Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

If the flock of pheasants was big, grandpa would ask the two brothers to squat aside. He slowly leaned over, then stood up suddenly, and threw the cotton hat over the flock of pheasants in the air. On the ground, grandpa went over to pick it up and put it on his head, and then began to search in the snow nest. He kept pulling out the pheasants from the snow like radishes, twisted their necks and hung them on their waists. A group of pheasants Ten, at least seven or eight can be caught this way, sometimes a dozen.It turns out that the pheasant is a bit like an ostrich. After being frightened, it will drill its head into the snow as quickly as possible, and then stand there motionless waiting for the hunter to pull it out.

Another way is medicine.There is a kind of mountain fruit in the Northeast Mountains. I don’t know what it is called. It seems to be called Chimeguo (sound). It is a small red fruit that is hollow and as big as the belly of a little finger. Because this fruit has no pulp, no one has ever heard of it. Eat it so it survives once fall is over and becomes food for pheasants.Grandpa picked this kind of fruit, then stuffed a kind of medicine he had prepared into the fruit, went to the edge of the forest and sprinkled the fruit on the ground, and when he came back in an hour or two, he saw pheasants lying on the snow one by one. , has died.The viscera of the pheasant caught in this way had to be thrown away. Grandpa said it was poisonous and could not be eaten, and he didn't know what the poison was.

The rabbit set that was put down the first day has to be looked at the next day or the third day, which is called a slip.With ten sets at a time, at least three or five rabbits can be caught. They are fat and have gray fur. They are lying there from a distance, and they have been strangled to death by the covers and frozen hard.Sometimes the rabbit cover can catch birds, and I don't know how they got in. The opening of the cover is much bigger than their bodies, so it can only be regarded as a dead bird.

As for putting a plaque basket in the yard, using a long rope to tie a wooden stick to support the gap, sprinkle some millet under the plaque basket, and wait for the birds to come, this is purely a child's trick, my lord. It is not like this to catch birds.All the sparrows caught in this way have no meat, but in this era sparrows are called bird disasters, and there are so many sparrows. In winter, just put a basket and sprinkle a few handfuls of millet, and catch fifty or sixty in a day. Children joked that the highest record in the village was that more than 3000 dogs were detained in one winter.

My brother was born with the talent of a hunter. In his previous life, he was able to play a rabbit trap like his grandfather when he was six or seven years old. When he grew up, he also loved catching birds and fishing.It's just that he has been living in the city since he grew up, and basically has no chance to use the kung fu of holding a bird to a rabbit.This is still the case in this life. After going with my grandpa a few times, my brother was able to use a ponytail as a cover. He led Zhang Xingming to the side of the mountain a few times, and he actually caught a few rabbits, holding them and wriggling coquettishly. When Xiao Yao returned home, his grandpa praised him for showing off inside and outside the house.

Zhang Xingming was depressed. I didn’t learn it in my last life, but I studied it very hard and carefully in this life, but I still couldn’t, not to mention the mysterious tracking of rabbits (finding the path that rabbits have walked, rabbits are a strange way) It only walks the way it has walked, unless it is frightened), even if it is tied into a ponytail, he has not succeeded, as if facing the ponytail, his hand has degenerated into a bear's paw.

Forget it, just eat.

In rural areas, people get up at dawn and go home at sunset. There is no specific time arrangement, just follow the sun.

In the early morning of winter, the kang is already getting cold, and the quilt is still warm, but the air in the room has cooled, and you can see white mist when you breathe, and when you lie under the quilt, your face exposed outside is a bit cold.While Zhang Xingming and his elder brother were still stretching themselves out under the covers, grandma and grandpa had already gotten up to work.

Turn on the fire under the stove again, let the kang heat up, and then start to make breakfast.At this time, there are still two meals a day in the countryside.Corn noodles, put some soup, mix some pickles, simple and simple.After the younger brothers got up, washed their faces, and had breakfast, grandpa went out, and grandma went to the Westinghouse to bring out a large aluminum basin, and soaked a basin of corn on the stove first.This is to make sour soup noodles. The corn is soaked, that is, fermented. Warm it on the stove and it will rise quickly.

After soaking for five or six days, you can smell a faint sour smell, change the water, and you can grind it.

Borrow a donkey from the team, there is a stone mill in the stove house, wash it, put on the donkey, put on a blindfold, shout "drive", the donkey will walk around the mill, pull the stone mill to turn, grandma Just take a small ladle and walk behind the donkey, adding soaked corn to the mill while walking.After a while, the white thick corn juice flowed out along the outlet of the stone mill, and a sour smell radiated.

