It hadn't been two days since Zhong Yuemin and his people built a wall on the silt dam in Ishikawa Village that everyone's attention was attracted by another thing.

On this day, the villagers gathered at the village committee headquarters, and Zhang Jinsuo, who was holding an abacus account book, became the focus of everyone, and it was also the time of the year when he attracted the most attention.

There are five production teams in the whole team, and the captain of each production team goes to Zhang Jinsuo to check the accounts.

In other places, it may be more troublesome to check the accounts, but in Ishikawa Village, it is very simple, there is only one item, counting the money for the sale of grain, and removing the arrears of previous years, and deriving the income of each production team this year.

Ishikawa Village has almost not been able to hand over the public grain every year in these years, and even has to apply for relief grain every year, so the branch secretary Changgui is not very well received in the commune, and every time he has a meeting, he smokes in the corner.

But this year is different, Ishikawa Village has historically paid the full amount of public grain, and also replaced part of the loan, and Changgui was commended in the commune, and he stopped at the meeting.

Chang Gui was sitting at the door of the village committee with a red face at this time, he looked at Zhong Yuemin with some gratitude, and knew in his heart that this year's Shichuan Village could get such a bumper harvest, which really relied on the silt dam built by Zhong Yuemin and others.

This year, the grain harvested in the dam area accounts for half of the village's harvest, but the land in the dam area is only one-tenth of the village's land. Moreover, it does not take much manpower, and there is no drought problem.

It is precisely because of this that he didn't ask much about Zhong Yuemin leading people to toss in the field a few days ago.

Chang Gui also believed that Zhong Yuemin was a reliable person, so he wanted to wait to see if Zhong Yuemin could come up with any new tricks.

Zhong Yuemin couldn't care so much, he sat next to Zhang Jinsuo and watched him settle accounts.

This year's harvest of the fifth production team must be considered good, everyone knows this, but this grain is not something you can divide after you harvest it and take it home to eat.

Instead, it should be handed over to the production brigade, which will uniformly hand over the public grain, and after deducting the rations of the whole village, the surplus grain will be purchased by the state.

Theoretically, each production team will receive the rations of all the members and the money for selling grain, but the matter is bad on this one, and the fifth production team owes the brigade more than 1,000 yuan in previous years, which is to be repaid.

Zhang Jinsuo crackled and paid off the debt, Zhong Yuemin received more than 40,000 catties of grain and more than 200 yuan.

Zhong Yuemin was dumbfounded, what the hell is this enough for? The whole team of 100 people has been busy for a year, and they have earned such a little money.

The four teams of horses and pillars also received more than 40,000 catties of grain and more than 100 yuan. He looked at the account in Zhong Yuemin's hand and smiled: "I thought that your team had changed the captain, how capable you were this year, and it turned out to be so much more money!

Zhong Yuemin was a little depressed and didn't bother to take care of him.

Chang Gui saw that Zhong Yuemin's face was not good, so he called him over.

"Yuemin, your team's harvest this year is really good, but the foundation is poor, but fortunately, you have paid off your debts, and it will be fine next year!"

"Secretary, I know all this. Zhong Yuemin frowned, "We have worked hard for a year, at most it is more than a thousand yuan now, and we will spread it down, and each person will share more than one dollar, what is this enough for?"

"This can't be helped, national construction needs food, we farmers need support, don't complain so much. Chang Gui didn't expect Zhong Yuemin to say this, took a puff of cigarette, and said dryly.

Zhong Yuemin didn't expect Chang Gui to say anything, but he was too depressed to say a few words.

He knows where the problem is, and he knows how to solve it later, but what's the use, the general trend is not something that can be changed by one person.

The members of the fifth team are all standing in the courtyard, rolling up their sleeves, breathing white mist, giggling and bragging, whether to look at the door and wait for the account to be settled.

These faces are familiar to every Zhong Yuemin, such as Dog Baby, Spring Flower, Bolt Pillar, Heizi, Ergou, Big Tongue······

On the silt dam and in the fields, day and night, cold and hot, everyone worked hard together, just to harvest more grain, eat enough, and buy some cloth and food for the mother-in-law and the baby.

Zhong Yuemin felt that his steps were particularly heavy, and he didn't know how to face these members who were full of expectations.

"Captain, how much food can we get this year?" Seeing Zhong Yuemin coming over, the members of the club all gathered around, and the dog baby couldn't help but ask.

Zhong Yuemin smiled reluctantly, "It's okay, let's pay off all the debts, as for the balance, ······"

Seeing Zhong Yuemin hesitating, the anxious Heizi hurriedly asked, "No balance?"

"There is no balance?!", the members gathered in the back did not hear clearly, thinking that there was no food balance this year, and fried the pot at once.

"No, we have paid so much food, how can we have no surplus?" Chunhua shouted.

Zhong Yuemin saw that everyone had heard the difference, so he hurriedly danced the account book in his hand and shouted: "There is a balance, we have a balance of 42,615 catties of grain this year, and another 230 yuan." ”

After shouting three or four times in a row, everyone heard it clearly, and they all became happy all of a sudden, saying that they didn't expect so much grain to be left over this year.

The old man in the team said happily: "We had more than 10,000 catties of food in the team last year, and there was no money, and we still owed a lot.

"Yes, yes, thanks to Captain Zhong this year, every family won't be hungry!"

Zhong Yuemin looked at these happy members, a little moved and a little sad, these are the hardest working people in the world, they should have been rewarded more, but now they are so happy because they don't have to starve.

They are so easily satisfied, but Zhong Yuemin wants them to get more, eat better, dress better, and get what they have won.

Zhong Yuemin arranged for Zheng Tong to share dividends with the members, and he returned to the cave early.

Ishikawa Village's production method is too simple, and the main income is to grow food, and the members have almost no additional source of income.

Zhong Yuemin used to take it for granted that it was because of the system, but after more than a year of cutting in line, he found that the root cause was that the local natural environment was too poor.

The land is barren and prone to natural disasters, and most of the time the peasants struggle with droughts, flash floods, and sandstorms for a small harvest, and they run out of energy.

Frequent disasters and poor harvests make it easy for farmers to fall into poverty, and once they fall into poverty, it is even more difficult to resist risks, and they have no capital to develop side businesses.

The construction of silt dams and the return of farmland to forests have partially solved the land and irrigation problems, and also made the members no longer go hungry, but how can they live a better life?

Zhong Yuemin sat in the dark cave and thought quietly.