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After Lu Zhansheng drilled the well, Wu Changde kept his word and asked someone to water the few plots of land they were in charge of for the educated youths, so that everyone could rest and record their work points.

In the next few days, all the educated youths rested.

but.

Lu Zhansheng was even busier.

Wells were drilled in the field, which greatly facilitated the irrigation work of spring plowing. Wu Changde tasted the sweetness, and immediately began to organize a group of strong laborers from the village that afternoon, trying to drill a well in each area of ​​the field.

Based on past experience, Wu Changde knows that digging a well is not just a matter of just finding a place and digging non-stop. It is very important to choose the right place. He came to ask Lu Zhansheng, so he found He Zhi.

When He Zhi spoke, Lu Zhansheng was still willing to save face, but originally he only planned to select the place and pull it down, but who would have thought that during the process of digging, there would always be problems of one kind or another, and he would have to go to the educated youth site after a while He came to ask a question, and finally got impatient, so he went directly to work as a conductor and supervisor for those people.

After another three days of exhausting work, all the wells were completed.

After the well was put into use, the efficiency of watering the ground skyrocketed, and the work was quickly completed.

After the ground is watered, there is still a process of drying the land until planting and raising seedlings. During this period, there is basically no other work to do, which is regarded as busy farming.

Lu Zhansheng was finally able to rest for a few days.

But unfortunately, the rest was not comfortable.

Speaking of which, as early as mid-April, the food for the educated youths had already begun to bottom out. They relied on the money sent by their families to go to the city to buy some, and managed to survive for a month by saving food and money. , Up to now, the food and money have been completely gone. It can be regarded as running out of ammunition and food, and I am starting to starve.

And they can only starve because they have no one to turn to.

In Shimen Village, and even the entire Bian Sui area, almost every village will encounter such a period of food shortage during the spring plowing season every year. The whole village has no food to eat. something to eat.

Among them, the relatively delicious ones grow on trees, such as tree buds, pagoda tree flowers, elm money, wild fungus, etc., but because most people in the village have already run out of food, these things have long been abandoned. ate up.

At this time, all that is left to the educated youths are leaves, bark, and some wild vegetables growing in the ground.

After the food ran out, Tong Xiaoxue and the other girls followed Wu Qingqing to dig some wild vegetables in the mountains and came back. In the first two meals, everyone encouraged each other and managed to eat a few mouthfuls, but they couldn't do it later.

Those wild vegetables that they can't name are really too bitter, and because there is no oil, they can only be boiled in clear water, sprinkle a handful of coarse salt after cooking, and then eat them dry, they can't swallow them at all.

These days, almost everyone is in a state of hunger for 24 hours. The fire in the hungry stomach is burning all day long. If you force yourself to eat a few wild vegetables, you will immediately feel worse than not eating.

This directly caused the educated youths to be very depressed, and even Lu Zhan students, who are usually the most good at having fun in hardships, couldn't get up.

If it was just him being hungry and suffering, Lu Zhansheng would not be so anxious, the key is that He Zhi is still hungry.

He Zhi used to be picky about his food, but he finally got used to being able to eat steamed buns a while ago, and he could still eat something every day, but now he didn’t even have steamed buns, so he couldn’t eat anything at all. Those wild vegetables almost made him vomit After a few mouthfuls, the eye sockets of people who are thin these days are collapsed.

Lu Zhansheng was very distressed, but he couldn't find any food anywhere. He was anxious every day like ants on a hot pot, and there was nothing he could do.

Later, after thinking about it, thinking that Wu Changde asked Wu Tiezhu to hunt a wild rabbit in the mountain before, he put his hopes on it, borrowed a soil hunting|gun from Wu Tiezhu, and went to squat in the mountain all day long.

It's just that there are very few wild rabbits. At the beginning, Wu Tiezhu spent three days lying in the mountains before he managed to catch one. Lu Zhansheng walked around the mountains for three days, but he didn't even see a rabbit hair.

One day when He Zhi went to class, Lu Zhansheng went to the mountains with his hunting/gun on his back as usual. As soon as he walked to the threshing ground, he saw an old woman who was struggling to go this way.

Lu Zhansheng remembers her as Grandma Sun who lives in the village. She is an old man who lost her child when she was young and lost her husband when she was old. It was very laborious to walk.

Seeing Grandma Sun waving at him immediately after seeing him from afar, Lu Zhansheng was stunned with some doubts, and then walked towards her.

After walking over, Grandma Sun smiled and opened the handkerchief she was carrying. Lu Zhansheng looked at it and found two eggs inside.

"This is?" Lu Zhansheng asked suspiciously.

"For you."

Grandma Sun handed the two eggs to him as soon as she spoke: "I heard that your educated youths have also run out of food, are you hungry?"

"... "

Lu Zhansheng was stunned again, then took half a step back and waved his hand: "No, I'm not hungry!"

