Chapter 9 Differences
After lunch, Liu Yujin visited the family home with children going to middle school.
In the countryside today, unless it is too hot in June and there is no way to work at noon, it will take a break after lunch. There is no saying that there is lunch break. Fortunately, Liu Yujin's family had lunch early, and the few families he went to were basically eating or just finished eating and collecting bowls.
Uncle Liu Laizao heard what Liu Yujin said, and looked at Laizao who was still eating: "Saw! You think about it yourself, should you set up a group in the school cafeteria, or do you want us to deliver food?"
"If I ask what I mean, of course I want you to deliver food to you. My classmates who are eating at school said that the school dish was not oily, just like pig food, and I couldn't eat it at all. It was like that, and it would cost a spoon. And! The rice couldn't be eaten either. Someone handed over a lot of sand in the rice, and the master in the cafeteria didn't pick it up, so he cooked it into rice, and he could even scoop half of his teeth. If you were willing to deliver food to me, I wouldn't eat it at school."
Liu Yujin also persuaded the uncle who came to see it: "Brother! We can save some food. We can't use up the straw at home. Do you have to give the school a kilogram of rice and dimes? After a semester, it's much more than the tuition fee!"
Uncle Liu Laizou thought that this was the case. If they were willing to take turns to sending him, it would be his turn only ten days before he could do it, so he would not delay the work at home. Then he nodded and said, "Okay! Even if I can do it."
The few families that Liu Yujin went to were basically willing to take turns to deliver meals to their children. There were ten families in total, and there were two families who were cadres in the brigade, so they would naturally have bicycles. However, Liu Yujin chose the brigade accountant and Zhou Quanjun's bicycle in Zhou Jialou. Because his family was on the side of the gravel road leading to the village middle school, it was more convenient to put the car when it rained and snowed. In addition, his family was in Guantangzhuang and had to walk more than two miles of mud road to the gravel road. When it rained and snowed, people were tired from walking on that section of mud road. If you want to say it, don't be tired of bicycles. The two wheels were crushed by mud and couldn't even push them. The degree of suffering was not experienced by myself!
Zhou Quanjun didn't care whether he wanted to take turns to deliver food. Anyway, he often had to go to the town to do business. However, he did not take the initiative to join the team of taking turns to deliver food. He just thought that if he happened to catch up with him, he would take the children's meal with him.
Because this matter was organized by Liu Yujin, some things must be done by him. For example, two frames specially equipped with large cylinders should be tied symmetrically to the back seat of the bicycle.
At this time, each company had not bought the special lunch box for people who were expensive. The most advanced one was the enamel deep-mouth porcelain jar with handles, which people here called it "big jars". Liu Yujin cut more than a dozen bamboos from his own bamboo garden, and according to the width of four large jars side by side, they could put two layers of height up and down to frame them, and then crafted them. Seeing that her husband was busy with this matter again, Wang Hongying asked him anxiously: "I'll just let others make up this frame. When will you do the work of building a cottage?"
"What are you anxious about? The adobe used to build a small house has just been laid out, and it will take a while to dry it out! I have asked the three "bigs" here, which is different from the four claims in some places. This is what uncle means. It takes at least ten days, and it must not rain."
Liu Yujin asked his third uncle who had been separated by five robes to help him make the adobe bricks. The adobe bricks were repeatedly kicked with yellow clay and water, and then the adobe bricks were made of wood and made into square, flat adobe bricks, and then let the adobe dry naturally. Of course, such adobe bricks were not as good as the bricks that were burned, but the bricks were not so easy to get at this time.
The brick kilns were very rare in this era. There were only one brick kiln in their town, which was located in their town. I won’t say that the kiln factory is far away. I can help you with a tractor from the production team. Just give the tractor a pot of wine to the tractor master and eat braised chicken or roast duck with sauce. The problem is that bricks also require planning and allocation, application, approval, and introduction letters to be written. Not anyone can get home casually.
It's a bit far-reaching! I just want to say that in the countryside at this time, almost every family lives in adobe walls and thatched roofs, not just because of poverty. Plan distribution, unbalanced supply and demand, inconvenience of transportation, etc. are all part of the reasons!
Moreover, it does cost a lot of money to buy bricks. If you use adobe, Liu Yujin's cousin is not expensive. Just give him dozens of eggs and let his grandson cook them every morning to replenish his thin body. This is the most suitable choice for the current mysterious situation of the Liu Yujin family.
Wang Hongying knew the reason for the adobe, so she sighed: "Oh! It can't be raining, it doesn't matter if the house is built again. The key is that the rapeseed will be cut soon. If it rains all the time, it will be damaged."
Liu Yujin weaving baskets and chatted: "This is probably the last time we will work in the collective. The village chief said that when the rapeseed and the wheat are harvested, they will start to be divided into fields to households."
"Then the fields and land have been measured?"
"Yeah! The measurements have been made, and they have all been divided. I heard that I will draw lots at that time."
"There are different people in each family, and the land is also different. How can I draw lots?"
"It seems that it is good fields and Nakada. The households die according to the number of land for ten people. If the number of people is not enough, two or three households will gather together. But the location is not fixed, so let us draw lots. After we have grabbed lots, we will measure the division between the members and get them evenly. If we catch them far away from home, we can find ways to exchange them with others. If there are too many people in the population, we will find a way to make up the land from the reserved fields. If the people are willing to ask for bad fields, we will give it to the acres. Our family has eight people, old people, grandma, and second mother is second aunt, and there are more than ten people. We must find a supplement from my family, otherwise the second aunt will definitely not do it if the child is second, and the second aunt will definitely not do it. But I hope to share more bad fields..."
Before her husband could finish his words, Wang Hongying rushed to interrupt: "It's not good to have bad fields, and it's not enough to make a good field for five cents. He also needs to spend more labor to work."
"You're so anxious! After listening to me, I'll also go to measure the bad fields, which is the Yanwangou paddy field under the desert slope of Huangshuling. In fact, it's very fat. It's raining heavily, and the water in Yanwangou can't be discharged enough, so I always flooded the field. If there are no other problems, I really want it! If my field is there, I'll plant cotton on the desert slope of Huangshuling. In fact, it's sweet potatoes. People here call it taro. They call it real taro, and no one can rob me of it. I'll call it something close to it first!"
Wang Hongying had never studied, and she didn't understand the saying "The moon will be the one close to the water tower" that her husband wanted to say. Therefore, she didn't answer this and only worried about her husband's story about the field: "Is that field not close to our home? Every time she passed by Yidaoyanwangou and the bridge of Yanwangou will be flooded as long as it rains heavily. Don't come or not come or block it if you don't go there, that's going to be dead!"
"There is a bridge upstream of Yanwangou. What are you afraid of? It's just a few more steps. Are you making such a fuss?! Do you know how convenient it is to irrigate the fields normally? Just dig a gap with a big shovel and follow the rules. If you go and see those good fields and the middle fields, you won't see any piece of them so easy. Besides! I don't have to plant rice, so I can't raise anything else?"
But Wang Hongying was still dissatisfied with the field: "There are graves buried in the Huangshu Ridge, so what's the point of clearing the land? Besides, if you let me work there personally, I will definitely be afraid of death!"
Chapter completed!