Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

After more than three months, Gu Mingnan's injured right hand was finally able to remove the plaster cast.

Gu Mingnan has always been restless since he was a child, his right hand is always hanging and can't be used, but he almost made him feel bad, after going home for a month to recuperate, he yelled every day to remove the plaster cast.

Whenever his younger brother jumped up and down, Gu Mingdong felt that this was not a donkey, but a monkey, and even had the urge to separate Gu Liangxing from his younger brother, so as not to have another monkey in the house.

Of course, he didn't put his ideas into practice, otherwise he might be overwhelmed by the resentment of his younger brother and son.

Naturally, Gu Mingdong couldn't agree. Gu Mingnan was young and looked strong, but when he was young, he couldn't keep up with nutrition, and his body was not as good as it looked.

It took two years of hard work to grow the stubborn donkey into a muscular donkey. Gu Mingdong didn't allow him to remove the plaster cast just because the wound felt itchy, so he didn't fully raise it in the end.

In terms of raising children, Gu Mingdong still has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder and perfectionism. Since he is doing it, he must do his best.

During the Chinese New Year, Gu Sanmei and Gu Simei directly raised the second elder brother as a pig, for fear that he would not have enough nutrition.

After a solid [-] days of raising her, Gu Mingdong sent Gu Mingnan to the health center to remove the plaster.

On the way, Gu Mingnan grinned happily, but said duplicity: "Brother, I'm a big man, I just removed a plaster cast, I don't need you to send it."

Gu Mingdong didn't expose his small thoughts: "I have something to do when I go to the city, and it's not just for you."

Gu Mingnan didn't care when he heard it, and said cheerfully: "Then the plaster will be removed later, and I will go to work with my eldest brother."

Removing plaster is much easier than applying plaster, and the health center in the town can also remove it, but Gu Mingdong felt that since it was going to be removed, he had to check it carefully after removing it to make sure there were no sequelae left.

So Gu Mingnan deliberately chose a holiday day, which happened to be Sunday, and the two brothers went to Changhe County to remove the plaster.

It was the same doctor who removed the plaster cast for Gu Mingnan. After removing it, he checked it out, patted Gu Mingnan on the shoulder with a smile and said, "The young man is well-raised. I was worried that the root cause of the disease would fall, but now he is recovering very well. .”

Without the plaster in the way, Gu Mingnan wished he could do a set of punches on the spot: "I eat eggs every day, and I eat meat every once in a while. If it doesn't recover well, it will be so precious."

After finishing speaking, he patted himself on the chest: "Brother, I think I can hit ten with one."

The doctor laughed when he heard this: "It's not bad, you can really try to beat ten of them, that's enough, don't play tricks here to delay other people's medical treatment, go back, you can still drive in the future."

Gu Mingnan turned to his elder brother and said, "Look, I said it's definitely fine."

"Don't be embarrassed." Gu Mingdong asked a few more words, "Doctor, are you sure there will be no sequelae from this hand?"

"The young man is recovering well when he is young, and his nutrition can keep up. Don't worry your family members. His body is stronger than that of a tiger."

The two brothers left the hospital, and Gu Mingdong took his younger brother to an unfamiliar alley.

Gu Mingnan looked around and asked strangely, "Brother, what are you doing here?"

"I have a doubt, and I want to ask someone." Gu Mingdong said.

Soon, he found the courtyard according to his memory. Before he got close, Gu Mingdong knew that the third uncle of the Qian family was not in it at all.

Gu Mingdong still reached out and knocked on the door. A woman in her early forties opened the door. Seeing him, she asked suspiciously, "Who are you looking for?"

"Is Uncle Qian at home?" Gu Mingdong asked.

Who knew that the woman was even more puzzled when she heard this: "What is Uncle Qian? Our family name is Chen. We have lived here for many years, and we don't even know anyone with the surname Qian."

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows slightly: "Really, maybe I misremembered the place."

He ignored the strange look in the woman's eyes, and quickly turned and left.

Gu Mingnan didn't know why, so he quickly followed.

The woman looked at the backs of the two of them, turned around and entered the room: "There are everyone these days, and you can remember the wrong place when you find someone here."

Suddenly, she yelled: "Couldn't it be the person who rented the house before, the **** agreed to rent it for only one month, but ended up tossing our house like that and ran away, no, I have to go to him for money go."

After speaking, he rushed out to find someone, but there were no two Gu Mingdong brothers.

On the other end, Gu Mingnan also looked at his brother with a strange expression: "Brother, when did you know someone in Changhe County?"

