Nan Yi and Liu Zhen's life is getting better and better, but life over there at Qingdian is still as difficult as ever.

July 23rd, the eighth day of the sixth lunar month, is a day of intense heat.

At noon, the weather is too hot to work in the fields, so I can have more than two hours of rest time.

Nan Yi took the bucket and poured a ladle of water on the floor, then looked closely to see if the water had seeped into the ground.

The water fell on the floor, stayed quiet for a while, and then flowed to a corner very regularly.

Soon all the water in the room was concentrated in that corner.

Nan Yi took out a steel ball removed from a bicycle bearing from his pocket, stood on the end where there was no water, put the steel ball on the ground, and threw it gently to the other side.

The steel ball rolled slowly for nearly two meters, then suddenly accelerated, and rolled into the water and continued to roll forward until it hit the corner and bounced back about one centimeter.

"The horizontal difference is three millimeters."

Nan Yi muttered, lay down, and listened for a while on the floor. There was a crackling sound coming from the ground.

I moved to another place and continued listening, but there was still noise.

He listened all the way until he reached the place where the water accumulated. He stood up and cleared away the water before lying down and listening again.

There was also a sound, but it was not a crackling sound, but a sound like water dripping from a high place.

I tapped my hand on the floor and heard no echo from the cavity below.

"The floor is more than twenty centimeters thick."

Nan Yi can basically tell that there is something strange underground in this area, but he cannot say that there must be a secret room underneath.

There is a crackling sound under the floor, which is a chemical reaction between water and the dry layer under the floor.

The reason why a chemical reaction occurs is because most of the desiccant used under the floor is quicklime, which makes a crackling sound when it comes into contact with water.

"Brother, did you find anything?"

At this time, Liu Zhen, who had already taken a nap, came over and asked.

"Yes, if there is a secret room, there must be an entrance here."

"Then let's dig it out?"

Liu Zhen's two little eyes shone brightly.

"There's no rush. We'll wait until one day when we have free time. I don't have any hope of finding any rich treasures."

"Why? Isn't the Liu family a rich man?"

"The people in the brigade still don't know if the Liu family has money? No matter what the situation was back then, if they didn't get a lot of money from the Liu family, they would definitely not give up. They would definitely turn the house upside down, and the secret room would definitely not be hidden.

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But I have looked at the floors of every house, and there are no signs of being pried open. This can only mean that all the property matching the Liu family's net worth has been confiscated, and there is no need to look for it again."

"Then the secret room won't be empty, right?"

"That's not the case. Even if he can't find gold bars, Yuan Datou will always have some."

Nan Yi was not interested in finding the secret room because of his preconceptions.

As for the golden nanmu in the house, no matter what era it is, if you want to buy it, you have to spend a lot of money.

How much wealth can a rich man in the countryside have?

Most of the valuable things should be land deeds and house deeds. Nan Yi was really afraid of opening the secret room and finding a box of house deeds lying inside, which would be a real disaster.

"Let's go, you go study, and I'll sharpen the hoe."

"Um."

In the yard, Nan Yi polished his hoe, took his towel from the washstand and hung it around his neck, took a hat from the iron nail on the wall and put it on, then walked to the kitchen to get his own tea.

Tank, go out and walk to the fields.

As soon as we reached the pier by the river, Lin Guangwei walked over.

"Nanyi, are there any cigarettes?"

"have."

Nan Yi handed over an unopened pack of cigarettes.

Nan Yi usually carries two packs of cigarettes on his person, one pack has been opened and he smokes it himself and uses it to disperse; the other pack is for spare use and to cope with moments like this.

Lin Guangwei opened it, pulled out a few cigarettes, and handed the cigarette box back.

"Just take the whole pack and smoke it. Are you out of cooking?"

"It has been discontinued a long time ago. It only costs five yuan a month. There are so many things to buy, so how can I have money to buy more cigarettes?"

"You, you can buy one with eight cents of money, and you can use it to satisfy your cravings when you have no food. By the way..." Nan Yi took out a pile of odds and ends from his pocket and counted out twenty or so pieces.

