The grain station had collected oil beans for two days, but suddenly stopped collecting them.
Unable to withstand the scolding, the waiter came out and said that the granary was full and the truck had not arrived, so they could only wait a few days before harvesting the oil beans.
After waiting for another two days, this time even the grain selling window was closed.
The workers were unable to exchange their grain bags for food, and when they asked, they were told that the grain station was out of food.
The city was in chaos, and the countryside was in chaos.
Father Xu did not expect that the grain station would suddenly close. The villagers all burst into tears. In the end, Secretary Hu came to take charge of the situation despite his illness.
"After working day and night to harvest the oil beans, we'll plant the autumn rice!"
One group of people harvested oil beans, while another group started planting rice.
But Secretary Hu did not expect that rice could not be grown in the ground where oil beans were planted!
Because oil beans are so resilient, the beans left behind after harvest will reproduce. The bean seeds in the ground will absorb nutrients like crazy, and the rice roots will not survive.
This doesn't give people a chance to survive at all.
The villagers were very emotional and scolded Xu's father loudly for being a beast. Nearly 700 acres of land were planted with oil beans. The grain station would not harvest the oil beans, so nothing else could be planted. They could not plant this year or next year.
They are going to starve to death.
The price of grain on the black market has been driven down to 1 yuan, and the supply is still limited every day.
The village cadres were forced into a corner by the villagers and had to stand guard at the grain station every day to demand an explanation.
The leaders of the grain station avoided meeting the person until someone was hit and killed at the gate of the grain station, which alerted the leaders of the county.
The grain station leaders felt aggrieved. They were told the oil bean harvest was full and they couldn't do anything about it. It was because every brigade had planted oil beans this year, hoping to make a fortune.
Finally, the leaders stepped in and contacted refineries in several provinces, and finally set the purchase price at 5 yuan per hundred catties, without any subsidies.
In order to make some money, the Qingyun Brigade collected oil beans day and night and finally sold all of them.
Seven hundred acres of land was only exchanged for a little over 20,000 yuan. A strong laborer worked ten hours a day and could only earn 60 yuan in the end, which was only enough to buy 60 kilograms of rice on the black market.
In previous years, although the money was less, we still had food. But now, the money is not much, but we still have no food.
After harvesting the oil beans, Xu's father lost his money. Whatever he planted in the field died, and a lot of money he spent on seeds was wasted.
The villagers spit at the door of Xu's house every day, clamoring to remove Xu's father as the team leader.
Finally, it was Li Shi's uncle Li Shenggen who stood up. He said that if they wanted to exterminate the oil beans in the field, they had to dig deep. If one meter wasn't enough, they had to dig two meters. If two meters weren't enough, they had to dig three meters. If they turned the land over, there would be no need to worry about the beans becoming extinct!
Li Shenggen is an old hand at taking care of crops. When he heard what he said, many old people thought it was feasible.
Li Shishi stepped forward at the right time and recommended his uncle Li Shenggen as the team leader. The villagers agreed with both hands!
Du Xueqing stood in the Xu family's yard with her five-month-old belly, feeling cold all over. She had deliberately married into the Xu family, but she didn't give birth to a son, and Xu's father was no longer the team leader!
So what should she do? Qu Wenli snatched her place and went to college, and Xu's father promised her that he would recommend her to go to college as well as soon as his son was born.
Now, there is nothing left, nothing left.
Li Shi had been paying attention to Du Xueqing, and when she stood there in a daze, he noticed something was wrong with her.
He had already gotten word out of Xu Yan that Du Xueqing was using the child as leverage to get him into college and back to the city. Since then, Li Shi had been plotting to dethrone Xu's father as the team leader.
Because his child can't live without a mother. If he wants to go to college, he'd better give up on it.
It was Zhou Yu again. Ruan Tang and his wife picked up Ji Xiaodi from school and returned to the village.
As soon as I returned to the village, I heard that Ji Hua wanted to divorce.
