The adobe courtyard wall is painted with red paint, "The vast world is great, and it has great achievements" and "realize the four modernizations of socialism" and other words. A wooden sign with white paint is hung next to the rusted iron fence gate, with the words "Shangma Commune Jianhua Brigade" written on it.

At this time, there was no such thing as towns. Townships and governments were called communes and villages were called brigades. This term even continued to some rural areas in the 21st century, and it was still the same term.

Several rough houses were the team headquarters. Jiang Xiaobai pushed open the door and walked in. There was no need to greet a group of people. Wang Xiaojun took out the white porcelain jar from the team headquarters and poured water for everyone.

Immediately afterwards, the village secretary Huang Zhongfu also brought people in, and the two sides immediately began to get tense again.

"Secretary, you understand the most righteousness. You have to make the decision for us educated youth. We are actively responding to the call of the country and coming to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants, not to learn lessons."

A tall and thin young man among the educated youth stood up, with his thin face wearing a pair of eyes, but his overall appearance was not a bit gentle, but instead he looked even more pointed.

"Liu Aiguo, you fart..." Village accountant Goudan immediately opened his mouth and cursed.

"Secretary, look, the accountant is still scolding us in front of you. Am I wrong? Look at them who beat me, and they are all green and purple." Liu Aiguo interrupted the village accountant.

"Yes, Secretary, I have blood flowing like nosebleeds. If you have any opinions on our educated youth or the government's policies, you can mention it." Liu Feng continued.

"You..." The village accountant's face turned red with anger. He couldn't stand the hat that he had objections to the government.

"That's right, secretary, he also discriminates against us women's comrades. The Chairman has long said that we women's comrades can stand half the sky. You don't listen to the Chairman." A girl with a ponytail among several female educated youth also stood up and said unwilling to be outdone.

If you talk about farm work, these educated youth from the city will definitely be inferior to village accountants. However, if you talk about being verbally quarrel, the village accountant is no match for it. The hat is bigger than the other, and the village accountant is buzzing.

"Yes, if we don't give an explanation today, we will go to the commune to find the leader."

"Yes, the commune is looking for leaders."

"Yes, look for the commune leader."

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More than a dozen educated youth shouted, "It's very imposing, Jiang Xiaobai didn't know. It's obvious that everyone hasn't had much full meal these days, so why do you have so much strength? Did you steal it when I was asleep in the middle of the night?

Huang Zhongfu glared at the village accountant Goudan with hatred, frowned tightly, and looked at Jiang Xiaobai with help. On the way here just now, Huang Zhongfu had already roughly understood what happened.

This matter is not big or small. If this group of educated youths really make trouble in the commune, his face will not look good, and the village accountant will suffer even more.

When Jiang Xiaobai saw Huang Zhongfu's gaze, he raised his hand. The shouting behind him stopped immediately. Village accountant Goudan also looked at Jiang Xiaobai with anticipation, hoping that Jiang Xiaobai could speak a fair word.

"Secretary, the accountant is exploiting our educated youth. Is this still a communist society? Isn't this a capitalist? Only capitalists exploit it."

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile, but the words in his mouth made Huang Zhongfu and Goudan shudder. Although the others were so slapped and had big hats, they were actually just a fight, and the others were not tenable.

At this time, if you fight in the countryside, it will be hard to say, and you will fight after it. But how long has the class struggle lasted at this time? Capitalism is unbearable.

"Xiaobai, this is serious. Goudan is just a moment of confusion. I ask him to apologize to you and then make up for the fewer work points for you," Huang Zhongfu said, "But Xiaobai, you must also understand Goudan. You are all intellectuals. You also understand the situation of Jianhua Brigade. You are so poor that you can't get rid of the blame. Now that you educated youth have even opened their mouths to eat, it makes it even more difficult for the village..."

Huang Zhongfu said, and the educated youth also fell silent. This is also the truth. The Jianhua Brigade was not originally located in the area, and a large part was still mountainous and had little harvest.

It is indeed a huge burden to have dozens of extra people at once.

Jiang Xiaobai was also silent. After rebirth, although he didn't eat well when he was at home in Longcheng and had no oil or water, he could still fill his meal.

But after I went to the Jianhua Brigade, I was really hungry and I had never eaten enough. This is not just the educated youth. People in the village are like this. It is now June and July, and all kinds of wild vegetables in the mountains can also be used to make a stomachache.

I heard from the people in the village that if we wait until March and April of each year, it would be the real hard days.

"In many villages, one or two people earn labor points to support a family of 5 or 6 people. The labor points in our village are not worth much. Last year, a labor point is only 10 cents. Now you have a dozen people at once, and each person has a labor point every day. You can earn more than 200 labor points a year. You 15 people have more than 3,000 labor points, and the labor points in our village are even more worthless."

Huang Zhongfu took off the dry tobacco pipe hanging on his chest, lit the fire and took a sip, and the room was immediately filled with a pungent smell.

The output value of the village remains unchanged, but the labor points have become more expensive, so of course the labor points are even more valuable. To put it bluntly, it is inflation. Of course, there is no such statement yet.

But a group of educated youth were all those who had gone to school, so of course they could understand Huang Zhongfu's statement.

The anger and grievance on the faces of a group of educated youth disappeared, and no one mentioned the words of going to the commune to make trouble. At this time, people were still very simple. There was no such mentality that whether you die or not depends on me or not. I just want to live a good life, but Jiang Xiaobai looked at Huang Zhongfu deeply, what a fox.

I was wondering just now, how could the village accountant dare to deduct the work points of the educated youth without permission? It turned out that there was someone behind the scenes.

I guess what happened today is Huang Zhongfu's test of the educated youth. If the educated youth did not make trouble and accepted it, it would probably be a routine in the future.

But it is obvious that the educated youth are making a big fuss now, and it will not work if they are forced. They can only explain it with emotion and reason.

Jiang Xiaobai figured out that he figured out what happened today, but there was no good idea. The reality is here.

Are the educated youth wrong? No. Is Huang Zhongfu wrong? Is it impossible to say. What may be wrong is this era, but what is wrong is that everyone is too poor.

One reason why educated youth went to the countryside was to reduce the burden on cities, but the countryside was originally poor, so the burden was even heavier now.

Jiang Xiaobai was pondering...
Chapter completed!