Chapter 100 Something happened to the Nie family’s food!
Nie Laosan's wife shuddered and suddenly realized something.
She is not stupid, she is just greedy sometimes and can't think straight when she is greedy. But now she suddenly thought of it.
Just because you have food at home and others don't, doesn't that mean you want to rob the rich?
This won’t do!
You have worked hard to get your own food, how can you give it to others?
She thought about it and quickly said, "You're wrong. We did bring a few bags of food, but that's because we don't have any at home. Forget about it, our two children can eat. Someone from my mother's family came over a while ago and brought half a bag of cornmeal. I really have no choice."
When she said this, it was a mixture of truth and falsehood, and people around her were too lazy to think about it.
Seeing this, Nie Laosan's wife started talking about how good Shengyin was at studying. But just as she was talking, Wang Baiou came over on a bicycle and asked, "What are you talking about?"
While setting up her bicycle, she checked the progress of today's weeding, and recorded who had weeded which area cleanly and who had not, so that she could use it to calculate the work points later.
I happened to hear everyone talking about the exam, so I interrupted.
Nie Laosan's wife knew that Wang Baiou had just been out of confinement for a few months. She thought to herself that this person was really hardworking. She started working again right after she was out of confinement. Was she afraid that she wouldn't be paid?
She casually said, "My family's silver-bearing son is good at studying, so maybe he can become an accountant in the future!"
Of course, Wang Baiou understood the meaning of her words. Usually, Nie Laosan's wife would make sarcastic remarks to her whenever she saw her. She had been dissatisfied for a long time, and now she was also unhappy. You know, a woman who has just given birth will have a different temper than usual, and she will be easily irritable.
So Wang Baiou, who was always good-tempered, said, "Your Shengyin? Didn't your Shengyin almost fail the junior high school entrance exam?"
"Ah?" Nie Laosan's wife opened her mouth wide: "What do you mean?"
Wang Baiou's face showed a hint of sarcasm. "There are a total of six children in our production team taking the exam this time, and your family's income is the lowest. You say it's not easy for you, you feed your children well and send them to school, so how can you get the lowest score?"
"Last place?" Nie Lao San's wife said, "Impossible! Shouldn't my son be ranked first in the positive scores?"
Wang Baiou: "How would I know? Anyway, I heard that he was the last one, the last one! Actually, I sympathize with Teacher Huo and Teacher Su. They are very dedicated to their students, which is not easy. Who would have thought that after five years of teaching, they would be held back by your family's Shengyin."
Nie Laosan's wife opened her eyes wide in disbelief. How could she believe it?
Yet, at this very moment, someone curiously asked, "Nie Lao San's wife, what's going on? Your Shengyin is actually ranked last? Isn't your Shengyin a good student? How come he's not even as good as that Wang Zhuzi?"
Wang Fugui's wife happened to be there too, and she snorted, "What do you mean? What do you mean? What's wrong with my Wang Zhuzi? At least my Wang Zhuzi is not the last one!"
It makes me happy just thinking about it. Nie Laosan’s wife boasts every day that her child is a good student, but now he is ranked last.
Then at least her pillar is not the worst one!
Nie Laosan's wife couldn't stand it anymore and didn't want the work points anymore. She ran home. She had to find out what was going on.
Facts have proved that what Wang Baiou said was true.
Shengyin did indeed get the last place in the exam.
The questions this time were actually not too difficult, and she would have no problem solving them if she focused on them.
But she used crooked means, always trying to take shortcuts and get away with it, and ended up failing.
However, Fubao got the first place in the exam, the first place in the whole commune.
At this moment, Su Wanru and Huo Jinyun looked at each other with joy. Su Wanru almost jumped up, and Huo Jinyun swept away the heaviness of recent times and felt relieved.
No matter what, at least there are results and this primary school can continue to operate.
Of course, besides being pleasantly surprised, they were also surprised by Shengyin's results. She usually studies well, so why did she fail so poorly in the formal exam?
When Nie Laosan's wife heard the news, she was ashamed, annoyed and angry. After returning home, she gave Shengyin a good scolding, cursing and scolding him. She felt that Shengyin had brought shame to her and told Shengyin to just stop going to school. It was really a big fuss.
Except for Shengyin, the other students were all happy.
Although they didn't get the top score in the whole commune like Fubao, they at least did better than Shengyin! Their parents often said, "Look at Shengyin, everyone knows she's a little genius, why can't you do the same?"
Now they can proudly take their results home and say, "Look, I did better than that genius Shengyin!" Oh my, how happy they are!
Just thinking about it makes me happy.
Liu Guizhi and Gu Weidong were naturally happy to see the results of Fubao and Gu Shengtian. Fubao was the first in the whole commune, and Gu Shengtian was a little behind, but he was probably ranked around 30th, which was a very good result.
It just so happened that Gu Yuejin and Gu Yuehua had also finished their exams. When the results came out, Gu Yuejin was almost certain to be admitted to high school, and Gu Yuehua's results were also among the best. So the couple were very happy and said they wanted to celebrate properly.
As luck would have it, Gu Yuejin, who had just returned home that day, took Fubao and others to the mountains to catch cicadas. As luck would have it, they caught a wild duck. The duck was quite fat, enough for the whole family to have a delicious meal.
Everyone was suffering from famine at that time, and they didn't dare to show it too much, so they secretly ground some white flour, kneaded it into dough, and used high-quality peanut oil to make pancakes. The pancakes were crispy and fragrant, exuding the mellow aroma of noodles.
Gu Weidong then braised the wild duck in sauce, and the meat became very fragrant. He gnawed on the freshly baked pancakes and then took a bite of the wild duck meat braised in sauce. Life was so perfect.
