On the correct posture for farming in the last days

Chapter 32

"Come down to eat and then lie down. You haven't done any work. How have you walked so far since you were a child?" Ma Fen also felt distressed.

When I went downstairs, Ma Fen murmured: "When I was young, I took you to the meeting, and asked your father to carry it after I couldn't walk a few steps. Once I took you to your aunt's house, and I couldn't walk on the way. You cried secretly. You Grandma still carries you with her little feet."

"Our Yaya is still crying in secret?" Xiao Chen laughed.

Ma Fen glanced outside, and Zhou Zhigao, who had already eaten and went to feed the donkeys and cattle, said: "She was eight or nine years old at the time, and she was just sensible. She didn't go out with me, and her father didn't go either. She just followed grandma and a villager. People. I couldn’t walk anymore, and I didn’t dare to say anything, so I could only cry secretly. I didn’t know until her grandma came back and told her.”

"You don't know, she came to this village with me when she was six years old. She is very sensible and knows that she is not a child of the Zhou family, so she is always careful. But our mother and I have had a bad life before. When we came to Zhou's village, the Zhou family treated us well. , hurt her."

"What are you talking about?" Liu Ya was embarrassed.

Zhou Jing looked at her: "I don't even remember my sister when you were a child."

"You are much younger than me." Zhou Jing is also nineteen this year, but she is a few months older than Mao Panpan.

When Liu Ya first arrived, Zhou Ning was just over one year old.

Even the Mao Feng of my aunt's family was not born yet.

"Okay, don't talk about this, let's eat, we didn't wait for you two, we left it for you." Liu Ya and Xiao Chen slept for two more hours today.

Even Zhou Jing got up early.

The two of them ate alone, not on the kang, but on the underground table.

One person drank a bowl of rice, mainly soup.

Breakfast is steamed stuffed buns, and the muffin specially made small ones, stuffed with meat and shiitake mushrooms.The shiitake mushrooms are soaked in dried shiitake mushrooms last night.

Also fried two dishes.

The two of them had enough to eat and drink, and Liu Ya lay on the kang in the parents' room.

I can't help it, my leg hurts.

Xiao Chen wrapped himself up and went out to take care of the animals.

Zhou Jing took the initiative to wash the dishes, and Ma Fen didn't rest, cleaning up the house or something.

A morning passed like this, and at noon, the village head came again.

"Zhigao, I have something to do." The village chief came in to greet him.

Zhou Zhigao called the village chief to come in and sit down.

"Oh, here's the thing. A few people came from Shangtou Village, saying they were changing salt. But they didn't bring anything down now, so they just came to see it first. They said there was meat and some food, so there wasn't much. I'll come over Look, there is no result. Salt is in short supply at the moment, and the army brought some last time, but it is not easy to exchange it. It’s just that it’s related to each other. We can’t live, let’s see everyone die gone."

Certainly not without salt.

In Shangtou Village, it is even higher than Zhoujiazhuang.There used to be two villages over there, but one of them was empty later, and people moved away.

There is also a village called Gugouzi, which is a strange translation anyway, and there are not many people in the village itself.

Including the young ones who came back after the accident, there were about forty or fifty people.

But even though they live in the upper mountains, people in these nearby villages walk around with each other and get married, so it can always be said that they are related.

"There is no way to do this." To be honest, even if the troops came, they would not be able to control the more remote places, and Gugouzi Village could not even be entered by car.

In the past, it was possible to walk in a bullock cart, but now it is difficult.

"Yes, but it's freezing cold today. I intend to discuss with the villagers, or I can just exchange the salt sent by the army last time, and I don't need anything else. I don't care if I eat meat or not. Okay. You can change some oil. Their village does not produce a lot of flax, so it is better to change flax oil. If there is not much, then just replace flax. Looking back, spring will come, and the oil mill in our village will be able to open, and then the oil will be squeezed and distributed to the villagers. Same. In my opinion, oil is more valuable than meat these days."

If you eat less meat, you will eat less, but if you don't have to eat oil, you can't stand it.

Today's people can't be oily at all, otherwise how can they have strength?

It's freezing cold, if a person loses strength, wouldn't he be waiting to die?

"That's fine. If we do it this way, the villagers will probably agree." Zhou Zhigao said.

"Hey, the problem is that the exchange will not be enough to share with the villagers. It will be difficult to say at that time, and I am afraid that the villagers will not do it." The village chief sighed.

Zhou Zhigao also sighed, but this is, there are not many people in the village, but there are hundreds of them.

"Otherwise, my family has some, and yours should have some too. I mean, let's make do with a few. When I first came down, I heard that Zhou Zhong's family also had it, and so did Grandpa's on Wednesday. We can get some. Let's replace it privately. If the time comes, if the village If people are short of oil, can you exchange it with us?" The village chief originally meant this.

"That's fine, but I don't have many families." Zhou Zhigao was talking nonsense.

Salt is an important commodity.

Liu Ya stocked up a lot from the beginning, enough for a lifetime.

Later, Xiao Chen pulled a lot when he came, and Zhou Shiqiang's family gave back a lot.

But in the future, if there is no food, the salt can be exchanged directly, and the ratio is definitely not low.

So this thing is precious.

"I know that no one can have too many. This is to save their lives. When the spring is warmer in the coming year, it must be for them to think of their own way." The village chief nodded.

"That's fine, I'll take a look later, try to make as many as possible," Zhou Zhigao said.

"Okay, you don't have to get refined salt, coarse salt is fine too. It's good if it saves lives. If you don't have a place to change it in the coming year, you have to go to the village to buy bitter salt from the saline-alkali land." In fact, people of their generation have eaten it when they were young. of.

That taste...

"Alright then, I'll go to the village to find you later." Zhou Zhigao nodded.

"Oh, take your time, I'll go back and get it first." The village chief got up and left.

"Salt is already an important material." Xiao Chen thought for a while: "Our house is not short of oil, but if the oil is old in the future, it will definitely not taste good. I can talk to them and see if there is anything else ? For example, chickens or something. Or diesel gasoline, or other supplies, such as cotton."

"It's probably difficult. If the chickens don't freeze to death, you can have them. You don't have to think about anything else. You don't know, the village is poor, and there is little land. There is not enough food. People move away, so where can there be any cotton. I think the girl also bought some cotton." Zhou Jing was not in front of him, so Zhou Zhigao spoke directly.

Xiao Chen nodded, the third floor and the basement were locked, he didn't go into the basement, but Liu Ya told him what was in the house and nothing else.

"I'll go get it first, take ten catties of coarse salt, ten bags of refined salt." Zhou Zhigao asked Xiao Chen.

"Okay, we can't finish eating, but we can't make it too public. It will be useful in the future." Besides, there are relatives at home.

Zhou Zhigao nodded, went to get the salt, and Xiao Chen simply went out with him.

Liu Ya fell asleep just now, and when the two left, Ma Fen and Zhou Jing came over and saw a big girl sleeping on the kang.

(End of this chapter)