Yunfeng also knew that when Ji Dajun (Ji Yanzhi) was in the army, Wang Chunhua immediately replied with a smile: "If you can figure this out, the future will not be bad."

"The days are not bad now." Wang Chunhua suddenly chuckled. "There is a contrast in everything. Look at the life I live now, and look at the original second wife Liu Guizhi now. You will know where my life is better!"

First of all, a man has to use it. The attitude of the in-laws depends on the attitude of the husband. No matter when it sounds, it is a well-known saying.

Ji Dajun (Ji Yanzhi) has always had a big idea, and he said indifferently for a few times. Old man Ji and Mrs. Ji knew nothing about it. And she, to be honest, even if she has been a husband and wife with Ji Dajun (Ji Yanzhi) for so many years, she is afraid of Ji Dajun (Ji Yanzhi)'s cold words.

When it's good, everything is good, when it's bad, it's so good.

After talking about lunch, Zhou Bin took several bottles of homemade fruit wine and took Yunfeng back to the county seat.

After a few days of calm and calm, on the sixteenth day, Liu Zhen returned to her family's house and suddenly brought news that Liu Guizhi was married. The one married was not Liu Laogen, who was a landlord before liberation, but an old cadre of the Kagome Club.

"Liu Laogen is dead." Liu Zhen said with lingering fears: "It is said that there is an overseas relationship, and it is suspected that the enemy spy, the family is..."

Wang Chunhua swallowed, "You better go back to your family's house, or else something happened, I guess I won't be able to take care of it in time."

"Sanhe also meant this." Liu Zhen bit her lip, and said bitterly: "But on that day at my mother's house, I'm a girl, can I not read a little bit?"

Wang Chunhua and Liu Zhen looked at each other and laughed bitterly.

Isn’t that true? Your life is getting better, and you can bear to see that your parents can’t even eat enough to eat.

It's just that even Wang Chunhua didn't dare to go back to her natal family during the day, so she asked Ji Yanzhi to take a few children and send rations to her family at night. How dare to leave relatives like Liu Zhen.

Wang Chunhua didn't know whether to say Liu Zhen was clever or stupid, but he should be cautious.

"I'm afraid this year's life will be difficult again. It hasn't rained for almost two months!" Liu Zhen sighed, but said: "Sister-in-law reminded the eldest brother to wake up a bit. Recently, a lot of people came to Liujiacun to wander around. I My mother’s father asked about it and said that some places have been hit by disasters."

"When your eldest brother comes back, I will mention something to your elder brother."

Wang Chunhua greeted Liu Zhen who was walking around, and began to wash the wild vegetables picked by Minnie, Hongwei, and Cao Ni, scorching them with boiling water, and drying them in a dustpan. Ji Yanzhi and Zeng Yuan Dynasty, Zeng Yuanjun, and Ji Dabao came back around 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

When I came back, the rice was warmed in a large pot. The dried sweet potato rice was cooked with dried vegetables and pork vermicelli. They were all full pots. A family of nine and two elders were not enough to eat, and they cooked half a pot. The noodles are full.

At night, lying on the Kang bed, Wang Chun talked about Liu Zhen's words to her during the day and told Ji Yanzhi.

What Ji Yanzhi can say, he can only think about his words and ask: "With two older people and eleven people in the family, can we rely on the little grain of food produced in the ground?"

enough? It's definitely not enough. Just the little field in Jijia Village doesn't even have enough people to feed half of the village, let alone pay public food.

If you don’t rely on the rolling mountains to fill some households, half of the village’s people would have starved to death, so you let the old hunter like Ji Yanzhi who is used to drilling deep in the mountains and old forests, no matter what happens. It is simply not realistic to give up hunting.

After all, now, it’s not about hunting bans and later generations who refuse to eat game, but it’s important to fill their stomachs and feed their families.

Because of Ji Yanzhi's words, Wang Chunhua had no words. The reason why Ji Sanhe and Liu Zhen's family can guarantee the food and clothing of a family of five by farming is that Ji Sanhe has a generous brother who will supplement him from time to time.

