The weather is getting colder and colder, and there is no pigweed to cut in the mountains, so the pigs eat some wheat bran and sweet potatoes every day.

Zhou Xiaoran has less work, and she also found that the recent pigsty is always clean, and she doesn't even need to clean it.

Zhou Xiaoran, who is idle, will secretly look at books, all of which were put into the space in the previous life, with a red treasure book on his face as a cover.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Zhou Xiaoran hurriedly threw the novel into the space and opened the red treasure book.

"Are you done with your work, and you're lazy." It was two dogs, carrying chopped hay, to feed the sheep.

"Of course, I'm not lazy, I didn't see me study."

The second dog who was feeding the sheep turned around when he heard this, "By the way, can you lend me your book?" ”

"What book?"

"Textbooks for the third year of junior high school."

Ergouzi only went to the second year of junior high school, and the junior high school in the county went on strike, and the children in the countryside entered school late, so although Ergouzi was one year older than Zhou Xiaoran, he was one grade lower than Zhou Xiaoran.

"Okay, no problem." After speaking, he added: "I also have high school textbooks, and I can borrow them from you if you want to see them." Before going to the countryside, Zhou Xiaoran found a set of high school textbooks, and wanted to study on his own when he had time to prepare for the college entrance examination in the future.

Ergouzi pursed his lips, "I don't need it for the time being." ”

After feeding the sheep, the second dog saw that Zhou Xiaoran was still sitting still, "Why do the pigs eat less sweet potatoes so quickly?" Did you steal it? ”

Zhou Xiaoran fell on her back, how could she steal the pig's food! Those sweet potatoes are leftovers from dried sweet potatoes, who will eat them!

Zhou Xiaoran glared at the second dog, "You just ate pig food!" ”

"How did it go so fast?"

Zhou Xiaoran rolled his eyes, "Isn't this about to be slaughtered, I just want to feed more and see if I can sprint in the end and grow a few more catties of meat." ”

Ergouzi was silent for a moment, "You also said that it was about to be slaughtered, this pig has grown to the limit, and no matter how much you eat, it won't grow much." ”

All right.

"Then don't feed it."

The second dog didn't say anything more, and cleaned the sheepfold with his head bored.

After a while, the sheepfold was also swept away, and Zhou Xiaoran still sat with the book flipped, staring at the book motionless.

Are you reading a book? How do you look like you're wandering?

"Have you swept your pigsty?"

Zhou Xiaoran was planning to make a big meal tonight, when he was suddenly interrupted and a little unhappy.

"Then you don't go yet, wait for me to sweep you."

.......

Okay, she's going to sweep the pigsty now.

Ergouzi looked at Zhou Xiaoran moving with difficulty and was a little funny, this girl is too easy to be bullied, and at the same time he is also a little depressed, didn't she find out that the pigsty two days ago was cleaned by herself? The feeling of doing good deeds and not being known is really scratching, and he can't take the initiative to say it.

Zhou Xiaoran skillfully cleaned up the pigsty, and while cleaning up, she also thought about what delicious food she was going to make when she went back at night.

Call it a day, leave work.

"Comrade Yang Hao, I'll go first, see you tomorrow."

The second dog just watched Zhou Xiaoran leave in a dashing manner.

Zhou Xiaoran, who returned home, first went into the space to kill a chicken, braised potatoes, picked some vegetables and beans from the vegetable field, and stuffed rice out of the space, and when the chicken was cooked and the rice was ready, she could eat after frying the vegetables and beans, but unfortunately she still didn't dare to drink, for fear that someone would come to her, the dishes could be put into the space, but the taste of the wine was not easy to remove immediately.

It's still early to finish eating, and she plans to go to the Zhiqing Point to eliminate food.

Before leaving, she also loaded five catties of cornmeal, the last time she went, she saw that the food of the young people was about to bottom out, and she would definitely not be able to eat the year-end grain, in fact, if the two bags of grain given by the captain were saved, there would be no problem in eating the grain, but the young people had just arrived, and there was no success in the problem of food, and she always thought in her heart, can the team really see that they are hungry, Zhou Xiaoran knows that that kind of situation is possible, you think, if you are the captain, That must not make the educated youth develop the bad habit of reaching out to the team from the beginning, there are countless times when there is a first time.

"Xu Hui, are you cooking today?" When Zhou Xiaoran arrived, he saw that Xu Hui was busy in the kitchen.

Xu Hui raised his head and saw that it was Zhou Xiaoran, and continued to work with a "hmm" sound.

"I saw that your food was almost exhausted, so I brought you a little bit."

Xu Hui looked at her in surprise.

