Seventy Little Heads

"Goudan, Wang Xuan, are you there?"

The two were squinting their eyes happily, imagining how much meat they could buy with money in the future, when they heard someone calling outside.The two hurriedly cleaned up, "Come here." Then they said to Wang Xuan: "You go and open the door first, and I will get dressed first."

Wang Xuan jumped down, put on his slippers, ran over to open the door, and saw a few friends looking around outside the fence.

"Why are you here?"

"Hey, we heard that you went to the county seat? Did you really go?"

"How is the county seat? Is it bigger than the commune?"

"Why didn't you say earlier, we will go too."

"That's right, we were exhausted from the work of old Chen's emissary. Dagui was kicked by him, and his legs are still green."

They rushed forward and asked Wang Xuan, Wang Xuan answered one by one and then asked Dagui, "Did you really kick you?"

"Isn't that right? Look at it." As he spoke, he took off his pants and let Wang Xuan look at his thighs. Wang Xuan took a look, "It's so serious, did you tell your parents?"

"I'm suing, they beat me because I was disobedient, they don't believe me." Dagui pulled up his pants helplessly.

"By the way, you haven't been there for a few days, and you haven't helped him grow private land. I think he will beat you when you go to school. And you have to bring a broom there. I guess you have to clean half of the campus." Dafu told Wang Xuan in advance Get a vaccination.

Wang Xuan was really worried after hearing this, "Don't worry, if he dares to beat us, I'll beat his son." Goudan said as soon as he came out from behind.

The little friends are laughing, who doesn't know how good the dog fights?But that's the teacher, whoever dares to offend the teacher will be beaten if he is beaten.Dagui's situation is not bad, last time a child was slapped directly, and he was deaf because of bleeding ears, so what?It's not that the parents didn't dare to say a word, and in the end the child didn't even go to school.

Goudan didn't explain either, but well, he never liked being wronged since he was a child.

"The county seat is quite big, but the people are not very nice, which is fierce."

"How fierce? Is Lao Chen fierce?"

"Of course there is, you don't know, that person is so bad, Brother Goudan and I just took a look and wanted to beat us. We will not go if there is nothing to do in the future. We will go when we grow up."

Goudan slammed the wooden door of the fence outside, and it was closed. There was a lock on the place where the food was stored, and everything else was meant to be closed.

"Where are we going to play?"

"We're going to the farm to pick up peanuts."

"Let me pick it up?"

"No, but there is no one around at noon. They are planted on the field outside the wall, and we secretly dig the ground. You see, we have broken the knives with hoes, that's all." Qi Zhi lit up the bamboo basket A rusty knife with no handle in it.

"Then you wait." Wang Xuan turned back, and then saw that he took a bamboo basket and a small basket, and dug them out with two old bamboos that were sharpened and shaped like cooking shovels.This thing was made by Li Si in a squeeze of time, and it was durable and firm.

Wang Xuan gave Goudan the first bamboo shovel and bamboo basket, and carried the basket and a bamboo shovel by himself. "Let's go."

"Wang Xuan, show me your digging shovel. I'll ask my dad to sharpen it when I go back." She seemed quite pleased with it.

On the way, the children folded tree branches and wove them into "straw hats". Wearing them on their heads not only keeps them cool, but also covers their faces. They are all the same boys, half of their faces are covered. If you don't look at their size, who knows which is which? Woolen cloth.This also helps to protect themselves. After all, they also know that it is not good to go to the place where others have received the goods once without their consent.

"Last time, my grandma fried peanuts for my grandpa to serve with wine. I secretly ate a few of them. It was delicious. This time, I made it and asked my mother to fry it for me."

"Adults are deceiving people. Why don't you secretly bake it outside and eat it yourself. You must go back to squeeze the oil."

"Brother Goudan, you said let's go back after roasting and eating."

"We'll see what happens. Maybe someone is guarding us. We won't get anything."

A group of boys walked away in a mighty manner. When passing by the river ditch, old ladies and little girls wandered by the water, beating their clothes on flat stones.

Wang Xuan hurried over to see that the clothes soaked in the morning were still crushed by stones in the river, "These are your clothes, you child, how can you just leave them like this, and someone else's house will take them home."

Wang Xuan tried not to leak the wind and said: "That can't be done. It's so old. It's been worn for several days on the road. It smells sour. It's easy to soak in the water before noon."

"Brother, where are you going? Go home and tell mother to clean you up." Da Zhuang took a look, and saw who was not his younger sister among the girls doing laundry.

"Clean it up, my mother told you not to play around in the morning, you have to turn Tai Nai over, don't run to play again."

