"Well, let's work harder, and we're not afraid that we won't be able to earn money." Zhou Yang also agreed with his younger brother's opinion.

"It's okay if you can't earn it for a while, we have sixty yuan now, enough for you to finish elementary school, how can we earn enough money for college for more than ten years!" Zhou Chen seems to have great confidence that his sister can go to college, and now plans to earn tuition for her.

"Nan, you say, what university do you want to go to?" When Zhou Yang heard about his sister's college education, his eyes lit up.

Zhou Wanwan was speechless, what is the structure of her two brothers' brains? The question they have to solve now is not what college is she going to?

However, Zhou Wanwan also felt very happy about the reaction of the Zhou Yang brothers. Their hearts are getting stronger little by little, and only those who have confidence in themselves and their future life will not care about temporary gains and losses, and will not be at a loss because of the loss of an opportunity or a resource.

The little brothers have become more and more confident in themselves and have learned to take control of their own lives, what a great start!

Fast forward to the end of June, and people are ushering in the hottest weather of the year.

The sun scorched the earth fiercely, and the air was so dry and hot that it almost caught fire. People sweat like rain in the fields to hoe the grass for the second time, but their hearts are infinitely happy, the wheat harvest is about to begin, and they will soon be able to eat a new wheat noodle.

Finally, in the expectant gaze of everyone, the old captain rubbed the ears of wheat in his hands and announced: "The wheat is finished!" Tomorrow the sickle! ”

When the wheat is opened, it is the most urgent and time-critical moment of the year in the countryside. On a June day, the baby's face, the grain that has been made can no longer be harvested, that is really a sinful thing. Therefore, at this time, except for the milk dolls who were incapacitated and the old people who couldn't get off the kang, all the people in Tunzi were dispatched.

The Zhou family is no exception, and Mrs. Zhou also has to go to the ground with her small feet upside down, and she can't do heavy work. It's okay to pick up ears of wheat and bring water to the children.

The Zhou family is left with Zhou Wanwan and Zhou Lan, and the Zhou Yang brothers are afraid that there will be no adults in the family, and the Tao boy of the family will jump in and bully his sister, and he will lock the door every day when he leaves. I even got some thorny rose branches and stuck them in the shoji, for fear that my sister who couldn't protect her sister would be bullied.

She obediently accepts these practices of her brothers every night, as long as she can reassure them, she doesn't care what she does. But it's hard for Zhao Xiaosan'er, this kid lies on the shoji every day and snorts with a little face to hand things in. made Zhou Wanwan cry and laugh, and really couldn't figure out which of them was locked up.

All the staff of Sanjiatun went out and worked day and night for seven or eight days, and finally collected the wheat into the granary before the heavy rain. The tired and thin people finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the next thing was to divide the wheat that everyone was most looking forward to.

Zhou Hongxiang also came back with Qian Gang and Qian Yan at this time. She may not participate in the labor, but the wheat must be shared.

This year, the No. 7 production team planted 100 mu of wheat, yielding more than 180 catties per mu and harvesting nearly 19,000 catties of grain in total.

The whole team was happy, and this output set a record for the production team's grain yield per mu. Of course, this figure is not worth mentioning compared to the yield of 4 to 500 kilograms per mu of wheat in later generations, but the highest record of wheat yield per mu in Sanjiatun in the 50s was 62 kilograms, and it is surprising to look at this year's output.

The best grain was selected and handed over to the state for more than 6,000 catties. A little was left as a collective ration for the team's emergency and agricultural work, and the rest of the team was divided equally according to the population. In the end, each person could get twenty-six and a half catties of wheat.

According to the standard of food distribution in the previous team, children under the age of five can only get half the amount of adults. But this year, the old captain is in charge, and the children are also divided into adults, "The dolls have been hungry for several years, let them eat a few more mouthfuls of fine food this year!" The old captain's cigarette pouch and pot struck loudly, and the words he spoke rang as loudly as a gong.

The members of the club have no opinion on this decision, who has no children. Let the children eat a few more bites, and the adults have nothing to fight for.

Therefore, the twenty members of the Zhou family received five hundred and thirty catties of wheat and filled nearly three sacks!

But this year, Zhou Hongxiang's mother and son can't share the wheat. How to ask Zhou Hongxiang and how to promise. Even the big name of distributing food couldn't come down, and it couldn't shake the old captain in the slightest.

If you don't give points, you don't give points, and if you don't work, you still want food, how can there be such a truth in the world. Take the Zhou family's work in exchange? Did you earn that job? Have you tended to the harvest for a day? No, then what kind of face do you have to divide the food?

The old captain's nickname is Han Lao, and he is stubborn and dares to choke with the director of the Township Revolutionary Committee. He threw himself on the ground all his life. He is more delicate to the crops and farm work than to his son. So Zhou Hongxiang is particularly unaccustomed to evading labor, she was notified when she distributed relief food last year, and if she didn't work, she wouldn't be given food, and she thought that she had done her best, but she didn't come to the team to work this year, so what else is there to say now?

