Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Speaking of gardenias, the vegetation in Xiaohe Village is better, and there are more of them growing on the surrounding mountains.

However, it is the busy farming season in the countryside and no one has time to go up the mountain to pick these wild vegetables.

Early summer is the busiest time for spring ploughing. Every village has to plow the paddy fields, pull out the early-grown seedlings, and then gather the strength of the entire village to plant the rice seedlings together, so that all the early rice in the village can be planted before May Day.

Jiejia Village.

During the spring ploughing season, almost no one in the countryside would go out to the market or visit relatives. Everyone was busy with the spring ploughing.

Seeing that no one came to the store to buy things during this period, Jie's mother asked Lin Mei to go to work with her, taking advantage of the spring plowing season to earn extra work points.

"Mom, it's time to plant rice now. If I bend over for hours with a big belly, won't my waist break?" Lin Mei declined tactfully.

But she heard that Lin Shu went to the provincial capital, and not only did his family live in a villa, but also had a nanny to serve him three meals a day.

They were cousins, all of them had the same background, and no one was superior to the other. Why did Lin Shu have someone to serve her three meals a day, but she had to go to the fields to plant rice while pregnant?

"You are so proud. Can you see any young wife in our village who doesn't want to work in the fields after getting married?" When Jie's mother saw that her daughter-in-law dared to reject her in person, she was furious.

"Let's not talk about anything else. Take Lin Zi's wife in front of our house. Since the day she got married, she has been going to work with Lin Zi or her mother-in-law every day to earn work points. Now she is more pregnant than you, but doesn't she still go to the fields to plant rice?"

"How can she compare with me!"

Lin Mei rolled her eyes in her heart. The family living in front of the house was the Jie Lin family. The daughter-in-law's family was poor, and as soon as the new daughter-in-law got married, she worked diligently in the fields with her parents-in-law and husband.

After getting used to it, everyone in her husband's family treated her like a man and ordered her around.

The young wife was not only busy working in the fields to earn work points, but also had to do housework when she got home, cooking, washing clothes, feeding pigs and sweeping the floor. She did not miss a single thing, just like an iron lady.

If she were to live like that, she would rather go back to her parents' home and be an old maid than get married.

"Why can't she compare with you?" Jie's mother asked back.

I feel unhappy when I see my daughter-in-law who has been married for almost a year and is still so tender and fair.

"Are you nobler than her, or are you more shameless than her? Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? I married you and you don't work. Do you want us to support you?

When I first got married, I was still working in the fields when my child was about to be born. My third child was born in the fields. I came back to clean up, rested for half a day, and went out to work again the next day. "

"Mom, times have changed. How can we compare now with the past? Besides, my pregnancy is not good and I really can't overwork." Lin Mei was worried to death when she thought about the feeling of bending over to plant rice and feeling like her lumbar spine was about to explode.

"Don't make excuses. Your face is not as big as your butt. Go and plant rice this afternoon."

Jie's mother gave the order directly, and Lin Mei, a new daughter-in-law, could not resist.

"Chunlei, you've been pregnant for several months, why are you still out here planting rice? Aren't you always at home looking after the store?"

As soon as I stood on the edge of the field in the afternoon, many women asked me questions with concern.

They were all women living in the same village. Although they thought it was not a big deal for a pregnant woman to work, Lin Mei had rarely worked in the fields since she got married.

Later, the family opened a small store and he was the one who ran the store directly. Every time they went there to buy things, they could still chat.

"Everyone is busy with spring plowing these days, and no one from other villages comes to buy things, so my mother-in-law asked me to go to the paddy fields to plant rice, saying that I could earn work points." Lin Mei stood on the ridge of the field and witnessed a black thing swimming in the water in a winding way.

You don't have to think about it to know that it is a leech.

The thought that leeches might stick to her legs when she went to the fields made her scalp tingle.

"Tsk, your mother-in-law is really calculating!"

"How can it not be loud? More people working means more money. But you have never worked in the fields before. Can your body bear it if you are bent over to plant rice all of a sudden?"

"I think, no matter how many work points you earn, your health is more important. When we start working, if you feel tired, go ashore and have a rest."

Among the women gathered together, some stood up for her, some showed concern, and some gave her advice.

The saying goes that three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, and it is really true.

When she started transplanting rice seedlings in the afternoon, with the sun on her head and the mud and water on her face, Lin Mei felt her old waist was about to break after only transplanting about ten meters.

"Meizi, are you okay? Hang in there. Once you've finished planting this way, sit on the ridge and rest for a while."

The girl next to her was called Jie Chunmei. Just because both of their names contained the character "Mei", the two of them got along pretty well.

Lin Mei threw away the seedlings in her hand, held her waist with both hands, straightened up with difficulty, exhaled, smiled at her and said, "Okay, you don't have to wait for me, go catch up with others first."