Uncle Ji even pulled out his belt, but Ji Hua was determined to divorce him. His wife burst into tears and asked him to leave her for the sake of their son, but that didn't change his mind.
Ji Hua didn't even want his son anymore, so he let his wife take him away. He would kindly give her ten yuan in child support every month.
Uncle Li couldn't bear to let his eldest grandson be taken away by his daughter-in-law, so he asked Ji Rong, who was acting as a wooden man, to help raise the grandson.
Ji Rong didn't say anything, so his cousin Li mentioned the hundred-dollar betrothal gift to Jin Yue'er and asked Ji Rong to pay it back.
"I can pay you back, but I have to leave my family. From now on, I will decide my own marriage."
Finally, my uncle and uncle agreed. They just couldn't believe that Ji Rong would watch them starve to death.
Ji Rong put away the list from the Yu family and said, "When you all teamed up to plot my marriage, didn't you consider whether Ji Hua would abandon his wife and children? Tsk, pity your eldest grandson."
After saying this, Ji Rong returned to the city overnight. He didn't want to stay in this house for a moment.
Ruan Tang looked at the scene at his father's house and shook her head. Without the burden of his parents, Ji Rong would most likely go further in the future.
Because of this commotion, Ruan Tang's family didn't even have a meal.
Ji Nanfeng rolled noodles while Ruan Tang went to the backyard to pick vegetables.
Because the Ji family planted the vegetable garden late, the cucumbers were only as long as a little finger.
Zhang Xiaohua had just returned from Ji Hua's house after watching the fun, and she took Ruan Tang to her vegetable garden.
Ruan Tang felt a little embarrassed. This year was not peaceful. Meat was hard to buy and grain was expensive. She had to rely on the produce from the vegetable garden.
Zhang Xiaohua picked the best-growing cucumbers and broke them into five pieces at a time. She also picked a handful of green vegetables. When she saw a tomato, she picked the biggest and reddest one and handed it to Ruan Tang, asking her to eat it.
"My mother-in-law said yesterday that she would pick some vegetables for you to take back to the city to eat."
Zhang Xiaohua continued, then whispered, "After you told me about the two-pronged plan that day, I went home and told my mother-in-law. She immediately took out three hundred yuan and bought all the cornmeal. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been complaining about it every day these days. I'm glad I followed your advice, otherwise the whole family would have gone hungry."
Zhang Xiaohua said that Secretary Hu had also asked the tribesmen to buy grain. However, some short-sighted tribesmen, seeing that the grain prices had risen so much, secretly sold it.
Ruan Tang ate a tomato and saw Zhang Xiaohua had already filled a basket. She hurriedly stopped her. "Sister Xiaohua, that's enough. It's enough for Tiantian."
Who would have thought that Ruan Tang's voice alarmed Du Xueqing next door.
Du Xueqing wanted to pull her hand back from Li Shi's grasp, but Li Shi wouldn't let her. "Ruan Zhiqing isn't someone else, what's there to hide from him?"
Li Shi took Du Xueqing's hand and greeted Ruan Tang generously, "Ruan Zhiqing, if you don't have vegetables, I have some in my vegetable garden."
"Ah, no, no need."
Ruan Tang stuttered. She didn't expect Li Shi and Du Xueqing to be so bold. Did they think that all the members of the Xu family were dead?
Zhang Xiaohua pulled Ruan Tang away and said, "Ever since Li Shi's uncle, Li Shenggen, became the team leader, Li Shi and Du Xueqing have almost all been in the village. Only the Xu family has been kept in the dark."
"What about Li Shi's wife?"
Zhang Xiaohua shook her head when this was mentioned. "It seems she said she couldn't have children, so she was often beaten by Li Shi. I heard people say that she was eager for someone to bear children for the Li family, and she would love them as if they were her own."
Li Shi's wife's family was very poor, and they said it was because she had to work so hard at home that she couldn't have children. She would rather be beaten by Li Shi than get a divorce.
Ruan Tang shook her head after hearing this. No wonder Li Shi was so fearless.
She began to wonder what would happen when Xu Yan found out.
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