Chapter 1253 Rural Life

After dinner, the aunt's complexion improved a lot, because Zhou Ya gave her another set of jewelry and told her the price. Although I was very distressed that the link I accidentally gave away was worth more than 200,000 yuan, I felt better now that I had another one that was more expensive.

But when he thought that he had given away more than 200,000 yuan, he was still depressed when he should have been. Even the way he looked at my uncle's victory was wrong.

This made my uncle Shengli, who was a little drunk after eating and drinking. He originally wanted to go to the market to find someone to play mahjong for two rounds. When he saw the look in his wife's eyes, he just went home and went to bed dejectedly.

"Not at noon. Wait until we go together in the evening. The little devil at noon will grab your legs and drag you into the deep water and drown you."

The adults sat together and chatted after dinner, while Jiejie was making noises about going swimming. Compared to his unreliable father, the cousin in front of him, who was much older than him, was similar to Superman in his eyes. Basically, everything he wanted since he was young could be found from his cousin.

Of course, Yang Dongxu, a cousin, is old enough to be the young man in front of me, so it is impossible to spoil this guy. So when this kid made trouble in front of him at home, he didn't beat him less.

And every time he was beaten, when Jiejie went home to complain, he would be beaten for the second time. So slowly he started to feel a little love-hate towards his cousin. And children feel a bit bitchy. The more you ignore them, the more they like to look at you.

"Then I'll go home and take the cart with me. I'll go play in the trench first, and then go to the pond in the evening."

Why is it noon and ghosts are showing their shadows? This is still a deterrent to children. After all, how could children living in rural areas not hear a few ghost stories growing up?

The car belts that Jiejie mentioned were actually the inner tubes of trucks. Some inner tubes are filled with too much and can no longer be used, which poses a safety risk, so after being fully inflated, they become swimming rings for rural children.

Nowadays, people who have such a swimming circle are treated like a big brother among their friends. It would be even more incredible if we could steal a big iron basin from home and put a set inside it to turn the tire into a boat.

There is no one to teach children in rural areas how to swim. Basically, all those who know how to swim grew up under the soles of their parents' shoes.

However, children are also smart and know that if they sneak into the pond secretly, they will basically be beaten severely. If you go to Zhaizihao, which is relatively shallow, it's basically no big deal.

After all, the deepest part of the trench in the house only reaches the chin of the older child. The occasional deeper pool is not considered dangerous.

If something does happen to drown, an older child can easily pull it out. If it really doesn't work, just shout and an adult can pull it out with a quick dive and the risk is not high.

After all, the trenches on the old house are right here. Except for the fact that Yang Dongxu widened and deepened the trenches on Yang's house to prevent them from being useful due to building a house, the trenches on other old houses remain the same.

And there are several families living inside, and people often pass by on the road next to it. Unlike the big pond, if there is any danger, the water surface is so big that it is difficult to save. Even if the child comes back and calls for help, it will delay the effort.

So under the stick, the children in the village basically understood that it was fun to swim in the big pond because the water surface was larger, but they could only go into the water when there were adults. Normally, they could only play in the house trench, but also It must be done with older children.

Looking at the older children in the village, all of them were running to Zhaizihao in their underwear just after eating, not caring at all that getting into the water right after eating would cause indigestion.

In fact, not only did they not care, but few parents in the village cared either. After all, children in rural areas are hardy and lively. Who didn't soak in the water for an hour or two in the summer when they were young?

After dinner, we went to Zhaizihao to play wildly until our hands were wrinkled. Then we came back with a slingshot and walked around the woods and bamboo pole gardens around the village.

It’s not necessarily about hunting birds, it’s also possible to kill a hornet’s nest. No childhood is complete without a bruise from a wasp sting.

Just like this, the cat was bored and wandered around all afternoon. In the evening, he and the adults went to the big pond to play wildly. By the way, they took a look at the nearby ditch to see if they could touch some fish and shrimp. They didn't care about the harvest, which was mainly about the process.

This is life during weekend housing prices. Except for a few children who are excellent in both character and academic performance, other children do not have this time consumption at all.

Of course, there are not just one or two children who are beaten every day if they don’t do their homework. A kid who plays truant with poor grades will be beaten more severely than if he sneaks into the lobby and gets caught.

In short, if the child does not study well, if he is beaten once and the child is still not good, then he will be beaten again. He will not learn well until he graduates, and his body will be strong enough to work.

If you disobey, you will definitely be beaten, and you will continue to be disobedient. Being naughty and making trouble is also a spanking. The childhood of rural children is basically incomplete without being spanked. And being beaten is not an occasional thing, it is a common thing, especially for boys.

"Get some rest at home. You don't need to be busy over there. It smells bad over there in the summer." With nothing to do, Yang Dongxu was going to go to the pig farm to help.

As a result, Yang's mother drove her back, and by the way, she put her grandson, who was still missing him, into her son's arms. Obviously he didn't want his son to go to the pig farm, but he just said casually, mainly because he couldn't let his grandson go to avoid being smoked.

In fact, the smell of the pig farm is not very big. After all, the Yang Jiadong pig farm was originally to make money. Now it is just to make a living and have something to do to avoid boredom.

So a very good septic tank was built at the pig farm very early. The smell is bad for a few days in spring and autumn when the manure is pumped out. The smell is not very strong at other times.

At least even if there is wind here, people at the market cannot smell the smell of pig manure. Besides, the pig farm is still a distance away from the village, and the surrounding wasteland has been bought by the Yang family.

