Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

The elder brother thought for a while and asked Zhang Xingming, "Er Ming, how many did you find?"

Zhang Xingming looked at it: "Seven."

The elder brother fumbled in his pocket with his hands, and showed Changhong: "I have six, and Erming's seven are for you. I'm hungry. I'm going back to eat. I'll come back in the afternoon." Then he said to Zhang Xingming: "Er Ming, give her the seven of yours." After finishing speaking, he went out of the forest, walked home, and shouted: "Hurry up, my grandma is calling for dinner, if you are too late, grandma will beat you with a broom oh."

Without thinking about it, Zhang Xingming knew that there must be more than seven in his pocket, so he handed the seven to Changhong, got out of the woods and ran home with his brother.

Changhong chased after him: "Da Junzi, you are lying, I want to see your pocket."

When I ran to the gate of my grandma's house, my brother stood still, put his hand on the gate, and said, "What am I doing wrong? I'll give you all the extra. If you don't believe me, come and see."

Changhong ran over and went to her brother's pockets to dig out all four pockets, but there were only six. She looked at her brother suspiciously, then turned her head and went home.

Zhang Xingming asked: "How much did you get?" The elder brother gave him a white look: "Six." He turned and went into the yard.

The food had already been placed on the kang table, and grandma was warming the wine with boiling water. Zhang Xingming took off his shoes and climbed into the kang and sat down. A bowl of chili sauce, corn tortillas, and two rice rice. (rice mixed with corn grits)

After eating two mouthfuls, my brother didn't come in yet, so my grandma shouted, "Dajun, come in and eat."

The elder brother answered outside, Zhang Xingming climbed to the window and looked out, the elder brother was squatting at the gate picking up something from the ground, it seems that in order to cope with Changhong's inspection, he threw all the extra spicy peppers at the gate side.When my brother came in and climbed onto the kang, there were indeed small pockets, probably twenty or thirty.

After eating, my elder brother went to the north kang to carry the brazier, and my grandfather hurriedly reached out to take it: "Can you move it? Don't break it, why don't you mess with this thing?" He said while putting the brazier on the south kang , pushed into the kang.

The brazier is an open jar-like thing made of yellow clay, with a few wires on the outside, and it is found in every household in the northeastern countryside.In winter, the red charcoal fire in the stove pit is put into the brazier with a shovel and placed on the kang for heating. Children like to cook food in it, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, grasshoppers and everything.

"Brother wants to cook foreign spicy food." Zhang Xingming leaned on the kangqin and said.

"Fix that thing, okay, grandpa will make a fire for you." Grandpa said and went to the outhouse, and after a while, he used a shovel to fill in the red charcoal fire from the bottom of the stove, poured it into the brazier, and the room suddenly burst into flames. A stream of heat surged.

My brother climbed onto the kang, climbed to the edge of the brazier, looked at Zhang Xingming and blinked, and said, "You are too young to do it. I will burn it for you. Just watch." Zhang Xingming smiled, brother This gluttony to take advantage of petty gains came, and he nodded.

So my brother was very happy, and took out the foreign peppers in his pocket and put them on the kang. Zhang Xingming saw that there were thirty or forty of them, which was quite a big pile.Then they cracked the shells one by one, carefully placed them on the charcoal fire, and immediately a special fragrance wafted out, filling the whole room.

Chapter 9 Digging Wild Vegetables and Snakes

Grandpa handed the fire chopsticks (iron chopsticks, used for holding charcoal fire) to elder brother, said be careful to burn your hands, and went out to work. Spring is busy with farming.

My brother used chopsticks to turn over the foreign chili on the charcoal fire and then put it on the kang. It only takes a few seconds to burn a foreign chili, and if you are not careful, it will be burnt or burnt.

The elder brother saw that he was a master, and none of the thirty or forty ones were burnt. After a while, they were all burnt. Then the elder brother frowned and thought about it. He stretched out his hand and divided half of them. Swipe back a few more, Zhang Xingming is so happy, it's really interesting for a 40-year-old to see a child of how old.

Zhang Xingming said: "Give me five, and you can eat the rest."

My brother was a little surprised, looked up at Zhang Xingming, and asked, "Really?" Zhang Xingming nodded, crawled over, took five, and put one in his mouth. It was fragrant and crispy, and the taste was so special.

The elder brother threw all the shells of foreign spices into the brazier, and the shells were burned red and softened instantly when they fell on the charcoal fire, and turned into ashes.

Then my brother grabbed the cooked foreign spicy food in his hand and started to eat. He nodded while eating, and said vaguely: "It's not called Changhong in the afternoon, let's go find it, and we will share it when we find it. You can share more."

Zhang Xingming threw four spicy peppers in his hand into his mouth, and said, "You won't come unless you ask her? She must be afraid of you going by yourself. Look, you have to come after eating."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small face appeared outside the window, either Changhong or someone else.Looking into the room, Chang Hong ran into the room, followed by Chang Yan, who was one year younger than Zhang Xingming, and was very thin.

Changhong took off her shoes and climbed onto the kang, sat down by the brazier, and said: "Your family still has a brazier, and my dad doesn't even use it anymore. It's really annoying (warm). Are you cooking foreign spicy food? This smells It’s really fragrant, even more fragrant than you (meat).”

The elder brother pretended to look out the window, put all the foreign spicy food in his hand into his mouth, and said, "How do you cook foreign spicy food without a brazier?"

