One piece was given by Xia Hao's father's labor camp, one was from Gao Xiaolong's family, one was from Ma Hu's family, and the other was sent by Hongjun's family...... The other piece was given by the grandmother's house next door.

And Wang Dazhi's relatives, except for his mother and eldest brother, no one came.

"Dazhi, I heard that you, your eldest sister, eldest brother-in-law, came back to your parents' house today, why didn't you come? And your sister-in-law didn't come over to help."

What can Wang Dazhi say about outsiders' inquiries

, can only play the round field and say, "That, there is something at home, you can't get out."

After saying this, Wang Dazhi hurriedly found an excuse to sneak out, and he didn't know how to answer if he asked like this.

There is an old saying in the countryside that you can live ninety-nine if you eat the dumplings on the beam, and you don't know if you can live to ninety-nine, but the enthusiasm for grabbing dumplings is enduring.

The carpenter stood on the roof and hung the backs of his relatives on it, and the breeze blew like a red flag, and the whole roof was red.

The four brothers and sisters looked at the scene in front of them with some excitement, this house will be their home in the future.

When the last beam wrapped in red cloth was raised to the roof, Wang Qian had a feeling of wanting to cry, and finally built a house after a few months of hard work, but their family was also in debt for this, if they were calculated according to the mud and straw house, the money they originally sold ginseng was enough, but according to her requirements, the budget for changing the brick house was a big tender, but even if she borrowed money, she still had no regrets about the original choice. Money can be earned slowly. But the house is a lifelong event, and no one will have nothing to build a house to play with every day.

After the carpenter on the roof put the beams in place, he began to chant loudly, "On the beam, grab the glutton" and put his hand into the red cloth bag prepared in advance, and began to throw the hair cake and the coin to the crowd below, regardless of men, women and children, all rushed up, and the children still chanted the words "on the beam and on the beam, the foot is up, one or two cakes are two or two".

Everyone stretched out their hands high, hoping to catch the falling things from the air, and the children were caught in the crowd to look at the ground, and those that fell were picked up and put in their pockets.

Anyway, this is also a fine grain, usually ordinary people can't eat it at all, only during the New Year can you eat a meal of white flour steamed buns and dumplings.

Someone grabbed it and ate it in their stomachs, "Damn, why is Wang Dazhi's dumpling so delicious."

One person said that other people also tasted the fat cake or dumpling that they had grabbed, "Well, it's delicious, it seems that the Dazhi family is going to make a fortune in the future, you see the special fragrance of this cake and steamed dumplings."

In fact, the barley also tasted it in the morning, this white flour is indeed fragrant, there is a kind of most primitive kind of wheat fragrance, the wheat in the future has been improved many times, and the most primitive fragrance has begun to fade slowly.

Not to mention anything else, even the current food she thinks is more fragrant than the future generations, these have nothing to do with whether she is hungry or not, it is purely the taste.

After the beam ceremony was held, everyone followed Lu Xiaohong and them back to their current place, and the table was set up in the open space outside today, fortunately, the weather was warm, and today was also sunny and windy. God also gives a special face. Seeing that the Wang family is going to set up a banquet, the sun is shining today, and the wind seems to have stopped blowing.

According to the local custom, there are eight large bowls, and a table has four plates and eight large bowls, and the dishes are placed inside. However, this bowl is much larger than the bowls of later generations, otherwise there would not be enough to eat.

Today's banquets are basically borrowed, and every household is borrowing from each other. Make a mark and return it to someone when you run out.

Today's meal, the Wang family really wants Daqiang is a hard dish, a bowl of clam meat fried onions, a bowl of pork noodles, and a bowl of rabbit meatballs. A bowl of scrambled eggs and chili, a bowl of stewed tofu and stewed fish. A bowl of fried fish, a bowl of vinegared cabbage fungus, and a large bowl of braised pork.

Four cold dishes, a plate of shredded kelp, a plate of fried prawn slices, a plate of fried noodle balls, a plate of sausages, and the staple food is sorghum rice.

The Wang family's meal can be said to have exerted all their strength, and several families in the city have helped a lot. The sorghum rice is the family's share, and the seafood is made by the father-in-law in the sea, which can save the girl's family a lot of effort. And the rabbits are all barley and millet together to go up the mountain to catch them, the pork is sloppy, and Gao Xiaolong and his father think of a way

This time, the Wang family spent money mainly to buy some oil back, and the oil tickets were also borrowed by her Aunt Li Guifen, Xia Hao and several others.

The people who came to chase favors in the tunzi gathered together to go to the favor account, and the favors at this time were not very good, and they were generally one piece. More is two yuan, and the most is five yuan, but the people who come to eat are basically all from the whole family. Rural people pay attention to a lively atmosphere.

