In Mingshui Village, there are generally three meals of one soup per day. I drink soup when I get up in the morning, and in summer, I usually drink hot and sour boiling water and eat two pieces of steamed buns. After drinking the soup, I went to the ground, and I had breakfast around 10 o'clock, and I called for dinner. Lunch is eaten at about two o'clock in the afternoon, which is called lunch. Dinner at 7 or 8 p.m.

It was the afternoon, men, women and children were busy in the fields and fields, and the village was quiet.

The tricycle drove all the way to the gate of Chen Guan's yard.

In the past ten years of reform and opening up, Wulongyu Village has changed a lot, and bungalow courtyards have appeared. Chen Guan's family was unable to build a new house because his mother was sick, and he still lived in the old courtyard left by his ancestors.

The people of Wulongyu are simple, and when every household goes to work in the field, basically the courtyard door is not locked, and the door is closed, so that the neighbors can borrow farm tools.

Chen Guan pushed open the door of his courtyard, shouted, "Mom, I'm back", and walked in.

Stepping into my own yard, I felt a sense of joy and sentimentality in my heart.

Chen Guan's mother has always been sick because of long-term migraines and poor sleep, and she can't go to the ground and stay at home at ordinary times.

Strangely no one responded, and there was silence in the courtyard.

Chen Guan looked over and saw that the yard was very clean, and the ancient walnut tree in the middle was still luxuriant, full of cyan walnuts, covering the yard with a thick shade. Under the walnut tree, the log table made of a big tree lump that Chen Guan has been writing homework on it since he was a child is still quietly placed there, and the desktop is clean, as if he is still waiting for Chen Guan to come back and climb on it to write his homework.

Chen Guan suddenly showed a childlike naughty smile on his face, walked to the log table and sat down, tapped his fingers on the table a few times, and shouted "Mom, I'm thirsty!" ”

There was no response, the courtyard was silent!

Chen Guanzhi said that his mother must have gone to help his father, either to cut wheat in the field, to pull wheat, or to threshk wheat in the wheat field.

Chen Guan was very filial, and mailed all the bursaries back for his mother's medical treatment, but his mother's illness did not improve at all. Of course, Chen Guan knew in his heart that his mother's migraine was an incurable disease, which was refractory to treatment, and the most important thing was that the family had no money and could not send his mother to a big hospital for good treatment. Chen Guan has always wanted to make money after working and working, and the first thing is to treat his mother!

After sitting for a while, Chen Guan went out and unloaded the things with the tricycle driver, moved into the upper room where his parents lived, took out the meat and put it in a large basin of water in the kitchen to soak, and then gave the car money and sent the driver to drive the tricycle away.

After scooping up water and washing his face, Chen Guan went out and walked towards his own wheat field in the west of the village.

Chen Guan's father, Chen Xuezhi, and mother, Zheng Yulian, were indeed preparing to threshh wheat on the wheat field. However, Chen Guan's wheat field was very lively, in addition to the two neighbors who came to help, there were two brothers, Bai Aiguo, the team leader, and Bai Baoguo, an electrician, who were quarreling with Chen Guan's father Chen Xuezhi and mother Zheng Yulian.

Wulong Village is an administrative village, with a total of nine villager groups, including Wulong Village, Shanqian Village, Shanhou Village, Tonghuajia Village, Lingdong Village, Lingxi Village, Qiangou Village, Hougou Village, and Hedi Village, which are scattered in Wudao Mountain Range and along the river. Wulong Village, where Chen Guanjia is located, is just a villager group in Wulong Administrative Village.

In the rural areas, the fields have long been divided into households, and each family has to do it alone, but such a job as threshing wheat during the wheat harvest in the third summer is absolutely impossible to do with a small number of laborers, so we have to help each other. Basically, two or three companies are partnering to beat wheat, and they pump from morning to night.

Chen Guan's family has a small population, only six acres of land, two crops a year, after harvesting wheat and planting beans, basically harvesting grain in summer, and exchanging money in autumn. This is still because Chen Guan had already been allocated land when he transferred his household registration when he went to university, and there was no land transfer in the village after the transfer of his household registration, and his family still cultivated six acres of land according to three people. If the village is adjusted, his parents will only have four acres of land.

There is little land, and there is little wheat. In the past, when Chen Guan was in primary school and junior high school, he came back to help his father work during the summer vacation, and the two of them finished cutting the wheat in two or three days, and then began to set the cattle grinding field, grinding one a day, grinding several times in a row, spreading the wheat to the field in the morning, and starting to grind the field when eating, and beating the wheat straw stacks in the afternoon, and raising the field, and the fresh wheat before dinner has been pulled home. Later, Wulongyu was electric, Chen Guan and his father gritted his teeth and bought an electric motor and a threshing machine, and he no longer had to drive cattle to the farm, and the wheat harvesting speed was fast, basically finishing in one afternoon.

A few people were so focused that no one even noticed that Chen Guan came over.

Chen Xuezhi was also a good guy with a talent when he was young, but unfortunately the years have passed, and he is not yet 50 years old, and his face is already full of vicissitudes.

Chen Guan heard it clearly from afar, the wheat threshing machine and the motor were all supported, and the electrician Bai Baoguo did not send electricity, saying that Chen Guanjia had not paid the electricity bill for a year. If you want to call for power transmission, it is not difficult, and you have paid the electricity bill first.

