Chapter 41: Heart broken into scum (catch bugs)
Lin Qing stopped the old man Wu.
At Wu Laohan’s age, if he goes to the field, it’s really easy to get into trouble. How could Lin Qing let Wu Laohan go to the field.
“Sister, I’ll go.”
Seeing that Lin Qing’s face was getting more and more ugly, Wu Da didn’t dare to delay, and said to Lin Qing indifferently.
Hearing this, Lin Qing showed his teeth and said, “This is my good eldest brother, we don’t have any food left in our family, not a grain of rice is left, and several pigs in the village have died. Everyone wants to eat it. Delicious food, since you want to eat it, you have to work hard. Big brother, you and your father must win glory for our old Wu family. Our beautiful tomorrow depends on you. The burden on your shoulders is very important. Heavy.”
Lin Qing’s words made Wu Liang and the others’ expressions become extremely serious.
Li Chunmei didn’t speak from the beginning to the end. She touched her shriveled stomach and licked her lips: “Linzi, tonight… what shall we eat?”
Now, except for those who were able to eat rice, they were basically eating sweet potatoes.
The Wu family is even worse. They have no food left, and they have been gnawing on tree roots for the past few days.
Li Chunmei thought, if Lin Qing is so capable, he shouldn’t let them eat tree roots again, right?
“I will wait for a trip to the vegetable market, buy some vegetables, and exchange food stamps for some rice by the way, so that everyone can have a good meal, and then I will have the strength to work tomorrow.”
Lin Qing is still very satisfied with Li Chunmei’s current state.
It was probably because of the flood that scared Li Chunmei and let Li Chunmei see Lin Qing’s role in the Wu family. Li Chunmei’s personality was no longer as aggressive as before. Sometimes Lin Qing asked her to work, although she was a little unhappy, But he didn’t dare to contradict Lin Qing again.
“Really? You still have food stamps on hand.”
When Li Chunmei heard that Lin Qing was going to change the rice, her cloudy eyes instantly became extremely bright.
Lin Qing glanced at Li Chunmei’s bright eyes, and just as he was about to speak, Wu Liang scolded Li Chunmei: “We eat rice, you continue to eat the roots, you can’t eat rice.”
“Why can’t I eat? I’ve been working very hard lately.”
After listening to Wu Liang’s words, Li Chunmei said aggrieved.
“If it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have any food left now?” Wu Liang looked at Li Chunmei with contempt, and said bluntly.
He is now more and more impatient with Li Chunmei.
The thought of Li Chunmei being selfish, thinking only of herself and not the behavior of others, Wu Liang felt chilled.
Li Chunmei knew that what she had done was wrong before, she bit her lip, looked at Wu Liang and Lin Qing and said, “I know it’s wrong, I won’t be like this in the future, I’m really hungry, I don’t want to gnaw on tree roots. ”
While eating tree roots, Li Chunmei felt that she would really die.
Wu Liang’s face was cold and he didn’t speak.
Lin Qing just glanced at Li Chunmei and said indifferently: “Mom, you really should reflect on it, I don’t have a lot of food stamps, I can only… exchange a few or two rice, you know, rice is expensive now, we are now The rice I eat turns yellow.”
“I will work hard in the fields and won’t be lazy anymore.”
Li Chunmei was worried that Lin Qing would not keep any rations for herself, and said to Lin Qing with a panicked face.
Lin Dumping didn’t have much sympathy for Li Chunmei, she frowned and said, “I’ll see if I can change some flour and get some noodles to eat.”
“good.”
Noodles or something, at a time like this, precious is not enough, just listening to Li Chunmei like this, she felt that her stomach was already singing an empty city plan.
Lin Qing went to the vegetable market to change rice.
By the way, I changed some flour and some vegetables.
When she returned with these rations, she passed a field road and saw Mo Xiao walking towards her.
Seeing Mo Xiao, Lin Qing immediately greeted him warmly.
“Comrade Mo, are you going to the vegetable market to exchange food?”
Mo Xiao helped her a lot during the flood, and he was also Lin Qing’s savior. Lin Qing greeted Mo Xiao with a smile.
Mo Xiao glanced at Lin Qing and looked at the rice and vegetables being carried by Lin Qing.
“Go to the market to exchange food?”
“Well, the family is really hungry recently. I took out the food stamps collected before and exchanged it for some rice, but you know what we are doing now, the rice in the granary has turned yellow.”
