Suddenly there were two more mouths, Chen Sanchuan and Ma Tianlong, and the burden on Qi Shufang's shoulders suddenly increased a lot.

After taking stock of the food at home, Qi Shufang regretted and worried.

Why did she see that the eyes of money were open? She wanted to give herself a slap in the face.

She doesn't worry about wild meat, she can catch it in the mountains once, and she eats it in a variety of ways, but after planting corn in the mountains and forests, the amount of staple food in her hand has been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to support the new grain in two or three months.

This jar of silver dollars and gold ornaments is really hot!

Qi Shufang was very jealous of Ma Tianlong in her heart, a person who was so smart that it was almost terrifying, and his shrewdness and decisiveness had not been worn out by years and suffering. Silver dollars and gold jewelry are indeed good things, but in this era, money just looks good, money can't buy food, and life-saving food can be fried in the black market sky-high, Ma Tianlong doesn't want money as long as food, it is a smart move.

When preparing food for them, Qi Shufang had to reduce the staple food, hunt more beasts, or send barbecue, or broth, and only occasionally send pancakes or nests, fortunately, the nutrition of meat is far better than that of cereals, it is easier to fill the stomach, and it is deeply loved by Ma Tianlong.

In order to retaliate against Ma Tianlong's old scheming, Qi Shufang sent a jar of delicious snake soup.

The hibernating snake revives with the footsteps of spring, swims all over the mountain, and the people who enter the mountain will be kissed by the snake if they are not careful, but its meat is fresh and tender, and Ma Tianlong eats happily, "The snake meat is a great supplement." Girl, it's exactly what I want you to send this. This is a cauliflower snake, right? The teeth are not poisonous, when I was a child, I was so poor that I couldn't eat, I caught this snake all over the mountains and stewed it, and I also ate poisonous snakes, frogs, voles, etc., that is called a delicacy. Now I want to catch it and stew it, but I'm afraid that the fragrance will spread and be investigated!"

Chen Sanchuan, who was squatting next to him and gnawing on the grilled fish seriously, trembled, and moved his squatting feet outward, striving to stay away from Ma Tianlong, the wicked man, and was even more in awe of Qi Shufang's ability in his heart.

Professor Jin ate both, and after feeding his wife and drinking fish soup, he began to drink snake soup and eat snake meat.

"Shufang, your wife and I each divided more than a dozen catties of cornmeal and more than 20 catties of dried sweet potato noodles, and the total of the two of them is eighty catties. Now we have a meal with Lao Ma and Lao Chen, saving some food enough to eat for two months. Jianguo is not at home, it is not easy for you to live alone, the rations are limited, and you don't have to bring us food every night. ”

Chen Sanchuan nodded in agreement, saying that he also had dozens of catties of cornmeal that he hadn't eaten, and it was enough to eat a meal of meat once in a while, he was not as greedy as Ma Tianlong, in order to eat meat, he calculated other people's little girls.

Qi Shufang thought for a while, "It's okay." The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the extra meals delivered in the evening will be spoiled the next day, and the production team is doing more and more farm work. When I had to go to work, I definitely couldn't go into the mountains every day to hunt. Well, teacher, you always pay attention to the time when I go into the mountains, I usually pass by the cowshed, and as long as I go into the mountains, I will definitely bring game that night, and at other times you will cook and eat by yourself. If there is not enough food, I will find another way. ”

She and He Jianguo have the responsibility to take care of Professor Jin and Granny Jin for the rest of their lives, Chen Sanchuan and Ma Tianlong? I'm sorry, she didn't plan to take care of their three meals every day, especially Ma Tianlong, she was really cunning, and she deserved to fall to this point.

"That's good. "Those who know the times are Junjie, Ma Tianlong thinks he is Junjie, and he doesn't expect Qi Shufang to deliver food every day.

Agreed, good.

Even though the burden on her shoulders was slightly reduced, Qi Shufang began to calculate the amount of cooking, trying to replace the staple food with other foods, and at the same time trying to find a way to get more food.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

Qi Shufang completely understands the truth of this sentence, well, this luxury refers to rice, not He Jianguo.

In the morning, after eating two boiled eggs and two steamed nests mixed with wild vegetables, Qi Shufang drank two bowls of cornmeal vegetable paste in front of the only air-dried pheasant and an air-dried hare left on the beam's head.

Just after brushing the dishes and chopsticks, Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua came to her to work, first ordering peanuts and then sowing cotton seeds.

It rained last night, and the mud on the road and in the field was soaked, and when she walked up, one foot deep and one foot shallow, the soles of her shoes were soon covered with sticky mud, and Qi Shufang had to shake off the mud on her feet after walking a few steps.

I am wearing a handmade mille-feuille bottom today, and I am very lucky!

The land owned by the He Lou brigade used to belong to the big landlords, and more than 500 acres of land were given to the Helou Ninth Team when the land was divided, but the main crops were planted with grain crops, and the other messy ones were rarely planted, so only three acres of mountainous land could be planted with peanuts, and the cotton of the two acres and eight points of land was only sown first.

