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Chapter 2 Those long-lost days

Feng Yiping's family is located behind Feng's Chongyou. It used to be a bamboo garden, but now there are four families. Reading on mobile phones, the other three are the same as Feng Yiping's family. Each family has at least two children. As the children grow up, the original old houses are not enough to live in. The old houses are all in a large area, and there is no place to expand. So three years ago, several families built new houses in this bamboo garden.

In the past, when I built such a brick and tile house in the countryside, I actually had to buy very few materials.

Such a house mainly consists of three pieces of materials, acre bricks, wood and tiles.

The earthen bricks are made by themselves. There is a yellow mud beside the trunk. From there, there is a yellow mud, add some water, let the cow step on it, and then add straw, and ask the cow to continue trunk. After stepping, scoop the mud into the brick mold - a rectangular wooden frame, and then the person stands up and steps it firmly, then use a stone knife to fix the brick surface to make it flat. Finally, take off the brick mold and let it be exposed to the sun. When the moisture is dried, just one brick will be fine.

Of course, there is a lot of wood used to build a house, and it doesn’t cost much money. In addition to the fields, every family has a piece of forest, and there are pine trees. However, the ownership of this forest is even nominal. Although that mountain belongs to your family and those trees belong to your family in name, you can’t move any of them. There is a forest ranger in the village who will be fined if you catch the tree cut. The only benefit is that the branches can be trimmed once a year, and the cut branches can be taken home and burned as firewood.

Although it is said that it cannot be cut down, every family uses trees in the mountains and forests, including the village party secretary. However, since there is a regulation and there is a dedicated person there, it is difficult to do it when cutting trees.

Feng Yiping remembered that when he was preparing wood, he was 8 years old. His family of four got up at five in the morning and rushed towards his own forest. When he came back, most of the families in the village had just woken up.

Their forest is in the highest place, leaning against the mountains. One morning, three trees were cut down, and each of their parents carried one, while he and his sister dealt with a smaller one.

Because they were all downhill, the sister four years older than him walked in front of her. The pine tree that had just been cut down made her shoulders hurt. The two little guys had to lower their heads after walking a few steps, move the tree to the other shoulders, and then take a few more steps, lower their heads and change to the other shoulders. If this continues, as soon as they lift out of the forest of their home, their shoulders are red.

However, the child can think of a trick, so he put the tree on the mountain path, pushing it from behind, and pulling it in front, and raising it with his hands when he encounters a ditches and bumps. It is much more comfortable than using his tender shoulders.

So, on the way to cut down trees, what he likes the most is the large stone slope. He puts the tree horizontally and pushes it, and the tree rolls down to the bottom with "gudong" and "gudong". He doesn't need to exert any force, so he can move more than ten meters less.

My parents didn't wait for them and walked straight ahead. In this way, they pushed, pulled, lifted, carried, and moved home with difficulty.

Next to the big slope, take a section of flat road, then next to the slope, there is another section of flat road, and there is a small river in front.

In the end, the two of them had no strength and lay on the ground, pushing and pulling each other. Finally, they had no choice but to cross the river, facing the stone slopes that were several meters high, and the long uphill road behind them.

At this time, my father sent his tree home, returned and carried them back. The morning's work was done.

This is just the first step. After the tree reaches home, it must be emptied off the skin, thrown it in the pond for a few months, then scattered it and dried before it can be used to build a house.

Of course, the wood for building a house is not something that can be spent without spending a penny. The most important beam is a big tree that has been growing for many years.

If you can't find a suitable one in the village, you have to go to the deeper mountain village. First, let's make an appointment with the master who is a house to go to the forest to watch, and then take gifts such as cans of cigarettes, wine and cans to everyone's house to discuss which tree we want to use as a beam of house, but the owner will generally not refuse, and then pay a few dozen yuan - usually no more than fifty, and you can cut down the trees.

Of course, such a big tree and a longer road, it is not something that one person can carry. At least four strong laborers need to be carried in rotation.

Also, after the house is completed, the one selling the tree is coming to give gifts.

Finally, the tiles need to be used, which also costs some money.

Many new houses were built in those years, so the village came forward and everyone built a kiln together.

Making tiles is similar to making bricks, but the final mold is different.

The tiles are prepared, and they are arranged in the kiln according to the master's instructions, and then burned for dozens of hours - so you need to prepare enough chopping firewood, then turn off the heat, and then stuff them for dozens of hours. Finally, the master opened the kiln and the tiles turned into blue-black tiles, and it was done.

Therefore, when building a house at that time, although the raw materials were not much money - it was mainly because of the lack of money! The preparation time was very long. His house was made in the third grade, and it was probably preparing when he was in the first grade.

When Feng Yiping brought the Wenhua brothers home, Feng Zhenchang and his good friend Feng Mingzhi accompanied Feng Chuntang, the carpenter in the house, to chat in the main hall.

