Return to the small mountain village in 1981

Chapter 49: The problem is that I lost

Yang Chunyan rinsed her mouth and went back to the room. She found a white gauze cotton vest for Zhou Huaian. It cost one or two yuan a piece. The chest and back were patched.

The flat-top trousers made of blue homespun cloth are purely hand-woven and sewn.

After putting away the underwear, put on a vest and floral shorts, drove away the mosquitoes in the mosquito net, went to bed and pressed the mosquito net under the straw mat, Zhou Huaian ran back, "Yan'er, what about my clothes?"

"On the bench!"

"Oh!" Zhou Huaian took off all his clothes in a few seconds, and slowly put on his vest and pants. While putting it on, he glanced at Yang Chunyan, and saw her lying sideways on the bed, without even turning her head, and felt a little nervous. Frustrated, "Yan'er, have you really not been with me for a month?"

Yang Chunyan didn't look back, "If I lose, will you promise me not to do that with you?"

The problem is that now you win and I lose! "..." Zhou Huaian glanced at her angrily and threw himself on the bed, "You made me sick, don't regret it!"

Yang Chunyan was too lazy to pay attention to him. She didn't know where she could get such good energy after being tired all day!
Zhou Huaian rolled and rolled on the bed, not knowing when he fell asleep.

The next day, Yang Chunyan heard the rooster crow at home and sat up. Seeing Zhou Huaian sleeping soundly with a thin quilt rolled up, she thought about calling him after cooking.

I got out of bed, put on long clothes and pants, walked to the door, and heard voices outside.

Yang Chunyan opened the door and saw Li Qiuyue also getting up, "So early?"

Li Qiuyue whispered, "Lao San and the others went up the mountain to chop wood today. Mom and sister-in-law have already cooked breakfast."

The two girls in the room were still sleeping. It was the time when their bodies were growing, and it was impossible to get up with them so early.

"Then I'll call Huai'an." Yang Chunyan turned back to her room and hung up the mosquito net, "Huai'an, get up and eat."

Zhou Huaian hugged him into the quilt and said angrily: "Cook the rice and call me again."

"The old man and brother are going to go up the mountain to cut down trees. Mom and sister-in-law got up early in the morning to finish the work."

Zhou Huaian scratched his head irritably, sat up and looked at Yang Chunyan: "It's so annoying! I don't fall asleep until midnight!"

"If you don't want to get up, just keep sleeping." After Yang Chunyan said that, she turned around and walked out of the room. After going to the backyard to relax, when she came back, Zhou's mother and Zhao Huifang had already put the food on the table.

For breakfast, we have green beans and potato rice, as well as boiled yam.

Everyone had to go out to work. Mother Zhou added some corn to cook, and made rice balls for the people who were going up the mountain. She also added kimchi and fried poached eggs.

After everyone sat down and started eating, Zhou Huaian slowly walked into the main room with a yawn.

Mother Zhou glanced at him, then looked at the three energetic elders. The anger in her heart surged up but she suppressed it again: She was angry at him, so don't be angry!When I get sick, I still need to spend money to buy medicine!
The old man glared at him and said, "You are so lazy! The meal is ready and you haven't woken up yet!"

"Master, please stop talking. The genius is Mama Liang. I can wake up just fine." Zhou Huaian walked to Yang Chunyan and sat down, picked up the bowl and ate.

Father Zhou glanced at him and cleared the rice in the bowl, "Old man, I'm full, you eat slowly."

The old man picked up a taro and said, "I've finished eating too. Wait until I leave together."

"Eat slowly, we still need to get something."

Zhou's father carried a bamboo basket and loaded it with dry food, ropes, machetes, saws, and the chain saw that Old Man Zhou Ding borrowed from them. The three Zhou Huairong brothers also ate.

Zhou's father said to Zhou's mother: "Wait a minute, you go to Baogu to see clearly, did you steal our Baogu? Then go to the brigade to find Secretary Xu."

"Yes, please be careful on the mountain."

