Sixty-two years, stunned. The wind and clouds surged, and in the continuous clouds, bursts of flashing thunder appeared and disappeared from time to time, and from time to time there was a rumbling thunder.

Spring thunder. The villagers of the Maixiang Brigade did not hide in the house, but stood in the courtyard or under the eaves, and looked up at the continuous heavy clouds in the sky, their eyes full of expectation.

"Er Qi moves, wind and rain are like obscurity, thunder and lightning work together!" Wang stood under the corridor with his hands on his shoulders, looking up at the sky, and on the left and right sides, there was a boy with an extremely tall chest.

The two boys have a small head, a long shirt, the one on the left is sturdy, slightly taller than half a head, and the arms are slender, it is the younger brother Wang Zi'an, and the one on the right, who is thinner, is the elder brother Wang Ziping.

Da Hong and Erhong squatted on the ground, one on the left and one on the right, sitting on either side of the brothers, sticking out their tongues, panting, and looking at the sky curiously.

Above the rooftops, smoke rose from the air.

"This drought is finally over!" I have heard a lot about the three-year difficult period, which is also shown in the TV series, but when I really put myself in this world and experience this period, I can truly appreciate the hardships.

Wang Chong's own family is fine, after all, there is Wang Chong, but the other villagers, although Wang Chong has made sufficient preparations in advance, but in the past three years, he still hasn't been able to eat a few full meals.

In the sixth year, even when the farm was busy, there was no enough food, and the little emergency food left in the warehouse was finally distributed to the villagers, and the villagers planted some buckwheat and vegetables in a hurry, so they survived.

Compared with other brigades, the life of the Maixiang Brigade can already be said to be nourishing, not to mention the rural countryside, even those in the county who have jobs, some of whom have a large population, are also hungry and full, and most of the time they eat thin.

"Boom!" Behind a brilliant thunderbolt across the sky, there was a loud noise that shook the heavens and the earth, and even the window coffin seemed to be shaken three times.

The father and son and the two hunting dogs all looked at the dark sky with an expectant face, expecting the rainstorm to come, but at this moment, a loud cry pulled the three of them back.

"Wow~~~"

"Oh~~~ Don't cry, don't cry! Mother is here, mother is here! Jiang Hongguo's voice followed. But at this moment, several raindrops the size of beans fell from the sky, and Wang Chong's eyes were sharp, like eagle falcons,

"It's raining!"

"Is it raining?" The two sons stretched out their hands under the porch and looked at the dry yard again, and before they could ask, the sparse droplets of water had already fallen.

A few lucky ones fell into the palms of the brothers, but in a moment, the original dripping water droplets gradually turned into a water curtain, pouring down, the bean-sized droplets hit the green tiles of the roof, making a crisp sound, and the rainwater from the roof gathered into a stream, slid down the tile ditch, and dripped from the eaves.

"It's raining heavily!" The brothers were a little excited, it had been three years, and it was the first time they had seen such a heavy rain.

"It's raining!" Looking at the pitch-black sky, Wang Chong's face couldn't help but smile.

Only the real experience, can experience the kind of suffering of three consecutive years of drought, the first year there are wild vegetables to dig, but then the year is more and more drought, even the wild vegetables are pitiful, the villagers can only dig grass roots, peel the bark, mash into mud and add a pinch of salt, boil into wild vegetable soup, with a drop of corn porridge or sweet potato porridge will be eaten.

I am afraid that the two sons are not strict in their mouths and show off outside, Wang Chong and Jiang Hongguo rarely eat dry, most of the time they cook porridge, but compared to the kind of porridge with clear soup and little water in other families, the porridge of the Wang family is extremely viscous, three years have passed, and the nine-year-old brothers are like the wheat seedlings that broke the ground, and their stature is rising, and now Jiang Hongguo has to take care of her daughter Zijin.

Zijin was born last summer, only six pounds and two taels when he was born, in terms of a single child, this weight can only be said to be decent, Xiao Zijin and the two brothers are completely different, Ziping and Zi'an were unusually quiet when they were young, and they didn't make much noise when they were older, but Zijin was very noisy, and he was crying at every turn.

Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, Wang Zhong took off his clothes, took off his shoes, pulled up his trousers, walked barefoot into the rain curtain, and let the pouring rain pour on him, and the raindrops the size of beans still hurt a little when they hit his body.

Wang Chong opened his arms, tilted his head and closed his eyes, and let the dense raindrops hit his face. Seeing the master walking into the rain, Da Hong Erhong also got up and ran into the rain curtain, circled around Wang Chong, and called happily.

The brothers Ziping and Zi'an also did the same, undressed and took off their shoes, and rushed into the rain. Wang Chong suddenly became interested,

"Get out of the way!" As soon as the words fell, he immediately stretched his legs and punched in the rain. Palm, fist, elbow, leg, grappling, gossip, xingyi, tai chi, eight poles, yanqing, poke feet······ Don't stick to those fixed routines, punches, palms, legs, elbows, how comfortable to come, how to fight wantonly.

