[416] Life

"yes, why can't I try to be a tractor driver? If you want to be able to drive that iron lion, what a beautiful scenery. But if that's the case, what will happen to the pillar in the future? What about the land at home? ”

Although Fu Yuncui didn't say anything in his mouth, his heart was like a cat scratching, itchy and tight.

Yes, in the literacy class, how is she Fuyuncui worse than Li Xiuying? If it weren't for the fact that there were children at home, Fu Yuncui felt that he could work hard like Li Xiuying in three shifts a day, and he insisted on staying on the construction site until eleven or twelve o'clock before returning to the village.

Speaking of Li Xiuying, when she came to the Zhihuai Headquarters, it happened that Xiaoqiang had just gotten off the plane and arrived by car.

After listening to the introduction of the local comrades, Xiaoqiang hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with Li Xiuying. He carefully looked at the peasant girl in front of him, this was the first time since he came to this era that he had close contact with the working people at the bottom of Chinese society.

I saw that Li Xiuying's skin was a little dark, soaked in sweat, it was the kind of healthy bronz, she was wearing a single gown of gray homespun cloth, the fabric was probably a long time ago, and the patches on it were stacked with patches, and they still couldn't cover the tattered and old, put it in 2011, this kind of cloth was too dirty and rotten to make a rag, her nails were black, with mud and sand, and her pants were cropped pants, which were also covered with patches, looking at the degree of tatters, I don't know how old I started to wear them. He wore a pair of straw sandals, revealing a pair of sturdy feet, with bone joints and blue veins protruding from them, and the upper half of the thumb of his left foot was torn open and turned out bright red flesh. But she didn't seem to feel any pain herself.

"You have worked hard, Comrade Li Xiuying!" Xiao Qiangyi grasped her hand.

As soon as Li Xiuying saw Xiao Qiang, an intellectual with a white face, she immediately had a sense of admiration for scholars unique to Chinese peasants. She panicked and said in a loud voice: "It's not hard, it's not hard...... There is a division of work...... Not hard ......."

Xiao Qiang held her hand and felt the girl's fingers covered with the kind of crumbling skin that had dried and faded after the calluses had been soaked and soaked. He praised with mixed feelings: "It is appropriate to take the work points, but not everyone can play the leading role of the backbone of the model worker, and a person can become a model worker, which shows that he is an excellent worker in essence." ”

Qian Zhengying said with a smile on the side: "This time, we plan to promote grassroots model workers as an example and arrange them to more Jishu positions." ”

Xiaoqiang agreed: "It's good to do this!" The treatment of Jishu posts is better than that of ordinary jobs at the grassroots level, and model workers can set an example in addition to their work, and they should also be treated as role models! With the exemplary role of model workers, everyone will compete to be model workers in the future, which is very good.

Moreover, the jishu position is relatively more important, and it is more reassuring to let the model worker do it. ”

Qian Zhengying said with a smile: "So we are going to let Li Xiuying be the deputy captain of the women's tractor transport team, and their instructor will temporarily serve as the captain." ”

Lee so-young was stunned? "Vice-captain? Officer? No, no, no, I can't, I'm uneducated, I can't be an official. ”

Xiao Qiang let go of his grip on Li Xiuying's hand and said: "What kind of official or not, he is a person who takes the lead in work, you are diligent, comrades will learn from you diligently, if you do a good job, comrades will learn from you." ”

Li Xiuying looked at Xiaoqiang with admiration and said, "Ao, that's the case, report to the chief, I must be diligent!" I want to be a tractor driver! Dream it! I'm certainly not lazy! ”

Xiaoqiang smiled: "Don't get excited, it's not difficult to drive a tractor, a model worker like you, in the future, you have to learn how to use rice transplanters, harvesters, rotary cultivators, to become agricultural machinery experts, in the future, China's rural areas, will gradually increase the proportion of mechanized farming, the road is long." ”

Qian Zhengying said with a smile: "As long as the central government supports me and gives me as many machines as I want, I can train operators." ”

Xiaoqiang said: "Of course the central government will support you, the systematic control project has just begun, and there will be a tough battle behind it, how can you do it if you don't give you the most haode guarantee."

Before I came, the prime minister said that this anti-disaster prevention campaign is a major battle to successfully protect people's lives and property. Therefore, the prime minister specifically proposed that all the migrant workers who participated in the conference battle and successfully defended the Huai River embankment and the newly built dam can choose to exchange for money in kind! The discount ratio of centimeters to physical goods is one to two! ”

"What!" Qian Zhengying exclaimed. Of course, she didn't hear clearly, but when she heard such a ratio, she couldn't help but exclaim.

