After choosing a good position, Wang Manyin picked up the nail rake.

Open......

There was a soft thud.

After so many days of freezing, the ice was completely frozen, and the nail rake fell with all its might, leaving only a crack in the ice.

However, as Wang Manyin waved one after another, the ice began to clatter and shatter, and the ice stubble scattered and splashed in all directions.

Wang Qiusheng hurriedly asked the two children to stand farther away, and then moved from the other side.

Once they cut a gap in the ice, things were much simpler.

Soon, several blocks of ice more than a meter thick were lifted to the side one after another. On the bottom of the ice, there were seven or eight fish frozen.

On the bottom of the soil surface, there is also a nest of loaches and two yellow eels. The yellow eels looked to have frozen to death, but a few loaches were quite strong and still slowly wriggling.

According to many people's common sense: loaches make holes. So in winter, when the water freezes, they should burrow deep into the ground to keep warm.

Actually, this is a bit of a matter of course...... Temperatures plummet, and this is true when there is thin ice.

But if the temperature remains below zero for a long time, when the ice gradually thickens, the loach eel will emerge from the hole and swim close to the unfrozen water.

As for the principle, Wang Manyin is not very clear, speculating that on the one hand, it may be a lack of oxygen in the cave; On the other hand, it should be related to temperature. The temperature of the ice can be sub-freezing, as can the soil temperature at the bottom of the pool. At standard atmospheric pressure, the water temperature must be above freezing, so the loach eel can survive (the author has not studied the principle, just guessed, but I did catch the loach eel many times under thick ice).

Of course, the entire ravine in front of me was frozen. Without water, they naturally cannot survive for a long time.

"Uncle Man Yin, you are so powerful, there are so many fish!!" Seeing the situation in front of him, Mao Dan screamed excitedly.

The sound was quite loud, and it immediately attracted the attention of the people around him.

"No, you really got it." Wang Dacai approached with suspicion, and then said in surprise, "There are so many fish, can you have half a catty." ”

Wang Zhanjun was also skeptical: "Man Yin, can you really see fish under the ice?" ”

"Is it bad luck to say, I still need to change places to verify." Wang Manyin's ambiguous answer did not give a positive result.

"What to change, there is fish here, we should continue to plan." caught more than half a catty of fish from an ice cave, and Wang Qiusheng was naturally unwilling to give up.

In his opinion, if he completely goughed this ice, he would definitely be able to catch more fish.

Wang Manyin looked around, shook his head and said, "There shouldn't be any nearby, let's choose a new place to try." ”

Although Wang Qiusheng was a little reluctant, he still obediently carried the nail rake.

As for Wang Dacai, they are also following behind at this moment.

After walking dozens of meters, Wang Manyin re-selected the second ice layer to dry.

After the two dug a big hole, they found a lot of frozen fish.

One time may be luck, and twice in a row, the people around him believed that Wang Manyin had found the trick, and asked out loud.

He didn't hide it, and told the reason directly.

Before they freeze, schools of fish continue to gather in deep water. As the ice freezes thicker and thicker, their living space will gradually be compressed, and finally their swimming range will become smaller and smaller, and they will completely freeze to death inside.

That's why they come together.

After listening to Wang Manyin's analysis, the members began to choose the shaved ice site again.

For the Dongla River ditch at the head of the village, everyone is familiar with it. Despite the thick layer of ice, they were able to know the general topography of the bottom of the ditch. Which is deeper and where it is shallow.

Sure enough, everyone quickly reaped the rewards.

And as more and more members got the news, soon the entire Dongla River was boiling. I don't know the inside story, I thought that the jar village was engaged in infrastructure construction by the river.

Some people saw that the deep water near the village was occupied, and simply carried tools to shave fish upstream and downstream.

However, Wang Manyin and Wang Qiusheng took the lead and gained a lot. They were busy until noon, and they caught more than four catties of frozen fish.

When they returned, the two families were evenly divided.

After dealing with a few customers who came to buy something, Wang Manyin Lisuo entered the space and replaced the frozen fish with fresh fish. There is space, so he naturally looks down on the frozen fish, and throws them all into the pit to feed the chickens.

As for those space fish, after being cleaned up, they were hung under the eaves for more than ten minutes, and a layer of thin ice formed on them.

From the appearance alone, there is not much difference.

In the afternoon, when Wang Manyin went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to pick up his mother-in-law, he learned the latest news from Liu Qingli about the return of educated youths to the city.

As expected, there was a lot of commotion this time.

The commune learned from the left-behind intellectuals the specific route of the people's departure, and had already sent staff to Mijia Town to intercept it.

This matter has nothing to do with Wang Manyin, he just listens to it for fun.

Soon after, I heard Wang Yanqiang mention it, and the blocking personnel later caught up with the intellectuals, hoping to persuade the other party with reason. However, these people don't get oil and salt, let you say that you want to go back.