Changing the palm is like dragging a knife, and punching out is like a spear. Unconsciously, Wang Chong was immersed in a special realm, and the true qi in his body moved, moving like a thunderbolt, like a dragon, like thunder, between a fist and a palm, with great might, the brothers next to him were excited, and they also started to fight.

Listening to the familiar shouting sound from outside, Jiang Hongguo walked to the door with his daughter who was about to be appeased, and saw the three fathers and sons naked in the rain curtain.

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, Jiang Hongguo was also very excited in her heart, if she wasn't still holding her daughter in her arms, even she wanted to rush into the rain curtain and get a good rain.

In fact, the entire Maixiang Brigade and countless villagers, whether adults or children, couldn't help but rush into the rain curtain and let the heavy rain add to it.

Some of them were excited, and even lay flat in the yard, letting the rain fall on them, with happy smiles on their faces.

The heavy rain lasted for more than an hour before it gradually became lighter, and the originally flat yard became muddy, and in the evening, the rain stopped.

After that, there was a continuous drizzle that lasted for several days, and although it was intermittent, the original bare and barren mountains also appeared green.

At the team headquarters of the Maixiang Brigade, Wang Chong, Niu Daring, Ma Renlian, Ma Renli, and Zhao Youtian sat around the long table.

"This year's wheat planting must be late, spring wheat we have no seeds, my proposal is, we all plant corn, soybeans and peanuts, sweet potatoes and potatoes can not fall, these two yields are not low, sweet potato vines can also be used to raise pigs, appropriate and then plant some millet, more fruits and vegetables on the mountain."

"That's all I think of in terms of planting for the time being, and we can't leave behind in terms of breeding, so if you have any good ideas, just say it."

"Raise pigs, let's eat sweet potatoes, pigs like to eat sweet potato vines, let's raise a few more pigs, and by the end of the year, every household can get pork to eat." Ma Renli suggested.

Niu Daring also nodded: "It's good to raise pigs!" ”

"Let's raise more chicken, chicken is highly nutritious, just for the baby and the mother-in-law to replenish their bodies." Ma Renlian said.

Niu Daring suddenly remembered what Wang Chong said at the beginning: "Didn't you say that the water cellar could be changed into a fish pond, and now that the drought has passed, can we raise some fish?" ”

"It's all a good idea, but we don't have so much food in our hands now, and we can't raise so many things at once, my suggestion is that we first pick a good one to raise, and then slowly expand the scale and increase the variety when the days are slowly rich." Niu boldly said: "Then let's raise pigs, pigs can be raised with pigweed, bran, without food, now there are a lot of dolls in the village, when we are busy farming, the dolls can also cut pigweed, change jobs." ”

"That's a good idea." Wang nodded emphatically: "What do you think?" Everyone nodded in agreement.

Unlike the meetings held in the commune county, where you have to talk about a lot of vain things first, the meetings of the Mai Xiang brigade have always been known for being concise and clear, and they are all straight to the point.

The next day, Ma Renlian broadcast the decision of the brigade at the meeting through the radio, and on the third day, under the leadership of Ma Renlian, the women comrades began to raise seedlings, and Niu Daring led the men in the village to start plowing the land.

Everything is going on slowly and methodically. The policy on the head is gradually loosened a lot more than before, time passes day by day, the corn seedlings in the field are climbing higher and higher, soybeans and peanuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes are also quite gratifying, and the vegetables in the field are also growing very well, but unfortunately at this point in time, people have a little money in their hands to buy rations, and the sales of vegetables are not good, that is, some families with good conditions are willing to spend money to buy vegetables.

Ordinary people, either porridge or steamed buns, the brigade near the left, hate to plant all the land with food, and because of this, Wang Zhong led the villagers of the Maixiang brigade to plant more than 100 acres of vegetables, cucumbers, bitter gourds, pumpkins, tomatoes, green and red peppers, cylinder beans, green beans and so on.

The buyers of the Maixiang Brigade and the county supply and marketing cooperatives are all old acquaintances, Wang Zhong sent two packs of big front doors, and then took the door of the Vegetable Bureau, and used the big front door to open the way, and paid the price of a few catties of high-quality pork belly, and gave the matter of providing vegetables to the Vegetable Bureau.

Policies are gradually relaxed, and there are more things that can be done. From spring to summer, and then from summer to autumn, the grain harvested is slightly less than three years ago, but it can be regarded as a bumper harvest, but fortunately, the gap is not too big, and the faces of the villagers are gradually smiling.

On this day, Niu boldly pulled Ma Renli to find Wang Chong.

"Now that the policy has been loosened, I heard that many places started to do it last year, shouldn't we also keep up with the pace of the times and engage in this free market?" Niu Daring was a little excited, and the eyes of the cow were shining with a light that had been silent for a long time, and the light seemed to be full of hope.