"How can you not be hungry?" Grandma Sun said: "The children have never lived a life like ours. They can't eat wild vegetables, so how can they not be hungry."

"... "

Lu Zhansheng didn't like to push back and forth with others. Normally, he would turn around and leave after refusing, but now he was a little embarrassed to be so indifferent when facing a stooped old woman.

And just when he was hesitating, Grandma Sun had already stuffed the two eggs into his hand.

"The kids don't have enough to eat after dividing up the food. We all know that in our hearts."

Grandma Sun patted his head while talking and smiling. "Good baby, be good, eat."

The two eggs were still hot, presumably not long after they were cooked, holding the eggs in his hand, Lu Zhansheng felt as if his heart was being scalded.

In the compound before, the elders disliked Lu Zhan's rawhide and didn't like him. They would teach him a lesson when they saw him. As a result, there were almost only two states between him and the elders. Either he stared deliberately to annoy others, or It was the elders who stared and scolded him.

It was rare for Lu Zhansheng to see his kind-hearted elders, so he felt a little at a loss what to do about this sudden coldness.

"... "

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Zhansheng asked, "Grandma, there are many educated youths, why do you only give me food?"

"My baby is the youngest." Grandma Sun said to him with a smile: "It is also the most promising. She can build a house and dig a well at a young age. My baby is capable and attractive."

"... "

Lu Zhansheng never cared much about other people's compliments, but for some reason at this moment, after being praised by this elderly grandma, his mood suddenly improved a lot.

He didn't want to accept the eggs at first, because he knew that the condition of the old grandmother's house was also very bad. These two eggs were probably the only nutritious things in the house at this time.

But the old man sent them all the way. If he insisted on not being grateful, it seemed inappropriate. After thinking about it, Lu Zhansheng kept one, and then stuffed the other back into Grandma Sun's hands.

Seeing this, Grandma Sun wanted to stuff it back, but Lu Zhansheng directly held her hand. "Grandma, I take these two eggs and they are mine. Now I will give you another one of mine, and you have to take it too."

Seeing that Grandma Sun wanted to say something, Lu Zhansheng immediately said first: "Otherwise it would be unfair, and I would be sad."

"... "

Grandma Sun was a little helpless, she reached out and patted his head with a smile. "You baby."

Lu Zhansheng also rolled his eyes with a smile.

After sending Grandma Sun off, Lu Zhansheng didn't go to the mountains, but went to school with the hot egg in his mouth.

He Zhi was in class, standing on the podium in the classroom, he looked very lethargic, and his speech was weak.

Lu Zhansheng sat outside and waited.

The time between the two classes became extremely long.

After finally surviving school until noon, when the children swarmed out of the classroom, he immediately took He Zhi to their small shack, and then took out the egg from his pocket.

He Zhi asked him with some doubts: "Where did you come from?"

"Steal."

While peeling the eggshell, Lu Zhansheng said, "It was stolen from that grandma Sun's house in the village."

He Zhi looked a little helpless after hearing what he said, and reached out to pinch his face. "Don't talk nonsense."

"Haha."

Lu Zhansheng laughed directly. He Zhi was not like this in the past. Lu Zhansheng always felt that He Zhi was always prejudiced against him. If he had seen an egg in his hand in this situation before, he would not need to say it. He Zhi You will immediately think that he stole it.

But it's different now, He Zhi trusts him very much.

"Give."

After peeling the eggs, Lu Zhansheng delivered them directly to He Zhi's lips.

He Zhi frowned.

Lu Zhansheng knew what it meant at a glance, and he said directly: "Grandma gave me two, and I have already eaten them."

He Zhi frowned again.

Lu Zhansheng said again: "Really, if you don't believe me, come and check it?"

He Zhi said, "How to check?"

"Simple."

Lu Zhansheng smiled, then suddenly leaned over and kissed He Zhi, pried open his lips and teeth, and stuck his tongue in.

"... "

After a while, Lu Zhansheng backed away, panting lightly, and asked He Zhi: "How is it? Have you tasted it?"

He Zhi was probably a little dazed by him, so he curled the corner of his mouth and didn't say anything.

Lu Zhansheng handed the egg to He Zhi's hand, took his hand, and helped him bring it to his mouth.

He Zhi likes to eat food slowly, with his mouth closed and his cheeks puffing up and down, which is very interesting.

When Lu Zhansheng watched He Zhi eat the egg obediently, the anxiety in his heart finally eased a little bit, and then he thought about going to lie down in the mountains later in the evening.

I still have to hunt a wild rabbit and bring it back for He Zhi to eat.

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The author has something to say:

Lu Zhansheng: Yes, there was Xiao Chunsheng in the front, and Grandma Sun in the back. I feel that I am about to live a brand new life. There are old people on the top and young children on the bottom, and my wife is waiting for me to raise~