In the Lou family yard, the twins and grandma were both there. Lou Yanqiu sat with Grandma Lou at the door of the main hall to make buns, one handed over cotton cloth and the other pasted. Lou Junlin sat at the door of the stove to chop pig grass.

The courtyard faces three main houses in the south, with a main house in the middle and a main house on the east and west sides. Grandma Lou led her sisters to live in the west, Lou Jingping and his brothers lived in the east, and across the alley from the east house are the Lou family's stove and miscellaneous houses. It is a mud house lower than the main house. There is also a large loquat tree in the yard.

The Lou family was not in good condition, so they gritted their teeth and raised two pigs.

The policy of live pigs in Huangqiao Town is to sell one pig. If the family raises two pigs, they have to sell them to the state. The other one can be left to kill meat and eat them, or they can be sold partly freely. After killing the pigs at the end of the year, it will be exchanged for money. Lou Yanqiu and Lou Junlin go to school. Grandma Lou's daily medical expenses must be snatched from these two pigs.

In recent years, people's lives have not been easy and pigs have not been easy. No matter how hard the Lou brothers and sisters try to make pigs and find food for pigs, the pigs at home can only be raised to about 80 kilograms a year. This is the one that is raised in the village. If you unfortunately encounter swine fever, you may have been wasted a year of hard work.

The rice picked up by Lou Yanni still needs to be threshed even if it is threshed for a while, and it will not be willing to eat it even if it is threshed for a while. It will only count the rice grains and make rice soup when it is too late to boil it. After all, I don’t know when it will be time to wait until the new grain is in the warehouse. Every grain in the family is counted.

"Sister, I'll go with you to pick up rice ears tomorrow." Lou Yanqiu is fourteen years old this year. Because of Lou Yanni's persistence, she has been studying with her younger brother Lou Jun, and is now in the second year of junior high school.

Lou Yanqiu had inquired early in the morning. After the second half of the second grade of junior high school, the school also issued a graduation certificate. She had decided to drop out of school when she finished the second semester of next grade of junior high school. Whether her sister agreed or not, she would drop out of school.

Now that the school is on the autumn harvest holiday, Lou Yanni has no objection. The Lou family is not used to children. The twins have to do farm work outside of their studies. They have to go to the fields during busy farming. Although they are young, they are good at home and outside.

"Okay, did you send me a letter? Did you say when will you reply?" Lou Yanni picked up a taro pole, thinking that she would have to make more dried vegetables this year.

As soon as the autumn harvest of the production team ended, the eldest brother Lou Jingping followed the village uncles to the neighboring county to build a reservoir. It costs five yuan a month to make food and accommodation. Reservoir and road construction is also one of the mandatory tasks of the production team. Not only does it have wages, the village will also claim labor points, but because it is very hard, not many people go there.

Lou Junlin also wanted to go, but was stopped by Lou Jingping. The main reason was that Lou Junlin was still young and was growing up. He would not grow tall if he had too much burden. Moreover, if all the gay men in the family left, he would not be relieved to leave a few lesbians.

"Brother sends a message to say that you will be back in ten days." Lou Junlin was a little awkward and felt a little depressed. He was so big that he could help the family reduce the burden.

When the whole family knew that Lou Jinglin was going back, they were very happy. After dinner, Lou Yanqiu was responsible for washing the dishes.

While the sky was still a little light, Lou Junlin moved a small stool and sat in the courtyard to teach Lou Yanni the new course. Lou Yanni was responsible for checking for him and filling in the gaps. Lou Junlin was careless in his studies and was no better than Lou Yanqiu's every school, so she didn't need to worry about it.

When it got dark, I couldn't read any more books. The whole family sat in Grandma Lou's room. Lou Junping and Lou Yanqiu took turns memorizing the text, competing with each other, and then going to bed after memorizing it.

At night, Lou Yanni was not sleeping soundly and always felt that someone was walking around in the yard, but the family didn't have the habit of getting up at night. Lou Yanni, who was sleeping in a daze, suddenly woke up, found a kitchen knife from the bedside in the dark, and carefully left the house.

