May 16, March 29 of the lunar calendar.

Everything, no taboos.

Chen Fan rode past the edge of the field on horseback, two dogs chasing me in front, the foal was having fun with them, and the falcon swept overhead, startling a group of sparrows, and they scattered and fled.

The women were pulling the barnyard grass in the field, and when someone heard the movement, raised his head and lifted his straw hat, he shouted, "Teacher Chen, go to work." ”

Chen Fan smiled and waved his hand, "I haven't been there for almost half a month, and if I don't go to work again, I'm afraid I'll lose my work." ”

He was busy building a house during this time, Zhang Cui'e was on top of the radio station, she was doing the work, and Chen Fan was taking the work, and he was not even comfortable shaking his hands in the shopkeeper.

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of laughter around him.

"Who dares to fire you?"

"Xiao'e hasn't left the school yet, so if you drive the master away, the little master can't take over the shift, that's funny."

"Still the little master can't take over the shift? wanted to drive Teacher Chen away, but Xiao'e was the first to refuse. ”

"Not only Xiao'e doesn't agree, but the girls from any family don't agree, how many people are worried about Teacher Chen."

"Hey, Teacher Chen, our girl from Lujiawan, which one do you like?"

One after another ridiculous words came, Chen Fan said that he shouldn't be joking.

In terms of divergent thinking, these aunts are natural gods!

Chen Fan rode on a tall horse, decisively decided to change the topic, and pointed to a rice field not far away, "The seedlings over there seem to be a lot taller, is the fertilizer used different?" ”

The place he said was Jiang Lili's Zhiqingtian where they were working.

Hearing Chen Fan's words, Jiang Lili and the others all straightened up and looked up at him.

On the other side, someone was returning to his words, "Over there is Zhiqing Field, the seedlings are much taller, and the fertilizer used is the same, but the rice species are different, that is hybrid rice." ”

Someone immediately answered, "This hybrid rice looks different, the rice stalks are much taller." ”

"I didn't want to grow hybrid rice before, but now I see that the growth is quite good."

"I just don't know how the suike is, don't be an empty pole."

"It's almost fast, after a few days of tasseling, you can see whether there are many empty shells, if there are not many, planting this is much more cost-effective than planting the original rice seeds."

Listening to the voice in his ears, Chen Fan couldn't help but smile slightly.

Of course, he knew that it was hybrid rice, and he just wanted to change the topic.

However, I am also very happy to see that the villagers are slowly accepting hybrid rice.

Hybrid rice is a watershed in China's agriculture, before that, even if the wind and rain are smooth, a bumper harvest, it can only be said that we can barely guarantee "food and clothing", after having high-yield hybrid rice, not only the grain production will increase, but also the animal husbandry industry will also get a huge development, "to get rich with agriculture", it is really possible.

Chen Fan raised his head and looked at Zhiqingtian, just in time to see Jiang Lili in the rice field also looking here, he couldn't help grinning, and was about to speak, when he saw a row of carts in front of him turning from behind a small dirt slope not far away.

Chen Fan looked carefully, immediately drove forward, waited closer, stopped Mahler, looked at the rapeseed piled up on the cart, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Is the rapeseed already ripe?" ”

He hadn't seen enough of the canola blossoms yet.

Jiangnan Province is one of the key rapeseed oil producing areas in the country, and almost every production team in the province will grow rapeseed.

Different from the large areas of rapeseed fields in later generations, the agricultural technology at this time was relatively backward, the contradiction between rape and rice "stubble" was not solved, and the technology of "oil rice rotation" was naturally not studied.

In order to ensure a good grain yield, under the policy of "grain first", the best paddy fields are planned to be used to grow rice, and only small quantities of wheat and rape are planted on the slightly less flat dry land, and miscellaneous grains are grown in the more barren areas.

However, there are many paddy fields and few dry fields in Lujiawan, so there are naturally not many rapeseed planted.

If you are in the Qingshan Commune next door, you can see a large area of rape fields, and most of the rapeseed handover tasks in Gufeng County every year are undertaken by the Qingshan Commune, and the other communes only need to divide the remaining tasks.

So a little task, just dozens of acres of rape fields can be completed, and the extra will naturally be distributed by the team, and most of the rapeseed harvested on the "wasteland" that is not counted is distributed to the members.

Therefore, in this area, the ration of grain and oil for rural people is higher than that of urban residents, and it is several times higher.

If it weren't for the fact that the price of food was too low and the price of industrial products was too high, the standard of living here would have risen to two levels, to say the least.

