Three years since. However, after the disaster, the whole country, but everywhere as far as the eye can see, are bare and barren, the ecological environment has been severely destroyed, after the disaster, the state issued a afforestation policy, as long as the forest is all owned by the public, private individuals are not allowed to cut down, the timber market sells beds, cabinets, chairs are allowed to cut down a certain number of trees, because of the limited production, you can imagine how expensive it is sold in the store.

Since you can't afford to buy a new one, you can consider buying an old one. Pan Yang noticed that most of the wooden cabinets and chairs collected by the recycling station were broken or worn, but it didn't matter, they could buy them and disassemble them and let Zhang Xuelan help remake them.

There is a counter in the recycling station for receiving visitors, and there is a fat man wearing a dark blue cardigan and a liberation hat sitting at the counter.

The man asked, "Serve the people." Two comrades, do you have something to sell or do you want to buy something from here to go back? ”

Pan Yang said with a smile, "I saw a batch of wooden cabinets and wooden chairs just now, and I want to buy them back for home." ”

The man said clearly, "We don't sell by the number of pieces here, we weigh it by the pound, every penny is a pound, if you want, I will take two comrades to the pound." ”

A penny and a pound are already very cheap for Pan Yang, Pan Yang nodded busily, and led Pan Shiyao to follow the man to the big warehouse to weigh it.

Pan Yang noticed that all the things sent from the waste recycling stations in the major towns and villages in the big warehouse were sorted into different areas, and the broken iron blocks, screws, small iron hammers, sickle heads, etc. were placed in the iron department, which were about to be put into the steel mill to re-support socialist construction; As for plastic shoes, plastic basins, plastic buckets, etc., they are placed in the plastic department and eventually sent to the plastic factory; Broken books and papers are stacked on top of each other and can be returned to the paper mill. In addition, there are broken glass, wood and other things, all of which are put away in different categories, without giving people the slightest feeling of messiness and dirtiness.

In addition to a batch of cabinets and chairs that have just been sent in, there are still broken wooden boards, as well as door and window frames, in addition, Pan Yang actually found a stretch bed inside, the bed frame is intact, that is, the hemp rope bandage on the bed surface is broken, it doesn't matter if it is broken, you can rub the hemp and re-weave it yourself when you buy it.

Pan Yang did not hesitate to weigh the bed frame, and also picked the wooden doors, window frames and chair cabinets.

All over the pound, a total of 100 catties, a penny a catty, so much as just a little more than a dollar, compared to buying new furniture, I don't know how many times cheaper.

After buying it, Pan Yang borrowed the machete from the recycling station to use it, and the ones that could be removed were removed, and the ones that could not be disassembled were cut into wooden plates with machetes and tied with hemp rope.

Coincidentally, on the day that Sister Sun sent Pan Yang's father and son acacia flowers, the old Pan family also took a basket of acacia flowers from the acacia tree.

Acacia trees were planted in a row in front of the threshing floor of the west brigade of their village, and it was when they couldn't open, the captain saw that the time had come, and went door to door to inform the people of their brigade that the locust flowers on the acacia trees could be beaten, and almost all the families in the team went out, Zhang Xuelan did not show weakness, and led a few radish heads from the family to go into battle and hit a large basket of locust flowers back.

For the villagers who are lacking in material, once a year beating acacia flowers is also a delicacy that they usually can't eat, whether it is steamed to eat, or wrapped acacia flower stuffed buns, dumplings, it is rare, if there are eggs at home, acacia flower scrambled eggs are also an excellent dish.

Besides, after the father and son arrived home, they unloaded the 'goods' on their backs, Pan Shiyao handed the sack to Zhang Xuelan, Zhang Xuelan untied the sack, saw that it was filled with acacia flowers, and said, "Where did the acacia flowers come from?" Coincidentally, the family made a basket yesterday, steamed a pot last night, and there is still half a frame left. ”

Pan Shiyao told Zhang Xuelan about everything they did in the county from selling meat to eating and then going to the scrap recycling station to buy wood, and finally said, "Because Ada's stubborn refusal to accept Sister Sun's meat money, Sister Sun gave us acacia flowers as a gift in return." ”

I have to say that this woman sometimes has an extraordinary sixth sense, Zhang Xuelan just listened to her son talk about their experience of eating at Sister Sun's house, and intuitively felt that Sister Sun's woman was not simple, and she was faintly dissatisfied, and then heard that her man actually confiscated her meat money, and sneered and said, "This woman, she can calculate, exchange acacia flowers for meat money, and she can figure it out!" ”

But then again, it's her man who insists on not taking money from other people's meat, and her man should be blamed even more, this realization made Zhang Xuelan's anger rise in an instant.

