There was enough rain this year, which brought smiles to the faces of the people in Xiayan Village who had been worried for the whole winter.
Even during the busy farming season, I don’t feel tired.
On the contrary, I feel happy and comfortable being tired.
The Xin family members also became darker and thinner.
Even her older brother who was studying in the county town and her father came back to help with farming.
This concerns the family’s food supply for the next year!
This year, Xin Guoguo learned to roll over, crawl, and walk...
Every first time, the whole family would surround her, cheering for her and praising her with all kinds of words.
Even Xin Guoguo, who considered herself to be very thick-skinned, blushed at the praise.
Today is Xing Guoguo’s first birthday.
Old Mrs. Xin made a bowl of longevity noodles for Xin Guoguo early in the morning.
I also asked my uncle to go to the river and catch two fish.
Let my second uncle go hunting.
The eldest aunt and the second aunt were sent out to pick wild vegetables.
Only a small half of the private plot in the yard was used to grow vegetables, and the other large half was used to grow grain by Old Lady Xin.
In the words of Old Lady Xin, she is preparing for the future!
If there is no drought next year, we can have plenty of food to eat.
If there is another drought, no one at home will starve.
Over the years, it was thanks to her wisdom that the family was able to safely survive the three years of severe drought.
It cannot be said to be completely safe.
As she grew older, Xin Guoguo realized that during the three years of severe drought, the second, third, and fifth sons of her uncle's family had all died.
The eldest and second sons of my second uncle's family died of overeating Guanyin soil, and the newborn baby also starved to death because of lack of milk.
Even in their own family, there were two older brothers, but they also died in the disaster year.
On weekdays, no one in my family talks about these things.
Xin Guoguo also heard these things during the New Year's ancestor worship.
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