"Eat slowly, there is still a bowl." Li Wen said funny as he watched his sister eat all the bean paste on his face.

"The third brother's dumplings are so delicious!" Li Ping, the second daughter of the second uncle's family, raised her head and said.

Li Wen looked up at this sister, but she didn't expect that she would speak today.

Li Ping is thirteen years younger than Li Wen, but she said she has been having fun together since she was a child. She had a good relationship when she was a child.

However, when Li Ping was six or seven years old, she fell into the reservoir and had a high fever during a play, and she rarely talked since then.

Because I don’t speak normally, I stop graduating before I graduated from elementary school. I just follow my mother and second aunt on weekdays.

Li Ping rarely talks at home and only knows how to work. She only whispers a few words when she is in the room with her sister Li Xia.

My father and second uncle also took Li Ping to a large hospital in Chang'an to see the disease and spent a lot of money.

Finally, the doctor said that this is a psychological disorder in children and that it will be better if the family members are more concerned about and enlightened after they go home.

My family doesn’t understand either. I only know that the child is fine, but I just don’t like to talk and communicate with others. I don’t pay much attention to it because I’m busy on weekdays.

Li Wen's family has many children, and their parents and second uncle and second aunt have to support a family, so they rarely take care of Li Ping.

On weekdays, my second sister Li Xia and Li Ping live in the same house to take care of her.

Li Wen knew that this sister was autistic and should have been caused by fright.

Recently, my family bought a radio. Li Ping often listened silently and smiled from time to time.

When setting off fireworks today, he actually walked out of the house and reached out to ask Li Xia for a firework, and then happily set it up with the little girl and the others.

This made my second uncle and second aunt so happy that I wanted to talk to my daughter. However, Li Wen refused, and Li Ping recovered in a process.

"If you taste good, eat more and give you fruit candy. You will be sweet when you are not doing anything." Li Wen handed over five or six candies.

Seeing Ping timidly wanting to take it but not daring to take it, Li Wen signaled Li Juan to help.

"Sister, get it quickly! The candy is so sweet." The little girl patted Li Ping's arm and said.

Li Ping and the little girl are also very familiar with each other on weekdays, and they sometimes talk quietly.

The little girl stuffed the candy directly into Li Ping's pocket.

Li Wen looked at Li Ping with a smile on his face. He knew that the child's mind was being repaired and he began to gradually become in contact with people.

The family was very happy to see Li Ping's changes. After all, it would be a problem for a taciturn girl to get married in the future.

Time is slowly coming, and February has passed in a blink of an eye. The land has begun to thaw, and the willow trees on the roadside have sprouted quietly, and spring has arrived.

However, the weather is still very cold recently, and there will be late spring cold at any time.

My father, Li Deyou, second uncle, Li Dezhong, and many people in the village went to the county to build waterways and act as river pickers.

Why is it called river carrying work? It is because there is no investment in construction machinery in this era. No matter how large the project volume is, it has to be driven by manual shoulder carriages to transport soil.

In recent years, water conservancy has been built every year in the slack farming season, and everyone has been running around in the county. The autumn and winter seasons have not been completed, so they continue to work in spring.

The farmers who participated in the repair of the reservoir were not paid, they were voluntary. They would not pay any compensation when they worked in the reservoir for one day.

Instead, the production team where they are located will give them a work point, which is the same as the work points you work in the field on weekdays, and the dividends will be settled by the end of the year.

Due to the famine in recent years, the superiors have been calling on everyone to fight against natural disasters by themselves.

The people who work in the working world are very active in the development of land and water conservancy, after all, they are closely related to their own lives.

And at this time, everyone is very united, and everyone will work hard to do anything as long as they are called.

Another important reason is that you can have enough food when digging a reservoir.

Just after the Chinese New Year, it was a waste of time in spring, and many people started to eat. They had a strong laborer and had a lot of food. They could eat enough to dig a reservoir, which also reduced the burden on the family.

The reservoir consumes a lot of work, so the country will provide good food. Not to mention the meal of white flour steamed buns and meat, at least sweet potato noodles, corn flour, and sorghum noodles and steamed buns can make people full.

There are also white flour steamed buns, stir-frying vegetables and vermicelli to improve life in about a week. Everyone is already very satisfied, after all, they eat much better than at home.

