Chapter 81 Ziyi is defeated
Some villagers in Beishan Village were swinging wooden hammers to smash the old adobe bricks of collapsed houses; some were dumping the smashed old adobe bricks on the fields; some were building new adobe houses; some were carrying wood to build new adobe houses; women were weaving straw mats; some were putting the mats on the edge of the house, then putting a layer of mud on top, and then a thicker layer of wheat stubble on top of the mud...
When Ziyi and Yike walked into the village, they saw a scene of bustling work. I originally thought that the flood had ravaged the village and it would be a desolate scene, but I didn't expect it to be such a prosperous scene.
The scene was bustling with activity, and people were working hard and sweating to build their new homes. The most conspicuous among them are the comrades in green military uniforms. Each of them carries a large piece of wood on his shoulders, showing a heroic and high-spirited momentum.
"Young man, who are you looking for?" An old man saw Ziyi and Yike, put down the straw mat he was weaving and asked.
"Uncle, I'm looking for your captain. Do you know where he is?" Ziyi asked politely.
"Goudan, Goudan, go call your Uncle Qing, someone is looking for him." The old man asked a little boy named Goudan to help call people.
"Thank you, uncle." Ziyi said with a smile.
"What are you thanking me for? You are really polite, young man. Very good! Very good." The old man praised while starting to weave a straw mat.
"Ziyi, Yike, why are you here?" The captain came over hurriedly.
Wang Guoqing was wearing a washed-out gray shirt with three or four patches on it today. He was tall and strong. His pants were black, white and gray, and it was obvious that the color had changed due to washing. The trouser legs were also a bit shorter. The PLA shoes on his feet were new (Wang Guoqing later said that they were given to him by the soldiers who carried wood). His square face was dark red, and sweat was dripping from his head. It seemed that he had just been doing high-intensity work.
Wang Guoqing was surprised when he saw that it was Ziyi and Yike.
"Uncle Wang!" Ziyi greeted Wang Guoqing.
"Uncle Wang." Yi Ke also called.
"Hey! Ziyi is here, and Yike is here too." Wang Guoqing wiped his sweat.
"Uncle Wang, we were passing by to do some business and came to visit us." Ziyi said meaningfully.
"Oh, okay, okay, Ziyi, Yike, since you are here, come with me to my house and sit for a while." Then he turned around and led the way forward.
Ziyi pushed his bicycle and caught up, and Yike also followed silently behind.
Walking on the muddy road in the village, all the members I saw along the way had the same characteristics: pale and thin, wearing tattered clothes and trousers, but with happy smiles on their faces. Their spirits were very good, and there was no sign of depression after the disaster at all. There was a group of children in the open space, and the children were wearing a variety of clothes. There were boys wearing floral clothes for girls, which were obviously ill-fitting. They covered the upper part of their bodies but exposed their belly, making their flat belly sunken in and look like a pit. The spherical belly from the previous life is a rare species here, and it is obvious that this species does not exist in this village.
Some of the children had clothes on their upper bodies but no pants, and they were playing bamboo ring rolling with other children with their buttocks exposed. (The hoop rolling game, but the hoops here are made of bamboo.)
The child who went to help call Goudan was also among them. When he saw Ziyi and Yike, he smiled shyly with his little tiger teeth showing.
Ziyi and Yike felt extremely sad when they saw this, poor kid...
They arrived at Wang Guoqing's home. Wang Guoqing's family seemed to be better off than other members' families because his was the only house in the village with blue bricks and large tiles, and it was also the only house in the village that remained intact after the flood.
Ziyi parked the bicycle against the door wall, took off the snakeskin bag tied to the handlebars and picked it up, then followed Wang Guoqing into the main room with Yike.
"It's really unfortunate that you came out this time. We just experienced a flood. I'm afraid many things can't be bought, and food should be even harder to buy. Now everyone relies on relief food to survive." Uncle Wang Guoqing thought Ziyi came out of the mountains to buy food.
"Uncle Wang, I'm not coming out to buy food. I just came out to take a look." Ziyi explained.
"That's good, otherwise your trip would have been in vain." Wang Guoqing felt relieved after hearing that.
"Are there any casualties in the village in this flood?" Ziyi asked as he walked.
Wang Guoqing was in low spirits and said, "There were no casualties, except for a few elderly people who caught a cold and became ill. Before the flood came, the commune leaders notified us to evacuate early, and when the flood came, we all moved to the back mountain. It's a pity that most of the houses collapsed badly, and a few of them can still be lived in after repair. The ones that collapsed badly can only be demolished and rebuilt. But with the relief food distributed by the government, the trees on the mountain, and the help of comrades in the army, the houses will be rebuilt soon."
"That's good, this is a blessing in disguise. Uncle, this is wolf meat, let the children try it." Ziyi handed the snakeskin bag to Wang Guoqing.
"Hey, look at you, you just come, why do you bring things with you? Sit! Sit!" Wang Guoqing waved his hand and refused to take it.
"Uncle Hao and I killed a pack of wolves this time, more than a dozen of them. We couldn't finish eating them, so I brought two to you. You can't refuse, and you can't take them back, because the meat will go bad. Ask your aunt to clean it up first, as it's been in the bag for a few days." Ziyi put the bag in the kitchen and came out to sit down and drink a glass of cold boiled water.
"Caixia, Caixia," Wang Guoqing stood at the door and shouted twice to the outside.
"Hey, Dad, what's your name?" A little girl with two pigtails, her face covered with mud, and only her eyes rolling around, ran over.
"Go and call your mother back. There are guests at home."
"Okay!" The little girl disappeared again in the blink of an eye.
