Soon there was another heavy snowfall, and the weather became even colder. Mrs. Li didn't let her out of the house when the sweet-scented osmanthus was born. Now Beicha is the coldest time. With so many people in the family eating, drinking and washing, Osmanthus always felt that it was not safe to stay in the house. After hearing that, Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen went to the back room to persuade her: "There are so many people in the family, whoever helps If you can do the work, where can I use you."

Mrs. Li touched her grandson's chubby face and agreed: "Your mother is right, you just keep it in the house, and it's not too late to leave the house when the spring is warm after the new year. You will meet the conditions. Well, if you can raise as much as you can, raise as much as you can, like when we were confinement and hid in Tibet, I don’t know how many root causes of illness have been left.”

Osmanthus said: "I listen to the milk, but the meat bun saves trouble, and I'm bored in the house. If I can't, the milk will bring the fabrics to the house, and I will make clothes for you. My mother is busy during the day and night. Can't be empty."

"It's okay, your mother has drawn the size, you can just do it." Mrs. Li went to the front room to get the fabric and put it on the osmanthus kang, and instructed two more words: "The front and rear of the window are glued, inside the room. It's too dark to turn on the lights, just do a little a day, don't rush too much, it will save you bad eyes."

As soon as Osmanthus agreed, she heard the door open, Wang Sufen went out to take a look, and saw Zhen Zhen swinging in with her military water bottle in her arms. Wang Sufen quickly took a towel and knocked off the snow on the padded jacket on Zhen Zhen's hat, and kept nagging her: "Why don't you listen to the radio in the house with such a heavy snow? What are you doing outside?"

Zhen Zhen heated her body beside the stove, then she climbed onto the kang and leaned over to the meat bun, and kissed his chubby cheek: "I miss my eldest nephew."

Osmanthus smiled and put the meat bun in Zhen Zhen's arms, let her hold it for a while and then put the child on the kang: "Zhen Zhen will stay in sister-in-law's house if it's all right, let's talk, sister-in-law will tell you a story."

Wang Sufen and Mrs. Li had no time to spare. Seeing that Zhen Zhen was willing to stay in the back room, they could go with her. When Mrs. Li was leaving, Hai worriedly instructed: "I'll pick you up when you have dinner, don't do it by yourself. Going out, what can you do with your head stuck in such a big snow."

Zhen Zhen agreed obediently, and when Mrs. Li left, she turned around and leaned on the hot kang holding Meat Bun's little hand and chatted with Osmanthus: "Sister-in-law, have you been bored in the house for more than a month?"

Osmanthus sat on the tip of the kang and opened the fabric of the clothes, took out scissors and cut it directly along the lines drawn on it: "It's not boring, when the meat bun was just born, your elder brother and I could not stop during the day and night, and a good night's sleep would be enough. Extravagant. After half a month, he slept longer, and your elder brother and I can talk and talk during the day."

"What are you talking about?" Zhen Zhen asked Osmanthus curiously while lying on the kang.

Osmanthus smiled and glanced at Zhen Zhen: "Little girl has inquired a lot." But she looked at Zhen Zhen's sweet smile and told her in a detailed way: "Your brother told us about their school, And working on the farm."

"Is my eldest brother learning to farm?" Zhen Zhen asked again while watching Osmanthus take out a needle and start making clothes.

"Cultivation is only part of it." Osmanthus quickly sewed her clothes and explained to Zhen Zhen with a smile: "There are many other classes. When Zhen Zhen grows up and goes to school, she will know that going to school is a very interesting thing. "

Zhen Zhen silently calculated her own age, she was born in the early 1960s, before the school age came to the time of the Cultural Revolution, she estimated that she was destined to be a dropout child.

Days passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was the New Year's Day. For the first time in so many years, the family had such a complete gathering. In addition, there was sufficient food and a big fat pig. The old Li family had a particularly rich and festive good year. One by one eating all the face fat circle.

