Qian Shulan originally wanted Wang Shouli to go back and talk to Zhou Xuemei in private. But before she could get up, she heard Wang Shouli say, "Mom, I have to leave soon."
Qian Shulan was a little surprised and was about to ask, but when she saw Zhou Xuemei next to her, she immediately suppressed her doubts and changed the subject, asking, "Did you pay for the recommendation quota for the textile factory? Mom will go get it for you!"
There is only one recommendation quota for formal employees. Since Xiaomei and Wang Danna were able to go, they must have paid for it.
Wang Shouli smiled and said, "My fifth brother and I bought 100 kilograms of food from the black market and exchanged them for two quotas. We also spent a lot of money to buy these radishes. The price is four times more expensive than that in the department store."
The prices on the black market are generally twice as high as those in department stores, and they have doubled in just a short time.
Qian Shulan could only sigh, things are more valuable because they are scarce. She went back and took out her money box, counted the money and handed it to him. He took the money and put it in his pocket.
Qian Shulan glanced at Sun Daqin and gave Wang Shouli some more money. "Pay close attention to the factories in the county. If there is any recruitment information, you must come back to inform everyone. If you can't come back by yourself, you can find someone to help you."
Sun Daqin smiled gratefully at her mother-in-law, and Wang Shouren's eyes were also shining.
Qian Shulan asked curiously, "Why is the textile factory suddenly hiring?"
Wang Shouli explained with a smile, "The city is also making a great leap forward now, and the factory is also making false claims about production targets. The higher-ups have sent down the order a long time ago, but the county can't pay, so the leaders are suppressing the order and not letting the factory hire people, so the annual output can't be increased. The higher-ups are sending people down this time, and the factory's existing staff will definitely not be able to complete the target, so we have to hire people."
In fact, since September last year, not only farmers have to make great leaps forward, but also factories. In order to complete the annual production plan, the whole factory has been working hard and 12 hours a day. Even on holidays, employees cannot take a day off and must go to work in the factory.
Liuguan County has not issued such a document for a long time because County Chief Guo does not like to launch high-yield "satellites". Now that the working group has arrived, the satellite must be launched.
Sun Daqin understood what was going on. "Then you won't be unable to pay the salaries of these new recruits, right?"
Wang Shouli couldn't explain it either, so he could only vaguely say, "The country has never owed wages to any worker."
Wang Shouyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone started asking all kinds of questions, and Wang Shouli answered them one by one with a smile on his face.
Qian Shulan looked at his expression, frowned, and said to Zhou Xuemei, "Old Four will be leaving soon, you and Xiao Tao go back and pack his clothes."
Zhou Xuemei glanced at her man, and when she saw him nod, she immediately stood up and took Xiaotao out.
Qian Shulan asked the others to go back to their rooms to rest, and called Wang Shouli back to her room. "You just said that everyone in the factory is making a great leap forward. Is it bad for you to ask for leave like this?"
Sometimes, Wang Shouli had to admire his mother's sharpness. He frowned and forced a smile, "Did you see it?"
Qian Shulan glared at him and said, "Look at the dark circles under your eyes. If I can't see it, then I am old and my eyesight is blurry, right?"
Wang Shouli sighed, "It was not easy for me to get leave today. I have to go back and work overtime later."
Qian Shulan was surprised. "Why do you work overtime at the Grain and Oil Bureau? You are in such a hurry to go back that you don't even have time to rest for a night."
Wang Shouli considered it for a moment and decided to tell the truth. "Our purchasing staff not only have to sign the order, but also work with the truck drivers to transport the grain back."
Qian Shulan frowned, "Will it be dangerous?"
Wang Shouli realized that the more he talked, the more worried his mother became, so he hurriedly said, "It's okay, Mom! We have more than 20 strong men following the car. It won't be a problem."
Qian Shulan was still a little worried, so she reminded him, "You must take good care of yourself. If you encounter robbers on the road, you must not resist them. Protect yourself first. Mother doesn't expect you to win honor for me. You must take care of yourself first, and don't try to be stubborn."
