People have free time in winter, so families with young girls and young boys will start to arrange for matchmakers to come and look for partners.
Although free love has always been advocated in the new era, in rural areas, people are still willing to have a matchmaker come to their homes to meet their spouses.
As the daughter of the branch secretary, Wang Fang is a very popular girl. Many matchmakers have come to her house recently.
Wang Fang sighed, "Don't mention it. Remember last time I told you that Li Meiling and my third brother were close? My mother knew about it and actually supported my third brother and Li Zhiqing being together."
Wang Fang had mentioned this to her once before, "What's your brother's attitude?"
As a youth from the educated youth camp, it wouldn't be surprising for Li Meiling to marry a country man. Didn't Feng Huining also marry a country man? The bad thing was that the timing was too coincidental.
After the Spring Festival, a primary school will be established in the village, right next to the brigade headquarters. The building has been prepared, and three primary school teachers will be needed.
Originally, only the team members knew about this. Jiang Wanwan knew about it because Wang Fang mentioned it to her, and lamented that if she didn't go to college, she could apply for a position as a primary school teacher, so she wouldn't have to work in the fields.
As a result, not long after, Wang Fang discovered that her third brother had close contacts with Li Meiling at the educated youth point. When asked, it was Li Meiling who took the initiative to contact her third brother.
At this point in time, one cannot help but think in that direction.
Wang Fang was even more troubled. "You don't know my third brother yet. He has no backbone at all. And that Li Meiling is too clever. She didn't even go back to visit relatives during the Spring Festival this year. She said she stayed for my third brother. My third brother was very touched. Plus, my mother likes knowledgeable and educated people. She thinks it would be a great honor for her son to marry an educated youth. After she made this move, my third brother was shaken."
There was one thing Wang Fang didn't say. Both her mother and her third brother saw that Lu Xiao had become a different person after marrying Jiang Wanwan, an educated youth, and his life was prosperous. They thought that this would be the case when marrying a educated youth.
But how could Li Meiling compare to Jiang Wanwan? Wang Fang simply looked down on her.
Since the parties involved are willing, it is hard to say.
"You should also think positively. What if Li Zhiqing really wants to live a stable life with your brother? Your brother is not bad, and your father is the party secretary." This condition is also good in the surrounding villages.
Wang Fang also knew this. Her mother and her third brother both agreed, so what else could she do?
"If you ask me, it's all because of these teacher quotas. I really want to tell my dad that this quota shouldn't be given to anyone but Li Meiling. I want to see if she's still willing to marry my third brother."
This is really not certain. Although Jiang Wanwan has not had much contact with Li Meiling, she roughly knows what kind of person Li Meiling is.
She and Wang Dong are dating, most likely because of the quota in Secretary Wang's hand.
"If you weren't going to college, I would have asked my dad to give you a place. Li Meiling doesn't look like a teacher. You are the image of a teacher in my mind."
"Okay, even though you're so sweet-talking, I'm not interested in being the boss," Jiang Wanwan had her own plans.
"I heard from my father that there are several people who are eyeing the primary school teacher position. Several people in the educated youth camp have this desire. Captain Wang also wants a position for Sister Huining. There are also some educated people in the village. My father is also worried about this matter. Maybe there will be some kind of exam and the best candidates will be admitted."
"That's a good idea. Otherwise, he would have to be the branch secretary."
Jiang Wanwan's praise was not sincere. The branch secretaries in this era have too much power. The more powerful a person is, the more he wants to exercise his power.
How can admission based on merit reflect the rights and value of their leading cadres?
After talking for a while, most people had arrived, and Secretary Wang, Captain Lu and several village cadres began to settle accounts with everyone.
Everyone has been looking forward to it for a year, but it’s actually not much money.
It’s said that everyone wanted to be a worker in that era.
The workers eat commercial grain, are given a fixed quota of grain every month, and also receive a salary at the beginning of the month.
Farmers are credited with work points after working for a year. The grain and vegetables they grow must first be used to ensure public supply, and the rest can be distributed to members. At the end of the year, the grain and vegetables they receive must be converted into money using work points. After all the extra money is added up, the amount of money they receive is even less.
For example, a strong laborer like Lu Xiao can earn ten work points for a day's work, and ten work points are worth about two to thirty yuan. On average, he can work twenty-five days a month and earn two hundred and fifty work points, which is about five to eight yuan. This amount of money is calculated based on the brigade's income for the year.
In this way, you can first calculate this person's annual income, and then the accountant will take out the small notebook to see what you have received that year.
This account may seem complicated, but it is actually simpler than calculating individual work points. After all, everyone gets the same amount of things, and adults and children each get a certain amount.
First, there's grain. A pound of grain costs one cent. Beans and vegetables are much cheaper, usually a few cents. Meat costs three cents because it's the brigade's own, so the price is cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative.
Not only is it cheaper when calculating the bill, but even if the production team slaughters pigs during the Spring Festival, the public can still buy more pork at this price.
But even though it’s so cheap, not many people can afford to buy two more kilograms of meat for the New Year.
After the men have finished their work, it is the women's turn, as women get much fewer work points.
Jiang Wanwan and Feng Huining had previously worked together on the autumn harvest, and they earned full work points every day. However, the full work points for a woman were only seven.
The unit price of work points is the same.
After the bill was settled, Jiang Wanwan only received twenty-five yuan and sixty cents, which was her income for the year.
There was no other way. The original owner often took leave and didn't go to the fields. In order to ensure that Du Jiaming had enough to eat, he never missed a chance to collect food from the team. It was not easy to have this little surplus.
Among all the members of the village, Lu Xiao earned the most work points. After counting the accounts, he had more than 160 yuan in his hands.
You know, even for a strong laborer, it is very good to have a hundred yuan a year. Lu Jie only has more than ninety yuan, and Lu Hui is far behind, with more than forty points, which is really not as much as Zhang Xiu Lan's work points. However, the couple's combined income is less than a hundred yuan.
After receiving the money, Zhang Xiu Lan's face was very long, and anyone who saw it could tell that she was unhappy.
Especially when he saw Lu Jie handing all the money to Wang Sanni, his unhappiness reached its peak.
She didn't dare to provoke Lu Xiao. That brother-in-law was moody and even his elder brother was scared of his cold face.
Mr. and Mrs. Lu have always been good-tempered, but no matter how good their tempers are, they still bit her in the back.
"Oh, look how happy my second sister-in-law is. This is the first time she's received so much money, right? You have to use this money wisely and don't spend it recklessly. If you get pregnant with another girl, and you're old and have no son and no money, your life will be very difficult."
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