Did Boss Zhou say that on purpose, or did he really not understand?
That is unverifiable.
Anyway, the simple invitations made of red paper, finally ghostwritten by Boss Zhou, all read, "I respectfully invite so-and-so, on such and such a day of the month, to come to the hut of Mr. Zhou of the 6th production team, and come and have a few pecks."
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Mr. Zhou doesn’t know how to write the word “Zhuo” for a small drink.
Anyway, Mr. Zhou remembers cross talk. In storytelling, when the storyteller talks about inviting others to drink, he always says "little peck".
Just a little peck!
Anyway, there are only 8 taels of meat on a banquet table. It is impossible to eat as much as you want...
"Uncle Zhang's family, you won't be invited, right?"
Ye Erniang knelt in the courtyard, with her butt raised high, and muttered, "Although they are considered generous people when it comes to giving gifts, they have big appetites and can eat too much."
"If he brings his three children with him, I'm afraid we'll have to pay for him..."
Ye Erniang calculated the calculation carefully with her fingers: "If an adult eats half a catty of grain for a meal, it will be 1 catty for two people, and 1 catty for three children.
2 kilograms of grain, 40% of fine grains, 60% of coarse grains... 1 kilogram of grain, including food stamps, is estimated to be 2 jiao 4 cents... 2 kilograms of grain is 4 jiao 8, plus a pack of cigarettes, 1 jiao 7
, which is 6 cents and 5 cents.
There are 6 bowls of food on a table, and the Zhang family eats 60% of it and gets at least 1 yuan. As a gift, even if Uncle Zhang pays 1 yuan 6...
Oops, we still have to pay a few cents! No, no, we can’t invite everyone in this family!”
During this period, when the production team was treating guests, the host would tell the guests whether they were "all invited" or not when sending out invitations.
If the host specifically states "all are invited", it means that the whole family of the guest is invited to have a meal together.
on the contrary,
If the host family does not declare the word "all invited", it means: only the "heads" of that family are invited to the banquet alone.
Very funny.
But this is the truth.
They are all tricks forced out by poverty...
Boss Zhou, carrying a large bucket of pig water, happened to be passing by under the eaves at this time.
I just heard him grunt, "You use 46 grains for the wedding banquet, and you're not afraid of people throwing away your bowls?"
The members of the production team usually eat by themselves, and sometimes they use 28 grains: that is, 80% coarse grains and 20% fine grains.
But at the beginning of the year, when the grain has just been allocated to the production team, in order to be able to eat some good food, everyone will appropriately increase the proportion of fine grain.
But the maximum is 46 grains.
That is to say, fine grains account for 40% and coarse grains account for 60%.
At rural banquets, the number of fine grains in the rice will be greatly increased, usually 37, or even 28.
Just now, Erniang Ye was lying there muttering that she would use 46 grains at her wedding banquet, which made Boss Zhou very unhappy!
Are you happily married?
I can’t get anything?!
Boss Zhou is not interested in his father getting married, but he just wants to have a bowl of better food.
I didn’t expect that,
The quality of this wedding banquet was almost the same as the usual meals at home!
Over there in Luoxuan, all the food given to the workers is 73 grains.
In other words, when Luo Xuan asked Aunt Zhang to cook for the workers, the amount of fine grain should reach 70%.
Now that Uncle Zhou and Ye Erniang are married, the food they eat is not as good as the food Luo Xuan used to entertain the workers?
Boss Zhou is also a big boy in his family, and he is considered to be half of the family's mainstay.
Ye Erniang, who entered the house halfway, naturally did not dare to underestimate him too much.
Hearing this, Ye Erniang asked, "What do you mean, what kind of meal should I cook that day?"
"Pure dry rice! Pure rice!"
Boss Zhou dropped the sentence, "The food is not good, there is little meat, and there are more corns than rice in the rice. Who will eat this shabby banquet of yours?"
"boom--"
A tattered cloth shoe drew an arc in mid-air and hit Boss Zhou's back accurately, "You are a bitch, I have no good intentions when I see you! Do you want to defeat me?"
