At noon, the sun was high. Zhang Guoquan had prepared the meal, but he didn't see the white pigeon coming back.

After being gone for so long, it’s almost dinner time and it’s time to come back.

He was a little worried and planned to go to his father-in-law's house to see if he was back.

The two big poplar trees could be seen from a long way away. He walked in that direction and only walked through an intersection. He saw Bai Ge coming back alone in his wheelchair.

The white pigeon seemed very unhappy, as if it had lost its soul.

When Zhang Guoquan ran over, Bai Ge suddenly returned to smiling.

Something was obviously wrong, so Zhang Guoquan asked: "Bai Ge, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah, it's okay, it's fine." Bai Ge pursed her lips and tried her best to raise the corners of her lips.

"But you just..." Zhang Guoquan was still worried.

"Oh, it's eldest sister. She's feeling a little unwell." Bai Ge explained casually.

She did not tell the truth to Zhang Guoquan because she was afraid that Zhang Guoquan would not want her.

You see, she also has selfish motives, just like Zhang Guoquan for his fourth brother's children. Maybe everyone cannot stand on the commanding heights and pretend to be generous when encountering their own personal interests.

Bai Ge sometimes thinks that selfishness is human nature.

Zhang Guoquan didn't pay too much attention. He asked some questions about the eldest sister, but Bai Ge blocked them all by saying it was a woman's private matter.

He stopped asking. There were still many things to do. He picked up his head and went to the ground. At that time, the white pigeon was feeding the sheep.

There was only one afternoon left. He planned to completely reclaim the remaining wasteland today. Even if he worked in the dark for a while at night, he couldn't delay it any longer. He had to dig out manure for the past two days and watched the wheat begin to fade.

Yellow.

As for the manure, Zhang Guoquan was thinking when he was digging the land. The land at hand is no longer just one or two acres. Now it is almost eight acres. A lot of manure is needed to fertilize.

Where did all this excrement come from? Zhang Guoquan raised his head and looked towards the village. He suddenly had an idea.

He was going to collect it from house to house. It was still a few months before the next season of corn planting. Villagers with a large number of people would not be stingy with the excrement. Sometimes they would rather have it collected. What is the specific situation? What a big deal.

The family should pay less.

Thinking of this, he grinned and could even smell the fragrance of manure all over the ground. It was just fragrant, but definitely not smelly in the eyes of farmers.

I had a solution in my mind, and my work became easier. I dug the ground much faster. Under the setting sun, I wiped my sweat with the towel on my neck. The day was getting hotter and hotter.

He raised his head and glanced at the sun that had set half of the mountain, and continued to work hard.

Until night, late at night, he sat down on the ground tiredly, finally finishing the last bit of wasteland, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

In the night, the half-crescent moon hung high in the sky. There were many stars tonight, all over the sky. Under the starlight, Zhang Guoquan could see the eight acres of land connected intermittently, forming a huge outline.

This made him so happy. All the sweat he had experienced turned into the fruits of victory at this moment.

Being so tired, he originally wanted to go home quickly, lie down on the bed and have a good sleep, but when he saw the stars in the sky, he didn't want to leave.

Shrouded in darkness, he lay on the ground and quietly looked at the stars in the sky.

He was thinking about which star Guozheng was. It should be the brightest one. It was twinkling and twinkling, as if it was saying hello to him.

Guozheng, third brother misses you so much.

He thought of Huiru again, and asked in the night: "Guozheng, do you want Huiru to stay? In fact, third brother understands you, and I know you don't want it, but third brother can't help it. When I think of my crying look,

Third brother feels uncomfortable, you are also a filial child, so you can understand third brother, right?"

A gentle breeze blew in the cool night, tickling my face, and the sounds of various insects could be heard coming from the grass. But in this gloomy night, I couldn't hear Guozheng's echo.

Looking at the dark night sky, he was in a daze, remembering that this year in Yangjiazhuang, he seemed to be always making choices. Every choice he made was good, bad, generous, and selfish.

Regardless of whether the final result was good or bad, he never regretted it. Only this time, because of Hui Ru, he knew clearly that he went against the wishes of his fourth brother.

