As July approaches, the Dongfeng No. 1 wheat seeds planted in the hundred acres of fields of the Third Mountain Agricultural Research Institute are growing vigorously. Since the spring of this year, there has not been much rain. Thinking about the harvest from the fields last year, the people who worked together worked very hard, so there will be no shortage of food.
Song Jiayu was also working hard in the field at this time, and the entire project team was there.
In order to improve the corn seeds, the project team tried several plans, but there were few successes and many failures, which did not meet their expectations. These days, some other people have privately said that since they can't do it, they should give up Comrade Xiao Song, the accelerator, and let him take over the toilet without doing anything.
In order to change the atmosphere, Team Leader Wan Changjin drove everyone to the fields.
Looking at the heavy wheat will make you feel much better.
"I heard that our research institute's Green Sprout No. 1 rice variety has been a great success in the land of fish and rice in the south."
"The Dongfeng-1 isn't bad either."
"After we grow corn, what name should we give it?"
"Corn One?"
"Hahahaha, you uneducated person, it's the same whether you have chosen a name or not."
The project team members were talking and laughing, and the previous heavy and stressful atmosphere disappeared.
At the same time, far away in Lushan Village.
The sound of the gong struck by the village chief every day is the signal for the villagers to go to work.
Although life is hard, as long as they see the wheat in the fields with full grains, no matter how tired they are, it is worth it.
Last year, the scene where nine out of ten grains of wheat were empty was almost fatal to them.
If it weren't for the food distributed by the state, how could the village have survived until now?
The group of people who came out of Old Song's house lined up in a long queue and walked towards the gathering place.
Wei Meihua walked in front. Three or four years had passed, and this aunt who once looked young now had a few white hairs. She complained about the hard days and the inaction of her family.
"All of you just wait for someone to feed you. Are you all pigs? Why don't you come and help me? You're working me to death, and you'll be fine!
Kill those two old guys. The sooner they die, the more food they can save for me. With so many people in the family, the kids can’t even get enough to eat.
And Song Chengjiu and Song Dongchang, if I hadn't seen you record eight work points with the scorekeeper today, you two would be in trouble today!"
In the past few years, since the second wife was gone, her life has become more and more difficult.
Song Chengjiu's new wife, Zheng Li, is a troublemaker. She doesn't do housework, and after giving birth to a child, she only knows how to give birth but not how to take care of it. She also slacks off at work. Three work points a day are not enough for Zheng Li to eat alone, not to mention that she also brings food from home to her parents' home.
In the past two years, Song Chengjiu still helped with work for the Zheng family, but in the past two years, Song Chengjiu was a lazy person and no longer had the strong love he had for Zheng Li. How could he still work for the Zheng family? He just worked for five work points every day and ate a lot. His two sons cried from hunger every day, but he didn't seem to feel any sympathy as a father.
No matter how much Wei Meihua loved her son, she was almost worn away by Song Chengjiu's character. She locked up all the food in the house, and if anyone didn't earn work points, she would never waste a single bit of food.
Song Dongchang was completely implicated by his elder brother. He was only seventeen years old this year, only one year older than Song Beiwang, but he had to earn a few centimeters every day, like an old ox. After a day of sun exposure, his skin would peel off several times. He came home exhausted every day and was unable to move. He was also complained by his mother. Of the three meals a day, he could only eat something dry at noon to fill his stomach. In the dead of night, his snoring was accompanied by the rumbling of his stomach.
It's so miserable. If he said that everyone in Lushan Village was like this, he would just feel miserable. But when he saw Song Beiwang, who followed his sister to the city to enjoy a good life, he felt more resentful.
He resented that his elder sister had insisted on marrying him off, resented that his elder sister was not Song Jiayu, and resented that they were all family, so why didn't they take them with them when they went to the city.
Old Song arrived at the gathering place and, according to the team leader's instructions, began to go to work in each group.
Over there, Old Man Song and Old Lady Song went to see the old village chief.
Judging from their faces, the two of them looked even more frail than Wei Meihua. They were already old, and the food they ate every day contained no meat at all. The food Wei Meihua gave them was just enough to keep them alive, let alone fill them up.
"Village Chief, did my second son and the others write to me and say anything?"
The old village chief looked at the two old men in front of him. He was a few years older than Old Song, but he looked younger than Old Song. It seemed that Old Song had not had a good life with the eldest family over the years.
But he would not write a letter to persuade Song Demin's family.
Not to mention that he has a better relationship with Song Demin's family, and there is also Song Jiayu, that powerful girl, he just can't stand the things that old Song did in the past when he favored the eldest son and suppressed the second son.
Shaking his head, the old village chief said, "No, it was only during the last Chinese New Year that Song Demin sent you two some retirement food. That's all."
When the family was divided, it was agreed that the second branch of the family would only need to provide food for their retirement every year.
Fifty kilograms of grain were sent during the Chinese New Year, and another fifty kilograms of grain were sent in the second half of the year, but less than half of this grain went to Old Man and Old Mrs. Song, and the rest was snatched away by the eldest brother's family.
When he was young, Old Man Song could still beat his son, but now he is old and needs to live his life according to his son's mood.
The food that was stolen cannot be taken back.
Old Man Song didn't want to live like this anymore. He turned to the old village chief and asked, "My eldest son is unfilial. My wife and I only ate one-third of the food he sent us. The rest went to his family. Village chief, can you send a letter to Demin and ask him to come and take my wife and me in with you?"
"I can't help you with this. Demin is still living with Jiayu. How can he take you two to the city?" The old village chief really thought this was a fantasy.
Old Mrs. Song opened her mouth, her voice much hoarser. "Village head, I remember Tianshun should have graduated from school. He must have a job in a factory in the city and a house. We two old people don't need a big house, just a kang to sleep on. I've been sick since last winter, and my cough won't go away. I also want to go to the city hospital."
Now that things had come to this, the old village chief no longer wanted to deal with the matter, but he couldn't bear to watch Old Song's wife fall ill and die, so he just said, "I'll send a letter, but I can't guarantee that no one will come."
"Okay, thank you, village chief." Old man Song helped his wife out.
The two men went to talk to the village chief and were seen by Old Song's family.
Zheng Li, like a cat seeing a fish, came to Song Chengjiu and asked, "Will your second uncle and his family come back?"
Song Chengjiu had no idea, "I don't care whether he comes back or not, it's none of my business!"
Frustrated, Zheng Li cursed, "Why is this none of our business? If Second Uncle's family really sends someone to take the old man and the old lady away, will we still get 100 kilograms of food every year?"
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