"Isn't there only fifty dollars left at home? How can you buy so many sweet potatoes? I heard Lao Zhang say that the price of sweet potatoes on the black market has risen to one or two! ”

Wang Yaobang asked with some surprise.

"Let me tell you, that's when I met a kind-hearted person, who sold five cents a catty, and it was the grandma I bought rice last time, do you remember?

The one for a piece of five pounds of rice!

It's a pity that the grandma said that this year's harvest may not be very good, and she won't sell grain in the future, but fortunately, I have hoarded a hundred catties, and I want to save a little to eat, which should be enough for our family to eat for two months! ”

Zhang Mei smiled smugly.

As the person in charge of the household, it is naturally her credit to be able to buy good and cheap things.

"Wait a minute, Mom, the old grandmother said that she won't sell food in the future, so when you buy it this time, you shouldn't have looked very carefully!

I heard a colleague of mine say that there are people who specialize in selling things cheaply to earn trust, and then finally selling inferior ones again, and the sweet potatoes you buy should not only be good for the top sweet potatoes, right?

It doesn't matter if it's a sweet potato or not!

No, I'll have to check it out! ”

Wang Feng has always felt that there is no good thing in this world that pie falls from the sky, and at this time, she heard her mother say that this is the last time she will sell, so she can't help but be vigilant, and she can't take care of eating, so she has to go to the warehouse to check the quality of sweet potatoes.

Zhang Mei's face was also pale when she said it, because everyone was crazy to buy it just now, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to rob others, so she paid the money, carrying a hundred catties of sweet potatoes and a dozen catties of rice, and came back in a hurry, not caring about it at all.

Of course, out of trust in the grandmother, she didn't think it would be fake at the time.

Now that I'm talking about it by my daughter, I'm a little panicked.

also hurriedly got up and went over, and no one else on the side could still eat, and they all put down their dishes and chopsticks and went to the room where the food was placed.

When I entered the house, I saw Wang Fengzheng pouring the pile of sweet potatoes out of the bag, looked through them carefully for a while, and muttered in his mouth:

"How so? Why do sweet potatoes look good, shouldn't they, how can there be such a stupid person in the world? It shouldn't be!

How can it not be a liar! ”

Seeing her like this, the angry Zhang Mei slapped the back of her head vigorously and scolded:

"You dead girl, what did you say about other people's grandmother's good intentions, and other people's grandmother is not a liar in your mouth?

Hurry up and get out of here, don't eat dinner tonight, give me a drink of the northwest wind!" ”

Looking at the whole sweet potato, Zhang Mei couldn't help but feel a little guilty in her heart, feeling guilty that she would think of that grandma just now.

It's so undeserved.

……

Speaking of arbor, after arbor returned to the village, he felt that he couldn't just do it, let alone watch the people in the village starve to death, so after thinking for a while, he hurried to the old village chief's house.

I'm going to discuss something with the old village chief.

"Is Fuhua at home?"

When he arrived at the place, Qiao Mu knocked on the door and asked loudly, Zhang Fuhua and her son are the same generation, so it is naturally no problem to call Fuhua.

"Eh, why are you here, ma'am?

Come in and sit down, what's the matter? ”

At this time, the sky was already dark, Zhang Fuhua was naturally at home, and after coming out and seeing Qiao Mu, he immediately opened the door and welcomed Qiao Mu in, and asked.

"Fuhua, I have something I want to tell you secretly, can we go to the warehouse and talk about it."

If Qiao Mu is going to talk about it later, it can be regarded as digging the corner of socialism and digging the wool of socialism, so naturally he has to find a hidden corner to say, how can he talk openly.

Although Qiao Fuhua felt a little strange, he didn't refuse, turned around and said hello, and went to the warehouse not far away with Qiao Mu.

When he arrived at the place, Qiao Mu said:

"Fuhua, I went to the county seat again today, and the food supply in the county has been reduced again, and many families have to go to the black market to buy high-priced grain to barely survive, and our village has not much food!

Looking at the weather, do you think this year's grain production can be high? If it rains a few times after a while, our village may still have some harvest, but if it doesn't rain, it will be hanging! ”

"Wife, let me tell you the truth, if the grain in the village is divided equally, each person will not be able to share five catties, or coarse grain, and the canteen is almost unable to hold on, and we don't know what to do!

This season's grain is really hanging!

What are your thoughts? ”

Qiao Fuhua also said with a sad face.

The villagers in the village have always thought that the things in the canteen are too thin, but they, the village cadres, look at the little grain in the granary every day, and they can't sleep even more, for fear that one day they will not be able to take out a little food in the canteen.

"I want to go to the mountains and farm.

Now the weather is okay, go to the mountains should be able to replant another season of sweet potatoes, if this season the village grain can not be harvested, or the amount of harvest is very small, the grain tax levied above is still the same as before, the sweet potatoes can save lives! ”

Qiao Mu looked at Qiao Fuhua's frightened look, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry!

I know it's not good to do this, but don't forget how many people starved to death in our village in the fourth or second year, when the time comes, let us old people go to the mountains to plant sweet potatoes, if it really doesn't work, then I'll go alone, if I accidentally report it to others, then say that I did it, it's all my idea!

I'm the only one to swim through the streets.

It will definitely not involve the village! ”

"Lady's ...... Woohoo......"

Qiao Fuhua was already crying at this time.

"Wife, I can't let you come here, you are so old, I will let the village ...... when I go back"

"Don't, don't, we're just not scared when we're older, and we don't have a few years to live anyway.

As long as you can live, we can rest assured even if we die, originally, I wanted to secretly plant on the mountain, but you see, now everyone runs into the mountains every day, I am worried that they will be hungry one day, and they can't wait for the sweet potatoes I planted to mature and dig and eat, so I came to tell you, I hope you can help me hide and hide, just know what to do. ”

Qiao Mu knew that Qiao Fuhua might want the people in the village to help together, and wanted to take the road of not blaming the public, but if so many people went up the mountain to plant together, the movement was too big, it was better for her to plant quietly alone, not to mention where the sweet potato seedlings of so many people came from, and how did she secretly smuggle the sweet potato seedlings out of the penguin farm.

"Okay, but I, the old village chief, don't do much for you on weekdays, so this time I'll go out and plant sweet potatoes with you!

Don't refuse this time, I'm old anyway, I don't have many years to live, so I should be considered contributing to the village!

By the way, do you have sweet potato seedlings? ”

Qiao Fuhua only then remembered that sweet potato chips and sweet potato seedlings are still needed to grow sweet potatoes, at this time, didn't everyone hand over the grain to the canteen warehouse, where to find sweet potato seedlings?