60s Splendid Life

"Brother Lu Shan, why are you here so soon? Have you brought home all your food?" Lu Jin also knew Lu Quan, but he didn't know that he and Lu Shan were cousins.Thanks to working at the tofu shop, he basically knows everyone in the entire Lujia Village now, but there are still some people whose relatives are not very clear.

Naturally, Lu Quan had also met Lu Jin, but he was not very familiar with Lu Jin.

"Yeah, our family took all of them back, so I came to see if yours got it. Fortunately, I came early." Lu Shan pulled a cart, which was the one their family used just now. Seeing the few bags of food in front of Lu Jin, he was surprised, but he quickly remembered that Lu Jin's family only earned work points by himself, probably not many work points, and the food he got in exchange was naturally not too much.

"Let's move to the car, and my brother and I will take you home."

"Okay, I'll come too. If you didn't come to help, I really don't know how to get back these few bags of things in our house."

"Hey, it's not difficult. If you just call out, someone will be willing to help you."

"Yes, the people in our village are nice."

Together, the three of them carried several bags of grain onto the cart.

The carts of other people's houses are full of food, and there is still a lot of free space next to their food on the cart. Lu Jin stretched out his hand and touched his nose, thinking that he would find someone to buy it when he turned around. Store more food in the space.These days, it is more reassuring to have a little more food at home than to have a pile of money at home. After all, when you are hungry, food can fill your stomach, but sometimes money may not be able to buy food.

The way back was not very far, and the group quickly returned to the yard where they lived with food.

Lu Shan and Lu Quan helped them move the food back home. Lu Jin wanted to leave someone to drink a glass of water at their home, but the two said they had something to do at home and had to hurry back, so they hurried away without even drinking a glass of water. up.

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After the autumn harvest, members can rest for a few days before continuing to work.

July and a half is the Ghost Festival, and they also celebrate this festival here.

After a busy farming season, most of the people were skinny and tanned. The team killed a pig for the festival, and they also gave everyone a bite of meat. Of course, the pork was not given away for nothing.There are not many pigs slaughtered in the village. Every time pigs are slaughtered in the village, most people will go to exchange for some meat. Those who still have work points for the last time the food distribution will get work points in exchange for work points. Those who have no work points will use the money to buy some meat and go home. go to festival.

Lu Jin also spent money to buy meat, thinking that he would go to town tomorrow, so he bought some more meat by the way, and every time he bought meat, he would buy a few bones and go home to make soup for the children .

Usually, when he went to the market in Zhaojiaao, he would often buy meat and flesh and blood to make up for the children in the family. After his hard work in the past six months, the faces of several children in his family grew a little flesh, including He himself, looks much better, and has grown taller, and the last one is what makes him the happiest.

On this day, the smell of meat came from every household in the village.

For the pork that was brought back this time, Lu Jin made all the pork belly into braised pork, set aside a portion for dinner, and put the rest in the space, thinking about sending a portion to Shen Yu and Uncle Liu tomorrow. Go, they can eat the rest for two meals.

For dinner, I steamed a portion of braised pork with preserved vegetables, steamed a portion of taro pork ribs, fried pumpkin, and cooked tofu soup.

The pumpkins are still grown in their own yard. There are five or six pumpkins on a pumpkin vine, big and small, with different sizes. They have already picked two small pumpkins to eat, and the rest are still growing on the vine. above.Anyway, in their own yard, they usually lock the door when they go out. It should be that no one dares to jump in from the fence to steal things, just to steal a melon from their house.

The weather was hot in summer, so they ate at the table in the yard. There was wind outside, and it was much cooler than inside the house. At the moment, they dared not go inside the house because it was too hot.

The two grown geese could no longer be tied up in the fence, and every time they were locked in, the fence would be overturned. Lu Jin could only let them out, and the two geese were wandering around in the yard every day.Fortunately, the two geese in their family don't bite people, otherwise he would prepare a big pot to stew them both.

Since the family raised geese, there have been no snakes or other animals in their house. It seems that no snakes dare to come again after raising geese.

It's just that they set up a table to eat outside, and two geese ran over and stretched their necks. Goose geese hooted, and their mouths almost reached their dining table.

"...You two go away, don't come to hinder us from eating, this is not what you eat." Lu Jin pushed one goose away, and another goose came again, and saw Xiao Baoer on the other side scooping it up with a spoon He was going to feed the geese, "..." He had black lines all over his head and hurriedly stopped him.

"Don't do this, eat your food obediently!" After sending a warning to the child, Lu Jin went to get a stick and drove the two geese out of the yard, so as not to disturb their meal, and also put a few ducks together go outside.

"You guys go, go and play for a while and then come back." To save the trouble at home.In short, sometimes Lu Jin was very worried about the chickens, ducks and geese at home, thinking that it would be true to kill them and eat meat after the Chinese New Year.