Gu Mingdong explained casually: "You met when you were hospitalized, but I didn't expect that the addresses you gave were all fake."

When he stole the incense burner before, he left a big trouble for Third Uncle Qian. He didn't expect that his address was a fake. Now that Jin Chan escaped from his shell, he doesn't know where he went.

Gu Mingdong thought so too, the Qian family's base camp is in Beijing, Uncle Qian came to Changhe County, probably just to meet Qian Zhiyi, and he would leave after seeing him.

When Gu Mingnan heard it, he immediately said angrily: "Who is it? If you don't want to know him, just tell him, and even make a fake address to deceive people."

Gu Mingdong smiled: "Let's go, since we can't find anyone, let's go back earlier."

He came here to find someone, originally not to reminisce about the old days, but to see if Qian Zhiyi broke his leg under the force of backlash, and whether the rest of the Qian family would be affected.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see it.

Gu Mingdong was looking forward to the backlash, but in far away Beijing, the Qian family was in big trouble. Uncle Qian, who lost his incense burner, knew that he had caused a disaster, but he couldn't remember where he lost it.

Not to mention that Qian's family was in a state of chaos in order to find the incense burner. All this is still far away from Shanghe Village.

In Shanghe Village, in order to celebrate Gu Mingnan removing the plaster and recovering his health, the sisters of the Gu family said that they would cook a delicious meal and wait for the two brothers to come back.

When the Gu Mingdong brothers returned home, the Gu family sisters were busily folding vegetables in the yard.

Gu Mingnan excitedly went over to take a look, and ended up with a bitter face: "Malantou, shepherd's purse, bracken, hairy vegetable... the third and fourth sisters, are you celebrating for me? Do you want something delicious, that's it?"

Gu Sanmei covered her mouth and snickered: "Eating more food is good for your health."

"If I eat all of this, my face will turn green." Gu Mingnan sighed.

"Then you don't have to eat it all at one meal. You can eat fresh cold salad, older stir-fried vegetables, and the rest can be marinated and eaten slowly."

Gu Mingdong went over to take a look, and asked a little strangely: "Where are there so many wild vegetables?"

Gu Simei replied with a smile: "It was sent by Aihua."

"There has been less work in the fields these two days, so Aihua took Xiao Zhu to dig wild vegetables in the fields and mountains, and they dug a lot. Besides the food they kept for themselves, they even sent a basket to our house."

"I mentioned that I wanted to eat wild vegetables before, and Aihua wrote it down."

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows, secretly thinking that Liu Aihua is a little girl who knows how to be grateful, wild vegetables are worthless, and the production team is everywhere, but they are the only things she can get out.

"It looks very tender." Gu Mingdong commented.

Gu Simei smiled and said: "Isn't it, Aihua must have chosen the tenderest and most delicious ones to send over."

Gu Sanmei also said: "Not to mention, the bad bamboo next door produces good ones, and Aihua and Xiaozhu are much better than those two."

"It can't be compared. If you ask me, Aunt Liu is also stupid. What's so good about a son who beats his own mother, but she can't think about it. She throws down the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds. I really don't know what she thinks."

As soon as he heard that it was sent by Liu Aihua, Gu Erdi was not in a hurry to criticize him, so he simply knelt down to help, but he was so sloppy that he was quickly disliked by Gu Sanmei: "Gu Er Er, I beg you, it's okay to be idle. Go out and find Ah Xing and the three of them to play, don't make trouble for us."

"I'm not helping you, what's wrong?"

"Look for yourself, how have you crushed the tenderest part? Is it still edible? All the good wild vegetables have been ruined."

Gu Mingnan stood up: "Well, I don't like doing this job yet."

After speaking, I really went out to find the third little one to play.

Gu Mingdong sat by the side and looked at it for a while, and saw that the two younger sisters cleaned up all the wild vegetables neatly, and the water looked juicy, and it tasted very good at a glance.

It's like shepherd's purse Malantou. It's especially delicious when you add a little sesame oil.

Are you running out of sesame oil at home?Gu Mingdong thought about eating a lot and buying less during this period, so he should remember to make up for it next time he goes to town.

After thinking about it, Gu Mingdong said, "Did our family save a lot of eggs?"

Gu Simei replied without raising her head: "There are 22 more."

That's a lot.

Since the chickens raised at home have grown up, the old Gu's family does not need to spend money to buy eggs to eat. Others' chickens only lay one egg in two or three days, but theirs lay one egg every day.

Gu Simei felt strange looking at it, why her own hens were so diligent in laying eggs.

