On New Year's Day, Zuo Xiaoyou, Zhang Ayi, Zhang Acai sisters, and Old Master Ren went down the mountain to send warmth.

It is another new year, and the villagers at the foot of Liangshan are still living in poverty. Although they eat enough and wear warm clothes, they eat cheap rice, pickles and sweet potatoes, and they wear dirty and old torn clothes, just like farmers in the 1980s.

People's hearts are full of flesh. After living here for more than a year, Zuo Xiaoyou has long regarded the villagers here as his own fellow villagers. He would buy a bunch of things to give to the villagers during the holidays to help them improve their food.

In addition, since last autumn, Zuo Xiaoyou began to purchase the grain cultivated by villagers at high prices. The villagers have land. In addition to the grain they eat, there is some grain left every year, and they go to the mountains to exchange for some money and buy some things.

However, it is difficult to travel to Shanwai, so I can’t bring much at a time, and the price given outside is not high, which has also discouraged the enthusiasm of many villagers.

Last year, when Zuo Xiaoyou saw the harvest scene of autumn harvest, he became interested. He first asked the villagers how much they usually sell grain, and then went to the county grain station to ask about their selling price. After roughly calculating, the villagers can only sell one pound of rice, but the selling price of the county grain station is 2.5 yuan. It is simply a huge profit and also absorbs the blood of farmers.

Zuo Xiaoyou couldn't stand it, so he simply collected grain from the villagers at a price of 250 yuan outside. Last year, Zuo Xiaoyou collected more than 20 tons of rice and flour, and each family made hundreds or thousands of yuan. This is also because the villagers could not sell grain at the price in previous years and could not sell it, which reduced the arable land. With Zuo Xiaoyou's purchase, the villagers have begun to plan to reclaim more arable land and a variety of grains during spring plowing, and make more money.

Zuo Xiaoyou also promised them in front of the villagers that as long as they had food in their hands, he would purchase it at the highest price for selling grain outside. However, he also had a requirement that the villagers' grain must be clean and not mix up with some mess.

The villagers are simple, but the villagers also have the bad habit of taking advantage of the situation. People in their thirties should have had such an experience. When they were young, they always had to wash the rice at home several times before they could be put into the pot.

Why? Because there are many small stone grains in the rice. If you put it directly into the pot, you will definitely break your teeth. Guo Da once performed a sketch called "Swap Rice", which was a typical representative of farmers in that era. The rice you exchanged was very clean. In fact, if you grab a handful, you have to blow out the sand grains, which is very unclean.

It can clearly make the rice cleaner, but why are there small stone grains? The reason is very simple. If you add 50 cents per pound of rice to a pound of small stone grains, you can earn five cents more; if you add 100 pounds of rice to a pound of small stone grains, you can earn five cents more; if you add 100 pounds of small stone grains, you can earn five cents more.

In the 1980s, what could I buy for five yuan? At that time, in a small county town, a fried dough stick was a cent, a bowl of wheat porridge was only 50 cents, and a meat bone was only 50 cents. Save a little frugality, and a meal for one person was only 50 cents, and five yuan was ten meals.

The poverty back then was unimaginable to young people today. Even the serious post-80s generations and people who couldn't afford eggs when they were young were young. Even the children in the 1990s had tasted the taste of poverty.

Children who have really had no worries about food and clothing since childhood and have whatever they want are basically born in the 2000s.

Zuo Xiaoyou wanted to do his best to help the villagers in the mountains, but he didn't want the villagers to be helped by him and even cheated him. Why do many people who do good deeds end up being discouraged? In fact, many of them were helpless groups who were committed to death, thinking that it was natural for others to help them, but they just looked at them, and really thought that others owe him what they had.

When the people who helped them really left, they were all confused.

Fortunately, the villagers in the mountains are still very kind and know how to be grateful. Every household has made the food very clean. Zuo Xiaoyou is kind to them. They will also sincerely repay them.

On New Year's Day this year, Zuo Xiaoyou received five kilograms of vacuum frozen dumplings according to the head of the person. It is winter now, even though Liangshan is located in the basin, the temperature is below ten degrees, which is very suitable for food preservation. Each person has five kilograms of dumplings. It can be eaten in two days.

Zuo Xiaoyou has been taking care of the villagers like this, and he has made every effort to make the villagers more and more loved. It’s a pity that Zuo Xiaoyou lives in the mountains all year round and doesn’t spend much time with the villagers, otherwise the villagers would have wanted to recommend him as the village chief.

"Brother Zuo, you should have a drink with me if you say something today." Zuo Xiaoyou just finished dividing the dumplings, but the village chief grabbed him: "If you don't drink it, do you believe it, I will hit you to death?"

Zuo Xiaoyou was angry and funny: "Village Chief, what are you doing during the holidays? Is there something to ask me for? "

"It's okay, I just want to thank you." The village chief grabbed Zuo Xiaoyou's arm and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Let's go to my house. We won't be drunk today."

It is hard to refuse the kindness. The village chief is over 60 years old. Zuo Xiaoyou is afraid that he will do something urgently, so he can only go home with him.

