After Jiang Zhi and the others left, the aunt began to chat with Jiang's mother and Qu's mother, and Jiang's mother and they also talked to their aunt and sister-in-law about what happened in the city.

I pulled Lu Fang to my side and sat down, ready to ask about the situation in Tashan Village.

"Xiaofang, when did you come back?" We have been able to meet Lu Fang when we come back in the past two summers, so we know her very well. This little girl is very nice and down-to-earth, and Jiang Zhi and I like her very much.

Lu Fang graduated last year, and her aunt's family was such a girl, and she was reluctant to leave, so when Lu Fang graduated, she came back to Y City and found a construction company in the city to work.

"I came back last November when it snowed." Lu Fang is also very happy to see us back now, and the tone of her voice is extremely happy.

"Your boss is fine this time, let you take a leave of absence." When I returned to D City last year, Lu Fang had already started to work, and I heard her say that her boss was so stingy that he often squeezed their surplus labor.

"You guessed it wrong, our boss can still get better, I'd rather believe that he can change sex."

I listened to Lu Fang's words and laughed.

"At the beginning, our boss said that he would not let anyone go, threatening to fire me if I left the post without permission, and the previous month's salary would not be paid, I didn't care about that, no matter how important the money was, it didn't matter how important my life was, I came back with a cover, and thanks to the early I came back, or I didn't know where I was starving at this time.

On New Year's Day, I was on the phone with a very good colleague of mine, but she was threatened not to go home, and as a result, the snow became a disaster. The inhuman boss had long since disappeared, and several of them from other places couldn't go home at this time, so they could only hold on in the dormitory. Thanks to the fact that they bought more food when it first snowed, they would have starved to death now, but when the food was only in and out and they were always gone, they had to eat frugally there, hoping to survive the snowstorm. Lu Fang was very glad that he was determined to go home when it snowed, and he was really right.

"That's right. In our place, money is now waste paper, and it is too much space to hold. Now if you want supplies, it's all bartering. "I talked to her about life in City D." Are we okay with this money? ”

"I don't know in Y City, we don't have this in Tashan Village yet, but no one sells food anymore. A while ago. Some people from the county came to our village to buy grain. The price was high, but the village chief refused to let him sell, saying that he didn't know when the snow disaster would pass, and everyone had to prepare in advance, and the little food at home should be kept for their own food. ”

"Look, is our village chief still quite far-sighted?" I think the village chief can do the right thing, now everything else is floating clouds, only the grain is in his own hands is real.

"yes. He is quite a visionary, but not all of us in our village are visionary. Do you remember Chen Cuihua in our village? Lu Fang asked me in a low voice.

"I remember. Why don't you remember, it was she two years ago when we received mountain goods, and she had to sell me rice as mountain goods. "I'm still very impressed by that mountain and wild superb.

"Her son works in the city, in December, he took his boss back, and sold Chen Cuihua's food at a high price, Chen Cuihua showed off in our village for several days, saying that her son has the ability to help the family contact big customers, and her family has earned more money this year. Don't say that there are really a few shallow people in our village who have a ride with her, saying that when the sky is good next year, let Chen Cuihua's son help sell grain.

As a result, she was dumbfounded in less than two months, after her son pulled the grain away, she didn't see the shadow, her old couple guarded more than 100 catties of rice to live, just their two big appetites, more than 100 catties of rice is enough for them to eat, a few days ago for the New Year, they had no rice to cook, and began to borrow grain in the village again. At first, they said that they would buy them with money, but no one in the village sold them. Lu Fang happily talked to me about the gossip of Chen Cuihua's family.

I listened to Chen Cuihua's deeds, and I really felt that if this person was smart, he would be lacking in heart. And generally people who lack heart and eyes, the amount of food is not bad, and they can be eaten by thieves.

"What then, do you all watch them starve?" The village is not like the city, every family is an old neighbor, and the relationship is usually good.

"How can the two of them be people who stop, no one lends them food, they go to someone's house without face and skin to sit for a day, she follows when people eat, and the people who can't wipe their faces have no choice, so they lend her a little food, and the more powerful people simply don't let her enter the door, and they all call her like that.

Besides, she doesn't know how to be pitiful, she doesn't know that the food is not easy to come by now, everyone is also saving their mouths, so they can borrow food from him, you say it's a person, at this time, shouldn't you save a little food every day, don't make trouble for everyone. As a result, their family is not, they will eat and drink nonsense when they have food, and they will borrow it again after eating, and it is interesting for others to borrow you once or twice, and they are not her parents, and it is impossible to give them food without playing and raising them. Therefore, when the villagers saw that her family was hiding, they knocked on the door and did not open it for her as if there was no one at home. She had no choice but to go to the village chief for help. In the end, it was also the village chief who came out and gave 100 catties of rice from his own house to their family, saying okay, this is the last time before the beginning of spring, if there is not enough to eat, then starvation, this is how they stopped. ”

"Isn't there someone who wants to ask her son to help sell food, now let them give some first." I think Chen Cuihua is such a capable person, it is impossible not to think of this method.

