Chapter 157: Hypocritical and Contradictory

The chickens and ducks that were brought all laid eggs, so they were not slaughtered for the time being because Jiang Weidong brought pork.

A pig head, a pair of pig offal, and a pork rib with a palm-wide pork belly.

It was not cold enough now, and it could not be frozen, so it could only be processed that night.

The pork belly and ribs were rubbed with salt to make salted meat and hung, and the pig head and pig offal were processed to make brine.

Every year, Lin Shu would consciously save the seasonings to make brine sausage when slaughtering the pig.

This time Jiang Weidong brought a lot of offal, bought from the city’s meat processing plant, and it was also a coincidence that he bought more.

Everyone worked together to clean it. If they had ginger at home, they chopped it and added it, and then put it in the pot and brine.

Two hours later, before going to bed, add a small firewood, cover the pot and simmer overnight, and it will be ready for the next morning.

As a result, if the meat is stewed at more than nine o'clock, how can the neighbors around sleep well all night?

The dream is full of the smell of meat, and in the dream, they are all gnawing on pig heads.

It's quite straightforward.

The Lu family didn't go to bed with their mouths full, but each person ate two bites of meat before going to bed.

At this time, who cares whether there is food or not, having something to eat is happiness.

Besides, most people at that time had a strong stomach, which was developed by eating coarse food.

The new house was ready by now. Hou Bo and several boys lived in one room, and Lu Xiuxiu lived in another room with Hou Ying.

When Jiang Weidong came, he slept on the same kang with Hou Bo and the others.

Because Lu Shaotang was not at home, Lin Xia did not sleep in Xiuxiu's room, but on Lin Shu's kang, so that the two sisters could talk in private.

The fragrant smell of meat filled the house, which distracted people and made them happy.

The two sisters talked in private for half the night over the smell of meat.

The next morning, Hou Bo, Lu Ping and Lu An got up as usual to climb trees. Pan Pan, however, took advantage of the time to wrap herself in Lu Shaotang's pillowcase and go to the chicken coop to check on the chickens and ducks that were brought back yesterday.

To see if they were bullied by the original chickens and ducks, she found that they had laid two eggs again!

Pan Pan: "The chickens and ducks at my great-grandmother's house are more sensible than people!"

Jiang Weidong got up, strolled around, and watched the three children climb trees.

Hou Bo climbed up like a monkey, and it seemed that he climbed very easily.

Lu Ping was also OK, but Lu An practiced late, so he climbed worse, and it was quite laborious.

Over there, Lu Erge and Fang Dihua were packing. Jiang Weidong was going to take six large boxes this time, and he would have to tie a few boxes on top of the jeep.

They originally thought that Jiang Weidong was just helping out for Lin Xia's sake, but he kept doing it.

According to Jiang Weidong, he was not helping out for Lin Xia's sake, but he felt that it was not easy for the rural brigade to develop a sideline business. If there was a suitable product, he would definitely help.

He could not violate the rules and resell steel and other materials from the steel mill, but he could use his connections to help promote the brigade's sideline business.

In fact, he not only helped the Lujiazhuang Brigade to promote its sideline business, but also helped several other brigades, but he was not as diligent as the Lujiazhuang Brigade.

Although the weather has cooled down, the autumn tiger is still wreaking havoc, and mosquitoes are also fighting back like crazy. Mosquitoes at this time bite people... Especially fiercely, just after biting, a big bump will be left with a flick of the hand.

So the sales of mosquito coils in this autumn have ushered in a small climax.

It's the same with Jiang Weidong, half of it is mosquito coils.

He saw Lin Xia coming out to pick vegetables, so he went over to help.

The vegetable garden has already shown a bleak state in autumn, but the loofah, pumpkin, beans, and lentils are in their flourishing period and are full of fruits.

Lin Xia: "Third sister asked us to pick more to take back."

Jiang Weidong discussed with her in a low voice, "Lin Xia, this time when you go back, can you tell mom about it?"

After telling the old lady, they can go in and out together openly in the future. After all, he has applied to the leader.

Lin Xia tilted her head and smiled at him, "You haven't told aunt yet?"

Jiang Weidong: "It's better if we tell it together."

