Chapter 12: Come back home

　　 Mei Qiuping made lunch ahead of time today. When the sun was in the middle, and the father and son hadn’t returned yet, she scooped out a few scoops of peanuts from the cabinet and poured them into the basket, ready to peel the peanuts. Most of the peanuts harvested this year are used for oil extraction. In addition to the seeds, a few liters are left as a snack for Feng Zhenchang. Of course, fried peanuts can also be used as a dish when there are customers.

　　 She was sitting in the main room, peeling peanuts quickly, raising her hand from time to time to drive away the chickens patrolling nearby, while paying attention to the movement outside the house. Before returning home from school, Feng Yiping would shout "Mom" on the shelf of Emei beans outside the house, but today I can’t wait for the left or right. When the peanuts were peeled about a bowl, there was a Hei, she looked up and her son came back.

　　 She took her son’s schoolbag, threw the dirty clothes in the basin, and asked, "Are you used to living in school? Are you used to eating?"

Feng Yiping sat on a stool and peeled the peanuts, but threw the peeled peanuts in his mouth first, "I am used to living and eating. Like elementary school, I still have a bed for four people. I eat better than elementary school. The morning buns It’s well steamed and rice is cooked with good rice, not the yellow rice that is often eaten in elementary school."

　　 Mentioned this Mei Qiuping and cursed, "Those ignorant things in elementary school, the home sent to the house is good rice, but also let you eat rice cooked with old rice."

　　 Actually, it’s not stale rice. Feng Yiping only knew after taking a job that it should be stale rice. The rice grains were yellow and had a heavy taste. They mostly ate this kind of rice when they were in elementary school.

　　 "Don't peel it, I only took it out when I was idle, let's get hungry, and eat first." Mei Qiuping added washing powder to the basin and poured water to soak it first.

　　 "I'm not too hungry, let's wait until Dad comes back to eat together." Feng Yiping said.

　　 "That's okay, he will be back soon, so let's fry the peanuts first, okay?"

　　 "Okay," Feng Yiping put down the basket, went to the utility room, scooped out a large scoop of peanuts from a bag on the ground, and poured it into the large pot on the stove.

　　This kind of peanuts are deflated peanuts. They can neither be squeezed nor grown. They are either small in size or have no kernels in them. They are usually fired to make snacks for children.

　　 In rural areas, except for dinner, there is no money to buy snacks for children, such as sugar, biscuits, and fruits, which can only be seen during Chinese New Year or when someone has a wedding. What children can usually eat is fried pumpkin seeds, fried gourd seeds, deflated peanuts, and dried sweet potatoes.

　　 Feng Yiping's level of fried peanuts is good, at least among the four after 塆, his level is the first one. In fact, there is no trick. Stir-fry for a while on a low fire, let it cool after frying, and temper it with a low fire. The peanuts will be ripe and will not return to life after some days.

　　 He just added straw to the stove a few times, and some smell came out. The wife of the neighbor Feng Jiasheng came in with a bowl to talk to Mei Qiuping. It is normal for neighbors to walk around with a bowl. After a few words, she walked into the kitchen, "Yiping, and fry peanuts again, why are you so greedy?"

　　 If you are joking about these older sisters, it’s best to avoid talking about other things, "Brother Jiasheng is back?"

　　 Her husband Feng Jiasheng works in the canteen of the town government.

　　 "No, let's go to night."

　　 said as he opened the gauze that covered the dishes in the morning, "Hey, your mother, they really love you, don't they? You see, they are reluctant to eat the tofu that they changed the day before yesterday, and they want you to come back before cooking."

　　 Feng Yiping smiled and said, "Yeah, you are not the same with Jinzhi sister. If you have any delicious food, you will keep waiting for her, and wait for us to be filial to you!"

　　 Jinzhi is her daughter, 5 years older than Feng Yiping. After graduating from junior high school, Feng Jiasheng found a relationship and sent her to the county textile factory.

　　 "Hehe, what that means is that when we are old and can't do anything, we can only rely on you!"

　　 When Feng Zhenchang returns home, the peanuts are already cooked, wait until the meal is finished, and then turn the heat back.

　　 The dishes are a bit cold, but they are hot again. Mei Qiuping complained about her husband, "I know that Yiping is on vacation today, and he is back so late!"

　　 Feng Zhenchang washed his face and said, "On the way back, I came across the shed where Feng Mingzhi was setting up a kanban chestnut, so I helped."

Chestnut is the most valuable economic forest. Some people have many chestnut trees and can harvest 1,000 catties a year. Most people only have a few hundred catties. But in a good year, they can buy a good price, such as two or three yuan. It is the largest cash income for farmers in a year.

　　 Therefore, before and after the chestnut matures, people often carry a small basket and walk around, picking up those chestnut **** that have fallen to the ground early, and even hit directly from the tree when there is no one around.

　　 When the chestnuts are ripe, some people even smear them at night, bring bamboo poles, and pick those trees with lots of chestnut balls. They will steal several trees in one night. Therefore, in the past two years, those with a lot of chestnut trees will set up a shed and arrange people to watch it at night.

