Chapter 64
After listening to his sister’s words, Lin Dajun realized that what he thought was too simple: “Sister, I understand.” He suddenly felt that getting married was so troublesome, and he would have to raise children in the future. Lin Dajun didn’t want to get married, but he didn’t expect children at all. Yes, because he has too many brothers.
Lin Dajun ate in the county town, and told Lin Yiyi about the piglets. The two piglets were castrated one after the other just in case, so that if something happened to the first one, the second one would be castrated. It is good to have experience, but fortunately, the two piglets are well raised. Sweet potatoes, pig grass, and earthworm powder are still fine.
The next day was the weekend. Lin Dajun went back after lunch. When he came, he brought vegetables and bamboo shoots, and when he went, he brought eggs and coarse grains. Eggs are for their brothers to nourish their bodies. The two chickens at home have not laid eggs yet. The coarse grains are sweet potatoes, which they can eat by themselves. The piglets also need to have snacks from time to time.
Lin Dajun returned home and went to the captain’s house to find Lin Zhen. Lin Zhen went out blushing.
Lin Dajun said directly: “Lin Zhen, we can’t get married yet, my sister said, I can’t earn food myself, if I marry you now, I can’t support you or our children, I have to wait for me. After graduation, you can get married after working. Our family has to build a house first, build a new house, we will get married, and let you live in a new house in the future.”
Lin Zhen’s face turned even redder: “My mother also said that I can’t get married yet.” She secretly told her mother that day, and was made fun of by her mother.
Then they both laughed. Lin Dajun took out the fruit candy from his pocket: “Here.”
Looking at the two fruit candies in his hand, Lin Zhen took one: “You can eat the other one yourself.” She knew that the army was also saved, so how could she take them all.
After hearing what she said, Lin Dajun peeled off the candy wrapper and ate it. Then he talked about the county seat: “I went to the county seat yesterday. My sister said that I lost weight, and she was very good to me. She even made bone soup for me to drink, and I ate meat buns in the morning.”
Lin Zhen drooled a little after hearing this: “Your sister is so nice.”
Lin Dajun: “My sister is the best.” After thinking about it, Lin Dajun said again, “When my parents died, we all ran out of food. If it wasn’t for my sister, we would all starve to death.”
Lin Zhen: “Then you have to treat your sister well.” Her mother said that in the Lin family, you must respect Dajun’s sister, so that Dajun’s sister will be good to them.
Lin Dajun: “That’s for sure.”
The two sat chatting in the corner of the yard of the captain’s house. They were both young, and they were all talking about children’s topics. There was no future in their words. They were all delicious and delicious, but in their voices full of longing for the future.
Lin Dajun sat at the captain’s house for a while and then left. When he was about to get to the door, he saw someone lingering at their door. It was the niece of Aunt Guilan’s house. Lin Dajun immediately remembered what her sister had said, that when encountering a lesbian, you can’t go too close.
Suddenly, Lin Dajun stopped: “Comrade Li Huihui, who are you looking for?”
Li Huihui, Yang Guilan’s niece, Li Huihui’s mother is Yang Guilan’s sister, called Yang Xianglan.
Yang Xianglan was also capable in her early years. She found a worker and gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Li Huihui was the second daughter, and there was a younger son. Later, through the introduction of her man, Yang Xianglan also became a worker. However, in 1961, that is, last year, the relevant policies of the state changed, not only temporary workers were laid off, but some workers in basic positions who failed the assessment were also laid off. At that time, I didn’t get in the exam, so I was exposed, and I didn’t pass the exam.
The competition for a job is very fierce, especially in the year of 1961. The job represents the commodity grain, and it may also represent the life of several family members.
Yang Xianglan was laid off. With so many children in the family, it was very difficult for her to live by her man alone, so someone came to propose a marriage.
The matchmaker said that the other party has a son in the family, and the son is a fool. As long as the Yang family marries their daughter, Yang Xianglan’s work can be arranged.
