Lu Changhua has handed over the shift.

He followed the food delivery cart from the canteen back to the family area.

He jumped out of the car and said, "Dad, I'm going home first, I'm a little tired today." ”

"You go back first, I still have something to do in the cafeteria."

Lu Zaigao looked at his son, pointed his finger at his hair, looked disgusted, didn't say anything, and took the people in the cafeteria to get busy.

Han Ying held on to the railing of the trailer and shouted at him, "...... to play with you at night"

Lu Changhua glanced at her and waved his hand.

When the wheeled tractor drove away suddenly, the surrounding anger came to the face.

On both sides of the road inside the sand-paved field, a one-meter-deep drainage ditch is dug, and willow trees as thick as a sea bowl are planted on the side of the ditch.

Behind the clucking old hen, followed by a dozen fluffy chicks, chirping anxiously calling for their mother.

A few ducks in the ditch swam back and forth in the sewage, looking for what they thought was a delicacy.

A few little kids chirped and shouted slogans, "Rush the duck ~ kill the duck ~"

Whistling and kicking rushed past Lu Changhua's side and ran into the artemisia grass by the ditch.

After a short effort, a loud cry came from the grass.

This gravel road runs east and west through the entire family area.

Lu Changhua's house is at the east end of this road, sitting on a bungalow facing south from the north, the first one in the east.

In the northeast in April, the snow has melted, and the spring breeze is strong, blowing the floating soil on the ground into the sky.

He walked along the road and greeted several family members of employees.

The Lu family lived in four bungalows this trip, Lu Jiadong, Hu Jiaxi, and the He family and Mao family in the middle.

Not far from Hu's house in the west, there is a huge wooden watchtower, with a height of more than 20 meters, the staircase at the bottom has been demolished, and half of the staircase is suspended in the air, swinging with the wind, making a creaking sound.

Changshui Farm used to be a labor camp, but later changed its nature and became a state-run farm, and this watchtower is a testimony to the times.

"Yo, Changhua is off work?"

Aunt Hu stood in the yard scattering grass seeds, and several old hens clucked around the middle-aged woman.

Looking at Aunt Hu, who was much younger, Lu Changhua sighed in his heart, it's good to be young!

"Uncle Mao, go to work?"

The courtyard door next to Hu's house was pushed open, and out came a small, dark-skinned middle-aged man with an army-green coat on his arm.

"Ah, go to work, you're back?"

"Hey, I'm back."

Uncle Mao is said to be a veteran who participated in the Korean War, but no one has said anything about the specific situation, and Lu Changhua has only occasionally heard others mention it.

No one in the He family is at home, and there is a lock hanging on the courtyard door.

The road in front of Lu Changhua's house extends far to the east and is connected to the machine farming road.

Two hundred meters away to the east, there are two large fields, one south and one north, which are the logistics vegetable fields of the three fields.

On the south side of the road, there is a row of adobe houses, which are used for the management of the vegetable garden, where the pesticides and fertilizers needed to grow vegetables are located, as well as agricultural tools such as hoes and sickles.

The daily food of the staff of the entire third branch is served here.

All the family members of the workers have to participate in the work of the vegetable garden, and the salary is 1 yuan a day, and if they persist, the salary is higher than that of the first-class workers.

On the south side of the vegetable garden management room is the seedling base, where the seedlings of various vegetables are cultivated and then transplanted to the fields on the north and south sides of the machine-cultivated road.

This machine farming road is flanked by street willow trees. There are more than 20 acres of special land for the vegetable garden on both sides, and it is the most lively place in summer and autumn, and every day after work, the family members gather in the vegetable garden, buy vegetables, and go home to prepare meals, which has become a disguised vegetable market.

After nearly 400 meters of vegetable garden machine farming road, and then to the east is the small reservoir that Lu Changhua has in mind.

In fact, it was not for the purpose of repairing any reservoir at the beginning, but for more convenient transfer of agricultural machinery.

There is a north-south ditch with a width of more than 400 meters, which separates the family area from the eastern plot.

There is a small stream flowing through the ditch all year round.

A wetland has also formed nearby.

This has caused great trouble to agricultural production and life.

In order to solve this problem, the farm should build a civil machine farming road across the east and west, so that there can be fewer detours and save a lot of time and oil.

