Chapter Forty-Eight: The Grain Sharing Turmoil
"Village chief, the renminbi is the people's coin, Xu Laidi dared to throw our people's coins on the ground, this is too disrespectful to the people, the motherland, and the party, she won't be a spy, otherwise who will throw the renminbi on the ground."
Xu Laidi was so frightened that he turned around quickly, bent down and picked up the RMB one by one, and handed it to Cheng Qiao respectfully after smoothing it out, Cheng Qiao took it and counted them one by one.
"It's a total of one hundred and one cents and two cents and six cents here, and you still owe me eighteen dollars and eight cents."
"Isn't it one hundred and ten yuan, four cents and six cents, how can it be one hundred and one and two cents and six cents."
Xu Laidi exclaimed, the difference is not one cent or two cents, but thirteen yuan and two cents, if you buy sorghum noodles, three cents a catty, that can buy more than 400 catties.
"How do I know, the money was scattered by you, picked up by you, and put in my hands, but I will treat it as your face, no, it is the face of the old folks and the village head, or you can count it again."
Cheng Qiao handed the money to Brother Xu Lai, Brother Xu quickly took it, and counted them one by one, Cheng Qiao sneered in her heart, she had already seen a piece of ten big black and now she was still stepping on Aunt Wang's feet.
There were also three pieces of one piece that were quickly picked up by the three children, and during the time she was counting the money, the children all ran away, and Aunt Wang also pretended to play with shoes and hid the money in her pants pocket.
Brother Xu Lai counted three times, and made sure that what Cheng Qiao said was true, and he regretted that he wanted to slap himself in the mouth, so he first stuffed the money into Cheng Qiao's hand, and then found it on the ground.
"There's a dime here."
An aunt with sharp eyes saw a dime blown to the side of the stone by the wind, and hurriedly picked it up, Xu Laidi quickly rushed over and snatched the dime from her hand.
"There's a dime here, too."
A little girl held a dime in her hand, but she covered her mouth with her hand with regret, secretly hating herself for being so screaming, otherwise the money would be her own.
Xu Laidi rushed over again, pinched the money in his hand, but looked at every villager with sharp eyes, always feeling that they had picked up their own money.
"Village chief, you still can't divide the grain, our family is still waiting for the rice to go to the pot."
The aunt of the Wang family was a little afraid to look at Brother Xu Lai, and hurriedly shouted at the top of her voice, she took the lead, and the villagers nodded again and again, eating is important, who cares about these bad things of educated youth.
"Xu Zhiqing, you still owe my daughter-in-law thirteen yuan and two cents, remember to pay it back, otherwise I will come to your Zhiqing Point to get something."
Li Huan looked at Brother Xu Lai coldly, his tone was very bad, and he scared Brother Xu Lai back several times, and suddenly remembered that he had two cents all over his body, how should he live in the future.
"Village chief, I only have these two cents, do you want me to starve to death?"
"If you borrow money from others, of course you have to pay it back, what does it mean to starve you to death, you have to pay attention to your words."
Chen Weidang is unhappy, what the hell is going on with this female intellectual, how can she wear a hat for herself casually.
"Xu Zhiqing, when we all finish receiving food, if there is more, you can borrow a little grain from the village, if you want to pay it off as soon as possible, the reservoir will be repaired in a week, twelve centimeters a day, and three meals will be included, you can sign up."
Although Cuihua also hated Brother Xu Lai, but Brother Xu wanted to wear a hat for his man, of course she disagreed, and as soon as her eyes rolled, she thought of repairing the reservoir.
This work is very hard and tiring, and women in the village have always been unable to participate as long as they have stuttering at home, and those who can participate will be given the title of "Iron Lady".
"Repair the reservoir, I can't do it, I'll die of cold."
Xu Laidi refused, every winter in the countryside, water conservancy will be built, and the village will also let people consciously sign up to participate, those young and strong laborers will generally rush to sign up in order to eat enough and make more money.
"It's better to die of cold than starvation, you can do it yourself, you are lazy and greedy, and you don't know the hearts of good people."
Cuihua lowered her face, turned around and left, and the villagers no longer paid attention to Brother Xu Lai, and quickly began to divide the grain, Mother Li and Li Legong did not divide much, they all changed the coarse grain, and let Li Huan go home.
"From this afternoon onwards, my family is going to build a house, and any of you who have time can come and help, I will pack two meals a day, and pay five cents for wages, and those who have adobe and wood at home will also bring it, and I can exchange it for food."
Li Huan held the food in her hand, opened her throat and shouted, the aunt of the Wang family was the first to raise her hand, she can help Li's mother cook, there is no salary for cooking, but there is food to eat.
Cuihua also raised her hand, the children in the family are also older, and everyone who can make money will go out for me to make money, otherwise where will I get the money to marry a wife.
In less than three minutes, Li Huan already had more than a dozen young adults in his hands sign up, and even Jiang Guangrong from the educated youth point has also signed up, envying Chen Dazhu who is in the back, if he has money in his hands, where does he need to work so hard.
"Cheng Qiao, let's help you cook, we don't want money, just give you a meal."
Zhang Yuefang took Han Chunmei's hand and came over, Cheng Qiao has always been generous, she will definitely not treat the person who helped her build the house.
Cheng Qiao pursed his lips and smiled, as long as the building materials are in place in the adobe houses in the countryside, it will only take a week to make the inside and out neat.
And now that there are so many people helping, it seems that it can be completed in three or four days, and she will be able to justifiably take out food from the space in these days.
Zhang Yuefang was very happy when she saw Cheng Qiao nodding, and took Han Chunmei's hand and returned to the team, they were already discussing what gift to give to Cheng Qiao, but they were married.
Chen Weidang smiled comfortably, those young adults helped Li Huan finish the house, and just participated in the construction of the reservoir, which did not delay them in making money at all.
Chen Weimin was very entangled in his heart, he also wanted to help the second-rate son build a house, five cents a day, and two yuan in four days, enough for him to buy a few cigarettes to smoke.
But he can't pull this face, he blames his own daughter, why is he pushing Cheng Zhiqing to do it, but then again, if it weren't for his own daughter, would a second-rate son marry Cheng Qiao.
"It's not a penny, the fellows are waiting."
Chen Weidang glanced at his younger brother and shook his head in his heart, this younger brother has been like this since he was a child, he cares too much about personal gains and losses, so he gains less and loses more.
"Village chief, can I ask you to help on the day of Shangliang, you are this from our village, you can't be there if you don't show up."
Li Huan walked to Chen Weidang's side, gave him a thumbs up, and sincerely invited him to take the lead in his new house.
Chen Weidang smiled and nodded, Shangliang is a big deal, of course he has to pick the beam as a village head, and his eyes when he looks at Li Huan are also a lot better, this guy still has eyes.