wear to 60s

As the saying goes, the seasons are not forgiving, and the time for farming is in a hurry. The peasants planed food in the mud, relying on God to reward them for food.

This May day, a coming heat wave wiped out the rapeseed fields all over the mountains and plains, and also turned the wheat in the fields yellow.

The wheat fields sown early, this is a good time to harvest. After transplanting the rice seedlings, the common people did not rest for long, and went back to the busy farming.

Xie Youjiu entertained Lin Shu and Chen Fachun in the morning, and in the afternoon, his second cousin bought the goods and came back. Hearing that he was going to sell fruit in Yunfeng Village, he took a tricycle to play with great interest.

The second cousin was the first to buy a tricycle in their family. With a tricycle, it is convenient to pull goods and runs faster than an ox cart. After a while, he came along the road from Yunshui Commune to Yunfeng Production Team.

The road in this mountain was opened by everyone working together after the People's Commune was established in the late 50s.Although a group of people died of starvation in those days, it did have some impact on the local area, such as building roads, digging reservoirs, and opening up wasteland.If it weren't for the people's communes, no one would be willing to build roads or dig reservoirs.

In fact, this road is not a road. It is a road dug from deep mountains and old forests, and some places have been smashed by digging walls.Although they are all dirt roads, they are obviously not as flat as the roads in the county town. We have encountered large stone bumps that have been turned over several times on the road, which cannot be completed without a special road construction team.

Xie Youjiu lay on the tricycle, was shaken up after a while, almost fell to the ground, and simply sat up.

On the tricycle, there are only three kinds of fruits that are loaded with slow-moving buckets: oranges, apples, and pears. It’s not that the second cousin only buys these three types, but ordinary people are only willing to buy these types. The rest are bananas, grapefruits, etc., yes. For ordinary people, the price is relatively expensive.

After sitting for a while, he finally saw someone, but he didn't see anyone, Xie Youjiu sighed and chewed the dog's tail grass in his mouth.

The second cousin was pedaling the tricycle in front of him, and a hearty voice came.

"Little Xiezi, give me a louder shout later."

"Understood." Xie Youjiu stretched his neck forward, and said slyly: "Second cousin, my mother didn't pay me for living expenses this week, you see I worked so hard to run with you, why don't you reward me? Count the tickets."

The second cousin laughed: "Look at you, you brat. I sold the fruit, and I'll give it to you when I get back."

"Okay, but, I'm not easy to get away with one." Xie Youjiu shrugged, sat in front, his legs were raised up, and he stretched out his hand to make a gesture, and said: "At least this much, I still have to ask for it." Great unity."

The second uncle laughed and said: "You are quite good at dreaming, your second cousin and I can't even earn so much."

Xie Youjiu smiled and said, "Hey, it's not me. I'll keep you and sell all the fruits in the car. Tonight, I will have fun with my second cousin and aunt, and try to have triplets next year."

"You kid, you're the second cousin." The second cousin raised his eyebrows and slapped him.

Xie Youjiu kept hiding, "Don't dare, dare not." Seeing the narrow road, he screamed again hastily: "Hey, second cousin, be careful, don't drive into the field. The rice transplanting field full of water will be damaged. If the seedlings are lost, compensation is a good thing, but the fruit cannot be eaten."

The second cousin laughed angrily at the startled look of this trinket, and said with a straight face: "Sit down, we will be on the production team soon."

They rode along the road all the way, and finally saw row upon row of houses, Xie Youjiu began to yell.

"I bought some fruit."

"Fresh fruit, this is the only one. It's cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative. Hurry up and buy it. After passing this village, there will be no such store."

Xie Youjiu yelled hard, standing on the tricycle, with a human-shaped horn, his voice was surprisingly loud.

Someone heard it soon, and the people working in the field also put down their hoes and came to take a look curiously.

Seeing this, Xie Youjiu shouted harder.

"Fathers and folks, come and take a look, take a look."

"Our fruits are big and round, like oranges, pears and big apples. If they're not sweet, they don't cost money."

Their tricycle stopped on the road next to the wheat field, where the people from the sixth team of Yunfeng production team were starting to harvest wheat.

Wheat is harvested twice a year. It was sown last year and can be harvested as early as May this year.

At a glance, this land covers several acres, and it is considered one of the largest lands owned by the production team. At the beginning, it was the land with the highest grain production for the landlord's family. Now it is returned to the collective, and the wheat grown there is also luxuriant.

Xie Youjiu jumped off the top of the tricycle, ran to a stone dam behind the field ridge, climbed a few steps up the human-high stone, stood on the stone, and yelled at the people in the field again.

"Hey, I'm selling fruit, pure natural, fresh and delicious fruit."

"Oranges, pears, and big apples cost only a penny a catty, so you can eat as much as you want."

In the wheat field, everyone was so hot.Although the weather is not hot, no one is not tired or hot as long as the working farmers get muddy.Who doesn't want to eat some fruit in this spare time, even if it costs a penny a catty, it tastes better than this cold water.

A woman who was cutting wheat with a sickle thought of the sweet orange juice, pursed her lips greedily, and glanced at her man.

"Master, why don't we buy a catty."

The man glanced at her, "A new wife with a body? I still want to eat fruit."

This fruit is like an egg, it is a rarity, and some new wives who have a body want to eat some sour fruit.The embarrassing woman raised her head in embarrassment, and her heart was sour and aggrieved.

An old woman binding wheat next to him said to the man: "Look at what you said, you can't eat fruit if you don't have a body. You pay a penny for a catty, and there are several in a catty. Take it as a supplement for your daughter-in-law. Much cheaper than meat."

The man pursed his lips, a little reluctant, but it was time for a break, and several women in the field ran towards the tricycle excitedly, which made the man feel embarrassed, so he had to ask the women to buy two too. .

