As he spoke, Ye Xia was about to squat down and carry the third brother's back basket.

Seeing this, Jiang Xueshen hurriedly stopped: "It's very heavy, you can't carry it, be good, take Xiao Wu home, walk slowly on the road, be careful of falling, and when the time comes to get off work, the third brother will carry the basket back by himself." ”

After a pause, he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and Ye Xia was quite curious: "Third brother, just say what you want to say, I'll listen." ”

Jiang Xueshen scratched the back of his head, first smiled embarrassedly, and then said: "Our family doesn't have much rations, you have never cooked, so ...... Don't do it, play with Xiao Wu at home. ”

This is worrying that cooking by yourself is unpalatable and ruining food!

Ye Xia was amused in his heart, in his memory, the family had eaten a handful of porridge cooked with dried sweet potatoes in rough sorghum rice in the past two days, saying that it was porridge, it was really porridge, and it could look like a shadow, but even if it was such porridge, many families in the village couldn't eat it.

So what do these people eat?

Wheat bran, grass roots, elm leaves.

It is said that people in some places eat Guanyin soil to wrap their stomachs.

After a while, Ye Xia gathered his thoughts, raised his chin, and said with an arrogant face: "I know that you are afraid that my cooking will not be delicious and that my family's small amount of food will be wasted, so let's do it, you look at Xiao Wu, I'll go to our father." ”

As she spoke, she took out the strawberries in her pocket and stuffed them into the third brother's hand: "Then I'll go." ”

After that, she turned around and ran away.

"Xia Xia, do you know where our father is? Xia Xia! You come back, come back quickly, don't go, it's dangerous in the mountains! ”

Looking away from the strawberry in his hand, Jiang Xueshen looked at Ye Xia's back as he ran away, and shouted at the opening of his throat.

At the same time, Jiang Xuexing's milk voice also raised: "Sister! Sister, come back quickly, it's dangerous in the mountains! ”

Last night, there was a space to fill her stomach, Ye Xia had the strength, and I saw that she kept running under her feet, running fast.

"Our dad entered the mountain from the east, Xia Xia, did you hear that? You can find our dad from the east position, don't go to the mountains, you must remember! ”

Jiang Xueshen wanted to chase his sister, but he was herding cattle in the team, and there was still a little brother standing beside him, if the cow and the little brother had a case, then how would he explain to the team and his parents?

But this is up to my sister to go to the mountains to find her father...... Jiang Xueshen didn't dare to think about it, and he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, Jiang Xuexing raised his milk voice: "Third brother, I'm worried about my sister, let's not find my mother!" ”

Mom is an adult, and she will come up with a way to get her sister back.

"Yes, yes, find Mom!"

Jiang Xueshen said, picked up the basket, pulled the cow with one hand, and led his younger brother with the other, and walked down the mountain: "Do you know what that is?" ”

Jiang Xuexing glanced at the schoolbag on the third brother's shoulder, and the milky voice overflowed from his mouth: "Strawberries, this is what my sister said, when I was hunting pheasants and hares, my sister saw strawberries, and when she took them all home, she took them home for her parents and brothers." ”

Looking at his younger brother, Jiang Xueshen frowned slightly: "How does your sister know that thing is called strawberries?" ”

Jiang Xuexing shook his head, and his big black eyes turned: "My sister didn't say it, but I think this name should be taken by my sister casually!" ”

"Your sister is quite good at making names."

Strawberry?

There is fruit growing in the grass, and it is suitable to call it strawberries, Jiang Xueshen thought about it, and nodded involuntarily.

Jiang Xuexing straightened his small body and said proudly: "My sister is the smartest, and she is very powerful." ”

This rainbow fart is blowing, if Ye Xia hears it, he will definitely be amused.

Lin Lan was turning over the ground, and suddenly heard the voice of the young son coming from far and near, and when she looked up, she saw the young son running towards her with short legs, like a small cannonball.