In this way, the farm water conservancy team planned and built this mechanized road, and placed a cement culvert in the middle of the road as a channel for the stream to flow.

Speaking of which, the road has been strengthened and widened many times, and now an earthen dam with a length of more than 400 meters and a width of 8 meters has been formed.

After the eighties, a sluice gate was added to the culvert, and a small reservoir covering an area of nearly 20 acres was formed on the south side of the dam.

Historically, the reservoir has been used as a source of water for irrigation of farmland.

It's not that no one thought of raising fish, but they did.

As the actual manager, the three-point field certainly wants to use this reservoir.

But at that time, the reservoir had just been built, and the water body was very thin, and 10,000 tail fish fry were put in, either because the flood fish ran away, or the fish were thin and weak, and there was no meat, so the effect was not great.

Another important reason is that there are several small rivers near the third field, and wild fish are abundant, and many employees will go to fish and touch shrimp, and the leaders of the field have put out the idea of fish farming.

Glancing at the reservoir in the east where there was still some ice and snow, Lu Changhua smiled at the corner of his mouth.

Walking to the gate of his house, he whimpered, and a big yellow dog shook his head and tail and rushed over.

"Xiong Bao?"

Lu Changhua was excited in his heart, this was his former playmate, raised since he was a child, he didn't expect to go back in time and see it again.

He remembered that Xiong Bao was shot with a small-caliber gun during next year's dog fighting campaign.

This incident has always been a pain in Lu Changhua's heart.

Pulling open the courtyard door, Xiong Bao pounced, claws on his body, unwilling to let go.

Lu Changhua looked at Xiong Bao's moist eyes, couldn't help choking, holding its head with both hands, rubbing the dog's face with his face, Xiong Bao's big tongue licked and licked Lu Changhua's face.

"My son is off work?"

An extremely familiar voice sounded, and Lu Changhua looked up to see a small woman in her forties pushing open the door and looking at him.

"Mom, I'm back."

"Hurry up and wash your face and get ready to eat."

"Huh."

Lu Changhua's mouth responded, but his eyes were red as if they had entered sand.

As soon as you enter, there is a kitchen, and two iron pots are installed on the stove.

One bite inside is boiled pig food, with a faint smell of wild vegetables.

The pot outside is the rice pot of the whole family, stir-fried vegetables and steamed steamed buns, and the noodles are multi-purpose.

The lid of the pot was steaming, and the aroma of vegetables wafted through the air with the heat.

Lu Changhua sniffed.

"Mom, the food is so fragrant, what delicious did you make?!"

"There's nothing to eat, there's something to eat."

Mother Lu said happily.

Xiong Bao surrounded Lu Changhua, turning back and forth.

"Go wash your face."

"Huh."

Turn to the left and push open a wooden door, which is where the Lu family's living room, dining room and bedroom are located.

Next to the window on the south side, there is a wrought-iron washstand, and a basin of hot water is on the shelf, steaming lightly.

Lu Changhua took off his work clothes and washed his face in a hurry.

Soon the basin of water turned black.

He walked out into the courtyard with the water, poured it on the ground, went to the water tank by the pot to scoop up a few scoops of cold water, and washed it again.

After washing, he opened the dining table at home, set the table on the edge of the kang, and took the dishes and chopsticks to set them up.

Lu's mother put the steamed buns in the pot in the pot and shoveled the vegetables into the plate with a spatula.

"Mom, it's still your craftsmanship that is good, cabbage and potatoes can be so fragrant!"

"There is no food now, so let's do it, and in June or July, it will be fine, and the food will come down."

"It's okay, that's good."

Lu Changhua sat on the stool, and his mother sat on the edge of the kang, and the two of them ate very fragrant dinner.

"You can't do this hair, find a time to shave it."

Although my mother dotes on Lu Changhua, this kind of dress is too shocking, and Lu's mother can't stand it.

"Okay, I'll shave it tomorrow."

"That's right, save your dad from being angry."

"Your brother wrote in the morning, saying that he is doing well at the radio station, so let's not worry about him."

When Lu's mother mentioned her eldest son, her face was proud.

Lu Changzhong is the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Changhua's eldest brother, and is two years older than him.

Internship at the farm radio station.