A few geese and ducks went out, and the quacking of geese went away.

A few chickens stayed in the fence honestly. Chickens are not as noisy as geese and ducks, and they can stay in one place honestly.

Knowing that a few geese and ducks would go to the stream outside their village to play in the water after being released, and would come back by themselves after a while, Lu Jin ignored them and took the three children to eat together.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo meat!" Lu Haochen was eating a piece of pork ribs, his mouth was full of greasy meat.

Little Baoer is waving a small spoon to scoop up rice. He likes to eat soft steamed plum vegetables and meat. The meat and vegetables are mixed with rice. One bite of rice and one bite of meat and vegetables are delicious.

But my sister eats everything, not only meat but also pumpkin.

"Eat some pumpkin, both of you. We planted it ourselves, and you helped water it." Lu Jin put a piece of pumpkin into a bowl for each of the two cubs, obviously the taste of pumpkin was sweet. , It’s still soft and powdery, why don’t the two boys like it?

Little Bao'er is fine, he will obediently eat it with just one look.

Only that kid Lu Haochen had a disgusted look on his face, and in the end he couldn't resist his threatening eyes, and honestly ate it into his mouth.

"You should know that the food we have now is the fruit of our family's hard work, and most of it is earned by my brother. It is a shameful act to waste food. If you can't eat so much, next time my brother will eat less Just do a little, and then you just don't cry about being hungry." Lu Jin saw that this kid had a good life for a long time, and forgot the days when they didn't have enough to eat.In fact, the meals he prepares for each meal are not too many, only enough for the four of them, but there is just a little more meat today.

Meeting the look in his brother's eyes, Lu Haochen pursed his lips, and could only obediently admit his mistake, "It's my fault, I shouldn't be picky eaters, and I won't in the future." As he spoke, he picked up several pieces of pumpkin with his chopsticks. In my own bowl, I finished eating in big gulps.

Little Bao'er also seemed to feel something, looking at him, Lu Jin also picked up several pieces of pumpkin for the child, and when he saw the child eating it obediently, he boasted: "That's right. We can't waste food, Don’t you study to learn how to hoe crops at noon, and the sweat drips into the soil? Cherish the food.”

After they ate, cleaned up the dishes on the table, washed them, and cleaned the yard, the sun in the west had already set.

Seeing that the geese and ducks hadn't come back so late today, Lu Jin was not too relieved. He asked his sister to watch over his two younger brothers at home, so he went out with a stick and drove the geese and ducks back to their house. , to save Hei Tian from being caught and stewed outside.This is something they have worked so hard to raise, and if they want to stew it, they have to stew it for themselves, and they can't make it cheaper for others.

As soon as he got home from the ducks and geese, his children asked him, "Brother, shall we burn Yuanbao?"

"Okay, after I lock them in, let's go outside and burn them." Lu Jin took the sticks and drove the geese and ducks back into the chicken coop, where they were locked together with the chickens inside. The geese are still flapping their wings inside, and the geese are singing happily.

"..." Lu Jin just gave them a look and left, not wanting to talk to you.

There was the sound of setting off firecrackers outside, Lu Jin went back to the house and brought out a basket of ingots and paper money.

Yuan Bao and the others had already tied them up in advance. They made the straw paper they bought. There are straw papers sold in the countryside. These things in their family were bought when he went back to Lijiaao to go to the market.

The Hungry Ghost Festival is not like the Ching Ming Festival where you have to go up the mountain to worship the ancestors. You just need to burn some paper money at your door to worship.This is a custom in their place, and Lu Jin doesn't really understand it, but he just asked Mrs. Qin to do it, and he followed others to do it.

It was getting dark outside, and many people burned paper money at the door at this time.

Their family also carried a basket of paper money and went outside to burn it. Lu Jin and Xiao Baoer were responsible for burning the paper money here. Chen Chen and her sister took two cigarettes and stuck them around the fence, "Be careful, don't burn your hands." up."

"Got it, we won't be so stupid." Lu Haochen who had just finished speaking was scalded by the fallen incense ash, and the pain made him gasp, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

Only the elder sister who saw it glanced at him, with the expression that you deserve it.

When their family was burning paper money, they also met the next door burning paper money at the back door. Da Mao and Da Mao also ran to their house to play, but their mother came over and took him away after a while, brother The two yelled, shouting to play with Xiaobao.

Lu Jin had no choice but to tell them to go home and take a shower first, and come back to play tomorrow when they are free.

"Let's go, let's go home." After the paper money at the door was completely burnt out, and using a stick to find out what was not burning, Lu Jin took their three children home.He was not a person who believed in superstitions before, but since he was reborn after his death, he has become a bit of a believer. There are some things that he would rather believe in, and don't completely deny them if he doesn't know them.

The moon was very bright this night, and the moonlight quietly shone on the whole village. The whole village was quiet and quiet. Everyone went home early and closed the door to sleep.