"By the way, when you leave tomorrow, you will take another trip to the construction site and deliver some food to the laborers of our team. I had already arranged for someone to get some grain from the field in the afternoon. After thinking about it, Wang Lianshun gave another advice.

Those who send people out of the river to work are not paid, and they need to bring their own dry food. So every once in a while, the production team has to send some grain over.

Of course, it is not accurate to say that there is no pay, these members do not work in vain, and the team has to record their work every day. As for the food delivered, it was deducted from their personal ration of 360 catties.

After listening to Wang Lianshun's explanation, Wang Manyin remembered something. Yesterday, when I passed by the wheat field, I found that there was still a lot of grain piled up there, and I kept looking for someone to guard it.

"Uncle Lian Shun, why don't you put the grain in the warehouse, and find someone to watch it every day. There are also a lot of rats and sparrows in the wheat field, and they will be wasted every day. Also, what if it suddenly rains? ”

Although the grain pile is now covered with plastic sheeting, it is not safe to put it in the warehouse.

Seeing that the other members were far away, Wang Lianshun lowered his voice and said: "You know a lot, you have to put it in the warehouse." ”

Wang Manyin suddenly understood: he had made things simple.

As long as the grain is confiscated into the warehouse of the production team, it does not need to be accounted for.

No one knows how much grain is left in the wheat field until they are cleaned up. How much to withdraw from it during this period is even more confusing.

In the same way, it also involves the sale of surplus grain, reserve grain and repatriate grain.

Wang Lianshun didn't dare to give everyone more food, but he could try his best to fill the stomachs of the expatriate laborers.

People are iron, and rice is steel.

Eat more food, and you will always have the strength to work.

So as long as you use your brain, there are still ways. After Wang Lianshun went to Liujiawan, he became much more flexible in doing things.

Men, women and children went into battle together, counting nine cold days without stopping work.

If you want to change the mountains and rivers, you have to work hard.

Let the mountains bow their heads, and let the rivers give way. Ask for land from the river, and ask for grain from the land.

On the mountains on the bank of the original West River, the slogans erected one by one are extremely eye-catching, and the colorful flags are waving in the wind.

When Wang Manyin and Liu Xiangyang drove the walk-behind tractor into the construction site, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

In the loudspeaker, the passionate sound continues.

In the cold wind, countless laborers are busy in full swing, including strong men and mothers-in-law. They were dressed in thin clothes, and their heads were steaming.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, hand-carrying, pulled by a rack cart, and pushed by a wheelbarrow...... It's like an ant gnawing on a bone, but in just a few days, it has gnawed out a big hole in the entire Yuanxi River.

The river has been cut and straightened, and a thousand-meter-long earth and stone embankment is gradually revealed, like a majestic dragon, firmly entrenched in the middle of the river, guarding hundreds of acres of river beach next to it.

According to the plan, there are several more such projects. In the near future, thousands of acres of fertile land will be added to the original West River.

Not to mention anything else, this kind of earth-changing momentum alone made Wang Manyin's heart surge, and he felt that he had thought too narrowly before.

This is the most simple and selfless dedication of the Loess Plateau sufferers...... Many laborers do not eat a pound of food a day, and when they are hungry, they can only tighten their belts.

There are no modern construction machinery, and the most primitive labor tools are used: pickaxes, shovels, and frame cars.

At night, I could only sleep in a broken cave, and dozens of people were huddled together.

However, they continue to create miracles on this land. Dig up mountains and build canals.

In any case, these merits cannot be denied.

In fact, many of the projects that are being built today are still benefiting hundreds of people decades later. For example, the artificial heavenly river, known as the eighth wonder of the world, was also built.

Later generations of old man Zhao said very right: workers are the most beautiful!

Wang Manyin can understand this mood: just like every time he passes by the Dongshan Valley, he has an indescribable sense of pride.

Under the guidance of the militia at the construction site, the two quickly drove to the lot in charge of the can village. In front of a cave not far away, Wang Shouchang was busy by the cauldron.

This time, the river workers were dispatched, and the other party was responsible for cooking for the No. 30 laborers of the second team.

After unloading the grain, Wang Manyin deliberately whispered: "This time the food is very sufficient, Uncle Lian Shun explained before coming, don't save it, try to let everyone eat as much as possible." ”

"I know," Wang Shouchang nodded.

He also participated in the use of grain reserves before, so he naturally knew the Tao inside.

"There are more than ten catties of sesame seeds in it, and you can make sesame salt for everyone, which is more or less a dish." Wang Manyin pointed to the cloth bag next to him again.