The autumn is clear and the air is cool, and even the moon is big and bright at night. The Lou family's courtyard is quiet and there is nothing.

Lou Yanni shook her head and wondered if she was dreaming. When she was about to enter the house, something jumped up under her feet. She was so scared that she jumped back. Then she saw two lively crucian carp at the door and a bag of grain leaning against the bluestone at the main hall. It was clearly what Zuo Weiguo had in his hand during the day.

Is this sent by Zuo Weiguo?

Lou Yanni was stunned. The big crucian carp under her feet bounced its tail. Lou Yanni looked around and quickly brought the food and fish into the house. The family was about to be cut off, and she didn't care about her backbone. Anyway, this was the benefit of Zuo Weiguo banning her. If she didn't accept it, she would be worried.

If you eat people with short mouths, you can keep your mouth shut like a bottle.

Thinking of this, Lou Yanni had no psychological burden and couldn't sleep. She quietly hid the grain in the inner room, and then touched the well to deal with the two fish. She dug the ground and buried the fish scales and gills that had been dug up and did not dare to light the lamp. She took out some salt from the stove and marinated the two fish in the moonlight.

At this time, everything belongs to the public. There are people guarding the reservoirs in the village. The Lou family cannot even eat grain. If someone sees eating fish, they will definitely suspect that they are stealing fish. Their family is not like Zuo Weiguo, and they can wander around the commune with fish.

Hidden the pickled fish deep in the cupboard, Lou Yanni tied the door and went to bed quickly.

At this time, Xing Xiaojuan couldn't sleep at the educated youth spot. She was sick for a day and didn't go to work, but she had been awake until now that Zuo Weiguo didn't even see her!

This was something that would not happen in the previous life anyway.

Xing Xiaojuan hugged the quilt and her eyebrows were locked together tightly. Could it be that her father-in-law did not allow Weiguo to see her? They had originally opposed Zuo Weiguo showing kindness to her, especially when she was only thinking about returning to the city and was not rude to Zuo Weiguo. They disagreed with Zuo Weiguo's pursuit of her. It must be that they stopped Weiguo from letting him come.

Thinking of this, Xing Xiaojuan felt much more at ease.

"Sister!" During breakfast, Lou Junlin, holding a salted taro stem, suddenly picked up a piece of fish from the bottom of the bowl. It was white and tender and there were thorns. It must be that the fish would not be wrong!

Lou Yanni winked at him, Lou Junlin immediately pursed his lips and stopped talking, but the smile on his face could not be hidden. Lou Yanni looked at Grandma Lou and Lou Yanqiu with a smile, and they also found fish pieces at the bottom of the bowl.

But no one ate, so they all looked at Lou Yanni, fearing that she would make her wronged by patronizing them. Lou Yanni quickly snatched her in her bowl for a few times, revealing a small part of the fish tail, indicating that she would have it too.

She only cut four small pieces of crucian carp at the tail and steamed them. She looked for the opportunity to secretly dry the rest and ate them slowly. Lou Yanni calculated carefully and said that the two fish could be eaten for at least half a month. In ten days, my elder brother would come back for two days to take a break, which would be just enough to leave some for him to taste.

"Sister, where did the fish come from? Is it okay?" Lou Yanqiu next to Lou Yanni, and the two sisters were preparing to go to the farther rice fields today to pick up rice ears.

Yu Junlin followed with a hatchet. He wanted to prepare enough firewood at home before his elder brother came back so that he could have a good rest when he went home and not worry about his work at home.

Upon hearing this, Lou Junlin also came over. Hearing this, he should know whether their family eats meat or during the Chinese New Year. He hasn't tasted meat for half a year.

"It's okay, don't worry, the fish was given by someone else, the hush money." Lou Yanni smiled, feeling that it was not so unlucky to be forced to encounter such a shameful thing. She had a little better impression of Zuo Weiguo.
Chapter completed!