Think about it, a basket of wild vegetables today, a hare pheasant tomorrow, even if Ji Yanzhi chopped bamboo to make bamboo bowls and chopsticks in his spare time, he will have a share of Ji Sanhe. Counting this way, since Ji Sanhe's family has saved a lot, Liu Zhen, like Wang Chunhua, can naturally use the extra food to supplement her family.

Calculated in this way, in fact, it is Ji Yanzhi who really should have life pressure, not...

"Go to bed early, and get up early tomorrow."

Ji Yanzhi blew the kerosene lamp, groped and lay down on the Kang bed, and said again. "I won't go into the mountains for a while, so I will stay in the village to work as a farmer."

Wang Chunhua said vaguely, "The sweet potato vines in the ground should be turned over."

In the past few years, the storms have not only caused man-made disasters but also natural disasters.

As far as Ji Yanzhi is located, the county has experienced drought almost every year over the years. Not only the river bed but also the water level in the well has dropped a lot. Only some drought-resistant crops such as corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes can be planted.

These three kinds of coarse grains are all prolific, but Jijia Village has always grown sweet potatoes. The main reason is that sweet potatoes are good for planting. Even Teng vines can survive planting rice seedlings. Although they eat too much and love to fart, they have a high yield. Jijia Village relies on the sweet potatoes to pay 70% of the public grain. The remaining 30% are all kinds of jerky made by registered old hunters going up the mountain to fight game.

There is little fresh game, which is mainly inconvenient to preserve.

The next day, Ji Yanzhi and Wang Chunhua got up early. While Wang Chunhua was cooking, Ji Yanzhi carried water and watered the vegetable field in the backyard.

Old man Ji and Mrs. Ji were the second morning to get up. The old couple took the yard off again, and the seven children in the family put the table and bench in the center of the yard with a smile, and then cut the pickled vegetables into pieces. Shredded side pickles, side steamed sweet potato potatoes, side steamed sweet potato potatoes, scooped rice porridge,

In short, the whole family sat around the big round table and started to eat breakfast.

Ji Yanzhi peeled a steamed potato, and drank the porridge with soy sauce. Soon, Ji Yanzhi huffed his stomach into two large bowls of porridge, together with several steamed potatoes dipped in miso.

After breakfast, the two elders stayed at home to wash the dishes and watched the time to make lunch. The two younger ones, Ji Cao Ni and Ji Dabao, followed Hong Wei and Cao Ni to pick wild vegetables. The three big ones, along with Ji Yanzhi and Wang Chunhua, went down to the ground to turn over the sweet potato vines, pinched some tender sweet potato leaves by the way, and stir-fried them with the working peppers, and it was another dish.

A few people were busy working in the field like this. It was about noon when people suddenly came to the village. Chief Ji and a few village cadres were the receptionists, and lunch was eaten at the house of Chief Ji. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Accompanied by the village chief Ji and a few village cadres, the visitors wandered around the village and paid more attention to Ji Yan’s house, but they didn’t say anything extra.

After the visitor left, the head of Ji village shouted again with a loudspeaker, saying that it was an emergency meeting, and all the villagers in Jijia Village, young and old, would be there.

At that time, Ji Yanzhi was shirtless chopping wood. After listening to the loud speakers, he could only wipe his sweat casually, then put on the undershirt, and led several people in the family to the dam where the food was dried at the entrance of the village.

Their family of eleven people came late, but Ji Dajun (Ji Yanzhi)’s family is not easy to mess with, it has become a recognized fact, so the village cadres did not say much, but screamed. Say the people are all here? If they are all there, just keep quiet and listen to the leader's speech.

Someone laughed and said, "The village chief, just tell me who is here today, we are busy, but we don't have time to listen to your long talk about dropping the book bag."

"Fuck you, what do you mean by dropping a book bag?" Chief Ji smiled and cursed, but he succinctly stated the purpose of coming here.

The villagers suddenly crashed.

