Zou Jie helped Er Laizi analyze the problem and hit the nail on the head, Er Laizi tickled and let Zou Jie go down.

Zou Jie continued: "If you want me to say, since this is already the case, the wood has become a boat, it is better to push the boat down the river and turn bad things into good things." ”

"Bad things are bad things, what good things can become? Don't talk to me," Erlai thought that Zou Jie was persuading him to give the reward he got to the horse widow, and was a little excited, "It's good to fill the pit with rice, flour and soybean oil for her?" There are no doors. ”

"I didn't mean that." Zou Jie continued, "I mean to let your father and Qin Xiaoyu become a family, all the rumors and rumors will naturally disappear, and they can raise their heads and be human beings, and you will have a lot of benefits." ”

"What's in it for me? How can I benefit a lot? ”

Er Laizi didn't care if it was feasible or not, whether it would be successful or not, he was anxious to know where his benefits were.

Zou Jie said: "If your father marries Qin Xiaoyu, for the time being, you are a family, and someone will help you clean up the house and cook, this is a trivial matter, and when you really want to marry Baiqiu as a daughter-in-law in the future, your father will move to Qin Xiaoyu's house to live, you and Baiqiu can stand on their own and live in your current house, and you young couple will live a good life, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?" ”

Hearing this, Er Laizi's eyes immediately lit up, and he scratched his head again: "Hey, it seems that this is the case, you let me think about it, I don't have as many eyes as you, you say it, don't wrap me in." ”

"Then you go back and think about it, and tell me if you agree." Zou Jie said, "I will be honest and honest, what is not good for you for the time being is that Qin Xiaoyu's family has a larger burden, a large population, and no labor, I will mobilize Qin Xiaoyu to participate in labor, and in the future, you will set up another door, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

"Okay, I believe you," Er Laizi got up, "Will I kowtow to you?" No, I'm leaving. ”

Er Lai Zile walked out of the door in a hurry, and didn't forget to say to Xiaomei's mother: Thank you.

With a good start, Zou Jie continued to act, and found Qiao Wanfu when he was out of breath in the afternoon.

Zou Jie explained his intention to Qiao Wanfu, Qiao Wanfu couldn't ask for it, and a hundred were willing, so he was about to thank Zou Jie's eight ancestors.

Zou Jie took the initiative to come to the house of Qin Xiaoyu, a horse widow.

Horse widow Qin Xiaoyu didn't wait for Zou Jie yesterday, she had doubts about Zou Jie's sincerity in her heart, and now Zou Jie took the initiative to find her, she was full of expectations.

"You're here, Director Zou, come into the house, look at me...... Makes you laugh. ”

Widow Ma would not say any polite words, but she felt cordial and honored by Zou Jie's patronage. She hurriedly cleaned up the messy house, dusted the edge of the kang for Zou Jie, and drove the child out of the door.

"Sister-in-law Ma, I didn't know your name before, but I only found out today, and I will still call you Sister Qin in the future." Zou Jie said kindly.

Unexpectedly, Zou Jie only said this sentence, and the tears of the horse widow couldn't stop falling. "Well, well, no one can afford me like you."

"I have a general understanding of your situation and the situation of your family, we are both women, I know your suffering, I understand your feelings, although it is a new society and a new country, but it is not easy, life is very difficult." Zou Jie is very sincere.

The horse widow only wiped her tears, and rarely met a confidant: "Usually I don't dare to go out to meet people, why do you say my life is so bitter?" ”

"You are not miserable, you dare not pursue your own happiness, you dare not take a step forward." Zou Jie said, "Sister Qin, don't blame me for speaking badly, you are so competitive and aggressive, in fact, you are unwilling to be at the mercy of fate, but you are very helpless, so you give up on yourself and break the jar."

You are not very old, and there is still a long way to go, and if you continue like this, your life will never see the light.

You can forget it alone, there are two lovely children, you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the children, the eldest son is more than ten years old, you should send him to school, or let the children study for a few years and learn some culture. ”

"Director Zou, what you say is what I say in my heart, but my widow is unemployed, and I can't work in the field, so there is a little relief and subsidy every year, and I raise two children by myself, so that every day should not be, and the earth is not working, what can I do?"

The horse widow cried bitterly as she spoke, and Zou Jie felt that the time had come.

In the widow's room, there was a curtain directly above the edge of the kang, without a curtain, and on the curtain were temporary clothes and face towels.

Zou Jie watched Widow Ma cry sadly and wept, pulled the towel to wipe her face off the curtain, and handed it to Widow Ma.

"Sister Qin, don't be sad, no one is distressed when you cry, we women are not strong ourselves, and no one is strong for us."

The horse widow wiped her tears, Zou Jie waited for the horse widow to stabilize her emotions, and continued: "In my opinion, you don't participate in the production team labor, the production team takes care of you according to the five guarantees, this is not a long-term plan, you participate in the production team labor, no relatives and no reason, and it is difficult for the child to be taken care of by no one for you, it is best to become a family, there is a man who knows the cold and knows the heat and hurts you, he goes to the production team to work, you do the foil at home, laundry and cooking, and raise a few pigs, raise some chickens, ducks and geese, and life will be better." ”

"That's right, but you also know, I have a bad reputation, and I have two children, which man is willing to pick in the fire pit?" The horse widow sighed.