The women all gathered around and asked about the price of the fruit. Xie Youjiu jumped down from the stone and introduced it for his second cousin: "Oranges, apples, and pears are all priced at a price of one cent per catty."

A woman took out a handkerchief from her bosom, and inside the handkerchief were several tickets that had been stored for a long time, which had become blurred, and said in pain, "Give me a catty."

Xie Youjiu glanced at the woman, smiled and said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, you can exchange any food in your family, not the rice you eat, but the millet husk left over from grinding. .”

A woman was pleasantly surprised: "Ah, our family has this thing. Fortunately, the head of the family didn't dump it in the private plot."

Another excitedly said: "Our family also has them. I'll get them right away. How do you exchange them? How much do you want?"

Xie Youjiu said: "We count by the catty, as much as you want, you can replace it with fruit."

"Great, I'll head back and carry it with me."

Quite a few women didn't buy any fruit, so they ran excitedly into the wheat fields and called their men to go back and carry the husks.

The number of people in the field decreased by half at once, Xie Youjiu took a look, and went down to the field while the second cousin was collecting money.

A penny a catty is really not expensive. There is no millet husk at home, so I used the money to buy a few to try.Under the wheat ground, there happened to be a small river flowing by. I ran to the small river to wash my hands, and then picked up the fruit and gnawed on it.

Sister-in-law Chen bought three pears, two big ones for her husband and father-in-law. She and her mother-in-law cut half of them with a sickle and shared one.Those who plan to eat in the ground have eaten the soil even when they were hungry, and they don't care so much about pears.

Sister-in-law Chen and her mother-in-law ate sweet pears, walked to the shade here, and sat down under the big tree.

Mrs. Chen hugged the Sydney pear and bit it down without covering her mouth. The full juice flowed down her chin, and she muttered, "It's so sweet." Seeing the old Lin's family sitting there resting, she said, "Mrs. Lin , why don't you buy some too, this pear is really sweet and full of water, eating it will quench your thirst."

Mrs. Lin also wanted to eat it, but what came out of her mouth was something else, she said to the sons next to her sarcastically, "I haven't eaten a pear in my life, it's not too sour, what's delicious? I'm not buying it."

Mrs. Chen frowned and said, "Hey, Mrs. Lin, what do you mean by that? These pears are really sweet. Everyone is buying them, and I didn't lie to you."

Sister-in-law Chen dragged her mother-in-law away, "Forget it, mother, let's change places. Some people just can't eat grapes and think grapes are sour."

"Grandma, I want to eat pears." Lin Fugui looked eagerly at everyone who was eating, and his mouth was almost dry.

"What to eat, no money." Mrs. Lin glared at Lin Fugui, but she looked at others eagerly, which made a girl who eats apples a little shy. She felt that the old man was saving money, so she was reluctant to buy apples, so she gave up half of them. Give the apples to Mrs. Lin.

"Grandma Lin, you can eat this."

Mrs. Lin licked her chapped lips, sneered and wished she could take it immediately, but she pretended to say, "How embarrassing."

"It's okay." The girl handed it over, but her mother grabbed her arm, and the girl frowned and said, "Mother, what are you doing?"

Her mother scolded: "You have a lot of money. You bought apples for others to eat. Do you know how much they cost? Old Lin's family can't finish eating pork. How rare are you for half an apple." The girl left.

Lin Fugui said again: "Grandma, I want to eat apples."

"Hmph, you want to eat everything." Mrs. Lin said angrily.

At this time, Xie Youjiu came over, thinking that he would see Goudaner, but after a long while, he couldn't find anyone, so he asked someone to ask.

"Excuse me, do any of you know Goudaner?"

"You're looking for Goudaner, he's not here." The man pointed to Mrs. Lin who was sitting on the back slope resting in the cool air, and said, "Here, that's Lao Lin's family, and that old man is Goudaner grandma."

"Thank you." Xie Youjiu took out an apple from his pocket, handed it to the man, and ran up the slope in a few steps.The man stared at the apple in his hand for a moment, then looked at Xie Youjiu, took a bite of the apple, shook his head and sighed: "This dog's family is lucky, you can meet any kind of good people."

Xie Youjiu approached Mrs. Lin, bowed his waist with great enthusiasm and said, "You are Grandma Lin."

Mrs. Lin was teaching Lin Fugui a lesson, she couldn't help but a voice came from above her head, she raised her head a little slower, and said in surprise, "You are?"

Xie Youjiu smiled and said, "Oh, I'm your grandson's good friend."

"Grandson?" Mrs. Lin thought, she must be a classmate Shengtian knew at school, so she happily pretended to be familiar with him and said, "So it's you, little boy, why did you come to our Yunfeng Village?"

Xie Youjiu pointed to the tricycle on the stone dam, and said in a loud voice, "See? I followed my second cousin to sell fruit."

Mrs. Lin narrowed her eyes and said, "Is the fruit from your family?"

Xie Youjiu nodded and smiled, "Yes, Grandma Lin, do you eat fruit? My fruit is very sweet."

Granny Lin shook her head with a smile, "We, we have no money, and we can't afford to buy fruit."

"Hey," Xie Youjiu said with a warm smile, "Look at what you said, grandma. I don't have any friendship with your grandson. You don't need to pay for this fruit. I'll give it to you."

Granny Lin said in surprise, "Really?"

Xie Youjiu nodded and said: "Really, I won't lie to you, you come with me, and I will pack a few bags for you to eat back."

"That's so embarrassing." Mrs. Lin said so, but she stood up from the ground in a hurry, and before she even had time to shake off the dust on her pants, she pulled Lin Fugui and followed Xie Youjiu to the direction of the tricycle.