"Sis, I'm sorry, I've made you worry." Jiang Lin looked at his sister and lowered his head guiltily.
Jiang Ruyu grinned: "Are you stupid? We're siblings, why are you saying these things? Just live your life well. I can tell that Xiaoyan is someone who really wants to live a good life. You should treat her well in the future."
"I know, sister."
Time flows like water, disappearing without a trace.
Soon after Jiang Lin arrived at his new post and settled into his work, he returned to pick up his wife and children. The news of Jiang Lin's remarriage was not kept from the people in the military region, and some busybodies eventually informed Guan Jin.
"Guan Jin, I'm speaking up for you. Everyone knows that when you married Jiang Lin, his conditions were not as good as yours. Now that he's been promoted, he's abandoned you in the blink of an eye and found another wife. It's really infuriating."
Guan Jin stared blankly at her colleague who kept talking about it. She trembled with anger: "What's it to you? Mind your own business. Go do your work." Then, with a cold face, she ran out and burst into tears in a deserted corner.
Everything was going well. Jiang Hui and Han Ling were studying in an orderly manner, and the children were going to school. They wanted to hire a nanny to take care of them, but Jiang Ruyu was unwilling. They all lived in the same courtyard, and she was the aunt. How could she take care of the children and leave them to a nanny?
It was just a matter of picking him up and providing meals. Jiang Hui couldn't argue with his sister, so he had no choice but to accept her kindness. She gave him enough living expenses every month and would also bring his nephews and nieces some snacks when he went home.
Life went on like this, and Jiang Ruyu noticed that many farmers from the suburbs were now selling vegetables on the streets and alleys, all doing it secretly and on a small scale, but no one cared.
Even if the street's red armband officers saw it, they pretended not to see it. Jiang Ruyu was excited; the day she had been waiting for was finally coming.
From that day on, she read the newspaper and listened to the radio every day until one day in December of the year, when the newspapers and radio began to announce that the country was about to begin a policy of internal reform and opening up to the outside world.
The pilot program was set up in a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The state issued a policy for the people, which was to distribute land to individual households. The members of the commune were organized into one household and implemented a system of contracted responsibility, with each household bearing its own profits and losses.
The most obvious change is that the saying passed down through generations has become: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces."
Development is the only way forward.
After learning about the policy of distributing land to individual households, Jiang Ruyu went to her uncle's house.
"Uncle, have you read the newspaper?" Jiang Ruyu went straight to the point.
"What newspaper? What did it say?" They were rural people; apart from the leaders of the brigade and commune, who would read the newspaper for no reason?
"Uncle, the country is now encouraging rural families to apply to the production team to contract land from the brigade and commune so they can work on their own. Don't you have any ideas?"
Now, my cousin's wife, Xu Cuicui, has taken over my cousin's job, and my cousin is married. She didn't pass the college entrance exam. My uncle's family is considered quite well-off in the village, but they still have a lot of children. My cousin is still working the land. Seeing his wife dressed like a city person every day, how could Hu Dong not have any thoughts?
Hu Dong's cousin lives in the city every day, and she knows more than his family does. Hu Dong is willing to listen to what his cousin has to say.
“Ruyu, what are you thinking? Tell us, we don’t understand any policies.”
Seeing that her cousin had some ideas, Jiang Ruyu emphasized some changes in the city to him: "Cousin, the country is now encouraging personal development. I suggest you follow the policy and see if you want to lease land to farm or raise livestock. I think it's all the same path."
My uncle still held onto his old ideas, fearing another round of land reform and distribution to the wealthy: "Wouldn't that be a restoration of capitalism? Wouldn't we get reported?"
Jiang Ruyu understood that being the first to try something new requires a lot of courage and a willingness to take risks: "If Uncle is afraid of this, then I suggest you lease some land and work with your cousins next door."
It's not just about growing grain; you can also cultivate more wasteland to grow vegetables. There's no land in the city, and even buying a single scallion costs money. Since you're close to the city, you can easily grow vegetables and sell them there. There are already people in the city carrying loads of vegetables to sell.
You can also raise more chickens, ducks, and geese. Whether you sell the eggs or the meat when they're grown, you can do it all. With policy development, more and more people will become self-employed, and people will become wealthier. Then you won't have to worry about not being able to sell your produce.
It has to be said that Jiang Ruyu's words had a great impact on her uncle and aunt. They had been farming all their lives and never thought that one day the land could be divided among individuals. They wouldn't dare to say what Jiang Ruyu said.
Hu Dong, being younger, was more adventurous and willing to take risks: "I think Ru Yu's words make sense. It's been reported in the newspapers, it's a policy encouraged by the state, so of course I can do it."
"Actually, you can go to the city and take a look. Once you see it for yourselves, you'll have a better understanding."
Jiang Ruyu actually just wanted her cousin to go out and explore the world. She could see that the longer her cousin's wife worked at the department store, the further apart they would become. Even if her cousin's wife didn't have any other intentions, the opinions of the villagers and her cousin's inferiority complex would push them further and further apart.
This is why Hu Dong wanted to listen to Jiang Ruyu's advice. He also wanted to take a chance and try his luck. He didn't want people to say that he was looking after his wife. Even though his wife's job was bought with money from his family, people didn't care about that when they gossiped. They only knew that Hu Dong's wife was a city worker, while he himself was a farmer.
Not long after Jiang Ruyu persuaded her cousin and uncle, Hu Dong went around the city several times and indeed saw many people selling vegetables from carts, selling snacks from shoulder poles, and some clothing makers secretly taking orders.
Hu Dong saw a promising future. He went back and spent several days thinking about the policies, reading newspapers and listening to the radio. Then he persuaded his parents to prepare to lease land and asked his mother to catch some chicks to raise. He planned to try to develop a comprehensive industry by planting crops, vegetables, and raising chickens, just as Jiang Ruyu had suggested.
After the New Year, Jiang Ruyu waited patiently. During this time, her older cousin's land lease had begun to show results. The chickens he raised had started to slowly accumulate eggs for sale. Only one or two roosters were kept to lay eggs, and the rest were sold. Chicken meat was expensive, and chickens made money so quickly.
My aunt raised more than a dozen chickens at the beginning, and was afraid that someone would report her for stealing from the socialist wall. But when someone did report her, it was all suppressed. Because some people in the brigade wanted to see if Hu Dong's approach could actually succeed. If Hu Dong paved the way, then they could all follow suit.
Jiang Ruyu waited until July, when the newspapers reported again that socialism could also have a market economy, and then he started foreign trade in Guangdong and Fujian provinces.
Furthermore, several special economic zones were established in both locations. The leaders also said that we should develop more profitable businesses, such as restaurants and convenience stores, to drive the economic development of our country.
Jiang Ruyu was waiting for these words; with them, she could finally get started.
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