The captain of the Shanxi brigade made a joke to Ye Fan and told her "the solution" to go in one ear and out the other. When the fresh pork came, he would buy a few kilograms of ribs and go home.
As the Spring Festival approaches in the cold weather of the twelfth lunar month, ten production team captains on the island gather together to sell seafood in a food factory.
The captains were embarrassed to rush to ship goods before the members, so they consciously ranked last. The queue in the factory yard was full, and the Lotus brigade expected to have to wait for a long time. So they took out their homemade cigarettes and went to the roadside with several brigade leaders to smoke.
Chatting about nothing, whatever comes to mind.
The captain of the Five-Star Brigade first said that the oranges grown by his team under the guidance of experts have borne fruit this year. They are big, sweet and easy to peel. The leader of the production team in the north of the Five-Star Brigade said that several Wendan trees planted on a trial basis also bore fruit, and he did not expect Wendan trees to be grown on the island.
The captain of the Shanxi brigade said that two students from his production team who were studying in Hangzhou were on vacation. One had only been studying for a year and the other had been studying for a semester. They were actually able to guide the members to grow rice.
Speaking of "rice", the captain of the Lotus Brigade had something to say, "What do you think of the government's promotion of rural land transfer to each household?"
The captain of the Shanxi team smiled: "There are no outsiders, so there is no need to beat around the bush? Doesn't bringing farmland to each household mean dividing the land, and taking responsibility for one's own profits and losses means one person takes care of oneself? This method is definitely good."
The captain of "Lotus" smiled and nodded: "Yes. Now, there are either chicken dung or cow dung on the roadside. The food collected goes to the individual. The fields need dung. I dare say there are people carrying dung baskets every day to pick up dung. There may also be fights over who pulls the troops’ septic tanks and public toilets.”
The captain of the Five-Star Brigade took a puff of his cigarette and puffed out a long smoke, "But the old secretary disagreed. He also said that the first bird will be shot!"
The captain of the Lotus production team glanced at the long queue of food factory compound: "What have we done in the past few years that we are not ahead of others? When Accountant Ye wanted to build this factory, he did not support it. My son is preparing for the exam , He also objected. Now all of us rely on this, in Duo Fu’s words, to pay off foreign debts. People can stay in provincial units after graduation. "
Captain of the Shanxi Brigade: "But there is only one Accountant Ye and one Su Yuanhang on the entire island."
The five-star captain nodded: "That's right. Then we won't compete with them. We can't compare with their talents. We will compete with the production team that sells things near the dock on the other side. Their production team learned from Accountant Ye to set up a food factory, even if it doesn't You can make a lot more money just by selling the goods in the city, but you only started doing it this year.”
Captain Lianhua: "It's not too late this year. Many citizens who are busy with work and have no time to go to the island, and want to save money and eat good food, go there every two days to buy things. I remember that at the beginning there was only one production team captain leading a few members to sell things. Now Bamboo shacks have been erected on both sides and it will become a trading town in a few years.”
The captain of the five-star brigade couldn’t help but say: “There’s no way the higher-ups don’t know about selling things so blatantly.”
Captain Lotus: "The fact that the superiors turned a blind eye to that matter shows that we can give it a try."
Shanxi captain: "What if we fail?"
The captain of the five-star brigade seriously considered: "Everyone signs and fingerprints at their own risk. It is not the production team's fault or the government's fault."
Everyone looked at each other and felt that this method was feasible.
As far as they know, the lazy guys in the team have complained that the land is not mine, so why do they work so hard? Regardless of whether he would be lazy if the land was handed over to him, he also hoped that it would be his own.
Even the lazy people support it, and certainly no one objects to it.
The captain of the Shanxi brigade asked: "Behead first and then report?"
Lotus Brigade: "You go first, I come last."
Su Yuanhang's family is a member of the Lotus production team. If the Lotus team is the first to meet with the members, Su Yuanhang's father will know about it immediately, and he will stop the other teams before they start.