Uncle Zhou, who was sitting on the edge of the sill, was holding another rotten shoe in his hand as if he was about to hit him, "If you marry a wife, you will eat and wear clothes. If you marry a man, marry a man, you will wear clothes and eat."
Life is meant to be lived slowly and endured slowly. How can you be so careless and hungry as you want to earn face?
Damn it, I'm the one who would come up with such a bad idea!"
Boss Zhou slammed the swill bucket on the ground, "Then you feed the pigs by yourself, get married by yourself, and live by yourself. Anyway, I'm going to separate from you, who will still be your filial son and grandson?"
After saying that, Boss Zhou ran away!
The panicked Ye Erniang quickly spoke up to smooth things over: "Hey, big boy, don't leave! You need to help write this invitation.
We will all be a family from now on, we have to discuss it and live in peace and harmony."
Boss Zhou dropped the sentence, "Who is with your family? Your surname is Ye, my surname is Zhou, robbers and thieves.
Speaking of which, none of us are doing serious business, but are we a family? We are born unable to pee in a pot..."
After saying that, Boss Zhou had already run far away.
"Let that bastard go! I'm so angry. Damn it, why did you get such a retribution?"
Uncle Zhou was so angry that he said, "If you don't want to learn from Luo Xuan and make some money to supplement your family income, this retribution kid still dares to scold his own mother?"
What Boss Zhou said just now, "You can't pee in a pot" is a mantra that many people like to say.
But if we really want to delve deeper into the meaning of this sentence, its origins are quite long.
In ancient times, when scholars quarreled among themselves, they were most afraid of being called a woman.
When the ancients got up at night, men used chamber pots and women used urine buckets.
You can imagine: How big is the difference between a chamber pot used by men and a urine bucket used by women?
And as Boss Zhou said before, "No one will come to eat at Ye Erniang's poor table."
His words are actually a pun: The mats are worn out by sleep, so how many people do you think have rolled over them?
In rural areas, there are a lot of such hidden curses and puns!
Boss Zhou doesn't need to learn it now, he can open his mouth and come out with a lot of disgusting words.
"Forget it, forget it, the child is already old, there is no point in beating and scolding him."
Ye Erniang originally wanted to have a good relationship with Boss Zhou so that she could gain a firm foothold in this family.
Unexpectedly,
Boss Zhou doesn’t recognize her as a mother at all!
"Forget it, let's not be upset. Let's think about it again, who should we invite to dinner?"
Ye Erniang whispered, "Luo Xuan's place must be 'all invited'. In Dai Hongmei's house, his father is from a public family and usually doesn't go home. Dai Hongmei and her mother are the only ones left at home, so let's invite everyone."
Luo Xuan and Dai Hongmei are both very particular people, so the gifts should not be small.
Oh, there is also Yi Yang..."
Yiyang lives alone and is the perfect candidate for "All Invitations".
But when she mentioned Yi Yang, Ye Erniang couldn't help but feel troubled: "Yi Yang is staying behind closed doors now and refuses to see anyone. He doesn't earn any more work points in the production team. Hey, what a handsome young man he is.
!It’s a pity that it’s ruined...His father, should Yi Yang invite him or not?”
"Good looks have a hammer! Can he get food for his family, or can he get subsidies based on his face?"
Uncle Zhou smoked a leaf cigarette and said, "Please! I will personally send the invitation to him. Well, I am also a representative of the poor peasants in the production team. How dare he not give me some face?"
During this period, every production team had a Chairman Pinnon.
This position has no real power.
That is to say, these people can come in handy when there is a Yi Kusitian meeting in the school or work unit.
They will tour and perform in various schools.
Because the production team is far away from the school and work unit, the school or work unit will provide them with a meal.
Sometimes, a small subsidy is also given.
That's all.
Uncle Zhou and Ye Erniang were in the breeding room, racking their brains to think about who should be invited and who should not be invited.
Which family should invite them all, and which family should not invite them all.
