The brigade's orchard is at the foot of another mountain. The area is not very large. In order to apply for such a piece of land for the orchard, Tian Youfu put a lot of effort into it.
At first, the people in the brigade didn't understand, and thought it was a waste of time and effort. There were some wild fruit trees on the mountain, such as peaches and wild dates, and they could always eat some. Why did they have to open an orchard
But the facts proved that Tian Youfu was still far-sighted.
After the orchard was built, Tian Youfu made many inquiries and finally decided to plant apples and hawthorns in the orchard.
Firstly, both of these are resilient and easy to transport, and secondly, both of these fruit trees are cold-resistant species, so after planting them, you don’t have to worry about whether the saplings will be frozen to death due to the cold winter.
The orchard is not big, but the members have tasted the sweetness of benefits in the third year after it was built.
Every year in September and October, we pick the fruits and first share some with everyone. Then we contact the fruit collection company to collect them. Because the transportation is not very convenient, we don’t make much money in the end.
Tian Youfu did not divide all the money equally, but set aside a portion as the team's fund, and divided the rest into one portion every two years.
Xu Shuang said that when the money was distributed last year, each household received ten yuan.
Although it's not much, compared to other brigades that work for several years and don't get a penny, the treatment of the Seventh Brigade is already rare.
Therefore, everyone pays great attention to the orchard. Even hungry families will not let their children go into the orchard to harm the fruit seedlings, for fear of ruining the team's business and their own income.
After Wang Ying put it on, she rarely came to the orchard, so when she followed Xu Shuang to wander around the orchard, she was amazed.
"This place is really nice, but there are too few fruit trees."
The scale is too small, and the annual supply is only to nearby counties. It is not enough for those farther away.
Xu Shuang: "That's enough. If it's farther away, the fruit will go bad before it's delivered."
Apples are easy to store, but hawthorns cannot be stored for too long if they are not dried.
Wang Ying looked puzzled: "Can't it be canned?"
Canned hawthorns are a rare commodity, and the Seventh Brigade can't get a good price just by selling the fruit. It's better to make canned hawthorns, which can be sold far away and sold at a high price.
Xu Shuang: "How can it be that easy? Not to mention that the government won't approve it, just getting the machine back is so expensive that no one will agree."
Xu Shuang pulled Wang Ying through the small trees in the orchard and hid in a tool house nearby.
It was also because the old dog had been too busy with his job of carrying manure recently, and he had to sleep in the orchard at night, so Xu Shuang took Wang Ying and hid there for the time being, and would take the old dog outside in the middle of the night to ask him about it.
The two people arrived after dinner and planned to ask people after they fell asleep.
Old Dog was chatting with a member of the forest ranger while eating. Old Dog didn't like to work in the fields, and the food he was given was not enough. After a winter, Old Dog had eaten most of his food and was running out of money, so what he had in his bowl was not potato cornmeal or cabbage sorghum flour, but wild vegetables picked from the mountains.
He mixed noodles and shepherd's purse with salt and steamed them in a pot. He stuffed them all in one gulp without caring about how they looked. Eating wild vegetables alone would not fill him up, so he also drank a bellyful of cold water.
After eating and drinking, the old dog went outside and broke off a small branch to pick his teeth.
The man guarding the orchard laughed and said, "Uncle Gou, didn't you finish telling me about the young widow who cheated on her husband? Tell me more."
The old dog picked his teeth and said proudly: "That was a few years ago. That little widow from someone's family was very sexy. She would walk around the team with her big butt all day long..."
The old dog was old and had no wife. He missed his wife so much that he started to make up stories. He added to and changed some rumors he had heard, making them sound very convincing and shocking the young members who were guarding the forest.
Wang Ying was lying outside the window, with Xu Shuang pressing her head down.
Xu Shuang frowned tightly, feeling that he didn't beat the old dog enough last time. This guy was talking nonsense and looked very mean, he really deserved a beating.
Wang Ying was also speechless. She could imagine the expression on Lao Gou's face when he told people these romantic anecdotes. He was guaranteed to have a lecherous look on his face.
He really deserves a beating.