"Village Chief, this is your fault. Our Jijia Village is in a ravine, and we look at life better. That's because we are backed by the mountain and we will find food in the mountain. Suddenly, the public grain paid will be doubled. , Isn’t this killing our people. Moreover, we didn’t talk about sending educated youths to the countryside before. Now when we talk about sending them, we have sent more than a dozen people. Where can we eat and live?”

This year, everyone pays special attention to the local customs, and is also exclusive, especially in Jijia Village, which has its own secrets. Young and Zhuang villages are basically hunters' small villages, and they don't like people who don't know the details to join.

At the beginning, they wanted to merge Jijia Village with Wangjia Village and Liujia Village to form a production brigade. The villagers of Jijia Village strongly opposed it, and in the end there was no cause for trouble. Now there are educated youths coming to jump in the queue, and the amount of public food that should be paid is at least doubled. This is really a hornet's nest. The entire Bazi has become a vegetable market, and the villagers are noisy, almost all in a different way. Scold the village cadres.

The village cadres can be regarded as almost irritated by this big nest of blameless stuff.

"This is the policy formulated above," Village Chief Ji took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what you think, the educated youth should come anyway. Whoever dares to be noisy anymore, I will...I will let it. The Ji family army led him up the mountain to feed the wolves."

Villagers: "..."

Ji Yanzhi: "..."

"On Laozi's bird affairs, did Laozi say anything against it?" Ji Yanzhi hummed unhappily: "Mr. Ji, you are a **** who likes to shirk responsibilities. Laozi did not serve as an official in the village. Is it related to Lao Tzu when others make trouble?"

Village Chief Ji: "...I said the wrong thing, but most of the villagers persuaded you, and I believe you have the ability to drag disobedient people out to feed wolves."

——I can go to your bastard.

Ji Yanzhi cursed a mother secretly and began to speak in a high-sounding voice. "You are the village head, and you say stupid is stupid (not a typo). We all follow the policies given by the leaders above."

The village party secretary cut in at this time: "Would you like to build an educated youth academy? I heard that the educated youth academies in other places are built by the village as an educated youth academy. Toss about it."

This idea is a good idea. Anyway, I have heard a lot of bad things that educated youths make after going to the countryside and uphills. Villagers in Jijia Village don’t want to deal with educated youths who think they are superior, so it’s best if you live with yours and we do ours. , Do not have too much intersection with each other.

Trouble and delay things.

This is the idea of ​​most Jijia Village villagers. It just so happens that Ji Yanzhi, who is known as the existence of Jijia Village's levers, also thinks so. So the construction of an educated youth academy for the upcoming educated youth has become an undisputed fact. .

But then, most of the Jijia Villagers, who were blameless, started making trouble again.

Because the village cadres headed by the head of the village chief did not know which of the tendons did not match, they actually proposed to build a small courtyard with brick and tile structure.

But to your...

Uncle Ji immediately turned back with a black face. "It's good to repair thatched houses, but brick houses, you can buy them as bricks and tiles!"

Village Chief Ji: "..."

It's really good for you to buy, isn't there a season of words?

Ji Yanzhi finally said: "There are only so many bricks and tiles a year. The village chief and the village party secretary have to think clearly. If you use bricks and tiles to build the educated youth college, the other people in our village will have to wait at least next year to have bricks and tiles. Repair a new house!"

Yes, Ji Yanzhi's remarks seemed to remind the village chief and the village party secretary, but in fact they were fanning the flames. Anyway, after listening to his words, the villagers made a lot of noise.

The village cadres of Jijia Village are almost speechless, and they want to cry without tears. You tell me that they are all officials, their prestige in the village is not better than Ji Yanzhi, and there are Ji Yanzhi veterans in the village. The identity of Ji Yanzhi, but more of it is that Ji Yanzhi itself is a cruel thing, and most people don't dare to mess with it.

"Just repair the thatched huts. The north house has three main rooms and four small courtyards on the left and right." Uncle Ji said not very beautifully: "They are so beautiful, but they also have brick courtyards. Is it not good to start a new house and repair an old one?"