He was afraid that his mother would beat him. It would hurt if the old lady beat him with a chicken feather whisk.

Lin Xiao nodded, "Okay, I'll tell you together."

Jiang Weidong was as happy as a child, "Then... let's go today, okay?"

Originally, he wanted to stay here for one more day, but now he wanted to take Lin Xia back earlier and tell his mother, "Old lady, your son and I have a wife, and we will get married at the end of the year." I hope the old lady won't be so scared that her dentures will fall out.

This year, the old lady didn't even try to introduce him to a date. It seemed like she was just going to give up and see him being a bachelor. He found it funny.

He made up his mind to submit the marriage application when he got it. After that, they would be considered husband and wife. They could just wait until the end of the year for the holiday to have a wedding banquet.

Lin Shu was making breakfast, and Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying came to help.

Lu Xiuxiu and Hou Ying were like real sisters. They had similar temperaments and both spoke in soft voices.

Although they were twice as old as each other, they could talk to each other easily.

Lin Shu also liked the fact that the children had such compatible personalities. As long as they had friends, they would not be lonely, and they would have someone to confide in when they had something on their mind.

Last night, the marinated meat was served, the pig head was split in half, the offal and intestines were divided in half, and Jiang Weidong took half back to share with the secretary and the others.

Although it was already cold and the aroma was no longer so overbearing, the shiny orange-red color made people's appetites grow.

Not afraid of getting sick of eating meat early in the morning, Lin Shu cut a big plate for her family to enjoy.

It was autumn harvest, everyone was tired, and the people in the incense factory were even more tired.

She also cut a plate and put it aside, and gave it to Xu Erzhu, Zhang Biao, Zhang Guiqi, Qiu Jincai and others when they came over.

There was nothing to say about the people she and Fang Dihua had chosen, each of them was capable, strict and hardworking.

She also filled a few small bowls of meat soup and put a few slices of meat in them, and asked Lu Ping, who had climbed down from the tree, to take Hou Bo and Lu An to deliver them to the families.

Usually, when Wang Pozi, Li Auntie and others had something delicious, they would also deliver it here. Anyway, it was a give-and-take thing. Everyone got along well, so they would share some of the delicious food with each other so that the other children could also enjoy it.

This meat soup with pancakes is absolutely delicious.

Early in the morning, Lin Shu stewed a pot of beans and pumpkin with meat soup, and also made a loofah soup and a small pot of shrimp skin eggs.

You have to eat better in the morning if you do physical work.

The tractor drivers of my sister-in-law have to drive the tractor to help pull corn and corn stalks home. After the corn stalks are dug up in some plots, they start to plow the land.

First plow the land, winnow the manure as base fertilizer, and then plant wheat after it rains.

The earlier the wheat is planted, the sooner it will sprout and grow better.

In the past, there were no tractors, not enough manpower, and not enough livestock, so we could only harvest the autumn land almost completely first. Now it is much easier.

If you plant as soon as you finish harvesting a field, the wheat will not ripen at the same time, and you will have more time to harvest.

It was daybreak, and since it would not spoil the vegetables, Lin Shu brought two full boxes of food to Sister Lu. A

platter of salted meat, beans braised in meat soup, eggs stewed in shrimp sauce, a salted duck egg, and a few fresh green onions.

There was no other way, because the farm workers all ate them, and if Sister Lu didn't eat them, she would have to smell other people's odor.

Green onions, garlic, and leeks are something that you can't smell if everyone eats them, but if anyone doesn't eat them, they will be suffocated.

Sister Lu is not a hypocritical person, and when she goes out to work, she eats like everyone else, too.

Some farm machinery operators eat big rolls of scallions and usually chew them while driving. Mrs. Lu does the same now.

However, Lin Shu reminded her to eat on time and it is best to get off the car and eat quietly to avoid irregular eating and stomach problems.

"If you get stomach problems, you won't be able to work in the future. It's a waste of a big guy like Miss Jiao."

Mrs. Lu listened very well.

When the weather got cold, Father Lu helped the hospital to prepare ointment prescriptions. They were all prepared by him communicating with Doctor Yan, Doctor Shen and others, and studying various medical books.

