Chapter 4: Posthumous child of an educated youth (04)
Uncle Li of the production brigade was a cowboy of the landlord's house before liberation, specializing in herding cattle. After the liberation, the oppressed people turned to take charge, and Uncle Li raised cattle for the production brigade. On weekdays, during the slack in farming, the villagers are transported in and out of the county by driving an ox cart, and a gross ticket can also be used to subsidize the family.
Grandma has been a properly troubled household in the brigade since she brought her parents' Ji Yanzhi to discuss life alone.
Even after Ji Yanzhi was able to run and jump, he consciously moved closer to the barefoot doctors in the village and learned the skill of collecting medicine. But most of the villagers still feel that Grandma and Ji Yanzhi's life is like being soaked in bitter water.
Including the people in Uncle Li's family think so too.
No, after lunch, Ji Yanzhi paid a dime to Uncle Li, who was pulling the bullock cart, in spite of his granny’s objection. When he reserved a seat for the market tomorrow, Uncle Li’s old wife, Aunt Wang, hurriedly stopped. After Ji Yanzhi, he will be refunded five cents.
Ji said no, even turned his head and ran away.
"Master, remember to ask Yaomeier to call me grandma tomorrow."
"This kid." Aunt Wang shook her head with a smile, "It's just honesty, there is no need to refund money."
Uncle Li smoked a pot of dry tobacco, and said leisurely: "When you look back, you will give Yanwazi two eggs."
"Why do I send it?" Aunt Wang said with a smile on her face: "Call Yaomeier to send it. They young people have something to say."
Ji Yanzhi has been a simple and honest baby most of the time. At least the people he faced with the production team would not be as cruel as the old Du's family, especially the Du's second family. Ji Yanzhi would greet him politely every time he met, regardless of whether he knew him or not. It can be said that the general impression of the production team of Ji Yanzhi is that this is a polite and life-stricken baby.
Ji Yanzhi didn't want to say more about why his life was so bad. Anyway, he never felt that he was so bad. There are so many unfortunate people in the world, and he is at least so lucky that there is a grandma who devoted her heart and soul to him, and even broke with her son.
He enjoys the joy of family relationship with his grandmother.
After returning, Ji Yanzhi spoke to his grandmother, then put on the bamboo basket on his back, and started to walk up the mountain along the path that was stepped on by pedestrians.
Sometimes Ji Yanzhi feels that he is destined to Dashan. As long as it is a special age, his environment must be surrounded by mountains.
He didn't mean to feel disgusted when he thought so, but he felt fortunate that he was able to go into the mountains from time to time to explore some wild things to improve his life by relying on the mountains and the good weather. If you are in the plains of Yimapingchuan, Ji Yanzhi can do the same. It's just a special time, and the reason is always a little harder to find than if you are backed by a mountain. Some white lies, in the face of the old people who always care about, can be avoided or avoided.
Ji Yanzhi moved dexterously through the mountains and forests, and all he collected was some common herbs. As for the uncommon herbs, sometimes rare herbs, dendrobium, fleece-flower root, ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, etc. that have been in good luck, Ji Yanzhi puts them in the space.
Since going to the source world and separated from Xiaolu, the system space has been preserved and further sublimated and merged with the sealed system farm and pasture, turning it into a space for inviable things. Ji Yanzhi can only be thankful for him in the past, and There is no habit of storing living things.
Fortunately, the space is still there, and the effect is also great, so Ji Yanzhi did not feel lost.
In addition, the system mall, which was also in a sealed state, and the plane red envelope group pulled from Xiaolu's hands, were all gone.
For this, Ji Yanzhi has no distressed concept. To be funny, he has forgotten the last time he used the system mall and the plane red envelope group. Anyway, he was confident enough that he could live whatever he wanted, only relying on the accumulated experience of countless lives. In the eyes of Mr. Ji, a perfect life depends on attitude, not quality.
Of course, his rough masters really can't pay too much attention to the quality of life, but his current grandma must pay attention to the quality of life. Ji Yanzhi also wants his grandmother to live a hundred years old and enjoy his blessings in the future. The quality of life is naturally better than ordinary people. At least secretly better than ordinary people.
Before dark, Ji Yanzhi collected a basket of plantain and went home.
At this time, grandma has started to light a fire and prepare to cook.
He took out a layer of plantain that had been spread on the back basket and carefully dried it under the eaves. Then he took out a dozen wild eggs that he had placed in the center of the back basket in advance, and carried them into the kitchen.
"Grandma, look."
"Hey, wild eggs." Grandma took it with joy, "Wait later, grandma will make Yanwazi a bowl of egg water."
Grandma never doubted the origin of the things Ji Yanzhi took home from time to time to improve her life. After all, grandma knows it too. Ji Yanzhi’s luck has always been very good. When she was a child, her grandma took Ji Yan up the mountain to collect firewood. A lot of pheasant and wild duck eggs.
