The fellow villagers in the team had been trained long ago, and they listened to the arrangements of their superiors in their bones, so even when their hungry eyes turned green, no one dared to loot food.
Anyway, they are all going to be distributed, the captain said, and all of them will be distributed.
Guo Changsheng led everyone to dig the hole together. Go down with a few older people and a few young people. Just to make sure nothing has been moved.
Yes, they are all perfect. And the previous mouse was also inside. Su Aidang directly covered it with a bag. After searching for a mouse, I didn't see a mouse's nest. I guess it was a single mouse that survived after being caught by the villagers.
Disappointment is disappointment, at least there is food. Then start loading food.
Because it has been stored for too long, the rice has a stale smell, but no one dislikes it, but thinks it is the smell of grain.
"It smells so good." Guo Changsheng said happily.
The others were also happy. They were exhausted when they were working, but now they seemed to have endless strength. They are all working hard.
Everyone worked together, and quickly put every grain of rice in the bag, and then weighed it.
Excluding the weight of the bag, it was exactly four thousand and five catties.
Others felt that the mice must have eaten some, and felt very distressed.
However, the rats have been assigned to the old Su's family. Because the dried sweet potatoes of the daughter of the old Su family attracted mice, and then they discovered this place.
So Guo Changsheng distributed the rats to the old Su's family as a reward from the team.
It was the first time that everyone discovered that eating and being lazy are so useful...
This time, the food is divided according to the six labors and four labors of the people.
When distributing the food, everyone happily held cloth bags to hold the food, just like Chinese New Year.
Guo Changsheng asked someone to come over with a record book, and anyone who wanted to get food had to sign or put a fingerprint to show that he agreed to share the food.
On average, each person in the team can gain a few catties. As long as the population is large and the distribution is large, if you eat quickly, you won't starve to death.
Su Laizi brought a few children and beat the food with tears on his face. "My mother, we have something to eat, and our children have something to eat. Don't worry."
Then take the children to Su Qinghe and let the children kneel down. But Su Qinghe was taken aback. Stop it quickly. Gao Xiulan also stopped her, "What are you doing? This is to shorten my daughter's life. My daughter is still young, so I don't want people to kneel."
"Uncle Lame, what are you doing?" Su Qinghe said.
Su Liezi said, "Qinghe, thank you uncle, if you hadn't lured the mice out, these babies would not have become. Thank you uncle—"
Gao Xiulan was delighted when she heard it, and shouted, "That's right, my daughter's dried sweet potato was reluctant to eat, so she put it under the pillow. Which of you has such delicious food? That big mouse is used to eating millet, ordinary things I don’t like it. It’s only my daughter’s dried sweet potato that I like. If my daughter’s dried sweet potato didn’t attract mice, they would starve to death and wouldn’t be able to eat the food left by this ancestor.”
The pride and pride on that face seemed to be such an honor to be spotted by a mouse.
Of course, it is indeed an honor.
Everyone looked at them eagerly.
Qinghe's mother was right, if there were no dried sweet potatoes and no mice, they would starve to death and wouldn't know what to do.
Because the old Su family was the first to discover the rats and holes, in addition to their own food, an additional five catties of food was rewarded.
This is eye-catching. What's wrong with the young girl of the Su family eating too much and being lazy? She can also help the family earn food. It can also attract big rats.
After sharing the food, I hurried home and cooked something to eat.
The shelled millet would be wasted if boiled directly. They peeled off their skins when they went back, and then boiled the skins to eat. They were also reluctant to eat other rice, and looked back to see if they could find someone to replace them with coarse grains.
They don't pay attention to coarse grains and fine grains, as long as they can eat, they are good grains.
The sun hadn't set yet, and the smoke was finally rekindled in the homes of many people who had been interrupted.
The old Su's family is also packing firewood and preparing to cook a meal.
This time, in addition to the old Su's own weight, plus the five catties of rice that was rewarded, the old Su's almost got more than fifty catties.
When they came back with a heavy load, everyone was smiling.
The children are looking forward to eating a mouthful of white rice.
Gao Xiulan was not happy, so she took all the rice into the house, and prepared to make white rice for her green seedlings after shelling them. How fragrant.
"Mom, I don't want to eat that." Su Qinghe said in Gao Xiulan's room, "It smells stale, and I don't know how long it's been there. It's not like my dad won't let me eat it. I don't eat this. The rat meat I don't eat it either. I like to eat the meat of the old hen."
The old hen shrank into a ball in fright.
Gao Xiulan pinched a pinch of millet for it, "Let you also taste the taste of rice. Every time this thing is harvested, you have to hand it in. We are reluctant to eat it ourselves."