Wang Shouli nodded heavily, but secretly thought in his heart, he couldn't be so unlucky, right
"Don't tell Xuemei about this for now. She's pregnant now and might be scared." Qian Shulan did not forget to remind him.
Wang Shouli nodded immediately.
"By the way, our production team has handed in all the grain. Do you know when the grain will be returned?"
The last time the grain collection team came down to collect grain, they said that after a while there would be grain sold back to them, but it would still cost money.
Wang Shouli didn't know whether he should say it or not.
Seeing that he looked troubled, Qian Shulan still had something she didn't understand, so she comforted him, "Just tell me, mother can hold on."
"This time we are transporting grain to Beijing. The harvested grain will be ground in the mill and the fine flour will be sent to the army or big cities. The wheat bran and old grain will be kept and sold to the people below as return grain."
Qian Shulan was speechless. The class distinctions in this era were more distinct than ever before. Look! Even food was divided according to the type of people who could eat it.
But it was better to have something than nothing. Besides, even if it was fine grain, the members had no money to buy it. It was worse than old grain and wheat bran.
Qian Shulan stuffed two packets of fried cicada monkeys that she had placed on the bedside table when she came in into his hands and said, "You and Xiaowu can eat one packet of these two packets of cicada monkeys, and you can take the other packet to show your relationship."
Wang Shouli agreed.
An hour later, Zhou Xuemei, who had just greeted her husband, held her belly and saw the three people off with everyone else.
Wang Shouli rode a new bicycle specially borrowed from the team, with Xiaomei on his back.
Wang Danna had learned to ride a bicycle from Hong Shunyou before, so she rode alone.
Bring some food with you.
Qian Shulan had specially asked them to bring it with them, as the two of them could only stay at Jiang Yuying's house when they arrived in the county town. She happened to bring some food for Yuying.
Qian Shulan hopes to pass the assessment this time so that Wang Danna won't have to worry about finding a good partner.
Three days later, the two returned on bicycles.
Today it was Li Chunhua's turn to cook. After feeding the chickens, she went straight home while everyone else was still cutting grass for the pigs in the fields.
Seeing them come back, Li Chunhua immediately dropped the gourd ladle in her hand, ran over and kept asking about the interview results.
"How is it? How is it? Was she hired?" Li Chunhua was very excited. It was incredible that her daughter would one day become a worker.
Xiaomei shook her head and was about to speak when she saw Li Chunhua with a sad face, looking extremely disappointed, "There's no way out! My God! Your grandma spent a hundred kilograms of food to buy this opportunity, but you wasted it. You damn girl, why are you so unpopular!" She patted Xiaomei several times while speaking.
Xiaomei quickly hid behind Wang Danna.
Wang Danna stopped Li Chunhua, her face full of joy, "No, no! Sister-in-law, we all passed."
Li Chunhua paused in her beating and glared at Xiaomei, "Since you passed, why are you shaking your head?"
Xiaomei immediately pouted in grievance, "I shook my head because you hurt my hand."
Li Chunhua's face was full of embarrassment, but it only lasted for a moment before she began to ask about the interview process.
Wang Danna excitedly shared with her what happened during the interview.
Just when Wang Danna was talking excitedly, she looked up and saw Zhengkang walking out.
She paused, "Zhengkang, Xiaofang also went for an interview, did you know?"
Zhengkang had just come back from cutting grass for pigs. Since graduation, Qian Shulan had asked everyone to go to the fields. Zhengkang was no exception. Zhengkang, who had hardly seen anything alive, couldn't stand it after a few days.
Rubbing his tired body, he paused for a moment after hearing this, and then ran over, "Really? Did she accept the offer?"
Wang Danna nodded and curled her lips, "I've got it."
Zhengkang also laughed happily. Sun Daqin followed closely and was also happy when she heard Wang Danna's words. Her future daughter-in-law would also be a worker.
The third, fourth, and fifth rooms all had workers, but her room didn't. She was upset at first, but now she didn't have to envy others.
At this time, Qian Shulan was still working at the chicken farm. This year's new chickens had already started laying eggs.