The one he prepared now is called Qi and Blood Ointment, which contains donkey-hide gelatin, Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica sinensis and other medicinal materials. The ingredients are solid and the price is not cheap. It is not sold to ordinary patients, but basically prepared for specific people.

Now that Dr. Yan and Dr. Shen have helped promote Old Man Lu, he is also a little famous in the province, and some people will come to him specifically to get ointments. Old Man Lu

took the opportunity to prepare some for his family, especially for women who have cold hands and feet in winter, so they can eat some blood and qi ointment. He left some for Fang Dihua, Lin Shu, Lin's mother and old mother-in-law, and gave a can to Aunt Jiang.

Fang Dihua's blood is strong, and her hands and feet are warm all year round, so she gave her share to Lin Shu.

Originally, he wanted to share it with the two girls, but then he thought about it and let it go. It is estimated that if he gave it to them, it would end up in the mother-in-law's belly, so it is better to give it to his own daughter-in-law.

Jiang Weidong knew that this thing was expensive, so he had to pay for it.

Fang Dihua: "Weidong, if you are not polite to us, that's not good."

Jiang Weidong had to give up after hearing her say that.

Fang Dihua: "If your elder sister has nothing to do at home, you can bring her over and let her stay with us for a few days. There will be a lot of people and she will be happy."

Jiang Weidong: "Okay, I will bring her over next time."

Fang Dihua let them chat and she went to work.

Lin Shu packed some salted meat and asked Jiang Weidong to take Lin Xia to deliver it to her parents on a bicycle. They can just eat lunch when they come back, and Lin's mother doesn't need to worry.

The future son-in-law should also go to his father-in-law's house to say hello, so that he can show his intimacy.

Nowadays, many sons-in-law don't like their parents-in-law after marriage. Some of them don't even bother to call their parents. They just perfunctorily said a few words to marry a daughter-in-law. Now that they have married and have several children, why should they flatter their father-in-law?

So after marriage, it is basically the father-in-law and mother-in-law who flatter the son-in-law.

Hou Bo and his friends usually visit Lin's father and mother, so they didn't go with them.

When Lin Xia and Jiang Weidong came back, Lin Shu had already prepared lunch, and they were going back to the city after eating.

When they came back, Lin Xia had a smile on her face and said to Lin Shu: "Zhao Lao San is making trouble at home, blaming his parents for being incompetent and not finding him a daughter-in-law, saying that he would be fine if he had a daughter-in-law."

Lin Shu: "That's the blessing of his parents." If

the child is crooked and the parents don't restrain and educate him, won't he bother his parents at home when he can't harm outsiders?

What do you mean, wait until he has a wife? Isn't that harming the woman?

Trash like him deserves to be a bachelor for life!

She took this topic to lead to Qian Lisheng and asked Jiang Weidong: "Brother-in-law, are Qian Lisheng and Zhang Shuxia married?"

Jiang Weidong shook his head, his face a little serious, "No, the factory decided to punish Qian Lisheng."

Jiang Weidong told them that not only Zhang Shuxia and Qian Lisheng had a relationship, but that Han Xiaofen also had a relationship with Qian Lisheng, and then... Fu Xiumei reported it to them.

Lin Shu: "?"

Why is there also the matter of Fu Xiumei?

This melon sounds very interesting?

However, the factory committee is still in the research stage. Jiang Weidong should have been in charge of this, but because of Lin Xia's relationship, he applied for recusation and asked the head of the factory security department to cooperate with the director of the factory office to verify the truth of the investigation .

If it is true, Qian Lisheng's team leader will be removed and he will have to write a self-criticism every day.

Of course, he will not be fired. In this era, as long as you enter the factory and have not committed a crime or been arrested, you will always be a factory employee. If

you make a mistake, the factory will also punish you.

Every time Lin Xia heard that Qian Lisheng had become worse, she was glad to divorce him.

Lin Shu was also happy for her second sister.

At this time, Panpan, Tiantian, and Xiao Houwei came back.

Each of them carried a bunch of skewers, dozens of grasshoppers and bean worms, "Mom, fry them for my second uncle."

After such a long time, Lin Shu was also trained by the insects and grasshoppers in the countryside, and was not so afraid anymore.

But seeing such round finger-long bean worms, she still subconsciously dug her toes into the ground.

