There is a row of large bungalows on the south wall of the county trade manager department close to the revolutionary committee, which is usually used as a warehouse, and only one of the workers in the unit, Pan Shiyao, is a rural person, and the other workers are all in the county seat, so the trade manager department does not have a staff dormitory. At present, Jianguo asked people to temporarily clean up a warehouse, clean it, put a single bed in it, and then buy some cotton bed quilts, basin stands, large wooden boxes and other daily necessities, which are decent, and then assigned to Pan Shiyao to live, which can be regarded as a staff dormitory.

Although the preparation was hasty, and Pan Shiyao had to buy the bits and pieces himself, Pan Shiyao was already very satisfied, at least the big bungalow did not leak rain, at least he could have a decent bed to sleep in, and even the quilt was new, much better than his house.

Now that Adada has come to see him, the first thing Pan Shiyao did was to take Adada to his dormitory to have a look.

Pan Shiyao saw that the bicycle pushed by Pan Yang was like the one from Sister Sun's house, and said with a smile, "Ada, you still bought the bicycle?" ”

Pan Yang patted the handle of the bicycle, with pride, and said with a smile, "Now that you are out of breath, we don't have to be afraid of being poked in the back again, and we must be charged with something, the bicycle must be bought, and it is convenient for us to come to the city with one." ”

Pan Shiyao took the bicycle from Pan Yang's hand, stepped on the big bar, sat on the bicycle seat, and landed on the ground with both feet, it seemed that his legs were extraordinarily long, he paddled twice with one foot, and at first he was crooked and twisted, and he almost fell down several times, but he had long legs, and when he was about to fall, he immediately landed on the ground and fixed it, and it didn't take long for him to learn to ride a bicycle.

Pan Shiyao pedaled his bicycle, circled around the compound of the trade manager's department, and the cool breeze blew towards him, he was very happy, like a naughty big child who circled around Pan Yang, and also played the car bell, and finally stopped, smiled and said to Pan Yang, "Ada, when will you come to the county seat again to drive your mother over to see, she has never been to the county seat." ”

Thinking of the rest of the family, Pan Shiyao said again, "My younger brothers and sisters and grandpa are also here, it's best to come in the summer, you can live in my dormitory, the floor of my dormitory is cement, and it must be very cool to lay on the ground in summer, you come to play, don't worry about eating, the Revolutionary Committee has a big canteen, I can't eat all the food and food stamps issued to me by the unit, all the big stove in the canteen of the Revolutionary Committee, I am familiar with the master of the big stove, and when you come, I will let the master of the big stove cook something good!" ”

The big boy who didn't like to talk much in the past has become more cheerful after having experience, and after seeing the world, he is more open-minded, and he exudes confidence and sunshine in his eloquent conversation.

Pan Shiyao said endlessly, Pan Yang listened carefully, did not interrupt, and kept smiling, just like a real father, seeing that his son was promising, he also felt proud and proud.

Pan Yang followed Pan Shiyao into his dormitory, because it was originally used as a warehouse, so the area of the dormitory was much larger than a room in the old Pan family, and there was a wooden bed of about one meter under the window of the south wall, and the bed was covered with cotton quilts, and there was a basin stand against the east wall, a washbasin was placed on the upper floor, and a footbasin was placed below, and a white towel was placed on the washbasin, and the whole room looked bright and neat.

Pan Shiyao was very satisfied with his dormitory, and said to Pan Yang, "Ada, it's very good, I usually pay attention to personal hygiene!" ”

Pan Yang was also satisfied, nodded incessantly, thinking of Pan Shiyao's vacation, Pan Yang said, "How long can you go home?" ”

Pan Shiyao knew that Pan Yang meant to ask him to find a time to go back, and said to Pan Yang, "It's not that I don't want to go back, but we don't have a fixed point to rest, unlike people who can have weekends, our team has to take a holiday, now I am a newcomer, it's not good to ask for a vacation just after work, and after a while, I will ask the captain for a leave to go back." ”

Pan Yang nodded and said, "Don't be embarrassed, just rest according to the time given by the above, Wang Youtian and his lover will come and go." ”

The father and son talked again, Pan Yang thought about going back to the town earlier to apply for a bicycle license, so he didn't tell Pan Shiyao much, before leaving, he gave Pan Shiyao a hundred yuan, and gave him the summer clothes that Zhang Xuelan had just made for Pan Shiyao.

Pan Shiyao was reluctant to ask for Pan Yang's money again, and said to Pan Yang, "I haven't spent the money that Ada's last time to me, and we will pay my salary soon, and I can't spend the money." ”

Pan Yang insisted on giving it to him, "In the future, you will make many friends, personal contacts, and many places to spend money, so you can keep them for backup first." ”

Pan Yangxiao is also a person who has worked, if someone in a unit gets married and has children or something, they have to add gifts, Pan Shiyao has so many young workers in the trade department, the probability of getting married and having children is always greater.

Hearing Pan Yang say this, Pan Shiyao put the money in his pocket, thinking that when he paid his salary, he would not only give him the 100 yuan again, but also give him the unspent wages and bills he received in the future, all of which would be given to the family.