Xiaoqiang looked at the tattered straw sandals on Li Xiuying's feet with pity, and added on his own: "In addition, each person will be given another pair of canvas rubber-soled labor shoes, and every month in the future, the full-duty migrant workers will be given a pair to each person."

Qian Zhengying's joy overflowed: "It's really good! Many of our migrant workers are wearing straw sandals, and everyone is reluctant to wear the cloth shoes at home to work, and even if there are those who wear cloth shoes, they all choose the most tattered ones to wear, because of this, there are many people who have injured their feet in labor.

Li Xiuying said stupidly: "The country gives shoes? Canvas galoshes? Is it the kind that the PLA wears? That's cloth rubber shoes, a pair costs two pieces of six! ”

Xiaoqiang nodded and said firmly: "Everyone will send it, every month, in the future, everyone must wear that kind of shoes to the construction site, and also send socks, right!" Socks were also issued. ”

Although Xiaoqiang replenished his shoes and socks, Qian Zhengying did not doubt that this was the Prime Minister's instruction, and she complained bluntly: "The comrades who sent the telegram really saved money, and only said that they would exchange the equivalent in kind according to the preferential ratio, but they did not say that there was such a preferential ratio as one to two, nor did they mention that there were shoes and socks, I would have known that the day before yesterday was to cheer everyone up on the dam, and the amount of work in the past few days must have doubled and risen." ”

Li Xiuying saw that Xiaoqiang had no leader, and Qian Zhengying was also an easy-going eldest sister, so she mustered up her courage and asked timidly: "Then I work three shifts a day, four centimeters in the morning and afternoon, and three centimeters in the evening, a total of eleven points a day, can I fold two cents and two?" ”

Qian Zhengying said bluntly: "Yes, Li Xiuying, you haven't rested for a day every month, and after calculation, a month's centimeters can be exchanged for six yuan and six physical objects."

Hey, Comrade Xiaoqiang, what's in the real thing? ”

Xiaoqiang replied: "Shovels, hoes, sickles, scissors, needles and threads, galoshes, cloth, soap." That's probably it, and more types will be added in the future. There are a lot of fabrics in it, including nylon cloth, polyester cloth, acrylic cloth and cotton cloth in various colors and colors. ”

Qian Zhengying said kindly: "Xiuying, you go back and change a few feet of good-looking nylon cloth, pull a new top, I have seen that cloth, but it is strong, and it is more affordable than cotton." ”

After that, she seemed to think that what she said was inappropriate, and explained, "I don't mean that your clothes are torn, I mean that the fabric is really good...... Oh, you see, I can't speak. I'm sorry. ”

"Sister Qian, I know you want to help me, I will tell my father when I go back, change some "Golden Wheel" cloth. ”

Li Xiuying held the corner of her clothes in her hand, and continued to explain with some inferiority: "This gown is the most worn one of me, and my father said that croppers always pick up the most worn ones when they work." In fact, I have a haode single cloth gown, and I am reluctant to wear it when I leave home. "After all, it's like being misunderstood as being cautious, and it's a little unwilling.

Xiao Qiang smiled at her and nodded.

Next, Li Xiuying began to fill out the personal information form for tractor training at the gatehouse of the courtyard occupied by the Zhihuai Headquarters, and Xiaoqiang went to the office conference room on the south side of the courtyard with Qian Zhengying and other engineers to discuss the construction process of the subsequent projects.

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When the news of the exchange spread, the people in the ten miles and eight towns along the Huai River were shaken.

The centimeter score of migrant workers is not high, even if they work three shifts in the morning, noon and evening in a day, it is only more than three yuan a month. However, for those peasants in the impoverished areas along the Huai River with an annual income of 27 yuan per capita, if they can work for eight or nine months, their income will be doubled.

What's more, the annual income of 27 yuan is basically the price of the peasants' annual rations, that is, they basically can't see the money all year round.

Besides, in order to respond to the chairman's call and govern Huai for the benefit of the local area, everyone is also rushing to do this work, and many migrant workers attach great importance to the two open and full pot meals, and the night shift also has a full supper, which is like pie in the sky for many people who have a lot of food at home and can't eat enough all year round.

In the past, everyone's strong laborers wanted to work more in their own fields, serve their crops well, and collect more grain to sell for money after paying the public grain. But now, the old and experienced farmers have calculated carefully, it is better to let the strongest laborers go to the construction site, so that they can make a lot of money, and make a lot of money.

