brother of space

Zhang Jin got up early in the morning and went back to the old mud house next door that Grandpa Zhang lived in when he first came to Woniu Village. It has been unoccupied for seven or eight years.Instead, it became a storage room for Grandpa Zhang and Mother Zhang to store sundries.

For example, when the educated youths went to the countryside and returned to the city, they gave Grandpa Zhang several large water tanks for food, jars of pickles, etc., and they are now placed there.

Originally, it was said that when Zhang's mother got married, she wanted to take it back to store food, but Zhang's father and grandpa Zhang are well-known carpenters here. Could the carpenter's house lose the granary?The granary made for myself is definitely more practical than the water tank, so it is useless.

Grandpa Zhang's side was originally useful.But back then, in order to marry Zhang’s mother, Zhang’s father bought two hundred-year-old camphor woods from the deep mountains and built a set of exquisite medicine cabinets for grandpa. It is said that this medicine cabinet is very valuable in the city!He also converted the nanmu cabinets that he got by chance when he was making money from landlords into three or four boxes as dowry gifts.

Of the three or four boxes now, two of the small ones were taken by Zhang's mother to store clothes, and the other two big ones were left to be used by Grandpa Zhang to store some precious medicinal materials.

Um!Thinking of that box, Zhang Jin couldn't help thinking, what did his father think back then? The box was too big, and he could still fit it in it now.

Naturally, since Grandpa Zhang had already bought a lot of large water tanks, he didn't have much use for them.So, it has been idle in the old house.

Zhang Jin vaguely remembered that the last time he saw that vat, Grandpa Zhang was still complaining that there were too many vats and it took up too much space, and there was no room for his good wood.I said I was going to give it to someone, but it turned out that I didn't want it because it was popular to make cabinets.

I just don't know, if he takes it away today, Grandpa Zhang or Grandpa will be distressed that the big tank in the house is gone.

Zhang Jin thought about it last night, and finally decided to use the eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs in the space to make pickled eggs.In this way, when he eats at school in the future, he can take one or two out for extra meals every now and then.

Even if it is occasionally brought to the family to eat, no one will suspect anything.After all, this thing is sold everywhere, and his grandfather also likes to make some medicinal food from time to time to improve the health of the family.Even if everyone gets better, they will only think that it is the effect of medicinal diet.

However, due to getting up too early, when Zhang Jin arrived at the old house, it was still dark.When walking into the old house, even with a flashlight, a timid teenager gave himself goosebumps.

Simply the old house is really not big, there are only three mud houses, and it is almost clear at a glance what is placed.After Grandpa Zhang moved away, apart from a few vats, a few jars and a pile of thick wood that Grandpa Zhang got from somewhere, he did not place any coffins like other old people in the village.Otherwise, Zhang Jin's cowardice would never come in.Although Grandpa Zhang once told his grandfather that the few logs in the old house are the ones (coffins) he plans to make for himself in the future.

Zhang Jin walked around the whole old house with a flashlight in a guilty conscience. Since there was no food in it for a long time, he didn't even touch a mouse in the end.

But when we got to the room where the tank was placed, Zhang Jin was confused when he saw those 'huge monsters', the tank was too big!The capacity of one is at least four to five hundred catties of grain.Even if only one is taken away, as long as someone comes here, they will be discovered quickly.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jin felt that it would be better to take away everything that could be used, and then tell grandpa that he was useful.

Based on his understanding of the foreign master, he basically wouldn't worry about such things that he didn't need.And seeing how surprised and excited Grandpa was when he told Grandpa yesterday that he was refining the third level of Qi, he probably wouldn't ask too many questions.

What if you ask?Zhang Jin thought again.

"Just tell him that I want to refine medicine!" Some images suddenly flashed in my mind, Zhang Jin's eyes lit up, and he had an idea.

Zhang Jin, who wanted to understand, took all the vats and jars in the old house, as long as he thought they could be used, there were eighteen in total, including five large vats, eight medium-sized jars, and my five small jars. .