In the end, the two sides almost clashed. Afraid of causing trouble, the leading staff had no choice but to let them leave, and called the other side of the river to tell them not to sell tickets to the other party......

However, in Wang Manyin's view, this is purely useless.

***

Speaking of which, this year's Jar Village people have a much richer New Year than before.

Many people can eat fish...... Although it is not as fragrant as pork, it is better than green cabbage.

Especially in the second team, some people who have a lot of money have started to fry their food. As for where the oil comes from, the suffering people have their own way. Some families have picked the kernels of the manguan fruit from the mountains, some have bought pork from the supply and marketing cooperatives to boil oil, and more have used castor beans to extract oil.

The Loess Plateau has three kinds of hemp: castor, sesame, and small hemp.

Sesame seeds are purchased as agricultural products, and the output is very low, so it is already very good for ordinary members to be able to divide a few taels a year, so naturally no one is willing to use it for fried food.

As for Xiao Ma, everyone who understands this understands it, and I don't mention it.

Therefore, for the suffering, another type of oil that can be used in large quantities during the New Year is castor beans to extract oil. Castor is a plant that does not pick soil, and plants a row in its own land, and it can harvest a few catties of seeds after autumn.

The method of pressing castor beans is very simple, as long as it is crushed and steamed in a pot, the oil will come out.

Wang Manyin came from the later generations, and of course he knew that the castor was poisonous. It is said that it contains ricin very powerfully, one castor seed can kill a person, and four castor seeds can kill a horse.

So theoretically, castor oil is not edible.

But for the suffering, it doesn't matter at all.

It's like when there was a time when cotton was grown in the countryside in later generations, and cotton oil was popular. Cotton needs to be sprayed with pesticides throughout the growth process, what 666 powder, 3911 ...... Especially during the flowering and fruiting period, in order to eliminate the cotton bollworm, it is necessary to inject medicine almost once a week.

However, after the cottonseed is pressed into oil, people eat it correctly.

In fact, in addition to castor oil, many people will also pick castor leaves to stir-fry. Wang Manyin is no longer surprised by these situations. Again, filling your stomach is the first priority, and everything else is secondary.

However, when it came to his own home, he specially explained to Shao'an and orchids, don't eat castor oil.

The rest of the second team began to fry food, and Wang Manyin was no exception.

In the evening, taking advantage of the fragrance in the village, his family also fried some small fish, as well as lotus vegetables, crispy meat, and chicken, which was a beautiful and prosperous New Year.

After the bombing was done, I sent some to my old father-in-law's house.

After a flash of Chinese New Year's Eve, after lunch, Wang Manyin finished the dumpling filling, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to pick up his aunt early.

This year's New Year is similar to last year's, and it is also the "XX Spring Festival", so until the thirtieth, the supply and marketing cooperatives still did not have a holiday, but only let the employees get off work two hours earlier.

When the orchids arrived at home, the two began to wrap flat food, stuffed with pork and radish.

The fat pigs sold by his family exceeded the task, so the food station rewarded five catties of meat tickets. Wang Manyin cut all the pork, and it was the best fat.

Before it got dark, a pot full of dumplings had been wrapped. As soon as Wang Manyin was about to get out of the pot, he heard the loudspeaker in the village sounding and informed all the members to go to the breeding room compound for a meeting immediately. And Zhao Jianhai specially explained that he should bring dishes and chopsticks when he came.

"Man Yin, have a bitter meal tonight?" Hearing this, Orchid couldn't help but ask.

"It should be," Wang Manyin nodded.

He experienced a similar scene last year, which is relatively familiar.

"When there is no one, you pour the rice into my bowl, and I can eat it." Orchid admonished. She knew that her husband was used to a good life, and his mouth was relatively tight.

"It's okay," Wang Manyin shook his head. It's just a bowl of rice, and it's not that you haven't eaten it, so you should drink Chinese medicine. Everyone else can eat it, of course you can, let the orchid replace it. As for the wrapped dumplings, you can only wait until you come back after the meeting to cook them.

When the two of them arrived, they found that several cauldrons had been set up in the compound, and they were steaming hot.

At this moment, Wang Shouchang was directing several members to be busy.

Wang Manyin came to the front and took a few looks, and saw that there were a lot of leaves floating in the pot, as well as bran, rice bran, bean cakes, and so on.

The two of them came neither early nor late, so they sat down in a random corner and began to whisper gossip to the people around them.

Not long after, Zhao Jianhai, Wang Manchu and others sat down in front of the stage. It's just that Wang Manjun has lost the spirit of the past, and at the moment he is drooping his head, like a local chicken with a plague, and he can't see any fighting spirit.

Since the year-end accounts have been completed, a team of members has been muttering about changing the captain.