When Qian Shulan woke up early in the morning, she heard the news from Li Chunhua. She didn't even bother to cut grass for the pigs and immediately ran over to check the situation.
More than 300 eggs were laid that day, which made everyone very happy.
Qian Shulan distributed the first batch of eggs to everyone as a reward. She was the factory director and had the power to do so.
"Giving out 20 eggs to each person is also a reward for everyone's recent hard work."
Raising these 6,000 chickens is not an easy task. Let's talk about the earthworms first. They need to be replenished with water every day. It was better before when there was water in the canal.
But since the canal dried up, we can only transport water from the team.
If there is no cart during the busy farming season, you have to carry the crops yourself. It is not an easy task to carry them over such a long distance.
The second is the grass that the chickens eat. It must be chopped and mixed into the feed.
The chickens must drink boiled water. Although Qian Shulan knew that the chickens would not get sick, others did not know.
In order to avoid suspicion, she still asked everyone to drink boiled water.
Plus I have to come here for patrol every day, which is really tiring.
Although these people have work points, the work points in the team are of no use at all. This year, the team handed in a lot of grain, but the price given by the state was very low.
If it were distributed among the team members, I estimate each person wouldn't get even ten dollars.
Compared to the previous sixty or seventy coins, it has dropped to the bottom.
Qian Shulan thought it would be better to just give eggs as a reward, which would be more cost-effective.
Although not every family of the 100 women can eat eggs, at least half of them can.
Qian Shulan came back from the canal carrying forty eggs belonging to herself and Li Chunhua.
Thinking about the scene I saw on the other side of the canal.
The leaves of the sweet potatoes in Linjia Village have turned yellow. They are still green because they have been watered before, but the soil has cracked. If they don't water them, they will die of drought. She felt really sad when she saw it.
Qian Shulan took a detour and went to Wang Shouquan's house.
I found someone and explained my purpose directly, "The work points in our team are useless now, and no one wants to work. Why not just exchange the work points for eggs? Anyway, the money earned by our chicken farm is distributed to the members. It would be better to just deduct the work points, which would save a lot of trouble."
Wang Shouquan frowned, "One work point for one egg, seems a bit too cheap?" If their team's current money was calculated according to work points, one work point would probably be only a little over one cent, and an egg would cost at least two cents each, which was tantamount to selling at a low price.
Qian Shulan spread her hands and said, "If we sell the eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative, they will only give us money. What's the use of having money? We can't buy food. It's better to let the members eat eggs directly."
This is their sorrow, because there are militias everywhere. The villagers can't even go to the city to buy food. Wang Shouli brought back a bag of radishes before, and scattered several bags of large productions on the way. The price of the bribe is almost the same as the radishes. It's really depressing.
"Anyway, the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't know that our new chickens have laid eggs. We can delay it as long as we can."
Although it is cheaper to sell it to the members, at least everyone can have something good to eat, so that they are not all so listless.
Asking them to work was like digging their flesh. Even Wang Shouquan didn't want to take care of the sweet potatoes in the field anymore. What's the use of ripe sweet potatoes? They can't eat them anyway.
Moreover, the price offered by the government was so low that they could not buy food even with the money. So no one wanted to care about it anymore.
As for Minghua, the working group couldn't tell the reason for detaining him yet. They could only take it one step at a time.
The weather was so hot, and Qian Shulan felt her heart bleeding as she watched the sweet potato vines die. She was extremely heartbroken.
We worked so hard to grow the sweet potatoes, but now we don't want to care about them anymore.
She leaned close to Wang Shouquan's ear and whispered, "You should appease everyone and tell them that when the sweet potatoes are grown, you can hide some secretly when you harvest them."
Although the militiamen came down to watch them harvest the grain, it was still two thousand acres of land. As long as they were spread out a little further, the militiamen would not be able to keep an eye on them. They could secretly bury the grain in the ground when they were not paying attention, and then dig it out after they left.
Hey! This was the solution she had finally come up with. Eating her own team's food had to be done secretly. It was really weird.
Wang Shouquan was a little reluctant at first, but after hearing the following sentence, he was really moved. If everyone could hide a little, it seemed feasible. His eyes lit up, "Okay, let's do as you say."
