In the small courtyard of Lou's house, the twins and grandma were there, Lou Yanqiu accompanied Grandma Lou to sit at the door of the hall to make a jacket, one handed cotton cloth and one paste, and Lou Junlin sat at the door of the stove house chopping pigweed.

The small courtyard faces south of three main houses, the middle is a hall house, the east and west sides of each side of the main house, Lou Grandma led the two sisters to live in the west room, Lou Jingping brothers live in the east room, and the east house across the alley is the Lou family's stove house and miscellaneous house, which is lower than the main house of the mud house, and there is a big loquat tree in the yard.

The conditions of the Lou family are not good, but they still gritted their teeth and raised two pigs.

The pig policy here in Huangqiao Town is to sell one and keep one, if the family has two pigs, they will sell one to the state, and the other can be left to kill meat to eat, or it can be sold partially freely, and the pigs are killed at the end of the year and exchanged for money, Lou Yanqiu and Lou Junlin go to school, and Lou's grandmother's medical expenses on weekdays also have to be picked from these two pigs.

Over the years, people's lives are not good, pigs' lives are not good, no matter how hard the Lou brothers and sisters work to fight pigweed, to find food for pigs, the pigs at home can only raise to 80 catties a year, this is still the village to raise fat, if unfortunately encounter swine fever, it is possible that a year's hard work will be wasted.

For dinner, the family is still sweet potatoes with rice soup, and a plate of salty taro stalks is fried, and the rice picked up by Lou Yanni still needs to be threshed, even if it is threshed for a while and a half, she will not be willing to eat, and she will count the rice grains to boil rice soup, after all, I don't know when the new grain will be put into the warehouse, and every grain in the family is counted

"Sister, I'll go with you tomorrow to pick up ears of rice." Lou Yanqiu is fourteen years old this year, because of Lou Yanni's persistence, she has been studying with her younger brother Lou Jun, and is now in her second year of junior high school.

Lou Yanqiu inquired early in the morning, after the second half of the second semester of junior high school, the school also issued a graduation certificate, and she had decided in her heart that she would drop out of school after the second semester of the second semester of the second year of junior high school, whether her sister agreed or not, she would drop out.

Now that the school is on autumn and during the holidays, Lou Yanni has no objection, the Lou family is not used to children, and the twins usually have to do housework and farm work outside of schoolwork, and they have to follow the field when they are busy with farming, don't look at their young age, they are good hands at home and outside.

"Okay, did the eldest brother write a letter, did you say when you would reply?" Lou Yanni clamped a chopstick taro stick, thinking in her heart that she would have to make more dried vegetables to harvest autumn vegetables this year.

As soon as the autumn harvest of the production team ended, the eldest brother Lou Jingping followed the uncles in the village to repair the reservoir in the neighboring county, including five yuan a month for food and housing, and repairing the reservoir and road is also one of the mandatory tasks of the production team.

Lou Junlin also wanted to go, but was stopped at home by Lou Jingping, mainly because Lou Junlin was still young, and it was the time to grow his body, and he would not grow taller if he had more burdens, and if the gay men in the family were gone, he would not be at ease if he left a few female comrades.

"The eldest brother sent a letter saying that he would be back in ten days." Lou Junlin is still a little awkward, and he is still a little sullen in his heart, he is so old, he can help reduce the burden on the family.

Knowing that Lou Jinglin was going back, the family was very happy, and after dinner, Lou Yanqiu was responsible for washing the dishes and cleaning up.

While there was still some light in the sky, Lou Junlin moved a small bench and sat in the courtyard to teach Lou Yanni about the new course, Lou Yanni was responsible for checking and filling in the gaps for him, Lou Junlin was careless in learning, not better than Lou Yanqiumen, and she didn't need to worry about it.

When it got dark, they couldn't read anymore, so the family sat in Grandma Lou's room, Lou Junping and Lou Yanqiu took turns memorizing texts, testing each other, and going to bed after memorizing.

Lou Yanni didn't sleep well at night, and always felt that someone was walking around in the yard, but no one in the family had the habit of getting up at night.

