Wan Ling is nineteen, the third child of the Ren family is twenty-one this year, and both of them are not young, so naturally they can't wait another year or two like Dongming Xuemei.

Therefore, the Ren family and the Chen family agreed to get engaged on the ninth day of the second lunar month and get married on the ninth day of the third month.

Hurry up and do the happy event, just in time for the next spring ploughing.

Wan Ling is the daughter of the Chen family, and she is also the first daughter of the Chen family to go out, so she has to marry something.

The interval between engagement and marriage is only one month, and the Chen family naturally has to hurry up to prepare, so after the old lady returns to the Chen family, she has to help out, and she can't go back to the Qu family for a while.

At this time, the children had already started school, and the health center was busy, so Qiaolian couldn't take care of the triplets.

I had no choice but to take the triplets with me when I went to work every day and settled them in Zhang's house.

Qiaojuan, Lin Hong and the old lady helped to watch it, and in the afternoon, Qiaolian got off work and took the children home.

Fortunately, the weather is also warm at this time, and the triplets are already six years old, and they are too old to resist tossing, so such a round-trip pick-up and drop-off will not delay anything.

The triplets follow their mother back and forth to and from work every day, but they are choked with joy and have a lot of fun every day.

In this way, Qiaolian's family of seven all had to eat at Zhang's house at noon.

Now the Zhang family's life is not easy, and there is not much food left.

Naturally, Qiao Lian couldn't just bring vegetables like before, but brought enough cakes to eat every day.

In addition, they also gave Qiaojuan a lot of food, vegetables, meat, etc., and their mothers couldn't be so shameless and eat and drink in Zhang's house.

"Oh, second sister, don't bring food to the house in the future, this is a family, what are you polite?"

At noon, when Qiaolian led Jiajun and them into the door, she brought a lot of food, Zhang Wenguang saw this and hurriedly said.

"Brother-in-law, it's not like that, if your family had enough food to eat in the past, I would definitely come without bringing anything.

But what time is it now? Are you running out of food?

Brother-in-law, if our mother doesn't come back for a few months, I'm afraid that in the future, I will often eat and drink at my brother-in-law's house, how can I not bring rations? ”

When Zhang Wenguang heard this, he really didn't know how to answer, and in the end he could only sigh.

"Well, then I won't be polite to my second sister, it's really difficult this year, every family is like this.

Hey, now I'm looking forward to our own small barren planting, and we can harvest some grain in the fall. If you make up for it like that, life can be better. ”

As soon as spring began, the superiors came down with instructions and agreed to the request made by the Daying Commune.

Members are allowed to reclaim small tracts of wasteland and grow food crops to alleviate the current food shortage.

When the news reached the communes, the masses were very happy when they learned of it.

As a result, there was a craze for opening up small tracts of wasteland to grow food in various places.

The Zhang family has a large population, and Fenglin Fenghua is half the size of the child when he can eat, so it is naturally not enough to just point to the society to earn that little work.

So these days, Zhang Wenguang is leading the wind forest to get up early and be greedy for darkness, and he is also opening a small wasteland.

Not only the Zhang family, but also every household in Daying Commune has figured out the place by themselves and found some wasteland to reclaim.

At that time, as long as it is reported to the commune and measured, it does not exceed the area specified by the superiors, and it can be cultivated at will under the name of one's own family.

"Well, yes, it's a good thing that the superiors can allow us to open a small wasteland.

No matter what, let's work diligently, get up early and be busy at night, and in the autumn we can collect an extra three or five hundred catties of grain, which is very good.

Wei Yang also led Jiakang Jiajun and them recently, and found a few wastelands on the river beach to open up wasteland. Qiaolian nodded.

As long as everyone is diligent, maybe the situation will improve this year.

It is said that Qu Weiyang and Qiaolian both go to work, Qu Weiyang and Yushu still have supplies, plus Qiaolian has a system, and it is no problem for the Qu family to open a small famine.

However, after Qiao Lian discussed with Qu Weiyang, she still decided to reclaim a small piece of wasteland.

Their house is close to the river beach, and there is a lot of wasteland, so it's a pity to throw it there.

Even if you plant some sweet potatoes and potatoes when you clean it up, it can relieve the pressure on food to some extent, and if you take something out of the house in the future, it will be more justified.

Qu Weiyang also meant this, so as soon as the above policy was announced, Qu Weiyang led his sons to get up at three or four o'clock every morning to clear the wasteland.

It's Sunday, the four of them are in the field, sometimes they come back early from work in the afternoon, or there is a holiday, Qu Weiyang is also busy in the field all day.

The policy stipulated above is that according to the population, the area of small wasteland reclaimed by one person shall not exceed five cents of land, that is, half an acre.

The Qu family settled six people in Daying Commune, and if you calculate it, you can open three acres of wasteland.

Of course, most people can't open so much, because it is very troublesome and tiring to open up wasteland, and most people just open one or two acres of land.

Qu Weiyang is willing to work hard, and the wasteland on this side of the river beach is relatively easy to reclaim, so it has taken a lot of effort these days, but more than two acres of land have been opened.

The soil here is very fertile, and the wasteland is a lot of grass and it is hard to serve, but if you do it well, it will be like a game to produce 1,800 catties of grain in the autumn.

"Now the superiors are allowed to open small plots of barren land to grow grain, which is a good thing. If you want me to say, the cadres of our commune should not be too serious.

The masses have their own vegetable gardens, and some of them secretly grow some food, so you just turn a blind eye to the past, and no one should squeak.

Now that these years are not good, who doesn't want to have more food?

Otherwise, they all point to the land of the commune, and they have to pay the public grain and the purchase plan, how much can be left to the members?

Don't take some things too seriously, and the big guys also know in their hearts that the masses are not hungry, and they are also grateful to the cadres. ”

This is in the Zhang family, chatting casually, and Qiaolian is not a cadre of the commune now, so she naturally dares to say anything.

At present, the policy of the higher authorities is that only vegetables are allowed to be planted in vegetable gardens and self-reserved land, and grain is not allowed to be grown, and grain must be grown in large fields.

Daying Commune is so big, many production teams are quite far away, and many people have very large vegetable gardens alone.

Moreover, one person also left two parts of the land for his own use, so much land is not allowed to grow grain, and he has to be allowed to grow vegetables, which is actually a waste in itself.

If these plots can be properly arranged, and the harvest of the wasteland can be added, at least half of the food rations for each household can be met, which is still very useful for reducing food pressure.

Of course, this kind of thing depends on how the commune cadres operate.

After all, it was impossible for the higher-level leaders to personally go to the private plots of each household, and it was the commune cadres who really understood the actual situation.

As long as the commune cadres don't care about it and no one reports it, this matter is actually very easy to operate.

Zhang Wenguang really didn't think about it before, but when he heard Qiaolian's words, he was somewhat surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, it made sense.

Filling one's stomach and not starving is the first priority, and as for whether to grow food on one's own land or on a small piece of wasteland, as long as the commune cadres are silent, who knows?