Celestial grabs dog food

Chapter 20

Shi Niang didn't answer, she lowered her head and gently stroked the earthen pot on her chest which was slightly bigger than a human head.

Gou Sheng was terrified by Shi Niang's expression, and retreated a little without showing any signs.

Fortunately, the city gate opened soon, and Liu Datie greeted everyone to walk out of the city along with the flow of people.

Shanguan struggled to pull up the scooter, bent forward and walked forward. When he encountered an uphill, Shi Niang and Hua Ya helped push it from behind.

Liu Datie couldn't see it after all, so he and the mountain official took turns to help out all the way...

When they arrived at the town, Gou Sheng and Liu Datie wanted to go in and buy something. The mountain official hesitated and decided to wait at the entrance of the town.

Along the way, Shan Guan and the others relied on their own dry food to fill their stomachs. Occasionally, they only set up a pot to boil a pot of hot water for drinking.

"We only do some shopping, and we will be out soon. We should be able to return to the village before dark." Gou Sheng explained.

Shanguan leaned on the cart and nodded, his forehead was covered with sweat, and his lips were abnormally gray and purple.

Liu Datie cut a large piece of meat, weighed it and bought two meaty bones, and when he passed a dim sum shop, he asked for a pack of maltose.

Gousheng secretly bought four candied haws - of course, there was no way to hide it from Liu Datie.

Gou Sheng gave Liu Datie [-] Wen for the money from selling the baskets last time. This has already surprised Liu Datie, he didn't expect Gou Sheng to have secrets.

Liu Datie patted Gousheng on the head twice, his lips moved, but he didn't say to ask Gousheng to take out the remaining money.

"Father, I won't spend money recklessly!" Gou Sheng said embarrassingly.

"If you didn't know how to measure, I would have broken your leg with a big stick!" Liu Datie pretended to be threatening, and carefully hid the candied haws in the bag-so that other children's children would see it and make a fuss. Not good looking!

Soon, Liu Datie regretted his indulgence to his eldest son!

When Gou Sheng saw the so-called hard beans here, his eyes lit up, and the first thing that came to his mind was bean sprouts, so that at least in winter, he could have a variety of things for a change of taste.

Hard beans are worth less than coarse grains, and they cost a penny a catty. Gou Sheng spent fifty pennies on a big bag.

"Stinky boy, you're too full, don't you? Go back and see if your mother can't scold you to death!" No matter how angry Liu Datie was, he only cursed this sentence, and reluctantly took it over and carried it on his shoulder.

Gousheng smiled "hehe", skipping forward.

A few people want to go to the village before dark, and Shanguan and the others have to discuss with Lizheng about how to live. Fortunately, there are still a few unoccupied dilapidated houses in the village, and they just need to repair them before winter...

After Liu Datie told the Shan Guan and Shi Niang about this, he pulled Gou Sheng to quicken his pace—it would be difficult for Liu Datie to walk with Shi Niang when he entered the village!

"I'll look for you when you've settled down." Gou Sheng turned around and shouted.

"Well, you go first!" The mountain official panted heavily.

When they got home, Li Dahua was not there, only the stigma and the big grass were sitting under the eaves, peeling the corn continuously.

On the eaves hung garlic, dried chilies and some corn cobs that hadn't been peeled in time.

The low chicken coop in the corner of the front yard was moved to the back of the house, and there were no vegetables in the backyard at all, and a few chickens were specially kept behind.

"Stigma, big grass, where are your mothers?" Liu Datie bent down to reach the wooden stick inside, removed it, and opened the fence gate.

"Father, brother!" Zhutou raised his head and ran over cheering.

Dacao also put down the half-peeled corn cobs and ran over.

"Where's mother?" Gou Sheng asked as he picked up the big grass that rushed over and weighed it.

"Mother has gone to the field." Dacao leaned over and stared at the burden on Liu Datie's body.

"Father, is there any candy?" Shanguan hugged Liu Datie's thigh, jumping and screaming.

"I'm just thinking about Tang, do you miss your father?" Liu Datie joked with Zhutou in a rare and relaxed manner.

"Think about it, think about it every day!" Zhutou shouted loudly.

"Where's the big grass?"

