Chapter 71 Hand over public food

At this time, summer comes, and the graceful branches and leaves move with the wind, and a fragrance comes to your nose. In the greenery, the little girl chuckled and was fresh.

Xiao Shengtian looked around and there was no one passing by outside the courtyard wall, so he boldly reached out and pinched her.

She wanted to hide, but she didn't. She was just letting him hold it.

Xiao Shengtian pinched her hand in the palm of his hand and looked down carefully: "Why is it so beautiful?"

Last time she was writing on her birthday, she dyed a little ink with her clear and white little fingertips. She wanted to hold it in her hand, but now she has done her wish.

"You will say nice things to coax me." Gu Qingxi murmured in a low voice.

"It's just good-looking, I'm not coaxing you this time." Xiao Shengtian smiled, looked down, and then looked at her pink nails: "I think some girls can dye their nails, and you will definitely look good when you dye them."

In rural areas, nails are dyed with phoenix flowers. One or two plants are planted at home. After growing, they are pounded into pieces, added alum, applied to the nails, wrapped with green peach leaves, tied with ropes outside, sleeping overnight, and the nails turn red when they wake up the next day.

The nails dyed in this way look much better and more natural than the nail polishes that were later.

"I'm so worried, I don't plant that at home." Gu Qingxi whispered: "It doesn't matter if it's dyed."

Usually, she can’t do anything to wait for a blind date.

Xiao Shengtian thought about it, she was different from ordinary girls. Others wanted to dress up well, but what she thought about was studying in her mind. She remembered the "The Wealth of the Kingdom" she copied for herself before, and said, "By the way, I looked really good at the wealth of the Kingdom you copied for me before. I read it at that time, but I didn't understand it very much. Recently, I studied the reform and opening up and found that some things were all the same."

When Gu Qingxi heard him mention this, he liked it. Xiao Shengtian's starting method and time in this life were different. Since everything could be changed, she certainly hoped to influence him as much as possible and avoid detours. She said immediately: "That's natural. That book was written by Adam Smith. It can be said to be the "Bible" of Western economics. It is a very classic book. Even if you read it for a hundred or two years, it is still of reference."

Xiao Shengtian frowned and lowered his head to think: "But I have recently watched the reform and opening up, and I have a question-"

After hearing this, Gu Qingxi roughly guessed Xiao Shengtian’s problem.

The 1980s was a period of exploration, and some ideological uncertainty would arise here. Until the early 1990s, a great man drew that circle in the south, and everything seemed to be set.

Gu Qingxi looked at Xiao Shengtian: "If you have any questions, let's discuss them together. Although I don't understand, after reading the book, I can also throw bricks and attract jade for you."

She thought that she needed to remind her that maybe in this way, he could save many detours.

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After a deep conversation, Xiao Shengtian fell into deep thought. Today he was thinking of her, so he talked to her on an excuse and talked to her about his own questions. Unexpectedly, she actually gave herself so many new ideas, which he had never thought about before.

Gu Qingxi lowered his head and pulled the soil on the ground with branches. There were a few ants crawling around there.

But she felt a little excited in her heart. She could feel that what she said had an impact on Xiao Shengtian. I don’t know what would happen next. He could always avoid some detours, right?

After contemplating for a while, Xiao Shengtian suddenly asked, "How did you think of these?"

Gu Qingxi was relieved.

In front of him, she was unprepared for her and wanted to dig everything out of her heart, but she really shouldn't know these things.

She didn't know how to explain.

Xiao Shengtian looked at her with gentle and tolerant eyes: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it."

Gu Qingxi: "I said I did it in my dreams, is it OK?"

Xiao Shengtian looked at her and suddenly smiled: "Of course, you dreamed that my family was rich."

Gu Qingxi: "Yes, I dreamed of something else."

Xiao Shengtian looked very interested: "What? Let's talk about it."

But Gu Qingxi didn't want to say it anymore.

I don’t know if it was because she was reborn for a while, but now she thinks that some memories of her previous life are separated by a layer, as if it was another person’s life, another person’s life, for her, it was like reading a book, which started to be fresh, but later the book slowly faded.

So she said softly: "I forgot, it's all dreams, but how can I remember it so clearly."

Xiao Shengtian narrowed her and suddenly said, "Then have you dreamed of Chen Zhao?"

When Gu Qingxi heard this, his heart suddenly shrank and he suddenly looked up at Xiao Shengtian.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Shengtian hurriedly said, "I just ask, I have no other intentions, you--"

He didn't want to force her to ask anything, nor did he want to scare her, but she seemed to be very frightened when she looked just now.

Gu Qingxi's fingers were trembling, and she looked at him: "Why did you suddenly ask Chen Zhao?"

Xiao Shengtian: "I asked casually."

Gu Qingxi: "If you ask casually, why would you ask Chen Zhao?"

She was stubbornly trying to know the answer. Xiao Shengtian thought about it and had to say, "Intuition."

Of course he wouldn't say that when she saw Chen Zhao, she looked obviously strange.

Gu Qingxi was silent for a while, and she thought that he had keen insight, maybe it was because of this.

Then he said, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just someone who thinks it's completely unrelated. But you suddenly asked, "I think it's weird."

Xiao Shengtian quickly explained: "Then I won't ask anymore, there is nothing else to do, I--"

He thought for a while and said, "I'm just talking nonsense, don't care."

Gu Qingxi felt a little relieved.

In fact, many things in the previous life were not something that could not be told, but now it is obviously not the time, and she is also afraid of scaring him. If there is a fate, the two can join hands for a lifetime. Perhaps when they are gray-haired, she will tell him about the past lifetime in the sunset.

