Chapter 17 Cunning

Wang Jicai won a bet and was stunned by a donkey cart full of watermelons, and the donkey cart watermelons were realized before and after earning more than 260 yuan.

The happy Wang Jicai danced and laughed out loud in his dreams.

He is going to wait for the day when the mule and horse market in Wild Grass Township will open, so he will go to the donkey market to choose a female donkey, buy a female donkey and come back to raise livestock in the future, so that the female donkey will give birth to a horse every year, and then replace the female donkey with a mare, from a donkey to a horse, and then to a horse and a horse, so that it will not take long to become a local 10,000 yuan household.

Wang Jicai is a strange person in the local area, and this person has two major skills. One of the great tricks is to see the weight of the cargo at a glance, so that all the weighing equipment is instantly eclipsed.

Another great stunt is mental arithmetic, which surpasses all abacus and pen calculations, leaving all those who hold abacus and pen calculations in the dust.

According to the locals, Wang Jicai has a pair of eagle eyes and an extremely intelligent head. No matter how many goods are piled up on the ground, whether the goods are cotton or ironware, potatoes or corn, Wang Jicai only needs to look at it, and the weight of this pile of goods can be judged immediately, and the error is only about one kilogram.

This made those who held the scales instantly amazed!

This large pile of goods is weighed in batches, and there are high and low heads, and the total up and down errors are beyond the error range of Wang Jicai's judgment at a glance.

And if you calculate the accounts, the more complex calculations, others take abacus or pen calculations, but they can't compare to Wang Jicai's mental calculations fast and accurate.

Wang Jicai's head is more than half of his head, and the top of the melon has not a single hair off, and it is as smooth as a dark yellow dry gourd.

People say it's caused by overuse of the brain.

People say that Wang Jicai's head never rests, and it rotates 24 hours a day, even when he sleeps and dreams, he calculates, and he dreams of calculation, and after a long time, the hair on his head is burned, and the hair roots are withered.

Because people always compare his head with a computer, thinking that even the computer has to rotate for a few hours to let it rest, if it rotates continuously, it won't take long for it to smoke, let alone a human head?

So the locals came to the conclusion that Wang Jicai's brain melon top turned into a yellow gourd scoop because his head was burned without rest.

And Wang Jicai didn't think about it here, he just felt that people have hair on their heads, whether it is black, white, yellow or black, white and yellow miscellaneous hair, there is always hair, just like a head. Like he doesn't even have half a hair on the top of his brain, how can he look at it, how does it not look like a head, if he covers his eyebrows and eyes, ten people look at it, and ten people think it is a yellow gourd.

And Wang Jicai is a person with strong self-esteem, so he pays special attention to the small part of the hair on his head.

He kept the little half of his hair long, trying to make them extend to the top of the other half's bare head and cover the bare spot. But that strand of hair always deviated from his wishes, and fell out if he was not careful.

Maybe I can't complain about the strand of hair, because the top of the brain melon is too smooth, and it doesn't stay on it for long, so it slides down, but it covers the eyes.

But he still persevered and pulled up the long strand of hair that had slipped down with his hands.

So often holding his hand around that long strand of hair has become his habitual action. In private, if someone jokingly imitates Wang Jicai, the first thing is to stretch out five fingers to the top of the head and pull the strand of hair.

But these trivial actions did not affect his outstanding accounting skills in the slightest. And Wang Jicai's two extraordinary skills were refined when he was the accountant of the production team in the era of big pot rice.

It was an ......era that people will never forget, and it will be recorded with poverty and hunger.

At that time, Wang Jicai used to be the accountant of the production team, and the abacus beads in his hand determined the life and fate of every family, every household, and every family.

The village implements a distribution policy of "more work, less work, and no work". And at the end of the year, whether you work more or less is all in the accountant's sentence.

Because everyone's labor records are divided into work systems, this work division ledger is in the hands of one accountant.

At the beginning of each year, each person is graded according to his or her ability to work, and is assessed on a ten-point scale. The highest score for strong labor is 10 points, the worse score is 9 points, and the worse ones are reduced in turn.

If the score of ten points becomes full labor, and the score of five points is half labor, that is, the full labor of one day of labor is recorded according to ten points, and the half labor is recorded according to five points, and then calculated according to three hundred and sixty-five days of a year, which is called the bottom score of each person's labor in the production team. It is also the basis for the calculation of each person's year-end settlement to receive rations.

If you can't do so many base points in a year, not only can you not settle the distribution of wages according to the actual amount of work done, but on the contrary, you will have to deduct it. But each of these laborers has no right to keep accounts by himself, and is recorded in the collective books.

At that time, the education level of the people in the village was generally low, and the proportion of illiteracy was very large, and the illiteracy was increasing dramatically. This is due to a number of reasons: First, because the peasant families are poor and cannot afford to pay the school fees, and the children cannot afford to go to school; on the other hand, because of the management of the rural division of labor, there is no labor force in the family to work in the fields, and they will not be able to receive food rations at the end of the year, and the whole family will have to go hungry in the coming year, so most of the children do not go to school at a young age, and go home to work as laborers and crawl in the fields to work.