Ten tables of banquets were opened today, everyone saw the Wang family's banquet one by one with a smile, I haven't seen meat for a long time, today's meal can't help but have meat and fish, don't look at them are very close to the sea, but they can't eat seafood, it's all collective, don't let people outside come to catch the sea casually, only local people can go to catch the sea and fight tooth sacrifices, so people outside the mountain can rarely eat seafood.

Today's banquet is considered to have completely improved everyone's life, even if you take out two yuan to get rid of favors, it is also cost-effective, even if you go to the restaurant, you can't eat such a good thing.

Today, whether it is someone who came to help or someone who is chasing favors, they all give Wang Zhenhe a thumbs up, "Dazhi, we can be regarded as serving you, this is too strong, I haven't seen anything that can compare to your banquet in ten miles and eight villages." ”

Wang Dazhi arched his hand on the side, "Old and young masters, there are many people today, what is not good hospitality, everyone should be more responsible, but you have to eat and drink well."

During the banquet, some villagers joked, "Dazhi, you are good enough, we are very satisfied with the food, you hurry up and get busy, we are all villagers and don't need you to greet here."

After greeting the old and young masters at each table, Wang Dazhi returned to the dinner table of several elders and accompanied them to eat.

In the countryside, the main family usually has men to accompany the guests, while women and children help in the back kitchen.

Lu Xiaohong and a few sisters-in-law finished the meal before they began to clean up the things in the kitchen, and a few children helped clean up the garbage in the kitchen.

Lu Xiaohong beckoned a few sisters-in-law to come over for dinner, and today they prepared a separate table for a few to help eat.

Remembering that her sister-in-law was still at home, she was looking for something to pack and send to them.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing, hurry up and come over for dinner," Hongjun's mother saw her looking for something on the ground and called her.

"Sister-in-law, you eat first, I'll get something for my sister-in-law and sister-in-law." Although the eldest sister-in-law and the others didn't come, if she didn't send it over, it would be a little worrying in the eyes of outsiders, and she didn't care about this plate and bowl of things.

Lu Xiaohong's mother-in-law heard this and sighed, "Second daughter-in-law, you are busy, Yanhong came over to serve some when you went to the beam, didn't you see your sister-in-law and your sister-in-law sitting in the banquet to eat?" ”

Stretching out her finger and pointing outside, Wang Yanhong and Zhao Guihua plus her son were not sitting at the banquet eating and drinking, sighing and shaking their heads, "Yes, I still plan to send it to others, which just saves me trouble."

Hongjun's mother spit out the bones in her mouth and said, "Suozi, even if you don't send those two sisters-in-law, she won't starve to death, you see when she has suffered a loss, you hurry up and come over to eat, it's been a busy morning, call a few children over to eat together." ”

The house was finally built, and there was not only the main house, but also the gatehouse. These five big houses were erected, and the Wang family also owed a lot of famine.

The sky is full of stars, there is no moon, the stars are very thick and dense, large and small, bright and dark, twinkling, like chaotic sesame seeds, wheat, soybeans and corns, large and small particles are mixed together, reflecting and overlapping each other.

People say that there are as many stars in the sky as there are people on the earth. A person occupies a star, and a star registers a person in the sky. When a star fell, God erased a man from his great register, and the man on earth died. The fourth sister looked up at the sky, which star was hers? She couldn't make out it, and no one could help her identify the star that belonged to her. However, when I was a child, I heard that when I was a child, the stars would be bigger and brighter, and when people were smaller, the stars would be smaller and darker. The big and bright stars in the sky are the symbols of the big people in the world today, and the chairman, the prime minister, the president, and the provincial governors all have one. What about the common people? Naturally, you can only possess those stars that are as thick as sesame grains that lack light and lack of light, and the four sisters can't confirm which star they occupy, and it doesn't matter, there is always one! If it's not lit, it won't be lit! I was not originally the president or the governor of the province, how could I expect to possess a big and bright star? What is heart-wrenching is that her husband and mother-in-law cursed her as a broom star behind their backs, which is a nasty and creepy disaster star with bad luck!

The undulating curves of the North Ridge and the flat top of the South Ridge cut the same as the knife cut of the South Ridge draw the boundary between heaven and earth. The strange-shaped ridges and ditches between the ditches and slopes have become blurry and difficult to identify. It seems to be darker in the river, and it is impossible to distinguish between the cotton fields and the valley fields. The willow forest along the irrigation canals and river embankments stands majestically in the river like a majestic wall, and only the jagged outlines of the treetops can be discerned. Frogs were noisy in the water and grass on the riverbank, and the night seemed quieter. Occasionally, there was one or two unpleasant cries of foxes on the hillside, which drew echoes on the cliffs, and the echoes seemed soft.

