clang farming notes

Du Zhongping assigned homework to the students, and invited Fang Sheng to help the students who took the exam to endorse the books, while he walked out of the house slowly, leaving Jin'er's sad little eyes behind him.Cough, what, it is too strenuous for children to go up the mountain, so let's stay at home and study hard.

On the side of the road from the village entrance to the mountain, Du An was waiting with a basket on his back. Seeing Du Zhongping approaching, he couldn't help but go up to meet them.

The weather was fine that day, the sun was hanging in the middle of the sky, and the sun was shining down warmly.The path up the mountain is no longer covered by the shade of the trees in the past. The yellowing leaves fall without wind, and a thick layer is accumulated under the feet, making a rustling sound when stepped on.Du Zhongping was walking in a hurry, but also a little inexplicably nervous. On such a quiet road, he unknowingly slowed down and walked slowly. There was someone by his side, and with such good sunlight, even the sky was so blue. Clear, the mood suddenly relaxed, just want to go on like this for a long time.

Turning his head to look at Duan, he found that the man was staring at him intently, not even caring about the road.The two made eye contact, and Duan felt guilty as if he had been caught as a thief, and he couldn't bear to take his eyes off.Slowly, he felt that the man's dark eyes were full of his image, and when he wanted to take a closer look, the man turned his head and lowered his eyelids.

Duane felt that there were only rustling footsteps in his ears, and his own heartbeat like a drum, and there seemed to be a strange atmosphere around him, which made him extremely uncomfortable. He wanted to do something to break all this, but after much deliberation, he couldn't help it. Don't know what to say.Just in a hurry, there was a steep slope ahead. Duan clearly remembered that after passing the steep slope, there was a big hawthorn tree, and he climbed it last year.

Du An was overjoyed, he walked a few steps up first, then turned around and extended his hand to Du Zhongping.Duan only felt that Brother Ping's eyes crawled from his outstretched hand to his face as if it were real, and he could feel the heat on his face suddenly rising, as if it had been a long time, The man raised the corner of his mouth and held his warm palm.

They walked hand in hand until they reached the bottom of the tree. Many red hawthorns were still hanging on the branches. Although the Du family was very busy these days and had no time to go into the mountains, the other families were not idle either. They were also busy making pasta and entrusted Duane to sell it.With this extra income this year, I don't pay much attention to entering the mountain.

The bright red hawthorn fruits are hanging lively on the branches, very festive.Duan was itchy in his heart, ready to pick a big one, but he was reluctant to let go, and pulled Ping Geer around under the tree.

Du Zhongping only felt that he was dizzy, and he broke away fiercely. This man, cough, is very courageous!Pull the back basket off Duan's body: "What are you wandering around, my head is spinning! Hurry up and pick more of this thing, pickle it with honey in winter for Jin'er's appetizer."

Duan climbed up the tree neatly with hands and feet, and the shaking red fruit crackled and fell down. Du Zhongping didn't pay attention for a while, and was hit by the fruit, and ran out of the canopy in a hurry, looking up to see Duan smiling on the tree Showing a mouthful of white teeth, he glared at him reflexively, and couldn't help but smile for a moment.

I picked some hawthorns and some chestnuts, but the basket on my back was sparse and not full, and the two of them didn't care.Duane held the man's hand, feeling that he was holding his whole life in his hands: "Let's live like this for the rest of our lives! You, me, and Jin'er, after Jin'er starts a family, the two of us An old man for company!" Duane stared at the ground ahead, as if a flower had suddenly grown there.

"What kind of old man's company? Raise the child, and he will be filial in the future!"

Duan didn't know whether he agreed or not, and suddenly lost the courage to ask again.The man suddenly laughed: "Idiot!", and stretched out his hand to touch his face: "Low your head, what are you rubbing on your face?"

Du Zhongping stretched out his hand to wipe his face, Duan lowered his head to facilitate his movement, suddenly felt the man's face enlarged in front of his eyes, he was in a daze, he didn't know how to react, this was too, too... Duan really He was stunned, he, he didn't think of this at all.Du Zhongping took a step back: "Close your eyes, idiot!" Du An commanded one movement, closed his eyes and felt the warmth on his lips, after a long time, even the soles of his feet felt soft, dizzy, and his heart beat like a drum.

Du Zhongping wiped his mouth, raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You, if you have a wicked heart but no guts, that's all you can do!" He spoke very freely, but his ears turned red.

