porridge for two

I started early today, and it was only after 4 o'clock when I arrived at Uncle Huang's house.But the farmer's dinner was late, especially now that they were busy harvesting the crops, it was later than usual.

Uncle Huang and his daughter-in-law Huang Niangniang knew that they must have eaten something from Tunshang Village, and they must be hungry by now.So they estimated the time in advance and prepared flour and leeks for them, and when they arrived, they could bake leek cakes and eat them first to fill their stomachs.

Regarding the distribution of oil, rice and clothes, those drivers had arrived long ago, and they distributed them one by one according to the list given by Uncle Huang.Ma Duozi dragged to the door, shouted directly, and put it directly at the door of the house.

Xie Xiuping and the others rested for a while, ate hot pancakes for lunch, then picked up their cameras and wandered around the village.

Compared with the houses in Bamang Village, I suddenly feel that the wooden houses in Tunshang Village are much taller.

The houses in Bamang Village are also made of wood, but only a few houses have walls made of wood, most of which are wooden frames.In order to keep out the cool wind more, some people even use corn poles to pile up the head of the house mountain tightly.

Uncle Huang told them that such a house is most afraid of catching fire. Once it catches fire, as long as people are safe, the house will be gone.

Along the way, Xie Xiuping found that the fields in Bamang Village are too small and the soil is too high. The water source is not good, and the soil is mostly sandy. Without water, it is difficult to transform the soil into fields.

The large mountain forests here are rare, mostly small bushes, Bamang bushes, miscellaneous firewood and thorns.

Bamang Elementary School is a loess wall made of yellow mud, with five rooms lined up in a row. There is a solid ping-pong table made of yellow mud beside the courtyard dam.There is only the third grade here, and the fourth grade will go to the countryside to study.

Seeing such an environment, many people wondered why they didn't move. If they had the ability to move, they wouldn't have to live in poverty from generation to generation in this mountain nest.

The traffic in Tunshang Village is blocked, at least there are some fields, some forests, some rice to grow, at least some thoughts.But there is really nothing in Bamang Village.

Everyone strolled around, feeling indescribable in their hearts, and didn't know what to say, only the sound of their own footsteps, the cry of tired birds returning to the forest, and the chirping of insects in the Bamang bush.

At dinner time, Uncle Huang's house divided into two tables.Uncle Huang took them to a table, and Niang Niang took a few children to a table.Vegetables are vegetables, bean sprouts, tofu, potatoes, and meat cooked together in a pot.

The old couple has two sons and one daughter, and they are both married and have children.The son, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, and son-in-law all went out to work, leaving five children of different sizes to take care of them.The three older ones usually go to study in the countryside, and they all come back to help the family during the National Day holiday.

The first bowl of rice was white rice that Huang Niangniang helped to refill. When Xie Xiuping went to refill the rice, he found that Zhengzi had white rice on one side and corn-filled rice on the other.

He glanced at Huang Niangniang's table in the main room, the bowls were all yellow, but their table was all white, even Uncle Huang's was white.

Xie Xiuping looked at those children who were eating well, and felt a little sour in his heart.He silently added a bowl of glutinous rice, took a sip, sat down and said to the others: "The glutinous rice cooked by your mother is delicious, if you don't try it, it will be gone later!"

"Is there rice with rice? I want to try it!"

"I want to try it too!"

When everyone refills the second bowl of rice, they all refill the rice with rice.When Huang Niangniang heard it in the main room, she thought the group of children were interesting, so she said: "What do you like to eat, then I can cook you a meal of sorghum rice, potato rice and sweet potato rice tomorrow. Our white rice is rare, and these miscellaneous Meal is enough!"

Everyone said yes!Even the youngest grandson followed suit, saying that it had been a long time since he had eaten sorghum rice made by Ah Tai.

Xie Xiuping and the others are about the same age as Huang Niangniang's sons and daughters, but their family has no money to support them in their studies, which is why each of them started a family so early.So looking at these people, I like them from the bottom of my heart.

After dinner, the kids all watched TV.In the past two years, the sons and daughters have earned some money by working outside, so they bought a TV for the elders to relieve their boredom.

Everyone sat around the house and set up a dragon gate array.

"Shouldn't there be any need for food now? But you are so old, how did you live before?"

Everyone didn't know how to say it, but when it came to the grain and land, Ai Nan asked curiously.In fact, everyone is curious about how these days come here.

"We have always been popular here, and the village has always known it. We have been here for some years, and we may not have as many villages as those with good harvests. We rely on the weather for food. The harvest is good, the rain is sufficient, and there are no insects and no pain. We Barely able to afford food. Most of the time, especially when we are unlucky, there is no one in our village who can afford food. Later, after several reforms in the village, we were not accepted, and we were put into special poverty village."

"That's not enough food, and we don't have enough food. Also, we have a lot of land and few fields. It's not bad if each family can harvest more than ten bags of millet every year. There's not enough rice, so naturally we use corn-breading yams to mix it up." Start cooking. Some people’s rice is really too little, and every meal is packed with rice, and there is no white rice. If you get tired of eating, you will sell the rice for some rice to mix it up. When it is better, three catties of rice Catty of rice, when it’s bad, two catties of grain can be exchanged for one catty of rice, whoever is willing to trade it will be hungry.”

"Nowadays, more and more young people go out to work. They save some money to send home, saying that they let them buy rice, but every family is full of old people and children. It costs money to come and go, and the children earn money outside. It’s all hard-earned money, and I’m not willing to use it indiscriminately, the most I can do is to buy some to eat.”

