While several people were talking, the radio suddenly announced that the train they were going to take was about to enter the station. Several people quickly picked up their things and went to queue.
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In the village, Li Xiulan and her daughters-in-law were cleaning.
"Mom, it's just the third younger sister and younger sister who are back. People who don't know better think you are going to marry your granddaughter-in-law."
Liu Yuemin stood next to the cabinet with a rag. She had been wiping the same spot for a long time.
"It's not just for the two of them, it saves trouble now that we've finished packing."
Li Xiulan came down from the window with a rag. Seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time, she frowned in displeasure and said, "I think it's almost time. If you don't want to do it, go grab firewood and cook."
Liu Yuemin didn't move. It was better to clean than to cook.
"Mom, these are the quilts from my little sister and my third brother and sister's room. I took them back." Zhang Qin came in from the outside with a lot of quilts in her arms. Zhang Xiaoju saw that she hurriedly wiped the kang surface again.
Qin then put the things on the kang.
"You sisters, please help sew the quilt together." Seeing that Liu Yuemin didn't move, Li Xiulan had to put down her work and go to the kitchen to cook.
In the evening, snowflakes suddenly started falling outside, fearing that it would be too cold when the men returned from delivering food. The fire in the house was burning brightly, and the children were playing on the ground. Li Xiulan and her three daughters-in-law were sewing quilts.
Suddenly, the door of the room was pushed open with a creaking sound, and Mr. Gu Shoufu and several others came in from the outside covered with wind and snow.
It was freezing outside, and several of them had been cold and hungry all day. Their eyes and eyebrows were covered with a layer of white frost. As soon as they entered the warm room, they couldn't help but shiver.
"Why did you come back just now?" Li Xiulan put down what she was doing, picked up the broom beside the kang and went over to help them clean the snow off their bodies.
"The scale in the grain depot was broken, so it was delayed for a while." Gu Shoufu casually patted the snow off his body twice and went to the stove. As he got older, his body and bones were a little overwhelmed and he was no longer resistant to freezing.
Gu Xingye looked at Li Xiulan and said happily: "Mom, you don't know, we heard great news when we went to deliver food this time. Other communes have already issued notices, and ours is probably about to arrive soon. The superiors are going to
Household production guarantee is guaranteed."
Li Xiulan: “What is the household responsibility system?”
Gu Xingye laughed: "It means to allocate land to individuals according to their labor. They call it a household joint production system or something. Anyway, they don't want to form a large collective."
Li Xiulan's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief: "Oh my God, that land can still be our own? Doesn't that make the landlord rich?"
After hearing the conversation between several people, Liu Yuemin couldn't continue working. She casually inserted the needle and thread in her hand on the spool, turned around, put on her shoes and got off the kang, and asked anxiously: "Fourth brother, how much land can one person get? Then from now on.
Do they still count as work points? Do I still have to pay for public grain? When will it be our village’s turn? Will there be any trust?”
"It's useless to ask the fourth child. We heard people from other communes say this when we were delivering food, but there's no sign of us here yet."
Gu Xingmin went to the stove and stretched out his hand to warm up the fire twice: "Have you cooked? It's been a day since I had that bite early in the morning, and now I'm so hungry that my chest is touching my back."
Liu Yuemin nodded: "We're cooking, I'll set the table right now."
Although the exact news has not yet spread to the village, the fact that other communes have implemented it means that this matter is close to home. Not only the entire Gu family was excited by the news, but other families who got the news were also very excited. Some
Some people even couldn't bear it and ran to Zhang Changhe's house to inquire about the situation.
"We haven't heard from the commune yet. In two days, the commune will organize a meeting for village cadres before the year ends. I will ask about the situation then."
There is no definite information about the matter, so Zhang Changhe dare not say anything casually, but based on his many years of experience, this matter can probably be accomplished.
Since the implementation of the "big pot rice", everyone was really enthusiastic at the beginning, but as time went by, more and more people cheated and cheated, and the harvest of the production team was worse than the previous year. According to him, if the household contract system is implemented,
It's really a good thing. At least he can work for his own family, so these people will no longer have an excuse to be lazy.
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It was already the afternoon of the second day when Chen Lishu and Gu Xingping arrived in the village.
"Second sister, please go home first. I will go home to see my parents tomorrow." After they separated from Chen Liyuan, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law took Ruirui and walked towards the Gu family.
The old girl has been away from school for half a year. She has never been away from her side for such a long time in her whole life. Li Xiulan has been looking outside from time to time since noon, and in the afternoon she feels restless.
"Xingping and the others haven't come back yet. Could anything have happened on the way?"
After hearing this, Zhang Qin couldn't help but smile and comfort her: "Mom, don't worry, there are three younger siblings here, so nothing will happen."
"Why don't I go to the entrance of the village and have a look." Li Xiulan grabbed the turban on the side and was about to wrap it up when she suddenly saw two people, one big and one small, walking in from the entrance of the courtyard. She immediately greeted them happily and said, "I'm back. I'm back."
"Mom!" Seeing Li Xiulan's figure, Gu Xingping immediately ran forward and hugged her.
"How old are you for being such a coquettish person? You must be freezing after walking all this way. Come inside now. It's warm inside."
Several people entered the house, and Chen Lishu hurriedly took off the hat and scarf wrapped on Ruirui's head, and then took off her own.
"Elder sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and fourth younger brother and sister."
Chen Lishu smiled and said hello to everyone, and then sent the couple's change of clothes to her room.
When she opened the door, she found that the room had been thoroughly cleaned. Although she hadn't been back for a year, the room was still clean and tidy. It looked like the bedding had been re-opened and washed. She guessed that Li Xiulan and the others had tidied it up because they knew they were coming back.
, Chen Lishu couldn't help but feel warm in her heart.
When she came out again, she had several packages of divided candies in her hands.
"I bought this in the provincial capital. In addition to toffee, it also contains chocolate. I gave it to the children to try."
When they heard that there was candy, all the older children playing on the floor put down their things and came over. The two little ones who were crawling around on the kang also came over sucking saliva.
One of the two little ones is Gu Pan from Gu Xingye's family, and the other is Gu Feng from Gu Xingmin's family. The two children are only a few months apart.
After distributing candies to the children, Ruirui went to play with the Gu Song brothers, while Chen Lishu and Gu Xingping sat down to chat with Li Xiulan and the others.
"Household production guarantee?"
Chen Lishu was shocked when she heard this word. In her previous life, she had been living in the provincial capital after marrying Lu Chengming. Because of the inconvenience of communication, she knew very little about things in the village. Although she knew that the land was divided later, she did not expect that it would happen.
So early.
Li Xiulan: "They said it was called a family property or something. The fourth child said it, but there is no definite information yet."