60s Splendid Life

At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, there are still many people working in the grain drying field, and a large group of people sit here and pick peanuts.

The tofu workshop was off work in the afternoon. After dinner, Lu Jin also brought their three children to the grain drying yard to help with work. Otherwise, no one in their family would go to the field to collect grain, and they wouldn't even do light work. If you don't, the people in the village will inevitably gossip.

The weather in summer is hot, and the big guys don’t go to bed too early at night. The sun is shining during the day, and it’s cooler at night without the sun. It’s easier to work than during the day, so many people like it at night. Those who come from the sun-drying field, there are adults and children in the village, many people are here, it is very lively.

Children can pick peanuts. Of course, adults work faster. Groups of adults work and gossip around a pile of peanuts. A basket is placed next to each person, and the picked peanuts are placed in the basket. .

These days, everyone is hungry, and peanuts can be eaten. Many children will secretly peel a few peanuts and stuff them into their mouths while everyone is not paying attention, and some adults do the same.

But before coming here, Lu Jin taught their children not to do such things. If they want to eat them, they can exchange some peanuts and go home and cook them, but they can't do anything like stealing.Fortunately, their children are quite obedient, and they just watch other children stealing peanuts, and they dare not do such a thing.

The work of picking peanuts is not difficult, but there are a lot of mosquitoes outside at night.

With a snap, Lu Jin killed another mosquito. He was already wearing long trousers and long sleeves, but these mosquitoes still drilled through every hole, and every bite was a big bag. He didn't even know that he was being bitten. How many bags have you bitten.

Little Bao'er was also bitten so hard that she was scratching her neck, and she was still holding a peanut in her little hand, half of which was left after picking it.

"Don't scratch, scratch the skin, I'll wipe it for you." Lu Jin grabbed the child's scratching little hand, took out the mint ointment from his pocket, and wiped the child's place where the mosquitoes had been. , touching several bags, it's so miserable... He himself feels sorry for him.

Fortunately, the peppermint ointment is cool after rubbing off, and the itching will disappear soon.

After applying the ointment, little Bao'er stopped scratching. She sat on a small stool and carefully picked peanuts. Her small hands could only pick one peanut at a time. Fortunately, he was patient enough to pick peanuts one by one. It can always be finished.

Sitting together, Wang Xiumei and Lu Jin saw that Lu Jin had been swatting mosquitoes all night, so she couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Why do the mosquitos recognize you two for biting?"

"Maybe my meat and Xiaobao's meat are more delicious." Lu Jin was also very helpless. He knew that attracting mosquitoes is a matter of blood type. Some people's blood type attracts mosquitoes, and some people don't attract mosquitoes so much. It is his physique that attracts mosquitoes, that is, when a group of people sit together, the mosquitoes do not bite others but only bite him.

There are four brothers and sisters in their family, only Xiao Baoer has the same physique as him, and the other two children don't attract mosquitoes very much, so the sad thing is that the mosquitoes catch the two of them and bite them.

Two brothers, Da Mao and Er Mao, were also here. When the children saw the adults working, they also came to help, and they did a decent job.

"Mother, tickle." Er Mao ran to his mother's side, rubbing his face and screaming.

Wang Xiumei touched her son's face with her hand and found a bag, she just touched her son with her hand and said, "It's okay, just touch it and it will be fine."

Lu Jin couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. He took out the peppermint cream that he had just taken back and gave it to the other party, and said, "Sister-in-law, use this to wipe him off."

"What's the use, this kid has a very thick skin." Seeing that Lu Jin insisted on giving it, Wang Xiumei still felt sorry for her son. She took the ointment and used her fingers to take a little bit of it to help the younger son wipe his face. He didn't know if he didn't wipe it. My youngest son was also bitten several times by mosquitoes.After rubbing the ointment on her son, Wang Xiumei returned the ointment to Lu Jin, "Come on, give this back to you."

"Sister-in-law, just keep it for use. I still have a box here." Lu Jin didn't reach out to pick it up. In fact, they still have a lot at home. He bought a big box at the pharmacy last time, but he has already used several bottles this summer.

They worked on the grain drying field until after eight o'clock, and the children at home were sleepy, so Lu Jin took the peanuts he had picked and handed them over, and when he came back, he picked up the sleepy little Bao'er, and brought the other two children with him go home.When they went back, their sister-in-law Xiumei also took Da Mao and Er Mao brothers back with them. The two brothers seemed a little sleepy, and kept rubbing their eyes on the way back.

When they left, there were still people working in the sun-drying field, and they didn't pack their things and go home to sleep until after nine or ten o'clock.

When they got home, they still had to take a shower. In the evening they went out after dinner, and they hadn't taken a shower yet.However, after going out to work for more than two minutes, when I came back, I was sweating all over, and my clothes were covered with dirt, which was made when picking peanuts. I still had to take a shower when I came back.

