Seventy Little Heads

There is a difference in the life of a family with children and without children. When the children are not at home, the adults sometimes make a fool of themselves. How can the children cook a meal in a serious manner at home, and then the family sits around and eats hot food meals.

This year, the village slaughtered pigs and divided the meat, and each family got about a catty more meat. The smoke from the cooking was billowing, and the whole village was filled with a festive atmosphere.

Wang Xuan was busy working in the kitchen, and Li Si and his son were driving a thick log to support it under the eaves. The thatched roof that had been replaced for several years has completely rotted this year, because it often leaks rain. It snowed heavily last night, and half of it collapsed under the pressure in the middle of the night, which really scared Grandpa San quite a bit.

Fortunately, the other wood was not bad, supporting all the roofs, and it was easy until dawn. Goudan went to the old village chief to explain the situation.Only then did I know that the roofs of several other houses were also crushed, but there were no casualties.They are all at the old village head's house, waiting for the distribution of beams.

In the cold weather, it is impossible to build a house, and it is not easy to replace the roof. We can only build a support point below, and wait until the beginning of spring to break the ground.Since Li Si moved into this old house that no one wanted to live in, and paid some food to the team, this is the homestead of Li Si's family in the future.

Clink and bang, try to shake it hard, it's firm, and that's it.

This is really an old and dilapidated house. Goudan was thinking about building a house after spring, but Wang Xuan stopped him, thinking that on the original basis, it would be enough to replace the beams and straw, and wait two years to see the situation improve before rebuilding. Build a big house of bricks and tiles.At that time, they were all grown up, and no one would say anything even if they built a house.

The New Year in 1980 was spent in a half-collapsed dilapidated house, and my friends could only sit around the kang when they came to visit the house, so they burned more firewood.Li Si feels wasteful and happy at the same time. His son is very popular in the village, and he is not sad even to take him in the village.If there is any job, the people I meet will help me a little bit.

The time passed peacefully. The old house at home was replaced with new beams and thatch, the walls were repaired and the floor was compacted, and the original collapsed firewood house was rebuilt, and mud walls were built. Stand up on all sides.The pattern of two large rooms and one small room was restored.And the small kitchen was repaired separately, all of which have thatched roofs, and the semi-open ones have no doors. In the future, when the weather is cold, just hang a straw curtain.

They are also grown up, and it is not easy to squeeze together on the same kang with Li Si. Since it has been repaired to form two main rooms, Goudan and Wang Xuan will move to the newly renovated room.Goudan got two pieces of glass and lime powder from his classmates in the county seat. He painted their room and Li Si's room where he used to sleep, and installed frosted glass windows.The room is bright and white, and I feel good at once. Although the walls are made of mud, they are painted with lime powder, as long as they don't stand next to each other, the pink and white look much cleaner.

The third man surrounded the house with a large yard, and the two of them went home on weekends and built a fence bit by bit.Anyway, the house site needs to be approved, but their home is on the edge of the village, and there is no regulation on the size of the yard. Since this is the case, the dog will take the opportunity to make more circles, so that there will be room for building a big house in the future.

Many people in the village have done this in the past two years. What they didn't dare to do before is now secretly doing it. No one else said anything after it was over. It is very cost-effective to raise a few more chickens and ducks around it.He didn't say anything about anyone, but the yard was not as big as Goudan's house.

After the fences are built, remove the weeds that have not been taken care of before. If the trees are good, leave one or two trees to let them continue to grow. All the ugly ones that cannot be used as wood are cut down for firewood.After tidying up in this way, the dilapidated thatched hut disappeared, replaced by a neat and clean new thatched hut, and the whole house suddenly became three-dimensional and brightened.

Everyone I met in the village thought it was very good. I used to think that they lived in a dilapidated house and had no women at home. They were simply the worst family in the village.Looking at it now, it is so well cleaned up, especially the bedroom is bright and white, compared with the smoky room I have lived in for many years, it is simply beautiful.

Li Si was also happy to hear that the house was cleaned up. Some people asked him for lime powder if they saw that there was still some lime powder left.

