On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the moon can't wait for the sun to set, so it appears early and waits for the night to open.

The people of Xiaowangzhuang also know in advance, today's discussion in the village involves everyone's interests, this is the second time since the joint production contract system to hold such a villager meeting, everyone finished dinner early, came to the drying field in twos and threes to wait, came early, a few people found a firewood stack to sit down, leaning on the firewood stack, both hands copied, hugged in front of the chest, began to talk and laugh about the festival, who did not succeed in the blind date in Dongzhuang, the Lin family in Xizhuang recently more than 100 years old lady drove to the west, the Sun family gave birth to a grandson, the Qian family added a baby, anyway, as long as it is something that can be said in front of the public, it will be put in front of everyone to discuss。

At this time, the open space in the drying field will always be a paradise for children, where they are chattering and arguing, and doing simple games that have been passed down for generations.

When the crowd was boiling, the sharp-eyed one was the first to shout: "Ma Laosi is here, let him tell you a story!"

Hearing this shout, the adults who were chatting immediately quieted down, under the moonlight, everyone saw a figure, medium stature, slightly fat, pacing square steps, slowly walking towards everyone, this Ma Laosi is the nephew of Ma Sanye, he read a few books with Ma Sanye in his early years, so there is still a little ink in his stomach, as long as the people in the village get together, there is a place where he is, as long as he hears his witty and humorous story immediately makes people feel good.

When Ma Laosi heard the crowd calling him, he felt that his face was supremely honored, in this small Wangzhuang, only then did he feel that he was a character.

"I'll talk about one when I come!" came from the woodstack not far from where Ma Laosi stood.

"Talk about one, just talk about one!" Ma Laosan was not polite, and responded directly.

"It is said that there are many animals in the forest, the big one is the king of the forest, the tiger, and the elephant is so stable that the tiger is afraid. As soon as he said this, the children who were still shouting just now heard the tiger and the elephant, and immediately became interested, and the game also stopped, standing there and listening to the story under Ma Laosi.

"In addition to tigers and elephants, what other animals do you know?" Ma Lao Si said.

"Many, wolves, lions, black blinds, rabbits, monkeys, wild horses, ......."

The voice weakened, and after a few casual words, he was speechless for a while.

"And eagles, owls, sparrows, feathers, sparrows, sparrows, and ......" is the voice of a child.

"There must be mosquitoes!" said the remark, which amused everyone.

"This winter can think of mosquitoes is really a master, today I want to talk about not what you say can immediately think of animals, I want to talk about similar to the master mentioned small animals, but also easy to make people not remember, inconspicuous small animals. Ma Laosi paused for a moment, causing everyone's minds to guess which small animal to talk about next, a small animal about the size of a mosquito.

"It's what we often step on in the summer - ants. ”

"Ant, what else can we talk about?" asked another questioner from the direction of another stack of wood.

"Don't underestimate this ant, we all know that although this ant is small, it has the ability to lift several times its own weight, can you lift it?" Ma Laosi asked another question, no one answered this question, and no one could answer it, no one could lift something several times his own weight.

"In ancient times, ants did not live as they do now, they were all individuals living a leisurely life, because they thought they were Hercules, and no animal could match his ability to carry things. In a weightlifting competition held in the Forest Kingdom, he became the king of permanent champions. That's it, the ants are very proud of their ability, and feel that they will always be the Hercules of the forest, and it is this ability that allows them to live alone in the forest, and the ants at that time were not like the group life we see now, foraging in groups, and dragging food in the nest, but like tigers, foraging alone. Finally, one day, an ant met a big grasshopper in the foraging process, this grasshopper is a behemoth for ants, he climbed on the corpse of the grasshopper, turned around a few times, still could not move this behemoth, just when the ant was worried, another ant came from the other direction, so this ant was the same as the previous ant, also wanted to move the dead grasshopper, the two ants crawled around on the grasshopper, and then they met their heads, greeted each other, thinking of moving the behemoth together, the grasshopper still did not move, as time went by, the ants gathered more and more, a dozen ants came, they met each other, and finally agreed to work hard, the grasshopper dragged to a place to hide, and then everyone enjoyed slowly, these dozen ants worked hard, and finally dragged to a hidden tree hole very smoothly, and then they agreed to share this behemoth every day, so the colony of ants began, and there was a division of labor between each other, many ants could not complete the task, often called more ants to help complete, it is said that the ant colony is to live better and huddle together. ”

When Ma Laosi stopped, there were more people in the drying field again, and the people who listened to the story at first obviously felt bored when they heard his story, so they said loudly: "This story is too simple, and it is too boring, tell an interesting story!"