She asked the children to wash them themselves, wipe them dry, and then fry them in oil.

There were too many, so Lin Shu grilled a few skewers for them, sprinkled pepper powder and smeared a little chili sauce. They tasted fragrant and crispy, and the fat of the bean worms burst directly in the mouth!

"Fragrant, delicious!"

Little Hou Wei had a little internal heat and mouth ulcers, so Lin Shu didn't let him eat chili sauce and pepper powder.

He refused and insisted on eating the ones with ingredients, "It's tasty!"

Lin Shu: "I got a sore mouth after eating it."

Little Hou Wei: "Eat it first, and then you can talk about the pain."

Everyone laughed, and Tiantian gave him a taste.

Little Hou Wei's eyes narrowed after eating

it. Jiang Weidong: "How did you catch so many?" He also caught them when he was a child, but never so many.

Lin Shu laughed.

Panpan: "Huahua, Honghong, and Huzi helped to catch them."

Now only Tiantian and Panpan are still running around. Huahua and Huzi have followed the adults to pick wheat ears since the wheat harvest.

So they can't run around with Tiantian and Panpan on weekdays.

But they still remembered their little friend, who caught bean worms and grasshoppers and kept them for the two of them, because they knew they had guests at home, so of course they would use them to entertain the guests.

Jiang Weidong looked at the children more and more, and he couldn't help but look forward to whether he and Lin Xia could also have such good children.

Just as he was sketching the eyebrows and eyes of his own children, he suddenly thought of the nightmare again, and it was like a basin of ice water was poured over his head.

He and his ex-wife were similar to Lu Shaotang and the original owner. They were together less and apart more, and they only saw each other a few times after marriage.

He could no longer remember the appearance of his deceased wife, but he deeply remembered the tragic state of her death. He

once thought about not getting married again, and didn't want to let a woman suffer such danger again.

After falling in love with Lin Xia, he subconsciously avoided thinking about the issue of children, but then forced himself to think about it, and he became panicked and terrified when he thought about it.

Perhaps he thought about it all day, and had a nightmare at night. He actually dreamed that Lin Xia died of dystocia like his late wife, lying lifeless on the hospital bed. The pain instantly pierced his heart and woke him up all of a sudden.

He thought he couldn't let Lin Xia get pregnant.

In fact, it was also good not to have children.

He would love her all his life and spoil her like a child.

If they really wanted children, they could adopt one.

Seeing how cute her sister's children were, he thought that if they had more contact with them, they would be almost the same as their children.

But what Lin Xia was thinking was that she also wanted to give birth to two such cute children, and then let them play with their brothers and sisters.

With such good brothers and sisters like Tiantian and Panpan, her children won't need to work hard to educate them, they will definitely learn to be good.

Lin Shu also packed some gifts for Aunt Jiang, and some for Han Yun and Li Xiaoru.

Girls like to eat sweets, so Lin Shu made hawthorn cakes and hawthorn jam from the fruits of her own fruit trees, and also packed a bag of pomegranates.

There was also a box of specially made high-end incense, sandalwood and jasmine, which were not sold outside. Lin Shu used them for herself or gave them to relatives and friends.

She also prepared a similar portion for Wei Ling. She

would ask her second sister to help deliver it when the time comes.

Since meeting Wei Ling last year, the two have maintained regular correspondence. When Wei Ling goes on a business trip, she will come to meet Aunt Jiang and have a meal when she passes by Lujiazhuang.

"Sister, next time you come, bring Aunt Jiang to play."

Lin Xia agreed.

Seeing how close the sisters were, Jiang Weidong felt like he had found a treasure.

After Jiang Weidong and Lin Xia left, Lin Shu took the children to continue drying the dried vegetables, and also dried various beans and lentils. They cut the shreds, blanched them in water, and soaked them in water until they were almost as good as fresh ones. They were delicious when stewed with meat during the Chinese New Year.

Some of the sunflowers were ripe, and they were picked with full seeds, cut down, dried, and then the seeds were knocked off.

Lin Shu prepared the ingredients herself, boiled them, dried them, and fried them, and made a bag of spiced melon seeds for the children. They were not irritating to eat, and were nutritious and could supplement vitamin E, which was good for both the elderly and children.