Every family has some self-reserved land, and they all want to take advantage of this rain to tidy up their own land, grow vegetables and peanuts, so they broke out with unprecedented enthusiasm and soon became busy.

"Yaowu, I haven't seen you for a few days, are you doing now?" Seeing that although Shen Yaowu was not wearing new clothes, he was radiant and more energetic than before, and his eyebrows were full of confidence, Qi Shufang walked to her side, and the two of them went hand in hand to sow peanuts in the pit on the ridge, and Shen Er's grandfather and Old Man He waved their hoes to dig the pit in front.

"I'm so good, my grandfather loves me. ”

Facing Qi Shufang, Shen Yaowu unconsciously abandoned the local dialect, with a thick smile on his face, and whispered to Qi Shufang: "When I was at my father's mother's side, I could only eat one wild vegetable nest in the morning and drink a bowl of sweet potato porridge, and the same was true at noon. Dad and Jiaojiao can eat two nests in one meal, and Lingling can also eat one and a half, and drink with her belly open. My mother always told me that I was the eldest and that there was not enough food at home, so I had to let my younger siblings below, and she had the same amount as me. Except when the farm is busy, usually, I can't even eat sweet potato porridge at night, so I can only drink two bowls of soup with a few vegetable leaves to support my stomach, and the vegetables are all fished by my mother to my father, Jiaojiao, and Lingling. By Grandpa's side, Grandpa always asked me to eat with my belly open, but I was full after eating a half-nest. ”

"You used to be a teacher, and I remember you had a salary of ten dollars a month. "Shen Erdan's wife is too partial, right?

Shen Yaowu snorted, "It's the production team that is responsible for paying wages, and when the wages are paid, they are directly taken by my father! I have been saving the 20 yuan for buying clothes for many years, and the production team distributes the food according to the value of the work, and it is also divided according to the household. ”

"Spend money to buy work?" Qi Shufang's eyes lit up first, and then she thought that she had a lot of work points for contributing wild boars, and she didn't need to buy jobs, and there would be no wild boars to contribute after next year, but she could try to spend money to buy jobs.

Shen Yaowu said with a smile: "There are many people who spend money to buy labor points, and the production team allows it." "This money has to be put into the general ledger.

Second Grandpa Shen and Old Man He stepped backwards to dig the pit, facing the two of them, after listening to what they said, they couldn't help but smile at each other, Old Man He asked in a low voice: "Second brother, Yao Wu is not young, do you have any plans for her family affairs?"

"I and Yaowu have decided to recruit a son-in-law. In this way, he will not worry about the incense of his descendants!

Qi Shufang was taken aback when she heard this, turned her head and asked Shen Yaowu, "What do you mean?"

Shen Yaowu nodded, "Grandpa is just my granddaughter, if I leave, who will give grandpa a pension to the end? Anyway, my reputation is so bad, marrying someone else's family and letting people use this matter to pinch me, it's better to stay at home and be the master of my own house. My grandfather has already asked someone to pay attention to me, so you can wait for my good news!"

That's a great idea!

Although the conditions of the men who are willing to insert the door are not good, and the men who are generally able to live will not be sons-in-law and feel faceless, as long as the man can work and have a good character, life will soon be prosperous.

Qi Shufang admires Shen Yaowu very much, Shen's second grandfather really has a good granddaughter.

Now there are many poor people who can't eat, and there are also many bachelors who can't marry a wife, I heard that Shen's second grandfather's family is in good condition, and they are willing to plug in the door, and there are many educated youths who go to the mountains and go to the countryside to integrate into the local area, and the matchmaker quickly found many candidates for Shen Yaowu. Among them, the educated youth does not be a son-in-law, but only leaves the household registration to the woman's house.

Shen Yaowu has seven people to choose from, five are willing to plug in the door, and two educated youths only settle down, and she doesn't know which one to choose.

She felt that Qi Shufang was very practical, knowledgeable, and good-looking, so she came to Qi Shufang's house to ask her opinion.

"Have you seen all these seven people?What does the matchmaker say?" Qi Shufang asked curiously, she didn't expect Shen Yaowu, who was going to be recruited, to be so popular, what about seven people, let her choose!

Shen Yaowu said indifferently: "I haven't seen it, let me pick first, pick the right goodbye, otherwise if you meet too many times, you will be gossiped." The matchmaker is a relative of our family, who has always been honest and has not hidden anything from us. Four of the five who are willing to plug the door upside down have many brothers in the family, and they really can't eat enough to eat, they can't marry wives, and they are all very capable and honest, if they are not too honest, how can they be selected by the family to be the son-in-law of the door?

Qi Shufang nodded: "Makes sense." ”

Generally speaking, in a family with many brothers and sisters, the son who was selected to be the son-in-law is the least favored, or the family has spent all the money on marrying a wife for his brothers, and the youngest one is really helpless, so he can only plug the door upside down.

Four were selected by the family to plug the door upside down, and one grew up eating hundreds of meals without a father, a mother, a family, or a job.