Yang Xianglan is not someone who doesn’t love her daughter, and her daughter is also in school. She usually treats her daughter well. But this time, Yang Xianglan wanted to agree. One is that her job can be solved, and the other is that the other party’s son is a fool, but the other party has only one son. As long as her daughter marries the other party’s son, the other party’s wealth will be her daughter’s in the future. She doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. . In this way, the daughter can also support the brothers at home.
Yes, in Yang Xianglan’s heart, family, son, and herself are all ranked before her daughter. When there is no conflict of interest, she is a good mother, and when there is conflict of interest, she starts to ignore it.
After Li Huihui found out about this, of course she would not agree. Which woman has no expectations for her love? But for a while, she didn’t know what to do. At this time, she remembered the family that her aunt said. My parents died during the famine. My sister married the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau. My older brother is now in junior high school and will be a worker after graduation. The whole county knows that she came up with the idea of growing vegetables on the stove. Li Huihui thought to herself that if she could marry in such a family, her family would definitely not object.
Moreover, Li Huihui is sure that she is good-looking, isn’t that the fact that the family takes a fancy to her because she is good-looking? I hope she will marry someone else’s foolish son and give birth to better-looking grandchildren. In Li Huihui’s mind, Lin Dajun is a rural person, and it is not easy to hold a rural person firmly? At that time, Lin Dajun was a worker, and his brother-in-law was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau. This face was not hers?
So, with this idea, she came to the country to find Yang Guilan. Of course, she did not directly say that she wanted to marry Lin Dajun, because her aunt had said that Lin Dajun was engaged, so she was with Yang Guilan. She sold it badly, saying that her mother wanted to marry her to a fool, she didn’t want to go, she wanted to stay here for a few days.
Yang Guilan felt sorry for her niece, so of course she agreed.
Li Huihui really twisted her foot that day, but when she met Lin Dajun and the others, she introduced herself and inquired about their identities. She said at the time: “Hello, my name is Li Huihui, from Yang Guilan in the village. Niece, this is my first time in the country, are you from the village? Do you know where Yang Guilan’s house is?”
When Lin Dajun saw a girl’s foot sprained and she was the niece of Aunt Guilan’s house, he said directly: “My name is Lin Dajun, I’m from the village. I’ll take you to Aunt Guilan’s house.” Man, I never thought about helping others. Maybe it was his sister who sprained her foot in front of him, and he thought of helping him.
As soon as Li Huihui heard that it was Lin Dajun, she was a little surprised. She didn’t expect to meet Lin Dajun as soon as she entered the village. Of course, she can’t guarantee that this Lin Dajun is the Lin Dajun that the aunt said, so she said again: “I heard that there is a kitchen kang vegetable hero in your village, have you all met?”
When Lin Dajun heard this, he was immediately excited: “That’s my sister. My sister is amazing.”
Li Huihui: “It turns out that the cooking hero of the stove is your sister. It’s amazing. Comrade Dajun, I sprained my foot and can’t walk. Can you support me?”
Then, Lin Dajun and Lin Sijun helped Li Huihui to Yang Guilan’s house.
Li Huihui saw Lin Dajun coming, her eyes lit up: “Comrade Dajun.”
When Lin Dajun saw her coming up, he suddenly remembered what his sister said about touching the porcelain. At first, he pretended to be pitiful. When he helped people up or sent them home, they would rely on him or make him responsible. , Or ask him to lose money… Thinking of this, Lin Dajun hurried back a few steps: “Comrade Li Huihui, just stand there and talk, don’t come near me.”
Li Huihui froze, and her bright smile suddenly sank. After a while, she put on a smile again, and she approached Lin Dajun: “What’s the matter with you, Comrade Dajun? Are you uncomfortable? I want to thank you. Yes, you…” Before she could speak, she saw Lin Dajun kept retreating, she walked a few steps, and Lin Dajun took a few steps back. This time, Li Huihui had to stop, “Comrade Dajun, what’s wrong with you?”
