Outside, it was already night, but it wasn't very dark because of the faint moonlight. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info father and son entered the hall, the two picks were still in the middle of the hall, and the scattered things hanging at both ends had been put away and placed in the dustpan where the things were dried. Xie Quanzhong opened the sack and saw the white and shiny polished rice, and tears came out: "Why did you bring such good white rice to your home? This can only be eaten by big cadres!"

Xie Chengshu, who was about to take the oil soup pot to his grandfather, laughed out loud: "Master! Uncle Cousin's family eats this three times a day, and my cousin asked us to send five more loads of corn over, and we can also bring back five loads of such big white rice." ”

"Then how good is life for their family?"

Xie Quanzhong felt a little upset in his heart, since his nephew's family was living so well, why didn't he know to come and see their uncles? Is it really like what others say, raising rice to raise grace and fighting rice to raise hatred? Although they didn't take out fighting rice, they also took out everything that could be taken out at home, even more so than fighting rice, is this also wrong?

Grandpa's psychological changes, Xie Chengshu didn't know, he said with great interest about the good of his cousin's family: "Yes! Uncle cousin's life is good, in the two days of his house, Da Nan and I eat, drink and take with us. Not to mention how happy it was......"

Xie Shounan was next to him in the dim light, and he could also see that his grandfather's expression was getting more and more ugly, and he remembered that when grandma, uncle and grandma occasionally talked about the cousins of the Liu family, what adults and children didn't know to come to see the elders, and what knew that those grains raised a group of relatives who didn't know what to do, it was better to change a girl to come to the house to be a granddaughter-in-law, and so on.

Then he interjected a little impolitely: "Master, in fact, my cousin's family has been allocated to the field this year, and this day is better." In previous years, my cousin's life was much worse than ours! My cousin's family had many children and little labor, so he only ate two meals a day, and he could eat dry rice when he was busy with farming.

This year, as long as they have paid enough public grain, they can keep the rest of the grain for themselves. The eldest cousin was bold, contracted dozens of acres of paddy fields, raised hundreds of geese and ducks, and raised dozens of chickens, and his family could earn a lot of money just by selling livestock, eggs, and salted duck eggs. Otherwise, their family wouldn't have had such a good life so quickly!

This time, we just don't go, Uncle Cousin also plans to come over to you and a few uncles on the fourth or fifth day of next year. In previous years, I didn't come because it took four or five days to go back and forth, and the production team didn't give such a long vacation at all. On the other hand, they are reluctant to ask for such a long time, because the deduction of work points for leave is double, and his family has a small labor force and a large population, so they really can't afford to deduct it. ”

Xie Chengshu, who was robbed of the conversation by his eldest nephew next to him, was still stunned, and when Xie Shounan's words were halfway through, he also understood. I haven't been in touch for more than ten years, except for the grandfather, the second master, and the third master, who are still worried about my cousin's family, everyone else has a lot of opinions about my cousin's family. In previous years, the master and the second master and the third master have always refuted everyone's condemnation on the grounds that their cousin's family was not having a good time and could not come to their house. At this moment, he suddenly said how his cousin's family was doing well, and his uncle couldn't tell how sad he was!

"Master! What Shounan said is true, we found it, but my cousin didn't recognize it at first. I said that I was from the Xie family in the mountains, and my cousin was happy when she knew that we were from my cousin's uncle's family. opened his mouth and said how could it be so coincidental, they were also going to go to the mountains to pay New Year's greetings on New Year's Eve, so we came over first. Then, he was busy giving us delicious food, and the eldest cousin and sister-in-law were also very enthusiastic. It's not enough to kill geese and ducks, but I just ran far away and bought a big piece of fat meat back. Except for breakfast, I didn't take wine, and there was wine at noon and night, but I really entertained Shounan and me as honored guests!"

Untying the knot in his heart, Xie Quanzhong heard his second grandson talk about the good life of his nephew's family at this time, and his face was full of wrinkles with a straight smile, as if he was living a good life at home.

Xie Jiazhuang and Liu Yuzhen's small mountain village with only a dozen households are not at the same level, this is a very large cottage, the main residents in this cottage are the Xie family, and there are some other miscellaneous surnames.

