Ye Fan glanced at Geng Zhiye and said, "Why don't you tell me?"
"That's what I'll say to your father-in-law when I see you later," Ye Fan said.
Geng Zhiye: "You want to be a widow, but I don't want to die. But, it's because of my wife's blessing. Otherwise, the island is full of wild vegetables and insects, and they can't sell them. The fishermen are too lazy to serve the chickens and ducks. There are no extra eggs and duck eggs, and the vegetable market has no courage. Cancel rationing.”
Ye Fan: "Let's go."
Geng Zhiye put the dishes and buns on the living room table and washed his hands. When he met Dabao head-on, Geng Zhiye slapped him on the head. Dabao was so angry that he wanted to kick his father again: "Why don't you rub your sister's hair?"
Geng Zhiye: "The second treasure is short, I need to bend down."
Erbao was so angry that he glared at his father and complained when he came into the house: "Mom, dad said I can't grow taller."
Dabao almost bit his tongue when he planned to file a complaint. How could his sister tell more nonsense than him?
Ye Fan: "Dad said you are short, you can say he is stupid and big. It's your fault for talking nonsense. Geng Erbao, mom is not deaf."
Erbao tugged at the corner of his mother's clothes: "Don't knit gloves for daddy."
Ye Fan nodded.
Erbao was very satisfied and turned around when he heard the footsteps: "Dad, you don't have gloves."
Geng Zhiye: “I don’t have thread gloves, I have cotton gloves.”
Erbao suddenly turned to his mother, did you do this?
Ye Fan stuffed a piece of fish meat into her mouth: "Your father's work unit gave it to you. I can't make the cotton-padded clothes for both of you. How can I make gloves for him? I'm not a tailor."
Erbao asked curiously: "Does the tailor make gloves?"
Ye Fan: "You don't have to be a tailor to make it. But your mother doesn't have time to learn. She has to go to work and take care of you two."
Dabao said: "I used to wear my gloves for my sister."
Erbao nodded: "Mom, I wear my brother's one, don't make me a new one."
Ye Fanxin said, based on what you said, your mother should knit you a new pair of gloves: "Mom won't tire yourself. Eat. If you don't eat, your father will eat them all."
Geng Zhiye and his three mothers are here. Hearing this, he immediately picked up his chopsticks and picked up a large piece of fish. Dabao and Erbao are very anxious. One bite of steamed buns and one bite of fish will probably be eaten by their father later. In fact, Geng Zhiye slowed down while the brother and sister were busy eating, and from time to time he would check whether the fish meat Dabao Erbao was holding had any thorns.
The two siblings were young and ignorant and didn't understand how cunning their parents were.
After drinking the egg soup, the brother and sister burped together.
Ye Fan wiped Erbao's mouth and told her to play with her brother.
It was still early before going to bed, and it was cool outside. Ye Fan didn't want to go out, so he took a handful of wool and looked at Geng Zhiye: "Help me spread it out, I'm tangled up in a ball?"
Geng Zhiye: "Who helped you tie up that ball on the bench?"
Ye Fan: "I supported Dabao."
"Go find your son!"
Ye Fan hit him with wool: "Will you wrap me up?"
Geng Zhiye: "Let me see where the second treasure has gone. It's so cold that I'm not afraid of getting sick."
Ye Fan grabbed him: "It's not too cold for them to run around. Captain Geng, please help."
Geng Zhiye turned around and asked: "Captain Geng? A soldier's duty is not to help you wind yarn."
Ye Fan was helpless: "The baby's father?"
"Didn't they make me mad to death?"
Ye Fan laughed angrily: "Don't be so stingy——"
"Am I stingy?"
"I'm stingy!" Ye Fan said helplessly, "Sir?"
Geng Zhiye couldn't help but smile.
Ye Fan couldn't help but cursed, "You're really good!" I have to shout: "Brother Geng, Brother Ye, are you okay?"
"No more?" Geng Zhiye raised his eyebrows.
Ye Fan let go: "Can't you?"
A man should accept it when he sees fit, otherwise he will be unable to get down from his house and have to stay in a guest room at night. Geng Zhiye put his arm around her shoulders: "Madam has said so, it must be done. How to pester me? Madam, please give me advice."
