14. I want to eat
At the end of September, the notice of the line-up came.
Jiang Kangkang was assigned to a mountainous countryside sixty miles away from home. There were two boys and one girl, a total of four people who went with her.
Most of Liu Xia's those who filled out their application to build the Corps were satisfied.
Liu Xia didn't go. When she heard that she was going to such a far place, she was anxious and went to the city to hire relatives. She stayed at home for reasons of illness and was unemployed.
There are still a few who haven't gone, all of whom are from the cadre family, including Zhang Jianjun's younger brother Zhang Jianguo.
Of course, those who didn’t go have their own reasons.
Although I had known Kang Kang to leave for a long time, Aunt Jiang still cried when she saw the notice. The child grew up so old that he had never left his mother!
Jiang Kangkang was quite excited and finally didn't have to stay at home for free. Although he didn't go to the Construction Corps, didn't Liu Xia go to the Construction Corps either? He was not as good as me at home without employment!
And the evaluation Yao Yuan gave her was still the same sentence: "Silly...silly!"
However, Yao Yuan had made great progress in his speech after constantly reading the poems and lyrics, and he could say the word cleanly: "Silly!"
For this, I couldn't help but be beaten by Jiang's little pink fist.
All the procedures are completed, namely household registration and food and personnel relations. In mid-October, all the educated youth who were sent to the lineup will gather at the Workers' Cultural Palace in the city and hold a farewell meeting in the city.
The city leaders and the commune brigades that accepted them in the rural areas all sent representatives to attend the conference together.
The mining machine sent a Jiefang truck to send the intellectual youth to the city venue.
On the morning of the departure, Yao Yuan accompanied Aunt Jiang and Jiang Meimei to send Jiang Kangkang to the entrance of the mining machine factory, where the truck was waiting.
Jiang Kangkang wore the new military uniform that her father had never worn before, wearing a big red flower on his chest. Surrounded by three people, he walked to the factory gate in Henan. Yao Yuan was behind him, carrying a quilt and washbasin that had been made into a marching backpack for Jiang Kangkang.
Aunt Jiang's eyes were red from crying. She told Jiang Kangkang all the way, and finally she annoyed Kangkang and shouted: "Mom! Stop nagging, I'm not coming back!"
Yao Yuan felt sad, and he couldn't help but remember the scene when he went to a distant city to go to college, and his parents sent him to the station. It's so pitiful to all parents in the world!
The Jiefang Truck had gone far away, and Aunt Jiang was still standing there, reluctant to go back.
Yao Yuan said, "Aunt Jiang, why don't we go to the city, see, go to the farewell party?"
Aunt Jiang shook her head. When she went to the city, the ticket cost 20 cents, and the three of them were 60 cents, and she couldn't bear to leave.
Only living expenses were left at home, and all the extra money was taken away by Aunt Jiang Kangkang. She was afraid that her daughter would suffer in the countryside!
After sending back to the Anti-Japanese War, Aunt Jiang was sad for many days and was listless. Fortunately, she still had a beautiful girl around her, otherwise she would not know when she would recover.
Jiang Kangkang was the same. When he arrived at the destination, he didn't write a letter to his home. It was not until Aunt Jiang went to inquire about someone else's letter that she came back and realized that she was very good there.
But in these days, Yao Yuan has done a lot of things.
Liu Ergan really found someone in need of bricks and tiles for him. While everyone went to work in the morning, there were not many people in the village, and a tractor came.
The rural people worked very well, and they demolished the two kitchens in a few seconds, and pulled the bricks, tiles and wood twice. Before everyone got off work at noon, the yard was empty.
At the same time, he prepared all the farm tools, wheat, corn, and millet seeds, and promised him that if the seeds are gone next year, they can still go and ask for them, but it will be for nothing.
Liu Er said that he would just pick up the fertilizer, just use the same amount as you want, just don’t use too much and burn the crops.
Liu Ergan is a veteran of farming. He taught him step by step how to turn the ground and apply base fertilizer.
When Aunt Jiang found that the kitchen in Yao Yuan's yard was gone, Yao Yuan sowed the wheat seeds.
Aunt Jiang was a little worried and wanted to ask him for a long time: "The kitchen is public. You have demolished it so quietly. The real estate department knows it. Can you agree?"
Yao Yuan said in a daze: "I want to eat enough, but if I don't farm, I won't eat enough!" His speaking ability was improving at the sight.
Aunt Jiang thought about it again, nodded and said, "When those people come to cause trouble for you, you will deal with them like this! You are a fool, and you are not afraid of being arrogant with them."
Yao Yuan argued: "Aunt Jiang, I'm not stupid!"
Aunt Jiang said, "I know, I know. But when you should be a fool, you can't let them see that you are not stupid."
Yao Yuan laughed.
As expected by Aunt Jiang. When the wheat seedlings in the field emerged, Zhang Jianjun first discovered this and then went to the real estate department to report.
A few people came to the real estate department and wanted to shovel Yao Yuan's land and report it to the Revolutionary Committee to deal with Yao Yuan.
Yao Yuan poked his head to the door and said unreasonable: "I want to have a meal!"
I ate at Aunt Jiang's house. It's useless if I don't cook in the kitchen. Why don't I keep it if I don't remove it? If anyone dares to touch my floor, I will use my head to pout!
The real estate department had no choice but to deal with Yao Yuan, so Zhang Jianjun urged the security department to come over.
