Wang Qiang's house is located at the end of the first brigade of Jiangbei Village. It is a single family, about one mile away from the nearest villager.

Jiangbei Village is a very large village with a total of four brigades.

Jiangbei Village is located in the east and south of Chacheng County, close to the urban area and distributed on both sides of the Chajiang River.

The cultivated fields in Jiangbei Village total two to three hundred thousand acres, the uncultivated wasteland also has a similar area, and there are dozens of large and small mountains.

The entire Jiangbei Village has more than 3,000 households and nearly 20,000 people, which is close to the urban population of the small county town of Tea City today.

However, this super village with a history of nearly a thousand years is the largest in the entire Chacheng County.

Nearby villages, such as Yanyan Village, Baima Village, Xihe Village, etc., are not even one-tenth the size of Jiangbei Village. It occupies almost more than 60% of the land on both sides of the Chajiang River on the edge of the county seat.

Wang Qiang's house is built alone on the high ground at the end of the village. The fundamental reason is that because he is an outsider, he is not welcomed by the villagers.

More than 90% of the villagers in Jiangbei Village are basically related to each other and are extremely xenophobic.

Therefore, after their parents got married in a low-key manner, they did not want to suffer the disdain from some villagers every day, so they deliberately moved here from the village to settle down.

Since you are not popular with others, you can stay out of sight and out of mind, you can't afford to offend, and you can afford to hide.

As the intellectuals with the highest level of education in the village, my parents not only had the skills, but also had the self-esteem of educated people at that time.

"Brother, it's already past noon, and you didn't come back until now. You won't be in any trouble, right?"

The four brothers and sisters walked into the small courtyard playfully, and Daya Wanjun raised her little face and asked.

"Yeah, we're all worried to death!"

"Brother, are those big bastards in that village bullying you again?"

The two twin girls, Wanyu and Wanling, also stopped and looked at Wang Qiang with worried faces and asked.

The three precocious girls knew very well what their family was like in the village.

There have been many hardships in the past three years, but luckily I have survived them all.

Although the elder brother didn't say anything, the three little girls all knew that he would be robbed of fish by gangsters in the village several times every month.

If it were an ordinary fish that was worthless, Wang Qiang would not resist and would just hand it over honestly.

But Wang Qiang certainly didn't want to hand over those valuable fish because he was reluctant to part with them. The consequence would be that they would be beaten up and then taken away without exception.

The village is quite chaotic now. When the three sisters go out to dig wild vegetables or something, they have to stay together and bring their big yellow dog with them.

It is precisely because the whole family was careful that they survived tenaciously.

"fine!"

Wang Qiang pretended to be nonchalant and closed the courtyard door with his hand, and said with a smile, "Have the fish soup and rice porridge been cooked?"

Two years ago, the three sisters learned to cook three meals a day, and their cooking skills are getting better and better. Wang Qiang does not need to worry at all.

It is most appropriate for the children of poor people to become parents early.

"It's been done a long time ago!"

"I'm just waiting for you to come back and eat, brother!"

The twins Wan Yu and Wan Ling immediately said in unison, "Second sister said that when you come back, we will put the wild vegetables in and they will be ready to eat right away."

While talking, the two little girls jumped into the kitchen and started to get busy.

Wang Qiang and Wan Jun looked at it, shook their heads, smiled at each other, and walked into the kitchen.

Just entering the kitchen, she saw Wanyu opening the lid of the big cauldron on the earthen stove, placing it on the stove next to it, picking up the tea tree stick on the side with one hand, and pointing it towards the pot that had been boiled.

There are several large and small fish in the transparent place, playing with each other in a moderately light and not heavy manner.

Until all the fish meat was mashed and blended into the fish soup, she put down the tea stick, took a scoop-shaped bamboo sieve, and quickly took out almost all the fish bones and fish bones in the pot and put them aside.

Then I thought about picking up the cauldron.

"Wanyu, give me the rest!"

When Wan Jun saw this, he quickly shouted to Wanyu.

The cast-iron cauldron was very large, and the fish soup inside was boiling hot. Wanyu was only ten years old and had too little strength, so she could be easily injured.

"Girl, how many times have I told you not to be rash when doing things, why don't you have a long memory?"

While shouting a lesson, she quickly stepped forward, picked up the big cauldron with both hands, walked to the dining table in the middle of the kitchen, and prepared to pour the boiling fish soup in the pot into a porcelain basin placed on the table.

In the porcelain basin, Wanling had just put some washed and chopped wild onions, ginger, and salt.

Wanling, who was standing by the table, quickly brought a larger scoop-shaped fine bamboo sieve and placed it on top of the porcelain basin.