At this time, Luo Xuan was dragged to Yi Yang's home by Dai Hongmei to visit Yi Yang who was lying in bed and refused to get up.
"Luo Xuan, what do you think we should do about this? He doesn't eat, drink or talk. It makes people heartbroken just to see him."
Dai Hongmei's face was full of pain, and she pulled Luo Xuan into the kitchen of Yiyang's house with a frown.
He whispered, "In the past, you saw Yi Yang talking and laughing. How many people in the production team liked to work next to him?
But look at what he looks like now, there’s no trace of him from before.”
Said,
Dai Hongmei wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "I, I just want you to find a way to let him be like before, even if he is vain and pretends to be a cadre. As long as he is not half-dead like this, I... let him
I'm willing to do anything."
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Yi Yang's reputation was ruined, and his future was also ruined.
When encountering this kind of thing, Luo Xuan actually felt helpless: He couldn't possibly ask the Yongxing Reservoir Headquarters to send him a newspaper to clarify the situation, right?
Due to the limitations of the times and everyone's traditional concepts, no one cares about the feelings of a small individual.
Just like no one cares what an ant is thinking.
But the person in front of me, Dai Hongmei, is actually the most kind person to me in the entire production team: if a person treats you well, you don't need to look at anything else to lend her a large sum of money.
See how much you are worth in her mind?
Except for my own parents and relatives.
Who in this world is the most worthy of your respect and the most trustworthy?
There is actually a very intuitive criterion for judging this: when you are short of money and need to borrow money urgently, you are the first person you think of.
before,
Whenever Luo Xuan doesn't have much money and urgently needs a sum of money, the first thing he thinks of is Dai Hongmei.
Moreover, whenever he went to Dai Hongmei, she would never reject him.
Therefore, now that Dai Hongmei has spoken, Luo Xuan can only try his best to help her.
"Sister Hongmei, you have to think carefully."
Luo Xuan also reminded her in a low voice, "What kind of people are they in the production team now?
All day long the parents in the east and the west have shortcomings, and they are always talking about other people's affairs.
There are not many people who add icing on the cake, but there are quite a few who add insult to injury.
You also know that about Yi Yang, although we all know that he was wronged... but what can we do? What's the use of just believing in him? "
Tears fell from Dai Hongmei's beautiful eyes, "I know everything you said. But... I just can't let go!"
Luo Xuan slowly raised his head and glanced at Dai Hongmei, sighing in his heart: Some people are born with overflowing maternal love.
This Dai Hongmei can live a good life, so why should he raise himself to the level of the "Madonna" to be roasted?
Although Dai Hongmei is a young widow.
But she is young and has good family conditions. Her father is from a public family and she has an older brother who is an army officer.
If she chooses to marry another person, it is not impossible even if she marries those who live on national food in Hongxing Township.
But if she chooses to marry Yi Yang, then Dai Hongmei is destined to have a difficult life for the rest of her life...
At the very least, it is certain that Dai Hongmei and Yi Yang will never be able to escape from farming.
And their future children will also be bullied by other children.
The words "thief kid" will probably accompany their children throughout their lives...
Luo Xuan asked Dai Hongmei to think clearly about the consequences, just to remind her of this.
Instead of worrying that she and Yi Yang will starve to death.
Dai Hongmei and Yi Yang, who have been classified as "protected objects" by Luo Xuan in his heart, Luo Xuan will not watch them starve to death in three difficult years...
Apart from anything else, we have plenty of food.
It is still easy to prevent them from starving to death.
Luo Xuan waited until Dai Hongmei stopped sobbing, then said, "Sister Hongmei, you don't want to come to Yiyang these days. You stay at home and calm down for a few days, and then we can talk about this matter again, okay?"
Dai Hongmei stared at Luo Xuan, then nodded, turned and left.
Women are mostly emotional.
Luo Xuan planned to let her go home and calm down before making a decision.
After all, this choice is related to the future of three generations of Dai Hongmei, so don’t be impulsive!