The autumn is high and cool, even the moon at night is big and bright, and the small courtyard of the Lou family is quiet and quiet, and there is nothing.

Lou Yanni shook her head, wondering if she was dreaming, and when she was about to bolt the door and enter the house, something jumped up under her feet, so frightened that she jumped back, only to see two fresh big crucian carp at the door, and a bag of grain leaning against the bluestone at the door of the hall, which was clearly what Zuo Weiguo carried in his hand during the day.

This was sent by Zuo Weiguo?

Lou Yanni was stunned, the big crucian carp under her feet flicked its tail, Lou Yanni looked left and right, and quickly brought the food and fish into the house, the family was about to run out, and she couldn't care about any backbone, anyway, this is the benefit of Zuo Weiguo giving her a seal, if she doesn't accept people, she won't be at ease.

Eat people with a short mouth, so that they can keep their mouths shut like a bottle.

Thinking about it like this, Lou Yanni didn't have any psychological burden, and she couldn't sleep, so she quietly hid the grain in the back room, and touched the well to dispose of the two fish, and dug up and buried the fish scales and gills that had been cut off, and didn't dare to light the lamp, so she took out a little salt from the stove house and salted the two fish in the moonlight.

At this time, everything is public, the reservoir in the village is guarded, the Lou family can't even eat food, if people see that they are eating fish, they must be suspected of stealing fish, their family is not like Zuo Weiguo, carrying fish can go around the commune.

Hiding the pickled fish in the depths of the cupboard, Lou Yanni bolted the door and quickly fell asleep.

At this time, Xing Xiaojuan couldn't sleep anyway, she was sick for a day and didn't go to work, but she waited until now at night from waking up, and Zuo Weiguo didn't even come to see her!

This is something that would never have happened in a previous life anyway.

Xing Xiaojuan hugged the quilt and locked her brows tightly together, could it be that her father-in-law didn't allow Weiguo to come to see her? They were originally opposed to Zuo Weiguo's overtures to her, especially when she was only thinking about returning to the city at this time, and she didn't make any excuses about Zuo Weiguo, so they didn't agree with Zuo Weiguo pursuing her, they must have stopped Weiguo from letting him come.

Thinking about it like this, Xing Xiaojuan felt a lot more at ease.

"Sister!" At breakfast, Lou Junlin sandwiched a salty taro stalk, and suddenly took out a piece of fish meat from the bottom of the bowl, white and tender with thorns, it must be that the fish will not be wrong!

Lou Yanni glanced at him, Lou Junlin immediately pursed his lips and didn't speak, but the smile on his face couldn't be hidden, Lou Yanni looked at Grandma Lou and Lou Yanqiu with a smile, they also found fish pieces at the bottom of the bowl.

But no one ate it, Qi Qi looked at Lou Yanni, for fear that she would patronize them and wronged herself, Lou Yanni hurriedly pulled twice in her bowl, revealing a small half of the fishtail, indicating that she also had it.

Two crucian carp, she only cut a small four pieces at the tail and steamed them, and the rest found an opportunity to secretly dry and eat slowly, Lou Yanni carefully calculated, the two fish can be eaten for at least half a month, and in ten days, the eldest brother will come back for two days off, just so that he can leave some for him to taste.

"Sister, where did you get the fish, are you okay?" Lou Yanqiu was next to Lou Yanni, and the two sisters were going to pick up rice ears in the rice field a little farther away today.

Yu Junlin followed him with a firewood knife, he wanted to prepare enough firewood at home before his eldest brother came back, so that he could go home and rest well and not worry about the work at home.

Hearing this, Lou Junlin also came over, you must know that their family eats meat or during the New Year, and they haven't tasted meat for more than half a year.

"It's okay, don't worry, the fish was given by someone else, hush money." Lou Yanni smiled, feeling that it was not so unlucky to be forced to meet such a shameful thing, and her impression of Zuo Weiguo was a little better.

Since it was hush money, the twins didn't open their mouths to ask what the hush money was.