On the same night, Bai Ge had been sleeping peacefully since she followed Zhang Guoquan to the courtyard at the east end of the village. Only this night, she did not fall asleep.

The village became lively again. They were no longer curious about the telegraph poles. Now they started to pull out the wires. The villagers were equally curious.

Can such a thin thread brighten up the village? They expressed doubts, but when their doubts were over, they couldn't help but sigh, "Wow, this is really amazing."

The workers who pulled the wires curled their lips. They had experienced the old problem of the villagers being disgusted with the telegraph poles last time. This time they chose not to say anything. In their eyes, the villagers were too ignorant.

Because of the ignorance of the villagers, I only gave a special instruction before leaving: "When the electricity is delivered, the wires will be charged. Be sure to watch the children and don't poke them with wet sticks. It is easy to electrocute people. If we electrocute people, we

It’s irresponsible.”

The villagers were immediately unhappy.

"Hey, this is all nonsense. If people can be electrocuted online, why is it okay for a sparrow to stand on it?"

For a moment, I really asked the worker. He was the worker and knew that there was electricity on the line. As for why the sparrow was fine standing on it, he really couldn't explain why.

In front of the ignorant villagers, he didn't want to lose the prestige of the workers, so he immediately explained casually: "Well, that's because the electricity hasn't been delivered yet. You'll see when the electricity is delivered."

Anyway, the power is on and he is no longer here. Whoever wants to answer can answer it. Children must not poke at the wires randomly.

The villagers were happy.

"I see you, you just made up such an excuse because you were afraid that we would poke you randomly and break your thread."

The worker hurriedly explained: "I'm not. This is a public line, but it has nothing to do with me. I have good intentions. Do you want to hear it or not?"

"Okay, I won't touch you just because you don't want to trick us with that. We treat us like three-year-old children. We are not easy to get around."

The workers just shut up. They were a group of ignorant country people who couldn't understand what was being said.

From then on, there were many more wires on the erected telegraph poles. They were long and connected from one end of the village to the other end of the village. Looking up from below, the sky became impure because the line of sight was blocked by the wires.

Divided the sky into pieces.

Like bridges, they connect the villages.

These slender wires have become a paradise for sparrows. They rest on them, stand in rows, and chirp.

The children were watching below. They remembered what the workers said: if there is electricity in the wires, people will be electrocuted. When the electricity is turned on, they can pick up the electrocuted sparrows below.

Zhang Guoquan still didn't bother to admire the installed wires. He went to Aunt Wang's house. Aunt Wang was feeling much better during this period and could walk around. However, Aunt Wang's face was obviously much older.

Zhang Guoquan went to Aunt Wang's house to borrow a carrying pole and two excrement buckets, and he was going to go to the village to collect excrement from house to house.

This is hard work, dirty work, and the stench from the manure tank goes straight into my head, even if I put a towel around my face, I can't stop it.

It smells bad in the manure vat, but it smells fragrant only when it is poured into the ground.

When the villagers saw that it was Zhang Guoquan who came to collect manure, they were happy to give it to Zhang Guoquan. Zhang Guoquan would not collect it all for others, after all, others would need it.

Unless you meet some lazy people, Zhang Guoquan needless to say, lazy people would like him to pay them cleanly.

Zhang Guoquan piled all the dung on the ground. The dung taken out of the dung tank should not be spread directly onto the ground, otherwise it would burn the seedlings and there would be many pests in the dung.

It needs to be piled on the ground and left to soak for a while. Now that the weather is getting hotter, it's almost time to plant corn.

After these two days of busy work, a thick pile of dung was piled up on the ground, which made almost everyone in the east end of the village miserable. When the wind blew, the nauseating smell spread to their homes, but no one complained.

The smell was bad, but they knew that it was the hope of a good young man named Zhang Guoquan.

After doing all this, Zhang Guoquan stood on the river bank, looking at a large field of crops, and took a deep breath intoxicated. There was the fresh smell of summer and the fragrance of wheat from the fields.

On the dirt road not far from the edge of the field, Zhang Guoquan suddenly saw two people milling around there. He took a closer look and found that it was Zhao Chunniu. As for the man next to Zhao Chunniu, he looked very old and was an old party secretary from upstream.

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Chapter completed!