Chapter 60. Village Head’s Granny
"Over there?" Luo Cheng looked in the direction Luo Yihang pointed.

It's right next to my own field, just in a straight line.

"That's Sanwang's property. I don't know if they've returned it to the village yet when their family moved out." Luo Cheng was a little uncertain.

Ping'angou, where Luo Yihang lives, has gone from having over 100 households and over 500 people at its peak to having only over 30 households and around 100 people now. Most of them have moved away during this period.

If these people are moved away, the contracted land that has been left idle for two years will be reclaimed. If their household registration is also moved, the original private land will have to be returned to the village.

What Luo Cheng was not sure about was whether Sanwang's family's household registration had been moved.

"What? You want to keep it?"

"If you have this idea, go and take a look."

"Okay, let's go ask the village chief tonight to see if this piece of land is in the village. I don't know how much it costs to rent the land now."

Luo Cheng muttered to himself as he walked along the ridge of the field with Luo Yihang.

Look at the land and also look at the canals.

The ditch beside the field is seriously blocked and must be cleared.

After crossing a narrow ridge, they arrived at the field of Sanwang's family that Luo Yihang asked about.

It is also 70 meters wide, but a little shorter, about 150 meters long, covering a total area of ​​about ten acres.

It was also overgrown with weeds and trees and had been abandoned for many years.

If you can get it, you don’t have to turn when clearing the land.

Continuing forward from this field is the reservoir on the platform. The three areas are roughly in the shape of a Chinese character "目".

The reservoir was a water conservancy facility built back then.

Since there was a river on the platform and there was plenty of water, there was no need to dig a well. Instead, four reservoirs were dug just in case, one in each corner.

First, water is diverted from the small river to the reservoir in the northeast corner, and then a canal is dug from the reservoir to the fields. The canal is then used to connect to several other reservoirs to form a water network.

In this way, only a tributary needs to be opened upstream to divert water, which saves money and effort and will not damage the river beach.

But, this reservoir...how...how did it become a fish pond???
"Oh, about that. A few years ago, a man from Sichuan wanted to raise fish here. He expanded the business, but after a year he made a loss and quit. You were still studying in Shanghai at that time, so you didn't know."

...it's a really good idea to expand the reservoir into a fish pond to raise fish.

The expansion is quite large. The 50m*50m reservoir has doubled in size to 50*100, covering a large fish pond of more than seven acres.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a fish pond or not. The question is, “Can I still release water if it becomes a fish pond?”

"Why not? Just open the water outlet." Luo Cheng said indifferently.

Luo Yihang felt it was unreliable.

It’s better to ask an expert.

So when Luo Yihang was going down the mountain, he called Qiang Wa and asked him to find a reliable agricultural construction team to come up.

Qiangwa runs an agricultural supplies station and knows a lot of people in this area.

Luo Yihang and Luo Cheng went to the village and asked the village chief about the land lease.

……

"Hang kid is here, come, come, come, sit down quickly, I'll give you some candy."

The village chief of Ping'angou is named Lu, a little old lady in her sixties.

Seeing Luo Yihang and his son come in, they were very enthusiastic and busy. That's right, they treated Luo Yihang like a child.

"Grandma Lu, please stop being busy."

"What are you busy with? There's nothing to do in the village. You've been back for so many days, but you didn't even come to visit me. When you were a kid, you loved steamed buns stuffed with Chinese cabbage. I still remember them."

"Grandma Lu, I'm thinking about it now too. I keep thinking about the buns you steamed. No one else's buns are as good as yours."

"Stay home at night and steam buns for the baby."

"Okay, I'll knead the dough. I know how to make it rise now."

Well, without talking about the serious business at all, Luo Yihang went straight to the top.

The village head’s grandmother is the only one at home. Her husband passed away a few years ago and her children are all away. She finally has a grandchild and is happily picking cabbages.

When Luo Cheng saw that no one was paying attention to him, he took the initiative to chop the meat.

