Wang Jicai has two treasures in his hands all the year round: one is an abacus and the other is a scale.

Every day, the abacus beads make a "squeak" sound, and the scales swing "squeak".

Every day, people carry hoes and rakes and pass by the door of the production team's office, and they can hear the sound of Wang Jicai's beads in the distance. He calculated the amount of work, the rations, the dividends and remuneration of each family, the amount of seeds to be planted in the spring and the amount of grain to be harvested after the fall, with the precision of an astronomer.

For how many corn seeds are sown in spring and how many corn grains can be beaten in autumn, the error is only about one corn cob.

It is said that "every profession is a character". After a long time, he always carried this abacus with him when he got along with others, but this abacus suddenly turned invisible and hid in his abdomen.

People can't hear the sound of the abacus beads, but they can feel the invisible hand dialing the beads quickly, smartly, crisply, and neatly, and the answer will appear on his face in a moment.

The unpredictable and complex expressions on the shriveled and slender face with abrupt cheekbones often bring some extreme anxiety and confusion to the people of Huangling Village. Therefore, the people in the village gave him the nickname "Iron Abacus".

How many acres of land are there in Huangling Village, how much land are mountainous, how much land are slopes, how much flat land is there, and how much land is on the river beach?

Which land is suitable for growing corn, which land is suitable for growing millet, and which land is suitable for growing beans?

When sowing seeds in spring, how much seed is enough for which piece of ground? How much is the slope underground? How much is the flat ground? How much is the half-slope and half-flat underground? And which piece of land can harvest more grain after autumn, except for the occurrence of major disasters, when the harvest is completed in the autumn, the harvest of each piece of land is only about two catties.

The degree of accuracy of the work has amazed and impressed the cadres and members of Huangling Village.

In this way, year after year, month after month, the cadres of the production team no longer worry about the grain figures for spring planting and autumn harvest, and just listen to Wang Jicai's words.

Since every year in the autumn harvest season, a large pile of grain is harvested and piled up in the ground, and the amount must be calculated by weighing it. The grain was piled up in the ground like a mountain of piles, and people used to gather around to guess the amount of each pile. After everyone has guessed one by one, start to calculate on the scales and see who guesses correctly?

As a result, only Wang Jicai guessed accurately.

Later, whether it was corn cobs broken from the cornfield, or millet and beans piled up in the threshing floor, people were accustomed to letting Wang Jicai see how much there was in the pile, and then weighing it.

People want to witness this superb skill of Wang Jicai.

Often, at this time, people gather around to see the miracle happen.

Wang Jicai walked over and looked around the pile of grain, left and right, and then decisively showed the number he guessed. People then began to weigh baskets and baskets, and when the scales were completed, they were paired with the numbers he had visually measured in advance, and the error was only about two catties.

And sometimes it can be accurate to a pound. People couldn't help but exclaim in unison!

Later, when people encounter inconvenience with scales or too many quantities, and when the scales are too troublesome, let Wang Jicai take a look, and then put the quantity measured by Wang Jicai into the account.

In this way, day after day, month after month, year after year, Wang Jicai's two eyes have become Sun Wukong's "fiery eyes".

Therefore, this time it was a piece of cake for Wang Jicai to bet on the cart of watermelons with the "stunned green" two stunned people in Shilianzi Village. It's just that these two stunned people don't know, but the people who know see Wang Jicai present, and no one dares to give a reminder to the man in this stone mill village for the sake of face.

Because as soon as this king counts his wealth, it is clear that the weasel is not happy to pay New Year's greetings to the chickens, he is sincere in calculating the cart of watermelons of the man in Shilianzi Village, who dares to block his financial road?

Therefore, the man of this stone mill village is equivalent to a mouse hitting the cat's arms head-on this time, isn't it strange if he is not unlucky?

Wang Jicai's abacus beads made the people of Huangling Village frightened! The people of Huangling Village were sleeping at night and had nightmares, and they were all awakened by the sound of this abacus beads!

Because the sound of the abacus beads determines the result of a year's hard work of each person's blood, sweat and hard work - the number of work.

And the amount of work determines the amount of life food for every household and a family.

And the people of Huangling Village jokingly called the account book in Wang Jicai's hand "the book of life and death".

Because whether everyone in Huangling Village has more or less labor is in that account book. The man recorded in the ledger received more rations than he could, and those who worked less received less.

The labor force of each household is different, and those who have more labor will receive more rations, while those with less labor will receive less, and those who have a large population and few laborers, and those who have the old, weak, sick and disabled in their families can receive even fewer rations.

According to the current laws of our country, every citizen has the obligation to support the elderly and raise their children. In the family-by-family mode of production, where the whole family is equal, the labor force has an obligation to support the elderly and children of the family. Moreover, each family has its own way of life and ways to earn money, and as long as it is not illegal, all income is legal.

