In Zhangjia Village, after the roosters crow in the early morning, soon the smoke began to rise from every household, and the harsh noise came out of the radio, and appeared on time with the work broadcast inside.

The villagers, dressed in shabby and patched clothes, gathered one after another from their homes to the fields at the west entrance of the village, and the crowd gathered together was noisy with laughter and jokes, some good friends took the opportunity to avoid discussing things, and the old ladies commented on their children and grandchildren, and the little daughters-in-law gathered around and muttered secretly. The unmarried girl heard the man talking about meat and avoided it, which caused some of the ladies to laugh.

The men were close to each other, laughing from time to time. Not far away, children were running around and messing around.

After the old captain arranged the tasks and distributed the farm tools, everyone began to slowly disperse and walk towards their respective assigned places.

Huang Cuilan absentmindedly wilted the ground and the concubine Lin Chrysanthemum slowly walked towards the wheat field, hoeing weeds and pulling grass roots. The village works collectively, and people have to work. From a distance, there are people who are working slowly, those who are moving fast, and there are people who are still walking behind.

Fortunately, it is now a slack farm, except for cleaning up the weeds in the field, turning the ground and picking manure for next year's spring ploughing, the captain uncle didn't say much, just urged everyone not to ink.

If he was busy with farming, the captain would shout slogans around with a loudspeaker to encourage the villagers. Every year, his voice is hoarse, and the corners of his mouth are bubbling.

Huang Cuilan looked at the entrance of the village from time to time, although she also knew that it was still early, and she estimated that her son would not come back until after noon, but she was still worried in her heart and could not rest assured.

Lin Juhua quickly approached her, while pulling the grass and looking around, she said, "Sister-in-law, are you worried about Xizi." It's okay, there is his uncle here, he must have followed his uncle last night, and he should come back in the afternoon, and he will come back after lunch, or will you ask for leave to wait at home in the afternoon? ”

"That's not going to work. I didn't go down all day yesterday, and I can't say anything about taking leave. I can't bear to do this work, it's much faster than farming. I'm not worried, I just want to look at it from time to time, hehe. ”

Lin Juhua glanced at her, she was really stupid, she pulled up the weeds fiercely, and muttered in her mouth, "I just don't understand, you look at the land that was just cleaned up a few days ago, and now it has to be cleaned up again." It's freezing right now, what are you packing up? Tossing around on this land every day, there is still not much food for a year, and it can't let us let go of our stomachs to eat.

Look at those people who are doing it slowly, are they pulling weeds or playing? Uncle Captain is also really, each family has to do their own work when they are assigned, and the speed is fast. In this way, no matter how fast or slow, the work is the same, who is willing to work hard. ”

Huang Cuilan was afraid that she would talk too much, and the people next to her heard the black complaint, saying that her family was dissatisfied with the captain's uncle. just gave her a look, she usually followed her younger siblings after work, for fear that she couldn't hold it in her mouth and was easy to offend people. She was very arrogant herself, and she didn't take it to heart, and others could account for it.

The leaves not far away looked at them enviously, and slowly moved towards them, hoeing along the side.

Not far away, he said to Lin Juhua, "'Chrysanthemum, are all your guests gone?'" I saw two cars drive away yesterday. What did your brother and daughter-in-law send over, look at the excitement of your house yesterday, there are a lot of people coming. ”

Jiaojiao's mother hasn't left yet, she has to stay for a few days, and her grandfather has a task to go first. Yesterday, Xizi followed them to the provincial capital, which is not my sister-in-law worried and always looks at the entrance of the village. I said, if she didn't come back so soon, how could her grandmother take Xizi to visit the provincial capital, she would drive herself and not be in a hurry, and it would always be afternoon when she came back. Lin Juhua quietly moved to the edge of the leaf. She didn't think anyone was talking, and it was hard to have someone chattering.

Ye Zi's eyes widened, "This old lady is so powerful, she can drive by herself, the people in this capital are different, I heard that the thief is beautiful and young, and I didn't look for anyone again." Jiaojiao's grandfather and her mother are here, so they didn't find the Zhou family's accounting?