Wang Manjun is very unwilling, and has been jumping up and down recently, wanting to fight for another year. However, judging from his performance, it is clear that the situation is not optimistic.

Zhao Jianhai held a meeting, and each time it was bound to be a few familiar mantras. Now not only Wang Manyin can recite, but even many broken babies in the village can do it.

There was no surprise, after some mobilization, Zhao Jianhai shouted the slogan "Thirty will not stop fighting, and the first day of junior high school will continue to work".

Last year, it was "snow to the field", and this year there is snow in the field, and it will be replaced by a new project...... On the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the members turned over the dung heap and strived for a good start.

Wang Manyin thought about it for a long time, but he didn't associate the dung heap with a good start.

However, Zhao Jianhai's next words immediately attracted the attention of all the members.

"Last year, the completion of various sales tasks in our jar village was quite good, especially the sale of eggs and live pigs, which ranked in front of the commune. The commune has already carried out awards a few years ago, and I hope that all members will continue to work hard...... In addition, in order to encourage everyone to raise more pigs, starting from this year, the county will give a subsidy of 150 catties of sorghum when deciding who will raise pigs. ”

"What, the subsidy is more than 100 catties of sorghum, is it really fake?"

"Director Zhao, it won't be a Japanese coward, right?"

"Hoarding the branch book, you can say a word......"

For a while, the entire venue was completely boiling.

However, many people were suspicious of Zhao Jianhai and felt that this person was unreliable, so they asked Wang Manchu one after another.

Regarding this matter, Wang Manyin actually heard Guo Chaowang say it in the afternoon, so he was not surprised.

There is no way, although the village continues to mobilize, but now everyone is reluctant to raise pigs. For several years in a row, the live pig sales of the communes in the former West County have not been completed. At first, everyone used sheep to arrive, and after a few years, many villages of sheep were almost extinct.

The county had no choice but to decide to implement subsidies from this year.

Wang Manyin felt that this was quite okay. Sorghum costs a dime a catty, which is equivalent to the county subsidy of 15 yuan per pig. Although the people are at a loss, there are not so many of them, and it is nothing more than a personal labor cost.

Facing everyone's expectant eyes, Wang Manchu nodded and responded: "Really, we went to the commune for a meeting today, and we just got the notice." ”

After getting the definite answer, the discussion in the audience became more enthusiastic.

One hundred and fifty catties of sorghum is not a small amount, it is worth half a year's ration for an adult laborer. In the event of a famine, it can save lives.

As for whether the sorghum is fed to pigs or eaten by humans, fools know how to do it, and pigs can't speak anyway. In the plans of many members, they are also ready to feed some pigweed to deal with it as in previous years, and then feed them to fattening when the task pigs are about to be handed over in the winter month.

In this way, a lot of sorghum can be saved.

Especially last year, many people in Jarzi Village used earthworms to raise pigs, and the effect was indeed very good. They were originally tempted, but now that they have a sorghum subsidy, they naturally plan to continue feeding.

Even some people who don't want to raise pigs have rushed to express their positions.

After everyone digested the news, Director Zhao spoke up again: "Everyone be quiet and listen to me continue." Not every family has a pig quota, and this year is the same as last year, one pig per household!! ”

"Why, I was urging us to raise it before, but I didn't let it be raised this year."

"That's it, why don't you let it go!!"

"My family wants a place ......"

The conference wasn't over yet, and everyone started scrambling.

"Don't make any noise, listen to me, whoever is shouting will cancel the quota directly." Seeing that the scene was chaotic, Wang Manchu took the microphone and said.

Hearing this, the venue suddenly fell silent.

"This year's situation is a bit special, and in order to ensure fairness, we plan to raise pigs by drawing lots. Whoever catches it is raised, and if you don't catch it, you are unlucky. ”

Long before the meeting, Wang Manchu had anticipated this situation. In advance, he deliberately discussed with the cadres of the large and small teams in the village, and finally decided to adopt the "Sun Yuting method" of Shuangshui Village to draw lots to allocate places.

Some members are reluctant to accept this method, but many more are satisfied.

"Man Yin, if you don't catch it, will we still feed the pigs this year?" Orchid also asked with anticipation.

"Hey, of course we have to feed it, whether we catch it or not, we can feed it with earthworms."

Wang Manyin has long thought clearly, and his own pig raising is more regarded as a façade for normal income. It doesn't matter if you take 150 catties of sorghum or not, and at least a few catties of meat tickets can be left behind during the Chinese New Year.

As for subsidized feed, it's not so easy to get.

Wang Manyin has read the original book and knows something about it.

Since the grain is subsidized, the procurement standard will definitely be raised.

If someone still plans to feed the piglets into shelf pigs as in previous years, only to see the feces and stomach without meat, the food station will definitely not accept it.

However, he didn't say these things to other members, and maybe people thought he had something to think when he did.