"I haven't burned it yet." Changhong took out a dozen foreign peppers from her pocket, took the iron chopsticks, then broke one, put it on the charcoal fire with the iron chopsticks, and handed one to Changyan after burning. Changyan leaned on the edge of the kang and reached out to take it and put it in her mouth to eat, and Changhong went to cook the next one.

Zhang Xingming saw his brother staring at the hot peppers on the fire chopsticks, and kept swallowing.

"Are you going to get it next afternoon (afternoon)?" Changhong asked her brother while eating.

The elder brother hesitated a little, glanced at Zhang Xingming, and asked, "Are you still going?"

Changhong was not happy, and said: "I asked you, you asked him haha, he is so small."

The elder brother said: "I have to watch my younger brother. I dare not go if he doesn't go. What if my grandma beats me?"

"Aren't you going? How delicious." Changhong looked at Zhang Xingming, still tempting.

Zhang Xingming looked at his elder brother and said to Changhong: "I won't make it this afternoon, let's go tomorrow, I'm tired."

"Don't pull it down," Changhong handed the last foreign hot pepper to Changyan, put down the fire chopsticks, thought for a while, and said, "Why don't we go dig vegetables, there are not many young and old, mother-in-law Ding Kudiezi's brain Nothing."

Rural children dig wild vegetables for fun, stubble and mushrooms are all for fun. (Not old or young, it means many. Grandma Ding is the seedling of dandelion, Kudiezi is bitter vegetable, and Brain is kohlrabi, a kind of wild garlic)

"No, you have to fight with me again." My brother was still thinking about getting foreign spicy food, so he didn't want to dig wild vegetables.

"I won't fight with you, whoever digs it counts, the nose is old over there." (Old nose, a lot of meaning)

"Then why don't you dig it yourself?" The elder brother obviously didn't believe Changhong.

"It's all in the woods. I'm afraid of the field. I don't dare to go." Changhong was a little aggrieved. She said that the place was a little far away from others, and she was about to enter the mountain. A little girl would not dare. There are also wolves and wild boars in the mountains.

"Girls are just timid." The elder brother curled his lips.

"Da Junzi, believe it or not, I'll cut you." Changhong sat up straight with her waist pinched, glaring at her brother.

"Jishayan, otherwise, what I dig will be mine, and you will give me half of what you dig." Brother and Changhong settled the score.

"Do you have to be ashamed as an old man?" Changhong was very angry.

"Go ahead and dig the vegetables, whoever digs it will count." Zhang Xingming was very moved when he thought of the fresh and tender wild vegetables. He hadn't dug wild vegetables for many years, so this matter had to be done.It is estimated that many vegetables have come out of the mountain now, such as thorny sprouts, bracken, wheeled vegetables, mother-in-law, brains, bitter butterflies, washed and dipped in sauce, so fresh.

The four of them left the house, and Changhong went home to get the household items. The elder brother took out two small baskets from the west room and handed one to Zhang Xingming. The tip of the spear in ancient times was specially used for digging things on the ground), compared them, and handed the smaller one to Zhang Xingming.

As soon as she was ready, Chang Hong ran into the yard with a basket and a knife (also used for digging on the ground, but it was flat and had a wooden handle) and said, "Is it all done? Let's go."

Changyan also carried a small basket behind her, and followed timidly without making a sound. In Zhang Xingming's memory, this girl seldom spoke, so there were very few memories about her, and she always belonged to the one that was ignored. The personality is also the same, not at all like her sister who is so careless, and later married to another castle when she was sixteen or seventeen.

The three of them walked towards Linzi chatting, laughing and fighting, but it was brother and Changhong who were fighting. Zhang Xingming looked at it, he was 40 years old, and he couldn't do anything like fighting with a child of a certain age. The feeling of leading the child into the mountain, Zhong Changyan didn't say a word, but obediently followed behind the three of them.

When we got to the edge of the ground, wild vegetables began to grow.On the edge of the field are Naozeng and Grandma Ding. There are no weeds here, so they are easy to recognize. The four of them are digging while talking nonsense.

Zhang Xingming was completely confused when he entered the forest. He had no choice but to pick it with his brother a few times in his last life. Except for cat's claw bracken, which are often seen in supermarkets, he didn't know anything else.

Changhong chattered non-stop, her family was just her two sisters, Changyan was small, her mother was in charge, Nangou was far away from the fort, she was always alone at ordinary times, and someone could play with her , a little excited.Zhang Xingming followed his elder brother and looked for it like him, seeing what he dug, he did the same.

The woods are very quiet, and from time to time, some unknown birds pass overhead and make a few chirping calls.Years of dead branches and fallen leaves form a thick layer of mat on the ground, which is soft to step on. Green grass pokes out of the mat and grows tenaciously upward.

The leaves have not yet grown densely, and the forest is not very dark. Some small trees are basically naked, just a little green.

"Er Ming, don't move." Zhang Xingming was concentrating on looking for food, when his elder brother suddenly yelled in a subdued voice, Zhang Xingming looked up at his elder brother, and he really didn't dare to move, this is the experience of his previous life.

In the last life, when he was a child, his elder brother always took him up the mountain and down the river. Every time he belonged to the soy sauce gang, he just followed him for a while, purely to accompany the guests, and it didn't do anything.

And every time this happened, he was used to it, knowing that he had encountered either a bird's nest or a long worm (snake).