The so-called sesame salt is to clean the sesame seeds, fry them, add salt to them, and mash them into powder with a stone mortar.

If you feel that the taste is monolithic, you can also add some chili peppers.

Now that there is a shortage of oil and vegetables on the construction site, sesame salt is a good seasoning.

Refused Wang Shou's long stay, Wang Manyin drove the walk-behind tractor straight to the direction of the county seat.

Liu Xiangyang stayed on the construction site for the time being, planning to discuss the matter of digging a cave with other intellectuals at noon.

After meeting Hu Yongzhou again, Wang Manyin handed over the walk-behind tractor to Wang Xishan. Immediately, he took his bicycle out of the car and rode away.

Wang Manyin had promised Dong Gang before that he would go to the county seat to visit the old lady, so naturally he would not break his promise.

As expected, when he appeared outside Dong Gang's house, he immediately noticed that several eyes were secretly watching him.

Wang Manyin pretended not to know, pushing the bicycle and swaggering past him.

Walking to the corner at the end of the alley, I saw a few broken babies squatting on the side of the road to catch stones and play.

He had some impression of one of the broken babies with a runny nose, and it should be Dong Gang's neighbor. The last time I was a guest, I saw the little guy once, and it seemed to be called "Zhijun" or something.

Wang Manyin immediately stopped the car and shouted at the other party: "Are you called Zhijun?" Uncle asks you something. ”

Two minutes later, the little guy put a dime in his pocket and happily walked towards Dong Gang's house.

As for Wang Manyin, he turned around and pushed the cart away.

Soon, he turned onto another fork in the road.

Soon, an old lady with a sad face hurried down the street.

When the other party crossed the corner, Wang Manyin hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "Auntie, you are here, do you still know me?" ”

"Are you...... Gangzi's friend Wang Manyin? There is really information about our family's Gangzi. At the sight of him, the old lady immediately became excited.

Ever since her son fled from home, the old lady has been so sad that she can't even eat. In recent days, she has asked many acquaintances, but she has never received any news.

She also thought that her son had been arrested, so she went to the unit to inquire about it. Unexpectedly, just now, the neighbor's child suddenly came to the door and said that someone had summoned him.

The old lady didn't know whether it was true or not, but still dragged her lame leg and hurried in.

"That's right, auntie." Wang Manyin glanced around and nodded.

Seeing that those people didn't appear, he lowered his voice and said, "Auntie, Dong Gang asked me to give you a message." ”

"Gangzi is alright, right?" Hearing this, the old lady asked eagerly.

Knowing that the other party was worried about his son, Wang Manyin didn't go around in circles: "Auntie, Dong Gang is okay now, he asked me to tell you, take care of your body, and you have to stay outside for a while before coming back......"

Then, he told the other party about the food stamps and money buried under the pomegranate tree in Dong Gang's yard.

After explaining, Wang Manyin didn't dare to stay and hurriedly rode away.

As a result, as soon as I walked a short distance, I heard a shout from behind me: "Stop, the cyclist in front of you stop, don't run!" ”

Wang Manyin just didn't hear it, and kicked and pedaled to speed up.

It's approaching noon, and there's no one on the road. He rode at a high speed, leaving a few people far behind for a moment.

But from beginning to end, Wang Manyin did not dare to relax his vigilance.

It wasn't until he left the county seat, found a deserted Tuqilao, and brought people into the space with a car, that he was completely relieved.

In fact, strictly speaking, Wang Manyin himself has no problems, and he seems a little weak to do this just now. But many things are not as simple as they seem.

After those people stop themselves, they will not let them go easily, and they will be locked up for at least half a day.

So after discovering the pursuers, he immediately decided to take the easiest way to deal with it.

After a short break, Wang Manyin began to prepare the question of lunch. I hadn't eaten fish for a few days, so I caught a carp and stewed it.

As soon as he stepped to the edge of the reeds, he saw several long black spines in the water eating aquatic plants, which were the grass carp fry that were brought back from Liujiawan in the spring.

Hearing the movement on the shore, these guys immediately stirred up the rushing current, turned around and fled towards the deep water. In an instant, it completely disappeared under the water.

I don't know how many catties and taels of grass carp are in the pond outside, anyway, the growth of a few in the space is very amazing. For more than half a year, he has weighed five or six pounds.

In order to keep them to hatch the fry, Wang Manyin didn't plan to eat them for the time being.

He picked up his net and was busy on the surface of the water for a while, and soon copied a carp weighing more than two catties ashore. When it is cleaned, chop it into large pieces and put it in a crockpot to stew the soup.

