Era: Craftsmen in the Siheyuan

Chapter 263 Fiery
After the Lantern Festival, the Waking of Insects arrives and all things come to life.

All walks of life, including industry and agriculture, across the country, seem to have entered a fiery and exciting rhythm.

"More, faster, better, save more!"

These four words can fully reflect the urgent mood of all people.

After the First Five-Year Plan, the situation across the country did not look good, but great. Everyone was generally overly optimistic about the future.

At this time, the so-called "Qianjin Gou" and "Qianjin Society" had already appeared in some places, but of course they were not as exaggerated as they would be later.

Who would have thought that in the second half of the year, Qianjin would be embarrassed to say it!

Many plans look very scientific when they are first formulated.

In the old days, farmers owned very few means of production. Therefore, after establishing cooperatives, will maximizing the use of means of production increase production?
In the old days, the small-scale peasant economy was unable to carry out large-scale water conservancy and irrigation projects. Now if we gather the masses to carry out water conservancy projects, will there be growth?
No, it definitely will!

And by analogy, isn’t increasing production just around the corner?
There seems to be this generally optimistic idea across the country, and good days are about to be within reach. For the millions of people who were once poor peasants and couldn't even have enough to eat, who can not work hard? Who wouldn’t be full of energy?
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This makes people lament the impermanence of the world!
When Mother Chen saw Xu Deyong, her lips moved slightly as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing.

The two sides said goodbye at the entrance of the hospital. Chen Xueru looked at the couple riding away with a trace of inexplicable sadness in her eyes, and turned back to the hospital.

Chen Xueru said with a hint of exhaustion in her tone: "Put it in the silk shop."

Xu Deyong also said: "Xiao Kui is a pretty good kid. If you don't let him ask me to be his godfather, then he won't have to be so outspoken."

Wine is made from grain, and drinking wine is drinking grain, so be economical!

This weekend, Xu Deyong and Xu Huizhen sent their two children to their grandmother in the courtyard, and took the time to visit Chen Xueru's mother in the hospital.

Good guy, last year the country was less than 400 billion jins. Now he wants to increase production by tens of billions of jins and double the area.

Chen's mother was in very bad condition. She looked completely different from what Xu Deyong had seen before. The once plump middle-aged beauty had become so thin that she looked out of place.

Xu Huizhen had no choice but to change the subject and asked: "Today's weekend, you and Erya are here to take care of your aunt. Where is Xiaokui?"

On this day, at the "Rongjin" meeting, the superiors issued "Opinions on the appropriate merger of small agricultural cooperatives into large cooperatives" and called for three years of hard work to change the backwardness.

Chen Xueru's heart moved and she said, "Let's talk about this later. You can go ahead and get busy."

Chen Xueru glanced at the two of them and said, "You have been helping me watch for several days. I can't keep bothering you."

In fact, this kind of praise started last year, but everyone only praised it a little.

Xu Huizhen said: "We are all friends, don't say such outlandish words. If you don't have time to see it in the future, just give it to us. Anyway, two or three sheep will be herded the same."

Chen Xueru sent the two people out, and the atmosphere was a little heavy.

Xu Huizhen glanced at Xu Deyong and nodded without saying anything.

Xu Huizhen complained a little: "There is no one to look after it, why didn't you give it to us?"

In this fiery and passionate atmosphere, the business of the tavern has not improved. It is still about the same as before, tepid, and the customers are still the regular customers around.

Wu made a speech at the meeting and proposed that Yunan's annual grain output could be increased by tens of billions of jin, and that Yunan's grain problem is expected to be resolved this year.

Some things cannot be undone by humans.

Of course, it’s not far from boasting, it just needs a place to start.

This is like the subsequent involution, everyone will gradually become involved.

Another reason for this situation is that the unified purchasing and marketing regulations were adjusted this year. The original strictly controlled unified purchasing and marketing model has been changed to "balance management, allocation and responsibility", which means that after completing the unified marketing tasks, various localities will have a considerable amount of resold grain left in their hands.

Starting from March, we began to implement the purchase and sales policy of "big purchase and big sales" of agricultural products.

If there is a bumper grain harvest, it doesn't matter if you levy more, but if you sell more, it won't be over. You can also adjust the variety of grain.

So what if they claim to have had a great harvest?

The portion of the unified sales is rationed. If the excess grain is collected, there will be no extra mouths to eat it. In the end, the remaining portion still has to be sold back to the farmers.

To put it bluntly, the left hand is the right hand!
It is said to be very simple, but let alone anything else, the losses involved in this round trip are huge.

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A week later, Chen Xueru’s mother passed away.

Although Chen Xueru's family settled in Sijiucheng, they moved from the Shanghai area. Now that Chen's mother and younger brother have passed away, there are no relatives here.

Moreover, anti-waste was advocated at this time. Although Chen Xueru was not short of money, it was not easy to organize a funeral.

Even if it is simple, the funeral cannot be careless.

It's definitely right to go to Mr. Niu for this kind of thing. Even if he doesn't know how to do it, he will be able to find the right person and guarantee that it can be done smoothly.

Xu Deyong also went over and helped for two days.

Many people came to pay their respects, including Chen Xueru's business friends, such as Elena, Vladimir, Frasheli, manager Qiu who sold tea, etc.

Fan Jinyou also came, sent by the neighborhood committee to help. This guy seemed to have some ideas.

Finally, Chen’s mother was buried in Babaoshan People’s Cemetery, which was then called the Second Cemetery in the Western Suburbs.

The origin of the name Babaoshan. Which Babao is it?

The so-called eight treasures refer to eight types of clay minerals, including horse stone, chalk, lime, laterite, crucible clay, yellow slurry, slate, and sandstone.

Of course, there is also an interesting folklore: It is said that a long time ago, there were eight treasures hidden in the cave at the foot of Babao Mountain: a golden bull, a golden horse, a golden rooster, a golden roller, a golden mill, a golden bean, a golden dustpan and a golden tube. No one knew about it. ….

After Chen's mother passed away, Chen Xueru didn't come to the tavern for nearly a month, but Xu Huizhen went to visit twice to chat and relax. In fact, Xu Deyong was more suitable for this job...cough!

Chen Xueru also brought little Chen Kui over to play with Xiao Li'er twice.

Ageing, sickness and death are the laws of life. Everyone will have such a day. The dead have passed away, but the living must continue to move forward!

Xu Deyong's family still went back and forth between the courtyard and the tavern, and everyone seemed to be busier.

Xu Deyong is no exception. In addition to receiving a small surprise of his own every day, he has successively made dozens of wattle baskets and poles, all of which were donated to the construction site of the Ming Tombs Reservoir through the neighborhood committee. Yuntu.

There were not so many machines at this time, and most of them still relied on manpower.

Of course, Xu Deyong's bowl of water was smooth, and the neighborhood committees where the tavern and courtyard house were located were all in trouble.

Moreover, the Ming Tombs Reservoir construction period is tight and must be completed before the flood season. People from all walks of life in Sijiu City have been mobilized to volunteer for labor.

College students, industrial and commercial circles, etc. all actively participated, and the construction labor force increased to 5 people.

This kind of thing must be done proactively. All the staff in the tavern, including Xu Deyong, have also signed up. The specific time to go has to be arranged by the neighborhood committee.

But soon, an incident that affected the entire Forty-Nine City made them mobilize first!
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(End of this chapter)