After fifteen, it was time for the Li Mulin family to return to Bingcheng. Every day he goes up the mountain or hits the sledge on the ice. After learning the bad news that he is going back to the ice city, the wild and homeless Mingxin hugged Mrs. Li and cried to the death. Anyway, the second brother is going to go to school in Bingcheng, so let him be my father's son." Mingxin said while throwing himself on Li Muwu: "Second uncle, I will be your son from now on, don't drive me away, I will be with you. Go up the mountain to catch rabbits."

Seeing his nephew hanging on his body, Li Muwu couldn't help laughing and crying, so he could only rub his head awkwardly: "I'll ask your father to bring you after the holiday, and the second uncle has specified not to shove you."

"Second uncle, do you really want to have more sons?" Ming Xin looked at Li Muwu with tears in his eyes.

Li Muwu glanced at his younger brother, whose face was darker than the bottom of the pot, and quickly pulled Mingxin off and put it into Li Mulin's arms: "Second uncle has two more sons than your father. If you were a girl, I would change it." Li Mingxin raised his head. Glancing at his father, he burst into tears.

Li Mulin dragged his son out with a dark face: "You just despise your father so much?"

Li Mingxin pumped sadly: "We don't have roasted rabbits at home."

Li Mulin stuffed this son, who didn't want his father in order to roast rabbits, into the cart, and turned back to say goodbye to Mrs. Li: "Mother, we're leaving now, and we'll come back in summer."

Mrs. Li smiled and nodded: "In the summer, I brought the two of them with me, and asked them to go swimming with Mingnan in the big river, catch a fish or something, and it's delicious when roasted." Li Mingxin, who had just collected tears, added Crying aloud, Li Mulin looked at the old lady and felt that she did it on purpose.

After saying goodbye to his mother and Li Muwu, Li Mulin said to Li Muwen, "Big brother will come to stay at home when he goes to Bingcheng in a few days." Li Muwen smiled and said, "I will visit your house then."

Seeing that everyone was almost talking, Li Musen said hello to Mrs. Li: "Mother, then I sent the fourth brother to the train station?"

"Go." Mrs. Li waved her hand: "Get to the train station early, otherwise you won't be able to catch the train."

After the Li Mulin family left, the old Li family suddenly stopped a lot. Mingnan and Mingbei didn't go out to the field all day. They sat at the table and worked hard to make up for their winter vacation homework. Li Muwen stayed with Mrs. Li for a few more days. Seeing that the first month of the month was coming, Li Muwen had to leave. Mrs. Li took out the gold bar that Zhen Zhen had given before, such a big gold bar could not be exchanged in the Beicha area. If it was sent to Bingcheng, Li Musen would have no way to go. Another Zhang Chunhua had shallow eyelids and a broken mouth. Mrs. Li was really worried about letting her know about it. After thinking about it, Mrs. Li felt that it would be more reliable for her eldest son to handle this matter.

Sure enough, Li Muwen only raised his eyebrows after seeing the gold bars, and he naturally put it away and asked Mrs. Li, "What do you want to exchange for it?"

Mrs. Li smoked the cigarette bag and said, "I can change some money, when I have less money, I can buy some things for Zhen Zhen. If you know more about what things are good, you can change the ready-made ones and send them home. Another one, if There is a sewing ticket for me, and when the money is exchanged, I will buy one and come back to sew and mend clothes and so on, but the sewing machine is still very good."

"Mum, don't worry, but if you change the money, you can't send it back in one lump sum. It's too noticeable." Li Muwen thought about it and said, "Send some to my mother on a monthly basis, and wait for me to come back in a year or two. When the time comes, bring the rest of the money to your mother."

Mrs. Li nodded: "Just do as you said." After the mother and son negotiated, Li Muwen took Li Mingxi to Bingcheng.

Mingxi studied well in the first place. During the winter vacation, Mingdong went through the content of high school for him again, and focused on teaching Mingxi's weaker areas. After Mingxi arrived in Bingcheng, he passed Bingcheng 6 smoothly. in the transfer exam.

