People in this era would rather trust chicken butt banks than national banks. They all rely on eggs in exchange for some salt or something.
"I don't dare to take it back. My father has a bad temper and will beat me again." Li Tiezhu stuffed the egg into Old Man Li's hand and got up and ran away.
Li Laifu chased him to the gate of the courtyard. Mr. Li held the egg and said with a smile: "Grandson, stop chasing me. His father may be thanking me. The commune wanted to remove him as the village chief at the end of last year. I am not allowed to speak to anyone in the village." If we fight against him, the commune will have no choice but to withdraw."
Xiaolong, Xiaohu, and the two brats immediately stopped moving beside the old man, their eyes never leaving the egg.
"Old man, give me the eggs and I'll cook them for my eldest grandson." The old lady had seen it a long time ago.
"Milk, don't cook it. Let's just break it up and pour it into the vegetable pot. Let's eat together." He is not a kid of this era. He really boils an egg and eats it by himself? Even a group of people couldn't swallow it even if they looked at him.
"How about that?" The old lady shook her head like a rattle.
"Grandma, just listen to me!" Li Laifu took the eggs and walked towards the kitchen.
The old lady wanted to say something else, but Old Man Li said first: "Okay, the children are already eating. Besides, don't stop the children from being filial. If you just indulge them, you will spoil the children's character." .”
"Hmph! You are the only one who makes sense."
As soon as the old lady entered the kitchen, the second aunt said first, "Mom, I can't stop you! It seems like Fu has beaten all the eggs into the pot."
"Just hit him. This kid is filial! I'll put some more oil in the pot." Li Laifu was stunned when he saw the old lady holding chopsticks and going around in a jar for a few times, and then going to the big pot to rinse it. Okay, is this just draining oil?
"That can't be wasted. I'll add two more ladles of water." The second aunt went to the bucket and scooped another ladle of water into the pot.
That's it! That's it!
When the wild vegetables were mushy in the morning, Li Laifu was mentally prepared, but he was not as shocked as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law dipped her chopsticks in the oil, and the daughter-in-law immediately added a ladle of water.
Only then did he experience firsthand the age of starvation. It had only been a year since he was tortured to this point.
Let two old men force him to drink two bowls, and it was a very thick kind, Xiaolong, Xiaohu. These two boys ate them all, drank three bowls, and finally washed the water from the pot? They are all the same as clear water.
This filled me up immediately and satisfied a group of people.
"Father, mother, Laifu, we are going back first. We are too full, so we can't move around," Li Chongwu said.
Old Man Li looked out the window and saw that it was already dark: "Then go back quickly!"
Li Laifu and his grandparents were also lying on the kang. People these days just stay still as long as they are not working, and they get hungry quickly when they move around.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, Li Laifu chatted and asked: "Grandpa, my sixth brother is the village chief and he has done a good job. Why does the commune have to remove him?"
"He is a stubborn man. All the village chiefs dared to repay 10,000 jins for every 1,000 jins of grain produced, and handed over all the rations left for the villagers. Li Laoliu didn't even bother to hand over the villagers' rations first. The rations are distributed. This is obviously against the commune. How can they not deal with him? But that’s okay. People died of starvation in many villages last winter, but not in our village."
"Grandson, don't talk nonsense when you go out! Don't mention people starving to death. Reports in other villages say they died of illness, hey!"
Li Laifu was thinking that from this incident, Li Laoliu was really a good village chief.
"You damn old man, why are you telling your eldest grandson these things? If others find out, they will think that your eldest grandson has spread rumors. Go to sleep!" After the old lady finished speaking, she fanned Li Laifu with the fan in her hand. .
"Grandma, stop fanning me, I'm not hot."
The old lady was still uneasy and touched Li Laifu's head. When she saw that there was no sweat, she put down the fan.
Li Laifu entered the space with his mind and ripened ten other corn plants at once, and quickly planted the corn kernels into the ground. Now there is an entire acre of corn.
I overused my thoughts and became dizzy and fell asleep directly.
Listening to Li Laifu's snoring, the old lady smiled and said, "What a child, he fell asleep at such a big age."
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Get up in the morning, grandparents got up early,
Seeing Li Laifu getting up, the old lady smiled and said, "Grandson, wash your face quickly. Grandma will make you some wild vegetable paste."
It was impossible to have a toothbrush. Li Laifu scooped a ladle of cold water into the bucket and rinsed it twice.
"Grandson, don't vomit randomly. Vomit on the small mounds of soil at the eaves of the house. There are pumpkins grown by grandma."
Well, you can't waste even a sip of water these days.
pumpkin?
Li Laifu looked at the five or six little earthbags. Grandma, isn't this the season for planting pumpkins? "It doesn't matter what season it is now, as long as it grows enough to eat two bites," the old man said while smoking his pipe in the yard.
"This is because your grandfather and I are proud of each other. Otherwise, how dare you see other people planting a seedling?" Mr. Li didn't forget to brag.
"Don't listen to your grandpa's bragging. He doesn't have a lot of face. He has seniority," the old lady did not forget to say.
Li Laifu stood in the courtyard and looked at the mountains behind the house and said, "Grandpa, why don't the militiamen in our village go hunting in the mountains? There must be a lot of prey in such a big mountain." He was very interested in hunting. After all, he was next to Xiaoxinan Mountains. People who grew up in school have heard a lot about hunting even if they don’t know how to hunt.
"Why are you hunting? All the prey you catch is fed to the dogs. All the guns in our village are from the commune. In the past two years, when wild boars came down the mountain, our village directly shot two of them. Those bastards from the commune were given to more than 30 households in our village. Leave a set of pigs in the water.”
"Grandson, please don't run into the mountains. The wild boars in the mountains are very ferocious, and there are also blind bears this season. You are the only seedling of our old Li family. From now on, all the branches of our family will be yours," said the old man. The wife said at the kitchen door.
The old lady is keeping a close eye on this matter. After all, she gave birth to a son, and she has already felt sorry for the old Li family. This eldest grandson is a single person. If something unexpected happens, she has no shame to see her father-in-law and mother-in-law.
"Grandma, don't worry! How dare I go hunting wild boars? I just want to go in and have fun. There are no mountains near the city."
"Grandson, you are really ready to go into the mountains!" Old Man Li understood the meaning of his words.
Li Laifu said nonchalantly: "Grandpa, you can't let me come back to you and just stay in your courtyard. Then I'll be bored to death."
Old Man Li doesn't want his grandson to go into the mountains, but if he doesn't agree, what will happen if his grandson doesn't come back in the future?
"Then you have to promise grandma that you can't go deep and can only play on the side for a while." The old lady was also frightened by Li Laifu's last words. She only came back once every two years and she was afraid that her grandson would not come back in the future.
In the morning, he drank another meal of wild vegetable paste. Li Laifu felt really uncomfortable. At least half of the sorghum noodles contained sorghum shells, which made his throat hurt.
Old Li was sitting in the courtyard while the old lady put away the bowl. Li Laifu's eyes were already looking at the pumpkin seeds among the five or six soil bags.