Although it’s yellow, it’s better than nothing, Lin Qing thought so.
“Do you still have food stamps on hand?”
“No, there are only half a catty of food stamps, which have been used up. Does Comrade Mo want to exchange rice? You go there early, I think there is not enough rice, so you can only exchange for other things.”
Lin Qing kindly reminded Mo Xiaodao.
Mo Xiao shook his head, took out a paper bag from his pocket, and handed it to Lin Qing.
Lin Qing looked at the paper bag in front of him strangely, and looked at Mo Xiao for unknown reasons.
“This is the extra steamed bun from the dining hall today, for you.”
The educated youth league has a special canteen, and the educated youth league members eat there.
They eat a big pot of rice, and the food is okay.
After all, they were educated youths who came from the countryside, so they wouldn’t be treated badly by the Eating Brigade.
Lin Qing sniffed the sweet and greasy feeling of the steamed buns, and his throat could not help secreting saliva.
She is also starving these days.
Although I took out a lot of food from the space ring, I didn’t dare to eat it upright.
Now smelling the aroma of the steamed buns, Lin Qing wanted to eat it.
But without merit.
Lin Qing shook his head and said, “Comrade Mo, let’s eat by yourself. Your workload has increased recently, so you should take good care of your body.”
“I’ll leave it to you, you can eat it.” Mo Xiao’s stern face was a little gloomy. He ignored Lin Qing’s refusal and put the steamed buns directly into Lin Qing’s pocket.
Lin Qing looked at Mo Xiao’s domineering behavior, and said indifferently, “Thank you, Comrade Mo.”
In fact, Lin Qing really wanted to ask Mo Xiao why he was so kind to himself?
Mo Xiao’s black eyes looked at Lin Qing very seriously, and Lin Qing’s legs trembled a little.
“You know why I’m so nice to you?”
Mo Xiao’s deep voice sounded very pleasant in the empty fields, but it also carried an unspeakable deterrent force.
Lin Qing blinked and shook his head: “I don’t know, it’s because I’m pitiful?”
The original owner’s life experience was indeed pitiful, perhaps Mo Xiao was a cold-hearted man.
Mo Xiao said lightly: “There are too many poor people in this world, you are not too pitiful.”
Mo Xiao’s words almost choked Lin Qing to death.
Lin Qing said embarrassingly, “Then… why?”
Don’t tell her that Mo Xiao is in love with her? She couldn’t believe it.
The male protagonist and the cannon fodder…I think it’s impossible to think about it.
“I like you.” Mo Xiao looked at Lin Qing’s face and spat out three words with a very serious expression.
Lin Qing felt that his entire body froze.
She suspected that she might be deaf, otherwise, how could she have heard Mo Xiao say that she liked her?
She poked out her ears uncertainly, facing Mo Xiao’s stern and beautiful face, and said again uncertainly: “Um… I’m sorry, my ears may be a little hard to use, what did you… say? I didn’t. listen clearly.”
Mo Xiao frowned and said, “I like you and want you to be my wife, so I treat you well.”
“Hehe, Comrade Mo really likes to joke around.”
Lin Qing laughed dryly, and when Mo Xiao wanted to speak, he immediately arrived: “The house is still waiting for me to go back, I’ll go back first, see you Comrade Mo.”
Lin Qing said, as if a ghost was chasing her, she ran very fast.
Mo Xiao did not step forward to stop Lin Qing. Seeing that Lin Qing’s pen rabbit was running fast, Mo Xiao’s eyes had a slight luster.
He didn’t know why he liked Lin Qing, but he had never seen such beautiful eyes.
The sky is full of stars, not as good as Lin Qing’s eyes.
After Lin Qing ran back to Wu’s house, he couldn’t breathe.
Wu Er was in the yard waiting for Lin Qing to come back. Seeing that Lin Qing came back with vegetables, his face was not very good-looking. Wu Er looked worried: “Sister, what’s wrong with you? Your face is so ugly?”
Lin Qing shook his head and said, “It’s okay, take these dishes to the kitchen to wash first, and I’ll take a rest.”
“good.”
Seeing so many dishes, Wu Er didn’t care about anything, so he went to the kitchen to fiddle with it.