He used to live in the smallest and narrowest room in the Li family in the old house. His parents said that whoever made him marry late would suffer a little bit, and he thought it was the same.Later, when I moved here, it was even more dilapidated. I was with the puppy and my father and son to mend here and there. On rainy days, it rained heavily outside and there was also light rain inside. I took out everything that could be installed at home to catch the rainwater, and it was like this. of.

Now that my son is grown up, capable, and in charge of the family, my life is really like a dream.He thinks this is very good, but his son also said that he will build a big house for him to live in for two years, and live like the previous landlord. He thinks his son is making him happy.The house of the landlord's family is unimaginable, so it is quite good.

He is very satisfied.

Every time my son comes back, he brings something back, this time with a little chick.The yellow fur balls are crowded together, chattering.

"There are twelve in total. Originally I bought ten, and they gave me two more who are not energetic." Goudan told Li Si like this.

"You can buy and sell things now?" Li Si felt that the society had changed a lot.

"It existed a long time ago, but it was sneaky. Now I dare not go to the county center, and I still buy it from the non-staple food store on the surface. But a morning market has formed on the edge of the county town, and people in the villages close to the county town grow their own vegetables and pick them up. For sale, the market will be gone by noon. This chick was also hatched by others and sold."

"That's good. We don't have chickens in our family. We will raise them and lay eggs and save them. Let's exchange them for money."

It's pretty quick to accept!

"They still sell ducklings, the kind that lay green eggs very diligently, but Brother Goudan said that those ducks are small, eat a lot, and need to take a bath every day. In that way, uncle has to spend time raising ducks, busy Don't come."

"Yes, I have seen people raising landlubbers here before. They don't need to be put into the water, but the meat has a strong smell. I haven't seen people raising ducks for a long time. I dare not raise them. It's too noisy. I can tell how many ducks I raise by hearing the sound. I want to reduce them. It’s capital-tailed. It’s more cost-effective to raise hens.”

Wang Xuan steamed some broken rice grains and gave them to the chickens who were still fluffy. Li Si wove a shallow frame with bamboo slices, filled it with dry straw, and grabbed the chickens out of the flat cardboard box and put them in.

Put them in his house at night, and when they get older, build a chicken shed on the downwind side of the fence for them to live in.

Goudan and Wang Xuan went to the former site of the Taoist temple to dig a big bag of fresh bamboo shoots, carried them to the school and sent them to Liu Yuan's house.Liu Yuan was Chen Zhengguo's comrade-in-arms, the man who helped give bonuses and fetch cotton for them at that time.Because the two children occasionally sent dried dates or dried mushrooms to the old mother, the relationship was maintained okay.

Occasionally, Wang Xuan said that there is a place where the bamboo shoots are delicious, and then his wife said that cold bamboo shoots are the most beautiful in summer.The two took it to heart, and dug a bag and sent it over when they got home on the weekend.Looking at the bag without shelling, there is really not much in it, so the old lady was very enthusiastic and asked them to stay for dinner anyway.

The two stayed without being polite, helping the old man pick and wash vegetables, and when Liu Yuan came back, he saw a happy scene.The two greeted each other naturally and continued to help in the kitchen. Now they have a very close relationship with Liu Yuan, and Liu Yuan occasionally taught them some principles of life.

In short, what you can't learn from your biological father, except Chen Zhengguo, is to learn a little from Liu Yuan.For example, Liu Yuan once said to them: "To get to know a person, sometimes to observe his words and deeds, what he says and how he does in the end, you can roughly know whether this person can be a close friend or whether he can be used."

The two agreed deeply.

Wang Xuan drove Goudan out, and he couldn't help him at all except for cooking.Goudan shook the water in his hand and it came out, and sat down beside Liu Yuan.The fate between people is very strange. Sometimes we have known each other for a long time, and the relationship is still unfamiliar and polite, but some people feel very close after a long time. This is probably a kind of fate.

Liu Yuan is more serious, literally.It's different from Chen Zhengguo's ruffian personality, and of course, it's also completely different from Goudan's own personality, but they just fit each other's eyes very well.I have to say that things are so strange.

"Kicked out? Hehe."

