The adobe courtyard wall was painted with red paint with the words "The world is vast and there is great potential" and "Realizing the Four Modernizations of Socialism". A wooden sign painted with white paint hung on the side of the rusty iron fence door.

Author of "Shangma Commune Jianhua Brigade".

At this time, there was no such thing as a township. Township governments were called communes, and villages were called brigades. This name has even continued to be called this way in some rural areas in the 21st century.

Several rough mud houses served as the team headquarters. Jiang Xiaobai opened the door and walked in. Without any need to greet a group of people, Wang Xiaojun took out the white porcelain vat from the team headquarters and poured water for everyone.

Immediately afterwards, the village secretary Huang Zhongfu also walked in with others, and the two parties immediately began to become tense again.

"Secretary, you have the most profound understanding of justice. You have to make the decision for us educated youths. We are actively responding to the country's call and coming to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. We are not here to receive lessons."

A tall and thin young man among the educated youth stood up. He even wore a pair of eyes on his thin face, but when combined with his overall appearance, he did not look elegant at all. Instead, he looked even more pointed.

"Liu Aiguo, you fart..." Goudan, the village accountant, suddenly opened his mouth and cursed.

"Secretary, look, this accountant is scolding us in front of you. Am I wrong? Look at the bruises they gave me." Liu Aiguo interrupted the village accountant.

"Yes, secretary, look, my nose is bleeding. If you have any opinions about our educated youth or the government's policies, you can raise them." Liu Feng also continued.

"You..." The village accountant's face turned red with anger. He couldn't bear the label of having an opinion against the government.

"That's right, Secretary, he also discriminates against us female comrades. The chairman has long said that we female comrades can hold up half the sky. You are not listening to the chairman's words." A girl with a ponytail among several female educated youths also stood up.

Come out and say not to be outdone.

If it comes to doing farm work, these educated youths from the city are definitely not as good as the village accountant, but if it comes to talking nonsense, the village accountant is no match for them. The hats on their hats are getting bigger and bigger, and the village accountant's head is buzzing.

"Yes, if you don't give an explanation today, we will go to the commune to find the leader."

"Yes, the commune is looking for a leader."

"Yes, find the commune leader."

"..."

More than a dozen educated youths shouted with great momentum. Jiang Xiaobai didn’t know. It’s obvious that everyone hasn’t had enough to eat these days. How come you have so much strength? Could it be that you stole the show while I was sleeping in the middle of the night?

have eaten?

Huang Zhongfu glared at the village accountant Goudan with hatred, frowned tightly, and looked at Jiang Xiaobai as if asking for help. Huang Zhongfu had already roughly understood what happened on the way here.

Whether this matter is big or small, if these educated youths really make trouble in the commune, they will not look good, and the village accountant will have to suffer even more.

Jiang Xiaobai saw Huang Zhongfu's gaze and raised his hand. The shouting behind him immediately stopped. Goudan, the village accountant, also looked at Jiang Xiaobai expectantly, hoping that Jiang Xiaobai could say something fair.

"Secretary, the accountants are exploiting our educated youth. Is this still a communist society? Isn't this capitalist? Capitalists are the ones exploiting."

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile, but the words in his mouth made Huang Zhongfu and Goudan shudder. Although the others were given a big thumbs up, it was actually just a fight, and the others could not stand.

And at this time, when fighting in the countryside, if you say something unpleasant, it will be fought. However, the class struggle at this time has only been in the past, and capitalism is undesirable.

"Xiaobai, this is serious. Goudan was confused for a moment. I asked him to apologize to you and then make up for the missed work points for you," Huang Zhongfu said, changing his voice and adding, "But

, Xiaobai, you also need to understand Goudan, you are all intellectuals, and you also understand the situation of the Jianhua Brigade. It was already too poor to open the pot, but now that you educated youths have come, you suddenly have more than a dozen mouths to eat, and the village is full of people.

It’s even more difficult…”

Huang Zhongfu said, and the educated youths also fell silent. This is also true. The Jianhua Brigade does not have much territory to begin with, and a large part of it is mountainous, so the harvest is small.

Having dozens of extra people at once is indeed a huge burden.

Jiang Xiaobai also fell silent. After his rebirth, although he didn't eat well at Longcheng's house and didn't have much money, he was still able to eat enough.

But after joining the Jianhua Brigade, I was really hungry, and I never had enough to eat. This is not just the case of educated youths, it is the case of people in the village. It is June or July, which is fine.

Various wild vegetables in the mountains can also fill your stomach.

I heard from people in the village that if we wait until March and April every year when there is a lean period, then the real hardship will come.

"In many families in the village, one or two people earn work points to support a family of 5 or 6 people. The work points in our village are not valuable to begin with. Last year, one work point was only 1 cent. Now you have more than a dozen people at once.

With one work point per person per day, you can earn more than 200 work points a year. The 15 of you are worth more than 3,000 work points, and the work points in our village are even more worthless."

Huang Zhongfu took off the dry tobacco bag hanging on his chest, lit it and took a puff. The room was immediately filled with a choking smell.

The output value of the village remains unchanged, but the work points will become more. Of course, the work points will become less valuable. To put it bluntly, it is inflation. Of course, there is no such term yet.

But a group of educated youths who have gone to school can certainly understand what Huang Zhongfu said.

The anger and grievances on the faces of the group of educated youths disappeared, and no one mentioned going to the commune to cause trouble. People at this time were still very simple. There was no such thing as whether you die or not is none of my business. I just want to live a good life.

He had a good attitude, but Jiang Xiaobai took a deep look at Huang Zhongfu, what an old fox.

I was wondering just now, how could the village accountant dare to deduct the work points of the educated youth without permission because of his cowardice? It turned out that there was someone behind the scenes.

It is estimated that what happened today was Huang Zhongfu's test of the educated youth. If the educated youth did not make a fuss and admitted it, it would probably become a routine in the future.

But it is obvious that the educated youth are making a big fuss now, and it is no longer possible to be forceful. All we can do is to use emotion and reason.

Jiang Xiaobai figured it out and figured out what happened today, but there was no good way. The reality was here.

Were the educated youths wrong? No. Were Huang Zhongfu wrong? I can’t say. Maybe it was the era that was wrong, and maybe everyone was too poor.

One reason why educated youths go to the countryside is to reduce the burden on the cities, but the rural areas were already poor, so now the burden is even heavier.

Jiang Xiaobai pondered...
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