Let's say that the Chinese New Year is approaching, and the small shops at the entrance of Yunling Village are filled with the atmosphere before the festival. At the corner formed by the gable and ditch of the small shop along the wall, the northwest cannot be blown, and it is facing the sun, and several old men are gathering here to bask in the sun and chat.

There were those who squatted against the wall, those who sat on the horse, and those who stood. The villagers and villagers all went back to the village or came to the small shop to buy things, and they all accosted each other.

"Yo, dog, just came back?" "Well, they're all sitting here. "Holiday?" "Well, you sit here. "Hmm. ”

"What's that back?" "Hey, hey, the TV." "Oh, the baby bought it for her mother. "Hmm. "Oh, carry one, heavy one, hurry back." "Well, then you're here, go back. ”

"Oops, this leaf has pulled the baby bigger. "Well, they're all in college, it's not easy. "No, oh, it's not easy. ”

The dog baby carried a bag, carried a cardboard box, walked all the way and talked to the villagers, and after a while, he entered the courtyard gate. Xing'er and Ergou were cleaning up something in the yard, and when they saw their brother carrying a big thing, they hurriedly surrounded them:

"What is this?" "Xing'er, you take care of it, put it down." "Mom, Brother E's back. Ergou shouted into the house. "Oh. "What the hell?" asked Ergou.

"Hey, hey, open it up. The dog said with a smile. "It's still sold in the guanzi, and it's open when it's opened. The two dogs opened the carton and said, "Wow, TV, Mom." ”

"Where did you get the money?" Ye Zi asked the dog. "Brother, take a sip first. Xing'er brought over half a bowl of boiling water and handed it to the dog. "Earned by work-study. Not expensive, second-hand, black and white. "Oh. "Hehe, it's good now, you can see it in our house." Ergou happily went to find the power strip.

After drinking water, the dog baby was busy fiddling with the TV with Xing'er and Ergou, pulling out the antenna, connecting the power supply, and adjusting the channel with "let's click", and the family was so happy.

In the evening, the family of four had dinner and chatted while watching TV. "Dog, are you going to raise the price there?" A lot of people lined up to buy something. "I don't know what's going on, but we're getting expensive here." ”

"Inflation. "What?" "Mom, I didn't tell you, it's just that the money is too much." I don't believe it yet. Apricot chimed in. "Letter. Well, just ask your brother. "Hey, hey. "It's not exactly inflation. "Oh?"

"Now the price has not been completely liberalized, and some people are deliberately making mistakes in order to make the difference. If the people don't rob, it's fine. "Oh, well, I can't use it for a while when I queue up to buy so many things. "Mom, let's not rush to buy it. Now that it is developing so fast, it will not be impossible to buy. "Well, let's not join in the fun. ”

"Mom, money is tight in the house now. "Oh, it's not that you won't be allowed to the heart in the house, you read your book well. "Well, just ask. You can rest assured, you won't drop out of school stupidly anymore. ”

"What do you mean dropping out of school?" Ergou interjected. "Dropping out of school is not studying halfway. "Oh. "Eh, I asked my mother about the situation in the house, you are all wrong. "Ghost style, Ergou asks and has some knowledge, you are still a brother." "Yes, it's not a fool's errand. "Hey, hey. ”

"If you put your heart in your belly, you can still cope with the income from the medicinal herbs in the field. "Oh. "My family is more comfortable than in the previous two years. "This amount is relieved. "What else can you do if you're not at ease?" "Hehe. "Filial piety, that's it. "That's right. ”

In this way, on Chinese New Year's Eve this year, the Ye family watched the Spring Festival Gala for the first time around their own TV and had a comfortable year.

After the fifteenth day of the first month, the dog baby went back to the provincial capital, and Xing'er also started school. Gradually, the middle-aged and young people in the village also went out, and those who stayed were either the elderly, or the little daughters-in-law with children, or the middle-aged men who could earn money in the village.

There are many women and few men in the village, and there are often cases of stealing chickens and dogs, some of whom have lost their wives and those who have lost their men, and there are also those who fool around with widows.

It is said that Yunling has a cousin who can speak well, but he fell in love with his handsome cousin-in-law, first flirted and scolded her, and then slept together. And the result: angry with his honest, cowardly cousin.

I heard that there are two children in Liuwan, their mother died early, and their father ran away from home, so the brothers and sisters were raised by their grandmother. My sister was naughty, she didn't study after graduating from elementary school, and after staying at home for two years, she lived with a young man who repaired a car in the town without getting married, and gave birth to two boys successively.

Just two years after the second son was born, the two couldn't stand the fight anymore, broke up, and the woman remarried with her youngest son. As for the man, he gave his eldest son to someone, and some people said that he sold it, and he found another girl a few years younger than him and lived together again.

I also heard that there is an old man with a bit of gentlemanly demeanor in Qingping. The wife died early, and the old man did not remarry for the sake of the two children. But from time to time, some people talk about which daughter-in-law the old man has an affair with.

Yes, they're over sixty years old, and they're fooling around with a mute daughter-in-law. When the mute man noticed this, he pretended to go out from time to time, hiding in a corner outside the courtyard wall to spy on his wife.

