Chapter 62
Gu Shian opened the door with a cold and handsome face. The little orange cat outside the door was "meowing".
It had been scratching the door for a long time, and this person finally came to open the door. It was simply asking for a fight.
The little cat gave Deputy Director Gu a paw without mercy. Gu Shian hid quickly and was not caught by the little guy.
The room was warm with a brick bed in the house. On the brick bed table was a plate of sugar-roasted chestnuts, a plate of homemade pumpkin cakes, a dustpan of roasted peanuts, and a pot of honey tea. The honey was sent by Uncle Zhang. When he entered the mountain, he saw a blind bear digging honey in the old woods. The blind bear stung a large group of honey and ran away. The beehive fell to the ground, and Uncle Zhang, who was hiding behind the tree, took advantage of it.
Uncle Zhang went home, cut open the beehive, and took out a glass bottle of honey. He kept half for Grandma Zhang to drink, and gave the remaining half to his sister.
This is real wild honey, purer than the honey raised by the old villagers in the mountains. Grandma Zhang made a bowl of it every day, and it was so sweet that the old lady's toothless mouth was twitching.
Zhang Cuilan was as precious as anything, and only Gu Chunmei and Lin Yao in the old Gu family could drink it whenever they wanted.
Dongzi was a naughty boy with a greedy mouth, so Lin Yao made a pot of honey tea every day, and the whole family could drink a whole enamel pot of it, sweetening their mouths.
The cold wind was howling outside, but the Gu family's house was peaceful and stable. The little orange cat asked Lin Yao to hold it and take a bath, and its fur was fluffy and fragrant.
Lin Yao hugged Daju and rubbed him several times. Daju had just eaten a bowl of dried fish, so he was not hungry at all. He did not sneak into the kitchen to eat the dried salted fish hanging from the beams like before. He slept soundly in his own bed.
Deputy Director Gu took a small broom to sweep the kang, swept the bed, spread out the mattress, and made the bed. Lin Yao was wearing white cotton pajamas and her soft hair was loosely tied up. Under the candlelight, her skin was even whiter and tenderer. She yawned, and just as someone had tidied the quilt, she rolled onto the kang automatically, rolled herself up like a small silkworm pupa, leaving no chance for someone to attack her.
"I'm tired, turn off the lights."
Lin Yao said with a smile.
Gu Shian glanced over lightly, looked at the little girl's beautiful face, his eyes paused, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up, "Okay."
Lin Yao: "..."
It feels badjpg.
Sure enough, someone just turned off the kerosene lamp, Lin Yao buried herself in the quilt, and heard a rustling sound of taking off clothes, and then there was no movement. She was wondering why there was no sound?
Lin Yao secretly glanced outside, wanting to appreciate Deputy Director Gu's sexy figure, but she didn't expect that as soon as she came out of the quilt, she met a pair of black eyes full of smiles.
Okay, this guy is waiting for her!
Lin Yao rushed over in anger and was caught by Gu Shian, who kissed her.
Lin Yao still couldn't escape the fate of being eaten. She planted several small strawberries on Gu Shian's neck in anger. This guy is so shameless. Let's see what he will do this time!
As a result, the next morning, Deputy Director Gu buttoned his clothes to the top, looking meticulous, and there was no trace of the rogue look last night.
"..."
On the 29th of February, the old Gu family cleaned the stove and prepared for the New Year in a bustling manner.
At the latest, Zhang Cuilan and her husband came back after seeing their daughter, and they sighed for a long time at home.
Now the people of Yunshui County are having a hard time. It is the coldest time of winter, and people are struggling all over the country. Supplies are extremely scarce, and people are waiting for the next spring when things will get better.
When Xu Xiangqian arrived in the city and it was time to buy food, he went to the grain station to buy food. In the past, town residents could get 30 kilograms of food a month, but now each person is only provided with 5 kilograms of food, which are all coarse grains. Even so, many people cannot buy it.
After all, not all residents in the city go to work and have iron rice bowls.