However, at this time, our client Pan Yang was still squatting in front of the chicken coop to look at the little chicks, unaware that Zhang Xuelan was already jealous.

Last night, a little chick quietly broke out of the shell, Pan Yang came back and didn't bother to wash his hands and face, squatted in front of the chicken coop, put the chick in the palm of his hand from the chicken coop with hay, carefully touched the fluff on its back, giggled and played with it, and turned a deaf ear to the conversation between Zhang Xuelan's mother and son.

Until she was slapped in the back, it hurt hotly!

Pan Yang was excited, and after reacting, he turned around and glared at the perpetrator angrily, and shouted, "What kind of nerves are you!" ”

Zhang Xuelan pinched her waist with both hands and asked Pan Yangdao, "Pan Zhaoke, let me ask you if the money is easy to earn, what is your idea of giving that woman a piece of meat for nothing!" ”

Pan Yang thought it was a big deal, but she was angry about this trivial matter, she touched her back with her backhand, and said indifferently, "Isn't it just a piece of meat, I think she is quite pitiful for raising a family, so give it to her." ”

In Pan Yang's opinion, it is not a big deal, but in Zhang Xuelan's ears, it is extremely hot, "She is poor for supporting her family?" If she pities you, you will give someone a piece of meat, and I will be pitiful? Serving a large family all day long, eating, drinking, and Lazar, who can have my pity, who can have your old Pan family pitiful, you look at this broken house, you look at what your son is wearing"

At the moment, Zhang Xuelan is full of complaints, and the farther and farther she goes, she can't wait to take out all the tragic things about the ancestors of the old Pan family and say it again, hearing that Pan Yang's ears hurt, pinching the roots of his ears, Pan Yang frowned and said, "Okay, say it quietly, it's not good to be heard, hurry up and cook, I'm hungry." ”

The partition wall has ears, and Zhang Xuelan was also afraid that the neighbors would hear about their stealing and selling wild boar, so she had to swallow this breath at the moment, glared at Pan Yang, and said fiercely, "Pan Zhaoke, I'll settle accounts with you at night!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and went into the kitchen, leaving the father and son to look at each other.

It is said that it should be a happy thing for them to earn money, even if Pan Yang gave Sister Sun a piece of meat and confiscated the money, it was because he took care of Sister Sun because he was pitiful, not to mention that he was also a woman, Pan Yang especially understood the hardships of Sister Sun earning money to support her family.

It's just a trivial matter, why did Zhang Xuelan get so angry? Pan Yang only thought that she was having intermittent convulsions, and didn't pay attention to it at all.

On the contrary, Pan Shiyao, a man who was upright, saw something, but he didn't dare to be sure, and maybe he would scold him for talking nonsense.

That eldest sister Sun is only in her early thirties, even if she is more than ten years older than Pan Shiyao, Pan Shiyao thinks that she is beautiful among women, and her face is much whiter than the girls in their village, even if he is the object, she is not as white as Sister Sun's skin.

Pan Shiyao had a dream two years ago. Legacy, I have already become a little adult, and the young people who are mixed together and play together will inevitably discuss which of the women in the household has a good face and which milk. The sub is big, which has a round butt.

Sister Sun definitely meets the standards of a good face, big tits, and a round buttocks, Pan Shiyao thinks she is good-looking, he doesn't care about it, how can a man be good to a woman, he can't do it

The more Pan Shiyao thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, not to mention that his mother was not comparable to Sister Sun in terms of appearance and temperament

Poor Pan Yang didn't know that he was suspected of having an outside heart, and he was still just playing with the little chicks.

At noon, Zhang Xuelan steamed another pot of acacia flowers, and also made two eggs and scrambled a plate of scrambled eggs with acacia flowers, except for these two, she didn't do anything else.

When a few radish heads came back from school, they saw Pan Yang and his eldest brother coming back from the county seat, threw off the yellow schoolbag on his shoulder, and pedaled around Pan Yang, asking him for snacks.

In their opinion, as long as Adaa goes to the county seat and comes back, there will be delicious food.

But this time, there really isn't.