Li Muwen helped Mingxi go through the formalities for enrolling and living in the school. Taking advantage of the two days before the start of school, he took him to Li Mulin's house to recognize him, and asked him to take care of Mingxi more often and make more delicious food for the children when they came to the house. Improve your life. Li Mulin also knew his wife's virtue, and patted his chest to ensure that he would handle the affairs of his nephew himself, and that Mingxi would not be wronged.

Li Muwen still has something to do in the army. After finishing his nephew's affairs, he returned to the army. When Mingdong started school, Li Muwen also took time out to invite his nephew and his younger brothers to have a meal together, and sent a package to Mrs. Li. Only reluctantly left his hometown and set foot on the train to Fujian.

The weather is getting warmer, and Mingbei is greedy for being raised by this big fat pig during the Chinese New Year. He urged Mrs. Li to bring back another piglet. As for the chicks, they don't have to go out to buy any more this year. Mrs. Li jumped out to the light for 20 years. Bring a fertilized egg and put it on the west kang in the back room to prepare your own chickens.

I don't know if the braised chicken nuggets are my father's love or I'm bored. I have to go around the backyard and circle the house twice every two days. Vice-proud look.

Seeing the braised chicken nuggets holding her head high, Zhen Zhen couldn't help sneering at it: "It's all eggs from chicken soup and potato stew, you'll give it to you."

The little mung bean with braised chicken nuggets glanced at Xia Zhen Zhen: "They can lay eggs every day, but without me, would there be so many kinds of eggs for you to hatch chicks? It's not me, I'm old, you look at your father It took more than 20 years of hard work to give birth to your four children, and I have only struggled for more than a month, and 20 or 30 children are no problem."

Zhen Zhen invited a few grasshoppers to add food to the braised chicken nuggets, watching it eat one bite at a time, looking at it with a smirk: "My milk has already saved enough eggs, and you will have nothing to do with this hen in the future. "

The braised chicken nuggets were unguarded, so he grabbed a whole grasshopper in it, stretched his neck for a long time and took a lot of effort to swallow it, Zhen Zhen laughed and ran back, the braised chicken nuggets hurriedly connected the remaining grasshoppers He didn't even eat it, fluttering his wings and chasing Zhen Zhen vigorously: "If you don't bring this, people have finally changed their ideals in life, so it doesn't count if they can be casual."

When they got to the front yard, Mrs. Li was instructing Mingnan and Mingbei to build a new chicken coop with wood. The braised chicken nuggets were immediately hit, and they drooped their wings and cowardly went back to the chicken coop. After a while, all kinds of thumping sounds came from the chicken coop, and Zhen Zhen's face instantly turned black.

Spring is indeed a good time for all things to grow. Mrs. Li successfully took out twenty chicks and gave half of them to the third child, Liu Musen's family of ten. Just a few days after raising them, Liu Xiulan found out that she was pregnant again. Mingguang was worried about sending the chickens away, so he took the initiative to feed the chickens and clean the chicken pens.

The old Li family still secretly collects two crops of grain a year. The food stamps are exchanged for industrial stamps and cloth stamps. Li Muwu’s monthly salary is basically nowhere to be spent except for buying some meat and non-staple food every month. The gold bars that Li Muwen took were also exchanged for a lot of money, but he couldn’t come back for a while, so he could only send money and things back on a monthly basis. Mrs. Li dressed up Zhen Zhen with new items throughout the year. Clothes are worn, and the children around like to lean in front of Zhen Zhen.

In a blink of an eye, in the summer of 1964, Zhen Zhen's upturned braids had turned into double ponytails, and she was feeding chickens in the yard with her fat buns. In those batches of chickens, only the braised chicken nuggets were still alive and strong, and they looked very energetic. Not to mention the shiny feathers, the hairs on the tail were particularly brightly colored, and the big cockscomb on the top of the head was fat and big. Looking back at it, couldn't help drooling.

Osmanthus stroking her slightly bulging belly came out of the house with a pot of wild vegetables, Zhen Zhen ran over to take the pot in her hand and poured all the wild vegetables into the chicken trough, she smiled sweetly at Osmanthus : "Sister-in-law, what do we have for lunch?"

Osmanthus looked at Zhen Zhen's white and tender smiling face and laughed involuntarily: "What do you want to eat, tell my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law will make it for you."

