Chapter 234 Does Liu Lan have jade in her hands?

Xia Juanjuan's work was similar to that during the wheat harvest. She only had to do the required number of work points, so it was relatively easy.

Zhou Qiuhe has been pregnant since March and is now six months pregnant. Her belly is so big and she couldn't bear to see Lijie working so hard, so she took a leave from the supply and marketing cooperative in town and came back to help with the harvest.

She has three children, and with the one in her belly, she will have four. She has to give Liu Lan several hundred work points every month. Although the burden has been reduced a lot after getting a job in the supply and marketing cooperative, it is still not easy for Li Jie to live a rich life alone.

Xia Juanjuan could only sigh when she saw this.

She would try to avoid farm work whenever possible because it was really tiring.

Before traveling through time, I saw various videos of rural life, which looked beautiful, but if you were to experience it for a week, I’m afraid you wouldn’t want to live there anymore.

Therefore, she couldn't help with the farm work. She just brought Yingying and Dongbao home and let them play with Beibei and the triplets. At lunch time, Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Huanhuan came back together, so she ate with them.

It can be regarded as slightly reducing the burden on both of them.

Liu Lan and Li Qiang's family had another fight over the autumn harvest.

Liu Lan lived with her second son because she didn't want to work on the farm. She was old and couldn't stand the hardship.

Unexpectedly, Li Qiang and Wang Guixiang were not filial people either. They took most of the five yuan that Li Zhan sent back from Liu Lan when they left. Seeing that there was no more money to be made, they were not so polite to Liu Lan.

This autumn, Liu Lan was forced to work and work points were allocated to her. It was also said that food would be given to Liu Lan according to her work points. If she worked less, she would have no food to eat.

Liu Lan was so angry that she stopped living with Li Qiang and decided to live on her own.

In order to get to work, she went to see Secretary Zhao and made a fuss for a while, saying that she really couldn't do it.

Secretary Zhao had no other choice. Seeing that she was now deserted by her relatives and friends and looked quite pitiful, he tried to assign her less busy work and calculate fewer work points accordingly.

Liu Lan looked at the cold pot and stove in her room, then looked at the smoke and fire in Xia Juanjuan's yard, and her heart was jealous and twisted.

Didn't all her misfortunes start with marrying Xia Juanjuan, a loser?

Now, she is deserted by her friends and relatives, but she is doing well, taking her own mother to eat and drink! The key is that her son is also devoted to this vixen!

Liu Lan became angrier and angrier as she thought about it. Suddenly, she had an idea. The next day, she packed her bags and said she was going back to her parents' home. She had been out for a few days before returning. She had no other explanation.

When Li Qiang and Wang Guixiang saw that Liu Lan had divided the money, the five yuan that Li Zhan had sent back would naturally not fall into their hands, so they began to blame each other.

"I told you to be nicer to Mom, but you were so stubborn that you forced her to work in the fields. Now Mom doesn't want to live with us anymore. We don't know who will get the money from the five yuan that the fourth child sends back every month!" Li Qiang scolded Wang Guixiang angrily.

Wang Guixiang also felt very regretful, but one cook was enough at home. If Liu Lan didn't go to work in the fields, wouldn't she have to go and work in the fields under the scorching sun?

"You don't have to be afraid. With your mother's condition, no matter who she lives with, she will definitely save the five dollars tightly. No one can get it for free! Besides, let me tell you, your mother wants to live with the third and fourth wives. She has shamelessly made trouble before, but do you think your third and fourth brothers will pay attention to her? Just wait and see. In two days, she will come back and beg to live with us!"

Wang Guixiang said unconvinced.

Li Qiang pointed at her and angrily cursed: "You are a short-sighted spendthrift woman! Our family's fortune has been ruined by you! Sigh... I was thinking that while Mom can still use the fourth child's money, we should save it up, and when Xiaosheng grows up, we should build a house and marry him off. You just keep doing that!"

In rural areas, unless the family is very poor and cannot afford the bride price, people usually marry early.

Their son Lisheng is already ten years old. In another four or five years, he will be looking for a girl of similar age and get engaged. In another two or three years, he will get married.

The legal marriage age was implemented in 1980. There is no such rule now, and many people get married at the age of 17 or 18.

After hearing what her man said, Wang Guixiang had nothing else to say.

Suddenly, she remembered something, and she came up to Li Qiang and whispered, "Dad, do you know that your mother has a piece of jade?"

Li Qiang was stunned for a moment and looked at Wang Guixiang: "Jade? You don't have a fever, do you? Our family has been poor for three generations, where can we get that kind of thing?"

Wang Guixiang looked at Li Qiang with disdain and sneered: "I knew your mother had a lot of ulterior motives in her heart! She would never tell you what good things she had! Take the allowance that the fourth child sent back a few years ago, for example. Your mother must have saved hundreds of dollars! It's a pity that we are stupid and didn't know the value of it for so many years. As a result, all of it was stolen by your silly sister, and it became a bargain for those traffickers! Alas..."