Jiang Lili told him before that many educated youths do not buy meat and fish during the Chinese New Year, and rely on the bacon and bacon distributed to them by the production team to have a good New Year.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the people who have lived here for generations have not had much ambition, and there has been little change in the past ten years since the reopening. It wasn't until the 90s, when I saw that others had made money by working, and the original mud-walled houses had become brick houses, and the old flat houses had become buildings, that a "tide of part-time work" suddenly arose.

At that time, the "land of fish and rice" only relied on some old people to support a little façade, but even so, it was guaranteed to complete the annual grain delivery task, which shows the wealth of this land.

Chen Fan shook his head, retracted his thoughts, and then looked at the rapeseed, which was full and firm, and at first glance it was a high-quality rapeseed.

When the first car was Captain Yang pulling the car, he saw Chen Fan, pulled the cart to the side of the road, let the car behind go first, then took off the straw hat fan, and said loudly, "This is winter rape, planted in winter, harvested at about this time, this batch matures relatively early, there are several batches behind, it is estimated that all the rape can be harvested before the double robbery." ”

Chen Fan had already turned over and dismounted, took out a cigarette and handed it over, lit it for him again, and then said with a puzzled face, "I feel that the rape has just bloomed, why do you have to harvest it?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Captain Yang laughed and coughed a few times in a row, pointed at him and laughed, "You are just like those young people who just came to join the queue, regardless of the day, they live in a daze, and when they eat oil, they know that they have harvested rapeseed." ”

Chen Fan coughed dryly, "I call it grasping the big and letting go of the small, only grasping the main contradictions, knowing when to breed, transplant seedlings, and when to harvest rice, and everything else is not important." ”

"Not important?"

Captain Yang squinted at him, "It's not important, then you don't eat oil?!" ”

Chen Fan laughed dryly, "It's not important, it's not that you don't." ”

Then he threw the cigarette butt into the ditch, turned over and got on the horse, "You're busy, I'm going to work." ”

After finishing speaking, he urged the horse to run, leaving only Captain Yang shaking his head and laughing.

Riding a horse and carrying all the dust all the way to Team 5, an old man who had not gone to work immediately walked out of the door and shouted at Chen Fan, "Teacher Chen is coming to work." ”

Chen Fan is full of black lines, I skipped work for half a month, there is no need to hype it.

Fortunately, not everyone paid attention to whether he went to work or not, so an aunt humbly asked, "Mr. Chen, how much did it cost to build your house?" ”

It's finally here!

Chen Fan immediately slashed his sword, and the little mare stood up, kicked his two front legs, and let out a neigh.

He had been thinking about this question for ten days, and he was going to give the answer he thought was most appropriate.

He rode on a horse, his right waist was a flowery mouth that he won from Zhang Wenliang, and his left waist was a PPK he bought, and on the saddle hung a hand-made Bailian horizontal knife, the handle and scabbard were a straight piece of wood, which looked like a wooden stick from a distance.

The little mare fell to the ground, Chen Fan put on the most handsome posture, and said the most bitter words, "Alas, ......"

Before the words came out, he let out a long sigh, "You don't know, just to build this house, I lost a lot!" ”

Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen women and old people had already gathered around him, looking at him curiously.

The aunt just now immediately asked, "Is it a big loss?" What do you mean? ”

Surrounded by so many people, Chen Fan couldn't continue to sit on the horse, so he could only turn over and dismount, and then began to flicker, "Don't say anything else, the green bricks alone have consumed all the bricks I have saved in the past few months, and more than 40,000 bricks have been shared, that is, these bricks are slowly burned by myself, if I go to the brick factory to buy them, it will be more than 1,200 yuan!" This is still calculated according to the price of red bricks, and I don't know how much a green brick sells for. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was immediately a lot of discussion around them.

"Wow, more than 1200? It's enough to build three brick houses. ”

"Isn't it, a brick house with four ears is only about 1,000 yuan, or counting the labor fee and the banquet, this is a lot."

"What's more, you can add a set of good furniture, 48 legs!"

A piece of furniture is generally 4 legs, 48 legs, that is 12 pieces of furniture, a big family!

Hearing the discussion of the aunts, the corners of Chen Fan's mouth hooked slightly, and he quickly lowered his face, and continued with a bitter face, "Isn't it, and you can't only use bricks to build a house, I bought 20 bags of cement, and I bought several bundles of steel bars for building prefabricated panels, which is still a favor for the security cadres."

The cadres have all said that just this time, his face has been used up, and there is no more, so let me not look for him again. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately dispelled the idea that some people wanted to ask Chen Fan to help buy reinforced concrete.