After grinding for a long time, a pot of soaked corn was finished.Grandpa sent donkeys to the team, and grandma processed them at home.Stir and settle the ground corn juice, scoop out the coarse slag and the skin part floating on the upper layer, leave the fine part at the bottom, put it in a bag, press the stones to drain, wait until the water is almost gone, put the inside Take out the wet corn flour, add a little white flour, and knead it into palm-sized doughs. Boil water in a pot, put the kneaded doughs in one by one, and scald until the surface layer is one centimeter cooked. Take it out and let it cool down. Continue to knead, the dough is not as loose as it was at the beginning, and the surface is also shiny. Stack the dough one by one, and it will be the sour soup noodles.Put it aside, and take out a ball when you eat.

The winter in Northeast China is like a big natural refrigerator. Whatever is put there will be frozen naturally, and the fresh-keeping effect is excellent.

When eating sour soup, first take out the soup noodles to thaw, knead well, boil a pot of boiling water, and when the water boils, hold the soup noodles in your hand, and wear a special aluminum leather sleeve on your big finger, like It looks like a small funnel, with a small mouth as thick as the head of a chopstick. Hold the dough with both hands, squeeze the noodles out of the funnel, squeeze them into boiling water, and cook for a few minutes. The sour taste diffuses in the air, delicious sour The soup is ready, golden noodles, light yellow thick soup, sour, glutinous and slippery.

At that time, there was no refrigerator, and noodles like sour soup were only available in winter. Now that the conditions are good, they can be eaten at any time.However, the living conditions have improved, and fewer and fewer people know how to make it. Not to mention the sour soup, there are not many people who can pickle sauerkraut now.

Chapter 17

Although my grandfather had never led Zhang Xingming and his elder brother into the mountains to hunt big things, Zhang Xingming and his elder brother still managed to catch a roe deer. This was something Zhang Xingming had never experienced in his previous life.

That day I accompanied my elder brother to the trap, but he didn’t catch a single rabbit. The somewhat frustrated elder brother frowned and pulled his head to lead Zhang Xingming back. There is something lying there on the face.When it freezes in winter, because the river does not freeze immediately, the river will overflow under the resistance of the ice, and finally a large ice surface will be formed. A river that is two meters wide can freeze an ice surface that is more than ten meters wide. Become a paradise for children.There is a big river in the village, and the ice surface is even bigger, so in winter, only Zhang Xingming and Zhong Changhong and Zhong Changyan play on the ice on the Nangou side, and Zhong Changhong and the others will go to the relatives’ house in the village every few days, so this The ice surface basically became the private territory of the two brothers.

"Brother, look, there is a sheep on the ice." Zhang Xingming stopped running, looked carefully at the ice, and said to his brother.

"Bullshit, your sheep don't flock in winter." The elder brother replied without raising his head.There is no grass on the mountain in winter, so they are all enclosed in the circle and will not be released.

"Brother really, it's such a big sheep. Look, it's right there, not moving, is it a dead sheep?" Zhang Xingming took his brother's arm and pointed it out to him.

The elder brother stopped, looked up at Zhang Xingming's fingers for a while, frowned, recognized and recognized carefully, and then whispered: "Squat down, that's not a sheep, it should be a roe deer. You change the belt (solution, Northeast hair change) Give it to me, let's grab it (two tones) and bring it back."

"Does the roe deer bite?" Zhang Xingming squatted down obediently and asked.

"Don't bite, change your trouser belt." My brother stared at the roe deer and said.

Zhang Xingming shook his head, this brother didn't understand himself, so he had to let him come, so he reached out to untie his belt and handed it to his brother.At this time, the trouser belts of the two brothers are actually a bundle of cloth strips, which are used to tie the trousers.

The elder brother took the trouser belt and held it in his hand, bent over carefully and walked towards the roe deer crawling on the ice, Zhang Xingming followed behind with his trousers in hand.

All the way to the edge of the ice, the roe deer moved but did not run.My brother turned a corner, passed behind the roe deer, approached the roe deer carefully, then tied Zhang Xingming's trouser belt to the roe deer's head, and pulled hard, the roe deer stood up following his brother's pulling force, and then moved its hooves. He fell down on the ice again with a slap, my brother was taken aback, then laughed, and said to Zhang Xingming: "This thing can't stand up on the ice, haha, I said why doesn't it run, come on, let's go!" Take it home with you two."