Bai Aiguo, the leader of the group, said that Chen Guanjia's township co-ordination and village retention last year were not handed over, which dragged down the whole group and the whole village. If you want to use electricity, you can first hand over the township co-ordination village.

What Chen Xuezhi said was that after beating wheat and pulling it to the market, he must leave the arrears of electricity bills and the township overall planning and village payment to pay it back. At this time, it is the time to thresh the wheat, and finally it is the turn of the wheat, if you don't send electricity, if the weather changes, the wheat may be spoiled.

Bai Baoguo seemed to be how great an electrician was, and spoke aggressively: "Uncle Xuezhi, it's not that I don't believe you, we are all villagers in the township, and we know in our hearts who is in the country." Your aunt is sick all the year round, owes a debt of one butt and two river beaches, and is full of holes. Just take all this bit of wheat, and it's not enough for your aunt to take medicine, can you still have money to pay off the electricity bill? Or, let's write a note, set a time, and write it clearly, what if we don't pay it back then! Do you dare to write? ”

These two brothers, Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo, are too much.

Chen Guan's family is poor, but the villagers all know that the son of the old Chen family is about to graduate and make money, and the poor days of the old Chen family are coming to an end, and no one dares to look down on Chen Xuezhi and his family. Moreover, thinking that Chen Deda was famous in Wulong Mountain back then, pulling guerrillas and liberating Wulong Mountain District, who would dare to bully his descendants? Even if Chen Deda was wronged later, his wife was frightened crazy, Chen Xuezhi was a single seedling, tortured by life to the point of being heroic, without the generosity and heroism of the good men of the old Chen family, the Chen family is a representative family in Wulongshan District after all, and no one deliberately embarrassed and bullied them.

Brothers Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo are the descendants of one of Bai Deli's cousins who did not come out of five suits. When Bai Deli was alive, he saw that Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo's grandfather was pitiful, so he let their family live in the West Cross Courtyard of the Bai family compound.

Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo's grandfather has no ability, he will only herd sheep all his life, and post couplets on the door during the New Year's holidays, all written are "Sheep go to the mountains to eat good grass, and double lambs all year round", inside and out, all rely on his daughter-in-law Qin Fengying to take charge.

At the public trial meeting where Bai Deli and his son were executed, Bai Deli's cousin and daughter-in-law Qin Fengying became a celebrity in Wulongshan, came to the stage to complain with blood and tears, and spit twice and slapped Bai Deli in the face.

During the land reform, Qin Fengying had a nose and tears, and at every meeting, she came to the stage to accuse the Bai Deli family of bullying their family, what occupied the land, what forced her husband to herd sheep for the Bai family, what relied on power to force her to marry into the Bai family, etc., what was said was the same as the truth, it was simply a heavy gunner who exposed and criticized the Bai family.

Chen Deda, who had a deep enmity with the Bai family, felt numb in his spine when he heard these words. Because he knew that although Bai Deli was a famous landowner in Wulong Mountain before he became a bully, he had no evil deeds. Later, he became a bully, mainly against the Communist Party. Moreover, Bai Deli's daughter Edelweiss was sacrificed to cover the retreat of the guerrillas and was a real martyr. The people of the Bai family are not so unbearable. Moreover, the people of Wulongshan all know that Bai Deli has a good reputation and is not thin on the nephew's family in Yuanfangtang. Therefore, no matter how Qin Fengying behaves and asks for progress, Chen Deda will not let her be the female captain of the production team, and he will not look down on her.

Qin Fengying relied on the unconscionable accusation against Bai Deli and his son, won the sympathy of the villagers, and in exchange for the rich middle peasant component.

When Bai Xueying was alive, she despised Qin Fengying's behavior, never returned to his parents' house, and did not allow them to come to the door, which was tantamount to not recognizing them as the descendants of the Bai family.

A few years ago, Bai Derong led his children back to Wulongyu to visit relatives, because the eldest brother's family died, only Qin Fengying's family was left in the near branch, so he had to settle in their house, and seeing that they were living in difficulty, he wanted to bring Bai Aiguo, Bai Baoguo and their sister-in-law Bai Aiyue to the United States.

Later, Bai Derong didn't know where he heard about the grievances and hatred between the eldest brother's family and the Chen family, and heard about Qin Fengying's performance at the meeting to shoot Bai Deli, so he stopped paying attention to them and lived in Mingshui City. After erecting a monument to his parents and burying the remains of Bai Deli's father and son, Bai Derong went to the Longwan Martyrs Cemetery to see the tomb of Bai Xueweiss, and asked for the consent of the relevant departments of Mingshui County.

Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo's dream of going abroad to be overseas Chinese was shattered, and another dream came into mind. They can see from Bai Derong's grandeur when he returned to Wulongyu that the Bai family is still a big family and is still thriving. The world is different, there is no shame in being a child of the Bai family!

Bai Aiguo and Bai Baoguo came up with the idea of reviving the family business, and in their hearts they seemed to regard themselves as the descendants of the Bai family in Wulong Mountain, and began to work hard.

Not to mention, these two brothers did a really good job, planted crops well, and did a good side job, and soon became the richest man in Wulongyu. Bai Aiguo thus became the leader of the Wulongyu villager group, and Bai Baoguo became the village electrician.