Chapter 167 Going to the countryside for re-education
"Okay, I've been resting for a long time and want to come and see the countryside."
Ji Xuyuan said, "I have a hunch...who is this?"
With that said, Ji Xuyuan pointed at Boss Zhou who was sitting beside him and asked Luo Xuan.
Luo Xuan knew that Ji Xuyuan had something very important to say.
So, Luo Xuan turned to Mr. Zhou and said, "You go to the kitchen and help the third sister-in-law cook. You tell the third sister-in-law to fry some eels in a while. I want to treat this old gentleman to eat eel rice noodles."
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Also, your second and third sons, I will send them to Yi Yang's house to keep an eye on Yi Yang for me. Don't wait for them to eat. After you are done, you should go home and help your father prepare for the wedding banquet in the evening.
Bar."
"I'll give him a hammer—"
Boss Zhou was just about to say something rude when he caught a glimpse of Ji Xuyuan beside him. Boss Zhou forced himself to endure the words that followed, then stood up and went out.
Ji Xuyuan smiled slightly, "In your production team, there is actually a wedding banquet tonight? Okay, I'll join in and share in the happiness of the newlyweds."
Luo Xuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's not new."
Ji Xuyuan was stunned for a moment, then threw his head back and laughed, "So it's old furniture? That's even more interesting! I have nothing to do today, so I went to see the new wedding banquet in the production team."
Before Ji Xuyuan was liberated, all he came into contact with were relatively high-level families.
At that time, the weddings and funerals he attended, and the banquets held by the Lower Riba people, were completely one in the sky and the other in the earth.
At that time, the rich were flamboyant and the poor were heartbroken.
It's better now. Not to mention the farmer uncle, there is a slight gap in living standards between the two, but it's not big. Everyone's banquet standards are about the same.
It’s nothing more than the difference between a table of dishes, whether it’s 1 and a half kilograms of meat or 8 taels of meat.
It's just that after entering the new society, Ji Xuyuan no longer has the qualifications and interest to attend other people's weddings and funerals.
He has to avoid suspicion.
There were even times when he would give gifts to others, but most people would not dare to accept his things.
Instead, they would use various reasons to shirk away the gifts and gifts given by Ji Xuyuan.
"I have a premonition."
Ji Xuyuan's face was calm, but his tone was solemn, "I always feel that my prospects are not good, very bad!"
As he spoke, Ji Xuyuan stared at Luo Xuan with burning eyes and said, "According to your opinion, how should I respond?"
Luo Xuan stood up slowly, "Mr. Ji, you have walked more roads than I have crossed, and you have eaten more salt..."
Ji Xuyuan chuckled, "I have always eaten lightly, Luo Xuan, please don't tell me that I eat too much salt. Before liberation, the salt in the Gongjing area was occupied by the pot army. I can't
Not even a glimmer of light."
Luo Xuan laughed and said, "Just eat light food, but I'm afraid I won't look down on it and hold on to things outside of me... Let's go and make gouache!"
Ji Xuyuan is a smart man. What kind of storms and waves have he never experienced?
He is now experiencing big changes, but within a short period of time, he is a little uncertain about the future deep down in his heart.
When he understands the general trend, Ji Xuyuan will definitely make a wise decision.
It's useless to stick it up yourself, and the radish seller will follow the salt burden, so it's a waste of time!
noon,
Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang, and Uncle Ding all ate rice mixed with corn grits.
Then the dish is to fry green vegetables with a little oil residue, and stir-fry vermicelli with a little fat.
This dish is somewhat similar to ants climbing a tree.
It's just that the ants in the vermicelli are indeed relatively few and their size is a bit underdeveloped.
To find them, you also need to test your eyesight and the skill of using chopsticks.
This is the third sister-in-law. In order to save costs for Luo Xuan, she didn't dare to put too much meat.
Ji Xuyuan and Luo Xuan, on the other hand, were squatting under the eaves without any appearance, holding big bowls in their hands and slurping vermicelli there.
The eel segments are stir-fried with lard and chili peppers, plus fresh minced garlic and chopped green onion. The bite is extremely spicy.
"A bowl of gouache, a hut, and a close friend are enough!"
Putting down the bowl, Ji Xuyuan sighed, "This life has gone round and round, why did you come here? In my eyes now, I can build two huts like you, raise a few chickens and ducks, farm every day, and fall asleep at night. My thoughts are empty.
Tai, peace of soul.”
"Luo Xuan, after your new house is built, can you sell these two bamboo houses to me?"
Ji Xuyuan said, "I will also buy these chicks and rabbits for you."
Luo Xuan held the empty bowl and shook his head.
"What? Are you afraid that I can't afford the price?"
Ji Xuyuan smiled and said, "Do you believe that I can give you a price that is far beyond your imagination? The amount of money will surprise you?"
How much money would surprise me?
Luo Xuan thought to himself: If you had seen a house that cost 50,000 yuan per square meter, you wouldn't know who would be surprised!
No matter how rich you Ji Xuyuan is, at his peak, Ji Xuyuan probably had a family fortune of only a few hundred thousand yuan, which is already huge.
In future generations, this little money can only buy a toilet.
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One dollar in this era and one dollar in later generations are not the same concept.
And it's difficult to make a specific comparison.
Agricultural and sideline products during this period were very cheap and not valuable; labor wages were cheap and not valuable either.
But the price of industrial products is very expensive!
For example, the price of buying a pair of plastic slippers is as high as 16 yuan! It takes an average worker more than half a month's salary to afford a pair of imported plastic slippers.
And a "Forever Brand" bicycle with 28 big bars will cost at least 158 yuan a piece.
After all, it takes at least half a year's salary for an ordinary employee to afford a bicycle.
