The rooster crowed three times, the top of the east mountain was glowing red, the sun had not yet appeared, the flower magpie arranged for people to prepare two ribbed liniang meat, two green onions and a handful of vermicelli, and handpicked Qiao Wanfu, Zou Jie, Captain Wang Kui, Yakzi, the four girls and herself plus the big stubborn man to form an odd number of seven people and sit in the carriage, Er Laizi and a group of members who beat gongs and trumpets and a group of children followed.

The big stubborn man shook the red tassel whip vigorously, and the team to welcome the relatives set off from the Happiness Club. Er Laizi played the trumpet with all his might, and the gongs and drums also beat with it.

The people who stayed in the club had already prepared firecrackers, and the young girls and boys carried handfuls of grains in their pockets.

The carriage to welcome the relatives came to the gate of Qin Xiaoyu's house, and the flower magpie pushed the groom Qiao Wanfu and walked in front.

The door of the bride's house was deliberately closed, and the people inside shouted for red envelopes, and Hua Magpie asked Qiao Wanfu to stuff two red envelopes containing two cents from the crack in the door, and the door opened, and Hua Magpie led the groom and his relatives into the door.

The bride, Qin Xiaoyu, sat on a new futon on the kang, and an axe was placed under the futon. Someone has already cooked a bowl of noodles and poached eggs, and in the midst of everyone's laughter, the groom and the bride eat a bowl of noodles together, each grabs the blessing money, and then the relatives start to rummage through the bride's shoes......

Omitting other links, the groom carried the bride into the carriage at the instigation of everyone. The bride and groom sat in the middle of the carriage, the yakzi and the four girls sat on the left and right of the bride and groom, and Qin Xiaoyu's son and daughter sat side by side in the escort car.

The gongs and drums were beaten, the trumpets were blown, and the welcoming team greeted the rising sun, and with a whip, they walked towards the wedding hall of the Happiness Society.

A group of children had been following the family greeting team, and when they were about to arrive at the production team site, they began to rush to report the news, and they didn't want to miss the scene of setting off firecrackers.

"Coming, coming......"

The little ones cheered. The firecrackers lit up and crackled...... The children gathered around, covering their ears. As soon as the firecrackers went off, they flew over and scrambled to pick up the firecrackers that had not sounded on the ground.

At this time, the flower magpie hurriedly stepped forward and gave each of the two children in the carriage a red envelope, and the groom pulled the bride with a veil to get out of the carriage, and the yakzi and the four girls were guarded by the best man and bridesmaids.

On the short road to the auditorium, men and women stood on both sides, shouting, how could they care about the bride and groom, and surrounded the four girls, and almost smashed the grains in their hands on their heads.

This treatment is not the bride and groom, it is better than the bride and groom, the innocent suffers, and the four girls are happy to have this catastrophe.

The bride and groom are hugged to the center of the auditorium, and the wedding ceremony begins. Zou Jie personally witnessed the marriage of the two newlyweds, and Captain Wang Kui organized a couple of newlyweds to visit the church, and after a round of applause, the bride and groom got into the carriage and were sent into the cave room.

After the wedding ceremony, Jiang Dana of the Happiness Club led several women with rich kitchen experience to prepare lunch, and the other members did not delay their work. He led a group of young people to dig up the iron lions of the two landlords' houses that were thrown into the pond, and Captain Wang Kui led a group of people to continue to repair the ditch and clean the river.

Today's collective labor of the production team is not full of energy, in fact, it is a grinding worker, and the members of the club are giggling and talking about how Qiao Wanfu and Qin Xiaoyu will spend candles tonight, and they are even more worried about the fat pig feast at noon. There is such a good thing, it is estimated that few people eat breakfast, everyone is hungry, and the stomach has already aroused the gluttony.

The four girls are the guides who dig the iron lions. Captain Wang Kui wanted to arrange this matter for a long time, because the Spring Ploughing Battle has been delayed until now.

The abandoned pond was in the east of Xingfu Tun, next to the river, this small pond was the place where the hemp and dung were stained in the early years, because it was not far from the Tunzi house, it was often stinky, and a child was accidentally drowned, so it was already buried by the fill, and the hemp and dung were changed to the side of the small river ditch in the back mountain.

The fourth girl claimed that she had encountered an iron lion while playing in the pond, but now that time has passed, it is difficult to find a reference, and it is difficult for her to judge the location.

Anyway, if you can't find it, you can continue to look for it, and the longer you can be with Brother Yakzi, the better. The four girls demarcated a large area by impression, and everyone reluctantly dug up.

Because of being the best man and bridesmaid in the morning, everyone was digging and looking for it, and they were joking with each other.

The yak is embarrassed, but the four girls don't care, on the surface, they chase and fight without concealment, but in their hearts they hope that the joke will be as big as possible.

After digging thirteen times, the pit was not small, the iron lion was not found, the young people were together, they didn't feel tired when they made some efforts, but they were in a very good mood, but their stomachs were constantly making trouble.

Finally made it to noon. There is no need to be notified, the old and young of Quantun have already brought their own dishes and chopsticks and come to the club one after another. The only ones who didn't come were Xiaomei's grandfather, Old Man Gao, and a few old people who were sick in bed in Tunli.