"Those are all people who are like human spirits, can they suffer this loss? As soon as they saw Chen Cuihua and his family, they had no food to eat, and they slipped away faster than anyone else. Lu Fang said disdainfully, and then asked me in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, guess whose family is looking for Chen Cuihua and his son to help sell grain?" ”

I really can't guess this, and I'm only familiar with the people in this mountain village, so I don't know much about who they are.

"Who's home?" I was very cooperative with Lu Fang and chased after her to ask.

"It's the old Li Tou's family who borrowed our house."

"Oh, it's his house. Did the people in his family say anything? Is he really short of a house to live in when he borrowed our house? "I just wanted to ask Lu Fang if his house really can't withstand the snow. There is still something to say.

"His house is not stable, his second son just got married last summer, and it has only been half a year. The house is not strong? His family is the group of people who take advantage of the lack of money, and when they buy a new house, they are three floors inside and three floors outside, and they are afraid of being deceived. How can it be that in less than half a year, the house will not work. And even if it really doesn't work, then there is Lao Li Tou's house, his family has eight rooms, why can't he get a room for his son to live in. My parents said it was their family holding their breath in their hearts. His son Li Feng also wanted to buy the house of Lao Jiatou's family back then, but in the end it was bought by his cousin, and their family thought that we had pried it from the middle. It doesn't depend on how neatly you clean up the house at the end of the village. You can't come back on this snowy day, so you want to take advantage of it. Hmph, I guess their family is looking forward to your sister-in-law, and you won't be able to come back, so they can be cheeky and leave the house. From Lu Fang's words. can hear that she is very unhappy with Lao Li's family.

"It's fine. Didn't we come back, then there would be no place for them to jump. The house we lent out, let your cousin ask the village chief to come back tomorrow, isn't it the village chief's guarantee to us, let's find the village chief to solve it. "I thought about it, in the matter of the house, we will salute first and then the soldiers, and if they are happy. Then we don't have anything to say, let you live for nothing for a while. If they are not interested and want to rely on the house and not pay it back, then we will have to take some tough measures, as long as Jiang Zhi and the others are tall, they are not afraid that their old Li family will pay their debts.

"Yes, let my dad go to the village chief tomorrow." After Lu Fang finished gossiping with me, she said to me again: "Sister-in-law, I see that you didn't bring much when you came back, and when my cousin comes back in a while, take some food from home and go back, and our two families can make do with it, and we can survive until the beginning of spring." ”

When I heard Lu Fang say this, my heart warmed, "When your cousin just snowed, he asked his brother-in-law to go to our cellar to bring autumn vegetables to eat, didn't you go?" ”

"I didn't go, our family is here, it's enough to save a little." Lu Fang replied very truthfully.

"Why do you still need to save food?" I swallowed back what I was about to say and asked.

My aunt's food should be enough to eat, although last year's harvest was not good, but my aunt's family did not sell any food.

"My uncle, who lived in the county when it was just snowing, called our family and said that there was no food in the city and asked my dad to send him some. My dad said that he was just such a younger brother, and everyone opened his mouth, so he had to send it anyway, so half of our family's grain went, and my mother was afraid that the rest of the grain would not be able to eat this autumn's harvest, and now the family has two meals a day. Lu Fang said that her uncle, and her tone was not very good.

I heard some things about Uncle Lu Fang from Jiang's mother, and there are some superb, when you have something, you can't find him if you want to find him, and when he has something, he will appear and tell you about the deep brotherhood.

"It's okay, my uncle-in-law didn't lend out the house at the end of the village, we have a lot of grain hidden in the underground ice cellar, we will definitely be able to eat the autumn harvest for us, and there are a lot of autumn vegetables and dried vegetables stored in the cellar above, and I will ask your cousin to send you some tomorrow, don't save your family, it will definitely be enough to eat." I re-uttered the words I had just swallowed. I like Lu Fang very much, and my aunt's family has helped us a lot, so I should give back appropriately.

"No, sister-in-law, I don't mean you want things when I tell you, I'm just mentally uncomfortable and nagging with you." Lu Fang heard me say this and hurriedly explained to me.

"I know, I don't know what kind of person you are? You should also know what kind of person your sister-in-law is. My sister-in-law said that there must be that, it doesn't make sense that we can't finish eating and rot in the vegetable cellar, and you're still here to save money, right? ”

Lu Fang thought for a while and said: "That's okay, my sister-in-law said so, I want it, but you can let me know about my sister-in-law, don't tell my father, or he should be compassionate and want to help my uncle." If he is like that, give him something, I don't have anything to say, at most we will eat two less, but he is not like that, he always treats us as fools, and my dad still cares about brotherhood, but people don't have this idea. Also, I don't need my cousin to send it tomorrow, I'll get it myself tomorrow night, so that others can see it. ”

"What's the matter, isn't our village peaceful?" I saw that Lu Fang was so careful and asked. (To be continued.) )