The bastard in my mother's village was dismissed, and every family in the village was overjoyed, and those who didn't deal with him said that his family had found a loser. I still want to go back and have a look in the next two days, and I don't know if the new captain is still harsh on my family's work and messes with my father and my brother's division of labor? ”

"What are you doing with the Zhou family, people are not those who bully others, just like us ordinary people. I don't look down on us rural people like the city people. Grandpa Jiaojiao, such a big official, obedient, I have something to talk to my father-in-law. Her grandmother also went to the kitchen with us to help.

It's not like those dramas who have low eyes and are self-conscious. It's good for my little five, the old man is happy to see him, don't you come here for a meeting and say take Xiao Wu to see his old friend, and take Xiao Wu away yesterday. Xizi followed the little five mother-in-law to the provincial capital to come back first. Xiao Wu will accompany the old man to stay in the army for a few days. Lin Juhua is happy to see the envious eyes of others.

Ye Zi looked around, lowered his voice and asked her quietly, "Then Xiao Wu won't be a soldier in the army directly, right?" Your little five is really lucky, I didn't go to the army last year, and the village said it was a pity, but now I have the opportunity to go to the army again? There is Jiaojiao's grandfather, and no one in the army is bullying. But Chrysanthemum, her mother's family didn't say that she would take them back to the capital. ”

Lin Juhua made her put down her hoe, squatted and pulled weeds like her, and whispered, "Why not, this time I just want the child to return to the capital in the full moon."

Jiaojiao herself has a big yard in the capital, and her household registration is in the capital. This time I learned that her mother had already bought her a house when she was born. My little five said that he would not go to the capital at present, so why should he wait a few years to talk about it, he was reluctant to go to his hometown, and he didn't know what to think. If we were sure to go back, it would be nice to be the capital, but we didn't say anything. Whatever they want, maybe people have their own ideas.

Xiao Wu won't go to be a soldier, if he wants to go there a long time ago. I heard it with my own ears, his grandfather is still a pity, Xiao Wu has a lot of strength, and he is suitable for eating that mouthful. Didn't this happen to be the old man here for a meeting? This time, the old man took him over to meet his old friends, old subordinates,

This person is really incomparable, I can't imagine that Jiaojiao Niang is so spoiled Jiaojiao, don't you see, the two mothers and daughters muttered, but they were affectionate, I always thought that her mother didn't treat her sincerely. ”

Ye Zi sighed: "We don't compare with others, let's talk about equality for everyone, I went to the city to see those city people, not to give us a look." If you don't say that, it's bad for people to hear about it. Jiaojiao can be regarded as having survived, but why is she so powerful?

Now the old ladies in the village say that there are two tigresses in your family, your eldest sister married and returned to the city, and now Jiaojiao marries your family, who dares to offend your family? This time, a lot of people were picked, and the captain of Zhoujia Village was still locked up, and his family was looking for help everywhere in the past two days, and he didn't dare to go to your house, probably because Jiaojiao's grandfather was there. ”

Lin Juhua burst out laughing and whispered; "What's amazing, Jiaojiao has a soft temperament, and she was annoyed by being scolded at the door, otherwise she really wouldn't turn over the old yellow calendar with her temperament. Don't dare to offend our family, and our family is not unreasonable. My parents-in-law are not that kind of people. ”

Ye Zi glanced at her, rubbed her shoulder, and said to her with a wink: "Are you sorry for what you say?" Who of us doesn't know who, your father-in-law and mother-in-law are kind-hearted people, and your little brother and sister are really soft-natured? Those old ladies are muttering that cultural people are different, no wonder those who come out with a pen can kill people with their mouths and pens, and they don't let you shout injustice, and people are directly convicted of death.

They all say that your eldest sister is not as good as your younger sibling. I said before that Jiaojiao looked sick and had no strength to work, but fortunately there was a subsidy from her mother's family, otherwise compared with the little daughter-in-law in the village, those people who had to starve to death were now beating themselves in the mouth.

It seems that your little five has vision, and it is impossible for her to stay in the village for a long time, so she is sharp-tongued. Everyone said they were blind.

