Chapter 164: The name I gave is better than anything else. You can get started just by hearing the name!
As the two were talking, Su's father came over, looked at the bustling scene in front of him, and spoke to Su Wenchen with emotion.
"It's been many years since the atmosphere in the brigade has been so warm!"
Su Wenchen glanced at Su's father.
"Dad, this is all thanks to your leadership as the captain!"
Hearing this, Father Su glanced at Su Wenchen and said proudly.
"I need you to share the credit with me? If it's your credit, it's yours. I don't want it!"
"The chicken farm was your idea, and you built it with all your strength. Everyone in our brigade will be grateful to you!"
"Don't put the blame on me. I don't care!"
As for Su's father, he did not have the same ambition as Lao Gao to continue to move up, otherwise he would not have run back after the war despite the obstruction of his old leader.
After hearing what Su's father said, the members nearby also gathered around.
"That's Director Su. You built the chicken farm with your own hands. You are the one who has made the greatest contribution. Isn't it because the chicken farm has a high income that we can kill ten pigs for the New Year this year? Otherwise, even if the team killed all the pigs in previous years, everyone would not be so happy, because in previous years they relied on these few pigs to make money!"
"That's right, that's right. If we hadn't been given so much money first, even if our family could have been given ten kilograms of meat, we wouldn't be as happy eating it as we are this year."
"That's right! Especially those little brats at home, they're going to be so happy this year. Director Su, if you have any problems, just tell me directly. I'll go and help even if I have to take a leave."
"Count me in. I can eat 10 kilograms of meat during Chinese New Year. I never dared to think about it before. There were no chicken farms before, so how could I dare to kill five pigs? I'm thankful for even one."
"That's right. Now our brigade is well-known in the surrounding area. As long as people hear that the person being introduced is a young man from our Pingcun brigade, some are willing to marry without even asking for a dowry."
"Of course, the bride price is just a few dollars. If she marries me, there will be one more person, and the profit will be made up just by the extra two kilograms of meat every year."
When Su Wenchen heard these words, although he didn't know how long the effect of the other party's words would last, it was at least much better than those who picked up the bowl to eat and cursed when they put the bowl down.
So he was quite moved and waved his hand and said.
"This is the result of everyone's joint efforts. I am just paving the way for everyone."
"As long as we unite together, the future will surely be more prosperous day by day!"
"At that time, we ate big fat pigs every day. I guess everyone wanted to run away when they saw the pigs!"
Hearing this, the group of people immediately burst into laughter.
"Haha, Director Su, don't worry, I, Old Ma, definitely won't. Not to mention eating it every day, I won't get tired of it even if I eat it every meal. If you don't believe me, let me try."
"Hey, Ma Yougen, you're the only one who knows how to take advantage, right? Director Su was just being polite, but you're really rushing to take advantage of him."
"I'm just saying it. How could I not know I'm joking? Even in the city, I've never heard of anyone eating pork every day!"
Su Wenchen lowered his hand to interrupt their quarrel.
"Okay, after you get your money, go to the pig pen! Let's all go and help. Kill the pig quickly so that everyone can take the meat home."
"Yes, yes, yes, we must hurry and help. We have to slaughter five pigs today, and I'm afraid the butcher alone can't kill them all."
"Of course not. If we are slow, I am afraid that the ones who come after us will have to wait until the evening to receive them."
As they received the money, the group of people walked happily towards the pigpen.
Jiang Li stood beside Su Wenchen and said while looking at the backs of a group of people.
"The members of our team are the most united I have ever seen. I hope they can always be so united in the future."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he looked at the other person curiously.
"It sounds like you're leaving now!"
Jiang Li nodded.
"I'm leaving now, and I'm a little reluctant! Although the past six months have been very tiring, I've learned a lot from the team leader, the aunts in the team, and the members here."
When Su Wenchen heard this, his heart skipped a beat.
An uncomfortable feeling spread from the bottom of his heart, because he had become somewhat accustomed to Jiang Li's presence.
Especially now that winter has arrived.
Since there were only two stoves in the house, Jiang Li moved directly into Su Wenchen's room.
Although there was a curtain drawn on the kang.
But for Su Wenchen, the other party has already become his chosen wife.
Su Wenchen looked at the other person uncomfortably, with a hint of panic in his voice.
"Are you going back to Beijing?"
Jiang Li smiled and glanced at Su Wenchen.
"Why do you look like that? I was just transferred to the commune to serve as the deputy director of Nanwan Commune. After all, I have to catch up with you."
"I have been very busy in the second half of this year. I can now solemnly announce that 80 percent of the people in our brigade have escaped from illiteracy."
"Why are you so nervous? Are you afraid that I'll run away?"
However, despite saying so, Jiang Li was still very moved when she saw Su Wenchen's expression.
