Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. In his previous life, Deng Shirong lived alone in his hometown. His children had enough money to support him in his old age, but he had a headache and fever, but they were not around to take care of him.

The person who took the most care of him in his later years was a cousin and grandnephew named Deng Changping who lived across the creek in front of his home.

The blood relationship between the two families is quite close. Deng Changping's grandfather is Deng Shirong's cousin, and their fathers are brothers.

Although Deng Changping was only 26 years old at this time, he was already the father of three children, and the four brothers had separated as early as three years ago.

The young couple raised three children and lived in an old house with their parents. The living conditions were quite difficult.

Nowadays, the land is distributed to each household. Since the family is not planning to farm, it would be best to lend the land to Deng Changping for farming.

Thinking of this, Deng Shirong said to his youngest daughter: "Azhu, go and call Chang Ping over. I have something to tell him."

"Okay." Deng Yunzhu responded, and then walked to the other side of the stream to call someone.

Three minutes later, Deng Changping came over.

As soon as he entered the door, Deng Changping asked with a smile: "Mr. Jiu, what are your orders?"

Deng Shirong put the chimney aside and said: "Now our production team's first batch of fields has been divided. For your family of five, each person has two acres of land. Even if there is a bumper harvest this year, apart from the public grain and the food you eat at home, , I guess there won’t be much grain left.”

Deng Changping sighed and said: "Jiu Gong, there is nothing we can do about this. Who told our production team to have less land! For example, in Macun, there are two or three acres of land per person, and there are so many fields that we can't plant them all. Those days are just It’s truly a head start.”

Deng Shirong said with emotion: "Actually, many of the fields in Macun originally belonged to our village. But in the era of big pot rice, the brigade secretary belonged to our Naye Village. Anyway, the situation at that time was that no matter how much or how little, it was the same. In order to alleviate To bear the burden of our villagers, most of the land was allocated to the people of Macun.

As a result, the situation changed within a few years. Production teams were established in each village, and the fields previously allocated to Ma Village were refused to be returned.

That’s why our village has so little farmland, while Macun’s farmland has so much land that we can’t even plant it all. "

Deng Changping had heard this matter from his family elders before. Hearing this, he smiled bitterly and said, "It's no wonder that the brigade secretary at the time was there. After all, his original intention was to take care of the people in the village and lighten everyone's burden. But he didn't expect that the situation would change so quickly. In the end, stealing the chicken will end up losing the rice.”

The two chatted for a while about the past as brigade secretary, before Deng Shirong got to the point and said: "Changping, I called you here because I want to allocate the land to my family for you to plant. You will be responsible for paying the public grain when the time comes. No. Do you know if you are willing?"

Deng Changping said with a surprised look on his face: "Jiu Gong, don't you plant this field?"

Deng Shirong said: "Now my family Yuntai is working in the tile factory, Yunheng and the three younger ones are studying. Now I have changed my career and started to be a matchmaker. I will be too busy farming!"

As the wedding invitations for Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying were sent out, and the news spread that Deng Changmei went to Changtian to look after the house, everyone in the village basically knew that Jiu Gong was now switching careers as a matchmaker.

In addition, Jiu Gong was also one of the owners of the cylinder tile factory, so Deng Changping understood that Jiu Gong did not intend to farm.

And Jiu Gong called him over for questioning, making it clear that he was taking care of him. After all, rural people nowadays are digging in the fields for food. Who would think there are so many fields?

"Jiu Gong, thank you for taking care of your grandnephew. I am responsible for delivering the public grain. When the rice is harvested, each of us will take half." Deng Changping said with a grateful face.

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "You don't need half. When the harvest is good, you can just use one hundred and eighty kilograms of grain to honor Jiu Gong!"

…

After returning from Mr. Jiu's house, Deng Changping walked into the room with a smile on his face.

In the room, Deng Changping's wife Chen Xiaohua was holding her baby and breastfeeding her. When she saw this, she couldn't help but joked: "Looking at you smiling so hard that your eyes are narrowed. What good thing does Mr. Jiu want from you?"

Deng Changping said with a smile: "Honey, you are right, Mr. Jiu really has something good to do with me."

Chen Xiaohua patted the child's back gently and asked, "What's the good thing?"

Deng Changping came close to his wife and whispered: "He doesn't plan to plant the fields in Mr. Jiu's house. He called me over to ask if I am willing to plant them. He just wants to help pay the public grain."

Chen Xiaohua's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard this, and she couldn't wait to ask: "Is this true? Are you kidding?"

Deng Changping nodded and said: "It's true, I'm not kidding."

Chen Xiaohua said excitedly: "That's great!"

No wonder she was so excited. In this era when everyone in the countryside is farming, being able to plant more than three acres of land means that one can produce several thousand more kilograms of grain a year. This is a number that no one can ignore.

As for whether it's hard work or not, it doesn't matter to people in this era.

Deng Changping said: "Jiu Gong said that as long as we hand over the public grain, it will be fine, but we certainly can't do this. When the harvest is good, we must at least pick up a few loads of grain to give to Jiu Gong."

Chen Xiaohua nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right. Mr. Jiu is taking care of us. We must also know how to be talented."

After saying that, she put the child who drank milk until he fell asleep and put him on the bed to sleep.

Deng Changping said enthusiastically: "With the addition of Jiugong's three acres of farmland, as long as we work hard, life will definitely get better and better."

Chen Xiaohua said: "The eldest brother's family and the second brother's family have built new houses and moved out of the old house. Our family must also build a house and move out as soon as possible. Living here in the old house is not convenient after all."

Deng Changping hummed and said, "Now that we have divided the fields and worked alone, and with Jiugong taking care of us, I believe it won't be long before our family can build a new house."

Thinking of the various benefits of building a new house and moving out, the couple became more and more excited as they talked about it. If it weren't for the wrong timing, I'm afraid they would have staged a drama!

…

June has also come to an end after the first batch of fields were distributed to each production team of Bangjie Brigade.

Tomorrow is the wedding day for Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying. The whole Naye Village started to get busy early this morning.

The first is to kill the pig. Today, the man's family will give an ancestral gift to the woman's family. This is for the woman's family to worship their ancestors and serve wine. It usually includes two chickens, two pig buttocks, and some pork.

There are also candy biscuits, tobacco and alcohol, plus two red envelopes.

Of course, if you don’t have a pig butcher and can’t buy that much pork, you can also discount it to the woman’s family. This is all negotiable.

In the afternoon, relatives from the groom’s family came over one after another carrying loads of wine and rice to drink the wedding wine!

In this era, due to the inconvenient transportation and the fact that the wedding ceremony in the Shuangwang Realm was held before noon instead of in the afternoon or evening, relatives and friends would come over to have a wedding banquet the day before the wedding.

As for rice dumplings of wine, they are the standard accompaniment for wedding wine in this era.

Relatives and friends who come to have a wedding banquet carry ten or eight kilograms of rice and two bottles of rice wine. Red envelopes are wrapped in red paper and placed on the rice noodles.

As a matchmaker, Deng Shirong will go to the bride's house for a wedding banquet this afternoon, and will see the bride off with her wedding guests tomorrow.