But what Wang Ying didn't expect was that the old dog behind her was talking nonsense and became more and more rude as he spoke.
"I'm telling you, even though your uncle hasn't found a wife, I have the sharpest eyes. I can tell a woman's true colors from the first glance."
"Just like that opera singer who was sent down to our place, she's not a decent person at first glance. You know, people like this used to come from the alleys before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tsk tsk, they just use the name of opera singers to sound good, but they actually do that kind of thing."
Wang Ying was already furious when she heard this outside.
But they are still committing suicide inside.
The young forest ranger smiled and joked: "Then Uncle Gou, just marry that woman. She has a bad background anyway, but I think her figure is okay. Although her background is bad, you are a poor peasant for three generations. If you get together with her, she will take advantage of you."
The old dog shook his head quickly: "You little bastard, don't even think about causing trouble for your uncle. I don't want someone like her even if she's offered to me. My family is so pure, how could I possibly want someone like that to come in?"
The ranger laughed and changed the subject. He was just kidding when he teased Lao Gou to get married. Who would marry a woman with a bad background these days? And she was not only a bad background, but also a bad element. No one dared to get involved.
But he didn't say anything, but his words just now were like a spark buried in the old dog's heart.
The two of them chatted for a while before going back to their rooms to sleep. The old dog tossed and turned in his bed, his mind full of what the young man had just said.
I will never marry a bad guy.
But when I think of the woman named Cheng Shufen when she first came to the brigade, although she was a little older and looked thinner, her face and figure were still pretty...
The old dog turned over in his sleep anxiously. He knew that he was thinking about things he shouldn't be thinking about.
But he couldn't control it.
Last time he wanted to attack Wang Ying, but Xu Shuang beat him so hard that he had to lie on the bed for a long time. After coming down, he went into the mountains and cleared snow. This winter was very tiring. If he hadn't been so tired, he wouldn't have been eating so much. He had eaten up all the food in the spring.
He no longer dared to have any evil thoughts about Wang Ying. Now, when he occasionally thought of Xu Shuang, he still felt a dull pain in the places on his body where he had been beaten.
The old dog couldn't sleep at night, so he got up for some unknown reason. He thought since he couldn't sleep, why not go for a walk in the back mountain
Even he himself didn't dare to think deeply about why he went to the back mountain...
Wang Ying and Xu Shuang had planned to wait until he fell asleep before waking him up, but they waited and waited but the old dog didn't fall asleep. Instead, the man got up!
Wang Ying frowned and watched the old dog sneak out of the orchard.
“…Where is he going?”
Xu Shuang pulled Wang Ying along for a while and said, "It should be the back mountain."
Wang Ying was so angry that her face turned darker. Just as Lao Gou mentioned Cheng Shufen, he went to the back mountain.
This person really only cares about eating and not about being beaten!
Xu Shuang knew that Wang Ying was angry, so she quietly pulled her to follow her and went to a secluded place. Xu Shuang went up to her and knocked her out with a knife.
Wang Ying: "Take him to the threshing ground."
Xu Shuang had told him before how to deal with Lao Gou, and this time Wang Ying was obviously not going to let Lao Gou, who could never control himself, go.
When the old dog woke up again, he was almost scared to death.
Under the deep moonlight, Xu Shuang and Wang Ying both looked at him unfriendly.
Next to him is the brigade’s water well.
It was like a nightmare reappearing, still here, still Xu Shuang, still looking aggressive and looking for trouble.
The old dog immediately began to beg for mercy: "I didn't do anything! I didn't say anything I shouldn't have said!"
He had a hunch that Xu Shuang was going to beat him up, so he immediately apologized and admitted his mistake.
But he guessed wrong about today's protagonist. Wang Ying walked up to him, punched him twice, and then asked, "Do you dare to say you didn't want to do anything just now?"
Everyone has gone to the back mountain, so could it be that they have no idea what to do
The old dog never expected that Wang Ying could see through his intentions, and his face turned pale with fright in an instant.
"I, I didn't... I didn't really do it!"
The old dog was so scared that he started to cry, and suspicious ** appeared in his lower body: "I really didn't! I really didn't do it! Woo woo woo I was just thinking about it, and you dragged me here..."