Zhang Xingming looked at the roe deer. It has a black nose, big watery eyes, and no horns. It is probably a juvenile. It looks a bit like a deer, but its body is smaller and there are no patterns. It has four pointed hooves standing on the ice. Draw a series of scratches.This unlucky kid's hooves are born with ice skates, and he doesn't know how he got on the ice. If no one finds out, he will starve to death on the ice in the end. He won't be able to stand up at all, let alone leave.

The elder brother said: "Come on, help me pull it, and eat Dayou (meat, pronounced and pronounced in Northeast China) at night."

Zhang Xingming looked at his brother, then at his hand holding the trousers, and said, "I'll help you pull it up, can you help me lift the trousers?"

The elder brother looked at his hand holding his trousers, and felt a little troubled: "Then what should I do, I can't pull it myself."

Zhang Xingming said: "You wait here, I'll call grandpa."

My brother was a bit reluctant: "Grandpa is here, so I caught it?"

Zhang Xingming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "My brother, even if you can pull it, it can stand up and run as soon as it comes out of the ice, and you can still hold it? Don't let it drag you home and eat it up." gone."

The elder brother looked at the roe deer, then at the ice surface, clicked his mouth a few times, and said reluctantly: "Then hurry up, I will watch it." Zhang Xingming smiled and walked towards his grandma's house, and his elder brother walked behind Shouted: "Tell grandpa that I caught it." Zhang Xingming obeyed, nodded, and walked speechlessly.

The ice surface is not far from Zhang Xingming’s grandma’s house, only about 300 meters away. After a while, Zhang Xingming entered the yard with his trousers in his hands. Grandpa was chopping firewood. Seeing him come in with his trousers in hand, he put down his ax and asked, “What’s wrong with the second child? His trousers fell off. Oh, is the belt folded (tongue)?"

Zhang Xingming said: "My brother is holding the roe deer. Grandpa, go quickly, I will run away in a while."

Grandpa was a little surprised: "Roe deer? Where is it? Your brother can tie roe deer? That thing can run fast."

Zhang Xingming shook his trousers and said, "That thing ran on the ice, and my brother is watching over there, just over there."

"What do I say?" Grandpa nodded, took a bundle of string from the eaves, took it in the back, and left the hospital.

After a while, grandpa came back with Zhang Xingming's trouser belt in his hand and the roe deer on his shoulder. He threw the trouser belt to Zhang Xingming and said to the grandma who greeted him, "These two children are lucky. It's quite fat, about forty catties."

Grandma was also happy, and helped grandpa put down the roe deer, put it on the roe deer and squeezed it, and said, "It's more than fifty catties. It's a big one. I haven't heard of anyone hitting this thing for a long time." Grandpa tightened the rope on the roe deer's legs and said: "I haven't shot it for a few years. This guy runs too fast. It depends on luck to hit it. Now you can't hit it without a fast gun. You can't hit it with foreign artillery. If you chase it It's better to dig badgers when it's time, that's a bit more accurate."

Foreign guns are old-fashioned shotguns, a bit like the first generation of thermal weapons, the kind of guns used by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces when they entered BJ. Fill the gunpowder from the muzzle, fill the powder with the stuffed paper, and then poke it firmly with a fiber. Pour lead sand into the muzzle of the gun and seal the muzzle with kraft paper, but instead of lighting the fire with a stick of incense from the back like the first-generation guns, there is a rocker above the rear trigger of the gun, commonly known as a dog's head, to fire. When the dog's head is pulled up, there is a small iron tube directly leading to the gunpowder in the gun. The diameter of the tube mouth is only a few millimeters. A cap is installed on it, which is a bit like a match head. It is made of iron. Hitting on the cap, because the impact ignited the red powder in the cap, and also ignited the gunpowder in the gun, and the lead sand sprayed out with a bang, and it can hit a large area. This thing is far away It has no lethality at all, and it comes slowly. Basically, it cannot be used for hunting. It is a deterrent weapon and is used for self-defense.

In the last life, Zhang Xingming and his elder brother secretly used his grandfather's foreign cannon to beat a bird. The guy made a loud bang, shaking the two brothers for a walk. As a result, the bird was no longer edible, and its body was covered in dense lead sand. , can't even buckle it out.There is also a resident in the village who let the foreign cannon go off by himself and hit his face directly. He didn't even go to the hospital, so he asked his wife to buckle the lead sand out and finish the job, leaving half of his face pitted, which shows the lethality of this thing How powerful it is.