Wang Chongdao: "I have also heard about this, although there is spirit at the top, but our county has not issued a document." Saying that, Wang Zhong lowered his voice: "I heard that it was stuck with Zhang Defu, Secretary Zhou mentioned it several times at the meeting, but Zhang Defu disagreed with Secretary Zhou every time." ”

"Humph!" Niu Daring's pair of bull's eyes suddenly glared at the boss, and snorted heavily: "That Zhang Defu is a second-rate son, before liberation, his father was a big jumper, his mother is a pimped old bustard, he is not a good thing, he was almost not turned into a second-rate child during the land reform, and climbed up by being able to speak, he has no fart ability, and he knows how to toss blindly." Looking at the angry Niu Daring, although he agreed with Niu Daring's words, Wang Chong still persuaded: "Daring, you can just say this in front of me and Renli, if you go outside, don't have a door, you still have an old lady and a son and daughter-in-law at home." ”

"Hey!" Niu boldly sighed and asked, "Let's not talk too far, let's talk about the free market?" As he spoke, he looked at Ma Renli beside him: "Do you think this free market is going to be a head?" ”

"If you want me to say, let's wait!" Ma Renli said: "The so-called county officials are not as good as the county management, although there is a spirit above, but our county has not issued a red-headed document, we are still under the jurisdiction of the county, and the county has not yet made a decision. ”

"Renli's consideration makes sense!" Wang Chong also nodded in agreement, Ma Renli's consideration can be called an old man seeking the country.

Ma Renli took the opportunity to persuade: "Bold, I know, you are now desperate to improve the life of the big guys, but things are not achieved overnight, the road is slowly coming out step by step, even a person as powerful as Secretary Zhou is struggling in the county, not to mention our small Maixiang brigade." ”

"I think it's best to wait a little longer for your proposal."

"I can't wait, after this village, there will be no such shop, our brigade is far away from the county seat, if we don't do it now, when the county really makes a policy, how can there be anything to do with our brigade at that time." Niu Daring was a little anxious.

"But if you do it now, there is too much uncertainty, it's too dangerous!" Ma Renli said.

"I don't know what I'm sure of, I know that if we don't do it, when others do it first, there will be nothing to do with our team."

"There is some truth to what you have said." Wang nodded and said that the geographical location of Maixiang Village is indeed a little embarrassing, whether it is from the county seat or the commune, it is not particularly close.

"I think it's too dangerous anyway." Ma Renli shook his head and said. Wang Zhong said: "Since it is the spirit of the top, the county is just hesitant now, unable to make up its mind, worried that this is a gust of wind, and it will pass after it blows." ”

"What do you mean?" Niu boldly looked at Wang Chong.

"Tell me first, what are you going to do!" Wang Chong did not directly answer Niu Daring's question, but asked Niu Daring instead.

Niu boldly said: "Let's first set up a free market, make a reputation, first attract the villagers from ten miles and eight towns, and then hold a temple fair, make it lively, and attract people from the city, who are all paid wages, but they are richer than our farmers." Wang Chong shook his head and said with a smile: "If you really do what you say, our free market will be yellow even if it is run." ”

"How can it be yellow, this is the spirit of the top, didn't the newspapers say that there is a free market in many places." Niu Daring looked incredulous.

Wang Chongdao: "Now the county supports the free market, only Secretary Zhou alone, in addition to the neutral, Zhang Defu and their group are all opposed, now the county has not officially followed, saying that you can run a free market, let's do it first, isn't that a slap in the face, what kind of virtue is Zhang Defu, you and I have a number in our hearts, if our free market really starts, slapped him in the face, are you sure he won't try to find fault with us?" ”

"Just running a free market is already under pressure, and you still want to hold a temple fair, don't you send the handle to Zhang Defu and them!"

"This ······" This question directly knocked Niu Daring down.

"Although Secretary Zhou is the number one in the county, Secretary Zhou's life is not necessarily very good, if we really have any handle in the hands of Zhang Defu's group, not only our free market can't be run, but if they use this as an excuse to deal with Secretary Zhou, tell me, how should Secretary Zhou deal with it?"

"Now at this time, let's not make trouble for Secretary Zhou and drag him back." Niu Daring's expression froze, and his face was bitter: "But if we miss this opportunity, we won't be able to do it in this free market." ”

"Then I ask you, if the free market really starts, what are you going to sell?"

"I don't have any other skills, so I can grow yellow smoke! Just sell yellow smoke. ”

"Yellow smoke is a material that is purchased and sold." Ma Renli said. Wang Chongdao: "Selling and purchasing materials without permission, this is a crime, it doesn't matter if we have an accident ourselves, but if it affects Secretary Zhou······"

“·····” Looking at Niu Daring with a tangled face, Wang Chong asked again: "Daring, let me ask you, are you short of food to eat now?" Niu boldly shook his head: "The corn and sweet potatoes just harvested this year are barely enough to eat." ”

"Autumn sowing is about to begin, when the winter wheat is a kind, at the end of the year, the pigs in our team can almost be slaughtered, there is grain, there is pork, we can still squeeze oil ourselves, you say, why do we engage in a free market at this juncture?"

"Besides, the geographical location of our brigade is not advantageous in the first place, even if we take the lead in setting up the free market, but if the other brigades do the same, you can tell me,"

"Bold, we can understand your feelings, but sometimes, things don't go our way."

"If you insist, then let's call Renlian and Arita over and vote together." The cow opened its mouth boldly, and all the words turned into a sigh.