Regardless of his sister's yelling, Da Zhuang called everyone to leave quickly, as if his fierce mother was chasing after him.Sister Da Zhuang disappeared in a blink of an eye, and was so angry that she picked out Da Zhuang's clothes and threw them on the ground.Don't wash him.

The other little girls laughed and laughed when they saw it. Of course, in the end, the big strong girl picked it up and washed it, and complained while washing, "I ran away again. How can I look through my grandma by myself."

"You are not afraid that your sister will really complain." Wang Xuan looked sideways at Da Zhuang. It is true that Da Zhuang's mother has a very bad temper. His father never beat him, but his mother is tall, strong, dark and angry. It sounded scary, Da Zhuang didn't even dare to quarrel with her.

"Afraid of her? My father said, this family is still in charge of our men."

Do you really believe your father?You forgot, your father was chased by your mother with a stick and ran all over the village, right?

Da Zhuang rubbed his nose, "My sister is just talking about how she dared to complain. She is also afraid that my mother will beat her up. Don't worry, my mother won't know."

We have nothing to worry about, no matter how fierce your mother is, she won't beat us anyway, she will only beat you, her own son, until your father doesn't even know you.

Everyone walked to the vast land outside the farm. This is a very flat land, which was divided into the farm for some reason.And it wasn't called a farm at first, but later it was said that it was a piece of land that was established after learning from the frontier to build a farm.It was quite controversial at the time.

"What, is there anyone?"

The boys just crawled over on the ground, squatted up to watch, stood up and watched again.He waved his hands, thinking that he lowered his voice and said, "No one, I guess they didn't like the second turn, and went to another field to harvest. We came to the right place."

Farmers are rich, and some people have wages and benefits. They are not like them. Every time the harvest is over, everyone has to go through it once or twice, just to find out what is missing.

I heard that there was no one, so they all poured into the field. You have a piece here, and I have a piece of mine, and then start to rummage. If anyone is lucky enough to dig out a nest of peanuts, everyone come and see .envy the luck of others.

"Dagui, hurry up. If you weren't too slow, the piece in front of you just now wouldn't be snatched first. There are so many peanuts there. Don't eat it. You'll finish it if you don't have much."

"It's not to eat you." Dagui muttered and moved his mouth, but he was still a little scared of his elder brother, so he went to dig the ground seriously for the time being.

After all, it is picking, and it is difficult to determine the harvest for such a job as plowing the ground.

"Brother Goud, come here for a while.

"What's the matter? Did you hit a nest?" If two or three peanuts are cut off at once, but the digging is not finished, it will be a nest when they meet, which is a beautiful thing.

Seeing Goudan asking, the little friend also ran over curiously. "Where is it? Is there a lot?" Although they won't share it with them, it's satisfying to look at.

"No, it looks like a field mouse nest?"

real?Goudan ran over directly, then pulled the soil twice with both hands, and poked with two fingers to dig out some soil. "Maybe it's really a granary."

Goudan put down the bamboo basket, shook off his arms and began to dig deeper, and then borrowed a small hoe to dig, with a circle of black heads around the side, all excitedly watching Goudan dug up the dust, like a A little mouse digging hard.

"Big darling and little darling couldn't come, otherwise, if they smell it, they will know if there are any mice in it." The little darling came back from the bullock cart last night, and now he is still recuperating at home. Watching the house at home.In the past, wherever the two of them went, the two dogs would follow each other, but now they feel unaccustomed to the sudden rush.

"If there are mice, wouldn't there be peanuts and edible meat?" The people nearby also hurriedly looked for mouse holes, and they forgot about the peanuts. If they came across a mouse nest, there would definitely be one. peanuts.

Or how can I say that the children are not qualitative, and now those who are stimulated by the dog eggs don't work hard anymore, and they all shift their goals.But at this time the field was indeed a paradise for mice, and it didn't take long to find a few more, which made the boys very excited.

Digging out mouse holes and snake holes is their specialty.I didn't know the danger at all, so I directly put my hand in, lying on my stomach and trying to look inside.The mouth is covered with soil, spit out a mouthful of water, and take turns digging.

"Come out." Exclaimed for a while, and sure enough, a mouse ran out of the hole dug by Goudan. "This should be very close to the entrance of the storage hole."

Goudan is more like a calf, humming and humming.The soil flew out to both sides, and soon it was replaced by Wang Xuan's digging. Wang Xuan didn't have the strength of a dog's egg, but he worked decently.

"Brother Goudan, almost, come on."

I began to dig carefully, and there were already a few scattered peanuts. Goudan simply put down the bamboo and dug the soil in the deep plowed ground, which was quite soft.I went straight to dig in, and a handful of peanuts mixed with soil were caught out.

"There are so many? Oh, I have to go back and dig mine quickly." The friends are jealous, Goudan seems to be better than them in everything, I am really envious.I just envied him for being able to go to the city to play, and now I envy his good luck.

