After lunch, Liu Yujin went door-to-door to visit the homes of people whose families had children in middle school. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In today's rural areas, unless it is hot in June, and there is no way to work at noon, they will take a break after lunch, and there is usually no lunch break. Fortunately, Liu Yujin's family had lunch early, and the few houses he went to were basically eating or just finishing eating and putting away the bowls.

Uncle Liu Laisaw heard what Liu Yujin meant by coming, and looked at Laisaw, who was still eating: "Saw! Do you think about it yourself, do you want us to send food to you in the school cafeteria?"

"If you ask me what I mean, of course I want you to bring me food. I heard my classmates who ate at school say that the school dish has no oil at all, just like calling pig food, and it can't be eaten at all. And just like that, for a dime and a spoonful. Also, I can't eat that rice, there is a lot of sand in the rice handed over by someone, and the master in the canteen doesn't pick it up, so he cooks it into rice, and he can knock out half of his teeth with a mouthful. If you're willing to bring me food, I won't eat it at school. ”

Liu Yujin also persuaded the uncle who came to saw: "Big brother, we can save some money by delivering food, and the straw at home will not be used up, so can we still give the school a pound of rice and a dime for firewood? After a semester, it is much more than the tuition fee!"

Liu Laisaw's uncle thinks about it, if they are all willing to take turns, it will only be their turn once in ten days, and they will indeed not delay the work at home. He nodded and said, "Okay! ”

Liu Yujin ran several families, and they were basically willing to take turns to deliver meals to their children. There are eleven families in total, and there are two families with people who are cadres in the brigade, so they will naturally have bicycles, but Liu Yujin chose the brigade accountant, Zhou Quanjun's bicycle in Zhoujialou. Because his home is on the side of the gravel road leading to the middle school in the township, it is more convenient to put the car when it rains and snows. The other family is in Guantangzhuang, and he has to walk more than two miles on a dirt road to get to the gravel road. When it rains and snows, people are tired and panicked when they walk on that section of the mud road, let alone tired of bicycles, and the two wheels are solid by the mud, and they can't even push it. There is no way to describe the extent of the sin without experiencing it for yourself!

Zhou Quanjun didn't care whether he took turns to deliver food, anyway, he often had to go to the town to run errands. However, he didn't take the initiative to join the team that took turns to deliver food, thinking that if he was going to town just in time, he would bring the children's food with him.

Because this matter was organized by Liu Yujin, some things had to be done by him. For example, make two frames for large cylinders, and tie them symmetrically to the back seat of the bicycle on both sides.

At this time, all families have not yet bought the special lunch box for the expensive dead, and the highest grade is the enameled deep-mouth porcelain jar with a handle, which is called "big jar" here. Liu Yujin cut more than a dozen bamboos from his own bamboo garden, laid a framework according to the width of four large cylinders installed side by side, and the height of two layers up and down, and then weaved. Wang Hongying saw that her husband was busy with this matter again, and asked him anxiously: "This box is just for others to make up, when will you do the things that you want to build a hut?"

"What are you anxious about? The adobe for building the hut has just been stretched out, and it will take a while to dry out! I have already asked the three major ("big" is three tones here, which is different from the four tones in some places, and here is the meaning of uncle), at least ten days, and it will not rain until it rains. ”

Liu Yujin asked him to help make the adobe bricks from the three uncles who were separated by five suits, and the adobe bricks were repeatedly kicked with yellow clay and water to a certain degree of ripeness, and then the molds made of wood were extended into a square and flat adobe, and then the adobe was allowed to dry naturally. Of course, such adobes are not as good as fire-burned bricks, but bricks are not so easy to get at this time.

Brick kilns were scarce in this era, and they had only one brick kiln in a town, located in their town. Not to mention that the kiln factory is far away, the tractor of the production team can also help pull a few times, as long as the master who drives the tractor comes to a pot of wine, eats a meal of braised chicken or roasted duck with sauce is full of happiness. The problem is that bricks also need to be allocated by planning, and they need to be applied, approved, and introduced to be noted, and it is not something that can be easily obtained by any individual.