It is normal for a family of four or five to have one person working. If you can be born in a family with two working people, life will be easier. The bald heads in Taiwan are also not quiet. Taking advantage of the hard times in the mainland, this group of mobs are clamoring for a counterattack, saying that they will reach the South China Sea in half a month and recover their homeland in six months. The slogans are loud and clear, but it is a pity that there is only thunder but no rain.
Dongzi jumped at home, "The bald head can only talk on paper. Let him wait. When the little master grows up, I will beat him up ."
Then, the bad boy was beaten by his own mother.
Besides, Gu Chunmei just got pregnant. The baby in her belly is not yet settled. It is the time when nutrition is needed. Apart from other things, pregnant women must ensure that they have a sugar-water egg every day.
Old Xu's family had plenty of rice, flour and oil. They had stored a lot of them, but they couldn't get eggs. Lin Yao went to the county town early in the morning and first gave Gu Chunmei a big basket of eggs. When asked, she found out that Zhou Xiaoxue bought them.
Xu's mother was so happy that she didn't know what to say. She was anxious at home. This was her daughter-in-law's first child. She would have to sit well before her body would be healthy. Her mother didn't sit well when she was pregnant, so her first brother died.
Gu Chunmei hadn't seen Lin Yao for a long time. The two sisters were very close. She took Lin Yao to sit in the new room and grabbed a handful of candy and peanuts.
Lin Yao was very curious about the baby in Gu Chunmei's belly. She put her belly close to her and listened, but heard nothing.
Gu Chunmei smiled and patted her, "It's only been two months, how can you hear anything so soon? You will know when you get pregnant."
Lin Yao said that it would be fine if things took their own course.
Xu Xiangqian wanted to go over here, so he asked Xu's mother to go out and clean the table and sweep the floor in the main room.
Gu Chunmei's new house is in the east room, with wooden floors on the floor. The furniture in the room is all new. There is a desk next to the window, and a standing wardrobe next to the desk, which is inlaid with a carved mirror. There is a coffee table on the left side of the bed, and a small sofa on the left and right, with floral cotton cushions on it. There is a tea tray on the coffee table, a warm pot and several glass cups.
This small sofa is comfortable. Lin Yao didn't want to move once she sat down. Big Brother brought tea and Xu's mother brought a plate of Changbai cake. Lin Yao thanked them sweetly.
"Thank you, Aunt Xu."
"You're welcome. Yaoyao, you came at the right time. Chunmei is at home with her baby. I, an old woman, can't talk to young people. You two sisters should talk and stay for a while."
Xu's mother smiled. She felt happy when she saw the soft girl. She ate half a bowl of rice at noon.
Gu Shi'an came to pick up Lin Yao at noon, and Gu Chunmei reluctantly sent him out.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. On this day, every household in the village burns paper for their deceased relatives.
Lin's father and mother were buried in the back mountain of Linjia Village. Zhang Cuilan took Lin Yao to visit the graves of her parents, and naturally Gu Shian, the cheap son-in-law, had to follow.
After not seeing them for half a year, the graves were covered with dead grass and fallen branches. Lin Yao didn't know why, maybe it was the blood surging in her body, she felt a lump in her throat and almost cried when she saw the graves of Lin's father and mother.
Gu Shian touched her head with his big hand and comforted her softly, "Yaoyao, don't cry, your parents are watching."
Lin Yao nodded, sniffed, and cleaned up the dead leaves and dead grass on her parents' graves with Gu Shian. Zhang Cuilan wiped her tears, took out a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of steamed pork, and a plate of steamed buns from the basket she brought, put down two pairs of chopsticks, poured two glasses of wine, and poured them on the graves one by one.
Zhang Cuilan burned a lot of paper money and gold ingots for Lin's father and mother, and talked about many things. She told Lin's father and mother almost everything that happened in the past six months. Yaoyao was a good child, filial to the elders, and asked Lin's father and mother to take care of a few more children. She didn't ask for great wealth, but only for the family to live in peace. She called her son and daughter-in-law to come, and kowtowed three times in front of the grave.