There are three dishes at noon. One is fried tofu. After a few days, the tofu is a little moldy, so I used a lot of chili and the bean paste. The other is fried celery, which is wild celery picked by the river; There is a cucumber.

　　The parents put half of the tofu in Feng Yiping's bowl, and watching Feng Yiping eat three bowls, Mei Qiuping said, "How can you be full of four or two meters of school rice?"

　　 "I'm full at school, Mom, it's late for lunch today, I'm a little hungry, so I eat so much." Feng Yiping poured a bowl of boiling water, some of it was hot, and said while blowing.

　　 Before his parents finished eating, he changed his clothes, grabbed a few handfuls of peanuts, put them in his pockets, put on a straw hat, picked up a sickle, asked where to tie the cow, and continued to be his cowboy.

　　 At dinner in the evening, his father asked him how he was studying and whether he could be in the top of his age like elementary school. Feng Yiping said, of course there is no problem.

After eating, he tried to discuss with his parents, "Father, Mom, this week I have read through the textbooks of the main subjects. It is not difficult. I think it should not be a problem to enter the county No. It is a question of whether it is a good university or a normal university."

　　 Feng Zhenchang drank some wine in the evening and was very happy to hear that, "You are going to be admitted to the university, and you are the first college student in the village!"

Mei Qiuping was wiping the table. She sat down and said happily, "In elementary school, you didn't let us worry about it. The results have always been the best. At that time, Principal Chen told me that you will definitely have a future. "

　　 Principal Chen is the principal of their elementary school. Once the villagers had a happy event, he was also invited. When she met Mei Qiuping, she praised Feng Yiping a few words, and she still remembers it.

"Father, Mom, what I want to say is that the family still owes foreign debts, and the tuition fees are rising year by year. This semester is 45. It is estimated to be more than 100 in the third grade, and it is even higher in high school. If you are admitted to university in the future, at least one year will be better several thousand,"

　　 Feng Zhenchang interrupted him, "You don't have to worry about these, you study hard, I will worry about the tuition fee with your mother. Not to mention going to university, even if you are going to be a PhD in the future, we will also provide you."

　　 Feng Yiping said, "I know that if I get admitted to university in the future, you will definitely do everything possible to let me continue, I know." He looked at his parents seriously.

"In the past two days, I'll forget it. Although my sister went out to work, she didn't have a junior high school diploma. She was so young that she couldn't make much money in a year. She was also a big girl, and she had a lot of money to spend on her own. Not on."

　　 Feng Zhenchang was a little angry when she heard here, "The girls who went out together, the other families have money to send back, but Yu Xuan has nothing."

　　 Mei Qiuping knew that her daughter had gone to other places, and she was afraid that her husband would be angry, so she didn't tell him, she whispered, "It's not easy for Yuxuan to go out to work when she was 15 years old."

　　 Feng Yiping took the words, "I don’t know, the family’s annual income is more than one thousand yuan, and there is always some debt to be paid every year, plus daily expenses, there is not much money left every year."

　　 Mei Qiuping sighed, "If the year is not good, the pigs raised get sick, and the chestnuts are cheap, maybe they will have to go to the table." Feng Zhenchang sat on the stool with a calm face, smoking a cigarette without talking.

　　 "So I think, I still have to think of something as early as possible, otherwise it will be too difficult." Although this topic is heavy, Feng Yiping still wants to continue.

Feng Zhenchang still didn’t say anything. Mei Qiuping said, “It’s hard to make money. I’m not in good health. Your father is old, and now I can’t find a good place to go out to work. Yes, there are growing pigs and chickens on the trees. It is really impossible to change the money. If you can find a factory and get a salary of more than 100 yuan a month, that would be great."

　　 At this time, in the village, including the nearby villages, most of the people who went out to work were girls, and most of them worked in industries such as clothing and textiles. It is difficult for a strong laborer to go out and find a chance to work as a small job on a construction site. They often go outside for a month and spend hundreds of dollars on living expenses and return trips, but they can't find anything to do. The region is also concentrated in the province. For the time being, there has not been a tide of working in coastal provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian.

　　 Feng Yiping went on to say, "I think the chestnuts are good this year, but I don't think I can get any good prices."

　　 Feng Zhenchang flicked the soot, and muttered, "Zhiming and the others went to inquire about it. It is estimated that it will not be higher than two yuan."

　　 Everyone is a little silent, and their family generally accepts three to four hundred catties of chestnuts, so that, at most, it does not exceed 800 yuan.

Feng Yiping said, “A classmate from town in our class told me that his father took him to the provincial capital to play and bought delicious sweet-fried chestnuts for him. It costs 6 yuan per catty, so I just paid attention. , Asked him how the chestnut was fried, and then I found other classmates, and teachers who graduated from the Provincial Normal College, and probably asked about the method of fried chestnut." He took out a piece of paper and handed it to his parents.

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