She observed it for a period of time, and it could only be attributed to the fact that the twins and Gu Yun were very diligent. They caught bugs and dug earthworms to feed them every day. If the hens eat well, they will naturally be diligent in laying eggs.

However, the old Gu's family is also good at eating eggs. Gu Mingdong thinks that the days when it takes ten and a half months to smell the smell of meat are not good, especially since everyone in the family except him is still in puberty and cannot keep up with nutrition.

So when conditions permit, everyone in the family eats at least one egg a day, and no matter how fast the hen grows, it can't be saved.

The entire production team eats like their family, which is unique. Most of them raise chickens and lay eggs, and they have to save up for money.

The old Gu's family still has eggs now, because after Gu Mingnan was injured, people familiar with the factory and the production team all sent condolences, including expensive eggs.

The eggs didn't last long, so Gu Simei ate the ones given by others first, and saved up her own.

Gu Mingdong nodded, and said, "You have dozens of eggs, give them to Aihua."

Gu Simei was startled for a moment, and then smiled: "Big brother is the best."

Ten eggs is not a small amount. Many families in the production team don't know if their daughter-in-law can eat ten eggs after giving birth.

Gu Mingdong smiled: "Go quickly."

Gu Simei responded crisply, turned and went into the kitchen.

Gu Sanmei continued to choose vegetables, and said in her mouth: "They all said that Aihua was a fool to separate the family. I want to say that the family should be separated. If there is no separation, the things that others give them will not fall into their stomachs." .”

This is the truth, others don't know, but Gu Mingdong knows about Wang Mazi's petty tricks. Although his son Xiaozhu is his heartache, the two of them ate the food sent over.

Liu Aihua's sister and brother lived a decent life, and Wang Mazi also contributed a lot.

Gu Simei took a basket, carefully packed ten eggs, and carried it to the hut at the foot of the mountain.

When she arrived, it happened that Liu Aihua also moved a broken stool to choose wild vegetables at the door, and Liu Xiaozhu squatted beside her to help.

Seeing Gu Simei coming, Liu Aihua hurriedly greeted: "Xiaobei, why are you here?"

Gu Simei didn't say anything outside, but pulled her into the house: "Aihua, look what this is."

"Eggs!" Liu Aihua screamed subconsciously.

Gu Simei said with a smile: "Brother asked me to bring it specially, you can keep it and eat slowly."

Liu Aihua's eyes turned red, and she quickly refused: "No, no, I sent wild vegetables to thank your family for your care, not for eggs, I can't take these eggs."

Gu Simei said, "This is not only for you, but also for Xiaozhu. Do you have the heart that Xiaozhu will never grow taller?"

As soon as Liu Xiaozhu was mentioned, Liu Aihua hesitated. She herself was greedy for eggs, but she could bear it, but she couldn't bear her brother to suffer with her. After all, it was her insistence that Xiaozhu followed her to leave Liu's house.

In the past at Liu's house, occasionally Widow Liu would secretly hide an egg for the siblings to share, but after Xiaozhu separated from her, Widow Liu never brought it again.

Gu Simei continued: "Aihua, you are hardworking, brave, and smart. After the separation, you see that your life is getting better every day. It's just a few eggs. You can eat them first, and you can return them to my family when you have the conditions in the future. The same is true." of."

Liu Aihua's eyes were red, she was so moved that she didn't know what to say.

"I think the eldest brother must also think that you are amazing, that's why he asked me to bring the eggs." Gu Simei said with a smile.

Liu Aihua wiped the corners of her eyes, choked with sobs and said, "Xiaobei, then I will accept it with the cheeky face. Don't worry, I will definitely pay it back."

Gu Mingbei wiped her tears with his hand, and said with a smile, "Okay, I believe you."

Liu Aihua sniffed, even her own mother didn't believe her, thinking that she took Xiaozhu to separate the family to make trouble for herself, but Gu Mingbei said he believed her.

When living in the Liu family, Liu Aihua often heard her eldest brother curse the old Gu family, but she felt that the old Gu family were all kind-hearted and good people.

Liu Aihua thought of something, turned around and went into the house, and came out with an oiled paper bag in her hand, and there were two biscuits in it.

"Xiao Bei, eat a biscuit."

Gu Mingbei was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Liu Aihua to have biscuits.

Liu Aihua didn't explain, just said: "It's been a long time, it's probably a little damp, don't hold it against you."

Hearing this, Gu Mingbei took it and took a bite: "It's so delicious, biscuits are delicious anytime."

Seeing her eat, Liu Aihua also became happy, even happier than herself.

