Chapter 14 Birthday (please beg for collection and ask for all kinds of thanks)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 14 Birthday (please beg for collection and ask for all kinds of thanks)
"Mom, make me two pairs too."
Wang Fang felt a little incredible when she heard Zhang An's words.
Zhang An used to wear cloth shoes made by himself, but after entering high school, he stopped wearing them. He felt that his classmates were wearing shoes sold on the street, and he would be looked down upon for wearing cloth shoes in school.
So I stopped making shoes for Zhang An after high school.
"Ah, don't you like shoes?"
"Wearing cloth shoes at home is comfortable, doesn't stink your feet, and is durable."
"Okay, Mom will make it for you, but the previous shoe patterns are no longer good. Your feet are much bigger now than before. Let's draw a shoe pattern for you first." Wang Fang put down the needle and thread in her hand and found out what she had learned from the mountain before.
I picked up dried bamboo shoot leaves and drew a pair of shoe patterns for Zhang An.
The next morning, when Wang Fang got up, she opened the door of her house and found three little puppies lying at the door.
When Zhang An got up, he looked a little confused.
This big dog is entrusting his child to him. That big dog must be from the village, he can understand what he is saying.
No wonder when I came back yesterday, I felt like there was always something watching me from behind.
Zhang An didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he told his parents what he saw about the puppy yesterday, hiding the part in the space.
What else can I do? Just keep it. Anyway, I don’t have a dog at home.
If you raise one, you are raising them. If you raise three, you are raising them. They can also look after your home and care for your home.
Even if the big dog believes in him so much, he can't live up to his trust.
When the three little ones woke up, they seemed to have discovered themselves and immediately crawled towards Zhang An.
"Okay, now I'm looking for you with my eyes wide open. I'm relying on you."
"Just keep it, it will be more lively if you raise it and look after it."
After hearing that his son wanted to raise them all, Zhang Jianguo started looking for tools to make a kennel for the three little ones.
The puppy is still small now, so although it doesn't need to be a big kennel, the puppy grows quickly and will grow into a big dog in a few months.
So the father and son spent a long time looking for wood and built a small wooden house less than two meters tall.
Wang Fang dug out the tattered clothes that she could no longer wear and put a thick layer on them.
Since then, the three little ones have settled down in their own home.
When I saw the three little ones yesterday, their hair was not fully grown, but today it has almost grown.
The three puppies are all covered in blue and black dog hair, and their ears are still standing up.
It's hard to imagine that their mother is a native dog.
Maybe their father is a nice dog.
The largest one has a tuft of yellow hair on its forehead, and the smaller one has a small circle of yellow hair on its neck.
The next one is the smallest one, the little cub that Zhang An saw on the verge of death yesterday. It was actually covered in blue-black hair, without any stray hairs.
Zhang An named them Big Tiger, Second Tiger, and Little Tiger.
At first glance, I thought it was a person's name.
After lunch, some of the little ones started whining, and Zhang An knew they were hungry.
Bring out the rice soup that you cooked just now and give it to a few little ones.
Maybe they still remember the space spring water they drank yesterday. Today's rice soup was also boiled with space spring water, so it tasted very delicious.
While Zhang An was feeding the dog, he remembered seeing those excavators digging on the road yesterday, so he told his father.
"Those are the construction teams hired by the county to build roads from the town to the county. It was decided a few years ago, but the work has been delayed. You went to school and you didn't know that this is normal."
Zhang Jianguo answered his son's questions while drinking tea.
Tea is made from Prunella vulgaris picked in the mountains, dried and brewed. Prunella vulgaris made into tea plays a role in clearing away heat and relieving heat. Many elderly people in the countryside like to pick it and make tea.
Of course, tea leaves are also grown on the mountains, but the tea leaves collected by the villagers are usually sold to people who come specifically to collect tea leaves.
"Oh? The road has been built? Then this road shouldn't pass through our village, right?"
Zhang An has some memory, and the road built by later generations did not pass through the entrance of Changqing Village, but passed by a stone pass in front of the village entrance.
Because if we want to plan from the entrance of Changqing Village, we have to build a bridge.
Because the river at the entrance of the village is more than 20 meters wide, there is no hope.
"That's for sure. It's from Shiyakou. It's not far from the village, about half a mile away."
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of August, and August 30th was the day Zhang An was born.
There is little custom of celebrating birthdays in the countryside, so Zhang An doesn't remember his own birthday much.
But that night, Wang Fang not only cooked a meat dish, but also made Zhang An a bowl of longevity noodles, which had two fried eggs in addition to the sauteed seeds.
I don’t raise chickens or ducks at home, so I must have bought these eggs.
Every year on Zhang An’s birthday, Wang Fang would make delicious food for Zhang An.
Even in later generations, they would do it every year. After Zhang An left, Wang Fang could no longer do it.
While eating, Wang Fang mentioned whether she wanted to find someone to marry her son.
Zhang An will be nineteen years old after this meal, which is not considered young in the countryside.
So in the countryside, there are already a lot of people at this age who are not married but have not gone to the town to get the certificate because it is illegal. They will not get the certificate until they reach the legal age.
Zhang An quickly said that he was only nineteen years old, so there was no rush and he would wait two more years.
After some hard talking, Wang Fang was able to get rid of Wang Fang's thoughts, and Zhang An breathed a sigh of relief.
Since I am not of legal age in the country, I cannot break the law.
The right path is to follow the country in everything.
After several days of soaking in the small fish pond, many small fish have been brought in from the small ditch.
After seeing that there was not much water seepage, Zhang An also secretly released some fish fry.
I originally wanted to release some eels, but I was worried that these guys would drill holes everywhere in the ground, so I didn't release them.
Having nothing to do this afternoon, Zhang An found a ground basket and wanted to cast a net in the river. After talking to his mother who was making shoes, he went out and walked towards the river.
After finding a place where the current was not very fast and setting the net, Zhang An started swimming along the river.
The weather this year has been good. It rains often, but it doesn't last long, which ensures water supply and does not cause waterlogging.
In the Dawumeng Mountains, there are not a few landslides and mudslides caused by flooding seasons.
Because most places are covered with dirt hills, heavy rains that last for a long time will wash away the dirt.
So the situation this year is pretty good. The rice in the rice fields is growing very well. During this period, you can already see that a lot of rice has begun to ear.
The corn in the fields has also started to bud, and after a while, the farmers will start to get busy.
But everyone will be happy if they can get busy in a good harvest year.