Chapter 036 The Disaster of Toon
Wen Jiajia was really confused at this moment.
She was afraid that someone would come, but also afraid that no one would come. This had probably never happened to anyone in the family home before, and there was no greater social death than this.
"What a hell of a place." Wen Jiajia cursed inwardly. She slapped the tree with her palm, but the tree didn't move at all. Instead, her palm went numb from the pain.
This place is not close to the vegetable field, so even if she wants to ask for help, she has to shout at the top of her lungs.
If there was no one in the vegetable garden at this moment, it would be useless even if she shouted at the top of her lungs, because the family building was already busy and her cries for help would not be heard at all.
It rained so heavily yesterday; there's no doubt that it will continue to rain today.
This season is a time of intermittent sunshine and rain. The more Wen Jiajia thought about it, the more scared she became. What if it rains?
It doesn't matter if she gets soaked like a chicken in the soup, she is just afraid that a lightning bolt will hit her and turn her into charcoal.
Help... Wen Jiajia was trembling.
She stretched out her foot tentatively again and pushed again, but it was still very slippery.
The sky was blue, but the sun was not out.
Wen Jiajia raised her head and looked carefully at the clouds above her head, and found that they were not pure white, but a little gray.
A strong wind blew by, and the trees nearby rustled. The bamboos in the distance bent collectively, and even the one under her butt was shaking a little.
Wen Jiajia was scared, really scared. She didn't care whether she would die socially or not, because social death was better than physical death.
"Ahem!" She cleared her throat.
Take a deep breath, concentrate your energy and shout:
"Is anyone there——"
“…”
Another gust of wind blew by.
Wen Jiajia grabbed onto a tree branch and shouted, "Is there anyone here? Help!"
“Save me, save me!”
She shouted at the top of her lungs, veins bulging in her neck, her voice became hoarse, and in the end even hoarse enough to make her groan.
Far from home.
The busy day starts in the morning. The family members only have time to go to the vegetable garden after finishing their housework. There was hail yesterday, and they also had to clean up the damaged vegetables.
"Did you hear that?" Zhang Fangshu suddenly stopped and looked around in confusion.
"What did you hear?" asked the person behind.
"I heard someone shouting," she said.
"No, there's no one shouting there. Let's go faster, this road is so slippery, we need to dig the mountain road deeper." The person behind urged while grabbing the tree next to them.
Zhang Fangshu suppressed her doubts and walked upstairs. She really felt that someone was shouting.
"Gee, gee."
Wen Jiajia almost vomited out everything she had eaten in the morning, but she managed to hold it back.
Getting stuck on a tree and unable to move while picking wild vegetables is socially devastating enough, but if you vomit at the same time, it would be even more socially devastating.
Wen Jiajia was breathing rapidly. She touched her throat and felt that it was like dry land and was in urgent need of water.
"Help...ah, is there anyone who can save me?" Her eyes turned red and she continued to shout.
Really, the sky seemed to have really dark, and Wen Jiajia was scared to death when she looked up.
She closed her eyes and shouted again: "Help!"
The sound was so loud that the birds perched on the trees were startled and flew up, flapping their wings, and almost dropped white bird poop on her head.
"No, someone is really shouting." Zhang Fangshu suddenly straightened up, pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
“I think I heard that, too.”
"Really? What are you shouting for?"
"It's those naughty kids shouting."
"No, it's someone shouting for help." Zhang Fangshu was stunned for a moment, then threw away the vegetable leaves in his hand, "Oh my god, is there a wild boar, or did someone fall down? Someone really shouted for help."
"What are you waiting for? Go find someone."
"But the mountain is so huge, where can I find it? The road is so slippery..."
Before he finished speaking, another cry of "Help" was heard.
Zhang Fangshu's hearing was naturally better than others. She stood there and listened for a while, then called out to others and walked straight towards the wild vegetable slope.
We have all been to the mountains to do farm work, so it is easy to tell that someone has been here not long ago.
"Look, there are footprints!" someone pointed at the ground and said, "The grass on the side of the road has also been stepped on, and there is mud on the grass."
As we were talking, the sky seemed to darken.
"Is there anyone there?" Wen Jiajia kept an eye on the sky all the time and prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in the four directions, just hoping that it would not rain.
