. They were all crucian carp and carp, and the biggest one weighed more than a catty.Thinking of a possibility, Meng Guangqing became even more excited. He checked the fishing line on his hand and found it unsafe, so he took back the hemp thread from his two brothers and twisted it into one. In the firm.

Meng Guangqing tied a big hook to this super fishing line, put a sufficient amount of bait into the water, made a gesture of silence, and then stared at the water surface in anticipation without saying a word, not even breathing. Consciously slow down.

Li Long and Li Hu were also infected by him, and the three of them stared at the water without moving. Meng Guangqing didn't use a float this time, and his experience was enough to judge whether the big fish had taken the bait.

Ten minutes later, Meng Guangqing was standing on the ice with his bare arms. He didn't notice it just now, and the sole of his foot slipped and was pulled down the ice hole by the big fish. Although he grabbed the wooden board next to the ice hole in time, he avoided being caught. It was fate that the big fish was caught, but when Li Long and Li Hu yelled and pulled him out, he was already wet all over, the cotton robe was several times heavier, and he was dripping water.

Li Long and Li Hu anxiously wanted to give him his clothes, but Meng Guangqing refused them all without even looking at them, and asked Li Hu to collect firewood to start a fire without looking back. In an extremely urgent situation, he didn't panic, and the other end of the fishing line was still firmly in his hand.

Now that Meng Guangqing has a sworn feud with the big fish in the water, the fierceness in his bones has come out, and he can't feel the cold anymore. Li Long and Li Hu don't listen to anyone's advice, and want to kill the enemy with his bare hands .

Li Hu built a fire on the ice, twisted Meng Guangqing's clothes a few times and put them aside to bake. Li Long took off his outer robe and wrapped it around Meng Guangqing's body. The clothes were so big that they covered Meng Guangqing from head to toe. stand up.

"Brother, you pull me from behind. If I tell you to push hard, then push hard. If I tell you to loosen, then loosen. Don't hug me. How can I exert strength if my feet don't touch the ground?!" Meng Guangqing who was suddenly picked up Struggling.

"If I don't hug you, your feet will freeze. Be good!" Li Long held him tight, for fear that he would slip out of his clothes.

At this time, Li Hu was also busy, and came over to put his cotton gloves on Meng Guangqing's little feet, and then pulled the fishing line together with Meng Guangqing.

The three brothers performed their own duties, like a combined Transformers. Meng Guangqing was in charge of directing, Li Long and Li Hu contributed. The three children struggled with the big fish in the river for more than 30 minutes, and finally managed to get a two-foot-long fish out of the water. The big fish pulled out of the water.

Meng Guangqing was placed in a sunny place on the river beach, and a fire was lit next to it. His clothes were never dry, and it looked like he would not be able to dry them even if they were baked until dark.Li Long slowly dragged the fish to the shore on the ice, Li Hu was sent to look for their father, today they have caused a big disaster, and they dare not go home without his father's backing.

Li Hu looked simple and honest, but he was not stupid. He didn't tell his father and brother about falling into the river. He only said that he caught a big fish and brought Li Chengkui to him. As a result, Li Chengkui saw Meng Guangqing with his butt naked. , so angry that he slapped every child on the buttocks.

"You are getting more and more foolish! Starting tomorrow, you are not allowed to go out, this naughty person has no limit!"

Li Chengkui was angry, but he had to help find a way. Looking at the fish the boys caught, he took off his cotton robe, wrapped Meng Guangqing up, and threw Li Long's coat to Li Long, "Take the fish and San'er's clothes are packed, you two carry them to your uncle's first, and leave half of the fish for them, let your aunt find a reason to trick your mother away for a while, and I will take San'er back first."

"What about the clothes?" Li Long asked while packing his things.

"What should I do? I'll wash it when I get back! What else can I do?! It smells like fish. Do you think it will be fine after drying?" Li Chengkui was so angry that he kicked the big fish on the ground and directed two big ones to water it. After turning off the fire, Li Chengkui hugged the young one and led the big one, and left the river beach while making up nonsense.

