When the day is hoeing, sweat drips into the soil; who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard!

The scorching sun is in the sky. Although it is not yet the most scorching sun is the most harsh, it is still too sunny. Sweat flows on the cheeks, and after evaporation, it can rub salt into it with your hands. If the weak person has been suffering from heatstroke, he may have been suffering from heatstroke.

"Dad, come and have a drink of water to rest." A sweet and silly female voice sounded, but it was Li Yulan, who was working on the hillside. The family of five were assigned to clean up the corn poles on half of the hillside and turn over the sweet potato vines.

If the sweet potato vines grow too long, it will not only consume too much nutrients, but will also affect the yield of sweet potatoes. If the sweet potato vines grow too long, you need to turn over the vines and cut off the excess vines, and only half a meter of the main vines will be left. Cut off the excess vines, but the excess vines are good for feeding domestic animals. Of course, only the livestock in the production team can enjoy the sweet potato vine meal.

"Okay, let's take a break first." Li Zhengyang replied in the big backpack. After harvesting corn, he would cut off the corn poles and lean on the ridge. After drying, he would carry them back. It was a good firewood. He was packing these corn poles and carrying them to the production team. He was so busy that he was sweating all over his body and covered with pole leaf chips. If he had done this in the early years, he would have itched all over, but now his skin has long become old, and even if the caterpillar crawled, he would not react.

Li Yulan stood up and shouted that her mother and two sisters came to drink water. After her family responded, she took out a pot of earth kiln from the bamboo basket, which contained the eagle tea brought out. She placed two thick bowls on the ground and then filled the tea with water.

"Gurgle!" A sudden sound of air came from her stomach. She was hungry, but she would have been a while before she could go home, but she couldn't have dried rice when she got home at noon. Although the tender and pointed leaves of sweet potatoes on the ground tasted good, if there was no oil, it would be like pig food, which would be difficult to swallow. I don't know when this day will be.

"Sister, I'm hungry." The 14-year-old third sister Li Yuqin had a bitter face and did not dare to complain in front of her parents, so she had to nag her.

According to the branch family tree, the Li family generation is of the "Yu" generation. The five siblings all have the word "Yu" in their names, namely: Li Yulan, Yuhong, Yuqin, Yufen, Yuqiang.

There are also cases in the village where names are named according to seniority, but they are generally large families with relatively large branches.

"Xiaoqin, drink water quickly. I will be able to get off work and go back to eat after a while." Li Yulan comforted her sister. She was also very hungry, but she was the boss. She must set an example and not complain about being tired.

At this time, the second sister Li Yuhong had already finished drinking water, put down the thick bowl and ran to flip the sweet potato vines. Yuhong had an honest personality and never complained about working hard, but the third sister Yuqin had to be more delicate and could not bear the hardship. Rice raised hundreds of people, and the sisters had different personalities.

Li Zhengyang also finished drinking tea, sat on the ridge and took out Ye Ziqi, and was about to take two sips. He was pressing on him even though he didn't smoke. He couldn't stand it. There were too many children in the family and he couldn't blame the production team. He just blamed him for wanting a son to pass on the family line. The old Li family's lineage could not be lost, and the price he paid for was that his family was poorer.

Men can be considered full work, but no matter how hard a woman works, she can only be considered eighth-part work at most. Except for him, her family can't earn much work points. In addition, although this farmland is good, the land is poorer than other production teams, and the grain is divided into a little less than the other teams' work points. His family is one of the few real poor households in Jiaoshan Commune.

Li's mother came late and was about to drink tea and go back to start work. Unexpectedly, a production team supervisor came to the conflict, who was a person who was responsible for counting work points. This was considered a mental work, but it was not considered a full work.

"Uncle Li, I have something to ask you." The person who came also had a surname, Li, and was a relative of the captain Li Zhongjun. Although he was from Li Zhengyang, he could not have any relatives. However, despite this, he could have taken care of his family occasionally, otherwise he would not have been able to support so many children a few years ago.

"Red Soldier, what's the matter?" Li Zhengyang stood up and greeted him, a little confused about the situation.

Li Hongbing said directly: "Someone came to report just now, saying that Teacher Jin and two half-old children stole a lot of vegetables in the production team. Now he has gone to your house. Uncle Li, do you know this?"

"What? How could Sister Jin Chi steal vegetables? Brother Hongbing, are you mistaken?" Li Yulan asked nervously, and the family hurried to the edge of the soil. Jin Chi had a good relationship with their family, just like a family, and had to be nervous. Stealing is a big taboo.

"Yes, that kid Jin Chi would never have done such a thing." Li Zhengyang said affirmatively.

Li Hongbing, who was under the ridge, scratched his head and echoed: "Captain Jiang has already taken people to your house. I'm afraid of something going on, so I hurried over to notify you. Otherwise, Uncle Li, go home quickly, you know the temperament of Team Jiang, and you are the most shameful person to steal things."