On this day, she was busy with the vegetable garden with the children, and her second uncle and aunt came early in the morning.

The two of them were still as simple as before, with their clothes patched and patched, but they were washed clean and neatly sewn, and they still wore straw sandals.

They came to express their gratitude, but they were not good at speaking. They didn't say thank you or why, they just came.

Sometimes they brought a big load of firewood, sometimes a bag of sour dates, and sometimes two fish.

This time they carried a large bundle of firewood, two wild black fish, and a few corn husk woven cushions.

Many people in the countryside can do straw weaving, using local materials and weaving for their own use. After all, it costs money to find someone to weave or buy it.

This thing does not require high technical content, and people with clumsy hands can do it, but those who are skillful can weave it very beautifully.

Second Uncle Jie looks dull and rough, but his handwork is very beautiful, which is a skill he has acquired since he was a laborer.

He caught the black fish in a fish basket he made himself.

He also added reed strips to the woven mat, which looks more beautiful and neat, and also more solid.

"Give it to the kids to carry on the street to play."

This is not heavy, and they can sit anywhere on the street.

Several children shouted, "It looks good, I want this, I want this."

After giving the things away, Second Uncle Jie wanted to take his wife away, but was stopped by Lin Shu.

Second Uncle never came into the house before, sometimes because he was in a hurry, and sometimes because he was afraid of being embarrassed by being covered in mud.

Today, he was dressed so cleanly, it would be awkward if he didn't come in.

Lin Shu asked the son to invite his aunt and uncle in and pour them some water.

Second Uncle Jie was afraid of disturbing others while they were working, and felt very embarrassed.

Fang Dihua came over to say hello, "Second Uncle, don't be embarrassed, we are all family, you guys chat, drink some water, I will go to work."

Second Uncle Jie slightly bent his waist and nodded repeatedly, "You are busy, you are busy."

Second Aunt leaned beside him, smiling shyly. If she didn't dare to raise her head before, she has become a little braver now after following the technical team to cook for others.

Panpan took out hawthorn cakes and other things to entertain the uncle and his wife.

Second Uncle Jie: "These are things for children, we won't eat them, you guys can eat them."

Tiantian shared them with them, knowing that the old man was reluctant to eat them, and he wouldn't eat them even if he let go, so she stuffed them into their mouths.

The second aunt-in-law opened her mouth and didn't dare to close it, for fear of biting her tender little white hand.

Tiantian giggled.

Lin Shu remembered that her second sister and Jiang Weidong had brought back some old work clothes.

These clothes were strong and durable. Lin's father and Lin Yue liked to wear them. The big set was given to the second brother.

There was another similar set here, which could be given to the second uncle Jie.

Although they were old clothes, they were not patched. The second uncle Jie did not dare to take such good clothes.

Lin Shu stuffed them into his pocket and asked him to wear them while working.

The second uncle Jie said: "Such good clothes are useless when working. Wear them during the New Year."

He thought about taking them home for his wife to wear.

Lin Shu asked about the separation of the family, whether there was enough food, and whether Jie Jinkui went to get his food.

Second Uncle Xie hurriedly said, "Enough to eat, enough to eat, now we are full. After the family division, we each live our own lives, and no one takes my food. The secretary also comes to give instructions, not to let anyone bully us."

When the family division was made, Lin Shu decided that Second Uncle only wanted dried sweet potatoes, so he could get more, so that they could eat their fill.

If he wanted to eat cornmeal, he could get it after the autumn harvest.

Lin Shu took out two locks and keys and gave them to him, "Second Uncle, after the family division, you should lock your room and cabinets."

Although there were not many things, but Uncle Xie and Jie Jinkui had to know that the family division was a family division, and they could not just take Second Uncle's things.

If they didn't lock the door, they could come and go freely, but if they locked the door, it would be like breaking in.

In the eyes of the second uncle, the lock was very expensive at that time. After all, it was made of metal and he couldn't afford it.

He didn't dare to take it because it was too expensive. A lock cost several dimes.

Lin Shu insisted that he take it.

Second uncle Xie felt as if his hands were burned, and finally he had to accept it, feeling a little uneasy.

Lin Shu didn't keep them any longer, as she had to go back to work.

