So, those who passed the exam should be happy, and those who didn’t should not be discouraged.
Apart from this, there are many other things to be happy about.
The most important point is that the income of all members has increased.
Xie Yun's family had a particularly good income this year. Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng both received salaries, and their expenses were very small, so most of the money could be saved.
Zhang Ruifeng didn't want her daughter's money, letting her save it. Ever since she got a job, she also stopped taking the money Xie Yun earned from reselling things, letting Xie Yun keep it all. She also paid for all household expenses, preventing Xie Yun from spending any money.
Xie Shen's income was decent. He earned over 400 work points by collecting grass for pigs and helping out in the vegetable garden during holidays. This year, the work point value in Liushu Village had increased to six cents per point, and he earned a little over 20 yuan from the production team. He sold his own pig for 81.54 yuan. It was a first-class pig, weighing 151 kilograms, at 54 yuan per kilogram.
Xie Shen told Xie Yun that he was extremely nervous when selling the pig. If the buyer cut out an extra pound of belly for the pig, the pig would become a second-rate pig, and he would lose 6 cents per pound.
He looked eagerly at the pig collector, his eyes filled with longing and hope, hoping that the man would be kind. As it turned out, the man was really kind and classified the pig as first-class at 151 kilograms.
As a result, Xie Shen was awarded a certificate of "Pig Farming Expert" by the brigade, and he and Qingli also made a speech at the year-end members' meeting.
This year, the rabbits he raised bred three generations and sold more than ten of them, earning a total of more than 30 yuan.
As for the cotton grown at home, Xie Yun kept ten kilograms for his own use and sold the rest. From his three-mu plot, he harvested over twenty kilograms of cotton. At that time, the average cotton yield per mu was less than 30 kilograms. Xie Shen was largely the sole caretaker of the Xie family's three-mu plot, so a harvest of over twenty kilograms was considered quite good.
The current cotton purchase price is 1.02 yuan per jin (approximately 100 grams), and if it were to enter the black market, it could be several times higher. Xie Yun, of course, wouldn't do that. She gave it all to her master, and Yu Ziqin bought it all herself, giving Xie Yun twenty yuan. [Employees need tickets to buy cotton.] With this cotton, she could replace all the children's cotton-padded jackets and trousers, and even their quilts with new ones. The old cotton could be re-fluffed and added to the adults' quilts.
Besides the income from the above, and the money from selling eggs, Xie Shen alone earned nearly 200 yuan. After deducting the cost of breeding and his own living expenses, he had a net income of about 100 yuan.
In the past, this was actually the entire family's income. Now, it's all Xie Shen's.
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