Half a day, one night, two meals and thirty-six tables of flowing water seats, ate two fat pigs of more than 200 catties, four black goats of 50 or 60 catties, and ate other dishes, cigarettes and alcohol, and hundreds of relatives and neighbors who ate and drank to congratulate them were full of red faces, and they were also so tired that they were laughing in their dreams, and this time they made a lot of money.

"You're welcome, Chuanjian is really polite this time. ”

"Hey, I really didn't expect that Li Chuanjian would be so polite after he made a fortune!"

Of course, politely, this flowing water banquet cost more than 12,000 yuan, not counting the pigs, sheep and chickens raised by Aunt Hongying and their own relatives; the congratulatory gifts sent by relatives and neighbors are the same as the last time Li Chuanlin got married.

After breakfast the next day, the brothers of the Li family took the two brothers Li Jiaren and Li Jiayi, who were angry, and sent away a few guests who stayed overnight last night. Of course, they have the spirit, saying that they are washing dishes and chopsticks, but it is Li Jiaming and Mao Tong who can collect the dishes and chopsticks, they are the ones who carry hot water, and they are the ones who finally send the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen.

"Brother, it's 126 pieces of 7 jiao 5 in total."

It may be that the money is too big this time, and even the little sister, who usually has the most confidence in her brother, is a little apprehensive, and looks at Li Jiaming worriedly, for fear that he will say that they have also helped and can share a part of it.

"Hmm"

The funny Li Jiaming tugged at the little sister's pigtails tied by his stepmother, took the book and signed it, and said with concern: "Wenwen, I made so much money this time, have you ever thought about buying anything?"

got the autograph, and the little sister who was worried just now was finally relieved, hugging her brother's neck and whispering: "Sister Gui wants to buy a water (steel) pen, Sister Jin, Sister Man, and me, I want to buy skates like Sister Sasha." ”

The pen is not expensive, the skates are not cheap, Liu Shasha for the pair of red roller skates, but the fourth aunt's printing shop for half a year to make enough money, does not rule out the suspicion that the fourth aunt paid a salary in Gaoli.

"Well, your own money, your own way. ”

Li Jiaming talked to his sister, and Li Chuanjian and his wife were also telling their two sons with gifts to go to Grandma's house to see Grandma and Auntie.

"Family benevolence, family righteousness, you have to be sensible when you are admitted to university. My mother and uncle have said some bad things before, but those are because our family is too poor and they are also poor, and we can't pay off the accounts we owe others, you know?"

The two brothers, who only go to their grandmother's house every year, hesitated for a while, but still reluctantly said: "Well, I know."

"Come back after two or three days, and go to the store to help with chores. In the past, Jiaming said that he would let you earn living expenses, but it was for your own good, do you know?"

The two brothers, who were still excited about receiving the admission letter, were a little unhappy, and they had promised Jiaming the condition that there was no money in the house to send it. Now there is no shortage of money in the house, and you have to go to work to earn living expenses?

What the son doesn't understand, when he is a father, he will mention it more, and Li Chuanjian, who is also still excited, said patiently: "Da Yan, Erling, you are not stupid." You have been studying in the school since you were a child, and you have not even done any housework, and you have come to the store to help with chores, just to let you get in touch with society and learn how to deal with people. ”

"After graduating from college, you will definitely enter the agency. If you don't know how to deal with all kinds of people, if you can't understand what people are saying, and if you can't speak well, what are you going to do to get ahead?"

Yu Fang next to her is also much richer and whiter than before, dressed decently, and has a bit of the charm of the year, but her hair is a little gray.

"You're right, see for yourself, in the past two days, Jiaming has been intimate with his relatives and elders, and his words are decent, but you only know how to laugh. Learn from Ye Ye well, endure hardships for a few years, learn to behave in the world, and work in the future without suffering!

Besides, what's the shame of helping your own shop? When you classmates see it, won't you envy our family for having the money to open a store?"

The parents were serious, and they witnessed the little cousin's decent entertainment, and the two brothers, who were not stupid, suddenly realized that they agreed in a loud voice: "I know, we will stay for two days and come back." ”

"Well, go to the second aunt and the third aunt to borrow a motorcycle. The scooter is lightweight, and you may not be used to riding men's motorcycles. ”

"Hey".

The two brothers went to their aunt to borrow a scooter and took the gifts prepared by their parents to chase after several maternal uncles and aunts who were riding bicycles far away.

Sent away two sons who had won glory, and Li Chuanjian, who had been exhausted in the past few days, regained his spirit and went to entertain the cadres who came to the township to offer condolences. Last time, Tonggu suffered a flood, and the relief grain from above has not been pulled out, but this year's public grain has been exempted by the higher-level government. In previous years, such a good thing was not the turn of the Li family, I remember that more than ten years ago, it was also a big flood, and the whole village was exempted from public food, and the Li family and a few families with small surnames had to pay, which was a good thing brought by college students.

It is difficult to understand the significance of college students of that era to a rural family. Rural people live on the land, and the public grain, the three co-ordination and the five Tiliu all count on those few acres of thin fields, and they are tired and tired all year round, and they can only eat bowls of white rice during the New Year's holidays.

It is different if there is a college student in the family, not to mention that he can eat a dime and eight cents of national rations, and his own ration fields, mountains and forests do not need to be returned to the village, which is equivalent to adding hundreds of catties of rations to the family a year!

This is only a matter of grain, and there are also some cutting targets and relief grain distribution controlled by township cadres, and there will also be some tendencies. The people in the mountains are no more than the plains, and the grain grown in the fields is not enough to make a living, so you have to cut timber from the mountains to sell it for money, and then go to the grain station to buy and sell back the grain, and the cutting index is the legal certificate that allows you to cut it. Without that, the timber you cut down would not have been able to enter the market at all, and even if it was just carried down from the mountain, it would be confiscated by the forestry station and the forest police.

In an era when the legal system is not perfect and there is no supervision of power, can you expect those village cadres to act fairly? Isn't it that the township withholds a part, and the village retains another part, and then divides it according to the number of people? As for the indicators that are intercepted, they will all go into the black market and circulate, and they will either be sold to the needy villagers at a high price, or they will become tools in the hands of those timber dealers, and they will be used to buy the unmarked timber in the hands of the mountain people at a low price. In some places where it has gone too far, those lonely old people or families who are not prosperous and honest, and even have less than a few cubic meters of cutting targets all year round, when they go to the countryside and villages to ask, the answer is two words: 'no'!

It doesn't matter if there are village cadres among the township cadres, but the village cadres will definitely be restrained, afraid that people will retaliate against themselves when the feng shui turns in the future. Let's not talk about whether people can become officials in the future and take off your little hat, even if people are no longer productive, being a lifelong teacher, you can be stuck in the children and grandchildren's reading in the future!

The Li family in Huangniping is an outsider and not prosperous, so it is common for them to be bullied by local surnames, village cadres, and township cadres. Not to mention the recent ones, the Li family has seven strong men, and it will not be too much to do things in the village. If the Li family had seven strong and tough brothers at that time, and there were two college students in the family, the four men and two women of the Li family would not have been forced to repair the reservoir, and in the end, all of them were washed away by the flood, and even the bones could not be recovered!