"Think." The little girl looked at Liu Datie expectantly.

Liu Datie took out maltose with a smile, and gave each person a few.

Immediately, the corners of Zhutou and Dacao's mouths widened, happily holding their respective candies, and putting them carefully in their pockets.

"Gou Sheng, put away your things, I'll go find your mother." Liu Datie sat down, took a sip of water, and hurried to the field.

Gou Sheng responded, and went to the kitchen to follow Li Dahua's example, put a little salt on the meat and bones, and hung them on the beams.

"Big brother, big brother..."

The column head probed outside and shouted.

"Huh?" Gou Sheng stopped what he was doing and yawned long.

"Brother, can we go out and play for a while?" Zhutou asked with a silly smile while hiding half of his body behind the door.

The big grass also timidly followed behind the column caps.

Gou Sheng's gaze paused for a moment on the stigma and the blistered little hands of the big grass, "Go, come back early at night, don't fight with other people, do you hear me?"

"Oh, big brother is the best!"

The pillars and the big grass cheered together, and ran out one after the other.

Gou Sheng smiled, and after collecting the meat and bones, he took out a rag and a broom and began to clean the inside and outside, front and back of the house.

Li Dahua is a rough rural woman, she can live her life as long as she can, even if she has free time, she would rather chat with others than tidy up the house...

When Liu Datie and Li Dahua came back, they saw their eldest son sitting on the threshold, holding a half-peeled corn cob in his hand, peeling it once and for all, head down little by little Yes, he woke up suddenly when he was about to touch the corn in his hand, and continued to peel the corn kernels.

"Why don't you go to bed when you're sleepy?" Li Dahua said distressedly after patting him awake.

"Oh, oh... Mom, you're back!" Gou Sheng stood up in a daze and said.

"Hurry up and get something to eat, I haven't slept well for a few days." Liu Datie put the rake away, with a tired look on his face.

Li Dahua responded, washed his hands, and went into the kitchen to get busy.

"Where are the stigma and Dacao, the two little guys have sneaked out to play again?" Li Dahua lit the stove and asked loudly.

"Mom, I told them to go out and play for a while. They have already peeled the corn with their hands, so they should take a break!" Gou Sheng and Liu Datie answered as they packed the corn kernels together.

"Why don't you rest, they're tired of peeling and peeling corn!" Li Dahua shouted in the room, "It's just you two who treat them so cute... the dog leftover, go and call them back, we'll eat early today Have dinner and go to bed, go to your grandma's house tomorrow, and bring back little sister and little brother!"

Gou Sheng responded, rubbed his numb eyes, and walked out slowly...

The family had a dreamless night.

Early the next morning, Li Dahua cooked a pot of porridge indiscriminately, and the family drank a few mouthfuls of porridge with a bowl of sauerkraut and had breakfast.

Li Dahua gestured to the meat brought back by Liu Datie for a long time, then cut off a small piece, touched a handful of eggs and put them together in a small basket, ready to take them back to her natal home...

"Grandma! Grandma..."

As soon as he saw the fence, the stigma cried out happily.

The fence gate in the middle was quickly opened.

"Stigma, you're here! I thought I heard your voice!" A young woman stood in front of the fence and said with a smile.

"Little aunt!" Zhutou rushed over happily.

"Mother, sister-in-law and the others are here." The little woman turned her head and called inside.

Li Dahua's old lady, Mrs. Li, came out of the side room while beating the corn whiskers and dust on her body, "Hey, the stigma is here, come and show grandma!"

Li Dahua has two older brothers, a younger sister and a younger brother. Except for the married younger sister, the three brothers have not yet separated, and they all live in the old house.

The little woman who came out to open the door was Li Dahua's sister-in-law who had only married the year before last.

"Mom, how is the food harvest at home? Have you planted all the vegetables?" Li Dahua asked, handing the things in Mrs. Li's hands.

"Well, it's not bad, it's enough to feed the whole family..." The old lady entered the room with a small basket and put everything away.

"Grandma, where are the grandpa and uncles?" Gou Sheng asked loudly.

"They're going to the field." The old lady came out with a chair in one hand, "Forging iron, Dahua, come and sit for a while."