As for asking Chen Fan to burn bricks?

Who has such an idea?!

Mr. Chen burned bricks for his own use in order to build his own house, do you really use him as the master of the brick factory?

Have you ever sold a brick?

In short, burning bricks is just Mr. Chen's last resort in order to build a house, if you have money, you can go to the brick factory to buy it, if you don't have money, you can find a way to burn it yourself, burning bricks is not pottery, as long as you don't burn into a pinched black brick, you can burn red bricks after a few more attempts.

Even if the red bricks are not as durable as the green bricks, why are you embarrassed to trouble Mr. Chen?

The aunts here are already half cold in their hearts, and Teacher Chen is still pouring cold water over there.

"Ask the master of the construction team to build a house, the contract fee for a small brick house is 80 to start, you want to build a three-bedroom two-living room, or a four-bedroom one-living room, that is 100 foundations.

After the end, there is still a meal fee, this tobacco and alcohol can't be missing, let's ask the villagers to help, can we still treat people badly? Anyway, I spent more than 1,000 yuan on meals in those ten days.

Of course, my standards are a bit high, but the masters of the construction team don't need money to come and help, can I still treat them badly? I simply used the labor fee to pay for the meal. Remove this stubble, shorten it by a few more days, and think it will cost two or three hundred yuan anyway.

After the end, there is also lime for plastering the walls inside, cement or fermented soil for the exterior walls, triad soil and floor tiles for paving, glass on the windows, furniture inside and out, and then a kitchen and toilet ,......"

After a calculation, Chen Fan roughly estimated, "If it is according to the standard of my house, it will cost more than 4,000 yuan." ”

4000？

Men, women, old and young, more than a dozen people looked at Chen Fan with wide eyes.

Are you sure you're talking about 4000?

Chen Fan immediately coughed dryly and made the final summary performance, "Therefore, without the help of the villagers, without the help of the security cadres, and without the righteous actions of the masters of the construction team of Team 4, my house would definitely not have been built."

Even so, I have now spent all the money I have saved so hard, and I still owe a lot of work points to the team and the team, and I hope that the value of this year's work will be slightly higher, and by the end of the year, I can pay off the debt, or ......"

Chen Fan raised his head, his face was sad, and his phoenix eyes were full of tears, "It's going to be next year!" ”

It's miserable!

Under the sympathetic gaze of the villagers, Chen Fan led the horse and walked towards the brigade headquarters dejectedly.

Only a few bits and pieces of gossip are left, and I don't know how many days it will spread to the whole team, and how many days it will spread to the commune?

……

"You really don't have any money?"

Ye Shubao looked at him with wide eyes and security, Mr. Chen, who is known as the most able sideline in Lujiawan, has no money?

Chen Fan changed his comfortable posture, repeated what he had just said, then picked up the teacup, blew a few breaths of hot air, and took a sip of tea before raising his head and saying with a sad face, "Isn't it, to build such a big house, can you still have money left?" ”

He said and turned his head to look at safety, and raised his chin, "Brother An, you have seen the world, tell me, how much does it cost to build my house?" ”

Security is not built in a house, where does he know the inside story?

Not to mention him, even if he is the master of the construction team, he can't estimate an accurate number if he doesn't control it from beginning to end.

However, the approximate range can still be measured, and after a safety assessment, I felt that there should be no problem with Chen Fan's calculation, so he looked clear and said with a sigh on his face, "Since ancient times, it has been difficult for ordinary people to build houses, and it is difficult to build ,......houses."

As he spoke, he raised his head, looking like he hated iron but not steel, "You said that you are obviously alone, even if you become a family and give birth to a baby in the future, you won't need such a big building, look, it's overspending now." Why do you say you have nothing to do with building such a big house?! ”

said this as if he didn't know that Chen Fan was going to build a building before.

Chen Fan raised his head, his face was full of sorrow, "I am still young, I don't think about it, I think that I have such a big homestead, I built such a big house, I miscalculated!" ”

Ye Shubao looked at Chen Fan on the side, then at the safety, and then at Chen Fan, entangled for a moment, and said, "Or, those rabbits you sold to the brigade will give you some cash first?" ”

When Chen Fan heard this, he immediately waved his hand and refused righteously, "Then don't use it, I can't break the rules because I am alone, I can do whatever I want, the whole team is settled at the end of the year, how can I make an exception for me?!" ”

Just kidding, I finally created a debtor character, and if you give me a few hundred yuan in cash, doesn't that character collapse?!

It has to be.

(End of chapter)