With a bamboo cage on his left arm and a swing in his right hand, he hurriedly strode along the dirt and stone road of the river. She had just collected two cages of eggs, and she was able to earn a sum of money, and she walked up and down. She wanted to let go of her throat and shine her throat in the night wind and humid river, which was undoubtedly very pleasant, and it could give herself a strong courage. However, she finally did not speak, and if a gangster hiding in a certain darkness heard the sound and rushed to her, she would invite herself into trouble. She stepped out of her feet more vigorously, threw off her right arm more cheerfully, and hurried away. She had to go home quickly, otherwise her mother and sister would be worried.

In order to help his family pay off his debts quickly, he got up early, slipped out of the village while it was dark, and walked along the dirt and stone roads of the river to buy eggs in the villages hidden in the back ditches of the hillside; Or wade through small rivers, cross the river road, climb up the North Ridge, and go to the homes of people in the depths of the Old Ridge to conduct such transactions. The more remote the mountain village, the cheaper the eggs, and you can buy more than ten for seven or eight dollars in the river. He bought a few cages of eggs, hurried home in the dead of night, slept well, got up, and slipped out of the village and into the outskirts of the city, where there were several large factories with workers and their families, who needed fresh eggs. Because the amount of eggs has increased, she doesn't completely rely on Aunt Li's help, and she is often not enough to sell them to Aunt Li alone.

She took a new path. She fulfilled the old people and children who needed to use fresh eggs to nourish their bodies, and she made money, one day to buy, one day to sell, two days to complete a money-making cycle, except for the wind and rain and family things can not leave, there are always six or seven such cycles in a month, each cycle can earn about ten yuan, there is such an income is really good.

The ground in the space was completely taught to Mom and Dad.

Running away, she doesn't care, she is hungry and thirsty, it's all right, the biggest danger is that after being caught, she confiscates the "stolen goods", and she will pay all the hard-earned money in January. There are vigilant eyes everywhere, and any unexpected omen can happen at any time. She is now fully aware of this, and has successfully bought eggs again and again, and has made money again and again. She was proud.

She is already familiar with more than 100 villages, large and small, on Yuanpo and Beiling, and the general economic status and interpersonal relationships of those villages. Which village is rich, which village is poor, which village cadres are in charge of it tightly, which village cadres are in conflict, and which village has no one to take care of at all, and when the wheat is harvested, there is no one to support a captain. In this respect, barley may be more attentive and knowledgeable than the leaders of the ******** or the commune! The villages where the cadres are strong and tightly controlled are off-limits, and maybe an activist will be finished with a glare at her cage. Eggs are designated as the second class of materials after grain, cotton and oil! She carefully avoided those villages, and let go of the courage to go into those villages where the cadres were not very advanced or had no cadres at all, and walked into the small courtyard where a certain mountain people lived like relatives, and borrowed the time to drink a bowl of water, chatting with the male head or housewife of that household, and if it was judged that there were no ** or members of the Communist Youth League in the family, she would propose to buy eggs. Generally speaking, these people are happy to pick out the precious eggs from their crockpots and put them in her cage, because she is more expensive than the official price of the public purchase, and there is a difference of two or three eggs per dollar. Unless forced to do so, the mountain people will not let go of the high price and the low price. Although it was advertised everywhere that the eggs were sold to the public honor, it was to support the revolution and support Asia, Africa and Latin America, until she "supported" these precious eggs to the stomachs of the people in the city, there was always a danger lurking. Personnel from the supply and marketing cooperatives are on duty at the station and at the Yongdao crossing where the river is crossed, and they are specially inspected by the second-lane dealers who secretly sell eggs. It is difficult to say that they are trying to support Asia, Africa and Latin America or that they are trying to get cheap, because they often divide the eggs they get on the spot and pay her at the public price. She was unlucky, two days of work and more than 200 miles of hardship were all in vain, and it was really "support" to those workers' big brothers or sisters who were more secure than her at no cost.

She was caught once by the management of the commune supply and marketing cooperative, although there were only a few eggs inside, but since then she has only taken the small road and avoided the main road. She had been stopped twice in the factory family quarters, and she had become more cautious about never removing the blue cloth scarf from the bamboo strip cage to the unscrupulous ones. Again and again, she successfully broke through the layers of blockades, and the more sophisticated she became, the less she made mistakes. Because he has earned an encouraging amount of tickets, even if he encounters an accident, he will not be overly sad, not at all as sad as when he first started with his eggs confiscated. Quan Dang didn't have this deal, Quan Dang worked in the production team in the past two days, Quan Dang has been cut off by the thief, and what is the big deal about running away and being affected? Quan Dang didn't run!

