"Come down and eat and lie down again, you haven't worked, where have you walked so many roads since you were a child." Muffin was also distressed.

When he went downstairs, Ma Fen muttered: "When I was a child, I took you to the meeting, and if I couldn't walk a few steps, I asked your father to carry it." Once I took you to your aunt's house, and I couldn't walk on the road, and I cried secretly. Your grandmother's little feet are still carrying you. ”

"We're still crying secretly?" Xiao Chen was funny.

Ma Fen glanced outside, and Zhou Zhigao, who had already eaten to feed the donkey and cow, said: "Then she will be eight or nine years old, and she will just be sensible." She didn't go out with me, and her dad didn't go either, just followed her grandmother and a person in the village. I couldn't walk, and I didn't dare to speak, so I could only cry secretly. It was her grandmother who came back to say that I found out. ”

"You don't know, she came to this village with me when she was six years old, she is very sensible, she knows that she is not a child of the Zhou family, and she is always careful. However, our mother and daughter had a bad life before, and when they came to Zhoujiazhuang, the Zhou family was good to us and loved her. ”

"What are you talking about?" Liu Ya was embarrassed.

Zhou Jing looked at her: "I don't even remember when you were a child, sister." ”

"You're much younger than me." Zhou Jing is also nineteen this year, but a few months older than Mao Panpan.

When Liu Ya first came, Zhou Ning was more than a year old.

Even my aunt's Mao Feng hasn't been born yet.

"Okay, don't talk about this, let's eat, we didn't wait for the two of you, we left it for you." Liu Ya and Xiao Chen slept for two more hours today.

Even Zhou Jing had already gotten up.

Two people eat alone, they don't go to the kang, they eat on the underground table.

One person drank a bowl of rice, all of which were based on soup.

Breakfast was steamed buns, and the muffin specially wrapped the trumpet, and the filling was meat and shiitake mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms are dried shiitake mushrooms soaked last night.

Two dishes were also fried.

The two of them were full of food and drink, and Liu Ya was crooked on the kang in his parents' house.

I can't do it, my leg hurts.

Xiao Chen wrapped up and went out to take care of the animals.

Zhou Jing took the initiative to wash the dishes, and Ma Fen didn't rest, tidying up the house or something.

A morning passed, and at noon, the village chief came again.

"Zhigao, I have something to do." The village chief came in to greet him.

Zhou Zhigao beckoned the village chief to come in and sit down.

"Oh, that's the case, a few people came to the village up there, saying it was to change salt. But I didn't bring anything down now, so let's take a look first. They say there is meat, and there is some food, but there is not much. I'll just come over and take a look, isn't it fruitless? At the moment, this salt is in short supply, and the troops brought some last time, but this thing is not easy to exchange. It's just that it's all related to each other. We can't live and see everyone die. ”

If you don't eat salt, you can't do it.

In the upper village, it is closer than Zhoujiazhuang. There used to be two more villages over there, but then one of them was empty, and all the people were gone.

Now there is another village called Gugouzi, the name is also a strange translation anyway, and there are not many people in this village itself.

Including the young ones who came back after the accident, there are about forty or fifty people.

However, although they live in the mountains further up, the people in these nearby villages walk around each other, and they also get married or something, and they can always talk about their relatives.

"It's not a solution." To tell the truth, even if the troops come, they can't manage more remote places, and they can't even get into Gugouzi Village.

In the past, I could walk an ox cart, but now I am afraid it is also difficult.

"Yes, but it's freezing right now. I had the heart to discuss with the people in the village, or I would exchange the salt sent by the last army, and there would be nothing else missing. You can eat meat or not. You can change the oil. Their village is not producing flax, it is better to change sesame oil. If there is really not much, then just change the flax. Back to the beginning of spring, our village oil mill can be opened, and when the time comes, the oil will be squeezed and distributed to the people in the village. In my opinion, this oil is now more valuable than meat. ”

If you eat less meat, you will eat less, but if you don't have to eat oil, you won't be able to stand it.

Today's people can't not be free from oil at all, otherwise where will they have the strength?

It's freezing on this day, if people don't have the strength, won't they just wait to die?

"That's fine. In that case, it is estimated that the people in the village will agree. Zhou Zhigao said.

"Hey, the problem is, this exchange will not be enough for everyone in the village to share at that time. When the time comes, it will not be good, and I am afraid that the people in the village will not do it. The village chief sighed.

Zhou Zhigao also sighed, but this is, there are not many people in the village, but there are hundreds.

"Otherwise, my family has a little, and yours should have it, I mean let's make do with a few. When I first came down, I heard that Zhou Zhong's family also had it, and there was also Zhou Zhong's family. You can say something. Let's change it privately, and if the people in the village are short of oil, they will change it with us? That's what the village chief meant.

"That's fine, but I don't have many at home." Zhou Zhigao: This is nonsense.

Salt is an important commodity.

Liu Ya hoarded a lot at the beginning, and it was enough to eat for a lifetime.

Later, when Xiao Chen came, he pulled a lot, and Zhou Shiqiang's family gave a lot.

However, after that, if there is no food, the salt can be directly exchanged, and the proportion is definitely not low.

That's why it's expensive.

"I know that no one can have more, and this is what saves their lives. When the spring of the coming year is warm, they must have asked them to think of themselves. The village chief nodded.

"Okay, I'll take a look later, as much as I can." Zhou Zhigao said.

"Okay, you don't have to have refined salt, coarse salt is fine. It's good to be able to save lives. If there is no place to change it in the coming year, you will have to go to the village to get the bitter salt in the saline-alkali field to eat. "Actually, their generation ate it when they were young.

What does that taste like......

"Okay, I'll look for you in the village later." Zhou Zhigao nodded.

"Oh, you take your time, I'll go back and get it first." The village chief got up and left.

"Salt is already an important commodity." Xiao Chen thought for a while: "There is no shortage of oil in our house, but if the oil is old in the future, it will definitely not taste good." Can I talk to them and see if there's anything else? For example, chicks or something. Or diesel, gasoline, or other supplies, cotton or whatever. ”

"It's difficult, if the chickens don't freeze to death, they can have them, and you don't have to think about anything else. You don't know, the village is poor and has little land. There is not enough food to eat. Talents are all removed, where can there be any cotton. I saw that the girl also bought cotton. Zhou Jing was not in front of him, so Zhou Zhigao said directly.

Xiao Chen nodded, the third floor and the basement were locked, he didn't go into the basement, but Liu Ya told him what was at home.

"I'll go get it first, get ten catties of coarse salt, ten bags of refined salt." Zhou Zhigao asked Xiao Chen.

"Okay, we can't finish eating, but we can't be too public, it's more useful in the future." Not to mention that there are relatives at home.

Zhou Zhigao nodded, went to get the salt, and simply went out with him.

Liu Ya fell asleep just now, and when the two left, Ma Fen and Zhou Jing came over and saw a big girl sleeping on the kang.