I just want to say that in the countryside at this time, almost every family lived on adobe walls and thatched roofs, not just because they were poor. Planned allocation, imbalance between supply and demand, inconvenient transportation, etc., are some of the reasons!

And it does cost a lot of money to buy bricks, if you use adobe, Liu Yujin's cousin doesn't need money, just give him dozens of eggs, and let his grandson cook one every morning to make up for his thin little body. This is the most suitable choice for the current mysterious situation of Liu Yujin's family.

Wang Hongying knew that the reason for the adobe was in a hurry, so she sighed: "Alas, it can't rain, it doesn't matter if the house is built for a long time, the key is that the rape can be cut immediately, and if it rains for a long time, it will be bad." ”

Liu Yujin chatted while weaving baskets: "I'm afraid this is our last season of working in a large collective, and the village chief said that when the rape and wheat are harvested, they will start to divide the fields into households." ”

"Then the fields and the land have been measured?"

"Well, the amount has been measured, and it has been divided, and I heard that the time will be drawn to draw lots. ”

"The population of each family is different, and the acres of land are also different, how can you draw lots?"

"It seems that it is a good field and a middle field, and a family is given to die according to the number of fields of ten people. If the number of people in one household is insufficient, two or three households in close proximity will make up for it. It's just that the position is uncertain, let's draw lots. After drawing lots, the members will measure and divide equally among themselves, and those who are far away from home can find a way to exchange with others. If the population is large and the acres of land are insufficient, they will make up for it from the reserved fields. Good land is five points per person, and if you are willing to ask for a bad field, you will give one acre. Our family of eight people, the children, the old man, the grandmother, and his second (three) and second mother (that is, the second aunt), there are more than ten people. This excess must be made up from my family, otherwise the second child and mother (the meaning of the second aunt) will definitely not do it. But I'd like to have a little more ......."

Wang Hongying didn't wait for her husband to finish speaking, so she hurriedly interrupted: "Bad land is not good, one mu can't be used for five cents of good land, and you have to spend a lot more labor to work." ”

"You're in a hurry! I also went to participate in the measurement, which is a weir ditch paddy field under the barren slope of Huangshuling. In fact, it is very fat, that is, a rainstorm, the water in the weir ditch cannot be discharged, and the field is always flooded. If my family's field is there, I will open up the barren slope of Huangshuling to grow cotton and plant taro (in fact, sweet potatoes, people here call them taro). The real taro is called an artichoke), and no one else can rob me. I'm going to call it what to come close to!"

Wang Hongying has never studied, and she doesn't understand the sentence that her husband wants to say, "The building near the water gets the moon first". Therefore, she did not answer this, but only worried about what her husband said about the field: "That field is not close to our house? Every time we go by, we pass through a weir ditch, and the bridge of the weir ditch will be flooded as soon as it rains." When the time comes, don't block it if you can't come or go, it's going to be fatal!"

"There is a bridge upstream of the ditch, what are you afraid of? Is it just a matter of walking a few more steps, making such a fuss? Do you know how convenient it is to irrigate the field? As long as you dig a gap with a big shovel, you will do it, and if you go to see those good fields and middle fields, you will not see any of them so easy. Besides, I don't necessarily have to grow rice, so I can't raise something else?!"

But Wang Hongying was still not satisfied with that field: "That Huangshuling is full of graves of dead people, what is there to open up the wasteland? Besides, if you let me work there alone, I will definitely be afraid to death!"

Liu Yujin understood what his daughter-in-law meant, and wanted to discuss it with her, so don't worry about such a beautiful thing. Therefore, he closed his lips tightly and did not want to say a word. Wang Hongying saw that her husband was reluctant to talk to her, so she turned around angrily and left. Seeing that the little grass fragrance in the nest was opening her bright black eyes and looking at the sky fixedly, she picked her up and went to her mother-in-law's house in front of her to talk to her mother-in-law.