Because only if you care, you will do this, just like when Su Wenchen was going on a business trip to Shanghai, even though he knew that the other party would be back in a month.
But she still feels sad, worried and reluctant!
When Su Wenchen heard this, he immediately felt relieved.
So he said unhappily.
"Humph, you actually tried to scare me in this way. I'm unhappy and I have to be coaxed to get better."
Jiang Li smiled
"I didn't scare you. You just imagined it. I didn't say anything."
Hearing this, Su Wenchen snorted coldly.
"Humph, you sounded so melancholy earlier. I thought it was far away. It takes less than an hour to get from our home to the commune. It only takes a few dozen minutes by bike. Is it necessary to say that?"
"So you must have done it on purpose to make me misunderstand."
Jiang Li looked at Su Wenchen as if to say, "Come and coax me."
He covered his mouth and chuckled.
"Well, I can do this tonight!"
"Have you done it? Otherwise, there will be no such store after this village!"
Su Wenchen blinked.
"It's a deal. Let's go, let's go get the meat. Why am I so sleepy? I suddenly want to go back to sleep."
Jiang Li rolled her eyes at the other person.
"You rascal, you keep coming up with weird ideas to torment me every day!"
"I don't know why it took so long!"
After the work points were settled at the brigade, the New Year pig was slaughtered and the meat was distributed.
at night.
The entire Pingcun Brigade was filled with the smell of meat.
Apparently, many members’ families were not planning to wait until the Chinese New Year to eat the meat, and were planning to try the meat first. After all, ten kilograms of meat was not a small amount.
There’s nothing wrong with having a meal in advance.
At this time, many members also raised two pigs at home.
Members are not allowed to kill this kind of pig privately, but the extra pig beyond the one that completes the task can be slaughtered.
For example, for Su Wenchen, his eldest brother and second brother were each given two half-grown piglets.
But after a year of raising it, it now weighs more than 200 kilograms.
In fact, the pigs of both families were not well taken care of. It was okay for the eldest brother, as he had Shitou, the main person in charge of collecting grass for the pigs, so they basically never starved.
As for the second brother, since his second sister-in-law became pregnant, he naturally stopped paying attention to taking care of the pigs.
It’s all thanks to Su’s mother who helps take care of the baby sometimes.
Especially after his second sister-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy.
That guy was so happy that his eyes almost disappeared with laughter.
I don't have the time to care about the pigs.
Even Su's mother didn't have the heart to take care of the pigs. If it weren't for the help from her eldest brother, the pigs probably wouldn't have completed the task.
Su Wenchen was carrying a few large pig's trotters and knocked on the door of his second brother's house.
"Brother, are you home? I brought you something good!"
"The door is not closed, just come in!"
Hearing this, Su Wenchen pushed the door open and saw his second brother Su Wenlie washing diapers in the main room.
"Oh, I'm washing it!"
As he said this, he raised the big pig's trotter in his hand.
"The brigade just slaughtered the pig. I saw that you even let your father collect the brigade's dividends on your behalf, so I helped you replace some of the pork with pig's trotters. You won't blame me, will you?"
Su Wenlie said with a smile on his face.
"Blame it on me, I can't thank you enough, it's better to change them all, don't you know that your sister-in-law doesn't have enough milk, luckily you brought me several packs of milk powder in advance."
"Otherwise, my son Tietou would be hungry half the time. I don't dare to feed him milk powder often, for fear that he would run out of milk and starve."
Su Wenchen said unhappily.
"Do you think you're the only one in our team who can give birth to a child? If it weren't for my face, you could have gotten four!"
Su Wenlie muttered to himself when he heard this.
"Their wives don't lack milk, why are they eating pig's trotters?"
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"How do you know they don't need it? Come on, second brother, I'll go to the city to deliver some stuff in a few days and ask for you. If possible, I'll get you two bags of milk powder."
"I'm going to see my oldest nephew."
Su Wenlie shook his water-stained hands.
"Go ahead! By the way, you should warm yourself up by the stove first, so as not to bring cold air to my wife."
Su Wenchen looked at the other person speechlessly.
"Second brother, I never realized that you are such a romantic!"
"That's right. You don't know there are so many more. I won't be polite to you, the youngest one. Anyway, you can just call me directly if you have any problems in the future."
Su Wenchen waved his hand and walked into the inner room.
I saw my second sister-in-law wearing a cotton coat and half leaning on the kang reading a book.
There was a big fat boy lying next to him.
Su Wenchen saw this and thought to himself.
This kid's physique is really unlike his second brother. Instead, he looks a bit like his father. After all, although Father Su is old, when he was young, he could run a horse on his shoulders.
The eldest brother is also more robust.
Actually, neither myself nor my second brother are of strong build.
Su Wenchen touched the little guy's chubby face.