One day, the mute secretly saw the old man walking into the courtyard with a handkerchief and carrying something, and casually "snapped" and tied the courtyard door. Knowing that something was wrong, the mute endured it in the corner for a while, and then climbed over the wall and went in.

Unexpectedly, when I opened the window sash, I saw my wife and the old man doing things on the kang. In a fit of rage, the mute rushed into the house with a stick, beat the old man naked, and broke the old man's left leg.

In the past, there were almost no people who got married first and then fell in love, and what followed was the indifference of ethical concepts and the actualization of marriage and love concepts. Open the windows and it's not just fresh air that flies in, but also dust, mosquitoes, and flies. The diversification of the rural employment structure and industrial structure will inevitably be accompanied by the diversification of the ethical concepts of the villagers. Of course, this is all idle people's business, so don't mention it.

Out of the New Year, Ergou also went out with the master to do carpentry. Ye Zi is left alone at home, and the only way for her to relieve loneliness is to keep looking for work to do, and she is busy with the family in the field all day long, and her hands and feet are constantly a little bit.

But people's hearts are full of flesh. Seeing that Ye Zi was so lonely and miserable, the people in the village were quite sympathetic. Some of the men who stayed in the village, when they were free, would occasionally come over to help Ye Zi.

Although Ye Zi said that he was middle-aged, he was good-looking and charming, and coupled with the incident in his early years, it was inevitable that someone would chew his tongue, and even the couple suspected that their man had an affair with Ye Zi when they were estranged.

For a while, the captain and his wife had an awkward quarrel, quarreling from time to time, and even the old husband and wife occasionally got into a fight. After thinking about it, the captain's wife felt that it had something to do with the leaves.

Earlier, the captain had helped Ye Zi's family solve the homestead, and he always took care of Ye Zi when he was working in the team, and the captain also helped Ye Zi do some heavy work from time to time after dividing the field and working alone, and even found a way for Ye Zi's son to go out to work, all of which were all these things.

For a long time, after dinner, the captain's wife suddenly came to Ye Zi's house suspiciously, and chatted with Ye Zi for a while. At first, Ye Zi didn't care, but after ten days in a row, it caused Ye Zi's confusion and even vigilance.

However, the captain's wife has never found some clues as she imagined, in fact, the captain never visits Yezi's house at night.

After dinner that day, the captain didn't go out and chatted with his wife. "the baby, others don't understand the forehead, you still don't understand the forehead?" "It's nice to say, people's hearts are separated from the belly, which cat is not fishy!"

"Where are you going!" "You know what you do." "What do you know?! You are so suspicious that you have harmed others and yourself. "Yes. ”

"you, baby. "If there's a fart, let it go. "Well, I've always thought you're a reasonable person. "Wear less high hats!"

"You can see that, too. Yes, the leaves are better looking than others, but not frivolous. Ye Zi was raped back then, and she didn't squeak or say anything for so many years, and she was carried by a woman's family. said that Ye Zi is a good person, this is also what you said, right?" Hearing this, the captain's wife couldn't help but sigh and lowered her head.

"This noble baby is not a thing, and she is gone. A woman's family took care of her mother-in-law, raised her two children, and went to college. Alas, it is not easy!"

"Sensei said. The captain's wife couldn't help but shed a few tears. "I really can't see it, so I went over to help. Why do you think so low of your man?!"

And so, the couple spoke, and rested. Later, the captain's wife and Ye Zi became good friends as sisters.

It's just that after this incident, when Ye Zitian was busy, she no longer simply asked people for help as in the past, but asked for help and paid her wages, preferring to save some of her own money and settle her wages on time. In this way, a lot of personal debts are indeed forgiven, and there are fewer gossips.

But there are also people who blame Ye Zi for this, saying that Ye Zi has broken the old rules of the villagers and increased the economic burden. However, there are also many people who agree with Ye Zi, feeling that this does not owe favors, but also takes into account other people's compensation, the best of both worlds.

During this period, some people also adopted the method of "au pair", that is, the method of equal working hours, you help the amount, and the amount helps you to do it, and the accounts are offset against each other.

In fact, in this way, the relationship between each other has become simpler.

Later, I heard that this practice of paying wages gradually became popular in the rural areas around Persimmon Bay. Anyone who needs the help of his neighbors to build a house, and those who can lay bricks and tiles are paid according to the big work, and the others are paid according to the small work.

Later, of course, the construction of houses in rural areas was gradually commercialized, that is, they simply invited the engineering team to build them, either half a package, or only the workers and materials, or the large package, that is, both the workers and materials, and the owner's family did not even care about the engineering team's food.

As for farm work such as harvesting wheat in autumn, picking cotton, planting medicinal herbs, and producing medicinal herbs, all those who hire someone to help them are also settled according to a certain wage, and there is no mistake in favoring and earning money.

Things happen by accident, but they are also inevitable. With the development of the rural economy and the change of the concept of the villagers, the villagers in the persimmon bay area have gradually formed a new economic relationship with paid helpers as the main form, and there are fewer and fewer people who rely on human relations to help each other in the past.

In other words, with the continuous development of the rural economy, the relationship between people began to transition from a "society of acquaintances" to a "civil society".