"Secretary of the Party Committee, in previous years all the model workers were gay, but this year the model workers will be lesbians. Isn't that good?"
"Daughter-in-law, Changgen, you are wrong." The party secretary said with a smile, "Now in the new society, men and women are equal. What's more, the leaders say that women can hold up half the sky. Therefore, there has never been a distinction between men and women in the selection of model workers. In previous years in our village
The reason why the candidates are all gay men is because gay men work hard, work hard, and perform well. But this year everyone has seen that although Xu Yin is a lesbian, her performance is even better than that of gay men.
Who should she recommend? Everyone thinks it’s right?”
"right--"
The matter of being a model worker was thus settled.
Xu Laosan was even happier than Xu Yin, as if he was the one who was elected as a model worker. He took out the filtered cigarettes that he was reluctant to smoke and distributed them to several villagers with whom he had good friendships.
What's even more exciting is yet to come - his family's food distribution in the first half of the year ranks first in the entire brigade.
What does the first echelon mean? - There are several people in a family, and almost everyone gets full work points.
Xu Yin's family of three worked in the fields to earn work points. Xu Laosan got full work points and Chen Huilan got 7 work points. Xu Yin got double full work points during the double grab, making up for Chen Huilan's shortfall. Calculated in this way, the average per capita of her family of three is almost reaching
10 work points.
Together with several other families with strong labor force and wealth, they were promoted to the first echelon.
What an incredible thing!
The villagers who did not squeeze into the first echelon looked at Xu Laosan with envy.
Not to mention the daughters, even the young and powerful sons in their family cannot get double work points.
Unexpectedly, Xu Laosan, who gave birth to three daughters, would enjoy such a blessing!
Under the envious eyes of everyone, Xu Laosan pushed the cart full of grain home.
Of course, the person pushing the trolley is Xu Yin.
He and his wife walked on both sides of the cart, majestic and high-spirited, escorting home the food they had earned after half a year of hard work.
"I'm going to pound the rice! I'm going to pound the new rice! I'll eat the new rice tonight!"
As soon as he got home, Xu Laosan took the rice bag and then headed to the brigade headquarters with a basket of millet.
There is a large public stone mill there, which is used by each family to grind rice.
Xu Laosan was worried that he would have to queue up if he arrived late. After all, who doesn’t want to try this year’s new rice, so he walked in a hurry.
"Ouch--"
I was busy walking and didn't pay attention to my steps. I stepped on a round stone and slipped. I fell to the side.
Oops! Oops! The grain is about to be sown!
He said anxiously.
Just when he was about to fall, someone ran over to catch him and held the basket firmly.
Xu Laosan let out a long breath and patted his chest to soothe his frightened heart.
"Thank you, young man! It was almost over!"
Xu Chengjin smiled lightly: "You're welcome, it's all a matter of hands."
"Oh, you are still a cultural person!"
What Xu Laosan admires the most in his life are intellectuals, otherwise he would not send his two daughters to study.
It's a pity that the second daughter is not scholarly. She went to elementary school for five years and didn't know anything about it. After graduating from elementary school, she got two thirty points in the exam. He was so angry that he almost beat her with a broom. Now he is counting on his younger daughter. I hope
She is bookish.
"Young man is an educated youth, right?"
Xu Laosan saw that he was elegant and well-dressed, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt on his upper body, a pair of dark navy trousers on his lower body, and a pair of down-to-earth thousand-layer cloth shoes on his feet, but he was actually wearing socks.
Ouch!
On such a hot day, even his wife wears a set of cloth shoes when she goes out. Which man wears socks?
Tsk!
Xu Laosan sighed in his heart: The educated youth from the city are different! They pay attention to people!
"Well, uncle is going to grind rice?"
"Yes, yes! We have distributed the grain today. Let's go and pound some new rice to try it." Mr. Xu said excitedly, "My daughter's cooking is delicious. If she makes it with new rice, it will definitely taste better! By the way, you guys
Didn’t the Educated Youth Station distribute food today?”
Seeing that the other party had empty hands, he asked casually.
Xu Chengjin shook his head: "Not yet, I said it would be tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"Come on, come on, I'll treat you to some new rice."
In front of him was the brigade headquarters. Xu Laosan held him back and asked him to wait for a while.
"If you hadn't helped me, the basket would have overturned and the grains would have been scattered all over the ground, and I don't know how long it would have taken to pick them up. So you helped me a lot."
Xu Laosan grabbed the first one to grind rice, and in a hurry, he ground five or six kilograms first, put it into a rice bag, and stuffed the rice bag into Xu Chengjin's arms: "Take it! You're welcome!"
"..."
Xu Chengjin has been in the countryside for two years, and this is the first time he has met such enthusiastic villagers.
No one is rich these days, so why don’t you hide some food?
Even if he just gave him a hand to prevent him from falling, a thank you is enough. Is it necessary to repay him with the rice pounded from this year's new crop? And how many kilograms of rice are given each time.
Xu Laosan is mainly in a good mood today:
My daughter was elected as a model worker in the brigade and will go to the commune to attend the model worker commendation meeting in a few days. The food she received was also included in the first echelon of the brigade, which is a great honor.
All these are happy things.
In addition, it was indeed a dangerous situation just now. If the young man hadn't helped him, he would have definitely fallen. The basket containing the grains was also designated to tip over. Even if not a single grain fell, it would still take a lot of effort to catch up with the first one.
Do you want to grind rice? Of course not! Maybe I will be at the end of the queue, and then I won’t be able to catch up with my daughter to make dinner.
Therefore, Xu Laosan did not hesitate to give the other person a few kilograms of rice to express his gratitude.
"Take it, take it! It's getting late, go back quickly!"
He waved his hand and continued to grind rice.
The only rice bag was given to the young man who was an educated youth. Fortunately, there was a villager he was friends with in the queue behind him. I even smoked a cigarette from him when sharing the food. I borrowed a rice bag and used it, and he gave it back to me when I got home.
On the other side, Xu Yin went to cut vegetables in her own plot. Aunt Chunhua, who was passing by, said that her father almost fell down. She was worried and trotted to the brigade headquarters.
"Dad, are you okay?"
"What can happen to me? This is not good! Why are you here?"
"I heard from Aunt Chunhua that you almost fell. I'm worried about you. Come and take a look."
Now that they have arrived, Xu Yin is not busy going home and takes over from Xu Laosan to push the stone roller.
"I'll push it. You can rest for a while. Which of your ankles are sprained? Are you really okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" Xu Laosan jumped twice to show her, "Look, there's nothing wrong at all."
Xu Yin felt relieved.
People around me praised: "Lao San, your daughter is so filial!"
"You are both capable and filial. I don't know which young man will be better off in the future."
"The third child is so lucky!"
"That's that!" Xu Laosan laughed so hard that crow's feet appeared.
Outside the brigade headquarters, Xu Chengjin, who had not gone far, looked back at Xu Yin, who was being crushed in the crowd.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her peaceful face, making her pretty face even brighter.
He looked away and smiled in his heart: What are you thinking!
The word "quiet years" is destined to have nothing to do with him, a person walking in darkness.
The hands are heavy.
He looked down at the rice bag held in his left hand, and the coldness in his eyes faded considerably.