"No, although this story is not vivid, it tells us a truth, that is, to concentrate the strength of the whole village in order to do something big. A familiar voice came from the newcomers, and everyone understood in their hearts that this was Mu Xiangshu, the secretary of the village branch, talking.

Everyone was silent, Mu Xiangshu continued: "Today we open the village committee, everyone may know what is going on when they come? Tiancheng's pig farm is listed, which is the pride of our village, but at the moment due to the lack of funds, it is difficult to do a big job, he asked me to discuss, want everyone to invest some money, and then participate in the dividend of the pig farm, if everyone is a little worried about investment, the village is a guarantor for everyone, is it feasible for everyone to discuss?"

Mu Xiangshu stopped, and people didn't speak, except for the silver moonlight in the entire drying field, it was everyone's gasps, as if they were waiting for someone to stand up and be the first to speak.

"My idea is very simple, you know, I don't have a long time to raise pigs, before and after seven months, but I made some money, this money I will not forget the help you gave me, during the Spring Festival I gave a red envelope to each person who contributed to the pig farm, how much is the heart, this thing made me have a bolder idea, that is, to develop a little bigger, so that everyone can follow the pig farm to get benefits, everyone believes in me, don't believe that I still have the village committee!" Tiancheng broke the short silence and expressed his thoughts.

"I'm willing to vote! I believe that Uncle Tiancheng's pig farm can be designated to let everyone share the profits!"

"Although I don't have a lot of money, Tiancheng's idea is to let us be good, and I have no opinion, I have to invest as much as I want!" said a figure who stood up from the side of the firewood stack.

Although everyone can't see their faces clearly, they know from their body shape and face shape that this is Ma Chunwu, this person once blushed with Tiancheng because of trivial things, and now he is actually standing on Tiancheng's train of thought to speak, and everyone who knows about this is a little puzzled. It seems that a good thing is a good thing, regardless of the previous suspicions!

"Ants know how to concentrate everyone's strength to do big things, and we are the same, this guy from Tiancheng, I have also settled down!" The person who expressed his position was Mu Fang, a famous stunned man in the village.

"A good thing is a good thing, but is it voluntary or voluntary at the moment?" asked a woman, Fang Yuxia, who is known as the "second sister-in-law of Kuaizui" in the village, her mother's family is far away from here, and her family is living in poverty before marrying here, and she usually speaks much faster than others, plus she is a foreigner, when she first came, everyone listened to her and often didn't understand very well, so someone gave him this nickname.

"It's not forced, it's voluntary, you can enter as much as you want, and you can't force it if you don't enter. Tiancheng said.

"That's good!" "Fast mouth second sister-in-law" words seem to have resonated with some people, they feel that this pig farm will make money this year, and there is no guarantee that it will make money next year, after all, everyone has raised pigs, and has also suffered losses in this regard, this part of the people are afraid of losing the money invested when the time comes.

In fact, Tiancheng also understands that everyone's difficulties are not one, there are those who can't afford the money at home, those who have some money to build a house for their children to get married, and those who are reluctant to take it out to join the family.

Lao Mu squatted far away beside a small tree, he also felt Tiancheng's kindness, everyone may not understand, hearing everyone's speech just now, he felt that the vast majority of people are still very positive, and their own family can't take much now, the old classmates do good things for everyone, no matter what, they have to support themselves, and when Tiancheng looked for him alone, he also said that Tiancheng trusted him. He wanted to say a few words, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, he felt that there was no need to say much, besides, everyone knew his relationship with Tiancheng, so as not to let everyone misunderstand it.

Mu Xiangshu listened to everyone's statements, and he didn't say anything, he just hoped that everyone could get more into it and support this matter, if it was good for the villagers, it would also be of great benefit to the next step of the village's work. It wasn't until everyone was speechless, as if waiting for the calm secretary to make a final speech, that Mu Xiangshu coughed and said slowly: "Everyone has said a lot, I shouldn't say more, if you are willing to invest some money, you can go to the village committee tomorrow to register and pay the money, you can do as much as you want, just now someone mentioned that you will buy 200 catties of wheat, I think it will be exempted, if you really want to enter, first exchange the wheat for money and then enter, so as not to make a joke! Let's open here today!"

Mu Xiangshu's words can be regarded as a summary speech, he has always been like this, although he doesn't say much, but he always says things clearly enough to make people have no doubts.

The villagers' meeting was over, the moon seemed brighter, and the adults left the drying field one after another and returned home, leaving only some fun children to play hide and seek there.