Knowing that her husband would arrange the rhubarb, Orchid was completely relieved.

At this moment, the two were lying on the earthen kang.

Her head was close to the man's arm, and she chattered: "Manyin, there is a salesman in the supply and marketing cooperatives who seems to have taken a fancy to Shao'an, and today I was looking for someone to ask me if he was married?" ”

"Which one?" Wang Manyin asked casually, grabbed her aunt's little hand and pressed it down. Before getting married, the orchid worked out of the mountains for many years, and her hands were particularly rough.

After half a year of marriage, I basically didn't do much farm work, and now my hands have become more and more delicate, and I don't even have a callus.

"Talk to you, don't think about it......"

Sensing her husband's thoughts, Orchid hurriedly withdrew her hand.

"It's just that girl named Gao Linmei, with big eyes, and she looks white and clean, I think it's quite a match for our Shao'an."

The Shibijie Supply and Marketing Cooperatives are not large, and there are a total of seven or eight salesmen in the sales department.

Listening to what his mother-in-law said, Wang Manyin immediately had an impression. The other party is really good-looking, maybe because he has not been exposed to the sun for a long time, his skin is quite white, and he should be regarded as a flower of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Now when the young men in Shili Eight Villages go to the street to catch the market, they like to go to the store to hang out and chat with Gao Linmei in the name of shopping, even many male intellectuals are no exception.

There are probably more people chasing after her, and this girl is very high-minded now, and she likes to hold a shelf when she has nothing to do. Before, Wang Manyin also heard Liu Qingli mention it.

This guy chased him for a long time, but people didn't look at him at all.

Helpless, Liu Qingli could only retreat.

Unexpectedly, this girl actually fell in love with Shao'an.

It's right to think about it, because of the promotion of bacterial fertilizer, Shao'an should now be called the man of the year in the supply and marketing cooperative. In addition, his brother-in-law is not bad-looking, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which is very in line with the aesthetics of people in this era.

"You say, how are he and Runye now? Runye now works in the city and can only come back every half a month...... I think this Takabayashi Mei is very good. ”

Seeing the appearance of her mother-in-law's gains and losses, Wang Manyin couldn't help but explain: "You don't have to worry about this matter, and don't take anything randomly, it mainly depends on what Shao'an thinks." ”

He had to give his mother-in-law vaccinations, some things to advise, and some things to stay away. Especially other people's emotional problems, you must not get too involved.

In later generations, many women couldn't figure this out after getting married, and usually liked to point fingers at their parents' affairs. In the name of beauty, for the good of the family...... There are not a few people who make the mother's family jump around.

"I know, let's talk about it privately,"

Although Orchid said some trivial things, Wang Manyin was not impatient at all.

This is also the daily communication between the two...... I haven't seen each other for a day, so it's good to lie on the kang and chat before going to bed at night, and by the way, promote the relationship between husband and wife.

Plain is bliss.

Coming to this world, Wang Manyin didn't plan to live a vigorous life. As long as the family is healthy and safe.

Nothing was said all night.

After eating breakfast and sending the orchid away, Wang Manyin took the rhubarb and walked towards the mountain.

He had already greeted Wang Lianshun yesterday, and he didn't need to ask for leave today.

Entering the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the weather on the Loess Plateau is no longer so hot.

However, in the ditch of the plateau, it is becoming more and more colorful and colorful.

Clusters of sorghum stalks are tinged with red colors; Large tracts of millet valleys hang down their heavy heads; There is a lot of snow in the cotton fields; On the cliffside, those red sour dates also danced in the wind......

In the distance, a hoarse Xintianyou floated from the opposite mountain beam:

Flowers bloom on the cliff and red on the cliff,

The afflicted hope for a better life.

Bowl bowl flowers bloom on the spot,

I'll turn your white face around......

Autumn is the season of harvest, and it is also the time when the suffering people look forward to the most.

It means that at least for the next few months, they will no longer worry about food.

Wang Manyin took the rhubarb and walked out of more than ten miles in one go.

The surroundings became more and more desolate, and apart from the sparse grass and shrubs, there was not a single human voice to be heard. After two more mountain beams, you will actually enter the mountain.

There are still many families living there, living a life of true isolation.

In fact, there is really no shortage of fields on the Loess Plateau, and you can grow crops in any river ditch.

If all the hills near the village are terraced, at least thousands of acres of land can be added to the village.

The key is a lack of manpower and machinery, and there is no way to develop these lands. One of the most important problems is drought.

Therefore, it is not that people do not want to open up more wasteland, but they have insufficient spare energy.

