Chapter 11: Natural Disasters + Man-made Disasters

"It's easy for you to say, if I don't please her, where will I get the dowry?

You don't prepare a dowry for me, and when I get married, I will wear two torn clothes, and I will have nothing to do for the rest of my life!"

Wang Meijuan also complained loudly.

Her parents haven't saved a dowry for herself since she was born, if she doesn't make some plans for herself, will it be difficult to turn around and start marrying?

If that's the case, then what face does she have in her in-law's house, and she doesn't have the confidence to speak.

What's more, she still wants to find a good family for herself, so naturally she can save more dowry.

"You...... Where did you learn the feudal superstitious ideas, don't you know that the chairman advocates simplicity in everything and carries forward the spirit of hard work and simplicity?

Even the workers in the city, then they also take an oath, get a certificate and get married!

There is no such thing as a dowry, who did you learn from here?"

Liu Mei's face turned black when she heard this, she couldn't sit still anymore, and stood up directly and accused angrily.

In addition to Wang Meijuan's words and policies that are somewhat inconsistent with the policy, there is also Liu Mei's own weakness.

Back then, she was also humiliated in the few days when she didn't separate her family because she was poor and white.

Having had that experience, how could she not know the importance of dowry to women?

However, now that their family even has a problem with eating, how can they talk about the dowry?

The room where Wang Xin stayed was relatively close to the place where they were talking, and he put his ear against the wall, and he could still listen to it a little closely.

"No matter how you look at it, I think the second sister is a little strange, but looking at what she did, it doesn't seem like she was reborn or traveled from the future to the present. ”

Wang Xin muttered to herself, still not understanding the specific origin of her second sister.

Although I didn't understand the specific origin, but looking at what she did and the depth of her thoughts, she didn't look like an ordinary normal girl in the sixties.

After all, people are famous for their simplicity at this time.

"How not to have a dowry!

Don't persuade me with those special examples!

You just saw that couple got married without asking for anything, why didn't you see that some people still have to turn three times to get married, and some are wedding kettles and wedding bicycles!

Aren't those dowries?

I'm 14 years old this year, and I should have been married at this time in the past, and I won't start preparing until when I will prepare. ”

As Wang Meijuan spoke, she was half-paralyzed on the ground and cried, as if she was grieving the difficulties of her life.

Wang Daniu sat on the edge of the table, frowned and sighed: "It's because my father has no ability, and he doesn't have the ability to provide you with some good dowry!"

Don't worry, I'll figure it out.

However, Xue Wang's family should not go again in the future, our two families have already torn their faces.

You don't want to see your second aunt come over all day to make trouble!"

"Hmm!"

……

Wang Xin didn't listen to all their conversations and fell asleep groggily.

He has to go up to the mountains every day to find wild vegetables, pick fruits, and collect firewood by the way.

When people are tired, it is naturally easier to fall asleep.

Therefore, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and fall asleep after listening to it, naturally he didn't hear the final ending, and he didn't know what the result they discussed in the end.

However, because this matter has nothing to do with him in essence, he didn't think to delve into anything the next day, and after eating the porridge with rare wild vegetables in the morning, he happily carried a small bamboo basket up the mountain.

This time he didn't follow Wang Tiezhu.

Wang Xin also wanted to sneak a variety of sweet potato seedlings on the way, so it was naturally safer to walk alone and less likely to be exposed.

Walking and stopping along the way, occasionally seeing a place on the side that is not very conspicuous, I dig a pit and plant the sweet potato seedlings.

As for how to plant sweet potato seedlings, this is described in the details at the bottom of the purchase page.

Otherwise, Wang Xin wouldn't either.

When planting, Wang Xinshun also gave some fertilizer.

Sweet potato seedlings have been bought, and then buying a bag of fertilizer is nothing, even if there is not much fertilizer, then how should it be able to increase the yield of so much.

Half a month later, the three small peaks on the edge of Wangjia Village, all the slightly hidden corners were planted with sweet potato seedlings by Wang Xin.

Although some of them were ruined, most of them were planted, and even if the survival rate was not 100 percent, there should still be 60 or 70 percent.

In this way, the harvest after looking back and maturing is definitely not small, and it is enough for the big guys to last for a week.

At this time, the bad effects caused by the summer harvest and release of satellites can no longer be concealed.

Wangjia Village is not bad here, after all, the grain output they reported at that time was already the lowest one, but there were still a few catties of grain left per acre, and they barely survived until now, only a few people were hungry and a little swollen.

However, those who reported 8,000 catties or 20,000 catties, not to mention the grain harvested in the summer, even if all the grain stored in the village canteen was emptied, and even the grain stolen in the villagers' homes was scavenged, which was not enough to pay the grain tax.

In this way, it is no wonder that the situation in those villages can be better.

As far as Wang Xin knows, or the gossip he hears running around, there have been many starving people in the surrounding villages.

More than a dozen of them have starved to death in one of the most heard villages, and there are still dozens of others who are hungry and swollen, and it is estimated that they will not last long.

Such a bad situation is not just due to the release of satellites, to be precise, it is not caused by a single policy mistake, but because of the superposition of several policies.

Of course, it is mainly because of the two policies of putting satellites and large canteens.

First of all, the president of the People's Commune, after listening to the instructions from above, began to hint at the captains of the villages below to overreport the data for the sake of political performance.

Then some people who have no brains, or in order to keep their position as captains, desperately put the data up, and really realize how bold people are and how productive they are.

It's a pity that this is not an actual production, but a bragging production.

But I don't want to think about it, don't you need to pay taxes proportionally?

In this way, there is naturally not much food to speak of, and even have to be owed.

There is also a large cafeteria.

It can't be said that the original intention of this policy was bad, but it ignores the overall knowledge level of the big guys.

At this time, it has only been a long time since literacy has been eradicated, and some village cadres do not know a few words, let alone things such as calculation and co-ordination.

If there is not enough food to eat and waste, then it is necessary to have a plan and overall planning to keep everyone eating and drinking.

However, most villages do not have a sense of co-ordination.

In the end, there was a situation where the big white steamed buns and big white rice were eaten every day in the previous month, and they were thrown away and poured when they couldn't finish eating.

In the next few months, I first ate multigrain cakes and multigrain rice, and finally I didn't even have corn paste to drink.