Seventy Little Heads

Goudan didn't go anywhere, he just walked around the stove, warming himself by the fire, sniffing the rare smell of greasy and burnt oil in the air.

In his opinion, this is the best smell, Wang Xuan didn't chase him away, let him smell it enough.Anyway, with him watching the dog eggs, he didn't have to steal them.Li Siji's new stove was a bit high, and Wang Xuan stepped on a low stool and worked with a shovel.Goudan has grown very fast in the past six months, so he doesn't need to step on it, but when it comes to cooking, he can only burn the fire.

At noon that day, almost every household had a special smell, and no one didn't like this smell.

After eating a delicious lunch, Goudan was lying on the kang and rubbing his stomach. This was the most satisfying time he had eaten in the past two years. He thought back on the delicious food just now, and he always felt that he could remember it for a long time.

Li Si was half full, and there was nothing he could do, so he only changed the small amount of fine grains that could make dumplings. His son was at the age when there was nothing left to eat, and he couldn't do anything.A father should not drink more soup, save dry and delicious food for his son.The summer grains are not bad, but who knows that the autumn harvest is not good. Except for the sweet potatoes, almost all the fine grains obtained have been replaced by coarse grains.I'm worried that it won't be able to pick up wild vegetables next year. Who knows what the scene will be next year.

As long as the children have something to eat, the parents put their heads in the bowl and stuffed it into their mouths with their heads down, eating what was in the bowl in their hearts.

The adults in the village are not as easy to satisfy and carefree as the children, they are very worried.It has been dry in the second half of this year, but the first snow is not as thick as in good years, if it is like this throughout the winter.There is no doubt that the drought will continue after the beginning of spring.

After all, Li Si still couldn't escape the fate of repairing the reservoir in winter. Every family has a strong man, and Li Si's family is only a strong laborer and his family did not participate last year.Fortunately, the village head knew the situation of his family, so he let him go to a place close to his home, which made his life much easier, and he could go home every day.Li Si also breathed a sigh of relief, there is only one quilt at home, if he is far away from home, can he carry the quilt on his back?It's unbearably cold.In this way, the two children in the family have no quilt. Although the quilt is too hard and old to keep warm, it can be covered anyway.

Wang Xuan hurried to add the front and back fur to Li Si's old cotton-padded clothes. Goudan told Li Si not to let others rummage through his cotton-padded clothes.Li Si had been confused by his son for the past six months. He was used to his son's arrangement and didn't ask too much.Put on clothes, take rations, and follow the troops in the village.

No matter how worried he was that his son would have to leave, he could only repeat, don't go outside to play, who knows if there will be wild beasts coming down the mountain in winter?

I told my son, and then told Wang Xuan, let him watch the dog more.A man who doesn't talk much and is silent, his concern is usually silent, but he has to say a few words in this meeting.

Goudan hugged the dog named Daguai and watched his father leave. Most of the time from today, they were the only two children at home.

In fact, Li Si didn't spend much time at home, except sleeping at night, going home for dinner, and working outside.

Speaking of working together, except when collecting food, many people work as foreign workers, and if they have something to say, they will be asked for leave.Li Si's other advantages are hard to say, honestly, his duty is too much, he seldom asks for leave, unless he is too sick to get up.

He felt in his heart that his family needed to raise his son and do more work, so that the child might not be able to eat more food.

He is not so stupid that he doesn't know about those things that often make excuses for leave, but he is used to work, and he doesn't know what to do when he asks for leave and is lazy.Serious work is his only survival capital. It is hard to say anything else. He is confident that no one can do better than him.

Nowadays, life in every household is difficult, but is it really related to laziness?Not really!In such an environment, everyone's living standards are similar, and no one should laugh at who is poor.

In the ancestral hall of the village, there are educated youths teaching the villagers. In fact, there is nothing else. There is no entertainment. If you are worried about not having enough firewood, it is better to gather a handful of firewood, and it is still warm inside.He can chatter and he can turn over torn clothes and mend them.

The young and tender-faced educated youth above wrote a few big characters feebly, and the lofty ambition when accepting the task is now gone.If there are one or two young and eager to learn in the literacy class, they can be said to be blessed by the party.Learning requires an environment, everyone deserted, and those who started to study were also brought to be lazy.

It is not so easy to learn knowledge when you are old, not to mention that you don't have the heart to learn at all.I forgot to clean it up today without staying overnight, who can be blamed?Going home to do housework, after a while the baby cried and made a fuss, how could I remember a few words when I was struggling all day?

There are also children here, and they all come to play with the adults, running around, and it is impossible to read or write.

Goudan propped his chin with one hand, he didn't know where his mind was wandering, if it wasn't for Wang Xuan's suggestion to come to study, so that he could understand the baby's secret as soon as possible.He didn't come here at all.His learning is purposeful, with utilitarianism in it.He's not like Wang Xuan, this guy likes these things.Goudan thinks it might have something to do with his father in the city being a scholar. Anyway, his own father is a farmer, and he doesn't like studying because of his family history.

Yes, it is like that.