The village chief’s family is relatively wealthy in the village. At least the house is a relatively beautiful two-story building. The village chief is over 60 years old this year, with two sons and a daughter, three grandchildren, plus two grandchildren and one granddaughter.

However, the daughter married into the city, and the grandson and granddaughter also lived in the city.

The village chief’s two sons also bought houses in the county town and lived outside. The grandchildren are older and are about to find a partner to get married. In the whole family, only the village chief and his wife, and grandchildren will only come to the village for a while during the winter and summer vacations. However, because the mountain roads are difficult to travel, the village chief’s children and grandchildren have come to the village less and less frequently in recent years.

The children in the city have too poor physical condition, so how can they bear the bumps of the mountain roads?

When Zuo Xiaoyou came to the village chief's house, the village chief's wife had already prepared lunch. The lunch was very simple, a plate of spicy and sour cabbage, a bowl of stewed chicken that seemed left over last night, and a bowl of boiled sweet potatoes, plus rice.

"My wife, go and cook some dumplings." The village chief threw the five kilograms of dumplings Zuo Xiaoyou gave him to his wife and put them on the table.

The poorer the place, the lower the status of a woman, even the village chief’s family is no exception. The village chief’s wife is a very virtuous woman. She has been married for more than 40 years and has worked diligently to take care of her husband and children. Not only do she have to do housework, but she also has to do farm work. After decades, she has been dark. She is obviously less than 60 years old, but she looks like an 80-year-old old lady.

In comparison, the village chief has been in good maintenance because he has been in office all year round. People in his sixties look like those in his seventies... they sweat and look quite old.

The villagers do not pay attention to maintenance and work a lot. Therefore, they look very old. Two years ago, Zhao Yazhi, who was in her early sixties, went to the nursing home to visit elderly people of the same age. The elderly were really old, older than them, and looked like they were in their seventies or eighties, but Zhao Yazhi was like a 40-year-old lady. She was wearing a short skirt and exposed her thighs, making the old men at the scene stare at them one by one.

It’s so sad! When ordinary people reach the age of 60, they are already old cabbage, engraving the wind and frost of time, but Zhao Yazhi, who is the same age, stands with them and makes a fashionable sentence: The style of painting is completely different!

"Come on, brother Zuo, there is no good wine at home, it's all made by home. Try it." The village chief poured a glass of white wine and handed it to Zuo Xiaoyou. Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the glass that had reached half a pound and said, "It's too much, I can't drink so much."

"This is rice wine, sweet, you can definitely drink it." said the village chief.

"Oh, rice wine shop."

To be honest, if you are used to eating the food you cook yourself, and then eating what others cook, the taste in your mouth is wrong. Fortunately, Zuo Xiaoyou is not a picky person. In addition, the food on this table is green and pollution-free, so the taste is still very good, and Zuo Xiaoyou eats it well.

Not long after, the dumplings were also ready. Zuo Xiaoyou originally greeted the village elder's wife to take the seat. But the old lady smiled and refused: "Men can't eat, women can't eat it, you can eat it! I'll eat it outside."

"..." Zuo Xiaoyou sighed in his heart: Poor people have many poor habits in places.

No wonder the young people who walked out of the village didn’t want to go back to the village. There were too many rules in the village, which was not as simple and comfortable as in the city. Moreover, the education and medical conditions in the city were much better than those in the village. Apart from the air, there was really not much worthy of young people’s nostalgia in the countryside. Perhaps only when you are old and need to take care of your old age, will you yearn for the countryside!

Of course, the rural area here refers to a poor village. If it were a place like Huaxi Village, I am afraid no young man would want to leave.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the village chief ate a dumpling, put the chopsticks on it and said, "Brother Zuo, you are thirty-two this year!"

"Yes." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded: "It's thirty-two after his birthday."

"At this age, I have never had a wife, so why aren't I lonely?"

"..." Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the village chief and smiled faintly: "Ayi and Acai have grown up."

Hearing this, the village chief frowned and said, "Those two girls are still young. I think you should find someone who is twenty years old and can get married."

Hearing this, Zuo Xiaoyou chuckled and said, "Village Chief, I remember you have two granddaughters, who are exactly twenty years old."

The village chief smiled and said, "Brother Zuo is smart. You have seen those two girls, and you don't pick on anything. If you can see them, we will get married. How about it?"

"Haha..." Zuo Xiaoyou put down his chopsticks and said, "Village Chief, your two granddaughters are both good, but I already have Ayi and A Cai, so I won't delay them."

"Brother Zuo, please consider it again." The village chief said: "I know you are a capable person. A capable man is very ordinary with three wives and four concubines. Let me talk about those two girls. It is definitely okay to live with you and the two girls in the Zhang family."

Zuo Xiaoyou's forehead is sweating, and he is worthy of being a poor mountain village that he doesn't care about. Even such things can be accepted. However, the village chief's granddaughter came back once during the Chinese New Year last year, and it was indeed very beautiful. It's a pity that there was a sense of vanity in his eyes, which he would never like. (To be continued.)

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