In the end, Zhou Hongxiang came back disgraced. She said that she had to take away everything about this year's wheat, and the family of six lived on Qian Shouyi's dead salary of 27 yuan and 5 cents a month, and if there was no food, their family would have to starve to death with their necks tied up.

Fortunately, the Zhou family has more than 500 catties of food, and Mrs. Zhou can't let her go back empty-handed.

Under the auspices of Mrs. Zhou, the Zhou family held a family meeting. The central topic is to divide the wheat for Zhou Hongxiang.

In this matter, of course, Mrs. Zhou can directly make the decision and give Zhou Hongxiang a share. But she also has her own considerations, this point, you can't share less, at least 200 catties. So much food, it's not a bundle of vegetables and two handfuls of beans, she is in charge, and her sons and daughters-in-law are at most muttering a few words in their hearts. It was a big bag of food, and she had to get everyone in her family to agree to it. As for whether everyone agrees actively or passively, that's not her business.

What Mrs. Zhou wants is a formality. A form in which the whole family takes the initiative to help Zhou Hongxiang, so that she can speak and act more hardly in the future, the Zhou family adapts to this model, and can be more accustomed to what to do for Zhou Hongxiang in the future.

The family meeting of the Zhou family was more difficult than Mrs. Zhou expected. No matter how she and Zhou Hongxiang complained or even cried, everyone in the Zhou family didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was almost weird.

During this period, people's thirst for food surpassed that of gold. When the big knife of hunger hangs over the head from time to time, all people can see is the bite of food. Therefore, it is conceivable how much the Zhou family, who have been tormented by hunger for several years, values these grains, and how difficult it is for them to give away the food to others for free.

"The third! Your eldest sister is in trouble now, so you say you can't help or not, right? "Mrs. Zhou can only change her strategy. I'm going to attack each one, so I'm going to find the soft persimmon that the whole family can talk to first.

Zhou Chunxi looked up at his wife and daughter who were hungry, and squatted on the ground with a long sigh, without saying a word.

Mrs. Zhou couldn't see it. immediately patted his thigh and began to cry and howl, scolding the whole family for being white-eyed wolves and black-hearted, telling how much Zhou Hongxiang thought about them, how good they were, and how much Zhou Hongxiang suffered when she was not married. After getting married, he takes care of his mother's family, how sorry everyone in the Zhou family is for this eldest daughter, and so on.

But the Zhou family is like a collective aphasia today, no matter how Mrs. Zhou cries, she just refuses to let go. When Mrs. Zhou saw it, she was about to use her killer trick - fainted, but was dragged by Zhou Hongxiang.

Today is not a junior that Mrs. Zhou wants to handle, at that time, Mrs. Zhou had a son who was distressed, occupying the status of an elder, and when she fainted, there were people to defend her. Look at the situation today. If Mrs. Zhou fainted, everyone in the Zhou family would immediately change the topic and divert the matter of distributing food.

Mrs. Zhou also immediately understood this truth under Zhou Hongxiang's eyes, she messed up her hair a few times, covered her gray and sparse hair, and cried with tears, "I won't eat it!" I saved my bite for my grandson, I can't watch them starve to death! ”

The more Mrs. Zhou spoke, the more sad she became, she slipped from the edge of the kang to the ground, knelt down and begged her sons: "You will be gracious." Save your eldest sister's family! I'm dying if I don't die, I can't watch my children starve! I don't eat it, your father doesn't eat it, and your sister doesn't eat it either! Isn't it okay to give our share to your eldest sister? ”

Mrs. Zhou knelt down. The sons of the Zhou family couldn't sit still. First of all, Zhou Chunxi and Zhou Chunliang compromised, and immediately went to support Mrs. Zhou, "Mother! What are you doing here! Hurry up, if you have anything to say, we will listen to you! ”

Zhou Chunlai sat on the bench and moved his buttocks left and right, and was held down by Shen Yufen again.

Zhou Hongying couldn't sit still. "Mother! Why don't I eat it? The family is so full of food and not hungry for them, why do you want to give my share of wheat to the eldest sister? I don't do it! ”

"Shut up!" Mrs. Zhou interrupted Zhou Hongying sharply, "Why are you so conscienceless!" Why are you like those brutes, you have no humanity at all!? Your eldest sister is going to starve to death, so you can't get a share of the food? ”

"I don't give! I won't give it! Zhou Hongying also began to cry, "Why take my share?" That's it," Zhou Hongying began to point at Zhou Lan, Zhou Xia, and Zhou Wanwan one by one with her hands, "Throw Nanshan goods sooner or later!" Give them back some white noodles! Give their share to the eldest sister! ”

The Zhou Yang brothers, who had been silent, almost burst into flames when Zhou Hongying's finger pointed to Zhou Wanwan, Zhou Yang was about to speak as soon as he stood up, but was pulled by Zhou Chen, Zhou Yang was about to get up, Zhou Chen hurriedly whispered in his ear: "I was used as a gun by someone else." ”

Zhou Yang turned his head to look at Shen Yufen, who was holding Zhou Chunlai's clothes tightly with his eyes but his hands were tightly gripping Zhou Chunlai's clothes, and Zhou Juan, who was staring at their brother, before taking a deep breath and sitting down, turning his sister in his arms to prevent her from seeing the faces of these people. He also used his hands to protect her waist and neck, and protected her like a little baby.