Xie Chunmei nodded, bent down and planted the seedlings at a very fast speed, and also helped Lin Mei plant two seedlings.

With help from someone, Lin Mei only needs to plant six seedlings instead of eight. The workload has been reduced and she can reach the destination faster.

There is one advantage of collective labor: there is strength in numbers when more people are involved in any task. Many people can work together to plant the seedlings in a field. When they reach the end, all the seedlings in the field have been planted.

After finishing planting one field, we move on to the next one.

When walking on shore, the pain caused by bending over can basically be eliminated or alleviated.

Mother Jie was relieved when she saw that Lin Mei's speed had not slowed down much.

Lin Mei followed the women comrades and weeded three fields in a row. Once again, they walked on the ridge. Xie Chunmei supported her, rubbed her lower back with one hand, and asked with concern: "Does this feel better?"

"Much better, thank you Chunmei." Lin Mei smiled at her gratefully.

"Tsk! You're so tired just from planting rice seedlings. Meizi, have you never planted rice seedlings at your mother's house before?" Someone nearby, who couldn't stand Lin Mei ordering Chunmei around, asked with a sneer.

Lin Mei smiled softly, with a hint of bitterness in it: "Sister-in-law, I have planted rice seedlings at my parents' home before, but now I'm pregnant, so my waist gets tired easily."

"You look so delicate, I thought you were some rich girl, but it turns out you can do farm work."

Xie Chunmei explained: "Sister-in-law, Meizi's waist aches because she has been bending for a long time with her belly sticking out."

"We were all born in poor families, and no one is more pampered than the other. Don't follow her around like that, little girl. Have you completed your task today? Aren't you tired of bending over to work?"

The sister-in-law glanced at Jie Chunmei bending down to rub Lin Mei's waist, and felt a little depressed, and a little distressed for the kind girl's waist.

Xie Chunmei smiled silly: "It's not that tiring. We have it much easier than pregnant women."

My sister-in-law cursed them inwardly, calling them fools, and then she turned around and left along another ridge.

Several male villagers came carrying seedlings. The women had almost finished their rest on the ridge of the field, so everyone moved to another field.

"Meizi, let's go too." Xie Chunmei walked in front.

Lin Mei looked up at the loads of seedlings being carried in from a distance and followed closely behind.

From a distance, you can see a group of villagers carrying rice seedlings entering the paddy fields, and the villagers on the ridges gathered at the edge of a few hills of sparkling paddy fields. This is a grand scene that can only be seen in collective labor. It is difficult to see such a lively scene after the distribution of production to households.

When they arrived at the paddy fields that had not yet been planted with rice, the villagers slowed down as they were distributing the paddy fields ahead.

At this moment, Mrs. Song, who had been following behind Lin Mei, suddenly reminded her: "Mrs. Chunlei, there is a leech attached to your calf sucking blood!"

I believe there are few little girls who are not afraid of leeches.

Lin Mei was no exception. Although she was born in the countryside and was used to doing farm work since childhood, it did not mean that she was not afraid of leeches, a disgusting mollusk.

Especially when I think about it sticking to my body and sucking my blood, I feel palpitations.

Lin Mei was shocked when she heard this and let out a low cry.

It happened that the ridge of the field was quite slippery with mud and water. He panicked, slipped, lost his balance, and fell off the ridge.

Xie Chunmei, who was walking in front of her, heard her low cry, turned around and saw the horrified scene. She instinctively reached out to pull her back, but instead of pulling her back, she was pulled down by Lin Mei and fell off the ridge of the field together.

"what!"

This time it was screaming!

Mrs. Song saw with her own eyes the two people falling into the field below one after the other. She was so frightened that her heart beat wildly at 180 beats per minute.

A pregnant woman fell from a nearly one-meter-high ridge, and Xie Chunmei, who was trying to hold her, also fell down behind her.

One in front and one behind, like a stack of monks.

Lin Mei, who is at the bottom, can imagine how dangerous the situation is.

Lin Mei's cries of pain could be heard from beneath her body. Xie Chunmei was so frightened that her hands and feet went limp and she tried frantically to get up from her body.

The villagers standing on the ridges of the fields, those who were close to the victims, jumped into the fields in a hurry to rescue people.

Xie Chunmei was pulled up by several aunties using brute force, but the red mud and water under Lin Mei frightened her so much that she lost her voice and her mind went blank.

The sister-in-law from the same village just now poked her forehead hard and dragged her away quickly.

After dragging her away from the crowd, she shook her arm off and asked, "What do you call this?"

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, I...I didn't mean it, I wanted to grab her..." Xie Chunmei was really scared this time.

She could feel it when she fell on Lin Mei, and she could also feel her big belly bulging out.