Goudan proudly emptied the mouse's granary, mixed it with soil and put it on the ground, Wang Xuan carefully picked it up and put it in the bamboo basket. "It's not dry. It hasn't rained for the past few days, otherwise it must be moldy. Brother Goudan, some of them have sprouted."

"Mice are so rich."

"It's good to be a mouse. You can eat everything. You can eat as much as you want in the peanut field. It's so beautiful." Qizhi is a child with foodie characteristics.

The children were happily digging, completely forgetting that this is someone else's land, and they turned over it without their consent. They forgot the initial anxiety, and now they are chattering loudly.There are also people who are impatient to dig holes, and take off their pants to urinate, intending to force the urine out of mice or make the soil softer for digging.

"Hey, hey, where are the fur kids from? What are you doing there?"

When the children heard it, people came?Hula-la-lah, lift-up trousers, pick-up bamboo baskets, knives and shovels, hula-la-lah ran into the woods, the lively scene just now was gone, they ran so fast, they didn't care if the branches hit their faces and bodies.The adult who called for him was also stunned for a moment, thinking that it must be a child from a nearby village who wanted to pick up the leaks after seeing the harvest.Their farms have a lot of land, and the crops are connected together. Basically, few people will dig the ground twice or three times to pick up leaks.

The little friends who were running here dispersed, and when they were halfway, they began to call for assembly. Some yelled directly, and some sipped their mouths and made strange calls of birds.

"Where is my brother, who of you saw it?"

"The silver head didn't come back either..."

"It's probably going astray. These people have already said, don't be so scattered. You are a coward. Then why are you afraid of him as an adult?"

"Then why did you run away, why didn't you stay there?"

They were brothers and sisters just now, but now they are about to fight each other because of a momentary dispute.The two of them were coming and going, rolling on the ground, and the people beside them didn't pull, but started booing instead.

Waiting for a few people who walked off the road to find the main force, they saw a circle of friends, and the two in the middle were fighting inseparably.

"Here, why did the fight start, what's the matter?"

"I don't know." The onlookers replied and yelled to cheer up. They were very excited.

"Hey, you guys came out? Don't hit, don't hit, people came out. It's not lost."

"Yes, we came out. Hey, what does it have to do with us?"

"Fight, why not fight, eh."

Then everyone rushed to pull him up. Both of them were angry. Why didn't you stop them just now?Just now the opponent punched me too much, and I was pulled away before I could fight back. I was really pissed off.

Then the person who was pulled was not happy, and you were asked to meddle in your own business?Vigorously throwing away the person who was pulling the frame, the person who was dumped was also angry, and wanted to entangle with each other to continue fighting.It was only after everyone persuaded them to give up.

Children are familiar with each other, play together, and make friends very quickly, but conflicts and fights are also a matter of minutes, which is inexplicable.As a lively boy, everyone basically cannot do without fighting when they grow up, and there is no one who has never fought, the difference is just - others beat you or you bully others, or fight each other.

Goudan was no stranger to fighting, so Goudan didn't care if he didn't agree with others, and picked the grass clippings off his head.He and Wang Xuan took off the cocklebur and ghost needles on each other's bodies.The main reason is that the ghost needles on the body are not easy to remove. If you keep them, they will stick to your body through the fabric, and the itching is not to mention uncomfortable.

The problem is that it is not easy to pick. When it was running through the bushes, it was covered with dense ghost needle grass.I can only ask others to help pick it, after all, I can't see it behind my back.

Seeing that there was nothing to watch, the others also patted themselves a little bit, and then checked their gains.Some people ran so nervous that they lost their bamboo baskets, some forgot their knives, and some scattered most of their harvest.

"Oh, I'm so angry. If I don't get it back, my father will cut me for the lost knife." This is the brat who secretly took out the good knife.

"I don't get much, but it's much more useful than digging out the land in our village."

Then everyone met to discuss, and we should go back and have a look later, and find the lost things by the way or take the opportunity to look through them.

In fact, because there are other crops on the farm that have just matured and have not been harvested, they are worried that they will be picked up by the people in the nearby villages and they will cause trouble.

Although they are not particularly rich, but they are not to the extent that they have to be rummaged.At that time, they can plant another crop. They are not the same as the collective work in the village. They have targets and requirements, and they just follow the arrangement.

Goudan thinks it's right, maybe that person just passed by and happened to find out, and he might be going home now.

"Come on, let's go and have a look." There is no child who doesn't like adventure and excitement. They are born like this, and they don't know what it means to be afraid.As soon as the matter was over, he immediately forgot the embarrassment of the birds and beasts scattered before.

