Chen Lishu's hand tightened on the bag. That's the bad thing about rural areas. Every move is under the eyes of everyone. To put it bluntly, if someone farts in the east, it may not take long for everyone in the west to know.
But she wouldn't tell her this unless her brain was kicked by a donkey.
"Yes, there are people in the town who are throwing money away. I'm thinking of picking up some. Aunt Liu, you should go as well. If you go late, it will be gone."
Saying this, without waiting for Widow Liu to speak again, she quickly walked a few steps into the house.
"This damn girl must be hiding something from me." Widow Liu looked at her back and narrowed her eyes: "There's nothing I can't find out about anything I want to know."
Chen Lishu didn't sigh helplessly until the door behind her closed.
She was careless. It seems that going to town is really going to slow down.
In the evening, after dinner, Chen Lishu paid everyone again.
This time it was relatively average, basically about three yuan per person.
In less than a month, everyone in the family has earned nearly ten yuan, and everyone is very happy.
Not long after that, the sow raised by the production team gave birth to piglets, which quickly distracted many people's attention.
"Daddy, will our family raise pigs this year?" Li Xiulan asked Gu Shoufu during breakfast that day.
The pigs in the production team are all raised collectively. There are dedicated housekeepers to raise pigs. If other people want to raise pigs, they can only wait for the pigs in the team to give birth. Then they will draw lots based on the number of piglets produced and the number of people who want to raise pigs.
The year-end discount will be deducted from the work points to ensure absolute fairness and justice.
"Last year's harvest was not very good. Raising a pig requires a lot of food." Gu Shoufu hesitated.
Although there are no hard and fast rules for raising pigs at home, most of them sell them to purchasing stations.
"Mom and Dad, the policy is becoming more open year by year. I have been to the town a few times and heard them say that if you take the pork and sell it privately in the town, you can sell it for as little as one yuan to one yuan and two kilograms."
"What? So high? It only costs 50 cents when we take it to the purchasing station." Not to mention Li Xiulan, everyone else was also shocked.
But think about it, this third daughter-in-law always has ideas. She has been to the town so many times and has met many people, so she is naturally more knowledgeable than them.
Although the pigs raised at home cannot grow very heavy, they can still produce 140 to 50 kilograms of meat.
In that case, it's only two hundred yuan.
"Mom, Dad, my nephews and I can hunt pigweeds when we have nothing to do after school." Gu Xingping now simply doesn't admire this third sister-in-law too much. She supports whatever she says.
The Gu family has a lot of labor, which is nothing compared to other families with many children. There are only five children in total. It is not a problem to squeeze in enough food to raise a pig. Besides, the fourth child’s marriage has not yet been settled, which all requires money.
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Gu Shoufu thought for a while, got up and went to the brigade headquarters to draw lots.
As soon as the first lunar month comes, all men, women and children in the village begin to go to work.
They go to the commune to pull seeds and fertilizer, and the women grind cornmeal into grains to prepare the team for the coming year to provide commune members with rations.
The members of Qingshan Village were busy with spring plowing. On another training field, a group of soldiers were also training in full swing.
This is an independent regiment newly stationed in the provincial capital. There are five battalions in total, all of which were transferred from various places.
In the second month of the lunar calendar, spring is freezing. On a recently built training ground, the soldiers training were sweating profusely.
While they gritted their teeth and persisted, they secretly cursed the training officers, especially the chief instructor.
There are twenty-four hours a day, and training alone takes up to sixteen hours. I wish I could spend the whole day on the training ground except for eating, sleeping and going to the toilet. This does not include the fact that I have to conduct surprise drills at every turn.
For soldiers who have already formed a step-by-step pattern in their original army, it is simply miserable.
"Lao Gu, look at the way those bastards look at you, I'm afraid they've already scolded you half to death in their hearts?"
The Lao Gu mentioned by the man is actually not old at all, on the contrary, he is still very young. He is twenty-four or five years old and is very tall. He has a neat black cropped head, sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, and a high nose. The military uniform makes his body look even better.
The posture is clear and straight.
As the man spoke, he habitually raised his hand to pat his shoulder. Gu Xingdong glanced at him lightly.
Wu Zheng pointed his finger and said: "Forgot, you are now their special training chief instructor, you have to pay attention to your image, image."
Gu Xingdong was unmoved: "Something happened? Tell me."
"Hehe." Wu Zheng immediately smiled flatteringly: "Didn't my family tell me that a daughter-in-law wants to join the army? You said this old lady is the same. She insists on coming after seeing her once. It really gives me a headache."
As he spoke, he looked up and saw Gu Xingdong's dark eyes sweeping over him. Wu Zheng stopped showing off and said directly: "I want to live in your apartment. I'll give it to you when I come down."
Because it is a newly built base, the infrastructure is not yet complete, so the three-story family building behind the training ground was built in a hurry.
The room assignments are based on military rank and years of service. He is the deputy battalion and Gu Xingdong is the principal battalion, so it is not his turn this time.
Gu Xingdong: "That's right."
He doesn't have a family anyway, so a bed in the office will do just fine.
Wu Zheng was extremely grateful: "Lao Gu, you are still interesting!"
"By the way, you didn't take the time to write a letter home?"
At least he took the time to go home and have a kiss. As a chief instructor specially assigned from the special operations force by his superiors to take charge of training, Gu Xingdong often practiced actual combat exercises and couldn't get away at all.
Gu Xingdong's dark eyes dimmed: "I wrote it."
Not long after I joined the army, I was transferred to a special forces unit for a year of closed-door training because of my excellent physical fitness. Then I was sent to perform special tasks and couldn't contact my family. Now, six or seven years have passed, and I don't know what is going on at home now.
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At the other end of Qingshan Village, Chen Lishu was plowing the land with a plow and a hoe. Suddenly, a half-year-old child ran up from a distance. It was Gu Zhao. From a distance, she started shouting towards this end: "Third Aunt!
My mother asked you to go back quickly, something happened at home!"
Chen Lishu's hand holding the hoe shook, and she almost fell on it. Fortunately, the sister-in-law next to her had quick eyesight and quick hands to help her. Otherwise, there would have been some blood.
After hurriedly speaking to the captain of her team, Chen Lishu quickly ran to Gu Zhao and asked anxiously: "What happened at home?"
Gu Zhao wiped the sweat on his forehead from running so fast and shook his head: "I don't know about third aunt. I just knew that someone came to the house, and then grandma cried. Grandma cried the most. Then I
Mom asked me to come find you."
Li Xiulan cried? What a big deal this must be!
I ran back home in fear all the way. As soon as I opened the door, I heard Li Xiulan crying. I took two steps forward and said, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
When Li Xiulan saw her coming back, she hugged her and cried even harder.