This is to separate the last fish bones from the fish soup.

Until Wanjun turned the cauldron over and poured all the fish soup into the porcelain basin.

She carried the big cauldron to the water tank nearby, fetched water, washed the cauldron and brought it back. Then she poured the rich fish soup from the porcelain basin into the cauldron and put it on the stove to boil.

Immediately afterwards, Wan Jun put a large bamboo basket of washed wild vegetables on the side into the pot, took a large soup ladle and rolled the wild vegetables in the pot for a while.

After she put down the soup ladle, she fetched a bamboo sieve and scooped the wild vegetables onto a large dish on the side.

The two girls, Wan Yu and Wan Ling, had prepared it long ago. One brought the dishes to the big wooden table, and the other brought five large bowls. They watched their sister Wan Jun use a soup ladle to scoop out the fish soup into each bowl.

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While several sisters were carrying fish soup to the dining table, Wang Qiang brought another large pot of rice porridge to the edge of the big wooden table. He took the rice bowl on the side and scooped out a bowl of rice porridge for himself and the three sisters.

As for why there is rice at home?

Over the past three years, Wang Qiang has secretly taken the big fish he caught from time to time to the city to sell them, and then bought back some food and daily necessities.

"Let's eat!"

"Yeah! Our fish soup is so delicious!"

The two twin girls happily sat down at the table with bright eyes, waiting for the eldest brother and second sister to come to the table and start the feast.

This cooking method was invented by the young Wang Qiang three years ago. It was a helpless choice.

Eating fish every day was extremely dangerous to the four young siblings at the time.

Not to mention distant places, take Jiangbei Village as an example. Over the years, people have been stuck to fish bones every year!

As for their family's current situation, if they don't want to starve to death, the only option is to eat fish.

Once a fishbone got stuck in their throats, the four siblings would have absolutely no money to go to the hospital for surgery.

In desperation, Wang Qiang thought and thought again and again, and finally made a decision and invented this safe method of eating fish.

Although the fish is not chewy this way, it is safe and nutritious.

There are five large bowls of fish soup, one of which is naturally reserved for the hard-working big yellow dog.

It's just that the fish soup is too hot now and needs to be cooled down before it can be eaten by the big yellow dog.

Of course, fish bones and fish offal also belong to it.

Ten minutes later, the half-pot of rice porridge was eaten by the four siblings with fish soup and a large plate of wild vegetables.

Because there is less oil and water, people these days are very good at eating, and their food intake is at least double that of people thirty or forty years later.

The Wang Qiang brother and sister are now growing up. They are half-grown and poor, and they are the epitome of this era.

After eating and drinking, everyone sat down and took a rest.

"elder brother."

Da Ya Wanjun thought of something and frowned a little. She looked at Wang Qiang and said, "The big loudspeaker in the village broadcast today. Our village will start to respond to the government's call tomorrow and allocate fields to households."

She looked a little panicked, paused, and then said, "I don't know if our family will have a share? If the land is divided, where will it be allocated?"

Da Yawanjun is actually the one who suffers the most in the family and has suffered too much in these years.

She is not Wang Qiang's biological sister, but was adopted by her parents in 1977.

Her parents, like Wang Qiang's parents, were educated youths from other provinces.

When the trend of educated youth returning to the city came, her father quietly abandoned his wife and children and left alone without any news.

Her mother couldn't bear the blow, so one morning she took Wanjun to Wang Qiang's house and asked Wang Qiang's mother to help take care of her daughter for a day while she went into the city to run some errands.

As a result, in the evening, the body was found by the river. Wanjun's mother committed suicide by jumping into the river!

Da Ya was not originally called Wanjun, nor was her surname Wang. After she was adopted by Wang Qiang's parents as an orphan, they changed her name to Wang Wanjun for her future healthy growth and to reduce the shadow of her childhood, to show that everyone in the family is treated equally.

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This girl is very pretty and has picturesque features. She was called the future village beauty of Jiangbei Village at a very young age.

Fortunately, she was young and Wang Qiang protected her very well and she never traveled far, so she avoided a lot of trouble.

"Are the fields distributed to each household?"

With the memory of the next forty years, Wang Qiang is well aware of this major event, "This is a good thing. Good times for our family are coming soon."

He knew that except for some remote mountainous areas similar to tea towns, household distribution of farmland had been started in 1978.

Now, this spring breeze of reform has finally reached the tea city this year. He comforted Wanjun and said, "Don't worry, the old village chief has strong principles and is very concerned about face. He will not exclude our family."
To be continued...