Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 104
Translated by Serena Love
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He Songbai touched his head embarrassedly and pressed down his smiling lips.
"It's good to be able to eat."
After he finished speaking, he brought out the white rice rolls and fed them to his grandma while it was hot. Grandma Li was not that old that she had to be fed by someone else, so she glared at her grandson.
He Songbai casually asked, "It seems that they all got up late today."
Grandma Li smiled and said, "They discussed something last night."
She sighed silently, "You are all very thoughtful children and have good thinking, unlike us..."
He Songbai didn't know about the land assignment matter that the people discussed last night, so when he suddenly heard his old grandmother's feelings, he only thought that she was thinking of his grandpa and father. He didn't know what to say for a while.
Grandma Li remained silent for a long time, then said, "Go rest. I don't want you to wait for me here."
He Songbai put down the bowl and quickly returned to his room to sleep. At night, he took advantage of the "study time" to ask his girlfriend what happened last night.
In all seriousness, Zhao Lanxiang said, "Do you know what is going on in the brigade these days?"
He Songbai nodded.
He Songbai pondered for a moment, and his thick brows tightened tightly.
Zhao Lanxiang secretly wrote a piece of paper and handed it to him.
"Family contract responsibility system?" He Songbai exerted his understanding of this new term.
Zhao Lanxiang nodded. "You will know after a while."
He Songbai murmured dissatisfiedly, "You have a mysterious secret!"
...
Li Laifu's execution was very efficient. He and Li Dali vigorously discussed the preliminary actions, and then he started his great cause of "fuel the flames" since then.
A few days later, when everyone went up to work in the mountains, several family members almost got into a fight.
Everyone wants to cultivate terraced fields which don't need manual irrigation. The irrigation trenches on these hills have been opened, so there is no need to carry water. The family members headed by Li Guofu requested that the paddy fields on the mountain be allocated to them, but they don't want the paddy fields under the hill. They only want the first-class and second-class fields. Their family was reputable to lack labor strength and cannot do heavy work.
The other family members stopped them, and the family members led by Pan Yuhua sneered at them. Pan Yuhua said, "The wool comes out of the sheep. Don't you see how much food everyone got at the end of last year? If the higher-ups spoiled you, there would be little food in the autumn. Do you want to pull the whole brigade to accompany you being poor?"
The quarreling was originally a trivial matter. If the captain could play a role and suppress it, the storm would pass.
Li Daniu is an inexperienced captain of the first team and can't hold back these old fritters. But Li Laifu, the captain of the second team, didn't care anymore. He said a few words symbolically and watched everyone quarrel or even fight with a disheartened look.
The members, who frankly fought and quarreled, saw the captain's extremely disappointed look, and they felt cold. Little did they know that Li Laifu was secretly simmering in his heart. He watched his members made a lot of noise as expected.
In the early morning, the light in one room of the He family's house lit up again, and the three of them whispered together.
Li Laifu asked, "Now this happens, will it succeed? Can we control them?"
Zhao Lanxiang nodded. "It's done. Brother Dali can hold it down. Let this matter ferment for a few more days. When someone can't stand it, someone will always come up with an idea. Let's not move. If you have more time, leave a few more words and add fire." Zhao Lanxiang said.
Li Dali said while removing the wooden cast on his leg, "I should be able to go back to work in a few days."
So Li Laifu, who was in charge of a "fueling" task, went to several "honest people" to groan, but he always whispered quietly when complaining, "If it were the same as before, the harvest would be our own. I would farm, I sweat and work hard, but then I would live my life no matter how poor I am."
This sentence floated into people's hearts, rooted like a seed, and grew wildly.
By the end of April, the two production brigades had torn their faces for the terraced paddy fields. The terraces were just an inducement, but in fact, they already had a contradiction between lazy and honest people.
Lazy people do not want to work harder, and those who work honestly don't want to be so tired.
Everyone held a grievance in their hearts, and finally, someone angrily said, "Give us the three or four grades of broken fields at the foot of the mountain. I am willing to cultivate it."
"Go to your beloved paddy fields."
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At first, it was casually mentioned by a few people who worked hard, but soon, everyone wanted to divide the fields. They didn't want to work without the division. Li Laifu squatted in the dark and watched, almost couldn't help but clapping and applauding.
At this time, Li Dali, who had been recuperated, came forward. He summoned the people and said a lot of words that made everyone feel ashamed and cry.
