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Chapter 24
Tian Chengcheng settled down and Tian Duoduo was in a good mood. He bit the dog's tail grass and slowly returned to the duck farm. Han Yunchang didn't know when he came back from the county, and people were already waiting there.
Tian Chengcheng threw the dog's tail grass in his hand, frowned, ran over, and shouted as he ran, "Brother Yunchang, when did you come?"
Han Yunchang enjoyed it very much. He was so happy that his eyes were half closed, and he took out an ice cream that was almost melted from behind: "I'll pick you up soon after I arrived. Eat quickly, it's going to melt."
Tian Chengcheng took it with his eyes bent, glanced at his watch, and looked at the fat aunt not far away, and shook his head: "I have to go back later today, I have to wait for Duobao to finish sweeping the duck manure before leaving, where's the ice cream? ah?"
The weather is hot and stuffy, so you shouldn't be too happy to be able to eat ice cream. This thing is not uncommon in the twenty-first world, but this is the 1970s! She was often plotted by the "ice cream assassin" in her past life. She had forgotten how long it had been since she had eaten Wuyang ice cream. She didn't know whether the ingredients were good these days or whether she hadn't eaten it for a long time. This ice cream was actually the best ice cream she had eaten in 18 years. Delicious ice cream.
Han Yunchang looked at her in shock: "You bought it on the road, but you asked Duobao to sweep the duck manure?"
Tian Chengcheng ate carefully and nodded, "I can come to the duck farm to work, why can't he come?" She ate the almost melted part of the ice cream before handing it to Han Yunchang, "Brother Yunchang You eat too, it's delicious."
Han Yunchang rubbed her head: "I've already eaten it, you can eat this."
Han Yunchang paused for a moment and said tactfully, "I don't think Duobao is willing to work. Letting him come here won't scare him away?" To be honest, if Tian Chengcheng hadn't worked here, he would have I don't want to come here.
Tian Chengcheng disapproved: "I didn't expect him to work. The stinky boy doesn't know his happiness in the midst of happiness, but he doesn't want to go to school. We have to let him experience the suffering of the world before he can stay in the classroom honestly."
Han Yunchang understood now: "Our Chengcheng is smarter."
Tian Chengcheng is not modest at all: "That's natural!"
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When Tian Duoduo and the others arrived, Tian Chengcheng had already eaten the ice cream cone to the point where there was no residue left.
When Tian Chengcheng saw Tian Duoduo, he smiled more kindly than the matchmaker with a mole on the mouth of the village.
Tian Duoduo: "..." Who said he was here to sweep duck shit!
Chenchen held Tian Duoduo with one hand, pointed at the tree not far away with the other, and asked with a smile, "Auntie, I'm a little uncomfortable today, can Uncle Duobao accompany me to rest there for a while?"
"Gang Yiliang" The three brothers nodded in unison: "Yes, yes, little aunt, it is enough for the three of us to sweep the duck manure. Duobao is in charge of taking care of Chenchen, and we will go to sweep it immediately."
After the three brothers finished speaking, they immediately put their schoolbags aside and rolled up their sleeves to work.
Han Zichen hurriedly pulled Tian Duoduo's sleeves and pulled people away before Tian Chengcheng might object.
Tian Chengcheng almost laughed out loud, it's not bad Duobao, in such a short time, he took down a few honest little radish heads from the Han family, and even helped to cover.
However, Tian Chengcheng didn't mean to make Tian Duoduo suffer, or to make Tian Duoduo suffer, just wanted him to experience the real rural life, so that he could cherish the happy life he had when he returned to the city for comparison.
The fat aunt was reluctant to let the three little radishes sweep the duck manure, handed them the chopped wild vegetables and weeds, assigned them the job of feeding the ducks, and ran to sweep the duck manure by herself.
Tian Chengcheng and Han Yunchang followed Han Zichen to the shade of the tree to enjoy the shade.
Seeing them "chasing" over, Han Zichen dragged Tian Duoduo to the other side to see Hehua.
In the local area, there is another name for the fungus, the fungus, because it can only be eaten when the seedlings bloom every year, and the tasting period also ends with the withering of the grass.
Han Yunchang laughed at Tian Duoduo, who was reluctant to be dragged by Han Zichen to the ridge: "I found a lot of chicken fungus today. I left some that have been opened for us to eat, and let my mother steam a plate at noon."
He knew that Tian Chengcheng liked it.
Tian Chengcheng couldn't help nodding: "Mmmm, did we still buy a few kilograms of oil?"
Han Yunchang nodded: "Yes, under your bed."
Tian Chengcheng waved his hands limply and asked: "Brother Yunchang, can you leave me some of the best chicken fir mushrooms tomorrow?"
Han Yunchang looked at her big bright eyes without asking why, and said directly: "Yes!"
