Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

As the sun and the moon rotate, 59 years have passed quietly.

People have endured droughts, frosts, and floods, and have persevered despite stumbling along the way.

Thanks to Li Guohua's foresight, Chaoyang Farm had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes last year, with an output of 5000 kilograms per mu. A total of more than 3000 mu of land finally harvested nearly 7000 tons of grain.

The cattle and sheep are still the same, their production cycle is not that fast, but a batch of chickens and ducks have been produced, 200 chickens and ducks.

It is sad that the food was just harvested and the New Year has not even come yet, but it was all taken away. The same goes for the chickens and ducks, all of which were taken to the meat processing plant for slaughter, and finally put on a train and headed to a mysterious place.

After being busy all year round, Li Guohua was left with nothing in the end. He felt helpless because there were too many difficulties.

In order not to dampen the enthusiasm of the farm workers, Li Guohua gave everyone a duck during the Chinese New Year, which was a consolation.

The situation here in the city is also very bleak, and is far worse than last year.

Yi Zhonghai, the highest-earning man in the courtyard, would just buy some white flour and make some dumplings during the New Year. As for the poorer families, they could only hope to have a full meal, and eating meat was a luxury.

In the 60s, it seemed as if God was going crazy again. For several months, not a drop of rain fell.

Then a major diplomatic change occurred at the top. The Soviet Union withdrew all its experts and staff, many cooperation projects were at a standstill, and the disaster became even more serious.

Due to the weak agricultural foundation, several heavy industrial bases began to run out of food reserves. Even the capital city only had seven days of food supply.

In order to cope with the difficulties, the superiors, while allocating food, set an example by reducing food supply and called on everyone to unite and overcome the difficulties.

Li Guohua's monthly fixed amount of 27 catties (22.5%) has also been reduced to catties, which is still good. Some people's fixed amount has been reduced more. For example, Siheyuan Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and others are heavy manual laborers, and their fixed amount base is large, so the reduction is even more frightening.

Somewhere in Chaoyang Farm, a bonfire was burning fiercely. Several people gathered around it, poking the fire with wooden sticks from time to time. Even though it was extremely hot, they were unwilling to leave.

"Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law!" Zhao Yunmei was lying in Li Guohua's arms, sleeping soundly.

Even when she fell asleep, her little hands still tightly grasped Li Guohua's clothes, as if she was afraid that he would run away.

"Brother, I am not your real sister yet. You don't care about me anymore after you got married!" Camellia pouted and poked the fire with a wooden stick from time to time.

"Camellia, how old are you? Yunmei is only a few years old. How can you still be jealous of her?" Li Guohua said with a smile.

Due to the shortage of food, teachers and students were hungry and the school was suspended. In addition, the food at home was not good, and the people in the courtyard were eyeing him covetously, so Li Guohua simply brought his younger sister to the farm.

As for Zhao Yunmei, that's a longer story. At the end of last year, Zhaojia Village had a good harvest, but Zhao Dalai was dismissed from his post because he was unwilling to report a higher yield.

However, the newly appointed team leader was an ambitious captain who falsely reported a lot of production. As a result, after just over a month, the village was left with no food, and people went up the mountains to dig wild vegetables and peel tree bark to fill their stomachs.

At the beginning of the year, Li Guohua also visited Zhao's parents several times. Not to mention the two old people, Zhao Yunmei was so hungry that she couldn't even cry. Li Guohua saw that this was not going to work, and wanted to let the two old people take the child with him.

As a result, Zhao’s parents said that their relatives, brothers and sisters were all in the village, and you could only help one, but not ten.

Once people are very hungry, they can do anything. If a bunch of them go to the farm to cause trouble, it will cause trouble for the son-in-law, so he might as well take Zhao Yunmei away and they can continue to stay in the village.

Seeing that the old man was determined, Li Guohua had no choice but to leave some food and take Zhao Yunmei back to the farm.

It wasn't that Li Guohua didn't want to help the people of Zhaojia Village, it was just that the farm had no more food. All the granaries were empty, and the canteen only had a few hundred kilograms of corn flour and sorghum rice.

If it weren't for Li Guohua's subsidies and the abundant vegetables on the farm, they would probably have collapsed before those outside. It would have been a joke.

Besides, Zhao Dalai has stepped down and been replaced by an unfamiliar person. If you go to help him, you will be asking for death.

"Hmph, I don't care. You just like Yunmei and not me!" Camellia said indignantly.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you my left hand. Do you want to come over and let me hug you?" Li Guohua said helplessly.

The younger sister is already 12 years old this year, but Li Guohua is still willing to spoil her. Who knows when she will grow up.

"I don't want to, you stink!" Camellia pointed at the sweat beads on Li Guohua's forehead and said with a smile.

In fact, she didn't want to hug, she just wanted to act coquettishly.

"It's done, it's done!"

Zhou Xiaohu dug out a potato and the willow branch inserted into it at once, and he shouted with joy.

Camellia quickly rummaged through the fire, found one that she liked, wrapped it in leaves, picked it up, carefully peeled the potato, blew on it, and carefully took a nibble.

"Hey, go slow, be careful of the heat!" Li Guohua reminded.

Alas, we are all hungry. These potatoes were just planted in the spring and are only the size of a child's fist. We can't take care of them now. Just eat them while we can.

"Huh, huh, got it!" Camellia was busy eating potatoes and had no time to answer him.

Li Guohua looked at the few people who were happily eating and whose mouths were full of black food, and he also laughed.

"Guohua, I knew you were eating here secretly!"

Zhang Tao and Wang Hao ran over with guns in hand.

Li Guohua rolled his eyes at them and asked, "When have I ever eaten without taking you with me?"

"What's the situation outside?" Li Guohua asked.

Due to the severity of the disaster, hungry people can do anything. The farm has thousands of acres of food, which is like a beacon in the dark night.

To be on the safe side, the textile factory asked Wang Hao to bring a large team of security personnel over, and the factory also transferred more than 50 people from the production department to join the security department.

All the people were on duty with guns, guarding the farm day and night.

"Don't worry, we've sent someone to keep an eye on her. Guohua, do you still remember Han Yuemei?" Zhang Hao said

"Remember, how is her family now?"

If Zhang Hao hadn't said it, Li Guohua would have almost forgotten about him.

"Hey, Dai Guoyi went to the northwest again a few days ago, and came back to tell me that she was gone. Not only her, but also her brothers and sisters were gone!"

Li Guohua was stunned. He still remembered her voice, appearance and smile. What a good girl.

"Oh, this damn evil God is really going to force me to death!" Zhang Tao cursed.

"Don't think too much. These problems are not something we can solve." Li Guohua shook his head and said.

There are too many regrets in life, and there are many times when we cannot make choices. The only thing we can do is to take care of ourselves first, then take care of our family, and cherish this hard-earned happy life.