It's tiring enough to carry so many planks back, where is there still time to buy snacks, Pan Yang spread his hands and said to the radish heads, "Nothing, I'll give you some money after eating and go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy it yourself." ”

Giving them money to buy it for themselves is more enjoyable than buying it for them to eat, and a few radish heads rushed to the well to press water to wash their hands and prepare to eat.

I thought there was no snack, and there should be meat to eat at noon, but I knew that it was still acacia flowers, although it was delicious, but I didn't think it was delicious to eat it continuously.

Pan Shixun was a little dissatisfied, and said, "Mother, why is it a locust flower, and it is not worth eating steamed buns." ”

Others love to eat acacia flowers, but Pan Shixun doesn't like that taste.

Zhang Xuelan did it on purpose, she ate acacia flowers at that woman's house yesterday, it tasted very good, right, then continue to eat at noon today, and continue to eat at night!

Pan Yang didn't know that this meal was specifically for her, and he followed Pan Shixun and said, "That's it, if you don't keep meat at home, it's okay to cut some meat and fry other dishes, otherwise it's okay to wrap some Huaihua meat dumplings and eat them." ”

Zhang Xuelan said angrily, "Sister Sun has given us acacia flowers, we must eat them as much as possible, otherwise it will be a waste of people's minds, you all eat more, there is still half a box left in the acacia flowers, I can't finish it today, I will continue to do it tomorrow, until I finish eating." ”

Pan Yang didn't think about it in that direction, and a few radish heads couldn't figure out why their mother suddenly had a weird yin and yang, only Pan Hengchun, an old man who was over half a hundred years old and had eaten everything, ate without saying a word, because in his opinion, steamed acacia flowers were already a very good meal.

After eating, Zhang Xuelan cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Pan Shiyao led a few younger brothers and sisters to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy snacks, and Pan Yang untied the wooden planks they carried back from the county seat and piled them all up in the yard.

Pan Yang was carrying a disassembled wooden frame bed, the bed was disassembled by her hands, Pan Yang put it back as it was, because the hemp rope in the middle of the bed was all broken, Pan Yang asked Pan Hengchun, "Ada, can you rub the hemp rope and re-wrap it?" ”

Pan Hengchun looked at the broken hemp rope on the bed and said, "It's not difficult to wrap this one, just follow the original way." ”

There is no shortage of hemp rope at home, because it is often used, every year they have to cut some hemp from Dahewan back, put it under the sun for a few days, and when it dries, peel off the skin and it is hemp silk.

Pan Hengchun, who was the best at kneading hemp rope, spun out of his palm and became a hemp rope almost the thickness of his little thumb.

Pan Hengchun rubbed the hemp rope, and Pan Yang put the chair on the side, as for the wooden boards and sticks that couldn't fit anything, he kept them for when he renovated the old house, and asked Zhang Xuelan to come over and make a cupboard or a small bed or something.

Here Pan Shiyao put money in his pocket, led his younger brothers and sisters to the village supply and marketing cooperative, asked for half a catty of mixed sugar, divided it equally with the four radish heads, and told them not to eat it all at once.

Pan Shiyao asked for another pack of mixed leaf brand cigarettes, a pack of dime, and then a box of foreign fire, plus mixed sugar, and paid together.

Pan Shiyao learned to smoke with a group of young people, his family was poor before, and he couldn't afford to smoke boxed cigarettes, Pan Shiyao became addicted to cigarettes and stole Pan Hengchun's dry tobacco, he thought that the broken newspaper was too hard, so he used the homework book written by his younger brothers and sisters, and he could smoke a few cigarettes for a day.

Now it's different, he knows that his family is already considered a rich person in the village, although he never shows it, but just by looking at the food and clothes in the family now, he knows that he has made money.

When he came back from the county seat with Ada, Adada gave him ten yuan, saying that he was an adult, and there was always a place to spend money, and said that he would not care if he didn't have it.

Pan Shiyao put one hand in the pocket of his jacket, touched the remaining money in the pocket, there were paper tickets and coins, pinched a five-cent coin and swirled around the tips of his fingers, Pan Shiyao suddenly remembered his object, Zhang Yinhua, the goose-faced and almond-eyed girl, he should go to meet her, and then buy something and secretly hand it to her, now he has money in his pocket.

The supply and marketing cooperatives in their village had just a few things, and Pan Shiyao simply left the supply and marketing cooperatives and went to the township instead.

