Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 14
The door of the old party secretary's house was already crowded with people, and people from every household moved their own small benches to gather together.Everyone stared intently at the nine-inch black and white TV set on the table, watching with gusto.

This black-and-white TV set was bought back from the supply and marketing cooperative by the old party secretary when he was engaged in a large collective.Ten years later, this TV is still the only one in the village. Every day after dinner, the villagers would go to the old party secretary's house to watch TV for entertainment.

Although the movie "Railway Guerrilla" has been broadcast for many times, but every time it is broadcast, the big guys still watch it with gusto.Whenever the plot was tense, all the audience held their breaths, as if they were afraid of changing the plot due to their own reasons.

After Niu Xiaodong and others left, Niu Xiaoqiang picked up some branches and weeds and covered the deep pit, making sure that he had disguised himself, and then he went down the mountain with a shovel on his shoulder.

Niu Xiaoqiang's timid side was exposed again. He walked home while singing, but the surrounding environment made him go faster and faster, and soon he started running, as if he was being chased by something terrible.After a while, his running speed caught up with the [-]-meter race.

When he finally ran back to the village, he heard the villagers discussing the plot of the movie.Niu Xiaoqiang's hand wiping sweat froze in mid-air, and after a while he said angrily, "Damn it! I missed such a good movie!"

"Little brother, where did you go? How did you get all the dirt?"

The eldest sister, Niu Chunxiang, just came out of the toilet. Seeing that Niu Xiaoqiang was dirty all over, she grabbed her younger brother's arm and walked into the house: "It's past ten o'clock, let's go, my sister will fetch you bath water."

Niu Xiaoqiang let out a dejected cry, and followed the eldest sister into the house.

After washing, Niu Xiaoqiang lay down on the bamboo bed at the door.Every summer, people in the village will put up bamboo beds and mosquito nets outside to sleep, which will be much cooler.

Niu Xiaoqiang stared at the bright starry sky while shaking the banana fan in his hand.The outline of the Milky Way is clearly visible in the night sky, and it looks spectacular under the reflection of the bright moon.

"I don't know if the trap will work or not? If you can catch the wild boar, you will be lucky."

Thinking of the wonderful taste of eating wild pork, Xiaoqiang couldn't help salivating.In the cool breeze, he shook the banana fan more and more slowly, and fell asleep without much effort.

"Bada", the banana fan fell to the ground, and the eldest sister Niu Chunxiang picked it up from the ground.She turned her head and saw the saliva flowing from the corner of Niu Xiaoqiang's mouth, she couldn't help but smiled and shook her head, wiped it off gently with a sweat towel, and muttered: "It seems that his habit of drooling when he sleeps can't be changed." .”

At dawn, Niu Xiaoqiang was awakened by the sound of villagers getting up.

People in the mountains are very hardworking. No matter it is windy or rainy, they will get up early to work every morning. If not, the food at home will not be enough.

It's only five o'clock in the morning, and it's still early.Niu Xiaoqiang got up in a daze, sat on the bamboo bed and fell asleep for a while, then stretched his waist and went into the house to carry the hoe.

The third sister, Niu Qiuxiang, was going out with a hoe on her shoulders. When she saw Niu Xiaoqiang coming into the house to get the hoe, she immediately stopped her: "Little brother, you have a head injury. You don't have to work in the fields today. You should stay at home and rest."

It was only then that Niu Xiaoqiang remembered his injury, and at the same time remembered the trap he had set.He groaned and put the hoe back in its place.When all the family members went out to work, he immediately slipped out of the house and walked towards the back mountain.

"Damn, not even a pig hair!"

There was no change in the traps set up last night, not to mention wild boars, not even a toad was caught.

Niu Xiaoqiang came with great hopes, but the reality disappointed him so much, he cursed a few words angrily, turned and went down the mountain.

After returning home, Niu Xiaoqiang was not idle, he took the initiative to undertake the work of making breakfast for the whole family.

As the saying goes, the children of the poor start their own homes early. Children from poor families like Niu Xiaoqiang have learned many life skills at an early age, such as cooking, which is one of them.

In rural areas, earthen stoves are used to burn firewood.Niu Xiaoqiang washed the rice for the whole family and poured it into the pot, mixed in an appropriate amount of water, and then covered the pot.

Then he grabbed a handful of withered yellow pine needles and stuffed them into the stove pit, and placed dead branches on top of the pine needles, and then took matches from the stove to light the fire.

After the pine needles were ignited, Niu Xiaoqiang carefully and gently blew on the flames, and only when the fire gradually became stronger did he blow harder.Without much effort, the dead branches were ignited.

Seeing this, Niu Xiaoqiang stood up, took out the beans from the vegetable basket, and chopped the long beans into small pieces.Guessing that the portion was about the same, he turned around and took the pinched beans to rinse.

The living conditions of their family—or the living conditions of the entire Niujia Village are not very good. Niu Xiaoqiang's breakfast only has two dishes, except for beans, there are only pickles that are pickled by every household.

There are two pots on the earthen stove, one of which is used for cooking, and the other is used for cooking and boiling water.

After Niu Xiaoqiang rinsed the beans, he was not in a hurry to fry them. It was still very early in the morning, and usually after 07:30, people who went out to work would come back for breakfast.

He put the beans on the stove, bent down to scoop water from the water tank and poured it into the boiling pot, preparing to boil some water by the fire.

After scooping up the water, Niu Xiaoqiang went into the room and took out his textbook, sat at the table and flipped through it.

Niu Xiaoqiang is in the second year of middle school this year. He used to be a fool. Although he listened carefully in class, he couldn't understand many things the teacher said.Ever since his brain suddenly opened up, Niu Xiaoqiang had the idea to study his homework well.Now that I have time, of course I have to implement this idea.

Last night, when Niu Xiaoqiang was doing his summer homework, he found that he could only do some relatively simple questions, and he couldn't do the slightly more difficult ones.Not long after tutoring, Niu Xiaoqiang frowned: "Where did this formula come from? Have you learned it before?"

After he finished speaking, he stood up and rummaged through the bedside table.

There are many textbooks and homework books on the bedside table, which are spare toilet paper at home.

Niu Xiaoqiang searched around, but couldn't find the math textbook for the first grade of junior high school. He couldn't help worrying whether the book he was looking for had been taken to wipe his ass.

"It's okay, okay." He was relieved when he found his math textbook for the first grade of junior high school on the bottom floor.

Niu Xiaoqiang turned around and walked back to the desk, opened the textbook and began to study it seriously.

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