Lin Qing returned to his room, closed the door, took out a mirror from the space ring, touched his slightly rough face, looked left and right, it was still this sick face, Lin Qing touched his chin, thinking about it. Mo Xiao said seriously when he liked it, shook his head and said, “Mo Xiao seems to be joking with her on purpose.”
Although she takes out skin care products from the space ring every night to protect her skin, her complexion is indeed much better than before, but it is still not good-looking? Still a malnourished eggplant.
Just like this? How to attract Mo Xiao?
Mo Xiao was handsome and tall, so many women in the village set their sights on Mo Xiao.
Even the heroine Shen Jiayi regarded Mo Xiao as his personal property, Lin Qing frowned, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Mo Xiao was just making fun of himself.
After putting the mirror back in the space, she touched it in the space and accidentally touched some seeds.
Lin Qing took out those seeds, a little strange.
Don’t know what the seeds of these things are? Maybe put it in the field and see what will grow?
There are relatively few dishes now, basically green vegetables, cabbage, beans, radishes, etc. If you want to eat some tomatoes, there is nothing, and there seems to be no fruit here, and there are no fruit trees.
Lin Qing thought about it carefully, and felt that the soil here is rare earth, red soil, and the sunshine is not bad. It should be able to grow navel oranges or tangerines.
Lin Qing made up his mind to inspect the village and see if he could plant some fruit trees and cultivate some other food so that the entire village would not have to go hungry.
Maybe even improve rice? Increase the production of rice so that everyone does not have to go hungry. ,
The more Lin Qing thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was feasible.
“Sister, it’s time to eat.”
Wu Ya’s voice sounded at the door, interrupting all of Lin Qing’s thoughts.
After Lin Qing tidied up his clothes, he walked out of the room and into the living room. Seeing that everyone was seated, Li Chunmei sat on the stool below, trembling. Seeing Lin Qing come out, Li Chunmei immediately said, “Linzi, today’s firewood, I have finished the clothes and everything. I even renovated the roof. I am afraid that it will leak when it rains. Can I…have dinner, I…don’t eat a lot, just give me half a bowl.”
Li Chunmei said dryly.
Lin Qing looked at Li Chunmei, who had always been pungent, and now she was like a little sheep, begging herself to give her rations.
She said lightly: “You have been working very hard recently. I have two steamed buns, so I will give you a cushion for the time being.”
Steamed bun?
After listening to Li Chunmei, she was almost moved to cry.
She has been chewing on the roots of the tree for the past few days. She feels that her mouth has no taste, and it is full of the fishy smell of soil. After hearing the steamed buns, Li Chunmei was very emotional.
“Okay, let’s eat.”
Lin Qing gave Mo Xiaoge’s own steamed buns to Li Chunmei, and then greeted the family to eat. She took the spoon and divided the food, and everyone began to gobble it up.
Today’s food is not enough, everyone is full.
But I’m very satisfied, after all, it’s really much better than eating tree roots all the time.
“Sister, there will be a meal in the canteen in the factory tomorrow. I’ll eat in the canteen, and I won’t come back to eat.”
Wu Er wiped his mouth and explained to Lin Qing.
“Ok.”
Lin Qing put down his chopsticks, thinking about things like growing fruit, and asked Wu Ya to clean up his rice bowl before going back to his room to study.
Lin Qing’s factory is still in good condition, the machinery has been repaired, and construction begins today.
When Lin Qing returned to the factory, many employees in the factory greeted Lin Qing warmly.
This time there was a flood, if Lin Qing hadn’t called everyone to find the village chief, I’m afraid everyone would have been drowned.
For Lin Qing, everyone felt a little joy and gratitude in their hearts.
“Linzi, the village said that it will give you a personal award, to reward you for saving everyone this time.”
Wang Lei put a notebook in front of Lin Qing and smiled at Lin Qing.
After Lin listened, he was surprised: “You want to give me a reward?”
“No, I heard what the director of the factory said today. After all, you did a great deed this time. The whole village was saved because of your brave actions, and Pingzi’s mother was also saved by you. Chang felt that he should give you a reward, and then let you and the young people in the village go to class to inspire everyone.”
“Reward? What reward does the village chief plan to give me?” Lin Qing is more interested in rewards? It would be best if the village chief could reward her with a few catties of food.
“This is not clear. There will be a village meeting in the afternoon. When that time comes, you will definitely be rewarded.”