When Lin Dajun saw that he had stopped, he also stopped: “Don’t approach me, the reputation of your lesbians is very important, if you approach me, your reputation will not be clear later, what should I do if you want me to be responsible? I have someone whose fiancee is already engaged, you can’t implicate me and I have no reputation.”
Li Huihui: “…” She thought that Lin Dajun was concerned about her reputation, but in the end, she turned out to be concerned about her own reputation. Is this person mentally ill?
Li Huihui: “Comrade Dajun, I’m here to thank you. Last time I sprained my foot, so you specifically helped me to my aunt’s house.”
Lin Dajun: “You don’t need to thank me. If I knew you would pester me, I would definitely not support you.”
Li Huihui: “…” Does this person have eyes? Can’t you see her beauty?
Lin Dajun: “My sister said that someone fell down in front of you for no reason. Either they want you to be responsible or they want to touch you. Do you also want to touch me?”
Li Huihui: “…”
Lin Dajun: “I tell you, I don’t have any money. What I eat now is my sister’s, and the tuition for studying is also my sister’s. When I’m working, I’ll have to buy a house for me and my brothers. I don’t have any money. Yes, don’t touch me.”
Li Huihui: “…”
Lin Dajun: “Sanjun, Sanjun, come and save brother.” Seeing Lin Sanjun coming back with a bundle of firewood, Lin Dajun ran over quickly, “Sanjun, this woman is always pestering brother, what to say to thank you Brother, in my opinion, I just want to touch brother porcelain, and I don’t have any money yet.”
Lin Sanjun glanced at Li Huihui, and Li Huihui’s face was so embarrassed that it turned red and white. Lin Sanjun gave Lin Dajun the firewood on his body: “You go first.”
Lin Dajun: “Oh.” He carried the firewood and ran home, as if Li Huihui was a germ, but after a few steps, he stopped again, “Sanjun, I brought you meat buns, my sister gave me this morning. Eating meat buns.”
Lin Sanjun: “Yes.”
Lin Dajun went in with the firewood on his back.
Lin Sanjun walked up to Li Huihui: “He’s a fool, it’s useless for you to make any idea.”
Li Huihui: “I didn’t, I just came to thank him, he…”
Lin Sanjun: “My sister has the final say on the daughter-in-law of our Lin family. If my sister is not satisfied, we will not marry. If he dares to marry you, he will not read the book and his job will be confiscated.”
Li Huihui widened her eyes.
Lin Sanjun: “So…you get out.” Lin Sanjun is a bit gloomy, plus he has always been ignored by his family, and his personality is also a bit gloomy. If it weren’t for the past year and a half, Lin Yiyi often Compliment him, praise him, he follows Jin Woo to exercise, maybe one day, his character will become a super villain. Now Lin Sanjun shoulders the entrustment of his sister to protect the family well. No matter what Li Huihui’s purpose is, he will not let Li Huihui succeed. Moreover, Li Sanjun knew that since their home was settled, since his eldest brother got a job, people stared at their home every day, that is, him, and since his eldest brother got engaged, he could meet several waves of lesbians every few weeks. It’s just that he has a cold personality and ignores people directly.
When Li Huihui looked at Lin Sanjun’s eyes, she was suddenly a little scared. Lin Sanjun’s eyes were not like those of a 14-year-old boy. His eyes were cloudy, even heavy. Li Huihui swallowed her saliva and hurriedly ran away.
As soon as Li Huihui left, Lin Dajun ran out of the room and pretended to be a wise elder brother and said, “Not bad, our Sanjun has also grown up, and when the eldest brother is away, Sanjun can also be in charge, like a man. .”
Lin Sanjun also directly ignored Lin Dajun, he passed him and entered the house.
In the three rooms of the Lin family, Lin Dajun lived in the main room, where Lin’s father and mother used to live. Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun live in one room, and the one that Lin Yiyi lived in before is still a utility room.