Ye Fan: "Just spread out the thread with your hands. I'll make it into a ball here."
Geng Zhiye opened the yarn: "Why does it look familiar?"
Ye Fan: "I took apart your sweater and made a new one another day. These threads are not warm enough to be used as gloves. But they are suitable for the first and second babies to wear now. Wear cotton gloves in the twelfth lunar month. The ones I got from home at the beginning of this year can still be worn for two years. ”
Geng Zhiye: "Aunt Yu did it?"
Ye Fan nodded: "I make them for Huihui every year. She said that little girls like new ones, and she must have them if they have them. Xiaoqin said that Aunt Yu didn't make them when she was a child?"
Geng Zhiye thought about it carefully: "Aunt Yu often gave her mother money, and she also secretly stuffed things from her father to her mother. The old lady might be afraid that her father would be angry, so she rushed to do all the work when she was taking care of Xiaoqin, just like a mother-in-law. One time when my eldest brother came back to see Dad and Aunt Yu not helping, he caught them and scolded them, saying that the country had only been established a few years ago. I forgot about my background and really regarded myself as a high-ranking official and an official's wife. It seemed that from then on, the old lady did the cleaning and cleaning. They were not at home, and I came home early from school. . Sometimes Aunt Yu’s sister-in-law and sister-in-law come to the city to help us unpack and wash our quilts.”
Ye Fan knew that Yu Wentao's mother had stayed in the Geng family for a long time, but he didn't know that there was this: "No wonder Aunt Yu is afraid of eldest brother. It turns out that he even scolded his own father."
"Boss is always scolded by everyone." Geng Zhiye said, "When I first arrived here, I wrote a letter saying that I was a border guard, not a local emperor. What is there about this island that I should be worried about? In his eyes, even money can't buy it. Eels and big crabs are not rare for fishermen to eat. ”
Ye Fan asked: "Do you dare to say that in front of your elder brother?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Why don't you dare? He can't beat me now." He sat next to her, "I don't argue with him not because I'm afraid of him. I respect my elders. Just like I respect my father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law."
Ye Fan nodded: "I understand, you don't respect my sister-in-law!"
"It's deliberately nitpicking." Geng Zhiye looked at the thread in his hand, "It's such a cold day, so I'd better knit during the day."
Ye Fan: "No weaving tonight."
"Then you will knit me a pair later? You have knitted them for me before."
Ye Fan turned to him: "Are you sure?"
Geng Zhiye: "I'm sure! Do you want to talk about the scarf we had before we got married? My mother-in-law urged me to ask you to knit it."
Ye Fan was shocked: "You, you - why did you even ask about this?"
Geng Zhiye smiled and shook his head.
"What did my mother say?" Ye Fan asked, "What did she think?"
Geng Zhiye: "You are so good in your mother's eyes. My mother-in-law must want to say that you cherish Ye Fanfan, but she can't say it clearly, so she just said that you have only knitted scarves for me."
Ye Fan: "If you didn't mention it, I would have forgotten it. Who knitted the sweater I took apart?"
"The two sleeves were knitted by Xiaoqin." Geng Zhiye said and couldn't help but laugh. "Xiaoqin said it herself. When she saw the sweater on me, she asked if it fit me and whether the sleeves were too small. There are also woolen pants, too. Did you two knit it?”
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him and couldn't help but mutter: "Why are the people around me talking so loudly about each other?"
Geng Zhiye leaned against her: "Ye Fanfan, Ye Fanfan, Ye Fanfan -"
"Where are you chanting sutras?" Ye Fan was annoyed, "Have you finished knitting?"
Geng Zhiye tutted: "It's so difficult."
Ye Fan glared at him: "Is it over?"
"It's over!" Geng Zhiye sat up straight. After Ye Fan finished wrapping the yarn, he went out and asked the two children to come back and wash their faces and feet.
Dabao was finally able to participate in older children's activities. When he was having fun, he asked his annoying father to go play with his mother.