"Yes, I'll go home!" Li Zhengyang made a quick decision, then jumped off the ridge, called Li Hongbing and ran home.

Now the mother and daughter were panicked, and Li Yulan hurriedly shouted: "Mom, I'll go back and take a look, too."

"I'll go too!" The third sister Li Yuqin also shouted, but her starting point was slightly different. Although she was worried about Jin Chi, she also wanted to take advantage of this to take a lazy rest.

"You two go and go back quickly, mom and Xiaohong stay here." Li's mother responded. She was also worried about Jinchi, but there was no one left when working here. If the whole family ran back and waited for someone to check and saw that there was no one, it would be unlucky.

"Hey!" Li Yulan was anxious and pulled her third sister and ran home, leaving her mother and honest second sister to continue working.

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But Fang Dajun was happily preparing to use his cooking skills. He was under pressure to kill the chicken, so he simply asked Qin Dalai to take the knife.

Jinchi and two children were peeling green beans and washing peanuts. The green beans were used to roast chicken and peanuts were cooked. They were all good things. In addition, there were green-skinned gourds, big chili and cabbage to eat, and the food was very rich.

But Fang Dajun grabbed the rooster's feet with one hand and the root of the wings with the other, and held the rooster upside down. There was a thick bowl underneath, adding water and salt to it, and the charcoal stove in the kitchen was burning with boiling water.

Qin Da was grinding a knife next to him. It was most taboo to kill chickens, because the blood was not clean, so the chicken was not that delicious.

"It's OK." Qin Da scraped the knife edge with his fingers. It was almost done. He followed and pulled off a chicken feather from the rooster's neck. Without any hesitation, the knife edge was cut up and instantly cut his throat. The chicken blood flowed out and dripped into the bowl. In just a few strokes, a bowl of clear water was dyed red.

When the blood was dry, Fang Dajun buried the chicken's head under his wings and stuffed the rooster into the wooden barrel. He originally thought he would be afraid of such a blood-cutting scene, but he had no reaction at all. He had never killed the chicken, but his former owner had done it. He had seen it once, and he would dare to use the knife next time.

Soon the boiling water came, poured it into a wooden bucket, and a little hot rooster could grab the hair. Qin Da volunteered to take over the errand of catching hair. Fang Dajun was also happy to be idle, so he went to the side to peel green beans. He pulled out a total of more than a dozen seedlings, which could peel a large basin, making it a busy time.

He went to peel beans, but the girl Xiaofen ran to Qin Da and yelled to make chicken feather shuttlecocks. As a result, the boy Xiaoqiang also ran over, and the rest of the house Dajun and Jin Chi looked at each other and smiled.

"Dajun, I'm really troubled you today. I've asked you to spend money and help you cook by yourself." Jin Chi was embarrassed and asked the guests who came to the door to enter the kitchen. This was very impolite and violated her tutoring. But now the situation is special, and the owner's family now has only two children.

"Haha, no trouble, I'm not an outsider!" Fang Dajun took a thick face.

Jin Chi was helpless, "You, you always have no right words. I will tell you, don't spread your relationship with Magnolia outside, otherwise the reputation of the girl's family will affect others' life."

Fang Dajun nodded seriously. To be honest, he must have had a relationship before getting married, because couples may not be able to end up because of their disagreement. Therefore, he is not 100% sure that the wife he wants to choose is Li Yulan, and he will have to wait until they get along before they know everything.

After a while, Qin Da had already pulled all the chicken feathers. Fang Dajun went over to help again, grabbed some rice and grass and lit them on the edge of the dam, and burned the fluff on the chicken with an open torch. This is a local custom, and some places don’t care about this small fluff.

Then it was broken and took out the chicken's internal organs. It was called "shui" in the village and "chicken miscellaneous" in the city. After processing, it was stir-fried with pickled peppers. This "pickled pepper chicken miscellaneous" tasted very good, but it was difficult for villagers to have only pickled peppers at home now, but no pickled peppers.

Fang Dajun shouted, "Jinchi, where is there ginger nearby? I'll go and pick it up and wait for it will be useful."

"Oh, follow the path ahead and you can see an old eucalyptus tree, where ginger is planted, and it is also from the production team." Jin Chi echoed.

In this way, Fang Dajun went forward with Qin Da. Although the way he came was different from the time he came, he didn't have to worry about getting lost. This bamboo forest was a guide street light. Qin Da went to the small river below to deal with the chicken's internal organs for easy cleaning. He went to pull up ginger and after lunch, he went to find Captain Li to make up for the losses of these dishes.

As a result, not long after the two of them left, a group of people suddenly appeared outside the Li family's house. They were in a state of great momentum and shouted angrily before they even arrived in the dam: "Okay, you really dare to steal the collective things from the production team."
Chapter completed!