For dinner, the nursing team was arranged to eat separately in an open field, and the standard of food was the same as in the previous cooperative days. In the afternoon, the butcher who rushed from the south of the city to drive the pigs was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Since the dissolution of the cooperative, his pig business has lost by half, and the recent civil disaster, the people in the city are afraid to buy meat, for fear that the chaos will enter the city The price of grain will rise sharply, so all the money for buying meat is taken to store grain.

Now Zhao Dongjia in Xiaozhishan has placed an order again, and there will be four big fat pigs every day in the future, which can make Zhang Butcher happy.

Xu Sande was responsible for receiving the pigs, and Aunt Xu followed the side.

"Mother, what are you doing here, I promised you not to join the nursing team, what else do you want?"

Aunt Xu said: "Tell me, why didn't Brother Xiang let us cook this time?" ”

Xu Sande: "You have to ask him yourself, how do you know if you ask me?" Mother, don't follow me, I'm still going to be busy. ”

"Stinky boy is in a hurry, the meal is almost a moment and a half, you tell your mother, Brother Xiang won't blame me for not letting you join the nursing team, so you didn't let me cook, right?"

"Mother, I really don't know! The water is pouring over there, and I've got to get the pigs over there, so don't you block it, okay?" ”

Aunt Xu blocked it: "If you don't make it clear to your mother today, don't think about going over here!" ”

Xu Sande said angrily: "What's the use of you stopping me, Brother Xiang will tell me to go shopping with Chen Hanlin, the manpower on the stove is arranged by him, he said, if you ask, go directly to him, if you don't ask, you will treat it as if you don't know." ”

"This Brother Xiang is really ...... Why are you still putting up a shelf at a young age, okay, okay, you go and get busy with yours, I'll talk to him. ”

Watching her son drive the pig to the lonely stove room, Aunt Xu didn't go to Zhao Xiang, but found Mrs. He: "Aunt He, why didn't your Uncle He arrange for you to cook, so you can get a salary, but now let those homeless people do it, isn't this robbing us of our jobs?" ”

A group of village women were gossiping around Po He, and when they heard Aunt Xu say this, they all echoed: "That's it, we are tired and tired, and now we don't need to kick us all out, and there is no benefit at all." ”

Po He's face was gloomy: "The old man of our family said it, Brother Xiang arranged it." "I didn't say much.

Aunt Xu said strangely: "What do you say about this Brother Xiang, we people who are more than 200 people know the food well, and we have never made a mistake......

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, hurry home and feed the pigs." He Po interrupted.

Aunt Xu said: "Why can't you say it, what do you say to feed the pigs?" At the beginning, I thought about the leftovers every day, paid the wages to buy two piglets to raise, and brought the leftovers of swill home every day to feed the pigs, you see which piglets are not crazy in those two months, according to that speed, it is estimated that the Lantern Festival can be slaughtered, but during this time, you see, the food of more than 1,000 people, I didn't expect that we people, those starving ghosts are really, every meal is eaten cleanly, and the rest are divided into those homeless people, I Baba ran a few times, stunned and couldn't get back a bucket of swill. This Brother Xiang is also a woman who can't cover her hands and feet in winter, and she is not a relative......"

"Enough!"

Aunt Xu was startled, and when she turned around, she saw He Defang angrily reprimanding herself: "What kind of person Brother Xiang is, don't you know in your heart?" ”

"Uncle He, we have been neighbors for decades and are not afraid to say it directly, his brother Xiang is not kind as the landlord owner, he kicked us out when he ran out, so that he called a cow to plough the field and went back to feed it, he didn't even say hello to someone else, this day it was cold to see it, my pigs eat cabbage every day, and they are losing fat every day, and they are making trouble these days, and they dare not let go out to eat vegetables on the river beach, I get up early every day to cut vegetables, and this old waist is going to be tired."

"Say hello to what? Why is he going to greet you? He pointed to the gossiping women: "You were all cooks, but he didn't ask you to help, so you don't know what to do?" ”

Xu Sanniang was still stiff-mouthed: "What can you do?" Uncle He, you said that he didn't invite us, how could he be reasonable? ”

He Defang sprayed fire on his head and said, "Mother-in-law with mouse eyes! Just cooking a meal and emptied the more than 1,000 catties of salt in the owner's house, and said here that the owner doesn't think about you, which of you dares to say that there are no 180 catties of salt hidden at home? Shame on you! When did he treat everyone badly, you just think that he has a lot of money and doesn't care, and he moves home when he sees anything that can be moved back, I warned you a long time ago, have you heard a word from me? ”

"Then he can't let someone else take our job without even saying hello, right?" Aunt Xu still feels very wronged.

He Defang sighed: "I know that it doesn't make sense with you, I tell you clearly, don't say it's the owner, just you unrepentant mothers-in-law, I don't dare to ask you to do any work in the future." The face of Wuda Village has been lost by a group of you girls! After saying that, he shook his hand and left.

"Aunt He, what's wrong with your Uncle He? What's the big deal about just taking the owner's salt? ”

A group of aunts nodded one after another: "That's it, isn't it just a little salt?" ”

Hei Niu happened to dismiss and come back to the house to pack his luggage, listened to some of it, and said with a black face: "Mother, I'll come back to pack my things, and our team will live together from today onwards." ”

He Po hurriedly followed up in the house: "You won't live at home in the future?" ”

"No, just live in a tent."

"What kind of tent to live in, the new house is built when you see it......"

"Mother, there are chaos people outside, so don't think about a new house yet. I left, and my dad came back to talk to him. ”

……

At dusk, in a wild forest where the stone peak of Xiaozhi Mountain had just been bulldozed by bulldozers, fifteen large military tents that had appeared earlier had been erected. Five in a row, divided into three rows. Thirteen of the tents were lined up with 15 bunk iron beds. The other two are juxtaposed together to form a huge canteen.

Between the barracks, a number of large iron pots were propped up with three-legged iron frames, and firewood was burning.

Several gas lamps hung on the roof of the cafeteria, illuminating the inside of the tent.

Zhao Xiang personally cooked for the more than 200 men who came first. Everyone has a hard-boiled egg, a two-inch square piece of pork belly, and a stir-fried greens on their plate. You can eat white rice in a big rice bucket and scoop up seaweed egg soup as you like, but there is one premise: no waste.

After everyone finished eating, they picked up their long knives and went out to replace their brothers who were on patrol. Each person has a stainless steel whistle on their chest, and in groups of ten they patrol along the outer river boundary, blowing the whistle as fast as they can if they spot an enemy.

Eight searchlights on the top of Xiaozhi Mountain shine directly on the ground in eight directions, illuminating the entire Xiaozhi Mountain as if it were daytime. Zhao Xiang is no longer low-key this time, and sometimes showing his teeth appropriately is the right way to get along.