"Second uncle, come and visit often."

Second uncle Xie: "Yes, come, we'll come and visit when we have time."

Lin Shu didn't ask about the Xie family, and second uncle Xie didn't say anything either.

In fact, he didn't know at all that Mrs. Xie disliked him and women for being dirty and wouldn't let him enter her room. The same was true for the eldest aunt, who disliked the second uncle and his aunt for being dirty and wouldn't let him enter their room.

My second uncle and his wife would go to the production team to work overtime to harvest crops before dawn. Sometimes they would come back very late at night, and sometimes they would not come back at night. They would bring their rations and work with others in the fields.

Some people would sleep in the fields at night to earn more work points. They would build a thatched house with corn stalks and sleep there with their bedding.

Old lady Jie had a hip fracture and could not move. She could only stay in bed. She could eat and drink by herself, but she had to rely on others for defecation and urination.

Of course, it was my eldest aunt who served her.

She was also very clean and particular. She used to ask my eldest aunt to boil water for her to wash her hair, feet and take a bath. Now it was not convenient, so she had to ask my eldest aunt to wash her hair, feet and body.

My eldest aunt thought it was tiring and troublesome. It was cold, and wouldn't it be more troublesome if she caught a cold?

The eldest aunt advised her to cut her hair and stop wearing it in a bun because it was inconvenient.

As a result, Mrs. Jie got angry and hit the eldest aunt with her walking stick. The eldest aunt hid

from her and could not hit her, so she waited for the eldest uncle to come back and ask him to beat her. The eldest uncle was always very clear about beating his wife. He would beat her if the old lady asked him to.

But he couldn't beat her to death, right?

Who would take care of her if he beat her to death?

In the end, Mrs. Jie had to compromise.

Because it was inconvenient to live with her, it would attract lice and she would have no hair. The long gray hair had to be cut off.

Mrs. Jie didn't trust the eldest aunt, so she asked the old lady next door to cut her hair. As a result, the old lady cut her hair shorter for convenience, which made Mrs. Jie so angry that she didn't let the old lady come to her house.

But at least it was convenient to wash her hair after cutting her hair, and she felt more comfortable.

However, the old woman was mean, selfish, domineering and arrogant. Now that she was old, it was not easy to heal from a broken bone. She was in pain all day lying on the kang, and her spirit and mood were even worse.

The barefoot doctor told her, "Auntie, don't move around when you lie down, otherwise the bones will be dislocated and difficult to heal."

Old Mrs. Jie looked at her with a mean look, and was angry. Why should I listen to you?

Well, how can it be healed? How can it not hurt?

So the old Jie family is now echoing with the sarcastic and mean voice of Old Mrs. Jie.

Of course Lin Shu doesn't feel guilty!

It wasn't her who broke Old Mrs. Jie's hip, so she can't blame her.

She only needs to visit the patient regularly on behalf of Lin's mother, do some superficial work to show filial piety, and don't let the old woman torture Lin's mother.

As for the rest, it was the Jie family's own business, she didn't care.

Now the autumn harvest was in full swing.

There was really endless work to do in the countryside.

Harvesting millet, cutting beans, cutting sorghum, cutting millet, picking cotton, breaking corn, collecting peanuts, digging sweet potatoes, drying sweet potato stems...

There were still not enough people, and finally the team leader discussed with Fang Dihua and Lin Shu, asking Brother Lu to take fewer orders first, and the members of the incense factory also went to work on the autumn harvest for two days.

Besides, the incense flour was not provided so timely, after all, the amount of incense flour ground out of a plate every day was limited.

That day, Lin Shu was also invited by the branch secretary and the team leader to inspect the farmland on the northwest slope.

Actually, Lin Shu doesn't know how to farm, so she shouldn't be asked to look after the farmland. But don't the brigade cadres think that she is knowledgeable, has many connections, and has many ideas?

Maybe Lin Shu has an idea?

There are dozens of acres of land on the northwest slope. The terrain is slightly higher, so water resources are more likely to be lost, so it is dry all year round.

When it rains, other farms can store water, but it is easy for water to leak here. If

it doesn't rain when planting crops, you can carry water first and then wait for rain, but there is no way for those who lack water all year round.

