Ordinary life in fast time travel

Zhang Lin and Chen Qiusheng were sitting under a bridge newly built this year, licking their popsicles with relish.

The popsicles were bought at the only small shop at the entrance of the village, and they cost 5 cents each.Zhang Lin lamented the current prices while licking slowly, not too fast.It's gone after you eat it.There is only one yuan in my pocket, which was given by my elder brother in the morning.He bought two popsicles, one for each of his good friend Chen Qiusheng.

He seldom has money in his pocket, most of the time, Qiu Sheng invites him to eat.Although Qiusheng's life is not easy, but the money in his half-brother's pocket is often searched by him.

The two of them have been best friends since preschool. They are blessed to share and always buy two snacks.

This morning, because Zhang Lin snatched a boiled egg from Seventh Sister, first his neck was scratched by Seventh Sister's nails.All morning, I didn't eat any eggs, and my neck was scratched. His mother was in a bad mood because of the fourth brother's incident, and the bamboo stick didn't leave any strength on him.

Zhang Lin was sitting under a bamboo pole supporting the lid of the TV pot by the door of the house, hugging the bamboo pole and crying.He was crying silently. He used to cry all the time. Since Zhang Lin passed through, Zhang Lin couldn't howl, but he was too hungry and hurt, so he hugged the bamboo pole and wiped his nose while weeping.

The original owner loves to cry so much, Zhang Lin can't help it.

At this time, the eldest brother came back from the outside.The eldest brother glanced at him and took out a dollar from his pocket.

The eldest brother handed him a dollar and asked him to buy snacks. He frowned and said with distaste: "Xiao Liu, wipe your nose, don't cry."

After he finished speaking, he went into the house, and the elder brother was in a bad mood.

Zhang Lin took the one dollar, and sure enough, he stopped crying immediately.In his head, he was planning whether to buy popsicles, bubble gum, or fried broad beans with the dollar.Originally, what Zhang Lin wanted to buy the most was fried broad beans, which could at least fill his stomach.

But Qiu Sheng said that he hadn't eaten popsicles for a long time, so Zhang Lin bought two popsicles.

Qiu Sheng squinted his eyes and licked the popsicle, "Your fourth brother really committed suicide?"

Zhang Lin said, "Well, that's what the police in the town said, and my elder brother is back."

The eldest brother came back only to have the money to arrange the funeral for the fourth brother. This is what the original owner's parents said.The fourth brother died so suddenly that he didn't even have the money to make a coffin.The fourth brother had just been buried the day before yesterday, and the atmosphere at home was also very bad today, so Zhang Lin had time to take advantage of the chaos and go out to buy food.

After Zhang Lin finished eating a popsicle, his hands were sticky, and there was a rumbling sound above his head. It was a tractor passing by the newly built bridge.

Qiu Sheng tossed away the wooden stick he had eaten, and looked out from under the bridge.

"Xiao Liu, they are going to our village. Let's go back by tractor." After speaking, he ran after him.

Zhang Lin frowned and rubbed his sticky hands against the hem of his clothes, and followed him.

The tractor was pulling a cart full of mud bricks, walking very slowly.Qiu Sheng climbed up first, stretched out a hand to Zhang Lin and said, "Grab my hand."

Zhang Lin grabbed Qiu Sheng's hand, and Qiu Sheng pulled him up with all his might.

The two sat on the back of the tractor, dangling their legs, and found a little childhood fun.At that time, when there were tractors, the two of them chased them every day to play.Now that Qiusheng is in the first year of high school, Xiaoliu's height is almost on the shoulders of his elder brother, and he is an adult.

The original owner was already thin, and even his butt was not fleshy. Zhang Lin felt his butt hurt from the shock.It was getting dark, and Zhang Lin was very resistant to going home. Going home meant endless work.

The tractor headed for another village at the intersection ahead, and Zhang Lin and Qiu Sheng jumped off nimbly.

Zhang Lin said, "I'm going back to feed the pigs, see you tomorrow."

Qiu Sheng looked at him with reluctant eyes, "Come and play with me secretly at night."

Zhang Lin didn't want to go, Qiusheng's parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters and younger brothers didn't even like his dog. Xiaoliu went to play with Qiusheng: "I still don't want to go, your mother told me not to disturb your study."

Qiusheng is in the first year of high school. Even though it is summer vacation, he still has to do summer homework every night.His mother is very strict with him, she is a primary school teacher, she also taught the original owner before, the original owner was very afraid of Qiu Sheng's mother, Qiu Sheng's mother looked at the original owner as if she was looking at some dirty thing, or a wild animal that always delayed her son's study dog.