Ever since they came down from the mountain that day, the two of the Du family were in a good mood.One tells the students a book, and a sentence of the book draws countless allusions. When he is interested, he talks about the past and the present, which makes the students dizzy; After a sum of money, the merchants were sent away with satisfaction.Yes, the caravans going to Lengshui city came back one after another, and they had to hurry back to their hometown before the snow fell.Don't ask how the business of the caravan is, just look at the complacent faces of those people, and some of them have already made an appointment with Duane for the next year's stuff.

Duan discussed with the family that these children have helped a lot, and besides giving some money, he also wanted to show something else.

Du Zhongping nodded, only paying money seemed to treat them as hired workers: "Didn't our family keep a lot of fabrics? Why don't we make each of them a better clothes, I think they are more convenient to wear for work." Let’s make a gown for my son’s bunt, it’s also our intention to wear it when meeting guests during the Chinese New Year.”

Several people nodded in agreement, Duan said: "This is easy to do, just take the materials and find a tailor. I thought, let's invite a few children to have a meal at home, isn't that what the village does to help each other?"

Zhao Ba nodded: "This method is good, but there is one thing. The children in this village usually don't serve the table. If you make a table of dishes, we elders are sitting here. Why can't they let go? If there is no one Accompanying is even more outrageous, how can there be a host who does not accompany you?"

After much deliberation, Du Zhongping said, why don't we find out the barbed wire fence during the Lantern Festival, prepare some raw meat, and just roast the meat.This is not a formal banquet, and there is no need to be formal, and the children love to eat, even if there are a few members of the family mixed in, they can have fun while eating.

Everyone said it was good, but it was difficult for Du Zhongping to think of it.Du Zhongping said with a smile: "It's because of Brother Sheng's cleaning up the kitchen that day. Brother Sheng tossed out all the messy things, so I saw it. Speaking of which, it's because our family set up a stall during the Lantern Festival. It was prepared, and it will never be used again after that, and no one will remember to use it, so it will be left in vain.”

Duan made a list, everyone of half size could be eaten, and he had prepared a lot of meat alone: ​​top-quality pork belly, fresh and tender mutton, and originally said to get a chicken to be roasted through the meat, But Zhao Ba said that the chicken was not fat enough to be roasted to make firewood, so he finally forgot it.I also prepared seasonings: finely ground salt, specially adjusted five-spice powder, and chili powder.

The children are all very happy. If they can receive an invitation from an adult, they are considered adults, right?Especially Uncle An's craftsmanship is good, and he cooks barbecue. Those who have eaten barbecue like Dazhu can't help but salivate when they talk about it. Those who haven't eaten it have also smelled the aroma, and they are all yearning for it.The best thing is, Uncle An said, everyone just open up and eat, the meat is enough!No one in this family can open up to eat meat on weekdays. The boys can't wait to yell and rush over. Uncle An is really too generous!

On that day, several people ate and drank and made a fuss all afternoon, and they all lost the image of eating with their stomachs stretched out.At the beginning, Duan was the one who baked it, but there were so many people and so little meat, so they all did it themselves.Although it was muddy for a while and salty for a while, everyone was still very happy.When it was getting dark, the children were about to say goodbye and go home. Mr. Na Chengxiang turned around and went back to the house and took out some clothes. Everyone had them, and they were still formal gowns. The children were really touched. , also became serious one by one, and took the clothes from the master one by one in a proper manner, thinking the same thing in their hearts: to study hard, and to live up to the clothes.

Time passed by flickeringly, seeing that it was going to be winter again.After all, the east wing of Du's house was built with a kang. It's not that anyone wanted to move out, but Du Zhongping felt sorry for the students, and wanted to pack it up and wait for the students from other villages to borrow it in snowy days, so as to save the trouble of going back and forth.

There are still a lot of vegetables in the vegetable cellar, especially a lot of golden loofah. The skin of this thing seems to be coated with wax, and it seems that it can be stored for a long time.Most importantly, there is a lot of rice stored in the cellar, which is harvested from the Du family's fields. Although the output is not as high as that in the south, it is enough for the Du family to eat for a long time.When planting rice back then, everyone thought that Du Xiucai was just playing around. How could they have imagined that they actually harvested a lot of grain?

The heavy snow kicked off the cat winter in the village. Everyone only thought that the snow was a little bit heavy, but nothing else.The days in winter are as leisurely as ever. With extra income this year, everyone is very nourished, but the Central Plains, which is thousands of miles away, is not so peaceful.