Chapter 134
The fourth captain lowered his head again. The fifth captain could not bear the pressure from Li Changshun and muttered, "They are rich in Ping'an Village. This little money is nothing to them, but most of our production team..."
Li Changshun was anxious: "Ping An Zhuang has money, but they took more than twice as much as you did at the beginning. Why do they have to take all the money so that you can get the dividends for free later?"
He looked at Li Daniu and Captain Niu angrily and said, "Do you two think the same?"
Li Daniu also became anxious: "I didn't think so, I was so busy that I forgot."
Xia Juhua still believed his words. It was because Li Daniu was a man who could not keep secrets and would shout out anything to her face. Just look at the troubles Li Daniu made when Xia Juhua first became the team leader, and you can tell what kind of person he is.
But the fourth and fifth captains are interesting.
Xia Juhua glanced at Li Changshun and asked, "Captain Li, how do you think about this vermicelli factory? How do we invest and how do we divide the profits? Should we reconsider it?"
Li Changshun felt ashamed to see Xia Juhua, and nodded silently. The fifth team leader was anxious: "Team leader, this vermicelli factory was agreed to be run by the entire Ping'an Village team. I also told the members so that everyone worked without complaint to remove adobe bricks, make tiles, and build a cold storage."
"We have finished all the work. Now you say that we, Team Five, are not allowed to participate? No way!" said the Team Five leader, and slammed the table.
Liu Liqun, who had been listening since the meeting, looked at Captain Five coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Try to slam the table at Captain One again."
Captain Five opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and managed to lower his voice: "Captain Liu, I don't mean to slam the table, it's just that the captain didn't handle this properly."
Xia Juhua was still smiling, but her words were so funny that people couldn't help but laugh: "What I did was not honest? Captain Five, tell me, what was not honest about me? Was it that I didn't allow your production team to pay, or that I changed my mind about what I said in the meeting?"
"Well, then we are two days late?"
"Two days late?"
"You're attending meetings and recuperating, so the vermicelli factory doesn't have any money to spend, right?" Captain Five found another reason.
This sentence successfully made Xia Juhua's smile fade away: "No money? Ask Accountant Chang how much money he has paid these days? Do you think that if you don't pay, the agricultural machinery station will make a pulping machine for you or the ironworker will make knives for you, or do you think that the big pot and the colander can run to the warehouse by themselves without paying? Or do you think that the army should find coal for us and we should just take it for free?!"
"Without these things, how can we leak powder? As a production team leader, you must know this. Or do you think that we should build a house first and then add these things one by one, rather than move them in and start assembling them right away?"
"It's true that farming should be done in a timely manner, but building a vermicelli factory can be done slowly? The comrades in the army are waiting, and the sweet potatoes are about to be delivered. You can wait, but I can't!"
Li Changshun, Liu Lizhu, and Chairman Sun all nodded, and the fifth captain was as quiet as a ball poked by a needle. The fourth captain wanted to say something again, but Xia Juhua said directly to Li Changshun and the others: "If there is no supply issue with the troops, they can delay as much as they want. Anyway, Pinganzhuang's own powder leaking room can still be used. It's them who are delaying to make money."
"But now the army has coordinated electricity and coal for us, and something we agreed on long ago has gone wrong. This is not a question of making money or not, but a matter of delaying the army's important work. This is absolutely not acceptable. Since it is not acceptable, we have to find a way to solve it. I have two solutions."
Li Changshun nodded angrily: "No. Tell me two solutions." Liu Liqun and Chairman Sun also nodded in agreement with Li Changshun.
Xia Juhua coldly scanned the participants and said, "The first option is to follow what I just said. Don't you all think that the Ping'anzhuang production team has money and can run this vermicelli factory by themselves? Then the Ping'anzhuang production team will run it by themselves. The members of other production teams who have been making tiles and removing bricks these days have all been recorded as work, and they will be exchanged for work according to the Ping'anzhuang work points."
Ping'an Village's work point value last year was 2.6 cents, and the highest work point value of the remaining four production teams was only 1.6 cents. So Xia Juhua said that the members of those four production teams should be given work in exchange for their work points according to Ping'an Village. Even the fifth team leader could not say that Ping'an Village was taking advantage.
But compared with the long-term dividends from the vermicelli factory, everyone present could tell which was more important, so except for Chen Qiu Sheng whose eyes lit up, no one else said a word.
Xia Juhua had expected their attitude, so she told them another solution she had in mind: "Another solution is to add additional capital. The laminator and dryer were added later anyway, so the original 2,000 yuan is definitely not enough, so each production team should add money according to the original proportion. In addition to the additional money, Ping'an Village will pay on time and no additional money will be needed. The other four production teams will each add 100 yuan to cover the expenses of the five-guarantee households in the future."
