60s Splendid Life

The ground became soft after the rain. Taking advantage of the time after dinner these few days, Lu Jin spent some time every day to re-turn the small vegetable garden in the yard.

Not to mention, despite such a small piece of land, there is a lot of work to do.

In addition, he is not very used to farming, and he is not very proficient in holding a hoe. Naturally, he is much slower than others in doing the work. It took him three or four days to work on such a small piece of land. It was time to sort it out, and Lu Jin was going to plant two rounds of vegetables first, and then melons.

He works here and a few children at home will come to help, but he doesn't have much work here, so he lets a few children play on the side, and he does it by himself.

"You haven't finished this yet? Do you want me to help you?"

"No need, it's almost ready."

He was working inside, and his sister-in-law Xiumei brought two children to their house to play. When she saw him working and wanted to help, Lu Jin refused.His sister-in-law, Xiumei, was standing outside talking to him, and she talked about their sister-in-law, Lu Jianhong, "She is too outstanding for a girl's family to act like this in the village, and she is a gossip. "

"She's not afraid of being gossips about her, so we can't control her."

"You're right."

Lu Jin didn't have a good impression of the people in the Lu family's old house. Their little aunt was never a woman who cared about her own reputation, and they couldn't care less about other people's reputations, or what other people said. up.But hearing Wang Xiumei say that some men on bicycles came to their village today, he remembered seeing Lu Jiankang with those bastards in the town last time, and asked him if sister-in-law Xiumei had seen anyone.

"I didn't see the person, but I heard from people in the village. At that time, there were many people sitting at the entrance of the village. Many people saw her coming back in a man's car." Wang Xiumei thought that Lu Jin didn't believe her. After speaking, he quickly moved out the witnesses in the village.

"Oh, forget it if you don't see it." After loosening the ground, Lu Jin put down the hoe in his hand, picked up the bag hanging on the bamboo, took out the vegetable seeds inside, opened it to check, and was sure it was cabbage seeds Finally, he grabbed a small handful and slowly sprinkled it on the ground.

Seeing that Lu Jin had sown so many seeds, Wang Xiumei stood by and shouted, "Don't sow too densely, it won't grow well if it is too dense."

"It's okay. If it's secret, I'll pick some out and plant it outside." Lu Jin deliberately kept it a little secret. He saw that the yard next door was unoccupied, and there was also a small open space there. He wanted to reclaim the open space next door. One piece has been replanted and used as vegetables, and then we will see where we can find land in front of and behind the house, and we can grow more.

Seeing the people standing outside, Lu Jin thought that instead of looking for places by himself, he might as well ask his sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, do you know where there is space to grow vegetables? I want to grow some vegetables."

Wang Xiumei saw that although the vegetable garden of Lu Jin's family was not big, the vegetables grown should be enough for their brothers and sisters. When she heard that Lu Jin was still looking for land to grow vegetables, she felt a little strange and asked: "How much do you want to grow? Why do you have too many vegetables? How much vegetables can be eaten by just a few people in your family. If your family doesn’t have enough to eat, you can go to our vegetable garden to pick them. We grow so many vegetables that we can’t finish them.”

"Didn't I think that we should grow more, so we can make sauerkraut and sun-dried vegetables at that time? The sauerkraut and dried vegetables that we made last year have been eaten all winter and there is not much left. If we don't grow more now, we can wait for summer vegetables It’s not easy to grow bugs, we can grow some now, anyway, these things won’t go bad after they’re done, and it doesn’t matter if they’re eaten until the end of the year.” Lu Jin knew that there would be more in a few months. Educated youths in the countryside, there will definitely be a shortage of food in the countryside for a period of time, and the vegetables they grow at this time can become food for their hunger.

It's just that he can't tell anyone else about this matter except himself. The only way is to encourage people around him to grow a little more food.

Fortunately, after his hard work some time ago, he led many women in the village to pick wild vegetables and dig bamboo shoots. Now, as long as people in the village are not too lazy, there should be pickled fresh bamboo shoots and dried bamboo shoots at home. There are a lot of sun in his own home, and some he took back from the outside and stored them in the space.

Wang Xiumei also thought it made sense when she heard it, "There should not be much sauerkraut and dried vegetables that our family made last year. When I go back, I will discuss it with my mother and see if our family also wants to grow some vegetables."

"If you have land, let's have more varieties. I'm afraid of eating too much. If you can't finish it, I can help you take it to the city and sell it." The latter sentence Lu Jin said in a low voice, afraid The children at home are not sensible and will go out and talk to others.