Farmers do not see oily meat all year round, and eggs are rare meats. Although the size of the pheasant and the duck egg is not big, relying on Ji Yanzhi's ‘good luck road’, the life of the grandmother and the grandson and grandson of Ji Yan is actually not as poor as the rumors outside.
But she was used to saving, so her grandma saw the dozen or so wild duck eggs that Ji Yan had brought into the kitchen. Her first reaction was to knock on a flushing egg water to make Ji Yanzhi's body, and the rest was saved for money.
Ji Yanzhi understood very well that grandma is good at everything, that is, to pick out, especially to himself. She didn't immediately refute the grandmother's words about making egg water, but when she was preparing to cook, she swiftly beat three wild eggs into the sanhe noodles.
"Oh, Yanzi, how can you get so many eggs!"
Although the size of the wild eggs is small, they can be exchanged for five cents one by one, and three of them are gone, but it really hurts grandma. However, Ji Yanzhi's speed was too fast, and Grandma couldn't stop her, she could only verbally feel distressed.
Regarding grandma's nagging, Ji Yanzhi's skin is not painful or itchy, and he even smiled back to grandma.
"It tastes better this way."
"With so many eggs, how can it be unpalatable."
Grandma is only used to saving money, so she will say a few words like this, so Ji Yanzhi didn't want to be annoying at all, but coaxed sweetly-"Give grandma to eat like this, I am happy", and coaxed grandma. It's so grinning.
After dinner, Ji Yanzhi boiled hot water as usual, and after waiting for his grandmother to wash his feet in hot water, he started a new busy schedule.
He gathered the firewood that was drying in the yard today and piled it under the eaves, and then dried the remaining half-back basket of plantain to the other side under the eaves, and this was directed at Grandma Dao who was still mending with a kerosene lamp. "Grandma, I'm asleep."
With a cry, the grandmother put down the half-stitched torn quilted jacket and went to sleep in the back room.
Ji Yanzhi slept in the main room.
There are only two rooms at home. The kitchens are all shacks built next to the walls. The air is leaking on all sides. He and a group of people are very angry, even if they lay on the floor to sleep, it's not the same, but the grandmother is different. Anyway, Ji Yan can't make it out of the room. Tukang, drove grandma to sleep in the main room. So when I was young, I slept with my grandmother. When I was older, Ji Yanzhi moved the "sleeping nest" to the main room.
Having been here for so long, it's not that Ji Yanzhi has never thought of improving living conditions on the basis of improving the quality of food, but thinking about their ‘house apprentice’ situation can actually make Lao Du’s beasts feel more at ease. The few livestock of Lao Du's family have always been afraid of being entangled by their ‘poor ghosts’ of the old and the young, so they rarely make trouble, so Ji Yanzhi didn’t consider the issue of improving the accommodation.
This time, Ji Yanzhi slept very deeply. At about dawn, Li Yaomei, the little girl of Uncle Li’s house, came to shout.
"Brother Yan, has your grandma got up yet? The bullock cart that went to the county town to go to the fair is about to set off."
"Woke up."
Ji Yanzhi, who was cleaning the yard, smiled at Li Yaomei who looked inside at the entrance of the yard, and then continued cleaning.
Soon, grandma walked out of the kitchen under the bamboo basket covered with coarse cloth.
The grandmother followed Ji Yanzhi who was cleaning the yard and gave a few words before she followed Li Yaomei to the entrance of the village, resisting the pain.
The production team is the same as the grandmother, and feels distressed that there is a lot of money for the five cents to drive the car, so not many people go to the market in bullock carts. Except for the educated youth who go to the countryside to jump in the queue, there are a few spare money in the family. But there was no grandma in it, so the people waiting in the bullock cart were a little surprised when they saw her, and some even asked where she was going.
"Go to the production team next door to see the girl."
Grandma said only one sentence, but she didn't say anything along the way. She was relieved when she got out of the ox cart when she got out of the main entrance of the village next door, and said to herself. "The educated youth nowadays, there are so many words that match those with long tongue women."
Not to mention the fact that the grandmother took half a rabbit to visit her daughter in the production brigade next door. After his grandmother left the house, Ji Yanzhi began to wander up the mountain, collecting common herbs and selling them to the supply and marketing agency to collect the fees for his school miscellaneous books for the next semester.
This was the case for several days, and quickly collected the school miscellaneous and book fees.
However, because he was afraid that he would go to school, the few beasts of the old Du family would still come to bully his grandma and an old man when he was not at home. So before the school started, Ji Yanzhi simply used what he can now use. All personal connections, using the excuse of finding a paper box for the grandma to go to the county town to go to school with her grandma.