Chapter 38: Borrowing Money Ever since the commendation meeting, people who came to him to borrow money...
Chapter 38 Borrowing Money
After all, catching enemy spies is a good thing that deserves encouragement and reward.
Moreover, the army has arrived, and this matter has caused quite a stir locally. Even if it needs to be kept secret, it cannot be handled in a low-key manner.
The next morning, relevant leaders from the county and the commune also arrived, and a grand commendation ceremony was held in the open courtyard of the brigade headquarters.
Of course, for the sake of confidentiality, in addition to the capture of several enemy spies, the commendation only mentioned the radio stations, imported canned goods, and some guns and ammunition.
In fact, except Yan Jiuru and a few relevant military personnel, no one else had the opportunity to enter the cave. Of course, whatever the leader said was seized was what they took.
Anyway, everyone knows that the spy who works as a warehouse keeper in the village hides away and eats imported canned food, so it makes sense to hide the canned food in the cave.
All those who made contributions received bonuses ranging from one hundred to three hundred yuan. In addition, based on the size of their contributions, Uncle Yan received a bicycle, Wen Weidong received a sewing machine, and Rushan and Rushong, who were still in junior high school and elementary school, received the qualification to be recommended for university in the future.
This qualification is relatively far away, so no one cares much about it.
Cheng Shijie, who discovered the problem with the custodian, could have been admitted to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, but for some reason he refused and only took a temporary job as a teacher in the commune school.
Yan's father didn't want anything else except the 200 yuan cash reward.
He took his younger brother, son and son-in-law to the mountain, and almost killed someone on the mountain. How could he have the nerve to ask for any special reward?
In addition, Platoon Leader Wang, Team Leader, Secretary Chen and others also received commendations for their work.
What everyone is most concerned about is Yan Jiuru himself. In addition to the large bonus, the couple both got formal jobs in the city. Of course, the specific location has to be determined later.
Oh, by the way, Yan Jiuru finally passed the assessment and joined the party at the commendation meeting!
This was a pleasant surprise for him, as he had not known about it in advance.
You know, Chen Yin pays 1 cent in party dues every month. Although he is paying money out of his pocket, he is not qualified as a probationary party member.
Now it’s all good. I’ve finally caught up with my wife.
***
The most important thing for farmers is food and food.
This kind of thing was lively for a while, but was gradually overshadowed by the busy farm work in the fields.
Yan Jiuru's water pump has been very useful recently. Not only does it make it convenient for his family to irrigate the fields, but after seeing its efficiency, the team held a meeting to discuss it and decided to rent his water pump.
The brigade buys the diesel themselves, and Yan Jiuru is responsible for operating it with ten work points a day. The usage fee of the water pump is calculated on a daily basis, fifty work points a day, and the fees are settled together at the end of the year.
In fact, fifty work points are equivalent to the work of five strong laborers. In fact, the efficiency of the water pump far exceeds that of five strong laborers. In a sense, the team took advantage of Yan Jiuru.
It’s because the Xinghua Brigade is poor that they can’t afford to give more.
However, not all other brigades are poor.
Yan Jiuru also borrowed his water pump when it was idle, earning 65 work points a day, and he would pay it back with grain at the end of the year.
This is considered to support agricultural production, but no one is complaining about it.
Otherwise, the brigade members would drown him with spit.
In such a scorching summer, who would be willing to carry water to irrigate the fields? Anyone who dares to talk nonsense will be forced by the members to carry water to irrigate all the fields.
The key point is that even if he works himself to death, he still can't pull the water pump. Besides, even if you are not afraid of hard work and want to fetch water yourself, the crops in the fields can't wait.
We were busy with the summer harvest and the autumn harvest, and just as we had harvested all the grain from the fields, it started to rain.
Dad Yan also took out the agricultural film and covered part of the grain. No experienced farmer could bear to see the grain get wet.
Everyone who was originally envious of Yan Jiuru's bonus had to praise him now. After all, he spent the money wisely, and everyone was also benefiting from it.
***
When he came back from work that day, Chen Yin told him, "Fendo's wife just came. Fendo got cut by a sickle. It was so hot and he didn't take good care of it. It's inflamed. He needs to be taken to the county hospital. He wants to borrow twenty yuan."
Before the end of the year when food and money were distributed, most families in the brigade did not have much savings, and they were lucky to have enough food to eat until they were 80% full.
Fendou and he were classmates from elementary school to junior high school. Although they didn't go to high school, they grew up together barefoot.
"Is it serious?" Yan Jiuru fetched a bucket of cool well water to wash his face and body.
Chen Yin shook her head. "They are a small team. We don't usually work together. I just heard about them, but I haven't seen them."
Yan Jiuru put the towel on the rack and said, "Then let's take some things and go take a look. If we really need money, thirty or fifty won't be a big deal. It won't affect our daily life if we take these out now. They may be waiting to rescue people."
"Okay, I'll clean it up."
They never speak behind people's backs, and everyone in the family can understand them.
Aunt Yan only reminded her, "It's a loan. When Yinyin was born and it was one month old, Doudou and his wife both gave her gifts. Don't go empty-handed."
"Oh, I understand, Mom."
Chen Yin agreed and went back to the house to pocket thirty yuan. After thinking for a while, she took out another twenty yuan, came out of the house, said hello to her mother-in-law, went to the kitchen and picked up ten eggs and a bag of brown sugar from the basket.
"Mom, can you take a look at these?"
Aunt Yan took a look and picked up six more eggs. "It's not a good return gift, at least we have to give a few more."
Chen Yin nodded and covered it with a piece of blue floral cloth that had been washed to a pale color.
