The new home site granted to the production team was right next to the original bamboo fence house.
This place was originally a wasteland, and nothing grew except wild taro and weeds.
The reason Luo Xuan chose to build a house here was because he wanted to stay away from the hustle and bustle and keep some distance from the houses of other members of the production team.
Luo Xuan doesn't know if distance will produce beauty, but it will make him feel safer.
However, the homestead approval document has been obtained.
Weeds can be removed, the site leveled, and lime powder used to circle the area of the homestead...these preliminary preparations for building a house are actually very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Simply because in this era, there was no mechanical equipment at all.
All the work needs to be done bit by bit manually.
Now Uncle Ding is directing Uncle Zhang, Yi Yang and others to draw lines in the grassland and level the ground within the foundation.
Aunt Zhang, third sister-in-law, and the mother-in-law of Peng Zhikun's family were busy cooking and making vermicelli in Luoxuan's thatched house.
Luo Xuan leaned on the door frame of the kitchen and asked Aunt Zhang and the others: "Seventh Aunt, Auntie, you are here to help me build a house. You can't go to the production team to earn work points. Will you be treated badly?"
Aunt Qi smiled and said: "Why are you being treated badly? We don't know yet, Luo Xuan, you are taking care of us! Although you can earn work points in the production team, but after all, the female labor force like us only earns 8 points a day. In terms of work points, at the end of the year, the production team can give us at most 60.4 cents a day."
While the third sister-in-law was busy working, she also smiled and said, "Yes, it is much more cost-effective to build a house and make vermicelli for you, Luo Xuan, than to work in the production team!"
Aunt Zhang persuaded Luo Xuan in a low voice: "Luo Xuan, we know you are leaning towards us, but don't be too unlucky! In my opinion, we will give the corn kernels to you for lunch." Just cook a few more handfuls."
After hearing Aunt Zhang and the others say that they didn't feel that they were at a disadvantage, Luo Xuan felt relieved.
Uncle Ding, Uncle Zhang, and Aunt Zhang came to help Luo Xuan build a house.
So for a while, they can no longer work in the fields of the production team.
So Luo Xuan asked again: "Seventh Aunt, if you don't go to work in the fields, won't the other members have any objections?"
Aunt Qi laughed and said, "You have any objections? There are two of them, and they wish we didn't go to work!"
The third sister-in-law laughed so hard that she almost shed tears: "Luo Xuan, you don't know, now is the slack season, and the fewer people in the production team are working, the less the total work points will be at the end of the year.
In this way, the unit price allocated to each work point of the production team will be higher.
So, they now wish that there would be fewer foreign laborers, so that everyone can share more work points!"
Uncle Ding and Aunt Zhang don't go to work in the fields.
The other members of the commune were very happy, but even though they were happy, they couldn't help but envy Uncle Ding, Uncle Zhang, and Yi Yang for coming to help Luo Xuan build the house.
This can be considered a good job.
For those who helped build the house, Luo Xuan had to provide them with three meals a day.
In the morning, there is porridge made from rice and corn pellets, steamed buns made from whole wheat flour, and some kimchi and pickles.
Whole wheat flour is actually flour ground from wheat on a stone mill. Since it is not peeled, it tastes a bit astringent.
As for the white flour, that's what city people eat.
The members of the production team rarely see a single white noodle all year round.
For lunch, it is rice steamed with corn crumbs.
It's just that Luo Xuan's big hand, the proportion of coarse grains and fine grains in this kind of rice is completely reversed from the coarse grains and fine grains that commune members usually eat: there is more rice in the rice and less corn kernels.
This lunch meal is undoubtedly the best meal.
Not only is there a lot of rice in the rice, but there is also a large pot of taro-roasted boneless meat, or bamboo shoot stew, or pickled cabbage and vermicelli stew.
In short, it doesn’t matter whether the dish contains more or less meat, whether it is fat or lean.
Anyway, every day at noon, those who come to help build houses can have a meal of oily meat dishes!
