I Had a Home In 1982

   Chapter 9 9. Big and small bitter children

   Tidying up the house is easy, but repairing the roof is difficult.

  The houses on Tianya Island are mostly sea grass houses, ancestral styles and ancestral craftsmanship.

   This kind of house has stone walls and seaweed roofs.

   It is a bit like the inland thatched cottages, but it is more comfortable, because the seaweed has a high salt content, and the sea salt insulates it. It is warm in winter and cool in summer.

  The fishermen are most afraid of fire. Every household relies on fishing boats, fishing gear and fishing nets, and these things are easy to burn.

The barracks of the    troops were also seagrass houses. Wang Xianghong recalled that when he learned that the troops were going to be stationed on the island, he mobilized the Wang family to work and contribute to build them.

   "Did you publish a newspaper back then, a big newspaper, the People's Liberation Army Daily, in six or more years?" asked the old man Wang Xiangzhi, who was watching the excitement.

   Wang Xianghong said with a smile: "April 1965, the title is "Tianya Island New Barracks" - the army loves the people, the people support the army, and the army and the people unite as one family."

Wang Xiangzhi said: "Yes, the troops came in 1965, and then when they saw that we had built a barracks, the soldiers were very moved, they must give us money, but can we ask for it? We also have many children from the Wang family who serve as soldiers. Soldiers are like our children."

   "The cadres of the army saw that we didn't need money for life and death, so they dig wells for us, reclaimed mountains and forests to make fields, and distributed five kilograms of millet from house to house. Speaking of which, we still took the light of the army."

   "Committee Mao's fighters are disciplined and don't take a stab at the masses." Another old man said with admiration.

   Wang Xianghong smiled and said: "Let's not talk about this first, the topic is too far away, first we have to find a way to give the roof to thatch."

   He introduced to Wang Yi that building a seaweed house requires more than 70 processes, all of which are manual, and require the cooperation of four types of work: bricklayer, carpenter, mason, and thatcher.

   Among them, the roofing of the roof by the thatcher is the most important process, and it cannot be replaced by other craftsmen.

To mend the roof, a thatcher and seaweed are needed. Wang Xianghong said: "Hongmei said right now, let Dazhuo come over to work. He can't cast a net or hook, so let him fish for seaweed, dry seaweed, and catch the seaweed. Pack it up before Gu Yu."

   "Yes, it's almost Grain Rain, maybe it will rain one day, so hurry up." Wang Dongxi nodded.

  The crowd was so lively here that they refused to leave until more than one o'clock.

  Wang Xianghong waved his hand and ordered: "Okay, let's go back to have lunch in the morning. After eating, we have to go to work in the afternoon. It's the flood season right now, and it's hard to buy a good flood. It's more important to grab the tide."

  Wang Yi followed him back to dinner.

   I had some leftovers last night, and I had leftovers at noon.

  Wang Yi quietly let go of the belt again...

Ready at all the time!

   Xiufang neatly packs the meal.

   The leftovers from last night included small conch, scallops, mussels, etc. She simmered in the pot together with the small fish that she had just caught in the morning, ordered soy sauce and battered some pancakes around the iron pot, so the lunch was quite hearty.

   When she was serving the vegetables, she said, "Mr. Wang, I saw a bottle of vegetable oil in the bottle you gave me yesterday? I smelled it really fragrant, is it peanut oil?"

  Wang Yi divided the chopsticks and said, "Yes."

   Xiufang said immediately: "Then you have to take it, peanut oil is precious..."

   "Oh, sister-in-law, stop talking, I'll give it to you," Wang Yi interrupted her. "There is one in this city. I'm a college student, and the state subsidizes it. There's no shortage of peanut oil."

   Xiufang said enviously, "The city is still rich."

   Her man Wang Dongfang washed his hands and walked in and said, "Father, now that the city is rich, we can't be poor, we have to find a way to live a good life."

   "It's not a good day now? Are you hungry? Are you frozen?" Wang Xianghong was displeased, "You yawn and smell it yourself, the taste of wine and meat still smells in your mouth, so you're not satisfied?"