Therefore, if you always try to compare the money of this period with that of later generations, it will be a data that is difficult to compare intuitively.
For example: the lowest-level employee has a monthly salary of 21.5 yuan.
If you use it to buy food.
According to money, food stamps are basically equivalent in value. One pound of grain is 17.5 cents per pound. If food stamps are also included in 10.75 cents, one pound of grain is 35 cents.
So with one month's salary, he can only afford 61 kilograms of grain.
Therefore, it is difficult to compare the purchasing power of the money of future generations with the money of this period.
Ji Xu often saw Luo Xuan shaking his head, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
So he spoke to Luo Xuan again and said: "I saw that these two houses of yours are backed by mountains and faced by water. They hide the wind and collect Qi, with the left supporting and the right holding the butt, and the bright halls wide. They are indeed a geomantic treasure.
That’s why I decided to ask you to transfer these two bamboo houses to me for retirement.”
Luo Xuan still shook his head.
"500 yuan! I bought these two bamboo houses for you."
Luo Xuan still shook his head.
"800 yuan!"
Ji Xuyuan smiled and said, "What? You can't even build these two bamboo houses for 80 yuan, right? Are you satisfied with the price I gave you?"
Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang, and Peng Zhikun came to help build these two bamboo houses.
Although I was very generous at the time, dealing with both cigarettes and meat, the 80 yuan was not really used.
I'm afraid I haven't even used up the 50 yuan.
Moreover, in this era, it is not easy to transfer the registered residence from the city to the countryside; but on the other hand, it is extremely difficult to transfer the registered residence from the rural area to the city.
This is exactly the opposite of later generations.
Therefore, if Ji Xuyuan wants to move his household registration to Zhengxing Team 6 and settle down, it is actually very easy to do.
And once he transfers his household registration, the production team will naturally allocate him a homestead.
Just now Ji Xuyuan paid himself a sky-high price of 800 yuan. To put it bluntly, with this amount of money, it would not be a problem to build 10 such huts in the countryside.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
Pies may fall from the sky, but hail may also fall.
Ji Xuyuan, who is more cunning than the old fox, is he buying a house for himself?
He is clearly just throwing away his money!
He is changing his tricks to destroy all his wealth!
Maybe he had a premonition that if the wealth in his hands was kept clean, it would definitely bring disaster to him!
It seems that Ji Xuyuan has already made up his mind: he wants to take the initiative to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the people.
Instead of passively reforming in the future, it is better to actively ask for decentralization...
This old fox really has a keen sense of smell and profound knowledge!
However, although Ji Xuyuan paid a sky-high price, Luo Xuan still shook his head. At this time, Ji Xuyuan was completely fooled...
Seeing his puzzled face, Luo Xuan explained: "These two bamboo houses are not actually my private property. When the brick house over there is built, I will move there. And this house will be occupied by Submit it to the production team.
At that time, this house will belong to the collective property of all members, and I have no right to dispose of it."
What Luo Xuan said is true.
At the last general meeting of all members, the cadres of the brigade announced this matter in public, and now no one has the right to change it.
When Ji Xuyuan heard about it, he couldn't help but show a hint of disappointment on his face.
Why is it so difficult to spend money?
Because when Ji Xuyuan "donated" his family's dyeing workshop and Dongsheng shop, the state gave him a compensation amount.
Although this amount of money is far lower than the value of the dyeing shop and Dongsheng shop, it is still a large amount of money.
Ji Xuyuan wanted to throw money away.
Luo Xuan doesn't want the money.
In the end, I saw that Ji Xuyuan was determined to take root in the countryside and reinvent himself.
Luo Xuan asked Boss Zhou to take him to the brigade headquarters to report the situation to the old Party Secretary and Captain Liao and submit the application.
Thus.
If the old branch secretary and Captain Liao of the brigade headquarters agree to Ji Xuyuan's request, they will decide which family to send Ji Xuyuan to, let him stay temporarily for a few days, and arrange for meals to be distributed.
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In the 6th production team, there are only two families suitable for settling Ji Xuyuan, an old bachelor: one is the Luo Xuan family and the other is the Yi Yang family.
Now, Yi Yang is almost like a living dead.
Thinking about it, in the end, the old party secretary and Captain Liao would eventually settle Ji Xuyuan into Luo Xuan's house for a temporary stay.
Before Boss Zhou left, Luo Xuan specially told him: Even if the old party secretary and Captain Liao put Ji Xuyuan in his own home.
Then he must hand over the food stamps and money for the meals to the brigade headquarters!
In the end, the brigade headquarters will settle the matter with itself.
If he changed hands like this, the friendship between himself and Ji Xuyuan would no longer be a personal relationship, but a collective will.
Business to business, everyone is relaxed.
After finishing all this work, when Ji Xuyuan came back, Luo Xuan took him to the compound of the production team to attend the wedding banquet of Uncle Zhou and Ye Erniang.
Uncle Zhou's house is small and cannot accommodate so many banquet tables.
Therefore, the wedding banquet was not held in their "thatched room", but in the yard of the original landlord's house.
There are now more than a dozen families living in this courtyard house.
Everyone originally came in and out of the courtyard.
Today, Uncle Zhou, the second-hand man, is marrying Ye Erniang, the third-hand man, but many families in the yard are not included in the invitation list.
——Those who can live in the original landlord's home, if you think about it, most of them will not be the kind of financially well-off people.
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The shrewd Ye Erniang and Uncle Zhou expected that they would lose money by inviting them, so they did not send them invitations.
Even if there are a small number of people, those who have received the invitation do not seem to have any intention of coming to the banquet.
Therefore, the doors of every house in the yard were closed, and there was silence in all the houses.
Only the wisps of smoke coming out of their chimneys told everyone: This family was burning a fire for cooking!
