After the hustle and bustle, the villagers' lives quickly returned to normal. After spring plowing, summer work, autumn harvest, and winter storage, time came to the spring and summer of 1979.
The Stone Ge Festival has changed a lot, the Jar Village has changed a lot, and the Wang Manyin family has also changed a lot.
The market during the Shige Festival was even more lively. In addition to the products purchased and sold by the state, there were more stalls selling various businesses in the market, and many businessmen appeared.
The life of the villagers in Guangu Village is much better than before. The first choice of those with skills is no longer to go out to earn money and do small business. There are many more people looking for jobs in the city, which has added a lot of vitality to the village.
In Wang Manyin's house, Mao Dan has gone to elementary school, Gou Dan is already a six-year-old child, and the third child is about to turn two years old. Not only can he talk now, he is a talkative little boy, and he can run very fast when put on the ground.
Over the past year or so, Wang Manyin has been pretty much the same as usual. He has not done anything extraordinary or bought and sold. He mainly makes money by selling his own agricultural products.
The apparent income of the family is a few hundred yuan, but the actual income is several thousand yuan, so I have a little capital to do things.
The apparent income is not much, it is just the balance distributed by the team to individuals at the end of the previous year. Every year, I go to each village to guide the green storage and earn a few dozen yuan. At the end of the year, the family's pigs, sheep, and vegetables from the private land are usually collected.
In addition, the life of the villagers in Guan Guan Village has become visibly better off. In the past year or so, several young people have gotten married in the village, and craftsman Wang Manyin has made some money by making furniture.
Wang Manyin didn't think it was much, and Sun Shaoan's eyes turned red with envy.
Although Shaoan's production team's grain output is about the same as in previous years.
But it can’t be said that there has been no progress in income. It’s just that the Shaoan production team has no capital and can only rely on self-breeding to breed sheep. The rams are used as welfare. During the holidays, some mutton is given to the members during the holidays, and the ewes are kept to expand the scale.
The collective property of the group has increased a lot, but at the end of the year, the members still haven’t seen much money.
As for the villagers of Shuangshui Village, they hope that after the dam is blown up, the Kuiyan River can be silted up into a rice river, and the village will no longer have to worry about food.
The dream was shattered. After a heavy rain, the seemingly solid dam was directly destroyed by flash floods.
The flash flood destroyed the dam and destroyed Tian Futang's spirit. Not to mention the farmland in Shuangshui Village was very productive. In order to buy explosives, the village sold tens of thousands of kilograms of grain reserves and is still waiting to be repaid.
The reason why the villages have become lively again recently is because Tian Fujun had no position when he was transferred to the area, and then went to the province to help for more than a year. After more than a year, he was promoted three levels in a row and became the district commissioner of Huangyuan area.
After Tian Fujun came to power, he promoted the contract responsibility system in Huangyuan area.
Although the contract responsibility system has not yet been implemented during the Shige Festival, the news always arrives first.
The villagers became agitated. Of course, there are benefits to collectivization. Only by concentrating efforts can we accomplish big things. Without the collective, Guan Guan Village would not be able to build the dam, and individuals would not be able to build water conservancy facilities. Guan Guan Village would not be able to build so many terraces.
Of course, nothing has only its own benefits. If the collective time is too long, some people will inevitably cheat, resulting in low overall production efficiency.
Now is the reform and opening up, and villagers are not willing to tie themselves to the farmland all the time. They can do small businesses and work in the city, and they can all have good incomes.
When Wang Manyin was herding sheep on the mountain and reading a book, Li Laishun turned around.
The children who were herding sheep had changed two or three times, but only Li Laishun and Wang Manyin were still taking care of the sheep.
"Man Yin, have you heard?"
"heard."
Wang Manyin's reply immediately confused Li Laishun: "I didn't say anything about it, and you heard about it?"
"Yeah, you didn't say anything, just asked me if I had heard about it. Should I say yes or no?"
"Manyin, I didn't make it clear. Did you hear that we don't have a production responsibility system here?"
"How come you haven't heard of it? From the elderly with limited mobility to the babies who are crying for food, there is no one who hasn't heard of it."
"Do you think it's a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Do you even need to ask? Of course it's a good thing."
"Manyin, you have to think clearly. If the responsibility system is implemented, you will no longer be able to read leisurely here. You will also have to work in the fields."
Wang Manyin didn't expect that Li Laishun was used to living together and couldn't bear to leave.
"Brother Laishun, don't just look at the past two years in our Guan Village. The villagers have been living a pretty good life and their income is getting higher year by year. However, the extra income is all from breeding, and there is no food distributed every year.
How come the price is so high? I can’t make enough money out of this big pot.”
"You are right. Our Gugang Village can only eat enough food now. If we want to eat well, we still need to implement the contract responsibility system."
"That's the right thing to think about."
"Manyin, you are smart, help me think about it, you said, the collective is gone, I am not good at farming, what will I do in the future?"
"Whatever you do now, you will do in the future. With your breeding technology, Brother Shun, are you afraid that you won't be able to make a fortune?"
Li Laishun's intelligence is really focused on learning various skills, without any economic acumen.
Li Laishun, who should not be worried about his future in the village, is still worried about what he will do in the future.
After Wang Manyin talked with Li Laishun, he realized that he should do something to prevent Guan Village from having a production responsibility group that could not be promoted or demoted.
It is divided once now, and it will be divided again in two years. It will be done in one step, and the production will be distributed to each household, so as to fully liberate the labor force.
After work in the evening, he told Lan Hua, took two bottles of wine, and went to Wang Youcai's house.
"Aunt Guihua, has Uncle Cai come back?"
"He hasn't come back yet. Do you have anything to do with him?"
"I have something to do. I want to have a drink with him and talk."
"If you want to have a drink with your Uncle Youcai, Manyin, just go inside and Auntie will cook you some food. But Manyin, be careful when you drink. Don't make your Uncle Youcai drink too much every time you drink."
Wang Youcai drinks too much. I really don’t blame Wang Manyin. Wang Youcai’s drinking highlights the boldness of a Northwester. There is no need to persuade or stop him.
"Aunt Guihua, stop working. You are not here today. If you want to talk about something, you need to bring Brother Mancang with you. You can ask Uncle Youcai to go directly to Brother Mancang's house to find us when he comes back!"
Wang Mancang and Wang Youcai, the village party secretary, and the production team leader were all very busy people. Someone might be looking for them at any time. For fear of not being able to find someone and delaying things, they tried their best not to leave home while drinking.
After leaving Wang Youcai's house, Wang Manyin arrived at Wang Mancang's house a few minutes later.
"Brother Mancang! Brother Mancang!"
"Come to the house, you're here just in time, I'm about to ask you for advice?"
"I brought wine here, and I want to talk to you about something. I also asked Uncle Youcai, he should be here soon."
There is a village party secretary and a production team leader, which is enough to solve the problem of Gugan Village’s first team and household production guarantee.