In an ordinary small village in the middle of the land of Qilu, the sky was still bright, and a deep ditch at the south end of the village sounded the sound of "hehe", and a strong man wearing a torn military uniform full of patches was working hard to land on the ground with an iron hammer. The ground was covered with gravel and rotten tree roots, and the strong man waved the polished locust wood pick, piling up the small stones in the soil on the ground, while constantly shouting, and waving his arms full of green tendons, like a musician conducting a large symphony, and like a general scolding Fang Yu on the battlefield.

After a while, the ground was piled up like a hill of stones, the strong man showed a satisfied smile on his face, put down the iron pickaxe, sat on a big stone on the edge of the ground, took out the dry tobacco bag from his pocket, loaded a pot of tobacco, lit it with a match, and slowly spit it out from his mouth, the smoke swirled around the face of the dissatisfied rough wrinkles, the strong man's face slowly came out of a pleased smile, and said to himself: "Open this piece of wasteland half an acre of wasteland, and close to the water source, you can earn hundreds of catties of ginger a year, In exchange for some money, the rations of the mother's family are finally not so famine.

"Wow~~~~" "Wow~~~~~~"...... There was a faint cry of a baby from the village, and the strong man was first happy, and then his face was full of sadness. "Alas, how can people live, and I have added a mouth for eating," the strong man muttered to himself, hurriedly packed up his tools, put a rattan on his shoulder, and walked towards the village.

The strong man walked quickly to the door of the house, and a big yellow dog lying at the door jumped up, affectionately touched the strong man's feet with his tongue, and wagged his tail attentively. "Tiger, don't make trouble, go aside" the strong man scolded, and the big yellow dog obediently lay down by the door again. The strong man walked quickly into the north house, and a middle-aged village woman greeted him: "His second uncle, it's a boy, but he's a little thinner, congratulations." The strong man hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry for you, I made you toss for most of the night, congratulations, I added another mouth, how can I live this day." After the strong man finished speaking, he hurriedly rushed to the earthen kang and asked with concern: "Mother, it doesn't matter, right?" The woman lying on the kang replied weakly: "It's okay, thanks to my sister-in-law, she is even affected", and the village woman who helped hurriedly said: "Auntie, the family doesn't speak two words, you lie down and rest, I'll go and boil some millet porridge for you"

After saying that, he went to the firewood room.

After a while, the three children also got up, one by one sleepy-eyed, and the middle second child hurriedly asked the tallest boss: "Brother, did our mother fill in a younger brother for us?" The eldest said, "Well, I can eat with an open stomach today", and the third asked: "Really, brother, why today?" The boss said in an old-fashioned manner: "You know a bird, today every family in the village comes to deliver a small meal, this is called a hundred family rice, whose children are born like this, one hundred and ten households in our village, is there not a hundred and ten bowls?" Can our mother let us eat enough? The third child stuck out his tongue and said: "One hundred and ten bowls, my God, then I have to eat ten bowls", the second child knocked the third child's head with his hand: "Eat your head?" Hold you to death". The three brothers were discussing when the big yellow dog at the door barked, and then they heard their father's shout: "Boss, don't you tie the tiger up?" The one who will deliver the small meal will come later, but don't let the tiger bite people. The eldest hurriedly said: "Here it is", while saying to the third child: "The third child, go and tie the dog, go quickly", the third child muttered while tying the dog: "The old lazy commands the big lazy, the big lazy does not move, and the third person who does the work is the third."

After a while, a middle-aged man in a tunic came in, his face looked a little majestic, and at first glance he was a figure with a head and a face in the village. The man who came in asked, "What is your grandfather?" The third man said: "My grandfather is in the house, what good things did the second uncle bring", the man bounced on the forehead of the third child, and said: "It's a good thing, but it's not for you", and walked towards the north house.

Before the people entered the house, the man shouted, "Is Second Brother Long Xin at home?" Why don't you come out to greet you? If you add a son, you won't have a brother? Long Xin hurriedly greeted him and said, "It turned out to be the secretary's brother, please come in, please come in." So saying, the two of them went into the house.

Entering the house and sitting down, the secretary Xu Fu took out a bag of things from his arms and said: "Second brother, this is a pound of brown sugar that I asked someone to get from the commune supply and marketing cooperative, and it is said that women can't do without this during confinement, so give it to your sister-in-law", Long Xin hurriedly said: "Brother secretary, I have nothing to say, or your secretary has a big face, I went three times a few days ago, and people were stunned and didn't sell it to me, alas." Secretary Xu Fu then took out a white note from his pocket and said: "Second brother, you usually have the opportunity to have a drink, and you haven't forgotten me that time, how can I not remember?" Well, this is ten catties of wheat relief food, wait for noon you go to Xu Geng to keep the weighing, so that you can make up for your sister-in-law", Long Xin listened, tears rolled in his eyes excitedly, choked up: "This is really, this is really ......" Secretary Xu Fu said: "Don't say it, don't tell others about the relief grain, I'm leaving, there will be more people who will send hundreds of meals in a while, and I will have a big opinion when I know it, and I will go." With that, he walked out of the house. Long Xin hurriedly chased him out and whispered: "Brother Secretary, in a few days, I will go to the river to touch a fish, and our brothers will drink two more taels?" Secretary Xu Fu smiled and said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say" and left with a haha.

Immediately afterwards, I kept walking into three or two village women, usually walking close to holding a bowl or half a bowl of white flour or millet, walking a little farther with a bowl of thick boiled rice, this year, food is in short supply, and it is good for the people to squeeze out this point of stored grain.

Long Xin stood at the door and kept greeting, "Sister-in-law, you are here, thank you" "Brother and sister, you are here too, thank you" "Grandma Li, alas, why are you here too, thank you very much" "Little Wuzi, hehe, you are also here to deliver a small meal, come into the house"...... Until almost noon, the old and young masters and ladies of the whole village basically came to each family. Long Xin saw that it was almost over, so he hurriedly put a bag in his arms and went to the village warehouse to keep Xu Geng's house. In these years, there is such a good thing, but you have to do it quickly, after this village, there will be no such shop.

It was after noon, Long Xincai hurriedly came back with a small half-loan of grain, and as soon as he entered the house, the mother on the kang propped herself up and asked with concern: "His father, why did he go for so long?" Long Xin said: "Xu Geng's family has guests, but he didn't dare to say it, and he waited until the guests left to weigh the wheat, did the children eat it?" "The children are hungry, so I'm waiting for you," the woman said. Long Xin said to the children: "Go eat quickly, eat slowly, don't hold on." The three children squeezed together to eat in the inner room.

In the evening, the child's uncle also came, and also carried five or six catties of millet into the house, sat on the edge of the kang and asked: "Sister, I heard the blacksmith in your village say that the child was born?" "Uncle, come on, why do you bring so much millet?" Your family is not rich," the child's uncle said: "I am a child of martyrs, and the government takes care of some of them, anyway, they are better than your family, don't talk about this, boy?" Girl? Didn't have a name, did you? The mother answered: "Boy, where is the time to name it, don't you just wait for your talented uncle, uncle, think about it, what should you name the child?" The child's uncle asked, "When was the child born?" The mother said: "I really want to think about the time when the sun just came out", his uncle pondered: "The sun has just risen, it is the life of fire, today it is gold, it is the red fire phase, it is called Longdan, right?" "Dragon Signal" Dragon Egg? What does it mean? Uncle hurriedly said: "Brother-in-law, it's Long Dan, not Long Dan" Long Xin said haha: "Isn't it just a name, Long Dan is Long Dan, although the current days are harder, maybe this child can bring good luck, and our old Long family can get through."