Then he turned his head and shouted towards the side room, "Da Chuan, Xiao Chuan... all come out to play for a while, the leftover brothers are here!"

"Oh-oh-"

Three boys and two little girls ran out of the side room.

The dog left to go in to see the grass and eggs.

Mrs. Li specially surrounded a place on the kang with a very smooth wooden fence, and the two little guys played in it by themselves.

When Gousheng went to watch, the egg was drooling while sleeping, and Xiaocao struggled to learn to walk by climbing on the wooden fence.

"Brother, brother..." Seeing Gou Sheng come in, the little girl cried happily.

Gou Sheng walked over with a smile, and carried the little girl out...

"The younger ones have followed your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law back to their natal home..." The old lady brought out a basket of corn cobs, and sat in the yard with Li Dahua while talking and working, "The third family, you go Call their grandparents back."

"Well, I see, mother!"

"Let me go!" Liu Datie stood up and said.

"Sit down for a while, let's rest here for a long time today!" The old lady said without raising her head.

"Listen to mother!" Li Dahua gave Liu Datie a hand.

Liu Datie smiled and sat down.

"Mother, do you still have the Fifth Brother's?" Li Dahua glanced at the gate of the fence and asked in a low voice.

"No, I'm so anxious..." The old lady frowned and said...

"...Mother, it's true, the corn at home hasn't been harvested yet, so why did the two sister-in-laws go back?" Li Dahua asked dissatisfiedly after looking at the grain piled up in the side room.

"They are all treasures from their natal families. I will let them go back and see what they can get..."

The mother and daughter have endless stories to talk about together.

Liu Datie just buried his head in the work in hand, not daring to lift his head.

The fence door rang outside, and it was the father and son who came back.

Liu Datie breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Li stood up and went to the kitchen to get busy, and Li Dahua and the little aunt also went in to help.

"How is the harvest in Datie this year?" Old man Li asked, smoking a homemade cigarette.

"It's still..."

……

Several big men were chatting about the harvest in the field in the yard.

Zhutou and Dacao were running wildly outside the yard with a few cousins, shouting and shouting were heard from time to time.

Until bursts of sour smell came out of the kitchen, several children ran back, poking their heads at the kitchen door, swallowing their saliva.

Li Dahua's family came over, big and small were considered guests. Mrs. Li cut up the piece of meat that Li Dahua brought, grabbed a few sauerkraut, mixed it with the sweet potato vermicelli bought a few days ago, and stewed it in a large pot. He scrambled a plate of eggs with garlic and pickles.

Now is the time when there is a shortage of vegetables in the fields, and every family relies on the pickles, sauerkraut and dried vegetables they made before.

Mrs. Li also moved a small table out to set it up.

"It's all a family, let's eat something together!" Old man Li said, knocking on his pipe.

"My eldest son-in-law is not a guest?" Mrs. Li muttered.

"Mother, it doesn't matter, everyone sits down..." Liu Datie waved his hands repeatedly.

Mrs. Li stomped her little feet, turned around and went into the kitchen, taking out all the dishes and chopsticks.

Several children happily went to the table, and started picking meat to eat...

After lunch, they sat for a while, Li Dahua was holding the egg, and Liu Datie was holding Xiaocao, and they were ready to go back.

"Your family is also busy with things, so I won't keep you. I'll take some time to stay with you for a few days..." Mrs. Li sent Li Dahua to the fork in a long-winded manner. The basket that came over passed it over, "There are a few handfuls of polished rice in here. It's been more than half a month, and your mother should have returned long ago. You take it home and boil it for eggs..."

Li Dahua responded repeatedly, "Mother, I understand, you can go back and do your work!"

……

When he was about to get home, Gou Sheng noticed that a few men not far away were busy "ding ding dong dong" on a house that seemed to be collapsing.

"Liu Datie, you're back!" Several men squatting on the roof greeted loudly.

"Well, I just got home yesterday, what are you doing?" Liu Datie asked, "Is this house for people to live in?"

"I just moved in yesterday, a woman with three dolls..." Someone replied.

"It's Shan Guan and the others!" Gou Sheng said softly.

"Then you guys are busy!" Liu Datie nodded, waved to a few people and walked towards the house.