Chief Ji's face flushed. "Old life, I didn't mean that."

"What does this mean?" Several senior elders of the old Ji family began to bombard the village officials headed by the village chief, and some even quoted the classics. Only the village leaders headed by the village chief will say He couldn't lift his head, and he didn't have the prestige of being a cadre at all.

This is why 90% of the villagers in Jijia Village are surnamed Ji, which is very exclusive and united. If you change people from other villages, such as Xiaohezhuang and Sanliuzigou, you will have mixed surnames. It’s not like In Jijijia Village, the full surname of the village cadres is Ji, even Wangjiacun and Liujiacun can't do this.

So sometimes, the season cadres who are often run by their elders will sigh and sigh, saying nonsense that the job is not good.

Just like now, the whimsical of the cadres in Jijia Village is so whimsical, Ji Yanzhi hasn't expressed any objections, so they are all pushed back. In the end, the elders still disliked the village cadres, and did not do business all day long, but the **** did not benefit the village at all.

The most exaggerated thing is that after the older generations have said this, there is still the **** clapping and applauding, I'm afraid there is no one sentence.

The village cadres had nothing to say, and they had no face to continue talking. So the village held a meeting to discuss how to resettle the educated youth in the countryside. The problem was solved satisfactorily. The Xiu Zhiqingyuan is spacious and bright, but also warm in winter and cool in summer. After all, the earth walls and kangs are all like this.

And because the roof was thatched and the earth wall made of yellow mud embryos, even if the room was large in size, the courtyard was quickly built.

This is mainly because the villagers of Jijia Village are afraid that if the educated youth institutes are slow to get up, the village cadres will ask the educated youth to stay at their homes if they can’t help it. They don't want to belong to their own small family and insert an outsider who doesn't know what is good or bad, so they just work overtime and set up the educated youth academy in just a few days. It just so happened that on the third day after the establishment of the Educated Youth Institute, the younger village cadres drove an ox cart to pick up the dozens of educated youth.

Suddenly, the whole village became very lively.

Ji Yanzhi was too lazy to pay attention, because the public food that needs to be paid this year has doubled compared with previous years, and it is said that it is directly supplied to the army, so for the village chief Ji to talk to him in private, he will lead the team in the mountain hunting this year. , Ji Yanzhi agreed without a discount.

However, the collective hunting in the mountains takes place in autumn, and now the climate is just right for the warmth of spring, and it is the time for all kinds of animals to multiply.

The old hunters who make a living by hunting are very particular about what kind of mother animals do not fight, and they do not fight when they breed in large numbers. In addition, there are now fewer skilled old hunters. Most of the villagers in Jijia Village only wander around the outskirts of the mountain. Go back with some rabbits and pheasants, and you still have to wait for the collective hunting organized every autumn to enter the deep mountains and old forests.

At this time, the old hunter took a dozen or so young men with good skills and a self-made soil shotgun to enter the deep mountain and old forest belt for more than ten days. Every time there was a harvest, the difference was only more and less. It's like Ji Yanzhi, every time he takes his three sons out into the deep mountains and old forests, he will not be empty-handed.

Ji Yanzhi’s skill is well recognized, but for the things that lead the team into the mountains every year, Ji Yanzhi is able to push but push it away. After all, his burden is heavy, and the world is chaotic. Who knows that he leads the young and strong. After the mountain, would anyone take this opportunity to make trouble? After all, such a thing happened in one year. Fortunately, there was a season of words, and the troublesome people who came to the troublemaker will take all of them. Down.

"Yesterday, I said it was raining, but you said it didn't rain."

When I got up in the morning, Ji Mei Ni looked at the moist ground and rolled her eyes towards Zeng Yuanchao. Zeng Yuanchao was also a good-tempered and smiled carelessly.

"The ground is slippery, be careful not to fall."

Ji Dabao, who rinsed his mouth, winked his eyebrows and almost didn't get kicked into the ditch by Ji Yanzhi who happened to see this scene.