The Five-Star Brigade was very supportive of this matter, but was actually unsure: "How to divide it? Our village has more mountainous land and less rice fields." Pointing to the faintly visible river to the west, "Including the fields built by dredging silt in the past few years, one person cannot divide it. One acre.”
The captain of the Shanxi brigade was shocked: "How much land does your production team have? If we include the land that can grow fruit trees, one person has three thirds of an acre, one third of the land, and one acre of mountains."
The captain of the Lotus production team winked at the courtyard. Everyone was confused and wanted to ask what was wrong. They heard Ye Fan's voice: "Everyone in your production team weighs three to five pounds. You weigh more than twenty pounds. You don't have a fishing boat. Where did it come from?”
The captain from Shanxi smiled and said, "It's just a gift from a relative. If it's one or two pounds more, maybe Accountant Ye will turn a blind eye and let him get through it. Twenty pounds? Why don't you get all the stuff from your relatives?" Come here and rent a carriage for him alone.”
The captain of the five-star brigade stepped on his feet to look at it and said to the Lotus brigade: "It looks like he is from your production team."
The captain of the "Lotus" brigade hurried over and saw that it was really from his brigade, "I'm selling your stuff, but others are selling it to you?"
Relatives of commune members actually gave him five kilograms, but this was not the first time. In the past two years, every time before the food factory received goods, relatives gave him a few kilograms to sell. But in addition to his own things, his family also has his brother-in-law and his sisters. However, the food factory is collective and he cannot collect it alone, and each household is limited to ten kilograms, so he can only take down his own things.
The good-hearted commune member was embarrassed to refuse his relatives and had no other choice, so he used this trick - when his relatives asked him a few days later, he said that the food factory wanted very little goods and only took one carriage. He had too many things and was picked up by the factory director and accountant. Found it.
The captain didn't know what was going on here, so he said: "Take it down!"
The members left behind their brother-in-law, sister and their own belongings, three kilograms, three kilograms and four kilograms respectively. The reason why he was so clear was because he expected that Su Duofu and Ye Fan would not let him get away with it, so he first said it was good and divided it. Then when his brother-in-law and sister asked how much they sold for, he said, "It's the same for both of you." Avoid conflicts.
At the same time, the nine production team captains on the roadside suddenly understood what Captain Lotus just meant.
When it was their turn, almost all the club members left. The nine handed their things to Su Duofu and asked Ye Fan to go to the office.
Ye Fan laughed and said, "Just tell me what you want me to do."
The nine people and Captain Lotus beside Ye Fan were shocked. How did she know they had something to do with her.
Su Duofu rolled his eyes at the others and said, "Looking at Accountant Ye, he hesitated to speak. Even a blind person knows that something is wrong with you."
The ten people giggled sheepishly for a while, and then the Lotus Brigade said: "It's still a matter of covering the fields."
Captain of the Shanxi Brigade: "Don't laugh at me. I didn't want to try it before because I thought it was good now. But after chatting with them for a while, I felt that the policies above were better, and we all decided to follow the party!"
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Ye Fan chuckled: "Don't tell me? Then I'll go home and cook."
The Five-Star Brigade hurriedly said: "Tell me! We don't know how to divide it. Because there is too little land that can be cultivated."
Ye Fan: "Count up all the land and divide it into first, second and third grades. You can also use A, B, C and D. If the land in Grade A is ten acres, divide it by ten by the total population of the production team, and then multiply it by the number of each family. Do you know that each How much land is allocated to each family? If there are fifty households in the production team, it will be in A Wait for the land to be ranked from one to fifty, and draw lots to decide who gets one, and who will get the land closest to home. When dividing the land into second and other places, fifty is in front, and number one is at the end, and the result is likely to be the one who gets it. The people in Field No. 1 are assigned to a mountainous area farthest from the production team.”
Su Duofu nodded: "This method is fair. When someone is divided into first-class places, he draws one, and second-class places draw fifty, which means he is lucky. The production team cannot be blamed for the dissatisfaction of other members."
The ten production team captains thought for a moment and realized that this method worked.
When they returned home, they discussed it with the squad leader and determined that it was feasible. Except for the captain of the Lotus brigade, all other production team captains called the members to a meeting that night.
