Chapter 496 The joy of harvest
Zhang Jianwen waved his hands and smiled, and then explained a few words to everyone, asking everyone not to worry about other things, and to take it back for the New Year with confidence.
"Okay, without further ado, let's just give the money to everyone. Those whose names are called will come up. Those whose names are not called will wait."
After saying that, he walked towards Zhang An nodded, indicating that he could start the roll call.
"Zhang Facai has three workers, one big worker and two small workers, totaling 3,655 yuan. The total payment should be 5,005 yuan."
Zhang An After receiving the uncle's signal, he turned over the roster and read the first name.
I didn’t know this, but I was shocked when I thought about it. The first one was a heavyweight.
Zhang An himself was a little shocked. He really didn't expect to have so much money because he didn't follow up to settle the accounts yesterday.
Zhang Facai and Zhang Jianwen are of the same generation, but slightly younger. This time he was a stonemason building the river embankment, and his son and mother-in-law worked as part-time workers.
Suddenly, the wages of a family of three, together with the dividends given by the village, directly exceeded the 5,000 mark.
You must know that some people in the village who work outside may not be able to save 5,000 yuan throughout the year to come back.
And they don't have to go out, they just stay in the village, and then when they are idle at the end of the year, they work for a month and a half, and they can get so much money.
In the past, if a family had been farming for several years, they might not have had so much land.
Zhang Facai had already walked up when he heard Zhang An read his name, but when he heard the amount behind him, he was stunned and stood there and forgot. Go up and get the money.
Everyone below is almost like this, but maybe it’s not me, so I reacted quickly.
"Come on up, Facai, why are you standing still?"
When they saw Zhang Facai standing still, everyone shouted to wake him up.
“Hey, okay, okay.”
He was a little excited now and was already stammering when he spoke.
When he walked to the table, Zhang Jianwen had already counted the five thousand yuan, and then asked Huang Weimin and Zhao Youcai to confirm it again.
"Come to make a fortune, this is your family's, you click a few and see if it's right."
The last person to pass the pass was Zhao Youcai. After he counted it and it was OK, he took out one from the pile of change next to him. Five yuan was handed to Zhang Facai together.
“It’s not like it’s not like that, hehehe.”
Although Zhang Facai said he didn’t know how, after getting the money, he started counting them one by one.
Zhang An clearly felt that he had turned from nervousness to excitement. At this moment, his hands that were holding the money were trembling.
"Uncle Facai, you have to be careful. If you scatter it on the ground, we will pick it up but we won't return it to you."
Zhang An smiled and opened fire with him. The joke calmed down his excitement a little.
But he was excited. It only took him a short while to count the money clearly. It seems that money has an irreplaceable position in everyone's heart.
"Wang Qingfa, there are four workers, two big workers and two small workers, totaling 5,160 yuan, and the total should be paid 6,510 yuan."
Zhang After getting rich and walking back, Zhang An continued to read out the next name.
At this moment, everyone who had not calmed down completely broke out.
Originally they thought that Zhang Facai’s family had enough money, but they didn’t expect that Wang Qingfa’s family could get more than a thousand yuan more than Zhang Facai’s family.
But this is what the family deserves. After all, the family, including their son, daughter-in-law and family of four, are working.
His son Wang Dalin has long been trained by him and has become a stonemason. This time, both father and son are big workers, so it is normal to get so much money.
Wang Qingfa was stunned for a moment when his name was read out, and was woken up by his son. After all, Zhang Facai was in front, and those behind them were more or less mentally prepared.
So he quickly came up to collect the money, and then counted it again before returning to the crowd.
And Zhang An also continued to roll the names, but basically no family got more money than Wang Qingfa's family, and there were not even many families similar to Zhang Fa's family.
Because there are not that many adults in their family, fewer people sign up to work.
Although many families in the village have many children, those families with many brothers will basically separate and set up households soon after getting married, and each will have his own family.
If the brothers are all married and have separate families, and the two elderly people in the family are still healthy, they will live their own lives and not follow any of the sons' families.
Therefore, there are not many families with four adults, and even if there are, they may not be able to go to big jobs.
The distribution of money was carried out until 12 noon and it was not finished. There were still about 20 households left.