There are no crops or chicken farms, but there are a lot of trees. Many children in the village often go to the forest to catch birds or cicadas.

At the suggestion of Yang Dongxu, the wasteland was not planted with poplar trees, which grow faster and are very popular now. In order to avoid all kinds of poplar fluff flying around in a few years.

Instead, some miscellaneous trees were planted, such as mulberry trees, locust trees, elm trees and stinking toon trees. The reason given to Yang's mother and father is very simple, that is, some parts of these trees are good Chinese medicinal materials.

Now it is very popular to grow Chinese medicine in Yangjia Village, which has overshadowed the popularity of greenhouse vegetables in previous years. There are more Chinese medicines, and I have some understanding of Chinese medicinal materials.

So every year, some mulberry, elm seeds, or stinking toon gum, etc., are no longer like before, knowing that they are medicinal materials but not knowing how to make them.

Especially when some children want to make pocket money, the most common thing to do in summer is to collect cicada shells and poke hornets' nests. Now there are a few more items to collect Chinese medicinal materials from trees.

Generally, parents don't care about such situations, but if the money sold is high. The mother will definitely be worried, so she will tell the child to keep some for you

Zhou Ya sorted out the gifts for relatives in the next few days upstairs, and her son didn't want to take a nap. So Yang Dongxu took him to wander around the village.

Rural people are used to saving money, so there are people everywhere under the shade of the trees who have nothing to do after dinner, although there are fans at home, and even many people have air conditioners.

But that is basically for the children at home who are afraid of the heat during their naps. If you have nothing to do, just come out to cool off in the shade of the trees. The breeze is more comfortable than blowing the fan at home, and there are people to chat with.

Little Wenchen was running around. He hadn't been away for long, so when the familiarity returned, he was not afraid of people's naughty knocks and tickles.

Soon, he was playing with a group of children of similar age. They didn't play with any toys. They just ran around and laughed breathlessly. I don't know why they were so happy.

Yang Dongxu smiled and greeted the villagers. He handed a cigarette to men and smiled shyly when he met bold women.

After a while, a group of little brats were attracted by the big kids who went into the water in the mansion not far away. They stood by the water. A few brave action-oriented people had already started to pull their clothes and were ready to go in.

Yang Dongxu hurriedly ran over, because little Wenchen was also rushing over there with a group of little brats. Although they were all four or five-year-old children, their short legs were more and more busy.

First, there were cries of unwillingness when being stopped by adults, and then the sound of slaps and the stinging pain on the buttocks made the cries louder.

The cries were accompanied by the sound of adults scolding the older children who had already entered the water in the house trench, but the older children did not mind at all. They climbed up the crooked tree next to the house trench and jumped down, playing more happily, and the younger children who were stopped cried even harder.

So it didn't last long before adults came with bamboo sticks in their hands, and the children who were originally playing happily in the water quickly climbed ashore and scattered.

Although adults didn't mind the older children playing in the water in the house trench, they couldn't make the younger ones cry. The people in Yangjia Village are basically related, some of them have a grandfather, or a great-grandfather.

The parents' generation is basically cousins, and some of the children who were made to cry are even the younger brothers and sisters of the older children. The younger ones have been slapped twice on their buttocks, so won't the older ones be beaten and saved for the New Year?

After a burst of ghostly howling, it finally quieted down. The little one started running around again before her tears had dried.

"When did you come back?"

The person who came was not Xiaowu and his friends who were familiar with Yang Dongxu. In summer, the demand for fruits was high, and they were all out on long trips and had not come back. The person's nickname was Xiaoga, and he lived in Xu's house. He also had a younger brother named Xiaodong.

Not all people in Yangjia Village had the surname Yang. There were also people with the surname Xu, Li, and Sun. However, compared to the surname Yang, there were fewer people with other surnames. Those who said that there were more people with the surname Xu were those with the surname Yang.

"I just came back this morning. I heard that you opened a car repair shop in the town. How did you have time to come back?" Yang Dongxu took the cigarette handed over with a smile, and lit it with the fire Xiaoga brought over while holding back the wind. He usually didn't smoke, but it was okay to smoke a few cigarettes occasionally in the village.

"The repair shop is only for the big trucks in our area, but now the big trucks are running outside and haven't come back yet. The cars in the town can be counted with two hands, and the rest are just some tricycles and tractors for repair.

There are a few half-hearted people in Xiawangzhuang, west of the town, who are learning to repair cars from me. They can handle simple jobs, so I will take a break for two days while the big trucks haven't come back yet.

What do you think if I move the repair shop back to our market? Every time Xiaowu and his friends come back, they say that it's too troublesome to go back and forth to the town to repair cars." Xiaoga started chatting while smoking.

"If we talk about the future, it would definitely be better to put the repair shop in the town, unless the town government can move to our village to work." Yang Dongxu said jokingly.

In fact, he also knew that Xiaoga was just chatting. Although there are more cars in the surrounding area because of the wealth of Yangjia Village, Wuli Town is close to a provincial road.

That is to say, because Xiaoga just came back from learning auto repair, there are not many regular customers in the repair station. If he persists for one or two years and has more regular customers, the business will definitely be better than the one in Yangjia Village.

Moreover, the repair shop in the town has become famous. Basically, everyone in the town will go there to repair their cars when they break down, after all, the shop is big and has all the parts. Although the roads in Yangjiaji are not bad, the geographical location is not advantageous after all.

Xiaoga has moved back to the market now. When other people in the town open repair shops and become famous, he will definitely not be able to compete with them for business.