Jiang Dana deserves to be a Dana. There are no greens to eat this season except for freshly grown leeks and shallots, bok choy and spinach for dipping. The sauerkraut and cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and radish stored by every household have long been eaten, and the rest is nothing more than potatoes and vermicelli that have been peeled and planted, sun-dried mushrooms, and a little fungus.

In the Northeast, it is the biggest regret that there is no sauerkraut in the pig-killing vegetables. Even so, Jiang Dana still lived up to his mission and made hard dishes that were praised by the members.

Blood sausage, white meat, boneless meat, red stewed elbow, blood tofu, slippery pork section, slippery fat sausage, stewed pork belly with wild vegetables, stewed potatoes with pork ribs, Sixi meatballs, dried tofu rolls, pork head meat, loin, fried kidney flower, pork heart in sauce, stewed soybean curd, stewed wild vegetables and big bones...... The staple food is a large pot of sorghum rice stewed rice.

The big kang at the production team site and a row of wooden tables and stools on the ground from beginning to end, these tables and stools are the family foundation left over from last year's "big pot rice".

There are no genders, young and old, and there are a few people who are sick in bed and can't be present, Captain Wang Kui told Jiang Dana to leave them out, take them home after dinner, and serve the rest of the food on the table, just waiting for an order.

Before the luncheon began, Qiao Wanfu and Qin Xiaoyu arrived, carrying a small waist basket containing sunflower seeds, peanuts and candy.

The candy is given to the children first, and each person is divided into one, and the remaining peanuts and sunflower seeds are left to everyone to snatch the small waist basket, you grab a handful, he grabs a handful, the wolf has more meat and less meat, and the small waist basket has been tortured and ravaged.

Captain Wang Kui personally went to the production team to pick up the team leaders, and when everyone sat down, Captain Wang Kui played a round and prepared to let the team secretary Liu Zhishu say a few words, but the children on the table couldn't wait, and were made to cry several times by the adults.

Liu Zhishu stood up and said excitedly: "Congratulations to the fathers and villagers of the Xingfutun production team, you have worked hard!" Today is your big day, first of all, I wish a pair of newcomers two goals, white head to old age, secondly, everyone make persistent efforts, drum up energy, strive for the upstream, how fast and good the province to build socialism, finally, I wish everyone to eat and drink well, let's start, the children are in a hurry. ”

There should have been applause here, but only Zou Jie, Captain Wang Kui, the team leader, and a handful of people rang out with sparse applause, and the rest was the sound of pots and chopsticks hitting and swallowing.

Almost instantly, all the pots, plates, and bowls on the long table were swept away, and a large pot of stewed soup was scooped clean. Even the bones were smashed and sucked dry.

All that could be heard in the auditorium was the sound of hiccups. What you can see is the eyes of adults and children.

The most civilized were the cadres of the brigade, Zou Jie and Captain Wang Kui's table, there was still a lot of food left, and several people were eating the food with taste while talking.

At this time, the poor group of children had gathered around them, looking at the delicious food on the table, and no one wanted to leave.

There was no way, the cadres could only eat hastily and leave the leftovers for this group of children who would come up and rob as long as someone spoke.

A good event and a delicious meal are over, and Xingfutun has returned to his usual labor and life.

The hard work paid off, and the next day, a group of young members of the club finally found two iron lions in the abandoned pond, weighing an estimated 400 catties.

The production team used more than a dozen ploughshares for spring ploughing, plus the scrap steel that had been accumulated and handed over by the members' families totaled less than 1,000 catties, and it was still four-fifths short of the 5,000-jin handover task.

The task of handing in scrap steel is a hard target that must be completed by the commune. What to do? Although the yak is only the leader of the production team, Captain Wang Kui uses him as his right-hand man, and he doesn't need to say anything about this, he has to take the initiative to find a way.

Liu Zhishu of the brigade said that there were bunkers and underground fortifications built by Japanese devils outside the mountain that were made of reinforced concrete, but I just heard about it, is there any? In what location? Let it be demolished or not? Has it been demolished? These are all unknowns.

In order to seize the lead and take the initiative, Yakzi discussed with Captain Wang Kui last night and prepared to go out to inspect first. However, the situation outside the mountain is not well understood, and he has no idea in his heart.

Xiaomei's grandfather, Old Man Gao, is an old anti-Japanese federation, who has fought with the Japanese puppet army outside the mountain, and should know where there are pillboxes outside the mountain, where there are underground fortifications, whether there is steel, whether it can be dismantled, whether it can be dismantled.

Old man Gao has a strange temper, usually guarding the orchard and ginseng garden, and rarely deals with the people in Tunli, if you want to go to him to inquire about these things, you are not sure.

Last time, Li Gang, the small steel cannon, was taken away by the militia of the brigade, and begged the old man Gao to come forward, it was the yak who took Xiaomei on horseback to beg him, for the sake of safety, it was best for Xiaomei to come out.

Today is May 31, which happens to be a Sunday, and Xiaomei may be at home.

Even if there is no such thing, the yak can't wait to see Xiaomei. With this reason, the yak was embarrassed to go to her.

Early in the morning, the yak came back from the production team and walked to the door of Xiaomei's house, he saw that the chimney of Xiaomei's house had risen smoke, and the door was open, he thought that Xiaomei would definitely wash and wash today, it was better to help pick up a few loads of water, and begged her for help by the way, but he was embarrassed that Xiaomei's mother would leave him for breakfast.

As he was hesitating, his big yellow dog had already run out of the house to greet him, barking happily to greet him as he ran.