Take the second team as an example, there are now nearly 700 acres of land, and it is only widely sown and harvested.

Looking around, Wang Manyin directly released the peregrine falcon.

The creature was free, flapping his wings around the mountain beam, screaming and soaring into the sky.

As for the rhubarb, it is constantly sniffing among the wild grass and shrubs.

Soon, a pheasant was startled into the air.

Usually, like this situation, rhubarb can only look at it and sigh.

Today was different, the prey had just flown a few tens of meters away, and suddenly a black lightning bolt fell from the sky.

With a few terrible screams, the pheasant fell into the grass ahead.

By the time Wang Manyin arrived, there were chicken feathers scattered around, and the peregrine falcon had already pecked the head of its prey.

After collecting the prey, he continued to take the rhubarb to search for the river ditch.

Soon, another hare ran wild......

As Wang Manyin expected, the first cooperation between a dog and a falcon was quite tacit.

In just over an hour, two hares and a pheasant were recorded.

Retracting the peregrine falcon, he re-entered the space and first picked a large watermelon from the ground to quench his thirst.

Then, he disposed of the two hares. One is stewed, the other is salted and dried, and I plan to take it home in the afternoon.

Speaking of which, Wang Manyin's family really hasn't cut off meat much this year. From the beginning of spring to the present, no less than twenty pheasants and rabbits have been eaten.

Every once in a while, I also caught some fish from the space and took them outside.

It's a pity that such a good day is coming to an end temporarily, and without rhubarb, Wang Manyin is a little worried about how to bring prey home in the future.

I added two handfuls of hard wood to the stove and let the rabbit meat squat in the jar.

Next, Wang Manyin picked up the pickaxe again and began to shave potatoes in the yellow earth of space.

In less than two cents, a few large piles were planed, almost three or four hundred catties. Now the potatoes outside have not been harvested, and there is no way to take them out for the time being, so they can only continue to be placed in the space.

It wasn't until the sun was in the west that Wang Manyin went home with a bundle of firewood on his back, and he also dug up a lot of Yuanzhi roots.

It's just that there is no rhubarb around him, and he looks a little alone.

From today onwards, this guy can only stay in the space for the time being.

Without rhubarb, Wang Manyin was a little uncomfortable, and even the orchid felt that there were some shortcomings in the family.

This is also something that cannot be helped, not only did he quickly dispose of the earth dog, but the other families in the village did the same, and they were sent to relatives in other communes.

Some sent the dogs directly to Ishikawa Village on the other side, which was under the control of the Tucheng Commune, and there was no plan to beat the dogs for the time being.

In just ten days, more than half of the earth dogs raised in the village have been reduced.

Of course, there are still people who are lucky and continue to leave their dogs at home.

When the time of ten days is up, the dog fighting team is dispatched.

Men with wooden sticks in their hands, pulling carts, slaughtered the villages.

Everywhere they went, they would first send people to guard the various intersections out of the village. Then a group of three or five went into each household to investigate, and strive to leave no dead ends.

In the village, people suddenly cried and dogs howled.

After a village fights, it can often pull half a car of dead dogs.

In just two days, let alone seeing dogs in various villages, it is difficult to find even a single dog hair.

***

Before you know it, it's already August and a half.

After eating moon cakes, it was time for the autumn harvest.

Wang Manyin deliberately bought twenty or thirty mooncakes from the commune, mainly selling them to the educated youths in the three villages.

The moon cakes sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives are very real, one can be as big as the mouth of a tea bowl, almost two fingers thick. Buckwheat cornmeal is used, and the filling is pure five kernels, including walnut kernels, peanuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, sesame seeds, and red dates.

The skin of the moon cake is delicate and smooth, the color is burnt yellow, and there are words with the characteristics of the times printed on it, which looks very festive.

And the weight is also heavy, one can have half a catty.

However, the price is not cheap, seven cents a catty, six taels of food stamps.

For many members, they are naturally reluctant to spend this money to sell moon cakes.

Most of them do it themselves, and the method is simple. Make some corn-white flour and knead it into a cake ball, press a few patterns on it, and bake it in a pot.

If the conditions are good, put some sugar in it.

This is simply an oil cake, but for the broken babies in the village, it is already a rare delicacy.

Of course, Wang Manyin's family can't make it themselves, but it's just a few moon cakes, and the two of them can still afford to eat them.

In the first year of marriage, the other two had to send moon cakes to their father-in-law's house according to the number of roads.

Wang Manyin thought simply, two catties of moon cakes and two packs of sugar, no one could pick out the gift.

Speaking of which, his son-in-law is really good. Now he has become the representative of a good son-in-law in Shili and Eight Villages, and anyone who mentions it must give a thumbs up.

