Chapter 66: It’s All Because of the Fragrance
"Xia Zhiqing, do you want to have dinner before going back?" Gu Xiaofeng turned and asked Xia Tiantian. His mother didn't like her, but he liked her!
"Shishi, eat whatever you want!" Xia Tiantian didn't want to marry Gu Xiaofeng, but she also wanted to eat free meals.
Besides, Gu Xiaofeng respected her very much and even asked for her opinion, as if she said to eat, then eat, and if she said not to eat, then don't invite Jian Yueshi to eat.
This was very useful to Xia Tiantian. Usually she was Jian Yueshi's supporting role and no one ever cared about her thoughts.
Unfortunately, Jian Yueshi was destined to be disappointed. Chen Zilong seldom went to the cafeteria to eat, and he had eaten at home today and had not returned to the farm yet.
Ye Siran was in no mood to care about them. She drove Wen Lin back to the village and gave the bought tea to Zhong Qingfeng to record his work points.
The two men returned to the cave. An Tao and Wang Fang had just finished work. An Tao took a leave in the morning to mail a letter, and in the afternoon he went to repair the river to earn work points.
Although he was very tired, he still greeted them with a smile: "Ye Zhiqing, Wen Zhiqing, you are back. I will go get some water."
"Now that you're back, I'll go wash the pots and light the fire." Wang Fang also said that although she had to pay for her meals, she couldn't be lazy at work.
"Well, Sister Wang will go chop the chicken, we will have rice tonight, Xiao Zhiyu will pick the vegetables, and Wen Lin will wash the pot and light the fire."
Ye Siran took out a slaughtered chicken and handed it to Wang Fang, while she went to wash the rice and cook.
The aroma of the fried chicken made the old educated youths' eyes red, but Ye Siran had already made it known that anyone who wanted to eat it could buy it with money.
They had no money to buy food, and Xia Tiantian and Jian Yueshi had not returned, so no one came forward to make trouble.
The cave dwellings where the educated youth lived were a bit far from the villagers, but the fragrance still wafted into the villagers' noses.
Everyone was drooling at the aroma, and the villagers gathered together, "Oh my god, who made this delicious meal?"
"Who else could it be? It must be the newly arrived educated youth. They just came from the city and have money to buy meat."
"It smells so good. Should we go to the educated youth's caves to smell the fragrance?"
"Go, of course. The black steamed buns in my house are really disgusting. Is it illegal for us to go over and smell the fragrance?"
So some curious villagers took their children to the educated youth’s cave dwellings, and the closer they got, the more fragrant the smell became.
Ye Siran and Wen Lin were already full, so Xiao Zhiyu and An Tao divided the rice in the pot equally.
An Tao saved a few pieces of chicken to cover the rice, then hid in the kitchen and slowly savored it.
Xiao Zhiyu mixed the remaining soup with rice, squatted beside Ye Siran's cave with the bowl in his hand, and ate happily.
He was suddenly surrounded by a group of people, and was so scared that he almost choked to death, "Sister Ye, help!"
"What's wrong?" Ye Siran heard the shout and quickly walked to the door of the cave. When he looked up, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him!
Several children rolled on the ground and cried out, "Wa ...
"Wow wow... Dad, I want to eat meat... wow wow..."
"Hey, young man! Can you please be so kind as to give the child a bite?"
"You city folks are lucky. You have meat to eat all the time. We can only eat meat during the New Year!"
"Alas, our lives are so hard. We work so hard all day long that we can't finish the farm work. We go hungry every day and can't even get enough food, let alone meat!"
"Young man, give my son a taste. I will help you repair the river channel for a day tomorrow. We will harvest rice in about twenty days."
"Hey! Don't lie to me. What's the use of harvesting rice? After paying the public tax, there's not much left!"
The villagers were talking about it, and Xiao Zhiyu felt very uncomfortable listening to it, "Uncle, I only have this half bowl of rice left."
"Young man, it doesn't matter if you have leftovers. Please let my son have a taste of them." The big man wanted to grab them.
Qu Chenggang, who was following in the crowd, felt very unhappy. Their family was considered one of the best in Gaotang Village.
But their family only had a full meal of meat on New Year's Day.
After being rejected by Jian Yueshi, he visited other villages in the past few days and found that there was no village in the entire commune poorer than their Gaotang Village.
In addition to farming, other villages have side businesses. Qiantang Village has a pig farm, and another village has a tile factory or a brick factory.
Transportation in Gaotang Village is inconvenient. There is not even a tractor, so the roads are very narrow and can only be used by ox carts.
If you raise pigs, it is very troublesome to transport them for sale. It is also inconvenient to transport the pigs when running a tile factory. If you use only manpower, there will definitely be no profit.
Ye Siran had not yet come into contact with the villagers when she came here. She usually saw that the villagers were dressed in shabby clothes, but she had seen people on the farm dressed even shabbier.
Looking at the crying children, she had a sudden impulse to hunt two pigs in the space and share the meat with the villagers.
But then she thought again and felt that it was meaningless. She was not a Bodhisattva who saved all living beings. It would be bad if the villagers took advantage of her!
It is better to teach a man how to fish than to teach him how to fish. She searched through her memories of her previous life to find out how this place got rid of poverty and became rich twenty years later.
She actually found it. The rice yield per mu here is very low. The early rice yield is generally 400 kilograms per mu, and the late rice yield is about 700 kilograms per mu.
The total output of two seasons is only about 1,100 yuan, which is not as high as the rice output of one season in other regions.
Growing two seasons of rice is hard and tiring, and the returns are not good. In addition, growing rice requires water, and the water source here depends on the river in the village.
The villagers repair the river in their spare time, for fear that the river bank would collapse and cause blockage, thus affecting the irrigation of paddy fields.
It was several years later that a poverty alleviation team came here. It took more than ten years to persuade the villagers to plant a season of rice, and then to encourage them to plant garlic.
When she has time, she will bring forward the poverty alleviation policies so that the villagers here can suffer less and her rebirth will not be in vain.
Thinking of this, Ye Siran suddenly understood, and she returned to her cave in silence.
She didn't want to see the children crying, it was all because of the smell!
Some village women who liked to take advantage of others saw Xiao Zhiyu generously share half a bowl of leftovers, and immediately surrounded him and said good things about him.
Xiao Zhiyu was flattered by the praises from the aunties and immediately took out all the money he had and shared it with them, but the village women were dissatisfied.
"Little comrade, why didn't you give it to me? Who are you looking down on?"
"You gave Chunhua fifty cents but didn't give me a penny. Are you attracted to her daughter?"
"Don't talk nonsense, auntie. I don't know if that auntie has a daughter. This is all I have. I'll give it all to you."
"Humph, you only have three dollars on you, and you can still eat meat? Who are you trying to fool?"
"Little comrade, if you don't give me fifty cents today, I'll drag you to the village chief and accuse you of being a hooligan."
"How could you do this! I told you I don't have any more on me." Xiao Zhiyu was so angry at the aunties that he went back to his own cave.
Fortunately, most of his money was kept with Sister Ye, otherwise he would have to live on coarse food like those old educated youths!
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