After taking the jar, Zhang Jin was not in a hurry to go home, but simply practiced Qi-refining exercises in the courtyard of the old house. The effect was not as good as yesterday's, and the eastern purple energy was not absorbed, and a little of it was probably the breath of spiritual energy. There is simply no comparison with yesterday's majestic atmosphere.

However, when I opened my eyes again, it was dawn again, and when I walked out of the yard of the old house, I ran into a certain uncle who was carrying his head early in the morning and was about to go to the field.

"My second child is so early!" The uncle smiled first and spoke first.

"Uncle." Zhang Jin pursed her lips and smiled. After all, she didn't have a hard time speaking, and replied politely: "Well, I exercise."

"Still exercising. I know you bought a big load of firewood for your grandfather yesterday. Why don't you sleep more this morning!"

"Going to the street in a while."

"Oh! Haha!" The uncle laughed spontaneously as if he understood what the joint was by the way.

Zhang Jin didn't say anything, just smiled shyly, and turned into the yard where Grandpa Zhang lived now.

Grandpa Zhang was once again ahead of Zhang Jin and was cooking in the kitchen.

Zhang Jin walked in, took the washbasin and towel and talked about the tank by the way.

Sure enough, Grandpa Zhang didn't care much, and muttered: "You and your grandfather have a good heart. Yesterday he was still talking about getting a batch of wood to put there, and working at home when the weather is cold, and he was worried that he couldn't let it go." ” After finishing it, he confessed, “Don’t be too eager for quick success, if you want to try it out, there are still a few elixir recipes handed down at home, all of which are simple.”

"Oh!" Zhang Jin nodded in response.

Grandpa Zhang said again: "I won't go to the street in the morning, you will bring money and go to the street with your brothers to cut a few catties of meat and come back, and then check if there are any fish. I have customers here at noon today."

"Then I'll be back early."

"It's right to come back early." Grandpa Zhang said, "Could it be that you still want me to cook?"

Zhang Jin didn't say anything, and went to wash her face with a washbasin.

As soon as breakfast was finished, Zhang Wenhao ran into his grandfather's yard and said loudly, "Second Brother, Mom told you to hurry up, we are about to leave."

"Didn't your mother say that she won't go today?" Grandpa Zhang said.

Zhang Wenhao glanced at the breakfast at Grandpa's house, curled his lips a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of Grandpa, he just said as if describing: "Brother said last night that his quilt was not warm, and Mom said that today I will make it warm." Dad drove over and made some quilts for the three of us."

oh!Grandpa Zhang nodded, then waved his hand and said, "You go back first, your second brother will be here in a while."

"Oh!" Seeing that Grandpa Zhang's house had nothing to eat, Zhang Wenhao naturally didn't want to stay, so he turned around and left after explaining.

After he left, Grandpa Zhang said to Zhang Jin: "I still have a basket of eggs in my house, there are about seventy or eighty of them, you can take them with you later, if you meet your eldest sister on the street, just say that It was brought by your mother."

Zhang Jin nodded and said nothing.

"It's not easy for your eldest sister! You are as high-minded as your mother, but it's a pity that you have bad eyesight."

"..."

Yulin Street in Wutongpo is the next small market in Nanshan Town that brings together more than a dozen nearby villages. It opens every two days of the lunar calendar.

Because it is located in a village like Woniu Village, which is the only way to get out of the mountain, it has developed fairly prosperously for decades.

Primary schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, credit unions, post offices, livestock markets, rice milling and noodle processing workshops, oil mills, wood processing workshops, pesticide and fertilizer seed stores, bicycle and diesel vehicle repair shops, etc., for a small market In other words, the five internal organs are complete.

In addition, there are three butchers and meat sellers on the street. As for other private activities, they buy and sell bed sheets, blankets, cloth, tobacco, alcohol, firecrackers, candy and biscuits, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and daily necessities.Most of them are their own people on Yulin Street. They use their houses facing the street to turn them into small shops, and they don't even have a business license.

No more!After all, whether it is the people on Yulin Street or the nearby villages, everyone is basically living a self-sufficient life. Basically, every household has more than enough food such as firewood, rice, noodles, and vegetables.