Being ignored by his younger brother, Lin Dajun was not angry either. He decided to go to the county town next time to file a complaint and let the elder sister take care of the Sanjun.
Lin Sanjun entered the kitchen and saw four buns in the bowl on the table.
Lin Dajun followed and ran in: “I ate two meat buns in the morning, these four are for you and the Fourth Army, but… But for the sake of hard work, can you give me half of them?”
Lin Sanjun put water in the pot, then went to wash a few sweet potatoes and put them in the pot, then put the steaming bar and put the buns on it.
Lin Dajun: “And eggs, sister said that eggs will nourish our body, shall we drink egg custard tonight?”
Lin Sanjun: “There will be meat buns in the evening.” So the eggs will be eaten tomorrow.
Lin Dajun suddenly smiled: “Can you give me half of it?”
Lin Sanjun looked at him.
Lin Dajun smiled and took out two candies from his pocket: “For you, give me half a bun.” When he came, the elder sister gave six candies, two for each of the three brothers, and one for his two Lin Zhen, ate one by herself.
Lin Sanjun took the candy, didn’t eat it, put it directly in his trouser pocket, and didn’t answer the question about the buns, he asked, “Sister promised you and Lin Zhen to marry?”
Speaking of this, Lin Dajun sighed: “No, my sister said that I can’t even support myself now. If I get married, whoever will raise Lin Zhen and who will raise our children will have to wait until I graduate and become a worker before getting married.”
Lin Sanjun snorted: “Don’t ask my sister to raise your children.” It was hard enough for the four of them to be raised.
Lin Dajun: “Well.”
In fact, Lin Yiyi, who is not bitter at all…
Li Huihui was frightened by Lin Sanjun and did not dare to go to Lin Dajun again. After two days, she was taken away by Yang Xianglan. Of course, there is also the credit of the team leader’s daughter-in-law. She went to chat with Yang Guilan and talked about Li Huihui’s search for Lin Dajun. Yang Guilan wasn’t a fool either. She didn’t expect her niece to have such thoughts, so when Yang Xianglan came to pick up someone, she didn’t dare to stay for a moment. It’s one thing for her to care about her niece, but she cares more about her family. If Li Huihui does such a thing today, she, Lin Yiyi, and the captain’s family will be enmity. So such a niece, how could she still stay.
In a twinkling of an eye, in July, in July 1962, the county government held a meeting of various communes. For the livelihood of the common people, the state adopted a new economic policy for the countryside. A traditional form of commodity exchange that is familiar to and enthusiastic about the vast number of farmers in my country, can only be exchanged for things; the second is private land, allowing each household to develop private land, and the private land is allocated according to the population of each household, and each person is divided into one share. land.
After the commune got the good news, it held a meeting of the production brigades and announced the policy immediately. The leaders of the production brigades held a meeting in the commune. When they heard the news, many of them couldn’t help crying. The life of the common people finally came to an end.
Lin Yiyi got the news earlier than the presidents of the communes. After all, Xiao Yu is also one of the leaders of the county. However, he and Jin Yu didn’t have a plot of their own, because their hukou had already been moved out, but that didn’t hinder her mood.
To this end, she and Xiao Yu went back to the countryside on purpose, and the younger brothers of the Lin family were also on summer vacation, so she wanted to send fifth brother Lin to the countryside and let them take them with them. Among the brothers, one is in the county seat and the other is in the countryside. After a long time, some dark thoughts may arise. So every year during the holidays, she would send Fifth Brother Lin to the countryside, firstly to let him and his brother get in touch, and secondly to let Fifth Brother Lin know where his roots lie, so that when he grows up, he always thinks that he is from the city. And look down on the country people.
Xiao family
Grandpa Xiao: “You guys are here, our land has been measured. Our family’s four-quarter land is only for the four of us.”
Grandma Xiao: “It’s great, our people finally have land.” Although it is only a quarter of the land, it is land and can grow food.