Liao Miaomiao spent a day learning new things. After dinner, she didn't want to read and chatted with little sisters of similar age outside. Hearing Dabao's words, Liao Miaomiao subconsciously looked at Geng Zhiye and saw that he turned around and went home without saying a word: "Dabao, your dad is looking for help."
Geng Dabao said loudly: "My dad has no help."
Liao Miaomiao: "Where is your mother?"
Dabao, who was fighting cocks with his legs, stopped, hesitated for a second, and grabbed his sister: "Go home."
In the courtyard, Ye Fan came out of the house. Dabao pushed Erbao gently, and Erbao ran over and hugged her mother's legs: "Mom, I'm sleepy."
Ye Fan snorted: "What a coincidence? Mom also wants to teach my brother English words, so she asked dad to teach you Russian. Since you are sleepy, mom and dad will watch you two sleep."
Erbao turned to look for his brother, what should he do?
Dabao: "If mommy wants to teach me, I can study for half an hour."
After the exercise, their brains were excited. Ye Fan let them study for half an hour. When they were mentally exhausted, he washed their faces and brushed their teeth, tucked them into bed, and fell asleep in ten minutes.
Geng Zhiye pointed at his son’s sleeping face: “Tian Tian!”
Ye Fan grabbed his hand: "What are you doing? Are you trying to comfort me when you cry in anger?"
"He's still crying at this age?" Geng Zhiye curled his lips.
Ye Fan dragged him out and gently closed the door: "How old is Dabao? He will only be seven years old in the twelfth lunar month. Can you make a fire at the age of seven? Dabao can make a fire, and he also knows how to brush his shoes and wash his socks."
Geng Zhiye sneered: "You can't even wash your face, but you still wash your socks?"
"..." Geng Dabao didn't wash his face properly because he wanted to play in the morning and thought it was a waste of time to wash his face seriously. The reason why he brushed her shoes and washed her socks was because he saw her washing clothes. Dabao wanted to help, not to play, so he could patiently rub and wash her. Ye Fan asked: "Can you stop teasing him and praise him more?"
Geng Zhiye: "You alone are enough."
Ye Fan: "Then don't blame him and Erbao for being angry with you."
Geng Zhiye shook his head: "As long as you don't mean to make me angry."
Ye Fan pushed him away hard: "Go aside!"
Geng Zhiye went to the kitchen to get hot water and the two of them soaked their feet.
The next weekend, Ye Fan led Dabao and Erbao up the mountain to pick oranges.
In the past, orange trees grew wildly on the mountain, producing oranges that ranged from sweet to sour. Last year and this year, agricultural experts carefully instructed the members to supplement fertilizers and prune them, and cut down the fruit trees that could not be saved. As a result, they produced more fruit in the past two years than before, and they were not afraid of sour and bitter fruits.
Ye Fan picked out a few unsightly ones and put them in the second treasure bag. Erbao was disgusted: "Mom, I don't want this. It's broken!" He took it out and gave it to her, "Give it to daddy."
Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "I really love your dad. You don't understand anything. Do you know why you don't look good?"
Dabao: "It's eaten by insects. The orange peel is thick but not broken."
Ye Fan asked again: "Are bugs smart? For example, in our vegetable field, do the fresh bugs eat which ones?"
Dabao suddenly realized: "Are these oranges sweet?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "Not necessarily. It depends on the growing environment. If these oranges face the sun, and they should grow well but don't, it means there is something affecting it. Look at the orange peel, golden yellow, it means there is enough sun." Break it open. One, "It's really sweet." Dabao Erbao put two pieces of orange in his mouth, "Although love comes from the heart, people with ugly faces are not very kind, but it is not so absolute. Good-looking people may also be big liars. They will use your love for him to trick you into selling them. ”
The two children nodded thoughtfully.
Liao Miaomiao was picking oranges behind her mother and son. When she heard this, she asked her mother in a low voice: "Can Dabao and Erbao understand?"
Zhuang Qiuyue: "I don't understand now, but I will understand when I grow up in two years." Chao Yefan looked at her and saw that she continued to cut oranges, "People still know how to teach children. I knew to remind you not to be deceived."< br>
Wan Siqin came over with a basket: "Me too. Fortunately, I went to a girls' school for a few years." Zhuang Qiuyue was startled, "You - are here?"
