Chapter 400 Explanation
The meal was not finished until after nine o'clock in the evening, but no one got up to go home, they all stayed here to brag and chat.
Because this is a habit in the village. No matter whose house you go to eat, if you pack up and go home immediately after eating, it is a very impolite behavior. You will be looked down upon by everyone afterwards, unless there are special circumstances. Condition.
So even though they had finished eating, everyone was still sitting in the yard of Zhang Jianwen’s house.
The women who came to help followed the old aunt in clearing the dishes on the table and taking them back to the kitchen for cleaning.
The old lady also made a large pot of tea and carried it to the yard for everyone to pour.
That’s not all. The old man also went home and took out his box of leaf cigarettes, cut them into pieces with scissors and put them on display for smokers to roll themselves.
The smokers were not polite either. They grabbed the cut tobacco leaves and began to wrap them and roll them.
Nowadays, many smokers can smoke leaf cigarettes, and they also carry a small cigarette stick with them.
After rolling it up, insert it into the pipe and start puffing away.
Even some people who don’t bring a cigarette stick will borrow the cigarette stick after others finish smoking and smoke another one.
Zhang An couldn't help but sigh, the service at the old uncle's house was not attentive. He only took care of the food and drinks, and finally took care of the tea and cigarettes after the meal.
“Hey, the grain sellers have come to the countryside again in the past two days. I heard that the price of a hundred pounds of millet has increased by two yuan today.”
Everyone was talking about it. Someone started discussing selling grain.
The yield of hybrid rice is getting higher and higher these days, and with the introduction of fertilizer, everyone’s grain harvest is okay.
In addition to the share of grain, many families have a lot of grain storage.
So many people will sell some of their food. After all, besides eating, other things have to be spent.
“Yes, when I was going to the market last week, I heard someone say that I was going to sell all the millet at home when they came to the village to harvest.”
Now the grain station is still open normally, and farmers can transport their grain there and sell it any day of the year.
But now few people are willing to sell directly to grain stations, because the purchase price of grain stations is lower than those of these dealers.
Although it's not much lower, based on the unit of 100 kilograms, it's still a dollar lower no matter what.
After working hard to transport the grain to the grain station, the price of grain is still lower than what those dealers collect in the village, so now everyone tends to sell to grain collectors.
It turns out that there is no other way. Only the grain station can collect it. Selling it to others is just speculation.
Now that the policy is liberalized, everyone has a clear idea of what is good and what is bad.
"Oh, your family has become popular. Selling so much grain all of a sudden, you are not going to make a living in the future."
As soon as I heard that this person planned to sell all the millet at home, All the grain was sold, and everyone around them exclaimed.
Although selling grain is something that every farmer does, I have never heard of anyone selling all their grain.
Most people sell hundreds of thousands of catties every year. Anyone who can sell half of their family's harvest is a ruthless person.
After all, in this era, food is more important than money in the hearts of farmers.
Some people would rather be poor than have no food stored at home.
There is food at home and they are not panicking. They do not want to live the same days of starvation as before.
So even if you live a poorer life, as long as you have rice to fill you up every meal, it is enough.
“Hey, there’s really nothing we can do about it, but the younger one in the family is going to give birth to a fortune. The bride price they want doesn’t even have a fortune, so we can only sell the grain to get it together.”
Everyone stopped talking now. Although they had to live their lives, the life-long events of the children at home were obviously more important.
If it were other people here, if this kind of thing happened to them, they would choose to tighten their belts and let their children take care of the family first.
“Anyway, now that the policy is good and things are going well, the family can’t actually eat much food. It’s enough to keep a little bit so that new food can be put into the warehouse.”
I just said I would sell it. Although the old man's face was a little worried, he didn't look so panicked.
Because it’s almost April now, and in a few months, as soon as the rapeseed is collected, the fields will start to be planted.
Wait for four or five months, and the next season’s rice will be mature.
In this era, it’s not like before, where you eat one meal and worry about the next.
Without so much extra expenses, they can keep enough food for the family.
As long as we can survive until autumn, when new crops are harvested, life will become easier.
“Hey, what you said seems to make sense. If I hadn’t waited for the dealer to come over, I would have sold the extra grain at home. Anyway, I can get it back after half a year of new grain. I don’t know the price of grain in the future. Will it still be this high?”
