I wanted to go back to my own courtyard, but Hu Liu's family warmly invited me to stay. It was not until after dinner that Hu Liu took me back on his bicycle.
For fear that Wen Jiuyue would worry, Leng You still drove the sled back to Daheishan Village early the next morning.
In the following week, Leng You went to the county town twice and did not ride a sled, but skied back and forth.
The moment he put the skis on his feet, Xiang Wentian's figure appeared in his mind again.
I wonder if Pingdu is covered with snow like Daheishan Village at this time, whether Xiang Wentian has gone out skiing, or whether he will think of the days in Daheishan Village when he is skiing.
He shook his head, put everything aside and pressed it into the corner of his heart, then he pushed hard with both hands and flew away like a gust of wind.
This is the feeling that Leng You enjoys the most, the kind of coolness that seems to be able to control the world.
"Okay, Grandma Hu, you don't need to take medicine or acupuncture anymore. Your illness has been completely cured." When the last silver needle was pulled out, Leng You announced that Grandma Hu's illness had been completely cured.
"Thank you so much, our Youyou girl... No, our Youyou girl said that we are not allowed to say thank you, so I won't say it.
Youyou girl, Grandma Hu will remember this kindness."
Grandma Hu wiped the tears from her face. She used to be tortured by all the pain in her body, but after only one week of Leng You's treatment, she felt younger and wished she was 30 years old. She felt relaxed and comfortable like never before.
Only those who have been chronically ill know how excruciating and devastating such pain can be.
Grandma Hu has already told her son and four grandsons to do their best to take care of Leng You and treat Leng You wholeheartedly.
"Niece, Uncle Hu knows your temper, so he won't say thank you to you.
Four little bastards, come here!"
Hu Liuchao waved to his sons.
"Dad!" The four little ones stood in a row.
"Remember, your sister Youyou is the benefactor of our family. She is your real sister. No matter what happens to her in the future, you must unconditionally help her. Do you hear me?" Hu Liu educated his four sons with a stern face.
Leng You: “…”
Charge? This statement is very Jianghu-like and fits the personalities of Hu Liu and his sons.
"I heard you! From now on we will obey the boss only. We will go through swords and blazes of oil. We will block the sword for the boss and protect him with our lives. We will never have any second thoughts." The four little ones shouted in unison.
Everyone: "...Okay! Not bad, that's how it should be."
After a moment's pause, they all praised and clapped loudly.
Leng You: “…”
I resisted the urge to touch my forehead. Why did I feel like I was the big sister of a gang?
…
In the spring when flowers bloom, Leng You and Wen Jiuyue sow seeds in the ground together.
They still planted ten acres of land this year. After a year of tidying up the land last year, the soil became much softer, making it much easier to plant this year.
The two acres of millet planted last year are enough for the two of them to eat for two or three years, because they mainly eat rice and flour now, and millet is just for an occasional meal for something new.
So this year all the ten acres of land were planted with corn, because Wen Jiuyue was so enthusiastic that Leng You caught six more piglets.
In summer, wild vegetables are everywhere at the foot of the mountain and in the deep valleys. Corn mixed with wild vegetables is used as feed. Pigs grow fast and the meat is delicious.
Although there were only one old and one young, the grandparents and grandchildren still finished sowing seeds before all the families in Daheishan Village.
The next step is to wait for the spring rain, then the seedlings to emerge, and then weeding...
Leng You ate his meal and went out early, just like before the spring plowing.
"You guys go back, I have something to do today." Seeing the five Maos following him out, Leng You stopped and stopped them.
Wu Gu Mao looked at Leng You with a face full of grievance, then looked at Hong Zao who could follow her, and shook his tail vigorously a few times, refusing to go back.
"Be obedient and go back first. I'll come back to find you when I finish my work." Leng You negotiated again.
Wu Mao still feels aggrieved.
"Let's go!" Leng You was helpless and could only let them follow him.
"Hiss...Ptck!" Hongzao spat with disdain.
Whenever it sees the five hairy ones acting coquettishly, naughty and cute, it wants to give them a kick.
"Woof!" The five Maos were not willing to be outdone and bared their teeth at the red dates in protest.
"You guys go down there and hunt first. I have something to do outside." Leng You first carried the five Maos to the bottom of the valley.
Wu Mao nodded vigorously and ran away happily.
"Hiss..." Seeing Leng You coming up from the valley bottom and about to walk alone, Hong Zao cried out and then rubbed Leng You's arm with his head.
"I have to go do something important. You stay here and eat grass while waiting for me." Leng You patted Hong Zao's mouth.
"Hiss..." Hongzao lay down directly.
"Okay! But you only have to take me to the outskirts of Shaoguo Village, and you must not let anyone see you, okay?" Leng You had no choice but to sit on Hongzao's back.
"Hiss..." Hongzao nodded, let out another long hiss, and galloped away carrying Lengyou on his back.
In Shaoguo Village, somewhere in a field——
"Why are you using this black, hard, broken steamed bread again? Are you feeding it to pigs?
Grandpa, did they do this on purpose? That day I saw the child of the production team leader's family holding white flour buns.
They eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, but they give us this pig food. We will sue him. "
A boy of about fourteen or fifteen years old was looking at the coarse sorghum flour steamed bread in his hand with a ferocious face and cursing constantly.
Although only four or five miles apart, Shaoguo Village is completely different from Daheishan Village.
Leng Tiezhu from Daheishan Village sensed the benefits of the household contract responsibility system to him personally, so he went to the county to find someone to give him a gift, and Daheishan Village was listed as a pilot village and was the first to carry out reforms.
Shaoguo Village is generally richer than Daheishan Village, and at least most people can fill their stomachs. They are worried that if the reform is carried out, they will not even have enough food to eat, so the villagers have been opposing this policy.
This has resulted in the entire village still maintaining the original production team model until now. Although villagers can return to their own homes to cook on a voluntary basis, food rations still have to be exchanged for work points.
Because this pair of grandparents and grandchildren always cheated at work, they earned the least work points, so the food they received was also the worst and the least. In order to fill their stomachs, they had to eat together in the brigade's canteen.
But how could there be good food in the brigade’s canteen? Even this kind of coarse flour steamed bread could only be eaten once a day. The morning meal was simply coarse flour and vegetable porridge.
"Hmph! These bastards, wait until the day I return to Pingdu, and see how I deal with them." The middle-aged man opposite the young man also had a sinister and murderous look in his eyes.
"I can't eat this. I'll go coax that silly girl from the captain's house and ask her to go home and steal some cornmeal cakes for me. They'll be easier to swallow than this.
Grandpa, this...please help me eat it!"
The young man handed the black steamed bread in his hand to the man opposite him.
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