"Your sister is okay with you to help the DPRK brother, do you have an opinion?"

Lao Tzu has no objection and is happy to see it happen. What you make a face is really owed.

Ji Dabao: "...Dad, I was gargling, I almost choked."

"Deserve it."

Ji Yanzhi snorted and went into the kitchen to help with the meal.

Ji Mini smiled brightly and ran against Ji Dabao and said: "It deserves it, now who is the baby in Abba's heart!"

"You, you, you!" Ji Dabao snorted after learning Ji Yanzhi's tone, and said sourly: "I know that Abd favors girls over boys, you don't have to look for opportunities to run over and repeatedly emphasize."

These words were so sour that even Zeng Yuanchao couldn't help but chuckle, not to mention the relatively lively Zeng Yuanjun, even Zeng Hongwei, who was washing Ji Xiaobao's hands, was so happy that he couldn't help himself.

Ji Caoni squeezed half of the candy and trot to Ji Dabao's side. Without saying anything, she stuffed half of the candy into Ji Dabao's mouth.

"Brother, don't worry, I'll give you the half of the candy that the old girl saved!"

Ji Dabao: "...Thank you old girl."

After breakfast, even the old lady Ji went out to dig wild vegetables with the whole family. Just dug in a place near the village on the outskirts of the mountain, all kinds of wild vegetables grow very lush, like wild onions and wild garlic, but they need to be carefully searched.

Due to the rain last night, many mushrooms have gradually grown in the mountains and forests. The children followed and didn't go deep. They only looked for the edge of the mountain, but they also dug up a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms, filled their back baskets and baskets, and returned with loads.

Many of the mushrooms collected were contaminated with soil because they were not picked carefully. Wang Chunhua and Mrs. Ji took the three girls, Hongwei, Minnie and Cao Ni, to soak all the stocks in a sieve and wash them. Then they picked out the whole mushrooms, sliced ​​them in a dustpan, and dried them in the sun. And the shattered mushrooms were picked out and chopped with a piece of fresh pork about half a catty into a muddy stuffing stuffed with mushroom sauce and pork buns.

In addition, most of the wild vegetables are washed well, half are dried with boiling water and the other half are used for frying. There was a lot of pork rib soup left in the pot of stewed pork ribs yesterday. Mrs. Ji simply pulled out two radishes from the vegetable garden, washed them and cut them into vegetables, and simmered them into a pot of radish pork ribs soup, pasted some tortillas, and steamed them. The big pot of sweet potato potatoes is lunch.

"Little Treasure, go call your father back for dinner. Run out all day long to chat with people. I don't know how to come back when the meal is ordered, so I have to call someone."

Granny Ji shook her head, but with a smile, she was obviously willing to call the youngest child in the family. But this time, Ji Xiaobao didn’t have time to run out to find the old man Ji who was standing at the entrance of the village with a few old guys. As soon as Mrs. Ji’s words were spoken, he heard the cry of a child not far away. Cleft heart.

The house built by Ji Sanhe is not far from Ji Yan's house.

Mrs. Ji suddenly frightened Ji Ling, and ran out without even having time to put down the spatula.

Ji Yanzhi, who was sitting in the main room after settling his accounts, also hurriedly dropped the mess and ran out.

"What's going on?" Ji Yanzhi asked Ji Sanhe, who was so panicked. He Ji old man is worthy of being a father and son. When something happens, he only knows to be in a hurry, but his heart is good.

"The child knocked over the pot somehow, and his entire thigh was scalded."

"Hurry up and water your thighs with cold water."

Ji Yanzhi didn't even see Ji Sanhe's panic, so he took a head of cold water and poured it on Ji Shan's lap.

Ji Shan cried so much, "Uncle, my leg isn't broken!"

"It's not bad, it's just a layer of skin loss." After Liu Zhen woke up and took over the job of pouring cold water, Ji Yanzhi comforted him with care: "Our big brothers have to suffer and offend, as long as It's enough to be able to jump and jump when it grows up."