Qian Shulan walked in front, and Lu Minsheng followed behind pushing the pig manure.
Qian Shulan was worried that he couldn't keep up, so she walked very slowly. But who would have thought that he was so eager to see his daughter that he walked so fast.
Qian Shulan could only speed up her pace.
When they arrived at the chicken farm, Qian Shulan called out to the three people who were learning to raise earthworms, "Lu Chenglin, come and help unload the pig manure!"
Her tone was not very nice and it scared everyone.
Lu Chenglin stood up subconsciously and saw her father when she turned around.
It was as if he was struck by lightning, and he didn't move for a long time.
Lu Minsheng's hands were shaking with excitement. But now that there were so many people around, he could only suppress his excitement.
Qian Shulan glanced at the two of them and pointed to a row of mud and thatched houses to the east. "Go and help dump this truckload of pig manure to the back."
That is a place specially used for raising earthworms. Because earthworms like shade, a mud and straw house was specially built.
Lu Chenglin immediately came back to his senses from his daze, lowered his head slightly, wiped the tears from his eyes, and nodded heavily.
When Qian Shulan saw some people tilting their heads to look over here, she clapped her hands and gathered people over.
"Everyone come here, I want to have a meeting!"
Everyone, whether they were raising chickens, feeding worms, or sweeping up chicken manure, all gathered around.
Excluding the sixty-two people on the canal, there are more than three hundred people here.
Standing in the yard, Qian Shulan picked up the accounting book and talked about the next work arrangements.
It's nothing more than an old hand leading a new hand. In addition to raising a hundred old chickens, the old hand also has to raise fifty chicks.
The novice is only responsible for one hundred chicks.
As more and more people were being sent down to the countryside, and many educated youth would go to the countryside in the future, Qian Shulan decided to expand the scale of the chicken farm.
In addition to feeding 25,000 old chickens, another 30,000 chicks need to be raised.
Originally she only wanted to raise 15,000 more chicks, but when everyone voted, they kept asking for more.
This is not anyone's fault. The main reason is that the population of the Wangjia Village Production Brigade is too large. There were 1,000 people before, but now there are 1,200 people.
The money I got was really not much.
Nowadays, the price of marriage has risen sharply. Before, a dowry of 20 or 30 yuan was already very high, but now no one will marry unless they are 50 years old.
Although many people survived in Wangjia Village, their land did not increase.
Unlike other production teams, which reduced their population for various reasons, their land remained the same, which resulted in their income being higher than before. In addition, they also raised chickens, so their work points this year were estimated to be not much different from those of Wangjia Village.
If Wangjia Village does not continue to be proactive and enterprising, it will sooner or later be stripped of its title of the No. 1 Production Team.
When Wang Shouquan went to the meeting, President Zhou strongly urged them to run the chicken farm and pig farm well and not fall behind.
President Zhou has been very good to their production team because their production team has led other production teams to raise chickens together.
He was not as targeted towards Wang Shouquan and Qian Minghua as before.
Just because he was cared for by him all the time, Wang Shouquan really felt a lot of pressure.
After returning and attending a meeting, we decided to raise chickens again.
That passionate speech moved everyone.
If you raise chickens well, you can eat eggs every day. If you make more money, maybe every household will have a bicycle and build a red brick house in the future.
The beautiful vision boosted everyone's morale. So when voting, everyone kept asking for more.
But Qian Shulan felt that these people were a little out of touch with the actual environment.
The things needed to raise earthworms include cow dung, horse dung, pig dung, human dung, chopped soybean stalks, chopped wheat straw, chopped rice straw, chicken manure, wheat bran, rice bran, rotten fruits and vegetables, and leaves.
Everything else is easy to deal with, except that the rice stalks and rice bran were all obtained by Qian Shulan.
The remaining cow dung, horse dung and human feces are limited, and there is no way to support more earthworms. So no matter how loud the slogans are, they must be based on the actual situation.
Thirty thousand chicks was the number decided by Qian Shulan.
If there are more, we will probably have to use food, which will increase the cost.
Everyone shook their heads and disagreed, saying that raising earthworms costs almost nothing and the cost is very low.
After raising earthworms, the manure can still be used on crops. Not only is the effect better, it also saves money on urea.