Enough for 10 yuan, "Please help me give this money to Ou Jing."

"Is this Liu Zhen's repayment?"

"Um."

"I was really sorry last time. It's not that I didn't want to borrow it, I really didn't have one."

"I know that this silly girl Liu Zhen secretly asked you to borrow money without telling me. I have already told her. I actually still have some money on hand. If you don't lend it to me, you can take care of it."

"Forget it, you are in such a big famine, and I'm so embarrassed that I couldn't help you. If I ask you to borrow it again, how can I open my mouth? I have nothing to worry about here. I don't have to worry about food and clothing, but I can't smoke.

.Haha, just go to Xian Yaodong's place a few more times and you can always smoke a few cigarettes."

"Haha, let's not talk about it for now, I have to rush to the field."

"You are so hard-working. I won't go down until three-thirty."

Don't leave Lin Guangwei and go straight to the paddy field in Nanyi.

There were some crickets a few days ago. The rice seedlings are growing well these days and look lush and green. By the end of September, there will definitely be a bumper harvest.

Without anyone's instructions, Nan Yi first weeded the field ridges. When the ridges of a field became bare, he went down to the fields to weed.

The crickets nourished the rice seedlings and also the weeds in the field. Within two or three days, the weeds grew again.

While bending down to pull grass, a girl with two braids came to the field ridge and shouted to Nan Yi in the field: "Brother Nan Yi, are you thirsty? I've brought you water."

"Zi Lin, I'm not thirsty. It's so sunny. Just go home and stay there."

Xian Zilin, a relatively rare high school student in Wenchangwei, has just graduated from high school.

Their current class, the Class of 1977, is relatively lucky. They are in their second year of high school, when their knowledge is most consolidated, and they can take the college entrance examination in a few months.

Well, Nan Yi was actually talking about himself. Didn't he just graduate from high school and join the team?

"Brother Nanyi, the movie "Youth" will be shown in the commune the day after tomorrow. Can you accompany me to watch it?"

"Let's see if the fields are busy these two days."

"Oh, then give me a letter the day after tomorrow."

"knew."

As soon as Xian Zilin left, Ge Cuizhu walked to the edge of Nanyi in a blur.

"Nanyi, I think this girl is very good. You can try everything. I'm telling you, our family all likes you. If you really get married to Zi Lin, we will all like it."

Ge Cuizhu's husband is named Xian Yaorong, and Xian Zilin's father is named Xian Yaogu, Xian Yaodong, Xian Yaohua, Xian Yaowei, Xian Yaoguo, Xian Yaorong, and Xian Yaogu. These six are all uncles and brothers.

Either our grandparents are brothers, or our fathers are brothers. They are all one family.

Alas, all the commune members in Wenchangwei were divided into sixty-two houses up to my great-grandfather's generation. Seven or eight generations back, they were all brothers.

Originally, Wenchangwei was founded by a pair of brothers in the late Ming Dynasty. The history of this branch is not long.

"Auntie, please don't mess around with the relationship. I haven't figured it out myself yet. Let's wait a few years to discuss the matter of men and women."

"You, I'm not asking you to marry Zi Lin now. You two are in the same place. If you get along, you can stay together. If you don't get along, no one will force you."

"Hehehe..."

When a scholar meets a matchmaker, he can do nothing but pretend to be stupid.

"Don't pretend to be stupid for me. I'll go see a movie with Zi Lin the day after tomorrow. If you go, I'll give you full work points."

"Okay, okay, why don't I go?"

"As promised, don't let me play with you until then."

"Don't worry, if I tell you to go, I will definitely go."

After finishing work, I went to the riverside to wash my muddy legs. Ang Ju was sitting leisurely on the dock fishing.

"Weiqi, did you catch anything?"

"No, I can't catch it."

"Pick it up and take a look."

Ang Ju picked up the fishhook as he said, but it was bare and there were no earthworms at all.
To be continued...