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Lei Dongbao inquired everywhere, and the more he asked, the farther he went, he found that everyone was shouting about the responsibility system, but the steps were big and small, and some were just shouting and not practicing. After visiting for more than ten days, he has a rough idea in his heart.

Lei Mu was not idle, and gave him blind dates everywhere. The day was well prepared for a showdown with his son. Lei Dongbao didn't object, and listened with interest while picking up sweet potato rice, but the more he listened, the more wrong he became, and he couldn't help asking: "Mom, is there a normal one, why are you either dumb or lame?" Don't look. ”

Lei Mu sighed: "Xiaobao, there is no way, if you are not a demobilized soldier, not a party member, not a brigade cadre, you can't even find such a girl." Who made our village poor? Their work in the village next door is worth a dollar a day, and we don't even have a fraction of it. ”

"Mom, don't say it. I'll talk about this next year, I just demobilized this year, and I don't have time to get married. Don't say. Lei Dongbao's face sank. When he first came back, one wall was still open, the north wind blew the snowflakes, and the house was frozen like an ice cave. His family didn't even have a decent bed and table, and his clothes were thrown in a small water tank. However, he is a very good person, but he didn't expect to be seen like this in the eyes of others, and he was very angry.

Lei Mu sighed again: "Look at it, you always have to get married." While your mother's hands and feet are still alive, you give birth early, and your mother will hold it for you. ”

Lei Dongbao raised his index finger and said firmly: "One year." After speaking, he put down his rice bowl and started to make stools. He cut down the only poplar tree in the house, couldn't wait for the poplar tree to dry, and made a dinner table. When he went home, he saw that his mother had sold the ancestral Eight Immortals table, and there was nowhere to put the bowl for dinner. The bench he sat on was also something he had just made. He worked as a mason in the engineering corps most of the time, and occasionally learned a few sets of carpenter's loose hands, which he could deal with so-so, but the things he made did not look good.

As a mother, she understands what her son means by "one year", and knows that her son is right, don't want to mention the blind date to him again within a year, Lei Mu is very disappointed. She was happy to have a girl willing to give her son a picture these days.

Lei Dongbao didn't say anything, working cracklingly, thinking hatefully in his heart, wait, waiting for the matchmaker to step through the threshold at this time next year, and the big girls lined up in front of him to pick. He didn't believe that he couldn't even marry a wife.

At this time, he was roughly familiar with the situation in the surrounding villages, and basically had an idea in his heart, that is, if he wanted to change, he would run happily, don't be wet like a drizzle, not embarrassed, and even more so if he doesn't do anything like the old secretary. He also thought of the long-abandoned brick kiln behind the village, he remembered seeing the brick kiln burned when he was a child, and then somehow sealed it. He saw that some people were renovating houses in the surrounding villages, and when he was in the army, he also heard that bricks were often not available recently, so he wondered if revitalizing the brick kilns at this time would increase the income of the brigade.

He's a man who walks the talk. Since I thought of the brick kiln, I stepped on the snow and went to the back mountain the next day. He would not be mistaken, the brick kiln was at the foot of the back hill, and although it was covered with thick snow, he could see that in order to make the brick kiln burn, it would take a lot of effort to renovate the brick kiln and chimney. He walked around in circles, poking his head into the kiln, and it was a black mess. He thought about it, simply threw off the padded jacket, and moved the broken bricks from the kiln to find out. After doing it for a long time, when the sun was rising, I suddenly heard a voice coming.

It's a man and a woman, and their voices are low, which is very beautiful. And Lei Dongbao listened to the female voice, he thought to himself, who is talking so well, this voice drilled into his ears, as if a small hand gently caressed his internal organs, and his whole body was comfortable, so that he didn't dare to breathe. He stopped, stood behind the kiln in a daze, pricked up his ears and listened, not wanting to turn out to take a look. Suddenly, the male voice said "oh", as if he had fallen, and then heard the female voice laugh and say: "Just tell you to take the big road, you want to take a shortcut, fall twice, it doesn't hurt." "No, it's snowing thick this year. Sister, you take the bag and wait, I will climb up myself. "Don't do it, I'll pull you."

