Chapter 8 Preparation
Time flies. Shuxin is now seven years old and has more than doubled in height. Her body is not as shriveled as when she first came, and it is plump all over. The whole family likes to hug her and knead her.
After all, her space is not just for decoration. In addition to being fed occasionally by her grandmother at home, Shuxin also secretly cooks for herself. If she doesn't grow well, it would be a waste of all the meat she eats.
Over the past four or five years, Shuxin has won great favor from her grandmother, and even Grandpa Liu looks at this granddaughter differently.
The two sons he had were both honest and simple-minded, never saying a nice word. Grandpa Liu valued his grandson, but they were all afraid of him. As the head of the family, he was usually serious and majestic, and Liu Jianjun and others were also reluctant to get close to him.
Now that I have such a lively, cute and sweet-talking granddaughter, I must take more care of her. Why didn’t I realize that she was so talkative when she was little? Isn't it true that you are worried when you see this?
As soon as Shuxin saw her grandfather's arrogant and serious look, she knew everything and just rushed towards him. First comes a set of sweet talk, then saccharine coquetry, plus occasional feeding.
꿯Grandpa Liu couldn't hold on and followed in Grandma Liu's footsteps, nor could he escape Shuxin's sweet trap. He could no longer be serious in front of the cute and sweet-mouthed fat girl.
Shulan watched as Shuxin repeated the same tactics she had used on her grandmother and also took down her stern grandfather.
Her emotions were complicated, but it didn't stop her from taking note of it in her little notebook. She planned to try this operation in the future. She didn't dare to go with her grandparents, but she could try it with her parents.
Shulan was like this, not to mention Uncle Liu's family and her parents and brother who saw her operate for the first time.
The eldest aunt also sighed: This is the gap, you brothers should learn from your sister, who is usually very quiet and whoever gives you milk is your mother. You deserve to be unloved. If I were you, I would love your baby too!
In addition to winning over her family and becoming the group's favorite, she has also secretly collected many things into the space over the years, filling it up.
It is a bit exaggerated to say that it is full. After Shuxin repaired the chain, the space has been expanded a bit. 돗 was originally the space that Shuxin possessed. As Shuxin became stronger, 돗 also expanded.
Over the years, Shu Xin has not only used the mountains to run around in the mountains to improve her wood ability by three levels, but she has also practiced the soul secrets of the Nine-Colored Lotus. Now her mental power is comparable to her mental power.
Shuxin used her spirit to cultivate most of the grassland in the space into fertile fields, and planted them with food. Of course, the seeds were secretly taken from home.
In the past few years, she had only planted rice and wheat, and she didn't consume much by herself. She also used her wood ability to build a few granaries beside the fields, and stored the grain as soon as it matured, so she wouldn't have to worry about it.
This year is the first year of the famine, and she has no plans to grow precious crops like wheat and rice. Instead, she is planning to grow corn, sorghum and sweet potatoes. These crops have high yields and are not as delicious as wheat and rice.
On the other side of the lawn she fenced off a piece to make an orchard, and kept the rest so that she would have enough land for whatever she wanted in the future.
In addition to the original bamboo forest on the hill behind the house, she also selected a variety of saplings and put them into the space, all of which were planted on the space hill.
Over the years, she had never let go of any wild animals from the mountains. Except for occasionally bringing pheasants and rabbits home, she kept all the others in the space mountains.
If you want to eat, just catch one and enjoy it in the space. There is a kitchen in the space, and she also planned a small vegetable garden where she grows seasonings.
Speaking of the vegetable garden, she plans to clear out another piece to grow some vegetables and make them into dried vegetables to help her survive the famine. Although she wasn't starving, she still had a family.
The next morning, Shu Xin got up early. Today, Grandpa, Uncle Liu, and Father Liu were going to the city.
It is now half a year into 1959, and three months have passed since the seeds were sown, and not a drop of rain has fallen since then.
Grandpa Liu is the old farmer who is in charge of things. Seeing that something is not right, he plans to make more preparations and go to the city to purchase some supplies to be prepared.
Shuxin was more in favor of this decision. Unlike her grandfather's uncertainty, she knew very well that the next three years would be difficult.
Yesterday she persuaded her grandfather to agree to take her with him. She had been in this world for three or four years, but she had never been to the city. She just wandered around a few nearby villages, and the farthest place she had been to was the township commune.
Today we went to the county seat of Xinyang County where their Liulin Brigade was located. We walked from home to the commune, and then took a bus from the commune to the county seat.
A one-way trip is about fifty to sixty kilometers, and it takes two or three hours by car. Now it is not like decades later, when it would take less than an hour to travel dozens of kilometers.
Not only do cars nowadays run at a slow speed, but they also stop and go on the road to pick up passengers, which takes even more time.
Before dawn, several men from the Liu family walked towards the commune, carrying the mountain products and game that the family had stored over the years.
Shuxin has been exercising over the past few years and her physical fitness is now very good. She doesn't hold back her family members when she walks.
The Liu family also knew that Shuxin was more aggressive than the average person. Even if the boys in the family joined forces, they could not beat her. All the game for the family over the years was contributed by her. Otherwise, how could the family agree to let her go to the county town with them?
We took a bus from the commune to the county town. It was still early and not many people were going to the county town. Shuxin, Grandpa and the other three all found seats.
After getting in the car, Shuxin used her mind to block out her sense of smell. The truth is that cars nowadays have a strong odor and the space is small. The uncles and aunts along the way bring chickens, ducks, and all kinds of things into the car, and the car has a strong odor.
In the past few years, under the pampering of the Liu family, Shuxin has become very spoiled. She used to dig up food from the dead and had smelled all kinds of smells.
It is no longer possible now. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. When conditions permit, Shuxin should make her life as comfortable as possible.
After getting off the bus and walking into Xinyang County, I looked around and found that most of the houses were made of blue bricks, and some of the walls had fallen off.
The buildings are high and low, but the tallest is only 10 meters, and the buildings are only six or seven stories high; the pedestrians on the street are hurried, and most of them are blue-blue and gray, with very few bright colors;
The walls are covered with slogans such as "Serve the People", "Promote Revolution and Promote Production", and "Rush to Repair, Harvest, and Plant, Don't Wait, Don't Rely, and Don't Blame".
Although the environment is not as prosperous as imagined, and looks even poorer than in the previous materials; however, the faces and eyes of the pedestrians on the street are shining. There is no numbness that cannot see the future, but only hope for a new life.
Looking at the radiant faces on the street, Shu Xin felt both relieved and sad.
Fortunately, there was no war here, and China went through the war and finally achieved peace; sadly, a great famine soon followed, and there was another round of suffering.
It is possible that we will not see the smiles on those faces in the near future. Shuxin also wants to do something for these things, but her power is too small. She can only try to remind the country that there will be severe droughts in the next few years.
There's no rush now. This could be fatal if you're not careful. You have to plan carefully and not expose yourself.
Father Liu held his daughter's hand and didn't think much of her dazed look. He just thought it was her first time in the county town and she had never seen such a big place and was very happy.
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