The autumn weather is exceptionally clear, and the white clouds in various shapes float lightly with the breeze, gently skimming the blue sky, silently rowing into the distant sky.

Early in the morning, Liu Qiaoxian dressed up cleanly, neatly and neatly, packed up and prepared to go out.

Peach Blossom hurriedly asked, "Mother, what are you doing here?" ”

Liu Qiaoxian smiled and said: "The army and the naughty went again, you watched your father-in-law at home, I went to the city once, and I will come back in a while,"

Peach Blossom knows that the mother-in-law said "for a while" I am afraid that most of the day will pass, because Hetaotun is more than five miles away from the city, and it is more than ten miles away from one to come back.

So Peach Blossom said, "Mother, after settling my father, I'll ride you there, or you'll be too tired to walk." ”

"No, you just need to take care of your home." The mother-in-law stepped out of the door.

Peach Blossom thought in her heart, her mother-in-law has been in and out of the mystery recently, what is she busy with?

After her mother-in-law left, Peach Blossom went into the house and said to her father-in-law: "Dad, I am washing clothes in the courtyard, and you have something to call me." ”

"Well, whatever you want." The father-in-law replied.

Peach Blossom washed half of her clothes, and she heard her father-in-law in the back room call her: "Peach Blossom, pour me saliva and drink." ”

Peach Blossom agreed, wiped her hands on her apron, poured a bowl of water and handed it to her father-in-law. She waited for her father-in-law to drink water, and thought: What if her father-in-law relieves himself in a while? So she said to her father-in-law, "After you finish drinking the water, put the bowl on the kang, and I will go out for a while, and I will clean up when I come back later." ”

Liu Laocun promised: "You go, don't be too late." ”

"No, I know." The peach blossom cart went out of the gate, and she wanted to go to the field to find the army.

But she rode her bicycle around the field for a long time, and never saw the shadow of the army.

She was afraid that her father-in-law would be in a hurry, so she didn't dare to delay the time, so she returned home in a hurry. But as soon as she entered the door, she saw the army and the mischievous children already sitting and talking at the door of the house.

She put away her bicycle and asked, "Where did you go to divide the land?" I looked for you around, but you went home first. ”

Dajun said: "The land has been divided, our land and the naughty brother's land are next to each other, and the naughty brother said that when our family is too busy, it is good to help by the way, and it is easy to manage." ”

Peach Blossom asked lukewarmly, "Really?" Is it for convenience? ”

There was nothing wrong with the army listening to these words, but in Liu Haitao's ears, Peach Blossom asked like this, which was something in the words, with a hint of edge.

Peach Blossom entered the house and asked her father-in-law in the inner room, "Dad, is there anything wrong with you?" Do you still drink water? I'm going to clean up the dishes. ”

In fact, this is her greeting to her father-in-law, and at the same time, it has a hint: I'm coming in. So as not to encounter embarrassing situations.

Peach Blossom took the bowl on the kang, and when she saw her father-in-law's half-lying body, she asked, "Why did Dad move?" Will the fracture be moved? ”

"Just now, the army and the naughty child helped me untie my hands, it's okay, I want to sit like this for a while." Liu Laocun frowned and sighed and said: "Alas, I heard that I am going to divide the land again, and I really don't feel good in my heart, I'm afraid that I will go back like this after practicing socialism for many years?" ”

When Peach Blossom heard this, she suddenly felt very fresh or curious, she really didn't expect that her father-in-law, who had always been quiet and honest, would actually care about the major events of national policy today. Peach Blossom was in a mood and hurriedly said to her father-in-law: "Dad, can you tell me about dividing the fields into households?" ”

The army and the mischievous child heard Peach Blossom and Daddy talking, and also came into the house and sat aside.

Liu Laocun looked at them, sighed again and said: "Alas, I didn't say that it is not possible to divide the field into households, this single work has also been through in the past, speaking of which I am also a person who has come over, at that time I was young and strong, planting two or three acres of land is not a problem, just saying that this twisted wheel watering the ground, a day can not water eight or seven acres, unlike now, with a diesel engine water pump, three or five acres of land can be easily watered in a day, however, pulling the machine to install the pump also needs manpower. In the future, the work in the field, in addition to watering and changing the furrow, such as sowing seeds, plowing the land, waving a sickle and pickaxe during harvesting, mango seeds, three summers or something, which time is less employed, which time is inseparable from young and strong labor, but what about those old, weak, sick and disabled people? Who can help them with these tasks? ”

Liu Laocun's words made the three young people in front of him very surprised, especially the army, he and Peach Blossom and Naughty They glanced at each other, and he praised and said: "Ouch, hey, my father, these words are not like what you said, why are you suddenly worried about the country and the people?" I'm about to become the leader of the country, hahaha......"

The army laughed together. Liu Laocun kept a straight face and said seriously: "What are you laughing at? When I was first liberated, I became a basic militia at the age of sixteen, and at that time I was still an armed militia with real knives and guns; During the three~face~red~ flag, when I joined the people~commune~society, I also worked as an activist in the county. ”

"Really?" Peach Blossom smiled and asked, "Dad, what do you think of this policy now?" ”

Liu Laocun moved his body, and he said thoughtfully: "At the moment, I don't dare to talk nonsense about this policy, I have heard a lot on the radio." It sounds appealing and reasonable to say that some people will be rich first, but ......"