Although these days, food is still the most important thing for everyone.
If it is not a last resort, few people will choose to sell food in large quantities.
But our ancestors are right about one thing, there must be brave men under heavy rewards.
Now that food prices are the highest in so many years, they are lying if they say they are not interested.
At first, everyone was hesitant, worried that they would starve after selling the food.
But now there are people taking the lead in charging forward, and their courage has also been increased.
At this moment, everyone is whispering to each other, and they are all talking about selling food.
"Why don't you guys be more cautious? Food is the capital of the family and the confidence of the family. If it is sold out all at once, the family's wealth will be gone."
Zhang Jianwen watched as more and more people wanted to After selling the food at home, he offered some advice.
Although he did not object to the villagers selling food, selling food on such a large scale made people feel a little panicked. He always felt that something bad was going to happen.
"Yes, there is no need to spend money urgently at home, so there is no need to block the family's financial resources at once. Think about it, why is the price of food so expensive at the beginning of this year? There must be a shortage of money. The price of food will rise when the food is gone. Now that everyone has sold out the food, if it can rise even higher in the future, wouldn’t it be a loss for the seller?”
Zhang An originally planned to persuade. In the last two sentences, after all, he knew that floods were coming this year.
By then there will be food shortages across the country, and food prices will rise even more exaggeratedly than they are now.
And this flood happened to be in July and August, when the rice is in bloom. The continuous heavy rain will cause heavy pollination of the rice this year, and this year's harvest will definitely be greatly reduced.
Now everyone is tempted by the rising grain prices, placing their hope in the new grain harvested in the autumn.
Others don't know, but Zhang An knows that if they really do this, life will be difficult in the next one or two years.
Even if they sell the grain now, they still have money in their hands, but the price of grain at that time was much higher than it is now.
Moreover, there are many more people who are richer than rural people. Even if they want to buy it by then, I am afraid that the grain station will not have that much food to sell to these people.
After all, from the past to the present, food from the grain station has always been given priority to the people in the city. So after Zhang Jianwen spoke, he followed closely with a few words of advice.
After all, he didn’t want everyone living in the same village to reach that point.
“And if you think about it, there has been no thunder before and after the Jingzhe this year. To put it bluntly, if the year is not good and there is no harvest, I am afraid that not only will we be hungry this year, but there will be another one next year. The whole year. "
"Of course, that's what I said. No one can tell what will happen in the future. You can just make your own decision. Don't blame me when you see others selling for more money. "
Zhang An can only say this much about these hints. He cannot tell people directly that there will be no success if there is a natural disaster this year. That is a brainless act.
As the old saying goes, good words cannot persuade a damn ghost. He has said everything that needs to be said. As for how to choose, that is the decision of others.
However, after persuasion, Zhang An still removed himself.
If God makes a joke on him and the flood disappears, then some people will inevitably blame him.
However, he also hoped that God would also play a joke on him. After all, the farmers and common people would suffer the most when it comes to floods.
"Yes, Zhang An would have forgotten it if I didn't mention it. I'm afraid things won't be easy this year. Zhang An is right. There is nothing urgent about money now, so I'd better keep this grain and not sell it." . ”
At this time, some people heard Zhang An mentioning the Jingzhe, and they remembered that since the beginning of spring, even though there have been several spring rains, there has never been a spring thunder.
Some people who are more superstitious or listen to advice have already begun to beat the drum in their hearts.
When I thought of the days when I was hungry, I immediately decided not to sell food or to sell less food.
"What are you afraid of? There is no risk in anything you do these days. You may choke to death even if you eat. How can you make money if you are afraid of this or that."
There are so many people in the village, there are Of course, there are also guys who are not afraid of death who listen to the advice.
This kind of people are born to love money, and the two dollars that have risen this year are a temptation that they cannot refuse.
In this regard, Zhang An stopped talking. If these people were his close relatives, such as his second uncle and third uncle, he would still persuade them earnestly.
But they are all other passers-by. He can only remind me that he has done his best. No more, it will be rude. Adults have their own choices.
The crowd was originally quite lively, but because of the food sales, the atmosphere was a bit off.