On this day, Xiao Shengtian returned home, but he unconsciously recalled Gu Qingxi's appearance at that time.

Her eyelashes that had been quietly hanging down suddenly trembled, and even her face suddenly lost blood. She was indeed scared by herself.

He is just a Chen Zhao, why is he so scared?

What is she afraid of?

Xiao Shengtian frowned and pondered, gently tapped the handle of the old ring chair with his fingers, and finally got up. He wanted to go to the commune to test the Chen family's tone.

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This time, Gu Qingxi's family collected 1,800 kilograms of grain in one go, which was a bumper harvest. The family's tanks were not enough, so they quickly went to the county to buy a few new tanks of wheat. People were naturally envious of them when they saw it, and they said that your family is rich now!

Other families also collected more and less, but most of them could eat a full meal. Overall, they were all happy. Only Gu Qingxi's house, the land was not good enough, and they were not caring about serving it. The wheat grains were not full. After waiting for two days, they saw that others had collected them and could not bear it, so they quickly cut them. Finally, they harvested the grain and weighed them, and only collected less than 200 kilograms per acre of land.

This is a bit uncomfortable. Look at others who have a great harvest, they even have to buy a cement granary for tanks and look at their own homes. It doesn’t feel good.

For this, Ma Sanhong naturally had to say a few sour words, and asked his grandson to come to Gu Qingxi's house for dinner. He was greedy for small gains. Liao Jinyue was a kind person and was kind to Ma Sanhong's grandson. He was a child, but he never wanted to take advantage of the excess.

Ma Sanhong cried poorly for this and went to find Secretary Wang again, which meant whether he could waive public food.

But how is it possible? Not to mention whether Secretary Wang is willing or not, even if he is willing, it is not his decision!

Ma Sanhong's family cried and shouted, but they still had to pay what they should pay, and they should pay as soon as possible.

Secretary Wang kept shouting in the loudspeaker, urging everyone to go and hand over the public grain as soon as possible, and get the notes to hand over the public grain to his place.

Liao Jinyue is also anxious here. She should pay the public grain as soon as possible. The farmers are down-to-earth in doing things and always feel uncomfortable owing other people's food, so she wishes she could pay it back quickly.

She originally wanted to wait for the tractor from Xiao Shengtian, but Xiao Shengtian has not come back recently and she couldn't find it. She was anxious now and agreed to exchange wheat bran for it, borrowing someone's donkey to pull the cart, and going directly to the commune.

Because Chen Yunxia was not young, Liao Jinyue didn't want her to bump into the rush, so she asked Gu Qingxi to follow Gu Jianguo's car to the commune to deliver public food.

The car was loaded with 300 kilograms of grain, all of which were high-quality wheat with full grains and sifted several times. I was afraid that if I had a shortage of scales, I would have put more than ten kilograms on my mind.

The wheat was loaded heavily, Gu Jianguo drove the car, Gu Qingxi sat behind and set out to the city.

When he came out of the village, he happened to pass by Secretary Wang's house. Secretary Wang was squatting at the door with rice and was still holding a big white steamed bun in his hand. When he saw Gu Qingxi, he hurriedly said hello: "Is this going to the city?"

Gu Qingxi: "Yes, go to the city to pay the public grain."

Secretary Wang smiled: "Okay, very good. I have to hand over these days. Our high school students' awareness is different."

Gu Qingxi smiled and said hello, and the donkey cart slowly got off the slope at the entrance of the village and went up the avenue.

Secretary Wang held the rice bowl and looked at Gu Qingxi and the others' backs. After a while, he put down the bowl and said to his second boy: "Woman, where are we put in the foreign car? I'll go to the commune."

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It was so hot that day that the sun baked without any resistance, as if it was about to melt people. Gu Qingxi was wearing a straw hat, but the sweat still wet a few strands of hair in his ears and just pressed on his face.

She shaking her palm fan hard to fan herself, and the wind that came over was also a stuffy wind, which was extremely uncomfortable.

At this time, I couldn't help but miss Xiao Shengtian's tractor. When I got on it, it was cool when the wind blew, and that was so comfortable.

But it was useless to think about it. Now that the wheat is harvested, farmers should use fertilizer to clean up the land. This is the busiest time in Xiao Shengtian's factory. He traveled everywhere outside the province every few days, and there were no people at all.

After suffering all the way, the donkey cart finally arrived near the commune grain management office. From a distance, the grain management office was two rows of low brick and tile houses, and there were large slogans with white background and red characters left outside the wall. There were cars on the road, and it was obvious that they were coming to deliver public grain, either driving donkey carts or pushing flat carts. Each cart was filled with heavy grain.

Everyone's faces were joy of harvest and anxiety in the long queues. Someone sighed there: "We are eager to hand over the food, why do we have to line up!"

"There is no way, this is what we should pay. We have to make contributions to the country."

Now farmers have divided the land and collected a lot of food. They only paid fifty kilograms of grain per mu. Everyone is content, but the long queue is really uncomfortable.

Gu Jianguo had a headache when he saw this scene: "How long does it take to line up? There are cars in front of him."

Gu Qingxi: "Then take it slowly, there is no need to hurry up."

She remembered that she had come to pay the public grain in her previous life, which was indeed quite hard. The people in the grain management office also had nostrils. If she was accidentally, the food did not meet other people's standards and had to be taken back and dried again.

Gu Jianguo wiped the sweat from his face and looked sad: "Yes."

It’s really uncomfortable to wait here. The two rows of brick houses are low, and there are not even a tree next to them. They are just roasted by the sun. Everyone has a look of anxiety and sweat mixed with donkey dung and sweat, emitting an unpleasant smell.
To be continued...