While Wang Xuan was writing the words on the blackboard stroke by stroke in the notebook, he glanced at his doggy brother out of the corner of his eye. Not to mention, if he didn't know him well, Wang Xuan almost believed that he was the only one in this temporary classroom. Two serious people.As for the only one, of course it was himself.

Listening to the teaching of the little teacher above without beginning and end, and listening to those women arguing with their own men, or arguing with other men and women, most of the day will pass.

Goudan's days are boring, but Wang Xuan feels fulfilled and at ease.Now I still see his uncle Chen Ada occasionally. Chen Ada has no other expressions or words, as if he is other unrelated children in the village.On the other hand, the aunt pointed at Sang and scolded Huai as soon as she saw her, and she jumped out of any ugly words.Goudan secretly took him to find Xiaofu to make a big meal and not let them go home to complain.

I don't know if the two unkind people went home and filed a complaint against Wang Xuan, after all, they didn't see the woman coming to the house to make trouble.It must be because he didn't have the guts to complain, Wang Xuan curled his lips, he couldn't believe that he was bullied by these two bastards before.

Goudan holds a knife in his hand, his whole body is pure black, very sharp, if he knows the words, he should be able to say "cut iron like mud".In short, I don't know how to describe a small knife, or a dagger is more appropriate.But Goudan obviously likes it very much, and takes it out to play with it from time to time.After a few gestures of hehehaha, there is no boy who doesn't like knives and guns.Otherwise, I would make medicine for Wang Xuan, and Wang Xuan stumbled to make the medicine according to what he learned, or he learned to make it himself according to the formula left behind. He often failed at the first level and only succeeded once or twice.

If you want to say it, isn't it all medicine?Anyway, there are some herbs that should be available, but the effect should be the same.But this made Wang Xuan refute it back.

"Is this much enough?" There are no ordinary things in it, but the two children don't know what to buy, they only know that they can't show it to others.This is a promise to that person, but they don't have much idea of ​​how rare things are.

They feel that it is not as good as a bowl of meat or a warm cotton coat.But there are things to learn, and you can move and hide things without effort, which is also an advantage.Now that the time has passed, Goudan vaguely knows that what the man taught them may be beneficial, for example, he himself runs faster than before, has greater strength, has more sensitive reactions, can hear sounds from far away, and so on.Of course, it may also be because he himself has grown taller.

Goudan is still willing to believe that this treasure and the knowledge he has learned are useful. Anyway, apart from the school textbooks, no one else can teach him anything.His father said that it would not be wrong to learn more skills.

"What is it with this time?"

"Frostbite." Wang Xuan replied, wondering if it would work or not.

Both of them had no basis for practice, and they were forcefully infused with knowledge by the Guanzhu.It is remarkable that Wang Xuan was able to match it successfully once or twice. It can be said that talent played a decisive role.At the beginning, Guanzhu chose him as the inheritor of medicine, not to mention it was quite suitable, Goudan didn't have such patience.Now it is not suitable for practice, and in the future Wang Xuan will probably be able to make medicine suitable for ordinary people, of course, it should be the best.

"Uncle's hands and feet are frostbitten a lot."

Goudan listened and thought about it, "Do you think other people will suffer from frostbite as well? If we can sell... no, we can exchange...."

"No, that's a crime. Besides, who will believe us when we are young?"

"That's true. I remember that the old man in the commune health center is a doctor. He is very good, right? Why don't we ask if they want to accept you?"

Wang Xuan thought for a while, although he learned from his dreams every day, there were many things he didn't understand.At that time, it was not allowed to ask questions, so who to ask?The man left only memory.But if someone is willing to accept himself as a disciple, you can ask if you don't understand!

"We'll find a way to see when the time comes."

Goudan stretched himself, the home smelled of a bitter herbal medicine, but fortunately Li Si was different from ordinary fathers, otherwise he would be messing around like this... That's right, Li Si thought the children were messing around.Might as well have a meal for the kids.Li Si wouldn't do this, he felt that children just play, just like Goudan playing with mud when he was younger.Maybe play house?

In addition to his hard work, I don't know whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage. He never beats children.Even if Goudan is naughty and has no limits, at most he will say a word or two occasionally, and it is because Goudan said when he was angry with his grandma that he is a father who would bend behind Goudan to apologize but would not beat and scold his children.

"Take it, Dad is coming back."

Father was not as tolerant towards Wang Xuan as he was towards him, Goudan gradually discovered this.Maybe other people will be polite to other people's children, and be strict with their own children. If they make a mistake, they will beat and scold their own children first, but Li Si is different. He loves his own children the most, and then other people's children.

As a taciturn man in his forties now, he has nothing to express his full fatherly love for his only child except doting.It is not known that Goudan was not hurt, and it was also caused by various coincidences.Some of the other peers have become grandpas, and you can't exaggerate how much it hurts Goudan.

After hearing this, Wang Xuan silently tidied up, and then began to pack one by one into the space. After the two of them were done, they started to heat up the steamed meals in the morning and served them on the table.

The firelight reflected the two immature faces, giving birth to warmth.