Daily Life of Pig Farming in 1970

4

"Captain Su! Captain Su! Su Cheng called you!"

　　Now, only the village committee has a telephone in the village. Usually when there is something going on, everyone will call the village committee, and then notify the villagers to answer the phone.

　　Su Ming and Zhong Qing were still harvesting rice in the field. The sun was at its highest at noon, and it burned people's skin. Su Ming touched the sparse rice and sighed, then bent down and continued harvesting rice.

　　Zhong Qing was sweating profusely, feeling dizzy from the heat, and her feet felt like they were stepping on cotton. If she hadn't been woken up by the growing noise on the ridge, she would have felt like she was going to fall down in the field.

Zhong Qing shook his head and frowned. He felt a little unwell recently.

　　"Captain Su! Aqing! The village party secretary said that your Su Cheng called, go and answer it!" The people who were still working nearby heard the noise and helped call the two of them.

　　When Mr. and Mrs. Su Ming heard their son who was serving in the army calling them, they did not care about anything else. They hurriedly found a slightly cleaner pond to wash the mud off their arms and calves, and ran towards the village committee.

　　When the village chief Su Xingxian saw Su Ming hanging up the phone, he took a puff from his hookah and asked, "Ming, how is your team's harvest?"

　　Su Ming recalled the past few days and sighed deeply. He said bluntly: "Village Chief, I think this year may not be easy."

　　The village chief remained silent, took two more puffs of his cigarette, and then said, "Is there any problem with your pig?"

　　"I've been taking Jingwei's medicine for a month or so, but it still has no effect."

　　After shaking the tobacco with both hands, the village chief asked again, "Where are the western medicines?"

　　Su Ming frowned and sighed, "Now we have tried all the methods we can try."

　　After pondering for a moment, the village chief waved his hand and told him to go back to work. He was just worried as he watched Su Ming's departing back.

　　Zhong Qing saw the old man coming out of the village committee and asked hurriedly, "What did the second brother say?"

　　Su Ming suppressed his inner sorrow and anxiety, and patiently told his wife that his son hoped she could go over next month to help take care of his child, as his son's mother-in-law had to go back to take care of her daughter-in-law.

　　Zhong Qing didn't have any objections. She could help out wherever she went. She hadn't been there to see her granddaughter when she was born, but she could see the little one this time. To be honest, she missed her son badly after not seeing him for two or three years.

　　Su Ming obviously agreed with his wife's decision. "I heard from Ah Cheng that the little guy has a bad temper and is clingy. It would be good to go over and help Ah Yu."

　　During dinner, Su Ming told his family about the situation, and naturally no one objected.

　　However, Su Yaoyun remembered that her second brother's garrison was thousands of kilometers away from here, and it took three days and four nights to get there by train. In the 1960s and 1970s, the train order was also the most chaotic, and pickpockets and human traffickers were hard to guard against.

　　Su Ming naturally thought of Su Yaoyun's concerns. After a moment's silence, he looked at his youngest son and said, "A Yuan, when the time comes, you can send your mother to your second brother."