Since graduating from the mechanical and electrical class of vocational high school, he has gone to the radio station, and he has been interning for a year, and he has not yet become a regular.

Lu Changhua knew that the eldest brother had a hard time at the radio station.

The so-called temple demon is windy, and the pool is small and the king is more. In that kind of organ unit, the personnel struggle is quite fierce, and if it is not done well, it will be squeezed out.

"If I have the chance, I'll go see my eldest brother, it's definitely not easy for him to be in the agency."

"It's good to know, you also have to fight hard and learn from your brother."

"Got it, Mom."

After dinner, Lu Changhua rushed to wash the dishes, and Lu's mother couldn't compete with her son, so she scooped a bucket of pig food, mixed it with a scoop of wheat bran, and took it to the pigsty to feed her two little piglets.

Lu Changhua boiled two scoops of water in the rice pot, and when the heat rose, he stopped the fire and put the dishes, chopsticks and plates into the pot to wash them.

The howl of the little pig could be heard through the gable, and Wei'er Wei'er's didn't know if she was hungry or coquettish with Lu's mother.

The wall clock on the wall had already pointed to seven o'clock, and Dad hadn't come back yet.

Lu's mother had finished cleaning inside and outside the house, and the light was extremely dim at this time, Lu Changhua pulled down the lamp rope, and the only three electrical bulbs in the house were not lit.

"Alas, there's another power outage."

Mom muttered to herself.

The room was lit up by dim candlelight.

A canned bottle is turned upside down and a candle is glued to the bottom of the bottle, which is a simple candle holder.

Today's Lu family can be described as a family with four walls.

There are only three kinds of electrical appliances in the house, electric lights, radios and flashlights.

Radios require batteries, and they are generally reluctant to use them, but if you can listen to them ten times a month or eight times, it is considered a high frequency.

Unless necessary, the electric light can be disused and costly.

As for flashlights, they are generally not used and cost money.

Such families are very common on farms.

Of course, a very small number of cadre families already have black-and-white televisions.

The price of four or five hundred dollars is daunting.

Lu Changhua remembers that his family bought a black-and-white TV set 88 years later.

Looking at such a living environment, he secretly made up his mind that he must get rich and be the one who got rich first!

Yes, contracting reservoirs, the money comes quickly, reasonably and legally.

It's just that the brother surnamed Yu is afraid that he will be cut off by himself.

Lu Changhua remembered that there was a flood disaster in the summer and autumn of this year, and the farm was seriously damaged, and the cadres and soldiers of the nearby artillery regiment came to support, and this year's grain output must have been reduced.

However, the small reservoir that can be divided into fields has benefited, and the water is sufficient, just for fish farming.

At the end of the year, the detailed policy of the workers' family farm was conveyed to the branch, and this is the best time to contract a small reservoir.

Just pondering, Xiong Bao barked wildly in the courtyard.

Someone shouted Lu Changhua's name outside the courtyard gate.

"Who?"

"Lu Changhua, take care of the dog, I'm afraid of it."

"It's okay, you come in."

Lu Changhua heard Han Ying's voice, so he tied Xiong Bao with a rope.

When Xiong Bao saw Lu Changhua coming, he shook his head and shook his head, so he was not affectionate.

"Who?"

"Han Ying."

"The girl from Director Han's family?"

Mom muttered, but got up and moved a stool.

As soon as she entered the house, Han Ying pulled Lu's mother to talk non-stop, and there were so many topics between women who didn't know where they came from.

Lu Changhua poured Han Ying a glass of boiled water.

"I'm sorry, I don't have good tea at home."

"I don't drink tea, boiling water is fine."

Han Ying looked at Lu Changhua's eyes with a sparkle of light.

"Ahem, Han Ying, are you looking for me?"

"Oh, you said today that you don't wear bell bottoms, is that true?"

"Oh, it's true. By the way, tomorrow I'm going into town to shave my hair. ”

"Huh? Isn't that blanched? ”

"This hairstyle doesn't work for me."

"Oh. Shall I accompany you tomorrow? ”

"You? Not going to work? ”

"I'm taking a leave of absence."

"You have to get up early, or you won't be able to catch the bus."

"Let's leave at five o'clock, let's go early."

Han Ying's eyes were shining.

"Okay, meet at the team headquarters."