Zhen Zhen thought for a while, then picked up a bucket and carried a small net to go out: "I'll go to the big river to see if I can catch fish and shrimp or something?"

When Mrs. Li heard this, she quickly came out of the house: "Tao, you can't carry the bucket, and the milk will come with you."

Zhen Zhen looked at Mrs. Li helplessly: "Honey, I'm already six years old, and you're still a treasure all day long, it makes people laugh."

"How old is the treasure of milk." Mrs. Li couldn't help breaking up and grabbed the bucket in Zhen Zhen's hand: "The milk is just a granddaughter like you, what is it that is not a treasure?"

Meat Bun ran over with his chubby legs, and reached out to hug Zhen Zhen's thigh: "Auntie, Meat Bun is going too."

Zhen Zhen pinched and pinched Meat Bun's chubby face, and kissed him in Meat Bun's expectant eyes: "Grandma and aunt can't hold you, when your fourth uncle is on holiday on Sunday, let him carry it on his back. You go."

Meat Bun flattened his mouth, but he was still obedient and did not cry, Zhen Zhen patted his head and shouted into the yard, "Come over to play with Meat Bun with braised chicken nuggets."

Braised Chicken Nuggets reluctantly glanced at the group of half-sized little hens around him, took a step and turned back and moved to the side of Meat Bun, Meat Bun looked at the braised chicken nuggets and his eyes suddenly lit up, chasing after its beautiful The tail started to scratch, and the braised chicken nuggets helplessly accompany the meat buns to play the game of "I run, you chase" for the 101st time.

Osmanthus sat at the door of the room washing clothes, watching her son and the big cock running around the yard, she couldn't help laughing: "Damn, you can see that our big cock can understand human nature, he can understand whatever our family Zhen Zhen says. ."

Mrs. Li took a puff of cigarettes and said, "I've been raising it for two or three years, how can I be smart? I'm looking at it in a few more years." Zhen Zhen touched her nose and led Li Mingzhong out of the house.

Although the weather is good today, the adults are all going to work, and half of the children are going to school. The four- and five-year-old children are not at ease when they go to the river to play by themselves. I didn't see many people at the time.

Li Mingzhong has grown a lot in recent years, and he looks tall and mighty and can frighten a lot of people, but Zhen Zhen always thinks that Li Mingzhong is not big enough to have a brain, except for his incomparable hunting performance, other than stupid is stupid . Arriving by the river, just as Zhen Zhen found a good spot, Li Mingzhong jumped into the river with a thud, splashing a splash of water.

Zhen Zhen couldn't avoid it, she was splashed with water, she rolled up her trousers, twisted the water on her head, and roared at Li Mingzhong: "Silly dog, come up to me."

Li Mingzhong turned back and glanced at Zhen Zhen, showing his big white teeth, stretched out his two forelimbs to dig water. Zhen Zhen was angrily laughed at by Li Mingzhong, she took off her shoes and wanted to go into the water to chase her, but Mrs. Li hurriedly hugged her: "It's not that hot at this time, the water is freezing, so what to do, put on your shoes quickly. "

Zhen Zhen's white and tender little feet stepped in the water and smiled at Mrs. Li: "Milk, the water is not cold, I won't go after it, I'll just put some fish and shrimp here."

Madam Li then let go, handed the small net to Zhen Zhen, and put the big bucket next to her, Zhen Zhen held the small net and stretched it out into the water, scooping it out in a few minutes, it was full of water. Shrimp jumping alive on the net.

Mrs. Li put some water in the bucket, and looked at the shrimps jumping in it, a little puzzled: "Why do you like shrimps so much, and you have to peel off the skin and remove the head, and there is not much meat."

"It's delicious, you can just boil it with water." As Zhen Zhen spoke, she caught another net of prawns, and Mrs. Li lowered her head and looked at it, good guy, there are two or three prawns as long as one finger. There are so many pounds, just want to say that it's almost enough to eat, when Zhen Zhen suddenly stood up, looking at Li Mingzhong's direction excitedly.