wear to 60s

In the next few days, the aunt didn't talk about the food. Lin Shu got up early every day as usual, and brought Caifeng and Xiaoyaoer to the aunt's house for dinner.

This time they would eat together at the table, one bowl for each person, and Lin Shu also drank a bowl of thick white rice porridge.

The aunt was busy feeding chickens and chopping vegetables. In the early morning, between satellite and patriotic meals, she prepared schoolbags for the two of them, and put small pockets of rice in the bags.

He goes to school in the village and brings rice to the school cafeteria to steam rice every day. Satellite is in the third grade and eats with his brother.

Tang Cuihua tidied up the schoolbags of the two brothers, filled half a jar of kimchi, and was about to pack the buns when she remembered something and searched in Aiguo's bag for a long time but couldn't find it, so she muttered, "Aiguo, I'll pack rations for you where's the bag?"

"Oh, I forgot, I guess I lost it somewhere." Lin Aiguo paused and said casually.

Tang Cuihua mumbled: "Don't forget about it, there aren't many pockets left in the house."

"Don't be too busy, come and eat quickly." Lin Guosheng urged.

Tang Cuihua filled the buns for the two brothers before she came to the table, patted the apron with her hands, and took a sip of rice porridge from the big bowl.

She took a few more sips, and then glanced at the white rice porridge in the bowls of the Lin Shu brothers and sisters, showing a hint of distress.

It's really edible.

Especially that dog egg, who finished the white rice porridge in a few mouthfuls, he has never had such a delicious white rice porridge.

In the past, when the family was not separated, the old man and the old lady would not be willing to cook white rice porridge. After cooking the porridge, they would secretly let the brothers of the second family drink it in front of the stove.

Tang Cuihua was thinking about it when Lin Weixing suddenly said, "By the way, mother, our school is out of firewood. The teacher told everyone to bring a piece of firewood every day."

"Why didn't you say it earlier." Tang Cuihua glared at him.

Lin Weixing shrugged indifferently and said, "I forgot."

"You can forget about this, why don't you forget to eat." Tang Cuihua was so angry that she knocked on Lin Weixing's chopsticks, and then put down the bowl, "I'll get you firewood."

The firewood they burn is all the leaves of the yellow wattle tree, and those root-shaped firewood are usually carried to the town to sell for money.

Tang Cuihua took out two sticks of firewood from the firewood room, put them by the wall, and then sat back at the table, complaining dissatisfiedly.

"It's true in your school. You pay so much money every semester, and you have to get firewood yourself."

Lin Weixing gave two "tsk tsk", and said happily, "We'll have to wait another month or two. In winter, the school still asks us to go to the mountains to cut firewood."

Tang Cuihua glanced at him coldly, "Chopping firewood, I don't see you being so active in chopping firewood at home."

"That's different." Lin Weixing put on a show, "Last year, I heard that some of the students in the class chopped firewood and carried it to the town to sell, and they came back after playing all day. We were stupid, so we carried the firewood obediently." Back to school."

"Think about it, you don't have to go to class, you can have a day off, and you can play all over the mountains and plains, it's so fun."

"You're so mad at me." Tang Cuihua grabbed Lin Weixing's ear, "I paid you to go to school to play? If you don't get in the top three exams this semester, I'll let you go home and farm."

"Hey hey."

Lin Weixing grinned in pain, feeling that the old lady was about to pull his ear off, and said bitterly:

"do not."

"Mother, the top three is what you ask of my brother, you can't treat me equally."

Lin Guosheng persuaded: "Take it easy, the child is still young."

"Hmph." Tang Cuihua let go, and Lin Weixing jumped up quickly, grabbed his schoolbag and firewood and ran out of the house, "I'm leaving first, Mom and Dad."

"Wait for your brother." Tang Cuihua shouted with her waist in her arms.

Lin Weixing had long since disappeared, only a voice came back.

"My elder brother walks fast, and I have to go to school to make up my homework."

Tang Cuihua said angrily in a low voice, "You little bastard." Seeing Lin Aiguo standing up when she looked back, she quickly put on a smile, "Are you full yet?"

"Well, I went to school." Lin Aiguo was still reticent.

Lin Aiguo also left, and Tang Cuihua turned back to the house, looked at Lin Shu and the three of them who had finished eating, and said in an orderly tone: "Goddam, today the aunt is going to sow vegetable seeds, you take a cornbread and let it go." One day cow."

"By the way, the grass is still relatively fresh after the Patriotic School. You carry a basket on your back and pick up some firewood when you come back."

Lin Guosheng frowned and said, "How much firewood can a kid carry on his back? You don't need to collect firewood, you can just go and herd the cows."

Tang Cuihua sneered, "Why not? When I was as young as Goudaner, I was able to carry firewood to the town and sell it for money."

"You are——" Lin Guosheng turned his face away speechlessly, and stopped talking.

After several people had finished eating, Tang Cuihua ordered Goudaner to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

The weather is not cold, but the temperature of the water drawn from the well is relatively low, and it is so cold that the hands are cold.

Lin Shu wanted to boil water to wash the dishes, but Tang Cuihua refused, saying that it was a waste of firewood. Lin Shu could only bite the bullet and wash the dishes in the cold. Fortunately, his hands were numb from the cold after getting used to it, so he couldn't feel the cold.

After washing the dishes, Tang Cuihua ordered Lin Shu to sweep the house.

The house is not too big or small, but it takes seven-year-old Lin Shu to clean it, and it takes two hours to clean it.

