Early the next morning, Li Xiangyang came to Yang Dingbang's house, and the two of them went to the Public Security Bureau to drive a truck and parked it in front of Lin Lan's house.
The Yang family's uncles all went to Yang Dingbang's house and helped move the usable furniture and pots and jars into the car.
Lin Lan and Yang Liying helped the old lady put the chickens, ducks and geese into the cages, then moved them to the car and put them away.
The old lady looked at the old house she had lived in for decades and wiped away tears.
Yang Dingbang stepped forward with a cane and hugged the old lady: "Don't be sad, the road to talent cultivation is not far from here. If you feel homesick, we will come back and have a look." He paused and continued, "Both chickens and ducks are here.
It’s been loaded onto the car, and a chicken coop, duck pen, goose pen, and vegetable garden have been built over there. Your stay there will be the same as here!”
The old lady wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked at him and said with a smile: "Okay! Grandma is not sad. Grandma is happy. I didn't expect that I can go to the small western-style house where the rich man lives and raise chickens, ducks and vegetables."
"That's right, let's go to the small foreign-style building to grow vegetables!" Yang Dingbang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the old lady smiling.
Using a cane, he helped the old lady walk towards the train.
He Xianghua and several uncles were standing in the carriage, supporting several large pieces of furniture.
Li Xiangyang led the old lady into the cab of the truck, and then got in with Yang Dingbang. He went to the driver's seat and sat down.
The old lady said to Lin Lan and those who were seeing her off: "We'll go over first, and you can come up behind."
"I understand, uncle!" Everyone smiled and waved.
Li Xiangyang waved to Lin Lan, stepped on the accelerator and drove away.
After Yang Dingbang and the others left, Yang Meihua sent the old pumpkins she had received from her parents' home in the past few days to Lin Lan's house.
Yang Meihua went back this time and collected more than a thousand kilograms of old pumpkins.
Lin Lan calculated in his mind that these pumpkins could be used until the beginning of spring at most. Before the next season's pumpkins come out, Lin Guoliang and the others had to rely on Lin Guoliang and others to harvest them from Shilian.
Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang helped Yang Dingbang move in the morning, and after collecting the stall in the afternoon, the family went to Yang Liying's house for dinner, and spent Saturday busy.
On December 31st, the Liu family held a wedding ceremony for Liu Jinbao to marry him, and the dowry from the woman's family was also sent to the Liu family.
When Sun Xiuhua looked at the dowry, her face suddenly sank and she almost cursed.
Liu Jinbao had no scruples. Pointing to a few beddings and a few porcelain basins, he fell out on the spot and scolded the woman's family for selling their daughter instead of marrying her.
The bride's bridegroom looked at Liu Jinbao and said that if it weren't for the money and things, a second-rate guy like him would have no choice but to be a bachelor.
Liu Jinbao jumped eight feet high, and the two families would have started fighting if Liu Guozhi hadn't stopped him.
People on the team spread the news that day, saying that Liu Jinbao was given several hundred yuan as a gift for his family, as well as a betrothal gift that was given three times a day. When the new daughter-in-law came in, she was given a few quilts and not even a piece of decent furniture.
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The woman said that the girl was good-looking and had graduated from junior high school. Her parents had raised her and kept the money and the money to honor her parents.
Liu Jinbao clamored for the woman to withdraw the bride price and divorce her, but Liu Guozhi suppressed him.
On New Year's Day, the Liu family held a wedding banquet and got married.
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In the blink of an eye, 79 years passed. Lin Lan ushered in her second year in another world, 1980.
On the morning of January 2, the working group sent by the municipal government to preside over the household responsibility system went to the first team of Lexing Brigade together with the commune leaders to preside over the implementation of the household responsibility system.
The working group sat together with commune leaders, brigade cadres, representatives of the second and third squads, as well as representatives of the construction brigade and other production teams, brigade cadres, and representatives of commune members, in the conference room of the Lexing brigade. A small team was conducting a pilot project, and they came
Observe and learn.
The conference room is about the same size as a primary school classroom, and the layout inside is similar to that of a classroom, with a large blackboard, a row of wooden tables, and rows of long benches.
The benches were already filled with household heads and members of the first team, the second team, the third team, and some members of the construction team. The members who could not enter the venue all crowded in the doors and windows to watch.
Lin Lan sat with Yang Liying and Yang Meihua and listened to the comrades of the working group read out many documents and talk about the importance and benefits of the household responsibility system.
When Lin Lan heard this, she remembered that in the past, the public grains had to be delivered twice a year, one season of rapeseed and one season of rice. The rice should be sun-dried until it is the dryest and crunchy when chewed. There should be no gravel or any impurities. The grains should be full and golden in color.
Not a single dent, not a trace of odor.
Rapeseed must be dry, plump, and free of impurities to be considered a qualified public grain.
Half of the public grains handed in are used to offset agricultural taxes, and the other half are handed over to the state free of charge.
Lin Lan remembered that the four members of her family had more than four acres of farmland, not counting their own land. They had to pay thousands of kilograms of rice and several sacks of rapeseed, and they had to bring an extra hundred or ten kilograms of grain each time to prevent trouble.
Hand over the best food and keep the second-best food for yourself.
Hybrid rice has a high yield, with a well-grown yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu. Conventional rice has a low yield, with a well-grown yield of only about 700 to 800 kilograms per mu. This is an area with good soil quality in Pingba. In areas with poor land, the yield is still up to 1,000 kilograms.
Less than this output.
It is not easy to hand over public grain. The grain that is handed in must be graded, and not all the grain taken to the grain station can pass the inspection. Once the grain inspector says that the grain is unqualified, it can only be taken home and dried again.
Send it to the grain station to hand over the grain.
Some commune members' homes are too far away from the commune's grain station, and it's inconvenient to go back and forth for several days. They can only choose to dry them in the grain station's dam. It's fine when the weather is good, but when the weather is bad, there are really no tears.
At that time, the grain station staff had the absolute right to manipulate the members who turned in the public grain. They had a strong sense of superiority over the members who turned in the public grain.
Fortunately, my parents were smart and secretly stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the food every time they handed in the public food. They passed the test every time, and if they were lucky, they could even be rated as first-class food.
Lin Lan will never forget the arrogant and bossy attitude of the grain station staff, especially when facing those honest and honest members, which is no different from Huang Shiren's treatment of tenants in the movie.
Now in 1980, there are still more than 20 years before agricultural taxes, retention fees and various miscellaneous fees are exempted.
Over the past twenty years, farmers have had to pay agricultural taxes and deductions every year, and they have had to pay more and more miscellaneous fees. Life has been just as difficult for families with conservative and rigid ideas.
Thinking of this, Lin Lan suddenly didn't want this rural household registration. Food was not expensive. Wouldn't it be delicious to make money to buy food?
"Lin Lan, Liu Guozhi has started to speak on stage!" Yang Liying said and turned her around. "What are you thinking about? You didn't even hear me!"
Lin Lan woke up and said, "I was distracted!"
Yang Meihua lowered her voice and joked with a smile: "Did you just fall asleep with your eyes open?"
Lin Lan smiled and shook his head: "I'm thinking about something! Listen carefully to what Liu Guozhi said!"
Yang Meihua nodded, and everyone looked at the stage.