Wan Siqin didn't like to deal with people in the past. She felt that people talked about nonsense and did not do anything serious all day long. Liu Guihua, who was not doing anything serious, sold duck and goose feathers for eighty yuan. Wan Siqin was envious and had to change her views on others.
Wan Siqin is not as familiar with the sweet-scented osmanthus as Liu. She was embarrassed to say that she had heard that the oranges were sweet this year, so she came to pick a few to taste. She said that several of her children saw Miaomiao and Dabao going up the mountain, and they also made a fuss up the mountain.
Zhuang Qiuyue: "My little sister also saw Dabao going up the mountain and making a fuss about going up the mountain. Let's help them pick it first, and then we can pick out the ugly ones for us to eat."
Wan Siqin couldn't help but ask: "Didn't Accountant Ye say that things that don't look good are also sweet?"
Zhuang Qiuyue: "People in the north don't understand. Besides, if you're buying it to visit relatives, people would rather have something that looks good but doesn't taste good."
When harvesting oranges last year, Wan Siqin saw that Zhuang Qiuyue brought back a lot of oranges, and she still muttered in her heart that she had the nerve to grow them with such hard work. At this moment, Wan Siqin was a little uncomfortable, worried that Zhuang Qiuyue would see that she had disliked her for being greedy. "I'll go over there and have a look." Pointing to the tree in the distance.
Zhuang Qiuyue nodded: "Miaomiao and I are enough here."
Liao Miaomiao climbed up the tree: "Mom, you can pick her up from below."
Dabao looked back and said, "Mom, I'll pick it from the tree!"
Ye Fan pushed him back and said, "You are only as tall as me when you climb a tree. I can reach out and pick it. Do you want you to waste your time?" Cut off a few, "basket!"
Dabao pulled the basket angrily: "Mom, don't be too fierce. Being fierce doesn't look good."
Ye Fan: "Does fierceness have anything to do with good looks?"
Dabao nodded: "The face is hideous, how ugly it is."
Ye Fan asked curiously: "Where did you read the idiom?"
Dabao: "Am I eager to learn?"
Ye Fan was too lazy to talk nonsense to him and asked him to look at Erbao. Dabao wanted to say no need to look, but when he turned his head, his sister was gone. Dabao was very panicked and wanted to call his mother. Erbao came out from behind a club member. Dabao breathed a sigh of relief, went over and grabbed Erbao and told him: "Don't run around!"
Erbao saw that he was very angry and handed the orange over: "Brother, I found it for you."
"It's useless. I should find a rope to tie your hands with mine." Dabao said with his eyes widened. "If you run around again, I'll lock you up at home."
Ye Fanxin said, you are so good at talking, but I have never seen you obedient. "Dabao, ask my sister if she is tired. If you are tired, sit down and rest for a while."
Dabao looked at his sister, are you tired?
Erbao nodded. Dabao found a place with many leaves and sat down with his sister to eat oranges.
Ye Fan cut six baskets and was sweating from exhaustion, so he took a bag of crooked melons and cracked dates and led the big treasure and the second treasure down the mountain. When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw Su Yuanhang holding a book and calling each other. Ye Fan asked Dabao Erbao to wait while she said a few words to Su Yuanhang.
When the members who were talking about the conversation heard this, they said: "You guys talk first."
Ye Fan walked over and said, "It's not a big deal. Su Yuanhang, pick a train of skins first. You can follow them for shipment tomorrow. Go to the city and call the Shencheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative to ask if they want oranges. Call Su Yuncheng and Su Duofu later. Bring twenty pounds and let the people from Shencheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative try it at the station.”
Su Yuanhang: "There is not enough to sell in the capital, so why sell it to Shanghai?"
Ye Fan asked the members: "Is this year's harvest better than last year?"
The members nodded.
