Comparing myself with Zhang Fugui, they are like heaven and earth!
When the summer harvest comes, I am afraid that this piece of wealth can be divided into five hundred kilograms of staple food alone, right?
Can a little kid like him finish the meal?!!
Liu Sanmu looked at Fang Xiaoyue with eyes filled with envy, jealousy and hatred. He almost wanted to pounce on him and take a bite out of him.
After returning to the village and placing Fang Xiaoyue, the hammer and anvil outside the thatched house, Zhang Daniu went to the brigade headquarters to summon cadres to prepare to formalize Fang Xiaoyue's matter.
Of course, although Fang Xiaoyue has now become a repairman in the brigade, earning ten work points a day and killing many villagers, he still has to go up the mountain to find food every day, or go to Captain Zhang's house to have a meal.
No way, as I said before, these work points are not like wages. You can distribute the grain as soon as you get it, but you need to wait until after the summer harvest.
To be more precise, these work points are like shares. The more work points you have, the more shares you have during the summer harvest and the more grain you will receive.
In the next month, Fang Xiaoyue, the repairman, made Captain Zhang feel extremely radiant on his face.
The reason is very simple. After Fang Xiaoyue became slightly familiar with the blacksmith's craft, he also improved some of the repaired farm tools to make them more in line with human body mechanics, making the farm tools he repaired inexplicably comfortable and smooth to use in the hands of villagers.
What's more, there is a repairman in the village. When the villagers go out to visit relatives, they will brag about it, which makes the leaders of several nearby villages and brigade come here.
Naturally, there is some calculation on their part.
Taking farm equipment to the town for repair may seem like the same thing, but it is a considerable expense for each brigade.
Except for the Eighth Brigade, which can use their connections to gain a little advantage, the other brigades go to repair shops to repair farm tools, and the repair shops will not charge half a penny less.
That is the system of the supply and marketing cooperative, and no one can violate it.
Besides, many times farm tools are temporarily broken and need to be used urgently, which is very troublesome.
It's too far to go to town and it's not cost-effective to walk there alone.
Now in Forsythia Village, the Eighth Brigade actually has its own repairmen, and these captains will naturally not let them go.
Compared with the far distance to go to town to repair farm tools, Captain Zhang's place is easy to talk to. The price is cheaper than the repair shop, and you can even get it on credit and settle the bill after the summer harvest!
It is conceivable that the business transaction model of credit can be very damaging to them.
In their minds, as long as they are on credit and don't need to pay cash or food now, it seems like they are taking a huge advantage.
Under such circumstances, people would come to the yard outside the thatched house from time to time, just like a farmer's market on a busy day.
"I haven't eaten meat for almost half a month."
Fang Xiaoyue was banging a broken sickle while thinking about things in her mind.
If people do not consume protein for a long time, problems will occur.
Fortunately for those villagers, there is not much farm work now. At most, they are summoned by the team leader to cut weeds in the fields.
But things are different here at Fang Xiaoyue. Every day is heavy physical work, and there is not enough protein supplement. Just corn cobs, potatoes, and some mushrooms are not enough at all.
Just when Fang Xiaoyue was thinking about whether to catch some fish in the river to supplement her supplies, Zhang Jianxin, the brigade clerk, ran over panting and informed Fang Xiaoyue to go to the brigade headquarters for a meeting.
Well, in fact, there are not many cadres in a brigade. The formal ones are the brigade captain, clerk, accountant, and militia company commander. Therefore, many times during meetings, the livestock herders and repairmen will be called. Multiple people will have multiple ideas.
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Things seemed to be urgent this time. By the time Fang Xiaoyue arrived at the brigade headquarters, a group of people were already sitting in the dilapidated lobby preparing for a meeting.
"Everyone is here? Jianxin starts roll call."
Zhang Daniu spoke seriously while sitting on a wooden chair with two cracks.
As the captain of a team, this is also a rare moment for him to show his majesty as a captain in serious situations.
Clerk Zhang Jianxin is a young man in his 20s. He is a veteran and is considered a rare talent in the village. Therefore, Zhang Daniu promoted him to a clerk the year before last to manage the brigade's documents and various writing work.
Compared with accountant Zhao Xiangdong, Zhang Jianxin is undoubtedly more energetic.
After the roll call, Zhang Daniu couldn't wait to call on the militia company commander Qian Yong to introduce the situation.
Militia company commander Qian Yong is a veteran who has fought in the war. Although he is older now and has a wrinkled face, he is still sonorous and powerful when he stands up to introduce the situation.
It turned out that while inspecting the young crops, Qian Yong discovered traces of wild boars.
For a village like Forsythia Village that relies on mountains, wild boars are undoubtedly the biggest scourge of agriculture, bar none!
Locusts should be more troublesome, but locust plagues rarely occur in Forsythia Village, but if wild boars appear, it will be a big trouble.
These wild boars appear in groups. Not only do they eat enough, they also like to roll around in the green seedlings. They can destroy several acres of green seedlings in one night!
