Every now and then, Chen Chunhua saw his third son squatting in the backyard and talking to the chickens.
"I hope you'll be born into a good family in your next life, dear Gugu..."
"Suck, suck, please don't be a prostitute anymore..."
"Oh oh... I need to keep my distance from you..."
Chen Chunhua: ...
That is to say, if she said she wanted to take the third child to see a psychiatrist, would people say she was exaggerating?
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And there was the mushroom house, which had been at home for a long time, and Chen Chunhua always felt that it was not good enough.
After the land was distributed to each household, Lin Guoqing invited Lin Fuqiang to dinner and gave him cigarettes and wine. Finally, he rented a piece of vacant land on the west side of the village. It was not too big, but it was about half an acre. It was not far from his family's fields and was next to the river, which was perfect for raising poultry.
The couple saved up their savings for two years and invested half of it. Taking advantage of the slack season, they built a workshop, which they then split into three parts. The right half was used to grow mushrooms, while the left half was used for chickens in front and ducks in the back, with a wall in the middle to prevent them from getting close.
In the half where we raise chickens, we also put a few geese in, which is perfect for us to watch the yard and pick up goose eggs.
In this way, the scale of chicken and duck farming can be expanded, the yard at home is finally clean, the mushroom house is demolished, and the mud and bricks are not wasted. They are directly moved to the farm and used in the half where mushrooms are grown.
The original chicken coop was cleared and converted into a small room, which served as the brothers' bedroom. Although one had to walk through the open courtyard to enter the house from the main house.
But at least it is the private space of the two boys.
Lin Shuying moved into the same room with Liang Shengdi. Lin Shumei was still younger and still lived in the same room with the couple.
Lin Guoqing pointed at the poultry farm and said with great enthusiasm, "Just wait, in two years, we'll be able to rebuild a small building, and then everyone will have a room!"
The manager of the chickens, ducks and geese in the farm is still Ma Jiawuliuni.
There was no other way. The Lin family owned only three and a half acres of land! With all three children going to school, Lin Shumei's labor was negligible. Even if Chen Chunhua didn't go out to sell vegetables, there were only three people in her family working the land.
Two girls and one boy have no advantage over the Ma family at all, and the couple dare not hire anyone. After all, hiring people is still equated with exploitation, so they have to wait a few more years.
So the job of taking care of the chickens and ducks still fell to Wu Ni and Liu Ni, and even Qi Ni came along to work.
She knew that it was her sisters who were working to earn money to support her schooling, so wherever Wu Ni and Liu Ni were busy, she would work there too, and she didn't ask Lin Guoqing and the others for extra money. The agreed 4:6 split was still 4:6.
After the farm was built, Wuliuqi Ni almost lived there before and after school. She fed the chickens and ducks, cleaned their manure, checked their mental state, picked up eggs, hatched them, and slaughtered and molted them. Chen Chunhua and the others didn't have to worry about anything.
Even in the already established mushroom farms, they had learned how to go in fully armed and help with watering, ventilation, inoculation, soil covering, sterilization and pest control, which made Chen Chunhua even think about giving them some of the money from selling mushrooms.
Of course, they refused, saying it was just for the convenience of doing things. Ma Wuni knew very well that her uncle and aunt could easily hire someone to look after the farm and pay them a monthly salary, which would definitely be much less than what they paid them.
She was grateful for the job they gave her and wanted to do it longer, so they had to have work in their eyes.
During the day, the five, six, and seven sisters all go to school. Six-year-old Ba Ni, instead of following her parents to the fields, works in the farm for her five and six sisters. She's going to first grade in the second half of the year, so isn't she helping her five and six sisters look after the chickens to help herself earn tuition?
Even Jiuni was clamoring to play with the chickens with Eighth Sister, but Sanni grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and took her to the field. This was mainly because she was afraid that she would kill the chickens and then have to compensate her uncle and aunt.
By the time Dani and Erni got married, and Bani had started school, Mrs. Liang reluctantly said she would take care of the chickens and ducks, as the fields were not far from the farm anyway, and she would go there every day to check on the mushrooms.
Since you are studying, don’t waste the tuition fees. Study hard. When you make a lot of money in the future, remember to buy her chicken legs.
Of course, this is all in the past.
Now there is a new problem. After the reform and opening up, the county and township governments have been encouraging and supporting village-run enterprises. Sihe Village actively responded to the call and borrowed money and people from the township and county governments to set up the business.
At the beginning of 1981, three factories were established: an electroplating factory, a sofa fabric factory, and a textile factory opened together with the neighboring village.
Villagers are given priority to sign up, but not everyone is wanted. The educated ones do educated work, and the uneducated ones do uneducated work. If you don’t know how to do it, you can learn. If you can’t learn it, then don’t waste everyone’s time.
There are quite a lot of people who sign up. After all, as long as you work in the factory, you will get a salary. Although it is not as much as that of urban employees, it is still real money.
Who wouldn't want the coolness of a factory, sheltered from the wind and rain, compared to toiling in the fields? Suddenly, factory jobs became highly sought-after.
Ma Dani married into the next village. Her husband's surname was Wang. There were five brothers in the family, and her husband Wang Yong was the youngest. He had a lot of brothers, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, so there was no shortage of people working in the fields.
So he went to the silk factory in the village to carry heavy bags for others. It was physical work and not a stable job. If there was work, he would get paid, and if there was no work, he would get paid. But because it was tiring, the daily wages were not small, and he could make twenty or thirty yuan a month.
Ma Dani wondered if she could also get a job in a factory and earn a salary. If she and her husband could earn 50 or 60 yuan a month, they would be able to live a good life.
But in the Wang family, she already had a sister-in-law and an older niece working in the textile factory, so the factory didn't really want her.
She didn't say anything, turned around and went back to Sihe Village and asked Lin Guoqing for help.
She knew that her uncle was good friends with Lin Fuqiang, and hoped that he could help her intercede so that she could get a job in a factory. If she couldn't get into the textile factory, she might have the opportunity to work in the sofa fabric factory.
Ma Dani stood in the main hall of the Lin family with her head down, licking her lips and saying that she was willing to give all her first month's salary to her uncle.
Lin Guoqing almost spit out water when he heard it.
"What do you think of your uncle? You want a reward for helping your niece? Your grandma isn't here right now. If she were here, she'd definitely kick you in the face!"
Ma Dani knew that her uncle had agreed to this matter, so she kept bowing to express her gratitude and said that even if she didn't want her salary, she would buy her uncle some wine.
My uncle said thank you, I don’t drink, don’t waste the money.
But Lin Guoqing was curious about one thing. "Did you come directly to me? Didn't you ask your dad?"
Ma Dexiang is a village security director after all, and he is doing no worse than himself. Why doesn't this girl go home and ask her father to help her open the back door?
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