Qi Shufang asked the educated youth what the situation was, Shen Yaowu thought about it and said: "The production team next door, one is an educated youth from Shanghai, one year younger than me, and the other is from Nanjing, two years older than me. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Grandpa wants to find a door-to-door son-in-law who knows the roots, saying that it is not safe to come from a big city. The people in the city look down on the countrymen, don't say it, now the people in the city go to the countryside, maybe they will go back one day, and it is not the old Shen family who gave birth to a baby. "Shen Yaowu is an intellectual, and he also wants to find a like-minded object, but ......

Qi Shufang felt that the old man was really knowledgeable and could see through, in history, the incident of the returned home of the educated youth left a heavy mark, although there were white-headed old people, but more of them abandoned their wives and children, and there were also many female educated youths who paid a huge price for going back.

"I think it's up to you. "Regarding Shen Yaowu's lifelong happiness, Qi Shufang doesn't dare to make decisions indiscriminately.

Shen Yaowu sighed: "I think, I still listen to Grandpa's words, the old man must have seen more than our juniors, choose a suitable meeting from these five people, and get married if you fall in love." gave birth to a baby of the old Shen family, Grandpa must be happy. ”

Shen Yaowu's personality is very straightforward, and he does what he says.

Within a few days, Qi Shufang heard that Shen Yaowu's object had been decided, and the object was the man who had no father and no mother, named Zhao Tiezhu, who was tall and big, very capable, and an honest man, who had suffered a lot before.

Although Shen's second grandfather's eyebrows danced and he couldn't close his mouth, but because the family was poor and Zhao Tiezhu was inverted, the wedding ceremony was relatively simple, there was no banquet, and it was better to save the food for the banquet, so he only chose a good day, and under the witness of the matchmaker, elders and neighbors, Shen Yaowu and Zhao Tiezhu bowed three times to the leader's plaster statue, and they were married.

Shen Yaowu was wearing a floral shirt and labor cloth overalls, combing a big braid, and borrowed a tunic without patches for Zhao Tiezhu, with red flowers on his chest, and his face was full of joy.

It's a little stronger than He Jiuya's wedding, Qi Shufang, who watched the wedding, thinks so.

After the wedding, Qi Shufang pushed the flatbed truck into the mountains to collect firewood, and others looked at her back with envy, and said to Wang Chunling with bad intentions: "Shufang often goes into the mountains, does she eat alone every day?"

"What are you talking about? What is this? Stirring up the relationship between the three of us? Why do you go into the mountains every day? Not every day, she can catch wild beasts! Now that the mountains are dangerous, she does not dare to go in, and she has returned empty-handed for more than ten days. Besides, didn't you just hear Shufang say that you want to save more firewood before you are busy farming?" Seeing that it was Aunt Ma who spoke, Wang Chunling's face was blank, very unhappy, she was indeed jealous of Qi Shufang's good life, but Qi Shufang was extravagant, and when she stewed meat dishes, their family did not follow the light, and they ate better than the New Year, so she still hoped that Qi Shufang could catch prey every day and stew game every day.

"That's it, my family's affairs, what qualifications do you have to gossip?" Zhang Cuihua rolled up her sleeves, "Aunt Ma, I remember all the things you talked nonsense outside! Didn't my family Shufang just didn't lend you money? Not to mention that Shufang bought a lot of things this year, she really didn't have any money in her hand, but she had money, and it was her duty to borrow you, and it was her duty not to lend you!"

Wang Chunling is the wife of the branch secretary, Zhang Cuihua is the wife of the accountant, and Aunt Ma, who is an outsider, did not dare to offend, smiled on her face, and quickly walked away.

Wang Chunling snorted and turned to go home.

Zhang Cuihua frowned, and called her youngest son He Daoyue, "Sandan, you play crazy everywhere every day, you have been watching your big milk these days, if she gossips about your third aunt, or go out to your Aunt Yanling's house to visit relatives, come back and talk to me." ”

She has always suspected that Qi Shufang's mother and her brother came to make trouble, and it was Aunt Ma who told them about gossip.

The Qiji Brigade used to be the Zhuangzi of the official eunuchs' family, the land was fertile, all paddy fields, richer than them here, and they didn't suffer much during the famine, and many girls were vying to marry into the Qiji Brigade, but they didn't come and go with their mother's family very often, for fear of being dragged down by their mother's family. Only Ma Yanling often goes back to her parents' house, and Aunt Ma often goes to her daughter's house to eat and drink.

Zhang Cuihua remembered that during that time, only Ma Yanling went back to her parents' house, and only Aunt Ma went to her daughter's house to walk past her relatives, so there was a great chance that they would tell Qi's mother about He's family affairs.

Shufang and Jianguo went to Shanghai to play for several days, if Qi's mother knew, would she not come to make trouble?

"Third aunt, Grandma Ma is bad, I heard her say bad things about my third aunt! I'll go!" "The third aunt is so good, if there is something delicious, I will give it to them, He Daoyue likes the third aunt in her heart, and I can't wait for the third aunt to be his mother, so if there is something delicious, I will definitely give it to him, but unfortunately not." He Daoyue sighed in disappointment, ran to gather his friends, and stared at Aunt Ma.