The two people at the head probed their brains and lowered their voices to report the situation. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that they had really left.Then they came out of the hidden bushes one by one like gophers, picked up the knives, and cleaned up the peanut bamboo baskets scattered on the ground.

"Hee hee, that person probably didn't expect us to come back again, look, the things are still there."

I happily found a corner of the forest with water and shelter from the wind. I cut down small branches and used them as brooms to clean up the fallen leaves and dry grass to make a space.One child dug a hole in the middle of the cleared space, and the other child held two stones to build a simple stove. "Bring firewood."

"Whoever has a match, light it quickly."

"I do not have."

"I don't have it either. Our family didn't have it in the morning. It was a borrowed kindling."

Goudan is the same as Wang Xuan. Before leaving, his father stuffed an old tree root into the stove. This thing is resistant to fire, and it can keep sparks all day long under smoldering conditions.In this way, there is a fire for cooking, as long as you want to use it, blow on the red-hot lumps, put soft straw to start the fire, and soon a tongue of fire will come out.

Many families in the village do this, but the roots of old trees are difficult to find, so thick wood is needed.

"Silver head, come on, I know you have."

"I don't have many anymore." Yintou took out a match stick distressedly, and rubbed it against the edge of the old shriveled matchbox. It didn't catch fire, and continued to rub it.

"All right, I'll come."

"No, I'll do it." Everyone was scrambling to light the fire for a moment.

Boys love to play with fire, especially like to steal the matchbox at home, take it out and wipe it if there is nothing to do, and watch the "Xixi" make a sound and then burst into flames, I especially like it.But every time an adult finds his ass, he will be beaten up. Matches are not considered gadgets, but they are quite rare in rural areas, and they cost money to buy.

Boys also like to play in the fields among the haystacks. Every year, either the haystacks here are set on fire by the children, or the grass catches fire.When the adults are fighting the fire, they will have another good fight when they get home, but they can't be banned, and they can be found for you if they are hidden.Or when an adult takes it out to light a fire, a few of them are accidentally stolen from it, which is hard to guard against.

Yintou's family belongs to a family that lives fairly well in the village. His family has never been short of these, and they steal a few from time to time. Everyone loves to find him when they go out to play. He is quite generous anyway.

Gradually white smoke came out, and the other children began to divide the fire, making several fires, and everyone gathered together to roast peanuts.Throw or bury one or two handfuls inside, just waiting to be dug out and eaten.

The child's mouth is shaped like half-baked and burnt black charcoal, and he can eat deliciously. There are black marks around the corners of the mouth, which can be done with the back of the hand.

After eating, put out the fire and cover it tightly with soil. This is the old man's reminder after a fire, and he remembers in his heart that he must completely put out the fire.

This place is tricky, it does not belong to the farm nor to the land of the village, there are many rocky corners, and many miscellaneous trees grow crookedly, but they are tall, and the cold river flowing from the mountain springs winds through the low-lying roads, Became a small stream.The stream is clear and cold, and when it hits a stone, it swirls and makes a crisp water sound

Some people have already stripped off their pants and sat on the rocks to play with the water.

"It's so hot, wash it and go back."

"Then it's better to wash in the ditch."

"Then you are stupid, your lord passed by when work was over there, your mother can let you stay there?"

"That's right, there are women passing by there, it's annoying." This is what the child pretending to be an adult said.

While soaking lively in the stream, suddenly a few particularly loud "bang bang" echoed in the woods.

Goudan jumped up immediately, pulled Wang Xuan to go ashore, picked up his pants and put them on. "Damn it, why don't you hurry up and come out."

The children were dumbfounded, "Well, is that a gun? I heard gunshots in movies.

"hurry up."

Then the children cheered and rushed to the shore to put on their pants, and hurriedly packed up the things they threw on the ground.The gunshot just now didn't sound close, but it wasn't far away either.

When the children were trembling and about to run, there were two more sounds, and it was getting closer again.Goudan pulled Wang Xuan, "Don't worry about that, let's climb up a tree and hide." Then he searched for a tree and jumped up, and the other children were like monkeys. Just be quiet.

They all hid on the branches, just like real birds, using the lush leaves to hide.Climbing trees is an easy task for these young and healthy children. If they don't look at the messy bamboo baskets and other things scattered under the trees, no one will know that someone has been here.

Wang Xuan was more careful, pointed to the mess under the tree for Goudan to see, and said in a low voice, "Will you call me? It's a gun."

I heard that if you get hit, you will die. Although you like to let adults cut a fake gun for fun, but facing such a battle, you are afraid in your heart. This is the instinct of a wild child.

Goudan was panting heavily, because of his special practice, his five senses were sensitive.Perceived danger more than other children.He didn't know what to do.