No matter how isolated Chen Gang was, his title as the production team leader still gave him a lot of confidence.
With a reprimand, he strode over and snatched the hoe from his hand.
"If this matter were left to the county..."
"Go away, go report me to the county authorities," Lin Mo interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Drag me to the county to be used as target practice."
"You..." Chen Gang was choked up, and the little flames in his stomach were raging.
Hearing the noise, Aunt Lin ran out, worried that her son was arguing with her, and quickly offered an explanation:
"You've misunderstood. Our son is leveling the land to build a house for his wedding."
“Building a house takes a very long time; it might take a year or two to complete. So we have to build it slowly.”
This misunderstanding left Chen Gang somewhat bewildered, and he even forgot why he had come all this way.
In his haste, he could only return the hoe to Aunt Lin and then turn and leave.
The commotion in the Lin family's courtyard subsided. Although the pine nuts were collected by the county, other departments in the county were simultaneously prohibiting their production, leaving the village chief in a dilemma.
Let's hold off on major projects for now, each household can quietly work on them on a small scale, and then resume more activity once the heat has died down.
Little Flower, so young, has been carrying a heavy burden on her mind these past few days—
After the commotion in the village that day, when she got home, she found that the west room had been ransacked and the cabinets had been overturned.
It's obvious they've been robbed.
Startled, Xiaohua rushed to check the kang (a heated brick bed). Luckily, the money was still there; it hadn't been stolen.
Looking at the overturned cabinet, Xiaohua was terrified.
Luckily, my older brother suggested we hide it somewhere else, otherwise...
Anyway, she hasn't been able to get a good night's sleep these past few days.
I wanted to complain to the production team, but I knew I couldn't, because I didn't want the team to know that my family had so much money.
Perhaps the thief wasn't caught, and then the production team came to ransack the house.
They could only swallow their grievances and anger.
Moreover, I'm scared because I have so much money hidden at home, since I already know someone is eyeing it and trying to steal it.
Lin Mo knew without a second thought that it must be those educated youth who were eyeing it.
Otherwise, why would Jiang Ying come over every few days, knowing full well that she'd just get scolded, yet still shamelessly coming to invite it?
They really think they're stupid, believing they can't see it.
"Hmph, you want to steal my money? I'll beat the shit out of you."
Money makes the world go round.
After keeping a low profile for a few days, Wang Junjun and his family couldn't resist the temptation of four yuan per kilogram and came over to peel pine cones again.
The three of them can peel 100 jin a day. At four yuan a jin, that's four hundred yuan!
Moreover, the peeling will stop after October, so this is a rare opportunity. We must save up enough money for our son's wedding.
In short, we can't let our son end up like that old widower in the village, almost thirty years old before he finally got married.
Miao Qingsong and Awang also scurried over. They hadn't been into the mountains for so many days; what if the rabbits in the tunnels starved to death?
I couldn't sit still any longer; I had to go into the mountains.
The village may seem lifeless, but in reality, every household is busier than before, only this busyness has shifted from the production team to each individual's home.
Su the carpenter's family is also very busy.
Because villagers need many sacks and bamboo baskets to collect pine cones, and they also need wooden cages to raise rabbits.
Every household came to the Su family to order these things, keeping the Su family extremely busy.
Some villagers gradually gained experience in raising rabbits and learned that they had to keep the rabbits indoors during the winter.
If we raise too many animals in the future and the house can't hold them all, we'll need multi-tiered wooden cages so that we can raise more.
The timber stored in the Su family's courtyard was quickly used up.
Su Xiaoxiao helped by nailing the cage with nails, while Su the carpenter did the heavy work next to her.
The felled logs are sawn into timber of appropriate size.
After sawing, we'll have to go out and cut down trees again.
Su Xiaoxiao had been busy for almost two hours, but her father still hadn't returned. Normally, when her father went out to cut timber, he would only be gone for about an hour.
Aunt Su, who was busy weaving bamboo baskets, noticed that it was almost noon, and Old Su had been out for two hours and hadn't returned yet.
Thinking that the raft might be too heavy to haul back, he invited Su Xiaoxiao to go to Old Bald Mountain to see if Old Su needed a helping hand.
"Ahh..."
"Ugh..."
As soon as they arrived near Old Bald Mountain, the mother and daughter heard mournful cries coming from inside.
Recognizing that it was her father's voice, Su Xiaoxiao quickened her pace, calling out "Dad" as she ran towards the sound into the mountains.
To save time, Su the carpenter did indeed cut down an eucalyptus tree that was thicker than a person.
I was cutting eucalyptus wood into sections when I got distracted. I don't know if it was because I've been too busy lately and haven't had enough rest or what.
When he came to his senses, a sharp pain shot through his leg; his machete had grazed the tree trunk and veered off course toward his calf.
With a brute force, the calf was instantly mangled and bloodied.
The blade pierced deep into the flesh and bone of the shinbone.
"Dad? Dad, what's wrong?"
Su Xiaoxiao, who had run over, was immediately startled by the glaring scarlet color. She rushed to her father's side and tried to help him up, as he was wincing in pain.
"Oh my god!"
Aunt Su followed closely behind and exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the situation.
The mother and daughter were so frightened that they were completely at a loss. It was Su Xiaoxiao who came to her senses first, realizing that it was impossible for the two of them to move their father.
She hurriedly ran to the village chief's house and asked him to help her borrow a donkey cart from the team.
The village chief was also shocked when he learned that Su the carpenter was seriously injured.
"Xiaoxiao, go home right now and get some money. I'll go get a donkey cart and take your dad to the county clinic."
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