Chapter 5

  Almost everyone in the town had received help from Majia Vilge. Majia Vilge itself could only eat half full, but many of its prey were sent directly to the county, either to be exchanged for food or distributed to various pces.

  After the disaster, the city leaders came to the vilge to praise the vilge's contribution and gave them five special quotas for military service.

  In previous years, they were lucky to have one quota for their vilge when they were recruiting soldiers. This time, they had five, and the young people in the vilge were scrambling to sign up. Finally, after several families negotiated, the Ma family got three quotas. The rest went to the other two surnames in the vilge, one surnamed Sun and the other surnamed Song, who were brothers who had fought with the Ma family in the past. Later, when things stabilized, some retives moved in to form three families.

  The Ma family had three quotas, and the third and sixth grandpas in the vilge, as well as the eldest brother of the family, Ma Desheng, got each one quota.

  Da Niu's family was originally going to go, but compared to Er Kui, Ma Dali was born prematurely and was weak. Even if he was well now, he was still a little worse. Moreover, Dali was a good student and had finished high school. The family was thinking about letting Dali learn accounting. It would be good for him to be an accountant in the vilge in the future. In this era, high school students were scarce and could always find jobs.

  In the end, Erkui went to join the army, but he was gone for several years. At first, there were letters from him, but ter, there was only one letter a year. They only knew that he went to the south, and the unit kept it a secret.

  Two years ago, a forest farm was built on the east side of Qingshan Mountain, and a military corps was built. It was not far from them, and many things happened in the mountains.

  The town added a new position of forest ranger and gave it to Majia Vilge. Unexpectedly, the vilge head and secretary gave it to Ma Daniu after discussion. Although they didn't tell outsiders, they knew it themselves. The boys who went out hunting in the vilge told their families that Ma Daniu was very good at hunting and inherited the old man's true skills. Without her, something might have happened to them in the mountain.

  So instead of letting the boys from several families fight over this opportunity, it was better to give it to Dania. It could also be regarded as a reward for what she did before.

  The girl got this job, with a monthly sary of more than 20 yuan and some tickets, which was a stable job.

  The work of a forest ranger is not difficult, but it is not easy. The main task is to prevent nearby vilgers from cutting down trees privately. Although there was no awareness of protecting trees in this era, and even the forest farm was set up to cut down trees in the forest and transport them out, individuals were not allowed to cut down trees because the forests belong to the state.

  In addition to preventing illegal logging, she also needed to guide some staff members. Daniu was only responsible for the forest where their vilge was located. She walked around the forest along different routes every day and made in-depth inspections twice a month. Two years was enough for her to remember every bde of grass inside the forest.

  When she got up early in the morning, she heard the sound of fire burning outside. She got dressed and got off the bed. It was still pitch dark outside. When she went out, she saw that her mother had already started to burn fire.

  "Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Ma Hongmei said when she saw her daughter coming out.

  "I slept well." She now only needs to sleep four hours a day to be energetic all day long.

  "Are you hungry? You didn't eat anything st night. I just stewed some fermented cabbage. How about soaking some rice and eating it first?" As she said this, she opened the big pot, revealing a rge pot of fermented cabbage.

  "Our fermented cabbage is ready to eat?" The girl's eyes lit up. She never got tired of eating fermented cabbage stewed with pork.

  "This is the jar next to the stove in the backyard. It's ready to eat."

  "Mom, don't serve it yet. Let me clean up first."

  "That's fine. The meat is ready now. I'll cut some slices and cook them for you." As she spoke, she took out a strip of pork belly from the rge basin beside her, cut it into slices, and put it into the bubbling hot pot soup.

  After washing, Daniu went out to take a look at her horses. She had two horses, one full-colored horse that was used to pull the cart and one rge yellow horse. This rge yellow horse was a colt that the old man had chosen at the market two years ago. Daniu raised it herself, and she had spent a lot of spiritual water to raise it.

  Fortunately, the effect was good. Dahuang was originally a Mongolian horse, but he grew to a height of 1.45 meters, with well-developed muscles and smooth lines. His coat was yellow all over, with only his mane being lighter in color. Sometimes, when viewed from a distance in bright sunlight, it looked like it was covered with a yer of golden sand.

  Dahuang is cold-resistant and has strong endurance. Because it has been raised by Daniu since it was a child, he and Daniu now have a perfect understanding.