Ye Fan: "Whatever we sold to the capital last year, we will return to them this year. The extra lotus seeds and oranges will be sold to Shencheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative. The capital is too far away from us. In the long run, we still need to have a good relationship with Shencheng. If clothing factory When people eat our oranges and lotus seeds, they will think of us, and they will definitely come to collect duck and goose feathers next year. Also, it is cost-effective to transport bayberries or loquats that cannot be transported long distances to Shanghai.”
The members couldn't help but said: "Yuanhang, Accountant Ye is right. The citizens of Shencheng are also rich. Just pick loquats and bayberries in the afternoon, load them into the truck at night, and sell them without delay in the next morning. If they are shipped to the capital, they will be sold in the truck." It will be ruined all day and night.”
Ye Fan: "But this kind of thing won't last long. We still need to have factories and develop our own characteristics. For example, the production of canned fish. Things like shrimp skin, seaweed, dried eels, one and a half pounds, packed one by two. The cost will increase a bit. Even though it’s more expensive, some people buy it to visit relatives, and now they almost always buy it to eat at home.”
Su Yuanhang couldn't help but said: "We have no money."
Ye Fan: "If you find an opportunity next year, you can file a report and ask the superiors to spit out all the money we have handed over over the past few years."
The member's heart skipped a beat and he said hurriedly: "Accountant Ye, no - you, please think about this again. It's impossible to spit out what you eat. Don't end up not getting your money back, and you'll be fired. We've been here for a few years I’ve saved some money, so don’t worry.”
The members who came down carrying oranges also said: "Accountant Ye, every family has some spare money now. No one will buy things next year, and we will not be hungry. It will be okay if the factory is built in two years."
Ye Fanxin said that if he didn't build the factory before the reform and opening up, and then asked the superiors for money, the superiors would definitely ask the members to find a solution on their own. "I just said it casually. I didn't say I'd report it after the new year. Maybe at the end of next year. You guys are scared." Ye Fan smiled and shook his head, "Get busy. Erbao is sleepy, I'll go home first."< br>
Several members of the club waited for Ye Fan to leave and then advised Su Yuanhang: "This is good now."
Su Yuanhang: "Accountant Ye takes one step at a time and looks at ten steps. I heard her right. Besides, Accountant Ye doesn't do it just because anyone wants to do it."
The members thought that Accountant Ye's father and brother were very powerful. But the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Several members still asked Su Yuanhang to persuade Ye Fan. If they couldn't help it, they asked Su Duofu. He used to do business a lot and knew a lot. He also agreed that this factory could be built.
Of course Su Duofu agrees with repairing the factory. The food factory can't move far now with a hammer here and a stick here and there. Unless you just make a few years of money. Ye Fan will definitely be transferred with Geng Zhiye in a few years. She wants to build a factory now for the long-term consideration of the islanders.
When Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng returned from the capital, Ye Fan divided the money and asked Su Yuanhang to prepare a cart of oranges, lotus seeds and seafood to be sent to Shanghai.
After the goods were sent out, Ye Fan took advantage of the fact that Dabao and Erbao didn't need to be taken care of at school. She rode a three-wheeler and drove Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng to the five-star brigade in the middle of Hengshan Island: "This brigade has no dock, unlike the Lotus brigade. There are lotus roots, but unlike several brigades in the south that can grow fruits, they will set up factories here later.”
Su Duofu: "There is a lot of water here, so you can raise chickens, ducks and geese. The eggs and duck eggs can be made into preserved eggs or salted eggs, and the duck and goose feathers can be sold."
Ye Fan: "The shore supply and marketing cooperative wants live chickens, ducks and geese. Are the members willing to kill ducks and geese every three days to collect their feathers?"
Su Duofu shook his head: "Before August 15th, comrades from the supply and marketing cooperative complained to me. If they weren't worried about being sued, they would still be alive. If you can't sell everything in one day, you don't have to worry about the smell."
Ye Fan: "There seems to be some mountainous land here. What are you growing on the mountains?"
Su Yuncheng: "I've been here before. It used to be wild bayberry. It's very big, bigger than a quail egg, but very sour."
Ye Fan: "Aren't there agricultural experts? We don't need them at this time. We can wait until they return to the city to invite them? Are they still willing to come back? Are there any loquats? The biggest problem with Hengshan Island is that it has no characteristics. Su Yuncheng, why did I accept you at that time?"< br>
Su Yuncheng thought about it: "You say I am young and can stay up all day and all night?"