When Lin Yao kowtowed, she silently prayed to her parents, asking them to bless her brother who was serving in the army in Xinjiang. In the past six months, she kept writing letters to the Xinjiang Corps, but either the originals were returned or there was no such person.
I don't know what happened to the eldest brother of the Lin family.
The sky is high and the water is far away, and it's useless for Lin Yao to worry.
On the eve of the 30th day of the last month of the lunar year, the old house of the Gu family was cleaned spotlessly. The spider webs on the wall were swept away, and the tables, chairs and stoves were wiped clean. Lin Yao cut a few window paper-cuts, and Gu Shidong ran around the yard with them, pasting one on the window and one on the door. He also burned incense to the stove god on the stove. Gu Mancang and his two sons started working in the afternoon, carrying bundles of firewood home.
In these days, most of the firewood burned in the mountains was cut down from the mountains and carried back home in bundles. If there were no branches, they would go to the mountains to cut tall and long wicker branches. Gu Shidong carried a small basket on his back, and on the way he raked back the leaves from the small woods to use as kindling.
Lin Yao and Zhang Cuilan worked together to knead the dough and mince the meat to make dumplings. The old Gu family was large, so they made five large dumplings. It was not enough to eat dumplings during the New Year.
During the New Year, no matter how poor the county was, the Public Security Bureau had to distribute some things.
Gu Shian distributed an old hen and two pounds of cornmeal. Lin Yao asked Deputy Director Gu to prepare the old hen, add vermicelli, fungus, and wild mushrooms, and stew a pot of chicken vermicelli. The taste was so delicious that it could make people feel far away from the mountains. Dongzi
walked around the yard with a grin on his face, and Daju followed him around. The two little guys were not afraid of getting dizzy.
Just after it got dark on the evening of New Year's Eve, someone in Gujiaao set off the first firecracker in 1959.
The old Gu family struck while the iron was hot and set off firecrackers.
This year's New Year's Eve dinner made the whole family eat so much that only one and a half of the five large bowls of pork and cabbage dumplings were left. Otherwise, the old Gu family could eat a lot.
Gu Shian alone ate three large bowls. Lin Yao sometimes wondered why this guy ate so much but didn't get fat. Besides running exercises every day, he just...
forget it, don't think about it, she is always the one who gets into trouble.
TvT.
After New Year's Eve, the family didn't have much to do on the first day of the New Year. Apart from eating and drinking, they went to visit their fellow villagers to pay New Year's greetings.
The folks in Gujiaao are all very simple. There are only a few dozen families in the area, so there is no need to visit every family. Just visit the few families that are close to the old Gu family, and there will be nothing to do this year.
After eating the dumplings made by the family on the third day of the New Year, Lin Yao began to make delicious food in various ways. On
the fourth day of the New Year, roll noodles and mix them with homemade meat sauce.
Even Dongzi, a naughty boy, can eat a bowl of it. There are small pots of noodles and large pots of porridge. Noodles mixed with meat sauce are delicious, but you can't eat them every day.
Dongzi was mumbling on the side, Zhang Cuilan tapped her old son with her chopsticks, "What are you mumbling about? After eating noodles, go to the kitchen to wash the dishes. It's the eleventh day of the lunar year after the New Year, and you have to learn housework."
Gu Shidong said "hmm" honestly, and continued to wink at his sister-in-law.
"Sister-in-law, how about we have fish stew tonight?"
Lin Yao thought about it and made a gesture of yes to the young man.
In the old Sun family in the town, Lin Hongna married Sun Jialiang as she wished and lived in the exclusive cadre room of the Sun family. The conditions of the Sun family were indeed impeccable. His house was the yard of the former country gentleman in the town.
Red cloth coat closet, yellow pear flower tea table, long black leather sofa in the living room, rocker phone on the tea table, ride a bicycle when going out, drink milk maltose when coming back, listen to Huangmei opera on the radio every night, step on clean wooden floor, even the toilet is covered with cement, such a good life, Lin Hongna would laugh in her dreams.
Unexpectedly, before she celebrated becoming the wife of an official, her grandmother, the old hag, gave her a warning.
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