Jiang Yuzhu held back her tears and turned back while holding the slippery chairman's badge. Seeing Li Yuezhen's stunned expression, her face turned red.
Li Yuezhen didn't expect that Zhou Qi liked Jiang Yuzhu? Why didn't she notice it recently? The relationship between the two people didn't seem to be very good recently.
Thinking of Chen Jiajia's thoughts about Zhou Qi, Li Yuezhen shed tears of sympathy for her friend.
Jiang Xinyu put on a straw hat and went to the place where the task was assigned.
The grains on the drying field have almost dried out. The main work now is to plant the grain for the next season, plowing the ground, picking fertilizer, watering, and weeding. It can be said that there is no one.
It was an easy job. Yesterday, she was carrying water to irrigate the ground, and she got blisters on her palms. She went back to prick them and it still hurts now.
The captain looked at her and said, "You're not going to the field today. You can go to the public house to settle accounts."
"Do you know how to make an abacus?"
Jiang Xinyu nodded hurriedly, she knew how to calculate, "What kind of calculation is it?"
Can it be her turn to do this kind of job? That would be great.
The team leader said: "The accountant's leg was injured and he was sent to the health team at midnight last night. The accounts he calculated before are solid. You and Xiao Lin will do the calculation again. Chen Yi is free at noon on Wednesday and goes to hand over the public rations."
The captain thought about the accountant, Zhang Tiezhu, and Yuan Chunhua's bad things and got a headache.
Zhang Tiezhu beat Li Yiping in the middle of the night yesterday. Accountant Li would have been beaten to death by Zhang Tiezhu if the people next door to Yuan Chunhua had not called him.
The accountant Li Yiping also has the surname Li, and is more or less related to Captain Li. Li Yiping is also the accountant of the team. If the trouble between the three of them breaks out, how will their Wuliqiao Brigade face it?
However, even if Li Yiping recovers his health in the future, he can no longer be the accountant of the brigade. It is not easy to make a fuss about this matter, and Li Yiping can only swallow this dumb loss by himself.
Captain Li lasted until midnight yesterday to clean up the mess made by the three of them, so he was inevitably a little out of sorts this morning.
Jiang Xinyu still had a question, "Uncle, why do you call Chen Yi to pay the official rations?"
Captain Li said without energy: "He knows the people at the grain station, so he can be deducted less."
There are many things to pay in the public grain. It is not how many kilograms you have to pay, but how many kilograms. The dryness, humidity, and impurity content of the grain are all problems. If the grain station deducts more, the members in the brigade will get less.
Everyone is working hard in the fields and living on the grain they receive.
Jiang Xinyu nodded in understanding, turned around and happily went to the team's public room.
The so-called public house is where the brigade cadres work. It is also a bungalow, but it is paved with floor tiles and is still a tile-roofed house.
Cashier Lin Jian was sitting at the table, calculating abacus very quickly, and the beads on the abacus were clicking. Seeing her coming, Lin Jian wrote down the calculated values and said, "Did the captain ask you to come?"
Jiang Xinyu nodded, "The captain asked me to sum up the accounts calculated by the accountant."
Lin Jian nodded and handed her the account book at hand, "First calculate the work points of the members. After paying the public food, you have to distribute food according to this."
There was also an abacus on the table. Jiang Xinyu took it over and picked up the beads on the abacus.
When she was young, she lived with her grandfather, and her grandfather taught her the abacus.
Lin Rongping saw that she calculated well, so he couldn't help but look down on her. There were not many girls in this brigade who had gone to junior high school, and most of them were illiterate, let alone a decent abacus.
Jiang Xinyu had been counting the beads in the abacus for a whole day, and her fingers were sore. If the calculations were different from those in the ledger, she would calculate them a few more times and then mark them.
At the end of the day, her conversation with Lin Rongping from the ledger gave her a deeper understanding of the productivity of the brigade.
Now it is a collective income distribution system. The number one task of the production brigade is to hand over the public grain. After paying the public grain, some seeds and spare grain must be left behind.
The purpose of reserve food is to prevent the occurrence of a major famine and to save lives during times of drought.
After the public grain, reserve grain, and seeds are all removed, the remaining grain will be distributed to the members. The distributed grain is linked to the work points, but the difference is not particularly large.