Wang Dongfang said: "No, Dad, the smell of wine and meat in my mouth was left by the guests who invited Comrade Zhuang last night. I can't catch it on weekdays, right? Don't you usually eat salted fish paste pancakes? "

   "It's not that I'm dissatisfied, you are the party secretary, the village chief, and an old party member. The party members have to take the lead in getting rich, in the city..."

"The city is the city, let's not compare it. There are planes in the capital, rockets in Xichang, and cars in the county. Where are we in Tianya Island? We are swaying, why do we have to compare with them? You are not enough to swallow an elephant." Wang Xianghong determined his son's sex.

  Wang Dongfang had no choice but to ask Wang Yi for help.

  Wang Yi smiled and said, "As the old saying goes, if you are content and happy, everything in the city is good? We Tianya Island are all wicked? I don't think so."

  Wang Xianghong immediately said: "Mr. Wang is indeed a college student, and he speaks well."

  Wang Yi continued with a smile on his face: "But what my elder brother said is right. Party members must take the lead in becoming rich. Leading comrades have said that poverty is not socialism."

   Wang Xianghong was at a loss for words.

   He looked at Wang Yi in dissatisfaction, but he didn't expect you to dig a hole for me.

   Wang Yi added: "Secretary, I'm not saying we want to split up, but we want to get rich and live a good life."

Wang Xianghong's face slowed down and said: "You are right, but the road to becoming rich is not easy. Sigh, you are a college student and you are literate, so you should think more about it, as long as you can bring our Wang family to a well-off life, I will I'll give you the seat of the village chief."

  Wang Yi rubbed his chin.

   He really cares about this matter, and the desolation of Tianya Island later makes him shocking when he thinks about it now.

   Such a good family can't fall apart; such a good island can't be abandoned!

   He has to contribute to the development of Tianya Island.

   We will make Tianya Island stronger and bigger, and create greater glories!

  Xiufang said: "Eat first, and then you will get rich together."

  Wang Yi was excited when he heard this.

   Eat and eat.

   This is pure and fresh iron pot small fish, but he saw it, Xiufang was jumping around when handling these fish.

  The iron pot stickers pancakes are golden yellow and have a lovely fragrance.

   He was ready to start a killing spree.

   Then I felt bad when I ate the pancakes: it’s the same as the corn pancakes in the morning, why is it so unpalatable?

   Reluctantly, he ate a small pancake.

  Xiufang felt sorry for this, and handed him two more pancakes: "What's the matter, do you think sister-in-law's battered pancakes are not delicious?"

  Wang Yi smirked.

you guessed right!

  Xiufang was just joking, she has always been proud of her pastry craftsmanship.

   So she said again: "Okay, I know you college students are thin-skinned and feel embarrassed to eat at my house, don't you? Don't think so, you are all from the same family."

  Wang Dongfang also took two pancakes for him and said, "Yes, we are all from the Wang family. In the future, when Xiufang and I have a baby, won't we get your hands to study? You can eat it."

  Wang Yi is embarrassed, this ration makes me really unable to let go.

   Just at this time, someone came from outside the door, and a howl like a pig slaughtered in the footsteps of hum hum chi: "Secretary, I'll send workers, send workers."

  Wang Yi looked back and saw a tall and burly young man standing at the door.

   Unlike the generally short fishermen on the island, he must be more than 1.8 meters tall, with a broad chest and a cutting board, a flat back like a board, big hands and big faces, big faces and big grins.

   showed a sense of naivety.

   Xiufang saw him and said, "The big confusion is here? Why are you here?"

  Dazed, scratching his crotch, he walked in and said, "Shi Shu, do you want to eat? I'm out of rations, I'm hungry."

  Wang Dongfang became anxious when he heard this: "My mother, didn't I just send you a season's rations at the beginning of last month?"

   Big confusion hehe smiled: "I can't resist eating."

   Wang Xianghong said with a smile: "Okay, let's sit down and eat, but my family doesn't have much lunch, so I have almost eaten."

   looked at Wang Yi in confusion.

   Specifically, he looked at the two pancakes in his hand.

  Wang Yi immediately gave up his seat: "Come on, big confused brother, right? You sit here and eat two bites, I'm full."

