Siheyuan: The farm in my mind is in your hands.

Qin Huairu thought that Lou Xiao'e was still talking about the issue of food, and she herself was also looking forward to such days.

In her hometown now, work points can be exchanged for food rations. As long as you work, there will be fine white flour waiting for you. How great is that.

Don’t worry if there is no water to irrigate the fields during drought! Let’s dig ditches and reservoirs together to build water conservancy projects.

When the rainy season comes, water can be stored to a certain extent, and there will be no need to worry about lack of water for irrigation in the future.

Sometimes she would go back to her hometown in the countryside to help earn work points. She would be so happy to see the white flour put into her pocket!

If she hadn't been thinking about her job and two children in the city, she wouldn't want to go back to the city. Back then, she tried so hard to move to the city just to have a good life.

Now the situation has changed, the country is treating farmers well! Who would want to go to the city to be a free babysitter for other people?

Qin Huairu was willing to return to the city to live only after she took over Jia Dongxu's job as a worker. Otherwise, she would definitely take her children back to the countryside!

"Sister Qin, what are you thinking about? You've been smiling all the way."

Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but ask Qin Huairu as she looked at her happy face. If others hadn't already given birth to two children, she should have felt a sense of crisis.

Qin Huairu's face was really beautiful! Even a woman would think she was beautiful, let alone a man.

"Ah, I was thinking that life in the countryside is actually pretty good now, and I can have enough to eat every day.

If you work harder, you might be able to eat white flour every day!"

Qin Huairu explained that the only bad thing about life in the countryside is the lack of salary, but isn’t money meant for food and drink?

Work points can be exchanged for things, so it seems like having money or not doesn’t matter.

"I've heard about this, too. It seems like this change happened suddenly this year, and this year happens to be a year of natural disasters. This is really a great thing that helps the people out of their misery!"

As they were talking, the two of them had already entered the gate of the courtyard.

As soon as I walked in, I was hit by the smell of salted fish, which was so stinky that I couldn't even put it in my mouth...

"Oh my god! Who is drying salted fish? It smells so bad!"

Qin Huairu said that she didn’t mind the smell, but... she could only smell it but not eat it. Could it be eaten with rice?

Lou Xiao'e glanced in the direction of Old Yan's house, and sure enough, she saw long strings of dried fish hanging on both sides of Yan Bugui's door.

It looks like the small firecrackers used for Chinese New Year decoration, with two hanging on each side, neither biased nor slanted.

But in this hot weather, not only is it unpleasant to smell, it also attracts flies...

"Hey, Qin Huairu, Xiao'e, it's time for you to get off work!

Come and help me, I really can't do this job alone."

I saw the third aunt holding a large piece of gauze cut from an old mosquito net in her hand, and it seemed that she wanted to cover the dried fish.

Qin Huairu and Lou Xiao'e looked at each other. Since everyone else had spoken, and it wasn't a very complicated job, they might as well just do it!

Both of them are talented people who can become formal workers in a steel rolling mill, or at the very least, all-round wives in the courtyard house. Such a small task is not a problem for them at all.

Unfortunately, the gauze prepared by the third aunt was not enough to cover all four strings of dried fish.

"Oh no! What should I do? There are still a lot of flies in the sky, and I can't stay here every day to drive them away!"

Auntie was worried, but the mosquito net at home could not be cut any further and she could not use the scissors anymore.

"Third Aunt, why don't you just cut another piece of gauze?"

Qin Huairu suggested that since this group of people were helping each other so much, they might as well just give some advice directly.

She didn't know the situation of the old Yan family, but Lou Xiao'e knew:

Old Yan's mosquito net was originally made of cloth pieced together from here and there, and the remaining gauze was probably not very big.

Some space must be left for ventilation, and it is probably impossible to produce gauze at this moment.

"What are you all doing here?" Chen Jianghe came out holding his son.

The little guy was hungry, and was waiting for his wife to come back to feed him. After waiting for a long time and seeing no one, he went out to look for her.

"Oh my god, this tastes like... salted fish?"

Old Chen's house has indoor ventilation ducts, but they are hidden outside and cannot be found in the yard at all.

So when the door is closed, there is basically no strange smell coming in from the room.

But as soon as you go out, the whole yard is filled with the unique smell of salted fish, and the smell becomes more pronounced the closer you get to Old Yan's house.

"Jiang He, Auntie Third doesn't have enough gauze to cover the dried fish."

Lou Xiao'e hurried forward to take her son and held him in her arms. She hadn't seen him for a whole day and missed him a lot.

But she didn't feed the child's face in the street. It was not appropriate to do so in public.

"No, no one said anything about such a strong smell, and everyone is so accepting of it?"

Chen Jianghe looked around and saw that everyone had their doors and windows closed, obviously angry but not able to speak!

"What's there to say? Actually, you and your uncle caught this fish together!

Your uncle went to the moat again today, hoping to catch some more fish."

The three aunts have become accustomed to the smell, and apart from the fact that there are a lot of flies, they don't think there is any problem at all.

"These were all caught by Uncle San. I have nothing to do with any of the fish. It's just... forget it. I can't smell anything once the door is closed."

After Chen Jianghe finished speaking, he turned around and was about to go back to his home. If he stayed with salted fish for too long, he would also be tainted by the smell.

He doesn't want to be stained with the smell of rotten fish and shrimp!

Besides, since no one else said anything, he was the one rushing to be a "scavenger".

Things that are not beneficial to you should just be done with it, as long as it does not affect you. People are so honest, and if you say too much, you are just pretending to be a big shot.

"Hey! You haven't told me what to do yet..."

The three aunts could do nothing but watch as the others left without even looking back.

Qin Huairu looked at Chen Jianghe and Lou Xiaoe going home, and left too. There was no point in staying any longer, as the three aunts would not give her two dried fish anyway.

"Strange, there is really no smell as soon as I come in. I could smell the smell of salted fish just outside the door."

Lou Xiao'e knew that Chen Jianghe had done some covert projects at home, but she didn't expect them to be so effective.

"That's called a ventilation fan, it can circulate and convert indoor and outdoor air, but it needs electricity to work.

It would be great if we had solar energy, we could even save on electricity, and it would be even better if we could store electricity, so we don’t have to worry about it raining or cloudy.”

Chen Jianghe's family is not short of money and will not worry about a few cents of electricity bill, so he has never considered solar energy at all.

I mentioned this to Lou Xiao'e today, and suddenly thought of this. Just because their family doesn't lack the money for electricity bills doesn't mean that other families don't lack it either.

Besides, there is a power shortage across the country now, and power outages every two or three days are common.

If solar energy could be utilized and then charged with batteries, then the ventilation fan in his house would be able to ventilate the air twenty hours a day!

The most important thing is that once the power supply system is up to speed, it will provide a great boost to industrial development.

Let’s talk about lighting on a smaller scale: as long as the equipment is in place and the sun is still there, it can illuminate the entire country!

Can you say this is not a great thing that benefits the country and the people?