After a few months of work, the state told the migrant workers that not only centimeters of money, but also centimeters of privileges given by the state, can be exchanged for those sought-after goods on the market at half price, and the villagers are now fried. Even if you change the goods and sell them on the market, it is much more cost-effective than directly exchanging labor into money!

China's peasants have always been careful in their calculations, and at present, the benefits of this two-to-two method have greatly exceeded that of farming, so many peasants simply proposed that only one or two women and children can take care of the land at home, and the rest of the labor force can be used on the construction site.

Xiaoqiang asked the committee to directly veto these proposals.

The project construction headquarters posted a large-character stipulation that after all the previous work divisions are settled, the quota allocation of migrant workers will first take care of those farmers whose families send all school-age children to school! This is followed by military households, and then by the backbone of labor who have performed well in previous projects. Farmers who have school-age children at home and do not send them to study are not recruited for work.

In Xiaoqiang Jihua, once these migrant workers have built water conservancy for several years and have construction experience, they can train a construction team, which is a large number of construction liliang.

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Fu Yuncui's father-in-law, Wang Ansheng, sat on the stone grinding plate at the door of his house, took a puff of dry smoke, and frowned: "Yuncui, the pillar must be sent to school, this is also explained by Hong You, but he is a soldier outside, and the pillar goes to school, and you don't farm the land, so you can't always let me and your mother-in-law and your sister-in-law help you plant that land, right?" ”

Fu Yuncui hurriedly said: "I don't mean that, I mean, the harvest in my family's four acres of thin land is only 800 catties a year, but if you can become a tractor driver, you can learn a craft, and the centimeters of a day are more than half of the general labor, even in the morning and afternoon, it is 12 centimeters, which is one more than one more than three shifts a day!" This money is earned, won't it be our pillar's wife in the future? I heard Xiuying say that after learning to drive a tractor, she can work everywhere, and she can learn to drive a car in the future! Higher work points! Perhaps, it can also be converted into a hukou and become a construction worker. ”

Wang Ansheng nodded and said, "If that's the case, of course it's a great blessing."

But you're a woman, can you learn to drive that tractor? I think it's a bunch of big men driving. If you can't learn, then won't you be blind during this one-month training period?

Right now, you have finally been retained by the engineering headquarters to participate in the second phase of the project, which is a month that can exchange nearly five yuan for good goods! Shoes and socks are also issued! A good pair of shoes a month! The rubber shoes you wear on your feet are a pair of two pieces of six! Your father-in-law and I have never worn it in my life!

Before, our family changed the hoe and shovel, and also changed a lot of foreign cloth soap, and also changed a flower cloth for you to make a jacket in the future, what a haode thing! Every month you work for the next month, it's a pair of new shoes for two dollars and six! After four months of work, Zhuzi, your mother-in-law, and I all have good shoes to wear. If you don't do the money-making work in front of you, you go to learn a tractor for a month, and if you don't learn it, you may come back and even get rid of the sand digging seat. At the moment, many mothers-in-law and aunts in many families are red-eyed! The only thing a woman can do on the construction site is the sand digging job, and a woman can only be regarded as half a job when she does other work! Half the work! The construction site still refuses to ask for it!

Besides, I think this project is about to be completed, why do you need to drive a tractor at that time, and it's a female tractor, so you won't have to come back to farm at that time. ”

Fu Yuncui bit her lip and said nothing.

But she was really unwilling, she heard Li Xiuying say that the leaders from the central government said that once the electricity is sufficient in the future, the work of digging sand can be handed over to the machine, so she has no choice but to go home and farm? If you can become a tractor driver like Li Xiuying, it is a job that many men are jealous of, not only with good pay, but also with status. If you can do that job, according to Li Xiuying, are you still worried that you won't have a job in the future?

But she couldn't refute the words of her father-in-law Wang Ansheng, her father-in-law was in charge, and he persuaded her with good words, she was a daughter-in-law, and if she was disobedient, she still wanted to rebel?

"Xiuying, my life is not as good as yours."

Fu Yuncui's heart was cold, she got up and walked to the thatched hut on the side, broke the dry branches one by one with her rough hands, and stuffed them into the stove, and the stove roasted her, but she didn't feel hot at all.

Fu Yuncui, who got married at the age of fifteen, is only 22 this year, if she has a choice, she hopes that she is still an old girl who has not married. Then she can work as a tractor driver with 19-year-old Xiuying...... Female tractor driver!

The clattering sound of folding firewood, like Fu Yuncui's dream, slowly burned into black ash in the stove after breaking.

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