The rise of a small town in shoe country

Chapter 1

There is heaven, there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.Traveling all over Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is not as good as Wen Huang.

Of the two folk proverbs, the former one is well-known throughout the country, while the latter one is known to not many people.

Wenhuang is the Wenhuang Plain in the eastern coastal area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, Wen is Wenlin County, and Huang is Huangyan County.The Wenhuang Plain stretches along the two counties, densely covered with rivers and branches, and numerous islands and islands. It has been a land of fish and rice in the Tianzhou area since ancient times. It is known as "Wen Huang is ripe, Tianzhou is full".

The northern part of the Wenhuang Plain is located in Wenlin County, and its northernmost point is Hengfeng Township, Chengdong District, Wenlin County.

Jin Yunfei's home is in Jinjia Natural Village, Jinjia Village, Hengfeng Township.

This year is the fourth year that the household contract system has been implemented in Wenlin County.

Jin Yunfei, a 22-year-old high school graduate, is facing a major turning point in his life.

In July, the fire is burning, the sun is high, and the farmers are working, sweating profusely.

After half a month of hard work, the family's [-] mu of early rice has been harvested in the warehouse, and the late rice has also been planted in the fields.

This is summer harvest and summer planting, and it cannot be delayed, so it is also called rush harvesting and rush planting, or double grabbing for short.

The last part of summer harvesting and summer planting is to go to the township grain station to pay public grain and agricultural tax. Written notices have already been sent to every household about the amount of public grain and agricultural tax to be paid.

The Jin family is located in Jinjia Village and its neighbors. The most famous thing is that it is poor. The reason for being poor is that there are many people. There are grandparents, parents, and eight brothers and sisters with Jin Yunfei as the eldest.

When the field was divided and contracted, each person in Jinjia Village had [-] mu of paddy field, and the Jin family was allocated [-] mu of paddy field.Later, two families in the village went out to work and subcontracted the contracted fields to the Jin family. Only then did the Jin family have [-] mu of paddy fields, and thus became a major grain grower in the village.All the crops are rice, and it is clearly written in the contract that only grain can be grown, and no other crops can be grown.

In the early hours of the morning, Jin Yunfei got up, first woke up the second and third younger brothers, and then went to the next door to wake up the eldest and second younger sisters.

Today is the [-]th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and there is a market every four and nine on Hengfeng Street. The eldest sister and the second sister are going to sell shoes on the street.

In addition to farming, the Jin family also has two economic activities, pig raising and making cloth shoes, which are also the main income of the family.

In addition to farming, people in Jinjia Village also have their own sidelines. During the slack season, in addition to carpenters, stonemasons and mud carpenters, shoe menders, tofu makers, coir raincoat weaves, cotton pluckers, and boats to deliver goods and passengers... The eight immortals cross the sea, each showing their magical powers , the worst case, can also go out to work with the engineering team.

But the Jin family took a different approach. Grandpa was good at raising pigs. The piglets born to the two sows were all raised by the family. They were sold when they were raised, or they were killed and sold, or sold directly to the township food station.My father is an expert in farming, and he also worked as an agricultural technician in the village. He likes to run to the fields when he has nothing to do. If the whole family did not object, he would also want to contract more than ten acres of rice fields from other people's families.

Grandpa and grandma are also good at making cloth shoes, and they are famous all over the country. My mother is also ingenious. After my elder sister dropped out of junior high school, she also learned how to make cloth shoes. Three generations together can make ten pairs of cloth shoes every day. The profit from selling shoes is the daily income of the whole family.

The younger brothers and sisters got up one after another, whispering and complaining about the interruption of the eldest brother.

Jin Yunfei didn't say a word, just focused on his work, carrying a bag of rice from home, and then sent it to his wooden boat.

The Jin family is located in the west of the village, and the river is not far away from the back door. In the Jin family village surrounded by water, this is considered a unique advantage.

