When several adults went to Nanyiqu, they saw that Yu Songyuan and Chen Lan were methodically dragging the water, looking like a dragon and a tiger. When I saw the four adults coming, I didn't stop. Yu Xinmin took off his clothes and went into the water, and said, "You have dinner, and I will do it with your Uncle Zhu." Yu Xinhe also went into the water, added another big bucket, and started fighting with Teacher Chen.

The four brothers took turns to eat, and the spicy fish and corn flour cakes that were baked in Yueyue were salty and spicy, so fragrant that the three of them were sweating profusely. Shu Tong suddenly silently shed tears, and tears fell down.

The three of them were stunned, and Yu Songyuan understood at once, and his heart was sad. He threw down the cake, hugged Shu Tong's head and said, "Good brother, my eldest and youngest master also treat you as a son, you are not alone." We are all your good brothers, be strong and let them rest assured in heaven too! ”

Shu Tong cried with a whimper, heartbroken, "Grandpa and Dad were wronged, and when they raided the house, they said that we used a newspaper with XXX to wipe our butts in the toilet. Grandma and Mom are both big intellectuals, how is this possible? ”

Yu Songyuan was speechless, so he had to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Shu Tong cried and said, "Brother, do you know, after my grandfather and father were executed, someone wanted to occupy my mother. Mom is very strong, and she would rather die than obey, so our family was sent down......"

Chen Lan and Songquan also put down the cake in their hands and cried with him, and it took a long time for Shu Tong's emotions to calm down.

After eating, they had to change four adults. Yu Xinhe said, "Replace your Uncle Zhu and Master, and the four of you will change the bucket." This vat is the four of us grown-ups. ”

Shu Tong and Songquan took the keg and began to fight. There are two barrels, one large and one small, and the shift changes every twenty minutes, which is obviously faster. Inside the hut, a bonfire is kept intact and water is always boiling. Those who did not have a turn rested around the fire in the straw hut.

In doing so, the efficiency has been significantly improved. By the time dawn was approaching, the second segment began to see fish.

Yu Xinhe let the torch be lit, and Yu Songyuan said: "Big, master, are you afraid that people won't know?" What should I do if everyone comes to grab so many fish? ”

Yu Xinmin scoffed, "Looking at the surrounding counties, the people who can rob you and your master are not born yet?" Our character is not so good, and no one will come to rob you and me of the fish. ”

"My lord, what are we afraid of? However, there were so many fish piled up on the side before, and I was scared, but I was really afraid that someone would come to grab them at night. Shu Tong said.

Yu Xinhe said with a smile: "You haven't thought about it, these dozen sections may be worth 1,800 catties, if you don't sell a batch, you can't eat it all, how can you let everyone buy fish?" ”

"I see, I want to let everyone know on purpose, right?" Yu Songyuan Bingxue was smart, and he was able to penetrate it at one point, so he immediately took his four brothers and started it, and soon set up more than a dozen torches with reeds for backup.

Yu Songyuan lit a few torches, next to the planning site, in the early hours of the morning, the lights began to start fishing, and by dawn, sure enough, dozens of villagers from the surrounding villages came to watch.

Seeing the big fish jumping in the big pot, many people regretted their death. After a whole day from this, weishenme didn't find that there were so many fish here, weishenme didn't come one step earlier?

Yu Yueyue, Wang Feng, and Qiaoyun brought breakfast and brought the scales.

Everyone took turns to eat in the heat, just finished eating, and soon the second segment started fishing, Yu Yueyue and Wang Feng also wore rain boots to go into the water to help, five large basins, soon piled up, I am afraid that there will be one hundred and twenty or thirty catties.

At this time, there were two or three hundred onlookers, and by the afternoon, half of the water in the third section had been released, and many villagers began to buy fish, and by the time it was dark, they sold sixty or seventy catties.

Qiaoyun was in charge of collecting the money, and at night in the grass hut, he was taken aback, forty-seven yuan and two cents. "God, that's all there is to do, and it's enough to make a new dress." Qiaoyun sighed.

Songquan saw that she was happy, so he deliberately poured cold water, "You're embarrassed, didn't you follow us to take advantage?" ”

Qiao Yun raised his hand and slapped him with a big face, stretched out his hand and twisted his ears after the beating, and twisted it vigorously, "Pig head, do you dare to say it again, please take advantage of whom, make it clear?" ”

"Dead girl, you're really beaten, good, good, don't screw it, don't screw it, you can't hear it if I'm joking! Pig brains. ”

A few adults watched them play, and they were all happy, and they didn't care about them. You can't stop at night, you have to work on a shaft. When Yu Yueyue and Wang Fenglin went back, they said that they would bring them food at night. Yu Xinhe said, "Night dinner, you can do it, don't send it, I'll just let them go back and get it." ”

Yu Xinmin said, "Lao Chen is not in good health, so he can just go back and rest, and help us deliver hot soup at night." "Teacher Chen naturally didn't do it.

By dawn the next day, the third segment was out again. The third segment is about 1450 pounds. In the morning, the director of the commune's supply and marketing cooperatives came and saw many villagers buying fish, so he hurriedly said: "Boss Yu, don't sell it, don't sell it." It's going to be the New Year soon, it's so fresh, I'll take it all at a high price, and I will collect it all! ”

Of course, the villagers who came to buy fish next to them stopped doing it, and said: "This is not suitable, you can take it, and let us buy it." Your commune celebrates the New Year, and we ordinary people will not be able to celebrate the New Year. ”

Zhou Jianguo and Zhou Kun also came, and Zhou Jianguo said to Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin, "Boss Yu, Captain Yu, after the battle, don't forget to clean up all the weirs." ”

Yu Xinmin said, "Secretary, don't worry. The little beard is playing, we will help, zuihou must be all picked. ”

When Zhou Jianguo left, he brought four or five big red fish, but he only kept accounts and did not pay. It turned out that the largest social enterprise in the county, Mohs Road Transport Company (referred to as Mohs Logistics Company), was going to set up a branch in our commune, and it was going to the brigade to inspect where it needed to be entertained.

