"Why did you come back? Your brother-in-law didn't send you?" the old lady of the Li family, Zuo Daya, pulled the little girl up and down.

I was working in the big canteen, and I heard someone come over and shout that her little girl seemed to be back, she hurriedly asked the captain for leave, and even ran home with a bump, and sure enough, I saw my little girl standing at the door of my house from afar.

Yuan Si quickly adapted to the identity of the old lady opposite, this is the original owner's mother-in-law, a powerful old lady.

"No, my second sister asked a fellow to bring me back, I don't want to stay at my second sister's house, it's not good at all, and I can't eat enough. Yuan Si chose to tell the truth, the first thing this old lady hurts in her life is her only son, followed by Li Yuansi, an old woman.

"What's the matter, your second sister didn't give you food. As soon as the old lady heard the little girl's words, her triangular eyes narrowed.

Her left eldest girl is 52 years old this year, and the old girl Li Yuansi was born when she was 46, at that time the eldest daughter was 30, the second daughter was 27, and the third girl was 24, all of whom had already married and had their own children, and the only son was already 18 years old.

Now that I heard that the second daughter may treat the little girl badly, the old lady's eyebrows stood up.

"I gave it, but I couldn't eat enough. Yuan Si never did anything behind her back, so she told her mother everything that happened when she went to her second sister's house.

Zuo Daya listened straightly.

"Si'er, why don't you eat at the table, that's your second sister's house, you are righteous, your brother-in-law has to respect you for everything, what are you afraid of. She sent the little girl to the second child, because she knew that the second child was in the city, the living conditions were good, and the little girl could eat more.

"You've been sick for three days, and your second sister didn't care about you? She has a bad conscience, and when her wings are stiff, she doesn't care about her mother's family, right, when the old lady sees her, she will break with her well. Hearing the words overheard by the little girl after she woke up with a fever, the old lady was furious.

But then I listened to the things that the little girl did after she got well, and the old lady frowned and didn't know what to say, "Si'er, why are you so sincere, you should eat at your sister's house, but after all, we are guests, you have to have a little eyesight, when you eat, you can compare your second sister or Aiping, your nephews are when they can eat, you compare with them to eat, your second sister can be happy." "The old lady is not so blindly arrogant, think about it, she also has to bring the little girl back.

"That's why I'm going home, I don't go to other people's houses, I have to see other people's faces when I eat, I would rather eat wild vegetables at home." Yuan Si is resolutely not going again, she has observed over there, there is not even a piece of land in the city, but I don't know where to get it if I want to catch insects to eat, and I don't know where to get it. Her goal now is to fill her stomach, and she doesn't like to be hungry all the time.

"Oh, you kid, you still want to eat wowotou, are you dreaming, our team's canteen hasn't been dry for a long time, it's all sparse, isn't my mother afraid that you will be hungry if you go to your second sister's house." Come on, now that I'm back, I won't talk about that, and I'll eat in the cafeteria with my mother. ”

So Yuan Si settled down at home.

The house in my hometown is not very big, and the structure of the second sister's row house is almost the same, but there is no kang here, and it is all bed, so the kitchen is not in the hall, but a separate adobe house is built on the side of the main house.

Opposite the main house is an adobe house with firewood, grass and grain, which is about the same width as the main house, but now there is no food in it, only some wheat stalks, a small stone mill and a large coffin.

People here have this custom, when the old man reaches the age of age, he will save wood and find someone to make a coffin for himself and put it at home, which is to prepare for the day in the future.

On the opposite side of the kitchen, there was no house built, just a few chicken coops, and now they are also empty, and they have been taken away by the collective.

Three adjacent earthen houses separate a small courtyard for the Li family, which is not bad in Lijia Village, where there are many people and little land, and the villagers live next to each other.

The day after Yuan Si came back, he was led by Zuo Daya to work in the production team. Yes, although Zuo Daya is used to children, she is very principled, Zuo Daya's family never raises idlers, as long as she can work, she must go to the team to earn work. Li Yuansi has been a glorious production team member since she was five years old, and now that she is back, of course, she has to return to employment. Yuan thinks that there is no opinion, isn't it just mowing the grass, this is not a little difficult for her. So the day after she came back from the city, she went to the edge of the field to cut the grass with a small basket on her back and a sickle in her hand.

This mowing work is specially prepared by the team for all children, in the countryside children have to help the family work when they reach the age, but the child is so small, you let her follow the adults to hoe that is not realistic, so the mowing of the work is taken out and assigned to the children, do more and do less, it is a kind of exercise for the children, no matter how bad it is, it can also restrain those naughty and mischievous boys, and the province does not stop every day.

Children can go to the team according to the amount of mowing grass to exchange for centimeters, generally the centimeters exchanged are not fixed, for example, in March, there is less grass on the edge of the field, so basically a pound of grass can be exchanged for a centimeter, and after the grass grows up in June and July, six or seven pounds of grass can be exchanged for a centimeter. After these grass production teams are recovered, they are used to raise livestock, although now individuals are not allowed to raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep or anything, but there are a lot of them in the production team, and the rest can be divided among the members after the task is handed over at the end of the year.

In the past, the original owner used to earn two or three centimeters a day because of his young age, but now that Yuan Si has passed through, of course, it can't be worse than a little doll, so after receiving the task, he began to walk around the entire Lijia Village.

This is a habit developed in the last days, when you arrive in a strange place, you must first quietly familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment, so that you can know in the subsequent battles.

Although there is no battle here, the familiarity with the surrounding environment is also very important to Yuan Si now, she needs to fill her stomach, she needs to replenish nutrition. Since these foods cannot be snatched from others, they can only be taken from nature.

This morning, she walked around Lijia Village for a long time, and combined with the memories in her head, she was familiar with her home first.

This place was originally called Lijia Village, but when the People's Commune was established a few years ago, Lijia Village was renamed and became the first production brigade of Fanxing Commune. Zuo Daya's squad is the first team and four squads of the Star Commune.