"I finally got the resurrection card, please don't play tricks on me!" Wen Jiajia kept muttering in her heart, tears were about to flow out.
But...she seemed to hear voices.
"Hey, who's in trouble?" A voice came from not far away, "Who's shouting for help?"
Wen Jiajia sat up in shock from her dying illness!
She raised her hands and waved them wildly, shouting, "It's me! It's me! Over here, on the tree!"
As he spoke, he shook the branch with all his might.
Zhang Fangshu's eyes widened in disbelief: "Oh my god, who is this? Why did you get up the tree?"
“I don’t know him.”
“I can’t tell who it is.”
As they spoke, several people hurried over.
Wen Jiajia waved weakly: "I am, it's me, Wen Jia who lives in Beishan."
“…”
"Are you Wei Dai's wife?"
“Yes.”
"Why did you end up in the tree?"
"I was picking Chinese toon trees and I got stuck. Sister, can you help me? I'm afraid it's going to rain soon."
“…”
That's it? How can a big person get stuck in a tree?
Then they discovered that it really could.
"Tsk! You're holding it really tight. I can't push it out. I need a ladder."
The tree was very slippery, and she was lucky enough to be able to hold on to the tree and not slide down. She was unable to help Wen Jiajia.
"What are you thinking, Comrade Wen? How did you get to sit on that branch?"
"No, no, don't let yourself fall. Looks like we need to call for help. I'll go get support."
Everyone was talking to each other, surrounding the tree, looking at Wen Jiajia from all angles.
Wen Jiajia felt like crying but had no tears. Once the logistics support arrived, she would really be doomed.
The one who went to look for support was an auntie named Chen Xueniang. She hurried down the mountain and said as she ran, "Everyone should be careful when picking Chinese toon trees these days. Wei Dai's wife is stuck in the tree and can't get down."
"What what what?"
"Wait, Snowgirl, what are you talking about? Who's stuck in the tree?"
"Wei Dai's wife is the smiling but quiet girl from Beishan with a tender face."
The crowd laughed. Most of them came from the countryside. They never thought that there would be people, adults, stuck in the tree and unable to get down, and they had to look for help.
"Really? I have to go check it out then."
"Where is it?"
"How long has she been stuck? I was wondering. I saw her carrying a backpack up the mountain when she was hanging out the clothes this morning. It's almost noon now..."
In fact, this is absolute nonsense.
Wen Jiajia had been looking at the time the whole time. She had only been stuck for more than half an hour, but it was already noon all of a sudden.
She doesn't admit it, absolutely not!
Chen Xueniang was surrounded so tightly that she couldn't even get out.
"Oh, please make way, please make way."
"I have to find support. It's going to rain soon and people are waiting for help."
This was very true, and no one dared to delay any longer.
Those who loved to watch the excitement ran up the mountain first. Others who went with Chen Xueniang to help with logistics followed her example and spread the news while running. Soon, the group watching the excitement grew larger and larger.
logistics.
The logistics department has a department specifically responsible for the family area.
Early in the morning, after cleaning and organizing documents, I was about to make myself a pot of tea when someone in the distance... oh no, a group of people were running towards me for logistics.
"Oh my god...what's going on?"
Could something horrible have happened?
Xiao Wang from Logistics stood up suddenly, his hands shaking, and ran to the inner room to find the leader.
“The leadership is bad!”
Leader Lao Wang: "What's wrong with talking nicely?"
"Look, look, more than a dozen family members are running towards us." The last time this happened was when we were dividing the rooms.
At that time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the quarrel was so intense that blood was shed.
When it comes to allocating rooms, the leader is scared to death.
"That shouldn't be the case. Nothing has happened recently." He said to himself. Could it be that the plan to build the sixth and seventh floors has been discovered?
No, it hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Maybe an insider let it slip?
He covered his chest and said, "What a sin! Who is so arrogant? If I knew, I would kill him."
Xiao Wang has seen the power of his family members, and there is no way to calm them down without inviting the top leaders from the logistics department.
Some of them have been in the army longer than many soldiers. If you are a green hand, they won't be afraid of you at all.
Just as the two were frantically thinking about how to deal with it, a large group of people swarmed in.
"Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang, go and save them."
"Lao Wang, oh my god, our family is stuck, you guys in logistics bring a ladder to rescue them."
Old Wang and Little Wang: "..."