Lin Yiyi: “The land has been measured out, haven’t you opened up wasteland yet?”
Qin Xiangju: “No, your father is going to work. Let the eldest and the third help to open up the wasteland here.”
Lin Yiyi said: “Brother Yu is very strong, and he will be fine in the afternoon. Let him open up the wasteland. The eldest brother and the third brother will also open up wasteland for themselves.”
Jin Yu: “Every one of them makes sense. Where is our home, I’ll go.”
Qin Xiangju also thought about it: “The mother will go with you, and the mother has the strength.”
Grandpa Xiao: “I’ll go too.”
Jin-Woo: “No, I’m enough by myself.”
Liang Shi: “Our family’s land is all together, although it was separated when we measured it, but the place is all together. Our family only has one-third of the land. Xiao Bin and I will open up wasteland first, and come back to help when we are healed. Parents are here.”
Xiao Bin: “Yes, yes, I think so too.”
Qi Spinach: “Our family has a quarter of land, and it is estimated that it is not as fast as you.” Xiao Rui and Xiao Zhu can’t open up wasteland, relying on her and Xiao Wu… She is exhausted, and her own land is willing to open up wasteland, but If she goes to help others, she will not go, and as for Xiao Wu, she will not stop her.
Lin Yiyi: “Brother Yu, I’ll go to Lin’s house to see.”
Jin Yu: “Okay, call me if you want to open the ground.”
Lin Yiyi: “No, the army and the three armies have grown up and can open their own land, just slow down.”
Jin-Woo: “Okay.”
Having said that, the Xiao family went to the field, and Lin Yiyi rode a bicycle with Lin Wudi to the Lin family.
When Lin Yiyi arrived at the Lin family, the younger brothers of the Lin family were discussing going to the county seat and telling Lin Yiyi about it. The land at their home has also been measured. In this situation, everyone is in a hurry, and the cadres in the village measure it overnight.
Lin Yiyi rode a bicycle all the way to Lin’s house. The bicycle was shaking and shaking on the road, and it could make a sound, so the younger brothers of the Lin family heard it and ran out of the yard one by one. When they saw their sister came back, they all hugged.
Lin Dajun: “Sister, you are back. Our family’s private plot has been measured. Our four brothers have a total of four-quarter plots.”
Lin Sijun: “Sister, that private land is full of hard soil and stones, and you have to open up wasteland yourself.” The land is all on the mountain, but at the foot of the mountain. The country suddenly promulgated the policy of private land, and the brigade naturally would not distribute the good land in the brigade to the villagers, so it was inevitable for the villagers to open up wasteland by themselves.
As for the position, it is decided by lottery, which is very fair.
Lin Yiyi: “Well, my sister knows, there is no rush to open up wasteland in the private land. Take your time. When the time comes, the three brothers will open up wasteland, and sister will cook for you. The three brothers will do everything together quickly.”
Lin Dajun: “Sister, are you coming to cook for us?”
Lin Yiyi: “Yes, I will make white steamed buns and meat buns for you. You can’t tell others.”
Lin Dajun: “I definitely won’t say it.”
Lin Sijun: “Sister, what are we growing in our fields?”
Lin Yiyi: “Grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. Sweet potatoes and potatoes have a high yield per mu, and piglets can also eat them twice a year.”
Lin Sijun: “But it’s not as good as rice.”
Lin Yiyi: “Rice is for paddy fields, and there are paddy fields on the mountain? And the water on the mountain leads to it? You have planted sweet potatoes and potatoes, and my sister can take it to the county town to exchange rice for you, so you can eat it too.”
Lin Sijun: “That’s great.”
Lin Yiyi: “Don’t talk about that, how is our piglet?”
Lin Sijun: “Sister, you can scare you to death if you look at it. We won’t let anyone see the piglets in our family.” Now the three brothers treat the piglets as treasures and keep the door of the thatched hut tightly shut every day. of.