Seventy cannon fodder is a ruthless man

Chapter 191 The educated youths are back
As soon as the guests left, the small courtyard of the Meng family suddenly seemed empty. Meng Tao and Jinniu were a little unaccustomed to it. Fortunately, a new courtyard house was being built on the left. Building beams, repairing purlins, all kinds of noises gathered together, making noise, but it relieved the sorrow of parting.

The mud walls of the new house are three meters high. The rural houses are built with wooden beams and covered with tiles. The walls need to be higher. Now that there are many people, the walls are tamped quickly. Looking at it like this, the beams will probably be installed tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

After installing the beams, nailing the purlins and covering the tiles is not so stressful, otherwise the continuous spring rains will make the house wet and slippery, making the house difficult to build.

Meng Tao also took advantage of the sunny weather to tidy up the courtyard house, dry the quilts, and wash the sheets and quilt covers. The workload was heavy, and it was too slow to do it by herself. Pulling the two little sisters over, and arresting Wang Tiegen, it took a whole day of work to complete.

If you help with work, you will be invited to eat, and each will be given a pack of toffee. The little girls will also get a pair of hair clips and two ribbons for tying their hair. Both Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan bought these little things back. Not much, Meng Tao doesn't need short hair, even if she likes it, she doesn't need that much.

Shen Yu bought it for his own use, and Meng Zhehan bought it as a gift.

The little girls got fashionable and beautiful hairpins and ribbons, their eyes lit up with excitement, more excited than giving them sugar cookies, and all of them were happy.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the beams of the main building of the new courtyard house were erected, and the eight educated youths all returned to Linshui Village on this day as if they had made an appointment.

There are twenty walks in the twelfth lunar month and twenty backs in the first month, which is exactly one month.

In the month since I left Linshui Village, it's not surprising that anything happened. What surprised the educated youths was that Meng Taohua got engaged!
Zhao Ming, Xu Guoliang, Sun Yutang, and Qian Liang were very surprised, while Jiang Xiaodong was shocked, and then there were bursts of sadness and pain in his heart. He regretted it very much. He regretted being indecisive and missed the opportunity to confess.

He couldn't believe that Meng Tao would fall in love with a man in such a short period of time, and he felt that there must be something else behind the engagement.

After returning from the New Year in the city, everyone brought out gifts to Meng Tao and Jin Niu. Snacks, books, notebooks and pens from their hometown. Every gift was a good intention. Meng Tao and Jin Niu accepted it with a smile, and then prepared a sumptuous dinner To clean up the dust for the educated youth, there were still a few bottles of wine bought at the engagement banquet left. Xu Guoliang, Qian Liang, and Sun Yutang, who love to drink, were very happy. Everyone ate, drank, talked and laughed, and the courtyard was full of laughter.

Only Jiang Xiaodong couldn't laugh, didn't talk too much, drank a lot of wine silently, and finally got himself drunk. Meng Tao could see that he was bored, thinking that something happened at home, everyone had something to say. It's a secret, I don't want to ask too much, I just made a hangover soup and asked everyone to rest after drinking it.

Zhao Ming knew what Jiang Xiaodong was thinking, and secretly felt a little guilty. He was the one who advised Jiang Xiaodong not to disturb Meng Tao. At this moment, he really didn't know what to say. He could only sigh that the world is unpredictable. share.

Jiang Xiaodong was not reconciled. Two days later, the literacy class resumed. He finally found an opportunity to come back with Meng Tao at night, and the two talked alone on the road.

"Taohua, you, did you get engaged to that man voluntarily?" Jiang Xiaodong asked.

Meng Tao smiled and replied: "Of course it is voluntary. There may be arranged marriages in this era, but it is absolutely impossible to happen to me, right? Look at my grandfather, he let me choose it myself."

"But, in such a short time, do you know him well? According to Zhou Cuiling, it was introduced by your dry brother in the provincial capital, so he is also from the provincial capital?"

"Yes, he works in the provincial capital. He and I basically know each other."

"If you get married in the future, is he capable enough to take you to live in the provincial capital? If not, what will you do? Are the two places separated? Think about it, Tian Zhigao back then..."

"When you get married, you will definitely be together. Don't worry about that. I was blind once, and I can't be blind again. My fiancé is completely different from Tian Zhigao."

"Are you so sure?"

"Of course, we got engaged because we were in love, and we have a relationship basis, but Tian Zhigao was just deceiving me back then."

"So you really like him?"

"Yes. In fact, the time I have known him is not too short. I met him and brother Meng on the first day I went to the provincial capital. I came back from the provincial capital and we corresponded with each other. Do you remember how many times I went out during that time? Then I went to meet him, he came from the provincial capital, and I went out from home...so we fell in love freely and got to know each other."

Jiang Xiaodong: "..."

His heart was still sore and sad, but he had nothing to say.

Another week passed, the weather was still fine, Taurus’s new courtyard house was completed, and even the walls were built. There were three main rooms, three wing rooms, and a kitchen and utility room. The layout was similar to that of the old courtyard. It took half a month, and the funds, materials, and manpower were in place, and the speed was so fast.

The spring plowing work was also going on at the same time, but Captain Bao and several brigade cadres were a little anxious: Why is it that it doesn’t rain all the time?

Although the Linshui River is nearby, and the water conservancy channels have been repaired, water can be brought into the fields, but the water conservancy channels cannot go to high places, only the flat farmland can be irrigated, and other fields with slightly higher terrain cannot be irrigated, which needs spring rain to moisten. Only then can it be plowed and sowed.

Looking forward and looking forward, until the middle of March, after a thunderstorm, the spring rain poured down like a torrent, and it fell into the ground for two days, and then turned into a thin drizzle, and the fields and ponds gradually accumulated water, which was watery The old farmer finally felt relieved.

The laborers of the production team work in groups, wearing coir raincoats and plowing the fields in the rain is the work of male laborers, while women have relatively less work and it is easy, that is, to select and take care of the crop seeds, soak and germinate the rice, and prepare Seedling raising, these only need a few experienced middle-aged people to do it, and the young ones organize the farm tools and rub the hemp rope.

So at this stage, when women go to work, they basically form a group of chatters and grind foreign labor. Parents get tired of short talk. The workers also came to help. After all, this yard will be their new dormitory in the future, and everyone can live comfortably after finishing.

The first spring rain lasted for a week, and it began to clear up. Taurus' new house has also been tidied up, and you can move in after a fire ceremony.

The current rural houses are truly environmentally friendly and harmless, unlike the later generations, where the houses are covered with paint, and the smell is not dispersed for a year or so, and they are not inhabitable at all.

(End of this chapter)