Chapter 74: Zhang sisters successfully split up
For a moment, the only sound in the warehouse was the sound of hot breathing.
The whole place was quiet for about half a minute, and suddenly it exploded like water dropping into a frying pan.
"How is that possible? Can a woman do the work of a captain?"
"Women only care about their little piece of land. This Huaxi Village is doomed."
"That's right, if women can manage the fields, Huaxi Village will definitely be at the bottom by the end of the year."
A group of men were so excited that their faces turned red and their necks became thick, and they were spitting saliva everywhere, like a group of uncivilized wild monkeys.
Zhang Wenxin could no longer tolerate all the slander. He rushed to the front, snatched the loud speaker from the old branch secretary, and shouted, "Shut up, everyone."
The sound was deafening like thunder, making everyone's head buzz and forcing them to shut up.
"The first time we set up the stall, we made 76 yuan. After deducting all the initial costs, we still made a net profit of 26 yuan."
"The sideline group was proposed by Lele and I. We are women. Does it look like the sideline group in our village is going to end?"
Zhang Wenxin was not nervous at all like the first time, and looked at each of the men who had just screamed happily.
The villagers were stunned by the numbers she gave and no one said a word.
"Aren't you just busying yourself in front of the stove? You can't accomplish anything big even if I ask you to." An unpleasant duck-like voice broke the silence.
The men suddenly came to their senses and echoed his words, expressing their opinions noisily.
"That's right, how can working in front of the stove be compared to managing a village?"
"Managing a village requires brains, not a competition of who can cook the best food."
As they were talking, a group of old bachelors, represented by the one with the duck voice, began to say some vulgar words to Zhang Wenxin.
Zhang Wenxin was extremely angry when he heard this, and his hands kept shaking.
"Quiet!" Ge Tai stepped forward to stop the chaos.
The duck-voiced man turned his gun around and started spreading rumors that Ge Tai was having an affair with a widow in the village.
The words were so outrageous that the parents in the crowd quickly covered their children's ears.
"You are behaving like a hooligan in public. Send you to the police station." Yu Haiguang twisted his arms and pushed him to the ground.
Zhou Yuesheng walked up to him tacitly, tied his hands, and stuffed a piece of rag picked up from the corner, whose original color could not be seen, into his mouth.
Yu Zhile limped to Zhang Wenxin and held her hand.
She gently took the loud speaker from Zhang Wenxin and said, "You are so stupid that you can't even fix the stove. How can you say you want to manage the village? Are you qualified?"
As soon as the words fell, a huge wave was stirred up.
That group of old hooligans wanted to use the same method to deal with Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile sneered, not taking them seriously at all, and turned to face other people.
"All the women present, did you see that?"
"In this era when women hold up half the sky, you can do anything, whether it's being a village cadre, starting a sideline business, or anything else, but some people will do everything they can to humiliate you with sex. They just don't want you to stand out and want to keep you where they want you to be."
"Your enemies are not strong. They are even as cowardly as ants. They are just a group of people who can only think with their lower body."
Her voice was firm and powerful, which made many girls' eyes tear up.
"Well said!" Wen Rou was the first to jump up and applaud, "These people are just troublemakers. They just can't stand seeing others live a good life."
Chen Zhao also cheered loudly.
Sparse applause gathered from all directions, condensing into a sound that resounded throughout the warehouse.
"Women also have the right to propose division of the family property without the need for anyone's consent," Yu Zhile continued.
"What Leni said is exactly what I want to say. We must be ideologically conscious and respond to the call of the times." The old branch secretary said loudly, "Ask yourselves, before Xinni and Leni proposed the sideline group plan, did you dare to think that we would have an extra 1,500 yuan in income every year?"
Most of the people below seemed to be thinking about something.
However, people like Aunt Huang and Old Man Zhang, who treated their daughter as a blood bag, could no longer sit still. They jumped up and down in opposition and did not support the girl's request to separate the family.
The old branch secretary ignored those people and said, "Today, I am the one who decides to let the three sisters Mei Ni, Huang Cui and Zhang Shan separate their households. Those who disagree can go to the commune and sue me. As long as I am still the branch secretary, I will make the decision if there are girls who want to separate their households."
As he spoke, he took out the work points notebook from his pocket and immediately separated Zhang Haimei and the other two from the group, and also allocated a piece of land near the cowshed to the three sisters.
There was a dilapidated thatched hut on the land, which could be lived in after some repairs.
Zhang Haimei, the old branch secretary, reported all the appliances in her home one by one so that the old branch secretary could divide them up.
"I don't agree! All the things in my house are saved by me bit by bit, no one can take them away." Aunt Huang screamed hysterically, "I don't know who dares to touch my things!"
The people who had just opposed with her fell silent and secretly warned their daughter with their eyes, fearing that the old branch secretary's eyes would fall on them.
After the incident was over, everyone dispersed. The three brothers Zhang Dajin and their childhood friends went to Zhang's house in a mighty procession, and Aunt Huang hurriedly followed.
After leaving the warehouse, some people mixed in the crowd and persuaded everyone to continue to oppose the girl's separation.
The cool breeze blew away the stuffiness, and most people turned their heads and made up random words to fool around with those people.
It doesn’t matter to them whether men or women are in charge of the village or whether girls have separate households. The most important thing is to have enough food to eat.
Besides, it would be better for Haiyu Village if there were more Yu Zhile and Zhang Wenxin, so that everyone could have enough food and drink.
