Chapter 131 Fortunately, we are prepared
Ma Qijun's pupils shrank: "Why is it still so cold? Did you get cold when you took off your clothes while drinking the mutton soup just now?"
Ye Xiaomei's heart shuddered. She really had no way of measuring her own body temperature, but the man's words were too obvious.
"Maybe." Ye Xiaomei stared at the beads of sweat on her back and gritted her teeth and "admitted" it.
"Don't take off your clothes so easily next time." Ma Qijun pressed the woman down on the bed, turned around and tugged at his pants:
"I'm going to sleep first. I've put the hot water bottle under your quilt."
Then, he fled away.
Ye Xiaomei was at a loss. She was obviously very hot, and now her chest and back were sweating from drinking the mutton soup.
Besides, didn't her face get hot every time she was embarrassed? And when she was cuddling with him, her body temperature would unconsciously heat up.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei crawled out from under the quilt, took her small notebook and pen, moved the pillow aside and began to recall.
She started noticing changes in her body the day she had her first period. Then, when she and Brother Ma decided to get married, she started studying medicine, and she learned very quickly. Then, after she became pregnant, she could occasionally see what other people were thinking. Of course, Ye Xiaomei has not yet found a pattern to this uncertainty.
Apparently, she can see other people's inner thoughts because she is pregnant.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei couldn't sleep well all night. She always felt that this matter was more frightening than seeing a ghost.
Early in the morning, I was awakened by the loudspeaker in the village - comrades, fellow villagers, as the year draws to a close, there are many happy events. There has been new progress in the on-site reconstruction of houses in our village. After counting the household registration and the amount of land that each household should have, the results have been released and posted on the wall of the brigade headquarters yard.
—Comrades, fellow villagers... After dinner, please go and take a look. If there is anything wrong, please report it as soon as possible. Please report it as soon as possible.
Village Chief Liang's voice was heard three or five times before it died down.
There were already crowds of people at the entrance of the brigade headquarters. The two walls of the courtyard were covered with red paper. The densely packed small characters on it were impossible to make out clearly from a distance.
Fortunately, Village Chief Liang brought a few young people from the village who had returned home to maintain order. After the show was over, they left quickly and let the people behind come in to watch.
"Ouch, that idiot stepped on my foot?" Li Cuihua wanted to lift her foot and rub it in pain, but she was old after all, and such a difficult move made her sit on the ground.
"Mom, don't worry." Wang Minzhi and the eldest brother Ye Mancang helped the man up and put him sitting under a tree at the entrance of the village.
Wang Minzhi spat into her palms and rubbed them with gritted teeth: "Mancang, you wait here, I'll go take a look."
After saying that, Niu Yizi rushed into the crowd, and after pushing left and right he managed to squeeze in.
"What are you squeezing? Are you squeezing cotton oil?" There was a commotion and a lot of cursing, and even in the middle of winter, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Wang Minzhi didn't care about all that. In such a huge crowd, who knew who was squeezing whom? She rushed to the front of the crowd, sweating profusely, and looked around eagerly.
First, they found the Second Brigade from the branch of the production brigade in previous years. At that time, their Ye family's area belonged to the Second Brigade.
Looking down vertically, we finally found the Ye family.
The Ye family has a total of six people, including Li Cuihua, the eldest son Ye Mancang, the second oldest son Ye Daxiong and Zhao Mei, and the eldest son's two sons Ye Hu and Ye Qiang.
The total residential land area is 526 square meters. Ye Daxiong and Zhao Mei alone occupy 200 square meters of the demolished and rebuilt residential land. But why is there no area for Wang Minzhi?
Wang Minzhi's head creaked with a sound, and she turned around and squeezed out.
"The eldest daughter-in-law of the Ye family, you are squeezing a hammer!" A group of people were very dissatisfied.
Wang Minzhi didn't care about all this. This distribution was too unfair. She didn't even say hello to her mother-in-law and her husband and pulled Liang Guodong out of the crowd:
"Liang Guodong, you didn't receive benefits from the second brother's family, right? Why do you have my brother's wife but not me? Besides, my house is only 520 square meters in total, and theirs only occupies 200 square meters. Aren't you clearly bullying them?"
