Chapter 80: Jia Zhang's days of boasting are numbered



After Sha Zhu's foot healed, Lin Tian saw him carrying the deaf old lady out more than once. Lin Tian guessed that they were going to meet the matchmaker.

However, Lin Tian has not yet noticed that a matchmaker has brought a girl to Sha Zhu's house for a blind date.

But this kind of thing can't be kept secret for long, the girl will definitely come to the house.

As for whether it can be done? Impossible! Xu Damao is here.

Lin Tian is very convinced of this.

………

Before he knew it, it was the year 1958. During the New Year's Day holiday, Lin Tian went home for a day.

My uncle's family and Lin Tian's family had a meal together.

Grandma was the happiest one, and with her grandson, the family now consisted of 20 people.

Before the holiday, Xie Tian organized a dinner for all the employees of the grocery store in the cafeteria. Thanks to Wang Mingyu's pigs, everyone ate with relish.

At this time, if the supplies are not planned, then the food stores can distribute them freely. If they are planned, they must be sold and cannot be eaten by themselves.

Wang Mingyu also came that day, and everyone at the grocery store expressed special thanks to Comrade Wang Mingyu and the purchasing department.

As for why he didn't come to work, he must be out there getting unplanned supplies, otherwise where would the pork we eat come from?

After Wang Mingyu came to the office, he happily distributed candy and cigarettes to everyone in the office. He was quite generous.

From what he said, it seemed that he and Fang Ping were finally going to get married, but Wang Mingyu was not old enough and had to wait until he was 20 years old to get married.

Moreover, the premise for his family to agree to his marriage was that he would come to work seriously, so after the New Year, there would be four people in the office.

Lin Tian also went to Wang Wujiu's place for a meal. After such a long period of leisure, Wang Wujiu's mental and physical condition were quite good, not like a man in his seventies at all.

I had never mentioned the demise of the Jin family to my master Wang Wujiu before, for fear that he would worry. I explained it to him carefully this time, but Wang Wujiu didn't care at all.

The New Year's Day holiday passed in bits and pieces.

………

Since Secretary Wu took office, the frequency of holding meetings in the compound has dropped to a very low level.

They didn't even hold a meeting for trivial matters, unlike Yi Zhonghai in the past, who would hold a meeting to criticize and denounce three people if two old ladies had a quarrel.

Secretary Wu basically preached the policies on behalf of the street every time he held a meeting. He never talked about unnecessary things like Yi Zhonghai did. Therefore, everyone in the compound, except the three former uncles, was very satisfied.

Today Lin Tian received a notice saying that there would be a meeting after get off work in the evening, and asked him to come back as early as possible.

At this moment, Lin Tiancai suddenly remembered that an important event had officially occurred.

However, Lin Tian was still delayed by matters in the store today. Just before getting off work, a batch of goods arrived and he helped out.

When Lin Tian returned to the compound, the meeting was already ready.

Secretary Wu saw Lin Tiancai coming in and said, "Xiao Lin is back. You are the only one missing."

"Oh, okay." Lin Tian hurriedly pushed the car to the backyard, took the small stool and went back to the middle yard to find a place to sit down.

"Okay, everyone in the compound is here. Today's meeting is to announce something." The loud voice of Secretary Wu came.

"The new household registration regulations have been announced. I believe some people have seen them in the newspaper. Today I will talk about this in detail."

"The first one..."

"The second one..."

Lin Tian felt sleepy when he saw everyone listening with great interest. Xu Damao beside him was not very interested either. He poked Lin Tian and said, "Brother, what does this mean?"

Although Xu Damao has some knowledge, it is not much, mainly because he is too lazy to use his brain.

Lin Tian explained to Xu Damao in a low voice: "Everyone will have a household registration book in the future. For example, you will be the head of the household in your family."

"I am the head of the household." Xu Damao said as he straightened his body and looked at Lou Xiao'e next to him.

"What else? What else?" Xu Damao asked again.

"In the future, there will be rural and urban hukou, and we are urban hukou."

Xu Damao still didn't understand at this time, so he said: "Isn't this the same as before? We used to eat rationed food."

“From now on, you will have a rural household registration unless you are admitted to a university or find a job.” Lin Tian still said one more thing to Xu Damao, since he was free anyway.

Xu Damao seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand. However, he felt that since Lin Tian specifically mentioned this matter, it proved that it was very important.

Secretary Wu took a long time to finish talking about all twenty items, and then said: "There are only a few things that are relevant to you, so everyone should listen carefully."

"The first thing is to reissue new household registration books. When the time comes, everyone will go to collect them together. You will also need to report the head of each household. Of course, if there is only one person in your family, then you are the head of the household."

After Secretary Wu finished speaking, everyone in the compound burst into laughter.

"The second thing is actually not that relevant to us, but everyone, listen, if you want to change your rural household registration to urban household registration in the future, you can only join the army, go to university, or find a formal job."

Everyone in the compound began to discuss:

"It will be difficult to get rationed food from now on."

"Didn't Secretary Wu say it already? It has nothing to do with us."

"Before, he said he had relatives in the countryside who asked him to help him think of a solution. Now it seems there is no hope at all."

Jia's house

Jia Zhang was bragging to her son and daughter-in-law: "Humph, they know nothing. Huairu and I both have land in the countryside. Every year, my family helps to farm, and our family earns half the salary of a worker."

"Mom, you are so foresighted." Jia Dongxu thought his mother was even more amazing.

"That's right. Otherwise why did I force you to marry Huairu? This was all planned out by mom. What's the use of having food supplies? You still have to buy it with money." Jia Zhang was very proud.

Lin Tian, ​​who was sitting opposite, was speechless after hearing these words.

By the middle of the year, when the commune was established, all the land became collectively owned. Although some private land was given back and forth later, it was only enough to grow some vegetables.

"Okay, today's meeting ends here." After Secretary Wu finished speaking, the meeting was dismissed without any delay.

As Lin Tian walked home, he thought that hard times were coming for the Jia family. If they had given up their land in the countryside, there was still some hope that they could get a city hukou, but now there was no hope at all.

Moreover, the policy implemented at that time was that Qin Huairu and her children both had rural household registration, so the Jia family would have a hard time in the future.

Lin Tian shook his head and sighed, hoping that Secretary Wu would be able to control the situation. If the Jia family couldn't afford to eat, the compound would be in chaos.

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