Chapter 36
Zhangjiazhuang is located at the foot of a mountain. Going up, there are endless rice fields and corn fields. Going down, there is a large river beach. The river beach is full of tall reeds and water plants. The mountain breeze blows in your face, and the reeds sway, which is very cool.
The water in the deep part of the river beach is particularly deep. I heard that it is two or three meters deep. The elderly in the village do not allow their children to swim in the river. The children can only touch the eels in the water nests in the shallow water area, catch river clams, small fish and shrimps.
Lin Yao and his friends were lucky. As soon as they arrived at the edge of the river beach, a few crucian carps swam over.
This made Gu Shidong and Zhang's younger cousins scream with excitement.
Lin Yao was also very excited. She imitated the other kids, took off her sandals and put them on the smooth rocks on the beach, and was about to step into the river with her bare white feet.
But before she could get in, her slender waist was hugged by Gu Shian. The man held her body and lifted her up steadily.
"The water is cold in summer. You will get sick if you go in."
Gu Shian said in a deep voice, with his big hand still firmly holding the girl's soft waist.
It would be strange if Lin Yao believed him. She stretched out her hand and slapped someone's paw, angrily saying, "I'm not a three-year-old child. I don't believe you!"
The dog man just didn't want her to play in the water!
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but glare at Gu Shian again, and decided to let him lay on the floor tonight!
——This is a punishment for not letting me play in the water!
In fact, Deputy Director Gu really meant well. It was hot in summer, and it was nothing to cool down with a basin of cold water. But people like Lin Yao would have a water fight and splash water after entering the water. The cold and hot ice and fire could easily cause cold air to enter the body, leading to a cold and fever.
Zhang's younger cousin had injections at home for several days because of this.
After hearing this, several people ate and put on shoes and went ashore obediently.
And Lin Yao, because he got a bunch of crucian carps strung with straw caught by someone, immediately smiled happily and chattered to Gu Shian, not as angry as before.
Zhang's younger cousin Maodan scratched his head and whispered to Gu Shidong secretly.
"My cousin's wife was angry just now, why is she smiling now?"
Gu Shidong glanced at me with a look that said "you don't understand this".
"Don't worry about it, little brat. Ask what you should ask and don't ask what you shouldn't ask. I'm thirsty. Give me a sip of your water."
The honest little boy.
"Oh."
Dongzi, the little boy, bullied the little boy all the way, asking him to carry a bamboo basket and calling the children to fetch water.
Lin Yao couldn't stand it, so she grabbed the boy's ear and taught him a lesson, "You bastard, you're itching again, aren't you? As a brother, you don't know how to love your brother. Have you lost the good morals of respecting the old and loving the young? You learned from the bad kids outside to bully your brother. I'm giving you face!"
Gu Shidong cried, "Oh my God, sister-in-law, I was wrong. Can we go home and beat him up?"
Maodan and Xiaoni were watching on the side. He was such a shameless brother.
Gu Chunmei went to fetch water and came back. She saw the boy with his head drooping. She asked him what was going on. She said, "It's what he deserves," and turned her head away.
Fortunately, Gu Shian went to the wild fruit forest to pick mulberries and mulberries, otherwise the naughty boy would have to be punished.
The mountain behind Zhangjiazhuang is hundreds of years old. There are towering trees all over the mountain. You can't see the end of it if you walk in for a long time. There are wild rabbits and pheasants running all over the mountain. Except for experienced old hunters who go in to hunt, ordinary mountain people stay away from it when they pass by. The reason is simple. There are blind bears, wild boars, killer bees, mountain leopards and wolf cubs on the mountain.
The mountain people are desperate and run into the mountains.
However, there are a few twelve or thirteen-year-old boys who are not afraid of tigers. They took advantage of the production team's double guns and ran to the back mountain to kill beehives.
A wild fruit forest at the foot of the mountain is quite close to the deep mountains. Guan An was worried about safety and did not let the children climb the trees to pick them.
He climbed up the tree in three or five steps, picked a thick branch to stand on, broke off branches full of waxberries and threw them down. Dongzi and Maodan, two boys, looked up and stuffed them into the backpack while screaming.
Gu Chunmei supervised them from the side to prevent the two naughty boys from running around.
Under a big tree not far away, Lin Yao spread a piece of coarse cloth brought from home, took Xiaoni and sat on it cross-legged, took out hawthorn cakes and peanut candies wrapped in oil paper, stuffed several pieces into Xiaoni's fat hands, and ate some himself.