Zhou Chen rubbed his sister obediently leaning on Zhou Yang's arms again and again, looking at her with clear black eyes and a gentle smile.

Zhou Wanwan returned a sweet smile to her two brothers, of course she didn't care about this, she just watched this farce as a hilarious one.

Wheat Zhou Hongxiang will definitely take it, there is no suspense. She doesn't care about any of this, anyway, with her, her brother won't starve.

In the end, Zhou Hongxiang got her wish. When it can be called wheat, Mrs. Zhou's face is black. The more than 500 catties of wheat that the Zhou family distributed this time were packed with two whole sacks and a large half bag, I don't know if it was Wang Fengying's gesture or Zhou Fu's own opinion, anyway, he just carried the large half bag of wheat in, and went to the production team to borrow a scale back.

The meaning is obvious, even this half bag of more than 100 catties of wheat can't be given to Zhou Hongxiang, how much she took has to be recorded.

Mrs. Zhou's eyes were almost red when she stared at Zhou Fu, and Zhou Jun shouted without fear of death: "Grandpa, grandma and aunt can't share a hundred catties of wheat!" Although the whole family knows that Mrs. Zhou's so-called share of the three of them is a pretense, and it can't be taken seriously. But now one person has started to say that he should take it seriously, and of course the others are happy to push the boat, and it is good to be able to take a little less wheat.

That afternoon, Zhou Hongxiang left with red eyes, and Qian Gang carried the 120 catties of wheat that Mrs. Zhou forcibly distributed to them on her back.

Zhou Hongxiang also found the old captain and promised him that he would come back to work during the autumn harvest. Of course, she also begged for this opportunity to come back to work, and if she didn't come back, she would have no share of the food when the autumn equinox came.

After distributing the wheat, the food of the Sanjiatun people finally improved. Although it is still not enough to eat, it is still okay to make a pastry with most of the leaves mixed with most of the vegetables once in a while. Being able to eat a full meal and see the hope of a good harvest can motivate everyone more than anything else.

After cutting the wheat, turning the wheat fields and planting autumn cabbage, the members of the club invested unprecedented enthusiasm. Although it still depends on manpower, I can no longer see anyone who is tired and shaking on the way from work. Life is still the same, and the stomach can only maintain a half-full, but people's mental state is different.

So hope is really a very magical thing, with it, even if there is only a skeleton left, it can make people persist and not fall.

Food is less scarce, but the atmosphere at the Zhou family's dinner table has become weird. It stands to reason that Mrs. Zhou sent her rations out, and she should be restrained at the dinner table, but she is the opposite. Who dares to say one thing about her food distribution, that is, she lit the explosives bag, which made the whole family restless, and its severity was close to that of a mentally ill person.

Such an old lady Zhou made the Zhou family feel at risk, and she was afraid of provoking her to make her own head.

Regarding Mrs. Zhou's unreasonable logic, Zhou Wanwan can still guess some reasons. This time the matter of dividing the wheat can be said to be the first time that the sons of the Zhou family collectively opposed her mother, although she cried and coped with the past, she herself knew better than anyone that she was unreasonable.

If Mrs. Zhou sits at the Zhou family's dinner table now with a reasonable attitude, then it will be difficult for her to rule the Zhou family in the future, and of course, she will not have to think about filling Zhou Hongxiang.

So she must now come up with iron-blooded means to re-establish and consolidate her position in the Zhou family. Don't think that Mrs. Zhou, a crazy woman, has no means to bite whom, but this is definitely good for the men of the Zhou family.

Old man Zhou is afraid of trouble, Mrs. Zhou is too powerful, he will definitely take action in order to live a clean life. He doesn't analyze what is right or wrong, he doesn't care about that, his purpose is to live a pure life, so he will only pick soft persimmons and pinch them. Whoever is obedient, sensible, and easy to settle things down, he will ask who is more obedient and sensible, and this candidate for peace will certainly not be Mrs. Zhou, who bites whom.

As for the sons of the Zhou family, as long as Zhou Chunfa doesn't care about the face of his brigade accountant, he doesn't care about anything, the other three, two are foolish, and the remaining one Zhou Chunlai can only hold back if he has any ideas.

The life of the Zhou family lived in such a distorted way, and Zhou Wanwan and his brothers let them fly and jump, and they didn't take it to heart at all. It is becoming more and more difficult for the people and things of the Zhou family to affect the three of them, and even Zhou Yang, who has the deepest feelings for the Zhou family, can now eat the small stove prepared for her by Zhou Wanwan with peace of mind. (To be continued.) )