   "What a confused brother," Wang Xianghong said solemnly, "he is your uncle. In terms of seniority, he calls you Laozi and brother, you have to call him uncle!"

   He said to the big confused again: "This is Teacher Wang..."

   Big confused hehe said with a smile: "You are Teacher Wang, hello teacher! hello teacher!"

   is screaming at the throat.

   is very inauthentic, Wang Yi looked at him and thought of the legendary screaming donkey.

   The pancakes he couldn't swallow were delicious food in the hands of the big confused. He ate and devoured them so much that Wang Yi was hungry when he saw it.

  's confused way of eating made him wonder, is this kid eating the same pancakes as he eats?

   Wang Xianghong introduced to him that Da Fu is also a descendant of the Wang family.

  Shou Xing Ye is so old that no one remembers his name, and the big confusion is that everyone calls him that, and no one remembers his name.

   Lord Shouxing is a lonely man, and so is the big confusion. His mother came to the island when she fled from the desert. She married his father and had him. Later, his father was shipwrecked and died at sea, so his mother packed up and ran away.

   At that time, he was six or seven years old, and Wang Xianghong was the master, and he was raised in the brigade.

   But after all, he is not the child of each family. It is inevitable that the big guy does not look carefully. As a result, when he was ten years old, he encountered a winter blizzard and fell ill with a high fever.

  The medical conditions on the island were poor, and the weather at sea was very bad at that time, so they couldn’t get out of the boat to take him to the county hospital for treatment.

   In the end, a high fever caused a little problem with his brain. He didn't get burned into a fool, but he didn't get much better.

   Big confused and strong, but his brain is slow, unable to do fine work, so he has a general grid.

   "Throwing the net and hooking the stalks for diving, he can't do anything, but he has a big appetite, so he can't eat anything." Wang Dongfang said with the snail meat.

   looked up in confusion: "Who said that? I eat **** and the rest is left. Last time Xizi used chicken **** to play with me, um, that chicken **** is the same as your snail."

  Wang Dongfang was speechless when he heard this. He looked down at the trembling snail meat, and simply threw it back on the plate: "I'm full."

   Big confusion immediately took the snails away.

  Wang Dongfang gave him a very accurate evaluation. There was nothing left to eat, and the table full of leftovers was swept away.

   Wang Xianghong was not stingy, but told him to work hard to clean up the house for Wang Yi and not be lazy.

   Big confused and full of promise.

   He actually did the same. After returning to the school building, he took off his clothes to show his sturdy body and got busy. Wang Yi opened the door and he was about to move the sundries.

   As soon as the door opened, a boy emerged from the junk pile.

  The boy is about ten years old, with dark face and rough skin, messy hair, wearing a white shirt that has been washed yellow, with a dirty red strip of cloth hanging around his neck - either a red scarf or a red cloth.

   Suddenly such a person appeared, Wang Yi was startled: "Who are you?"

   "His name is Snot." Big Daze pushed him away and started to work.

  The boy did have two snots hanging from his nose, and he sucked and put them up and down like two bugs.

   He said, "Mr. Wang, I, my name is Wang Ugly Cat. My father asked me to clean up for you."

  Wang Yi took out a heart-printed tissue from the bag and handed it to him. He sniffed it and stuffed it into his mouth happily.

   This startled Wang Yi: "What are you doing?"

   Wang Ugly Cat was also taken aback by his words, and quickly took it out and handed it to him: "Mr. Wang, I thought you gave it to me."

  Wang Yi said: "It's for you, this is a tissue, for you to wipe your nose."

   Wang Ugly Cat said: "It's fragrant. I thought it was cotton candy. Brother Toad said that the cotton candy in the county town is just like this. It's big, white, soft and fragrant."

  Considering this age, Wang Yi was sure that the baby was not driving, so he was saddened, this is a bitter child.

   He pointed to Wang Ugly Cat's neck and asked, "Why is your red scarf like this?"

   Wang Ugly Cat bowed his head and said, "Someone took it away. Young pioneers can't live without a red scarf, so I had to find a replacement."

  This is even more bitter!

   (end of this chapter)