He turned back and said, "If you don't want to eat it, I'll exchange it for coarse grains later."
Su Qinghe doubted, "How much coarse grain can you exchange for such a big taste?"
"As much as you can change. Anyway, I can't give them to eat, what a waste. Such a good thing." Gao Xiulan looked wary of outsiders. It was as if it wasn't her own son on the outside.
Su Qinghe said, "Mom, I think I have to cook a meal for my brother and the others, and then tell them that it depends on me as a girl to eat rice. Let them remember me. Otherwise, who will remember my credit Ah." She pursed her lips in displeasure.
Gao Xiulan thought about it, and felt that what the girl said was reasonable. These bastards won't forget about it when they eat coarse grains, "then cook it, just eat it with meat."
As soon as Su Qinghe heard that she said meat, she felt bad all over.
"Mom, I was frightened by rats today, I don't want to cook anymore."
"Oh, don't do it if you don't want to do it. You should have a good rest. I don't like to watch you work. It hurts to see you. You've lost weight." Gao Xiulan said distressedly, "Drink more soup later."
Su Qinghe waved his hands again and again, "Mom, I like to drink old hen soup, and I don't drink anything else. Don't give it to me, or I will be in a hurry."
Gao Xiulan looked at her old hen distressedly, "Wait a minute, when it stops laying eggs, Mom will stew it for you."
The old hen squatted in the corner and pouted her buttocks.
With Gao Xiulan speaking, the three Su Aidang brothers hurriedly threshed the rice. Without the threshing machine at the commune, it would be troublesome for them to do it manually. But in order to have a good bite, no one finds it troublesome.
The threshing will not be very clean, leaving a layer of skin on top to eat together. The remaining shells will not be thrown away, and they will be kept and ground into chaff, which will be life-saving food when you are extremely hungry.
The three brothers here have shelled the rice, and Ding Guihua and Lin Shuhong have already packed the meat in the kitchen. There is less than half a catty.
The two sides worked together and quickly finished the meal.
Su Qinghe said that he wanted to open a small stove, so he continued to sleep in the room and waited for the small stove.
Eating outside is in full swing. Sitting at the dining table, Gao Xiulan pointed to her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, "I used to dislike our Qing Miao'er for not working, but now I know our Qing Miao'er is fine. Su Laizi even brought his children to our Qing Miao'er." You’re kneeling down. People and outsiders remember our Qing Miao’er’s kindness. If you don’t remember, you’ll be a white-eyed wolf that even outsiders can’t compare to, something struck by lightning!”
Everyone shrank in fright, then nodded hastily. "Mom, remember, remember everything."
The grandchildren shouted, "Grandma, let's remember my aunt. My aunt is kind."
Only then did Gao Xiulan say, "Well, it's good to know, let's eat."
After dinner, it was still early, and because they were too excited to fall asleep, the three Su Aiguo brothers went straight out to chat. If you are usually hungry, you will go to bed early. I ate a meal today, and I was very excited, so I couldn't sleep, so I went to the square in the team to shake. Who would have known that there was a cellar below, and now the entrance to the big locust tree has been sealed, and it will be used as the team's granary in the future.
Seeing the three Su Aidang brothers coming over, someone saw Su Aidang and asked him, "Why did your sister find the rat, please tell us."
There is not much entertainment these days, and when I encounter something new, I always want to listen to it several times.
Su Aidang immediately said, "My eldest sister has to go to bed after lunch every day..."
Yo, sleep after eating, how lazy! Oh no, that's bliss.
"She likes to eat dried sweet potatoes the most. When I used to make steel, the dried sweet potatoes I shared were given to my elder sister as snacks..."
Dried sweet potatoes are really edible as a snack! Good luck!
"When she went to take a nap today, she found a big mouse on her pillow, and she started yelling in fright—my brother and I were not afraid, so we immediately chased after it. We caught up."
Everyone was stunned when they heard it.
Su Aihua said, "That's why it's due to the fact that my eldest sister likes to eat dried sweet potatoes and also likes to take a nap, nothing less will do."
Everyone nodded. Yes, yes, you must be lazy if you eat delicious food. If you are not lazy, you will encounter a mouse. Otherwise, the rats would have eaten up all the dried sweet potatoes, and they wouldn't be able to meet the rats.
From this moment, everyone felt that it was great that Su Qinghe was so delicious and lazy! Only such a person with good taste and good fortune can attract such a big rat.
This is how people are. Once things that are not pleasing to the eye have brought huge benefits to everyone, such as life-saving food... then this thing will be infinitely beautified... Look at Su Qinghe's white and fat appearance again, um, once You are lucky to see.