Ye Fan looked at Su Duofu.
Su Duofu: "I have done business, how can I deal with people?"
Ye Fan: "This is what you are good at. We need to be able to grow seedless oranges, loquats with small stones and sweet bayberries as big as table tennis balls. Who wants to run a food factory? Just sit at home and wait to collect the money!"
The two of them have never seen an orange tree without seeds, nor have they seen a bayberry as big as a table tennis ball. The two looked at each other, and Su Duofu said: "Accountant Ye, dreams are not fantasy."
Ye Fan: "Have you ever believed that a sack of duck feathers could be sold for dozens of dollars?"
Su Duofu had only seen duck feathers exchanged for candy. If anyone tells him that a pound of duck feathers can be sold for ten or twenty yuan, he will say that the person is dreaming.
Ye Fan: "So let's try it." Seeing the river not far away, "Can't lotus roots be grown here?"
Su Yuncheng asked the captain of the five-star brigade: "Some places are so deep that the heavy rain during a typhoon can cover the lotus leaves. The amount of work to drain into the sea is too large, and it will take many years to dig holes by humans, so it is not feasible."
Ye Fan walked over and it looked like a big lake. She finally understood how such a big island could have so few people. It turns out that there is really not much arable land. "Let's go into the village and have a look." Ye Fan said.
The village is similar to other brigades, with houses here and there, some built against the mountains and some built near the water. Anyway, it is different from the rows of villages in the north.
After looking around, there was nothing special. Ye Fan went out from the other end of the village and couldn't help but stop when he passed the small bridge. The single-hole bluestone bridge was very characteristic of Jiangnan. "Is the bridge old?"
Su Duofu: "I was there when I was a child. Maybe it was cultivated in the late Qing Dynasty."
Ye Fan: "There is a lake to the north and a river to the south. The river leads to the sea?"
Su Yuncheng shook his head: "Actually, it used to be a ditch. It's not clear where it leads. It's definitely not the sea. People used to get water from the river. How can we drink when it leads to the sea."
Ye Fan forgot for a moment that the sea water was salty, "Let's go." Suddenly an idea flashed in his head. He didn't know if it was possible: "Su Yuncheng, you seem to know the Five-Star Brigade very well?"
Su Yuncheng: "I have a junior high school classmate here. In the past, I didn't have to compete for work points during the winter and summer vacations, so I often played with him."
Ye Fan pointed to the endless lake to the north: "You said some places are very deep, do you mean some places are very shallow?"
In the past, Su Yuncheng and his classmates caught eels, looked for crabs, made water chestnuts, and collected chicken head rice in the lake: "It used to be very shallow. I heard from my classmates that when people in the village needed soil to build houses, they came here to dig. On rainy days, the soil on the edge is washed into the water, and the lake gradually becomes wider, shallower where there is more silt, and deeper where there is less silt.”
Ye Fan: "If rice is planted next year and everyone except those who go fishing are free, and the captain of the Five-Star Brigade asks everyone to dig a lake, will the members be willing?"
Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng didn't understand why this happened, so their faces were full of confusion.
Ye Fan went to the roadside and squatted down, drawing a circle on the ground: "If this was the lake in front of us, the silt would be dug out and not transported out, but piled in a shallow place. You can grow things above the water. Rice will definitely not work, but You can grow taro or sweet potatoes.”
Su Yuncheng frowned: "Is this more land?"
Ye Fan stood up: "One piece of land can harvest hundreds of kilograms of sweet potatoes. Enough to feed a family for dozens of days." Looking at the calm lake, "We can't wait for God to give us food."
Su Yuncheng agreed with this and couldn't help but nod.
Su Duofu couldn't help but think that if Ye Fan were someone else, he would leave in a few years, so there would be no need to bother him. "Can low-lying areas in other places be repaired in this way?" Su Duofu asked.
Ye Fan: "Like the Lotus Brigade, it's not necessary if you can grow things."