The wooden boat was the only property of the Jin family other than the three small tile-roofed houses. It was bought by his father with a loan of 80 yuan when the production team was divided.

Jin Yunfei didn't dare to throw away the one-hundred-jin bag of rice for fear of breaking the old wooden boat that was older than him.

From the house to the river, about 30 meters away, Jin Yunfei moved ten bags in one go, already profusely sweating.

The 17-year-old second brother and the 15-year-old third brother also started to join in, but they were not as strong as Jin Yunfei, so they could only carry a bag of rice together, and they were so tired that they groaned.

After working for more than an hour, I finally transported fifty bags of rice to the boat.

The wooden boat is about ten meters long and less than two meters wide. It is divided into the front cabin, the middle cabin and the rear cabin. The rice is piled in the middle cabin.

The eldest sister and the third younger sister were not idle either. Fifty pairs of cloth shoes were packed in two baskets and placed on the rice pile, in case the baskets would fall into the river, the eldest sister and the second younger sister sat on the rice pile, holding each other tightly with one hand. Baskets.

The children of poor people have been the masters of the family for a long time. Since they started to be the masters of the family three years ago, Jin Yunfei has come forward to pay public grain and sell shoes, so he doesn't have to tire his parents anymore.

It was still dark, Jin Yunfei rocked the boat by himself, stood on the pedals, held the oars with both hands, separated his feet back and forth, barely moving his body, and pushed the oars with the strength of his arms.

With five thousand catties of rice and the weight of five people, the wooden boat has a deep draft and can only move forward slowly.

It took nearly an hour and a half for the eight-mile waterway, and when the eastern sky turned pale, the Jin family's wooden boat slowly approached the Hebu Wharf on Hengfeng Street.

The third younger brother jumped ashore with the rope and grabbed the wooden boat. Jin Yunfei handed over the oars to the second younger brother, and went ashore with a shoulder pole and two baskets of cloth shoes.

After the eldest sister and second sister also went ashore, the third brother returned to the boat with the cable, and the wooden boat slowly left the shore.

The grain station would not open until after dawn, and Jin Yunfei shouted at his second brother, telling him not to forget to line up.

Hengfeng Street is the economic center of Hengfeng Township, but there is only one street, which is more than 800 meters long and less than four meters wide. It starts and ends by the river and has a history of hundreds of years.

Although the sky is not bright, there is already a flow of people on the street, and there are already many vendors on both sides.

The cloth shoes seller was not here. Jin Yunfei carried a pair of baskets, followed by his elder sister and second younger sister, turned into an alley, walked for a few minutes, and came to a large playground.

Jin Yunfei is familiar with this place. This is the playground of Hengfeng Middle School, where he studied in junior high school for two years.The bazaar serves as a market, the grain drying ground during the busy farming season, and the playground during normal times.

As a convention, daily necessities and handicrafts are traded on the playground, and vendors who come from other places mostly set up stalls here.There is no charge for setting up a stall on the playground, but if it is set up on the street, the residents have to collect money.

The three brothers and sisters found an open space, Jin Yunfei put down the burden, and took down the empty sack covering the basket.One is spread out in front, with cloth shoes for sale placed on it.The other one was spread out in the back, and the three brothers and sisters sat cross-legged.

The booth Jin Yunfei was looking for happened to have a concrete pillar behind it. Jin Yunfei sat down and dozed against the concrete pillar.

The eldest sister is mainly in charge of selling shoes. She took out a piece of cardboard, which was cut out from a cardboard box, with the words "Jinjia cloth shoes" written on it.

The sky is gradually getting brighter, and the playground is bustling with hundreds of small stalls and thousands of people going to the market, and the playground has become a big market.

Jinjia cloth shoes are well-known, and seven or eight people squeezed in front of the booth, looking at the shoes and asking for prices.

Jin Yunfei was in a daze, the second sister quietly leaned over and whispered beside him.

Brother, there are thieves.

(End of this chapter)