Even with cooking oil, most of the time, I would take my own peanuts or sesame seeds to the oil mills on the street to exchange or squeeze them myself.

As the saying goes, people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and when they are free, they can go up the mountains to hunt rabbits and pick mushrooms to enrich their lives.

There are also vegetable sellers on the street, but most of them are not enough to eat in their own vegetable gardens. Basically, there is no high price, only a few cents a catty, and it feels like selling them for fun.Except for those who sell fish and lotus root during the Chinese New Year, or else most of the time there are some old people who really have no money to spend squatting there.

During holidays, there will also be businessmen on the street, such as fortune tellers, dog skin plaster sellers, clothes and shoes sellers, etc., mostly from nearby towns or suburban counties.

Long Tao, Zhang Jin's cheap brother-in-law, is one of these businessmen.

In ancient terms, he is actually more like a wandering salesman who doesn't have his own shop and goes wherever there is a market.With not many groceries, but still alive, with a mouth that can speak well, he can get along in the markets of various towns like a fish in water.

Zhang Jin didn't know how his sister got to know Long Tao, but it didn't prevent the three brothers from liking this glib guy.

But for the sake of sister, even if they don't like each other anymore, every time the three brothers see each other, they will still call each other sweetly brother-in-law.

Originally, I just ate a hearty game last night, but Mama Zhang meant that she would not go to the street to sell meat for meat.

As a result, the words were just out of the mouth, and the two old men uttered accusations together, reprimanding the couple for being stingy and knocking on the door. Don't give up their grandchildren in the future, men are too stingy.

Although in fact, two of the three boys in their family seem to be crooked.

Zhang Junbao, the eldest son of the Zhang family, will not talk about it, maybe as the first son, he was spoiled when he was a child, and his stingy skills are not too obvious, at least his reputation is not obvious, but the second son...

The Zhang family's second child's stingy reputation made the two old men feel very speechless.How can a young man in adolescence become famous all over the town for being stingy?

If this continues, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even marry a daughter-in-law in the future.Girls who are stingy and others can say they can play house, but boys who are stingy will be said to be useless, immodest, and incompetent!

Simply put, Zhang Jin's stinginess is only aimed at outsiders, and he is very aggressive towards family members, and sometimes even a little too aggressive!

"I'll give this bag of cotton to your sister later." After the walking tractor arrived at Yulin Street, Zhang's mother brought a bag of cotton wrapped in a snakeskin bag and said to Zhang Junbao, "I won't go to see her. Out of sight is out of mind."

"Heh!" Zhang Junbao smiled but didn't say anything.He knew that Zhang's mother had a lot of opinions on the fact that his eldest sister didn't show up for the whole busy farming season, otherwise she wouldn't have seen the eggs mentioned by the second child when she just set off and insisted on taking down a dozen eggs, leaving only fifty .

"Go and come back quickly." Mother Zhang confessed after her sons got off the car, "Don't talk too much with the dead girl. Didn't the second child just say that your grandfather has a visitor today? Mom is going to make a quilt today, probably at noon. I can't go back, in the afternoon, if you walk this way, you can just take the quilt with you."

It is about an hour's journey from Woniu Village to Yulin Street, which is still close compared to many villages that live deeper.For Zhang's mother who is out of habit, it's nothing.

Seeing the three sons quickly disappearing in the crowd, Zhang's mother turned her head and said to Zhang's father, "Driving, what are you doing in a daze?"

"Heh, heh! If you miss her, why don't you go and see her?"

"Why should I? I raised her so big? I worried so much about her, and finally raised a white-eyed wolf. I still go to see her? Let me tell you, if you meet me on the street today, you will treat me as a I didn't see it, if you dare to go to ask about your health, I will deal with you when you go back."

"Heh, heh!" Father Zhang just smirked and didn't say anything else.He can understand his daughter-in-law, and he is a little sad for his daughter, but after all, his daughter!

Mother Zhang hugged her little daughter who was staring blankly into her arms, rubbed her head and said, "My little girl is better, it's mother's little padded jacket."