Lei Dongbao just woke up from a dream and thought that this was the sister and brother, and the younger brother seemed to have fallen into some ditch. He didn't hesitate, so he turned out and wanted to learn **. I didn't expect to see that the elder sister above was also pulled down by his younger brother, but the two of them were not in a hurry or annoyed, dusting the snow and smiling happily. Lei Dongbao couldn't help but want to laugh, ran over to lie on the snow, stretched out his hand to the sisters and brothers, and said in his friendliest voice: "Hold my hand." ”

The sister and brother are Song Yunping and Song Yunhui. The two looked up and saw a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes above, who looked fierce and unkind. Song Yunhui didn't hesitate at all, he stretched out his hand to grab Lei Dongbao first, he didn't worry that his sister would be pulled up by the fierce guy alone. Although Lei Dongbao pulled Song Yunhui up, he despised him in his heart, how could a man fight to get out of the predicament first. Pulling out Song Yunhui with one hand, he handed it to Song Yunping with the other hand, and it was even easier to pull Song Yunping up like an eagle catching a chicken, without her own strength on the slope. He saw that this sister was good-eyed, not like the wood-fired girls who were common in the village. Lei Dongbao didn't want to look away, but he knew the three disciplines and eight points of attention, and he couldn't tease women with his eyes.

Song Yunhui stood firm and pulled his sister together, but it didn't take much effort. He said thank you to Lei Dongbao repeatedly, and when he saw Lei Dongbao, he simply "hehe" to send it away. It turned out that this man had a fierce face, but he was real. When Song Yunping stood firm and said thank you to Lei Dongbao, Lei Dongbao immediately stopped being so sorry for words, and asked politely: "You guys are coming to visit relatives?" Do you know the road behind? ”

For Lei Dongbao, this is already his most polite and gentle tone, but in the ears of the Song family's sisters and brothers, it is as tough and loud as a quarrel. Song Yunping also asked her younger brother unconfidently: "Xiaohui, do you know the road behind?" ”

Song Yunhui said with a smile: "How can you not know, this time it is not snowing, I thought it would be okay to step on it." This comrade, we are going home, thank you. ”

Lei Dongbao looked at these two men and women who were crepe, and felt uneasy about the boss in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Wait, I'll find a stick for you." ”

The sisters and brothers of the Song family looked at the snow all over the ground, and said in their hearts where did the stick come from. saw Lei Dongbao turn over and run away, found a tree, violently pulled off a branch. Lei Dongbao cleaned up the branches with his bare hands, came back and handed them to Song Yunping, and only said "take it". The sisters and brothers felt that although this person was a good person, he couldn't say anything strange, and doing good deeds was like a robbery. Song Yunping didn't dare to let him more, so she took it honestly, but she trusted him in her heart, and said politely: "Thank you for your help." Our parents are still waiting, we have to hurry back, thank you, goodbye. ”

Lei Dongbao looked up at the sky: "It's noon?" You haven't eaten, do you want to come to my house......" He was a little reluctant to accept this sister.

Song Yunping hurriedly said: "We brought dry food, thank you." Song Yunhui pulled out an army-green kettle strap from his padded jacket and added, "We also carry water." ”

Lei Dongbao had no reason to keep it anymore, so he had to say: "Okay, let's go down together, I also happen to go home for dinner." There used to be bricks burned here, and the roads were full of holes, so be careful to follow me. After saying that, he was embarrassed to face his sister, and felt that he was too bad, so he hurriedly turned around and led the way, and walked in a hurry.

