After planting all the land, Dad Jiang reminded us that the sheepfold and cowshed at home were all in order, and let us buy the sheep and cattle back as soon as possible.

Jiang Zhi and I went to the county again and brought back a cart of lambs and calves. Since the ratio of time in our space to the outside world is 30:1, the outside world will only give birth to a batch of lambs every 6-7 days or so, and a batch of calves will be born every 12 days or so.

Every night, Jiang Zhi would slaughter a batch of raised animals in the space to control the number of animals in the space.

Now if you want to take it out and raise it, you can only bring the cattle and sheep you need home in batches. And we don't plan to raise a lot of cattle, because the cows are too edible for our family to be afraid of not being able to raise them.

So we left 7 rams, 3 ewes, 2 bulls, and 1 cow. In the future, the eldest sister and the second sister's family will follow suit.

It's June now, and the temperature is in the mid-20s during the day, so it's very lukewarm. The grass has grown taller on the mountain for more than a month, so every morning I will take a few younger brothers and sisters to drive cattle and sheep up the mountain to graze.

Several children all carry small baskets, and when they are herding sheep, they dig a basket of wild vegetables and go home to chop and eat their chickens, ducklings and geese. They live every day to the fullest.

Sometimes Weiwei and I, or Mother Jiang and Mother Qu go up the mountain with our children, mainly digging some wild vegetables and coming back, or dipping sauce or stir-frying in oil, which are all delicious dishes on the table.

While we were actively preparing and stockpiling supplies for the next disaster, the village was not at peace.

These days, the villagers are very anxious and seem to be in a hurry. It's all because of going to the county to buy diesel.

Now many rice seedlings raised by villagers have grown to 3~4 leaves, and they can be transplanted into paddy fields, so everyone is busy renovating paddy fields.

Nowadays, there is basically no manual labor and oxen to plough the land. They are all mechanized, and because Tashan Village is a mountain village, it is relatively backward, so it has always used tractors to plow the land.

If you want to use a tractor to plow the land, you have to refuel the tractor, but the village chief said at that village committee meeting that he would be responsible for the diesel fuel by borrowing the tractor. At first, everyone didn't take the news seriously, and thought it was the same as in previous years. You can buy it at the gas station.

Some people have a lively heart, and they have long asked us about gas stations that do not buy gas, but he does not believe it. Thinking that it is impossible for the government to stop all the gas stations, isn't that the traffic in the entire city of Y paralyzed?

So early in the morning, everyone rode their bicycles together as before, and went to the county gas station to buy diesel with oil drums tied to the back, only to return empty-handed at noon.

Look at them like this. A lot of people who wanted to go and didn't go yet came forward to inquire. From their indignant complaints. I learned that the gas station in the county is now out of gas, and only a gas station next to the county government is still refueling.

When they went, there were so many people, the gas station was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, and some people in the village were scolded countless times, and they were subjected to countless blank eyes, and finally squeezed to the front. As a result, I saw that the gas station was surrounded by armed police with real guns and ammunition (I guess it was scary, how dangerous it is to shoot at a gas station). There is only one mouth for people to enter. There was already a long queue at this entrance, slowly moving inward. Everyone also wants to squeeze in front of this entrance and line up. But there are too many people, and squeezing and squeezing becomes a siege.

From the entrance that was set aside, a man came out in a short time, either carrying an oil drum with a happy face, or with an angry and dejected face.

They asked the depressed people what was going on, why they didn't buy diesel, they didn't even bother to speak, they just pointed to the gate of the gas station, and then disappeared quickly.

Only then did they see a notice posted at the gate of the gas station, which was posted by the government, which stated that the gas station was now closed to individuals, and that farmers should have a letter of introduction issued by the village committee for spring plowing oil, and it was also written that the price of buying oil was one liter of diesel fuel for five catties of rice. Remind everyone to buy things when they are ready, for fear of delaying the time for farmers' spring ploughing.

In this way, it is estimated that about 20 liters of diesel fuel are used to plough 10 acres of land, which is 80 catties of rice, which is really expensive.

When they asked the people in line, they said that many people waited outside the gas station in the middle of the night in order to buy diesel as soon as possible.

These people are all farmers in the neighboring villages and towns, and everyone is waiting for the weather to start raising rice seedlings, so they have to plow the land for a few days and plant rice seedlings in a few days.

And at the end of the notice, there is a sentence "Diesel and gasoline are limited, pre-order as soon as possible".

It was this sentence that dispelled some people's hesitation, and they all hurried back to the village to open a letter of introduction and get food, for fear that they would not have it when they bought it.

The same is true of the people in our village, and after they came back, everyone went to the village chief's house, waiting for the village chief to give a letter of introduction. Those who did not enter the county today heard the news and came to find out the truth, and they also gathered around the village chief's house, fearing that they would not be able to buy diesel if they opened the letter of introduction late.