Beauty hasn't been to work for the past two days, you know? She said that this matter is too big, she is embarrassed to see you, and if she hadn't been quick-mouthed, she wouldn't have let that dead woman come to your house. But ah, I see that she is happy in her heart, so many years of revenge has finally been avenged, and she is finally angry. ”

Lin Juhua saw that the captain's uncle had already walked away from here, and hurriedly replied to her: "Hehe, what kind of heart do I have." I'll go see the beauty when I get off work, it's not her fault, can I blame her? I said it, can I still not let her say it, and I didn't make it up. The captain came, and we stopped talking. After saying that, the two quickly separated, and each lowered his head to pull the weeds, seeing that this cooperation had been done by many young and old before.

Huang Cuilan looked funny, she said that the second child was very slippery, gossip, and lively, and did not delay getting work. She can't do it, I've been worried about her many times, and my heart is pounding.

The weather is getting colder, and now the male laborers who come and go, except for those who work to pull manure and apply fertilizer, are working everywhere, and there is no way to clean up the fields before the land freezes. It is also good to sow seeds in the spring next year, get more grain, and everyone can also send more rations.

The old peasant has nothing to look forward to, so he hopes that next year there will be a bumper harvest, the children in the family will be fed, and more money will be spent on things, and some money will be saved for the sons and grandsons of the family to marry a good daughter-in-law. If you are unlucky, in the drought season, the year's farm work will be in vain, but if you don't work, you will have no food to harvest, so you can only rely on the sky and the earth to live and look forward to it.

There was only one ox and two donkeys in the brigade, and they were the treasures of the whole village, and no one dared to say that they would plough the land with oxen.

As for living in the ground? It took a lot of effort, and I came back the next day after a break, and who was responsible for the tiredness of the cow? Didn't you see the ox carts used in the upper city in the village? In the village, everyone who marries a new daughter-in-law or a daughter has to work the ox cart?

Father Zhang took the second child Zhang Guoqiang, and the two fathers and sons cooperated with the iron plow. Every time I ploughed the land, I was so tired that I couldn't even eat the food when I got home. It is also the father and son of the Zhang family who are sincere, you look at the foreign workers next to them. They all ploughed back and forth twice, and some of them stopped from time to time in the middle of the road, followed by villagers who were happy to pick up grass roots. Not everyone cares about gains and losses, many people have insufficient food rations, and they drink water in the morning to work, which will be more than enough to have more than enough energy.

The second Zhang Guoqiang is a traitor, he knows that his father works hard in the field, if it is his eldest brother who accompanies his father today, it is estimated that he will help others after this work. Every time he did heavy work, he offered to follow his father, and he could still watch.

His father doesn't want to think about it, you are so fast, many people are grinding foreign workers, and they can't complain about you when they see it, just because you love it. You can't get good words for your efforts. He kept staring at his father, faster than others, so he asked his father to rest, smoke dry tobacco, drink saliva, and take it by the way.

Dad Zhang stopped, took a breath, looked at the long two-way field he had plowed over, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at the side, there was no half-road, frowning and not speaking, it was none of his business. He just can't look at the waste of the land, why don't they want to think about it, turn over the land now, and the crops will be good next year. Waiting for next year's harvest to be less, everyone is not suffering together, there are so many things in this field, and less is not less for everyone.

Zhang Guoqiang took out the kettle, poured a bowl of water for his father, and took the opportunity to rest and follow his father, but he was tired to death. No wonder when the farm is busy, no one teams up with his father, and there are many men in his uncle's family, accompanying his father and his family to mess around, and I don't know if the uncle secretly scolds his father in his heart.

sighed, Xiao Wu didn't work at home, it's just different, that strength is a top man. I don't know how this stupid boy will follow the old man in the army, but don't rush to be a soldier.

Being a soldier is a good thing for others, but Xiao Wu doesn't have to work hard, as long as he doesn't have to worry about food or clothing, he has a lot of money in his hands, and his mother-in-law is subsidizing, as long as he goes to the city and finds a job. I also hope that there will be no chaos in the army, but he is really worried about him, and he didn't have time to secretly remind a few words alone yesterday.