Zhang An didn't ask Zhang Jianwen if he wanted to wait until after dinner in the afternoon before coming over to send out the greetings. Instead, he called the names one by one.
It is best not to interrupt at this time. The people in front have indeed received it, but the people behind are still watching helplessly.
Zhang An could understand that feeling very well, it was like ants crawling around in his heart, it was extremely itchy.
The other people who received the money at this time did not go home first, and were still waiting together in the dam.
On the one hand, everyone wants to know the situation of other families in the village and see where their own family ranks.
Another reason is that this is an unwritten custom in the village. Just like having a banquet, the person who eats first cannot leave the table directly. He will sit at the waiting table and wait for the remaining people to eat. Finish, and then get off the table together.
Otherwise, others will think that you are ignorant of human etiquette, and they will probably not sit with you again in the future.
Especially when older people are present, young people have to wait until the older people have finished eating before they can get off the table.
Of course, except for children, after all, the village has arranged a table with children, and it is full of children.
So now it’s the same as coming together to collect money. Those at the back will wait patiently for the people in front to finish collecting, and those in front will wait for everyone behind to go back together.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, all the seventy or eighty households in the village had received their money.
At this time, Zhang An noticed that his old uncle Zhang Jianwen took a breath, and the expression on his face became much more relaxed.
Seeing the dark circles around his eyes, Zhang An knew that he had not slept last night. After all, so much money was left at his house.
“Well, our dividends for this year have been paid out. Let’s live a happy and good year together. Normally, we are reluctant to buy new clothes for our children and ourselves. This year we can spend It’s time to spend some money. After all, money is earned, not saved. Everyone has to believe that there is a lot of energy in our village now, and we will definitely get better and better in the future. We want to eat meat every day, and every family They all bought motorcycles, so I hope this breath will never relax, okay?”
Finally, Zhang Jianwen, as the old village chief, once again said a few symbolic words to summarize, which can be regarded as encouragement for everyone in the coming year. Encouragement.
“Okay.”
Everyone below had obviously been moved emotionally by Zhang Jianwen, and they shouted in unison.
Their faces were full of joyful expressions, and they were all smiling. Zhang An felt that even if it was the Chinese New Year, they might not be as happy as they are today.
There was no way, the money they got this year was beyond their expectations. Even the families who got the least money got two to three thousand yuan, so they couldn't even think about whether they were happy or not.
After all, although the Chinese New Year is worth celebrating, it is certainly not as joyful as getting money.
In the past, if you asked them what the joy of harvest is, they would definitely not be able to tell you.
Because they are farmers for generations, they have always felt that farming is what they should do, and harvesting is also what they should do. But if someone asks now, even though the feeling is indescribable, they will definitely give various answers excitedly.
“I would like to remind you one last thing, keep this money yourselves and don’t have any accidents. If it doesn’t work, just take it to the town and keep it in your bankbook. It’s safer this way. Okay. It’s already late, let’s go back to eat.”
This reminder is very necessary. After all, it is really not safe to keep so much money at home.
You cannot guarantee that among all the people in the village, there will be no one with bad intentions.
As Zhang Jianwen clapped his hands, everyone evacuated from the dam with laughter.
Just when Zhang An was about to go home, he was detained by Zhang Jianwen.
"Xiao An, please don't go back. Your aunt has already cooked. Come to my place for a drink today."
It can be seen that Zhang Jianwen is very happy now. He invited me yesterday and returned today, which is enough to express that he is now mood.
"Go to Lao Zhang's house today, then go to my place tomorrow."
After Zhang Jianwen finished speaking, Huang Weimin followed closely and made a reservation directly for tomorrow.
"I still have more. Since you have made arrangements, then go to my place the day after tomorrow."
Zhao Youcai was not willing to lag behind. Seeing that the two of them had made arrangements for today and tomorrow. , it will be ranked the day after tomorrow.
Zhang An had never seen this kind of scene before. In the past, it would only be arranged by one of the three of them. There had never been three people together treating guests like a banquet.
At this time, Zhang An really understood how happy the leaders of the three villages were.
But this is indeed something to be happy about, because they have been struggling with the small mountain village of Changqing for so many years, and this year is the most successful year in history.
Now they can say that they are worthy of everyone and the whole village, so they must celebrate together.