Most houses in this era have thatched roofs, and some affluent houses use tiles.

Most of the ground is made of rammed earth. This kind of rammed earth was fine when it was first built, but after living for a long time in the wind and rain, various beetles dig holes and burrow into the ground, and it will become uneven, and it is especially easy to sweep the floor.

Lin Shu was so tired that his waist was sore and his back ached, so he finished cleaning the room. Before he had a rest, Tang Cuihua appeared again with his waist in his arms.

"It's over, you son of a bitch."

"are you tired."

"Take a break and drink some water."

"Oh, my aunt just remembered that there is almost no water in this water tank. My aunt is very busy. Remember to fill up the water tank and then go to graze the cows."

Tang Cuihua left after saying that, Lin Shu went to fetch water with a small bucket, Caifeng and Xiao Yaoer followed him around the well.

"Brother, the porridge this morning is really delicious, and it's different from what I usually drink." Caifeng said with a smack of her mouth.

Lin Shu faintly recalled the white rice porridge in the morning. The white porridge didn't look like the rice from the aunt's family. He probably ate it from their grain bag.

Lin Shu thought of the morning meal, and his stomach felt uncomfortable again.

He had never eaten such unpalatable pickles, salty and bitter vegetable stalks, and he didn't know how long it had been soaking, the color was black and wilted, and his mouth would smell bad after taking a bite.

When is this, and you still pay attention to these things, some food is good.

Lin Shu picked up the water and poured it into the water tank, filled it up, the sun was already at noon.

I don't have a watch at home, and I don't know the time, so I can only guess the time when I estimate the sun.

It stands to reason that Tang Cuihua should be cooking at this time, but she hasn't come back yet, because she saw that they stayed at home without going out to herd cattle.

Lin Shu thought it was funny, looked at the bun that Tang Cuihua had given him, took the bun, put Xiaoyaoer into the back, and started to recite it.

He thought that this small body couldn't carry it on his back, but he didn't know that the original owner might have practiced it, so he even carried Xiaoyao'er on his back.

"Brother, where are we going?"

"Go herding the cows."

"Aren't we going to eat?"

"Hey, eat steamed buns when you're hungry."

Lin Shu came to the cowshed and saw that this big buffalo, which was as tall as an adult, was in trouble. If this buffalo went crazy, it could kill an adult.

Lin Shu was a little afraid of the horns of the big buffalo. After all, in the animal world, the horns could stab even a lion and tiger to death.

He swallowed, Caifeng hid behind him in fear, Lin Shu cautiously stepped forward to untie the rope, and led the buffalo outside. The buffalo was also quiet, except for a few moos, there was no fuss. .

Lin Shu led the buffalo out and walked along the path in the village. The memory of the original owner was unclear, and he didn't know where the Patriotic School was, but in order not to reveal his identity, he followed Caifeng and asked Caifeng to come. Lead the way, anyway, children like to bounce and walk ahead.

At noon, Lin Shu took his ox to the hillside. Standing on the hillside, there were endless mountains. Under the hills, there were a few small houses that were slightly clustered. In front of the house, there was a tall log with a At the top, the red flag fluttered in the wind, and an inexplicable tear came up in an instant.

The buffalo was grazing on the hillside. Lin Shu sat on the hillside and looked down. A short old man walked to the low house, under the eaves, picked up an iron rod, and rang the iron bell hanging on the eaves.

"Dong dong."

"Dong dong."

In an instant, the door of a classroom opened, and students wearing coarse clothes poured out. All of them had ruddy faces, the kind of redness with dry and cracked skin after being frozen and sunburned, and even children with obvious dark, rarely fair skin, followed It's the same as what I saw in the previous textbook.

"get out of class is over."

"Time to eat."

Students poured into the cafeteria, brought out their own lunch boxes, and then piled up, and those who went to the classroom went to the classroom, and some students directly sat on the red flag platform with their lunch boxes.

Today is sunny again, the sun is very comfortable and warm on the body, the colorful phoenix lay on the grass dizzy, and grabbed Lin Shu's arm again, "Brother, I'm hungry." And touched it obediently Touching the stomach, "My stomach is flattened by hunger."

The little Yao'er stumbled over, imitating what Caifeng said, and said inarticulately: "Guokuo, hungry."

Lin Shu took out the buns and divided them into two pieces, giving them to Caifeng and Xiaoyaoer.

Caifeng looked at Wowotou, shook her head and said, "Brother, you eat."

"Brother is not hungry, Caifeng eats."

"No, brother doesn't eat it, neither does Caifeng." Caifeng's clear eyes gradually seeped a trace of tears, she looked at Lin Shu stubbornly, Lin Shu swallowed his sour saliva, nodded and said: "Okay, Let's eat together."

Lin Shu and Caifeng ate this small piece of steamed bread separately. Lin Shu only felt that although his hungry stomach was not filled, it was filled with another kind of warmth, especially when he heard Caifeng and Xiaoyaoer Clear laughter resounded on the hillside.

Lin Shu also wondered if there was any wild game in the mountains that could fill his stomach, but just think about it, in this age when there is not enough to eat, most of the things in the mountains were taken away by people, let alone wild game. Lin Shu led the cows all the way, and he didn't even see them alive, all he saw were flying in the sky.

However, not all places have been visited, and there should be something edible in those deep mountains and old forests.

Thinking of this, Lin Shu asked Caifeng to watch the cow not to run away. This is a big hillside, and people often walk around, so there should be no problem. He got up and walked towards the forest with his back strap on his back.