"Jiaojiao, I'm not at home these days, you be careful."

"Go ahead, I'll take care of it." Zhou Jiao hugged her son to see Zhang Guoqing away and walked around the yard, she really didn't think there were mice in her house.

Early in the morning, the radio began to non-stop propaganda about the dangers of flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows, but fortunately some hygiene and epidemic prevention methods were also mentioned.

This kind of popular science knowledge, she can memorize it now. After thinking about it, she decided to go to the neighbor's house to see what was going on, but not to make jokes.

"Jiaojiao, every family has to hand in tasks, you are no problem alone, right?" Aunt Wang next door stood at the gate and looked at her uneasily.

"No problem, you see Aunt Wang and they are here. I'll see what they say first. ”

Aunt Wang of the neighborhood committee of the neighborhood committee is now going door-to-door to notify and inspect them.

A few days ago, after the newspapers reported that activities had been carried out in various localities, all streets and grassroots units in the county town were not to be outdone and began to take action.

In the past two days, you can see the propaganda posters on the walls everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the blackboard newspapers have their own strange tricks, and there are all kinds of content.

At the temporary headquarters of the county seat, for three consecutive days, Zhang Guoqing fell into a busy job - all their units were in place, and they went to work 24 hours a day without vacation. He can't take care of his family now, and follows Zhao Dashan and Zuo Lin to register and coordinate people.

Starting from the early morning, the staff of the health association began to publicize health and safety everywhere in various areas, guiding everyone to talk about hygiene, bathe frequently, and eliminate lice, fleas and other pests in addition to flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows.

In the past few days, all men, women and children in the city, up and down, have responded one after another. Every household either exterminates lice and fleas or checks the rat holes in the house.

After cleaning up the interior, they began to climb the treetops and run to the rooftops, the children below waved colorful flags, and the old people cooperated with the beating of gongs and drums, iron noodle plates, iron buckets, iron lunch boxes, etc., using all the tools that could be sounded, and their mouths kept shouting loudly.

The poor sparrows had never seen such a big battle, and they were so frightened that they flew around, but they had nowhere to stand, and finally they were exhausted and fell one after another. It caused bursts of cheers and shouts from the people.

On the open fields and wastelands on the outskirts of the city, straw men were piled up, and when they encountered sparrows, everyone resorted to all kinds of means, burning wildfires, shouting and beating drums, and catching sparrows all over the world; The dense forest was filled with smoke, and the dying sparrows and crows were stuffed into sacks, and even the sparrow eggs on the trees were cleaned up.

Every day near dusk, the neighborhood committee began to direct the unified mosquito smoke. Under the order, every household did not dare to slack off, and quickly closed the door to kill mosquitoes and guard the mouse hole.

In the smoke, rats scurrying around on the road are even more killing. Elementary school students on vacation are in groups everywhere, actively burrowing into the corners of houses, on both sides of roads, and in public toilets to look for rats and pests. For a while, dead rats and dead flies became treasures. Exclamations and ecstasies were heard everywhere.

Three days later, after the results of this vigorous activity came out, the task was handed over to the health committee. As soon as the temporary command was disbanded, Zhang Guoqing immediately rushed home.

Any task is up to his daughter-in-law - only this mouse. He estimated that his family would not be able to complete the task, and he didn't know what had become of his family in the past two days.

As night fell, many groups of students chased after the few surviving sparrows in the trees on the road, and the poor sparrows fell to the ground after not long in fright.

This scene made the children jump with joy. Compared with the other three evils, people are more willing to remove sparrows - braised - braised - stewed, barbecued, although sparrows are small, they are also meat dishes.

As soon as he arrived at the courtyard, Zhang Guoqing immediately shouted Zhou Jiao, while looking at the house uneasily, only to see that everything was as it was. He relaxed slightly and walked towards the lighted kitchen.

Zhou Jiao heard his voice, looked at her sleeping son, and didn't dare to respond loudly. She hurriedly ran out of the kitchen and happily pulled him into the kitchen.

Knowing that Zhang Guoqing had a three-day holiday on the weekend, he immediately hugged him happily.

In the kitchen, Ping'an lay in the cradle and slept soundly.

Zhang Guoqing looked at the child greedily and asked, "Why is this still sleeping?" How have you been with your child these two days? My family is up to me. ”

Zhou Jiao smiled, "You underestimate me." With the help of Ziwen and a few of them, the task at home has been completed excellently. Ping An is very happy these days - every day without sleeping, going out to watch people go up to the roof. In the past three days, I smoked mosquitoes, and he was outside with Aunt Wang. Don't worry, the family is fine. ”

Zhang Guoqing helped her serve food. I saw that there was only one vegetarian dish, a bowl of soup and sweet potato rice for dinner. As soon as he wanted to ask a question, he saw her take out two meat dishes and a pot of white rice from the space.

"I'm not at home, so you're not going to eat like this, are you?" He smiled knowingly, thinking about it, and asked uneasily.

Zhou Jiao smiled and shook her head. How can it be? These days, people come to the door every day. She simply left the door open for people to enter. In order to keep it secret, she didn't dare to start the fire easily, and put the meat dishes on the bright side.

The couple had dinner and cleaned up the kitchen. He hurried back to the bedroom with the child in his arms.

After washing, Zhou Jiao saw that he was drowsy, and it was estimated that he hadn't rested well in the past few days. Every day I saw him go home, I was in a hurry. She hurriedly asked him to sleep with the child first. It's not too late to talk about it tomorrow. She has to wait for her eldest sister Zhang Meili a little longer.

In the past few days, Zhang's father and Zhang's mother have been busy in the village to eliminate the four evils, and they have no time to come to the door.

Zhang Meili learned that Zhang Guoqing was working overtime, and she came back and forth three times a day in the morning, noon and evening. If Zhou Jiao guessed correctly, she would come over to visit her brother tonight.

Zhang Guoqing shook his head. He finally went home, how could he be reluctant to miss the opportunity to be with his wife.

Since I started working, it was either official business, or I was reviewing my studies, and my son was making trouble. It's been a long time since the two of them have been chatting alone.

Seeing that Ping'an was sleeping soundly on the kang, Zhang Guoqing surrounded the two quilt walls outside, observed his son's sleeping posture, and laughed happily, and then hugged Zhou Jiao back to the outer study.

In the study, after Zhang Guoqing made two cups of tea and put on the chess pieces, the couple sat on the kang to play chess and chatted about their parents' shortcomings. During this time, except for going back to their hometown on weekends to clean up their backyard, the couple has been living in seclusion. The couple was planning where to go tomorrow.

Suddenly, I heard Zhang Meimei's shouting outside, and I didn't care about continuing the topic. Zhou Jiao hurriedly asked Zhang Guoqing to see if her son was awake, and she quickly went out to welcome her in.

For this eldest sister, the husband and wife, especially Zhou Jiao, always respect each other.

The eldest sister is like a mother, and Zhang Meili is a typical representative. No matter how old Zhang Guoqing is, whether he has a family and children. She has always thought about them as if they were children. But it was this eldest sister who made the two even more distressed.

During this time, I watched her lose a lot of weight. Her mother-in-law, who was seriously ill and recuperating in bed, had been discharged from the hospital and lived in her house. This time, the material and manpower are still all the burden of Zhang Meimei's family.

At this moment, after Zhang Meili came over to see Zhang Guoqing, she saw that he was fine. She didn't have time to say a few more words, knowing that he was doing well, and that she would take three days off tomorrow, so she hurriedly said goodbye and went home.

Zhang Guoqing and his wife, who were left crying and laughing, looked at the back of her leaving.