The sisters and brothers of the Song family all thought that this person was really good, and then followed. Lei Dongbao had nothing to say for the first time, and said the stupidest thing in his life. "This is the Xiao Lei Family Brigade, are you from the Red Star Brigade in front? The Red Star Brigade implements the contract responsibility system, and I heard that this year's harvest is very good. ”

Song Yunping walked behind Lei Dongbao, Song Yunhui walked behind Song Yunping, and it was Song Yunping who answered Lei Dongbao's words: "Our home is still far away, in the Red Guard Brigade." ”

This Red Guard Brigade, Lei Dongbao happened to have just been there, and said busily: "You still have to walk for two hours." Did you come from the city? The Red Guard Brigade also carried out a contract responsibility system, but it was done late, and there was no major change in this year's harvest. ”

"My brother is on winter vacation, and today there happened to be a tractor carrying vegetables into the city, so I followed him to the train station to pick him up in the morning. I had to walk back when I came back. My family is not an agricultural household, so I don't know how to be responsible. ”

Song Yunhui had been listening silently in the back, thinking that if his sister's throat was bigger, it would sound more like a quarrel. When he heard about the contracting responsibility system, he couldn't help but interject: "Comrade, are you talking about the large-scale production responsibility system in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui Province, or is it a group joint production remuneration, voluntarily combined to divide the working group, and contract labor and production to the operation group?" ”

Lei Dongbao has been for so many days, and finally saw a person who said clearly, he was overjoyed, turned around and stood crossed, waited for Song Yunhui to come over, grabbed Song Yunhui's shoulder, shook it vigorously, and said happily: "Are you a college student?" College students taking the train to college? You can endure it. You tell me how to do this big package and how to do it. Our brigade was about to do this, and more than a dozen of my brigades ran down to ask, but none of them could explain clearly, you tell me. ”

Song Yunhui thought that he was an adult and strong, but when he met Lei Dongbao, he didn't have the strength to fight back at all, and he was dizzy by him. Busy said: "You let go, let's talk as we walk." The Song family sisters and brothers should have been happy when they saw Lei Dongbao, but their faces were still ruthless, and they all felt curious.

Lei Dongbao let go and rushed to the front again: "I'll still go ahead, you speak louder." The commune issued a red-headed document to let the study of Anhui's big package, but this document was transferred from the city to the county, and the county was transferred to the commune, and no one in the entire commune could understand. You are a college student, you have a lot of knowledge, you tell me, our little Lei family brigade is grateful to you."

Song Yunhui is not hearsay, but has discussed it many times with his classmates in politics class. Combined with the newspapers he reads, he thinks he knows about the same. "First of all, the remuneration of group joint production is to combine all the members of the brigade according to their voluntariness, rather than the previous grouping designated by the superiors, and voluntarily form three or four small cooperative groups, and the cooperative group contracts the corresponding farmland according to the number of people and hands over the grain according to the number of contracts designated by the brigade. Am I making this clear? ”

"Clear, very good, that's what you Red Guards do, what about the big package?"

Song Yunhui saw that Lei Dongbao was not polite at all, but he also liked his straightforwardness: "Although Dabaogan has been affirmed by Comrade Wanli and has been publicized in the "Anhui Daily", there is still a lot of controversy in the whole country. To put it bluntly, it is to divide the package production of group joint production remuneration to the group, divide it more finely, and change it into package production to households, and pay according to household joint production. In this way, it can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm for labor. At present, the influence of the left is still deeply rooted in the whole country, and many people think that the large-scale contracting is a precursor to land privatization, a retrogression, and a capitalist road, but we discuss it and think that land is only contracted, and the ownership of land still belongs to the brigade of public ownership, and the nature of public ownership has not changed, and there is no question of taking the capitalist road."

Song Yunhui said a lot in one breath, but Lei Dongbao grasped the essence. How does this divide into small groups compare with the distribution to households? It has always been served finely by its own land, and the public land is sparse. Only by assigning to the home can we mobilize the enthusiasm for farming. "That's right. In the end, it is a college student, and you will understand it as soon as you say it. After hearing this, Song Yunping looked back at her younger brother with a smile and felt that her younger brother was very remarkable. Song Yunhui's explanation is simple and clear, and he also says the arguments, Lei Dongbao can understand it at all. He said happily: "My surname is Lei, Lei Dongbao, I have just been demobilized, and I was asked to be in charge of the contracting responsibility system of the brigade. I think since the contract, just contract to the household, don't do anything not to package to the group, a group of so many people, if you want to be lazy or you can be lazy, you can be lazy, and see who dares to be lazy, lazy and starve yourself. ”

Song Yunhui was not proud, but said calmly: "Yes, stick a rod into the end." However, it is necessary to do a good job of ideological work in advance, and I heard that there is great resistance when it is implemented in other places. Our surname is Song, Comrade Lei, please stay, we are almost at the entrance of the village. Song Yunhui originally wanted to learn from Lei Dongbao how the responsibility system and the like often mentioned in the newspaper worked in the countryside, but he didn't expect that it was his turn to explain the policy to Lei Dongbao, and he felt quite bored.