Most of the houses in the village are built by burning adobe bricks, and the base is built with bluestone, but they are still strong. They have thatched roofs, which need to be repaired every year. .

When they got home, Liu Datie and Li Dahua were still carrying the rakes to the field to look at the vegetable seedlings.

Gousheng explained a few words to Zhutou and Xiaocao, and carried Xiaocao to the room just now.

Li Dahua was worried about the four-month-old egg and took him to the field.

The mountain official is holding a bundle of thorns and is not very skilled in tying the fence.

Thorn is a plant that is very easy to survive. After the second spring, it will grow into a dense fence. The hills around the village are full of this plant.

"You don't need to plant it so densely—hey, why don't you wrap your hands with something?" Gou Sheng screamed.

Shan Guan's hands covered with small scars were covered with large and small blood holes.

"Oh, oh..."

"Shanguan, Shanguan, are you okay?" Gou Sheng supported Shanguan's shoulder and shook, "Let's take a break first!"

Shan Guan sat on the threshold following Gou Sheng's strength.

"How do you feel? I'll bring you a bowl of water."

The low-slung kitchen had only been tidied up roughly, and the things were still piled up in a mess. Fortunately, there was still a small half bucket of water in the wooden bucket.

Gou Sheng found a clean bowl with great difficulty, scooped out a bowl of water, and took it out. After thinking about it, he took out another candy and stuffed it into the mouth of the mountain official—this was stuffed when Liu Datie was gifted with candy the day before. A few grains that came over.

The mountain official ate sugar and drank half a bowl of water. He sat and rested for a while before recovering.

"Is it better?"

"Yeah!" Shanguan nodded, "By the way, how long will it be before it gets cold?"

"There are still two more months until you can't go out at all. Don't worry. After a few days, you have cleaned up the house. Let's go to the mountain to chop more firewood together." Gou Sheng said, patting the mountain official on the back. .

The coldest here is not the last month of the year, but the end of January and the beginning of February of the coming year. Around mid-January, no one wants to go out, and the thawing does not start until March.

"Where's your mother?"

"I went to see the land. We still have some money. We are going to buy two acres of land and plant a piece of oats and a piece of white cabbage." The mountain official said, beating his knee lightly.

"Well, that's not bad. It's you. Don't work too hard. If your body can't bear it, you will suffer!" Gou Sheng said a little helplessly.

"I know, this place is much better than Jiaxing City. I'll ask you to chop firewood together in two days." Shanguan stood up unsteadily.

In the city, even firewood has to be bought, and there is not enough money for the winter, so we can only endure it when it is cold!

"Okay, take it easy!"

Gou Sheng gave a worried reassurance, and helped to insert the fence for a while, and then hurriedly went back to make a fire and cook when the weather became dark...

Liu Datie and Li Dahua spent a few days patching up the dead vegetable seedlings in the field and started building the roof.

"Father, let's build another kang in the main room!" Gou Sheng said while helping to pass thatch and mud.

More than once, Gousheng was woken up by a strange "squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak" sound at night. In winter, he stayed in the house all day and had nothing to do. The two adults exercised more frequently at night, so in the village Dolls born in September and October are the most!

"What? Is there anyone who repairs the kang in the main room?" Liu Datie asked.

"It doesn't matter, let's go and chop some more firewood and come back. The kang in the main room sleeps at night, and when the winter is over, I put the bedding in during the day. If there is a guest or something, it is very convenient to eat directly on the kang... And, and , I've grown up, I can't sleep next to my parents all the time..." Gou Sheng said eagerly.

"It's just that you have a lot of things, and you are still grown up, how old are you!" Li Dahua climbed up with a bucket of reconciled mud and said something, then changed the subject and said, "This year, the family is relatively rich, so I will build another kang in the main room. It can be done..."

Since Li Dahua also had the same idea, Liu Datie didn't have any objections. After two days of repairing the roof, Liu Datie invited two guys with good relationships to help, and he repaired one in the main room in half a day. Not a small Kang.

"Okay, the craftsmanship of the buddies is definitely good!"

"It can be used after it dries, this winter..."

"Hehe, thank you for your hard work, sit down for a while, my family is going to drink, let's have a good drink tonight!" Liu Datie greeted...