They got home around 08:30, and after taking a shower and going to bed, it was almost nine o'clock.

The two children were probably tired, and they fell asleep as soon as they climbed onto the kang and lay down.

After the two children fell asleep, Lu Jin took the clothes to take a bath, and when he came out, he washed and dried the clothes of the three of them.My sister washed her own clothes. When he went to hang the clothes, there were already two washed clothes hanging on the bamboo pole.

The door of the small house next door was closed, and he knew that their little girl had fallen asleep.

The three children in the family are all asleep, and an oil lamp is still lit on the table in the house.

There was a cool breeze outside, and the wind blew the vegetation in the garden. Lu Jin stood outside in the yard and blew the wind for a while, dissipating the heat from his body, before turning around and going back to sleep.

***

The next day is still a day of getting up early and working.

After they had breakfast at home, sister and Chen Chen went out with a basket on their backs, and Lu Jin took Xiao Bao'er to the tofu shop to work.

In recent days, there have been a lot of children coming under the tree at the entrance of the village. The adults in the village have all gone to work, and older children can also help their parents with work.There are also some older children who are three or five years old who can't help, they take them to the fields and run around, so many people send their younger children to the entrance of the village.

Now there is a tofu shop here, and there are many people there every day, and the old people will gather here, and they can help look after the children in the village.

Some elderly people can't get off the ground, so they help with light work, such as picking peanuts and peeling corn kernels. The old people can help with some work.

People are social animals, no matter they are old or young, once they start to have a sense of territory, they will know how to divide the territory and form cliques, so the group of children playing at the entrance of the village quickly divided into groups. Found several territories and gangs.

Xiao Baoer is very popular here recently, not only because he brings food for everyone to eat every day, but also because he is beautiful, and he is cleaned up by his brother, like a little fairy boy, In sharp contrast to those dirty children, the girls in the village especially like to hang around him, so it is inevitable that some boys will be hostile.

"Let's not play with him. My grandma said he is a cripple, and the cripple will be passed on to others. You have to play with him, and be careful that you will become a cripple too." Xiaobao's playmates, telling them what his grandma said.

When the children heard this, they were afraid that they would become crippled, so they didn't dare to play with Xiaobao anymore.Although they ate Xiaobao's food early every day, they spoke ill of Xiaobao behind his back.

A group of children had conflicts because of Xiao Baoer's wooden cart.

Since Xiao Baoer was brought here by his elder brother to play, he brought his own small wooden cart here every day. Now that he has become very proficient at riding a bicycle, he just rode his small wooden cart to walk around in the open space. .Sometimes Da Mao and Er Mao looked at him enviously, and he would give the car to Da Mao and Er Mao to play for a while, but he refused to give it to other children who wanted to play.

As for her little car, Xiao Baoer is still reluctant to let others touch him, except for her brother and good friends.

The other children know that it is someone else's property, and if others refuse to play with it, they just look at it enviously.

But when it comes to Lu Gouwa, the little fat guy who always speaks ill of Xiaobao behind his back, he doesn't like this Xiaobao who suddenly appeared here and is more popular than him for a long time. The car was for others to play with and refused to let him play with it, so he angrily pushed Xiaobao out of the car.

"Wow..." When Xiao Bao'er was pushed to the ground, she was still dazed for a moment, and then opened her mouth and cried out with a wow.

"You are a villain, you hit Xiaobao!"

"Kill you kill you!"

Brothers Da Mao and Er Mao saw that their best friend was being bullied by Gou Wa so badly, the two brothers rushed to beat the little fat man.

Gouwa is five years old this year. He is short and fat. It is okay to bully children who are younger than him. But when it comes to Da Mao, he can only be crushed and beaten by Da Mao. Er Mao grabbed Gou Wa's arm and beat him hard After taking a bite, Gouwa was also bitten and cried.

Lu Jin, who works in the tofu shop, pays attention to the children outside from time to time. When he hears the crying outside, it sounds like their little baby is crying?

Listen again, it really is!

Lu Jin hurriedly put down the things in his hands and ran outside, and saw their little Baoer sitting on the ground crying, he hurriedly ran over to pick him up, and saw the child's forehead The big bag was so knocked that it was about to bleed.

"Why did you fight? Who made Xiaobao cry?" Wang Xiumei also heard voices outside, and when she came out, she saw her two children fighting with the grandson of Liang Jinhua's family, so she hurried over to help. Open, pulled the two children of my own family to him and asked, "Why are you fighting? Didn't the aunt say that you are not allowed to fight?"

When asked by his aunt, Er Mao was so frightened that he cried, "Wow, wow, he hit Xiaobao and pushed Xiaobao down... Woooooo, he is a villain!"

Only Da Mao didn't cry, his eyes were red, and his face was stubborn.