From Cultivator to Widow

Chapter 38

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Zhang Weiguo has adapted well in school. In the elementary school in his village, all the people who come to school are from his village. They are about the same age. Even if they don’t play together, they get to know each other well. It became one piece.

Zhang Weiguo has a solid foundation and is well received in school. Zhang Fenghua is a little bit worse. She has zero foundation, but she is very serious. She stares at Su Hui in class without blinking her eyes. .

Su Hui admired her very much. If she can persevere, she should be able to achieve good results.

Zhang Weiguo's performance is not bad, because he is the one who knows the most among this group of people. He is the first in questions and homework, which makes him very proud. Can sit still and is willing to spend more time studying.

This is also a virtuous circle.

Zhang Weiguo is in the first grade, which means that Zhang Baoguo is in the fourth grade. There are only five years of elementary school, and he will graduate from elementary school after two years of study.

After entering the fourth grade, his classmates dropped sharply. Many people don't want their children to be blind, send them to school, study for a few years, learn common words, and commonly used arithmetic. Then spend that wronged money to send them to school.

One yuan and five yuan a semester, and three yuan a year. For rural families with little income and no serious illness or catastrophe, these three yuan are the biggest expenditure.

Zhang Baoguo got the answer from his mother a long time ago. She wanted him to continue his studies. After graduating from elementary school, he would go to junior high school. After graduating from junior high school, he would go to high school. For many years, you can plan slowly.

He never slackens.

The two children were given a one-time tuition fee of three yuan, but Su Hui didn't care about it, but Zhao Laidi felt very distressed.

Even if the money was given to her by Li Manfen, because they didn't separate, the money was in Li Manfen's hands, and if she gave it to her, she would take it to school to pay the tuition, but it didn't mean that she didn't feel bad about it, and she also had her share of the money Ah, when she handed over the three yuan, the expression on her face was really ugly.

To Zhang Jinhua, she wouldn't say anything, but to Zhang Fenghua, she pointed and pointed: "You must study hard, you know? If your grades are not good, you don't have to go to school in the future, don't waste your mother's money .”

She was already mentally prepared, but when she gave the money out, she still couldn't accept it. She didn't know whether she wanted her daughter to get good grades or not.

Zhang Fenghua was very serious and worried about this.

If she is not serious, her mother will not let her study.

She didn't know exactly what studying would bring, but she just watched others talk about cultural people, and the things in their tone made her subconsciously feel that it would be better if she also went to study, so she did so.

The start of school for freshmen also means that summer is over and autumn is coming.

Although the temperature in autumn is not much different from that in summer, many fruit trees are ripe and bring a good harvest to human beings.

They can plant two seasons of rice in a year. Spring rice is harvested in July, followed by replanting at the end of July, and harvested in late October and November.

There was also some rain this year, but it didn't affect the harvest much. It was about the same as last year. At that time, Su Hui, like everyone else, took advantage of the weather to rush to harvest in the rice fields. Part of it is given to the villagers.

Su Hui also took advantage of that time to collect a lot of new rice.

There are always those who do not have enough food at home and are willing to sell fine grains and buy more coarse grains to fill their stomachs.

Now that school is starting, Zhang Chengye has been busy harvesting and planting rice seedlings, and Zhang Chengye has asked more people to help make tiles. Now many people in his village have tiles on their roofs.

Most of the households did not choose to replace all the roofs at once, but replaced the ones with serious leaks first, because they did not know how much work points would be deducted, so everyone acted more rationally.

Now that there is some free time and the weather is fine, Zhang Chengye decided that it was time to deliver goods to those people from other villages.

In addition to self-selling, but also export, after all, he has not received any money now, how will he divide the money at the end of the year

Ever since they knew that someone in their village could burn tiles, they have been thinking about it. At that time, Su Qianming and the others asked specifically. They checked the tiles and found that they were similar, and the price was cheaper than those bought far away. Placed an order.

After a while, Su Hui could see loads of tiles being piled up on a wheelbarrow and transported away.

There are some wild fruit trees in the mountain. Su Hui found a piece of mountain grapes before, which are sweet and sour, and small in size. She picked some and went back to make wine.

Now she looked up at the chestnuts above her head.

The bamboo basket next to it was full of chestnuts, but the bamboo basket was full, and she still had a bag.

She swept it with a long bamboo pole, and the ripe chestnuts fell down one after another. She was holding a bag and fell one after another. If others saw her speed, they would be stunned.

After going back and forth several times, there was not a single chestnut that fell to the ground.

This is an old tree that has grown for many years. There are many fruits, and because there is a hedgehog-like shell on the outside of the chestnut to protect the fruits inside, not many animals can eat it. Most of them are intact. Split the bamboo in half, put the bag and the bamboo basket on both sides with a stronger bottom, and carry it home.