Coming out of the county trade manager's department, Pan Yang stepped on the bicycle bar and went directly out of the county seat to his home, to say that the road from the county seat to the township is also easy to recognize, from the county seat to the river dam, after crossing the Huai River Bridge, a big road leads to Guò town to their township.

After riding for about an hour and a half, I arrived in the town, where Pan Yang had been to the town several times before, all the way to the only street in the town, and asked the direction of the police station and went straight to the police station.

The police station in the town is not big, four mud houses, there are about two large courtyards of the old Pan family, the yard is quiet, only a middle-aged bald man is watering the moon flowers, Pan Yang asked, "I want to apply for a bicycle license, in which office?" ”

The middle-aged man laughed and said, "What's in which office, we only have one office, everything is handled by me, comrade, come with me." ”

Compared with the staff in the county police station, who are all dressed in decent uniforms, the middle-aged man is dressed too casually, with a green tunic on his upper body, labor pants of the same color underneath, and yellow rubber shoes on his feet.

Pan Yang followed the middle-aged man's buttocks into the house, and there were three rows of wooden shelves in the small room, and the shelves were full of materials, newspapers and other things.

After the middle-aged man asked about the location of Pan Yang's household registration, he rummaged for a while, and finally found the household registration book of their township, took it out and found the head of the old Pan family according to the number of the household, and then turned out the bicycle number from the other room, took out one of them at random, and copied it to the old Pan family's account according to the number.

The middle-aged man said, "Comrade, you need to pay me a five-cent handling fee." ”

Pan Yang hurriedly took out five cents and handed it to the middle-aged man, took his red and glamorous bicycle license and walked out of the gate of the police station.

After Pan Yang rode home, it was already dark, although there was no electricity in the village, but everyone was an old acquaintance, even if the light was blind, someone still recognized Pan Yang.

Seeing Pan Yang pushing a bicycle, the villagers were surprised, "Zhaoke, where did you get the bicycle?" It shouldn't have been bought by your family's salary, right? ”

Pan Yangle smiled and said, "Isn't it, otherwise how can our old farmers afford it, thanks to the industrial vouchers issued by Shiyao and their unit, the family pooled some money to buy a second-hand bicycle, which is much cheaper than the new one." ”

Even if Pan Yang buys a second-hand bicycle, it is enough to be enviable, and second-hand bicycles are beyond their reach.

Pan Yang was too lazy to call Zhang Xuelan to come back to cook, so he lit a kerosene lamp and casually heated up the leftover meals they ate at night. When she was sitting at the small desk table in the kitchen eating, Zhang Xuelan came back from visiting the door, and shouted as soon as she entered the door, "Zhaoke, I heard Guangchen and his wife say that you pushed a bicycle back?" Is it true? Did you buy it?! ”

Pan Yang stretched out his finger and pointed to the bicycle parked under the window of the porch, mumbled, and said to Zhang Xuelan, "Put it there." ”

Zhang Xuelan looked in the direction she pointed, it was not a bicycle!

She hurriedly touched the handle of the bicycle, it was too dark, Zhang Xuelan couldn't see the color and brand of the bicycle clearly, she could only see a general style, just looking at the style, she dared to guarantee that it was definitely better than Wang Youtian's bicycle!

Pan Yang ate in twos and twos, and also went to the eaves of the porch, and said to Zhang Xuelan, "The Phoenix brand, it turned out that Sister Sun and her man bought it, and now Sister Sun is in a hurry to use the money, and the bicycle bought for more than two hundred yuan has been ridden for more than a year, and it is seventy or eighty percent new, and it was sold to me for eighty yuan." ”

When Zhang Xuelan heard that the bicycle was bought from Sister Sun, which meant that her man went to Sister Sun's house again today, she was a little unhappy, and pouted, "You are quite familiar with her, and if you buy it for more than 200 yuan, you will sell it for 80 yuan?" ”

Pan Yang didn't hear Zhang Xuelan's words sour, and answered, "That's natural, we are old acquaintances, every time I go back to the county to sell vegetables, I will go to her." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Xuelan snorted and said, "When will you go to the county seat next time?" I'm going too. ”

Pan Yang looked Zhang Xuelan's posture up and down, shook his head and said, "No, you are too heavy, I can't carry you, or you can learn to ride me over." ”

Pan Yang snorted angrily when he said this, and raised his hand to twist Pan Yang's arm hard.

Pan Yang is also a cheap bone, obviously she was screwed to gasp, and laughed twice, she has to admit that it feels very cool to be angry with her grandmother!

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The summer was rainy, and after several rainstorms, the weather cleared, and all the members of the production team had to hurry up and get busy again, they had to be busy planting crops for the next season.

This year, two targets were assigned to their production brigade, which mainly planted corn and soybeans.

If you plant it in June, you will probably be able to harvest it in October. Corn accounts for a large part of the coarse grains, and as for soybeans, □□ percent of them should be harvested and sent to oil for extraction, which will be the main source of cooking oil for urban residents on both sides of the Huai River.