Su Duofu pondered for a moment: "I have dealt with the captain of the five-star brigade. When I met him at the end of the year when I was receiving goods, I talked to him. If he didn't agree, should I tell you what you said?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Okay. Get in the car. Go back to the food factory or go home?"
The car is at the food factory, and Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng want to go back to the food factory. Halfway through, Su Yuncheng realized that the factory location had not yet been determined: "Accountant Ye, where will the factory be set up?"
Ye Fan: "At the foot of the mountain on the side of the road. Go back and call Commander Geng to report and blow up a piece of land to build the factory. Farmland cannot be requisitioned. It will be inconvenient to build in the village. Over time, it may make people think that the Hengshan Food Factory belongs to the Five-Star Brigade. . I can’t leave you with a lot of hidden dangers in just a few years.”
Su Duofu finally realized the difference between people.
In the past ten years, Su Duofu had resented the confiscation of ships. At this moment, Su Duofu felt relieved - he was not the only one who was confiscated. This happened all over the country. Others could face it calmly, so why couldn't he? I feel sorry for myself every day, my life is not good, and my children cannot be taught well.
The next day, Su Duofu rode Su Yuanhang's 28th big bar to the Five-Star Brigade and asked him if he could mobilize members to dig the lake. Years ago, boats were used to mark out the shallowest parts of the lake with bamboos, and construction was started when the weather warmed up after the Qingming Festival.
The captain of the five-star brigade was not at home yesterday. When he came back, he was very upset to hear that Accountant Ye had come. After Su Duofu finished speaking, he asked: "What's Accountant Ye's idea?"
Su Duofu: "Since I guessed it, I won't say much. Accountant Ye will be gone in a few years. Our quality has nothing to do with others, but they are still willing to take care of us. They must really hope that we can live a prosperous life and realize modernization as soon as possible." ”
The captain of the five-star brigade nodded: "Forget it if you don't know what's going on. You can't blame others for having too much trouble."
Su Duofu: "Then you go ahead with the arrangement and forget about Accountant Ye? The lazy guys in your team must have objections."
The captain of the five-star brigade is nearly fifty years old. He has plenty of life experience and knows how to make arrangements.
The commune members have always been envious of other brigades for their docks, big ships, and agricultural experts planting fruit trees. There have been several carts of goods in the past few days, and they are so greedy that they are going to waste their time. If you ask them to clean up the land at this time, they will definitely be willing to see more food in the coming year.
The next day, the Five-Star Brigade asked all members to go to the lake for a meeting.
The young members thought it was unnecessary. The older people were hungry and scared, so they supported the captain regardless of the amount of land.
In the end, the minority obeyed the majority. The captain led people to chop thin bamboos and rowed a boat to mark the shallowest places. Throughout the winter, members of the commune talked about how to reinforce the high piles of soil during their free time, worrying that they would not be able to grow crops in the silt.
Then again, how will you know if you don’t try.
After the New Year, the Five-Star Brigade packed up the iron wire barrels and boats to prepare for digging the lake two months later. Geng Zhiye, Political Commissar Liao and the Chief of Staff took turns leading the breeding team of 20 people to the martyrs' graves, raising the tombs, building steps, and surrounding areas. Sure, trees were planted where trees should be planted, and weeds were weeded where needed. At the end of March in the Gregorian calendar, the tomb of the martyrs, where hundreds of people were buried, took on a new look, like a thatched house turned into a large tile-roofed house. Members of the commune couldn't help but walk softly when passing by.
On April 3rd, the weekend, Geng Zhiye took Ye Fan there: "How is it?"
Ye Fan: "This is decent. It used to be a pile of dirt. It's been a long time and I don't know who is buried underneath. By the way, the day after tomorrow is Qingming Festival, right? Tell the school tomorrow and ask the teacher to take the students to visit the grave."
Geng Zhiye: "We just finished cleaning."
Ye Fan: "Patriotic education!"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Yes!"
Ye Fan pinched him and said, "There is no place to go without formality."
Geng Zhiye: "My comrades who have never met before won't mind. Let's go. If Dabao and Erbao can't be found, we should go play things they usually don't dare to play."
(End of chapter)