You can water the land, and the brigade also has water storage rivers and wells, but it is too unrealistic to water the land manually. How much water can you carry every day? It's not like they haven't done this before, but it's exhausting and they've lost focus on other farmland, which is not worth the effort.

It's possible to use a diesel engine to pump water, but diesel is expensive and hard to come by.

There's not enough to harvest crops and till the land, so watering the land is impossible because there's no quota.

But seeing the production of dozens of acres of land decrease year after year, everyone feels bad.

In other fields, one mu of corn can yield at least 500 kilograms, but here?

300 kilograms is good.

If there is enough water, 500 kilograms is also possible.

Harvest more food, then there will be more food for the people.

The secretary tapped the tobacco bag pot. He used to smoke cigarettes for a few days, but recently he felt that cigarettes were too expensive, so he switched to smoking dry tobacco.

The team leader was also a little worried, mainly because the rain was always a few days late this year, and it was generally a little dry. It was not obvious in other places, but it was particularly severe here.

In previous years, the yield per mu was about 300 kilograms, but this year it was less than 300.

The seeds, fertilizers, and labor were all spent.

I really can't bear to give up planting, because it is cultivated land, not wasteland.

It's just two crops a year, and if there is a lack of water, the land will become more and more barren.

Lin Shu looked around and found that there was actually an artificial canal below this area. The terrain here was high, and the canal had a drop of about ten meters.

This piece of land was several meters higher than other farmlands, and then it became lower as it moved northwestward.

It was like a big convex character, or it could be called a slope.

Lin Shu thought to herself: Doesn't this require the water wheel pump that my brother-in-law mentioned before?

She talked to the branch secretary and the team leader about it, but she didn't understand the details. After all, in her previous life, her hobbies were food, growing flowers and vegetables, sewing and other household crafts, but she had never studied farming and watering.

The two of them became very interested when they heard it, "When will your brother-in-law go to the countryside? Why don't he come

to our brigade first?" "Comrade Lin Shu," the brigade leader tried to persuade Lin Shu by using all the tricks he had used against the county and commune leaders, "Why don't you call your brother-in-law? Persuade him, tell him that we have a good place here, and it's a perfect fit for him to come and do some joint promotion among workers and peasants."

The branch secretary didn't care about the tobacco bag pot anymore and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, one advantage we have over other brigades is that we never meddle in other people's business and we don't pretend to know things when we don't."

Nowadays, many intellectuals and engineers have been sent down to the countryside. The local brigade cadres pretend to know things and like to give people orders blindly. If they don't listen to his orders, they abuse their authority to educate and criticize them. Therefore, many people who have been sent down have a bad impression of the local grassroots cadres.

Secretary Lu Jiazhuang was very clear about this. Not to mention the real intellectuals from above, he respected people like Lu Laodi who had more experience than him and knew medical skills. He never went to the infirmary to make decisions, but just distributed money to the brigade.

The same was true for the incense factory.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Then I'll go and ask."

The brigade leader said, "It's still early now. You have to wait for the line to make a call. I'll arrange a carriage to go with you."

Seeing that they were so anxious, Lin Shu didn't say tomorrow, so she went directly to the commune post office to make a call. She

was also lucky that she didn't have to wait in line for the line, and there happened to be a telephone line to Qizhou.

Lin Shu called the number left by her brother-in-law, the office of the unit in Qizhou.

As a result, the office said that Team Leader Hou had taken people to the countryside and had already gone to Fengxian County, Ningcheng City.

They gave her the contact information of Feng County.

Lin Shu called the Feng County Office again.

After waiting for a while, she finally got through. When the office staff heard that they were looking for Hou Jianwen, they were confused for a moment, as if they didn't know who Hou Jianwen was. After asking, they found out that he was from the Qizhou Industrial Bureau.

The man told Lin Shu that Hou Jianwen and his men had gone to Chaoyang Commune in Feng County.

Lin Shu refused to hang up the phone and directly asked Feng County to transfer the call to Chaoyang Commune.

After so many transfers, she finally got through.

Unfortunately, her eldest brother-in-law was not in the commune either, but went to the Hegouzi Brigade below.

