EBE Chapter 127 Such a simple and interesting childhood is really good
Chapter 127 Such a simple and interesting childhood is really good
In winter, the happiest people are children. Eating snowflakes, playing snowball fights, making snowmen and ice skating are their favorites.
Children like to stand in the snow, look up to the sky, open their mouths and let the snowflakes fall into their mouths.
But the white flowers will fall on your face when they fall into your mouth.
The snow melted on their faces, and the water flowed down their cheeks into their necks, making them shiver with cold. They quickly pulled their necks in and shouted, "It's freezing, it's freezing."
Then he reached down his neck and wiped the water off.
Despite being "frozen to death" many times, it is still alive and kicking, having a lot of fun chasing snowflakes.
When the snow covered the ground, the children began to make a skating rink.
They kept sliding in the same place, one after another, and soon a smoother slide appeared.
After a run-up outside this slide, you will "slide" onto the slide. If you have good skills, you can slide about 20 meters.
The kids loved playing this.
The children in Chang'an often line up in long queues, build slides together, and then compete to see who can slide the farthest.
The shortcoming of this project is that it is very wasteful. Some children from poor families often have their ears twisted and sent home by their parents.
Despite the risk of getting beaten, it still can't stop everyone's enthusiasm for skating. They will go skating on the slide whenever they get the chance. If they accidentally fall on their butt, they will grimace in pain.
Every time Zhou Rong sees the innocent smiles of the children, he feels that such a simple and interesting childhood is so wonderful.
Zhou Rong did not restrict the eldest child and the others from having fun. If they don't play when they are supposed to, they will definitely regret it when they grow up.
So Da Wa, Er Wa, Zhou Jiaguang and others are also part of the group that eats snowflakes and skates.
But they all played those games with Zhou Cai on their backs, fearing that their clothes would get wet or dirty and attract a beating from the broom...
Whenever it’s a holiday and it snows, there will be snowmen everywhere in the alley.
Everyone used carrots as noses for the snowman and coal balls as eyes. Some children even put their own scarves and hats on the snowman.
Zhou Jiaguang and Dawa also built a snowman, but after dawn, the carrots and coal briquettes disappeared.
The snowman in the alley suffered the same fate, losing his nose and eyes.
If Zhou Cai hadn't forbidden them to take off their hats and scarves, these two items would probably have been lost...
On Sunday, Zhou Jiaguang, Dawa and other children in the alley made an appointment to have a snowball fight.
Nini and Erwa started to watch the fun from the sidelines, and seeing that everyone was having a great time, they also clamored to play.
The eldest child said, "That's dangerous. You two are too young to play."
Erwa: "I'm five years old now. I'm grown up. Can you play with me?"
Nini: "I want to play. If you don't take me with you, I will tell my aunt and mom that you bullied me."
The eldest child couldn’t do anything about this complaining sister, so he could only let her and the second child join in.
But as soon as Nini was hit by a snowball, she started crying.
Zhou Jiaguang said: "We didn't want you to play, but you insisted on playing. Now you cry when you hit a snowball. You'd better just stand aside and watch us play."
A few naughty boys deliberately gathered in front of Nini and sang a nursery rhyme: "Crybaby, selling wicks, selling them to dogs, dogs bite them."
Nini felt even more aggrieved. She wiped her tears and ran home to complain to Zhou Cai, saying that others bullied her.
Zhou Cai brought her to find someone to judge the situation. After understanding what happened, she could only helplessly say, "Just stand aside and watch. Auntie San will help you fight back."
After that, Nini watched her third aunt join her uncle and brother's team, throwing snowballs at each other, and laughing from time to time...
55年的除夕是1月23日，周父在1月19日（腊月26），挑着一担箩筐来到周荣家。
The cloth shop and clothing store were doing very good business at the end of the year, so Zhou Rong and Zhou Gui would not be able to get home until around 6: every day.
When the two got home, Zhou's father was pickling meat with Zhou Cai.
Zhou Rong asked: "Dad, did you bring all this meat? Why don't you keep it and sell it?"
Currently, there is no need to use coupons to buy meat. Whenever Zhou Rong sees good meat at the market, he will buy it home to make bacon and eat it during the lean season next year.
Her family has already pickled more than 20 kilograms of bacon.
Zhou's father said, "We have killed all three pigs at home and sold all that can be sold. This is the fifty-plus kilograms of meat I have reserved for you. The basket is filled with cured fish, fried tofu, meatballs, and eggs your mother saved. You and the children can eat as much as you want. If it's not enough, we will send more."
Zhou Rong felt warm in his heart and said with a smile: "Didn't I write to tell you that I have everything I need? I have already bought the meat and eggs. You can keep the meat and sell it for more money."
When talking about selling meat, Zhou's father sighed: "Don't mention selling meat. The village has set up an agricultural cooperative, which is supposed to be voluntary and mutually beneficial.
However, after the land was collectively taken over, it was often the case that work was evaluated without scoring, scores were not settled, and accounts were settled without change.
There was a lot of rain this year and the harvest was not as good as in previous years. Our family worked for a year but received no money. After completing the task, the food rations we received were not enough for the whole family to eat.
Some radical villages do not allow private individuals to raise cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and other livestock, saying that they want to cut off the tail of capital.
You Chuanshu Yi was afraid that people would say that he was not implementing the policy thoroughly and was making random accusations, so he demanded that next year no one in Zhoujiawan would be allowed to raise chickens and pigs privately, unless they handed in special quotas of pigs and chickens to the higher authorities, but they had to pay for the food to feed the livestock themselves.
The villagers were worried that their livestock would be confiscated after the beginning of the year, so they killed and sold all that could be killed and sold before the end of the year. Our family raised three pigs, but we couldn't sell them in the village, so I had to drag them to the township on a cart to sell them.
There were too many people selling meat, so I only sold two pigs. There was one pig left that I couldn't sell anymore. Your mother said there was no need to bother with it, and that I could just keep it at home and eat it, and she would send some to you.
We pickled some bacon and fried some dumplings at home, and brought all the remaining 50 pounds of meat to you."
Zhou Rong took the opportunity to say, "Why don't you and mom come to the city? I can squeeze in here and there's room for you. I'll find you a job after the New Year so you can have a fixed monthly income, which is better than living in the village."
The children have all come to Jiangcheng, and Zhou's father misses them very much at home. He also wants to go to the city, but he has no say in this matter.
"I'll discuss it with your mother when I get back. If she agrees, we'll move in."
Zhou Rong: "Okay."
The purpose of Zhou's father's trip to the city this time was, firstly, to deliver New Year's goods to Zhou Rong, and secondly to bring Zhou Jiaguang and Zhou Cai home to celebrate the New Year.
Zhou Cai really wanted to go back to see her mother, but when she thought about how there would be no one to take care of the eldest child and the two sisters if she was not around, and that her eldest and second sisters would not have a hot meal to eat if they returned home, she told Zhou's father that she would not go back and would go home with her eldest sister on the second or third day of the Chinese New Year.
Zhou's father knew that Zhou Rong and Zhou Gui were busy at work and that the house needed to be left unattended, so he said it was no problem.
Zhou Rong accepted Zhou Cai's favor and planned to give her a big red envelope during the New Year.
Zhou Jiaguang hadn't seen his mother and his friends in the village for almost a year and missed them very much. When he heard that he was going back to Zhoujiawan, he quickly packed his clothes...