"Le Le, thank you." Zhang Haimei never thought this day would come, and tears filled her eyes.
Yu Zhile smiled and said, "Congratulations."
In the crowd, many figures walked slowly, turned back every three steps, and stared at the three sisters with envy.
Yu Zhile noticed this and she knew that what she had done was not enough and she should make an example of someone else to scare the monkeys.
The hesitating voice brought her thoughts back to reality.
"Girl, I'll take him to the police station. You go home and treat your leg injury first." Yu Haiguang held his hoarse voice with one hand.
He had other things to do in town, and taking the person away was just a side job.
Yu Zhile nodded, and Yu Haiguang walked in another direction.
The next second, the pain that had been ignored hit her back with ten times the force, causing her to gasp lightly.
Zhou Yuesheng walked up to her and bent his knees slightly.
"Be careful, don't touch Lele's legs." Zhang Wenxin and Chen Zhao stood on the left and right, reminding each other, and helped her to Zhou Yuesheng's back.
The group walked towards the cowshed and parted ways at a fork in the road.
Zhang Haimei and her two sisters went to clean up their home, while Zhou Yuesheng continued to walk towards the Yu family courtyard with steady steps.
The refreshing scent of soap lingers at Zhile's nose.
"What do you want to do?" Zhou Yuesheng suddenly spoke.
Zhang Wenxin and Chen Zhao turned their eyes towards the two people after hearing the voice.
"Kill the chicken to scare the monkey." Yu Zhile responded.
Zhou Yuesheng asked: "What kind of knife did you use? Where did you kill him?"
"If they want to sell, they have to accept it," Yu Zhile replied.
The two of them were playing charades, which made Zhang Wenxin and the other person so curious that they felt like their hearts were being scratched by a cat's claws.
When he returned to the courtyard, Yu Yue saw Yu Zhile being carried on his back and stood up suddenly.
"Yu Yue, you, you can stand up?" Zhang Wenxin and Chen Zhao were stunned.
Yu Yue ignored the two of them. After learning that Yu Zhile had scraped his leg, he hurried into the west room.
Zhang Wenxin slapped Chen Zhao hard.
"Why are you hitting me?" Chen Zhao was like a cat with its fur standing on end, jumping dozens of meters and centimeters away.
Zhang Wenxin blinked: "I have to try if this is a dream?"
"It hurts, it's not a dream." Chen Zhao answered blankly.
On the other side, Yu Yue and Yu Chi had surrounded Yu Zhile, one was disinfecting while the other was blowing air into him in small sips.
Fortunately, the injury was not serious, only a small scratch on the side of the leg, which was bleeding.
Disinfect, apply medicine, and put on Band-Aid.
Yu Yue completed everything neatly and sat back in his wheelchair calmly.
Zhang Wenxin and Chen Zhao surrounded him and asked him questions, instantly forgetting the riddles that Yu Zhile and the others had been asking.
At this moment in the Zhang family, Zhang Dajin waved his hand and said, "Brothers, get everything and go."
Aunt Huang sat on the ground, clapping her legs and crying, while Old Man Zhang smoked silently.
"Why are you crying? You're making so much noise. Dividing the family does not mean severing blood ties. Can't you just sell them to the mountains tomorrow?" Zhang Yaozong yawned irritably.
Aunt Huang's crying stopped abruptly, and she said viciously, "Yes, it's time to sell these cruel things."
The next day, she brought two tall and strong men to the Zhang sisters' new home with great fanfare.
In an instant, those who treated their daughters as blood bags became excited and wanted to arrange to show their daughters around.
Before they could imitate her successfully, Aunt Huang and her husband took away a pair of silver bracelets.
Zhang Yaozong, who was lying in his own yard with a bruised face and nose, was tortured for stealing other people's property.
The two men were one of the participants in the Huaxi Village incident that Ning Tan had been following for a long time, and their crimes were quite serious.
Within a short time, the news that Aunt Huang and her husband had cruelly sold their daughter and would be severely punished spread throughout the surrounding villages, causing an uproar.
Also spreading was the story of the successful division of the family property between Zhang Haimei and her two sisters.
The news spread to the commune and reached Liu Ying's ears, who praised Haiyu Village for its advanced ideas.
On that day, she personally took the young staff to Haiyu Village to interview and take photos, and brought a flag embroidered with the words "Advanced Village" in large letters.
After returning to the city, the young clerk wrote an article about the incident and sent it to the provincial capital.
In the following days, girls in the village successively proposed to separate from their families.
Liu Ying’s strong support made their biased parents dare not say a word and let the old branch secretary preside over the division of the family property.
Among them are Zhang Haimei’s best friends, Yu Mengdi and Yu Xiangdi.
The two sisters burst into tears and went to Yu's house the next day with a basket of wild vegetables.
"This is the elder sister Yu Chunqi, and this is the younger sister Yu Dongxi." Zhang Haimei introduced to Yu Zhile.
Mushroom head, twins, Yu Zhile recalled the chance encounter in the mountains.
"Thank you." The two smiled at her timidly, with gratitude in their eyes.
Yu Zhile smiled back, secretly curious about who had named them.
“May spring bring you good luck, summer bring you peace, autumn bring you happiness, and winter bring you prosperity.[1] I hope everything goes well for you in the future.” These words suddenly popped up in Zhang Wenxin’s mind.
The twins looked at her, tears glistening in their eyes, leaving her at a loss.
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