The next morning, the captains of each brigade led the members to measure the land. Large tracts of bamboo forest and mountainous areas without fruit trees were still owned by the production team. Like the lotus brigade pond, the brigade leader also decided to still belong to the collective. If any members really have no income, they can get a share of the money from selling lotus seeds and lotus roots next year.
The Shanxi production team's ditch river was not measured, and the money from the goods sold in the river continued to be divided equally. When the team leader finished talking about this, some members asked whether the money earned by the food factory would be returned to the production team in the future.
The team leader discussed this issue with other production team leaders and answered the members truthfully. In order to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, the money earned by the food factory will no longer be equally divided among the production teams.
Many hard-working commune members were very satisfied with this answer, because they were unhappy when they thought that their neighbors could share the money earned by the food factory without doing anything. Although hard-working members can get a little bit of it, it is nothing compared to the hard work of fishing.
After everyone in the other production teams knew what was going on, the captain of the Lotus brigade notified the members of the meeting. Su Yuanhang's school was on holiday, so the team leader notified Su Yuanhang of a meeting.
When measuring the land the next day, the captain was thinking about how to deal with Su Yuanhang's father. Unexpectedly, Su Yuanhang took his father away first - Su Yuanhang's son said he needed study materials and asked his grandfather to help him. Su Yuanhang's father felt that his grandson was more sensible than his son, so after breakfast he took his grandson to the vegetable market and took a passenger boat out from the pier behind the vegetable market.
Su Yuanhang told his son that there were many delicious food in the state-owned restaurant and gave his son two yuan. His son knew what to do, so he bought the book and said he was thirsty. After drinking the wine, he said he was hungry and wanted to eat eight-treasure rice and wontons. Before his grandfather could refuse, he told him to bring the new year's money, and then took out two yuan to treat his grandfather to a restaurant.
Su's father became annoyed when he saw his son. His grandson was so sensible. The more Su's father saw, the more satisfied he became, so he said that grandpa invited him to dinner.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the grandfather and grandson boarded the boat. After getting off the boat and going from the vegetable market to the Lotus Brigade, the matter of dividing the land was settled. Su Yuanhang's father was so angry that he didn't eat dinner and stayed up all night. He couldn't hold back and fell asleep in the morning. When he woke up in the afternoon, he had completely forgotten about the matter. .
But he suffered temporary amnesia.
After dinner, we went out for a walk, and everyone was full of praise for the "household farming system." Su's father did not dare to stand on the opposite side of the masses, so he comforted himself that they were only temporarily deceived by the captain, and they would just wake up after the New Year. .
As the flavor of the new year gets stronger, the island is thriving. Not only do all the islanders not get lost, but they are even more excited than when the authorities announced that the "revolution is over."
Hangcheng Normal University was on holiday and Liao Miaomiao came back. She usually either went to Niu Xiaoshan's house or Ye Fan's house to play. She rarely walked around, but she could also feel that the islanders had changed. The person hasn't changed, but the feeling he gave her has.
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liao Miaomiao didn't stay at home. After breakfast, she went to Ye Fan's house and asked, "Aunt Ye, I found that the members of the Shanxi Brigade seemed very happy. Did they make money?"
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Ye Fan: "I have made a lot of money this year. It is conservatively estimated that even the poorest member can save a hundred yuan."
Liao Miaomiao has been in Hangzhou for half a year. She heard from her classmates that the average worker's salary is more than 20 yuan a month. People in the city need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation. It is difficult for a two-income family to save 200 yuan a year, unless there are no children or only one child. Take care of by grandparents.
So Liao Miaomiao couldn't help but ask: "Is it so many?"
Ye Fan: "The price of duck and goose feathers has increased this year. The price of duck and goose feathers is fifteen yuan, and the price of selling delicacies and fruits is forty, so this is fifty-five yuan."
“But oil and salt also need money.”