"Okay, then I'll go home and tell my mother."
At this time, Zhang An naturally wouldn't refuse. After all, this is the village's annual celebration drink.
But I still have to go home and talk to Wang Fang first. It’s already two o’clock, and I’m afraid there’s food left for him at home.
"What are you going to do? Just ask a kid to tell her."
After saying that, Zhang Jianwen waved and called out to Zhang Erwa who was playing not far away. come over.
"Erwazi, go and tell your eldest grandma that you, Xiao An, said you went to my house for dinner."
"Okay, village chief, I'll go right away."< br>
Erwa was sitting in the corner with a few other kids burning a fire barrel. He was probably going to school in the afternoon.
But when Zhang Jianwen called him, he gave the burning paint bucket to the other people next to him, slapped his butt and ran to Zhang An's house.
When I arrived at Zhang Jianwen’s house, Zhang Ping was back, and Bai Xue was also there.
"Oh, you two are back."
When Zhang An came over yesterday, Zhang Ping was not at home.
I heard from my old aunt that he was off work for the past two days and went to the city to find Bai Xue.
Both the old uncle and the old aunt were very happy about this, because Zhang Ping no longer stayed at home like before.
But now, Zhang Ping knows that he should go out to find their future daughter-in-law.
"Hey, I just came here. When we came back just now, we saw a lot of village committee members. Is there something wrong?"
Zhang Ping no longer looked as shy as before. He said with a smile.
When he brought Bai Xue into the village just now, he found a large number of people standing at the door of the village committee.
But because Bai Xue was there, he went home directly without going there.
“This is not to take advantage of the time now to distribute the remaining money in the village this year to everyone so that everyone can prepare for a good year. Anyway, it will be distributed early.”
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Zhang An didn't speak, but Zhao Youcai next to him did.
"Ah, your village gives out money to the villagers? There is such a good thing. I have been to many villages, and this is the first time I heard about it."
After hearing this, Bai Xue She was greatly shocked. There were so many villages in the entire county, and she had been to many of them with the leader before. However, Changqing Village was really the first one she encountered because of the village's issue of money to the villagers.
When the three little old men heard what Bai Xue said, they immediately laughed.
Then he explained to her why the village gave everyone money and where the money came from.
After Bai Xue listened, she was in awe of the three elders in front of her. Suddenly she felt that the village of Changqing was really humane, giving people the feeling that the whole village was like a big family.
Then she felt a little proud because the person leading this village was her future father-in-law.
At the same time, she also had a little more expectation in her heart. After all, after she married Zhang Ping, she could be considered a member of this village.
"By the way, when did you two settle things? I'm waiting to drink your wedding wine, and so are you, Bai Xue. Get married quickly, and you will have a share of this money every year from now on."< br>
Zhang An had heard before that these two people were preparing to settle the matter, but after so long, there was still no movement.
If he hadn't seen the two of them still acting like they were inseparable, Zhang An would have thought that they would probably break up.
"It's coming, it's coming. Why are you in a hurry? I can't get away from your place. I'll have to call you over to serve the plate."
When it comes to this matter, Zhang Ping became a little embarrassed again. He had praised him just now, but now his true colors were revealed.
Bai Xue, who was next to him, stopped talking, a blush rose on his face, and ran to the kitchen to find his aunt.
Soon after, the people in the kitchen brought out the dishes.
Actually, my aunt had prepared these dishes a long time ago, but I didn’t expect that the money would come back so late, so I brought them back to the kitchen to heat them up just now.
I came back from the city yesterday. Because I didn’t have enough time, I could only make some random things.
But today is different, almost all are hard dishes, including slaughtered chickens, bacon and sausages.
“I didn’t expect that my uncle still has aged bacon and sausages at home.”
This bacon must be from last year, because no pigs have been killed this year.
Normal people's bacon will be gone before the end of the year, because no one smokes much bacon now. At most, it is enough to eat during work or when guests come.
“This is the only one left. I will kill the pigs a few days after eating and smoke them again.”
Zhang Jianwen said, anyway, their family kills pigs every year, and this year it is even more necessary. , because there is Bai Xue, an unmarried daughter-in-law.
When Zhang Ping goes to pay New Year greetings, he will definitely bring some with him.
(End of this chapter)