Child labor is prohibited under the current national labour law. But at that time, child labor, farming, cattle herding, and sheep herding were the norm. Because if you don't do this, you won't be able to get food back, and the whole family will have to drink the northwest wind.

On the other hand, there is a trend of thought in the rural areas that is also influencing people's spiritual pursuits, that is, the poor and middle peasants are the most glorious and the greatest! The more uneducated and illiterate they are, the more revolutionary they are, the better their thinking is, and the more glorious they are.

Therefore, people are often proud of being old and uneducated. Everyone is happy to think of themselves as big bosses. In the village, there are often meetings of rural members, and the illiterate poor and middle peasants are allowed to give speeches. Because the poor middle peasants lived in poverty in the old society, and they were basically illiterate when they could not afford to go to school, this speech of the poor middle peasants was in fact an illiterate speech. One mouth is a foreign appearance.

On one occasion, the Weeds Commune (called the "Commune" at that time) organized a meeting of all the members of the Commune to listen to the representatives of the poor and middle peasants to talk about advanced deeds.

All the schools in the commune were closed, and there were long queues to come to the Weeds Commune to attend meetings and receive education.

At the meeting, it was decided that a representative of the poor middle peasants in Yecao Village, who is also the production captain of Yecao Village, would tell his advanced and exemplary deeds.

The production team leader was invited to the rostrum, and the director of the women's federation of the same village also sat beside the captain as a cadre on the rostrum.

After a while, the director of the Weeds Commune, who presided over the meeting, picked up the microphone and spoke: "Hello everyone! We are holding a meeting of all the members of the Commune today to listen to the representatives of the poor and middle peasants talk about the contrast between the old and the new society, how they love the collective, how they care for the collective, and how they fight against capitalist behavior. The poor and middle peasants are the main force to rely on for our revolution, and they are an example for us to learn from and for the whole society to learn! We will now invite Comrade Guo Donkey, head of the production team of the Weeds Brigade of the Weeds Commune, to give you a speech, and everyone applauds and welcomes you!"

The members of the commune and the students of the school sat in the whole hall and applauded warmly.

After a burst of thunderous applause, everyone fell silent and began to listen to the speech of this poor middle peasant representative with bated breath.

This representative of the poor middle peasants took the microphone wrapped in red cloth, blew it twice according to the microphone, and then spoke:

"Hello everyone, comrades! I'm a big boss, I'm a ...... Bigger and thicker! bigger than the average person...... Coarser than average...... How do you say that?...... Anyway, the men in the whole Wild Grass Village are not as big as me, not as thick as me. I am the biggest, thickest of the ...... How big and thick is it?......" He turned to look at the women's director sitting next to him and said, "You ask her, the women's director of our village, she knows best." The audience in the audience "coaxed" and climbed down with laughter, and the whole venue was like a pot, laughing "chirping", and people leaned forward and backwards!

At this time, the director of the commune hurriedly snatched the microphone from the face of the poor middle peasant Guo Donkey and said:

"Comrades, everyone be quiet, this ...... of Comrade Guo Donkey is 'big and thick'...... Let's put it this way, the concept of 'big and thick' has a very wide extension and rich connotation, he doesn't necessarily refer to certain aspects, he means to say that he has no culture and can't speak, so he uses 'big and thick' as a metaphor, this 'big and thick' has no other meaning, everyone understands it correctly.

…… Uneducated, coarse and coarse, this is precisely the revolutionary nature of our poor and middle peasants, and we must learn from their simple revolutionary spirit. They were uneducated because they were oppressed by the landlords and rich peasants in the old society and had no money to study, so they became illiterate and coarse. Although they are not educated, their souls are much cleaner, much nobler, and much greater than those of the bourgeois literati!" Then there was another round of applause.

The speech of the director of the commune made everyone feel that the poor middle peasants were not only not backward, but more glorious and greater. The literate are all bourgeois literati, and their souls are not clean. Thus guiding generation after generation of pursuit and yearning for the big and rough. Especially in the later period, the young intellectuals in the cities had to go to the countryside to learn from the illiterate poor and middle peasants, take root in the countryside for a lifetime, study for a lifetime, and those with a little culture gradually degenerated into illiteracy, and those who were uneducated no longer pursued the culture they aspired to.

On the other hand, there is discrimination and exclusion of educated people, and they are unable to eat, and in rural societies where education is generally low, some educated people are either not good at what they are, or they have problems with labor control in the rural areas. So every time the movement comes, these people are the objects of struggle.

People can't see the future of culture, but only the bad luck that culture brings to people's lives and fate. As a result, rural culture is declining and illiteracy is increasing.

As a result, most people in the village are basically unable to calculate their accounts, and they can't even calculate how much work they do in a year.

On the other hand, even if there are a few that can be calculated, it is impossible to go to the production team accountant every day to check the number of work, because there are too many people in the village, and it is strange that the accountant is not crazy every day!

Besides, when ordinary people work all day and are exhausted by night, how can they have the energy to go to the production team to check the work scores?

There is another aspect, that is, if you occasionally check with the accountant once or half a time, it is reasonable, if the number of checks is too much, the accountant will hate you!

In this way, the accountant is offended. If you offend the accountant, unless you don't live in this village anymore, the whole family will suffer.