After returning home, you need to use a stone, or a hatchet to remove the shell. It is not easy to eat it, but chestnuts are really delicious. Whether it is eaten raw, cooked, or cooked, it is very delicious, even if it is troublesome. Su Hui doesn't mind at all.

As soon as she went back and put down her basket, Zhao Xialan and an old woman hurried in.

"Su Hui, it's great that you are at home, can you help deliver the baby? Help, the midwife is not here, she has gone to another village."

Su Hui frowned: "What's the situation?"

The aunt who came with Zhao Xialan was not far from her home. They worked in the field together. Her daughter-in-law had a stomachache and was about to give birth.

She had asked her son to find Mrs. Wen, but she couldn't find her. She went to the next village to help deliver the baby, and she didn't know if she could bring her back in time.

The aunt's forehead was full of sweat: "Didn't you deliver a baby before? Can you deliver?"

"I'll go take a look with you."

Su Hui didn't intend to leave her alone, so she went with her.

The month hasn't arrived yet, it's a little earlier, but it's within the normal range, it's not a problem, the problem is that her fetal position is a bit wrong.

After Su Hui saw it, she quickly took over the control. With her around, she has a backbone. She can do whatever she asks her to do. Those who hold hot water get hot water, and those who hold towels get towels.

Su Hui leads with spiritual sense, and at this time, everyone is generally strong and easy to bear children. When her man finds his wife and finds her, his daughter-in-law has already given birth, and she is lying on the bed drowsily.

It was a daughter, and the first child was a son, and now it happened to be a good character. Su Hui got 10 eggs, plus a gift of 20 cents.

The aunt is very grateful. She has no other choice. The mother-in-law is not here. She gave birth to one at the beginning, and she has no impression. She really has no confidence to help her daughter-in-law deliver the baby. The daughter-in-law’s family is separated by several hills. Thinking of Su Hui.

Her mother-in-law Zhao Xialan praised her fiercely before, and she praised her like a hype. She just listened to it and thought it might be luck, but she didn't expect that it was a real thing. The mother-in-law is in the right place, just in time before she died. I didn't expect the child to come out so impatiently, and the steady mother-in-law is not there yet.

As a token of gratitude, she gave an extra 20 cents, and usually Wen Po gave five to ten eggs for each delivery.

Su Hui washed her hands, put the eggs back in the kitchen, took the hatchet, and went back to the yard to knock.

When she came back, Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dingguo were already beating the chestnut shells. They smashed the chestnut thorns with stones, and then continued to smash a hole, and then pushed the shells away.

However, they are weak, smashing while playing, and will stop to eat a few, which belongs to the nature of playing tickets.

It was different when Su Hui joined in. He poured it out on the stone slab, turned the hatchet upside down and used the back of the knife to "snap", and when he hit the knife, the shell cracked, and then swept it to the side, and the two small ones squatted beside him with sticks. Sweep those shells away, it's that simple.

"Mom, when are you going to make roasted pork with chestnuts?"

As soon as Zhang Dingguo said, Zhang Anguo echoed: "That's right, Mom, when will you make chestnut roast pork?"

Generally speaking, if a child asks this question, they will probably get an answer from an adult: "Where is the meat while playing?"

They are used to the good food and vegetables at home, and they say that meat is very natural, and whether they eat it or not depends on whether their mother wants it or not.

"Okay, let's make it another day. Tonight, I will make chestnut chicken. Is it a pheasant from the mountains, or do you want to make chicken soup?"

The pheasant soup was also very sweet. Zhang Anguo and Zhang Dinguo looked at each other.

"Soup!"

“Braised chicken!”

The two spoke together, but the answers were opposite, Su Hui: "Then let's get half of each."

Anyway, no trouble.

"Mom, you are amazing!"

The two of them stared at their mother. In their perception, mother is a very powerful person. These chestnuts were picked by mother from the mountain. The mountain is like a treasure to mother, pheasants, rabbits and birds. All kinds of fish. Mom can get it from the mountains, and they ate a pot of stewed snake meat a few days ago.

Not long after, Zhang Baoguo and Zhang Weiguo came back shirtless, with a small bucket in their hands and a tub in their arms.

There were some finger-long small fish in the small bucket, which they harvested when they went to the stream. The two of them poured the fish in the bucket into the wooden basin, jumped out the flat ones, and threw them to the chickens at home, so that they could If you lay more eggs, keep those long ones and fry them at night.

Today's dinner must be very rich, pheasant and chestnut soup, pheasant and chestnut, pot stickers with small fish, hot sweet potato seedlings, and fried wild vegetables.

After the meal was ready, Su Hui took a large bowl of chicken soup, which contained not much chicken but more chestnuts, and a basket of raw chestnuts for Zhang Baoguo to send to his grandparents.

Ever since they helped her send the thief to the police station, and helped her talk, and reciprocated, she delivered food there more frequently than before. She had gained something on the mountain, and occasionally took out some to share there. side to go.