These biscuits suddenly appeared in the house. At first Liu Aihua was scared to death, but gradually, she realized that something was wrong. Every time the food in the house was about to bottom out, more food would always come out.

It's nothing more than once or twice, but after more times, Liu Aihua noticed something strange.

Liu Aihua is a smart girl, she secretly pretends to sleep at night, trying to find out who is helping them behind the scenes.

At first, Liu Aihua thought it was Widow Liu, because what others said would definitely come in the daytime, and only Widow Liu was her own mother, but she might be afraid of being discovered by Liu Dazhu.

Who knew that when she pretended to be asleep, what she saw was not Widow Liu, but Wang Mazi.

Liu Aihua was terrified at the time, but when she recovered, she realized something was wrong.

Why did Wang Mazi do this? If he had his eye on her, he would have to send it over during the day to benefit from it.

Liu Aihua suddenly remembered the few words she had heard, that Wang Mazi was involved when her mother and elder brother quarreled.

A bold guess arose in her heart.

From that day on, Liu Aihua never rejected Wang Mazi's kindness, but pretended not to notice.

Gu Mingbei didn't leave any eggs behind, and went back soon.

The corners of Liu Aihua's eyes were still red, and she was in a good mood after crying. She smiled and patted her brother's head: "Xiaozhu, sister will cook egg custard for you at noon."

Liu Xiaozhu nodded sharply and smiled happily.

Liu Aihua was reluctant to eat boiled eggs, so she added a lot of water and had a big bowl of egg custard. Even if nothing was added, just a few salts, it smelled very good.

"Xiao Zhu, eat quickly." Liu Aihua dug a large spoonful into her younger brother's bowl, but she only picked up wild vegetables.

Liu Xiaozhu picked up the spoon and helped his sister dig a large spoon: "Let's eat together."

Liu Aihua smiled happily, nodded, and did not refuse her brother's kindness.

The siblings ate up the egg custard, and ate up the sweet potatoes and wild vegetables without even leaving the soup base. Liu Xiaozhu directly picked it up and drank it clean. The bowl was shiny from licking, and it was clean without washing. like New.

With warm egg custard in their stomachs, both siblings feel much better.

In the afternoon, Liu Aihua took her younger brother to continue digging wild vegetables up the mountain. The fresh wild vegetables are delicious and can be stored after drying. At this time, the wild vegetables that can be seen everywhere are also a delicacy in winter.

After going up the mountain, Liu Xiaozhu just ran away, and Liu Aihua didn't call him. They are all children of the production team, and they are very familiar with Qianshan.

Liu Aihua plans to dig more and make dried vegetables if they can't finish eating, so that they won't be afraid of starvation in winter.

There is also Xiaobei, Xiaobei likes to eat shepherd's purse, and he can pick the tenderest ones to send over. Lao Gu has a lot of family members, but they are either working or going to school, so they definitely don't have time to dig wild vegetables.

Liu Aihua was making long-term plans in her heart, but her hands were digging wild vegetables quickly.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind the bushes: "Do you want to read?"

Liu Aihua suddenly raised her head and looked towards the bushes, but she saw Wu Xuanxuan standing behind her, poking her head out to look at her.

Because they live close together, it is inevitable that the two parties will meet each other, so Liu Aihua also knows those people, but they have no friendship and are not familiar with each other.

She looked at Wu Xuanxuan in surprise, pursed her lips and said nothing.

Wu Xuanxuan seemed to be a little anxious, and asked again: "Do you want to read?"

Liu Aihua looked at her strangely: "Why are you asking this?"

Of course she wanted to know how to read, but she didn't have this condition.

When they were still in Liu's family, both Liu Dazhu and Widow Liu felt that girls didn't need to study, because they would marry in the future anyway, and the Liu family couldn't afford it because it cost so much money to study.

After leaving Liu's house, it was not easy for the siblings to fill their stomachs with their little work points, let alone go to school.

Liu Aihua is also eager to study in her heart, but unfortunately she is different from Gu Mingbei. Gu Mingbei has an elder brother who loves him, and there are two workers in the family who are willing to spend money to send girls to study.

It's not that she doesn't envy her in her heart, but Liu Aihua's family knows her own affairs and silently accepts her fate.

Wu Xuanxuan clenched her fists, as if she had made up her mind: "If you want to read, I can teach you."

Liu Aihua looked up at her, then lowered her head and continued digging wild vegetables.

Wu Xuanxuan was impatient, and she stepped forward and asked, "Don't you want to? I saw you holding a branch and drawing on the ground, but you wrote your name wrong, and you added a little more love."

Liu Aihua frowned: "Are you spying on me?"