Feng Chuntang joked with him, "Yiping, how are you putting a cow? This school is not taught!"

Feng Yiping also smiled and said, "Anyway, its belly is bulging, as if it is pregnant with a calf."

Everyone laughed.

After entering the kitchen, he was busy on the stove. Feng Yiping consciously sat behind the stove to add firewood.

"They will drink at night and probably have to drink for another half a day. You can eat this bowl of noodles first." As he said that, Mei Qiuping poured a bowl of cold noodles into the pot, and after it heated, it divided into three parts and gave them three. Of course, Feng Yiping's bowl is the most.

When we entertain guests at home, housewives and children usually don’t serve the table, and they have to wait until they finish drinking before they can eat. Mei Qiuping knew that her son was just the time to eat and was hungry. She was almost hungry until eight or nine o’clock in the evening, so she had a little more time in the afternoon.

The noodles are the oily noodles that I hold on my own. CCTV's "China on the Tip of the Tongue" introduced this kind of noodles. This is the only one left for carpenter Feng Chuntang in the afternoon.

In the countryside, craftsmen come in to do things, such as carpenters, lacquers, and bamboo craftsmen, who have to take care of lunch and evening meals, and of course cigarettes and alcohol.

In addition, before two main meals, the owner always prepares the meal in the morning and mid-afternoon, usually noodles. Similar to the British afternoon tea, but these craftsmen enjoy more than British gentlemen, not only afternoon tea, but also afternoon tea.

A bowl of noodles was filled with sensation by Feng Yiping. It took a few minutes to put it in her stomach. Mei Qiuping taught him a lesson while cooking, "No one snatched you, eat so quickly?"

The Wenhua brothers smiled beside them holding bowls.

Fried peanuts, fried bacon with chili, fried tofu, fried eggs with loofah, boiled cucumbers with bacon, and a plate of Emei beans and six dishes, which can be considered hearty in rural areas.

They drank slowly, took a sip of wine, took a few sips of vegetables, and then chatted for half a day, finished a glass of wine, and when pouring the wine, they humbled me and asked me to pull it for half a day. The amount of alcohol was also limited, and it was probably the most, and it was only half a pound of food at the most. Therefore, Feng Yiping always felt that they were not drinking, but just eating vegetables and chatting on the grounds of drinking.

By eight o'clock, before the drink was finished, Mei Qiuping served two bowls of rice, picked up some dishes, and asked Wenhua and Wenhui to eat first. After eating, she found the flashlight and asked Feng Yiping to take them home.

The Milky Way lies in the sky, and the stars are gently scattered above the village. The windows of people beside the roadside are emitting dim lights. The whole village is very quiet, and the insects are ringing in the grass are very clear. There is a faint laughter in the threshing ground in front of the valley.

It is a place to enjoy the cool air at night. At this time, TVs are far from popular among farmers, and electric fans are also luxury goods. On such hot weather, you can't sleep even if you go to bed too early. So after dinner, take a shower, and burn mosquito-repellent weeds on the edge of the threshing ground to repel mosquitoes. Every family moved the bamboo bed to the threshing ground, lying on it, shaking a big palm fan to cool down and chat.

Feng Yiping used to like this when he was the most. There were always old people talking about ancient times, talking about fighting bandits in his early years, and talking about the anecdotes about walking at night, encountering ghosts, snakes and insects. In an era where there was no radio to listen to, no magazines to read, and no TV to watch, this was a rare and easy pastime. Oh, it seems that Pu Songling wrote "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and listened to these stories everywhere and collected materials.

After my grandfather's turn, it was middle-aged. They talked about the story of their childhood, when they were young, during the three years of natural disasters, and about the fact that they were not hungry for food. They talked about the fact that they did not go to school in a special period and criticized and marched. Which relative was in the county, and they had a big house, TV, washing machine, and refrigerator, and installed telephones. His son worked too hard to study, and was myopic in elementary school, and spent hundreds of dollars on glasses. In which village, there was a smart child who was admitted to university. His parents did not talk about his life at home, but asked people to help borrow money everywhere, and they also asked the child to study for a doctorate in the future...

Of course, in the end, there will be a main summary, which is mainly aimed at children. We should cherish, work hard, be frugal, and be filial... In daily life, we should listen to parents' words, do whatever we call them, listen to teachers' words, study hard...

However, when Feng Yiping graduated from junior high school, with the popularity of televisions and the number of household appliances and fans, most young people went out to work, and this situation could only be remembered.

After sending them home, Wenhua asked, "Uncle, do you still have to herd cattle tomorrow?"

"Yes," said Feng Yiping, "you don't follow me. I'll chop wood tomorrow and I don't have time to accompany you. In this way, can I bring you grapes when I come back tomorrow?"

There was a wild grape tree where he herded cattle. I don’t know what variety, but the grains were very large.

The two guys were a little happy.

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