Zhang Lin and Chen Qiusheng separated on the small bridge at Guolutan, and Chen Qiusheng's house was further behind.This place is called Guolutan. In fact, the water is not deep, but the original owner's fourth brother committed suicide here a few days ago, so Zhang Lin and Qiusheng were a little scared when they passed by here, and almost ran over.

Passing by the pigsty, several pigs saw Zhang Lin and scrambled to climb up the pigsty, hooting.

Zhang Lin ignored them and entered the courtyard. Seventh Sister was combing her hair on a bamboo bench in the courtyard, holding a round mirror in her hand. She saw Zhang Lin entering the courtyard from the mirror, and immediately shouted into the room. : "Mom, Xiao Liu is back."

She is three years younger than Xiao Liu, but she never calls Brother Xiao Liu, she just follows everyone Xiao Liu, Xiao Liu.

After shouting, he gloated and looked at Zhang Lin.

Chen Suxian was coming out of the house with red eyes. The death of her fourth son was still a big blow to her.She was holding a wooden bucket in her hand, and was pouring chaff into the bucket spoon by spoon from a snakeskin bag.

She yelled at Zhang Lin, "Where did you die, it's getting late, and the pig doesn't know how to feed it!"

"Following around with Chen Qiusheng every day, is he the same as you? He is a high-achieving student who wants to go to university. As for you, you are just a mud leg doing rough work. Your fourth brother is gone. You don't know how to be sad, so you take the opportunity to hide. I'll kill you debt collector."

Chen Suxian didn't see Chen Qiusheng with him, but she didn't need to think about it, they must be together.He only has one friend, Chen Qiusheng, and he doesn't like others.

Zhang Lin stepped forward, and clumsily took a wooden stick to stir the bran and hogwash in the barrel. The hogwash in the barrel quickly turned into a paste, exuding a faint fragrance of bran, which pigs love to eat.

Seeing that Zhang Lin was not beaten today, Seventh Sister immediately lost interest. She picked up the comb and continued to comb her curly hair, hoping to straighten it. Her good friend Liu Xiaoyan has straight black and shiny hair. All the boys said that Xiaoyan was the class flower, and Qimei was not convinced. She thought that if she had such straight hair, she would definitely be no worse than her.

It's a pity that her family's genes seem to be curly, except for the eldest brother and Xiao Liu, everyone has curly hair, natural curly hair.

Zhang Lin was carrying a bucket of bran water, and as soon as he approached the pigsty, four pigs scrambled to get closer to his face, whining and whining.Zhang Lin held his breath and hit each pig with a wooden spoon to drive them off.

Unexpectedly, the pig didn't seem to know the pain, so it only stretched the pig's neck.Zhang Lin had no choice but to pour a spoonful of pig food into the trough first.

The pig immediately jumped off the fence and went to eat the pig trough.While gnawing, he hummed, making a sound of enjoyment.

After Zhang Lin finished feeding the pigs smoothly, he carried the wooden bucket out of the pigsty before he dared to breathe properly.

As soon as they got home, the wooden barrel was put down, and Qimei, who was sitting in front of the stove combing her hair, saw Xiao Liu and immediately called him: "Xiao Liu, Mom asked you to boil the water."

Zhang Lin pretended not to hear that it was Seventh Sister's job to boil water, but since Seventh Sister entered the first day of junior high school, she refused to do so, and let Xiaoliu burn it every time.Xiao Liu never resisted, he was afraid of Seventh Sister, and Seventh Sister would always look for opportunities for his parents to beat him.But Zhang Lin didn't burn it again when he came.

Seventh Sister threw down the tongs angrily, "Dirty dog, if you don't burn it, I'll tell Dad to break your leg."

When she was angry, she would call him a dirty dog ​​like her friends in the village.

Zhang Lin turned a deaf ear to it. He saw his elder brother washing the mud off his feet in the yard. He had just returned from the fields.

Seventh Sister was still cursing, calling Xiao Liu a dirty dog, a wild dog, a stinky dog, and so on.Zhang Lin was stunned by the abundance of curse words.

The eldest brother who came into the house after washing his feet heard it, and kicked the iron door with a 'sly' kick, "Girls, why is your mouth so dirty, he is your brother! You call dirty dog ​​again and let me hear , I'll smash your mouth."

Seventh Sister fell silent like a dumb cannon.In this family, Seventh Sister is not afraid of anything, only her elder brother.

