After listening to his sister's words, Lin Dajun realized that he had thought too simply: "Sister, I understand." He suddenly felt that getting married was so troublesome, and he would have to raise children in the future. Lin Dajun didn't want to get married. He didn't expect to have children at all because he had too many younger brothers.

Lin Dajun had dinner in the county town, and told Lin Yiyi about the piglets. To be on the safe side, the two piglets were castrated one in front and one behind, so that if something happened to the front one, the back one would have experience. Fortunately, the two piglets were well raised, with sweet potatoes, pigweed, and earthworm powder, so they were fed quite well.

The next day was the weekend, and Lin Dajun went back after lunch. He brought vegetables and bamboo shoots when he came, and eggs and grains when he left. The eggs were for the brothers to replenish their bodies, as the two chickens at home had not laid eggs yet. The grains were sweet potatoes, which he could eat, and the piglets also needed to be fed from time to time.

Lin Dajun returned home and went to the captain's house to look for Lin Zhen, but Lin Zhen went out with a red face.

Lin Dajun said directly: "Lin Zhen, we can't get married now. My sister said that I can't even earn enough food. If I marry you now, I can't support you or our children. We have to wait until I graduate and get a job before we can get married. We have to build a new house first. After the new house is built, we can get married and let you live in the new house in the future."

Lin Zhen's face turned even redder: "My mother also said that we can't get married now." She told her mother secretly that day and was laughed at by her mother.

Then they both laughed. Lin Dajun took out some candy from his pocket and said, "Here."

Looking at the two fruit candies in his hand, Lin Zhen took one and said, "You can eat the other one yourself." She knew that Da Jun also saved it, so how could she take it all?

After hearing what she said, Lin Dajun peeled off the candy wrapper and ate it. Then he talked about the county town: "I went to the county town yesterday. My sister said I had lost weight and was very nice to me. She even made bone soup for me to drink. I also had meat buns in the morning."

Lin Zhen drooled a little after hearing this: "Your sister is so nice."

Lin Dajun: "My sister is the best." After thinking for a while, Lin Dajun said, "When my parents just passed away, we had no food. If it weren't for my sister, we would have starved to death."

Lin Zhen: "Then you have to treat your sister well." Her mother said that in the Lin family, they must respect Dajun's sister, so that Dajun's sister will be nice to them.

Lin Dajun: “That’s for sure.”

The two of them sat in the corner of the captain's yard and chatted. They were both young and talked about childish topics. There was no future in their conversations, only about this being delicious and that being delicious. However, their voices were filled with longing for the future.

Lin Dajun sat at the captain's house for a while and then left. When he was about to reach the door of his house, he saw someone wandering at the door. It was the niece of Aunt Guilan. Lin Dajun immediately remembered what her sister said, that you should not get too close to female comrades, in case they were hit by a fake insurance, or he was accused of bullying the female comrades and forced to take responsibility, what should he do?

Suddenly, Lin Dajun stopped and asked, "Comrade Li Huihui, who are you looking for?"

Li Huihui is Yang Guilan's niece. Li Huihui's mother is Yang Guilan's sister, Yang Xianglan.

Yang Xianglan was also capable in her early years. She found a worker and gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Li Huihui was the second daughter, and she had a younger son. Later, Yang Xianglan became a worker through her husband's introduction. However, in 1962, that is, last year, the relevant national policies changed. Not only temporary workers were laid off, but also some basic workers who failed the assessment were laid off. Yang Xianglan was one of them because she did not take the exam when she entered the factory, so she was exposed, and she did not pass the assessment exam.

The competition for a job is very fierce, especially in the year of 61. A job represents commodity food, and it may also represent the lives of several people in the family.

Yang Xianglan retired from work. With so many children in the family, it was very difficult for her and her husband to support her alone, so someone came to propose marriage.

The matchmaker said that the other family had a son who was a fool, and as long as the Yang family married their daughter to the boy, Yang Xianglan's job would be arranged.

Yang Xianglan was not someone who didn't love her daughter. Her daughter was also in school, and she was usually quite nice to her daughter. But Yang Xianglan wanted to agree to this marriage. First, her job could solve it, and second, although the man's son was a fool, he only had one son. As long as her daughter married the man's son, the man's wealth would belong to her daughter in the future. She didn't think there was anything wrong with this. In this way, her daughter could also support her brothers at home.

Yes, in Yang Xianglan's heart, family, son, and herself are all ranked before her daughter. When there is no conflict of interest, she is a good mother, but when there is a conflict of interest, she begins to ignore it.

After Li Huihui knew about this, of course she would not agree. Which woman doesn't have expectations for her love? But for a moment, she didn't know what to do. At this time, she remembered the family her aunt mentioned. Her parents died during the famine, her sister married the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and her eldest brother is now in junior high school. After graduation, he will have a job as a worker. The whole county knows that it was her idea to grow vegetables on the stove. Li Huihui thought, if it is such a family, if she can marry into it, her family will definitely not object.

