Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 91
After breakfast, Wang Manyin looked at the ten educated youths standing in front of his house, and asked in surprise, "Are you all going? How many girls are going too?"

When Wang Lianshun explained yesterday, he thought that only a few male educated youths would be sent to collect firewood, but he never thought that none of the ten people would be left behind.There was even a heroic lesbian holding a small red flag in her hand.

I knew that I was going into the mountains to cut firewood, but I didn't know that I thought I was a tour guide.

"Brother Wang, what do you mean, why don't you look down on us women? Women can hold up half the sky..." A girl named Shen Jinqin immediately retorted.

"No, no," Wang Manyin shook his head repeatedly, "You guys misunderstood, I mean there may be wolves in the mountains, it's safer for boys to go."

He was afraid that if the other party continued to talk, it might lead to other questions, so he hurriedly stopped the conversation.

"We are not afraid of wolves. The ten educated youths belong to a group. When we encounter difficulties, we must fight together... We will definitely overcome!!" Another girl named Shan Muqing interjected, and finally clenched her fists and waved them.

Suddenly, Wang Manyin thought he had met another Officer Zhao.

He glanced at Liu Xiangyang, and seeing the helpless expression on the other side, he knew that there was no need to discuss this matter.

"Okay, let's go together. After entering the mountain, you must obey my orders." Wang Manyin didn't say anything more, and he didn't dare to ask the other party to put the red flag at home.

If you want to carry it, you can carry it, anyway, it is not yourself who is tired.

But after looking around, he asked again, "Did you bring food and water?"

"To collect firewood, do you still need to bring food?" Shan Muqing asked in surprise.

This question made Wang Manyin speechless.

In order for the next process of collecting firewood to go smoothly, he had to explain again: "The place we are going to is far away, more than ten miles away, and we need to climb over mountains and cliffs along the way. Including the time for collecting firewood, it will take at least six or seven hours. When we come back, it is estimated It's afternoon. If you don't feel hungry, you don't have to take it with you, let's go now."

At this time, Wang Manyin is still forgetting.

More than a dozen people had never done any heavy work. It was okay to go into the mountain. When they returned, they carried hundreds of catties of firewood on their backs.

If you are not careful, you will still be in the dark.

"It's so far away, why don't you collect firewood nearby?"

"Because the nearby firewood has been cut down long ago."

After confirming that the other party really didn't understand, Wang Manyin could only answer one more nonsense.

"It's too troublesome to go home to get dry food. Brother Wang's house is a consignment store. Let's just scrape together some food stamps and money to buy some biscuits and pastries..." At this time, the educated youth Wang Licheng suggested.

The rest of the people nodded one after another, and then began to dig out their pockets.

In the end, they scraped together and bought more than ten catties of pastries, plus a catty of fruit candy... When Lan Hua collected the money, they were all stunned by the behavior of the educated youths.

She has insisted on learning abacus these days, and she has a clearer understanding of economic calculations.These biscuits and pastries, together with fruit candies, cost six yuan even without food stamps.

Coal is produced here on the Loess Plateau, and the price is very cheap, and the best coal is less than a penny per catty.Six yuan can buy nearly [-] catties of coal, enough for ten people to burn for more than a month.

Educated youths may not be able to collect a thousand catties of firewood if they go wandering in the mountains for a day.

Which way is more cost-effective, at a glance.

But seeing that her man didn't say anything, she didn't dare to talk too much.

The educated youth bought food, but the water is easy to get... Lanhua burned a big bottle last night, and it is still warm now.

There happened to be two big gourds for water at home, just let them bring them.

The so-called gourd is the kind that people in later generations like to have a shiny plate, and it is generally eaten as a vegetable on the Loess Plateau.

After the growth period, the gourd turns brown and has a particularly hard texture.

Rural people use their ingenuity to saw the old gourd in half vertically from the middle, which can be made into a gourd scoop for scooping water.Or open a small opening from the top, hollow out the silk fiber inside, and make a container for water.

In this way, all preparations are done.

Wang Manyin led the way, and a group of people marched towards the mountains with great strides, holding red flags and singing high-spirited songs.

"The sailing of the sea depends on the helmsman, the growth of all things depends on the sun, and the rain and dew nourish the seedlings..."

They are really traveling!

Although Wang Manyin was a little speechless, he could feel the unique vitality of young people in this era.On the other hand, I just turned 21 this year, and I feel a bit old-fashioned.

Sometimes, Wang Manyin also felt that he was a little too low-key and old-fashioned.

But every time after participating in a village meeting, he still feels that it is better to keep a low profile.

It was just half an hour into the mountain, and the educated youths still felt that it was very fresh.After all, they have spent most of their time around Guanzi Village in the past few months, and they are already tired of crooked.

But soon, the singing stopped.

The Loess Plateau in this season has no scenery to see at all.Except for the hills of loess, they are still hills.Even if a few wild birds flew by occasionally, they couldn't bear to catch them.

"Shang Zhimin, tell everyone a joke." Seeing the dull atmosphere, Wang Licheng said.

"Shang Zhimin, come one!"

"one comes……"

The rest of the educated youth cheered.

Shang Zhimin is an active member of this group of educated youths, with many talents.He is extroverted and likes to mingle with the members, talking and laughing to liven up the atmosphere.

After a long time, people in the village nicknamed Shang Zhimin "Gu Gu Biao", which means he likes to be funny.