Li Qiang was also angry with Liu Lan when he thought of these things.

You said that if you had given it to your son earlier, how could he not appreciate her kindness? He wouldn't be so upset and angry when he saw her now, thinking of the few hundred yuan stolen by Li Qiaoqiao. How could he be nice to her?

"Stop talking about these nonsense! What on earth is that jade you just mentioned?"

Wang Guixiang went outside to look again, and seeing that no one was around, she said:

"Alas... I happened to go to her room a few days ago to find some needlework. I saw that her door was ajar, so I pushed it open and walked in. Who would have thought that when she saw me, she quickly hid something under the quilt and scolded me. I didn't look closely, but the thing was emerald green. I'm afraid it must be a big piece of jade! I heard from my father that jade is very valuable. In the past, a good piece of jade could be exchanged for dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of food!"

After hearing this, Li Qiang couldn't help but swallow his saliva excitedly and asked, "Are you serious?"

Wang Guixiang sighed and said, "I didn't see it clearly, how can I tell you nonsense? Father, you have so many brothers, and now we have a quarrel with your mother. What if she wants to give the jade to the third and fourth brothers? Wouldn't we be at a great loss? How about..."

"You mean... to steal that piece of jade?" Li Qiang looked at his wife and thought about it.

Wang Guixiang nodded: "The first to strike is the strongest, the last to strike will suffer. If we get it first and sell it for a good price, our son will have money for his wedding in the future, and then we can provide money for her old age. Isn't it the same?"

"But where is the jade?"

"Well, I've been secretly following her and have picked out the right place..."

Li Qiang lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said firmly: "Fuck! Isn't she going back to her parents' home these few days? I will take advantage of this time to dig out the things."

A few days later, Li Qiang dug something up secretly and brought it back.

When you open it, isn't it a piece of jade that is beautifully carved and obviously worth a lot of money?

Moreover, there is a dragon carved on the jade, which symbolizes good luck.

Li Qiang and Wang Guixiang were so excited that their eyes widened. They did not sleep all night. The next day they quickly found a place and secretly dug a hole to bury the body.

Now everyone is busy with the autumn harvest, so even if they take the crops to the black market, they will not be able to find a good buyer, so they plan to wait until the winter when they have free time.

Li Qiang thought about it all night, and suddenly turned over, waking up Wang Guixiang who was finally half asleep, and said, "Mother, I think we can't sell this thing on the black market in the county..."

Wang Guixiang was dazed and scolded, "Why aren't you asleep yet? Whether to sell or not, didn't you say you'd decide after the busy farming season is over? Don't bother me..."

Li Qiang was so angry that he shook for a while and said, "I'm talking to you! Don't sleep! I mean, let's take it to Beijing to sell it! Such a good thing, I'm afraid the county town can't afford the price! If we go to Beijing, we won't sell it unless you pay more than 200 yuan!"

When Wang Guixiang heard the price of two hundred yuan, she suddenly woke up, jumped up, and asked with wide eyes, "Two...two hundred yuan? Can you really sell that much?"

Li Qiang said, "Of course we can! I heard that people in Beijing are very rich! With two hundred yuan, we can spend some money to buy a job in a factory in the county town and move to the county town. In the future, who will dare to look down on our family?"

Wang Guixiang suddenly felt that it was feasible and began to look forward to the future with great anticipation.

Xia Juanjuan didn't pay much attention to Liu Lan and the powerful Wang Guixiang. She only knew that Liu Lan and Wang Guixiang had a fight and then separated.

Soon the autumn harvest was over, and Xia Juanjuan made some fermented black beans from soybeans, sealed them in canned fruit bottles, and sent a can to Li Zhan.

Also sent along were a dozen or so salted duck eggs.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, a lot of salted egg yolk mooncakes are used, but she usually re-salts the eggs when they are almost finished, so salted duck eggs are almost always available throughout the year.

After the autumn harvest and winter planting, the commune would do the accounting and set aside the portion that had to be paid as public grain. The rest would be distributed based on how many work points everyone had earned.

This year, since every household was asked to raise chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep at the beginning of the year, half of the eggs were paid every day, and the commune would sell them at the poultry station and keep the money first. The rest were paid together at the end of the year, and then the work points were calculated.

Therefore, in addition to food this year, there are also a lot of poultry and livestock. People are reluctant to part with the old hens, so they keep them for next year to lay eggs and hatch chicks. The rest have all been paid and agreed to be sold to livestock stations or poultry stations, so it can be considered a bumper year.

Xia Juanjuan's sheep and chickens were not handed in as they had to be kept for next year's milk and eggs, so the final share of food was not much.

This was also expected. Anyway, she had money and food coupons in her hands. If she didn't have enough food, she would just "buy" it.

After the autumn harvest, Secretary Zhao went to the county town to apply for the power line laying project. Every family contributed some money, and it was expected that the construction team would arrive in October to start the construction.