The result is that Wang Manyin's family has two fewer eggs, one rooster and five hens. Because the family basically does not feed them and relies entirely on foraging for food, sometimes they cannot lay two eggs a day.
You can collect two or three eggs a day, but not all eggs are for you to eat.
When raising chickens in rural areas, eggs are usually used to buy salt, soy sauce, vinegar, kerosene, and some needles and thread.
Farmers have to wait until the end of winter to settle their wages once. Wang Manyin's family has to pay back every year, so they will definitely not get any money.
Why is Wang Manyin said to be a "wandering ghost"? Wang Manyin doesn't just wander around. Recently, he has to go to the county town to do business for several days at a time. He goes to Huangyuan in the district and doesn't go home for at least half a month. He goes to the provincial capital, nearby counties and cities, everywhere.
People who travel all over the country often go out for several months at a time.
Wang Manyin's family is well-dressed because sometimes Wang Manyin is lucky and can bring back some money. When he comes back, he buys clothes and food for his mother-in-law and children.
If you don't have money, you can bring some toys and gifts when you come back. Anyway, you don't come back empty-handed, and you make your wife and children happy.
Lan Hua works at home every day and earns only cents, and her daily expenses include a few hens at home.
After breakfast, Lanhua went out to work in the mountains, while Wang Manyin took care of the children at home. There was no need to take care of them, the children could entertain themselves.
Today it's not that Wang Manyin is lazy and doesn't go out to work in the fields, it's because Wang Manyin hasn't been in the fields for a long time, and the production team has long since lost Wang Manyin's work.
Wang Manyin cannot remain a second-rate person and let Lanhua be laughed at by others.
But Wang Manyin must first make good use of this free time and solve his own food and clothing problem before he can solve the problem of working for the production team.
First plant the land in the small world. There are still benefits in the countryside. Although there is no wheat and corn at home, there are many seeds of various vegetables, such as eggplant, cucumber, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, peppers, green peppers, and Wang Manyin at home.
They have all been planted. Potatoes are called potatoes here and can be used as staple food or as a vegetable. Wang Manyin especially grows many of them.
An acre of farmland is magical. You can grow anything. Of course, you can use it to grow staple food. There is no need to choose between rice and wheat. Although Wang Manyin’s family will like it very much as long as it is fine grains, but the whole family has a northern stomach and likes to eat pasta the most.
There is no wheat at home, and Wang Manyin is not planning to go to the Shige Festival Market recently. This time, Wang Manyin is not well-informed. He usually turns a blind eye to small businesses. He didn't know that the recent tightening measures were strict. He sold a few packs of rat poison.
He was reported and taken to the infrastructure construction site.
With the four yuan that he had received as a sign-in reward these days, Wang Manyin was going to buy some wheat directly from the big family in the village.
Wang Manyin, who has a lot of food in the village, first thought of Wang Mancang, the party secretary of Gugan Village. The relationship between the two families was not too far apart. Counting to the generation of "Bagong", the two families were the same ancestor. Although Wang Mancang was older than Wang Manyin
Being more than ten years older, the two of them are indeed of the same generation.
Only those who are not in the fifth server will calculate their seniority and call them by seniority. Otherwise, Wang Manyin will have a grandfather wearing crotchless pants and his gray-haired grandson.
Wang Mancang also joined the army, fought in battles, made meritorious deeds, and joined the party. However, this was an old revolutionary area and there were too many meritorious people. After retiring, he became a village branch committee in Gugan Village and managed the militia.
After the old party secretary retired, Wang Mancang became the village party secretary in his thirties because of his strong ability and fair work. He served as the village party secretary for more than ten years.
"Brother Mancang, are you free at the moment?" Wang Manyin came to the village brigade headquarters and said to Wang Mancang who was reading the newspaper.
"You are a second-rate kid who has finally been released. If you don't stay at home, why are you here? And the recent investigation has been strict. Don't go out and wander around." The daily sermon from the village party secretary.
Wang Manyin held the cat egg in his left hand and the dog egg in the right hand: "Brother Mancang, I learned a lesson after being caught this time. I won't go out and wander around in the future. But if I don't go out, I only have sorghum at home. I can eat it by myself. You
Seeing that the eggs of cats and dogs are still so small, and they are not allowed to buy food at the Shige Festival market now, I just want to come to you to exchange them for buckets of wheat for the children to eat."
Although Wang Manyin is a second-rate person, and is despised by the villagers for this aspect, it does not mean that Wang Manyin has a bad relationship with others.
In this era, the farthest many farmers can go is Shigejie Commune, and a little further away is Yuanxi County. When leaving the county, they can only go to Mijia Town in Linxian County. Based on the distance, it is not far from the county seat.
No matter how you say it, Wang Manyin has traveled south and north. It cannot be said that he has traveled all over China. He has always visited several nearby provinces, which can be said to be well-informed. When he returns home, he also likes to show off and tell the villagers about his knowledge.
, there are many new things outside when I have no money, but when I have money, I am not stingy, so I get along quite well with the villagers, and I am deeply loved by the children.
He despises Wang Manyin for being a second-rate man, and is somewhat angry at him.
"Every time I say I want to change it, I can't change it every time. I hope I can really change it this time. I still have to be on duty at the village committee. You go directly to your home and tell your sister-in-law that I agree and ask your sister-in-law to give it to you.
Just pretend."
Wang Manyin went to Wang Mancang's house again and exchanged three yuan for a bushel of wheat. The price was lower than the black market price and higher than the villagers selling it directly to the grain station. Wang Manyin was taken care of and took advantage of it.
If a dozen kilograms of wheat are planted in a field in northern Shaanxi, it can cover several acres. The land is barren, so you can only harvest thin seeds widely. In a small world, you don’t have to think so much. Plant thinner and you can barely get enough seeds for one acre.
Although it is a farm, Wang Manyin's family really doesn't have many production tools. No one else has many, and the big items are all handed over to the production team. However, Wang Manyin's family has even fewer, so he can only use the most primitive methods for planting.
Orchid goes out of the mountain and doesn't come back at noon, so he can rest for a while. People with good conditions will eat an extra meal at noon. Wang Manyin's current physical appetite is really small, he doesn't eat at noon, and he doesn't eat cat or dog eggs.
It is a custom for lunch that one person eats two pieces of cake, which is considered lunch for two people.
I was busy until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and one acre of land was finally sown. I was too tired to carry water to irrigate the ground myself, so I took my two children to the Dongla River and directly used the small world to collect water for irrigating the ground.
The Dongla River originates from Xiashan Village, passes through Shige Festival, Guan Village, Shuangshui Village... and finally merges into the Mijia River in Mijia Town.
Northern Shaanxi has experienced nine droughts in ten years. Most of the villages are built near water. Unfortunately, there are very few and very small fish in the Dongla River. After watering the land, only a few small fry were received. The river above the Loess Plateau is filled with sediment.
If there is too much, the water quality is not suitable for the growth of fish. In addition, the water period is long and the flow is cut off from time to time. In drought, there is no room for fish to grow.