Moreover, Li Huihui was sure that she was pretty. Wasn't it because of her good looks that the family chose her? They hoped that she would marry the idiot son of the family and give birth to good-looking grandchildren. In Li Huihui's mind, Lin Dajun was a farmer. Wouldn't it be easy to hold a farmer tightly? By that time, Lin Dajun was a worker and his brother-in-law was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau. Wouldn't this face be hers?

So, with this idea in mind, she came to the countryside to find Yang Guilan. Of course, she did not directly tell her that she wanted to marry Lin Dajun, because her aunt said that Lin Dajun was already engaged. So she lied to Yang Guilan, saying that her mother wanted to marry her to a fool and she didn't want to go and wanted to stay here for a few days.

Yang Guilan felt sorry for her niece, so of course she agreed.

Li Huihui had really sprained her ankle that day, but when she met Lin Dajun and the others, she introduced herself and asked about their identities. She said, "Hello, my name is Li Huihui, and I am the niece of Yang Guilan from the village. This is my first time in the countryside. May I ask if you are from the village? Do you know where Yang Guilan's home is?"

When Lin Dajun saw a girl who had sprained her ankle, and she was the niece of Aunt Guilan, he said directly, "My name is Lin Dajun, and I'm from the village. I'll take you to Aunt Guilan's house." Lin Dajun was a straight man, and he didn't even think about helping others. Maybe it was only when his sister sprained her ankle in front of him that he would think of helping her.

Li Huihui was a little surprised when she heard the self-introduction of Lin Dajun. She didn't expect to meet Lin Dajun right after entering the village. Of course, she couldn't guarantee that this Lin Dajun was the Lin Dajun her aunt mentioned, so she asked again: "I heard that there is a hero who grows vegetables on the stove in your village. Have you seen him?"

When Lin Dajun heard this, he was immediately excited: "That's my sister. My sister is amazing."

Li Huihui: "So the hero who grows vegetables on the stove is your sister, so amazing. Comrade Dajun, I sprained my foot and can't walk. Can you help me?"

Then, Lin Dajun and Lin Sijun helped Li Huihui to go to Yang Guilan's house.

When Li Huihui saw Lin Dajun coming, her eyes lit up: "Comrade Dajun."

When Lin Dajun saw her coming towards him, he suddenly remembered what his sister said about the scam. He pretended to be pitiful at first, but once he helped the person up or sent him home, the person would blame him and either ask him to take responsibility or pay for it... Thinking of this, Lin Dajun quickly stepped back: "Comrade Li Huihui, just stand there and talk, don't come near me."

Li Huihui froze, and her bright smile suddenly sank. After a long while, she put on a smile again. She approached Lin Dajun: "Comrade Dajun, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? I wanted to thank you, you..." Before she could say anything, she saw Lin Dajun kept backing away. She took a few steps forward, and Lin Dajun took a few steps back. Now, Li Huihui had to stop and said, "Comrade Dajun, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing him stop, Lin Dajun also stopped walking: "Don't come near me. The reputation of you female comrades is very important. If you come near me, your reputation will be ruined. What if I am held responsible? I have a fiancée and I am already engaged. You can't bring shame upon me."

Li Huihui: “…” She thought Lin Dajun was concerned about her reputation, but in the end he changed the subject and said he was concerned about his own reputation. Is this guy mentally ill?

Li Huihui: "Comrade Dajun, I came here to thank you. Last time I sprained my ankle, you helped me go to my aunt's house."

Lin Dajun: "You don't have to thank me. If I knew you would cling to me, I definitely wouldn't support you."

Li Huihui: "..." Does this person have eyes? Can't he see her beauty?

Lin Dajun: "My sister said that if someone falls in front of you for no reason, they either want you to take responsibility or want to scam you. Do you want to scam me too?"

Li Huihui: “…”

Lin Dajun: "I'm telling you, I don't have any money. The food I eat now is from my sister, and the tuition for my studies is also from my sister. When I start working, my salary will be used to build a house for me and my brothers. I don't have any money, so don't try to blackmail me."

Li Huihui: “…”

Lin Dajun: "Sanjun, Sanjun, come and save me." Seeing Lin Sanjun coming back with a bundle of firewood, Lin Dajun quickly ran over and said, "Sanjun, this woman is always pestering me, asking me why she wants to thank me. In my opinion, she is just trying to scam me, and I don't even have any money."

Lin Sanjun glanced at Li Huihui, whose face had turned red and pale with embarrassment. Lin Sanjun gave the firewood he was carrying to Lin Dajun: "You go in first."