"Sister-in-law, if you have time, go and ask me. If anyone has land that can grow some vegetables, they can bring it to me in exchange for something." Instead of working alone, it is better to mobilize the women in the village to work together. Now the green vegetables in the countryside are really cheap. For ten yuan, he can buy half a house of vegetables and go home to store them.

Yes, why should he work so hard to farm at home when he can buy something with money?Thinking about it this way, Lu Jin felt that his brain was not very good.

"Okay, I'll ask you later." Who can refuse something that can be exchanged for money?At least Wang Xiumei couldn't refuse.

"Oh, yes, sister-in-law, when you are free, go and tell brother Cheng Lin to help me buy a batch of chili peppers." Lu Jin remembered that he didn't have much chili sauce in stock. The business was so good during the period of years ago that all the goods in stock were sold out.Anyway, chili sauce is resistant to storage, the longer it is stored, the more fragrant it will be. It is not afraid to sell the amount stored for a year until this time next year, so he wants to buy more chili peppers.

"Okay, I'll see if I have time tomorrow, and I'll go back to my mother's house to help you." Wang Xiumei thought that she would not have much time to go back to her mother's house after the next year, and she would go to her mother's house to chat with a few sister-in-laws when she turned around. Chat, ask a few sisters-in-law if they want to grow vegetables.There are not many opportunities to make money in the countryside these days, and they finally have an opportunity, but they have to hurry up.

The two of them chatted for a while.

The sun set in the west, and seeing that it was getting dark, Wang Xiumei took her two sons home.Lu Jin followed the man out, and watched the man enter the courtyard next door, before closing the courtyard door with his backhand and pulling the latch behind him.

***

In the evening, after the three children took a bath and put their shoes on the small table on the kang, Lu Jin took the clothes and went outside to take a bath.

When he returned to the house from the outside, he saw that the three children in the house were not writing but listening to the radio.It happened that the news was broadcasting at this time, and the three children surrounded the radio, listening to the voices of the people talking inside.

I just don't know if they are listening so earnestly, if they understand it.

"Have you finished your homework?"

"Brother finished writing."

"Brother, have you finished taking a shower?"

"Ah."

Lu Jin has no objection to the radio that the children listen to for a while every day, and even he himself listens to the news every day. Listening to the radio is the only way for them to get outside information in the countryside.And at this time, there is no newspaper subscription business in the countryside. If you want to read newspapers, you have to go to the town to sell them.

It's just that from the analysis of the information obtained from the news broadcast on the radio every day, Lu Jin knew that they were getting closer and closer to that special historical period, which made him feel terrified and at the same time felt a lot of pressure , He didn't know what he could do for this era and change something when he came here.In the end, Lu Jin found that he could do nothing, and he could not change history. This made him feel powerless. No one can change history. track is happening.

When he turned off the radio and went to bed, Lu Jin was still thinking about this problem while lying on the bed. The more he thought about it, the more powerless he felt, and the more he thought about it, the more fear and pressure he felt.

"Brother." Suddenly, a soft little body rolled into his arms, the child interrupted his meditation and pulled him out of his own world.

"Well, what's the matter, baby." Lu Jin then turned his attention to the child in his arms. The oil lamp on the table was blown out, and the room was completely dark, so he couldn't see the child in his arms clearly. I can only touch the child's body with my hands and ask what's wrong with the child.

Who knew that the child just hugged his waist with two small hands, buried his head in front of his chest, shook his little head, and softly called "Brother" again, and there was nothing else to say.

"Brother." Chenchen, who was sleeping on the other side, heard her younger brother calling him, and also rolled over to compete for favor.

Soon the two brothers will become you push me, I want to come.

Little Bao'er, who was sandwiched between the two older brothers, yelled and stretched out his hand to push back to hold down his older brother.

"Okay, okay, sleep well, don't make a fuss, lie back in your own place, Chenchen, I'm going to crush my younger brother." Lu Jin pushed another little boy who came to them in the dark Head, push people away.

After the first lunar month, the weather was not so cold, so my sister moved from their house back to her own room to sleep, and they opened the curtain hanging in the middle.The kang is big enough for the three of them to sleep, and two more should be fine.

Lu Haochen, who was rejected by his elder brother and younger brother, had better go back to his own place and go to sleep.

Only little Bao'er was still acting like a baby in his brother's arms, hugging her brother and refusing to let go, so Lu Jin had no choice but to let the child hold him, and touched the child's back with his hands, once in a while.He also reached out to touch another younger brother who was puffing up alone, and smoothed the little boy's puffing up.