There are only four pieces of chicken in the chicken soup in this big bowl, but the pheasant is small in nature, a killed one weighs less than a catty, and half of the soup is cut into about ten pieces

Seeing the big bowl of chicken soup, Li Manfen exaggerated Zhang Baoguo a few words, and was convinced by the second daughter-in-law's ability to search for good things in the mountains recently.

She also put away the chestnuts. The family hasn't gone to the mountains to find wild fruits yet, and she will go there sometime later. The chestnuts are very filling.

Then for these few pieces of chicken, the biggest piece is for the wife, and then the eldest son, the younger son, and the younger grandson, each of the four is just right.

That bowl of soup and chestnuts is for everyone.

Everyone else is used to her dividing like this, and she has no objection.

What Zhao Laidi objected to was that it was too little, there were only four pieces of meat, why not give more, a whole one, half a piece, but she just thought about it.

It is enough to simply honor the elderly, and it is too extravagant to eat all of it at once, so you can save half of it to marinate.

Men eat more because they have to do heavy work, Zhang Jinhua is the eldest grandson, eat more to grow his body.

They can't eat meat, but the chestnuts are delicious, and the soup is also delicious, but because of the large population, each person gets only one or two bites.

Zhao Laidi also shared half of it with her son, and drank it slowly by herself, savoring it slowly, and then said to her man Zhang Quan: "You also go for a walk on the mountain someday."

It's impossible for Su Hui to catch her, but her man can't.

Zhang Quan nodded, Zhang Gui had already been there, he sighed: "It depends on luck, if there is, but you can't catch it, what's the use if you can't catch it?"

He is very favored at home, but he still has to go to work in the field, but occasionally he will not go to the field, not many times, Li Manfen will not say anything, he will go to find food.

He also met a pheasant, but it was useless, and it ran away after a long distance.

"Second sister-in-law must have her own way." Zhang Gui chewed the bones of the chicken, sucked up the juice inside, and spit it out: "This is the second time that second sister-in-law has caught a pheasant recently. I'll go ask about it tomorrow. .” His tone was quite certain.

"Maybe it's a trap." Zhao Laidi also cheered up: "I'll ask her tomorrow too."

Li Manfen felt that it should be luck, but if it happened, he should have left Baoguo to ask carefully just now.

"Ask and see if you can catch one or two."

Zhang Jinhua listened, his eyes flickered.

He clicked his tongue, reminiscing about the tenderness of the chicken just now, and ate the chestnut full of chicken flavor, adding meat, this chestnut is delicious, he wants to eat a lot of meat.

In fact, he is not young anymore, so he should be able to go into the mountains to have a look. As for whether the second aunt has any tricks, he has the same idea as grandma, and he didn't find out before, and there are only two pheasants recently. It was luck, his luck, and it was always good.

They came to ask early the next morning, and of course Su Hui didn't have any tricks. She said that she was lucky. One time the pheasant injured her leg, and the other time she got into a dead end.

Zhao Laidi and Zhang Gui went back disappointed.

Then something went wrong.

Zhang Jinhua, who was in class in the morning, disappeared after lunch. This is normal. What is abnormal is that Zhao Laidi sneaked back from work in the afternoon. When she wanted to use the hatchet, she found that the hatchet was missing.

She didn't realize what was wrong at this time, thinking that someone else took it away, and then in the afternoon, everyone came back, she and Li Manfen were cooking together, the time was almost up, and Zhang Jinhua hadn't come back yet.

No child will miss any point of eating. Everyone is hungry, and basically they will not do the kind of thing that is for fun and not going home to eat.

But there are exceptions.

Seeing that he hadn't come back, Zhao Laidi asked Zhang Fenghua and his sisters to call him back.

I searched around the places he frequented, but found no one, and someone found their house and asked them: "Is my son at your house? Why don't you go back for dinner?"

That is often playing with Zhang Jinhua.

Li Manfen: "No, I'm not here, Jinhua is not here either, I don't know where she went."

The person who came was a little anxious: "I won't go into the mountain, my village has called, but no one answered me."

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Laidi panicked, and hurriedly looked at the place where the hatchet was placed, but there was no one.

"Which one of you took the hatchet? Where did you put the hatchet?"

"Not moving."

"It's there, isn't it? I saw it yesterday."

"It's broken! The hatchet is gone, did Jinhua take it?"

"Did you really go to the mountain?" Zhao Laidi couldn't sit still anymore.

There are no adults on the mountain, and children are strictly forbidden to go there, but there will be disobedient ones after a while, some will come back smoothly, and some will have to pay the price.

The less serious injuries, the more serious ones lost their lives.

The whole family couldn't sit still, and all went out to look for it.

After searching around, there were none, none of them, and no one saw them leave the village. Seeing that it was going to be dark, Zhang Chengye led someone to light a torch: "Big guy, help, find the two children."