This is because the distribution is based on the principle of "six per man, four for four", that is, no matter how much you do or how little you do, the brigade will give you 60% of the basic rations, and the remaining 40% will be calculated based on work points.
This also led to people like Zhang Tiezhu who idled most of the time and owed money to the brigade every year.
And if the family is strong and has more labor, if they earn more work points, they will naturally receive more food.
Jiang Xinyu shook her head when she saw the bill and said to Lin Rongping: "I think 60% of the basic ration is a bit too much. Some people have been in debt to the brigade for years and don't work hard to earn work points."
Xiao Lin said with a smile: "In the past, people worked seven times and three times, and the gap in the rations was even smaller, but who in the brigade did not have a few children under ten years old? Many people were not happy with the six or four points. When the three or seven points were divided,
Many people were passive and slow in their work. The team leader held a meeting and asked everyone to take fingerprints and then adjusted it to June 4th. The situation has improved a lot."
The change to 64 points was done secretly and under pressure. After all, it was definitely not in compliance with the policy.
Children who are young and small are destined to not earn many work points. If they are distributed solely on the basis of work points, like the current Yuan Chunhua family, it is entirely possible for them to starve to death.
Jiang Xinyu heard what he said and felt that it was indeed reasonable, but there were many people like Zhang Tiezhu who had been dawdling around and owed debts to the brigade for years.
Jiang Xinyu was worried when she was doing the accounting. According to Li Hui's calculations, one work point calculated from the total income was worth three cents. Many strong laborers who received full work points every day were worth nine yuan a month. Full work points were calculated all year round.
Under the current situation, one person only earns more than 100 yuan a year.
This is only possible if the harvest is good this year. Those with more strength and labor in the family will earn more. Excluding those who have changed their crops, they can also save some money.
Jiang Xinyu calculated her work points. She didn't come back to work every week. As of now, she had only earned more than three yuan. She didn't calculate this herself. She couldn't believe that she worked so hard in the fields.
She only earns this little money. Based on her income, she will definitely not be able to support herself through labor.
Jiang Xin's heart froze. No wonder everyone wanted to get rid of the fate of foraging in the fields and envied the life of people in the city.
Comrade Chen Xiuyun earns quite a lot, with full work points from Monday to Friday. During holidays, the work points will be recorded according to the actual situation. Jiang Xinyu estimated that he can earn about eighty or ninety yuan a year.
The accounts calculated today are just to prepare for the future grain distribution. After last year's spare grain and this year's new grain are distributed, the work points will be deducted at a discount. In the autumn wave, crops such as sweet potatoes and corn will be distributed again, and then at the end of the year.
Those who have a balance will be given money, but there is an upper limit for the exchange of work points. If there is not enough, they will continue to owe the debt and pay it back next year.
It was getting dark, and when Jiang Xinyu came home from her apartment in a daze, Jiang Yuzhu was sitting in the courtyard washing clothes seriously. Jiang Xinyu recognized that what she was washing on her hands was her "costume".
"You haven't returned these clothes?"
After Jiang Yuzhu came to her senses, she smiled and said, "Teacher Fang said he would keep it for me as a souvenir."
"How about going to the county today?"
Jiang Yuzhu said with a smile: "The Xinhua Bookstore in the county is recruiting workers. I have to take the exam on Tuesday. If I can pass it, I can work as a salesperson in the Xinhua Bookstore in the future. It's thanks to Teacher Fang that I was temporarily added, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it."
There is no such opportunity."
"Little sister, if I can go to work in the county, I will help you pay attention to the recruitment information in the future. We have too little information in the countryside. We can't get any information about the recruitment of some units."
Jiang Xinyu thinks this is right. In these days without mobile phones or the Internet, it is not possible to know where there are job opportunities just by sitting at home.
People in the towns are better informed than the commune members who squat on this one-third of an acre of land every day. This also leads to the fact that even if there are job opportunities, they are missed.
"Comrade Li and the others have left?" Jiang Xinyu asked, looking at the quiet little room that belonged to her.
Jiang Yuzhu: "Oops, I forgot. Comrade Li left you a gift. It's a notebook. It's on the bed."
Thinking of the chairman's badge given to her by Zhou Qi, Jiang Yuzhu felt warm in her heart. She thought that they might never see each other again, and this past could only become a memory.
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