After Chunlan's family dispute, it was soon time to be busy with farming.

Zhenhua's cousin Zhao Chengquan came back from Nanjing and said to Zhenhua's father: "Big brother, I don't plant the land at home, see if you can find someone to take over, help me plant, don't let the field be wasted." I don't want money, I give it to others for free. ”

In the past two years, Zhao Chengquan has tasted the sweetness of selling black rice in Nanjing, brought his wife over, and opened a "branch". Combined, the couple can earn more than 10,000 yuan a year, far exceeding the income from farming.

The couple also have a pair of children, the eldest daughter has graduated from junior high school for several years and is also working in Nanjing, and the younger son dropped out of school in the third year of junior high school this year and is also in Nanjing, preparing to open a third "branch".

Zhao Chenghai didn't think about it, and said, "Then give it to me." Anyway, I farm at home, more is planting, and less is planting. If you are not an official, you should not plant less. ”

Zhao Chengquan smiled: "Take care of the eldest brother, I am most assured." ”

As a result, Zhenhua's family has ten more acres of land this year.

Zhenhua and Yilan don't object to their father's arrangement, farming people, hard work is nothing at all. If you don't work hard, how can you get rich?

But Zhao Chenghai can't operate a tractor, and all the arable land has to be done by Zhenhua. Sometimes Zhenhua was busy with village work, and Yilan personally went into battle, driving a tractor to plow the land, making him covered in mud and water, like a mud monkey.

Although Zhenhua is tired, he has a full set of people at home and can be coordinated.

Zhuang Xiaodie is miserable, and the things in the field are almost up to her.

The wisdom of the working people is infinite, and the villagers have never stopped exploring and researching.

Zhuang Xiaodie was too busy to pick up the rape straw back to her threshing floor to thresh, so she simply threshed the rape in the field.

She waited until the rape straw was scorched, then she cleaned up a vacant lot in the field, spread a plastic tarpaulin, and beat the rape straw with a flail on top of the tarpaulin. In this way, you don't have to carry the rape straw home, and you don't have to clean up the threshing floor.

After the threshing, Zhuang Xiaodie cleaned up the rapeseed, and the rapeseed straw was burned on the spot.

Eight-year-old Qi Shuai, when he was out of school, was also taken by Zhuang Xiaodie to work in the field, carrying rape straw onto a tarpaulin.

Zhuang Xiaodie took her mother-in-law and son, and at the end of the day, she was able to thresh two acres of rapeseed.

Seeing that Zhuang Xiaodie's operation was more efficient, the villagers in Dongwan Village followed suit, threshing the rape in the fields and then burning the straw.

Zhenhua later recalled that the large-scale stubble burning in Dongwan Village began with Zhuang Xiaodie.

Ten years ago, crop straw was regarded as a treasure by croppers, but now it has become a burden!

Zhenhua's family has an extra 10 acres of land this year, and with the biogas digester supplying biogas, it doesn't need so much forage, so it also burns several acres of straw.

Every time he saw the blazing fire, Zhenhua felt very proud in his heart, and he didn't forget to tease his father for a few words, in order to avenge the revenge of being chased and beaten by his father for burning six grains and straws.

After a season of farming, Zhenhua was almost tired to the point of collapse.

The more than 20 acres of land at home, as well as more than a dozen acres of Zhuang Xiaodie's land, are all ploughed and raked by Zhenhua. When planting seedlings, it is necessary to draw water for irrigation, and to pick seedlings and transport them to various fields. From time to time, he was also asked by the villagers to repair the diesel engine and help debug the plow and rake equipment.

Sometimes I slept until midnight, and the villagers' water pump broke, and they all came to knock on the door to find Zhenhua. When the cultivation is to grab the sky, the irrigation is carried out day and night. Zhenhua never shirks, is on call, and helps every villager in a timely manner.

Yilan and her mother-in-law Cuihong also worked hard, and the two of them bent down and bowed their heads to the twenty acres of rice, planting them into the field one by one.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the farming season gradually ended.

The county people's armed forces department came to inform Zhenhua to attend a training meeting.

Zhenhua walked with the armed forces minister of the township, and when he came to the county seat, he couldn't help but sigh: "The people in the city are so good-looking!"

The minister was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "What do you mean by Zhenhua? You are so big that you have never seen people in the city?"

Zhenhua smiled and said: "The rural farmers have been busy for more than a month, and what I see every day are villagers covered in mud and dust, unkempt, and wearing old clothes. Now when I come to the city and see these clean and bright new clothes in the city, the impact is too great!"

The minister also laughed: "I see! Who told you not to study at the beginning? If you were admitted to university, you would now be from the city!"

Zhenhua shrugged: "This situation can be recalled, but it was already clear at the time." ”

"Shout, poet!" said the minister, laughing, and said:

"But you stayed in your hometown and you contributed a lot to your hometown. The cadres in the township often talk in private, saying that you are the most dedicated village cadre in Hedong Township, who works conscientiously and steadfastly, is enthusiastic about the masses, and can successfully complete the tasks of the superiors. Do a good job Zhenhua, you have a future. ”

Zhenhua smiled: "If my hometown has a future, I have a future personally, and my fellow villagers have a future." ”

In a blink of an eye, the day of Hong Kong's return to the motherland has arrived, and the whole country rejoices.

Zhuang Xiaodie came to Zhenhua's house and sighed: "Hong Kong has returned, why hasn't Qi Lei returned?"

Yilan smiled: "I will return when the time comes, don't worry." I guess, Qi Lei must be holding his breath to make money, maybe one day, suddenly drive a Mercedes-Benz BMW, and come back with Big Brother!"

Zhuang Xiaodie smiled: "I don't want him to drive a Mercedes-Benz BMW, I just want him to come back safely, pay off the family's debts, and live a good life." And what big brother, I'm not uncommon......"

Dongwan Village did not have the era of pagers, nor did it have the era of Big Brother, but finally in 97, it entered the era of telephone.

The telephone line runs from the town, and the account is opened for 1,200 yuan.

Zhenhua wanted to install a phone, but his father didn't agree. Yilan also felt that she needed a phone, so she helped Zhenhua persuade her father-in-law.

Zhao Chenghai can oppose his son, but he can't say anything to his daughter-in-law, he also knows that his daughter-in-law has not been easy these years, and he has paid a lot for this family, so he agreed to install a phone.

After the phone was installed, Zhenhua found that there was constant trouble.

In the entire three groups of East Bay, every family has something to do, and the phone calls are made to Zhenhua's house and ask Zhenhua to inform him. Zhenhua almost broke his leg and became a communication soldier for the whole village!

Uncle Xiang next door is rich, but he is cunning and cunning, so he just doesn't pretend to be a phone. When others were looking for him, they called Zhenhua's house, and when he was looking for others, they also called from Zhenhua's house. At the end of each month, Uncle Xiang sent two catties of meat over to calculate the phone bill for Zhenhua, which made Zhenhua cry and laugh.

After the autumn, Panpan went to school.

At this time, Pu Jia, Jin Kui, Qi Shuai, and Song Lixin were already in the third grade.

Pu Jia has always been the class leader, excellent in character and learning, and almost no need to worry about Zhenhua in learning. Song Lixin and Lu Jinkui are also good, much better than the other children in the class.

Only Qi Shuai made Zhenhua hurt his brain!