Lin Dajun: "Oh." He picked up the firewood and ran home, as if Li Huihui was a bacteria. After running a few steps, he stopped again, "Sanjun, I brought you meat buns. My sister gave me meat buns this morning."

Lin Sanjun: “Yeah.”

Lin Dajun happily carried Chai Jin on his back.

Lin Sanjun walked up to Li Huihui and said, "He is a fool. No matter what you do, it will be useless."

Li Huihui: "No, I just came to thank him, he..."

Lin Sanjun: "My sister has the final say on the daughter-in-law of our Lin family. If my sister is not satisfied with you, we will not marry you. If he dares to marry you, he will lose his education and his job will be confiscated."

Li Huihui widened her eyes.

Lin Sanjun: "So...get out." Lin Sanjun looks a bit gloomy, and he has always been ignored by his family, so his personality is also a bit gloomy. If Lin Yiyi hadn't often praised him and praised him in the past year and a half, and he hadn't trained with Xiao Yu, maybe one day, his personality would become that of a super villain. Now Lin Sanjun shoulders his sister's entrustment to protect the people at home. No matter what Li Huihui's purpose is, he will not let Li Huihui succeed. And Li Sanjun knows that since their family got better and since his eldest brother got a job, someone has been watching their family every day, and that person is him. Since his eldest brother got engaged, he has met several waves of lesbians every now and then. However, he has a cold personality and simply ignores people.

Li Huihui met Lin Sanjun's eyes, and she suddenly felt a little scared. Lin Sanjun's eyes were not like those of a 14-year-old boy. His eyes were cloudy, even heavy. Li Huihui swallowed and ran away quickly.

As soon as Li Huihui left, Lin Dajun ran out of the house and pretended to be the eldest brother and said, "Not bad, not bad. Our Sanjun has grown up. When big brother is not around, Sanjun can also take charge of the family. He is like a man now."

Lin Sanjun simply ignored Lin Dajun, walked past him and entered the house.

The Lin family has three rooms. Lin Dajun lives in the main room, which was previously occupied by Lin's father and mother. Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun live in one room, and the room previously occupied by Lin Yiyi is still a storage room.

Lin Dajun was not angry after being ignored by his younger brother. He decided to go to the county town to file a complaint next time and ask his elder sister to take care of Sanjun. Sanjun did not take him, the eldest brother who was the head of the family, seriously.

Lin Sanjun entered the kitchen and saw four buns in a bowl on the table.

Lin Dajun followed him in and said, "I ate two meat buns this morning. These four are for you and Sijun, but...but considering the hard work I put in bringing them back, can you give me half of one?"

Lin Sanjun poured water into the pot, then washed a few sweet potatoes and put them in the pot, and then put a steamer and put the buns on it.

Lin Dajun: "There are also eggs. My sister said that eggs can nourish our bodies. Shall we have egg custard tonight?"

Lin Sanjun: "There will be meat buns tonight." So we'll eat the eggs tomorrow.

Lin Dajun smiled immediately: "Can you give me half of it?"

Lin Sanjun looked at him.

Lin Dajun smiled and took out two candies from his pocket: "These are for you. Give me half a bun." When he came, his sister gave him six candies. The three brothers each got two. He gave one of his two candies to Lin Zhen and ate one himself.

Lin Sanjun took the candy but didn't eat it. He put it directly into his trouser pocket. He didn't answer the question about the buns. He asked, "Did my sister agree to marry you and Lin Zhen?"

Speaking of this, Lin Dajun sighed: "No, my sister said that I can't even support myself now. If I get married, who will support Lin Zhen and our children? So I can only wait until I graduate and become a worker before getting married."

Lin Sanjun hummed and said, "Don't ask me to raise a child for you." It was hard enough for me to raise four of them.

Lin Dajun: “Yeah.”

In fact, Lin Yiyi is not bitter at all...

Li Huihui was frightened by Lin Sanjun and did not dare to look for Lin Dajun again. Two days later, she was taken away by Yang Xianglan. Of course, the captain's wife also contributed to this. She went to chat with Yang Guilan and talked about Li Huihui's search for Lin Dajun. Yang Guilan was not a fool. She did not expect her niece to have such an idea, so when Yang Xianglan came to pick her up, she did not dare to stay for a moment. She cared about her niece, but she cared more about her family. If Li Huihui did such a thing today, she, Lin Yiyi and the captain's family would be enemies. So how could she stay with such a niece?

In the blink of an eye, it was July. In July of 1963, the county government convened a meeting of all communes. For the sake of people's lives, the state had new economic policies for the countryside. The first was the free market, that is, rural market trade, which was a traditional form of commodity exchange in my country that was familiar and popular with the vast majority of farmers, and could only be exchanged for goods. The second was private plots, which allowed each household to develop private plots. The amount of private plots was based on the number of people in each household, with one plot for each person.

