The section of road bed in front of the five houses has been leveled.
Uncle Zhang is now leading a group of apprentices to first pave the road with gravel and then with yellow sand.
In this way, even if it rains in the future, because the permeability of yellow sand is relatively good, and new drainage ditches have been dug on both sides of the road.
so,
In the foreseeable future, this road will no longer turn into a "cement road" as everyone jokingly calls it when it rains.
Ever since Luo Tiezhu was taken away by the Wang family, he no longer dared to come over to help with work during the day.
But after work, he would come over every day to help repair the road, lift stones, etc.
It's just that Luo Tiezhu is always unwilling to stay at Luo Xuan's place for dinner.
In the end, Uncle Ding persuaded him to put a pack of cigarettes in his pocket every day, and asked him to carry a pound of vermicelli back to eat every now and then.
During Luo Tiezhu's free time after work, he came over to help for an hour or two.
For working, you can get a pack of cigarettes and some vermicelli.
In her heart, Wang was somewhat dissatisfied with this reward.
But after all, Luo Tiezhu could earn a little more for his family without delaying his work points.
So in her heart, Wang is still very greedy for this little reward.
Anyway, every time Luo Tiezhu came home, Wang took the vermicelli and complained: "What a white-eyed wolf! If you don't care about three meals a day for others, you still have a pound of vermicelli every day. You have three meals a day in these two days."
Damn it, I only got a pound. Bah! My family is not as good as outsiders, who are they..."
She kept talking about it, but Mrs. Wang would still carefully put the small bundle of vermicelli into the big, thick and clumsy cabinet.
Close the cabinet door,
Wang, who was still worried, hung an ancient copper lock on it, carefully hung the key on his belt, patted it, and then continued to recite Luo Tiezhu's words...
When Wang thought about how Luo Xuan was paving the road this time, he actually had to pave it hundreds of meters away!
In that case,
The men in the family can work for many days.
When she thought of this, Mrs. Wang felt in her heart that her little boy was getting more and more ambitious.
After all, it’s an extra income, right?
However, due to the obstruction of Dou Bai's army, the road was clearly at the entrance of the village and could not be built.
It's like a snake that has been pinched seven inches. No matter how long its tail is, what's the use?
In this way,
Mrs. Wang was also worried that Luo Xuan would give up on building the road and give up on the road construction, which would deprive her men of a job...
But now Wang heard that Luo Xuan had temporarily given up negotiating with Dou Baijun about the land occupation and started building the road directly to the door of his home.
After taking the reassurance, Ms. Wang could not help but pat her chest and secretly rejoice: This is the best!
The man in his family has work to do, but Luo Xuan can still let Luo Xuan waste money and do useless work... Hey!
Mrs. Wang snickered secretly: If you have money, just play the zither!
Not long after Luo Xuan separated, he built two houses in a row.
This incident caused the Wang family to lose face in neighboring towns.
Now that I can watch Luo Xuan collapse, in Wang's heart, it's like eating ice powder in June and feeling better!
this day,
After Luo Xuan delivered meat to the four neighboring households of Dou Baijun, he made Dou Baijun's children cry with the smell of the meat.
Luo Roan turned around and went to Dai Hongmei's house again.
This time Luo Xuan came to see Dai Hongmei. He did not avoid Dai Hongmei's mother. Instead, he discussed the matter with the mother and daughter. "Aunt Dai, I will leave the vermicelli I grow with you here. If any of the villagers need it, I will leave it with you."
Vermicelli, just collect the turtles for me first, and we can settle the accounts once a month, okay?"
Aunt Dai has long wanted to get her hands on Luo Xuan's vermicelli, but she has always had two worries:
First, in supply and marketing cooperatives, consignment stores are not allowed to mix private goods.
Secondly, it is difficult to solve the problem of "buying and selling".
Now that Luo Xuan came to the door, Aunt Dai felt happy and worried at the same time, "Luo Xuan, I know you are capable and have a good brain. Will this method of yours work?"
Luo Xuan said: "Don't worry, ma'am, by exchanging soft-shelled turtles for vermicelli, aren't we not involved in business?
Your agency store needs to be guarded every day no matter if anyone comes or not.
I'll leave the vermicelli here with you, and you can help me replace it with soft-shelled turtle. If you're a fellow villager, do me a favor, and the government officials won't mind. Don't worry, aunt, I won't let your help go in vain."
Exchanging vermicelli for soft-shelled turtles did not involve the sale of private goods, so Aunt Dai felt relieved after hearing this.
Aunt Dai was very greedy for this income, but she was still a little worried, "Luo Xuan, fellow villagers, why do you have the nerve to accept your reward? But I don't understand, Auntie, where are the villagers going to find you?"
So many turtles to exchange for vermicelli?”
"Mom, you don't have to worry about this."
Luo Xuan said: "Those who need vermicelli can go to the three brothers of the Zhou family to get turtles..."
As he spoke, Luo Xuan lowered his voice and murmured with Dai Hongmei and her daughter for a long time.