The security department is wearing a tiger's skin. If you really meet a naughty young man like Yao Yuan, there is nothing good to do.
He is a fool. When you touch his ground, he really dares to hit you in the head. If he really wants to make a move, who can you ask for advice?
Finally, Zhang Shuncai, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, said that the matter was left unresolved.
Zhang Shuncai said: "He is just a fool. Do you see normal people farming in their own yard? A fool, why do you do the same knowledge as him?"
Zhang Jianjun was counting on using this matter to slap Yao Yuan, and he showed his anger that he had been holding in his heart for a long time, but he didn't expect his father to mess up the whole thing with just one word.
He didn't understand and went home to blame his father.
Zhang Shuncai scolded him and said, "You know what a big deal!"
When Zhang Jianjun saw his father's appearance, he knew that the old guy had a backup plan. But what kind of backup plan was? He couldn't figure it out, so he stared at his father blankly.
He knew that his father was not a Bodhisattva and had more bad intentions than him.
Zhang Shuncai said, "You are twenty-five years old and can't even say a wife. Your mother and I will discuss with you to tell you a wife from the countryside of my hometown and get married quickly after the New Year!"
Zhang Jianjun still didn’t understand what the relationship between marrying a wife and Yao Yuan’s place?
Zhang Shuncai said slowly: "When getting married and getting married, you must not have a place to live? Look at our place, can we recruit your family in the future?"
Zhang Jianjun still didn't understand, and he still looked at his father stupidly.
Zhang Shuncai said, "Why are you so stupid? Or isn't you my son? Are there two houses in Yao Dasha? You have only been in the factory for a few years. You have to follow the housing allocation plan in the factory. You can only get a house in the year of the monkey and horse for months?"
Zhang Jianjun understood a little, but he still didn't understand it very much. He asked his father: "What you mean is to get Yao Dasha's extra house? He shouldn't have occupied two houses by himself. Isn't it over to let the real estate department take it back directly?"
Zhang Shuncai said impatiently: "You are really not turning your mind. You don't think about it. Will it be your turn to get a house? How many employees older than you are still renting houses in the countryside when they get married! If I force the house to you, others will eat me?"
Zhang Jianjun became even more confused.
Zhang Shuncai then explained: "There are many workers in the factory now and there are not enough houses to live in. The real estate department has long wanted to buy that house, but I have been stopping me from accepting it. If I take it, I will not have the share of our family.
The house is in the hands of Dasha. As long as Dasha can agree, you can move in after getting married in the future? After moving in, it gradually became a fact. As time goes by, let’s secretly ask the real estate department to transfer the house to your name when everyone is not paying attention. Wouldn’t the house become yours?"
Zhang Jianjun was disgusted and said, "This fool, when he sees me, he is like seeing an enemy. I also asked him to live in a house. Dad, what do you think? Besides, even if he is willing to let me live, I have to dare to live. If he lives with him, he will not beat me every day. Will I go and die?"
Zhang Shuncai shook his head and said, "You are still young and not very careful!"
Then he said, "Don't Dasha have two houses? Now he lives in the east and the west is empty. We won't coax him to live in the west and let you live in the east? Then we will build a wall in the middle, so won't you separate from him?"
Zhang Jianjun suddenly realized and then asked worriedly: "Then, how can I get the fool to agree?"
Zhang Shuncai said: "Don't you have to wait for the opportunity? Now the opportunity comes. If I ask him to farm, he has to let you live in a house. Don't worry about this matter, I'll go and discuss it with him."
Yao Yuan really didn't expect that he had run away from the real estate department and the security department, and it was Zhang Shun who was doing it. At this moment, he was devoted to the matter.
On the side of the yard, there was only a narrow walkway for him to enter and exit, and the rest were reclaimed into crop fields.
These days, eating is better than anything else when you are full. Only by solving the problem of eating can he have free time to consider other issues.
At this moment, he felt more happy than anything else when he watched the clusters of wheat seedlings emerge from the ground. Almost every afternoon when he had nothing to do when he got off work, he squatted at the door of his house, looking at the wheat seedlings, and watching them grow taller day by day.
You have to water the land when you farm. It won’t be long without watering. There is only a tap water head in the village, on the widest wide street to the south, a hundred meters away from it.
When the villagers use water, they go to the tap water head, carry the water tips with a shoulder pole, fetch the water home, and then put it in their own water tank.
Yao Daxia also has a water tank and a water tip at his house. He has learned to carry water. With a strong body like Yao Daxia, he can kill less than 100 kilograms of water with a load of water, so he doesn't have much effort to carry it.
After work this day, he returned to the team and handed over the tools, so he went to get a shoulder pole to carry water. He first filled Aunt Jiang’s water tank, and then filled his own house. The last load was used to water the ground.
The wheat seedlings have just sprouted, so there is no need to water them every day. Moreover, Liu Ergan told him that the wheat seedlings that need to survive the winter should not be allowed to grow too high, otherwise they will not resist freezing and will freeze to death in winter, affecting yield.
The main purpose of today's wheat seedlings is to let them take root. Only when the roots are deep can they resist frost and absorb more nutrients next year, so that the ears that have formed will grow and grow.
Thinking of Liu Ergan's words, Yao Yuan hesitated at the wheat seedlings in the field. Should he water the load of water or not?
Chapter completed!