The village chief found them a family with good conditions in the village, middle and upper class.

There are a total of five people in the family, two elders in the family, plus two sons and a daughter-in-law.

Their house is still quite wide, with three main rooms, three on the left and right, and the two on the right look much newer.

Outside, a fence fenced out of the yard came out, and some vegetables were planted in the yard, and two chickens were raised.

They were arranged in the two wings on the left, Yang Xue and Li Bokang chose the outermost one, Lai Xing and Zhao County Lieutenant and the little Wang Zhuai brought to live in the middle room, and the innermost room was the master's house.

After Yang Xue settled down, she looked at the general distribution of their house, the wing room on the left was used for living people, and the one on the right was a kitchen utility room and a livestock room.

At dinner, the host invited them to dinner, but they were a little hesitant.

They can also see that the situation in their family is actually not very good, there are five of them, and they have to eat a lot of a meal.

Therefore, Li Bokang refused at first, saying that they brought their own food, so they would not eat with them.

But the host said, "Are the guests disgusted with our food?" ”

The host's family is also very kind, and he also knows that their family's food is not good, and today because of Li Bokang's arrival, their family cooked some more rice.

However, their family still eats multigrain rice, saying that the rice is indeed dry, a little thin porridge, and a little dry.

Moreover, they are very simple, boiled cabbage with a little oil, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, and a plate of pickles.

Both oily dishes have very little oil, and you can't see it unless you look closely.

However, this is already the best in their family so far.

Although the situation of their family is good in the village, because they are in a hurry, they can only do this.

Li Bokang still wanted to refuse, but Yang Xue agreed when he spoke.

She said to the host, "Then thank you, uncle." ”

After speaking, he pulled Li Bokang's sleeve, and then looked at County Lieutenant Zhao.

Li Bokang didn't speak when he saw this, he thought that she should have thought of something before agreeing, he understood her.

Indeed, Yang Xue had an immature idea, if they ate with the host's family, maybe they could take the opportunity to learn about the situation in the village from them during the meal.

Besides, they have eaten tonight, and it is okay to leave them some money and rice before leaving tomorrow.

Therefore, she responded before Li Bokang spoke, but she didn't know if the county lieutenant Zhao would agree before she looked at him.

County Lieutenant Zhao may have had many accidents today, so when Yang Xue agreed, he no longer showed an unexpected expression.

He also nodded in agreement, he thought very simply, if the food is delicious, he will eat more, and if it is not delicious, it will eat less, and it will not affect anyway.

When the host saw it, he hurriedly led them to the dining hall, which was the one in the middle of the main room.

In the lobby, their family was already there, but none of them were on the table, some were standing aside, and some were doing other things.

After entering, Uncle Wang let them sit down, and then let his family sit down.

After they sat down, Yang Xue found that there were two people missing, and Aunt Wang and their daughter-in-law were not there.

She knew a little in her heart, but she thought that they were guests, and she couldn't let the host's family eat on the side, maybe the food was not as good as theirs.

So she asked, "Uncle Wang, what about Aunt Wang, why didn't you see them?" ”

They'd all seen it before, so it wasn't confusing for her to ask.

Sure enough, Uncle Wang didn't think there was anything strange when he heard this, so he said, "They ate in the kitchen." ”

Yang Xue had a feeling in her heart, and then she said: "How good is that, let them come out to eat together, there are many people and it is lively." ”

At this moment, the eyes of the people at the table were basically on her.

Uncle Wang said, "That's good, let them eat in the kitchen." ”

Yang Xue also insisted a little, so she said, "Uncle, let them eat together, so that it won't seem that I am the only woman on the table." ”

Li Bokang understood what she meant, and also said: "Yes, uncle, let the aunt come out and eat together." ”

Uncle Wang was still a little hesitant when he heard this, but his eldest son and younger son were a little moved, and they looked at him.

In the end, Uncle Wang finally agreed under the gaze of several people, and said to his youngest son: "Shengzi, go and ask your mother to come to dinner with your sister-in-law." ”

When the son heard this, he quickly got up and went to the kitchen to call someone.

Aunt Wang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were a little surprised when they heard this, and finally packed up.

When everyone was ready, they began to eat.

During the meal, Uncle Wang said: "The food at home is rough, don't dislike it." ”

After Uncle Wang said this, the whole family looked at them, for fear of seeing some disgust on their faces.

This time it was Li Bokang who said it, he said: "It's already very good, but the uncle is too worried." ”

Now Uncle Wang's family was relieved, they didn't see a look of disgust and contempt on their faces before.

When eating, they also don't pay attention to the rule of eating and sleeping, and there are few such habits in the countryside.

So when eating, Yang Xue and Li Bokang always had a lot of questions to ask Uncle Wang's family.

Their problems are very fragmented, and there is nothing special about them separately, but if you summarize them all, you can get a lot of useful news for them.

By the end of dinner, they had a general understanding of the col and the economic situation in their village.

There are about 50 families in the village of Lianshanao, and there are so many families in the village but there is only one cow.

This cow is the most valuable thing in their village.

In addition, there are very few pig-raising families in the village, at most two chickens, and many families do not have enough to eat all year round.

Uncle Wang's family is okay, he can eat enough for two or three months a year, and he can eat half full at other times.

In addition, they have very little land in their village, and more land, but the harvest is not very good. Careful service is only less than 200 catties of income a year, so most of the families in the village still live in grass huts.

They also inquired about the reason why the land harvest was not good, and for a while, Uncle Wang couldn't say why.

However, the most talked about is that the fertility of the land is insufficient.

Hearing this, Yang Xue understood a little in her heart, probably because of the annual cultivation, but the annual fertility could not keep up.

Although Uncle Wang also said that they would let the land be raised for a period of time every year, she knew that those times were not enough for the land to cultivate and recuperate.

Of course, the most important thing is that fertility is not enough, their fertilizer comes from manure, but it is not enough to produce manure by themselves.

That's why the land is so barren and the annual income is so small.

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