After following Wang Chong for so many years, Ma Renli also knew that although Wang Chong was strict, he not only did not discriminate against him, but also gave him enough respect, and would take the initiative to discuss many things with him.

In the dim candlelight, in the surging smell of kerosene, Ma Renli picked up the wine bottle and prepared to add another bowl, but remembering what Wang Zhong said just now, the hand holding the wine bottle was frozen in the air, and after a while, he covered the wine bottle again, put the wine into the cabinet, and almost cleaned up the bowl.

turned off the lights and lay on the burning warm kang, Ma Renli tossed and turned but couldn't sleep, his mind was messy, one moment was Qiao Yue, one moment was Niu Daring, and another moment was Wang Chong.

At the same time, on the other side, the old Yang family is staging a bitter drama.

"Daddy! After all these years, why didn't you tell me! Yang Deng'er knelt on her father's knees, tears streaming down her face, and her face was sad.

Yang Deng'er went home drunk, crying and shouting to ask the old donkey if he was beaten into a eunuch by Niu San.

The old donkey's head was directly asked by Yang Deng'er, and even Yang's mother was shocked, the old donkey's face was red at first, and his blood was on his brain, and then his face turned from red to blue, he clenched his teeth, the green tendons on both sides of his temples burst out, and he turned over and lay on the kang with his back turned over, no matter how Yang Deng'er could ask, he didn't say a word.

In front of his own daughter, admitting that he is no longer a man, what a humiliation this is, the old donkey head is already a face-saving person, how can he do it.

Yang Deng'er is not stupid, seeing her father's reaction like this, she can't guess it, and the tears in her eyes suddenly can't stop flowing out like spring water.

Thinking of all these years, he was in a hurry to marry Niu Daring, and he wanted to be the daughter-in-law of the person who made his father a eunuch in the first place, and he sprinkled salt on his father's wounds again and again, and stabbed a knife in his heart.

Speaking of the past, Yang's mother was also full of grievances and depression, and failed to give birth to a son for the old Yang family to inherit the ancestry, which was a regret in her life.

The only daughter of Bisheng fell in love with Niu Sanwhip's son Niu Daring, and if he didn't marry, Yang's mother could only swallow the broken teeth in her stomach, holding all the grievances and depression in her heart.

Looking at his father who turned his back and didn't say a word, looked at his mother who kept wiping her tears, remembered Wang Chong's words that pierced her heart, and remembered her willfulness over the years, Yang Deng'er's heart was full of shame and regret.

"Deng'er, don't blame your father, your father is bitter!" Yang's mother grabbed her daughter's hand, shedding tears while feeling it.

"Mother! Woooooo ”

"I'm sorry for you ······ daughter" Yang Deng'er cried into tears.

The mother and daughter hugged each other, crying together, the old donkey was lying with his back to the two of them, and the grief in his heart was aroused again, and the corners of his eyes were not moist.

No one knows what happened to the old Yang family that night, after this night, Yang Deng'er is like a different person, he always seems to have something to worry about, and there seems to be a worry between his eyebrows.

Besides, this Qiao Yue, married to Niu Daring, the president of the first society, as the saying goes, marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog, and naturally no longer be a member of the second society.

Wang Chong doesn't care, I just hope that in the second group for more than half a year, Qiao Yue can really change!

Wang Wanchun was transferred to Maixiangling District as deputy head and officially took office, responsible for production, Wang Chong also officially took over as the village party secretary of Maixiang Village, and Ma Renlian took over the post of village head.

Although he became the village party secretary, Wang Chong was still the same as before, carrying a bow and arrow into the mountains to hunt when he was not working, and leading the members to work in the fields when he was busy, and Ma Renlian was responsible for the trivial matters in the village and the docking with the district.

Time passed, the weather became colder and colder, and the brothers Wang Ziping and Wang Zi'an also looked the same day by day, gradually growing day by day, becoming more and more cute.

Sister-in-law Jin Hua and Han Chunmei ran to Wang Chong's house when they saw the sky, looking for Jiang Hongguo and teasing Ziping and Zi'an brothers.