The most terrible thing is that their well-developed sense of smell can find the newly planted potato seeds, dig them out and eat them.
As for whether they would be poisoned by this, Fang Xiaoyue guessed not.
How many fields in Forsythia Village can cause harm to them?
In fact, where Qian Yong found it, more than an acre of field had been destroyed. Many of the vigorously growing green seedlings were eaten to pieces, and more young seedlings were rolled over by wild boars and lay in the field.
Basically, don’t expect a harvest from your fields.
If Qian Yong hadn't called several nearby villagers to beat the washbasin hard to scare them, the group of wild boars would have caused trouble for a while before leaving.
After hearing Qian Yong's introduction, everyone sitting in the meeting at the brigade headquarters frowned.
This group of wild boars is quite large, with three large pigs and more than twenty small pigs.
Besides, as long as a wild boar discovers a food source, it is easy to recruit friends to bring in more wild boar herds.
After everyone discussed it, Zhang Daniu made the final decision.
Mobilize the whole village to take turns on duty and equip them with washbasins. If a group of wild boars is discovered, they will immediately alert the public.
At the same time, Zhang Daniu took the militia company commander Qian Yong to the town to report. The greatest hope lies here.
Even though Qian Yong holds the title of militia company commander, the militia company of the Eighth Brigade is not equipped with weapons.
In Zhang Daniu's opinion, the best way to deal with wild boars is to use thermal weapons.
Indeed, in the face of human thermal weapons, no matter how powerful the animal is, it is just a beating piece of meat.
Zhang Daniu went to town in the morning and came back at noon, bringing back some not-so-good news.
The town does support the Eighth Brigade in hunting wild boars, but the problem is that weapons control is now very strict. If you want to apply for weapons, you need to apply from the county to the military division.
This time delay is a bit long.
In other words, in a short period of time, Forsythia Village can only mobilize the masses and rely on itself to find ways to deal with the wild boars.
When Fang Xiaoyue heard the news, she couldn't help but think deeply.
Obviously, it will take some time to wait for support from the military division.
The review of application for weapons is checked at all levels.
Then you should also do your part.
Let's make some ground clamps.
This ground trap is a trap for larger beasts. It is a trap placed on the ground. Once an animal steps into the ground trap, the spring on the ground trap will contract violently, clamping the animal's legs severely.
Stay there so that it cannot escape.
Fang Xiaoyue searched around the yard, collected some hoe blades, sickles and other farm tools that were too damaged to be repaired, and threw them into the furnace for calcination.
After these farm tools are red-hot, they are picked out one by one, placed on the anvil and beaten continuously to fuse them and forge them into pieces of iron.
The iron block is then forged into embryonic parts such as springs and back arches.
That's when his shoddy toolbox comes in handy.
After some calculations, use a triangular file and drilling tool to adjust the embryonic parts or drill holes one by one, and finally assemble them to become an exquisite floor clamp.
These ground clamps are not big, only the size of a washbasin, but after being fixed on the ground, they can firmly clamp the ferocious wild boar!
After receiving the notice, Zhang Daniu ran over and took a look, and couldn't help but be amazed.
He used to think that Fang Xiaoyue could only repair some farm tools, but now it seems that this kid is quite capable.
He was even more delighted when the ground clamp easily cut off a wooden stick as thick as a finger.
Soon, under Zhang Daniu's arrangement, these ground clamps were placed on the animal path that the wild boars must pass when going down the mountain.
At the same time, several brigade cadres also went door-to-door to inform people not to go up the mountain during this period, and to place ground traps at the foot of the mountain to avoid injury.
The only thing that makes Zhang Daniu a little regretful is that the number of these ground clips is a little small, and Fang Xiaoyue tried his best to only build eight.
According to Zhang Daniu's idea, he had to surround the foot of the mountain with several circles of ground clamps so that he could sleep peacefully.
But the problem is, Fang Xiaoyue doesn't have that many scrapped farm tools here. It's impossible to use farm tools that can be repaired to make ground clamps, right?
As for asking the brigade to come forward to buy iron ingots, basically there is no need to think about it.
Among the eight brigades under Bencao Town, none of them are in good financial condition.
Take the Eighth Brigade as an example. It still owes some money to the supply and marketing cooperative.
After the ground clamps are installed, the effect is amazing.
The next morning after the arrangements were made, Fang Xiaoyue was woken up by the clerk Zhang Jianxin.
Before he reached the foot of the mountain with sleepy eyes, he saw Zhang Daniu and a group of villagers happily carrying several wild boars back.
"Fugui, you are the first to hunt the wild boar this time! When the pork is divided later, I will give you 10 kilograms!"
Zhang Daniu asked people to kill the pigs while promising a reward to Fang Xiaoyue.
The villagers couldn't help but look at Fang Xiaoyue with a little admiration.
After all, the reason why we can eat pork at home is because of the ground clamps made by others.