Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

Under Aunt Guixiang's lead, most families in the village came to Xia Mingshuang to exchange wheat for money, and some even exchanged cloth, brown sugar, white sugar, matches, and salt with her.

They figured out that they had to rush to buy matches and salt from the supply and marketing cooperative, so they could exchange them directly at Xia Mingshuang's house. Wouldn't this save time and energy?

Besides, they went to Xia Mingshuang's house and drank a bowl of sweet water. They made a profit.

Xia Mingshuang's benefits were not in vain. She went to the team clinic, where Dr. Lou and Dr. Qian were busy.

There was a commune member whose hands were slippery due to sweat while cutting wheat, and he accidentally cut his leg. As before, they were very aggressive. They would grab a handful of dry soil from the ground and press it on the wound. Those who knew better would dig under the pot without dry soil. The gray is all kinds of colors anyway.

Now that the village had its own doctor, Captain Gu even yelled and cursed at people running back to the clinic for bandages.

In addition to the members of his own production team, there were actually two members of the production team in Miaoqian Village behind him, one male and one female.

The woman came here to see a gynecological doctor. Her period was not over for half a month, and the incessant dripping made her not only unable to work, but also dizzy and pale.

The man came here to see his cough. He could tolerate other illnesses, but he couldn't bear the bleeding and coughing, and his work was affected, so he had to come and see him.

When Xia Mingshuang heard someone coughing, he waited outside, waiting for the patient to leave before going over to talk.

Many cough diseases are contagious.

Doctor Qian felt relaxed after seeing off the two patients. He went out to drink water and do some activities with cans, bottles, and tea cups. When he saw Xia Mingshuang standing under the sycamore tree, he came over to talk to her.

Doctor Qian: "Mingshuang, is something wrong?"

Xia Mingshuang whispered: "Doctor Qian, the villagers gave me a lot of wheat in exchange. I will pay you some back later."

She believed that Doctor Qian was just as unaccustomed to eating coarse grains as she was, and preferred to eat flour.

Doctor Qian's face was filled with joy, "Mingshuang, you are really timely."

When she and Lao Lou were treating patients, the food they gave them was all coarse grains, and some dried sweet potatoes were moldy. In her opinion, they were just for feeding animals, and she wouldn't eat them anyway.

When members come to see a doctor, they have to pay for the medicine, because it is purchased for the hospital. If the diagnosis or treatment fee is given to the doctor, it can be replaced by food.

There are a lot of dried sweet potatoes piled up in her house. Neither she nor Lao Lou are used to eating them. Now they eat stick noodles and sorghum noodles. In addition to what the team bought, there are also food stamps donated by Lou Jianjun and his wife.

She wanted to give those dried melons to Xia Mingshuang, but Xia Mingshuang refused to eat them!

But her family doesn’t raise pigs, so it’s impossible to cook them and feed them.

Later, Xia Mingshuang said that he would quietly help her dispose of it. Those who raised a lot of pigs or had insufficient food at home also needed this.

After chatting for a while, Xia Mingshuang said: "I thought that if someone gave me this benefit, I would also express it. I have some dried hawthorns that were dried last year. I brought them with some herbs and boiled them for several pots of water to quench the thirst of the members. . But I don’t know much about herbal medicine, and I’m afraid I might get poisoned if I don’t mix it well. Doctor Qian, you know better, please help me mix it.”

Doctor Qian smiled and said, "You are a generous man, I will definitely cooperate."

Xia Mingshuang: "What a generosity. It's not worth taking much."

This is a shortage of supplies now, but it won’t have to be like this if we open things up again.

Doctors Qian and Lou helped prepare hawthorn, licorice and other herbs, plus wild dates, thatch roots, etc. picked by the members, and gave them to Captain Gu to arrange for someone to boil water.

After it is cooked, let the commune members after work come over and have a bowl to quench their thirst and quench the heat, so that no one will suffer from heatstroke due to high temperature and high-intensity labor.

Captain Gu's wife is also very quick on her feet. She usually doesn't go to work, but does housework and takes care of the children at home. She directly leads the children to cook several large pots, and has people carry them to the fields and fields.

The members drank the sweet summer-relieving soup and felt the care of the organization for the first time, and they were full of energy.

Gu Heping: "I still remember the days when I was a kid and had big pot rice. It was so nourishing."

When we first started to eat big pot rice, the production team concentrated all the grain for production. However, within a few days, all the grain was produced, and we began to starve.

That memory is quite profound.

Erzhuang was very curious, "Uncle, how can we eat in a big pot and have the whole village eat from one pot?"

Several elderly people suddenly looked like they were constipated, "Let's get to work quickly."

Don't say it, it's embarrassing.

Now that I think about it, I was so hot-headed at that time that I didn’t know what to do.

Everyone drank a drink to quench their thirst and relieve the heat. In the afternoon, they were more energetic in cutting and harvesting wheat. The field players in the yard were too embarrassed to work as foreigners, so everyone was full of energy.

The wheat is harvested in the field, and people are also threshed at the farm. This cooperation saves a lot of time.

Wheat ripens quickly, harvests quickly, and the work is heavy, but the overall time is short.

It only takes about ten days to get the wheat back, because if you can't get it back, you won't be able to harvest it. The wheat will either be overripe and explode in the ground, or it will rot in the ground due to rain.

Therefore, wheat harvesting is all about rushing to harvest, and every second counts. In the evening, the team arranges for members to play field games, harvest wheat, and every second counts.

In a blink of an eye, most of the wheat was recovered. Although it rained in the middle, the wheat was piled in the field and did not rot in the ground. Everyone was very happy that there was no danger.

The sun is very hot at this time of year. After the heavy rain, when the sun shines, the court can be flattened with rollers to continue playing.

After the wheat was threshed, Captain Gu led the commune members to dry the wheat in the sun, and then selected the plumpest wheat to make autumn seeds. The rest were divided among those who paid for the public grain, and the rest could be distributed among the commune members. .

Last year's rations generally don't cover the whole year, so they have to be supplemented in the middle and wait for the autumn grains to come down.

According to the previous agreement between some people and the captain, they exchanged wheat for Xia Mingshuang. Captain Gu asked Gu Heping and Gu Liangshan to quietly deliver the wheat to Xia Mingshuang.

Although everyone agreed, Captain Gu still chose to deliver it in the evening when there were fewer people in order to avoid jealousy.

Captain Gu followed him to Xia Mingshuang's home and saw Xia Mingshuang instructing several young people to put wheat into the jar and cover it tightly with plastic film to prevent insects from growing.

"Yunshan's wife." Captain Gu strolled over with his hands behind his back.

Xia Mingshuang looked back and saw him and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, captain."

In the past half month of harvesting wheat, everyone has worked hard and everyone has lost weight. Captain Gu is especially obvious, and he looks even thinner now.

Captain Gu showed a smile and said, "It's not hard. Wife-in-law Yunshan, you have worked hard too."

Xia Mingshuang looked at him doubtfully. Captain, something is wrong. She smiled and said, "Captain, just tell me what you have to say."

Captain Gu saw a few grains of wheat falling on the ground, stepped forward to help pick them up, and then said: "Daughter-in-law Yunshan, you have been in the commune for a long time and you know many people. Our team has lost money even when buying pesticides and fertilizers."

Xia Mingshuang: "Isn't this what we should do? I also buy rations from our team."

She knew that Captain Gu was asking for something, and he was probably asking her to help?