By the end of this year, the number of pigs will definitely be staggering.

After purchasing and then selling, the price difference can also help the supply and marketing cooperative make a lot of money.

Lao Wu locked the door of his house and took his wife out without saying a word to anyone. The two of them went out to exchange food.

Aunt Jin was quite satisfied. Even if others didn't tell her, she still felt that Lao Wu had finally achieved something. Yes, it was better to go out to find some money than to work hard. The key was to find a job for her daughter-in-law. She couldn't work in the fields.

You can no longer feed pigs at home. You can’t see clearly the crop seedlings in the field. Could it be that you can’t see clearly the pigs in the pigsty?

I asked the boss and his wife to go, but they didn't go, "We won't earn the money from the hard work."

You lazy coward! Then go hungry.

Aunt Jin said to Yingzi: "In the future, you are not allowed to give money to your father. You must give it directly to me. Otherwise, all the subsidies will be given to the boss. After two years of hardship and two years of poverty, no one will ignore him, and he will learn to behave on his own."

Already."

Yingzi agreed, and really didn’t give money to Old Man Jin. He bought cigarettes for cigarettes, and bought whatever he wanted to eat. Anyway, there are markets on both sides of the canteen, and now they are all in the neighborhood, which is very convenient. Old Man Jin didn’t spend any money at all.

necessary.

But not long after such a good business started, it started to rain. The rain continued continuously, and all business was slow. The main road was asphalt, but the small alleys were not full of water and mud.

Fortunately, most of this year's cotton has been harvested. Only the last bits of cotton bolls that were killed by frost are left, so the loss in yield can be tolerated.

It rained for another week, and the feed mills stopped production. Firstly, the feed could not be transported, and secondly, there were faults in the raw materials. I heard that a road collapsed and the road was not smooth.

Fortunately, the pig farm and chicken farm are close to the feed factory, so there will be no interruptions no matter what.

The two of them were idle at home, and the little old lady had some free time to make some fancy rice. Making dumplings, what kind of dumplings were made? I chopped two kinds of fillings, one with egg and beans, and the other with green chili pepper.

The chili stuffing was made for her and she said it was so spicy that she felt comfortable eating it.

In fact, in the past, the little old lady paid great attention to health care, and she was very restrained in eating such irritating things. But in the past year, things have been a little different. At least in terms of food, she has let herself go a little bit. She doesn't eat much.

Not much, but there are things that I want to eat but haven’t eaten yet, and now I start to cook and eat them in different ways. Even if Lin Yutong and Fourth Master are not at home to eat, the little old lady also cooks different meals for her and the children.

This has become the biggest factor behind Aunt Jin’s dissatisfaction with the little old lady.

The fourth child in her family is not so fussy.

After the package was finished, the Fourth Master only tasted one of the chili-filled ones. He hadn't even started sucking it yet and said it was spicy. Then his daughter wrinkled her face next to her and sucked the stuffed pepper with an expression on her face.

Dad feels bad.

Lin Yutong ate one, um! It tasted pretty good.

The little old lady rolled her eyes and gave half of it to her granddaughter.

The family was having a meal when Liu Zhuang came over and said, "Sister Lin, hurry up. We have notified everyone from above that the Yellow River has flooded and flooded everything under the beach. We are asked to go over and cooperate with the work."

This is a necessary procedure. When flooding occurs, people must have evacuated, but some livestock were not able to evacuate in time, but they knew how to swim and were later rescued. But I don’t know if they had any symptoms.

We need technicians from the animal husbandry station to help with diagnosis and treatment. As long as people go there, the medicine will be delivered.

Lin Yutong wiped his mouth, put on his rain boots and cloth shoes, and took his poncho to go out. The fourth master was still worried: "Is that okay?"

Lin Yutong hadn't answered yet, but people from the commune came. The Yellow River beach next to Taiping Town was also flooded. He asked the Fourth Master to leave quickly, and the town leaders all set off.

Come on! Let's go together.

The location of Taiping Town is good. As an ancient town, if the location was not good, it would not be preserved today.

Twenty miles to the east, there is a cliff tens of meters deep. Taking this cliff as the dividing point, below is the Yellow River beach, and above is the flat plain. It is said that the Yellow River has never been able to cover this cliff since ancient times.

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Therefore, no matter how big the water in the Yellow River is, people living in Taiping Town are never worried. It will never be flooded.

It's really not submerged, but the water below is about a meter or two deep.

The people from the commune came to appease the people, while technicians like Lin Yutong just used their mouths to distribute the needed medicine.

The floods in recent years have come a little late, and at least 80% of the crops in the fields have been harvested. Only some sweet potatoes and the like have not been confiscated.

The water retreated just as quickly as it came in. Within two days, it was all gone.

People like Lin Yutong and Fourth Master can't leave even if they quit, they have to finish the post-disaster work.

Here we are busy settling people, and over there people from other places, such as Ping'an Town, are pouring in. There is an endless stream. They are all pulling frame trucks, carrying buckets, dustpans, bamboo baskets and the like.

.I also saw two brothers, Jin Laosan, Jin Laoer and Jin Laotou, driving a tractor with a frame truck on the tractor. They parked the tractor on the side and asked Fourth Master and Lin Yutong to help watch. Then they took the frame truck out of the pocket of the truck.

