"The captain of the brigade should be the biggest headache now. In previous years, when the commune had tasks, he would organize villagers to meet, and Professor Liu and the others would be pulled out to toss them for a while, but this situation was rare, so the few old people were not too worried.
Suffer.
But there is another Du Taohua, who is still registered in the county, how dare he just perfunctory things?"
Ning Yue nodded, expressing deep agreement.
She didn't take Du Taohua seriously in the past, and she wouldn't take her seriously now.
After the two of them rode bicycles, Du Taohua looked at Bai Yafang and said, "Afang, considering our good relationship before, you help me once, and I will repay you in the future."
Bai Yafang was a little impatient. This woman was really shameless. How bad was her reputation? She actually dared to come to the school to block her and lend her money? What would she pay back after lending her money?
"Taohua, it's not that I don't want to help you. We just built a house and we have no money. I became a teacher, but my monthly salary is only ten yuan. What can I do with ten yuan? Buy some pocket money.
All the odds and ends were spent.
You just asked to borrow fifty yuan, where can I find it for you?"
Du Taohua's face suddenly became ugly again, "Avon, I really don't know who to turn to. You are my only friend. You have to help me no matter what I say this time. I will never forget your kindness in the future."
of."
She had no milk, and seeing her child screaming all day long because of hunger, she really had no choice.
Xu Yansheng simply took a pickaxe and went outside the courtyard to harvest the vegetables he had planted casually.
"Your uncle can do this little work all by himself, so why do you need me?"
"The rest I have to discuss with you. After all, you know your family's preferences better, so of course you have to give them what you want."
Ning Yue: ...I'm really afraid that her mother's next sentence will be to ask the men in the family to dig river mud.
When the autumn harvest was over, all the men of the Du family went up to the mountains to get firewood. Zhang Damei took the female soldiers at home to clear out the private land, and ran to his daughter's house.
Before winter comes, villagers who are busy with the autumn harvest will go into the mountains to work for a few days, preparing firewood for the winter, picking wild fruits, etc. They are afraid that they will encounter villagers not long after entering the mountains.
"How do you take care of the vegetables in your house? It's obvious that you were late in planting vegetables. Each cabbage grows weighs more than ten kilograms, and the radishes also grow to a huge size. Even the ones in our field can't compare.
You two have no worries about having no food to eat this winter. Is it possible that river mud farming is so good?"
He wanted to see how she would prepare this gift.
"I've finished putting away all the things at home. I'll come over and help you."
Ning Yue hurriedly waved her hands to refuse, "No need, Third Uncle. Let's go up the mountain to see if there are any wild fruits we can pick. There is no shortage of firewood at home. Come down the mountain quickly. How early did you go into the mountain? You can get it so soon."
Got such a big bundle of firewood?"
Xu Yansheng, who was busy putting cabbage away, echoed: "Mom, I can do it myself. You and Ning Yue can rest."
After hearing this, Ning Yue nodded to express that she had received it.
Xu Yansheng: ...This woman is really good at carrying things in her belly. They have been married for such a long time, and he has never heard her mention anything about ginseng once. She is really good at it!
Xu Yansheng really didn't hide it, "My father only has work and no hobbies in his heart, my mother loves beauty the most, my brother likes guns, my sister cares about her son the most, and as for my little nephew, he loves playing the most."
The two of them had already agreed to leave for the capital as soon as the holiday was over. The new daughter-in-law couldn't come empty-handed.
"The gift you mentioned is on the mountain?"
I originally thought that since there was no river mud added to the ground outside, nothing would grow, but it turned out that the big radishes were only a small circle smaller than the ones in the yard. They harvested two large baskets of radishes and a large basket of potatoes.
come out.
Zhang Damei ran home after finishing her work. Ning Yue tried to keep her for dinner but failed.
There was no other way, Ning Yue could only follow her. In fact, the vegetable plot in the yard was not very big, and there was almost enough cabbage. Zhang Damei started to pull out the radish, twist the radish tassels, wash the radish and then pickle it.
The pickles are gone, and the rest are stored in the cellar.
After putting down what she was doing, Ning Yue was about to pull her mother into the house: "Mom, why are you here today?"
"Our food is enough to eat, so you should go less into the mountains in the future."
Isn’t it just to prepare gifts for your family?”
"Ning Yue, you two are also going into the mountains to chop firewood. Why don't you take my bundle back to you first, and then I'll go chop it down."
The two stood there for a long time, and finally, Bai Yafang took out five yuan and gave it to her.
Ning Yue watered frequently, and the pepper seedlings were full of red peppers. She had already picked a lot of the red ones, but there was still a lot left on the pepper seedlings.
"The ginseng is for grandpa, where are the others?"
Zhang Damei couldn't stop after saying a few words. She was here to work, not to chat. Ning Yue didn't stop her, so she went into the vegetable field and started working.
After finally catching up on Sunday, Ning Yue and the two also wanted to harvest the cabbage. They originally planted some lentils, carrots, eggplants and pumpkins on the side next to the wall. They had already planted the seedlings a few days ago, and now they have all been cleared out. Now
The vegetables in the courtyard are cabbage, radish, potatoes and dozens of pepper seedlings that don't take up much space.
There may be many large animals in such a big mountain. What if we encounter one?
"Hmm, I came here just once a year ago, and I will definitely not come here again.
Ning Yue answered as she walked: "Except for the inner area of Mang Mountain, I have walked almost all of the area close to our village. I know where there are good things. At the beginning of spring, I found an old tree on the mountain.
I haven’t picked the ginseng yet. Winter is coming soon. It’s the right time to pick it so we can have a gift when we return to the capital.”
The person who borrowed the money was angry, and the person who was borrowed the money also felt uncomfortable. In the end, the two broke up on bad terms.
What needs to be harvested is collected, what needs to be dried is left to dry in the yard, and what needs to be marinated needs to be marinated, and half a day has gone by in a blink of an eye.
On the last weekend before winter, Ning Yue took Xu Yansheng up the mountain with her.
"Hey, I came here before dawn. This is because the village has regulations not to allow random logging, otherwise we would have gone down the mountain early."
You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, but you also have to protect the mountains, otherwise there will be no resources to use in the future.
Because he understands this truth, the village has regulations for many things, such as building a house and logging. That requires the village to take people up the mountain to mark out the trees that can be cut, and then you can cut them after marking them. Next year, you have to add saplings.
, you can’t damage the tree by cutting firewood, you can only cut off the excess branches, which is equivalent to pruning the tree.
Then we met several more groups. Three of them took the initiative to give Ning Yue the things they had worked so hard to get down the mountain. Two of them were students in Ning Yue's class, and one was in Xu Yansheng's class.
It can be seen that the two of them still have a high status in the minds of the students' parents. At least they will not offend many people like Du Qiaoyu did by teaching back.