Xie Xiuping is a person who has gone through the process of supplying grain, exchanging grain for money, and finally being free of sharps.But the situation in each place is not the same, although they can be regarded as the sky above their heads.

I can't remember how long it was, but I just remember that when I was a child, after the grain was harvested every year at home, the remaining grain would not always be able to receive the next year's harvest.Every year, one or two months of food is lost.

The granary at the back said that it could be discounted with money, and it gradually got better.Finally, the bred seeds and chemical fertilizers can increase production, and the family's food is enough to last until the second year. After the agricultural tax was exempted in 06, there was some surplus food.

Because they had already got to know the village that afternoon, and they had to go to Qingnan County the next day. They had to go to Hongyan Township to catch the 9 o'clock bus, so they had to leave early. After chatting for a while, they were ready to go to rest.

Xie Xiuping and the others all went to wash up. Only Ai Nan came out of the latrine and went to the stove. He had just scooped up half a basin of water with a gourd ladle and was about to wash his hands when he saw the fourth grandson of Huang Niang's family squatting on the stove. Before, I used the tongs to stir a few times in the stove hole, picked out a few fist-sized things and put them in front of me, and there were one or two that were a bit dark.

After the child finished picking up the things in the stove hole, Ainan also washed his hands and poured water.

"Want to eat?" the child asked when he saw Ai Nan staring straight at the sweet potato and potato in front of him.

"Uh! Little Si, what is this and how do you eat it?" Ainan squatted beside the child, looking at the round things on the ground and asked.

"Should I say that you are poor or that you don't eat fireworks in the world? You don't even recognize the yams and sweet potatoes?" Xiaosi looked at Ai Nan in amazement, and found it incredible that someone didn't know yams and sweet potatoes.Xiao Si is only in the first grade, and when he doesn't understand it, as for the phrase "not eating fireworks", he learned it while watching TV recently. He often said it, and it has almost become his mantra.

"Oh, we don't have this thing! Didn't you have enough for dinner?" Ainan asked again after some nonsense.

"Dinner is full! Madam said, our children are growing up, and they are hungry quickly. I am afraid that we will not have supper at night. If we are hungry, we will not grow taller in the future! Madam will make dinner every day. The stuff is in the fire, give us supper!" Seeing that Ai Nan really didn't understand, Xiaosi explained carefully, and then said: "I want to eat more, and I will look like you in the future high?"

"You will grow very tall!" Ainan said while stroking Xiao Si's head.Seeing Xiaosi's ignorant look, Ai Nan wanted to chat with him a little more: "Then you share it with me, and they won't have anything to eat later, won't they beat you up?"

"You're a guest, so they have nothing to say. At worst, I'll give you my share. My little brother is tired from playing today and fell asleep. He can give you his share!"

"Little Si, just share a bite and give me a taste. I'm not hungry!"

"You're not hungry, you're just greedy! Look at your country bumpkin, you're so silly, I'll give you half of it!" Xiao Si picked up the largest potato, peeled it, divided it into two halves, and handed the largest half to Ai. Nan, said again: "You are a guest, we will share it!"

"I'll just eat this!" Ainan missed Xiaosi's hand, reaching for the little one.This brat actually called him a bumpkin, said he was stupid, and even said he was greedy. In terms of sharing food, he is not as knowledgeable as you.

The two seemed to have done something shameful, muttering for a long time in front of the stove.Ai Nan ate the yams, and tasted a little and a half of sweet potatoes, then thanked Xiaosi for his hospitality, and went back to wash up.

But this time he was very calm, he didn't tell anyone about it, he kept holding back, and only told Xie Xiuping and the others the next day.I'm afraid to say that, if a few other people come to snatch other people's supper, these children are still growing, and they are so hungry that they can't sleep at night, then he will be guilty.

The next morning, Huang Niangniang got up before dawn to toss, and when they woke up, Huang Niangniang's sorghum rice, potato rice, corn-wrapped rice, sweet potato rice and lazy bean rice.Five kinds of rice and five colors are spread out in one mouthful, which looks pretty good, and there is a faint smell of sausage.Huang Niangniang really bothered, this may be the highest standard for them to entertain a few people.

After washing up, Xie Xiuping and the others discussed it and asked Uncle Huang to count the old houses in the village, especially the ones that hadn't been connected to electricity.In the end, Uncle Huang counted seven families, and the family gave 100 yuan of help.The price of rice in the countryside is one yuan or two, and 100 yuan can almost buy eighty or ninety catties of rice.It's really that Xie Xiuping's budget is too tight, and they can't afford any more.

When they left, they negotiated and gave Uncle Huang 300 yuan. He clearly stated that 150 yuan was for the children to buy candy and food for these two days. My fellow villagers buy packs of cigarettes or something.

While walking on the road, everyone suddenly thought that the village chief entertained them with good meat and vegetables, and gave them so many gifts, but they didn't express it at all, and they felt a little bit sad.

Xie Xiuping said: "How can a person be perfect in every aspect! The situation is different, and the way of handling it is naturally different. The future will be long, and the people in Tunshang Village will be ingenious. Naturally, they will not lose the villagers, nor will they lose the village chief's family. .”

Therefore, there is an additional rule in the "Dashan Project": in the village, the livelihood of fellow villagers should not be delayed. If it has to be delayed, corresponding compensation should be made;