Whether she went down to deliver the letter or waited for her eldest brother-in-law to come back, it would take a lot of time, so Lin Shu left a message saying that she would call again at 8:30 tomorrow morning during working hours.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Shu and the team leader went home and would come back tomorrow.

In Chaoyang Commune, Guan Zhiliang hung up the phone, sneered, and mocked another colleague in the office: "A family member of an exiled bad element really thinks he is a backbone of the Industrial Bureau and is here to guide the work?"

Guan Zhiliang got into the commune revolutionary committee through connections, and even in the commune, there were not many opportunities for promotion. After five or six years, he was still a low-level office clerk.

He also gave up the idea of ​​moving up, and was too lazy to work hard. He just muddled through and didn't make big mistakes.

The old hands in this unit are slippery, not serious about their work, and are the best at shirking responsibility. They are even better at squeezing out newcomers and those who work hard.

Hou Jianwen divided his troops into two groups in Qizhou. One team leader led a team to other cities to do other projects, and he led six or seven team members to Fengxian.

He surveyed the map data and felt that Hegouzi in Chaoyang Commune was very suitable for them to study the water turbine pump.

After he brought people here, he plunged into the work without knowing the specific situation of the commune.

The commune leaders naturally supported it, but the leaders only controlled the general direction, and the specific work was done by the lower level of the office.

It was equivalent to the officials and clerks in the feudal dynasty.

The official issued a government order, but the clerks secretly obeyed it and violated it in public, so the official order was difficult to get through.

In many local governments, the clerks actually controlled the overall situation. If the officials could not hold them, they would be almost unable to move forward.

Hou Jianwen was full of enthusiasm and thought that the personnel at the grassroots level were simpler than those in the provincial industrial bureau, and there was no struggle, so he wanted to get into the work as soon as he arrived.

But in fact, there were many people like Guan Zhiliang here.

Political achievements had nothing to do with them, and if there were mistakes, the commune secretary and director would be alone. It was the so-called changing leadership but the iron-clad grassroots.

They would not cooperate with Hou Jianwen's work. You just want to show off, right?

Don't we know how to farm? Don't we know how to water the land? Just

because you come, our production will be high, our agriculture will be mechanized, and we will make progress?

Are you using us to gain political achievements?

Under the deliberate or unintentional traps set by Guan Zhiliang and his people, it is conceivable that Hou Jianwen and his people felt like they were stuck in a quagmire, seemingly at ease but unable to move forward.

Guan Zhiliang and his people were well-informed. As soon as Hou Jianwen brought his people down, they asked the county and city officials, and then confirmed the relationship with the provincial government.

After so many inquiries and integration of information from multiple sources, they came to a conclusion: Hou Jianwen was equivalent to an exile in ancient times, and now he is also a cadre who has been demoted.

His father went to the May 7th Cadre School, which means he was a bad element sent down to the countryside. Although he was not explicitly labeled as a bad element, how could he be sent to the cadre school to study if he was not a bad element?

There must be something wrong with that, right?

The secretary and team leader of Hegouzi were not as self-aware as the cadres of Lujiazhuang.

The quality of grassroots cadres is always mixed. Although some of them have low cultural literacy, they have rich experience in grassroots work, outstanding farming management skills, and know how to respect educated technical personnel.

Some of them regard this team cadre as their own amulet and privilege, and put themselves in the position of local emperors, saying what they mean and being arrogant and domineering.

It just so happens that Zhai Xinqiang, the secretary of the Hegouzi Brigade, is such a person.

Zhai Xinqiang and his people firmly control the seven production teams under the Hegouzi Brigade. He arranges the team leaders, and the production team leaders are all people related to him.

Now that Hou Jianwen has gone to their brigade, he feels that nothing goes well.

Hou Jianwen was very annoyed. I came to help you, not to find fault. Why don’t you cooperate with the work?

He said that the Hegouzi has abundant water resources, and the water in the low places can be pumped to the high places by water wheels, which is convenient for watering the land.

Zhai Xinqiang said: "If people don’t need to water the land, what do they do?" If

they are not full, the members will be like old oxen, soaking in the fields every day. If they are full, they will grind their teeth and make trouble. He

wanted to make sure that the members didn't have enough to eat, but at the same time, he wanted the members to think that they could eat more if they worked harder, so that he could manage these idiots.