Ye Fan nodded: "The production team often delivers goods to the purchasing station, and the troops also buy eggs and meat from the production team. These two items are enough to support family expenses. This year is different from previous years. How much seafood and meat are there in the vegetable market every weekend? The eggs are all sold out. In the second half of this year, eight pigs weighing more than 200 kilograms were sold. Even if there is 100 kilograms of pork and the bones are included, a pig can be sold for 100 yuan, which is divided into 100 yuan and 8 yuan per family. , the child’s tuition is not enough.”
Liao Miaomiao calculated carefully: "Also, duck and goose meat can also be sold. People in Yongcheng City love to eat goose."
"You mentioned geese, and then I remembered that the hundreds of live chickens, ducks and geese I bought from the members at the wet market a few days ago were all sold."
Liao Miaomiao sighed: "No wonder they are so happy, they feel like their backs are straightened."
Ye Fan nodded, took out the washed kelp and put it on the rope.
Liao Miaomiao asked smoothly: "How to eat kelp?"
Ye Fan: "Buy a few kilograms of ribs and stew them. Dabao and Erbao may have been too greedy for meat before. I bought them every time I killed a pig at the vegetable market. After buying them for two meals, they didn't eat enough. They said they would rather chew the bones. I want to drink clear soup, but I don’t want to drink fish soup.”
Dabao jumped out: "Mom, are you talking bad about me again?"
Ye Fan: "What do you have to say? Where is my sister? Is she still in bed?"
Dabao nodded: "She said it was freezing feet and legs. Mom, what are you having for lunch?"
Ye Fan was speechless and wanted to laugh: "Eight o'clock for dinner, it's not nine o'clock yet. Go back to the room and read a book!"
Dabao refused to go, so he ran to the pressure well and saw a big fish in the basin: "Mom, dad is celebrating the New Year in the army, and the three of us can't eat so much." "Your dad will go to the army on the 28th. Come back tonight." Ye Fan Glancing at the fish, "Eat half for lunch and half for dinner. I'll chop the meat in the afternoon and steam the meat buns in the evening."
Dabao immediately didn't mind the strong fishy smell and pressed down half the basin of water. Ye Fan saw this and wanted to hit him: "I haven't removed the scales yet, why are you pressing so much water? Don't make me angry here."
"I'm not angry with mom, I love mom the most." Dabao smiled and ran into the house.
Liao Miaomiao was stunned. Is "love" so easy to say? Even if her parents were not Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye, but Xiao Shan's parents, she wouldn't find the word "love" disgusting.
Ye Fan didn't understand: "Miaomiao, what's wrong?"
Liao Miaomiao came back to her senses and said with a smile: "Dabao is quite funny sometimes."
Ye Fan: "I'm only nine years old, I'm not sensible."
Dabao ran out again.
Ye Fan asked: "What?"
"Mom, tomorrow is my birthday."
Ye Fan nodded: "Yes. Mom hasn't forgotten."
"Can I make a wish? Tomorrow I want to eat braised pork, hooves, pot-wrapped pork, and—"
Ye Fan interrupted: "Dabao, there is a difference between making a wish and daydreaming."
Dabao put down his hand: "How many can be achieved?"
Liao Miaomiao was immediately envious when she saw him like this. He was still able to discuss his wishes: "One or two of them should be able to come true."
"Are there only one or two?" Dabao asked again.
Ye Fan: "Do you want me to make you a birthday cake?"
Dabao can eat cakes and other things every time he returns to the capital. Either his aunt goes to the Friendship Store or his uncle buys them. Dabao was not surprised: "The cake is so troublesome, I'll eat the steamed buns."
Liao Miaomiao has not eaten cake yet, she has only tasted bread, which Geng Zhiqin gave to her: "Is the cake delicious?"
Dabao shook his head: "It's not very delicious. The bread of foreigners is our dough bread. It's hard and choking, not as delicious as bread. The cake is just yeast buns. The method is different. My uncle said it."
"How is that possible? Isn't the bread soft?"
Dabao: "We made that ourselves. Foreigners' bread is hard. I only had one bite after eating one piece, and my teeth were so tired that I fell out."
Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "Your teeth will fall out if you don't eat anything. Don't scare Miaomiao. Then make braised pork? I don't know how to make pot-wrapped pork. I'll ask your dad later if he knows how."
Geng Zhiye is very good at it, because a child without a mother has already been in charge of the family, so he learned to cook when he was as old as Dabao.
The next afternoon, Geng Zhiye came back early. Ye Fan stewed braised pork in the rice cooker while Geng Zhiye made pot-wrapped pork. Dabao and Erbao didn't go out to play either. They sat side by side in front of the earthen stove, waiting to be fed.
Geng Zhiye took out the pot of meat, and the brother and sister stood up at the same time. Geng Zhiye was startled: "What are you two doing?"
Ye Fan asked: "Are you hungry? Wash your hands! I'll serve the rice."
Dabao cooked the braised pork with rice and wrapped it in a pot. Ye Fan cooked the vinegared cabbage on the stove without even tasting it. Ye Fan gave him and Erbao two chopsticks to hold cabbage leaves. The brother and sister wrinkled their noses together. Ye Fan wanted to laugh when he saw this: "There are only so many."
Dabao immediately stuffed it into his mouth and then stared at his mother, is he really gone?
Ye Fan touched his little head and said, "It's my son's birthday today. Mom didn't prepare a gift for you. Ten yuan?" He took out a brand new birthday card and said, "Save it up and buy toys for yourself later?"
Dabao took the money and stood up to hug his mother: "Mom, can I make a wish?"
"Didn't you promise yesterday?" Ye Fan asked.
Dabao shook his head: "It was my birthday yesterday, so it's useless to make a promise. Mom, shall I start? I hope my mother will be as good as today. I hope my dad will be as good as today."
Geng Zhiye was happy: "Geng Dabao, these are two wishes."
"Then let's promise the first one first." Dabao turned to his sister, "Promise the second one for your birthday next year."
Erbao nodded: "Dad, eat meat." In order to continue the pot-roasted pork and braised pork next year, Erbao gave his father a piece of braised pork. He watched Geng Zhiye eat it and asked, "Dad, are you happy?"
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Geng Zhiye: "What do you want?"
Erbao pursed his lips and smiled sheepishly: "Anything is okay?"
Geng Zhiye: "Dad also gave you ten yuan? When you celebrate your birthday, will you also give your brother ten yuan?"
Erbao just wanted to make a small request, but he didn't expect to get a big reward, so he nodded hurriedly. And when she got the money, she put it into her brother's hand. Geng Zhiye was stunned for a moment and looked at Ye Fan, what's going on.
Ye Fan: "Both of their money is with Dabao."
Dabao nodded: "I didn't use my sister's money. I used my New Year's money to buy delicious food at grandma and grandma's house."
Ye Fan asked: "Mom, go to the city to buy you two piggy banks later?"
"Will it be stolen?" Dabao asked.
Ye Fan: "Just don't let others go to your room. Erbao, will you bring your friends over to your house some other time and let your friends play in the living room?"
Erbao nodded: "Mom, eat meat." He gave Ye Fan a piece of pot-wrapped meat.
Ye Fan quickly handed over the bowl and put the second treasure in the bowl.
The brother and sister had rarely had the opportunity to open up their appetites to eat meat before. They were really greedy, so they ate too much tonight, and Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye did not criticize them.
But after eating too much, he felt sleepy. He went to bed at four or five o'clock early and woke up unable to sleep. They both felt uncomfortable lying down. Ye Fan held his daughter and Geng Zhiye carried his son on his back and went outside to wake up from sleep. When they feel more comfortable, let them play with their eldest brother and younger sister.
Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan stood on the roadside waiting for them.
Faintly smelling a fragrance, Geng Zhiye put his arm around Ye Fan's shoulders and lowered his head to smell it: "Isn't it from you?"
Ye Fan pushed his head away: "There are people coming and going, so don't make trouble."
Geng Zhiye smelled it carefully, it was not an illusion: "Don't smell it?"