Lao Wang was confused, Lao Wang woke up, Lao Wang was overjoyed!
"Stuck?" He almost laughed. It's good that he wasn't here to fight for the house.
"Wait, who! Who is stuck? Where is he stuck? Is his life in danger?" He came back to his senses and asked hurriedly.
Chen Xuenniang said anxiously, "Wei Dai's wife, the one called Wen Jia, climbed a tree to pick Chinese toon and got stuck on a branch and couldn't get down. Zhang Fangshu wanted to save her, but the tree was too slippery, and after climbing up, he couldn't move her at all."
She hurriedly said, "Oh, hurry up, the girl is still young, she must be scared, she keeps saying that if there is thunder she will die."
Wei Dai finally got his wife back, so he must not scare her silly.
Old Wang instructed Little Wang: "Call two people to go with you to rescue people. You need to bring a ladder, a rope, and an axe. You really need to be quick, the weather is not good today."
Xiao Wang nodded and set off immediately.
Then the family members of that hive of bees ran away again.
The excitement is just as attractive as the pork. After all, it is rare to see such a excitement in the family courtyard.
They came and went in a hurry, and their formation was quite large, which really attracted quite a lot of onlookers, and in a short time the team became much larger.
On the mountain.
Wen Jiajia was silent, and as the noise got closer, she became even quieter.
People came in waves and stood around the Chinese toon tree, looking at it non-stop.
"That's strange, why didn't I find this Chinese toon tree a few days ago?"
"Haha, if you had found out, you would be the one stuck today."
Wen Jiajia closed her eyes and said nothing. She felt like a monkey.
She is now extremely thankful that there are no mobile phones that can take photos anytime and anywhere in this day and age, so that she would not have to leave such an embarrassing picture.
More and more people came, and some of them were smart and had already started picking wild vegetables.
Someone even shouted, "Comrade Wen, can you look to the left? There is a Chinese toon seedling on the tree to your left. Help me pick it."
Wen Jiajia extended her hand politely: "Sorry, sister, my arms are too short."
"Oh, okay. It's a pity that I'm the one who's going to be stuck. I'm sure I can pick it."
Wen Jiajia: “…”
She raised her middle finger stealthily in the dark and said, "Don't just say it, come up if you dare."
Another ten minutes passed, and the group of people who went to the logistics department to find reinforcements finally arrived.
The moment Xiao Wang and others showed up, Wen Jiajia's eyes were filled with tears and she was so moved that she was about to cry.
All gods and Buddhas are not as good as our soldiers and helpful aunts.
Xiao Wang exclaimed, "Wow!" He felt that half of the family members in the compound were here.
There were people standing even on the huge rocks next to it.
"Don't crowd around, let me pass." He said as he moved the ladder. "It's normal to get stuck on a tree. Sometimes we get stuck on a tree during training, too."
Although he said so, he couldn't help but smile after he finished speaking.
Wen Jiajia said nothing. She just felt like life was meaningless at the moment.
Xiao Wang placed the ladder on the tree, and the other two people held the ladder from below while he climbed up.
The ladder is long enough, and as long as you climb to the top step you will be able to reach the branch.
"Sister-in-law, can you lift your legs?" he asked.
Wen Jiajia quickly said, "Yes! It's stuck in my lower back. Actually, it's not that tight, it's just that the tree is very slippery and I have no place to leverage, so I can't get up."
Xiao Wang understood. He lifted Wen Jiajia's feet and let Wen Jiajia step on his shoulders.
Wen Jiajia was a little hesitant.
"Sister-in-law, it's okay, go ahead." Xiao Wang said. He would rather have his shoulders stepped on than mediate conflicts between military wives.
"Thank you, Comrade Wang." Wen Jiajia said, and then stepped on his shoulders and pushed upwards. At the same time, she held the branch tightly with both hands.
She exerted all her strength at once, using all her energy at this moment. Wen Jiajia only heard a slight friction sound, and she finally left the damn branch.
"Hu——" She exhaled slowly.
Everything was simple after that. After Xiao Wang went down, Wen Jiajia went down next.
When she jumped off the escalator and her feet touched the ground, her heart returned to her chest.
Wuuuuu, wuuuu, don’t be afraid of being struck by lightning!
She never wants to pick Chinese toon again!