Finally, a satisfied smile appeared on Aunt Dai's face...
The matter was settled.
Next, Luo Xuan and Dai Hongmei's mother murmured for a while, until everything was settled, and then he went home with satisfaction to work on building a house.
(The specific operation method is not mentioned here. For details, please refer to the characteristics of the island country: Bai Qing. Brother. Readers can check it by themselves.)
In the evening of this day, the four neighboring families of Dou Baijun's house went to help Luo Xuan pave the road.
Once you come here, the benefits of building the road in front of your home are needless to say.
In addition, if you help Luo Xuan build roads, you can also get some vermicelli.
It was rare to encounter such a good thing, which made the four families smile with joy.
Some families are happy and one family is sad.
Outside on the construction site, everyone was talking and laughing, and working in full swing.
But inside Dou Baijun's house, it was a gloomy and gloomy time.
Dou Baijun's mother-in-law, Ye Erniang, stood in front of Dou Baijun with a tearful look on her face, "His father, does the family...do they still have money?"
"what money?"
Dou Baijun was confused, "Why are you crying? Since marrying me, have I been short of your food or water? Who are you showing your face to? Frustrated!"
Ye Erniang replied with a sad face: "There is no salt for cooking tonight, and there is no kerosene in the foreign oil lamp."
Dou Baijun glared, "If there's no salt or foreign oil, just buy it. Are there any in the consignment store?"
Ye Erniang said cowardly: "Yes, but I don't have any money. Don't you still have some money for soju?"
Dou Baijun waved his hand impatiently: "If you don't have any money, just take it on credit! You can really spend it. I only gave you 3 yuan last month. Why did you spend it all?"
"A few days ago, I...my brother came over and borrowed 1 yuan and 30 cents for an emergency."
Ye Erniang blushed and said: "Now Dai Hongmei from the consignment store won't give credit to my family... Not only that, her mother also urged me to settle the previous accounts."
"What?!"
When Dou Baijun heard this, he stood up suddenly and said, "Aunt Dai, you old lady! Why can't you trust me? After all, we are also supervisors in the production team, and we are also respectable people in the team. Why can't you give me something on credit?"
?I’ll go talk to her!”
After saying that,
Dou Baijun was wearing a vest and was about to go out.
His mother-in-law's hurried voice came from behind: "Hey, put on your clothes."
How could Dou Baijun go out without putting on his faded old military uniform?
No style.
Dou Baijun went out wearing his thick military uniform on a hot day.
Wait until he steps out of his own courtyard.
When I saw the road in front of my neighbor's yard that had been neatly leveled and half paved with stones, I couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in my heart: "I don't know where the wild mice came from! Don't go to the fields to steal corn."
Bangzi, you must move these broken rocks here!"
Said,
Dou Baijun kicked the pile of stones piled on the roadside hard!
"Ouch, it hurts me to death!"
Dou Baijun's rag shoes were pedaled on the stones. The blue stones were obviously much harder than the cloth shoes made of rags.
He kicked it down and the stone just shook, but his own legs were shaking for a long time!
When Dou Baijun bent down and looked at his feet carefully, he saw that the nails on his thumb sticking out of the hole in the front of the cloth shoe had been cracked.
A trace of blood slowly seeped out from the gap.
Holding the instep of his feet, Dou Baijun took in seven or eight breaths of cold air before he recovered from the severe pain.
Seeing that there was no one around, he stretched out his hand to pick up a big stone from the pile of stones, and smashed it down hard!
There was a loud "bang" sound, and stone chips flew everywhere, which was very refreshing.
After throwing the stones, Dou Baijun limped towards Dai Hongmei's agency store.
When he passed by the section of road in front that was still being repaired, he saw Uncle Ding and Uncle Zhang.
There are also many men and women in the production team, as well as the four neighboring families, who are all working hard there.
As soon as Uncle Ding saw him, he joked: "Hey, Supervisor Dai, are you here to guide the work again?"
"snort!"
Dou Baijun snorted coldly, "Take public work points to work for private individuals! A bunch of guys with no principled stance!"
When the accountant teacher in the production team heard this, he couldn't help frowning, "Comrade Dou Baijun, you have to provide evidence when you speak. When you say this, it feels like we, the management cadres in the production team, have collectively failed in our duties."
Dou Baijun said: "When you are at work, you are all languid, but you are very active when you are working for private individuals. Isn't this harming the public and enriching private interests?"
When captain Peng Zhikun heard this, he couldn't help but put down the hammer in his hand and stood up slowly.
He said to Dou Baijun: "Comrade Dou Baijun, I hope you will be responsible for what you said.
If you feel that I, the production captain, have made mistakes in my work or am even incompetent, you can go to the brigade or the township office to report it to your superiors.
Before your superiors make a judgment, I hope you will not say such words that are not conducive to stability and unity in front of us, the cadres of the production team."
"Hmph! Don't worry, I will report this matter to my superiors."