9. Sacrifice stove

The only woman in the family was not deceived by the four carefully fabricated lies of the master. His mother was not careful when she should be careful, and her son changed the core and never found out. She was very shrewd when she should not be careful. Meng Guangqing just fell into the river Just got caught.

The matter came to light on those fish, his father said that the fish was bought from the market, but his mother felt strange while cleaning them.Because the fish in the market are sold in different categories, and the buyers also buy in different categories. The fish bought by my husband are of different sizes and types. Look up at the whole set of clothes hanging in the yard, and then look at the fish. For the little son who was acting obediently on the bed, his mother washed her hands, went into the room and lifted Meng Guangqing's quilt to smell it, then scratched his arm with her nails, and a white mark appeared.

His mother, Cheng Shi, was also probably impatient. She was silent for three seconds, and then she burst out, "Little bastard! Are you the reincarnation of the carp spirit?! I also passed through the water! You even said you peed your pants, can you wet your upper body by peeing your pants?! You smell your own body, did you fall into the ice hole? Didn’t drown you little bastard, I won’t worry about drowning you! Don’t run away! Come down! Come down, I won’t beat you, I won’t lie to you!”

"The one who believes you is an idiot! Dad! Help! My mother is going to beat me!" Meng Guangqing felt bad when his mother said the first sentence. As soon as his mother stretched out her hand, he got out from the other side of the quilt, naked Yo, his mother grabbed it twice but failed to catch him. At this time, he was lying on the top of the closet to be safe for the time being, avoiding all kinds of objects his mother kept throwing up, and shouted out the door with his neck pulled.

Li Chengkui was secretly teaching the two older ones a lesson. Hearing the youngest son's cry, he hurried into the house to rescue him. Seeing the posture in the house, Li Chengkui smiled very unseriously and inappropriately, but his wife stared at him, and Li Chengkui quickly held back go back.

"Well, daughter-in-law, calm down. I beat them just now. If you don't believe me, San'er's butt is still red. Really, I beat them very hard."

"What did I see when he climbed so high?! It's you, every time you play sloppy eyes for them, they are about to go to the house to expose the tiles! I said why my sister-in-law is looking for me to look at me when it is getting dark, so it turns out It was you who colluded. Their fish is the same as ours. There are all kinds of fish, big and small. Which market sells such fish? Some of you guys gave it to me. Did the co-author lie to me? Idea Who came out? Is it you or the little boy from above?" His mother didn't suspect the two stepson outside the door at all, and they listened to the youngest in everything.

"Yes, yes, it was my idea. If you hit me, hurry up and get San'er down. It will be troublesome if you get sick after a while." Li Chengkui said, pressing his daughter-in-law's hand and patting himself twice, taking the opportunity to touch her. Twice the daughter-in-law's little hand.

His mother twisted and pulled her hand back, still angry, but her tone softened, "Who didn't let him come down? He didn't come down by himself!"

Li Chengkui smiled and winked at the top, "San'er, do you hear that? Come down quickly, your mother won't hit you anymore."

"When did I say I won't beat him anymore?!" His mother disagreed with this statement.

"If you hit me, I won't go down!" Meng Guangqing poked his head on the top of the cabinet, and replied with great backbone.

Li Chengkui didn't know what to do with these two girls. At this time, Li Long and Li Hu took the opportunity to run in from the outside, surrounded the stepmother from left to right, "Mother, if you want to hit me, hit me, I didn't watch my brother... ..." "Mom, hit me, I want to eat fish..." Li Chengkui punished them to think about it in the yard just now, and at this time, he just entered the house by taking the opportunity of persuading the fight.

The family of five quarreled for a long time, but Meng Guangqing finally escaped. When he came down from the top of the closet, he hugged all the things his mother threw down. Yes, Li Long and Li Hu scratched him, making fun of him like a stick of rice cake that fell on the ground and was covered in ashes.