As for meat, don't think about it. It's good to have a stewed dish when the project is completed, and it's a bit of meat inside.

After all, the food rations used to dig rivers are all in the county, the commune and villages to save food, and then some are divided into use, which is very rare.

Li Deyou and Li Dezhong carry big stones that are nearly 200 kilograms every day. It’s a blessing that they have eaten well and have a strong body during this period.

However, everyone who works in the reservoir does this. People carry horses and rarely participates in the carriage. Occasionally, there are also semi-artificial mechanical jacks.

From time to time, the sound of yelling sounds in the reservoir was the force workers who were squeezing slogans.

A stone tamp of sixty or seventy kilograms was tied with a rope. Eight laborers around shouted horns, lifting the stone tamps together to nearly two meters high and then falling heavily.

Looking around, there are hundreds of sets of such combinations, and loud horns resound throughout the construction site. It also brings motivation to other people who carry shoulders and backs.

The trumpet sounded, and the work began to take off, and the day ended in the night again.

"Go home after work!"

Li Dezhong put the towel around his neck on his shoulder and smiled happily.

The two brothers did not live in the reservoir, but went home with the production team's ox cart in the evening.

When working in the reservoir, I also had a slim meal at night. After working for a day, the two brothers would have a meal when they came home. After all, Li Wen's family had enough food.

It's still very cold outside now, and the shack built by the reservoir is relatively simple. If you get sick, the little work points you earn will be worthless.

I didn't see those cadres and those who were in better condition at home have returned home, and the reservoir has only left the homes far away and those with poor conditions.

When the moon passed the branches, Li Deyou and his brothers finally returned home. After removing the fatigue of the whole day, they quickly lit a pot of dry cigarettes and started smoking.

Li Wen was also very sensible and brought it to his father and second uncle for the low-end tea he bought in the county.

It’s not that Li Wen doesn’t want to buy good tea, so he can’t buy it. He can only ask his friend to get half a pound of tea tickets and buy a little big leaf tea. That’s all.

In the past, my father and my second uncle drank some mulberry leaves and dandelion leaves. The tea leaves that were roasted by themselves had no taste and had to be cooked.

During the Chinese New Year, my mother would also go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some broken tea to satisfy her cravings, or to entertain guests.

Nowadays, those who drink tea are well-qualified, and most of the tea is exported to foreign exchange.

Fortunately, the southern part of this province is a famous tea-producing area in the country. The Ziyang tea and Fu tea in this province are civilized nationwide. The yield is also very large, so it is relatively easy for locals to make some broken tea and big-leaf tea.

"This tea still tastes good! It's comfortable to drink, it's much better than the local tea we make ourselves." The second uncle Li Dezhong took a sip of the tea and said with a smile.

"You boy, you put so much tea in a pot of tea, you are a prodigal son! These good teas are only less than half a pound in total." ωωw..net

Li Deyou looked at the teapot with a lot of tea leaves, opened his eyes widened and scolded Li Wen.

"You old guy yelled at my son. If it weren't for Awen, you had the ability to drink such good tea? Son, I'll buy him a shit next time."

Wang Chunmei came out with a noodle bowl and looked at Li Deyou yelling at Li Wen and said angrily.

"Hehe, isn't this Awen caught too much? Just put six or seven pots of tea to enjoy it. It's too wasteful if it's too much." Li Deyou hurriedly smiled.

"Hurry up and Wang Chunmei put the rice bowl on the table. She was so blind day by day. Six or seven of them had a bad tea smell, and she knew that she was talking about my son." Wang Chunmei put down the rice bowl and took the teapot away.

"Awen won't buy this old thing next time, you'll be more polite to drink good things."

"Haha, mom is fine, my dad must be reluctant to let go of so much. Don't worry, I'll find a friend to make it. It's not just a good tea, ordinary big leaf tea." Li Wen was not angry with his father, just a joke on his family.

"You boy, I heard that you are still protecting that old thing, little ungrateful." Wang Chunmei returned to the room with the teapot in anger.

Li Wen hurriedly followed her to make her mother happy.

Li Wen has been very idle recently and doesn’t work. He either reads books to pass the time, or tinkers in the warehouse, and finally slept.
Chapter completed!