Looking at the blood flowing from under her body...it's really, really scary.

How to do?

How to do?

Why didn't she pour it to the left, but to the right? If she poured it to the left, it would have directly poured into the paddy field, and to the right was a meter-high slope.

The sister-in-law from the same village was also upset. She watched as everyone in the distance hurriedly carried Lin Mei to shore, while her tough mother-in-law cried and wailed. She felt a headache and waved her hand, saying, "Go back to your mother now and tell her what happened here so that she can be prepared."

As for how it will turn out in the end, she doesn't know either.

Like Jie Chunmei, another person who was frightened enough to hide back home was Mrs. Song. When she saw Lin Mei being carried onto the ridge of the field with blood dripping from her body, she was so frightened that her hands and feet went limp and she barely managed to hide back home.

When the team leader of the Jie Family Production Team heard that something had gone wrong during the rice planting, he immediately ordered someone to drive a ox cart to take the people to the township clinic after understanding the situation.

Jie's mother usually just shows off her power as a mother-in-law in front of Lin Mei, but once something happens to Lin Mei, she is at a loss.

She could only follow the village chief's orders. If the village chief told her to go home to get money, she would take the money, or if he told her to go home to get the quilt, she would take the quilt.

The village chief was afraid that she was frightened and was a little worried, so he sent the village women's director to accompany her back to pack some things that Lin Mei needed.

After driving the ox cart for nearly two hours, we arrived at the township clinic. As expected, the child could not be saved.

When Xie Chunlei got the news, he rushed to the clinic, only to see that his mother looked even more devastated than he was.

Sitting on the ground with disheveled hair, she slapped herself in self-blame when she saw him: "Son, I am sorry for not being able to help you keep your first child! Oh, oh, oh, I am the sinner of the Jie family!"

Xie Chunlei had been prepared when he heard people talking about bleeding, but when he heard Xie's mother's words at this moment, his heart sank to the abyss.

"...Mom, how's Mei Zi?"

Jie's mother was struck by lightning. She didn't expect that her son would first care about his daughter-in-law instead of her.

She raised her head stiffly and wiped the tears from her face: "It should be okay."

"I'll go see her."

Xie Chunlei's face tensed, and he left Xie's mother and hurried to the operating room.

"Chun Lei, you are here."

The director of the women's department who was waiting at the door of the operating room breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Jie Chunlei coming, feeling that she no longer had to worry.

"Sister-in-law, how is my wife?"

"The situation is very serious. We don't know the specific situation yet and the doctor hasn't come out yet." The director of the Women's Department said truthfully.

Based on her experience of giving birth, there is a 99% chance that Lin Mei cannot keep the baby in her belly.

Now she was more worried about the adults' condition. They had lost so much blood and she didn't know if they could survive.

Li Xiu from the Xiaohe production team next door learned that her daughter was in trouble. She did not bother to inform Lin Dahe and hurried back to the village alone.

By the time she finally arrived at the township health center, Lin Mei had already been pushed out of the operating room and placed in the ward.

Looking at her daughter lying on the hospital bed, her face pale and lifeless, she was so heartbroken that she almost couldn't breathe.

"mom!"

Xie Chunlei looked up and saw Li Xiu's shaky figure, and hurried forward to help her sit down, "When I arrived, the child could no longer be saved..."

Li Xiu hurried over twenty miles in a hurry, and she was out of breath. When she came back, she saw her daughter looked like a broken doll, and she almost couldn't breathe.

After finally sitting down and calming down, her first question was to ask Jie Chunlei: "Where were you today?"

Xie Chunlei blamed himself, "If I had known that Mei Zi would get into trouble today, I would have asked for leave and never come to work."

"You are at work." Li Xiu repeated with gritted teeth, suddenly stood up, and with a roar, rushed towards Jie's mother who was sitting on the bed opposite.

"If you were at work, then the only one bullying my daughter would be you, an old woman!"

"My daughter usually stays at home to look after the store, why did you suddenly send her to plant rice seedlings today? Your family is so short of work points that you force a pregnant woman who is five months pregnant to earn work points? Is work points more important or grandchildren?"

"You old hag, you seem to be unable to tell which is more important. Now I will teach you which is the most important!"

As she spoke, Li Xiu grabbed Jie's mother's hair and forced her face up.

"What are you crazy about!" Jie's mother was not someone to be trifled with. From her initial confusion to her coming to her senses, she immediately reached out to grab Li Xiu's face.

Li Xiu tilted her head back as far as possible to prevent her from catching her, then raised her hand and slapped her.

There was a "pop" sound, and the sound was so crisp.

"Ouch, it hurts so much!" Mother Jie retracted her hand to cover her burning cheek, and looked at Li Xiu with anger in her eyes, "I will fight you!"

"Fight with me, I'll kill you first, you old hag!"