After saying that, he ran out excitedly to inform the team members to attend the meeting.
When Qian Shulan returned home, she was exhausted both physically and mentally.
She didn't know if what she was doing was right.
But she knew that if the grain was allowed to die in the fields, more people would starve to death in the country.
Do you think these members are cruel
But who can bear to see the crops that they have worked so hard to grow go to others while they themselves cannot eat any of them
No one was willing to give in, so she could only coax everyone into accepting it.
I hope they can hide more food by then. If they can't, she will use the space to help everyone.
When she got home, Qian Shulan was surprised to see the two of them coming back. "You guys are back?"
The two men immediately came over and told her the good news.
Qian Shulan was also happy for them.
"When do you go to work?"
"We have to leave early tomorrow morning. Xiaomei helped third sister-in-law weave cloth before, so she has some experience, so she was assigned to the weaving department. I have no experience, so I can only be a handyman." Wang Danna's tone was full of disappointment.
I thought she was a junior high school student and could be assigned an easier job, but she could only be an ordinary handyman. She was not even as good as Xiaomei.
Qian Shulan smiled and comforted her, "It's good enough to be a worker. Just be content."
Wang Danna pursed her lips and nodded.
Qian Shulan took the two of them, with food but no capital, to Wang Shouquan's home and asked him to issue a letter of introduction.
When He Cuilan heard that they actually had the opportunity to go to the city to work as workers, she was so surprised that her eyes almost fell out.
"Third sister-in-law, you are too capable!"
Qian Shulan waved her hands modestly. "It's not that I can do it, it's just a coincidence! The two children have enough education, and it's just the right time. But it's just a temporary job, not a formal one."
Wang Shouquan wrote out the letter of introduction, stamped it, and handed it to them, saying with a smile, "It's not bad to be a temporary worker. It's better than farming in the countryside!"
He Cuilan also nodded in agreement.
The next morning, Qian Shulan sent the two away. They had to walk to the county town by themselves this time. The team couldn't lend them bicycles for so long.
Both carts and horse-drawn carriages were used to carry water. Today, if you go to the fields, the work points you earn can be exchanged for eggs on the spot, so everyone went to the fields to boil water instead of looking for pig grass everywhere.
Because eight catties of pig grass were exchanged for one catty of pig grass, many members had already searched the area. Some even went further away to feed themselves. They were often not at home for a whole day.
Now they heard that if they watered the fields, they would get eggs to eat, so the people with more people were divided into two groups. One group continued to go to a distant place to cut grass for pigs, and the other group went to the fields to water the sweet potatoes.
Those with a smaller population were more greedy for eggs, and they all ran to the fields to water the sweet potatoes.
When watering the plants, Sun Daqin was quick to speak and told everyone all the good news about her family without waiting for anyone to ask.
Then all the members of the cooperative knew that Old Wang's two daughters had gone to the city to work as workers. They were extremely envious and came to inquire about the news.
In the past, no one would dare to get close to Qian Shulan.
But since Qian Shulan changed, people are no longer afraid of her as before.
Qian Shulan didn't fool anyone, "I told you before, you need to have at least a literacy class diploma, those factories will only accept it."
Everyone regretted their decision after hearing this. Although Wang Shouli had been a worker before, everyone thought it was just a coincidence. After all, Wang Shouzhi had been a worker in the city for more than ten years and it was difficult for him to bring Wang Shouli into the city. Everyone thought it was difficult, but who would have thought that they would have the opportunity so soon.
So they all went to Wang Lide to set up literacy classes.
Wang Lide was overwhelmed by the commotion and had to go to the Education Bureau to apply for permission to run another literacy class in response to everyone's request.
The Education Bureau is also having a headache. Because of the lack of food, many students have to drop out of school and stay home. Many students who were admitted to high school and technical secondary school this year have given up on continuing their studies.
The Education Bureau is discussing a solution.
When I heard that the principal of the primary school in Wangjia Village Production Brigade had applied to set up a literacy class, I agreed without hesitation.
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