Wang Lei laughed when she saw Lin’s eyes sparkling after hearing the reward.
Lin Qing was a little embarrassed by Wang Lei’s smile, and then thought of business, Lin Qing said, “By the way, don’t you want to go out to inspect the growth of the cotton base later? I’ll go with you, anyway, there’s nothing major today. needs to be dealt with.”
“Do you want to go there together?”
Wang Lei said with joy when she heard Lin Qing’s words.
“Well, I also want to see how to examine the quality of cotton.”
“Okay, then you go with me, take a notebook and a pen, and wait for a lot of things to record.”
Wang Lei explained to Lin Qing.
Lin Qing nodded and waited for the afternoon to go to the cotton base with Wang Lei.
Due to the last flood, half of the village was hit, and the entire village head was almost submerged.
But fortunately, one-third of them were not submerged, and that was where cotton was grown.
The reason why we can open a textile factory here is because cotton grows well here, and it is more convenient to open a factory here.
After the cotton is collected here, it can be directly processed, saving a lot of time and effort.
And the traffic in this village will not be inconvenient, and it is still very convenient.
Lin Qing ate in the cafeteria at noon. The food in the cafeteria today was not very good. After all, he had not recovered his vitality. Many people could only eat soy sauce, and the whole body was swollen.
After eating, Lin Qing took a lunch break in the office. Until about three o’clock in the afternoon, Wang Lei took Lin Qing to the cotton base for inspection.
The original owner used to pick cotton, but not in the cotton base. There are many places where cotton is grown, and the cotton base has the most cotton.
Lin Qing looked at the cotton, looked at the soil, looked up at the sunlight in the distance, and guessed what kind of things would be suitable for planting here.
“Wang Lei, we don’t seem to have any fruit to grow here. Everyone grows rice, vegetables, and corn, but never thought about growing fruit.”
“Aren’t there little peaches and plums in the mountains?”
While checking the cotton, Wang Lei answered Lin Qing’s words.
The fruits Wang Lei mentioned are too common, and they are all wild peaches and plums.
There are also chestnut trees here, but not many of them.
“I think the soil here is very suitable for planting navel oranges. At that time, we can exchange some needed things with the neighboring village, or take it to exchange for some food stamps, not bad.”
Lin Qing touched his chin, looked at Wang Lei and said.
When Wang Lei heard Lin Qing talking about navel oranges, she said blankly, “I’ve never heard of navel oranges, but my family used to plant a mandarin tree, and it would bear fruit when it was a month old, and the taste was a bit astringent.”
“Also, isn’t there a banana forest in the East Village? There are a lot of bananas planted there, which are also produced by the production team in our village. When harvesting, you can exchange a lot of things.”
“If we could grow some other things, our village would be able to exchange more things, and our rice production is very low.”
“Yeah, there’s nothing I can do, and I don’t know how to increase the output. The people in our village are very hard-working and highly motivated to produce. I just don’t understand how the output is so low.”
“The problem is the rice itself. This kind of seedling produces only one season of rice. If it can have about three seasons, the yield of rice can be increased, and there may be some problems with our cultivation method.”
“Lin Zi, what you said is too profound, have you studied agriculture before?”
After listening to Lin Qing’s words, Wang Lei asked with a puzzled face.
Lin Qing sighed and said innocently: “No, I just flipped through the newspapers and learned a lot from boredom recently. I think our village has convenient transportation and sufficient water resources. If we can make good use of it, transform agriculture, and develop industries, the village will of people will soon become rich.”
“You should tell the village branch about these things, if they think it’s feasible, then you can.”
Wang Lei thought about it and said to Lin Qing.
Lin Qing scratched the back of his head and sneered at Wang Lei, “I’m just saying that, how dare you go to the village branch for advice.”
“I think what you said makes sense. At the same time, we never thought about developing any industry, and we have always stuck to costs.”
“If you want everyone in the village to live a better life, you really need to innovate your life.”
Wang Lei patted Lin Qing on the shoulder and smiled.
“I’ll mention it to my dad when I go back, and let him talk to the village branch to see everyone’s opinions.”
“Would it be a little embarrassing?”
Lin Qing said to Wang Lei in a difficult way.
“How can you be ashamed? I think you are very powerful.”
Wang Lei shook her head and nodded to Lin Qing with a serious face.
Hearing Wang Lei say this, Lin Qing scratched the back of his head and laughed shyly.