'Nian gao tiao' was soaked in hot water. His mother made ginger soup for him while cleaning up the smaller fish. The big fish was so tenacious that it was still alive, so it was kept in the water tank. They decided to Save it until the New Year's Day.

The fish at night was very delicious. Meng Guangqing wrapped himself in Li Hu's old cotton robe and said that he would go fishing while eating. Li Long and Li Hu also described the fun of fishing one by one. After listening for a while, Li Chengkui just wanted to say that he would go too. , but seeing his wife's face, they turned to each of them with chopsticks, and the three brothers closed their mouths together.

The next day, the three brothers stayed at home and were grounded for three days. Meng Guangqing's clothes were frozen into large pieces outside, and he couldn't go out even if he wasn't grounded.

Meng Guangqing was playing flower cards on the bed with his two elder brothers under the quilt. He grabbed a hand full of bad cards but kept his face. Finally, he held back the impatient Li Hu, and luckily got a ride and ran away.

Li Hu was so angry that he dropped his cards, "I won't play anymore, San'er is too cunning! I lose all good cards and bad cards, so I won't play anymore!"

"If you don't play, don't play, I still think you are stupid!" Meng Guangqing also threw the cards, and looked out lazily around the quilt, "When will my mother come back, it will take so long to buy a stove candy! "

"Think I'm stupid! You bastard with no pants on!" Li Hu lightly tapped Meng Guangqing on the head, and the two of them opened the window to look out.

"Close the window quickly, San'er is still naked! You have to wait until the Stove Lord is finished to eat after buying it. You two are looking forward to it now, and you are useless!" Li Long packed the bed full of cards and told Li Huguan Chuang, he is the oldest one among the three, and he has a steady temper.

"As if you didn't expect it, didn't you expect your ears to be so long?" Li Hu got up and closed the window, put on his shoes and got out of bed to help Meng Guangqing look at his clothes. The clothes were still hard. Li Hu knocked on the outside After two clicks, Meng Guangqing heard voices in the room.

"Second brother, bring it in and dry it next to the brazier, I won't be able to wear it even if I hang it outside!" Meng Guangqing shouted through the window.

Li Hu entered the house wearing clothes that looked like a roof. Li Long pulled a rope between the two cabinets. Meng Guangqing looked at it and thought it was not safe, and said, "Change to a bamboo pole."

At this time, there was a sound of opening the courtyard door, "Mother is back!" Li Hu dropped his clothes and ran out when he heard the sound. Li Long found a bamboo pole and wiped it clean with a rag, put it between the two cabinets, and moved quickly. After hanging up his clothes, he also greeted him out.

Meng Guangqing waited beside the bed with a quilt on. The room was warm, but his clothes, which were hard from the cold, softened at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a tough guy who suddenly lost his bones.

His mother went to the market not only to buy stove candy, but also to buy a lot of sugar-fried chestnuts and peanuts, "You three are honest, I will buy you whatever you want, don't go out and cause trouble for me! Today I am at the market. It was scary to hear people say that just the day before yesterday, some children in the village to the east went to play in the wilderness, but none of them came back. They were all gutted out by wild wolves! It’s cold now, and there’s nothing to eat on the mountain Things are hard to catch, many wolves, tigers and leopards have gone down the mountain, you children are much easier to catch than hares, no matter how painful they are, they are all the same in the eyes of wolves, they are all meat! You, Huaixi, I It’s you, why are you rolling your eyes? Big wild wolves like to eat things like you that don’t need to spit out bones!”

Li Long and Li Hu grabbed one of Meng Guangqing's arms and bit them twice, laughing together, "It's white and tender, it's delicious without spit out the bones!"

Meng Guangqing retracted his slender arms, imagined the process of his little tender flesh being eaten, his whole body trembled, and he went down to the ground under the quilt to find the chamber pot—he decided to be obedient and be a good baby, and he even Even his second brother can't beat him, so he can beat wild wolves?Do not make jokes!He is just a time traveler, not a superman.

