After cooking a meal, Li Aihua had mastered most of the key points.
The next day, Li Aihua cooked seafood porridge, and everyone praised it for being delicious.
Zhou Huaijing didn't send much seafood, so Li Aihua kept the rest.
I'm thinking of inviting a few families over to try it out after a while.
On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Hu family invited the Yang family, Hu Jirui's family, and Lao Zheng to dinner.
This was the first time the Hu Jirui family came to visit, bringing gifts.
Li Aihua and Xu Mingzhu cooked seafood porridge and two dishes of seafood.
With the addition of some other dishes, several families had a taste of the delicious food and were still very satisfied.
After dinner, several groups of people went about their own business, and the house was bustling with activity.
During the first month of the year, Xu Mingzhu taught, Li Aihua and Jiang Qiao made clothes, and Hu Lin trained in the house.
The other three people played cards on the bed, did housework, and occasionally went up the mountain to collect firewood when they had nothing to do.
When Xu Mingzhu was teaching, the firewood in the house had to be kept burning.
Otherwise the children’s hands will be frozen and they won’t be able to write.
In February, Liu Mingjia gave birth to twin daughters.
I gave birth in the county hospital. The weather was still cold at that time, so I stayed in the hospital for the confinement period.
When all things came back to life, Xu Mingzhu's teaching also stopped.
Let the kids rest for a few days and then they'll be ready to go back to work.
Yang Qing continued to go to school.
The Yang family’s granddaughter’s full moon is also during these days.
There was no big celebration for the full moon, so we just invited the Hu family and the Zhou family to have a simple meal together, and then we would have a banquet when the baby turned one year old.
The two families made a set of clothes for each child.
After the busy spring season was over, the village convened another meeting.
There are two main purposes, one is to build a building for educated youth, and the other is to reclaim land.
After the meeting, construction of the Youth League Building began. This was the order from above.
Materials and manpower were all in place very quickly.
A few days after the educated youth building was completed, several more groups of educated youth arrived in the village.
These newly arrived educated youth received training in the village, while the skilled workers from other villages went to open up wasteland.
The land was reclaimed towards the county town, and the educated youth building was also built at the entrance of the village.
Everything is extending towards the county town.
Xiaohe Village has never been reclaimed, but now there are too many people in the village and the little land is not enough for farming.
The road to the county town was all barren, but now the authorities have ordered several villages to reclaim the land.
Otherwise, there will be too many people and not enough food to feed these educated youth, which will cause chaos.
During the period from late spring to the beginning of summer, when Hu Lin went to the county town to sell cooked food, he saw people busy working in the fields on both sides of the road.
When the Youth League Building was completed, it was the hottest time of summer and some of the reclaimed land had already been planted with crops.
Yang Qing stopped going to school when he was almost sixteen years old.
He was the last batch of sixteen-year-old students in the county school. The school no longer operated this year. The remaining students also stopped studying, and the teachers all went to the countryside.
After Yang Qing stopped studying, he had to work in the fields like an adult, and had no time to teach Li Aihua or practice martial arts with Hu Lin.
Regarding this matter, Hu Lin talked to Yang Qing to see if he could ask his elder brother to assign him to the militia team.
The militia is composed partly of retired soldiers and partly of farmers who know a little bit of martial arts.
After Yang Qing discussed with his family, Yang Shu took Yang Qing to the militia.
After seeing Yang Qing's skills, the militia did not say a word.
Besides, the militia is short of people now.
They were informed that they had gone to the countryside to join the production team and to reclaim wasteland. The areas they patrolled had increased and they were looking forward to having more people come, as this would also relieve their pressure.
In this way, under Yang Shu's "teaching", Yang Qing learned a little bit of boxing and fighting skills, and was able to fight on par with the militiamen. Therefore, he officially became a member of the militia.
The daily work became patrolling, but there was much more time.
Now he has time to practice martial arts, and he can also teach Li Aihua on time during his daily patrols.
In the past few years, Li Aihua has learned almost everything, and after this year, she will be able to catch up with Yang Qing's progress.
In midsummer, several more groups of people came and stayed in the Information Building, with different ages.
Upon inquiry, it turned out that students were in the minority, the majority were unemployed vagrants in the city, and some were teachers.
The village hastily arranged training for these people and let them engage in the land reclamation project.
It was not until the autumn harvest time that all the people who had reclaimed the wasteland returned and rushed to harvest the fields.
This year, Hu Lin went to a corn field. Even though she was fully armed, she couldn't avoid being itchy all over by the fluff on the corn leaves.
I was sweating profusely and breaking corn was extremely painful.
Yang Qing joined the militia and did not go to the fields this year. Instead, he went to patrol the village boundary.
He was not with Yang Qing, but was grouped together with Xu Mingzhu.
Ever since Zhou Honggan fell ill in the fields last year, he has been working together with the old couple of the Zhou family.
On weekdays, they raise pigs and feed cows, and during the busy farming season, they dry millet, corn, and sorghum in the back.
Li Aihua went up the mountain to pick up mountain products with Zhou Huai'en as usual.
During the busy farming season this year, Xu Mingzhu was lucky and never had to work night shifts, and was able to go to work normally.
But whether this was just luck or someone's manipulation is not known.
Everyone was so busy with the autumn harvest that they had no time to pay attention to these things. They didn't make any noise and it just passed quietly.
The busy farming season was over and the family members each went about their business. After picking up all the mountain products, Hu Lin called Yang Qing over.
After patrolling day and night, Yang Qing finally got a few days of rest.
Seeing Hu Lin carrying a small backpack and not heading up the mountain, he asked, "What are we going to do?"
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