Tian Chengcheng smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Brother Yunchang is the best!"
Han Yunchang looked at her and nodded heavily: "Chengcheng is the best!"
Just when the two were blowing rainbow farts to each other, Tian Duoduo's exclamation came over, which shocked the two of them. They looked at each other and ran over to ask what was going on.
Han Zichen was so happy that he walked around in circles, applauding and jumping up and down, pointing to the rice fields not far away, he couldn't say a word: "Egg, Egg..."
It turned out that just now Tian Duoduo was squatting on the ridge of the field looking at the grass flowers. A big bird suddenly flew over his head, which startled him a lot. Then he found a few grass nests and asked Han Zichen what it was. Han Zichen with sharp eyes The children saw the eggs in the bird's nest in the middle of the stalks. The key is not just one bird's nest, but a row! It is conservatively estimated that there must be five or six bird nests.
No one is better at digging out bird eggs than Xiao Wu of the Han family. Since he was a child, he likes to take a slingshot to the mountains to shoot birds and dig out bird nests. Most of the small bird eggs are eggs left by sparrows or other small birds. Bigger birds like to build nests on the big trees in the mountains. picked up several nests of bird eggs in the field like today. A bird's egg about the size of an egg is truly unprecedented, and it can be recorded in the history of Xiangyang Brigade.
Tian Duoduo looked at the bird eggs that filled the straw hat pit, and couldn't hide the joy of harvest that radiated from the bottom of his heart.
"The countryside is really fun, there are treasures everywhere." If he hadn't watched Han Yunchang pick out these birds' eggs one by one from the field, he wouldn't have believed it.
Tian Chengcheng smiled openly, and said disapprovingly: "What's the matter, last time I picked up a large nest of pond louse, didn't you, Chenchen?"
The kid Han Zichen was squatting on the ground and counting the eggs, and he kept saying "hmmmm", "Last time, my aunt picked up fifteen lice fish, which is already very good. Uncle Bao is even more powerful."
Tian Chengcheng patted the child's head: "Chenchen is really good at counting! How about a lot of treasures? My sister didn't lie to you, right? The countryside is fun, right? When the sun is about to go down after class in the afternoon, you can still have fun with Chenchen." They came to pick up the snails, and paired with the sour bamboo shoots pickled by your aunt Miao, that would be a must."
Tian Chengcheng swallowed while talking, causing Tian Duoduo to swallow too.
The little girl Han Zichen couldn't help nodding: "There is also perilla! Escargot must go with perilla! Grandma said that snail and perilla are best friends, and they taste best together!"
Tian Chengcheng rubbed the child's head: "Yes, yes, there is also Zisu, hahaha..."
Tian Duoduo also laughed.
Han Yunchang cut some meat today, and with these bird eggs, today's food is good enough.
He took off his coat and wrapped up the bird's eggs, and told the little ones to keep quiet, and the two big and five young went home in a mighty way.
The fat aunt not far away couldn't help shaking her head and laughing, and said to herself: "It's not that the whole family doesn't come in, the captain's family doesn't know any Feng Shui, look at this bunch of children. Happy to find a treasure in the sky, Xiao Wu looked unreliable before, but after talking with Chengcheng, he is not very reliable..."
The children kept quiet outside, but when they got home they started chattering about the reason for the eggs.
The whole family was stunned by the egg, which was about the size of an egg. No one had ever seen such a big egg.
Miao Chunhua has always been kind, and said directly: "From now on, Auntie will cook one for Duobao every day, and eat it in different ways."
Tian Duoduo is really not a bear child. On the contrary, a precocious and sensitive child like him is the easiest to distinguish whether others treat him with genuine affection or fake. Shangfang Jiewa, but the Han family are good people, and they are kind to him, so he will reciprocate naturally. He shook his head and said, "I don't eat alone, everyone picks it up together, and everyone eats together."
Tian Chengcheng was quite relieved, she was right, their beautiful little Zhengtai was not Brother Xiong: "Yes, Aunt Da, brother Yunchang didn't buy a lot of meat today, you should chop up the meat at night, and order chopped green onion and ginger and these It must taste good when eaten with fried eggs.”
When she said this, everyone drooled, and Zhang Daidi wished she could immediately agree for Miao Chunhua.
As soon as Miao Chunhua heard the word "fried", her heart ached: "Frying is too oily, why don't you steam it?"
Tian Chengcheng gestured to Han Yunchang.
Han Yunchang understood, he has long legs, and he ran back to the room to bring the oil: "Mother, there is still some oil, I will go to the mountains tomorrow morning to collect chicken fir mushrooms, these oils were originally intended to be used by Chengcheng to make chicken fir mushroom oil Yes, go ahead and fry meat omelets, it’s rare to pick up a bird’s egg, it’s worth celebrating, and Chengcheng wants to eat it too.”