—
This incident had a great impact on Wen Jiajia. After returning home, she made up her mind not to go out for the next week. After a week, everyone can't still be thinking about this matter, right?
It was half past nine when I got home.
The sky was still overcast, and it was no longer as sunny as it was when we had breakfast.
Wen Jiajia threw the backpack to the ground and returned to the bedroom. She opened the cupboard, took out a set of clean clothes and pants, and changed into the one she was wearing.
Because she had been restrained, the inside of her pants and the front and back of her clothes were wet and had sawdust on them.
After changing clothes, I lay down on the sofa.
She didn't wash her hair and didn't dare lie down in bed.
Wen Jiajia felt that she had never been so vicious in her past two lifetimes, but the core processor in her brain was strong, and it didn't take long for her to deal with this feeling of numbness in her heart and embarrassment that made her want to kowtow to the ground with her head.
There's nothing we can do, life must go on.
Another half hour passed, and she stood up: huff-huff-huff-huff
After taking a few deep breaths, Wen Jiajia jumped on the spot for half a minute to vent her emotions.
Finally, I felt relieved.
"Eat fried food." She scratched her hair and said.
There's nothing a fried chicken can't solve.
If so, two!
The chicken wasn’t marinated well enough to be very flavorful, but it’s a local chicken after all, and the meat is better than fast-fed chickens that are fed feed, so it doesn’t matter if it’s not very flavorful.
She began to coat the dough with egg liquid and flour, pouring oil into the pan in the meantime, pouring out almost all the rapeseed oil at home before she finally had enough.
But Wen Jiajia didn't feel bad. New oil would be available in a while, and who would want to eat old oil when they have new oil to eat?
As we all know, fried chicken tastes very strong.
If you fry too many chickens, the taste will probably be greasy and smelly, but if you fry one or two, it will be fragrant and oily.
With a "sizzle" sound, the fried chicken was put into the pan.
The first frying is to fix the shape, and the second frying is to make the chicken more crispy.
Soon, the chicken was fried.
Wen Jiajia looked outside the yard and saw that fortunately, no one came to the door this time.
Fried chicken right out of the pan is very easy to cause a sore throat. Wen Jiajia also poured some chili powder as a dipping sauce, which was like adding fuel to the fire. It is necessary to make a cup of honeysuckle tea to eat it with it.
Unfortunately, the tomatoes were not ripe, and she still felt that fried chicken and ketchup were the perfect match.
Well, honey mustard sauce too.
Maybe it was because of the good chicken and the good oil, the fried chicken this time was unexpectedly delicious.
The outer layer is extremely crispy, and when you take a bite, you can clearly feel the crisp sound when the scales collide with the teeth.
The next second, the gravy flowed into my mouth.
Next came the incredibly tender meat, clean and white, without any marinade like in fried chicken restaurants.
Wen Jiajia couldn't control her mouth and ate half of it before stopping her evil hands.
If possible...if Wen Chun and Wen Xuan didn't know about this chicken, she would eat them all.
She couldn't help but look at the chickens that were eating grass seeds on the lawn in the yard.
chick:"……"
The chickens didn't know what was happening, but they suddenly felt a wave of murderous aura rushing towards them.
evening.
The troops who were training in the army came back, singing as they walked, and even Wen Jiajia could hear them.
The temperature rises and wild ducks take up residence in the lake.
Wild ducks swim on the water, creating ripples. If they see people passing by, they will hide in the water plants out of caution.
The wild ducks here are much more clever than those in his hometown. Even if Wei Dai tried to catch them, he wouldn't be able to.
The children are out of school.
The older children were having fun everywhere, while the younger children were returning home in groups.
When Wen Chun and Wen Xuan first went to the Yuhong class, Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai would pick them up and drop them off. But now they are very familiar with the way back and have made many good friends, so they go to and from school by themselves.
The two sisters ran all the way back today and didn't even want the bamboo sticks that Xie Yi found for them.
"It smells so good." Wen Xuan shouted as she reached the door.
This is definitely not the smell of chicken soup, absolutely not!
The two rushed in like firecrackers, looking at Wen Jiajia with sparkling eyes. Wen Xuan was the first to say, "Aunt, have you made anything delicious?"
Wen Jiajia was shocked: "Can you smell this?"
The fried chicken has cooled down a lot, right? Will it still smell good?
