However, Zhao Chenghai was still reluctant to burn his own straw. Although he no longer raises cattle, he still habitually piles up the straw and places it squarely under his threshing floor.

In private, Zhenhua summed up his father's actions as "stubbornness, the dying struggle of small peasant consciousness, and the return of the era of cattle farming".

After the autumn harvest, it is time for the winter slack.

Qi Lei went home to recruit workers again and took Lu Shengsong out.

The economic conditions of the Lu family have always been very poor, below the average of Dongwan Village. Qi Lei took Lu Shengsong out, and naturally he also had the intention of taking care of him. Lu Shengsong is congenitally intellectually deficient, but he has infinite strength, he will not steal and play tricks, and under specific command, he can do some physical work, even better than ordinary people.

Qi Lei is equivalent to sending money to Lu Shengsong and paying him according to the salary of the big worker.

At the end of the year, the project in Qi Lei's hand was over, most of the project money was paid, 80% of the workers' wages were paid, and the rest of the wages were calculated next year.

Withholding part of wages is a means used by most bosses to restrain workers and make them obediently follow them.

This project made Qi Lei make a lot of money, and the net profit exceeded 150,000.

Zhenhua's brother-in-law, as the first general under Qi Lei, also achieved a well-off life this year, earning a net of 10,000 yuan. This made Zhao Chenghai very proud, and he showed off when he met people, saying that his son-in-law had earned an early word this year. The cursive prefix is the capitalized word "10,000".

As soon as the wax moon began, the workers returned to their hometowns one after another, but Qi Lei did not come back, staying in Nanjing to run the project.

Chunlan and Wu Xuan have entered a period of passionate love, and the wedding date has been put on the agenda.

In the eyes of her lover, Chunlan no longer disliked Wu Xuan's ordinary appearance, and happily went to buy clothes, choose furniture, and take wedding photos with Wu Xuan.

Zhenhua's days are calm, calm and happy, teaching every day, teasing his daughter with Yilan in his free time, and also taking time to give Pujia preschool education.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Zhenhua received a remittance of 300 yuan, but there was no payment or any message.

Who called the money? Zhenhua thought about it and felt that this should be from Tieqiao.

Because Qi Lei is now a big boss, if he gives himself money, he will never only pay 300 yuan.

Sure enough, two days later, Zhenhua received another registered letter, which was written by Tieqiao.

Tieqiao said in the letter that he was working in the hot land of reform and opening up in the south of the motherland, and everything is fine at present, but he misses Xiao Lixin very much. The 300 yuan was to buy clothes for Xiao Lixin, entrusted Zhenhua to buy clothes and shoes on his behalf, and concealed the truth from Song Jiacai, only saying that it was Zhenhua's own money.

The letter did not leave a reply address, and it was stated that Zhenhua did not need to reply to the letter.

Zhenhua discussed it with Yilan and felt that it was better to do it according to Tieqiao's intentions.

If you explain the truth to Song Jiacai, there are two inconveniences. First, Song Jiacai will definitely take the 300 yuan to drink and gamble, and Xiao Lixin will be frozen again; second, Song Jiacai will suspect that Zhenhua and Tieqiao are not clean, or ask Zhenhua for the address of Tieqiao, causing unnecessary disputes.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, it was the day of the New Year of the stove, Zhenhua and Yilan bought clothes and shoes for Song Lixin in Heyuan Town, and by the way, they also chose a new set of clothes and a pair of shoes for Pujia and Panpan.

Zhenhua specially prepared a notebook to record the date of the 300 yuan remittance, and also recorded the specific expenses for Song Lixin to buy clothes and shoes. If Tieqiao comes back later, Zhenhua will report to Tieqiao.

Just returned home from the market, Zhenhua received a remittance from Qi Lei, a full 1,000 yuan, to buy clothes for Pujia.

Zhenhua and Yilan felt that Pu Jia's growth path was very long, and it was better to have a long stream, so they gave the money to Ji Huamei and asked her to keep it for Pu Jia's future maintenance expenses.

This Spring Festival, Qi Lei did not go home.

Zhenhua paged him several times, and Qi Lei said that he was running a project outside and couldn't come back.

In this Spring Festival, Zhenhua found that there seemed to be a lot fewer villagers looking for him to write couplets.

More and more families are graduating from high school and junior high school students, and they are beginning to learn to write on their own.

In addition, folk calligraphers who set up stalls to sell couplets also appeared on the streets. The folks wanted to save trouble and directly buy the written couplets.

There is also a folk calligrapher, who has done the business to the extreme, starting from the beginning of the lunar month, he has carried the burden, went to the countryside to peddle Spring Festival couplets, inquired door-to-door, and also accepted reservations.

When the old master saw this scene, he shook his head again and again, and secretly called this behavior "Sven sweeping the floor". Scholars, how can they love money so much, shouting everywhere to sell Spring Festival couplets, the same as Wang Xiang selling pork?

Zhenhua is keenly aware that this is the result of a change in concept, and it can be regarded as a manifestation of the continued deepening of reform and opening up. Scholars also have the right to make money, and it is not a shame to go to the countryside to sell Spring Festival couplets.

There are not only those who go to the countryside to sell Spring Festival couplets, but also those who go to the countryside to sell firecrackers, tobacco, alcohol and various commodities, there are also more and more.

Wu Xuan's father also took advantage of his in-laws relationship with Zhao Chenghai to let Zhao Chenghai take himself to seize the position, drive a tractor, and sell fireworks, tobacco and alcohol New Year's goods in Dongwan Village, with a turnover of several thousand a day.

The Spring Festival of 93 years was prosperous and lonely in Zhenhua's eyes.

Prosperity is due to the fact that the living conditions are further improving, and the villagers are becoming more and more energetic, and lonely is because there is no Qi Lei this Spring Festival.

In the midst of the three knots, Xiulian died, Qi Lei did not go home, and only Zhenhua stuck to the land of his hometown.

This kind of loneliness, compared with the bustling and lively Spring Festival, is even more unforgettable.

Fortunately, Zhenhua still has his parents, wife, daughter and sister Chunlan, plus Wu Xuan came to eat twice in three days, and this Spring Festival, the family is also laughing.

Chunlan and Wu Xuan's wedding date is set for the eighth day of the fourth month.

After a month and a half, four months before the wedding, Chunlan asked her brother to discuss the TV.

According to the rules of the countryside, there must be a dowry when you marry a daughter. Chunlan hopes to use the Wu family's bride price money to buy a color TV. Black-and-white TVs are not uncommon now, almost every family has them, and color TVs are the high-end appliances that young people dream of.

Chunlan's desire for color TV is the same as Zhenhua's desire for a tractor back then, longing to sleep and eat, longing to make people haggard for Yi, and never regretting the gradual widening of the belt!

At the end of the year, there was a shop in the town that sold colored transparent plastic plates for five yuan a piece, claiming that black-and-white televisions instantly turned into color TVs.

Chunlan bought a colored plastic plate and came back and pasted it on her brother and sister-in-law's TV, but found out that she had been fooled.

The transparent plastic plate is three-colored, upper, middle and lower three colors, red, blue, yellow, at first glance, it looks like a color TV, but the more you look at it, the more awkward it becomes. Read the latest chapter of "Hidden Farmers in the Field Paw Book House" for free for the first time.