The next day, Zhao Jianshe went to the village committee to find the village chief and told him the verdict of Liu Fang. He told him that she would be sent to the forest farm to serve her sentence in the next few days and asked the village to send her luggage over.
He did not go to Xu Ning's house. Knowing that it was autumn harvest time and everyone was working in the fields, he asked the village chief which piece of land she had been allocated.
The village chief told him, "Xu Zhiqing went to the city today, and his girlfriend is helping her. You can go to the bean field in the east, where her girlfriend and Xiao An are working."
Zhao Jianshe found the two and told them the verdict. “Wang Daqiang and Wang Ergou were sentenced to ten years each, and Liu Fang was sentenced to eight years. They will serve their sentences on a farm in a neighboring county.”
Lu Xiaotang smiled and said, "Brother Zhao, thank you. Don't go back today. Stay for dinner. Let Xiao Ning cook a few dishes in the evening and we can have a drink together."
"Brother, I really can't do it today. There are still many things to do in the bureau. When you are done here, come to my place with Xiao Ning and Xiao An, and we can have a good talk."
After some pleasantries, Zhao Jianshe rode back on his bike.
During the lunch break, the village chief came to find a few educated youth, told them about Liu Fang's verdict, and asked them who was willing to deliver Liu Fang's luggage.
Everyone in the Youth House was silent, and no one wanted to go. Seeing this, the village chief shook his head and said, "You guys discuss it. Whoever is late to deliver it to her tomorrow will not have his work points deducted."
Finally, the Youth League Hospital discussed and decided that the female educated youths should pack her luggage when they got off work, and that Gu Wenping and Yang Wenli would ride their bicycles to bring it to her the next day.
After the village chief left, several educated youth were discussing the matter. Gu Wenjing asked, "Didn't Xu Ning get into any trouble? Why was he sentenced so severely?"
Jiaohua also said, "Yes! The sentence is too heavy, eight years. She will be thirty when she comes back."
Although Wang Juanjuan and Chunhua didn't say anything, they meant the same thing.
Wei Lanlan sneered, "According to what you said, Xu Ning must be in trouble before she can be sentenced to a serious punishment. This really proves the old saying that anyone can be a Bodhisattva unless something happens to them.
Don't forget that Xu Ning is a military family member, and intentionally persecuting military family members is a serious crime. ”
After saying that, he took Chen Xiangdong away, followed by Yang Xiaomei and Sun Hao, and then Yang Wenli, Liu Shaojie, and Zhang Hairong.
The actions of several people were very clear. They supported Liu Fang's heavy sentence. Lin Miao also took Gu Wenping away. The expressions of the remaining people were very ugly.
Xu Ning didn't know about these things. She went to the city today just to take some things out of the space. In the past few years, she went up the mountain to hunt every year, and not much meat and food in the space was consumed. She and Xiao An earned a lot of work points, so they usually took out some fine grains.
She was going to take out a pig's head today. She had only eaten two out of the ten pig heads in the space. Now that she was used to seeing them, she was not so scared anymore. After all, she was now someone who dared to kill even wild boars.
After she got home, she started to clean the pig's head, cleared the hair off it, and put it in the pot to cook.
When she was pulling the cucumber vines yesterday, there were still a few twisted cucumbers on them. She took out a few more from the space and prepared to make a pork head and cucumber dish.
After it was done, I served a bowl to Grandpa Qi.
She filled two basins with the rest and prepared to send them to the field. She first went around to the plot of land that was divided among the people in the cowshed. Xu More's little face was flushed, and he was sitting at the edge of the field drinking water.
Across the street was the educated youth harvesting beans. Without saying hello, she quietly placed the big bag in her hand next to Xu Mo.
The boy was very smart. He picked it up quickly, put it in a backpack, and walked towards the cornfield carrying it.
Several adults were also preparing to eat before working again. Seeing Xu Mo coming in again, they asked, "Xiao Mo, didn't I tell you to wait at the edge of the field? Why are you here again?"
Xu Mo said, "My sister just gave me a bag of food. Let's find a place where no one is around to eat."
A few people took out the food they brought back, found an open space and sat down. Xu Mo opened the big bag, which contained a large bowl of pork head mixed with cucumbers, and a lot of white flour cakes on top.
Seeing this, Xu Mo slurred his saliva and said, "My sister really loves us. Eat, eat, everyone eat." Then he picked up a piece of meat for each person.
He took a pancake, took a bite, then picked up a piece of pig's ear and put it in his mouth, squinting his eyes and said, "It's so delicious! Dad, Mom, Uncle Lu, Aunt Lu, why are you being so polite? Hurry up and get some food." While eating, he did not forget to persuade a few people to get some food.
Several people were amused by his little expression.
Xu Ning took out the food, and Lu Xiaotang told her the verdict on the three people brought by Zhao Jianshe.
Xu Ning nodded to show that he understood, and told the two to eat quickly.
After the three of them finished their meal and sat there to rest, Lu Xiaotang said, "The last time I went back to Beijing, I asked Wen Qing to help me find out about Gu Wenping and Yang Wenli's family situations. I didn't find anything unusual. Although there are some minor problems in the unit, they don't pose any threat to us.
Lin Miao's family situation was also very simple. A few days before going to the countryside, she went on a hunger strike every day and didn't want to come to the countryside as an educated youth. Later, she somehow came to her senses and came here on her own initiative.
So far, there's nothing wrong with these guys, but you still have to be careful, especially when dealing with the bullpen. ”
Xu Ning knew that as long as he stayed away from them and avoided their halo of being the protagonist, he would not get into trouble. It was already 1973, and there were only four years left before he could leave here. It would be quick.
She nodded and said, "Brother Lu, I understand. We rarely go to the cowshed now, and even Xiao Mo rarely comes to our place."
Lu Xiaotang and Xu An finished their assigned work at three o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of going home, they went directly to the mountain to cut thorny tree saplings.
Xu Ning had nothing to do at home, so he went to the mountains to look for early-ripening mountain products, preparing to bring them back to Lu Xiaotang when he left.
The thorny tree seedlings were at the foot of another hill. Lu Xiaotang chopped them down with thick gloves on. Xu An tied the chopped ones together and would pull them back later.
The two men were chopping trees and making quite a lot of noise. A pheasant ran out from inside. Lu Xiaotang picked up the machete in his hand and threw it at the pheasant. The pheasant's head was instantly cut off, and it fluttered on the ground for a few times before becoming silent.
Xu An happily picked it up and said, "Brother Lu, your aim is really good."
Then he praised Xu Ning's feat of hunting wild boars, "Brother Lu, my sister is also very good. Last year, she went up the mountain alone and hunted a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms. In the early spring of this year, she hunted two wild boars weighing more than 100 kilograms. Now we haven't eaten all the meat. The bacon you ate when you came the other day was the wild boar meat hunted by my sister."
After listening to him, Lu Xiaotang asked with a serious face, "Your sister went up the mountain to hunt alone? Why didn't you write to tell me? You know how dangerous it is in the mountains in winter. How could you let her go up the mountain alone?"
Xu An opened his mouth for a long time before he said, "Brother Lu, I wanted to write a letter to tell you, but my sister wouldn't let me, and she even confiscated the letter I had written and asked me to rewrite it.
My parents and Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu also talked to her, but she didn't listen. At the beginning of this spring, she secretly went up the mountain again. ”
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