The first person to come back was Lan Xiang who came back from school. In the entire Shigejie commune, only Shigejie has a junior high school.
It is not free for people from other villages to go to school. Not only do they have to pay tuition, but the students from each village and the village committee are also responsible for part of the school expenses.
Studying is not easy. The location of Guan Village is right in the center of Shige Festival and Shuangshui Village.
In other words, Lanxiang has to walk ten kilometers to go to school every day. Fortunately, the Sun family has help from the Jin Junhai family, a wealthy family in the village who works as a driver in the county.
Since Sun Yuting got married and occupied the Sun family's ancestral cave dwelling, the Sun family has lived in Jin Junhai's house for several years.
After building a cave dwelling in the Sun family, Sun Shaoan and Sun Lanxiang still stayed at Jin Junhai's house, living with Jin Junhai's children, Jin Bo and Jin Xiu.
It also created two pairs of good friends, Sun Shaoping and Jin Bo, and Sun Lanxiang and Jin Xiu.
Later, on their way to and from junior high school, Sun Shaoping and Lan Xiang used the bicycles bought by Jin Junhai's family for Jin Bo and Jin Xiu.
Because there were two of us and the mountain road was not easy to walk, Sun Shaoping had ridden one of Jin Bo's bicycles after two years of junior high school. It is no exaggeration to say that if Jin Bo had ridden the bicycle alone, he would have been able to ride it for ten years.
Now the two of them went to high school in the county town again, and they came back every weekend, riding the new bicycle Jin Junhai bought for Jin Bo.
I saw that Sun Shaoping took advantage of his friends and never paid anything.
Of course, Shaoping is not a bad person. He can lend a helping hand to strangers who need help, but he has no concept of repaying kindness.
"Manyin, do you still have grain at home? Although there is no fine grain at home, there is still coarse grain. You can pack some sorghum when you go back."
Lanhua's mother still has a certain preference for Orchid. Maybe it's because the old couple can even support her younger brother in studying, which makes Lanhua illiterate. She has been helping with housework and taking care of her younger siblings since she was a few years old. How much does she have to do with Lanhua emotionally?
Share the debt.
"Mom, you don't have to worry about us. I made some money when I went out last time. The food at home is enough for the summer harvest in the village."
Wang Manyin doesn't give any feedback to the Sun family now, but brings some fine grain.
Firstly, Wang Manyin does not have the ability now, and secondly, the only person in the Sun family who can give priority to eating fine grains is the grandmother who has bad teeth. She is too old and inactive and only eats one or two steamed buns a day. Five pounds of white flour is enough to last for a long time.
Sun Yuhou and his wife are in their fifties. They are old enough to eat fine grains.
Sun Shaoan is the main labor force in the family and the captain of the production team who does the most tiring and arduous work every day. As the mainstay of the family, it is a common practice in rural families to eat more and eat more refined grains.
Lanxiang is the youngest child in the family. She is still growing and developing, so there is no problem in eating some refined food.
But even if everyone had their own reasons, Wang Manyin also knew that as a result of sending more fine grains, the Sun family would let Sun Shaoping, who was away studying in the city, take them away.
My purpose of subsidizing the Sun family could not be achieved, and it was ultimately given to Sun Shaoping. It would be more appropriate to leave the food at home for my wife and children to eat.
"Lan Xiang, your father and your brother are not going out to work today. We have picked up firewood and killed the pigweed. You should take a rest today." Lanhua's mother said to Lan Xiang who was about to go out to work.
Wang Manyin saw Lan Xiang and responded. Wearing a blue coarse cloth with patches on top of each other, even if most children in rural areas have patches on their clothes, Lan Xiang especially has many patches. Girls mature earlier and have reached the age where they know how to love beauty.
At this age, I have never seen Lan Xiang feel inferior or complain.
At a young age, I have already taken on a large part of the household chores, and I try my best to lighten the burden on the family.
"Sister, brother-in-law, you are here."
After saying hello, we went to play with Mao Dan and Gou Dan.
Obviously, Mao Dan and Gou Dan are much more popular than Wang Manyin.
Three generations of women from the Sun family played with their children, and Wang Manyin came out of the yard to get some fresh air. For Sun Yuhou's sake, it was not allowed to wander around the village. It hadn't been long yet, and Wang Manyin's enthusiasm for selling rat poison had not yet passed.
It didn't take long for "Hammer King" and Sun Yuhou to come back together. For these two people, it really didn't take long.
"Dad, Hammer...Shaoan, are you back?"
Sun Yuhou nodded and entered the cave dwelling.
"Wang Manyin, I heard that you have started working in the mountains, and you have performed well recently. You go out for shopping every day, every month, and every year. What happened when you went shopping? Your family's situation has been ruined." Sun Shaoan stopped.
"Okay, don't lecture your brother-in-law. I am no older than your brother-in-law. You are the only one who talks about my affairs. How is your handling of it?" Wang Manyin thought to himself that he has practiced "Siheyuan God of War", sooner or later.
There is a battle with the "Northwestern Hammer King".
"I go out to work in the mountains every day, what's the matter? I'm not a wanderer like you!" He said with dissatisfaction. This brother-in-law didn't act with dignity at all.
"Let's talk about the village affairs first. Have you dealt with the issue of allocating more pig feed land to the members?"
Sun Shaoan lost his confidence and hesitantly said: "The members of the commune have opened up wasteland and planted the seeds."
"They were planted and dug up. I told you everything. What I got is the exact information. Someone is keeping an eye on the pig feed land. When the seeds grow, there will be evidence that you allocated more pig feed land. Find someone to come over."
After all, you don't even have a chance to make excuses."
"We will discuss it with the members later."
"What is there to discuss? If something goes wrong, it has nothing to do with the members. At most, it is you, the captain, who allocates the land. Of course, you, the captain, bear the responsibility. I am the one who sold a few packs of rat poison.
You are directly allocating the country's land to individuals, and the nature of it is much more serious than mine."
"Do you have to take it back?"
"The excess will definitely be taken back. You have to know that you have offended people in your village."
"Who can I offend?"
"Whoever's girl you miss will offend you. You don't know yet, right?" This was the first time Wang Manyin had the upper hand against "Hammer King", and he felt happy due to the memory.
Sun Shaoan was obviously anxious: "I don't know anything yet. I don't know. What do you, a second-rate guy, know?"
"Our situation is different. How can you know what is going on outside in Shuangshui Village every day? My situation is different from yours. Although I am a second-rate person, in terms of being well-informed, none of your ten Sun Shaoan can compare to one of me. I know that.
But about Tian Runye! Do you really not care at all?"
"What happened to Run Ye?"
"You know that her second mother insists on introducing her to a partner, but Runye doesn't want to. You don't know what her partner is like, right?"