You just want to say a few nice words after making a scene, but the matter just floats over without a single step. Don't you think money is a good thing? Then you can't keep this good thing of yours.
Li Daniu blinked, looked at Li Changshun, and said sullenly, "I have no opinion."
Captain Niu glanced at Xia Juhua and nodded without saying anything. There was a hint of fatigue in his eyes, which made Xia Juhua frown again.
The fourth team leader looked at Li Changshun, as if he wanted Li Changshun to say something, but unfortunately the one who was the most today was not Xia Juhua, but Li Changshun. He could endure it until now and not scold anyone, all because he considered that Xia Juhua might be very angry. If he scolded anyone again, it would be like pouring fuel on the fire. If Xia Juhua got angry sick again, it would be better for him to scold the four production leaders team behind their backs to vent his anger.
Captain Five disagreed: "Even if we paid late, we were criticized at the meeting and we agreed to pay. Why are you asking us to pay more now?"
"It's okay if you don't hand it over. You, Team 5, don't have to get involved in future affairs of the vermicelli factory. As I said before, the jobs of the members of Team 5 will be replaced by the Ping'anzhuang production team." Xia Juhua's attitude was tougher than ever before.
Seeing that she was not getting any attention, the fifth team leader got angry and said, "Xia Juhua, don't take advantage of your connections with the leaders outside and ignore everyone in the team. If I report you for leading others to engage in speculation, it won't matter who you know."
Xia Juhua and Li Changshun stood up almost at the same time. Before Xia Juhua could say anything, Li Changshun threw the cup in front of him at the fifth captain: "Who do you want to report to, you conscienceless thing? What do you want to report? When did Xia Juhua lead people to speculate?"
When the fifth team leader heard that Li Changshun was defending Xia Juhua, he became furious: "Who should I report to? I will report to whoever I should report to. Didn't Xia Juhua bring anyone to speculate? Everyone in Ping'an Village knows that five catties of sweet potatoes can produce one catty of flour, but she asked the grain station for seven catties for one catty."
"Xia Juhua, tell me yourself, where did you put the remaining two kilograms of sweet potatoes? How much vermicelli did the Ping'an Village Brigade miss throughout the year? Do you really think that no one knows? Let's go to Xia Juhua's house now. Could she have so much vermicelli? If not, she must have used it for speculation!"
Xia Juhua sneered: "Captain Wu, it's hard for you to come up with such a way to accuse me of speculation. Yes, we don't have that much vermicelli at home, because none of those vermicelli have ever entered the gate of my house."
Everyone at the meeting was very at what Captain Five said. Even Captain Four said, "Captain Five, the extra two kilograms of sweet potatoes belong to whoever produced them. How can you blame it all on the captain? You told me at the beginning that we should just let the Ping An Zhuang production team pay for it. You didn't say you would report the captain for speculation."
The fifth team leader mumbled, "None of our team members have ever seen those vermicelli noodles. If you don't believe me, go to our members' homes and see who has them."
If a person becomes shameless, all he says is nonsense. Xia Juhua felt that there was no need to continue talking to the fifth team leader, so she turned to the people in the meeting and said, “Since the fifth team leader said so, let's go to the fifth team and ask the members if they have seen those vermicelli. mothers when they put down the bowl!"
After saying that, he stood up and walked out. The fifth captain's face turned pale. Li Changshun followed him out. When he passed by the fifth captain, he looked at him like a wolf: "I know you have some tricks up your sleeve, but I didn't expect you to be so cunning."
After saying that, he turned around and looked at Captain Niu and Captain Four: "You two, don't you have any brains?"
Captain Niu's expression turned better: "Captain Wu told me that if our production team handed over the money for the investment, it would mean that we followed Captain Xia in the restoration and capitalism, and he would report Captain Xia. Captain Xia fell ill as soon as he came back. I was afraid that she would get angry after hearing this, and I didn't want Captain Xia to go to the class, so..."
Li Changshun was amused by his anger: "You were afraid that Xia Juhua would get angry, why didn't you tell me? I will get angry too?!"
Xia Juhua, who was walking in front, also heard what Captain Niu said, and she just paused for a moment before continuing to walk forward. She said, there was no reason why Captain Niu would not suddenly align with Teams 4 and 5.
However, Xia Juhua had doubts in her heart. Li Changshun had the same doubts in his heart. He turned to Li Daniu and asked, "Did Captain Five tell you the same thing?"
Li Daniu shook his head repeatedly: "He didn't tell me. If he dared to tell me, I would have beaten him up before telling you."
