Those brigades that initially felt Xishan Village hadn't explained things clearly, and didn't quite believe it, and thus didn't persist, gradually began to follow suit after the other brigades saw a significant increase in their first year's harvest.
However, it was already a year behind other brigades and two years behind Xishan Village.
Although today is also a bumper year, the suffering of the previous two years was real.
Despite the various troubles that befell Tan Dingguo's family, it did not prevent him from receiving commendation from the county magistrate after he went to the county town.
Other brigades also flattered him.
They just hope that if something good happens in Xishan Village, and if they eat meat, they can share some soup with the villagers.
Zhao Family Village was one of the brigades that persisted from the beginning. Their village chief, Zhao Jincai, had heard about the situation in Xishan Village because Tan Dingguo, the village chief of Xishan Village, had come to order piglets.
At the time, Zhao Jincai didn't really understand why Xishan Village was raising so many livestock.
After all, their village made money by tending to old sows and raising piglets.
Two years ago, after the communal dining system was implemented, many families were so poor that some couldn't even find a single grain of rice in their homes.
If there's nothing for people to eat, what about those animals?
It was nothing compared to Xishan Village, which had an abundance of food. Zhao Jincai had to put in a lot of effort to save the old sow in the village.
Of course, Ning's mother's meticulous care also played a part.
However, after the experimental fields of growing grain and raising fish in rice paddies were successfully established in Xishan Village, Zhao Family Village also began to follow suit.
Moreover, while many other brigades couldn't withstand the pressure and gave up, Zhao Jincai persevered despite the gossip in the village and managed to drag things out until the autumn harvest.
The autumn harvest two years ago was something many people in the village will never forget.
This also earned Zhao Jincai a lot of prestige, so when he later proposed raising pigs like Xishan Village, the entire Zhao Family Village brigade basically agreed.
Ning's family was on the verge of starvation, but fortunately, their youngest daughter, Ning Xia, returned that time, which saved the entire Ning family's lives.
However, Ning's mother was unaware that she had taken those grains back to her parents' home that time.
After Ningxia returned home, she had an argument with her mother-in-law.
In those years, no family had an easy time.
In normal years, when the family has both money and food, they wouldn't object if their daughter-in-law took some things back to her parents' home to help them out.
But now the people are starving to death, and the old couple have reduced their three meals a day to two in order to save food.
Ningxia went to her parents' home, and the family's food supplies were reduced by more than half, which disrupted what was originally a harmonious family.
After Ningxia and her son returned, Ningxia's mother-in-law couldn't help but nag a few times.
Ning Xia was much younger than Zhang Zhonghua and so beautiful, so after she married him, Zhang Zhonghua doted on her like a daughter.
In addition, she gave birth to two sons, which makes her a meritorious figure in the Zhang family!
Having never been mistreated since marrying into the family, Ningxia naturally felt very wronged when her mother-in-law suddenly spoke ill of her.
Although food was indeed scarce in the county, what kind of job did her husband have?
Even if there's a food shortage, it won't affect their family!
The two women, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, couldn't help but bicker. For the first time, Zhang Zhonghua was caught in the middle, trying to please both sides but ending up pleasing neither.
In the end, Ningxia was the smartest. Seeing her husband caught in the middle, she could only bow and apologize to her mother-in-law, which finally calmed her down.
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