The eldest brother treats everyone equally, and the eldest brother does not spoil her like her parents, second sister, third brother, and fourth brother.When she was a child, she wasn't that afraid of her elder brother. Now that her elder brother earns money to support the whole family, even her father dares not touch him, so Seventh Sister has no choice but to be honest.

Zhang Lin squatted in the corner and ate white rice cakes bite by bite. They were left over from the fourth brother's funeral the day before yesterday. He secretly hid two of them. He is eating one now, and the other will be eaten with Qiu Sheng tomorrow.Ever since Zhang Lin passed through, the most common thought in his mind was that he was hungry and wanted to eat.I am always on the way to work and looking for food every day, and I almost forget what I am doing here.

The ring mirror he traveled through this time is too bad. Farmers in this era are generally poor. Besides, there are 7 children in this family, and he has been through it for 3 days.But so far, I haven't received any task information in my mind, and 77 who came out as soon as I called before doesn't know where to go.

After Zhang Lin finished eating the white rice cake, he licked his fingers with unsatisfied satisfaction.He remembered that the moment before he crossed over, he was eating in front of the refrigerator, why didn't he know how to grab a few in his hand, maybe he could bring them here.It was getting dark, and the original owner's father, Jian Zhihua, rode a motorcycle chug past Guolutan, slowly went uphill, and then entered the yard.

The big black dog who had just come back from a stroll in the yard stood up and wagged its tail to greet him. It could tell if it was Jian Zhihua from the sound of the motorcycle. Zhang Lin saw that the big black dog hadn't barked since it heard the sound of the motorcycle. I knew that Jian Zhihua was back.

There are several fish hanging from the tail of the motorcycle through the gills with straw ropes, some of them are still alive, flicking their tails lively.Zhang Lin stood in front of the small window of the room, opened a bit of the dusty curtain and looked outside, Seventh Sister happily took the fish Jian Zhihua handed her: "Father, I want to eat braised fish."

Jian Zhihua said: "Okay, bring it to your mother and let her cook it in soy sauce, and keep the alive ones in the water tank."

This fish was not caught, it was raised in the village's public fish pond. Today, the first fish pond of this year was opened, and the original owner's family divided several fish.

A plate of delicious braised fish appeared in front of Zhang Lin's eyes, and his mouth watered a little.Chen Suxian's loud voice sounded: "Jian Liu, where did you die, you've always been lazy."

When Zhang Lin came out of the room, Chen Suxian said, "You come and kill this fish." There were two dead fish with white bellies in the red water basin. Zhang Lin walked over and squatted down. He had never killed a fish before. I don't even know where to cut the knife.

The elder brother was tinkering with the TV pot cover in the corner of the yard, and the seventh younger sister was looking forward to it: "Brother, can I watch TV at night?"

The eldest brother tied the TV pot cover to a bamboo pole with a thin iron wire, and with a cigarette in his mouth, he said vaguely, "It depends on the situation."

Zhang Lin scratched the belly of the fish with a knife, but the force was too light, Bai Belly only cut a small hole.He said to his eldest brother: "Brother, I don't know how to kill fish." The implication is that you help me kill it.

The eldest brother raised his eyelids and glanced at him. Before he could speak, Seventh Sister shouted into the room: "Mom, Xiao Liu said he can't kill fish."

Chen Suxian's loud voice sounded again: "Can't kill, can eat? What kind of monster are you?"

Zhang Lin lowered his head and cut the belly with a bit of force, and the black and yellow fish intestines leaked out immediately.The two fish made him toss for a long time, and he accidentally cut a few small holes in his hand.After killing the fish, Chen Suxian asked him to drive the chickens into the nest.After chasing the chicken, he was called to light the fire again.

Zhang Lin was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist, and smelled the smell of fish wafting from the pot, which made him feel better.

During dinner, the third brother and the second sister came back.The third brother is moving bricks at the construction site.He had just finished the college entrance examination, and his score was in single digits. Jian Zhihua found a job on the construction site for him to do.The third brother has not studied well since he was a child, and he is in the same class as the fourth brother who has always been the monitor.

He and the fourth brother have been like one person since they wore open crotch pants.The school teacher came to do his ideological work, he turned his head, grabbed his fourth brother and ran away, not returning home all day and night.Later, the original owner's parents found them on Hebazi 1 km away, and the third brother was almost beaten to death by Jian Zhihua.

In the second year, the fourth brother went to school, and the third brother happily went to school with the fourth brother.

