Second Grandma Lin is an expert on everything in Linjiawan. She knows exactly which family has hatched chicks recently.
"Second Grandma, are you home?"
Grandma Lin opened the door and was very happy to see that it was Lin Qingmei. The farm has been busy recently and they haven't seen each other for a while. "Qingmei, wait for me for a while. I'll go with you to change the chicks after I clean up the stove."
Lin Qingmei was waiting in the house, and soon, Second Aunt Lin had finished packing. She brought out a basket from home, which was half filled with eggs.
The two of them headed towards the west end of the village together. The family they were going to exchange chickens for this time was Lin Shengchen's family at the west end of the village.
When they arrived, Lin Sheng and his wife entertained them warmly. Looking at the nest of furry chicks, Lin Qingmei was filled with joy.
After some selection, Lin Qingmei picked out the ten most lively chicks.
After paying fifteen eggs in exchange, she carefully carried the chick back.
"Second Grandma, this is the money I paid for the eggs. This time I can exchange for the chicks thanks to you." Lin Qingmei stuffed fifty cents into Second Grandma Lin's hand. She didn't know that eggs had to be exchanged for money, so she didn't bring any eggs when she went out.
Grandma Lin was thoughtful. Seeing that she didn’t bring any eggs, she brought all the eggs from her home.
I took out half a basket of eggs, and when I came back there were only two left.
"Do you have food to feed so many chicks?" Grandma Lin was glad that she had brought all the eggs from home, otherwise she would have to make another trip today.
"It's okay. If there's no food, we can chop up some fish and vegetables and feed them." Lin Qingmei didn't lack anything except food. She couldn't finish the food in her space in her lifetime. In addition, she had the ability of wood. If there was no food, she could use it to grow rice. Then she could have as much food as she wanted.
"It's still better here. We can raise as many chickens as we want. I heard that in other places, each household can only raise two or three chickens."
"We are in a remote area, so some policies are not so strict here. I heard that ancestral halls in many places have been demolished, but most of them in Nancheng County have been preserved."
Although there was a Revolutionary Committee in Nancheng County, its members only dared to cause trouble in the county seat.
Previously, a few courageous Red Guards wanted to demolish the Liang clan ancestral hall in the neighboring commune, but they were thrown out by the villagers there.
No matter how many Red Guards there were, they were not as many as the villagers in the whole village. They were so scared that they went straight back to the county town and never dared to run to the countryside again.
"That's true. Hey, didn't Widow Huang go to live in the commune? Why is she back again?" Second Grandma Lin felt very strange when she saw the door of Widow Huang's house was open.
"Why does Widow Huang go to live in the commune? She has no children, so how can she live in the commune?" Lin Qingmei was not very familiar with Widow Huang. She only knew that she had a bad temper and had a bad relationship with Li Chunya.
"Who said she has no children? Her eldest son is the security director of the commune. She also has a younger son, who I heard was taken to the capital." Second Grandma Lin leaned close to Lin Qingmei's ear and whispered.
"She has a son? Why haven't I seen them?" Lin Qingmei suspected that she had heard it wrong. How could Widow Huang have a son? Didn't she live alone in Linjia Bay when she was young?
"Let alone you, no one in the entire Linjiawan has ever seen his two sons. That happened before liberation. At that time, the wife of a big landlord couldn't have children, so she came to the countryside to find someone to help her give birth to a son. At that time, Widow Huang's parents-in-law sent her to the big landlord's bed for money. Later, Widow Huang divorced the big landlord. It was probably about ten years later that Widow Huang returned to Linjiawan."
Lin Qingmei had always thought that this generation of people was more feudal and simple, and she didn't expect that surrogacy would appear so early. "Second Madam, are both of Widow Huang's sons born to that landlord?"
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