But the village chief said that this was a big matter and must be taken seriously, so he went to the village committee and found a large thick book that recorded the situation of the villagers, saying that he wanted to verify the situation one by one, and said that everyone should go home first to get the household registration book and food, and then go directly to the county after opening the letter of introduction.

After hearing this, everyone went home one after another to weigh the grain, and then went to the village chief's office one by one to open a letter of introduction, which was very orderly.

Fangfang and I came to see the excitement, and we were very surprised to see that the quality of the villagers was so high, so we asked: "Who said that rural people have no quality if they read less, they didn't see the people in our mountain villages, this quality is much higher than that of people in the city, and they all obediently line up, not crowded." ”

Fangfang hurriedly pulled me aside and whispered to me: "Sister-in-law, you be quiet, everyone is holding a fire in their hearts, don't add fuel to the fire." ”

I was puzzled and asked, "I didn't do anything, I just praised them." ”

Fangfang looked up left and right, and didn't notice that anyone was paying attention to us, so she whispered to me: "Do you really think that they entered the village chief's office one by one because of their high quality, don't tell jokes, okay, they want to go in one by one to give gifts to the village chief." ”

I listened and my mouth grew in surprise.

"Why do you think the village chief opened a letter of introduction in the office, instead of giving it directly at home, why did everyone go home first to get food, and the running around the village carrying bags of hemp was tired and slow, is it really to save time for everyone? Come on, did you know that the village chief has no other hobbies, but loves to drink bars? Fangfang looked at me and nodded, and continued.

"Our village is small, and the villagers are relatively peaceful, so there are very few people who can ask for the village chief this year, so there are fewer people who send the village chief wine.

The village chief's daughter-in-law is also a powerful person, and she is strict with her money, and she never lets him buy good wine to drink, so he basically drinks home-brewed liquor.

Brewing wine costs food, can his daughter-in-law be willing to use her own grain to brew? So every year, the village chief will find such and such things and ask everyone to give him some food.

As soon as everyone heard what he said just now, they knew what was going on in his mind. When you go home to get the grain, you will take an extra twenty or thirty catties of grain, and pour the grain directly into the bag prepared by the village chief when you go inside, which is not a glorious thing after all, so everyone goes in one by one, and the village chief can only happily open a letter of introduction when he sees what you give, otherwise he will turn over his big thick book, and he will be him in an hour or two, can we rely on him. Fangfang explained to me as if she had come over.

After listening to this, I had to sigh, people, as long as he has a hobby, he can become the fuse of his political career. Just a small village chief, he can use the power in his hand to let the villagers serve him wine, it's really **.

But I also have to admire the village chief for having this way, and being able to put this group of villagers with strong personalities and strong bodies to understand, and no one has reported him above after being the village chief for so many years, and I have to admit that this is also a kind of ability.

The first person to open the letter of introduction rode to the county on a bicycle carrying a bag of grain. I guess they won't be able to buy it for nothing today.

I looked down at the watch on my wrist, it was 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived in the county, there were still so many queues outside the gas station, and I didn't know what time the staff at the gas station would get off work, so I guess I still had to go back empty-handed.

I went home and reported the situation to Jiang Zhi, and said: "I'm very glad that our family had the foresight, raised seedlings in advance, cultivated the land in advance, and bought diesel in advance. Can I fuel his arrogance? This undesirable wind? ”

Jiang Zhi was filled with indignation when he saw what I said here, and said with a smile: "Yo, you have such a sense of justice, who went to the village chief's house with me two days ago to deliver wine." ”

I thought about it, yes, Jiang Zhi and I only went to the village chief's house with two bottles of wine two days ago. I was a little sneering on my face, but I still argued: "At this time and that time, this special situation has to be dealt with specially." ”

After Jiang Zhi heard this, he laughed, rubbed my head again with his big hand, and said, "Okay, you just stay too comfortable these days, is this still a matter in the city, you forgot, everything you do in the city has to rely on relationships, find people, and give gifts." Either it won't go well or it won't be done, just like when we went through the relevant procedures when we opened a vegetable shop, isn't that it? So you just have a calm mind and think about this matter in reverse, if we can get the village chief with a few dozen catties of rice a year, and don't let him give us problems, stumble us, and don't target us everywhere, don't you think it's very cost-effective. ”

As long as I think about it the other way around, it doesn't seem so infuriating and difficult to accept. In the past, it was not possible to solve the problem of finding someone to do things with dozens of catties of food, so it was a very cost-effective deal.

Maybe the villagers also have this idea, the food is grown by the family themselves, and every year to give the village chief a gift that does not cost money, you can send the village chief happy, why not. (To be continued.) )