Gu Weidong was delighted and took out the Lao Baigan liquor he had bought a few years ago. "Yuejin, Yuehua, you're not young anymore and can drink. Let's have a drink!"
In fact, someone as old as Gu Yuejin would have known how to drink a long time ago, but Gu Yuejin had always been in school and had never drunk during festivals or weddings. Now, seeing Gu Weidong take out the wine, he rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, try it!"
Seeing this, Gu Shengtian was reluctant to miss the fun and asked to drink too. So the other guys each had a wine cup and drank to their heart's content.
Amidst the hustle and bustle, Fubao took a letter and walked aside to read it carefully.
This was brought back by Gu Yuejin from the commune. It was a reply letter from Xiao Dingkun to her.
He was not a person who could comfort others, especially when there was almost no answer to everything Fubao said in the letter, he had no way to comfort her.
But he did offer some constructive suggestions.
Fubao read one line at a time.
When she saw one of them, she became interested.
Xiao Dingkun said that during his time in the Pingxi Production Brigade, he discovered several edible wild plants that had been ignored by local people, and listed them one by one.
Fubao looked at the edible wild animals he described, and his heart moved and his eyes lit up.
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In autumn, the sorghum and corn that had just been planted in the fields had only grown to half a person's height. It seemed that it would take some time before they could bear fruit.
These days were tormenting for every member of the Pingxi Production Brigade.
I stared at the crops eagerly, wishing I could help them grow, wishing I could put cotton clothes on them to keep them from freezing. As for weeding, fertilizing, and watering, I took even more care of them. This wasn't the time to plant anything, and if I did, I could only hope that God would be merciful and give me more food.
This is the hope of their production team!
Fortunately, God is merciful. This autumn seems to be exceptionally warm, warmer than usual. Seeing that there is hope of producing more food from the crops, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as I breathed a sigh of relief, my belt became tighter and tighter.
These days are really not easy!
They say there's last year's grain, but how long can it last? In previous years, there was still a gap between harvest and harvest. In recent years, things have gotten better, and if there's still a month or two of surplus from the harvest, it's considered good. If there's more than a month or two left, it's going to get harder the longer you get.
So gradually, everyone ran up the mountain. The clever ones had already searched everywhere, and the rest had to go deeper into the mountains to look for food. They dug three feet into the ground to find food, and they wanted everything they could eat, and they didn't mind anything.
At this time, something big happened in Nie Laosan's family.
This happened late one night. That day, Nie Laosan's wife suddenly screamed and shouted, "I've been fooled, I've been fooled, liar, liar!"
Then he stumbled over to Chen Youfu and asked him to help catch the bad guys and the scammers.
Chen Youfu had been busy all day and was exhausted. As soon as he got into bed, he heard Nie Laosan's wife shouting at the top of her lungs.
He was so annoyed, so angry, and so helpless!
Why did I want to be the leader of a production brigade in this life? Why did I want to be the leader of a brigade where Nie Laosan's wife was?
What did he owe her?
Hasn't the Nie family gotten into enough trouble in recent years?
Chen Youfu's wife was furious when she heard this: "She owes her what she deserves. When she was proud, she looked down on others and didn't take you seriously. Now she has encountered some bad luck and comes here to yell at the top of her lungs. It's late at night. Does she think she is crying for a funeral? Is it because her father died or her mother is gone?"
It’s no wonder that Chen Youfu’s wife is angry.
Her husband became the team leader, but she didn't get any benefits. Instead, she encountered all kinds of bad things. Her husband was not an official at all. He was just there to clean up the mess for these troublemakers!
It makes me sick just thinking about it, and I wish I could slap Nie Lao San’s wife to death.
Chen Youfu felt even more helpless.
But what can he do?
Could he argue with an illiterate woman? Could he ignore the problems of his fellow members?
He can't.
So he could only quickly put on his clothes and get up: "What's the matter? What happened?"
Nie Laosan's wife cried, "We have eight bags of food, but we can't eat them all. How can we live like this?"
Chen Youfu was stunned: "What? Eight bags of food? Where did you get them?"
Here, Chen Youfu put on his clothes and went out, and the dog next door also started barking. There was nothing he could do because Nie Laosan's wife's voice was so shrill that it was hard to wake the dog up.
The barking of the dog, coupled with the shrill voice of Nie Laosan's wife, soon woke up the surrounding families: "What's going on? What happened?"
In the countryside, people usually go to rest after 7 or 8 in the evening. At most, they just work hard in the dark. So the village is very quiet, so any noise can be heard directly from the east end to the west end of the village.
Nie Laosan's wife began to cry and talk, and finally Chen Youfu finally understood.
"Come on, I'll go with you."
So Chen Youfu followed Nie Laosan's wife to the Nie family.
Along the way, many members were shocked and followed to watch the fun.
When they saw this, everyone was dumbfounded. It turned out that Nie Laosan's family had eight bags of grain!
But these eight bags of grain were all moldy and mixed with stones and sand.
Everyone was talking about it at once: "How can there be such food?"
Although everyone was extremely hungry, this kind of food was also difficult to eat. They were afraid of getting diarrhea after eating it. If they had diarrhea, all the other food in their stomachs would come out and be wasted. That would be a loss of both the wife and the army.
As everyone stared in amazement, Nie Lao San gritted his teeth and said, "This is my family's own food. I don't know how it became like this!"
Your own?
Of course, some people were puzzled, such as Wang Fugui's wife: "Hey, Third Brother's wife, didn't you say before that your family had no food at all, that there wasn't enough food at home? How come there are suddenly eight more bags?"
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