The old branch secretary's house was already crowded, and people from all families came over with their own small benches. Everyone stared intently at the nine-inch black-and-white TV set on the table, watching it with relish.

This black-and-white TV was bought from the supply and marketing cooperatives when the old branch secretary was looking for a relationship when the big collective was engaged in the big collective. Now, more than ten years later, this TV is still the only one in the village, and every day after dinner, the villagers will go to the old branch secretary's house to watch TV for recreation.

Although the movie "Railway Guerrilla" has long been played I don't know how many times, every time it is broadcast, the big guys still watch it with relish. Whenever the plot is tense, all the audience holds their breath, as if they are afraid that the plot will be changed for their own reasons.

After Niu Xiaodong and the others left, Niu Xiaoqiang picked up some branches and weeds and covered them on the deep pit, and made sure that the camouflage was good, so he carried the shovel down the mountain.

Niu Xiaoqiang's timid side was exposed again, and he walked home while singing, but the surrounding environment made him walk faster and faster, and soon he was running, as if he was being chased by something terrible. In a short time, he was running at a speed equal to the 100-meter race.

When he finally ran back to the village, he heard the villagers talking about the plot of the movie. Niu Xiaoqiang's sweaty hand froze in mid-air, and after a while, he said angrily: "Damn! Such a good movie, I actually missed it!"

"Little brother, where did you go?

The eldest sister Niu Chunxiang had just come out of the toilet, and when she saw Niu Xiaoqiang dirty, she grabbed her brother's arm and walked into the house: "It's past ten o'clock, let's go, sister will give you bathwater." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang let out a dejected sigh and followed the eldest sister into the house.

After washing, Niu Xiaoqiang lay on the bamboo bed at the door. Every summer, the villagers will set up bamboo beds and mosquito nets outside to sleep, which will be much cooler.

Niu Xiaoqiang shook the banana fan in his hand while staring at the bright starry sky. The outline of the Milky Way in the night sky is clearly visible, and it looks spectacular under the bright moon.

"I don't know if the trap works, but if you can catch the boar, you'll be in good hands." ”

Thinking of the wonderful taste of eating wild boar, Xiaoqiang couldn't help but salivate. In the cool breeze, he shook the banana fan more and more slowly, and it didn't take much effort to fall asleep.

"Let's click", the banana fan fell to the ground, and the eldest sister Niu Chunxiang picked it up from the ground. She turned her head and saw the saliva flowing from the corner of Niu Xiaoqiang's mouth, she couldn't help but smile and shook her head, gently cleaned it with a towel to wipe her sweat, and muttered in her mouth: "It seems that he likes to run a lot of water when he sleeps." ”

When it was dawn, Niu Xiaoqiang was woken up by the sound of the villagers getting up.

The people in the mountains are very diligent, no matter the wind or rain, they will get up early every morning to work, otherwise, the food at home will not be enough.

It's only five o'clock in the morning, and it's still early. Niu Xiaoqiang got up in a daze, sat on the bamboo bed and woke up for a while, and then stretched his waist and went into the house to carry the hoe.

The third sister Niu Qiuxiang was carrying a hoe out of the house, and when she saw Niu Xiaoqiang entering the house to get a hoe, she immediately stopped: "Little brother, you have an injury on your skull, you don't have to work in the field today, let's stay at home and rest." ”

Only then did Niu Xiaoqiang remember that he was injured, and at the same time remembered the trap he had set. He groaned and put the hoe back in its place. When the family had gone out to work, he immediately slipped out of the house and walked towards the back mountain.

"Damn, there's not even a single pig hair!"

The trap that had been laid out last night had not changed at all, let alone a wild boar, not even a single toad had been caught.

Niu Xiaoqiang came with great hope, but the reality disappointed him so much that he scolded a few words angrily, turned around and went down the mountain.

After returning home, Niu Xiaoqiang was not idle, he took the initiative to take on the job of making breakfast for the whole family.

As the saying goes, the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and children like Niu Xiaoqiang, who came from poor families, learned many life skills at a very young age, such as cooking, which is one of them.

In the countryside, all the earthen stoves used to burn firewood and grass are used. Niu Xiaoqiang washed the rice for the whole family and poured it into the pot, mixed it with an appropriate amount of water, and then covered the pot.

Then he grabbed a handful of yellow pine needles and stuffed them into the pit, and put the dead branches on top of the pine needles, and then took a match from the stove and lit the fire.

After the pine needles were ignited, Niu Xiaoqiang carefully blew lightly on the flames, and when the fire gradually became stronger, his blowing strength became greater. It didn't take much effort for the dead branches to ignite.

Seeing this, Niu Xiaoqiang stood up, took out the beans from the vegetable basket, and pinched the long beans into small pieces. Estimating that the portion was almost enough, he turned around and took the pinched beans to rinse.

The living conditions of their family - or the living conditions of the entire Niujia Village - are not very good, Niu Xiaoqiang's family only has two dishes for breakfast, except for beans, there are only pickles that every household pickles.

There are two pots on top of the earthen stove, one of which is used to cook rice and the other is used to stir-fry vegetables and boil water.

Niu Xiaoqiang did not rush to fry the beans after rinsing them, it was still very early, and it was generally not until after half past seven that people who went out to work would come back for breakfast.

He put the beans on the stove, bent down to scoop water from the water tank and poured it into the pot of boiling water, ready to boil some water by the fire.

After scooping up the water, Niu Xiaoqiang went into the house and took out his textbook, sat down at the table and looked through it.

Niu Xiaoqiang is in the second year of junior high school this year, he used to be a fool, although he also listened carefully in class, but he couldn't understand many of the things the teacher said. Since his head suddenly opened, Niu Xiaoqiang had the idea of making up for his homework. Now that I have time, of course, I need to put this idea into practice.

Last night, when Niu Xiaoqiang was doing his summer vacation homework, he found that he would only do some relatively simple questions, and he would not do slightly more difficult ones. Not long after tutoring, Niu Xiaoqiang frowned: "Where did this formula come from?

He stood up and rummaged through the bedside table.

On the bedside table are many textbooks and homework books that are spare toilet paper at home.

Niu Xiaoqiang searched around, but did not find the math textbook of the first grade of junior high school, and couldn't help worrying whether the book he was looking for had been taken to wipe his ass.

"It's okay, it's okay. He was relieved when he found his first year math textbook on the bottom floor.

Niu Xiaoqiang turned around and walked back to the desk, opened the textbook and studied it carefully.