The three of them each had their own work and chatted while they worked.

"Hang, where is your girlfriend? When are you going to get married?"

"She's still studying. I can't marry a student, right, grandma? I have to wait until she graduates." "Isn't the girl the same age as you? Why is she still studying?"

"I got a PhD."

"Oh, good girl, you are so amazing! Old Luo is so lucky. Hey, Old Luo hasn't come back yet?"

"Yes, I called yesterday and my grandfather was so happy that he didn't want to come back. He can eat two big bowls of rice in one meal and have a glass of wine. He takes his granddaughter for a walk every night and can walk two miles."

"That's great. He is so lucky. His eldest son is by his side, taking care of him. His youngest son is also filial. His two daughters-in-law are both good-tempered. He has all his grandchildren. His eldest grandson even married a doctor. He is so happy."

"Hahahaha, that's what you said."

Three generations of grandparents and grandchildren live happily together.

Add yeast to the kneaded dough and let it rise first. Wash the vegetables and chop the meat, then chop it and throw it into the blender. Turn it twice and sprinkle some salt on it to cook it.

After washing his hands, Luo Yihang asked about business matters while waiting.

"Grandma Lu, whose field is next to the field on my terrace?"

"Next to your house..." The village head's grandmother pondered for a moment, then stood up and said, "I can't remember. Come on, let's go to the village committee to check."

……

The old lady was in a hurry and walked away.

Luo Yihang and Luo Cheng followed behind and came to the village committee.

The village committee of Ping'angou was originally a supply and marketing cooperative. Around 2000, the supply and marketing cooperative was abolished and replaced by a convenience store.

Later, as the population of the village decreased, the convenience store could no longer operate and had to be closed.

It was changed into the Village Committee.

Now people in the village buy things at Qi Ye’s house.

Although Qi Ye's son also moved to the city, he partnered with others to start a business of supplying goods to small stores in villages and towns, and was out and about every day.

The goods are delivered to Ping'angou every week. Mr. Qi will come up to visit the old man at home and leave some daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tobacco, alcohol, sugar, tea, shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste, soap and snacks at home for Mr. Qi to sell.

There is no shortage of daily necessities in the village. If anyone needs anything, just make a phone call and we will bring it up.

If the need is urgent, they will ask a "young man" like Luo Cheng in the village to ride a small motorcycle and make a special trip.

After entering the village committee, we found that the place was quite large, with four large houses.

There are only three people in the entire village committee. The village head is also the director of women's affairs, Uncle Qi is the deputy director, and Uncle An is the accountant.

But today none of the three were here.

This is normal. Ping'angou has only about 30 households and dozens of old men and women, and there is nothing much going on normally.

Village cadres are not civil servants. They don’t have to work in the office on weekdays. They only come when there is something to do. If there is nothing to do, they just do their job.

The village head's grandmother took Luo Yihang and Luo Cheng into the office, found a large notebook from the filing cabinet, put on her reading glasses, and sat behind the desk, flipping through it slowly.

In fact, the village is equipped with computers, and all kinds of information are stored in them, but the village head’s grandmother doesn’t know how to use it, so when it comes to file transfers and organizing spreadsheets, she has to ask the young man Uncle An to do it.

A young man of fifty-two.

The village head's grandmother slowly flipped through the paper documents.

Luo Yihang looked around the office when he had nothing to do.

The area is about ten square meters, with four large white floor-to-ceiling glass windows, making the whole room bright.

There is an office desk in the middle with a computer on the desk, a chair behind the desk, and two metal filing cabinets against the wall behind it.

There are two bamboo chairs and a small round coffee table in front of the desk by the window.

Nothing else.

The furnishings in the house are simple, but full of nostalgia. It is still the same as it was more than ten years ago.

There was a piece of skin missing from the leg of the coffee table. It was from when Luo Yihang was a child and was called in for a lecture because of his naughty behavior. It is still there.

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