Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 224 May Spring Rain
Si Ni: "Dad, am I right?"

"Yes, yes, that's right! But you don't want to eat meat, so don't blame daddy for not letting you eat it."

"Hurry up and eat! There's no Si Ni for you to grab today!"

Chen Weidong smiled, then looked at Liu Xueting and asked, "Mother, is it delicious?"

Liu Xueting: "It's delicious!"

"Wuni, is Dad's cooking delicious?"

“Dad makes it, it’s the best!”

Wu Ni said in a baby voice.

Si Ni: "Dad, you bully me, wuwuwu!"

"Haha."

Chen Weidong was in a very happy mood while chatting and laughing with his wife and children, teasing Si Ni and eating.

After dinner, the family washed up and lay down on the kang.

Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting haven't been home for a few days.
Several younger girls were clinging to Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting's arms.

Nothing happened that night. The next day, Liu Xueting woke up early in the morning and was about to get up from the kang.

"Why did you get up so early?" Chen Weidong asked after opening his eyes.

"Da Ni, Er Ni, you have to go to school soon, so I can get up early and cook."

Liu Xueting said with a smile.

"I told you yesterday that I can do these things. You are the key protected person in our family now, so I can do it! You can sleep a little longer."

Chen Weidong held her back, and then asked gently, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"

"Weidong, I'm not that delicate! It's not even a month yet, and you really want me to stay idle!"

Liu Xueting pouted coquettishly, but her face was filled with deep happiness.

"If you are willing, that would be great!" said Chen Weidong.

"I don't want to! When I was pregnant with Dani and the others, I did whatever I had to do. I was still working in the fields until the day before the birth."

Liu Xueting shook her head.

"It's different now than before. We didn't have the conditions before, but we do have them now. So of course we have to be careful."

"Then you still want to go into the mountains! I know all about it myself. I have given birth to six children."

Liu Xueting insisted on getting up despite Chen Weidong's dissuasion, and Chen Weidong also hurriedly got up from the kang to help.

In fact, Chen Weidong really wanted to be nice to his wife. Liu Xueting had given birth to six daughters, so she was of course very experienced. Moreover, in the countryside these days, it was not uncommon for a woman to work in the fields even if she was more than nine months pregnant, or to do laundry, cooking, housework, and feed pigs and chickens at home.

Many of them were still working in the fields the day before giving birth.

A lot of them were born in the fields, and some even gave birth next to the stove.

After making breakfast, Chen Weidong fed all the livestock at home again, and Liu Xueting went to dress the children.

After the family finished their meal, Chen Weidong took out the golden eagle again, fed it food, and trained it for a while.

Then, Chen Weidong took the money and gave it to Li Shengli. The three of them divided it. Chen Weidong did not take much more this time. The total was 4,600 yuan. Chen Weidong gave each of the three people 1,000 yuan.
This time we were able to find the antlers thanks to the information from our third uncle Chen Guangkun, and Chen Weidong personally gave his third uncle two hundred yuan.

Chen Weidong explained the divided money to Li Shengli and the other three, and they all agreed.

As time went by, due to Liu Xueting's sudden pregnancy, Chen Weidong considered that his wife was not in good health, so he did not plan to take his wife and children to visit relatives in the south.

Instead, he planned to go to the south himself after the house was built, and if it was convenient, he would bring Liu Xueting and her family over to live with them for a while.

Liu Xueting had lost contact with her family for a long time. She didn't know what had happened or whether her parents-in-law had moved.
He could go there alone and take a look at the situation first.

Besides, Liu Xueting is already pregnant, so she can’t be stimulated by anything!
Although Liu Xueting missed her family, so many years had passed, so she agreed.

As the temperature gets warmer, spring comes with blooming flowers in the Greater Khingan Range.

It is also the time for spring plowing in the fields.

Those who had livestock began to lead them to plow the fields. Those who did not have livestock either relied on their own strength or

Or you can wait for the family with livestock to plow the land, and then beg them to help you plow the land.

Of course, this costs money.

In Jiuqutun, spring plowing usually starts in mid-April, and sowing does not begin until May.

In the Northeast, there is only spring plowing and one crop per year, which is different from the spring plowing and summer sowing in the interior.

Therefore, everyone is not so anxious.

None of this had anything to do with Chen Weidong. He didn't plan to farm the land. Originally, Chen Weidong was going to give the land to others to farm.
As long as they helped him pay the public grain tax and gave him some food, it would be enough. But when Chen Guangtian knew about it, of course he was unwilling to do so. In those days, the land was the sky for the people.

Chen Weidong had no choice but to hand over the land to his father Chen Guangtian, and at the same time give the donkey in the family to Chen Guangtian and Chen Weihai to use.

Since everyone was busy with spring ploughing at that time, not many people came to Chen Weidong to build the house.

There are about seven or eight people every day, and they are replaced every two or three days.

Everyone took time out and came to help.

Dad, mom, elder brother, and sister-in-law are all too busy to take care of Chen Weidong.

Early this morning, Chen Weidong went to Sunjiatun again, taking the clothes he bought for his second sister's family.