After inspecting the entire cotton base with Wang Lei, the two went to the fields. The members of the educated youth group were working, and Lin Qing saw Mo Xiao who was bending over to feed the seedlings from a distance.
Mo Xiao also saw Lin Qing, his eyes fell on Lin Qing, hot and condensed, making Lin Qing a little uncomfortable.
“You seem to have a good relationship with Comrade Mo.”
After Wang Lei noticed Mo Xiao’s gaze, she spoke meaningfully to Lin Qing.
“It’s okay. He helped me a lot. Comrade Mo is a good person.”
Lin Qing said to Wang Lei with a sullen expression.
Wang Lei looked at Lin Qing with a half-smile, and Lin Qing’s face was so red that she couldn’t help it.
Wouldn’t Wang Lei also think that she had any improper relationship with Mo Xiao?
Lin Qing resisted the urge to roll his eyes and pulled Wang Lei away from here.
She felt that she and Mo Xiao should not have such an intersection.
Mo Xiao might be teasing her, she is not a little girl, she will be teased by Mo Xiao like this.
Mo Xiao stared at Lin Qing and left, his lips pursed into a tight line.
Shen Jiayi, who had been observing Mo Xiao, saw that Mo Xiao stared at Lin Qing’s back in a daze, and the woman’s hands clenched into fists.
She gritted her teeth and deliberately approached Mo Xiao, judo judo: “Comrade Mo, was it Lin Zi just now? Are you looking at Lin Zi?”
Mo Xiao returned to his senses, glanced at Shen Jiayi, ignored it, and continued to do his own thing.
Shen Jiayi looked at Mo Xiao’s icy expression, with a gloomy look on her pretty face.
It hasn’t been a day or two since she and Mo Xiao were friendly, but… Mo Xiao’s attitude towards her was unusually cold.
She didn’t know what was going on with Mo Xiao, she was so kind to Lin Qing, but she was so indifferent to her.
“Comrade Mo, I want to marry you, are you willing?”
Seeing that Mo Xiao ignored her, Shen Jiayi gritted her teeth and approached Mo Xiao again, blushing.
Shen Jiayi’s voice was neither small nor loud, but it was just enough for the entire educated youth nest to hear.
People in the educated youth’s nest are relatively open to their feelings. When they heard Shen Jiayi’s bold and straightforward proposal to Mo Xiao, everyone started to make a fuss and let Mo Xiao marry Shen Jiayi.
Shen Jiayi even looked at Mo Xiao with a red face, and looked at Mo Xiao with a little shyness on her brows.
While everyone was waiting for Mo Xiao’s answer, Mo Xiao glanced at Shen Jiayi with an unusually cold look, and after turning his eyes away from Shen Jiayi’s flushed face, he said coldly, “I don’t like you, and I won’t marry you. You, sorry.”
Shen Jiayi’s heart suddenly shattered into scum.
She never thought that Mo Xiao would say these words to herself, her eyes were a little red, she pinched her fingers, and said aggrieved; “Why?”
She proposed to Mo Xiao like this, why did Mo Xiao refuse to marry her?
Could it be that Mo Xiao really wanted to be with Lin Qing? Thinking of this possibility, Shen Jiayi’s eyes darkened.
Mo Xiao didn’t want to explain these useless topics to Shen Jiayi, he frowned, ignored Shen Jiayi, and continued to work, completely treating Shen Jiayi as a transparent person.
Seeing that Mo Xiao was so indifferent to herself, Shen Jiayi bit her lip and said, “Mo Xiao… tell me what’s wrong with me.”
“Yes, don’t tell me, Shen Zhiqing likes you so much and wants to marry you. Anyway, we are here in the countryside, and we don’t know when we will be able to return to the city. It’s not bad to be able to marry a wife and have children here. When you go back to the city, you can take Shen Zhiqing back with you.”
A male educated youth said to Mo Xiao with envy and hatred.
Mo Xiao glanced at the male educated youth, ignored it, and continued to bend over to Shi Yang.
Seeing Mo Xiao like this, Shen Jiayi suddenly felt unable to hang her face.
She didn’t know what went wrong.
Mo Xiao was her man in her previous life, why did Mo Xiao ignore her after she came back from rebirth?
Shen Jiayi didn’t understand what made Mo Xiao dissatisfied.