But if we feed the chickens directly with grain, it will hurt everyone.
They all said that 30,000 would be a good number, so that was decided.
This time, two hundred new recruits were recruited and Deng Yunping was selected.
Qian Shulan explained the rules to these newcomers, their daily responsibilities, and the reward and punishment mechanism.
There are rewards for good work, which is also to motivate everyone.
"In the past, we only selected ten people each time. This time, because the number of people has increased, I have also increased my efforts. I will select ten veterans and ten newcomers. These twenty chicken-raising experts can get twenty eggs. Everyone, work hard!"
Everyone was whispering to each other, saying that raising chickens was really good. Not only could they get ten work points every day, but there were also rewards for doing a good job.
The most important thing is that this job is not tiring. All you have to do is boil water for the chickens to drink and feed them with earthworms.
Then I wait for the chickens to grow up and pick up eggs every day.
While Qian Shulan was in a meeting, the Lu family father and daughter hid in the mud and thatched house.
When Lu Chenglin saw her father, she cried excitedly. Fearing that people over there might hear her, she covered her mouth tightly with one hand.
Lu Minsheng patted her on the back, tears also flashing in his eyes, and his voice choked with sobs, "Good girl! Daddy really misses you! Are you okay?"
What Lu Minsheng is most worried about is his little daughter. His son is calm and resilient, and is able to adapt to changes.
But this little daughter is different, like him! She can't tolerate any injustice, and has a strong temper, but she has never been wronged, and she is still very naive at the age of twenty-three or twenty-four.
He was knocked down and quickly demoted, without even having the chance to say a word to his little daughter.
He knew that his daughter was obedient and filial, and would definitely not break off relations with him. She might even go around begging for him.
What he was most worried about was that his daughter would be implicated. Later, he heard news about his daughter and that she was imprisoned in the Jiefang Farm. He was heartbroken.
It's not like he had never been in a labor camp before. That place is really not a place for people to stay, especially women.
Not all the people there were wrongly imprisoned like him. There were more concentration camps for criminals.
How could his delicate little daughter survive in such a den of wolves? He was in agony all the time and couldn't sleep at all recently.
Lu Chenglin looked at his father's worried eyes and tried to comfort him, "Dad, I'm fine!"
Lu Minsheng glared at her, his tone somewhat harsh, "You're still okay! If you were okay, would you come here?" There was blame in his voice, but more of it was heartache.
Lu Chenglin lowered her head, tears streaming down her face. She tried to wipe them with the back of her hand, but they were never completely gone.
Seeing her like this, Lu Minsheng couldn't criticize her anymore. He sighed and asked, "Why are you here?"
Lu Chenglin wiped the tears from her face and said with a forced smile, "I wanted to save you! I went to ask those uncles, but they all refused to pay attention to me! Those people would have been fine, but Zhang Changming not only didn't help me, he also quarreled with me, and his mother even instigated him to divorce me. In order to sever his relationship with me, he filed for divorce first. Not only that, he also said that I had a problem with my thinking and tried to overturn the verdict for the bad guys!"
Zhang Changming is Lu Chenglin's husband and Lu Minsheng's favorite student. Although he was born in a poor family, he studied very hard. Seeing that he studied hard, Lu Minsheng accepted him as his student. He also respected Lu Minsheng very much. He and Lu Chenglin were college classmates. When Lu Minsheng knew that his daughter was in trouble, he guessed that the two had separated.
But he had never believed that his disciple and son-in-law, whom he had always trusted, could be so cruel. Now after hearing what his daughter said, he regretted it and punched the ground, "I really misjudged him!"
His eyes were red, his body was shaking, his back was hunched, and he felt depressed.
Lu Chenglin, the person involved, was much calmer. Ever since her father was labeled a bad guy, she has experienced the fickleness of the world.
None of her friends, colleagues and teachers who had been clinging to her were willing to help her. What was even worse was that some people even ridiculed her, saying that she had been a troublemaker before and that she deserved this fate.
And her husband even got together with his student. It turned out that he had betrayed her when she was busy saving her father.
She accused him of having promiscuous relationships with both men and women and having problems with his ideology and work style. Unfortunately, the people above were blind and said that she was the daughter of a bad element and had no right to sue the red five categories with a pure red pedigree.