So everyone only stayed for half their pay, then got up and went back to their homes.
"Zhang An, wait a minute, I have a few words to tell you."
Looking at everyone leaving, Zhang An was naturally ready to leave, but not yet. So Zhang Jianwen stayed.
"I asked you to separate the bees without telling you in advance. You won't blame your uncle in your heart."
After everyone left, now only the old uncle and the old man are left at home. Uncle, and Zhang An himself.
"Anzi, your uncle did this unethically. If you don't want to, just refuse them."
At this time, the old aunt also spoke. He looked at his man reproachfully.
It turned out to be because of this. No wonder when we were eating just now, the old aunt kept looking at the old uncle with big eyes.
"Uncle, aunt, this is nothing. My uncle also feels sorry for those bees. He has always advised me to be more diligent and raise more bees, but I am a lazy person, and the dishes at home are now poor. I was not young, so I didn’t have this plan, so my uncle made this decision for me. I didn’t have any objections. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Helping everyone will ultimately help myself. I have not forgotten that when my grandparents left, they still Thanks to everyone for helping me.”
Seeing that the old aunt was still losing her temper, Zhang An couldn't help but want to laugh, but the two of them were his elders, so he didn't dare to laugh directly.
When Zhang Jianwen said this, he also wondered why the old uncle didn't discuss it with him beforehand.
If the whole village came to look for him, Zhang An would definitely have some objections.
But Zhang Jianwen said in the end that he was only helping those families in the village who were in difficulty.
So he didn't have any negative thoughts in his heart. After all, he also wanted to help those in need, and he did so.
It can be seen from the fact that when their family hires people to do work, they give priority to those whose families are not very good.
"Although he said so, what he did was wrong, so one code is the same."
Although Zhang An spoke, the old aunt was still very embarrassed.
Zhang An understood that she was afraid that she would be estranged from their family.
"Your aunt is right. I did something wrong. In fact, I wanted to discuss it with you first, but then I forgot about it. Maybe it's because I'm older. There are a lot of things that are a bit overwhelming. I was thinking about them a moment ago, but then I completely forgot about them.”
"Oh, I say, uncle and aunt, you are almost done. This is not a big deal in the first place. It is enough for us to know it ourselves. We are all one family. There is no need."
Zhang An couldn't laugh or cry. He is obviously the victim, but now it looks like he is bullying the old man.
"But I have been worrying about too many things recently. I should relax and have a rest. A capable man like Zhuge Liang is exhausted. Uncle, you don't think you are better than him." You can do it."
"Hahaha, you can rest soon. Your aunt and your brother Ping often talk about this. I have already applied for it this year, and I should retire this year after I finish my work. . ”
Maybe he had this idea for a long time. When he said this, Zhang Jianwen looked a little reluctant, but more relieved.
His reluctance is not because he is coveting this position, but he has worked for the village for decades, and it is really not that easy to let go.
It was only now that Zhang An understood. No wonder the old uncle said those words to everyone just now. It turned out that he was going to retreat.
I can’t help but feel a pity. The old uncle has contributed to the village for decades, and he only cares about the village. I’m afraid it will be difficult for such a person to appear again in the future.
But there is no other way, it’s time for people to retire and enjoy their happiness.
"But Anzi, please think about it carefully. If you have any ideas, I will push you up when the time comes. If it were anyone else, I still wouldn't worry."
When Zhang An was still wandering around in Taixu, Zhang Jianwen mentioned something.
He used to talk about asking Zhang An to take over his class, and that's still the case now.
Because he had watched Zhang An grow up, he felt that Zhang An was more capable, thoughtful, connected, and responsible than others.
"Uncle, forget it. You know me. I am lazy and don't like trouble, so I can't do those things."
As soon as Zhang Jianwen mentioned this matter, Zhang An immediately refused.
I was afraid it would be too late to speak, so I tied myself to the pirate ship.
Zhang Jianwen had thought about him before, but he didn't expect to give up yet.
He is used to being lazy, and he really doesn’t regard the village chief as a cadre.
Of course, he doesn't like real cadres, because he can't be a big cadre, and small cadres are not as cool as he was in the mountains.
(End of this chapter)