Liang Guodong was furious when he heard this: "This is not my plan. I made the statistics and handed them over to the higher-ups, and they were distributed fairly according to the household registration."
"Bah!" Wang Minzhi put her hands on her hips.
Liang Guodong was spitted all over his face, and he took two steps back subconsciously: "You woman, don't be so unreasonable."
"I'm not making sense? Then explain to me why. I know that my father-in-law died early, and my mother-in-law can inherit a part of the homestead, and my husband also has some, but my two sons and my husband together only have as much as the second son's family. How is this possible? He is my son, not my daughter. If you don't explain it to me today, I will go to visit you."
Wang Minzhi was so angry that her face turned red in the middle of winter. She unbuttoned all the buttons of her cotton jacket, revealing the shirt underneath that had turned white from being washed.
Liang Guodong let out a long sigh: "Let me tell you about the policy. Your two sons haven't started families yet, which means they haven't separated yet, so the homestead they use is not an independent entity, but an additional 30 square meters on the basis of you and Mancang."
"That's right, auntie, why are you so angry? These are all policies. My dad is only responsible for statistics, submissions, and communication. Aren't you making things difficult for him?" Liang Huihui walked out of the crowd:
"Besides, without this new policy, you don't know how many years you will have to live in your mud house. If a heavy rain comes one day, it might collapse."
Wang Minzhi jumped up when she heard this:
"Bullshit, even if I give in, why is there Zhao Mei's but not mine? I think you are biased and siding with the second brother's family."
Liang Guodong's simple and honest face was twisted into a knot between his eyebrows: "Then you can visit me if you want, I have nothing to say."
"Dad, there are a lot of people waiting to ask questions over there. Why don't you go home first and I'll explain it to them." Liang Huihui pulled his father away.
Although his father only had an elementary school education, it was difficult to find a literate person to serve as a village cadre 20 or 30 years ago, not to mention that he had made contributions and the people of Meihua Village respected him. However, 20 or 30 years passed in the blink of an eye, and his father had grown old and could not stand being surrounded and bullied by this group of people.
When Wang Minzhi saw the man leave, she jumped up and down and cursed:
"You black-hearted dog, go ahead, I will sue you and have you paraded through the streets with pointed hats and drums."
Wang Minzhi was so angry that she couldn't remember what era it was. The parade and criticism took place more than ten years ago.
Ye Xiaomei was smart enough not to come when there were too many people around: "Brother Ma, eat faster. There must not be many people in the courtyard at this time."
Ma Qijun obeyed the order, got up and left while eating his food in big mouthfuls.
The reallocation of homestead land was a big deal, so Wang Lan and Ma Kaiqu went to the brigade headquarters without even bothering to clean up their dishes.
A family of four stood face to face, searching on the wall.
The north room of the brigade office, which had been abandoned for many years, had its door tightly closed and the glass had long been tattered. There were quite a few people inside asking about the allocation of residential land.
"Here it is." Ma Qijun had good eyesight and found the Ma family of the Third Brigade in no time.
"Let me take a look." Wang Lan leaned forward.
"What are you looking at? Can you read?" Ma Kaiqu pushed her away.
Ye Xiaomei was looking at the land distribution of the Ye family. After seeing this, she finally felt relieved. Fortunately, she had read a lot of civil codes, obtained a marriage certificate in advance, and applied for an independent household for her parents in advance with Village Chief Liang.
Once the housing plot was allocated, her parents' household registration book would include only the three of them, with her father being the head of the household.
"The division is quite fair. Our house has an area of 180 square meters, which is about the same size as the courtyard we live in now. It can be considered as on-site renovation." Ma Kaiqu smiled from ear to ear.
Ma Qijun had his own opinion: "My new house was just built, there is no need to demolish it and rebuild it."
"Oh!" Wang Lan seemed to be thinking about something. "Then I have to talk to Village Chief Liang and see if it is possible to exchange the public funds for subsidies without wasting them." Then she went to the conference room.
“……”Ma Qijun and his father looked at each other.
Ma Kaiqu understood women, so he just hummed twice without expressing any opinion. As soon as he turned around and saw the person coming, Ye Xiaomei and the other two were stunned.
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