Fengcheng old events

Chapter 29 Changes
Winter goes to spring, cold and heat alternate.

The summer of '60 has arrived.

There is a small store next to the brigade headquarters, called a supply and marketing cooperative. You can go to the brigade to pick up supplies with your membership card, and then go to the cooperative to buy some things and come back.

A group of houses were built in the team, and a few families in the old Huo's courtyard also moved out. They are all main laborers. They are the main force of production. They must be followed first.

There was another meeting in the brigade, and after that, the members began to be paid. The labor was counted as work points, and the accounts were settled after the autumn harvest.The cafeteria has also changed, starting to distribute labor according to the population, and each family will go to the cafeteria to pick up meals and return to their own homes.

Work points are calculated on a daily basis, eight hours a day, [-] points for main labor, [-] to [-] points for strong labor, [-] to [-] points for auxiliary labor, and [-] to [-] points for weak labor.

There are also those in each team who do not participate in team labor but need to calculate work points, electricians, technicians, breeders, people in the cafeteria, five-guarantee households, red five-household households, well-drilling teams, forest and canal protection, repair teams, blacksmiths, brick kilns workers, etc., who together with the members form the denominator.

In fact, the number of these people is about the same as the number of Shanggong members, or more, and the output is shared by everyone. The larger the denominator, the less the share.

Fortunately, Old Huo in the second team is a fair person, and everyone believes in him. The other teams have made a fuss, but they are all heard, and no one has seen it with their own eyes.

When the weather got warmer, the women began to work, but Zhang Jingyi was still in the mill.

There are not enough animals in the team. The old donkey failed to survive last winter and died. This year's stone mill has to be pushed by manpower.

She is a weak laborer, and Lao Huo gave her five cents, which is about four or five cents in money.A small team is on the sidelines, and the mill only counts three points, three cents a day.

When grinding the mill on the first day, Zhang Jingyi was almost exhausted and paralyzed in the mill. Her feet hurt so much that she was unconscious and could not lift her legs. If Zhang’s sister-in-law hadn’t visited her, she might have been lying on the ground in the mill. I can't come back.

Several people helped Zhang Jingyi back into the house. The Zhang family's sister-in-law got hot water to burn Zhang Jingyi's feet. Looking at her feet, she was surprised: "My mother, Jingyi, you used to bind your feet? Why didn't you come sooner?" What are you talking about? What kind of grind are you pushing with your feet, isn’t this looking for crimes?”

Zhang Jingyi gave a wry smile: "It's not wrapped up, but after a few days of wrapping it up, it's okay."

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family beat away her own children who ran over to look around, and said, "It seems that you are really from a rich family. Fate, why did you end up here. How can you deal with it from now on? You can only eat when you eat." Gotta work."

Liu Jinrong, who felt sorry for his mother, pouted and said, "My elder brother will come to pick us up. He will definitely come." He looked at his mother's feet eagerly, as if he wanted to touch them but dared not.

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family said, "Where is that child of yours? Why don't you go and find it."

Liu Jinrong said: "My elder brother is in North Korea, isn't it mother? Is my elder brother in North Korea? In the place called North Korea, that is not China."

Zhang Jingyi stroked his daughter's head, and said to Zhang's sister-in-law, "I'm a soldier. I've been to North Korea for a few years."

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family said, "Volunteer soldiers? Oh, heroes."

Brother Zhang said to the opposite side: "I heard that the volunteers have returned to China? I heard that they have returned."

Zhang Jingyi looked up: "When? Where did you go back?"

The eldest brother of the Zhang family said: "It's just chatting and listening to others. I'll go and ask you tomorrow. There is a newspaper in the brigade, and it can be published on it."

The next day, Zhang Jingyi, who was exhausted, returned home and insisted on going to the cafeteria to get a ration and came back. The three mothers were eating, and the eldest brother of the Zhang family also came back with the meal, and said: "Sister Zhang, I asked you, it is true. They are back, they all came back in October of the year before last, it seems to be on the [-]th of October. It happened to be the days when you were here."