The old dog was completely scared. He couldn't figure it out. He just said a few dirty words and thought some bad things in his heart.
But he really didn't do it!
How come this couple can always catch him successfully
Could it be that there really are gods and Buddhas in heaven watching over him, telling him not to do anything against his conscience in his entire life
Wang Ying punched him twice more. The old dog covered his head and didn't even dare to cry out loud.
Wang Ying let out a sigh of relief before getting down to business: "I'll tell you about your trip to the back mountain later. Now I want to ask you a question. Think about it carefully and answer me after you've thought it through."
The old dog hurriedly begged for mercy and nodded: "Anyway, please ask."
Woohoo, I always felt that it hurt when Xu Shuang hit people, but now I realize why it hurts so much when Wang Ying hits people too. This couple must be born to be incompatible with each other.
Wang Ying: "When my mother passed away a few years ago, you were in the same ward with her. Did you hear anything? Did my mother leave any words before she passed away?"
Lao Gou was not prepared for Wang Ying to ask this. He lowered his head and thought for a while: "I just remember that your uncle came and talked to your mother for a while, but I was too sleepy and fell asleep a long time ago..."
Wang Ying didn't show anything on her face: "Really? Think about it again. If you can hurry up and tell me everything my mother did and said at that time, please repeat it to me again."
The old dog smiled bitterly: "I really don't remember. I was so scared at that time that I just wanted to go to sleep... I heard a few words in the middle, saying something about asking Yongfu to come back quickly."
Wang Ying was silent for a while. Yongfu was the name of the original owner's father.
Seeing that Wang Ying looked unhappy, Xu Shuang took over the conversation and continued to ask: "In the middle, you said that Wang Yongshun entered the ward. Was there anything unusual when Wang Yongshun left?"
The old dog complained bitterly: "My dear ancestors, I really don't remember! I only remember that when Wang Yongshun was here, someone seemed to come into the middle ward. He said that the family who changed wards before had missed something and came to look for it. He woke me up for a while, but other than that, I don't remember anything else."
Wang Ying couldn't hide her disappointment. After all the effort she put in, everything was back to square one.
Xu Shuang gently stroked her shoulder: "At least we know that someone went in here, so we can just look for it again."
Although the old dog was not very useful, he did provide a clear direction. It seemed that the final responsibility of the matter would fall on the family of the woman in labor.
Wang Ying cheered up: "It's okay, I'll go back and ask Doctor Wu if he can be flexible and give me an address."
The old dog was standing by and was extremely anxious: "Grandpa, aunt, can I leave now?"
He would never have such bad thoughts again, and he would never dare to do it again.
Today, he still didn't take any clear action, but was dealt with by Wang Ying after just thinking about it. Why did he think Wang Ying was an orphan who was easy to bully
It's obvious that this person is a cruel and ruthless evil person!
When dealing with the bad guy, the old dog instantly became like a little lamb. He never mentioned the beating he had received again and only begged Wang Ying to let him go.
Wang Ying and Xu Shuang looked at each other. Lao Gou was a mean-mouthed man with a shady mind and a crooked brain. The lesson he learned last time was not enough, and he made another mistake this time.
It's really hateful.
But these alone were not enough to expose the truth to him, and after all, he had not yet touched the back of the mountain.
Lao Gou had now realized that he had fallen into the hands of this couple, and his final outcome would all depend on Wang Ying's attitude, so he kept begging Wang Ying.
Wang Ying did not disappoint him and knocked him out with one punch.
Xu Shuang: "What are you going to do?"
Wang Ying thought about it and hooked her finger at Xu Shuang.
"I remember you sneaked into the brigade office last time and got some medical alcohol?"
Xu Shuang: …
So the next day, the same scene happened again.
Song Dagui looked at the old dog on the ground with a stiff face, feeling extremely angry.
"You're amazing! Last time you secretly drank the medical alcohol, and now you're doing it again! Tell me the truth, old dog, are you eyeing the medical alcohol in our team? Otherwise, how can you accurately feel the alcohol every time and fill yourself with it so that you can't get up?"
"Okay, don't explain anymore. All the manure in our brigade belongs to you this year."