Yan Jiuru put on a short-sleeved shirt over his vest, grabbed a straw hat and put it on, then went out with Chen Yin.
***
Zhang Fendou's home was at the western end of the village. Every household had an open yard, so anyone passing by would ask, "Where are you two going?"
"Struggle hurt his leg, go take a look."
Fortunately, Fendo’s home is not far away and it only takes about ten minutes to get there.
"Cui Cui!" Chen Yin shouted outside the yard.
In the village, women usually handle such matters. Yan Jiuru felt that he was just a bodyguard or someone who just wanted to make a name for himself.
Cuicui came out and saw them, and hurriedly greeted them, "Why are you two here? Come in quickly."
These are common household greetings, similar to asking someone "Have you eaten?" when you meet them. Don't take them seriously.
Chen Yin pushed the basket in her hand towards her and said, "Jiuru heard that Doudou was injured and came to see him."
Cuicui said a few polite words, took the basket, and invited them into the house.
She said worriedly, "He's resting in the house. Isn't he waiting to catch the oxcart to the commune to catch the regular bus tomorrow morning?"
Zhang Fendou had already sat up on the kang and greeted them.
Yan Jiuru quickly held him down: "Just lie down. What happened? You're cutting off your legs? You can't cut off your own legs if you want to eat meat."
Fendou knew he was joking and laughed, "Can't you just wait to kill the pig?"
In fact, every year during the harvest, some people are cut by sickles, and the severity varies. Even experienced workers cannot guarantee that they will not be cut.
The wounds from the struggle were exposed because of the hot weather and I was afraid of covering them up, so they looked a bit scary.
The incision was open, and the inflamed part showed signs of ulceration.
Yan Jiuru had been trained as a promising young talent at the First People's Pharmacy. He frowned and said, "Didn't you ask Ma Hongying to handle it?"
"We did, right then and there. We even gave him a tetanus shot, washed him with salt water, and even took anti-inflammatory medication. It might have been raining heavily that day, and he was rushing back to collect the rice, so he got caught in the rain."
"You can't just wait to go to the county. Tonight and tomorrow will take almost a whole day."
Yan Jiuru glanced at Chen Yin and said, "Don't worry about the money. Thirty or fifty is fine. Go find Ma Hongying later and ask him to go to my house to get some medicine to treat your wound. Otherwise, it will be rotten and smell bad by the time you get to the county."
A struggling couple always worries about money, so they were so grateful when they heard this.
Neither of them was good at talking, they just kept saying, "Thank you both! We'll pay you back after we settle the bill at the end of the year."
The brigade doesn’t have any money now, otherwise we could have advanced some.
After the busy autumn harvest, more than ten or twenty people wanted advance payment for medicine and other medical expenses, but the poor Xinghua Brigade really couldn't afford it.
Chen Yin asked, "Is thirty enough?"
"That's enough! We've chipped in ten bucks ourselves."
Going out for medical treatment costs more than just the medicine. Food, drinks, and transportation all cost money, right?
"Where is the child?" Chen Yin originally wanted to grab a handful of candy for the child.
"I sent him to his grandmother's house. Otherwise, he would cry when he saw it when we left tomorrow."
***
Not long after the two returned home, the nurse Ma Hongying came in a hurry.
Chen Yin gave her a small packet of white medicine powder.
Yan Jiuru said: "I bought this at the First People's Pharmacy. I don't have much left."
"Also, you barefoot doctors don't even have any medicine for wounds?"
Ma Hongying said helplessly, "It's not that we're unprepared, it's just that the amount we were given wasn't much. The injured during the autumn harvest were concentrated here, and the people in front of us have used up all the supplies, so naturally there's nothing left for the people behind us. We can only wait for the next resupply."
After Ma Hongying left, Grandma Yan asked, "Is this the sixth copy you've lent out?"
Yan Jiuru and Chen Yin looked at each other and smiled helplessly.
Ever since the commendation meeting, there has been a constant stream of people coming to him to borrow money.
People borrow money to get married, to repair their houses, to pay for their children's tuition, etc.
Of course, most people still go to the hospital for treatment.
We are all from the same team, so who doesn’t know who?
If any family is really in trouble, they will definitely lend money within a reasonable range. As for some families who are actually trying to improve their lives under other names, they are not the ones who will be sucked in, so they will lend money wherever it is needed!
Even with such screening, only one or two hundred yuan was lent out in just two or three months.
This is quite a lot in rural areas.
You know, in previous years, when the accounts were settled at the end of the year, these hard-working people in their family could only get more than 40 yuan in cash.
In fact, it's not just their family that is like this. When everyone gets together and chats occasionally, they also find that other families who have received awards are in a similar situation.
The smallest amount lent out was five or eight yuan, and the largest was twenty or thirty yuan.
Grandma Yan said with a smile: "Just wait and see, after the autumn when people have some free time, there will definitely be some work to do." Either building a house or marrying off a daughter or something like that.
"Otherwise, I'll be biting my hand if I keep this money."
There is so little space in the village. If you don’t spend it quickly, won’t people be eyeing you?
I wouldn't steal it, but it's a bit annoying if someone comes to borrow it every day.
Father Yan was busy making a small cart for his grandson, just like the one he saw in the provincial capital. Hearing this, he said, "As the old saying goes, if you don't return home when you're rich, it's like walking in brocade clothes at night. Now that you've come back to show off, you have to be mentally prepared."
This is the truth, but whoever encounters it will suffer.
Besides, they didn’t really want to show off, it was just a commendation meeting.
Yan Jiuru was more open-minded. He comforted her, "It's okay, grandma. When the work in the fields is almost done, I will go to the capital to look at houses and other things in advance. Then I can tell you that I have taken everything with me."
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