"Little Wu, slow down, slow down, what's wrong? What about your sister? ”

Putting down the hoe, Lin Lan's heart jumped "suddenly", for fear of hearing bad news, for fear that something would happen to her daughter.

"Mom, my sister went to the mountains to find Dad!"

As soon as she was hugged by her mother, Jiang Xuexing hurriedly said, hearing this, Lin Lan was so frightened that she immediately sat on the ground, and when she came back to her senses, she didn't care about helping her young son up, so she ran towards the mountain: "Boss and second, you look at Xiao Wu." ”

After running a few meters away, she paused, looked back at the eldest and second sons who were stunned in the ground, said a word of advice, and then wiped the corners of her eyes, and continued to run up the hill like crazy.

The head of the family takes people into the mountains to hunt, and nine times out of ten they have to go deep, otherwise, most of them will have to return empty-handed.

And now that every family is short of food, they don't want to starve to death, the big guy is bound to look for prey in the depths of the mountain, and the girl is going into the mountain to find the head of the house, why does this child suddenly make a fool and make the adults anxious?

"Little Wu, what's going on?"

Jiang Xuejin is the eldest brother, and he woke up from the fact that his sister went into the mountain to find his father, he dropped his hoe and came to Jiang Xuexing, squatting, and his facial expression was particularly serious.

Jiang Xuexing's eyes were full of tears, he sniffed and said, "My sister has something to look for my father, and my third brother and I can't stop calling my sister, so I came to find my mother." ”

Without waiting for Jiang Xueyan to continue asking, Jiang Xueyan, the second brother, asked angrily, "What about your third brother?" ”

The third child seems to have itchy skin, and he knew that his sister was going into the mountains to find his father, but he didn't stop his sister, and his sister was messing around.

Jiang Xuexing raised his hand and wiped it on his face, met the second brother's angry gaze, and raised his milk voice: "The third brother will go and send the cow back to the brigade, I will run over to find my mother first, second brother, my sister will not have an accident, right?" ”

didn't continue to take care of his younger brother, Jiang Xueyan threw the hoe in his hand, and was about to run towards the mountain, but unexpectedly, Jiang Xuejin took the lead in stepping forward: "Second brother, you stay and take care of Xiao Wu, I'll go after our mother and get Xia Xia back." ”

Everyone in the village knows how dangerous it is in the depths of the mountain, so Jiang An, as the captain, discussed with the village party secretary and the members of the leadership team, and once he saw wild boars and other large animals in the forest, he immediately stopped.

If nothing is found by the middle of the sun, the three teams must withdraw from the woods to avoid accidents.

"Mom! Mother! Slow down, Xia Xia is very clever, nothing can happen! ”

Jiang Xuejin caught up with his mother, and as soon as he opened his mouth to say a word, he saw someone running down the mountain, and in an instant, he raised his heart to his throat, grabbed his mother's left arm and said, "Mom, look, it seems to be my fourth uncle." ”

Lin Lan was worried about her daughter, so she didn't hear her eldest son's words clearly, seeing this, Jiang Xuejin looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer, and hurriedly said to his mother: "Mom, it's my fourth uncle, how can I see that my fourth uncle is very happy!" ”

"Second sister-in-law, second sister-in-law......"

Jiang An has six brothers and sisters, according to the order of age, the younger sister is the third, but in the order of the family, there are only five brothers; And Jiang An and Lin Lan have five children, and they don't want their daughters to feel neglected, so the two of them directly put their daughters and four sons in order, which also gives the nickname of their youngest son Jiang Xuexing.

Speaking of which, it is also very convenient for Grandpa Jiang to name the six brothers and sisters of Jiang An, the first four are directly arranged in the four characters of Ping, An, Xi and Le, and the two sons in the back are the words "Heshun". At this time, it was Jiang An's fourth brother Jiang He, who ran in front of Lin Lan's mother and son, with a Chinese face, thin and tall, twenty-eight years old, and he ran very neatly.

