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The Red Book

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By DanilBosPublished 2 years ago 6 min read
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The straightforward and fast-talking Aunt San's face is like a barometer, happy and sad all day long on the face. When happy, the sun shines brightly and smiles, and when angry, the clouds are dense and the wind sweeps the ground.

In recent years, the third aunt's heart has not been smooth, it seems to be always cloudy, sometimes sighing, sometimes is a sad frown, sometimes is confused and dull eyes, seems to be thinking back to the past scenery.

To talk about the former family of the third aunt, it is the Lotus Village, the leading rich households.

In the father's generation, three uncles ranked the oldest, and the three brothers in the highest culture, grandfather retired, naturally, three uncles took over the grandfather's class, became a worker in the grain store, ate the "red book.

The third aunt is that time, rushing to the third uncle's "red book" identity, married the third uncle. You do not say, have to admire the third aunt's vision. The change of Uncle Sam, the family situation soon changed. The monthly salary of more than thirty dollars, in other families are still waiting to pick chicken butt for salty salt era, that is a lot of income.

Whenever the third uncle expenses, is the most comfortable time for the third aunt. It is always full of spring, quietly enjoying the "chomp" sound of fingers running over the brand new bills.

At that time, the third aunt rich and love beauty, three days to change a new set of clothes, plus always smile every day to welcome people, really become a scenery in the countryside. The first thing you need to do is to look at the beauty of the third aunt and see how many of your peers are jealous of your patches and patches.

The old saying that vegetables are half a year's worth of food is true. Before autumn, potatoes have become a staple food for all families. New potatoes just down, a fresh meal, two meals to make up, three meals on the boredom. Although peeled, but still green potatoes, eat in the mouth, the feeling of spicy artemisia, and who will like it? I have the intention not to eat, but a long afternoon, hunger is still waiting for them.

At this time, the wind wispily wafted the aroma of the third aunt's pancakes next door. The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The heart of the cake can only be eaten on New Year's Day, and you will understand what it is like.

In this way, the third aunt's family lived a prosperous life. The first in the village built a bright and spacious tile house. In the street full of rags, low shabby thatched huts, three aunt's family's large tile house clustered in the middle, can really be called a crane stand out. Once became a landmark building in Lotus Hill Village. She knows that all this is thanks to the third uncle "red book".

At that time, the third aunt, every day is a smile, walk the road with head up, are with the wind, step on the point.

Perhaps thirty years of the river east, thirty years of the river west, the sun can not always turn in a head.

When the land contract began, because the third uncle's "red book", the third aunt's family only share the land of two people, compared to the brothers to a lot less.

In the beginning, I did not feel how, in the spring and summer, but also comfortable. Others are still hoeing the field and holding the monopoly, sweating like rain when the third aunt's family finished early. But in the fall, looking at other people's yards and wide, tall corn floor, three aunt heart for the first time in her life, a ripple.

But the third aunt often reassured herself, my family grain warehouse workers' wages, my family's commodity food, which you can compare?

Perhaps it should be the saying that the sky has unpredictable wind. The original roaring, red-hot state-owned grain depot. It was said that the yellow was yellow, and with it, Uncle Sam was laid off. In the heart of the third aunt, the third uncle's layoff, no less than the collapse of the sky in general.

The original infinite glory of the "red book", all of a sudden embarrassed up. No work, no land to plant. This is really three aunt dreams did not expect things, although people say that the wind and water turn, but three aunt how can not figure out. At this time, Aunt San's face is like the August day on the prairie, temperament change, cloudy and unpredictable.

The day is in the third aunt of a hundred despair, day by day slip away.

The day also in the villagers sweat and work hard to get rich, day by day spent.

Gradually, she was once proud of the three large tiled house, buried in the village among the many new houses. Just like a plucked chicken in the phoenix pile. Although the third aunt is not convinced, but she knows that now the villagers have surpassed their own days. Every time this time, the third aunt began to resent up, resent the incompetence of the third uncle, resent the "red book" that once brought them infinite scenery.

The village's several large farmers through the land transfer, the land is more and more planted. Several harvesters whistled across the autumn fields, and large crops were harvested in the blink of an eye, and truckloads of corn and rice were delivered directly to the order company. Aunt San was amazed! She could hardly believe that the scenes she used to see only on TV were actually happening right next to her. Although the third aunt is competitive, but every time she sees this, knowing that she has fallen, how can she not sigh? How can you not feel depressed?

Even those villagers who are no longer farming, have also started a variety of businesses, production cooperatives. The greenhouses set up are tall and long, planting vegetables, planting melons, picking picking. Even the usually most unreliable erroneous, actually engaged in blueberry planting ...... not to mention the villagers of Lotus Hill, relying on a tenacity and integrity, hard in the production of vegetables and melons, played their own brand.

Every morning before dawn, the concrete road between the fields, like a big market, many foreign vehicles come and go, crowded. The noise of people, interspersed with vendors with foreign accents in the bargaining, look at the goods, loading. When the sun is just climbing up the mountain, the place is quiet. It is estimated that in a short time, fresh green organic vegetables will be served on people's tables.

Those young people with new ideas, relentlessly digging food in the soil, far away from home, began their career of working and entrepreneurship. Occasionally, on New Year's Day, some of them actually drive back with expensive luxury cars.

The original third aunt most despised the second uncle's family, the three masters work outside all year round, actually unobtrusively in the city to buy a building for the children ......

Depressed to depressed, calm down, the third aunt knows that over the years the countryside has really changed radically, if they still live in the past "red book" glory, sighing all day long only know resentment, will be more and more far behind. Only by their own hands, to create a better future. From her own personal experience, Aunt San figured out the truth that "happiness is a struggle" that is always talked about on TV, and led Uncle San to turn around and walk to the cooperative.

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