At noon, his mother made a pot of noodles for the three brothers and then went on to work. People in this era attach great importance to the sacrifice of the stove. A slightly richer family will prepare a pig's head and two fish. His father goes out very early Yes, this morning he was going to kill fifteen pigs, all of which were planned a few days ago.

His mother was steaming a kind of cake in the kitchen, which contained bean paste and pine nuts, layer by layer. It looked like the bean rice cake that Meng Guangqing had eaten in his previous life, but it was not so sticky.

The three brothers reduced the lunch portion by coincidence, and each of them stopped after eating two bowls. His mother was very proud when she returned to the house to clean up the dishes, "I knew you three little things would definitely not eat much for lunch , I rolled out a total of four scoops of noodles, look, you just finished eating enough for me."

"Mother, we specially reserved it for you." Meng Guangqing said boldly while wearing a quilt.

"Come on, don't pour me the ecstasy soup, I don't know you yet! You can't do it all the time wearing a quilt, why don't you do it? Next year I will weave more cloth, or there will be no one to change and wash."

"Mother, let's raise some silkworms next year. I think there are quite a lot of mulberry trees around here." Meng Guangqing touched the quilt on his body and said, the quilt was coarse and hard, and so were all their clothes.

"Raise silkworms? Do you know how to raise silkworms? Does the book say how to raise silkworms? If you know how to raise silkworms, mother will raise more. Then one person will make silk clothes for you!" There are no silkworm farmers here. Only people from rich families can afford to buy silk clothes to wear, and those silks are all sold from the south.

"You can't? Neither can I. It's not in the book. Forget it. I'll wear cotton cloth. It's quite comfortable." Meng Guangqing thought that women in ancient times could do everything. It turned out that when he came to his mother's place, he could embroider and weave. . (We also think that people who travel through time should know everything, and when they come to you, they will catch birds and rabbits!)

In the evening, Li Chengkui came back from the outside, carrying the thank you gifts from various families, and brought back a big red rooster with red cloth strips tied to its feet.

Meng Guangqing's clothes were finally dried in the house, and the three elder brothers followed their father to sacrifice to the stove. Women were not allowed to follow the stove. His mother had been busy all day, preparing a large table of offerings, but at the end she wiped her hands and quit. The most important thing Part of it, but there are no feminists at this time, and his mother's awareness is low, and he doesn't feel discriminated against.

"The Stove King and the Stove King's Grandma are here. Li Chengkui, a commoner, and his three young sons sincerely bow down. I beg the Stove King and the Stove King's grandma to say good things to our family, and bless us with good weather, abundant wealth, and good health in the coming year." " Li Chengkui's prayer was very simple, mixed with white and text, and when he finished, Li Chengkui took the lead in kowtowing, then picked up the wine glass on the confession case and poured it on the head of the red rooster held by his elder brother Li Long, And shouted loudly, "Collar?"

The unlucky rooster was still aware of current affairs, and shook his head violently for a while. Li Chengkui was satisfied, which meant that Lord Stove heard his prayer and was going to obey.Taking his three sons to worship the shrine again, Li Chengkui stood up, carefully tore off the statue, and burned it together with the bundled grass horse.

Lord Stove took the bribe, and rode a big straw horse to discuss the matter. The four masters had completed the task. Li Long threw the red rooster on the ground and said with a mournful face, "Father, the rooster pulled me all over!"

"I said, why is it so smelly! Liu Tuer, who sells chickens, has a black heart. He stuffed a lot of food into it before selling it. We also raise chickens in spring, so we won't buy from him! It's okay, you hurry up and put your clothes on." Take it off and wash it yourself, and put on your father's old cotton robe first. Tiger, take down the offerings and divide them among the three of you, my son and his mother, come in and set the meal, worship is over."

The Stove Lord, like all gods, has big eyes and a small belly, and the offerings that are put on the table will be finished if the eyes are addicted. The three brothers have been coveting for a long time. There is no shortage of stove candies, and his mother's just-in-time sponge cake is still warm.