I don't know if Jiang Hongguo's milk is sufficient or Wang Chong's genes are good, although the brothers are not as big as a single child when they are born, the speed of growth is not slower than that of a single child, raising their heads in two months, turning over in March, and sitting in five months.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the two brothers in their early seven months were placed on the kang, Wang Zhong and Jiang Hongguo sat at the kang table to make dumplings, but they didn't want to wrap them, the second son sat up by himself, and then crawled towards the two of them with his hands and feet.

Seeing this, the eldest son seemed to be not far behind his younger brother, and he also climbed up, Jiang Hongguo was very happy, if it weren't for the flour on his hands, he would have hugged the two sons and kissed them well.

The brothers crawled for a while and then lay down again.

Wang Chong smiled and said to Jiang Hongguo: "In the future, don't just feed them milk, make some porridge and water, and feed them with vegetable juice." ”

"Isn't it too early?" Jiang Hongguo hesitated.

"It's seven months old, it's not early, and the normal six-month-old child can start feeding the thin ones, just make them soft and thick."

Jiang Hongguo never questioned her husband, and nodded and said, "Then I'll boil some porridge for them at noon." ”

The two of them wrapped hundreds of dumplings, all of which were placed in a dustpan with gauze underneath, and there was no refrigerator at this time, and there was no need for a refrigerator, so they were directly placed in the yard and the cold wind blew overnight, and the dumplings were frozen.

As time passed, the two children climbed more and more neatly, Wang Chong added a movable fence on the edge of the kang, and Jiang Hongguo erected the fence when he was busy, and let the brothers climb on the kang.

Winter went to spring, the two brothers grew up day by day, and when Zi'an was ten months old, he had staggered to stand up with his own things, and the crops in the field were also growing very happily.

It is another year of summer harvest season, Maixiang Village once again ushered in a bumper harvest, because of the joint planting and fertilization, abundant water irrigation, the village's mu yield is basically over 200 catties.

Taking advantage of this bumper harvest, Wang Chong, the village party secretary, after discussing with Ma Renlian, called the villagers to the village committee, Wang Chong and Ma Renlian sat at one end of the long table, like the second grandfather and other elderly people and several presidents of the primary society gathered around the square table, and other villagers sat or stood, surrounding the side.

Ma Renli took the pen and manuscript paper, ready to record.

"I called you here today because I have a few things I want to discuss with you." Wang Chong, as the village party secretary, took the lead in speaking.

"Since 48 years since we divided the fields to the households, it has been six years now, the land reform work in our village has basically been completed, these days God is also a face, our Maixiang Village seven cooperatives, basically every year is a bumper harvest, the output is gradually increasing, everyone's life is more and more rushing."

"It's all thanks to you, Brother Big Worm!"

"That's it! Thanks to Brother Big Worm who took us to build a waterwheel, dig a canal, and teach us how to farm the land scientifically, otherwise how could we harvest so much food! ”

"Yes!"

The villagers are in a high mood.

"Brother Big Worm, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, let's listen to you!"

"That's right, we all listen to Brother Big Worm!"

Wang Chong showed a smile on his face and said, "Since the big guys are willing to believe me, then I won't beat around the bush and tell everyone straight." ”

Wang Chong straightened his throat and said loudly: "There are two main things for calling the big guy over today, let's talk about the first one first." ”

"In recent years, the planting of peanuts and soybeans in our village has gradually become a scale, and the combination of intercropping and crop rotation has also increased a lot of yields.

"Although the big guys can basically eat a full meal now, most of them are coarse grains, stick noodles, wowotou, yellow steamed buns, dumplings for the New Year, and white flour steamed buns on festivals.

"Of course!"

"Who doesn't want to eat meat, egg dumplings!"

"I still want to eat seventy or eighty meat and egg dumplings at a time!"

"If you can't eat enough, you still have seventy or eighty meat and egg dumplings, when have you eaten enough!"

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After everyone said a word, Wang Chong raised his hand, everyone stopped, Wang Chong continued: "We are not short of water now, and the planting method is more advanced than before, scientific, but the increase in yield is limited, everyone is a farmer, is there a way to increase the yield?" ”

"Brother Big Worm, you can't do anything, what good way can we do it!"

"Yes."

Wang Chongdao: "We are all working hard, serving the crops like our own father and mother, in this case, if we want to increase the yield, it is nothing more than working water, fertilizer, plant density, planting methods, and seeds." ”

"There is no shortage of water, and the planting method and plant density have also been improved, and if you want to increase the yield, it is nothing more than working on fertilizer and seeds."