"Yeah!" Three generations of the Zhou family left together.

Zhao Huifang and her three sisters-in-law had also finished eating, and the three of them were going to go to the backyard to pick up manure buckets and go up the hill to water the food.

"Chunyan, after we water the water, we'll go cut Chen Ai and Ma Polygonum!" "Okay, you can pull them back when you see the mountain whip."

"Got it." The three of them agreed and walked towards the backyard.

Yang Chunyan waited for Zhou Huaian to finish eating and quickly put away the dishes and chopsticks. Just as she was about to take them to the kitchen to wash, Zhou's mother came over with dry food and a kettle in a bamboo tube and gave them to her, "Put the dishes and chopsticks over there, I'll wash them. You go early, In case the sun comes out and it gets too hot!”

"Okay." Yang Chunyan took it and glanced at Zhou Huaian who was lying on the lounge chair at the door after finishing his meal. "Go back and put on your shoes and leave."

"Oh!" Zhou Huaian stood up, stretched and walked towards the room.

Yang Chunyan put the things in her backpack, went back to the house and changed into a pair of rubber shoes. She tied her trouser legs with hemp rope like leggings. Then she put the realgar, snake medicine, knife and styptic powder into the bag and fastened it with a lock pin.

I picked up the straw hat, rope, sack and two urea bags and went out.

In her previous life, she often brought a urea bag with her when going out. This kind of bag is waterproof. When it rains when going into the mountains or going out, you can fold the bag in half to make a simple poncho.

More than ten years ago, urea bags were still something every household was clamoring for.

Because it is made of nylon, it can be dyed black and made into trousers to make it strong.

In those days, you couldn't buy cloth even if you had money or money. Some people in the countryside actually dyed it black and made it into pants.

Later, I heard that some cadres in the city also wore them, and some people made up a jingle: big cadres and small cadres, each person wears a pair of urea pants, and they pee in the small days...

Zhou Mu’s mother helped them put the machete, medicine hoe and sickle into their backs. “Your old man has set the hoe handle for you. Try it out and see if it fits?”

Yang Chunyan picked it up and tried it, "It's suitable, let's go."

"Okay, be careful and remember to get a stick."

"Got it." Zhou Huaian picked up the two mottled bamboos, carried the bamboo pole on his back, and walked out of the back door toward the mountain with Yang Chunyan.

Yang Chunyan turned her head and glanced at Zhou Huaian. Seeing him lazily following behind her, she didn't say much and speeded up the mountain.

She still wanted to go to that mountain to see if those magnolia trees were still there.

For people who have been running around in the mountains all year round, walking on the mountain road is no different than walking on the plains. In addition, the two of them didn't delay along the way, and they quickly reached the top of the first mountain ridge.

Yang Chunyan turned back and looked to the east. A blazing red sun was gradually rising from the recesses of the mountains to the east. When she looked back again, the morning glow had already filled the foot of the mountain...

Zhou Huaian looked back at her, and Yang Chunyan lifted her foot off the mountain and continued moving forward.The two of them didn't say a word along the way, just hurried on in tandem.

Soon we passed the place where we dug Ligusticum chuanxiong yesterday, and after walking down for more than ten meters, we saw a field of smelly peonies.

The smelly peony leaves are due to their leaves, which are particularly smelly after being crushed.

But its flowers are not smelly at all and have a light fragrance.

It's the flowering season, and small trumpet-shaped flowers of light red, purple or red are blooming in the forest. Clusters of small flowers are densely packed together, which looks more beautiful than pictures.

The fruit of the stink peony turns blue-black when ripe and looks like black agate.

The main medicinal parts of peony are its roots and leaves, which have the effects of dispelling wind, detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

Its roots can cure rheumatic joint pain, bruises, hypertension, dizziness and headache, and lung abscess.

The leaves are used externally to treat carbuncles, boils, ulcers, inflammation of hemorrhoids, eczema, and can also be used to kill maggots.

Yang Chunyan plans to pick the smelly peonies again when she returns.

(End of this chapter)