Zhou Xiaoran put down the bag in his hand.

"I also persuade you more, you should save a little, every household in the team has no surplus food, and when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the team can't help if they want to."

Xu Hui also felt Zhou Xiaoran's kindness, and his face was not as cold as just now, "I also know this, but some people.... Forget it, thank you for the food, have you eaten it? Let's eat a piece. ”

Zhou Xiaoran heard Xu Hui ask her if she had eaten, and she almost couldn't hold back her burp, and paused before saying, "Cough, no need, I've eaten, what about the others?" ”

"We went to collect firewood on the mountain, and the firewood we prepared before was not enough for the winter."

As soon as the words fell, the sound of talking sounded in the courtyard.

Zhou Xiaoran walked out, and sure enough, the other four people came back.

"Xiaoran, you came just in time, we have a big harvest today." As soon as Yu Xiangyang saw Zhou Xiaoran, he put down the firewood on his back, and carefully took out a handful of bird eggs from the firewood with both hands.

"Look, this is the bird's egg I took out, and I'll bake a piece to eat later."

Zhou Xiaoran looked at the joyful expressions on the faces of several people, and he was embarrassed to show that he didn't care, and he also happily agreed: "You guys are really capable, you can dig out bird eggs this kind of day." ”

Yu Xiangyang excitedly threw the bird's egg into the stove.

"Comrade Zhou Xiaoran."

It's Zhou Yi.

Zhou Xiaoran was strange, she and Zhou Yi had never spoken.

"Originally, I was going to look for you, but I didn't expect you to come first."

Zhou Xiaoran wondered, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Zhou Yi motioned for Zhou Xiaoran to follow him to the corner.

"I want to ask you, where did you get your fine grain?"

Zhou Xiaoran chuckled, looking at his serious face, a little unsure of what he meant.

"How.... What's wrong? I bought it from the county, and I went to the county seat just in time for the supply. ”

Zhou Yi let out an "oh" in disappointment when he heard this.

Zhou Xiaoran understands it, and the feeling is that he also wants to buy it, so he said it earlier!

"You want it too?"

Zhou Yi looked at Zhou Xiaoran with a "nonsense" expression, "You have also seen it, our grain has bottomed out, and besides, I will eat sweet potatoes all the time... I'm about to vomit. ”

Zhou Xiaoran snickered, he wanted to talk about constipation.

"Hmm.... In this case....." Zhou Xiaoran deliberately looked a little hesitant.

As soon as Zhou Yi listened, her eyes lit up, could it be that she really had some way.

"Don't worry, I will never spread the word, if you get food, give it to me from the county, and I will say that it was sent from my home."

Zhou Xiaoran pretended to make up his mind, "Okay, I just see that you really can't get by, I just have a classmate's cousin who runs transportation, and he can often exchange some materials from other provinces, but the price is more expensive, don't worry, it won't be higher than the black market." ”

Zhou Yi put his mind at ease, it may not be possible to buy it at a high price on the black market, and the price does not exceed that of the black market, which is really a conscience.

The two parties agreed to wait for the news, and Zhou Xiaoran would inform Zhou Yi again.

Zhou Xiaoran began to make plans after returning home.

She doesn't plan to do this kind of thing just once, the food growth cycle in the space is very short, and the yield is also high, so even if the area is not large, the crops produced are piled up considerably, no, the space is getting full, she always has to vacate something.

It's good to trade in the county, but it's not easy to find a place, and she can't let people see her taking things out of the space. It would be nice to have a house, but it doesn't seem cost-effective to buy a house for the sake of it.

Or take the time to go to the county seat for inspection.

So, she went to the captain Yang Yougen's house again.

Uncle Yougen agreed without saying a word, and asked her to go with Ergouzi.

This time there was no tractor to sit on, but the second dog got a bicycle out of nowhere.

It's a great piece of stuff, especially in the countryside, and it's hard for a team to see one.

"Get in the car." The second dog shook his head and shouted at Zhou Xiaoran in a dashing manner, the posture was like a Lamborghini.

"Ergouzi, you can do this enough, where did you get it?"

The second dog's eyes were horizontal, and Zhou Xiaoran was immediately shocked and speechless, "Yang Hao, Yang Hao." ”

Two dogs.... Yang Hao kicked up satisfied.

"Actually, according to me, your name is not as good as before, isn't there a saying called dog takes a mouse, it can be seen that in the food chain, the dog is in the upper layer of the mouse."