"But what?" Peach Blossom asked.

"I'm saying that I can't understand it for the time being, and I can't understand the policies of the above, so that some people will become rich? Just look at what kind of people get rich first? How did the orphans, widows, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled who I just mentioned become rich? In my opinion, in the future, these people will only suffer from poverty. I'll tell you a story first, and you can listen to it. Liu Laocun straightened up and said: "When we were just liberated, when our village was engaged in 'land reform', we paid attention to 'the cultivator has his land', the policy was good, and everyone supported the party's leadership. However, the land has been allocated, but how can the households without labor plant it? Sun Liqiang's mother, just because the man was not at home and the children were very young, she pushed the cart home alone to push the wheat, and did not go up when she went uphill, and was hit on the head by the car in the ditch with the car, and people found that she was dead. ”

Peach Blossom widened her eyes and asked, "Which Sun Liqiang?" ”

Liu Laocun said: "It's our grandson who is the family." ”

"What? Shall we be in the right door? Peach Blossom asked puzzledly: "Isn't Sun Liqiang's mother alive and well?" How......? ”

"This is his stepmother, his cousin." Liu Laocun said: "When Sun Liqiang and his biological mother died, the three of their brothers and sisters were still very young, and his aunt was afraid that they would be angry again if they had a stepmother, so she became their stepmother, and later his stepmother also had a son and a daughter, but the mothers and brothers and sisters were quite harmonious, and people who didn't know the inside story couldn't see that they were two mothers, and they couldn't tell the queen. ”

Peach Blossom praised and said: "It's really like this, Aunt Sun is a good person, she treats people warmly, I often go to her house to play with her second daughter Sun Lijuan, so many days, I have always thought that she and her brothers and sisters are biological." Dad or not, I really don't know that Sun Lijuan has a mother. ”

"Yes, I knew about this earlier, Liqiang's mother was killed by her own cart." Liu Haitao said kindly.

Dajun asked: "I heard that Sun Lijuan is divorced?" Why do you suddenly want to go back to your parents' house now? ”

Peach Blossom replied: "She and her husband fought for a long time over the child, and finally the court awarded the child to Lijuan, so she took her son home to live." ”

Hearing about Sun Lijuan, Dajun felt very uncomfortable, he and Sun Lijuan were playmates when they were children, and it can be said that they were "childhood sweethearts" again, although she was three years older than him. Dajun thought that the things they had done in their childhood were simply unbearable, and he was most afraid and reluctant to mention the things he and her childhood about. So Dajun hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "Even if her mother was stoned to death, it can't be said to be the fault of complaining about the country's policies." ”

"I mean, this is what you don't have to work for." Liu Laocun glared at him and said: "Later, people joined the people's commune, everyone helped each other, at that time, the team paid attention to 'the capable people work more, not evenly distributed, but distributed according to work', who works more, who shares things and dividends more, very fair, very good, until now those orphans and widows, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled households and people, the village and the production team have taken care of them, so everyone also has food." ”

The army said: "Isn't this the 'big pot of rice' that is being criticized now?" ”

"This big pot of rice was developed later, and it was called a 'mutual aid group' at first." Liu Laocun waved his hand and said: "However, some people think that the big pot of rice is not good, but it also has great benefits, and everyone is equal." ”

Peach Blossom agreed: "If you want to be rich, everyone will be rich together, and if you want the poor, everyone will be poor together, and there is not much polarization."

The army said again: "This is called egalitarianism, great collectivism, and your kind of thinking can't keep up with the form." ”

"I don't want to hear that, you boy. What's wrong with the collective? They all take care of each other. Liu Laocun sighed deeply and said: "Alas, let's take our family as an example, I and the army seem to be male laborers, but the army is sick, and I usually walk breathlessly, and the physical work in the fields is even worse, my leg is broken, if I can't get rid of the sequelae in the future, it's okay, if it falls, what can I do with this limp?" Peach Blossom's body bones are quite thin, it's okay to do some light work, once she encounters heavy work, can she support it? Since your mother has been with me until now, I have never let her work in the field in my life, and I am getting old...... Alas, what can be done? ”

Listening to Liu Laocun's words, the three young people all fell into deep thought, especially the peach blossom and the army, which was the main problem they had to face no matter what, and they couldn't help but worry about their future life and production. The first question before them is, who will do all this work in a few acres of land?

At this time, Liu Haitao looked at the family, and he said: "I don't think it's a big deal, we are exactly one acre and three points of land per person, and the peach blossom's hukou hasn't come yet, so I haven't been divided into the land, there are uncles and aunts and the army, plus I have only a little more than four acres in total, this little bit of land is not a big deal, I can do it alone, I don't need to worry." ”

Liu Haitao's words will certainly make people happy, but Liu Laocun's heart always feels that there is no decline. He looked at the window, and the sun was shining down, which was a sign that the time of noon had come. But my wife hasn't come back yet, I don't know what she's up to?