Zhang Guoqiang looked at his father and couldn't help but mutter, "Dad, you said that Xiao Wu wouldn't go there and be a soldier, right?" I don't want to have more martyrs in my family. When you turn around, you must extinguish his thoughts. ”

Daddy Zhang glanced at him with disdain, isn't he usually quite clever? "No, definitely not a soldier, he is going to go early, he doesn't worry about his little daughter-in-law taking his son alone. Yesterday, I specially called your mother to take care of his son, saying that he was afraid that his mother-in-law and Jiaojiao would sleep to death, and his son couldn't wake them up when he cried, so he specially asked your mother to watch his son and wait for him to come back. Do you think this mother-in-law will be a soldier? ”

Zhang Guoqiang looked at his father funny, he didn't believe that his father was not worried, "Xiao Wu likes children, you see a few little ones in the family who see that his uncle is closer than my father." That's his son, but he's not afraid of others making things bad. Dad, Xiao Wu's temperament is up to you, hehe, my mother said it. ”

"You stinky boy, anti-god? This means that your father is also a mother-in-law. Your father and me, my temperament is a real man, but I won't be like Xiao Wu. In my opinion, it was your mother who raised Xiao Wu as a girl. By the way, what are you going to do in that yard, you listened to Xiao Wu, if you go back to the county seat, there will be no one to live in. Why don't we build a simple three or five rooms? ”

Zhang Guoqiang shook his head, "Like the thatched house in the village?" No, just cover it like that. Xiao Wu and I counted it, and it didn't cost much. Besides, this is my hometown, not far from the county seat, you and your mother are here, and you have to come back to live from time to time. When I went back to the county seat, I must have no money to buy a house, so I rented a small room and was aggrieved, so I came back to live. There is also holiday time, the house is not empty, and there will be more children in the future, and the living will be relaxed. You can also grow some coarse grains and vegetables in the backyard, but you can't rely on the supply in the city. ”

Dad Zhang nodded: "It's right to think so, a green onion costs money in the city, you plant it, I take care of it with your mother, and there are a lot of things in a year." If you arrange it well, if your daughter-in-law's work has not been arranged, you can take care of the family.

When the work is over, I will talk to the captain's uncle about building a yard and finding someone to beat stones by the way, and I have to talk to him in advance. Otherwise, the village would have come to help our family, and he would have to rearrange the work in the fields. Our family will not go to work in the future, and it just so happens that there is not much work on the farm. Your mother and your daughter-in-law also have to prepare food. ”

"I've already found the stone-beaters, and they'll go tomorrow, and they'll all talk to the third grandfather. I didn't go to work for the past two days, I arranged it, the wood on the beams of the two yards, in addition to the family's, I also borrowed it, I didn't buy it, just wait for when I went up the mountain with Xiao Wu and cut it back and returned it to others.

I ordered tiles, and some miscellaneous things. Dad, there's nothing to order. Just wait for tomorrow to lay the foundation, the two foundations of our three brothers have been almost cleaned up, just wait for the big mud, support the big billet, and then the stone can be sent to build a house. I have calculated the time, the two compounds are built together, tomorrow and the mud, the big billet is the strength of the work, all prepare a little nest, make a meat dish, nothing else. ”

There are "four major tiredness" in rural areas: and big mud, supporting big billets, pulling big plows, etc., among which "and big mud" is to add clay to the "seedling foot" (increase firmness to make it less fragile fibrous, such as grass, hemp and other flocculents), mixed with water into a viscous thin mud, the more and more sticky, the more sticky and tired; The billet is to pour the reconciled mud into the billet mold, extrude it, and dry it to become a adobe with a wall like a brick. These things are all tiring work, and you have to peel off a layer of skin after working hard!

The Zhang family wants to build the same old yard this time, but it is really difficult. The men in his own family are the main force and big mud, and he has to prepare some soil embryos, and it is estimated that the two yards will be tired to death.

Dad Zhang nodded, that's all arranged, and I will start to cover it early tomorrow. A few of his own brothers and a few of his nephews. If you ask the master bricklayer to bring more people, it will take ten days and half a month to build it. Wait for the ground to freeze and snow to fall, and slowly pack up the furniture in the house. In the coming year, they can move in separately, and the old couple can be regarded as having completed a big thing.

"You and your master say goodbye, and get the doors and windows ready. Don't take other people's work first, there is a lot of carpentry work in Xiaowu's yard alone. I still have to buy wood, and I will talk about it when I can't get enough. Let's do as you say. After Zhang Dad finished speaking, he began to pull up the iron plow again.