Fengcheng old events

Chapter 31 Has Changed Again (For Favorites, For Genuine Reading)
In the evening, Zhang Jingyi returned home, cleaned up after dinner, and took out the kraft paper bag, which contained the military certificate issued by Zhang County, five Great Unity cards, and a letter.

The military family member proved that Zhang Jingyi recognized him, and took out the letter and handed it to his son.

Liu Zhaofeng went to school on and off for a few years, but he still recognized some characters. He read the letter in a daze, and said in a low voice, "Mom, it's from my elder brother. He said that he is a cadre, and he has to respond to the country's call. The state decided to let us engage in agricultural production, so we should obey the arrangement and work hard to complete the task. He said that we can work and live here with peace of mind, and he will come to see us when he has time, and he said that he can write to him if there is anything to do.”

Zhang Jingyi took the letter over and looked at it for a while, as if he wanted to see something from the letter, finally heaved a sigh, put the letter back into the kraft paper bag, and stuffed it into the suitcase.She doesn't lack money, and it's useless to have money here, what she needs is to escape.

Day by day passed as usual, and this matter passed away so quietly, and it was pressed down in Zhang Jingyi's heart.

Go to work every day, go to the cafeteria to make up the quota, wash and mend the clothes for the two children, and wait for the house to be allocated.

Autumn and winter come and go, and the time has come to 61 years.

It seems that the situation is getting more serious. I listen to the gossip of the people on the team. It seems that there is a hunger panic. The whole country is short of food. The food supply is stricter. Potatoes and cabbage.

Many children go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and pick wild fruits when they are free from class, so as to add some food to the family.

The spring elm trees, poplar strings, and early summer pagoda tree flowers have all become sought-after good things. In autumn, the mountains and plains are full of people. People go to the ditches a few hills away from the village, so they pay more. Come back with a handful and take a bite.

I heard that there are people in other villages who eat tender bark, but Zhang Jingyi has never seen it. The three of their mothers don't eat much, and the rations in the cafeteria can barely fill them up, and some wild fruits and wild vegetables are almost enough.

Just after the autumn harvest, before the first snow fell, the brigade headquarters beat the gong again, and held a meeting.

The cafeteria was disbanded, and the work points of the members will be converted into money or food after the autumn harvest.

Zhang Jingyi is paid five cents a day, which can barely be discounted to four cents and three cents a day based on the harvest in the village this year, which is one yuan and thirty cents a month.

In the future, when the materials are gone, they have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them. The team will regularly issue various material tickets according to the head and household registration, as a voucher for purchasing materials.

The brigade announced that the commune would resume the private plots of the family, counted on the basis of headcount, and divided by each team. The things planted in the private plots were regarded as personal private property, but the production tasks of the production team could not be affected by the private plots.

Each family can also raise chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc., but they cannot be bought or sold. Eggs and meat must be purchased by the supply and marketing cooperatives in a unified manner.

The last item is assessed by work points every day. Basic work centimeters will be increased or decreased according to each person's production situation. Those who do well will increase, and those who do not do well will be reduced. They will be calculated together at the end of the year.

No one realized that from this moment on, the members' income was completely controlled by the captain.

After the meeting, the members returned to their residences with their own minds.Those who are happy and have labor at home, now that they have their own private land, they don’t have to worry about getting enough to eat, and it’s not a big deal for rural people to plant a few acres of land.

Immigrant households are a little uneasy, not knowing how to divide their private plots. If they divide some of the land and have no output in the next two years, they may be hungry by then.

Zhang Jingyi's mind was blank, and she was self-reliant in the future, relying on her own work to support her children, she had no confidence at all.

Returning home in a daze, he saw the child's clothes thrown on the kang, picked them up outside, washed them with water, and dried them on the fence of the courtyard. Then he saw the captain, Lao Huo, bringing a few people over.

Lao Huo said: "In the future, we will live separately and cook by ourselves. If there is anything missing at home, let us know quickly. Now we can ask for it from the team. Later, we can only buy it ourselves." In the future, it will be a family with one stove, cooking and eating by oneself.

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family said: "That's still necessary, captain, we are all borrowing at your house, look at what else is there besides a few pots and bowls? There is nothing, you have to have a tank, right? You have to have a knife I need a cutting board, right? There are not enough buckets, sauce jars, and pots. Jinbao’s house is not the same, she has fewer things than me.”

Lao Huo looked around, thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go around the team and see if there's anything I can get back for you. It's really hard to live without things."

Zhang's sister-in-law said: "Captain, when will it be our turn to house? Can't we just deal with it at your house?"

Lao Huo said: "It's hard to say, it's Gai, this matter is done by the top, and the brigade can't get involved. The government arranges you to live here, so I don't bother you?"

The sister-in-law of Zhang's family said: "Then you have to think of a way. It's not a problem for a long time. Look at our team, just our two families live on the opposite kang, even if it's a little bit smaller, it's convenient, right? "

Lao Huo looked at Zhang Jingyi, who was standing on the side, scratched his head and said, "Let me ask, it's not a big deal if I say it. If the order is given by the higher authorities, it will be carried out. If you have a conscience, go to my house." My daughter-in-law is still not happy with six or seven households, so what can I do?"

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family said: "I know this, and it's not difficult for you. There are still a few families living in your yard, and I know it's difficult for you. I don't have any high requirements. I just have a separate house, okay? "

Zhang Jingyi said from the side: "It's fine if it's smaller, and our three mothers can live in it if it's smaller, so I'll move in."

The sister-in-law of the Zhang family said: "Sister, I'm not attacking you. It's really inconvenient for us to do this. There is a girl in your family. It's not like that for a long time."

Zhang Jingyi nodded.

At this moment, Zhang Jingyi is already a peasant woman, wearing a sewn coarse cloth jacket, crotch pants, and farmland shoes, her hair is casually put behind her head and wrapped in a piece of earthen cloth, and her body is dirty from work. .There is no clean place in the countryside.

After tidying up the kang noodles in the house, Lao Huo had already led people to clear the kang hole, the earthen stove was built and sat on the iron pot, and he was bringing in hard firewood to burn it.Burning a new stove is a technical job, if it is not done well, it will be crispy, and it will not take a few days.

"Big sister, you will use this in the future, use the firewood first, and get rid of this winter first. Let's discuss it next year after we see the situation, okay? If you have any difficulties, just say it. I know you have never been in the ground. Can you?" We can all reach out to help. Getting together is fate.”

Lao Huo patted the ashes on his hands and said to Zhang Jingyi, Zhang Jingyi smiled, looking at Xinzao, he didn't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)