When the production team was working last time, someone talked about breeding animals.The man immediately answered: "It's good to be a breeding pig and a horse, and I enjoy it every day."It is also suggested to set up a human race station, so that male bachelors can become human beings, and they can change wives and aunts every day.

When this happened in the village, it made people laugh for a while.

Wang Manyin felt that this person was too extroverted.If you can't keep your mouth shut and continue talking nonsense, something will happen sooner or later.

With everyone's applause, Shang Zhimin didn't refuse, and immediately said: "Come one, let's tell everyone a riddle first. 'There are twelve in the whole country, everyone has one', guess something."

Riddles of this level have long been rotten in later generations, so Wang Manyin naturally thought of the answer immediately.But he didn't say anything, he wanted to see the level of the educated youths.

Liu Xiangyang's face was filled with joy, and he held back his words. It seemed that he had guessed it.

"Does everyone have it? Where do they look? Are men and women the same?" Xie Liansheng asked curiously.

"puff……"

This car drove Wang Manyin off guard and almost overturned.

Shang Zhimin also laughed loudly and said: "Xie Liansheng, what do you think, this is not a thing that grows on the body. You think there are men and women when going to the toilet. I'm talking about a kind of folk custom. Everyone is born with it. Follow you forever."

"Is that auntie? The baby girl here in Guanzi Village has had it since birth."

The rest of the people probably figured it out, and they laughed from ear to ear.

Liu Xiangyang said helplessly, "Xie Liansheng, I think you are crazy about your mother-in-law, and you are looking for..."

"No body, regardless of gender, I know... Is it relative?"

"I'll go, you finally guessed it"

Wang Manyin confirmed that this Xie Liansheng's head was half a circle slower.

"another one……"

Someone urged me again.

"There is no joke today. I will read to everyone a poem I made during the Chinese New Year to remember the hardships. Everyone will see that the image is not image."

Then, Shang Zhimin read in a cadenced voice, "Eat Yiku rice first during the New Year, mixed with bean dregs, bran and rice bran. Stretch your neck and swallow it, it's really unpalatable to hold it in your hand."

Hearing this, Wang Manyin immediately had a bad face.Looking at the other educated youths, many expressions also changed.

He regrets it very much now. If he knew this, he shouldn't have brought the educated youths up the mountain to collect firewood.

Seeing that other people wanted to speak, Wang Manyin hurriedly stopped the conversation and said: "I will also tell you a riddle, 'White handkerchief, wrap black beans, and Didi Lala all the way'. To beat an animal, guess what it is? "

After such an interruption, everyone turned their attention to the new riddle, and finally no one pursued Shang Zhimin's poems anymore, which made Wang Manyin heave a sigh of relief.

The crowd walked for about two hours on a mountain road of more than ten miles, and finally came to a cliff.

The cliffside is steep and stretches into the distance.

Vitex twigs, wormwood, and jujube thorns are so luxuriant in the gully that each person can chop a large bundle at the edge alone.

After Wang Manyin explained, he immediately picked up the machete and went to work.

After a while, there was a large bundle around me.

This is the case on the Loess Plateau. It takes several hours to walk. As long as you find the right place, it takes less than half an hour to actually chop firewood.

If there were no educated youths to follow, it would be better for Wang Manyin to chop as much firewood as possible, and all of them could be stored in the space.

Now he estimated that he had acquired almost two hundred catties of firewood, so he stopped early.

There are still more than ten miles of mountain road to go back, and I can't carry it no matter how much.

At this time, Liu Xiangyang suddenly waved his hands excitedly and said, "Brother Wang, hurry up and have a look, what kind of animal's cave is this, it can't be a wolf?"

Hearing this, the educated youths ran towards the bottom of the cliff.

I saw a large pit the size of a wooden basin protruding from the wormwood grass at the bottom of the ditch, which was pitch black and bottomless.

Wang Manyin took a look and replied: "It's not a wolf cave, it's a naturally formed pit, and some places are also called Tianqiao. Be careful, don't fall. There are more over there..."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the distance.

Only then did the educated youths discover that there were still many dark pits among the wormwood.

In summer, the Loess Plateau often has torrential rains, and the torrential torrents pour down, creating deep pits of different sizes in the cliff ditches.The diameter of the small one is more than one meter, and the diameter of the large one can be more than ten meters.

These deep pits are distributed in series along the bottom of the cliff, and even form underground tunnels.When there were bandits before liberation, many people fled to the pits to hide.

It is said that in the early years, the landlord Lao Cai hid gold, silver, jewelry and grain in the string hole. Many people searched in this area, but they couldn't find it.

But for those who are not familiar with the pit, it is very dangerous.

Accidental falls and broken legs are common.

There are actually pits under the cliffs around Guanzi Village, but as long as they are seen by people, they will be blocked in time.In order to prevent the deep pit from getting bigger and bigger, and finally cause the plateau fields to collapse.

So the educated youths came to Guanzi Village to jump in the queue for a few months, and this was the first time they saw this kind of terrain.

"Let's go down and take a look. It's an adventure. Maybe we can find the landlord's treasure." Hearing Wang Manyin's words, the educated youths became interested.

"Be careful, everyone." Wang Manyin nodded and finally agreed.

In his memory, the pit wasn't too long, so it shouldn't be dangerous.

(End of this chapter)