Wen Xuan nodded vigorously: "Yes! I smell the fragrance, it's fried eel, right?"
Wen Jiajia couldn't help but pinch her face: "My goodness, your nose is almost as good as Huowang's." Huowang was a military dog in the army. He retired due to injury some time ago. Wei Dai wanted to raise him very much, but unfortunately Huowang was still undergoing treatment.
"Did I guess right?" Wen Xuan was surprised. She still liked fried eel very much.
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "You're wrong."
She took out the remaining half of a fried chicken from the cupboard and said, "Sorry, I've already eaten one chicken wing. You can share this half."
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan widened their eyes. If fried eel is called fried eel, then fried chicken is called fried chicken?
This was fresh food, so they didn't care how much was left and quickly took the plates and started to share it.
Although the fried chicken has cooled down a bit, the taste is still there.
The chicken skin was especially delicious, so they even put the meat aside and only ate the chicken skin.
Wen Jiajia had already discovered that these two girls always put the delicious food first and only eat the second-best food after they finish eating. This habit is exactly the same as hers, and she does the same.
Since Wen Jiajia finally had the chance to make fried food today, of course she couldn't just make fried chicken.
She also fried pumpkin balls and made fried vegetable pancakes to eat with the porridge.
Wen Jiajia said, "Chun'er, help your aunt deliver this plate of meatballs and vegetable cakes to Xiaoyi's house."
Wen Chun was eating with his mouth full of oil, and he looked at the unfinished fried chicken on the table with reluctance.
Wen Jiajia was speechless. "It's okay. I'll keep an eye on it for you. I promise not to let Xuanxuan eat your share."
Wen Chun was relieved: "Okay, aunt."
She held the plate carefully and went to the next door, where the Xie family was also having dinner.
Shen Xunzhen knew his student's personality, so he took the plate and took out a bag of fried dough twist for Wen Chun to take back.
Wen Chun left happily, and when he got home, he shook the fried dough twist at Wen Jiajia: "Aunt, Teacher Shen gave us fried dough twist even though it's not even the New Year yet." This kid thought that fried dough twist could only be eaten during the New Year.
Wen Jiajia opened it and took a look, the smell of fried carbohydrates hit her nose.
"They were just fried not long ago and smell so fresh." She said, and then sternly said to the two children: "I'll put them in the cupboard. You can only eat one a day. If you eat more, you will have to take away three days of snacks."
The two sisters have snacks.
Eat a piece of butterfly cake and a piece of toffee every day, and if there is fruit at home, add more fruit.
They were particularly ceremonial and asked Wei Dai to prepare a small table for them. On sunny days they ate in the yard, and on rainy days they ate in the living room while watching the rain.
The two sisters grew in stature due to eating so much, and now they are definitely among the top five weight athletes in their class.
It seems that it’s okay for children aged three or four to be a little fat, but after they turn six, they can no longer be like this.
Having their snacks taken away was definitely the biggest punishment for them. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan nodded obediently upon hearing this, and promised that they would never eat more than allowed.
Children have small appetites. After they finished their fried chicken and half a bowl of porridge, they couldn’t eat anything else.
night.
The rain began to fall again, and water dripped from the eaves.
Wen Jiajia had fallen into a deep sleep, but many people were talking about what happened to her today.
Family building.
"Hey, Lao Zhang, I heard today that a family member in our family compound got stuck in a toon tree while picking it and couldn't get down?"
"Of course, it is a wonder. Later, Xiao Wang from the logistics department cut down the tree."
"I heard she is Wei Dai's wife."
"Really? Wei Dai's wife is from the city?"
"No, he was from the commune near Wei Dai's home. I was the one who reviewed him when he filed the report..."
One person tells ten people, ten people tell a hundred people, a hundred people tell a thousand people…
Just as Wen Jiajia thought, almost everyone in the family compound knew about this.
Even the lonely Shen Xunzhen heard about it and came to see her with a rare smile.
What else can Wen Jiajia do? Smile, smile, anyway, a piece of meat is still needed.
But Wei Dai didn't know.
A week later, Wei Dai returned to the team after completing his mission. At this moment, he didn't know that he had lost his name.
In the past, Wen Jiajia was introduced to the outside world as "Wei Dai's wife", but now Wei Dai is introduced to the outside world as "Comrade Wen Ka Shu's lover".
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