Chapter 16 New Family Member (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 16 New Family Member (please collect and recommend)
Unknowingly, with the wails of the naughty little ones and the joy of the adults, September has arrived quietly.
This means that schools in the village have reopened, which is nightmare news for the children.
Some children did not finish their summer homework because they had too much fun during the summer vacation.
Some children simply don't like going to school. They have to get up early every day, sit all day in school, and do homework. Just thinking about this is terrifying.
The adults in the family were naturally very happy.
During the holidays, not only do you have to be busy doing things, but you also have to keep an eye on the children at home. The naughty children are always the most worrying.
I am also afraid that accidents may easily happen to them whether they are climbing high, jumping low, or playing in the river.
So as soon as school started, adults were sent directly to school and asked teachers to help take care of them.
Of course this is not the main reason.
September is here, can October be far behind?
What does October in the golden autumn represent in people's hearts?
It represents harvest. This year is a good harvest year. In addition to the public grain turned in, I believe every family can have a lot of food left over. They can also buy more meat for the New Year and buy more clothes for their children.
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On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here.
The weather was very good on this day, and there were no unexpected weather conditions such as rain.
After dark at night, the round moon hangs in the sky, and its bright moonlight spreads across the earth.
In the courtyard of Zhang An's home, Zhang An carried a table and placed it in the courtyard.
Wang Fang placed the prepared moon cakes, fruits and sugar on the table and offered the moon.
Everyone in the village does this. Zhang An doesn't know about other places, but in nearby areas, this is a custom that has been handed down from ancient times to the present.
After the monthly payment is completed, the family begins to share the mooncakes and other foods on the table.
The full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion.
In this era of poverty, at least people are not displaced and their families are scattered.
Although the money earned in later generations increased, the family members stayed in separate places and worked hard.
In Zhang An's memory, since he left the mountain village, except for coming back during the Spring Festival, he has been away from home almost every year.
In my two lifetimes, this is probably the first Mid-Autumn Festival I have celebrated with my parents in more than 20 years.
At this moment, Wang Fang also had a happy smile on her face, and she kept praying to God to bless her family with health and safety.
Why is there not a lot of money coming in? This is because there is always a saying in the hearts of the local people.
It is called when the water is full, it will overflow, which means don't pray too much that all good things will happen to you, because it means that disaster is about to happen.
So comparing the two, safety and health are more important.
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When the end of the month was approaching, Zhang An did not expect that his father Zhang Jianguo would buy a horse.
It turned out that I had wanted to buy a foal before, but I didn’t buy it because I never saw something suitable.
But everyone in the village knew that the Zhang An family had the intention to buy a horse.
As soon as the news spread, people in nearby villages also knew about it.
Zhang Jianguo didn't go out in the morning and planned to go to the fields later to drain the water.
But someone came to the door and called him away.
When I came back, I took the horse back with me.
It turned out that there was a family in the Maocang Village next door, and the men lost a lot of money gambling outside.
Now people are coming to ask for debts, and I have no choice but to sell the animals because my family doesn't have much money.
But in such an urgent situation, you will definitely not be able to get a good price if you rush.
So when the villagers heard about it, they came to notify Zhang Jianguo.
The horse is a local southwestern horse, which belongs to the Malaysian breed. It is suitable for carrying goods, pulling carts, and plowing fields, and it also has good endurance.
He just has a bad temper.
This horse is not well fed. One look at it and you can tell that it has not been well cared for. Maybe Baomi didn't even bother to feed it a few meals.
The whole horse is thin, and the shape of the spine can be seen on the back.
So it couldn't be sold for much money. The other party originally asked for a thousand yuan, but everyone knew that the other party was asking for an exorbitant price.
Zhang Jianguo only returned four hundred. The other party must be in a hurry. The horse must be worth more than this amount, but in a hurry, he can't find a buyer. If the horse is paid to several debtors, it may be even lower.
In the end, the people in the village made peace between the two parties, and Zhang Jianguo paid 600 yuan.
The other party wanted more from Longwangshu, but Zhang Jianguo stopped talking.
The nearby village elder had already spoken once, and Zhang Jianguo also added money, giving everyone face.
So everyone couldn't continue to persuade, and finally the other party decided to sell it, because even if it was sold now, it might not be able to sell it for so much money.
Under the witness of everyone, Zhang Jianguo went home and took 600 yuan, counted it to the other party in person, and then took the horse away after the other party verified it.
I originally had some harnesses, but I actually wanted Zhang Jianguo to buy them for an extra 100 yuan. Isn't this taking someone for granted?
Zhang Jianguo said no without thinking, then took the horse and left.
It doesn’t cost that much to hire a carpenter to make a new saddle for a pair of saddles. How about a hundred bucks for a bad saddle?
Later, I could hear the voice of the woman in the other party's family cursing. Of course, she was cursing her man.
This horse is really thin. Maybe the owner didn't feed it well. He will be busy after a while. He needs to feed him some corns quickly in the past few days to make him fat.
I asked an old carpenter in the village to help me make a saddle and other carrying gear.
Don't worry about the car, buying a new carriage costs a lot of money.
When the time comes, see if anyone is selling it. Just pick one up when the time comes. It doesn't matter if you can't.
The next day, Zhang An took the horse out to graze, and he finally discovered that the horse had a bad temper.
If you hold me back, you won't go away, and you will push me backwards.
Finally, Zhang An got annoyed and directly sent it into the space. After using his mind to hold it down and give it a severe spanking, it was considered to be strong and did not dare to lose its temper again.
"You're such a bitch. I've spoiled you so much that you won't feel comfortable without a beating."
After leaving the space, the horse probably knew that Zhang An was not going to offend him, so he finally obeyed.
After two weeks of feeding her with water from the Tiantian Space Spring and corn, the situation has greatly improved.
No bones can be seen on the back. In fact, everyone knows that feeding pure corn can help gain weight, but not so fast. It is more due to the effect of space spring water.
One day Zhang Jianguo took him out to carry something. When he saw it was not Zhang An, he lost his temper again.
After Zhang An found out about it, he found an opportunity to lead it out and gave it a severe beating. Now its skin was so strong that even Wang Fang didn't dare to go crazy while holding it. In its eyes, this two-legged beast
It's terrible.
At the end of September, Zhang Jianguo observed the condition of his crops in the fields almost every day. The rice in the rice fields began to turn yellow.
But it's not harvest time yet, so it should take more than a week.
But the corn in the field has matured earlier and can be harvested.
The mountains in the mountainous areas are not just flat and large like those in the plains, they are also monolithic.
The mountainous area of Zhang An's family is already in good condition. When the land was divided, because the family had an only-child certificate, the village gave them some conveniences.
There are two relatively large areas in the five acres of mountainous land, but the rest are small terraces.
It was better to go to the fields to work sooner rather than later, so the family got up very early, got some food, and then went up the mountain to break corn cobs.
The road up the mountain is so narrow that a horse-drawn carriage cannot go up it.
Those who had animals brought them back, and those who didn't had them picked them back from the mountains.
This situation is very common. People today can carry more than a hundred kilograms per load, but this will not be possible in future generations.
For example, Zhang An's family had no horses last year, so Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang carried all the crops back one load at a time.
This year it will be much easier to have a horse. As for Zhang An, he is a guy who doesn't know how to carry a pole, so all his energy is wasted.
Carrying a shoulder pole also requires skill. People with good skills are easy to pick. People like Zhang An will get blisters on their shoulders after lifting for a while.