This Xie family is a very strong family in the Ming Dynasty, the most prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty tea garden, on this mountain to buy twelve large-scale tea gardens. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant army was very active and powerful in the borders of Lianghu, Anhui and Henan. The Xie family took root in Luzhou, Anhui Province, and before the peasant army entered Luzhou, the head of the Xie family took the Xie family's descendants, side branches, and various house branches, and the whole clan all entered this tea garden to avoid the rebellion.

At that time, there were sufficient materials and manpower, and the construction of houses was relatively much better than that of the original tea farmers in the tea plantation. It's just that it's not enough to just have a good house, it's always inconvenient to live in the owner's house on the mountain, and you have to go to the bottom of the mountain to buy rice, flour, oil, and salt. Therefore, these people in the Xie family, as long as they have a little savings at home, are all looking forward to going down the mountain. Until the Qing Dynasty completely replaced the Ming Dynasty, the war ended, the world was basically stable, and the Xie family had money in their hands, and they all returned to Luzhou. If the original old house can be returned, it will be returned, and if it is really not returned, it will be purchased separately. Those who remained on the mountain were those who had no savings and no property at the bottom of the mountain.

Because this mountain is a stone mountain that produces good tea, and the land on the mountain is indeed not a good soil for growing crops, although the Xie family has more and more population development, they still rely on tea plantations to survive, and have never thought of cultivating crops in order to live a self-sufficient life.

Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, wars began everywhere, and bandits in this place were also very troublesome. On the one hand, the food is so expensive that people in the mountains can no longer afford it, and on the other hand, they will be robbed as soon as they get off the mountain. There was no way, so I opened up some land in the col with thick soil to grow wheat and taro. Just a little bit of land is divided into a little bit for each family, and the annual output can't even solve the food and clothing of each family's population, but it's much better than having nothing to eat.

"If you lose, you will gain!" is very reasonable, although this place is poor and can only survive, do not ask for anything else. But the tragedy of the war will not affect here, and the greed of the bandits will not patronize here, and even the local liberation has been five or six years, and the above only know that there is such a big cottage here, and then send a working group here to communism and lead the masses of Xiejiazhuang to carry out social, social, social, and righteous development.

Due to natural conditions, the communist can only produce tea plantations (as for the little land in the mountain col, the wheat production is too low, and taro is not included in the grain handed). Every year, before the rain in the valley, people from the working group will come to harvest spring tea. After the rain, the tea will be owned by Xie Jiawa's people, and the rations will be distributed according to the grade, quantity, population and other factors of tea handed over by each family. The captain, secretary, and team leader of each production team who manage Xie Jiawa were all elected by Xie Jiazhuang himself. Therefore, except for the time when the tea comes up every season, the cadres of the brigade headquarters take the tea to the supply and marketing cooperatives at the bottom of the mountain in exchange for daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and wine, and this mountain villa is basically isolated from the outside.

The Cultural Revolution outside the mountains had nothing to do with them, because they were a place with no schools and no stinking old men.

The agricultural village outside the mountain has nothing to do with them, because their stone mountain is so wild that it can't be opened, and the people of the working group have no choice but to shake their heads and leave.

The various criticisms outside the mountain will have nothing to do with them, because none of them are landlords here, and none of the real tea plantation owners are on this mountain.

Only except for the four olds, they are the most ferocious here, because they are the most complete place where the old feudal customs are preserved.

The pompous wind outside the mountains has nothing to do with them, because they don't produce food here. Still, they were affected. In the first year of the famine outside the mountains, the mountains were experimenting with corn planting, and the corn yield was high that year, but the people from the town pulled all the corn away, leaving only taro for their own filling. Although the big guy was very depressed, he muttered in his heart that it was better not to plant corn at the beginning. But fortunately, Xie Quanzhong, the secretary of the hall, had an idea, and actually planted two crops of corn, otherwise they would rely on taro, I was afraid that they would also starve to death.

Now, they have also implemented the distribution of tea gardens to their homes, and the welfare of food distribution has been abolished, and they only produce corn and taro. It is obviously not enough to eat only these two things all year round, especially for the elderly and children. Therefore, when they learned that they would have to eat fine grain in the future, and they could only rely on their own money to get food stamps to buy them at the foot of the mountain, each family was worried. Money and food stamps were all things they lacked, and only tea, corn and taro could be taken out to exchange for fine grain with the people under the mountain. And Xie Quanzhong's family was the first to go down the mountain with corn, so the entire Xie family was very concerned about this matter.