Siheyuan: living in a prosperous era

Chapter 225
"Shu Ning, you've seen it too. It's not that we guys didn't do our best, it's that the ground here is really frozen."

On the third day after Yang Shuning and the others arrived in Zhuji, their main purpose of returning to their hometown finally started.Because of the characteristics of the times, Yang Shuning did not do anything with firecrackers blasting or gongs and drums shaking the sky. He simply kowtowed with Yang's mother and others and started construction.

The family gathered forty people and divided them into three places to start at the same time. The three Yang Shuning brothers also acted separately. Yang's mother went back to Hong De Lao's house to take charge because of the strong wind outside.Yang Shuning saw that it belonged to his grandparents.

Before the start of work, Mr. Hong De had already asked the women in the family to start arranging lunch, and Yang Shuning also distributed a pack of West Lake cigarettes to everyone who contributed.Instead of working in the fields, 50 or [-] people gathered in the wild. Other people in the village gathered around to watch. They thought they were going to have a fight with people from other villages. It wasn't until Mr. Hongde explained that the villagers were allowed to explain. (The Zhuji area in Zhijiang has always had a reputation as a tough one, and is also called Zhuji Muegg by people in other places, which means that Zhuji people are always ready to fight.)
Yang Shuning was also unambiguous. Although they did not smoke cigarettes to the villagers who came to watch, they also gave each of them a cigarette.The villagers praised Yang Shuning for his generosity.

Although the manpower was sufficient, and there were only thirteen people assigned to each location, because the land was frozen hard, a strong laborer tried his best to hoe down only a little bit of soil, which made Yang Shuning frown a little. I heard Mr. Hong De’s explanation.

"Uncle Hong De, I know it's not easy for everyone because of the cold weather today. Please ask Uncle Hong De to help prepare ginger tea for everyone so that you don't get sick from the cold."

It turned out that Yang Shuning had no problem with the tribesmen digging slowly. He also knew the reason, and he couldn't blame the tribesmen.What Yang Shuning was worried about was that everyone would get sick if they were blown by the cold wind after sweating while working.

In this era of shortage of doctors and medicines, the book "Barefoot Doctor" has not been published. Even a small cold can cause high fever and death if not careful. This is something Yang Shuning never wants to see.Although Yang Shuning is a doctor, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw, as there is no medicine.

"Okay, I have ginger at home this year. I will ask people to prepare it. I will definitely let everyone drink hot ginger tea."

When Hong Delao heard Yang Shuning's explanation and knew that Yang Shuning was considerate of everyone, he was going to ask his third son Yang Jian, who was helping him run errands and deliver messages, to go home and talk.

"Uncle Hong De, wait a moment, add some sugar to the ginger tea. Everyone has worked hard, so we need to use sugar to make up for the consumption."

"Uncle Hong De, please help collect the sugar. I don't have any sugar coupons. I'll give you ten industrial coupons and money as compensation, okay?"

When Yang Shuning saw Mr. Hong De nodded, he took out some spare money and industrial coupons from one of his pockets, ordered ten industrial coupons and five yuan and gave them to Mr. Hong De.

"Thank you, Shu Ning. You helped your family. Not only did you get cigarettes, but you also drank ginger sugar tea. You are indeed as kind and righteous as your grandfather and father."

After hearing Yang Shuning's arrangement, a person who was relatively close to Yang Shuning praised Yang Shuning.

"I don't dare to do it. The leader taught us to be people who are useful to the motherland and socialism. I just do what the leader said."

Yang Shuning did not dare to let everyone recall that his grandfather was a big landowner. Although his father had donated most of his property for the Anti-Japanese War, it was better for people to rarely mention such things as big landowners.Don't be careful and the boat capsizes in the gutter. That would be the biggest tragedy.

"Yes, we still have to thank the leader for the good life we ​​have now."

When the man just heard Yang Shuning said the leader's instructions, he immediately followed.This shows the infinite prestige of leaders among the people.

"Everyone, let's stop for a moment and go back to Uncle Hong De's house for lunch."

"Uncle Hong De, please help my three cousins ​​to watch here for a while, and then go back to eat after everyone has finished eating, okay?"

"Xiao Ming, you stay here and help keep an eye on things." Yang Shuning saw that the time was almost 11:30, and when it was time for dinner, he asked people to finish the meal before continuing to work.

Although most people only eat two meals at this time, Yang Shuning knows that most mornings he comes to work without eating at all. The purpose is to eat free lunch and save some rations for the family.

"The food is good and there's meat. Shu Ning's family is really grand."

"This fat meat is so shiny."

"It's still white rice, tsk tsk."

The people who helped were also amazed when they saw the lunch that Mr. Hong De helped arrange.There were five tables set up in Mr. Hongde's house, and the house was packed to the brim.There was a plate of braised pork on every table, along with a plate of potatoes and edamame.From the perspective of the people who helped, it would be hard for anyone to live on white rice and fat meat these days.

Yang Shuning was also a little confused. He only gave some national food stamps and money, but this lunch could be so rich.Mainly because of the big fat meat.In these days, fat meat is much more popular than ordinary lean meat. Everyone is short of oil in their stomachs.

"Uncle Hong De, where did you get so much fat?"

Potatoes and edamame are easy to talk about, after all, this is a rural area.But so much meat is rare.

"I used national food stamps to exchange part of it, and part of it was bought with money."

Hong De said that as long as he has something valuable, buying some meat is not a problem for him.

In fact, this is because Yang Shuning underestimated the power of national food stamps and money. The main reason is that Yang Shuning's family has not had to worry about meat.Not only did he have a monthly quota, but there was no game that his father-in-law’s security office hunted during his training. He, his three brothers Yang Shuchen and Yang Shuhao sometimes went hunting by themselves, and there was also a pig butcher Jin Gan in the courtyard, which caused his family to There is no shortage of meat all the time, so naturally I don’t pay attention to how to exchange for pork.

"Uncle Hong De, are the national food stamps and money enough? According to today's progress, we will definitely have to prepare dinner again tonight."

Yang Shuning originally thought that a meal would be enough, and the 50 kilograms of national food stamps given yesterday would be enough. The rest of the [-] yuan given could be distributed to everyone who helped. But now it seems that the progress is not fast enough. These money stamps It may not be enough.

"That's enough. On average, each person has three taels of meat and two kilograms of rice, which is definitely enough for everyone. I've already reserved the ingredients for the evening, so don't worry."

Mr. Hong De was not afraid of Yang Shuning's worries.

"Then I'll give you some more later. I'll have to trouble everyone to go to the crematorium tomorrow. I won't let everyone suffer."

Wanting to go to the crematorium tomorrow, Yang Shuning decided to give some more.

(End of this chapter)