"No matter how hard you work on fertilizer, you can't go to the county to dig a manure pit!" Zhao Youtian said.

Niu boldly said: "The dung pits in the county are all owner-owned, we just want to dig people and don't dig it for us!" ”

In the winter of May 1, when the mutual aid group had not yet been changed to a cooperative, he led a group of members into the city to dig dung, not wanting to be hit by the owner of the house later, and was beaten and hanged.

"Then we can only work on the seeds!" Second grandfather Niu Zhonggui said.

"But where are we going to get good seeds?" It was Niu Youshui, the president of the Five Societies, who spoke.

Everyone shook their heads.

Wang Zhong looked at Ma Renli: "Ma Renli, you have gone to the Agricultural College in Beiping, do you know how to cultivate good seeds?" ”

"I don't know!" Ma Renli shook his head and said: "This cultivation of good seeds, is high-tech, not can be done by reading a few books, not only needs rich knowledge to support, but also needs years or even more than ten years of painstaking experiments and comparisons, although I have been a librarian, I have read a lot of books, but I only know a little about this aspect." ”

Wang Zhong knocked on the table and said: "Ma Renli is a person who has gone to college, I believe his words, but cultivating good seeds requires technology and time, and none of us know when the good seeds that can really be promoted will be cultivated, maybe three years, maybe five years, maybe ten years, it's not certain." ”

"It's too difficult to increase production on the basis of what we are now!"

"But right now, I have an idea, we can't increase the output of grain, so can we make the grain out of the field more valuable?"

"Make food more valuable?" The crowd was puzzled.

Niu boldly looked at Wang Chong: "Big worm, we can't do that illegal thing." ”

"Brother Daring, what are you talking about!" Wang Zhong said: "I mean we don't sell grain directly. ”

"Don't sell grain directly?" Everyone was stunned by Wang Chong's words, mainly because their fixed thinking had not been changed.

But Niu was bold, his eyes lit up, he looked at Wang Zhong curiously, and asked with some expectation: "What good way do you have?" ”

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "Let's not say anything else, let's just say that we produce so many soybeans and peanuts in our field every year, can we sell them directly at a high price?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, they were all villagers, and they naturally knew the price of grain every year.

"But if we can have an oil mill in Maixiang Village, we can use all these peanuts and soybeans harvested in the field to extract oil, and then take out the oil to sell, will it be more cost-effective than selling soybeans and peanuts directly?"

"A pound of oil costs seven or eight cents, if we can squeeze oil, it must be more cost-effective than selling peanuts and soybeans directly!" Niu said boldly.

Zhao Youtian retorted: "But the key is that we won't squeeze oil!" ”

The villagers also talked about it.

"Brother Big Worm has said so, there must be a way." The three monkeys blurted out without thinking about it, and they had great trust in Wang Chong.

Everyone's eyes looked at Wang Chong, and their eyes were full of anticipation.

Niu boldly said: "Big worm, will you squeeze oil?" ”

"When I was young, I worked with my master in an oil mill in my hometown."

Wang Chongdao: "In fact, there are already oil extraction machines abroad, and the oil yield is higher when electricity drives the machine to extract oil, but we are still far from being electrified, and even if there is electricity, we can't afford to buy that expensive machine."

The method handed down by our ancestors to extract oil, although it is a little primitive, the oil yield cannot catch up with the oil press, but it is not difficult to achieve. ”

"You're really good at squeezing oil?" Niu boldly stood up excitedly, his eyes were like copper bells, and his face was shocked.

"Brother Wang Chong, is this a joke?" Niu Daring even changed his name for Wang Chong.

"When did I, Wang Chong, joke with everyone about this kind of thing." Wang Zhong looked at everyone and said loudly.

The old ganbang said: "The big worm can even do such difficult things as waterwheels and threshers, and what is so strange about the equipment that can make oil extraction." ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded in deep agreement.

Wang Chongdao: "What about my thoughts, this oil mill, in the name of our village collective, and so on, after the completion of each of our societies out of a young and strong one, into the oil mill, after the wheat harvest and double robbery of these farms, I will teach them how to extract oil, of course, we can't work in vain, the specific treatment of let's wait for the oil mill to really build and then discuss."