"Xuejin, you are about to go to the ground and call people, there is food, we have food, quickly call the men of our village to come and gather, go quickly!"

After saying this sentence in one breath, Jiang He adjusted his breathing and said to Lin Lan again: "Second sister-in-law, are you going to find Xia Xia?" ”

Lin Lan grabbed his arm, his eyes were red, and he asked urgently, "His fourth uncle, what about Xia Xiaren?" Did you see that girl, she said to go find your second brother. ”

Jiang He smiled so much that he couldn't see his eyes, raised his hand to signal Lin Lan to be calm, and said: "Second sister-in-law, Xia Xia is fine, it's Xia Xia who said that she found food in a place, found my second brother, and told the big guy." ”

When Jiang Xuejin heard that his sister was safe, he turned around and ran to the village.

Lin Lan's hanging heart fell back to the ground, wiped the corners of her eyes, her voice was a little hoarse, and she asked puzzledly: "Xia Xia found food?" What's going on? ”

Jiang He scratched his head, showed a mouthful of big white teeth, and said with a smile:

"Our Xia Xia is very clever, running in the forest is not slower than my fourth uncle, as soon as she found my second brother, she said that she didn't see her family early in the morning, so she took Xiao Wu up the mountain,"

"I saw if I could find something to eat, but as I walked, I found a big cave, and because I was curious, I ran to the cave to take a look, and opened two sacks and grabbed something from each of them."

"Out of the cave, she saw clearly that she was holding grain in her hand, my second brother and the big guy both looked at it, Xia Xia grabbed moldy grain in her left hand, but the grain she grabbed in her right hand was good, Xia Xia said that there were a lot of sacks in that cave,"

"No, I'm afraid that the three of us who hunted together won't be able to move it all, so the second brother and Wang Zhishu will let me, the fastest runner in the whole village, go back to the village and call people, okay, all the grain will be moved down the mountain."

"How old is Xia Xia, she read it right, and how does she know that there are more good grains than moldy grains, and one or two bags of this one are good grains, enough for a few families?"

The girl is just seven years old, a seven-year-old girl, she doesn't understand anything, and she puts all her hopes on such a young child, can she be accurate?

If the disappointment is greater than the hope, then wouldn't her daughter's good character make the whole village complain?

As if seeing Lin Lan's worries, Jiang He said:

"The second sister-in-law is afraid that our family Xia Xia will make a mistake and be complained by the villagers in the end? In fact, the second sister-in-law doesn't have to worry at all, Xia Xia is an honest and kind good child, even if she is wrong, but her heart is good, she wants the people in the village to have food and not starve to death. ”

"Besides, the two handfuls of grain in Xia Xia's hand, one is moldy and the other is intact, let's think better, maybe half of it is good grain. Anyway, the people in our hunting team are very happy, and they don't praise Xia Xia a lot. ”

Lin Lan wanted to say something more, clinker, and when she raised her eyes, she saw a long line of people from the hunting team carrying boxy boxes, carefully coming down from the mountain.

……

In the cave, Ye Xia's eyebrows were crooked, and his fingers were piled into sacks and rice and flour bags like mountains for Jiang An to see: "Dad, I didn't lie to you, did I?" ”

Fortunately, she had caught a handful of moldy food when she left the cave at first, and then she had grabbed some good food from the space, otherwise, even if she found her father, the hunting party might not have believed her.

Also, she doubts her good luck, just think about it, how big the mountain is, she just remembered the words of the third brother, and entered the mountain from the east position, but found it at once, no, it was that her father was coming out of the mountain with a hunting team.

Luck is too good to say.

Jiang An and the branch secretary had already opened several bags from the mountains of sacks and rice and flour bags in front of them, and there were many more intact grains and rice noodles than moldy ones, which was really a big surprise.

In particular, they also found a lot of ammunition in the cave, which was once the lair of the invaders......