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"Weidong, your brother-in-law is visiting relatives today. He probably won't be back at noon. Don't leave today. Have a couple of drinks with your brother-in-law in the evening."

After learning from Chen Weidong that Liu Xueting was pregnant, Chen Xiuxiu congratulated him a few words and then smiled and tried to keep him.

"Second sister, that's not possible! Xueting is pregnant now, it's not convenient for her to take care of six children alone!" "That's true, your brother-in-law and I will go see Xueting in a few days!"

Chen Xiuxiu muttered something and said nothing more.

After lunch, Chen Xiuxiu gave some vegetable seeds.

Chen Weidong then took the vegetable seeds home. With them, he didn't have to go buy them again.

As soon as he got home, Chen Weidong saw Liu Xueting sleeping on the sewing machine. The little girls were playing outside. Chen Weidong did not disturb her. He turned to the kitchen and took some dog food.
All the dogs in the farm have been fed. Now Chen Weidong has put all six dogs in the farm!

Then I added some more water to the dog bowl.

After feeding the dog, let it out for some fresh air.

Chen Weidong started growing vegetables, and the vegetables his second sister gave him were all Chinese cabbage, rapeseed and other green vegetables.

Chinese cabbage and rapeseed can be eaten in about 40 days after they are planted.

After the little girls returned home, they followed him and helped him. Soon the vegetable garden was filled with the sound of little kids playing.

After a while, a sister said, "Please pull me from behind and help me pull weeds."

After a while, the babbling sound of baby feeding was heard.

In the evening, Chen Weidong made stir-fried pork with sauerkraut, and then made shredded potatoes with green peppers, stir-fried cabbage with spicy sauce, and Feilong mushroom soup.

Three dishes and one soup.

In order to have a son, Liu Xueting listened to some methods of the village and started to eat sour food. As the saying goes, sour son, spicy daughter, in fact, she really doesn't like sour food. Chen Weidong made two dishes, one spicy and one sour.
Liu Xueting always picks up spicy dishes unconsciously.

In fact, the saying "sour children and spicy women" is not accurate. The taste of pregnant women changes greatly during pregnancy.

After cooking, Chen Weidong called the children to eat.

Whoosh whoosh!

The little girls came running over with their short legs. The older ones washed their hands, some held bowls, some held chopsticks, and the younger ones followed behind their older sisters.

"Come and eat! Didn't you say you wanted to eat pickled cabbage? I made stir-fried pork with pickled cabbage just for you."

Chen Weidong spoke gently and served Liu Xueting a bowl of Feilong soup.

"Weidong, don't worry about me! You can eat too!"

"Huh! Daddy is so good to Mommy. Woohoo, I want to eat big chicken legs! Daddy won't even make them for me."

Si Ni said in a baby voice that she was a little jealous.

"Don't you want to get fat? Why are you still eating meat?" Chen Weidong tapped Si Ni's little head and joked.

"It seems that fourth sister has given up!" Dani said with a smile.

"Haha, a little foodie, just a little foodie!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"But even if Dad wants to make it, we don't have that many chicken legs at home!"

Just as Chen Weidong's family of eight were happily eating, at Chen Guangtian's house on the other side.

"Old man, old man! Xue Ting is pregnant again! I hope it's a son this time!"

Wu Xiuqin said happily.

Chen Guangtian: "Really? How did you know she was pregnant? She didn't tell us when she came here!"

"I heard it from Xuehua too."

"Let's go and take a look!" Chen Guangtian couldn't help laughing when he heard Wu Xiuqin say that.

"What are you looking at? It's still a son! Don't give birth to another daughter and make others laugh at you. I won't go!"

Wu Xiuqin was quite happy just now, but now her face became stern again.

Chen Guangtian: “…”

Didn't you, an old woman, run over to tell me with excitement?"

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Time passed quickly, and by the time the roof of Chen Weidong's house was finished, the first spring rain in May had arrived.

Spring rains only started to fall in the Northeast in May, which may seem strange to many people.

However, in some areas of Northeast China, it is not surprising to have spring rains in May.

After the first spring rain in May, construction on Chen Weidong's house was temporarily suspended.

Because, after the first spring rain, it’s time to go to the mountains again. After the spring rain, there are many good things in the mountains.

Mushrooms, mountain bracken, fungus, etc., and wood frogs.

Of course there is Gastrodia elata.

At this time, the Gastrodia elata has just grown a short bud, and this is a good time to dig up the Gastrodia elata.

There are two seasons for digging Gastrodia elata, one is spring, when Gastrodia elata has just sprouted, and the other is autumn, when Gastrodia elata has begun to bear fruit.

As for summer, the nutrients of Gastrodia elata are absorbed by the straw on the ground, leaving only a piece of skin, which is not heavy or valuable.

These are the precious treasures that spring brings to the mountains in Xing'an Mountains.

At this time, almost all men, women, old and young went to the nearby hills to hunt for treasures. Chen Weidong naturally could not stop everyone from going to the mountains.

What's more, Chen Weidong also wants to go to the mountain.

Chen Weidong stayed at home every day, building a house, taking care of children, brewing wine, and training golden eagles. Of course, he also made a trip to Hajiang City in the middle.

(End of this chapter)