Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

At the same time, the news that Lin Shu returned with his girlfriend on a bicycle had spread throughout the production team before work ended.

Some people are envious, some are jealous.

The news reached the educated youth point at noon.

Not long after Zhu Zhengliang came to Xiaohe Village, he started to have close contact with Lin Shu. Zhu Zhengliang could hide it from the female educated youth, but he could not hide it from the male educated youth who lived with him.

So, the tall and thin Kong Handong asked, "Zhu Zhiqing, you had a close relationship with Comrade Lin, how come she abandoned you and found a partner outside?"

Zhu Zhengliang felt sad when he heard the news, and now when he heard these words, his anger was ignited.

"You are such a gossip, why are you asking me? Wouldn't it be more accurate to ask Lin Shu directly?"

"I just care about you. You don't need to be angry with me if you are upset. Given your personality, it seems right that Comrade Lin didn't choose you!" Kong Handong felt happy when he saw him angry.

In fact, he had long been fed up with the fact that he was two-timing and playing with female comrades at will, as if he was the only smart man in the world and everyone else was a fool.

However, there really was a fool at the educated youth point, and this fool was Wei Miao, who is now married to him.

If she marries such a bad man, she will suffer in the future.

Zhu Zhengliang sneered: "I don't need your concern. If Lin Shu doesn't choose me, he won't choose you, a telephone pole."

"I'm a telephone pole, but I'm better than a short guy like you."

Kong Handong was so angry that he laughed. A grown man started making personal attacks after just a few words. He was really useless.

He was tall and there was not much to eat in those days, especially after they went to the countryside. The few work points they earned from labor were not enough to eat. They were hungry all day long, and how could they get fat without oil in their stomachs?

This led to people giving him the nickname "telephone pole", which is very appropriate, as he is tall and thin.

Zhu Zhengliang was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils. "How am I short?"

Kong Handong was so angry that he said, "Anyone shorter than me is just a shorty."

"So what you mean is that all the educated youth in the educated youth camp are short and fat?"

"I didn't say that, that's what you said."

Qi Xiaoyun poured the washing water from the pot into the gutter outside, and seeing the two grown men acting like fighting cocks, she shouted, "It's time to eat, why are you two standing there fighting cocks?"

Zhu Zhengliang snorted coldly and took the lead to step into the house.

Seeing that everyone was busy eating and not communicating, Qi Xiaoyun looked at Wei Miao next to her and said, "Wei Zhiqing, after dinner, let's go see how Lin Shu's girlfriend is doing. The villagers are talking about something so amazing that I don't quite believe it. Seeing is believing. I want to go and see if it's as the villagers say."

Wei Miao glanced at Zhu Zhengliang and nodded. "Okay, actually I don't believe that her partner is a city person. If he is really a city person, why would he marry a rural woman like her? Besides, the villagers said that the man must be good-looking and tall. If he really has such good external conditions, he must be blind to marry a rural woman."

Xi Dali retorted: "You can't say that. The world is so big that nothing is impossible. Who knows, maybe that man likes a girl like Comrade Lin."

Wei Miao asked back: "If it was you, Xi Zhiqing, would you find a rural girl in the city?"

"Me?" Xi Dali was stunned for a moment, then put himself in her shoes, and finally shook his head and said, "I definitely won't choose a rural girl. We have been working in the countryside for so many years and haven't found a girl to marry in the village. It will be even more impossible if we return to the city."

When marrying a rural girl, the first problem is food. Rural residents do not have food ration books, and without food ration books, they do not have a monthly food ration. If you rely on the food rations saved by the whole family to give her, she will be a burden to the family from the moment you get married.

Secondly, when a child is born, the child’s household registration will follow the mother’s. That is to say, if you marry a rural girl, your future child can only have a rural household registration and will not have a grain certificate.

Under such circumstances, families with limited financial resources dare not easily marry rural wives.

"Look, even you, an educated youth who went to the countryside, don't want to marry a rural girl. So who would be crazy enough to marry Comrade Lin even though they know there are pitfalls ahead?" Wei Miao felt that his analysis was correct.

"I hope it's true. In this way, Lin Shu can escape the fate of facing the earth and back to the sky." Qi Xiaoyun said.

Only those who have actually worked in the fields and planted crops will understand the hard work of farming.

Lin Shu didn't know that someone was worried about her, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care.

After Gu Jiu had a meal at the Lin family, the Lin family realized that his family members were not in the county town, and it would be meaningless for him to celebrate the festival alone in the city, so they invited him to stay in the Xiaohe Production Team for the festival and return to the county town after the festival.

Gu Jiu was eager to do so, so he went fishing with his uncle Lin Gang in the afternoon.

Lin Shu followed them carrying a bamboo basket, and she also went to cut a basket of pig grass.

Zhuangzhuang and Xiaojun were jumping in front. The two children were not interested in fishing, but they were excited to play with adults.

So when Qi Xiaoyun and Wei Miao went to her house to look for her before going to work, they found her empty-handed.

The five people found a wild reservoir a little far from the village. The fish here grew naturally without any management.

"Gu Jiu, have you ever fished before?" Lin Gang asked.

Gu Jiu shook his head: "I've never fished before."

"There's actually no special skill involved in fishing. It just requires patience." Lin Gang comforted him and also gave him some tips on fishing.

Lin Shu didn't have the patience to stand here and listen to Lin Gang's nagging. She asked them to pay attention to the two children and went to cut grass for the pigs with the basket.

When raising pigs in rural areas, they must be fed no matter it is windy or rainy every day. If they are deprived of food, they will lose fat. Therefore, pig farmers in rural areas would rather not eat themselves and go out to find food for the pigs.

Lin Shu discovered that there were a lot of sedge grass growing on the embankment of the reservoir. This grass is also known as sticky gold grass, pearl grass, cotton wolf, and fat pig grass. It is an annual herb. In the early stages of growth, its leaves are tender and are a good pig feed.

There are also Allium macrostemons mixed in the weeds. In some places, Allium macrostemons are also called small root garlic, wild onion, etc. You can pull them out, wash them, and stir-fry them with bacon or scrambled eggs. They are very fragrant and delicious.

The leaves of mulberry, Viola yedoensis, and Glechoma longituba can all be cut and used as pig feed.

Tianmingjing looks a bit like tobacco leaves, and is also called wild tobacco in some places.

Basically, all kinds of herbs in the wild, as long as they are not poisonous, can be cut and used as pig grass, and most of them are medicinal herbs.

The pigs of this era can be said to be raised on a diet of all kinds of grass. Their meat is very delicious and full of flavor, which is incomparable to the pigs raised on artificial feed in later generations.

"Shushu, you cut a basket of pig grass so quickly?"

Lin Shu brought a basket of pig grass to their fishing spot. Gu Jiu threw away the bamboo fishing rod and handed the kettle to her, "Drink some water to quench your thirst first."

Lin Shu wiped the sweat from his forehead, took the kettle and asked, "Did you get anything?"

Gu Jiu pointed to the scoop net in the water and said, "I caught two fish."

Zhuangzhuang and Xiaojun also shouted that they had caught two big fish.

Lin Shu drank a few sips of water and gave him a thumbs up: "Not bad, I just picked some Allium macrostemon, I will use it to make a braised fish for you tonight."

"Aunt, I want to eat too."

"Aunt, I like to eat fish, please don't leave me behind."

Lin Shu gently pinched their cheeks and chuckled, "Okay, I'll reward you with fried eggs with allium macrostemon. You've worked hard fishing today."

When Zhuangzhuang and Xiaojun heard that there were eggs to eat, they grinned with joy.