It wasn't until the sun was slanting in the west that the things in the cave were moved to the outside of the brigade headquarters of Da Lishu Village, and at this time, Jiang An personally went to the commune to report, and the director of the commune called the county leaders and reported it layer by layer, almost in less than two hours, a team of 100 people was sent to Da Lishu.

Large trucks drove into the village, and green and vigorous figures jumped out of the cars, replacing the militia of Da Lishu Village, guarding the pills and grain brought out of the cave, as well as rice and noodles.

"Kid, you really found that cave?"

Ye Xia's family, a county leader who was nearly fifty years old looked at Ye Xia kindly: "Uncle is not suspicious of you for anything, Uncle just wants to know how you found out and why you ran into the cave, can you tell Uncle?" ”

Meeting the other party's loving gaze, Ye Xia blinked his clear and innocent eyes, and said in a childish voice:

"I didn't want my parents and my brother to go hungry, so I took my brother up the mountain to see if I could find something to eat, I didn't know how long I walked, but when I saw a pheasant hiding in the grass, I thought about catching it so that I could take it home and make soup for the family to drink. Uncle, this is the pheasant,"

Pointing to the skinny pheasant on the ground, Ye Xia's eyes were shining, and he continued:

"I don't have much meat to look thin, but it's good to drink soup, so that my mom and dad and my brother and brother won't be hungry and weak, oh yes, this ...... Isn't this pheasant supposed to be collective, uncle? Then I don't want it, I'll give this pheasant to the collective, my dad is the captain, I'm my dad's daughter, I can't make mistakes. ”

The pheasant on the ground is the first pheasant that Ye Xia hit, it is native to the mountains, and it can't be compared with the pheasants in the space at all.

As for the other wild things, after she returned home from the mountain, she found the third brother as soon as possible, and the brother and sister hid the wild animals in a proper place.

It was a wild thing that she specially hunted for her family, and when the food was clean, she quietly sent a pheasant and a hare to her grandparents and grandparents, so that the old people on both sides could nourish and nourish.

"What a good boy."

The county leader who was talking to Ye Xia smiled kindly, and heard Ye Xia say again very naïvely:

"After I caught the pheasant, I was about to get up to look for my brother, but I didn't want to raise my eyes and saw a big gap in the cliff not far away, so I called my brother to my side and took him closer to see what was going on."

"Uncle, I was very curious at the time, it was curiosity that made me take my brother over, and when I got to the front and back, I opened the vines hanging on the edge of the gap, and found that the gap was not a gap,"

"It's a hole sealed by stones, I don't know if it was hit by a wild boar or something, a big stone was knocked off, and only then did it reveal such a gap, looking inside from the hole, I saw the steps, and I ...... I couldn't help but take my brother's hand and go down the steps. ”

"Aren't you afraid?"

The county leader asked with a smile.

Ye Xia replied without thinking: "I'm afraid, but I'm more curious than afraid, because that cave is so big, I wondered if there would be anything good hidden in it, but I kept walking into the depths of the cave, and I saw a lot of sacks and a lot of white bags." ”

The county leader smiled kindly and asked, "How did you think of opening the bag?" ”

Looking into each other's eyes, Ye Xia's clear eyes were full of innocence and purity: "Curious, I'm curious about what is in the bag, if it were food, so many bags, if it was full of food, so that Grandpa Cui would not starve himself to death because he gave his grandson eggs to save food,"

In order to dispel the suspicions that the other party might have about her, Ye Xia said, tears in her eyes, but she just didn't let the tears flow, and said:

"Many families in our village have run out of food, and my family ...... I heard my mom say that I can only eat two more cooked porridges at most...... Uncle, two handfuls of unpeeled sorghum rice and two handfuls of dried sweet potatoes are the only grain left over for my family of seven, boiled into porridge, which is no different from drinking water. ”

The village party secretary was in his fifties, surnamed Wang, listening to Ye Xia's words, wiping the corners of his eyes and saying to the county leader:

"Xia Xia is a good baby, she knows that there is no food at home, so she insists on starving herself and leaving the rest of the food for her brother to eat...... The previous one, just the previous one, the baby fainted at the gate of the hospital, but fortunately, she was fed half a bowl of brown sugar water by her milk, and she narrowly picked up a life. ”

As long as the grain and rice noodles are not pulled up above, a few tears will be shed, not to mention that in the current situation, everyone wants to cry, and there is nothing to laugh at.

