Chapter 34: Autumn Harvest
"Does Mom really want the third brother to divorce?"
"Eh, even if you get divorced, your third brother won't be able to find a daughter-in-law anymore."
Shen Ruoqing understood, "Mom, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, you just worry too much about it, so you are so angry." The kid on the left and right is the third brother's, what are you doing with so much care? The seventy yuan was borrowed by the third brother to make a note. Next time, my mother hid the money, and I believe that the third sister-in-law will not dare to steal it again. ”
"Just let her go?" Mrs. Ji was a little unwilling.
"Mom, what do you want? Don't be angry with yourself, it's not cost-effective to be angry with your body. ”
"All the work at home is done for Du's!"
"During this period of time, the three sisters-in-law rushed to do the work at home."
"Then she won't be allowed to eat."
"Okay, mom, then punish the third sister-in-law for not eating for a day. Actually, I don't think it's good to do this, if you don't eat, people don't have the strength to work, so it's better to let the third sister-in-law eat almost well, and then watch us eat well. ”
Mrs. Ji glanced at her: "Do we have so many fine grains in our family?" Everyone eats fine grains every day, don't eat me poor? ”
Shen Ruoqing thinks this little old lady is quite interesting and cute.
After a day of observation, he was discharged from the hospital.
Perhaps it was because he had calmed down for a day, Du Shi returned to his previous appearance of bowing his head and being obedient, and knelt down as soon as he entered the door.
"Mom, I know it's wrong."
Mrs. Ji snorted: "Don't kneel on me, it's a new society now, don't do that, if you buckle a big hat down, my old bones won't be tossed enough by you, I think you want my old woman to go to that cowshed?" ”
Du Shi seemed to be frightened, kneeling or standing up: "Mom, I didn't mean that." ”
"So what do you mean? Forget it, anyway, it's your own business in the future, and my old woman can't take care of it. ”
Mrs. Ji went back to the room by herself, ignoring the kneeling Du Shi.
These words scared Shen Xiangxi a lot, Mom, what does this mean? Could it be that they were going to divide their three rooms?
At this time, I was also anxious, and hurriedly followed Mrs. Ji into the house, and their family could not be separated.
"Isn't the third sister-in-law up yet? The door of this courtyard is not closed, what do others see? When the time comes, I'll have to put a pot of on my mom. Shen Ruoqing said lightly.
Du Shi got up at this time.
Shen Ruoqing also entered Mrs. Ji's house.
Shen Xiangxi stood there and smacked his mouth: "Mom, it's all my fault, it's all my fault that I didn't take care of my daughter-in-law and made you angry." ”
Waiting for Shen Xiangxi to slap himself in the mouth more than a dozen times, Mrs. Ji stopped: "Okay, write the IOU, all the work at home belongs to you for three months, and this kind of thing happens again in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless." As for that child, it's your own child anyway, so you can do it. ”
"Thank you, thank you, Mom!" Shen Xiangxi's heart finally let go, and he hurriedly went to write an IOU.
"I knew Mom had the best heart."
"What's good? As far as your mouth is sweet, if it weren't for the bad year now, she Du Shi would have made such a big mistake, either she would divorce or divide their three rooms. It was also me who looked away, but I didn't expect Du Shi to have this ability. Mrs. Ji waved her hand. She still has a bit of a mother-son relationship with Shen Xiangxi.
In the end, Sanfang decided to still want this child.
This is also something that Shen Ruoqing expected.
Mrs. Ji just sighed and didn't care anymore.
After having spiritual spring water, Shen Ruoqing replaced all the water he drank at home with spiritual spring water, and the water for watering the ground was also replaced with spiritual spring water, and Shen Ruoqing found that spiritual spring water was also helpful for crops.
Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of the autumn harvest.
Due to insufficient watering, the grain production has decreased, and it is a good day for the harvest, but no one can show a smile.
In the past, the ears of wheat were bulging, but now the ears are dry and flat. When the big guy harvested all the food under the sun, his heart became even colder.
"Captain, this year's harvest has been greatly reduced?"
Looking at this harvest, let alone keep some food for yourself, I'm afraid that it will be enough to pay food.
"Captain, what are we going to eat next year?"
"This little bit of food is not enough to survive the winter, isn't it not for us to live?" The person who spoke was a widow with two children at home, and she was counting on the autumn harvest to survive the winter, but now that this harvest has been handed over, I am afraid that there will be nothing left, what can I do?
Captain Tang raised his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet.
"Paying grain is a traditional rule, you have to pay it, you have to pay it, you have to pay it if you don't pay it, even if you beat me as the captain, there are still people who urge you to pay food door to door!"
Someone scolded, "You don't have a good thing, why should I give my hard-earned food to others!" ”
"Don't worry, although most of this grain has to be handed in, we still grow a lot of sweet potatoes...... There is no endless road, and this year's grain production is reduced, and we can still apply for relief grain, which must be paid. ”
In fact, everyone knows that this grain must be paid, but no one wants to accept such a cruel fact.
"Can the relief food really come down?"
"I can only tighten my belt, and I can't stand eating sweet potatoes every day."
"It's already good that we still have sweet potatoes to eat, and I heard that some places can't even eat sweet potatoes."
On the same day, Captain Tang had people swing a tractor to pull large bags of grain into the commune.
Listening to the rumbling sound of the tractor, many people's hearts are dripping blood, this is their rations!
The next day, the rest of the food was divided.
The rations that the Shen family received this time were only 300 catties, and there were still 20 yuan. Only a hundred catties of them were unhulled millet. However, the sweet potatoes are still in the ground and have not been dug up.
"What is enough for these 300 catties of food?" Wang's mouth curled, "It looks like you're eating sweet potatoes every day this year?" ”
Mrs. Ji glanced at her: "No matter what, it won't be less of your food, so don't say a word." ”
Their family still has their own land, planting a lot of corn and sweet potatoes, plus the sweet potatoes they have divided, they should be able to survive this winter if they eat a little less. The rest of the village also planted their own plots, but not as much as they did, because there was not enough water to water them.
Now that there is a shortage of food in all parts of the country, they will be better off in the countryside, and no matter how poor they are, they can find a lot of food in the mountains.
Shen Ruoqing is also a bitter gourd face now. Before, with her efforts, the family finally ate cornmeal, and from time to time it was still white flour mixed with cornmeal, but now looking at Mrs. Ji's appearance, her own family is going to eat worse again.
"Mom, my godbrother said that you can directly exchange vegetables for grain, white flour, cornmeal or rice."
Now in exchange for grain, it is a sure deal, of course Mrs. Ji agreed, and that night, the Shen family exchanged vegetables for two bags of grain.