The store department of the township supply and marketing cooperatives is much larger than that in the village, Pan Shiyao dusted off the cigarette ash on the small coat and scarf, raised his head and entered the store, sunflower seeds, peanuts, tangerine peel strips and other snacks were displayed on the shelves behind the counter, Pan Shiyao singled out the pastries.

Pan Shiyao asked the salesman for a pound of pastries, a bag of peanuts, a bag of melon seeds, and five tangerine peel strips. After reporting this, he handed the money to the salesman first and asked him to find the money.

The salesman had a decent smile on his face, "It's not enough for comrades to give money alone, and a pound of pastries costs a pound of food stamps." ”

Pan Shiyao felt a little pity, the snow-white pastries in the dustpan on the shelves were dotted with red and green, bright and beautiful, and he originally wanted him to send pastries, but now he had to buy other snacks that could not use food stamps.

bought a bag of melon seeds, a bag of peanuts, and five tangerine peel strips, and Pan Shiyao carried them to the Zhangwan Brigade with one hand, and he stayed there until the evening.

Pan Hengchun and Pan Yangye spent the whole afternoon repairing the stretch bed. Ignoring Zhang Xuelan's straight roll of her eyes, Pan Yang insisted on putting the bed in the hall and leaving it for Pan Hengchun to sleep.

The oldest in the family is still there, there is no reason not to sleep with the old, they are still young and can afford to suffer, Pan Hengchun has already suffered enough, it is time for him to enjoy the blessings.

Pan Hengchun didn't want it, but he couldn't stop being happy in his heart, his son Pan Hengchun really had nothing to say to him.

At night, as usual, the acacia flowers are steamed, and Zhang Xuelan is proving with her actions that what she said at noon is not a joke.

In this home, the old and young people have already noticed Zhang Xuelan's intermittent convulsions, no one dares to fart and complain again, but there is a tacit understanding, bowl after bowl of steamed locust flowers from the pot, even if they eat until they are finished, because they don't want to see acacia flowers tomorrow!

After dinner, Pan Hengchun went out for a stroll to eat, Pan Shiyao came back from Zhangwan, wiped his mouth after eating at night, and then slipped away to sneak a date, as for a few radish heads, he couldn't stay at home, and he went out to fight crazy collectively.

Pan Yang also wanted to go out for a walk, but was stopped by Zhang Xuelan.

Zhang Xuelan stretched out her hand to Pan Yang and said, "Bring the money from selling meat yesterday." ”

Like most women prevent their men from having outside intentions, the first thing Zhang Xuelan thought of was to hold the money on her man's body tightly in her hands, in case her man made a disturbance outside. Women spend a penny.

The so-called body is not afraid of crooked shadows, Pan Yang will naturally not be weak if he doesn't do anything wrong, Zhang Xuelan wants it, she just gives it.

Pan Yang gave her the eighty yuan on his body and the fifteen catties of meat tickets.

Zhang Xuelan took it and counted it carefully, eighty yuan, she hesitated, "That's all?" ”

Hearing this, Pan Yang didn't have a good breath and said, "You don't know how much pork is a catty, you don't know if you sell this number, yes, it is sold for more than eighty yuan, and it doesn't cost me to go back and forth with Shiyao!" ”

Zhang Xuelan saw that her man didn't look like he was lying, so she had to give up, and went into the east room and stuffed eighty yuan into the broken jar together, and the meat ticket was also put in, there are now more than 100 yuan in the broken jar, Zhang Xuelan has never been so satisfied as now, in the past, the family had a maximum of more than a dozen yuan, and she was always afraid that it would not be enough to spend, but now she is not afraid, thanks to her meeting a capable man

The money is enough to spend, but the thorn in Zhang Xuelan's heart has not been pulled out yet, and she wants to accompany her man to the county hospital to see her man's illness.

Before going to bed, Zhang Xuelan said her thoughts.

Pan Yang had already thought of an excuse to deal with her, and said earnestly, "The important thing at the moment is to turn the house out, Shiyao will marry a daughter-in-law when he sees it, and there is a lot of land to spend money, and the winter wheat planted by our team should be weeded and fertilized, there are many things to be busy with, my disease is not cured in a day or two, let's talk about it when these things are done." ”

Zhang Xuelan sighed when she heard her man say this, they are a group of old farmers, they are tired of life, and they are afraid that they will not have enough food and clothing in the coming year, when will they be a head!