His mother Cheng came in and removed the pig's head and the fish. The pig's head was whole and just let it cool and sliced. The fish was put into the pot and heated again. The family of five sat around the dining table and ate the leftovers from the Stove Lord. Have fun.

10. Chinese New Year ([-])

After the new year, Li Chengkui's family is all busy.

Brother three’s big rabbits laid a litter of little rabbits on the morning of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. They were all brown, and they crowded around the female rabbits who had just given birth with their eyes closed. They were afraid that the rabbits would be damaged by freezing, so they simply moved the rabbit cages. When he arrived in his own house, he took turns cleaning the rabbit cage and feeding the female rabbits.

Their father, Li Chengkui, has to leave every day before dawn, and can only enter the house when it is dark. Although the folk song sings '26, go cut the meat', everyone is afraid that they will not be able to line up at that time, so people come to invite him almost every day. When Dad went to butcher a pig, the big vat under the eaves of their house was full, and it was all a New Year's gift from the pig-killer that day.

His mother, Cheng, had been busy all day on the 24th, sweeping every nook and cranny, and finally re-pasted the window paper.

Because their neighbor next door sells tofu, so their family was free on the 25th day, and they directly bought boards of tofu and moved them back.Meng Guangqing wanted to drink soy milk, but the aunt next door was very generous and told his mother that he could bring a big bowl to get it every morning, as long as he paid sixty dollars a month.

On this day, the mothers who stayed at home had a very relaxed and comfortable life, but when it was almost noon, Meng Guangqing's second aunt and third aunt really came to the door together, because Li Chengkui from Meng Guangqing's grandmother had already sent him there alone. It was an annual ceremony, so the eldest aunt did not come with her.

"There are too many people buying meat in the town, and we can't squeeze in. Besides, I'm afraid that my uncle's market will be damaged, and it will be difficult for my uncle. He can't give us too cheap in front of outsiders. Anyway, we live here It's not far away, so the two of us came, hey, your big yard is so spacious, look how clean it is!..."

The two aunts were very well dressed, sitting in the main room chattering, Meng Guangqing looked at his mother's face, fell down at the door very cooperatively, covered his face, and howled hard for a while.

After seeing off the two aunts, Meng Guangqing leaned on his mother's shoulder to claim credit, "How is it? Mother, I did a good job!"

His mother put him on the ground, "Next time I fall into the door, it won't hurt if there is a floor, how hard is the stone floor outside the door!"

"Are they still here?!" Meng Guangqing was terrified when he heard this, and touched his knee. Although it was a flop, it still hurt.

"I have to come back before the fifteenth day. The meat is not enough to eat until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." His mother said to make lunch, without even looking at her poor little son, who was pretending to be poor, Meng Guangqing had to walk back into the house by himself. .

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27. In the slaughter of the Nian chicken, Li Long tied up the rooster that was shitting on his clothes in the morning. Meng Guangqing and Li Hu were on the side to help out, urging Li Long to take revenge on himself.

However, Li Long, who looks tall and big, is a disgusting and soft-faced guy. He finally found an excuse and hid. In the end, when their father came back, he killed the fat rooster that could only be eaten and pulled. I made a pocket to put away all the clean feathers, and plan to make a feather duster when I save enough chicken feathers in the coming year.

Li Hu picked a few beautiful chicken feathers to make a shuttlecock, and handed it to Meng Guangqing like a treasure, "San'er, here you are, isn't it beautiful?"

Meng Guangqing took it and kicked it outside the wall, "Girls only play!"

Li Hu exclaimed and ran out to pick up the precious shuttlecock, patted Meng Guangqing on the head and said, "There are two big coins in it! You prodigal son!"

Meng Guangqing took the shuttlecock and took it apart three times, "Make a broken shuttlecock and spend two big bucks, you prodigal!"

