Upon hearing this, Tan Dingguo nodded quickly and went out with production team leader Lin Zhicai and village accountant.

Once outside the county government gates, Tan Dingguo finally let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Let's go, we've passed this hurdle!"

Lin Zhicai and the village accountant exchanged a glance. This... this is how it's passed?

"Village chief, should we continue with the communal dining system or not?"

Lin Zhicai couldn't help but ask.

"What a load of crap! Haven't you seen that the first village to implement this policy is now eating farmed grains?"

Do you want the villagers to eat the crops they grow?

Tan Dingguo turned around, glared at Lin Zhicai, and cursed.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhicai immediately became anxious and replied, "Village chief, how can that be? Growing grain is our farmers' hope for next year."

"Without crops, what will we grow next year? If we farmers don't grow crops, are we still farmers? Without seeds, without harvest, won't we all starve to death?"

Seeing that he was still not confused, Tan Dingguo snorted and then said, "Since you understand this principle, tell me, are we still going to continue the communal dining system?"

Upon hearing the village chief's words, Lin Zhicai quickly shook his head, indicating that such a thing should absolutely not be done.

After Tan Dingguo and his group returned to the village, they did not tell the villagers about the plan to hold a communal meal service.

However, a few days later, the county sent people to return the farm's account books and tell them to run the farm properly.

He also brought a message to Tan Dingguo: the county had issued an order to cancel the communal dining system.

This news is not good news for any village other than Xishan Village.

Especially for families who had handed over their grain and even dismantled their own stoves, the canteens were abolished after they had only eaten a few mouthfuls of food from the communal pot.

This was a complete shock to them.

Even if the village distributes the grain equally, there are still those who paid more and those who paid less.

Those who paid more grain received less when divided among the villagers; how could the villagers accept that?

Even if those who paid less did receive their share of grain, their stoves were destroyed, and rebuilding them would cost money.

That money, which can only be earned through a year's work points, how could these farmers, who toil in the fields from dawn till dusk, bear to part with it!

This naturally led to another round of wrangling.

The worst off were those villages that had been eating communal meals in the canteen for a long time; their food supplies were almost completely depleted.

Now that the communal dining hall has been disbanded, there's no surplus grain left to distribute to the villagers.

But without food, it's like waiting to die.

Some people made a scene with the village officials, while others naturally thought of borrowing money from relatives in the next village.

In Xishan Village, many daughters have married out, and many wives have also come to live with them.

Almost every household has a few relatives. After the disbandment of the canteen's communal meals, the whole family was struggling to survive.

Naturally, all the relatives I could think of came to borrow money.

For a time, almost every household in Xishan Village was in turmoil.

Some of them were even restless and went to the breeding farm.

Fortunately, when Fu Hongxing learned from Tan Dingguo that the county was disbanding the canteens and the communal dining system, he asked Tan to arrange for people to guard the breeding farm.

To prevent some fools from causing trouble.

Just as Fu Hongxing had predicted, someone did come to the farm to cause trouble. The person who was caught was first beaten black and blue before being taken to the brigade headquarters.

Upon seeing the person who had been brought in, despite being beaten so badly, Tan Dingguo still recognized who he was.