"Not necessarily." Zou Jie retorted.

"I have seen through this man, you let him steal his kindness in every possible way, you want him to live with you sincerely, he will hide from you."

"Not necessarily, I think Qiao Wanfu is a good person."

"Don't mention him, I hate him to death, and I can't get angry when I mention him."

"You don't necessarily really hate him, it's the rush that made you lose face, you were wronged, he was arrested by the police, is he willing? He has suffered no less sin than you have suffered. ”

Zou Jie enlightened, "Now there are rumors outside, spitting stars can drown people, the best way is for the two of you to be together and become a family, not only taking care of your face, but also solving the practical problems of you and your family." ”

The horse widow was silent for a long time, wiping away tears and sighing.

"Sister Qin, I know what you're worried about, I've already looked for Qiao Wanfu, he is willing in his heart, and in addition, I also found Qiao Hu, who is Er Laizi, and he also supports you together." Zou Jie said, "Let Qiao Wanfu come to your house to live with you in the future, Qiao Hu has the heart to marry He Baiqiu as a daughter-in-law, if this thing is done, the couple can stand on their own and live in his family's current house, as for how to divide the family, they are all a family, easy to discuss." ”

After Zou Jie said that, seeing the reaction of the horse widow, the horse widow suddenly hugged Zou Jie and knelt on the ground again, without words, tears came out of her eyes.

Zou Jie knew that there was a chance that this would happen, so he appeased the horse widow for a while, and suggested that the happy event should be done after the spring ploughing battle.

When the time comes, let the people in the whole tun help out, those who have money help a money field, those who have things help an object, and those who have no money and nothing help a personal field, everyone collects firewood and the flame is high, Zou Jie said that he will also contribute.

The horse widow was grateful.

Before leaving, Zou Jie said, "Sister Qin, I don't know if I am satisfied with the answer I gave you?" ”

The horse widow was embarrassed, beat Zou Jie like a best friend, and sent Zou Jie far away.

Leaving Widow Ma's house, it was still early to go back to the guest house, Zou Jie walked around the tunzi alone, there was no purpose, in short, she wanted to know more.

The members of the Tunzi went to the battle, and most of the people left behind at home were the elderly and children who did not go to school.

The old man was not idle, and as long as his body allowed, he was working as much as he could.

Uncles and uncles weave baskets, clean up vegetable gardens, and remove manure washers; Aunts and aunts take care of the children, feed the chickens and ducks, do laundry and cook; There are those who go to the mountains and ravines and ponds to collect wild vegetables for livestock and poultry, and there are also those who fiddle with stones and tiles in front of and behind the house.

Zou Jie walked and walked to the east of Tuntou and saw a compound, she had been squatting in Xingfu Tun for some time, and she had never been to this place.

The compound is slightly smaller than the production team, with an adobe house and an abandoned well, and some timber scattered in the yard.

This is a legacy of the agricultural cooperative in previous years, and it used to be a mill, a mill and a tofu mill, and now the stone mill and the mill are still there, but it has been turned into a carpentry shop.

Zou Jie saw that there were people working in the compound, so she walked into the courtyard.

In the courtyard, an old carpenter and a young man were doing carpentry, the old carpenter was using an ink fountain to mark a planed plank, and the young man was planing another plank on a wide bench beside him.

The old man and the young are father and son, surnamed Zhang, the father is an old carpenter in his fifties, and the son is twenty-five years old and has an apprenticeship with his father.

Zou Jie thought that carpenters and tailors are both handicraft jobs, and she was especially concerned about whether the father and son were members of the commune, and if the commune members did this kind of private work of the common people, how to keep track of the work and how to distribute it.

Zou Jie stepped forward to say hello, and after talking with the carpenter's father and son, he learned that the two were busy making a coffin for people from other villages.

The father and son are both members of the commune, and the daily carpentry work is not fixed, arranged by the production team, the families of the members of the production team, and the production team, for example, this coffin is entrusted by the family of a member of the foreign production team.

In normal times, the carpentry work arranged by the production team is divided according to the workload and working hours, with 10 points per day for carpenters and 8 points per day for apprentices.

The carpentry work entrusted by the members of the Bentun is also calculated according to the workload and working hours, compared with ten points per day for carpenters and eight points per day for apprentices, and the work points of the entrusted members are deducted and recorded in the carpentry and apprenticeship accounts.

The carpentry work entrusted by the people outside the tun is charged at the agreed price, and the money is handed over to the production team as a collective accumulation, and then the carpenters and apprentices are still divided according to the workload and working hours.

This operation is not complicated, and the production team accountant is usually responsible for counting the work points for carpenters and apprentices.

Zou Jie understood and felt that this equivalent exchange was practical and in line with the requirements of the People's Commune.

However, the words of Carpenter Zhang's son made her not know how to answer.