Cross-country exchange

Xia Yu lay on the wooden bed, tossing and turning, staring straight at the roof, unable to fall asleep.

The events during the day are still vivid in his mind. Whether his father took him to sell vegetables in the county town or walked for several hours, it was a new experience in life for Xia Yu.Especially at the end when the peddler cursed, he could hear clearly, and he believed that Dad could hear it too.

A rough handmade wooden comb can be sold for [-] yuan in this era, which is more than what my father paid for working hard, wearing out a few pairs of shoes, and walking hundreds or even thousands of miles to sell vegetables.

Xia Yu stretched out his hands and looked in front of his eyes. The room was pitch black, but he couldn't see anything, but in his last life, he improved his previous life with his hands, thus reaching the peak of his career.

The sound of breathing in the ears came and went, and the crickets outside the house kept calling. On this hot summer night, Xia Yu made a real decision.

The next day, when everyone in the Xia family woke up, the rice soup and steamed bread on the table were ready.Xia Bing carefully touched the temperature of the bottom of the pot with his hands, it was a little hot, but the temperature was not very high, presumably someone had already prepared it and put it here.He looked at the number of people again, and found that only his father and younger brother were missing.

"Grandma probably made it, grandma, let's eat first, and go to the field early after eating."

As soon as Xia Bing sat down, several younger brothers also sat down.Xia Chun and Xia Qiu will go to help in the fields together. As for the two younger brothers, the twins Xia Dong and Xia Zhi and Xia Lei must go to Liu Ama's house to learn how to do needlework together.But after the age of 15, every brother has to learn to do this skill. Objectively speaking, it is to make clothes for future husbands and children.The grandma of the Xia family has very strict requirements on her brothers. She has a plan in mind for what to do at any age.The only thing that made him panic was the matter of his family Xia Bing and Xia Yu.

This brother is a little older, so it is not easy to find a husband's family.And her own boy, Xia Yu, has also reached the age of marriage.

The Xia family's grandma replied while busy around the stove, "Okay, let's eat first."

Xia's father went to sell vegetables in the county early, but this time Xia Yu didn't follow directly, he was looking for a new way out.

There is a small hill around Hexi Village. Many trees are planted on the top of the hill. Some trees have grown for more than ten years. Son, uneven.

Xia Yu got up early in the morning before dawn, and he couldn't fall asleep because of some things that weighed on his heart.Secondly, he had an unformed idea in his mind, and he had to do it himself to know the result.

After walking around the hill for a long time, Xia Yu aimed at several trees, and stopped beside a certain tree after thinking for a long time. He stepped forward to touch it, hugged it, and the trunk was still within the reach of his arms. Inside.Finally, he randomly picked up the stones on the ground and threw them twice, and used the sharp part of the stones to draw a circle on the tree trunk.

When returning, Xia Yu also paid great attention to his feet, holding several wooden sticks of different thicknesses in his hands, which caused the villagers who came back and forth to look sideways.

"Boy Xia, where did you go so early in the morning? Why are you only coming back now?" The grandmother of the Xia family had a lot of things to do today. She thought Xia Yu would just go around the village and come back. Waiting for a few hours, the whole morning passed in a blink of an eye, and I didn't know what I was busy with.

Xia Yu put down some wooden sticks in his hand, picked up the water in the teacup, poured some, took a few sips, and replied casually, "Grandma, I'll go to the hill over there to have a look."

As soon as Xia Yu said that she had gone to the top of the mountain, the grandmother of the Xia family immediately put down what she was doing and said angrily, "Who told you to go there? That place is dangerous, who told you to go, ah."

It was the first time Xia Yu saw Grandma getting so angry, and he really didn't realize what was going on, and finally squeezed out a few words, "Then, can't I go to that place?"

Didn't he hear his father say that he went to the mountains to exercise when he was a child, and he didn't hear his father say that he can't go to that place.

Xia's grandma has been thinking a lot lately, but now she has waited for so long, so she is a little angry.But seeing Xia Yu sulking next to his fire, I felt that I was a bit too much, so I said patiently, "If the hill behind is around, you can walk around, but you can't go inside. There is a very vicious big Strange, there was a boy in Wang Cheng’s family who just ran in to play, and he never came back after that. So in the future, Xiao Xia, you should remember grandma, and resolutely don’t go to some places that you can’t go. It’s best that you go around the hills Don't go either. You are not too young at this age, and you will soon be able to marry a brother, why do you act so frighteningly?"

Xia Yu listened silently, nodding from time to time.But when I heard my grandma say that I can marry my elder brother when I am not young, I can't accept it.

"Grandma, I remember."

The grandmother of the Xia family didn't say much, "I've already made lunch, you go to the field and call elder brother and the others back, I'll go and see Xia Zhi and the others."

After everyone was full, they went back to their rooms and took a nap.The sun outside was hanging high in the middle, and the scorching heat of the ground sprayed on the face, and soon sweated profusely.

Xia Yu found a shady place outside the house, which happened to be under a tree.He took a machete, picked out one or two sticks he picked up today, and chopped them into several pieces, about the size of his palm.After that, I used the kitchen knife I used to chop vegetables to peel the skin.

Although his hands are a little clumsy, and he is a little clumsy when peeling the skin with a kitchen knife, Xia Yu has a calm temper and can sit still. What was originally a trivial matter became slow work in his hands. After peeling off a layer of skin, cut the small stick in two from the middle, and then cut half of the stick into a half-curved shape step by step according to the thinking in his mind.

Next, if you use a kitchen knife to carve, it will be a little more difficult.

Xia Yu remembered the set of special carving knives that accompanied him in the previous life.Sighing with regret, he began to scratch one by one with the back of the knife.

He was concentrating on scratching the grain on the wood, when a person suddenly appeared behind him.

"Little brother, what are you doing?"