He said, "Everyone has been working together for more than ten years, and we shared everything no matter how good or hard it was. We are like brothers and sisters in a big family. But now we couldn't get together and quarrel. There are many reasons. I also reflected for a long time... Both of us, the two captains of our village, didn't do enough, and we couldn't lead everyone to be rich."
"Laifu and I hoped from the bottom of our heart that every day, every family in Hezi village would be able to eat, have clothes to wear, and save efforts. Only when you have enough food and clothing people can live. Laifu and I agree that we will split the fields. This is the only thing we can do as captains: When Hezi village members have paid enough food for the country this year, it's all your own!"
Li Dali paused and said with emotion, "Because we are a community, the collective sense of honor has always been rooted in our hearts. No matter whether we will work together or separately in the future, we are all brothers and sisters."
"You who want to divide the field will jointly put your red fingerprint in this agreement. From now on, this matter will rot in your stomach. If anyone reports us to the red guards in the future, everyone will squat in prison together!"
After Li Dali finished speaking, he felt sweat in his heart. However, the members who had gathered couldn't help but secretly wipe their tears. Their eyes could not hide their excitement. If they were not afraid of irritating people, they even wanted to cheer and applaud and ran wildly for a few miles.
After a few days, the Hezi village's party branch's accountant silently measured and divided the fields, and evenly and fairly distributed the large village to each family. All members of the team went to survey their land with great enthusiasm. After the fields were handed over, their excitement was unprecedentedly high, and countless heads appeared working in the field.
Some people are working tirelessly, even in the dark.
'This field is finally here! In the future, every grain of rice I eat will have my own sweat. I will work hard and pay enough for the country's tax. The rest is mine!'
Only with this kind of thinking people could make a difference and work harder!
...
After the fields were handed over, He Songbai fully understood the profound meaning of the "family contract responsibility system" that his girlfriend wrote before.
Their family also got a piece of land. According to the division method of an old and weak got one acre, a strong laborer got three, and a weak laborer got two, the He family received eleven acres of land. Although it was not too much, they can easily pay for food for the country with a little hard work. There are three strong laborers in the family. Li Dali can do two people's work by himself, and He Songye is also a hardworking person. Both of them could finish more than ten acres.
The brigade assigned some necessary broken farm tools to their home, and since then, He Songbai no longer has to work early.
When they worked together in a group, they had to gather at 6 or 7 in the morning and start working at 5 am during the busy farming season. Now He Songbai can work in the afternoon. However, compared with other people's early enthusiasm and hard work, He Songbai is particularly "lazy."
Some families originally had people who were reluctant to work separately. But after seeing He's second child had been so lazy, they breathed out and secretly rejoiced, "Fortunately!"
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Zhao Lanxiang occasionally bumped into someone who was educating his own children.
"You can't learn from that bastard in the future. He is so lazy, so he is so old and can't get a wife!"
Zhao Lanxiang said these words to He Songbai jokingly. He Songbai said calmly, "I am not afraid."
"How could I not able to get a wife? I have a girlfriend."
He said after a pause, "But you have to be mentally prepared. I may be a little poor. The pig farm might not make enough money for the bridal gift in the short term, so I have to work hard and wait."
This kind of self-confidence made Zhao Lanxiang couldn't help but beat him lightly.
Zhao Lanxiang asked him what was going on. She also knew that he had been under a lot of pressure recently. He often looked through the pig-raising books and not paying attention to a lot of things.
If it was not because Sister He and Li Dali were considerate and often helped him finish his share, He Songbai might not pay his rations to the brigade at the end of the year.
He Songbai said, "There was swine flu in spring. Many young pigs die."
"I ran outside these days and bought some quicklime to sterilize the farm, but there was no way out. Recently, they are all better, and these pigs can grow up."
After he finished speaking, his dark eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned to look at Zhao Lanxiang.
Zhao Lanxiang understood that he was just trying to make her anxious, but he was quite confident. She couldn't help but pick up a pile of test papers and threw them over while saying angrily, "Work on your test papers. These are all your lazy and unfinished jobs!"
He Songbai picked up the test papers so that he could count the numbers in his spare time. His handsome face glowed as if he was not holding a heavy burden in his hands, but a sweet kiss from his girlfriend.
He unscrewed the pen and wrote slowly. After he finished writing one, Zhao Lanxiang checked the numbers for him. When he finished writing all ten papers in one breath, he pursed his lips at Zhao Lanxiang with a smile.
"Come on, make up for these days."
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