"Wang Xuan dislikes the taste of my cooking and worries about spoiling the food." Goudan leaned on the back of the chair, Liu Yuan folded his legs, and opened the newspaper to read.

"What's so good about newspapers?"

"You don't understand. You can basically get a glimpse of important national affairs from here. For example, even if you don't say something clearly, if you don't ban it, it can still be done."

"So amazing?"

Liu Yuan handed him another newspaper on the low table, and Goudan took it, and the words "household contract" and other words caught his eyes.So he also looked seriously.

After reading one by one, Goudan discovered that the phenomenon that he hadn't noticed before was covered in a large-scale report.There are also photos of national leaders and pictures of the construction progress of southern cities.

This is basically a window to understand the world's major events.

Goudan read it carefully, and didn't put down the newspaper until the food was served.Liu Yuan said: "I have a lot of newspapers in my study. I have newspapers for several years. If you want to read them, you can take them back."

He also said, "Newspapers are time-sensitive. When a newspaper comes out, it usually reports the events of the past few days, and it will not be new after a few days. I have read them all, and I understand what I should understand. But I suggest you Start reading the newspapers from a year ago, and don’t read the ones that are further away.”

Since people said so, there would be no inconvenience or embarrassment, Goudan readily agreed.

Wang Xuan resigned himself to helping him carry all the newspapers that Liu Yuan had read in the past year. They gave them away after they told them. As for whether to read it or not, whether to use it to plaster the wall or wipe their butt, let them go. There is no need to return it.

In addition to the tall pile of newspapers, there are some books in Liu Yuan's study room, which is quite clean.The two moved away the one-year newspapers, and there were quite a few more. Liu Yuan said they would sell them as scraps.In the past, it was not easy to dispose of newspapers casually. After all, there might be photos of great people or something, so it was prudent to keep them in the study or in the office and not take them home.

Now he doesn't have such worries, and he said that he can give them any new newspapers after he reads them.The two groaned and carried the newspapers back to the dormitory with sacks, and then placed them near the wall of the dormitory. Liu Yuan stacked them in chronological order, and the order was not disturbed when he put them in the sacks, so he could pick them up whenever he wanted to read them.

It didn't take long for the summer vacation to come. In the hot summer, the cicadas on the trees kept ringing, adding to the taste that this season should have.This also means that Goudan and Wang Xuan's first year of junior high school life is over, and when they sign up at the end of August, they will be second year junior high school students.

At the same time, two-fifths of the old newspapers have been read, and the people in the dormitory generously gave the newspapers they had read to use for the wall, but they could not use the ones they had not read.The two brought home the bedding, along with three-fifths of the old newspapers in the sack.

When I was young, summer was fun. There were amusement parks for them everywhere, in the fields, by the river ditches, and on the big trees.Goudan's children, the older ones have become fathers, and they won't play like they did when they were children.From time to time, Goudan saw the younger children in the village jumping up and down like monkeys on the fruit tree in front of their yard, and the adults under the tree either cursed or dared not speak out, fearing that the children would lose their minds and fall out of fear.

Goudan thinks it's amazing, he used to be like this, playing with cats and dogs all day long, never stopping anywhere.At that time, I didn't realize that there was anything bad or dangerous. Now, from the perspective of adults, the brat deserves a beating. It's not enough to just raise your voice.

Now the most annoying child in the village is no longer his son of a bitch, they have grown up from generation to generation, but their growth paths are actually the same.When you grow up, there are others chasing after you.There are always ignorant children repeating the childish things that adults have done in the past and present. , uniquely belonging to the individual trajectory.All of these make up a unique whole individual life.

The yard is bigger, the weeds are cleared, and a lot of vegetables and fruits are planted.Nine of the chickens he bought survived, and Li Si weaved a thigh-high bamboo net to surround the vegetable planting area.The chickens raised in this way can go to any place in the yard, but they cannot peck at the vegetable leaves.

So if you accidentally step on the chicken droppings in the yard, just rub the soles of your shoes on the ground a few times, wipe the chicken droppings on the ground, and you're done.In the village, if you raise chickens and ducks, it is normal to have chicken manure, no matter how diligently you clean it, there will still be some. After all, you don’t know when the chicken will excrete when it comes here, it’s hard to tell.