Dou Baijun said coldly: "Moreover, I will also implore my superiors to send someone to investigate the source of certain people's wealth!"
After saying that,
Dou Baijun put his hands behind his back, endured the severe pain from his toes, and headed to the agency store with his head held high.
In front of Dai Hongmei's agency store, there is a small yard with several locust trees planted beside it.
When Dou Baijun walked under the locust tree, he couldn't help but start to hesitate again: his family had celebrated the New Year, and now he owed more than ten yuan to the agency store.
It is now the end of August, and it seems that these debts have been owed to the agency stores for more than half a year.
Dai Hongmei's family, although her father works in a grain station, earns a little salary every month.
But she couldn't stand it and the members of the production team all went to her house to get credit and borrow money!
Although you can earn a little profit by opening a consignment store to supplement your family income.
But at the end of every month, the supply and marketing society sends people to check the accounts and settle the payments.
So Dai Hongmei's mother had explicitly or covertly urged Dou Baijun's wife to pay off her debt.
Today, Dou Baijun's wife came to buy some salt on credit, which was only a matter of ten cents or two cents.
But the mother who wears fragrant flowers and red plums is not willing to take credit for even this little thing!
According to this attitude, if I go there shamelessly now, I might be rejected.
Although Dou Baijun usually pretends to be a bitch in front of the production team members, he actually knows very well in his heart: when he makes fun of himself, others just laugh.
There really is no one who would treat him as a supervisor like a green onion...
Squatting under the locust tree.
Dou Baijun took out a small half pack of 'Chungeng Brand' cigarettes from his coat pocket and took one out.
Then he finally lit a cigarette with a match that was almost polished, and squatted there while smoking and thinking.
Although I owe a little money to the consignment store, and I owe it for a long time, I am still a supervisor in the production team.
Logically speaking, there is no reason why Dai Hongmei's family would not even give two cents of salt to his wife.
Think about it over and over again.
Dou Baijun was not only suspicious in his heart: It was probably Luo Xuan who was causing trouble behind his back!
Because Luo Xuan is the largest customer in the agency store.
He was building a house recently, and many people came to help him, so whether it was salt, soybean oil, bean paste, matches, or kerosene, he bought a lot of it.
Not only that, Luo Xuan comes to the agency store basically every day to buy one or two cigarettes!
My family is poor and I am reluctant to smoke cigarettes.
If it wasn't for the sake of pretending to be a cadre, Dou Baijun would have followed Uncle Zhou's example and smoked dry cigarettes by himself.
But Luo Xuan buys cigarettes in one day, which is enough for him to buy in one and a half months.
Put yourself in Dai Hongmei’s shoes, who would be closer to her?
If Luo Xuan is really causing trouble behind his back and preventing the consignment store from giving him credit...
Dou Baijun probably also has Dai Hongmei's mother, and that old lady Dai Niang will really succumb to Luo Xuan!
Figured this out.
Dou Baijun fiercely sucked the bit of cigarette butt in his mouth until it drained out.
Then he stood up suddenly and spit hard on the ground: "Luo Xuan, just wait for me!"
After saying this, Dou Baijun turned around and walked home.
Tonight, there is no salt in the cooking at home, so what does it matter?
It’s not like the sour water in the kimchi plate cannot be used.
Is there no kerosene in the kerosene lamp at home?
That's okay too.
Eat early, go to bed early, and save some food!
Dou Baijun was thinking and making calculations there, while Luo Xuan was busy building a pigsty in the space.
I bought a dozen pieces of defective floor slabs earlier, and I made the excuse that these half-cut cement slabs should be reserved for building toilets and biogas tanks in the future.
Now the house has just begun to level the site and excavate trenches to lay the stone foundation. Putting these cement boards there is really an obstruction.
So Luo Xuan asked people to move them all to the wild taro wasteland next to a small bamboo forest behind the bamboo fence house.
There are overgrown grasses, tangled bamboo forests, and a slope, so no one usually wants to go there.
Luo Xuan built a simple tripod with bamboo poles, tied the prefabricated panels with ropes and pulled them up little by little.
The half-length cement prefabricated board is not particularly heavy. When Luo Xuan went to the prefabricated site to choose the prefabricated board, he specifically chose the smaller one so that he could move it into the space more easily.
But for these small prefabricated boards, Luo Xuan spent a lot of effort to finally put them into the space.
It is urgent to build a strong pigsty.
The little wild boar cubs already weigh 8 or 9 pounds, and the straw ropes can no longer tie them up.
Fortunately, they seemed to prefer the pile of sweet potatoes, so the corn, rice seedlings, and wild boar cubs in the space did not cause much trouble.
In the corner of the space, mark out an area of about 20 square meters.
Luo Xuan shoveled away the corn stalks on the ground. Although the corn was about to be harvested, it was indeed a pity to pull them out at this time.
but,
These corns, together with the corn stalks, were used as green fodder for goats and rabbits, and a lot of losses were recovered.
After clearing the place, Luo Xuan hurriedly started building the pig pen.