The captain of the fourth team hesitated and said, "I didn't want to report Captain Xia. Really, I never thought of reporting Captain Xia. I know that our production team can live a good life, all thanks to the captain. But I just think that what Captain Five said is right. The captain has been leading Ping An Zhuang to make money for several years. If he had led our production team earlier, we would have been rich a long time ago. So, so Ping An Zhuang should get more..."
Now no one asked whether Captain Five had told Captain Four about this. Everyone was glad that they had discovered it early. If the two had succeeded, what would have happened to the Ping An Village Team?
Xia Juhua felt a huge knot in her heart, secretly reflecting on whether she was too nice to these people. She thought that since she was the team leader, whenever Ping'anzhuang had a good idea, she would not forget to tell the other production team leaders, hoping that the entire Ping'anzhuang team could live a good life together.
Xia Juhua had a selfish motive, which was that she was afraid that when the whole brigade was still struggling to make ends meet, Ping An Manor would be so rich that it would surely arouse the jealousy of others. If someone paid attention, they would always find that the money of Ping An Manor was not only earned by the women weaving mats.
It will be a devastating disaster for Ping An Village.
Therefore, Xia Juhua did not hide the matter of leaking fans, and let all the members of Ping'anzhuang Brigade get involved, hoping to have an excuse to avoid legal responsibility if someone found out.
Unexpectedly, Captain Five actually wanted to blame Xia Juhua for everything. Just as Li Changshun said, he had a good plan. He didn't even think about whether this plan was really as he thought.
Of course that is impossible.
As soon as they left the brigade headquarters, Li Changshun asked Li Daniu to go to the cold storage construction site and call all the members of Team 5 back to their production team. Sorry, the leader of Team 5 had to go with him.
Even though Captain Five shouted at Li Changshun that he was no longer the captain and had no right to manage him, Li Changshun pretended not to hear him.
What a joke. He wanted to raise Xia Juhua's prestige before, and he said that he would not be involved in the brigade's affairs in the future. But did he worry less and plead with Xia Juhua on behalf of these production teams? When he pleaded, why didn't you, the fifth team leader, say that the old man had no right to take care of your affairs? !
Besides, there is Liu Liqun. He said it well. Li Changshun is no longer the captain, but he is still the captain of the militia. He should be qualified to watch over those who sabotage production, right?
Hearing that he was the one who sabotaged production, the fifth captain's face turned even paler. He refused to leave until Captain Niu picked him up and said, "You were very confident when you spoke. Why don't you leave now? We are going back to your production team. Can we do anything to you in front of your production team members?"
They cannot do anything to Captain Five in front of the other members, but the members of Team Five themselves can treat Captain Five as an enemy!
"We've handed over all our vermicelli to you, and you still accuse Captain Xia of profiteering?" A relative of Captain Five directly spat at him, "I think you're the one who's profiteering. These days, everyone is waiting for the vermicelli factory to be built so that they can start working. Instead of leading everyone to work hard, you're the first to cause trouble. Aren't you a human being?"
"Yes, we gave you all our vermicelli. Later, you also sent money to our family. I remember how much money you sent each time. If we talk about speculation, it was you who led us to speculation, not Mr. Xia."
"No, we have to add up the money and see if this guy has embezzled our money. If he is so evil as to report the captain, it is possible that he has embezzled our money."
"You're right. It's really a wicked thing. Why can we farm so labor-savingly? Isn't it all because the captain found a tractor and a seed drill? I heard there will be a harvester in the fall. Otherwise, we would be exhausted physically just by ploughing in the spring, harvesting in the summer, and harvesting in the fall, and we would also be exhausted mentally?"
"Bah, you have no conscience. Have all the steamed buns you've eaten in the past two years gone to waste?"
Listening to the Fifth Team members' angry condemnation of the Fifth Captain, Xia Juhua's heart did not relax. She thought of a possibility: why was the Fifth Captain refusing to pay the money at this time? Was he really just jealous of the money in Ping An Manor?
"Where's the accountant of Team 5?" Xia Juhua suddenly asked. The captain of Team 5 squatted on the ground and couldn't get up. For the first time, he pleaded in his eyes and said to Xia Juhua in a pinched voice: "Captain, can we go to the team headquarters and talk? We don't need to call the accountant."
"You'd better make it clear in front of the members. Otherwise, I can't stand it if you say I threatened you as soon as you go out." Xia Juhua was not moved by the pitiful look of the fifth captain and directly rejected his request.
Captain Five gave up his last struggle and watched helplessly as the accountant, in front of everyone, revealed that the production team's assets were not in the accountant's hands, but were taken home by Captain Five himself.
The members of Team 5 were furious. They all felt cheated and believed what someone had just said, that the captain of Team 5 had embezzled the money from everyone's fans. They had to make him explain clearly.