"This little face really doesn't show the lack of milk my second brother mentioned."
Second sister-in-law Yu Xiaomei said softly when she saw that it was Su Wenchen.
"The youngest one is here. Actually, I'm not that short of milk, it's just that this kid eats too much."
"Thank goodness for your bags of milk powder, otherwise I would have been killed by his annoyance!"
Su Wenchen smiled and said.
"Have you chosen a name? It seems like the time is almost right?"
Because here people usually don't have a full name when they are born, they just have a nickname that is easy to live with. As for the full name, some will be given after a hundred days.
Some start again at the age of two or three.
Some families even give their children a full name and register their children only when they are about to go to school and need a household registration.
Yu Xiaomei shook her head, undecided.
"Your second brother named himself Su Mingniu, but I think it doesn't sound good."
Hearing what his second sister-in-law Yu Xiaomei said, Su Wenlie from the outside was obviously dissatisfied.
He walked in with wet hands and said to Su Wenchen.
"Youngest, what do you think of the name I gave it? Ming Niu, it sounds powerful."
"Besides, cows are so strong! They match his physique very well."
Su Wenchen looked at his second brother Su Wenlie with an indescribable expression.
"Second brother, why don't you give me a Su Ming Niu? It's more powerful and stronger!"
Su Wenlie looked at Su Wenchen with shining eyes.
"Hey, that's a good name!"
Then he hesitated.
"But Dad might not agree! After all, he was the one who decided our family's generation name."
"It is said that civilization is flourishing and China will last forever."
"If I find a man of the Iron Family alone, will he agree?"
"No, I'll go ask him. The Iron Ox is really good. This tractor is much more durable than an ox. It will definitely not get sick in the future."
Su Wenchen was completely speechless.
Brother, are you f*cking serious? Is that your biological son?
Cycad cow?
Su Wenchen estimated that if this name was really decided, this little guy would probably become an outlier among his brothers and sisters.
Watching Su Wenlie hurriedly walking towards Su's father's room.
Su Wenchen felt that his father would not agree.
After all, his father spent a lot of money he had saved for many years to find a fortune teller to decide the order of characters for the younger generation in his family before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
It can be seen from this incident that his father is absolutely serious about this matter.
Otherwise I wouldn't be willing to pay that price.
After all, this was not a small amount of money in that era.
Afterwards, just as Su Wenchen had expected, his father's angry roar was heard from the main room soon after.
His voice was several times louder than when he scolded Su Wenchen for not liking to work and picking grass for pigs every day.
"Su Wenlie, get out of here! If you dare to name your son Su Tieniu, I will publish an advertisement in the newspaper tomorrow to sever the father-son relationship with you."
After hearing this, Su Wenchen curled the corners of his mouth.
He thought that Father Su would be unhappy, but he didn't expect him to be so unhappy. This time his second brother was afraid that he would be caught in the trap.
After a while, the second brother walked in listlessly and started complaining to Su Wenchen.
"Dad, what a fool! What's wrong with me naming my son? Cycads is so nice!"
"Strong and healthy. Our team just bought a new tractor this year. Is there any cooler name than this?"
Su Wenchen burst out laughing.
Tractors are cool nowadays, but they can’t be cool forever!
Not long after, Su's father also came in with his clothes on.
I was a little surprised when I saw Su Wenchen.
"Youngest, you're here too!"
"Second brother, I've thought about it. I can't let your broken head name my grandson. You can't think of a good name. Forget about the nickname. Something cheap is easier to raise. How can you face people in the future with a formal name like that? So I'll do it myself!"
"Second brother, what do you mean?"
Hearing what Su's father said, Yu Xiaomei nodded repeatedly.
"Dad, I think it's great. You were the one who named the stone anyway!"
Only Su Wenlie muttered.
"This is my son, he should listen to me!"
Su Wenchen didn't even look at his second brother, who had this talent for naming, so he should stop embarrassing himself.
Father Su pondered for a while.
Then he spoke slowly.
"When Shitou was born, both the brigade and our family were in financial difficulty. In addition, he had been in poor health since childhood. I named him Su Mingjian in the hope that he would be strong enough to survive."
"You look pale and plump, and our family conditions are not as good as before, so let's call you Su Mingrong!"
Hearing what Su's father said, Yu Xiaomei immediately nodded and touched the little face of the child beside her.
"Dad, I'll listen to you. This kid knows how to pick the right time. It's obvious that he's here to enjoy himself."
Su Wenchen also felt that this name was much better than Iron Bull or Bronze Bull.
Only Su Wenlie was pouting and looking unhappy.
"Su Mingrong, this is far from the name I gave you called Su Mingniu."
"Besides, just hearing the name makes me feel like a prodigal. My name is not as good as mine. Just hearing the name can get people to work."
(End of this chapter)
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