It is said that the team should go to the county agricultural machinery department to buy corn and soybean seeds, but with so many acres of land, it costs a lot of money to buy seeds alone, not to mention that they have to spend money to buy fertilizer and top dressing.

The production team only has a tractor and a plow, at this time the old donkey and the ox are particularly important, the terrain of the bottom bay is flat, suitable for plowing with a tractor, the only tractor in the team was sent to the bottom bay, as for the terraces on the mountainside, it is to drive the oxen to plow.

The production team was divided into three groups, one group to take a tractor to the bottom bay, one group to go to the dam, and one group to go to the terraced fields halfway up the mountain.

Pan Yang was assigned to the terraced fields halfway up the mountain, and with her were Pan Zhaofang and Pan Zhaofeng, Pan Hengchun's three sons were rarely assigned to work together, and since they were assigned together, they were inevitably compared by others, as a team member to talk about when they worked.

Wang Youtian has a brother named Wang Youdi, Wang Youdi has no other skills, and his broken mouth is no worse than the women in the village, he shouted Pan Zhaofang and Pan Zhaofeng, and said with a smile, "Zhaofang, Zhaofeng, are all born to a mother, look at your boss, but much more capable than you, not to mention the renovation of the house, the family also bought a bicycle, and the son is also promising, Zhaofang, Zhaofeng, you have to work hard to catch up with your eldest brother!" ”

Sometimes jealousy arises in this way, people can't compare, since the Pan family's big house is getting better and better, Pan Zhaofang and Pan Zhaofeng, the two brothers, are always muttered by their own women, talking all day long about how Dafang is capable, how good Dafang is, Dafang's family eats meat again, they have heard them annoying enough, and now there are outsiders comparing them, and the two brothers are inevitably unhappy.

Pan Zhaofeng is more thoughtful, and he likes to keep anything in his heart, even if he is uncomfortable, he will not say it in front of others.

In contrast, Pan Zhaofang's temper was much more direct, and he immediately said to Wang You, "Your eldest brother is the village secretary, what about you, are you a village cadre or what?" I haven't seen you more capable than your eldest brother. ”

When Wang Youdi heard this, he immediately threw his hoe on the ground and shouted at Pan Zhaofang, "Pan Zhaofang, you kid has come and stood in front of me and said, see if I don't beat you all over the ground to find teeth!" ”

Pan Zhaofang was also young and vigorous, and immediately threw the basket containing corn seeds in his hand on the ground, and rushed towards Wang Youdi, and the other people in the village saw that the shape was wrong, and hurriedly pulled Pan Zhaofang away, and someone shouted Pan Yang, "The boss of the Pan family, come and stop your brother, everyone work hard, and have something to say." ”

To tell the truth, Pan Yang didn't bother to care about these things, she heard Wang Youdi's words just now, but she pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't hear anything, but this time she was called by someone, so she had to go over and grab the angry Pan Zhaofang and let him sit on the ridge to dissipate his anger.

Unexpectedly, people still didn't appreciate it, so they shook off Pan Yang's hand fiercely, and immediately pointed at her nose and shouted, "Pan Zhaoke, don't fake kindness in front of me, do your work, I don't want you to care!" ”

It's a good thing now, a group of onlookers watched the joke, and the brothers turned against each other or something, and it was a big drama to watch.

Pan Zhaofang is not ashamed, Pan Yang is still ugly, in front of so many people, like a monkey, Pan Yang used his strength and dragged Pan Zhaofang twice, and finally dragged him to the ridge, Pan Yang said angrily, "Because an outsider is talking nonsense, are you angry with me." ”

Pan Zhaofang shook his head away and ignored Pan Yang.

Pan Yang didn't bother to pay attention to him, so she didn't do anything about sticking a hot face to someone's cold buttocks, leaving Pan Zhaofang alone, Pan Yang went back to the field to continue working.

After finishing work in the evening, Pan Yang did not rush down the mountain, but asked the team to go first, and after everyone was gone, she sneaked to the top of the mountain, looked at the small vegetable garden she opened, watered the vegetable garden, and took off the ripe green peppers and eggplants and wrapped them in a torn coat, and took them back to keep her own food when it got dark.

When she was almost busy, she went down the mountain slowly, but she just walked with her front foot, Pan Zhaofang's back foot came out from behind the dirt slope, looking at the small vegetable garden in front of her, and then thinking that the conditions of the big house were better for no reason, renovating the house, wearing new clothes, eating big meat at two ends for three days, and buying a bicycle not long ago, he Pan Zhaofang is not a fool, it is almost certain that his eldest brother has secretly done a speculative thing.

Speculation is a crime, if he is caught with evidence and everything is confiscated, his eldest brother will also be taken to the cooperative for labor reform, not to mention the hardest and most tiring work, and he will not be given a job.

Pan Zhaofang sat under the root of the tree, pinched the tobacco from the cloth pocket, rolled a cigarette and took a puff, looking at the vegetable garden in front of him in a daze.