Xiao Ni is the daughter of Uncle Zhang, only six years old this year. She is the daughter of Uncle Zhang, who is over thirty years old. Therefore, the couple loves this daughter the most.
Xiao Ni does not look like Uncle Zhang, who is rough, but likes Aunt Zhang, who loves to laugh. She has a round face and her eyes bend into crescents when she laughs. She is white, tender and clean, and is a sweet little girl.
Lin Yao loves the little girl very much. She hugs the little girl and kisses her again and again. Xiao Ni is shy, and her little round face is as red as a big apple. She is so cute.
She gives Xiao Ni peanut candy, and Xiao Ni blinks her grape eyes and says in a baby voice, "Thank you, cousin."
Lin Yao is so cute.
Gu Chunmei saw this and smiled, saying meaningfully, "You want one so much? How about you give birth to one yourself?"
Lin Yao waved her hand and told her to go away so as not to delay her from sucking the cute baby.
What a joke. If she gave birth to one herself, it would be fine if she gave birth to a well-behaved baby like Xiao Ni, but if she gave birth to a troublemaker.
Her second half of life would be a mess, and she would not have a moment of leisure.
While Lin Yao was teasing Xiao Ni, Gu Shian also jumped down from the waxberry tree.
There were more than ten waxberry trees nearby, but the waxberries on the trees were late to ripen and tasted sour, so no one usually came to pick them.
There were quite a few ripe mulberries in the wild fruit forest. Gu Chunmei and the others didn't like to eat them, but Lin Yao liked them. Gu Shi'an picked most of the basket. Mulberries were very soft and juicy, so it was not worth carrying them home.
Gu Shi'an simply washed the mulberries and gave them to Lin Yao as a snack.
After Lin Yao finished eating the mulberries, he heard Dongzi shouting that there were raspberries in front, so he clapped his hands and ran to join in the fun.
It would be best to take raspberries home to make jam.
Xiaoni also abandoned her brother Maodan and ran after him on her short legs.
The two adults and children were full of enthusiasm to pick raspberries. Gu Shi'an smiled and was about to catch up, but suddenly his expression moved and he stopped.
Gu Chunmei asked her brother to come over and help.
Lin Yao, who was happily picking raspberries, also froze and asked in confusion, "I think I heard a child shouting for help?"
Gu Chunmei laughed at her, "How is it possible? There is no one in this valley for dozens of miles, unless you have encountered a ferocious beast."
Her mouth was full of black crows. As soon as she finished speaking, there were cries for help and the sound of some animals panting and branches breaking in the deep mountains ahead.
Gu Shian's dark eyes suddenly changed. He pulled out a gun from his waist and told Lin Yao and others not to run around in the empty cave they found in the back mountain. The tall figure quickly passed by on the slope and disappeared in a few steps. There was a
roar that shook the earth not far away, followed by several children with torn skin and flesh running over crying.
Lin Yao and Gu Chunmei ran over quickly, holding the two children and running to the cave in the back mountain.
Gu Shidong protected Maodan Xiaoni and jumped anxiously in the cave.
Just as Lin Yao and the others ran back to the cave, a black-haired wild boar with a green face and fangs jumped out from under the woods. The wild boar seemed to smell the strange breath in the cave above. It dug the ground with its four hooves and roared fiercely, ready to rush into the cave to bite them.
The child next to Lin Yao was about to cry, and she quickly covered the child's mouth, holding Maodan Xiaoni and holding her breath. At the critical moment, a sharpened piece of wood suddenly pierced into the wild boar's neck from behind.
Then there were two more gunshots. The wild boar that was roaring like thunder suddenly fell to the ground, with half of the wood piercing its neck, and blood gushed out.
Lin Yao's tense body finally relaxed, and the boy in her arms burst into tears.
Gu Shidong jumped out angrily and scolded, "What are you crying for? The wild boar is dead!"
The boy didn't dare to cry anymore, and only dared to sob with the other boy.
Gu Chunmei was so frightened that her legs and hands were weak, and she couldn't stand up for a long time.
Maodan and Xiaoni were good, they were held in Lin Yao's arms, tears were swirling in their eyes, but they didn't fall.
Lin Yao hurried to coax them.
"Our little Ni is awesome, a brave little girl."
"Mao Dan is also a brave little man, as awesome as the PLA uncles."
