Bring the Farm To Wear Chronology

Chapter 131: Chopping Firewood

"Go to Xishangou?"

"That's right, there are a few wild plantain trees over there in Xishangou, and a bunch of plantains are ripe. We picked plantains and ate them when we were planning to go there to cut firewood." The little girl said.

"That's fine, I'll go with you later." Chen Xiayue thought for a while and decided that she could go. Anyway, Xishangou is not very far away, and she can do things like chopping firewood. As for picking firewood, let Zhang Chengchuan do it. She has to Keep yourself sick and weak so that you can't collapse.

Chen Xiayue took a small bamboo basket and tied it around her waist, put the hatchet in the bamboo basket, put on strawberries, and went out with the little girls.

Chen Xiayue can chat with these little girls, after all, she didn't really grow up in the city, even if they are separated by decades, she can still talk to these little girls.

The little girls chatted with her about some small games in the countryside, what they found time to play when they were working, and then asked Chen Xiayue how it was in the city.

Chen Xiayue was not that familiar with the city in this era, after all, she married into the country within a few days after passing through, so her impression of the county was very one-sided.

But Chen Xiayue has the memories of her original body, and the memories of Zaijia and her previous life can tell some things that the little girls don't know, and of course tell them stories.

Some of these little girls had gone to school, but they didn't continue to study until they finished elementary school, and some of them didn't even go to school for a day.

There may be some patriarchal things, but most of them are poor families who can't afford tuition fees, so some girls have never studied.

There are even a small number of boys in the village who have never read a book. There are no people like Zhang Chengchuan who can finish high school and repeat for two years. They can find a job in a hurry after graduating from high school. Read on.

Of course, those who can go to high school and graduate from high school are rare. Everyone is poor, and graduates from junior high school have already impressed the university. Not everyone can go to high school.

Chen Xiayue has read books, and now she often holds books to read, so when she tells stories, she tells stories in idioms. It is impossible for her to talk about the four great classics, and it is even more impossible for her to tell them about foreign classics.

Chen Xiayue admitted frankly that she liked Chinese stories more. Foreign masterpieces were only read for study back then, but she didn't read much at all afterwards.

What's wrong with telling stories with idioms? If you tell foreign stories in this era, hehe, you wait for someone to report you behind your back.

The idiom story is different, that is the traditional Chinese culture. Could it be that the movement does not even let the idiom story be learned or told? She didn't tell any more fantasy stories.

Chen Xiayue gets along well with the little girls. These little girls between the ages of ten and thirteen are busy with work every day. Even if they can't do farming, they still need to help with chopping firewood, mowing, weeding, etc. Mentally barren.

They were very envious of Chen Xiayue's comfortable life. The most important thing was that Chen Xiayue was from the city, so they naturally gave them reasons to envy them. What's more, Chen Xiayue has studied, which makes these little girls even more envious.

And sister-in-law Xia Yue is so beautiful, they like her even more - who said girls can't like beautiful girls? Girls prefer to look at pretty girls.

"Sister-in-law Xia Yue, do you people in the city eat meat every day?" An eleven-year-old girl asked.

The little girl's surname is neither Zhou nor Zhang, but a little girl named Yang, called Yang Zhaodi. She is the eldest in the family, and she has two younger sisters, one named Laidi and the other named Pandi.

Well, from the name, one can tell how much this family wants a son. To be honest, in this era and even in the next twenty or thirty years, such names are very common.

Names like Zhaodi, Laidi, and Pandi are as common as Jianguo and Jianhua.

Yang Zhaodi's family treats her fairly well. After all, she is the eldest daughter, so there is no one who does not love her mother or father like a younger sister. However, when she grows up, she needs to work, and she will be entrusted with the capable work outside the house.

What Yang Zhaodi envied the most was the city people. She felt that the city people didn't have to do so much work every day like her. The city people could eat well and dress well. Anyway, the city people were better than the country people.

Chen Xiayue laughed after hearing Yang Zhaodi's words, "That's not true. People in the city also have to work to make money. In the city, they have to earn money and tickets to buy food and vegetables. Meat is not often eaten."

"Meat needs a meat ticket, and there is only a small amount of meat ticket every month. It depends on whether you are willing to use the meat ticket to buy meat, so there are not many opportunities for people in the city to eat meat, just more than those in the countryside. A little." Chen Xiayue explained with a smile.

"That's good too." Yang Zhaodi said enviously, she had already forgotten when was the last time she ate meat, she didn't eat the meat of the big wild boar caught in the village last year, because her mother was pregnant. Half of it was left for her mother to eat, and the other half was sent back to her mother's family.

Her mother eats it because her parents think that the child in her mother's womb is a son, so they have to supplement her mother so that her younger brother will grow up well and be healthier after birth. And it was given to her mother's natal family because her uncles wanted to eat.

The three sisters Yang Zhaodi didn't eat meat at all. Her parents loved her as the eldest daughter, but they were nothing compared to her younger brother.

Chen Xiayue looked at Yang Zhaodi, and then looked at the expressions of the other little girls who were similar to hers, and she understood something. Only one or two of these children were loved by the family, but how could the children in the country be spoiled? Especially girls, it is even more impossible to be favored so much.

Chen Xiayue sighed, but she had nothing to do, even if she wanted to change the fate of these girls, she didn't know what to do. She runs a primary school for girls to go to school? What about tuition fees? The girls are at school, who will do the housework?

Chen Xiayue is not a great person either. It is impossible for her to challenge the bottom line of these parents, and it is impossible for her to ask them not to let their children work and let them go to school.

It turned out that she was not as selfless as she thought, and selfishness was still in her nature.

Chen Xiayue changed the subject, and continued to look for wild vegetables with everyone, and chopped down those dry branches for firewood.

After chopping for more than an hour, Chen Xiayue cut off some leaves and sat down under a tree to rest. She has been pampered for a long time, and she was exhausted after working for more than an hour, but she was still slow.

Chen Xiayue was tired, but those little girls were not yet. They happily picked wild vegetables, and when they encountered good wild vegetables, they excitedly called for others to join them.

Chen Xiayue looked at the group of little girls and looked up at the blue sky. In fact, there was nothing wrong with it in the 1960s. It is indeed backward here, but there is also happiness and joy belonging to this era.

After resting for a while, Chen Xiayue planned to leave. She also chopped a small bundle of firewood, and it was impossible to carry it back. She asked Zhang Chengchuan to help carry it away.

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