And in addition to squeezing oil for ourselves, we can also squeeze oil for the villagers in ten miles and eight townships, everyone grows soybeans and peanuts, can they be used to squeeze oil, of course, we do the amount of oil squeezing workshop is also to operate, we will charge some equipment use and maintenance costs and labor costs, give money or use grain to convert, or directly use oil to convert.

The income of the workshop is owned by the collective, and part of it can be used to pay the villagers who extract oil, and if the profit is high and the surplus is more, at the end of the year, the money can be used to pay benefits to the big guys. ”

"If we can squeeze oil by ourselves, it is not much more cost-effective than going to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy oil."

"Brother Big Worm, I support you!" The three monkeys immediately expressed their position.

"That's right! Brother Big Worm, we also support you! "The first to speak were all young people in the village.

"Big worm, are you really sure?" The second grandfather looked at Wang Chong and asked again.

Wang Zhong took out a few drawings and handed them to the second grandfather: "This is the design drawing of the oil press, the second grandfather, you take a look at it first, and I will tell the big guy about the principle of the oil press later." ”

"Just say it!" The second grandfather did not take the drawings, but asked Wang Zhong to tell the big guys together.

"That's good!" Wang Chongdao: "Then I'll tell the big guy first, this oil extraction, you have to fry soybeans or peanuts first, dry them, and then crush them······

Wang Chong gushed the principles and steps of oil extraction and told everyone step by step.

Although the villagers don't understand the principle, they can all understand Wang Chong's meticulous speech, and after telling it, everyone is already full of confidence in Wang Chong.

Wang Chong took advantage of the situation and asked everyone to raise their hands to vote, and as expected, it was directly unanimously passed.

"That being the case, after this summer planting is over, President Niu, you and Renlian will be responsible for leading people into the mountains to cut wood, and Ma Renli and I will survey the terrain, select a suitable location, and make use of our water conservancy project."

"No problem!" The cow boldly responded.

"Big worm, didn't you just say that there are two things, this first thing said, then what is the second thing?" It was Zhao Youtian who spoke, the president of the three companies.

Wang Chongdao: "This second thing is about the preparation of our collective grain depot in Maixiang Village. ”

"Preparing to build a grain depot?" Niu boldly asked suspiciously: "Isn't the big warehouse of the Ma family ready-made!" What other grain depots are built. ”

Wang Chong smiled and said: "Our households, grain and land are our lifeblood, and now that we have land, there is no shortage of food." ”

"But there is an old saying that is good, think of danger in times of peace, now our life is indeed much better than before, and the big guys can often eat fine grains, but what will be the situation next year or the year after, who can know?"

"Let's not talk about it, let's just say that in the 50s, there were a few light snows throughout the winter that year, and after the spring of the second year, the weather has been dry, if we hadn't set up a waterwheel and dug a canal, the wheat seedlings in the field would have grown so well?"

"That can't!" Niu Daring is a sincere person.

"In the past few years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the big guys have had a good time, but what will be the situation in the next few years, who can say accurately?"

"What if there is a drought? What about waterlogging? ”

Wang Chong said with some embarrassment: "Everyone knows that I am not a native of Maixiang Village, but I fled from the famine, and my daughter-in-law also fled from the famine, if there is no reason, why should my daughter-in-law and I flee from the famine?" ”

"There must be a disaster at home, and I can't survive!" What he talks about is not enough to eat.

Wang Chongdao: "It's right to not have enough to eat!" It was because my daughter-in-law and I had a disaster in our hometown, and we couldn't survive at home, all the bark, grass roots, and leaves were dug up, and there was nothing left to eat. ”

"This God's face, but we don't care at all, that is to say, change, if there is a big flood in any year, or a continuous drought, the grain production in the field is reduced, or even the harvest is gone, and the grain stored at home is eaten up, what will the big guy do? Shall we also go out to escape the famine and ask for food? ”

Wang Chong's words directly silenced everyone.

"Brother Big Worm, you just tell us what to do, we all listen to you!" The three monkeys were the first people to follow Wang Chong and taste the sweetness.