The main thing is that everyone wants to eat.
Miao Chunhua looked at the golden and translucent precious peanut oil even more painful: "Chengcheng bought it more unusable, let's keep it for the chicken fungus oil, you will tell me how to do it later, and I will help you do it. "
Tian Chengcheng hugged Miao Chunhua's arm and acted coquettishly: "Auntie, you can't use so much oil to fry chicken mushrooms. We also make chicken mushroom oil, and we also want to eat fried meat and omelettes, right children?"
"right!"
"Good Days of Resoluteness" nodded their heads in unison, looking at Miao Chunhua with anticipation.
Tian Duoduo blinked and nodded slowly.
The old lady smiled and squinted her eyes: "Chunhua listens to the children, let's fry them for a luxury today!"
Miao Chunhua was embarrassed by them, and knew that Tian Chengcheng did not treat them as outsiders, so she had to say, "Okay, fry and eat!"
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Although I can't eat meat for lunch, the fresh and fragrant taste of the chicken mushroom is just like what Tian Chengcheng said, and I don't change it for meat, especially Miao Chunhua "greatly" underground some chopped lard residue to steam, the whole family Eat very satisfied.
Tian Chengcheng usually doesn't go to work much in the afternoon, and she took Han Yunchang to the old lady's house, intentionally or not, to review high school knowledge together.
Han Yunchang's grandfather was originally a scholar, and the old lady was also literate. Under the influence of Grandpa Han for decades, she could be regarded as a scholar in this era. She doesn't care about the fallacies of "reading is useless". Reasonable, can change the fate of peasants, can the captain become the captain if he is illiterate? If the fourth child hadn't graduated from high school with excellent grades, could he have been admitted to the county's workers? In short, the Han family must read, at least literate and reasonable.
The old people like the younger generation to study in front of her the most, shaking the big fan, listening to Tian Chengcheng reciting the text or reciting quotations in a sweet and glutinous voice, she feels that she is also several years younger, and occasionally thinks of those years. When the old man recited poetry to her, the corners of his eyes would be quietly moist.
This is the main activity of the grandparents and grandchildren in the afternoon. Of course, they will also do science topics, mainly because Tian Chengcheng pretends not to understand, so he asks Han Yunchang for advice. Han Yunchang is very proud of every question he "teaches" Tian Chengcheng. Tian Chengcheng is already secretly preparing for the college entrance examination in the coming year.
She doesn't pay much attention to English learning these days. Tian Chengcheng doesn't know how good Han Yunchang's English is. She doesn't dare to show her English in front of them for now, so she will review the subjects she is not good at first. Anyway, English is not the main subject, so plan to leave it to the end. .
Today, the children of the Han family are looking forward to the end of school. They all return to their hearts like arrows. They don’t stay and play for a while as usual before going home. They grabbed their schoolbags and pulled Tian Duoduo to run out. Han Zigang felt that Han Zichen was running. Not fast enough, he directly carried the little boy on his back, and the little boy was screaming with joy.
Tian Duoduo followed with an inexplicable expression. Didn't it mean that the snails in the evening came out to enjoy the coolness, and the dragonflies would fly low, and they were all easy to catch. Would you like to take him to see and see? He hasn't eaten the cold potato yet, so he keeps going home to figure out what's going on?
When they got home, the four children were picking up firewood, feeding the chickens, and sweeping the floor... They were all busy like a spinning top, and the "idler" Tian Duoduo was stunned.
After finally waiting for Miao Chunhua and the others to come back from work, they crowded into the kitchen one by one, burning the fire, washing the vegetables, and handing the dishes...
Tian Duoduo didn't understand what was going on until the combination of meat, eggs and green onions came out of the kitchen with a mouth-watering smell of slightly tar.
Not to mention, the dishes cooked by Aunt Miao can really make you cry about the child next door! Tian Duoduo couldn't help swallowing, and suddenly felt that it was worthwhile to stay even for this one.
When dinner was on the table, Miao Chunhua still gave the biggest and most fragrant part to Tian Chengcheng and Tian Duoduo. The siblings still didn't eat alone. One fed Han Yunchang and the old lady, and the other fed Little Little.
This meal is a luxury frying that is rarely seen during the New Year. It is the best energy supply for people who have been working in the field all day, and it is also the best gift to the hard-working people in this barren era. It feels so good to sleep, and life is full of rushes.
The author says:
Treasures, the setting in the text is in the 1970s. vaguely remember that there was legislation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. don’t know if remember correctly. Now most of the birds and animals are national protected animals, including bird eggs. Protected, arresting and picking them up without authorization are all illegal and criminal acts. Those who are to be sentenced must not be picked up and eaten casually.