Dinner is relatively simple.
Either boil the vermicelli or stew the vermicelli, or add a little green vegetables, and accompany it with a meal of rice with more corn crumbs and less rice, and you can cope with it.
Just this kind of meal has already made Uncle Ding and Aunt Zhang smile with joy!
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Moreover, Luo Xuan gave each of them two kilograms of vermicelli or two kilograms of rice per day as a reward for their help.
The reward for Uncle Zhang must be doubled.
Although Luo Xuan never mentioned wages, everyone knew it: these vermicelli or two kilograms of rice were actually wages.
In fact, when building houses in the village, everyone helps each other, and there is basically no labor issue involved.
But the situation here in Luoxuan is special.
School is about to start, and everyone in the production team knows that Luo Xuan will not be able to change jobs for everyone.
Therefore, Luo Xuan’s practice of using vermicelli and rice as payment will not arouse the jealousy of others.
Rural people live their lives carefully, counting every penny very clearly.
For example, if you earn work points in a production team now, a strong laborer will earn 10 work points for a day's work.
6The efficiency of the production team is relatively good.
So by the end of the year, one work point is roughly around 8 cents. In other words, a strong laborer working in the production team field can earn about 8 cents a day.
Based on this calculation, a strong production team member can earn 24 yuan a month.
It sounds high, but in fact, at the end of the year, if a member’s family can save dozens of dollars, it’s pretty good!
There are very few people in the entire production team who can receive hundreds of dollars.
Because during this period, farmers have to bear various charges and apportionments.
These "retentions" and "appointments" are numerous and heavy.
Not to mention, there is "voluntary labor" that almost everyone cannot escape, which will also delay the members' earning work points.
The so-called retention at all levels actually refers to administrative expenses and public utility expenditures in counties, villages, brigades, and production teams.
For example, where to build water canals, where to build reservoirs, and where to build schools, highways, and even radio broadcasts; and to renovate the street in Hongxing Township...
For this money, in addition to some special funds allocated by higher-level departments.
Most of the remaining costs have to be shared among each member of each production team.
Even the salary subsidies for primary school teachers in the brigade, the living allowances and job subsidies for health workers, epidemic prevention workers, and propagandists all need to be borne by the members.
Therefore, the members are busy all year round, but they really don’t have much salt money in their hands.
Even less than half of the members will end up owing money to the production team!
Aunt Zhang and others came to build a house for Luo Xuan.
Three meals a day, don't worry about being full.
Everyone can also get 2 kilograms of vermicelli or rice as reward. Let’s put it into perspective: the wages Luo Xuan gave them has actually reached 1 yuan.
Not to mention, Luo Xuan gave Uncle Ding, Uncle Zhang and Yi Yang a pack of cigarettes for each of them every day.
A pack of "Chungeng Brand" cigarettes costs eight cents. Although they are not expensive, they are still money!
This made them all very happy!
So everyone worked very hard.
Uncle Ding and the others were settling their accounts, while Luo Xuan was calculating his own accounts in his mind:
I have a lot of money in my pocket now. If I don't spend it, I will just watch the money go moldy.
But if you use this money to buy bicycles or watches, it is tantamount to getting yourself into trouble and asking for trouble.
Now there are no more than 5 bicycles in the entire Hongxing Township!
There are no more than 10 people in the entire Zhengxing brigade wearing Shanghai brand watches.
Not to mention the captain of the production team, even the senior cadres in the township office basically rely on their legs for transportation and rely entirely on their mouths for communication.
What virtues and abilities do you have?!
He's only half a boy, wearing a shiny watch on his wrist, riding an eye-catching "foreign horse" astride him?
The slut is quite slutty.
I'm afraid that one day I will wear "double watches" on my hands and plant trees... Then I will be in big trouble!
so.
Before the money in his pocket could be easily spent, Luo Xuan used all the money to build a house.
Turning cash into physical goods is the best option at the moment.