Nowadays, in the entire Maixiang Village, several members of the Second Society are living the most prosperous life, and even Niu Daring, who has always been known for his ability and prestige in the village, cannot catch up with them.

Not to mention Wang Chong and Lao Ganba, these men, just talk about Jinhua's sister-in-law, Jinhua's sister-in-law is a widow, although she joined the cooperative, but in the end she is just a widow, there is no in-law to mention it, and there is no uncle to help her, but she still lives an extremely prosperous life, so many men in the village who are in the prime of life, and I have not seen anyone live a better life than Jinhua's sister-in-law.

"The three monkeys are right, Brother Big Worm, you are the party secretary of the village, and we all listen to you."

"I have discussed with Renlian, can we use the name of our village collective, to establish a grain depot to store public grain, let's start from the next summer harvest, every autumn harvest, by the president of each society, we will produce rice in the field, soybeans and peanuts, each household to hand over 5%, of which corn storage, as a reserve grain, peanuts and soybeans we use to squeeze oil, oil in exchange for rice back, stored in our public treasury."

"This grain is still owned by the big guys, and every three years, we exchange the grain that has reached the deadline with new grain, and then return the old grain to everyone."

"Then what are we going to do with all this effort, wouldn't it be nice to just let each family save their own food!" The sound that popped up out of nowhere was a small turn.

"Anyway, it's all saved, isn't it the same if we save it ourselves!" Lack of food followed suit.

"That's right!" Everyone was puzzled.

Ma Renli shook his head and said, "This is different. ”

"What's the difference!" The little turn is a sharp-tongued one.

"It's a very different doorway here." Wang Chongdao: "The public grain we pay every year, the low-priced grain we sell, part of it goes into the army, part of it flows into the market, and part of it goes into the national grain depot, we even beat the little devils away, and the people's lives are getting better day by day, but why does the country still build so much grain inventory and so much grain?" ”

"To prepare for a famine, of course!" Niu said boldly.

"Yes, even the country has to build a grain depot to prevent famine, and we are responding to the country's policy."

"If we really encounter a famine, we can also have a way out!"

"Isn't there still a government?" It was a small turn again, but the words were whispered, not out loud.

"I'll say something!" The second grandfather, Niu Zhonggui, pressed his hands on the table, his eyes swept over everyone, and he said with a full heart: "My old bones, I have lived for more than sixty years, although I have not seen anything in the world, but the age is here, although our Maixiang Village is leaning on the Maixiang River, it is not without famine."

I remember when I was young, there was a great drought one year, even the Maixiang River dried up, and the crops in the fields were sunburned. ”

Wang nodded and added: "In this way, let's raise our hands to vote, and if we agree to build a grain depot, please raise your hands." ”

Wang Chong took the lead in raising his hand, several members of the second society responded one after another, Niu Daring and Ma Renlian also followed, the second grandfather raised his right hand in a hurry, and the villagers also raised their hands one after another, more than three-quarters of the villagers agreed without much hesitation, and the rest, seeing that everyone raised their hands, they also raised their hands after hesitating for a while.

"In that case, this matter is settled!"

"Let's just take care of this, it's called Maixiangcun's development plan for the next three years! As for the specific plan and charter, the Renlian Association will write a notice and post it later, and then the president will have to work harder, and after the end of the seeding, we will start to implement the development plan of our Maixiang Village in the next three years. ”

"No problem!"

"Maixiang Village's development plan for the next three years will be interesting as soon as you hear it."

The villagers looked different and looked forward to it.

"By the way, I am announcing an appointment by the way." Wang Zhong looked at Ma Renli, who was standing in the crowd, and shouted, "Ma Renli." ”

"In!" Ma Renli raised his hand and walked forward with a smile on his face.

"When we build oil mills and build grain depots, we need statistical data and settle accounts."

"Comrade Ma Renli is the only person in our Maixiang Village who has gone to college, and now he is still a teacher in the village school, I have discussed with Renlian, in view of his good performance over the years, let him take care of the accounting work, and the big guys will supervise together, if he does not do well, we will replace him."

"Ma Renli, how is it, do you have confidence?"

Ma Renli smiled and said, "Since the big guy is willing to believe me, then I'll just do it." ”

"What does it mean to do it, if you want to do it, you have to do it well!"

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