Faced with Fu Haixia's inquiry, Ruan Xiuxiu denied it at the first time, "Which nonsense did you listen to, you didn't owe so much." ”

After denying it, Ruan Xiuxiu hurriedly left with her things under the pretext that it was too hot, and forgot to ask Fu Haixia why she returned to the village at this time.

It is not easy to go out to work, the ticket alone is a big expense, and generally people who go out to work will go out at the beginning of the year and return to the village at the end of the year.

After entering the entrance of the village, there were more villagers on the road, everyone seemed to greet her with a smile as usual, but their eyes and expressions were strange, especially a few women and aunts, and after she walked by, they came together in twos and threes to set up a dragon gate array.

Even if she doesn't have eyes on her back, Ruan Xiuxiu can keenly feel that everyone is talking about her.

Ruan Xiuxiu didn't know that her family owed Ruan Dahai more than 7,000 yuan, and it had already spread throughout the village.

Whether it is working in the field, or meeting on the road, and when the village people gather in the threshing floor after dinner, they are all talking about it.

In this era, there were no entertainment projects in the countryside, and gathering in a bunch of people in the east and west in their free time was the most common and cheapest pastime.

After several days of heated discussion and fermentation, the people in the village have basically unified their thoughts and views.

That is, Ruan Dahai, a brother, is an honest man with affection and righteousness, and Ruan Dajiang, the brother, is a black-hearted villain who only knows how to lie on his brother and suck blood.

The reputation and popularity of Ruan Xiuxiu's family in the entire Tongxin Village have rotten.

Ruan Xiuxiu didn't know anything about this, and it was impossible for the people in the village to tell her.

She quickened her pace and rushed home, secretly annoyed that the people in the village looked down on people, and when she went to college and ate commercial food after graduation, she would not come back if the village begged her to come back!

There are a total of four teams in Tongxin Village, Ruan Xiuxiu's family is in a relatively remote 4 team, the back is against the mountain, the left and right sides are slopes, and a depression in the middle, with seven or eight houses standing in a mess, which is the entire population of the 4 teams.

There are four grades of houses in the village, the last is the mud embryo house, followed by the brick house, then the bungalow, and the highest grade is the small building.

Nguyen Xiuxiu's house is a red brick tile house, which would be quite enviable in the 70s.

However, more than ten years have passed, brick houses, bungalows, and even small buildings have been built in the village, but the brick houses of Ruan Xiuxiu's family have not changed at all, but are becoming more and more dilapidated, the brick walls have cracked because of the sinking of the foundation, the gray roof has also fallen into disrepair, and it leaks on rainy days, the muddy yard dam is full of chicken and duck feces, and the air is filled with the smell of pigsty.

This familiar everything made Ruan Xiuxiu feel extremely tired and fleeing in her heart.

"Grandma? Grandfather? ”

There was no one at home, so Ruan Xiuxiu had to put down her things and go to the field to look for them.

In the scorching sun, Li Yulian and Ruan Hongfa were busy breaking buds in the field.

At present, they are all contracted land, and the number of people in the household registration book will be allocated as much contracted land, and the public grain will be paid according to the number of acres of contracted land every year.

Ruan Dajiang and his family went into the city to do small business, and the family's contracted land could only be planted by the two old people. Ruan Dahai found a relationship after getting married and moved his hukou to the city, so he did not have a land contract under his name.

Don't look at the two old mouths combined, they are almost 120 years old, but they are good at farming.

Buds, red roots, rice, wheat, soybeans, rapeseed, cotton, big spring and small spring are planted in an orderly manner, and the two granaries at home are stuffed to the brim.

Ruan Xiuxiu originally wanted to call Li Yulian to call it a day and go home to cook, but she was called by Li Yulian to help break the bud valley.

Although she was unhappy in her heart, in order to please Li Yulian, Ruan Xiuxiu still rolled up her sleeves and worked hard to break the bud valley on her back.