Yang Hao rode the car and suddenly tilted it, and it took a long time to mutter: "That's not how dogs use mice." ”

Zhou Xiaoran didn't bother to pay attention to him, this dirt road was too bumpy, Rao was she prepared in advance, tied a small mattress to the back seat, and when she arrived in the county seat, she couldn't feel the existence of her buttocks, or was the tractor comfortable.......

"You can go what you want to do, let's split up and meet here at two o'clock, shall we?"

Yang Hao stuffed his head and didn't speak, he didn't have anything! What is he going to do?

Zhou Xiaoran took him as if he agreed and left.

She first went to the post office to send the letter, and then went to the house of the eldest sister who bought eggs last time.

I went but found that there was a lot of noise, and I was moving?

Zhou Xiaoran was about to leave, but the timing was not good, there were too many people.

The eldest sister saw Zhou Xiaoran, her eyes lit up, and she stopped Zhou Xiaoran, it has been more than two months since the last time she bought eggs.

"Little Comrade"

"Big sister" Actually, Zhou Xiaoran should call her aunt at her current age, but when it comes to business, there is obviously no harm in desserts.

"Come, come, you come with me."

The eldest sister took Zhou Xiaoran into the house, walked into one of the rooms, and closed the door.

"I'm really sorry, just in time to move, but don't worry, no one will come in this house, by the way, I didn't introduce myself last time, my surname is Cai, you just call me Sister Cai."

"Hello Sister Cai, my surname is Zhou, you are... Moving out? "I don't know where I'm going to move or if I'll be able to continue this business in the future.

"It's not that I'm going to move out, it's our old people who want to move in, it turns out that the two old people live in an old house on the edge of the county, isn't it old, so they will take it over and live together."

I see.

Well? Zhou Xiaoran suddenly had an idea.

"Eldest sister, you are really filial, I still have 50 eggs this time, do you want to?"

"Yes, why not, now that there are more old people, eggs are even more needed, I want all 50, how about I add a pack of sugar to you on the basis of the last price?" Both of her family belong to the sugar factory, and there is no shortage of this thing.

This Zhou Xiaoran didn't care, but he still thanked him happily.

The eldest sister hurriedly began to pour the eggs.

Zhou Xiaoran pretended to be chatting, "It's better to live in the city, there are still many inconveniences in the suburbs." ”

"It's not, we live in a sugar factory, close to the supply and marketing cooperatives, close to the school, even the train station is just over with your legs, it's inconvenient to buy things in the suburbs, not to mention, and there are often power outages, how can you live without electricity."

Zhou Xiaoran smiled, there are many rural places where electricity is not connected.

"yes, but that house is unoccupied now, and it's a pity that it's empty."

Sister Cai continued: "We want to rent out, but that place is not easy to rent, the city is not willing to live there, and who in the countryside rents there." ”

"You want to rent it?" Zhou Xiaoran was pleasantly surprised at first, and then stopped talking.

Seeing her like this, Sister Cai couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" Tell me anything. ”

Zhou Xiaoran said embarrassedly: "That's the case, I have a cousin, who does a good carpenter job, and many people in the county are looking for him to do work, gradually, he doesn't want to farm, the village is too far away from the county seat, and every transportation is extremely inconvenient, so he wants to come to the county seat, but it is not easy to find a house in the city, and it is not convenient, I heard you say this today, I think your old house is very suitable, and I am afraid that you think my cousin is doing speculative things, and I dare not tell you." ”

When Sister Cai heard this, she waved her hand indifferently, "What should I do, this carpenter work can be regarded as eating by labor, not speculation, if your cousin wants to rent a house, you can just let him come to me." ”

Zhou Xiaoran wanted to buy it directly.

"Sister Cai, I don't know if you want to sell it?"

Sister Cai was surprised, "Sell? Your cousin wants to buy it? ”

Of course she is willing to sell, the place is not easy to rent, and the house will be bad if you don't live for a long time.

"If the price is right and he can afford it, he still wants to buy it, after all, he always feels that renting a house is not as comfortable as living in his own house."

"If you want to sell it, it's not good for me to make my own decisions, so let's talk to my family, and I'll give you an answer in a few days, do you think?"

"Of course, then I'll go back and ask my cousin, and I'll come to you in a few days."

The two of them decided so happily.

Zhou Xiaoran sold two hundred eggs according to the method last time.

I went to the supply and marketing cooperatives and bought some things for daily use.

She didn't continue to investigate the place, she thought that the house could be done most of the time.

When he arrived at the appointed place, Yang Hao was already waiting there.

Zhou Xiaoran stepped forward and handed over two large meat buns, which they were still bought at a state-run restaurant.

Yang Hao, who was originally dark, finally showed a smile when he saw the meat bun.