Chapter 48: Returning Home

There are seventy or eighty miles from Zhaojiagou to Zhoujia Village, and it takes most of the day to walk just on the two legs of Zhao Yunxiang's mother and son. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhao Yunxiang was in a hurry, so she had to borrow her father's bicycle for use first.

Zhao Yunxiang went to the town to pick up her son Zhou Jiasheng first, it happened that today was Saturday, and Zhou Jiasheng had a day and a half off from the afternoon.

These days, Zhou Jiasheng and Wen Ziqing are already very familiar. Every week, Zhou Jiasheng would follow his uncle back to Zhaojiagou.

When Wen Ziqing saw Zhou Jiasheng for the first time, she was directly stunned. He couldn't have imagined that the ugly Zhou Jiasheng in his previous life would look so cute when he was a child.

There may really be fate between people. Although Wen Ziqing was cold, Zhou Jiasheng liked him very much, and walked around Wen Ziqing whenever he was free. In Zhou Jiasheng's heart, he felt that Wen Ziqing in martial arts was both cool and majestic. It didn't take long for Wen Ziqing and Zhou Jiasheng to become good friends.

Zhao Yunxiang took the children to eat lunch at her younger brother Zhao Guohui's house, refused Zhao Guohui's kindness to skip work to send them, and went straight to Zhoujia Village.

The day before yesterday, Aunt Qiu Ju asked someone to send a letter to Zhao Yunxiang, saying that the production team was distributing grain and money in the room next to the threshing floor this afternoon. In those days, it was a big deal for the production team to distribute grain, and every household would be there.

Seeing that the time was not early, Zhao Yunxiang couldn't go home, rode a bicycle, and took her two children directly to the barnyard.

There are six teams in Zhoujia Village, and each team has a threshing field of about 500 square meters. When the farm is busy, the rice cut from the field is threshed and pulled directly to the drying field.

In order to facilitate the collection of dried grain, the ground of the drying field is very flat, and there are no potholes at all.

When the farm is busy, the captain of each team will send two or three aunts in their fifties to do the drying work. In the morning, as soon as the sun rises in the sky, the aunts first spread a mat woven of bamboo chips on the ground of the grain drying field, and when the wet rice that has been detached in the field arrives, they pour the rice onto the mat.

Why wait until the sun rises to spread the mat is also particular about this. In autumn in Yuyuan County, there will be dew at night. When the sun comes out, the dew will evaporate and the mat will not get wet with the dew.

When the farm is busy, the aunts who are in charge of drying the rice in the drying field quickly spread the piles of rice on the mat with a long-handled wooden claw fence in their hands.

The thin layer of wet rice on the mat can be dried in two days under the scorching sun, and the aunts use wooden claw fences to turn it over from time to time.

At that time, hoes, sickles, and insecticidal sprayers belonged to the important property of the collective, and the small room on the edge of the barn was the team's tool room, which was used by the production team to stack hoes, sickles and other tools, and some unused pesticides were also placed here.

The other large house is the squad's warehouse, where the grain harvested for each season is stacked after it is processed. The warehouse is very large, after each season's harvest, the villagers first fan the rice with a windmill in the warehouse, remove the grain, and take the fullest grain to the grain management to hand over the public grain, and the remaining first-class ones will be calculated before they are distributed to the team members.

The peasants of that era were very sincere, and the public grain handed over to the state was the best, and there was absolutely no such thing as fraud.

Zhao Yunxiang's team is the first team, and there is one more room next to the barn than other teams. In addition to the large warehouse and tool room, the remaining one is painted with white ash and is neatly bright, which is the office of the brigade headquarters in Zhoujia Village.

In normal times, Zhou Chunliang, the captain of the brigade, and Zhou Zhigang, the village accountant, work here.

The first team has more than 40 families, and Wu Jinfeng, the old lady of the Zhou family, and several brothers of the Zhou family are in this team.

When Zhao Yunxiang was still halfway there, there was already a pot of porridge in the warehouse where the grain was distributed.

The cause of the incident was Wu Jinfeng.

As soon as they finished lunch, the team members came to the barn. Today, in addition to distributing food, we also have to share money, and the team members are very excited.

Life in the countryside is hard! Facing the loess with their backs to the sky, after a year of hard work, they will only have a few living money in their hands when the Chinese New Year is approaching. The food is the same, the majority of the food is not distributed until the end of the year, and if the family usually does not have enough food to eat, they will go to the team to borrow it. According to the actual situation of each family, the production team leader will let the village accountant witness and lend the food that the team members rely on to survive.

The production team leader has great rights, and if it is a team member who cheats and cheats, the production team leader has the right not to borrow food or to lend less food to his (her) family. For the hard-working and hard-working team members, the captain will also take care of a few more points.

It is precisely because the captain has these rights in his hands that he usually arranges for the team members to work, and no one dares to cheat and cheat, let alone disobey the command.

At the end of the year, when the grain is distributed, the accountant calculates the amount of grain that each family should share before distributing the grain, and then looks at the IOUs of each family to deduct the grain lent out by the team.

There will always be a few families in each team who are particularly in difficulty, some because of the lack of labor at home, and many elderly and children, and some because there are sick people at home, which drags down the whole family. At the end of the year, these poor households deducted what they usually borrowed from the team, and there was not a single star or half left, and they even had to find food or money to supply the team.

The same is true for the first squad. Every year, when the food is distributed, there will always be a few families crying poor, and the team will also look at the situation of each family to make some countermeasures.

The first squad didn't have a smooth distribution of food today.

Aunt Qiuxiang's family is a notoriously difficult household in the first squad. Qiu Xiang's man, Zhou Qijia, is the cultivator of the first squad.

In the countryside, a combination of oxen power and manpower is used to cultivate the fields. Put the plough on the old ox, and the ploughman stands on the plow, holding a leather whip in his hand, and whips it from time to time to control the direction of the ox.

The black and oily soil slowly blooms on both sides of the iron plough, and it is the most beautiful scenery for all rural people.

The field cultivator is not something that anyone can do, and the field that Zhou Qijia has ploughed with the old ox is loose and soft, which saves a lot of worry about the planting of the next crop of rice.

Two years ago, the old scalper in the team went crazy somehow.

Zhou Qijia went to stop it, but was overturned to the ground by the running scalpers. Zhou Qi's family was also unlucky, there happened to be a protruding stone on the ground, and Zhou Qijia's back fell on the protruding stone and broke a vertebrae. After more than a month of treatment, Zhou Qijia's trauma healed, but he lost sensation in his legs.

Zhou Qi's family is the strong labor of the family, he has been lying in bed for two years, Qiu Xiang pulls four children from three to eight years old, and one centimeter cannot support a family of six.