Chapter 51: Small Success
Kang Xiaohua even did not spare the immature chickens, ducks, gooses and piglets, so the An siblings bought a new batch when they went to town.
Nie Yichang and the other two followed suit...
An Zhiqiu got up early and followed the method An Zhixia told him yesterday to make the steamed bun breakfast buns by himself. He sliced the buns, brushed them with egg liquid, fried them in oil, and then wrapped them with bacon slices, lettuce, green pepper shreds, peanuts, sesame seeds, and potato shreds fried with noodle sauce. Except that the buns were a little burnt, which affected the appearance, the steamed bun breakfast buns were chewy, salty, and fragrant, nutritious, and easy to make.
The air was filled with a strong smell of eggs, which made Liu Jiaming burst into tears as soon as he opened his eyes.
The four adults each packed their own portion, took their kettles, locked the door and walked out.
Chen Sike and Qi Yunlan were going to collect farmyard manure. Their original work was free, so naturally other people would go to the village head and the village party secretary. The village party secretary and his wife lost face yesterday, and no one wanted to see them. I'm afraid they don't want to get involved in too many things recently.
So the village chief fairly arranged for an old lady with limited mobility to help in the canteen, and Fei Zheng was appointed as the warehouse management and registration clerk. However, the warehouse manager's work points were not high, only six points, barely enough to make ends meet. So Fei Zheng opened the warehouse, distributed tools, and after completing the registration, he closed the warehouse and carried the basket to cut grass for the pigs.
One basket was worth half a work point. After cutting eight baskets a day, she could earn ten centimeters, two more work points than before, and the work was not tiring. After finishing the work, she still had time and energy to go to the newly allocated house with An Zhixia to help pull weeds.
"Did I say I envy you for having a brother?" Although Fei Zheng was a city girl, she was neither as delicate as a city girl nor as unrefined and vulgar as a village girl. Instead, she was like a quietly strong weed. "When this place is cleaned up, you can all move over here, and your life will get better and better." She expressed her envy frankly.
An Zhixia smiled and gave an official consolation: "As long as everyone works hard, their lives will get better and better. After all, this is New Xiahua, and the people are the masters."
"Yes, you are right," Fei Zheng nodded in agreement, "but if you move in, what will you do with the newly built pigsty, chicken coop and small kitchen?"
"See who wants it, just pay the cost," you can't let people get a bargain without paying anything, right?
Fei Zheng buried her head in pulling weeds for a while, then thought for a moment and said, "Xiao An, educated youth, can I discuss something with you?"
An Zhixia stood up straight and tapped her waist. "From now on, you can call me Zhixia and I'll call you Sister Zheng, right? You always call me by four characters. You don't get tired of calling me that, but I get worried just by listening to you."
Fei Zheng pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, Zhixia, I like your straightforward personality. Do you think this is okay? I am a warehouse manager now, and there is not much work to do. I just cut the grass and hand it over to the team, and I have a lot of time. Your yard is small. If you build a new pigpen, it must be close to where you sleep. The weather is better now, but in summer, the smell will be very strong.
You can leave your chickens, ducks, geese and pigs at the educated youth camp, and I will raise them for you in the same way as before. When the poultry lays eggs, I will deliver them to you on the same day.
How about I use the kitchenette?"
Seeing An Zhixia's puzzled look, she quickly explained, "It was Sister Yi Yue. She likes to take advantage of small opportunities. She annoyed Shan Zhiqing yesterday afternoon, so he, Qin Zhiqing, and Yang Zhiqing asked me if we could have dinner together."
There was someone helping with the work, so An Zhixia had no reason to push it away. But taking care of poultry and pigs was not easy, and her brother spent most of his time there after work.
She would not take advantage of others, so she said, "Then please help take care of our little ones, Sister Zheng. For the first three or four months, we will shamelessly take advantage of them. When the little ones are able to lay eggs, Sister Zheng will keep one as a reward for her hard work."
Fei Zheng did not refuse and said with a smile: "Then I have to take good care of them. They are like butt banks."
I pulled out the weeds in the yard, turned the soil in the yard over with a hoe, broke it up into small pieces, and planted vegetable seeds tomorrow.
Although it was the busy farming season, the An siblings, Nie Yichang, and Hang Xianglei still gritted their teeth and used their time after work to clean up their new home bit by bit.
In addition to Zheng Lizhi, Liu Yiyue and his wife, Chen Sike and Qi Yunlan, the rest of the educated youths in the institute also helped enthusiastically, which made An Zhixia sigh again and again that people in this era were too honest.
She also generously took care of their meals, providing them with light and nutritious meals in the morning to fill their stomachs, and also trying to make the evening meals as sumptuous as possible.
In the early spring, the ice on the river gradually melted, and the team brought water to irrigate the fields, harvesting a lot of river fish, which everyone shared. However, the river fish had a strong fishy smell, and people were reluctant to add oil and salt, and there was no way to remove the fishy smell, so they just ate it whole to satisfy their hunger, without paying any attention to it.
But for An Zhixia, it became a good opportunity for her brother to practice his cooking skills.
After the river fish were kept in a water tank for two days to spit out the mud and sand in their stomachs, An Zhiqiu began to learn how to process river fish, learning step by step seriously and diligently. He had to live up to everyone's help. So he achieved remarkable results, and a large table of river fish received praise from everyone.
An Zhiqiu regained his confidence instantly.
In five days, the house and yard were almost finished. The walls and kang were scraped flat, the roof straw was replaced with new ones, and the doors and windows were replaced. Vegetable seeds were planted in the yard, two water tanks were placed, and firewood was neatly stacked against the kitchen wall. It already looked like a new home. They only needed to move in the furniture they would build in the future, and they could continue their daily life.
The story of Chen Sike and Qi Yunlan was told by the loudmouthed Liu Yiyue, and people who had no entertainment and were irritated by the heavy labor every day had something to do. They worked without stopping to talk, and the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. In a few days, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it.
Everyone looked down on them. It was not easy to be a thief. One had to have professional ethics, such as not reaching out to the grass near the nest. But they actually teamed up with outsiders to harm the educated youth in the same room. It was said that the outsiders only slapped them twice, but the two cowards did not dare to fight back on the spot. They were full of evil in their hearts and hired people to steal everything from the outsiders.
Stealing one is stealing, stealing two is stealing, they simply robbed two male educated youths whose families were well-off, leaving them nothing even with their underwear. How evil are they?
Everyone thought they were stupid. They stole so much money and didn't even run away or hide it well. When they were found out in public, they refused to admit it.
Oh my goodness, are all the people in the city so brainless and shameless?
Before this topic was hot, two police comrades wearing large hats came to Hetang Village. Groups of children followed them from the village entrance to the end of the field.
It is foreseeable that new topics are coming...
(End of this chapter)
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