Lei Dongbao was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but look back at Song Yunping, and hesitated: "I'll give you another section, this snowy road is not easy to walk." ”

Or Song Yunhui said: "It's not early, we can't delay you from having lunch." ”

Lei Dongbao was polite to the Song family brothers and sisters again, he wanted to invite the two of them to his house to drink hot soup, but he knew that the family might not be able to open the pot, so he had to give up. Watching his sister and brother leave, he actually stood in the snow for a long time, until he saw their backs disappear. And the gentle and crisp voice of the Song family's sister began to haunt Lei Dongbao's heart day and night.

Song Yunping walked away, and glanced back at Lei Dongbao, who was standing in the snow like an iron tower, and pondered for a long time with low eyebrows, and only when he estimated that Lei Dongbao couldn't hear it, he said to his younger brother with emotion: "If there is a person like Comrade Lei in our family, where will he be bullied so much." ”

Song Yunhui said with a smile: "If such a person is born in our family, he will also be educated by his father and you to be soft." When I saw a sign at school saying 'Study for the Rise of China', I thought I should be studying for the Song family not to be bullied. I use a civilized way to keep myself from being bullied, not by brute force. ”

Song Yunping disagreed: "The professors who taught you are civilized enough, what should they do when they meet soldiers?" Parents are just too civilized to be bullied for the rest of their lives. ”

"The 'Gang of Four' has been crushed for several years, sister, don't keep your mind stuck in that chaotic era, now the policies are changing."

Song Yunping "snorted": "Dad's composition is not set during the 'Gang of Four' period, I said that it took more than a year to take off our hats, have we taken off our hats?" Who has been holding my job in the block? Who knows what period this period is? How can we be overly optimistic? Don't be nerdy, policies can change like this, they can change like that, policies are dead, people are alive, at least I see that those who have criticized their parents before are still officials on stage, we still have to listen to their commands, they don't let me work, I still have no work to do. ”

Song Yunhui was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and the sister who said this made him see the old man, and the words seemed familiar, more like coming out of the mouth of his father who had gone through hardships. Thinking of the long unemployed time after my sister graduated from high school, it was all caused by giving him the opportunity to go to school in the first place. Song Yunhui was full of guilt: "Sister, is there a way to follow them in high school classes, you can take the exam again next year, and now the political trial will not restrict you anymore." The university is different from here, really, you see, I can join the group. ”

Song Yunping didn't expect her younger brother to turn the topic to her, and said with a smile: "You really don't know, where did we study seriously before, and we can't compare with the fresh graduates who have studied in regular junior high school and high school today." I didn't take the test, so I still waited for the money to sell rabbit fur and save enough money to buy a semiconductor radio and learn English from the radio station. Or buy a bicycle and go to the county seat to study at the university, which is also a diploma. If there's anything you don't understand, there's you, a ready-made college student. ”

Song Yunhui said "oops" again: "You shouldn't send money to let me go home, otherwise you will buy a second-hand bicycle early and get on the power university as soon as possible." ”

Song Yunping was suddenly angry: "Xiaohui, when did you become such a mother-in-law, don't worry about money, I have my own plan, the power university has to start school in the summer, and it's useless to buy a bicycle now." You don't know how much we look forward to your homecoming, we don't know how happy we are when you come back, the family reunion in the Spring Festival is more important than anything else, you know? If you say you shouldn't send money home, I'll beat you. ”

When Song Yunhui heard that it made sense, he was relieved, and his heart was even warmer. But he still made a naughty face at his sister: "You beat me every day, causing me to be depressed from childhood to adulthood, and I don't know how dark my childhood was." ”