Zhong Gui and Xin Xian decided to go to the small mountain village mentioned by Qinyin to see the situation of the distribution of fields and households, so they temporarily decided to extend the investigation by one day. The leaders of the commune hurriedly arranged for some errand runners to come and explain the task, and asked them to go to the small mountain village to report the news, so that the village could be prepared. But Zhong Gui had already seen through these actions, and he motioned to Xin Xian to stop them.

Xin Xian walked up to the commune leader and deliberately asked, "What are you gathering these people for?"

The commune leader hurriedly replied: "I asked them to go to the villages to inform them and let them do a good job of reception." ”

Xin Xian said in a commanding tone: "No need to go! The villagers don't have a good time, how do you want them to receive them? We just want to know the real situation, so don't go and inform them." ”

The leaders of the commune hurriedly let everyone disperse without notice. But the moment he turned around, while Xin Xian didn't pay attention, he still glanced at one of the people in charge of running errands. The errand runner understood it, and after disbanding, he ran in the direction of the small mountain village.

Early the next morning, Zhong Gui, Xin Xian, the leaders of the commune, and Qin Yin walked on the rugged mountain road leading to the small mountain village. The small mountain village is indeed beautiful, and the bushes on both sides of the mountain road are hung with drops of dew, which look particularly crystal clear in the sun. The mountain flowers are splendid, there are purple trumpet flowers, yellow cauliflowers, as well as white and red, under the background of the tender green grass all over the mountain, it can be described as full of green, purple and red.

Zhong Gui said that this mountainous area is very beautiful, it is almost summer, and it is still a scene of spring. We must build the mountainous area well, and we must not let down the good scenery here.

The commune leader replied that in the spring it was more beautiful, with more flowers and a variety of birdsong.

After walking through the long mountain paths, I saw a small village immersed in trees and bamboo forests in the distance. Around the village, paddy fields are gently rippling under the breeze under the tender greenery. What a beautiful farmland!

When they reached the entrance of the village, they were flooded with the barking of dogs. As they approached, more than a dozen dogs wagged their tails and the barking of dogs gradually subsided.

The barking dogs and the onlookers gradually dispersed, and the group arrived directly at the ancestral hall in the middle of the village. It is said to be an ancestral hall, but in fact, it is also the habit of rural people to build, and each village has a separate hall that is larger than other houses, called the ancestral hall. Many rural sacrifices, deliberations, and celebrations are carried out in the ancestral hall.

The door of the ancestral hall is open, and the scene inside is spectacular. I saw the production captain give an order, and the villagers came out of the ancestral hall en masse, lined up in a neat and orderly line to prepare for work. Seeing this scene, Qin Yin couldn't help but cover his mouth, and couldn't help laughing out loud with a "poof".

Qin Yin's smile attracted Zhong Gui, Xin Xian, the leaders of the commune, and other people who were traveling with her to look at her in unison. Knowing that she was out of shape, she forcibly pursed her mouth, paused, and distracted herself from laughing.

The production team leader stood upright, took a break, and made a gesture like a military salute: "Report to the superior leader, our production team has assembled and is ready to work." ”

Qin Yin glanced at his father who was in the queue, and then at the production captain, and when he couldn't help laughing, he lowered his head and said nothing, out of sight, and his heart was not disturbed.

Xin Xian turned his head and glared at the commune leader: "Didn't I tell you not to inform them?"

The leaders of the Commune bowed their heads and remained silent.

Zhong Gui said, forget it, there are many channels, he has to tell the village, you can't control it.

After speaking, he asked the production captain: "Your production team is very neat, is this going to work?"

"Yes!" replied the production captain.

Zhong Gui sighed: "How can I look at you more like a performance than a job." You're treating us like an inspection team, aren't you?"

The production captain seemed to understand whether he understood or not, looked at Zhong Gui embarrassedly, and then looked back at the villagers, at a loss for a while.

Seeing this scene, Qin Yin hurriedly said to the production captain: "Don't pretend! ”

Xin Xian continued the words of Qin Yin and said: "You are very capable, once the investigation team comes from above, you will appear as the lineup of the production team, and after the investigation team leaves, you will return to the pattern of package production to households." ”

As soon as the words fell, someone in the villagers muttered: "It's a goof." ”

Seeing this scene, the leader of the commune hurriedly stepped forward and said to the captain of the production team: "I heard that you have distributed the fields of the production team to each household?"

The production captain was refreshed: "Yes, it has been distributed to each household." After speaking, he turned his face to the other side: "Since I am a goof, I won't lie to you, just talk straight." ”

"You're so bold, go take it back for me!" roared the commune leader.

"The people who divide the fields are here, if I want to collect you, I can't take it back!" The production captain looked disdainful.

The commune leader still wanted to get angry, but Xin Xian tugged at the corner of his clothes, suggesting that he leave it alone.

Zhong Gui smiled and asked, "Folks, who of you is the oldest?"

The villagers said that it was originally Grandpa Qin, but now that Grandpa Qin is dead, it should be Grandma Qin's oldest.

Zhong Gui asked Grandma Qin to tell the truth, what do you think about the division of the field to the household? Grandma Qin twisted, unwilling to say more. Qin Yin cheered on the side: "Grandma, it's okay, you just say it, just tell the truth." ”

Xin Xian said, well, yes, it turns out that you are still in the relationship between grandparents? Yesterday your granddaughter gave a wonderful speech on the same matter, and she spoke very well, now look at what your older generation thinks.