The words of the girl's words hit the hearts of Jiang An's two people, and they were full of sourness, Jiang An'an looked at his daughter painfully, and then moved his eyes to the county leaders: "It's me who is the captain, and I have no ability to be a father, so that the members and the children at home can't eat, Secretary Qiao, I'm incompetent!" ”

"Comrade Jiang An, the villagers can't eat, this is a natural disaster, and it has nothing to do with you, the captain."

As he spoke, the county leader stepped aside, discussed in a low voice with several comrades who accompanied him, as well as several cadres from the Hongqu Commune, for about ten minutes, and came up with a grain distribution plan.

Food and rice and flour were limited, but there were so many people who were suffering from the disaster that their big pear tree brigade could not take all the grain and rice and flour for themselves just because they found them on their hills.

Moreover, there are eight brigades in Hongqu Commune alone, and each brigade has a different number of squads, if you really want to give those grains and rice and noodles to the entire Hongqu brigade, I am afraid that you can only live for two months, so you have to eat rarely, and then mix some wild vegetables or something in it, otherwise, it will be enough to choke for half a month.

"Comrade Wang Mingda, Comrade Jiang An, don't feel wronged, even if I don't say much, you also know that this famine is on a large scale, we can't just care about ourselves and don't care about the lives of other brothers and sisters, right? Moreover, the above is allocating relief food to our county, and when the food arrives, your brigade will be indispensable. ”

Speaking of this, the county leader moved his gaze back to Ye Xia: "The child's name is Xia Xia, right?" ”

Ye Xia nodded: "My big name is Jiang Xia, and my little name is Xia Xia." ”

Looking at her innocent and cute appearance, the county leader rubbed the top of her hair, and Ye Xia was very uncomfortable with shame, but she always had a well-behaved and generous smile on her face.

"Tell Uncle what reward you want."

This little girl has done a great job, discovering the hidden cave, and finding from it the large amount of ammunition left behind by the invaders when they retreated, as well as so much grain and rice and noodles, which is definitely a great achievement.

Just imagine, if those munitions are not found, and one day they are suddenly detonated accidentally, the consequences will definitely be not small.

As for the life-saving food and rice noodles, there is no need to say more, in short, the credit of the little girl cannot be ignored, and it must be rewarded.

Ye Xia blinked: "Reward? Why should I be rewarded? Those things are not mine, they were just discovered by accident, uncle, I can't ask for rewards, grandparents, parents often teach me, to be a good person, to be a person who contributes to the country and society, I don't want to reward. ”

Waving his hand, Ye Xia looked at his parents, and saw his dark-skinned, handsome father and mother, whose skin was a little sallow, and whose facial features could not hide their beauty, nodded at her with satisfaction, couldn't help pursing their lips, and smiled shyly.

She didn't blow her father's rainbow fart this time, and just now she blew her grandparents, as well as her mother's rainbow fart, it is not difficult to imagine that the county leader in front of her will definitely leave a good impression on her family.

At the same time, her father's work in the brigade will definitely be better in the future.

Having a captain dad is undoubtedly a good thing in this era, but ...... But there is also a bad point, that is, if there is something good above, his brothers and sisters are bound to stand aside, otherwise, the members of the club will have more or less opinions in their hearts, feeling that her father is using the power in his hands to benefit their brothers and sisters.

For example, in a few years, I was recommended by the brigade to go to college, and then I wore a big red flower and green clothes...... Anyway, for a good thing like this, their brothers and sisters don't want to get involved.

Thinking like this, Ye Xia calculated in her heart the time when her eldest brother and second brother would graduate from high school.