The fourth brother's death hit the third brother the hardest.But the fourth brother committed suicide again, and the third brother went to work on the construction site during the day, but got drunk in the middle of the night, crying and scolding the fourth brother.Call him worthless and a coward.

When eating at night, the third brother put a stool next to him, and there was white rice on the table, with a few chopsticks on top of the rice. He said to the empty seat next to him, "Eat, eat while it's hot."

Jian Zhihua slapped his chopsticks on the table: "When are you going to be crazy?"

The third brother turned a deaf ear, buried his head in eating, and talked to the air next to him from time to time.

The eldest brother and the second sister ate in silence, Chen Suxian lowered her head and wiped her tears, and the seventh sister was poking the fish heads in the basin, she likes fish heads the most.She pulled it and didn't pick it up, but Jian Zhihua did it for her.

Zhang Lin was sitting alone on a small stool in the back, eating dry white rice, while the big black dog was lying on his stomach, gnawing fish bones with relish.

This is Xiao Liu's exclusive seat. There are too many children in the family, and Xiao Liu was not allowed to eat at the table since he was a child.Later, both the eldest brother and the second sister went out to work, and no one asked him to come to the table.Once a child of the same age in the village came to play with him and saw him eating with a dog, and later he got the nickname Dirty Dog.

Seventh Sister's sharp voice sounded: "Dad, the gills of this fish haven't been pulled out yet. Xiao Liu doesn't even know how to pull out the gills when killing fish!"

Zhang Lin grinned as he ate the white rice. Jian Zhihua saw that although he was old, he was still tall and strong, as strong as a cow.He threw the bowl on the table, got up and kicked Zhang Lin behind, "I raised you so big for nothing, you can't even kill a fish."

The bowl shattered on the ground with a bang.The rice was scattered all over the ground, the big black dog stood up, wagged its tail, sniffed the rice on the ground with its nose, and ate happily.

Zhang Lin couldn't hold back his tears again, he lowered his head and wiped away his tears.Xiao Liu used to cry like this.

The eldest brother stood up and stopped Jian Zhihua, "He is already 16, and you still treat him as a child to teach him a lesson."

Jian Zhihua cursed: "It's not your turn to teach me a lesson."

The eldest brother said: "You have the strength to go outside and be awe-inspiring. It's nothing if you beat Xiaoliu. He is also your son."

The eldest brother and Jian Zhihua fought, and Zhang Lin hid in the corner to avoid being affected by the flames of the war.The second sister and the third brother returned to the room, and the seventh sister watched the fun with a bowl.Chen Suxian collected the bowls and chopsticks calmly, Zhang Lin slipped through the flames of war, picked up the bowl of rice that the third brother had served for the fourth brother, there was only a little fish soup left on the braised fish on the table, he poured the fish soup into the rice.He returned to his room with the rice.

After entering the room, Zhang Lin closed the door.Fumbling in the dark to pull the light cord, the light turned on with a "snap".

In front of him was an incorporeal shadow standing less than half a meter away from him. Zhang Lin was taken aback. He patted his chest and said, "Fourth Brother, don't scare me all the time."

The fourth brother smiled apologetically, "What's going on outside?"

Zhang Lin sat in front of a broken wooden table and pushed away the books spread out on the table.He used chopsticks to mix the rice and fish soup evenly, and lowered his head to eat.The fish soup bibimbap was so delicious that he didn't bother to answer the fourth brother's words.

After eating half a bowl of rice, he felt a little more at ease in his stomach before he said, "Brother and Dad are fighting."

The fourth brother said, he sat across from Zhang Lin, stared at the book on the table and continued to read. After a while, he put down the book and asked, "Did you find out? Who locked my door."

Zhang Lin thought to himself, I have only been here for 3 days.He shook his head, "Not yet."

The fourth brother was locked in a dilapidated old house on the day of the college entrance examination, and did not make it in time for the exam.His university dream was dashed, and he has been depressed ever since. He committed suicide in Guolutan a few days ago.

When Zhang Lin passed through, the first thing he saw was the fourth brother floating in the void, with a few large characters on his head: "Who locked my door!"

With the first experience, Zhang Lin probably guessed that this should be a mission, but he kept calling 77 in his heart, but there was no response.Simply confused.

The fourth brother didn't get an answer, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry. He sat by the table and continued to read the books spread out on the table.It is a martial arts novel. In the past, he spent all his time studying and never read such idle books. Now that his soul is locked in this small room, he realizes that martial arts novels are very exciting. He simply forgot to eat and sleep. Of course he also It's perfect without eating, drinking or sleeping.