The pastry in Zhang Jingyi's hand fell on the kang, and he was stunned. It took him a long time to come back to his senses: "October of the year before last? On the twentieth day? How come? Why didn't Zhaorui come to see me? Should he be back?" Come to me, his father's things are still here with me. No, I'll go to the team and ask." Turn over and get off the ground to put on shoes.

The eldest brother of the Zhang family said: "There is no one in the team headquarters. You can go again tomorrow. If you can't, go to the commune and ask."

After a flustered night, Zhang Jingyi got up early, packed up the two children and went to school, and she went to the team headquarters by herself.

The team headquarters is a rural grassroots organization, and there is no news about it.

Zhang Jingyi asked for leave and went to the commune in the brigade's carriage, and got accurate information from the armed forces department of the commune that all the troops stationed in North Korea had indeed withdrawn to the country on October 58, 24.

Zhang Jingyi couldn't tell any information about Liu Zhaorui's time in the army, so he knew that Liu Zhaorui was driving the car.

People in the government in this era are still very principled in doing things, and they don't procrastinate, because they attach great importance to military-local relations.The leaders of the armed forces asked Zhang Jingyi to go home first, and they went to help find someone.

The work of the Armed Forces Department in this era is still quite heavy. It has to contact troops and localities, arrange veterans, manage weapons and ammunition and militia organizations, and organize militias to conduct live ammunition training without affecting production.The leaders of the armed forces have military membership.

"You go back and give birth with peace of mind. We will contact the higher authorities about your matter and help you find someone for you to contact as soon as possible. You can go back and wait for the letter. Don't worry, as long as the person is there, we will definitely find it."

"Liu Zhaorui, his name is Liu Zhaorui. He is 27 years old. He is from Zhuanghe, Andong. He was a soldier in 48." Zhang Jingyi said it again to the leader of the armed forces seriously.

The leader smiled and said, "Remember, look, I wrote it down in the notebook, don't worry, I will help you find him. Go back."

Zhang Jingyi reluctantly left the Armed Forces Department, and stood on the dirt road in front of the Armed Forces Department for a while, the wind was a bit cold, and he was in a mess and didn't know what to do.Seeing the children led by others on the side of the road, I suddenly remembered that I still have two children at home, so I hurried back.

Without a car, she didn't know where to find a ride.I just walked along the road with my clothes tight, and I remembered the direction when I came in a carriage. There are few roads these days, so if you go in the right direction, you can't go wrong.

The whole world is covered by weeds, leaving the town is a wilderness, and the dirt road with ditches and bumps pressed by horse-drawn carts and cars stretches into the distance in the wilderness.Walking out of the town, the wind was even stronger, and people who were blowing could not open their eyes. This is the Taizi River. Although there are mountains, the wind rushed straight along the waterway.

From the commune to Fatai, you have to cross the train bridge twice, which happens to be upwind along the waterway.

The road is a little easier to walk, and after passing a small area of ​​houses, Zhang Jingyi thought that the old Yaotou who was driving the car when he came here in the morning said that if he walked, the train track is the closest from here, so he got off the road and followed the pedestrians Step out of the narrow path onto the train track.

There was only a two-foot-wide path beside the train track, and under his feet were paving gravel. Zhang Jingyi walked along this path with one foot deep and one foot shallow.She didn't dare to walk in the middle of the train tracks. There were sleepers under the rails, and if she stepped on the sleepers, she would sprain her feet.Her stride is not that great.

Carefully crossing the train bridge, the train track winds along the roots of the mountain, the surrounding fields are open, a vast expanse of green, with no houses or pedestrians, the weeds grow as tall as a person, Zhang Jingyi's thin figure walks along the side of the railway Walking forward, the wind kept raising her scarf, tearing her face.

(End of this chapter)