Wang Manyin now has experience in eating fish, and this set of procedures has been done very proficiently.

Although he continued to release fish into the Dongla River, the fish in the pond continued to grow.

Now the space is about seven acres in size, and the fish pond alone occupies two acres. Even so, it was still a bit crowded.

Not long ago, Wang Manyin roughly estimated that there were more than 200 carp over three catties, and there were also many carp under three catties.

Coupled with other miscellaneous fish, there are almost 3,000 catties of fish in the two-acre pond.

Wang Manyin has been thinking about whether to go to Mijia Town again a year ago. Probably because of the infrastructure construction in various places, it seems that the wind has weakened recently.

Taking advantage of the fish stew, he picked a bowl of watermelon from the melon field next to him.

A fist smashes open, hugging and gnawing.

Now the watermelons outside have long passed the season, but although the seedlings in the space are yellow, they are still not completely dry. There are also a lot of tail melons.

These melons are not big, but they are all ripe.

Because there was no way to take it out, Wang Manyin could only enjoy it alone every time he came in.

When a watermelon was eaten, he touched his mouth, released the peregrine falcon from its cage, and then took it around the space.

This guy now knows that the land animals in the space can't be caught, but they just spread their wings and keep hovering in the air.

Even so, it frightened the foraging mallards into hiding deep in the reeds.

After a circle, about half an hour, the fish soup was boiled.

A pot full of thick soup with fish and meat was enough for Wang Manyin to fill his stomach, so he didn't plan to cook any other meals.

After eating and taking a short break, he pushed his bicycle and reappeared outside.

picked up Liu Xiangyang, and the two rushed home non-stop.

On the way, the other party chatted about repairing the cave.

Before coming, Wang Lianshun selected four kiln sites for the educated youths to discuss, three in the village and one outside the village.

Liu Xiangyang deliberately solicited the opinions of the others, and finally chose a cliff in front of the village near the Dongshan Pass, which was about 100 meters away from Wang Manyin's house. The loess layer there is relatively thick, and it is quite suitable to dig a cave.

And there is a well not far away, which makes it much easier for the educated youth to draw water in the future.

However, this year, almost all the middle-aged laborers of the second team have been sent out, and it is estimated that only a few elderly people will be invited to help dig the kiln.

Fortunately, repairing the cave is not like other things, it doesn't need to be too fast at all, and it is a slow job.

Wang Manyin can guess that for the hundreds of yuan spent by the educated youths digging kilns, Wang Lianshun must have planned to digest all of them internally.

So no matter how Liu Xiangyang and others calculate, there will definitely be no dime left in the end.

But for these things, he is not going to get involved.

For the next period of time, just live your own little life. Now there are only sporadic potatoes left in the field that have not been planed, and most of the time they are milled by the village mothers-in-law.

Fortunately, before the freeze, all the potatoes were taken back to the village.

Next, Wang Lian notified the families early to start dividing potatoes and sweet potatoes. These two kinds of grain contain a lot of water, and they are easy to spoil if they are piled together for too long, so they need to be divided into each family for storage as soon as possible.

Each person is temporarily divided into 300 catties of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and if they are converted into grain, they can have forty or fifty catties.

Of course, this time there is also food for the educated youth. However, their cave has not yet been dug and can only be temporarily stored in the warehouse of the production team.

Wang Manyin and Orchid also shared a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In the past two days, he had nothing to do, and he learned from other people in the village, rubbed most of the sweet potatoes early, and spread most of the top of his cliff.

Although there were already hundreds of catties of dried sweet potatoes in the space, Wang Manyin still didn't plan to be lazy.

In a word, what others do, he does what he does, and never engages in specialization.

Then again, drying dried sweet potatoes is also a tedious job.

It needs to be put out in the morning and retracted before dark. Usually pay attention to guarding the side to prevent birds and mice from stealing food.

However, Wang Manyin is not afraid.

There are two cats at home, whether mice or birds, as long as they appear around, they will soon be targeted.

In addition, he releases peregrine falcons from time to time.

In addition to rubbing into dried sweet potatoes, there are also a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes left, which also need to be processed.

There are generally two ways to store sweet potatoes in winter on this side of the Loess Plateau. The first is to pile it directly in your own earthen cave.

The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, especially after burning the soil kang, it can reach more than ten degrees at night, and the effect of storing sweet potatoes is good.

But it is precisely because the temperature is too high, coupled with the fact that the water vapor is too high when cooking in the cave, it is easy for sweet potatoes to rot and sprout.

So this year, Wang Manyin doesn't plan to be lazy and save trouble, and directly store it in the cave, but prepares to store it.