Soon Gu Xingdong prepared the basket and net bag, and the three adults and several children set off to the river together.
After the rain, the sky cleared up, and the bright sun shone on the clear river water, reflecting the sparkling waves. In the distance, you could still see a few ducks floating leisurely on the water.
A few people arrived at the river. Chen Lishu and Gu Xingping rolled up their trousers and started touching, while Gu Xingdong took a few young ones to catch fish.
Throughout the afternoon, Chen Lishu and Gu Xingping touched more than half of the basket of fish, and Gu Xingdong and several children also caught five or six fish.
When they went back, they sent some to the Chen family and took the rest home. Gu Xingdong cleaned up the fish, and Chen Lishu soaked all the Gala in salt water to remove the mud. They soaked it for about an hour until it was almost cleaned.
I started to take the meat for later use, and went to my own plot to pick green peppers, preparing to make stir-fried Gala Pork with green peppers.
At dinner time, the family was sitting together and preparing to eat when the radio, which had not been used for a long time in the village, suddenly rang: "Comrade members, comrades, please pay attention, everyone must gather at the brigade headquarters on time at seven o'clock in the evening to discuss the power supply in the village.
Things..."
"Will the village be electrified?"
Gu Xingping was extremely excited when she heard the news. After all, kerosene lamps are always less bright than electric lights, and if you light a kerosene lamp all night, your nose will be filled with black smoke the next day, which is not clean at all.
Chen Lishu was also very happy after hearing this. The electricity supply to the village is not only for lighting, but also has great benefits for the future development of the village.
"It's better to have electricity. It will make it brighter for us to work at night. I heard that people in other brigades who have electricity still buy TV sets."
Zhang Qin was also a little excited. The lack of electric light and poor lighting affected her sewing at night.
Seeing the three of them talking and laughing, Liu Yuemin couldn't help pouring cold water on her: "It's better to have electricity, or it's better not to have electricity. I'm afraid the electricity bill alone will cost a lot of money."
Li Xiulan nodded: "I'm afraid one-time electricity costs a lot of money, right?"
Gu Xingdong laughed: "Electricity in the city only costs a few cents per unit. Except at night, there is no place to use electricity at home, so it certainly won't cost much."
Nowadays, electricity is basically used for lighting, and the power of light bulbs is generally not high. For home use, five or ten watts is enough.
Li Xiulan thought about it and said with a smile: "A box of matches costs two cents."
After dinner, the courtyard door was locked, and the family started to go to the brigade headquarters.
Zhang Changhe saw that most of the people had arrived. Some of the people who had not come stopped waiting. He raised the soles of his shoes and knocked the pipe pot in his hand and walked forward.
"I went to the commune two days ago to discuss it. The introduction of electricity in the village is not only good for everyone, but also good for our village. The first thing is to grind rice. Once the electricity is turned on, we can use the machine to operate it, and we no longer have to grind the mill...
"
Zhang Changhe listed several examples. Seeing that everyone was getting more and more excited, he started to talk about the key points: "It still depends on everyone to provide electricity. I went to the commune to inquire about it and pulled the wire from them. Because of our terrain, there are buried cables in the middle.
Telephone poles and other things, apart from the cost, everyone needs to contribute."
"The accountant has already done the calculation. There are a total of 128 households in our village, and it will be enough to share about 20 yuan per household equally." Captain Sun Yuzhu added.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone started talking.
"More than twenty? How can I have any spare money at home?"
"Yes, it's only the middle of the year, and the food hasn't come in yet. Although the electricity is good, after it is turned on, you still have to pay the electricity bill..."
Listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Changhe interrupted them: "Those who have money will pay. If you don't have money, your work points will be deducted, and we will settle the matter together at the end of the year."
When everyone heard that their work points could be deducted, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief and asked not to pay immediately, so everyone nodded in agreement.
Widow Liu listened to everyone's discussion, looked at Chen Lishu and the Gu family, with resentment flashing in her eyes, she turned to Zhang Changhe and said loudly: "My family has no money, whoever wants to pull the wire will pull the wire. Anyway, my family doesn't have electricity, so what's the use of wires?"
Don’t even think about passing by my house.”
She has already thought about it. As long as there is no electricity in her house, this electric wire will not pass through her house. It seems that the old Gu family can still be so proud! "Why is the Liu family like this?"
"Hey, that's a rat shit stirrer."
"I said to Wang Juhua, it's okay if your house doesn't have electricity, why are you blocking the way from your house? What do you want the other people behind us to do?" A woman holding a child couldn't help but say.
"Yeah, you have to think about everyone, right? What should we do with the people behind us?"
Like the Gu family, they all lived on the left side of the Liu family. When Widow Liu made such a fuss, the rest of her family would suffer.
"What do I care about you? If it doesn't work, just do some research and give me my share of the money, otherwise you won't even think about passing by my house."
Everyone raises funds to pay for her? Doesn't this show the shameless rogue behavior?
Li Xiulan was so angry that she was about to speak but Chen Lishu stopped her: "Mom, there is no need to be angry with this kind of person."
When Widow Liu saw that everyone was silent, she felt so proud that she was so smart.
Not far away, Mrs. Chen rolled her cloudy eyes when she saw that such an operation could be done. She immediately said that her family would no longer pay for it, and the wires could not pass through her house unless people who wanted to connect to the electricity also helped her.
The money for the wires came out.
As soon as Mrs. Chen's words came out, she was immediately followed by a series of attacks.
Several village cadres looked at Widow Liu and Mrs. Chen and gritted their teeth with anger, but no matter how angry they were, it was obvious that they would not be able to do this unless they paid.
It's definitely not possible to do it forcefully. Apart from continuing to do ideological work, there seems to be no other better way.
"Lishu, don't stop me. This old lady just needs to be dealt with. She's blocking us even though she's not feeling well. I have to give her a good beating today to express her bad temper."
"Mom, let's calm down. A scoundrel like her doesn't deserve our anger. I have a way to cure her."
"Third sister-in-law, what can you do?" Gu Xingping asked curiously as soon as she heard that she had a solution.
Chen Lishu smiled, took a few steps forward and said to Zhang Changhe: "Uncle Changhe, since the Liu family does not agree with the electric wires going to their house, we will put up an extra telegraph pole outside the courtyard. I will pay for the extra expenses. But in the future, their house
If you want to use electricity again, you will never be allowed to connect to my wires."
In order to save the length of wires as much as possible, the poles were erected as close as possible to the house in each courtyard. Since Widow Liu wanted to use this trick to force them, Chen Lishu simply threw their house out.
As soon as she spoke, Mrs. Chen was also stunned for a moment, not to mention Widow Liu.
Everyone reacted and agreed: "Yes, we would rather pay more to get them out, and they don't want to take advantage of us. It's so wicked!"