Of course, the fish money of the brigade will not be in arrears, and it will be credited to the account of the production team at the end of the year.

After another eight or nine days, it was finally finished, and there were not many fish in the two segments of Zuihou, only fifty or sixty catties. After settling the accounts, a total of more than 1,500 catties were spent, and each family kept twenty or thirty catties for the New Year, and sold them for more than 560 yuan.

This is a great wealth for the villagers who are in the process of pre-spring famine. You must know that in that year, an ordinary farmer, a family spent a year of hard work, and they raised a pig, which was sold for 120 or 30 yuan at most. The big deal done by the four Yu brothers is equivalent to sending a big fat pig to each family, which is not trivial!

After this arduous battle, the five little ones were so tired that they lost a lot of weight, and they didn't want to move when they lay down on the bed. Yu Yueyue and Wang Feng escorted the five of them to the bathhouse on the street, took a clean and thorough bath, and happily celebrated the New Year. After coming back, the four of them slept in Yueyue's house for a whole day and a night before they recovered.

Qiaoyun also came to them and threatened, "In the future, such a good thing is not allowed to fall on me, otherwise I will expose your old bottom and see that the second master will not pick your skin." A few people could only honestly agree.

Originally, the spring after the Chinese New Year was the most difficult famine year for the four families every year, and there was definitely not enough food to eat. This money came at the right time and came in handy, allowing several families to survive the spring famine.

In the early seventies, there were many snowstorms in northern Jiangsu in winter.

Once it snows heavily, Yu Songyuan and his best friend, no matter who they sleep in, will consciously get up early without having to be spanked and screamed by their mothers or aunts. Several teenagers will consciously carry brooms and spontaneously participate in the "four types of elements" street sweeping team, replacing the frail professor grandmother and the sick teacher Chen to participate in voluntary labor.

The professor and teacher Chen are not allowed to participate in the "four types of elements" snow clearing, which is the permission of Zhou Kun, the political captain of the sixth squad, and Zhou Jianguo, the secretary of the brigade. But this "concession" is not a charity or a favor, but a young man Yu Songyuan and his brothers with a small fist.

Zhou Kun is the family of Zhou Jianguo, the secretary of the brigade, and he is also a close confidant, so he has nothing to fear. When he was younger, he was known as a bastard scoundrel. If it weren't for Yu Songyuan and a few other naughty boys, as well as the clever partiality of Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin, Zhou Kun would not have shown the slightest kindness to the "four types of elements".

The winter of that year was unusually cold, and it snowed so hard that the snow was as high as an adult's buttocks. The snow closed the door, and the sky and the earth were white. Men and children warm themselves around the brazier, while women mend their clothes or "chew their tongues" in their parents' hair. But the "four types of elements" have to shovel the snow from the village roads to the side of the road every day under the supervision of the gun-carrying militia, and then carefully clean it up.

When the "four types of elements" were clearing the snow, Yu Songyuan often took the naughty children in the village to have a snowball fight frantically. The snow is as deep as adults' buttocks, and it is very inconvenient for adults to walk, but Yu Songyuan and his three little brothers are walking like flying on top of the thick snow, coming and going freely.

The professor contracted the wind chill, was knocked down by the cold, and was bedridden for several days. Teacher Chen's cough also worsened, and sometimes he could even cough up clumps of blood, which scared Wang Feng into crying several times. Professors, in particular, seem to have had a chance to stay this winter.

At that time, rural medical care was fully covered, but the level of medical care was generally very low. When a farmer is sick, he usually just goes to the barefoot doctor in the brigade to see him, hang up the hanging bottle, and give injections. If you are seriously ill, you can go to the township or county hospital to see it, but if you are seriously ill, few can afford it. Therefore, once you get seriously ill, you can basically wait for death at home.

The professor and Mr. Chen were both old and sick, and Yu Xinmin invited the barefoot doctor to hang water, give injections, and take medicine. That night, the north wind was howling outside, and the brazier was lit indoors, but the professor had a high fever and shivered with cold, and he had been in a coma for three days in a row.

Yu Yueyue and Shu were orphans and widows, and they were out of proportion for a while. Yu Xinmin invited the barefoot doctor of the brigade again, and hung the saline for three days, but the fever did not subside. For five or six days, there was no water, and the person remained unconscious. Later, the doctor said that he had tried his best, but there was really no way, or go to the county hospital, or prepare for the future.

On this cold day, the ice and snow closed the door, and the professor would definitely not be able to bear the toss back and forth of the hospital.

Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin have been taking turns to check the pulse, observe, and treat the professor and Mr. Chen, and neither of his brothers agrees to go to the hospital. Yu Yueyue had completely lost her mind, She Wenfang, She Wenxiu, and Wang Feng were already in tears, secretly preparing a shroud for the professor.

The barefoot doctor left with apologies, but the brothers Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin did not give up. After they took turns to take the pulse carefully, the two brothers discussed it carefully, and Yu Xinhe wrote a prescription for the professor. At the same time, he also gave Mr. Chen a special pulse and wrote a prescription.

Heavy snow has blocked the road and the bus has stopped. Yu Xinmin walked more than ten kilometers on a snowy night, personally went to the county seat to knock on the door of the pharmacy to grab medicine, and rushed back in the snow before the early morning. The two families boiled medicine overnight, and began to treat Professor and Teacher Chen with Chinese medicine before dawn.