Daguai's children have grown up long ago. Daguai gave birth to five puppies in the first litter. Li Si and Goudan Wang Xuan discussed and finally kept one male and one female, and gave away the rest.Now there are four dogs in the family, and the three that were given away at the beginning were basically raised by people in the village. Maybe seeing that the big and small dogs are capable, they are willing to have them all.

But not every family loves dogs. More than once, Goudan saw one of the family who raised a well-behaved child. He would kick the dog or beat him with anything he could. However, a loyal dog would still be timid even if it groaned and barked in pain. They wag their tails to please their masters.

Every time Wang Xuan sees it, he feels uncomfortable, but after sending it away, it is someone else’s dog and they can’t interfere. Besides, in many people’s minds, it’s normal for pigs and dogs to beat and scold. They don’t feel uncomfortable. They are all domestic animals. You can eat meat if you kill it.Although the remaining two families will not abuse dogs, they will not be too kind. Among them is the family who raised Daguai's original object, and raising a dog for them is regarded as a father-son reunion.

But no matter whose family it is, it is incomparable with the treatment of the dogs that grew up at home. First of all, the size is incomparable. The two in the family are more handsome. After all, the genes inherited from the male dogs are very tall.

It's time for Daguai to conceive a second child, but Wang Xuan gave him medicine.I am worried that there will be too many reborn puppies that I can't raise, and I can't bear to give them away when the time comes. I don't know what fate the puppy will face and whether it will be loved or not.Maybe people just raised them and killed them for meat.Instead of this, it would be better not to let Daguai produce too much.

Therefore, the big boy will still be pregnant, but he is not pregnant. The two dogs of the first litter will start to be sniffed by other dogs when they grow up. At that time, there will only be more dogs in the family, and feeding medicine is inevitable. .

Throughout the summer vacation, the two of them didn't go anywhere except for the necessary work.Read all the newspapers, discuss while reading, and confirm the current policy.As long as the former companions came to the house, they could basically catch them. Da Zhuang would come over from time to time with his youngest son in his arms. The three-month-old baby looked like Da Zhuang with a tiger head and a tiger brain.They are all black and fat, and they giggle when they are teased.

Da Zhuang is 19 years old, but now he doesn't look like a teenager anymore, he is completely black and rough.He adapted to this role very well, and when he went back, he took several newspapers from Goudan and said he would take them back to paste the wall.

Now some people who are close to you know that Goudan has newspapers that can be pasted on the wall, and they come here to ask for a few from time to time. There is no way, because there are many mud walls. After a long time, the mud on the walls tends to rustle. When it falls, the kang next to the wall often has sand and sand.Someone nailed newspapers and other things to the wall so that the sleeping kang would not be soiled.

This year, there are several people in the village who will go to junior high school. After they can go to college, some families in the village are also slowly and consciously nurturing their children.I hope that there will be a technical secondary school student in the family, and the assignment work will jump out of the farm.

Yintou used to often run behind Goudan and the others. His elder brother Jintou had long since stopped studying and hadn't even graduated from elementary school. Now the family is looking for a wife for him everywhere. After all, he is the eldest grandson of the family.The younger Yintou has no pressure, and he made mistakes, and his grades are not bad, which is different from his big brother.

The old aunt's family felt that he was the only child in the family who could do their best in reading, so they decided to give it a try.The other younger brothers and sisters are all as bad at studying as Jintou, and very few pass the exam.As a result, the silver head with only average grades in the class is revealed at home. If the family wants to send their children to make progress, they must choose one that looks good and has at least a pass grade.

In this way, Yintou became the first candidate in his family for those eager to become scholars. He happily took the admission notice to find Goudan, and explained that he would go to the county town to study in junior high school soon.Wang Xuan took the notice and looked at it, and knew that the general had entered with his tail hanging, and was assigned to the most common class.The school has just implemented the practice of classifying classes according to grades, so those with mediocre grades and just enough money are assigned to ordinary classes.

Anyway, it's good to go.