Wu Xuanxuan quickly explained: "It's not surveillance. I accidentally saw you writing at the door."

At that time, Liu Aihua was writing her own name, which Gu Mingbei taught her, and it was one of the only words she knew how to write.

"You know, although our family's composition is not good, my parents used to be scholars, and I know a lot of words, so I can teach you for free," Wu Xuanxuan said.

Liu Aihua pursed her lips, shook her head and said, "You are a bad person, I won't learn from you."

When Wu Xuanxuan heard this, she froze there.

When Liu Aihua saw what she said, Wu Xuanxuan looked shocked and seemed about to cry, but she couldn't bear it.

But Wu Xuanxuan didn't really cry, she sniffed, but lowered her head a little disappointed, turned around and walked down the mountain with heavy steps.

Liu Aihua called her to stop, and asked strangely, "Why did you teach me how to read?"

Wu Xuanxuan turned her head abruptly and looked at her without saying a word.

Liu Aihua said: "If you don't tell the truth, how can I trust you? If someone finds out that I learned how to read from you, I will also be raped."

Wu Xuanxuan heard the meaning of her words, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I want you to teach me to identify wild vegetables."

"What?" Liu Aihua suspected that she had heard wrong.

Wu Xuanxuan lowered her head: "I have observed that the members of the production team can always dig up wild vegetables and bring them back basket by basket, but I only know one or two, and I can't dig much each time."

"So I'm looking for someone to teach me how to spot wild vegetables so I can dig up enough of them."

But it was impossible for the members of the production team to teach them. During the daytime, Wu Wei and Zhou Zijin had to work, so there was no way to distract them from learning these things. Wu Xuanxuan observed for a long time before she set her sights on the little girl next door.

The simple and unadorned request made Liu Aihua feel a bit of sympathy for each other.

She looked at Wu Xuanxuan carefully, she was black and thin, and she knew that she was starving.

Compared with my own family, the life of these stinky old nine must be more miserable.

Did they do any bad things? Liu Aihua didn't know. She only knew that these people were very peaceful. They worked a lot in the production team and didn't eat much. They didn't have any sense of existence.

She had a hard life, but finally she had a few relatives and friends who were willing to help, so that the two siblings would not starve to death or freeze to death.

But no one would help Wu Xuanxuan.

"It's such a simple request?" Liu Aihua asked strangely.

Wu Xuanxuan added: "There are also mushrooms. I don't know which mushrooms are edible."

The three of them saw the people in the production team picking mushrooms and digging wild vegetables to eat, and they were very envious. Zhou Zijin also wanted to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms to eat, but Wu Wei stopped him.

If you eat wrong mushrooms, you will die, which is much more serious than starvation.

Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He studied agricultural machinery and didn't know how to pick mushrooms.

Liu Aihua didn't know these reasons, hesitated for a while, and then said: "You don't need to teach me to read, I can also teach you to recognize wild vegetables."

Wu Xuanxuan's eyes lit up suddenly: "Really?"

Liu Aihua nodded: "It's very simple, just come over and take a closer look, but you can't dig it wrong. Some weeds look like wild vegetables, and they are all poisonous."

Wu Xuanxuan squatted beside her, watching carefully, looking eager for knowledge.

For a moment, Liu Aihua even felt that the villain was cute. She didn't hide it, and told her all the wild vegetables she knew.

Wu Xuanxuan also listened very seriously, wishing she could take notes, and finally said: "You taught me to recognize so many wild vegetables, but I have nothing to help you, do you really not want to read?"

Seeing Liu Aihua hesitate, Wu Xuanxuan said again: "Let's be careful, we won't be known by others."

Liu Aihua shook her head and said, "I have to work during the day, only at night."

"That's just right, I have to work during the day, and I can teach you at night." Wu Xuanxuan laughed.

"That's how we made an appointment. You teach me to recognize wild vegetables, and I teach you how to read. I will go to you every night after dinner."

Driven by her smile, Liu Aihua couldn't help laughing too. In the mountain stream, the two little girls looked at each other and smiled, and they looked more beautiful than wild flowers in full bloom.

With Liu Aihua's help, Wu Xuanxuan dug up a basket of wild vegetables for the first time. They were all tender and fresh, and they looked delicious.

The two of them didn't dare to go down the mountain together, Wu Xuanxuan left first, and Liu Aihua planned to find her younger brother and go back together.

Carrying a full bamboo basket, Wu Xuanxuan hummed in a good mood.

Suddenly, movement in the nearby woods attracted Wu Xuanxuan's attention. She stopped and hid behind a tree to look into the woods.