The eldest brother is fourteen, and he is in the second year of junior high school in the town, which means that he can take the college entrance examination in six or three years, but he can only take half of the college, unless the eldest brother skips a grade and skips two levels in a row, so that he can graduate from college smoothly and be assigned a job.

The second brother is twelve years old, studying in the sixth grade in the village, and if he wants to graduate from college, he has to jump at least four levels, which is a bit difficult for the second brother.

As for the third brother who is too young, she doesn't have to think about it for the time being when she goes to college, she is on her own...... It's good to live like this.

Diced beans ...... Take your time and don't rush.

"Rewards are indispensable, so let's wait for Uncle to return to the county, study it and see what kind of reward is good for you?"

The county leader smiled gently, said, rubbed the top of Ye Xia's hair again, and then walked out of the hall with the comrades who came with him, accompanied by Wang Zhishu and Jiang An.

Before nightfall, under the supervision of the comrades of the county and the commune, the village cadres operated, and the members of the Da Lishu Brigade were given about 25 meters and 25 catties of white flour to each household.

Originally, the grain was also going to be divided into points and clinker, but when the county leader and other comrades from the county opened the sack and grabbed a handful of grain to look at it, they all praised the full grain grains, which was really the first choice for grain seeds, so it was decided to distribute the grain as grain to the brigade for safekeeping, and cancel the distribution to each household.

After the good grain seeds are sown, more grain can be harvested in the coming year, and the bags of grain are pulled to the county along with the remaining rice and noodles after they are overgiven to the big pear tree brigade.

"It's all taken away, and the leader doesn't say to give us more points, I have a lot of mouths, where is there enough rice and noodles to eat!"

Looking at the long queue of trucks driving farther and farther, some members of the club cried and chattered, and soon, some members answered: "If you don't have enough to eat, you can save some food, or find a grain store to exchange some coarse grains, compared to the fact that we have so much rice and noodles now, people in other places still don't know how to be hungry." ”

"Yes, we can share these rice noodles, thanks to Xia Xia's girl, if Xia Xia hadn't found such a place on the mountain, I'm afraid the life of our village would be difficult!"

"It's this reason, Xia Xia Na'er is a good baby, we have to remember the baby's good."

"What do you say about those moldy grains and rice noodles, and what kind of tin cans?"

"Didn't the cadres from the county say that those things have long passed their expiration date, and they are poisonous inside, so they have to be destroyed."

"It's a pity, if those don't break, we can taste the tin can."

"I want to eat meat, it's more practical to dream!"

When the rice noodles were distributed, the members had smiles on their faces, carrying the rice noodles they had distributed, and there were faint smiles on their faces full of dishes.

……

"Sister, I didn't say anything!"

Jiang Xuexing really kept his mouth pursed, and was held by the second brother Jiang Xueyan, standing obediently between the eldest brother and the second brother, listening to his sister answering the questions of the big cadres from the county, and watching those uncles and uncles leave from his house.

Ye Xia winked at her younger brother, and when she saw that the three brothers were staring at her, she couldn't help but feel empty, and muttered, "Why do you keep staring at me?" ”

Jiang Xueshen spoke directly: "Don't explain to our parents?" ”

Tilting his head, Ye Xia looked ignorant: "What to explain?" ”

Jiang Xuejin was very helpless by her quirky appearance: "Is the basket that your third brother carries?" ”

"I hit it, there's nothing to explain about it, I don't believe you ask Xiao Wu."

Ye Xia had an innocent face, but he stuck out his tongue in his heart, his brothers seem to be difficult to deal with, what should he do?

God assisted Jiang Xuexing to raise his cute voice, looked at his brothers and said, "Sister didn't lie, I saw my sister hit pheasants and hares with stones, I didn't lie!" ”

Xiao Douding just saw her beat the sparrow with a stone in front of the third brother, this time, she lied in front of her brothers seriously, great, my younger brother, know how to help my sister speak.

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