The two young guys were so flattered by this that they straightened their chests and grinned.
Lin Yao took good care of the children, but when she stood up, she stumbled and almost fell because she had been half-kneeling for too long.
"Yao Yao!"
"Sister-in-law!"
Two screams rang out, but Lin Yao did not fall to the ground, but was held tightly in Gu Shi's arms.
The man's warm body temperature came through the fabric, and she could clearly feel the broad and strong shoulders of the man under her, and his slender and strong body protected her tightly.
As soon as Lin Yao raised her head, she bumped into the familiar slightly raised black eyes, and the man's voice was trembling.
"Are you injured?"
Lin Yao raised her head slightly, as if she had found a backer. At this time, the tears in her eyes flowed out, and she said coquettishly, "My fingers are red and hurt."
Gu Chunmei and her brother next to her: "..."
What time is it? Can we not give out dog food!
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Zhangjiazhuang Old Zhang Family.
At this time of year, the villagers are busy harvesting rice and breaking corn. The two aunts of the Zhang family have finished work a while ago.
There are still relatives at home. They say that dumplings are for welcoming guests and noodles are for sending guests away. It
was Grandma Zhang's birthday, and she had a bowl of longevity noodles in the morning.
For this afternoon meal, the eldest aunt came back to boil water for a bath, changed her clothes and soaked in a wooden tub, went to the stove room to dig two large buckets of sweet potato flour and one bucket of corn flour, planning to make some noodles.
She told the second aunt about her idea.
The second aunt smiled and said, "Okay, it's not easy for Cuilan's family to come back, so we have to have some noodles."
Then, the second aunt rolled up her sleeves and went to the vegetable garden to pick beans and make salt later.
The eldest aunt handed her a bar of soap.
The second aunt was very curious, "Sister-in-law, where did you get this scented soap? It smells so good, just like the flowers outside."
There were no supply and marketing cooperatives in the countryside, only in the town. It took dozens of miles to go back and forth from the mountains to the town. The second aunt had never used such a good soap before, and she couldn't let it go.
"Cui Lan brought it, saying that Yaoyao bought it. It's four yuan in total. Let's split it between the two families."
"Hey, Yaoyao is a good child, she doesn't keep her things to herself."
"That's right."
The two sisters-in-law were busy, but they didn't forget to go into the house to check on Grandma Zhang.
The old lady was in a good mood today. She walked around the village for most of the day in her new clothes and woolen vest. She had already lain down in the house, snoring.
Half an hour later, it was getting dark. Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang came home. Gu Mancang and his wife, who had gone to help in the fields, also came back. A group of young people had not come back yet.
Zhang Cuilan looked at the sky outside. It was dark and it was afraid that it would rain. She asked Gu Mancang, "What time is it, old man?"
The Gu family had an old pocket watch, which was given by Grandpa Gu from the Japanese when he was fighting in the war.
Gu Mancang looked at the old pocket watch on his hand, "It's half past seven."
"It's already half past seven, why haven't the kids come back yet?"
Maybe something happened in the mountains.
Uncle Zhang was hanging mushrooms under the eaves, and Uncle Zhang was squatting by the well, watching the river clams spitting sand in the basin. The two brothers also looked up outside.
Second uncle Zhang stood up and put on a coarse cloth jacket, "I'll go out and take a look." First
uncle Zhang asked him to hold the hat so that he wouldn't get wet on the road.
Second uncle Zhang took it and put it under his armpit without even looking at it. Second aunt was so angry that she scolded him, "You are a dog-bitten Lu Dongbin who doesn't know the kindness of others. Big brother kindly reminded you, but you still took it."
Zhang Cuilan took a hoe to cut the pig grass and advised her sister-in-law, "Second sister-in-law, it's okay. We brothers and sisters have been taken care of by big brother since we were young. We don't know what kind of temper second brother has . He
never says anything good when he opens his mouth!" It's better not to open his mouth.
As soon as these words came out, the whole family laughed.
Second uncle Zhang grinned the most happily. He put the hat on his head and was about to go out.
A brat named Dongzi came running over outside, out of breath, and still yelling,
"Uncle, uncle, there's meat to eat, there's meat to eat, my brother was killed by a wild boar in the back mountain!"
What the hell!
Zhang Cuilan's hand trembled as she was cutting pigweed, and the hoe almost hit Gu Mancang who was standing beside her.
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