, the three of them went downstairs.

Why did you go?

Fishing for fish, fishing for carbon, fishing for wood, whatever you catch counts.

The flood washed down a lot of things from upstream. When the water receded, many of them got stuck in the mud.

Wild fish several feet long, old turtles and tortoises weighing one or two kilograms, and carbon that may have been washed down from the mining area. This kind of carbon is not resistant to burning, but it is a free thing, so don’t pick it up with white cloth. There is also wood.

As long as it is not made of wood such as paulownia, it is not afraid of blisters, so you can still use it the same way when you pull it back.

But this is not easy. The Yellow River originally carries sediment. Once the water recedes, more sediment will settle. Some deep nests are deeper than people. If you sink in, you won’t be able to say that they are gone. Or both.

It was a father and son who went into battle. They tied one to the other with a rope. As long as they were careful, nothing serious would happen. Is it easy to just pick up the things, put them on the frame truck, and then pull them out of the mud pit? Half of the car body was sunk in.

.It takes several people to carry it out. A village helps each other. Anyway, as long as it is picked up, they will not be willing to embarrass themselves and will pick it up even if they are exhausted.

Here at the Jin family, we have to move it from the frame truck to the tractor. Everyone is tired and gasping for air. What should we do?

Fourth Master, let’s do it! Lin Yutong wanted to help, but Fourth Master refused, and pointedly looked at Lin Yutong’s belly, telling her to be careful and careful.

Lin Yutong turned around and went to get food and drink from the camp where they worked. Not everyone in a village should be given food, but at least a mouthful of hot water must be given to them.

When these people saw their acquaintances, they unloaded the items on the cart on the side of the road, asked Lin Yutong to help look after them, drank a few sips of water, and left again.

Fourth Master said to Old Man Jin, "Please don't go..."

"What's the point?" Old Man Jin interrupted Fourth Master, "Neither of them has as much experience as me. I haven't been here before when there was flooding..."

Then he left with his two sons.

After Fourth Master and Lin Yutong finish their work, the beach collecting activities here will come to an end.

It was also because the Jin family had a tractor that they harvested quite a lot. Just three to four hundred kilograms of fish, big and small, were harvested. The dead Aunt Jin and Yingzi's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had already been cleaned and pickled.

Some of them were bought sporadically by people around to try them out. Aunt Jin called Lao Wu over and dug a hole in the backyard. She covered the hole with plastic sheeting and put a pool of water in to raise it.

They will definitely be sold at a good price before the end of the year. Even if they are taken to the county town one after another to sell them, the price will not be low.

In addition, there are more than 1,000 kilograms of coal. If you burn it at home, it will be enough for the Jin family and the third family to take care of their children.

There are also some pieces of wood, no matter how fragmentary they are, Lin Yutong has never seen them.

It's a windfall.

In winter, some people from the bottom of the beach come up to look for work, and women in their forties go to small restaurants to find work for free, just three meals a day.

Some young men even gathered around places like feed mills and pig farms to see if there was any work for them.

After a disaster, life becomes more miserable than in previous years.

So, the Fourth Master had another job in the middle of winter, which was to build roads. That was to build dirt roads in the town. Every alley was built. They were not asphalt roads, gravel roads, or cinder roads. They used the motor factory.

The waste material cinder.

The road built by this thing is okay for one year. If you make do with it for two years, it will be finished in three years. But this is the lowest cost solution. Who is used? It is a group of disaster victims who are looking for work.

The salary is not high, which is saved by the commune tightening its belt.

Although there is one more job, there are two little bosses below, so the Fourth Master can totally be lazy.

It was getting cold and the children could not go out to play. Being bored in the house, Qingning picked up a bunch of large and small stones and came back. With that, he and Qingping wanted to catch the crutches.

Would it not hurt if that thing hit my hand?

The Fourth Master came to find broken tiles, smashed the tiles, and found small fragments the size of marbles. Then he polished the fragments one by one until they were smooth and light. They would not be hurt or hurt when they fell on his hands.

Bruise.

The two children played steadily on the kang.

The little old lady was very patient in making sandbags for the children, chasing after the tassels, filling them with millet, and asking them to throw them around.

There are only a few toys for such a big girl. The fourth master also found some thicker peach branches pruned from the orchard, which ones he would use to carve zodiac toys for the children.

Qing Ning could stay with her father, and the two of them could talk to each other all day long.

Lin Yutong's belly was slightly bulging. There is a family planning policy now, but it is not strict yet. Those who have a daughter for the first child are allowed to have a second child. However, if you give birth to a second child, you have to pay a fee of 300 to 50 yuan.

A fine of 100 yuan will be imposed. And if you have a rural household registration, the land will not be allocated again. The same policy applies to both parties who have public offices. A fine of 300 to 500 yuan will be imposed, and neither person will be allowed to be promoted within three years.

It doesn't matter. Anyway, if you go to graduate school next year, you will definitely not be promoted within three years.

Overall, it's pretty loose.

Because I had to pay such a price for this second child, I went to the hospital in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy. If it was not a son, I would decisively abort the baby and try again if I got pregnant again.

Like honeysuckle, now my belly is bulging again.

Yesterday, I asked Lin Yutong if he wanted to go to the hospital together. Lin Yutong said no: "It doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl."
To be continued...