Chapter 82: Engagement
A jeep drove on the road south of the village, and it was the leaders of the county who came, and the leaders of the communes came to the entrance of the village to greet them. The children in the village ran to watch the car, but they were stopped by the adults and did not dare to approach.
The jeep stopped at the head of the village, and a young man got out of the car, quickly opened the door, and the three older leaders got into the car.
The people waiting there hurriedly stepped forward to greet them: "Secretary, county magistrate, you are here." "It turned out that the secretary and county magistrate arrived together, no wonder the secretary of the two Tian Commune came to Hantun every day to see the preparations for the venue.
The meeting first visited the wheat field site, and more than 1,000 people meandered more than a mile to visit all the wheat fields in Hantun Village along the production road in the village.
The wheat field bordering the stone temple has become a hot topic of discussion, and it is no wonder that everyone is discussing, the difference between the wheat in the two villages is too obvious, not only the size of the wheat ears is one third, but the wheat grains in Hantun Village are obviously large, and the wheat ears are arched with grinning.
At the meeting, both the uncle and the uncle who aided the DPRK spoke, both of them were tall and loud voices. Their wonderful speeches left a deep impression on the participants.
At the meeting, Secretary Li of the county party committee asked the secretary of Zhangji Commune whether there was a relationship between the two of them, both of whom were surnamed Han and looked similar. When he learned that they were father and son, he asked his uncle and grandfather on the spot: "You took the lead in using ammonia, did your son force you?"
Uncle and grandfather replied loudly: "It is to respond to the call of the country and to support my son's work." ”
Secretary Li of the county party committee fully affirmed the achievements of the two of them, and nominated them several times to praise them.
The comrades of the county agricultural bureau announced the results of the yield measurement at the meeting, and the average yield per mu is expected to be more than 350 catties, which is the highest yield in the history of the county, and it has caused a sensation.
My uncle and grandfather said on the spot: The bumper wheat harvest in Hantun Village is the result of the support of the party and the state. The people of the whole village are always grateful to the great leader and the wise leadership of the Communist Party, and to the leaders at all levels for their care. The masses have long discussed that the draft will not forget the people who dig wells, and the harvest will not forget the Communist Party, and this year the village will strive to hand over 100,000 catties of patriotic grain. As soon as the words fell, the audience applauded and lasted for a long time.
You must know that most of the cultivated land in Hongcheng County is sandy land, with two acres of land per capita, one acre of spring crops, and one acre of wheat planting, and the average wheat yield is seventy or eighty catties. More than 20 catties of seeds were left, and there were still about 50 catties left in one acre of land, that is, all the public grain was paid, and the large village of more than 1,000 people only paid 50,000 catties of public grain.
This is also the reason why many villages only share a few catties of wheat per person, and some villages do not need to weigh at all, and use enamel tea jars to measure the points, two tea jars for one person, enough to eat a meal of white flour dumplings during the New Year.
Hantun, a small village of more than 300 people, handed over 100,000 catties of wheat, which is definitely the first in the county. Secretary Li of the county party committee made a decision on the spot and rewarded Hantun Village with a tractor to support the "Three Summers" production in the village. He also promised that during the wheat harvest, he would personally come to the village to help harvest the wheat.
The meeting ended at 11 a.m., and all the participants went back and did not stay in Hantun Village.
In the afternoon, Panni and Jeger are both engaged today. In this era, new happy events are advocated, and engagement is solemn, but it is actually very simple. The matchmaker led one of the man's uncles and elders to the woman's house with the things he bought for the woman.
Panni's in-laws are from Zhang Ji, close to Hantun, and they came early. Many people gathered at her house to watch the excitement, and as soon as the matchmaker handed over the dowry to Panni's father, everyone asked to come out and spread it out in the courtyard for everyone to watch.
A red square scarf with flowers was used as a baggage, and the fabric of the two clothes was wrapped in it. He was dressed in thick fabric, with a red plaid shirt and red slitch trousers. All the thin fabrics are really good, blue pants and pink tops. There are also two pairs of nylon socks, which you can tell at a glance that they were bought at your own home.
Everyone praised the good clothes given by Pan Nipo's family, and even the scarves were acrylic. It is said that the people in the bazaar are doing well, and this dowry is the first in Hantun Village.
You walked through the square scarf that I saw for the first time in acrylic, and the women in the village wore pure cotton. Now the dyeing technology is poor, the pure cotton is easy to fade, and many washed ones are white, but the general color can be seen.
The color of the acrylic scarf is much brighter, the red scarf is printed with golden peonies, plus bright green leaves, the contrast between red and green is clear, and the local atmosphere is strong.
Many women touched the scarf with their hands and praised it: "The color of this acrylic scarf is real, I heard that it will not fade no matter how much it is washed. "A scarf with cotton thread is seven cents and two, and most of the engagement is made of cotton thread.
Everyone was talking about it, when they heard someone shouting: "Jiegepo's family has arrived." "Everyone came out of Panni's house and went to Jiege's house.
The people in the village had never seen a woman marrying a man and getting engaged, and they talked about it while walking, guessing that the dowry must not be good, and instructed each other to go to not mention Panni's dowry, so as not to embarrass the Jiege family.
Jiege's sisters-in-law are all in the yard and have already opened the baggage, and the baggage is a gift scarf from the Youyou family. The clothes inside are all Huashiliang shirts and labor cloth pants sold in Yoyo's house, and there are all velvet fabrics, and two pairs of socks are also nylon socks sold by Yoyo's house, and the dowry is better than Panni's.
Everyone watched and discussed, it seems that the money earned by the man's re-embankment was used for the dowry, which shows that the man's family is also a real person, and he did not deduct the dowry because of the poverty of the family and the inverted door, and he did his best for his son's future life.
April 21 was a Saturday, and after breakfast, many elementary school students came to buy stationery with a penny. Grandma accepted the money and tore two pieces of stationery. It turned out that the mid-term exam was due.
At this time, the primary schools in the countryside have a week's wheat and autumn vacation, and one month each during the summer and winter vacations. There are four exams a year, the middle school exam in the early stage of the autumn vacation, the final exam in the early stage of the winter vacation, and the entrance examination in the summer vacation.
You ran up to the defense platform to watch the children's exams, only to see the teacher write the test questions on the blackboard with chalk, and the students did the test questions on the stationery. If you don't have the money to buy stationery, you can tear off a blank piece of paper directly from your notebook.
After the exam in the morning, there will be a wheat holiday in the afternoon. The river banks are clayey, and the wheat matures later than in the sandy soil, about a week. The holiday is uniform throughout the county, and cannot be stipulated separately because the wheat in the beach area is late to ripen.
Every year, the wheat holiday starts on June 1 of the solar calendar, and the primary schools in the city give their children the "June 1st" Children's Day, and the children in the countryside do not know that they still have a festival.