"Yike, this is your first time at my uncle's house, and I don't even have any sweet soup to treat you." ”
"Uncle, it's great to have boiled water. You're really welcome." Yike said hurriedly. Oh, polite words are Yike's weakness. It would be better if everyone could be more natural. Why do they have to be so polite? Yike quickly leaned towards Ziyi.
Ziyi quietly pulled Yike's hand without making any expression, signaling Yike not to be nervous.
"Uncle, you should sit down and talk too. You don't have to bother with anything else. We'll leave soon."
"Let me find some melon seeds for Yike. I remember your aunt put them in the cupboard." Soon, Wang Guoqing took out a handful of melon seeds and placed them in front of Yike, inviting him to eat them.
Yike pinched one and put it in his mouth. It was really delicious.
"It's delicious! Did you buy it or cook it yourself?"
"Your aunt fried it. It's delicious. I'll take some back later."
"Okay, thank you uncle!"
"Uncle, are there any people who escaped during the reconstruction after the flood? How did the higher-ups arrange these people?" Ziyi asked.
"Yes, there are many. Basically, more than half of the villagers suffered. The members of these villages fled. The higher-ups arranged these people into existing production teams. If many villagers fled, the name of the village would be retained and a new village would be built in another place. However, most of them were arranged into production teams in groups of three or four. Our brigade arranged seven families. Alas, we have to arrange these people, otherwise they will go to the city to beg for food, which is difficult to manage. If they are arranged in the village, at least they will have relief food to eat. Although they will not be full, they will not starve to death."
"Uncle, do you think it's okay for me and Uncle Hao to take this opportunity to settle down in your brigade?"
"Okay, this is a good opportunity. I'll go to the commune to see what to do. You don't know the production team next door. The entire production team is in low-lying terrain. Those people were reluctant to leave their land and waited until the water in the land was above their knees before they were ready to leave, but it was too late at that time. Some people were lucky enough to know what to give up and what not to give up, so some people went up the mountain first, but many elderly women were reluctant to leave their things at home and refused to leave. As a result, many people did not come out. There were less than 30 people left in the production team. So many of those who fled were arranged to go to that village. If you want to settle down, I have to say hello to the commune first, otherwise you will be arranged to go to the next village."
"No, I will find a way to deal with these. You just need to make the arrangements when the time comes."
"Okay! Then you need to move quickly while there are more people in there. It will be less noticeable if there are more people."
"Well! That's settled then! Uncle, Yike and I will be leaving now."
"No, eat first and then leave. Your aunt will be back to cook." Wang Guoqing hurriedly stopped the two people who stood up and were about to leave. "We will all settle down in my team from now on, and we are afraid of not having the chance to eat. Forget it this time, I am busy too. You see, those members need your command." Ziyi pulled Yike and walked towards the door.
"Okay then, let's eat later. Yike can take this bag of melon seeds as a snack." Wang Guoqing handed Yike a small cloth bag containing about half a pound of melon seeds.
"Thank you, uncle!" Yike happily took the melon seeds.
After going out, Ziyi asked Uncle Wang for a handful of dry straw and tied it to the back seat of the bicycle.
After leaving the village, Yike sat on the back seat with straw as a cushion, which made his butt much more comfortable. When he returned to the guesthouse, it was getting dark and Du Qingcang was already waiting there.
"You're back so soon?" godfather asked in surprise.
"It was just a few words, but we spent a whole day in the car," Ziyi said, "Godfather and Yike should go to the restaurant to eat first. I'll go see if Brother Tang and the others have bought what they wanted."
"Then go ahead. I'll take Yi Ke to dinner." Godfather waved Zi Yi away: "Go quickly and come back soon."
The state-owned restaurant was still the same state-owned restaurant, but maybe it was dinner time, the restaurant was full. Yike and his godfather ordered dishes and stood by a table of two young men waiting, because the two had finished eating and were about to leave.
This time, Du Qingcang and Yike ordered a braised pork, a fish head with tofu, a plate of cold cucumber salad, and two bowls of rice. It is still a large portion, and the bowl for rice here is not the small bowl like in the previous life, but as big as the soup bowl used for soup in the previous life.
In this era, the food in restaurants is not brought to you by waiters, but you have to take the order and serve it yourself.
Du Qingcang let Yike sit down and take up his seat (if no one was sitting there, someone else would sit there). He went to bring the food himself. There were a lot of dishes ordered, so he had to run two times to finish them all. @
Yike was full after eating one bowl of rice, but his godfather ordered another bowl of rice. He even used the rice to stick the braised pork on the plate and ate it. Although both of them live in the mountains, it can be seen that the life of the godfather is very different from that of one's own father.
In the evening, just as it was getting dark, Ziyi came back.
"How is it? How much did you buy?" Yi Ke asked in a low voice. Du Qingcang also wanted to know, so the four eyes stared at Ziyi.
"You'll know when you see them tomorrow. You won't be disappointed. They will go back with us tomorrow, so leave them in the cave where we come out of the mountain. We will meet there tomorrow." Ziyi deliberately kept the secret.
"Haha!" Yike turned around and went back to his room. He didn't want to know.
"Yike, listen to me, I will tell you." Ziyi saw that Yike was confused and hurriedly shouted.
Yike was actually not that anxious to know, but she just didn't like Ziyi's attitude of deliberately not telling her, so she ignored Ziyi's call, went back to the room angrily, and slammed the door shut. Ziyi, who followed behind her, almost hit her nose.
Ziyi shouted a few times outside the door, but seeing that Yike ignored him, he had to go back reluctantly.
Du Qingcang happily watched Ziyi being humiliated...
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