Before going to work the next day, Guo Changsheng called another meeting.
It was still because of the distribution of food yesterday.
"The food has already been distributed, and I, Guo Changsheng, will not say anything. I am sorry for this matter. If anyone wants to report or go out and say it, I will wait, and I hope that everyone will take the food. Eat something, at least wait for the relief food to arrive. Don’t let the elderly and children at home starve to death. This is life-saving food, so take good care of it!”
Guo Changsheng was afraid that the people in the team had been hungry for a long time, and there was food suddenly, and they couldn't wait to eat their fill. Later, the relief food came out late, and it was like before.
Su Aidang said, "Who the hell made us lose food, we won't tolerate such black-hearted people in the future!"
Others who had paused before also yelled, "That's right, whoever yells again, let people take away our food, we're welcome."
"Smash with a big mouth! Smash the unworthy descendants who betrayed their ancestors!"
The ancestor Su Qinghe stood beside Gao Xiulan obediently and looked up at the sky.
She found that the people nearby looked at her with strange eyes, and they all smiled, as if she had become a sweet potato.
Obviously, everyone despised her before.
Even her second aunt Gao Xiuju said, "Qingmiaoer, your mother did not give you the wrong name, it sounds nice. Eat more, sleep more, do you have sweet potatoes? Let your mother go to your grandma's house later. Take some and keep putting it under the pillow."
Su Qinghe: "...Auntie, let it go yourself." She didn't want to really attract mice.
Gao Xiuju said, "It's useless for me to put it away. I have to work during the day. You put it away. You have time to watch it in our village. You are so white and tender that mice like it."
Su Qinghe couldn't tell whether the words hurt her or praised her...
But looking at her mother Gao Xiulan's smug smile, she knew that her second aunt was really complimenting others, but the way she praised was a bit awkward. No wonder her mother said that her grandma liked her the most and didn't like her second aunt. It's better not to boast, second aunt.
The men over there have already finished their oath noisily. Anyway, the food is eaten by the whole team. Anyway, whoever made it impossible for the members of the team to survive, so the damn thing can't survive.
Guo Changsheng didn't say anything else, anyway, as long as the team members survived, he would feel at ease. It's not like I couldn't sleep all night long ago.
At this moment, he was grateful, grateful to the ancestors of the three villages. I also thank the mouse, and Comrade Su Qinghe who brought the mouse.
"This time we were able to find food, thanks to Comrade Su Qinghe. So the team decided to award Comrade Su Qinghe the title of Hero of Self-sacrifice. Without the dried sweet potatoes discarded by Comrade Su Qinghe, there would be no precious food."
When Su Aidang heard this, he immediately applauded, "The captain is right, my elder sister likes sweet potatoes the most!"
Su Aihua said, "Yes, our eldest sister is reluctant to eat, so she secretly puts it under the pillow and licks it every day."
Su Aiguo said, "All of them were harmed by the rats!"
Su Qinghe: "..." How do her brothers know better than she does
"Comrade Su Qinghe is invited to receive the certificate of honor and a towel." Guo Changsheng shouted.
Su Qinghe was pushed by Gao Xiulan, and immediately took a breath and ran up. He took his certificate and a towel from Guo Changsheng with his own hands.
The three brothers of the Su family immediately took the lead in applauding, and the others also applauded enthusiastically.
Gao Xiulan felt that her daughter was particularly promising, more promising than her sons. This is the first certificate from the old Su family.
Guo Changsheng asked Su Qinghe to talk to everyone, Su Qinghe thought about it, and worried that someone would imitate him in the future, it would not be fun. "I think my certificate belongs to our whole family. Without the hard work of my family, there would be no dried sweet potatoes to eat. No family would care about my weak health, and I could not take a nap. I could not find mice. We are in harmony A family, a harmonious family, everything will be prosperous. The big guys will live in harmony in the future, work hard to earn sweet potatoes, live a good life in the future, and attract big rats. Hard work is the most glorious! Mom, big brother, second brother, third brother, big sister-in-law and second sister-in-law , Da Ya Da Bao, Er Ya Er Bao, San Ya, we are all honored!"
"Well said, well said! Only hard work can attract mice!" Guo Changsheng applauded immediately. He still had a headache before, afraid that others would follow Su Qinghe's example. That's fine. If you want to learn from Comrade Su Qinghe, unless your family is like the old Su's, no one will have the confidence to learn from him.
Others applauded enthusiastically.
The old Su family was moved to tears. The eldest sister didn't say a word about what she did for the family, and now she is fighting for glory for them. The eldest sister is so kind to them!
Gao Xiulan wiped her tears and said, "Our Qingmiao children are the most sincere."