Chang Gui listened to Zhong Yuemin's words, and said sadly: "The village was really poor before, and the rations of the golden lock and the children's books and miscellaneous expenses could not be provided, so there was no way to stop classes. I can't live with the babies. It's a good thing for you to teach the babies knowledge. ”

"A few years ago, I watched a few babies running around and didn't go to school, so I temporarily asked Jiang Biyun to teach the children, and several of our educated youths also took turns to be teachers. I don't have much to learn, so I can take a blackboard and find a few pieces of paper to go to class, and I don't have to pay any fees. Zhong Yuemin continued: "But if the class is formal and there are more children, it is an expense to buy books and pens." ”

"Yes, now there are thirty-two babies in the village who are of school age, and just now a few members of the society also talked to Eti about the reopening of the school, what do you think?" Chang Gui re-lit his cigarette, a little worried.

"The branch secretary, if you don't read, you can't let the descendants of Ishikawa Village become illiterate and look down on. Zhong Yuemin said firmly.

"But this cost ······"

Zhong Yuemin knew that Chang Gui actually had a tendency, but he just needed someone to push him again, "The branch secretary, the account can't be calculated like this, no matter how difficult it is for us adults, it will be temporary, but the children will be delayed for a lifetime." ”

Chang Gui held the cigarette pot in his hand, put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, turned around, and after a while, he made up his mind: "Yuemin, you are right, you can't delay the children, this school place has to be done." ”

"Hey, good, the secretary is wise!"

"Don't praise me, I regret that I stopped elementary school a few years ago, but I can't help it. Now you must run the school, your five teams will provide teachers, and the other production teams will provide money and food. ”

"We're fine, can the other teams agree?" Zhong Yuemin raised his worries, "Also, we can still run a school in the educated youth point with fewer children, what if there are more children?"

"Do you want to build two more rooms next to your cave, and each team will work hard, and the material brigade will be in charge?" Chang Gui thought for a while.

"Okay, our five teams are in favor of it with both hands, and it doesn't get any more appropriate than this. ”

Chang Gui said: "Let's have a meeting next night, hurry up and settle this matter, and we can't delay it." ”

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It may be that the sound of students reading in the fields during the day has played an excellent propaganda role, and the reopening of the primary school has been agreed by several production team leaders.

Chang Gui's plan to share the funds was also approved, and everyone thought that it was a good thing to let the educated youth be teachers for the children, and it was appropriate to give some money and food.

The construction of a school building in the Educated Youth Point was also agreed by everyone, after all, only some manpower was needed, and the materials only needed some wood and linoleum cloth.

In fact, the main reason for such a smooth process is that several production team leaders expect that this year's harvest will not be bad, the silt dam was built, and each team has an extra piece of water to irrigate the land, and the stored water also reassures everyone that the dry land irrigation.

The meeting of the village committee and brigade headquarters in the evening ended extremely smoothly, and almost all Chinese had the same understanding of the importance of education.

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Zhong Yuemin walked out of the village committee brigade headquarters, the black was already dark, he was walking on the village road with a flashlight, and he heard the dog barking in the distance, and felt extremely quiet.

He didn't go back to the dormitory directly, but went to Chen Laohan's house in the dark, the old couple lived in a broken cave, and his son and daughter-in-law were separated.

"Old man, Yuemin is here. The fourth grandmother said to the old man Chen who was lying on the kang.

"Ahem, Yuemin is here!" Chen Laohan coughed a little and beckoned Zhong Yuemin to find a place to sit.

Zhong Yuemin sat down next to the kang and said with concern: "Old man, how is your body?"

"It's an old problem, and it's time to be so old. Old man Chen waved his hand, and his arm was already so thin that he couldn't see much flesh.

"I've been busy with spring ploughing, so I don't have time to come and see you. Zhong Yuemin was a little apologetic.

"The farming time is important, and I have been the production captain for half my life, and I understand everything. Chen Laohan said with a smile.

Zhong Yuemin leaned over and said, "Old man, I want to ask you about the things in the team." ”

"If you ask directly, I should have handed it over to you, but my body has collapsed and I can't get up. ”

Zhong Yuemin asked: "I've been looking at the team's account books recently, and the more I look at it, the more panicked I become, why has our team been in debt every year in the past ten years, and in some years, there are more harvests and more debts?"

"Your baby is a good account, our team was also confused a few years ago, not that I can't count the numbers, but I can't figure it out, I can't understand why we have more and more debts. Old Man Chen was lying down, but his eyes were fixed on Zhong Yuemin.

"Have you figured it out now, old man?"

"It's really not easy for us to live in this place, if the harvest is good and there is more grain, the price of this public requisition will be low; if the harvest is bad, we will not be able to eat enough if we hand over the public grain; if there is a disaster, then simply the whole village will go to beg for food." Whether the harvest is good or not, we all have to take out loans to engage in production, and new debts will be added to old debts, and there will be more and more new debts. Chen Laohan said so much in one breath, and he was a little panting.

"Then what can we do?" Zhong Yuemin was a little worried, this is probably something that Chen Laohan has encountered.

"I said that I was confused, just because I couldn't find a way. In these years, the members of the society have been engaged in collective production, and they have not been allowed to exert great efforts in their own land, but the grain output still cannot rise. In the past year or two, the amount has also been opened, and the members can exchange some money for planting something in their own land. Chen Laohan's eyes were a little gloomy.

Chen Laohan took Zhong Yuemin's hand: "Baby, the old man can't do anything, but he always thinks that we farmers work so hard and shouldn't be hungry, and this team will be handed over to you in the future, do you say that our farmers have a day when they don't have to worry about eating and drinking?"

Chen Laohan had some expectation in his eyes, and he didn't know why he was obsessed with Zhong Yuemin's doll seeking answers.

"Old man, don't worry, there will be that day! It won't be long!" Zhong Yuemin patted Chen Laohan's hand and said firmly.

"That's good, that's good······" Chen Laohan put down his hand with satisfaction.

Out of Chen Laohan's house, Zhong Yuemin's heart is very heavy, and when he integrates into this era, he will realize the difficulty of change, all of which require extraordinary courage and sacrifice.

Now the peasants are bound to the land, and there are administrative instructions on what to plant and how much to plant, and the peasants only have a little land to grow some vegetables for themselves, and it is not possible to sell more if they want to do so, so they can only take advantage of the market to do it secretly.

Zhong Yuemin thought about letting the members raise pigs before, but later found that it didn't work, pigs had to eat grain, the food was not enough, everyone was unwilling to raise it, and the price given by the public purchase station was very low.

Let the members raise chickens and ducks, the policy limits that only a few can be raised, and if they exceed it, it will be the tail of capitalism, and it will be confiscated.