Grandma Jean moved out of the crowd and patted the dust on her shirt. Actually, there was no dust at this time, but the old woman at that time had such habitual movements.

Grandma Qin said, "I am a woman, and I only know that after the fields are divided into each family, each family takes more care of the fields, and the harvest is good. The package production is delivered to the household, enough is paid to the state, enough is left for the collective, and the rest is their own, and the members have no opinion.

However, some old people do not understand that when we talked about the old society, the peasants had no land, and the communists led us to carry out the revolution. After the liberation of the land reform, the toiling masses of the world have fields to plant, no longer have to be the landlord's "long-term" "hired laborer", over the years, also accustomed to the calculation of work points, the production captain gave an order, the collective work, collective work. After this liberation, it was only a few decades before the new society distributed the land to each household, what is going on?

Zhong Gui laughed: "Oh, it turns out that the old people want this? Please don't worry about this, the new society is still a new society, this has not changed, and it will not change." Our aim is to help the peasant masses solve the problem of food and clothing as soon as possible and become prosperous. This is something that the oppressors of the masses in the old society could not do. ”

The other old people in the village, seeing that Grandma Qin's words not only did not cause trouble, but also attracted the laughter and encouragement of the local high-ranking officials.

An elderly person said: "In the past, when we worked in groups, our family was able to make do with some work. Now that the package has arrived, the son has contracted the field, and he doesn't know how to be lazy to come back to see the elderly, he is too busy all day long, and he doesn't care about the elderly and children at home, and he just asks about family affairs. ”

Xin Xian listened, interjected and asked, "Old man, then can we cancel the package production to the household and return to collective work?"

The old man hurriedly waved his hand and said in a loud voice: "No, no, no!" After slowing down, he pointed to the other end of the village and continued: "It is good to have a good production and a lot of grain has been increased. But we old people, who were originally taken care of by the collective, as well as the families of the military and the five-guarantee households over there, are not as thoughtful as before!"

Several other old men also gathered around.

Some said: "Everyone is busy with their own fields, and no one cares about the affairs of the village collective." ”

Another person said: "Since the production has been contracted to the households, no one has taken care of water conservancy, farmland infrastructure and public affairs in the village." ”

Some people even said sharply: "Is it not possible to divide the fields and work alone? In the past, the collective cadres had a lot of vitality, but now they are separated and take care of each other, and it will be miserable for those families who lack labor!"

However, some young people reported that the collective work in the production team caused some people to "work but not to make efforts", and everyone even thought that "doing and mixing together" would be "not enough to eat and starving to death" anyway, and those who actively worked were talked about as "having a bad brain".

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After listening to the opinions of the old people and young people, Zhong Gui and Xin Xian respectively solemnly gave the following instructions to the leaders of the commune and the head of the production team: In the process of dividing the fields into households, the reason why the problems mentioned by the old people appear is that we pay too much attention to the forward, and often ignore the side and the back. Our traditional organizational building and ideological work have not kept pace with the development of the situation. In the future, we must pay attention to studying new situations and solving new problems.

Zhong Gui and Xin Xian are both people who have come through the process of social construction, and they understand too well the great significance of dividing the fields into households at the beginning. However, just as the emergence of every new thing has been met with a certain degree of skepticism and criticism, there have been some places where this new thing, which was later called the household responsibility system, has been vigorously discussed and wandered for several years.

Qin Yin thought that he was knowledgeable and educated, so he had the courage to speak: "It is a good thing to have the production to be delivered to the household, but the commune, the county, and the prefectural party committee have not firmly supported this matter, and until now, everyone has not dared to let go of their hands and feet. ”

Everyone's eyes were on Qin Yin, and the commune leader who was kept in the dark also accused Qin Yin: "There is no place for you to speak here." ”

Xin Xian waved his hand to the commune leader and signaled him to respect Qinyin: "What this girl said is quite predictable. ”

Zhong Gui, Xin Xian, who are the communes, small mountain villages, these things that no one knows about secretly, in fact, they all know. Zhong Gui and Xin Xian complemented each other and said: Within the scope of this commune, the delivery of goods to households has become a well-known thing. Almost every village has broken the routine and is carrying out the contract production to the households. Each production team, without waiting for the state's arrangement, has already divided the collective land into households according to the population, and the task of purchasing grain in the public is distributed to each household according to the area of the land. Even the cattle and farming tools have been transferred to the farmers at a discount. Not only that, but although the original collective property, fish ponds, processing plants, rice mills, tea farms, forest farms, and fruit farms of the production teams still retain collective management in name, they have all been contracted by peasant households through bidding.

The leaders of the commune and the villagers of the production team looked at each other: "How do they know so much?

Zhong Gui and Xin Xian successively expressed their stance on the local distribution of farmland to households: Dividing farmland into households is in line with the development of rural productive forces and should be clearly supported. We believe that in a few decades, it was a very bold and correct choice.

The small mountain village erupted in applause......

At this time, there are still about three years before the central authorities clearly support and implement the household contract responsibility system in the form of documents. Later facts proved that the reform first began with rural reform, and the symbol of rural reform was the division of land to households, that is, it was later called the "household contract responsibility system".

Many years later, Qin Yin, Zhong Gui, and Xin Xian were secretly glad that they were able to personally participate in promoting the reform of their hometown. That's an afterword.