The white hand knows that firewood is needed to survive the winter.

The firewood of the people in the water towns, in addition to dry straw, is commercial coal, or go to the market to buy some firewood.

If you raise pigs, dry straw will be used to pad the pig pen, and dry straw will not be enough at all.

Coal is a good thing, and it has to be sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives, but it is based on tickets, and the Bai family has divided 35 catties of coal tickets, five catties per person, which is also a drop in the bucket.

When I went to the market to buy firewood, I was reluctant to do it with my own hands, and I didn't spend this money if I didn't spend it.

With white hands and brains, thinking of a few trees in the front yard and the small green bamboo forest, he couldn't take this step easily. This is the most valuable thing in the house at the moment, and it cannot be touched unless it is absolutely necessary.

Looking at a few trees in the yard, the white hand had an inspiration and came up with a "clever plan".

The next day, he got up early with his white hands, put a firewood knife in his waist, carried a hoe on his shoulder, stepped on the thin frost, covered with dew, and walked along the riverbank towards the pointed spout through the morning mist.

Before the sun went up, the fish belly in the east was white, and it began to dilute the fog.

The spout is surrounded by water on three sides, like a peninsula, and the winter is the dry season, the riverbed is exposed, and the mud bank is bare, which is really not a good place to grow rice.

Fortunately, there are many mulberry, willow, locust and bitter jujube trees planted along the river, which can stabilize the river embankment and prevent soil erosion.

Although I didn't eat breakfast, my hands were good at work, and I had strength.

Put down the hoe, spit and spit on it, rub your hands together, take out the wood knife, and get busy with your white hands.

For more than two hours, more than 30 big and small trees were all "repaired" by white hands.

However, all the trees were cut down without falling, and at first glance, they were all fine.

Then it was to work with a hoe, and as soon as the field was divided, a new ridge was to be made on the dividing line.

This is a tiring work, three acres of land into a piece, to cut the old ridge into pieces, and then move to the position of the new ridge to build a good foundation.

The Xintian ridge is about 40 meters long, with three pieces of one meter, each piece of forty or fifty catties, a total of more than 120 pieces.

From the old ridge to the new ridge, there are 50 meters back and forth, the white hand did not eat breakfast, and the tree has been cut for two hours, it is already too tired to work, this work of moving the ridge, after a few strokes, can not bear.

Holding a hoe and cutting five or six meters of the old ridge, he collapsed on the edge of the ridge with his white hands, panting for breath at the sun in the sky.

"Big brother."

The two younger brothers and two sisters both appeared in the field, the second brother was still carrying a porcelain kettle, and the eldest sister was carrying a small bamboo basket.

"What are you doing here? Why don't you go to school? ”

The second brother smiled: "Big brother, you are tired and stupid, today is Sunday." ”

The white hand snorted.

The third brother said, "Big brother, Mom asked us to help you work." ”

The eldest sister said, "Big brother, you eat first." ”

There were rice balls in the small bamboo basket, which were still hot, so I took them with my white hands, took them in two bites, devoured them, and ate five in a row.

The third brother shouted, "Big brother, you save some food, this is lunch for all of us." ”

With a smile on his white hands, he put down the bamboo basket, took the kettle, and drank violently.

If there is not enough food, water will make up, this is a consistent way to fill your stomach with white hands.

After eating and drinking, he got up with his white hands, demonstrated it himself, and then ordered his younger siblings to start working.

But the younger brothers and sisters have little strength and can't move forty or fifty pounds of mud.

The white hand had no choice but to swing the hoe and divide the mud that had been cut in half again.

The third brother, the eldest sister and the younger sister all worked happily, because the eldest brother made a temporary incentive measure, and after today's work was completed, each person was paid a dime and a half cent.

Pulling the second brother aside with his white hands, he asked in a low voice, "You kid, what did you do last night?" ”

"Hehe...... the second brother only laughed and didn't say anything, laughing evilly.

punched the second brother with his white hand, ruthless and heavy, "Did you play with money?" ”

"Wronged, big brother, I promise it's definitely not."

The second brother was not afraid of pain, but continued to laugh evilly.

The palm of the white hand moved, "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" ”

"Big brother, that's right. Chen Xiaoxuan said that Chen Laosan had the idea of fucking and climbed over the wall of his house. He and his mom were scared and told me to help him. By the way, he also gave me money, a dime a night. But last night, until the second half of the night, Chen Laosan didn't show up, causing me and Xiaozhuan to freeze outside for most of the night. ”

It turned out to be this matter, and he grinned with his white hands.

Chen Laosan, this guy, is a bit of that, others steal chickens and dogs, he loves to mess with flowers.

Chen Xiaoshui is the second brother's classmate and best friend, his mother is a widow, known as Widow Chen, she is beautiful, and she is recognized as a beauty in several surrounding villages.

"Big brother, I'm here to eliminate harm for the people."

"Hehe, work, work."

"Big brother, it's okay, I'll go back tonight."

"You kid, it's just a dime."

"A dime a night, big brother, this money is easy to earn."

It's also true, it's also a way to make money, and besides, Widow Chen has money, and she doesn't earn it for nothing.

The white hand moved, "Second brother, why don't you help you?" ”

"Big brother, what you said is true?" Bai Dang almost thought he had misheard.

There are few people in the village who take care of the eldest brother, and the eldest brother never visits the door, let alone meddles in things, and now the sun is coming up from the west.

"Of course it's true, when it comes to making money, I never joke about your big brother."

Bai Dang was overjoyed, patted his leg and said, "It's decided." Big brother, I'll go back to Xiao Bolt and make sure he raises his hands to welcome. ”

White-handed can fight and dare to fight, he will also rectify people, and he will secretly rectify people.

The brothers were concentric, and the five brothers and sisters worked all day and completed the task preset by their hands.

An old ridge is gone, a new ridge is born, with the new ridge as the boundary, the three acres of paddy field with a sharp spout is the starting point of the Bai family's poverty alleviation and prosperity.

After dinner, it was already dark, and there was still nothing to do for the white hands.

With a firewood knife and a straw knife in his white hands, he used the wooden boat in the team to carry the two brothers and sisters, and rocked the boat to the pointed spout.

When the boat docks, he retracts the oars with his white hands, jumps ashore, and secures the wooden boat first.

The trees on the riverbank, cut down by white hands in the morning, have long been crumbling after a day of wind and sun.

The white hand first came to the bitter jujube tree, took a knife and slashed three or five times, and the bitter jujube tree fell in response.

The second brother admired it so much, "Big brother, our family has firewood for the winter." ”

"Work hard, work hard." The white hand urged: "Second brother, you take a straw knife and are responsible for chopping branches." You guys, whoever can move first, move it to the ship. ”

The younger siblings cheered and took action.

In the night, the wooden boat returned with a full load.

When I got home, I had to carry a boatload of trunks and branches ashore and hide them in the backyard.

The three little ones were so tired that they couldn't do it, so they went back to the room long ago and fell asleep.

Only the second brother Bai Dang, and there are still big things, he promised to help Chen Xiaoshui protect his mother.

The main reason is that the eldest brother is out of the horse, which makes Bai Dang more energetic, and he has long forgotten what it is like to be tired.

If you have promised to do so with your white hand, of course you want to go, but you need to get Chen Xiaoshuan's consent first.