Chapter 4 Sweetwater Village
"Isn't it handsome?" Grandpa Xu entered the courtyard door and shouted.
A black-faced man about forty or fifty years old greeted him: "Sixth uncle, come in and sit!" Why did the sixth uncle bring Xiao Yu'er too, is Xiao Yu'er better? Does your head still hurt? ”
The man warmly beckoned Grandpa Xu to sit down and drink water.
Grandpa Xu asked himself to call Uncle Jia, and he called obediently: "Uncle Jiajun, I'm much better, thank you Uncle Jiajun for caring about me!" ”
"Good!" Uncle Jia Junbo was a little embarrassed: "Uncle Six, you can teach Xiao Yu'er so well, sensible and smart, I can't look at the bandit dolls (naughty children) in my family!" ”
"The doll (boy) always has to be a little bit stronger, and the body grows stronger!" In front of outsiders, Grandpa Xu still has to remain modest, and he can't pull hatred: "Our little fish is not strong, and I can't remember the past when I kowtowed before, I plan to borrow an ox cart from the team tomorrow to go to the county hospital to take a look!" ”
"Okay, okay, then I have to open a letter of introduction for them to use that machine to take a look, don't delay the doll!" Xu Jiajun opened the drawer and took out a pen and paper and began to write, staring at him without blinking, watching him finish writing and stamping.
Xu Jiajun watched the little girl doll staring at her book carefully and carefully, so he asked, "Little Yu'er, do you know what Uncle wrote?" ”
"Know the bottom few words" Wan Huan replied with a serious face: "Well, 1,9,6,2,5,6"
"Haha, Xiao Yuer only knows numbers, and he doesn't know any of the other big characters!" Grandpa Xu laughed and said to Xu Jiajun.
"Sixth uncle, I remember that Xiao Yu'er will only turn four years old in the second half of the year! It's amazing," Xu Jiajun praised and lowered his head and asked, "What else will Xiao Yu'er do?" ”
"Uncle Jiajun, I can count from 1 to 100, and I can also add and subtract two digits!" The little fish replied crisply.
Xu Jiajun really came up with a few arithmetic problems for Duan Huan, and Duan Huan also answered obediently. To Xu Jiajun's surprise, the two-digit arithmetic is all right. It's not difficult to count, you can continue to count after memorizing, but arithmetic is a test of brain power after all, and she answered quickly, not stumbling at all, thinking that the question was simple for her.
Hey, in fact, I still feel a little ashamed to pretend to be a child and sell cuteness, but Grandpa Xu is happy, and he can be regarded as having fun entertaining his relatives in colorful clothes.
Xu Jiajun clapped his hands and laughed: "Sixth uncle, Xiao Yu'er is too smart!" You also said that Xiao Yuer forgot things, and it is even more amazing if we Xiao Yuer do not forget things, it is completely a little prodigy! Jialiang is a successor! ”
"Xiao Yu'er is smart like her mother, Zhu Zhu went to medical school, is a cultural person, Jialiang still forgets, he can't sit still since he was a child, and he reads like his husband will kill him, so he likes to think about dancing knives and sticks!" Grandpa Xu snorted Xiao Yu'er's head again: "My family is the only seedling of Xiao Yu'er, and I don't expect anything else, I just hope that she can study hard, and when she grows up, she can find a stable job and marry a good man to live peacefully, and I will be blind!" ”
Sitting on Grandpa Xu's lap, he was staring at the newspaper on the table, and he was unhappy: "That's not good, Zuzu, let's talk about living together as an old monster, let's go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers together, you can't leave me!" ”
"Hahaha" Xu Jiajun, who heard this, laughed first: "Sixth uncle, what does Xiao Yu'er mean by this?" Still alive as an old monster? ”
"I'm not afraid that Xiao Yu'er is still young, I'll let go first, I can't close my eyes, I said that it is enough to live until she grows up and becomes a family" Grandpa Xu smiled and said: "Xiao Yu'er said that I should live to be a hundred and fifty-year-old old monster so that I can accompany her to enjoy the mountains and rivers!" ”
Xu Jiajun said with a smile: "This is also the child's filial piety, and Xiaoyuer is smart, and he will have a big future in the future." You, your body is so strong and strong, you will definitely be able to reach that time, you are waiting to enjoy the blessings! ”
After laughing for a while, Xu Jiajun's brows locked again, and his black face was full of sadness: "Sixth uncle, you said that this year's spring harvest will not allow you to falsely report the output, right?" Everyone sees that the crops in the ground are ripe and can open the sickle, and almost every household has run out of food, which is still before you got a batch of red potatoes back to replenish it to survive until now, and the wild vegetables in Xiaonanshan have just grown and have been dug up clean. A few days ago, Jialin's grandson actually went to the cowshed to steal the cow's wheat husks to eat. In my heart, I can't even sleep at night! If we still have the same false reports as we did in the previous two years, I am afraid that our village will be extinct like some villages in Yingxian County! You see, there are not a few old people left in the village, and the adults can still pull up their belts, but the children and the elderly can't afford to be hungry! ”
"I've inquired with a few old guys, there is a new leader in our province, and the policy has been issued above, and false reports must not be made this year!" Grandpa Xu whispered to Xu Jiajun: "You appease everyone first, don't go out quietly, grab it back and deal with it with a few catties first!" ”
Xu Jiajun said yes again and again, it seems that Grandpa Xu's prestige in front of the cadres and nephews of this village cadre is still quite high, and Grandpa Xu is also very knowledgeable, and the advice he gives is measured.
Through the letter of introduction and the newspaper on the table that Duan Huan was looking at, he learned that it was 1962 and this was Sichuan Province.
I was also a native of Sichuan Province in my last life, and I heard the old people I knew talk about the difficult situation in Sichuan Province during this period, and I also studied this history: Sichuan Province was a three-year period of population decline, and it was the province that supported the capital and Shanghai the most grain during the three-year difficult period, and transferred a total of 20 billion catties of grain in three years, which made a huge contribution to social stability.
Originally, Sichuan Province was rich and everyone knew that it had been a large production province for generations, but it had been extremely difficult to live in Shu in the past three years.
Shu has abundant water resources and unique natural conditions for thousand-year-old water conservancy projects, and drought will reduce production but will not hurt its roots. At the end of the day, on the one hand, there is the "floating. Handsome. "Wind" prevails in overreporting production; the second is to over-transfer grain regardless of the actual situation, hollow out the old capital, and even give out the grain at the bottom of the warehouse; The third is that the left-hand intensity is large and long, and the situation is obviously deviated from reality, and I don't know how to play the plate. After several times, three years have passed, and the population of Shu Province in 1962 is still experiencing negative growth.
Duan Huan just knew that he should have been born at the end of 1958 or 1959, according to common sense, it is difficult for women to conceive children in the case of extreme hunger, not to mention that they are still living in peace and security to be so old and fat, it is even more different. Grandpa Xu can raise himself like this, the difficulty can be imagined.
After Grandpa Xu and Xu Jiajun, the village party secretary, had a secret conversation and discussed coming to the cattle cart tomorrow morning, Grandpa Xu went back with Huanhuan.