Father Zhang asked with a strange look on his face: "Why did I hear people say that the daughter is father's little padded jacket?"

"Your eldest daughter is your little padded jacket, why didn't you see her come back with a couple of drinks for you?"

"..." One by one, I'm so heartbroken, what should I do?

The three brothers of the Zhang family, one carrying a basket of eggs, and the other two carrying [-] to [-] catties of cotton, went to the small stalls selling groceries on the street in an unrestrained manner.

If their brother-in-law Long Tao's stall can be number one on Yulin Street, no one dares to be number two.

Clothes and shoes, trinkets or daily necessities, including needlework, etc., should be used on his stall.

Because of the security, the business has always been good. Every time I come to Yulin Street, everyone who needs it will look for his stall.So when you go to the street, just look at the big stalls over there, the loud shouts, and the crowds, which way is Long Tao's stall.

However, today seems to be different, probably because Long Tao has not been here for the past two months, the business in front of the stall today is not as good as before.

When the three brothers arrived, two or three of them squatted there to choose long johns.

"Xiaobao! Xiaojin, Xiaowen!" Zhang Qing was squatting down and helping the customer to choose clothes. When he was sure that the customer wanted to buy and collect money, he got up and saw his three younger brothers, and his whole face was bright.

"Sister." The three brothers called out in unison.At the same time, they carefully looked at their sister to determine if she was being bullied by a brother-in-law who was not liked by them.

Today, Zhang Qing is wearing a □□□Chengxin, which is more popular now sports suit. She looks refreshing and fashionable. Lady's temperament, now the combination of the two, has the feeling of a city person, which makes people's eyes bright.

"Sister, this is what Mom prepared for you." Zhang Junbao brought a bag of cotton over, "Mom didn't know how many catties of cotton you wanted for the quilt, so she got more than 30 catties of cotton for you to see for yourself." manage."

Zhang Qing's originally bright smiling face suddenly changed color after hearing Zhang Junbao's words, and his eyes were a little red.In the past few months, she knew that the family was busy with farming, and she originally wanted to take advantage of the time here and go back to help out.The anger with her mother disappeared a few months after her wedding. Compared with her mother-in-law, she knew that her mother still loved her.Although her husband has been emphasizing in her ears that she was sold by her mother, after getting along for more than a year, she has seen some facts clearly, just like this time, in order to fear that she would drag him to work at her mother's house, she insisted on They don't go this way.It was not until yesterday that I heard that the busy farming here was over, that I decided to come here today.

"Sister, this is brought to you by grandpa." Zhang Jin carried the egg over, "Grandpa doesn't know if you will come over today, so let us bring some less to avoid breaking it."

Zhang Qing's eyes were originally red, but after hearing what his brother said, they became even redder!Tears fell immediately.

She is ignorant, not filial, and doesn't go back to her natal family, but even so, the family still thinks of her.I won’t talk about it before, basically every week, my grandfather and mother will get her some vegetables and food for her to take back home, saying that she will buy everything in the town.Let her know how to live.

But this time...

Thinking of this, Zhang Qing felt that he had lived so much in vain!After being married for such a long time, my in-law's family has finally figured out that it is a bottomless pit that cannot be filled, or a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with it.

"Why didn't you just tie it into a quilt cover?" Long Tao, who had just accepted the account from a shoe selection customer over there, came up with such a sentence.

Zhang Qing, who was brewing emotions, almost collapsed.

The three brothers of the Zhang family were also furious in an instant.

However, before the three brothers got angry, Long Tao noticed Zhang Qing's strangeness, and immediately said with a warm expression: "What's wrong? Why did you make your sister cry?"

"You..." Zhang Wenhao was impatient, and when he heard Long Tao's tone, he immediately wanted to talk about it.

It was Zhang Junbao who interrupted him, and asked Long Tao: "Brother-in-law, don't talk nonsense, my sister misses my mother. Didn't you say when you got married before that you would come to us in a week at most, let me Can sister see my mother once too? You haven't come here for two months this time?"