Chapter 65: New Sorrow in the Hot Summer
Guo Fan's child fulfilled his wish to swim in the early summer of his 4-year-old!
"Brother, go faster! Brother Luo Luo has been gone for a long time! ”
"Hasn't Sister Yaya gone yet?"
"Girls should wear beautiful dresses! We don't wear it! Hurry up, hurry up! ”
The pond that Lin Yue dug back then was deep and large, and it never came in handy, but now it is an excellent place for swimming. All the children in Linzhuang, including adults, like to plop twice in it when they have nothing to do.
Even the women have changed into swimsuits and turned the fish pond into a resort beach.
Since last summer, the temperature has been normal, and although it has snowed for more than a month in winter, it is much better than the previous days of ice and snow!
Winter wheat and canola held out strong into spring. Rapeseed is golden, and the whole country is the fragrance of rapeseed oil! The wheat is turning over the waves, and everyone is taking out the ancestral skills of making noodles: knife-cut noodles, hand-rolled noodles, dragon beard noodles, steamed buns, the meal patterns are not repeated, and there is enough pasta addiction!
Now, the rice in the field has been planted, because there is no shortage of cotton clothes and quilts in Linzhuang, so all the fields are planted with corn and sweet potatoes. It's no wonder that everyone thinks differently, likes the new and hates the old, and anyone who eats potatoes for a few years will not love it.
It's been a great year!
The scorching sun shone on the land, and only the top of the mountain was covered with a thick layer of ice. What is even more impressive is the tenacity of plant life, I thought that after a few years of ice, all the trees on the mountain should have frozen to death, but with the wind blowing and summer rain, many of the roots of the trees that had withered sprouted new shoots. All kinds of wild grasses and wild vegetables also poke their heads out of the soil, curiously looking at the world that has been separated for a long time, or dancing with the mountain breeze, or stretching their branches and leaves to soak up the sun.
Everything recovered, and the livestock, who had eaten cabbage and radishes for a winter, enthusiastically devoted themselves to the great cause of breeding offspring. In just two months, four or five hundred piglets were added to the pigsty. The dozens of old hens and ducks in the yard of the Lin family were all dragging their children and daughters, and there was a lot of pressure behind them, all of them were small hairballs!
Lin Yue tried to plant the fruit seedlings he had raised in the yard, and now he is alive and well! Originally, there were more than a dozen dead trees in the village, blooming faint pink flowers in spring!
Cao Yang has learned to walk with his hands on the wall, and is now taken care of by his mother-in-law Liu Ping. It's not that Lin Yue is ruthless, it's really a wolf-like husband who can't eat meat for a long time, so he went to his own mother to complain:
"Mom, Yueyue would rather sleep with her baby than touch me! I ......"
The next day, the little baby Cao Yang, who had just turned ten months, felt that for the first time in his life, he was full of malice, which came from his own father. Liu Ping hooked him away with an airplane model, crying until his voice was hoarse and could not escape his grandmother's "claws", and after three days of crying after forcibly quitting milk, he finally compromised!
His mother shared his fate. That night, Lin Yue screamed hoarsely, and didn't get out of bed for three days!
Mother and son are connected, and the fate is the same!
Only Mother Lin pulled her in-laws dissatisfiedly and asked, "His grandmother, Yangyang has only been ten months old and quit breastfeeding?" Can this milk powder be more nutritious than breast milk? After so many years, I don't know if it's expired! ”
"Young people have young people's thoughts, we are old, we can't talk about them!"
What can Liu Ping say? Could it be that his son is dissatisfied with his desires?
Alas! Children are debts, no matter how old they are, they still have to be mothers to wipe their buttocks......
Bumper harvest! See you again!
All parts of the country have opened the good news of a bumper harvest, and under the scorching sun, everyone sweats for a harvest. Even the lazy man who didn't help the oil pot when it fell down pulled up his trouser leg and went to work in the field.
Women and children wear straw hats, pick ears of rice, catch loaches, as long as they eat, and strive to pull them all into the bowl!
After four years of sitting and eating in the Yancheng base, the salt has been lowered to below the red line. Johor Bahru Town and Lin Zhuang also faced the same problem, Cao An counted the few large bags of salt left in the warehouse, and the Holy Maiden White Lotus was like him, and he could no longer say anything about sending salt to others!
"Commander Xu, how did the central base reply?"
Lin Yue and Cao An sat in the office of the Yancheng base, drinking aged tea with a small cake, while curious about the current livelihood issues!
"What else can I say, the central base has reserves, but the distance is too far, and a large number of transportation is obviously a dream! What's more, now not only Yancheng, but almost all inland bases are also short of salt! ”
Head Xu frowned and drank all the tea in one gulp, as if what he was drinking was not tea, but spirits. Since he became the boss of the base, he has not had a day of peace, and it is not easy to solve the famine and survive the severe cold. Seeing that the grain warehouse is full and a good day is coming, I never expected that there will be a shortage of salt again, and the salt problem is obviously more difficult than cold and hunger!
"If you can't solve the problem, you should always have a suggestion! Once the human body lacks salt supplementation, no matter how much food you eat and drink, you can only lie down and wait for death, no! It may be worse than death. ”
Cao An frowned, he felt very uncomfortable, but he didn't have the ability to help. Lin Yue didn't care at all and rolled his eyes vividly, feeling that his husband had asked a nonsense, what else could the central base suggest? Salt cannot be grown from the ground, so it can only be dried on the seashore or in search of rock salt or salt wells. I have never heard of a salt well salt lake within a radius of hundreds of miles from Yancheng, let alone rock salt!
"We've had five meetings, and now the only way is to go to the beach to dry salt!"
"Is the route decided? Can the central base provide detection help? When will you send an advance team over to build the salt pans? If everything is settled, you say hello, and we in Johor Bahru Town and Lin Zhuang are also ready to go to transport salt together! ”
"Really? Do all five boats go? ”
Lin Yue's words made Captain Xu overjoyed, in fact, he called the couple over, and it was also their idea to fight the boats.
"We have six boats, to be exact! Of course, all of them go, and the salt is not a house wine, so it is best to ship it back in full at one time! I'm only worried about the long distance, the unfamiliar distribution of the waters, and the ......."
In fact, there is still a salt stock in the space, but it certainly can't support a Johor Bahru town. Over the years, everyone has communicated with each other, and every time the farm is busy, Xinshan Town will send people to help voluntarily, which is deeply meaningful, and Lin Yue has to repay one or two!
"I sent a team of speedboats to explore the road last month, and the general route is not a big problem. The central base promised to send a sonar detection system over, and we are ready to hurry up and take advantage of the fact that the sun is mostly drying some salt, and it is best to return in late autumn! ”
Captain Xu had already made a plan and set off a week later. The two sides discussed the preparations for the trip, and Lin Yue recruited five captains and ten crew members at the base, and took the group back to the village to prepare supplies!
"Okay, I want two boatloads of salt! Captain Xu, don't bargain with women! ”