Class composition determines everything!
She watched as her once loving husband betrayed her but still refused to let her go and kept throwing dirty water on her.
Lu Chenglin's initial anger gradually turned into resentment, and now she just wants to live a good life.
Only by staying alive could she take revenge, so she restrained her temper and gradually became very quiet.
In the labor camp, facing those who had molested her, she initially wanted to fight to the death with them.
But later, she thought of forming a clique, so she quickly found a helper, Zhao Jingfeng.
Zhao Jingfeng was even more miserable than her, as he was betrayed by his own wife.
In order to get him to help her, Lu Chenglin gave him all the silver ingots her father had given her.
Zhao Jingfeng had a son who was only six years old. He was always worried about his son in the labor camp. After his vicious mother betrayed him, she would definitely choose to remarry, and he was worried that no one would take care of his son.
Although he has an older brother, his sister-in-law is not a good person, and his mother is old and has a soft personality, so how can she take good care of her son
So when he saw the silver ingot, he was moved.
He helped Lu Chenglin deal with those who harassed her, and also asked someone to help give the silver ingot to his mother, asking her to help take care of his grandson.
It’s not that he is unfilial, but his biological mother and older brother are taking care of him, while his son is no different from an orphan.
Oh, no! His son is worse than an orphan, because with a bad father like him, his son will definitely be laughed at by other children.
When Lu Minsheng heard his daughter calmly talk about her experiences in the labor camp, he felt something was not right.
There is no doubt that after experiencing such a big change, a person's peace of mind will undergo a huge change.
But what if the original kindness turns into the current resentment
Even though he hated those who framed him and put him in jail, he still believed that there was light in this world.
He didn't want his daughter to live in resentment for the rest of her life, never to experience a bit of warmth and friendship in the world. What was the difference between that and living in a swamp of hell
He frowned slightly, looked at his daughter, sighed, and said, "Do you know why you are here?"
Lu Chenglin was stunned for a moment, and he obviously found this a bit too coincidental. Usually, people who were sent to a labor camp would only be released after their sentence was completed. Obviously, this time was an exception.
She thought about it and asked tentatively, "Did Dad ask someone to help transfer me here?"
Lu Minsheng said nothing, but pointed at Qian Shulan who was talking under the shed, "She helped get you here. Dad didn't even know her before."
Although he was Wang Shouli's teacher, he had taught tens of thousands of students, and he taught the literacy class in Wangjia Village for less than a year at most. With such a short time, he had almost no impression of Wang Shouli as a student, let alone Wang Shouli's mother.
Lu Chenglin was a little surprised. The old lady just now had a bad temper. But she was used to it. She had seen many people with worse attitudes than her.
She thought about it and found a suitable reason for Qian Shulan, "Did Dad ever help her?"
Lu Minsheng shook his head and answered with certainty, "No!"
Lu Chenglin was slightly surprised. "She has never helped us before, so why would she help us like this?"
After spending several months in the labor camp, she no longer believed that there were people who would help others for no reason. In recent years, the spirit of Lei Feng has been promoted, but since she fell into trouble, she has never met Lei Feng, and she no longer believes that human nature is good.
Lu Minsheng thought for a moment and recalled Qian Shulan's words, "Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dad helped this production team transport supplies. So she remembers Dad!"
It was more than 20 years ago that he helped the Wangjia Village Production Team transport supplies. Except for the older generation who still remember it, the younger generation has no idea about it at all.
However, although the supplies he sold were very cheap at that time, and he even lost money, it was a matter of payment after all, so he didn't take it to heart at all.
This was what the Wang family members talked about when they visited him one after another. Lu Minsheng had saved countless lives in his life, and before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he had spent all his family wealth to help many compatriots. If he remembered everything, his brain would probably be useless.
But he didn't expect that all these people remembered it, and he was really touched.
Lu Chenglin obviously didn't expect this to be the reason.
She lowered her head and said nothing.
Lu Minsheng smiled slightly, "Look! There are still good people in this world. You must not be afraid of choking and think that all people in this world are bad!"
Lu Chenglin slowly opened his clenched hands, then clenched them again, but this time not as tightly as before.