Grandma lit a fire in the stove, filled the pot with water, grandpa took out a knife and a pot, and started to kill the roe deer, which was actually similar to killing a pig, killing a knife to let the blood out, then peeling and cramping to remove the internal organs, and then picking the legs to remove the head , divided the body into several pieces and hung them under the eaves, and it was completed in more than an hour.

Grandpa spread the roe deer skin on the snow, and then cleaned up the internal organs. Grandma went to the cellar to dig out some potatoes, soaked them in water and peeled them, and prepared to use them to stew the roe deer meat. Zhang Xingming and his brother squatted beside and watched.

After tidying up, grandpa stood up with a shovel and shoveled the blood-stained snow into the vegetable field through the tent (high fence), then brought the pot into the house, grandma put the cut potatoes into the pot, He started to cut the meat, and said as he cut, "Keep the heart and stomach for Qingzhi, he likes to eat it. Keep the ribs too, let Qingzhi take it back for Guixin to taste." "Save half of the meat for him to take back." Grandpa said something, take out the heart and liver, tie it with a thin rope, take it out and hang it on the eaves, shaved the ribs and hang it out, now it is minus [-] degrees outside, it will freeze in a while, and it will be cold all winter It is fresh.

Zhang Xingming felt that it was not easy to see the meat once. There are so many things in total, and they can all be given to parents in a few words. Parents are great.

"Grandpa, grandpa, I want to eat pork ribs, and I want to eat a lot of them." Zhang Xingming acted like a child, and stabbed his elder brother again. The elder brother didn't understand what he meant, but he immediately shouted: "I want it too, You have to eat more and more."

Grandpa just laughed and said: "The two little guys are hungry, okay, let you eat enough."

"Let's stew it all again, just save some food for my dad." Zhang Xingming immediately climbed up, and was patted on the head by his grandma: "Can you eat so much?"

In the end, half ribs and half meat were left for Dad, and the rest was put into the pot, and the bones were stewed, and the smell of meat filled the room after a while.

When the Spring Festival was approaching, Dad finally came with a big bag, rice flour oil, cotton shoes, new clothes for the two brothers (made from adult clothes), and four hairtails (sea knives). , from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger, there are more than ten centimeters) long base shrimp, and Zhang Xingming's favorite shrimp chips when he was a child, a large red and green box, a radio, and dozens of AA batteries. (The factory divides meat, eggs, rice noodle oil, fish, shrimp, cabbage, apples and pears every winter in the factory, and there are still divisions until now) Seeing roe deer meat, my father sighed: "I haven't eaten this for many years. This Who hit it? Dad, can you still get this thing?" Grandpa smiled and said, "I didn't hit it, it was your two sons."

The elder brother immediately puffed up his chest: "I'll take a drip, can I do it?" Zhang Xingming rolled his eyes.

"Okay, eldest son, tell me how you beat him?" Dad was still very approachable when he was not angry, he picked up his brother and asked. "I looked at it and tied it up with my trouser belt. Grandpa carried it back." My brother praised it, and my father understood it. He asked grandpa, "Did you run on the ice? This thing can't move once it's on the ice." It is." Grandpa laughed.

"Why don't you bring San'er?" Grandma asked.

"It's too small, these two are enough for you to choke, we are satisfied." Dad took off his shoes on the kang, stretched his feet under the quilt to warm, stepped on the snow to climb the mountain, the insides of the shoes were frozen, grandma took the shoes Put it on the side of the stove to bake.

Zhang Xingming climbed onto the kang, picked up the radio and studied it. The sky-blue shell was as big as a red brick. In the last life, this radio was the treasure of his grandparents. Until the eldest daughter was born in 93, his grandparents lived with his father. Mom is still listening at home.

"Don't mess around, if it's broken, there's nowhere to fix it." Dad scolded Zhang Xingming.Zhang Xingming looked up at his father, curled his lips, twisted his hands incessantly, the radio made a rustling sound, sometimes loud and sometimes small, Zhang Xingming touched the back of the radio, pulled out the antenna and shook it, Listening to the noise, I chose an angle, and then turned it around again. The rustling sound gradually weakened, and when it came out, it was still Zhang Xingming's familiar voice: "The spring water in the frontier is clear and pure, and the flowers in the frontier are heart-warming, heart-warming." ..." Zhang Xingming put the radio on the kang, took a pillow to fix it so that it wouldn't fall over, then stepped back a little bit, shook his head, it was really too antique, but how many people are there for such an antique thing in this era It brought the indelible happiness of a lifetime, the vast world, knowledge, music, and national events.This is the irreplaceable spiritual pillar of this era.