After the commune received the good news, it immediately convened a meeting of all production brigades and announced the policy. When the leaders of the production brigades heard the news at the meeting, many of them burst into tears. The people finally had a better life.

Lin Yiyi got the news earlier than the heads of the communes, after all, Xiao Yu was also one of the leaders of the county. However, he and Xiao Yu did not have their own plots of land, because their household registration had been moved out, but this did not affect her mood.

For this reason, she and Xiao Yu specially went back to the countryside. In addition, the Lin family brothers were also on summer vacation, so she wanted to send Lin Wudi to the countryside to let them take care of him. Brothers, one in the county and several in the countryside, may have some dark thoughts after a long time. So every year during the holidays, she would send Lin Wudi to the countryside, one to let him keep in touch with his brothers, and the other to let Lin Wudi know where his roots are, so that when he grows up, he will not always think that he is a city person and look down on country people.

Xiao Family

Grandpa Xiao: "Now that you are here, we have already measured our land. We have four mu of land, just for the four of us."

Grandma Xiao said: "It's great that we ordinary people finally have land." Although it's only four mu, it's land and we can grow food.

Lin Yiyi: "The land has been measured, but it hasn't been reclaimed yet, right?"

Qin Xiangju: "That's right, your father has to go to work, so let the eldest and third son help to open up the land."

Lin Yiyi said, "Brother Yu is very strong, and he has nothing to do in the afternoon anyway, so let him open up the wasteland. The eldest brother and the third brother also need to open up their own land."

Xiao Yu: "Yi Yi, what you said makes sense. Where is our land? I'll go."

Qin Xiangju thought about it and said: "Then I will go with you. I have the strength too."

Grandpa Xiao: "I'll go too."

Xiao Yu: "No, I can do it alone."

Liang: "Our family's land is all together. Although it is divided when measuring, the place is still in one piece. We only have three acres of land. Xiao Bin and I will open up the wasteland first. When we are better, we will help our parents here."

Xiao Bin: "Yes, yes, that's what I thought too."

Qi Bocai: "We have four mu of land, but it's probably not as fast as yours." Xiao Rui and Xiao Zhu couldn't reclaim the land, so they had to rely on her and Xiao Wu... She worked herself to death. She was willing to reclaim her own land, but she wouldn't go to help others. As for Xiao Wu going, she wouldn't stop him.

Lin Yiyi: "Brother Yu, I'll go to the Lin family to take a look."

Xiao-Woo: "Okay, call me when you need to open the land."

Lin Yiyi: "No need, Dajun and Sanjun have grown up and can open up their own land, it's just a little slower."

Xiao-Woo: "Okay."

As they talked, the Xiao family went to the field, and Lin Yiyi rode a bicycle and took Lin Wudi to the Lin family.

When Lin Yiyi arrived at the Lin family, the younger brothers of the Lin family were discussing going to the county town to tell Lin Yiyi about this matter. Their land had been measured. In this situation, everyone was in a hurry, and the cadres in the village measured it overnight.

Lin Yiyi rode her bicycle all the way to the Lin family's home. The bicycle was shaking on the road and making noises, so the Lin family's younger brothers heard it. They ran out of the yard one by one, and when they saw their sister coming back, they all rushed over.

Lin Dajun: "Sis, you are back. We have measured our private plots. The four of us brothers have four acres in total."

Lin Sijun: "Sister, the private plots are all hard soil and stones, and we have to open up the wasteland ourselves." The land is all on the mountain, but it is at the foot of the mountain. The country suddenly issued a policy of private plots, and the brigade naturally would not distribute the good land in the brigade to the villagers, so it is inevitable that the villagers have to open up the wasteland themselves.

As for the positions, they are decided by drawing lots, which is very fair.

Lin Yiyi: "Okay, I understand. There's no rush to open up the private plot. Take your time. When the time comes, you three brothers will open up the land and I'll cook for you. When the three brothers work together, everything will be done faster."

Lin Dajun: "Sister, are you going to cook for us?"

Lin Yiyi: "Yes, I'll make steamed buns and meat buns for you. But you can't tell anyone else."

Lin Dajun: "I definitely won't tell you."

Lin Sijun: "Sister, what should we plant in our fields?"

Lin Yiyi: "We grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. They are very productive and can be harvested twice a year. We can also feed the piglets."

Lin Sijun: "But it's not as delicious as rice."

Lin Yiyi: "Rice needs paddy fields. Are there paddy fields on the mountain? And can water be brought up from the mountain? If you grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, I can take them to the county town and exchange them for rice, so you can eat them too."

Lin Sijun: “That’s great.”

Lin Yiyi: "Let's not talk about this for now. How are our piglets?"

Lin Sijun: "Sister, you will be scared to death if you see it. We don't let anyone see our piglets." Now the three brothers treat the piglets as treasures and close the door of the toilet tightly every day.