The famine in her family was almost over, and then she thought of a new money-making project, that is, she was going to raise chickens.

She didn't want to, she was running around collecting eggs like this, she had to raise them herself. She discussed this matter with her mother, and read the book on raising chickens several times.

For more than a year, the world in Qingshan Village has been completely chaotic. Those cadres and members who were frustrated in the "Four Cleanups" and "****", and those "enemies" who were designated as landlords and rich peasants, ran up and down day and night, ran to the commune, ran to the county government, and ran east and west in Qingshan Village, not to mention running east and west in Qingshan Village, and urgently demanded that their homes be rehabilitated, screened, compensated for losses, and returned to their houses. Those who have done it all day long are disgraced. Those who have been rectified naturally form a kind of alliance, echoing each other on a qiē occasion, supporting each other, and dealing with the new tricks that those who have rectified them continue to play.

In the meantime, Xia Hao's father and those who were reformed through labor also returned to the city. For the help of the Wang family for so many years, they expressed their gratitude before leaving.

Qingli learned from the mouths of the bystanders that in order to compensate the rehabilitated people for economic losses, the Nanzhang Village Brigade took out the stock of reserve grain and sold it for one dime per catty, but it was not retailed, which was troublesome, and the minimum number was 1,000 catties. Many people look cheap, but they don't have cash. When Qing Barley heard the news, her heart couldn't hold back.

She immediately told her mother what she thought.

Her mother looked at the bold girl, "Is this okay, girl?"

"Okay, Mom, we don't steal or rob, we can earn a lot of money, Mom, let's go quickly, otherwise there will be no such shop in this village." “

For more than a year, Lu Xiaohong, with the words of this girl, is very convinced, at the moment, the mother took out all the money in the family, and borrowed two hundred from Hongjun's family, and that night they went to Nanzhang Village to buy a ton and a half of corn, loaded it on the hired small tractor of the Beizhang Village Brigade, and pulled it to the flour processing factory in Mulberry Town overnight, and the corn became a bag of corn flour stacked high in a mountain. Catch the dawn. The two stood on the axle behind the driver of the small four-wheeled tractor, constantly telling the young man to drive carefully, and to gallop on the road near the city where the vehicles and pedestrians were becoming more and more densely populated, and the purpose was the West Railway Station, where there were railway workers and porters, most of whom were heavy laborers, who had more food than the rural people, and who often did not eat the food rationed by the public until the end of the month.

The market has long since thawed, it has become active, the grain has also been put on the market, the corn has dropped to two cents and five pounds, and she has now decided to sell the corn flour at the value of the corn, because the corn she bought is cheap. The key is to shoot quickly, and it is much more advantageous for Dorado to run once than to deadlock on the price. Sure enough, as soon as the small tractor full of corn flour stopped in those small grass shed areas, someone asked, and the deal was sold, and the meal was dumped.

Lu Xiaohong had a canvas bag hanging around her neck, and all the money she collected was stuffed into it, and she didn't have time to count it. Until it was sold out, she looked at the bulging canvas bag, and she didn't dare to count it, let alone take it off her neck. looked at his daughter, and he was even happier that he couldn't find the north

The two took the driver to a nearby restaurant, had a full meal, and returned to the car. She stuffed a large unity to the driver as a reward for him, and as for the freight, she will settle it with the Beizhang Village production team once in the future.

Qingli said to him: "Rush back to Nanzhang Village, buy another ton and a half of corn, go to Mulberry Town overnight to process, and come back early tomorrow morning, uncle, we will give you another ten yuan, how about it?" I didn't sleep for two days and two nights, and I couldn't hold on? If I can't hold on, I'll find another tractor. ”

"No problem, sister-in-law, son. I can do it! The young man put the money in his pocket and respectfully called Sister-in-law Lu Xiaohong, although he didn't know him before. He said, "I can sleep while I am processing wheat, and you two are spinning in a row!" As long as you can hold on, I don't have any problems, let's go! Going directly to Nanzhang Village? ”

"Nanzhang Village." Lu Xiaohong said.

"Why don't you go home and see?"

"Not back."

When processing, while people were not paying attention, Qingli took Lu Xiaohong into the space, let her rest, and stared at it herself.

For three days and three nights, the wheels kept turning, and people didn't stop moving their hands and feet. Early in the morning of the fourth day, they sold out the corn flour and bought food for the little driver in the small restaurant as usual, Lu Xiaohong made an exception and stuffed him with 20 yuan, and the little driver unceremoniously stuffed it into his pocket and said: "Thank you, sister-in-law!" I'll send you home! (To be continued.) )