Faced with the angry members, the fifth team leader had to confess the fact that he charged half a pound of fee for every ten pounds of vermicelli. At that time, he explained to the members that the vermicelli lost weight during transportation, and since the quantity was small, everyone accepted it.
What was unacceptable to everyone was that even the Ping'anzhuang Brigade stipulated that each 65-year-old man should be given an extra five kilograms of flour every year, but the captain of the fifth team also intervened: he gave each person half a kilogram and a half less. There were more than a dozen 65-year-old men in the fifth team, and he was forced to give out seven or eight kilograms of flour every time.
This is so impersonal. You know, among those people, there is Captain Five's biological father!
The one who stepped forward to kick him was the fifth team leader's biological father: "At first we thought your wife looked down on us two old people, so she let you brothers take care of us in our old age. Now it seems that it is not your wife who looks down on us, but you are using your wife's mouth to say what you want to say. A person like you is qualified to be a production team leader? How come all that flour didn't make your throat burn to death?"
The members felt that what Captain Five's father said was very reasonable, and they all shouted that Captain Five no longer needed to be their production captain, and they wanted to elect someone else to be the captain.
Xia Juhua only felt her face burning, because she remembered that when she was in Guangzhou, she had sworn to her leader that no one in the Ping'anzhuang Brigade had any bad intentions. But she was slapped in the face so quickly that she was caught off guard.
With a burning face, Xia Juhua felt that she could no longer stay in Team 5, so she slowly withdrew from the crowd and walked slowly towards the team headquarters.
After a while, Li Changshun called from behind: "Xia Juhua, Juhua, Xia Xiaohuo, wait for me."
Even her nickname was called out, Xia Juhua had to stop her slow pace and wait for Li Changshun to come over. Li Changshun was walking fast and was a little out of breath when he caught up with her. He also stopped to calm down before asking carefully: "Are you angry? Don't get angry with that bastard, it's not worth it. Don't worry, he has already promised that he will never report it."
There is nothing absolute in the world. Xia Juhua shook her head gently at Li Changshun: "If Team Five really votes him out, he might just give up."
Li Changshun said very arrogantly: "He dares! If he wants to report, he has to leave the village. Do you think the people in Team 5 can let him go out?" Ping'an Village had dealt with Sun and Liu Sizhuang before. Team 5 could follow their example and keep their leader under control.
Xia Juhua sighed softly: "He is different from Liu Sizhuang and his gang. Liu Sizhuang and his gang are just tyrants who have never been out of the house and have no experience. But he is a production team leader after all, and he has also attended meetings in the commune. How could he not have made any friends after being a production team leader for so many years?"
Li Changshun also had a painting spirit in his heart: "If he is handed over to the commune, his life will be ..."
Xia Juhua was not willing to let Captain Five off easily this time. She gritted her teeth and said, "Captain, I can tolerate other things. It's okay if he wants to report me. But is he still a human being if he takes food from the old people?"
Of course not, even if his biological father is not among them.
So Li Changshun made up his mind and did not use Xia Juhua. He asked Liu Liqun to take him to the commune on a bicycle. That night, the police station came and took the former five captains away. As for whether he would take the opportunity to report Xia Juhua when he arrived at the police station, Xia Juhua did not care at all.
Leaders at all levels knew that they wanted two more kilograms of sweet potatoes, and it was tacitly agreed to be the processing fee for the members of Ping'anzhuang Brigade. The superiors didn't care whether the members ate the processing fee by steaming it or by draining it into flour.
As for selling the leaked vermicelli, the members of the fifth team made it clear that Xia Juhua had never appeared in the matter of exchanging vermicelli, and it was all handled by the former fifth team leader himself. Not only did he handle it, he also deducted some of the money. If he dared to report Xia Juhua, the crime would not be as simple as deducting the old man's rations.
The judicial system has just been restored, and many laws are not perfect. The sentences of the former five captains are all based on the amount of corruption. Ping'an Village Brigade has only been distributing flour to the elderly for three years, and at most they are detained for education. If he reports Xia Juhua, the members will expose his embezzlement.
If we add up the numbers, it will probably take at least three to five years to complete the project.
Therefore, Xia Juhua was sure that the first five captains would not dare to report her. She only thought in her heart that she would have to be tough when dealing with these people in the future:
Seeing that the Ping'anzhuang team has more and more places to make money, and the distribution of interests involved will become more and more complicated, if I don't stand up and show my authority, will I always be so passive and be challenged?
Even if you are upright and have nothing to fear, just hearing their dirty thoughts is enough to make you sick. Rather than letting them pop up and annoy you from time to time, it is better to make them timid once so that they will not dare to even have such thoughts next time.
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