"The plum blossoms in Sister Wan's yard are in bloom. She planted them two years ago." Speaking of Wan Siqin, Ye Fan still doesn't understand her. "The year we planted flowers on the roadside, she asked someone for a plum blossom. At first it was very difficult. I was so young that I didn’t even notice it when I passed her door. This year, I only saw the branches sticking out a little bit.”
Geng Zhiye: "Didn't I tell you?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "Maybe she doesn't like to deal with people by nature. Although you need to be careful in your words and deeds when dealing with her, she is okay with people and things. Unlike Zhuang Qiuyue, who is superficial."
Geng Zhiye didn’t quite understand: “How to say it?”
"At first she really thought that Miaomiao entered the hospital because she was tired from studying. Later she found out that Zhuang Qiuyue had changed her choice, which made Miaomiao so angry that she didn't want to live. She ignored Zhuang Qiuyue in the past six months. In the past, except for water pressure and too hot summer, she came to us Household fans, you don’t come here often, right?”
Geng Zhiye nodded. He had met Liu Guihua and Zhuang Qiuyue in his house, but he had never met Wan Siqin. "Then what?"
"Earlier, the golden osmanthus blossoms in the Shanxi brigade opened. She heard people say that the glutinous rice balls are very fragrant, so she went to the production team to get osmanthus flowers. When she came back, she met Zhuang Qiuyue coming from the north at the entrance of the alley. Zhuang Qiuyue chatted with her without saying a word. After saying that, she said I wanted sweet-scented osmanthus too, and then came to our house. I was dumbfounded at the time.”
Geng Zhiye wanted to laugh: "Why don't you just say go home and cook?"
"It was around three o'clock. It was just a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival. There was nothing in the factory, so I was cleaning the vegetable patch in the courtyard." A few months later, Ye Fan still wanted to laugh when he thought about what happened that day, "She said when she got to the courtyard Annoying Zhuang Qiuyue. Zhuang Qiuyue has never had any conflicts with her. It must be because of Miao Miao.”
Speaking of Miao Miao, Geng Zhiye thought of his sister: "When will Xiaoqin come over?"
"The fourth day of the lunar month. It's possible that the sixth day of the lunar month will come to our house. It happens to be a day off on the seventh day of the lunar month. On the weekend of the eighth lunar month, one or two pigs will be killed at the vegetable market. I will buy a few kilograms of meat to satisfy her craving." After receiving the admission notice last summer, Geng Zhiqin is coming to the island to stay for ten days. She was suffering in the car during the summer, so Ye Fan asked her to come over during the winter vacation.
Geng Zhiye thought that buying meat in the capital still requires a ticket: "I should come back by then. Buy a few more kilograms and make two plates of pot-wrapped pork. I found that Dabao and Erbao like to eat pot-wrapped pork very much."
Ye Fan: "It's sour and sweet."
"What about you?"
Ye Fan had eaten a lot of good food in his previous life and was not greedy, "I like everything you like."
Geng Zhiye couldn't help hugging her and whispered: "Don't move, people will think we are the same tree."
Ye Fan was speechless, wondering if there was a tree as strong as yours. Ye Fan suddenly felt something in his heart: "Captain Geng, have you gained weight?"
"Strong! Strong! Strong! Why are you fat?" Commander Geng was very unhappy. "I have started to live a healthy life. Now I can have a big meal of meat every half a month and cook with lard every day. It's not just me, my brothers." "They are all getting stronger." Talking about his current living standards, Captain Geng said, "My guard is now twenty-two years old and has grown five centimeters in half a year. Isn't it amazing that he has almost caught up with me?"
Ye Fan: "We didn't have enough nutrition in the past, right? My mother always said that at the age of twenty-three, a sudden jump occurs. That's probably what happened to him. But does the headquarters have no objection to your eating like this?"
Geng Zhiye: “The headquarters doesn’t know because we didn’t go to the headquarters to apply for military expenses.”
Ye Fan: "Don't people come to inspect every year? They don't find it either?"
"I can't find it!" Geng Zhiye shook his head and said with a smile, "The first meal is stewed with minced pork and cabbage, the second meal is boiled radish, and the practice feast is a sumptuous table of shrimps, soldiers and crabs."
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