Two big coins went into Meng Guangqing's pocket. The two brothers hooked up and asked Li Long, who was reciting the book, to go to the uncle's house to find cousins ​​to play with. Staying idle at home, Meng Guangqing invented a game of charge and attack, playing like a monkey every day before returning home.

"Li Cai said that yesterday we were playing dirty and won't be honored." Li Hu said as he walked.

"Winning is the kingly way! If you don't accept them, you can use evil, as long as they have the ability!" Meng Guangqing walked in the front with a burning stick, and the black charcoal tip in front left black marks on the vital parts. The three "money fans" of his uncle's family will have some hard-to-clean black spots on their bodies.

Meng Guangqing felt that his father and uncle were too casual when they named their children. Their names were Li Long and Li Hu. Originally, the third son should be called Li Bao. Unfortunately, before Li Bao was born, the brothers' mother He died. His own name was given by the dead scholar father. In order to show respect for his predecessor, his stepfather only changed his surname. Fortunately, he was called Li Huaixi instead of Li Bao; There are three of them, the older one is called Li Cai, the second one is called Li Bao, which means to attract wealth and treasure. Their family is three and six years old, and their name is Li Li. They are only interested in profit!To be honest, after being here for such a long time, he didn't feel that his father had the temperament of a beast at all, and he didn't feel that his uncle was a money fan, so he didn't know how to name him like this.

When we came to the mound at the entrance of the village, the three boys from the uncle’s family were already waiting there, and there were also a few boys from the same village who wanted to join in. It was rare for a few girls holding puppets to be let out by the family. They were playing house at the same time. Everyone had long hair and similar clothes. Meng Guangqing didn't see the value of keeping these girls in the boudoir at all.

After playing for a long time, the three brothers came back triumphantly again. Their mother was waiting at the door with a broom bump. The place stopped.

"Pfft," his mother couldn't help laughing when she saw the appearance of the three brothers, "Come here, I won't beat you, every day you come in the door covered in dirt, our yard has been raised by more than two feet! Come here and go outside first. Clean up before entering the door, wash your hands after entering the door, and eat right away."

False alarm!The three brothers secretly stuck out their tongues, stood at the door and took turns grinning and were beaten by his mother.Meng Guangqing realized later that he had been duped. Although it seemed that the purpose was different, the result was the same.

28 The three brothers didn't go out that day. They discovered a new and interesting thing, which was to help their mother make rice cakes.

The ground and steamed glutinous rice flour is placed in a clean stone mortar, and a piece of wood as thick as an arm is erected in the middle. One end passes through a stone pestle, and the other end hangs in the air, like a seesaw.Originally, the suspended end should be stepped on by one person, but Li Chengkui was not at home, so his mother put Meng Guangqing on it and asked him to sit on it and jump up and down. While turning over the hot rice noodles, he told the two older ones to keep a close eye on the excited little one, lest he fall down due to overexcitement.

Two big pots of glutinous rice flour turned into two big stacks of shiny and translucent rice cakes. Their mother made two kinds, one was white and bright pure glutinous rice, and the other was light yellow mixed with yellow rice noodles. He ate a whole strip of these seeds, and when he didn't eat enough and wanted to eat more, he was carried away by his father who had already returned home. Glutinous rice was not easy to digest, so his father took the three brothers to the uncle's house to help them digest food.

"Your family is too bad. Look at the clothes of the three of us. They haven't been cleaned in the past few days." His uncle said, pointing to Meng Guangqing's white forehead.

"Then how can it be called bad? That's because our third son is smart." His father hugged him very proudly.

While his father was chatting with his uncle, the three brothers rolled into a ball with the uncle's three brothers. Poor Li Bao was at the bottom, and Meng Guangqing was riding on Li Bao's neck, holding his cousin's cheeks with both hands. Pulling hard to both sides, Li Li wanted to break his hand away, but he couldn't use his strength when he pushed his raised foot on his face. Li Cai was dealing with Li Long and Li Hu in a one-to-two manner. by the most