Even because of Wang Manyin, even the status of the old father-in-law's family in Shuangshui Village has risen, and many people have looked at it differently.

In the eyes of the people of Shuangshui Village, although Wang Manyin only opened a sales agency, he was able to talk to the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. I didn't see it, even Shao'an got to work in the supply and marketing cooperative.

That's what it takes!

The sudden change in identity made Sun Yuhou feel very uncomfortable.

But in his heart, he was also very happy.

Fortunately, the marriage between the two was not stopped at the beginning, otherwise their family would definitely not have the current situation.

After breakfast, Wang Manyin was thinking about when to send the Mid-Autumn Festival gift to his father-in-law. But I saw that Secretary Zhao was walking towards the village with a few people, and even Wang Lianshun and Wang Yanqiang were among them.

After a few people walked in, Wang Manyin hurriedly asked, "Uncle Lian Shun, what are you planning to do, what's going on?" ”

Without waiting for Wang Lianshun to respond, Zhao Jianhai had already asked with a serious face: "Wang Manyin, your family lives in the village, did you notice any movement last night, did you see anyone in the village sneaking out and going to the fields to destroy grain production?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Hearing the words "sabotage grain production", Wang Manyin was also taken aback, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Wang Lianshun.

"Last night, the youth guards heard movement in the field in the south and suspected that someone was stealing corn cobs, so they quietly went over, but they didn't see anyone...... This morning, they went into the field to inspect and found that the corn stalks had been broken a lot, and even a lot of corn had been stolen. ”

What do you mean by that...... People are hungry and afraid, and in order to fill their stomachs, there must be people who will be tempted. If caught, the consequences are also very serious, and it is a major situation that destroys food production.

Of course, if you are caught by your own people in the village, you will generally deal with it in a low-key manner and turn in the stolen things.

Officer Zhao had already taken this situation into account.

In order to prevent the people in the village from being unable to erase their favors, this year he specially proposed the formation of a team to protect the youth. The educated youth belong to outsiders, have no entanglement of interests, and are not afraid of offending people.

Last night, it was Xu Kongxian who led the team to discover the situation.

"Wang Manyin, what did you find, if you found it, you can't hide it, otherwise you will make a mistake." Seeing that he didn't say anything, Officer Zhao immediately asked.

"I found a hole, and now the dogs are gone. The two of us stayed in the cave and slept at night, and even if someone did the sabotage, we couldn't hear any movement," Wang Manyin said angrily.

Now, if Rhubarb can show up, take it directly to the plot and smell it, and you will definitely find the culprit.

It's just that he won't do such a thing.

He had the same opinion as Wang Lianshun and others, people from other villages did not dare to come over, and nine times out of ten it was the grain stolen by the villagers. Isn't there such a saying now, stealing the production team is not stealing.

"Whoever it is, you have to find out. Don't think that if you leave the corn cob in the field and take only the corn kernels, we won't be able to find out. Wait and search from house to house, and if you find anyone with corn kernels, you will immediately arrest them and send them to the commune. Officer Zhao looked indignant.

"Don't talk so much, let's go to the field first." Wang Lianshun opened his mouth with a worried face. He was afraid that things would make a big mistake, so he hurriedly followed.

"Yes, let's go to the cornfield now and see if we can find clues," Secretary Zhao waved his hand and took the lead towards the outside of the village.

The rest of the people followed, and even Wang Manyin followed.

The corn field in Cuntouchuan Road is almost four or five acres, and it grows particularly well because it was watered again during the drought and dozens of catties of fertilizer was used. Now the leaves are not yellow, black-green, black-green. The corn cob is also particularly pleasing and looks heavy.

When the people entered the field, they found that the thief was indeed hated.

There was a mess around, many corn stalks were broken on the ground, and scattered corn kernels could be seen around.

Wang Lianshun suddenly felt distressed and couldn't do it, and couldn't help but scold: "Which donkey is so bold and picks good crops to steal." Even if you steal, you can clean up the plot, what a waste! ”

Hearing this, Officer Zhao immediately frowned and said, "Second captain, what do you mean, are you crying for the thief?" ”

"No, I think this thief is too hateful, if you catch him, you must slap him in the face."

"Found it, found the den of thieves! There's a lot of corn kernels there, go over and take a look! Without waiting for Wang Lianshun to finish speaking, he saw Wang Qingming running over panting.

"Where?" Hearing this, Officer Zhao immediately became excited.

A den of thieves?!

Wang Manyin was a little confused, how could there be such a stupid thief, who hasn't escaped yet?