The sun was scorching and oily, sweat flowed down the forehead, back, and neck, and soon Ruan Xiuxiu's chest and back were soaked, and the skin exposed on the outside of the clothes was cut out by the buds and grains and leaves with deep and shallow red marks, itching and pain, and people were also dizzy.

Ruan Xiuxiu is still like this, and Li Yulian is getting older, and she can't bear it.

"Xiuxiu, you can come back after breaking the back of the rope, and your grandfather and I will go back to cook first."

"Got it."

Ruan Xiuxiu's mouth should be fine, and as soon as Li Yulian and her family left, she immediately dropped her back and ran to a big tree next to the bud valley to rest and cool off.

It is estimated that Li Yulian is about to cook the rice, Ruan Xiuxiu patted her ass and went home with a strap.

As soon as I entered the door, I smelled a strong burnt aroma, which was the smell of pumpkin stewed rice.

Ruan Xiuxiu put down her back and went into the stove room, picked up a water scoop and scooped water from the water tank to drink.

After drinking enough water, Ruan Xiuxiu went to look at the stove and found that there were only cut eggplants and peppers, and there was no meat to be seen, and she couldn't help but be disappointed.

"Milk, omelette, I haven't eaten eggs in a long time."

Li Yulian looked very unhappy with a wooden face, but she still turned her head and touched two eggs from the cupboard.

Ruan Xiuxiu sat behind the stove to light the fire, and asked Li Yulian if she had seen the sugar cake she bought.

Li Yulian complained that she was spending money indiscriminately, but from her expression, she could see that she was happy in her heart.

A bowl of pumpkin rice is basically pumpkin, and you can't see a few grains of rice.

Sandwich a piece of scrambled eggs, which is so salty that you can only quickly pick up two bites of pumpkin rice to press it.

If you think that Li Yulian put more salt because she was dizzy and old, it would be too naïve, this is Li Yulian's unique secret to saving money.

Whenever she makes meat dishes, she puts salt desperately, one is to save food, and the other is to facilitate storage.

In this weather, the food will be spoiled before it can be left at night, but if you put enough salt and put it in the water tank to cool, you can put it on the second or even third day.

No, two eggs are scrambled out of half a bowl, and after three people finish lunch, half of the half bowl of eggs is left, which can be saved for cooking noodles at night or eaten with porridge tomorrow morning.

After eating, Ruan Xiuxiu diligently cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and the stove room, and then went into Li Yulian's room.

On the wooden frame bed covered with a mat, Li Yulian was wearing a homemade fine cotton sweatshirt, shaking a pu fan in her hand, and was drowsy.

When she saw her granddaughter come in, she moved her body to the inside of the bed, leaving half of the bed open.

Ruan Xiuxiu took off her shoes and lay down, took the pu fan from Li Yulian's hand, and worked hard.

"Milk."

"Ahh

Li Yulian snorted with her eyes closed.

"You can help me find my second uncle again, I want to go to college, and after studying in college, I will be assigned a job, and maybe I can divide the house in the future, and when I have a house, I will take you and my grandfather to the city to enjoy the blessings."

Li Yulian was silent.

Ruan Xiuxiu continued to paint the flatbread, the painting was fragrant, big and round, and Li Yulian smacked her mouth and agreed, saying that when the family's bud valley was harvested, she would go to the city to find Ruan Dahai.

Nguyen Xiuxiu was both happy and depressed.

I am glad that there is hope for studying, but there are still three or four acres of bud valley land at home, and it will take at least a few days to break it.

After thinking about it, Ruan Xiuxiu decided to find someone to help.

After Li Yulian took a nap, Ruan Xiuxiu quietly went out and went to Xinmin Village five miles away under the scorching sun.

In addition to Ruan Dajiang and Ruan Dahai brothers, Li Yulian also has a daughter named Ruan Zhen, who married into Xinmin Village.

Ruan Xiuxiu planned to ask Ruan Zhen's aunt to help harvest the bud valley.