After another spring rain, everything is growing, and the winter wheat planted by their brigade has grown to the calf of adults, and the rise is much better than in previous years, but at the same time as the wheat grows, the weeds are also growing wildly, and the captain began to notify from door to door and collectively go to the ground to weed.

Every family in the village carried a shovel and a straw hat on their heads and began to work.

The radish heads are not idle, it is the weekend, all carrying baskets, following behind their own adults' buttocks, the front feet of the adults in the family remove the weeds, they pick up the back feet and throw them in the basket, carry them home to dry and can be used as firewood!

The shepherd's cabbage can also be dug up, and the radish heads of each family work together to pick up weeds and dig weeds.

Shepherd's cabbage buns, shepherd's cabbage dumplings, and shepherd's cabbage buns are another delicious meal when you dig them home!

Wang Youtian informed Pan Yang of the news that the commune approved the Pan family to cut reeds, and they could go to cut reeds at any time, but in order to earn work, the old Pan family had to push back the matter of turning over the house, and they had to wait for the team to finish their work.

Some of the fields of their Panxi Village Brigade are located halfway up the Jingshan Mountain, under the Huai River dam, and in the flat bottom bay.

The fields on the mountains are the most barren, and in the dry season, only a few dozen catties of wheat may be harvested per acre. The low-lying terrain under the Huai River dam has hardly been achieved in years with a lot of rain. Comparatively speaking, only the fields in the bottom bay are the most fertile, and the winter wheat is also the best in the bottom bay, followed by the lower dam, and the worst in the mountains.

As the captain of the Panxi production team, Pan Shicong had already looked at the bottom bay of the mountain dam in the first few days, and the wheat under the mountain dam was not growing vigorously, and he had to top dressing after weeding.

I have to go to the county to buy urea and ammonium sulfate!

Go to the county to buy fertilizer, Pan Shicong will definitely not be able to do it alone, he has to find someone in the production team to go with him, not to mention anything else, the fertilizer is weighed and packed in a sack, and someone has to give him a hand when it is lifted up and down.

Pan Shicong found Pan Yang and asked Pan Yang to go to the county with him to buy fertilizer. Why do you look for Pan Yang, because Pan Yang is a person who is more literate in the village except for the secretary and deputy captain, and he is younger and calmer than those who are young, so he is the first choice to buy fertilizer.

Their Panxi production brigade has 1,000 acres of land, of which 6 or 700 acres have to be fertilized, even if there are five catties of topdressing in one acre of field, so many fields have to buy three or four hundred catties of fertilizer.

Pan Shicong drove the donkey cart of the production team and rushed to the city with Pan Yang before dawn.

Although Pan Shicong and Pan Zhaoke are about the same age, Pan Shicong's generation is younger than Pan Zhaoke.

The two of them went all the way to the mountains, and finally arrived in the city at noon, and they had to go to the agricultural machinery store to buy fertilizer.

Pan Yang showed him the way, "Go down the dam from the front, go west along Qingfeng Road, and the agricultural machinery store is not far from the county hospital." ”

Pan Shicong turned his head to look at Pan Yang and said, "Uncle Zhaoke, you are quite familiar with the city." ”

Pan Shicong spoke straightforwardly, although sometimes he was a little grumpy, but there was no city government, and he didn't think about other places, but he said it casually, but Pan Yang was a little weak-hearted, and turned around and brought the topic over, she has been to the county so many times, can she not know about the county seat.

When they arrived at the agricultural machinery store, the two parked the donkey cart at the door and went in to buy fertilizer.

This era is much better than the previous ten years, the production volume of the fertilizer factory is high, the fertilizer is not too expensive, it is also sold by catties, urea is a dime a catty, ammonium sulfate is a dime and a dime, they each asked for 200 catties, a total of 44 yuan, the use of the team's public funds, all the expenses of this trip back to the public account.

The two of them carried the fertilizer onto the donkey cart and did not rush back, but solved the problem of eating first.

The agricultural machinery store is to the west of the county hospital, and the state-owned hotel is to the east of the county hospital. Because he had long expected to eat in the city, Pan Shicong took the collective grain to the township grain station in advance to exchange for food stamps, and he paid for the lunch meal.

Pan Shicong asked Pan Yang what he wanted to eat, Pan Yang found a table and sat down, and asked him to order whatever he wanted.

At the time of the meal, there were quite a lot of people in the restaurant, most of whom couldn't go back after rushing to the county hospital to see a doctor, with a tired look on their faces. Pan Yang looked around and seemed to see a familiar figure.