  She added some feed to Da Huang and came out. It was still snowing outside, and it seemed that the snow would not stop for a while. She will have to rest at home for the next two days. The snow here is heavy and can close the mountain for a month since the heavy snow can directly reach the thighs of a person and make it impossible to walk.

  When she returned to the house, Ma Hongmei had already prepared rice and served her a rge bowl of it, as well as a rge bowl of fermented cabbage with the meat slices on top and a piece of bone with meat on it.

  Daniu took a small stool and sat next to the stove. She drank some fermented cabbage soup first. Wow, it tasted so authentic.

  "Yesterday I found your fifth aunt and asked her to go to the Zheng family in Shuangmiaozi and ask them what they think. If they are okay with it, we should arrange the marriage for your first brother before the New Year."

  Ma Hongmei was used to talking about family matters with Daniu.

  The girl was holding a bone stick in her hand and sucking the bone oil inside. After hearing this, she paused and said, "Old Zheng's daughter? That was many years ago. Our family has not had much contact with them in these years."

  "Even though we don't have any contact, that's something your grandfather has agreed on with the old man of their family. They can't deny it." Ma Hongmei felt that it was quite safe.

  Daniu finished chewing the bone and put it aside, then ate a mouthful of rice and asked, "What did brother say?"

  "He just listened and kept quiet no matter what I said." Ma Hongmei was a little angry and then whispered, "The Guo family is not good. Others don't know, but we do. His mother ran away with the second son of the Guo family, and they don't know where she is now. What if she comes back one day? "

  In the past, she would never tell her daughter about anything because she thought she was too young to understand. But she never expected that her daughter was like an immortal and remembered everything.

  Memories fshed through Daniu's mind, and she found the Zheng family's daughter, whom she had met twice in the market, and the Guo family's daughter. "Mom, speaking from my conscience, without considering anything else, I think Guo Guiqin is better. As for Zheng Yuanyuan, how can I say it? She is too delicate."

  "That won't work either. It's too twisted." Ma Hongmei said, "It's been about half a year. When I was farming, I went to see your grandfather. On the way, I passed by the Guo family's sisters' private fields. I heard them talk about their second brother from afar. Then they stopped talking when they saw me passing by. His aunt even covered up what she said. Maybe his family already knew where he was."

  Yes, they knew it a long time ago. She knew it too. Daniu ate rice soaked in pickled cabbage soup without saying a word. To be honest, she knew what was going on in the vilge. During the two years when her memory was confused, she unconsciously collected information. One of the pieces of information was that the Guo family received a letter from the neighboring city. It was from the second son of the Guo family.

  Her third uncle died that year, and her aunt was already pregnant with Dali. After ten months of pregnancy, Dali was born. No matter what, he was the root of the Ma family. Her father and mother were talking about marriage at that time, but something went wrong. Her third aunt ran away with someone. That person was the second son of the Guo family.

  Originally, old man Ma was quite open-minded. He lost his son and didn't want to keep his daughter-in-w and drag her down. He could even give her some dowry for remarriage. The mistake was that the second son of the Guo family had a wife. His wife was the daughter of the Sun family, from the same vilge.

  This was a shameful thing. Ma Desheng was furious and went to Mr. Song to discuss marrying his grandson to his daughter and never recognized that daughter-in-w again.　Guo Laoer (old second Guoi) went to live with his uncle in the next city and settled down there. In those days, communication was not good, and transportation was inconvenient. The pce he went to was also in the countryside, so no one knew where he went. It was not until a few years ago that his wife remarried and he secretly wrote letters home.

  "Mom, if you want me to say something about this, you have to ask brother's opinion. A forced melon is not sweet. After all, marriage is a lifelong thing."

  Ma Hongmei rolled her eyes at her and said, "You are just like your brother."

  Then she sighed and said, "I don't think the Zheng family will agree to it. Who made your brother break his leg at this critical moment? You said he is not a child anymore; why did he go watch the fun for no reason?"

  "It's not his fault. It was Uncle Song Wu who asked him to go. Once the electric poles are installed, our vilge will have electricity next year. Uncle Song Wu said that my brother is a high school student and wanted him to learn some electrician skills."

  "But your brother broke his leg and did not learn anything."

  "It's OK. The electric poles were just erected this year. I think it will be good if we can get electricity by the beginning of next spring."

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