However, in the past, it only reflected more work, less work, and no work. The labour force does not have any obligations towards the old, young, sick and disabled population.

Originally, the grain output was very low, but at the end of the year, the grain distribution was calculated by the labor division, and most of the grain was distributed to those who worked a lot, while the families with the old, young, sick and disabled people could get very little grain. Moreover, the mode of production was single, all the peasants were confined to the land, and at that time, a large number of cadres from the commune and county and the countryside were behind the supervision of the villagers who went to the land to work in the fields.

Those people did not step on a single footprint in the field, they just stood on the street of the village all day long, shouting and reprimanding, just like driving cattle and sheep out of the pen, driving the villagers into the fields to work.

Those people do not work during the day, rest all day, and in the evening, they hold a general meeting of the whole village members to teach the truth and train people.

The villagers were exhausted from a day's work, and at night they had to attend a general meeting of the members to listen to the lectures of these rural cadres.

However, these cadres in the countryside are scared to death, but they don't know anything about agriculture, so they come up with random ideas and give blind commands. However, it is not enough for the people in the village to listen to them, because they often plant the wrong seeds in the spring, and if they are delayed, it will be the common people's annual farming time, and if they can't produce grain in the autumn, they will have to go hungry.

And they made a mistake and shook their hands and left, and it was the villagers who suffered. Moreover, these people, who dare to talk back to them? Say a "no" word?

If you really dare to do this once, you will be in a big disaster! Because if you oppose them, you will suffer hardships, and if you criticize them at the general meeting, you will be arrested and brought to justice.

And they sent food to the villagers' homes, and the villagers had to find a way to borrow rice and noodles for them to eat and drink well, otherwise they would offend the king of Hades.

If the villagers have a headache or a cold or a woman has a period, they can't go to work in the fields, and they have to get their approval. If they didn't approve it, they had to crawl to the ground with their sick bodies on their feet. Otherwise, they will be called to the brigade to reprimand, deduct work points, and even be criticized and fighting, which will disturb the peace of the family.

At that time, there was only one way to make a living: that is, to honestly crawl in the ground and deal with the loess, and it was not allowed to do business, and it was not allowed to sell all kinds of agricultural and sideline products, department stores, clothing goods, or engage in any small repairs, small processing, small factories to collect fees for themselves, etc., and they were not allowed to raise livestock at home. Once caught, all of them will be confiscated and paraded through the streets wearing high paper hats, while those will be arrested and sentenced to prison.

Individuals are not allowed to go up the mountain to plow small plots of land without permission, and would rather watch the villagers starve to death than allow the villagers to go up the mountain to dig a small plot of land to plant some grain and vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Therefore, the villagers have other talents and want to earn some money to support their families and subsidize their lives, but they can't use them at all.

As a result, those families with large numbers of people and few laborers, and even those with the elderly, weak, sick and disabled are struggling to die of poverty and hunger.

Some families work outside the home, because there is no labor force at home and they can't make ends meet, so they have to quit their jobs and go home to work as farmers and farm to support their families.

The people of Huangling Village panicked when they heard the sound of the beads of Wang Jicai's abacus, and there were at least two such moments a year: the first time was to settle accounts after the autumn. This autumn settlement will determine the fate of the family in the coming year. It's the most anxious and worrying. Therefore, now people often think that people can't get along with each other and wait for an opportunity to retaliate, which is vividly called "settling accounts after the autumn." "It all comes from that thrilling moment in the countryside every year.

The autumn harvest season every year should be the happiest season for croppers and the most exciting harvest season. They worked hard for a year under the scorching sun, sweat dripping loess, wind and rain, and finally cultivated a golden harvest with fruitful seeds.

They swallowed bran and swallowed vegetables for more than half a year, and finally looked forward to the maturity of the grain and the new grain to eat.

However, for the farmers in Huangling Village, they are full of worries in the face of this golden grain, and the closer they get to the maturity of the grain, the tighter their hearts become.

One of the things they often talk about in private is, "Ahem! I don't know how many are in our mouths when it's our turn!"

As soon as the crops are harvested and knocked down, the distribution of rations begins for each household. That is, the time has come to decide the fate of every family in the coming year. Every household, every sensible person began to wait with trepidation for Wang Jicai to announce the amount of work and grain distribution in their own households.

When they learned of the results of their "verdict" and the family carried the shelled and skinned grain home with a flat basket, the children jumped and danced happily, they were happy, they did not need to be hungry, and they had food to eat at home.

However, the adults frowned and were depressed. Because the gap between this grain and their expectations for a year of hard work and waiting for a year is too great, and the gap between the food they can make ends meet for a year is too great; however, this bit of food is not all their own, and a large part of it is the public grain task to be handed over. Therefore, this is the first time that the people of Huangling Village heard the sound of Wang Jicai's abacus beads and palpitations.

And the impact of the second abacus bead sound on the people of Huangling Village is even more terrifying!