"What work do you have?" The commune secretary felt that the secretary of the fifth team was right. The people of Jijia Village were now arrogant and even disobeyed the arrangements of the commune.
Ji Changgeng had originally planned to come to the commune tomorrow to apply for permission to build a road, but when the production team members mentioned the road and school construction, they were so enthusiastic that he had to arrange the work at home temporarily for fear of chaos.
Of course, he admitted that he was a bit arrogant in acting first and reporting later. Isn't this because both the money for road construction and the resources for building the school were not provided by the commune, but by Ji Xia. Would the commune still disagree?
"Build roads and schools." Ji Changgeng was afraid of causing further misunderstandings. "Secretary Luo, I was going to come and ask you yesterday for permission to build roads and schools for our brigade, but things just piled up at once, and there were too many things to do, so I didn't have time."
"Build roads and schools? When will this happen? Are you planning to build it yourself?" Luo Mantang asked in surprise. He came from the fifth production team, so he always cared about the relationship with his relatives.
"Of course they repaired it themselves. If they didn't repair it themselves, would they expect the commune to repair it for them?" said Luo Guangsheng, the secretary of the fifth team. He is Luo Mantang's nephew.
Luo Mantang looked at Ji Changgeng unhappily. When he was the secretary of the fifth team, he also had a bad relationship with Jijia Village. It turned out that the conflict started because of a big conflict between his nephew Luo Guangliang and Ji Tongping.
Every time the two production teams finished work, they would pick up their weapons and start fighting.
"We repaired it ourselves!" Ji Changgeng said very implicitly.
Luo Mantang sneered, "Build it yourself? You can read and write, so you know how much it costs to build a road. How come your production team can't even afford water conservancy? You still have the energy to build a road? You're so reluctant to work for the government, but you're so enthusiastic when working for yourselves!"
Ji Changgeng couldn't bear such a big hat. He hurriedly said, "Secretary, the main problem is that the road in the village is too difficult to travel on. The production team now has two tractors and an excavator, making it very inconvenient for people to get in and out. We have to repair this road."
When it comes to tractors and excavators, the other production teams are all envious and jealous, but Luo Mantang is full of anger. He repeatedly hinted and asked Ji Changgeng to hand over the machines for unified management by the commune. He repeatedly refused, saying that they were the property of the production team and he had no right to donate them on behalf of the people.
As long as Ji Changgeng handed over the machine, he would definitely let the Seventh Production Team use it first, provided that it did not conflict with the Fifth Production Team. Ji Changgeng was just so uncooperative.
Luo Guangsheng was afraid that Ji Changgeng would go back on his word and grab the quota, so he said firmly, "Changgeng, it was you who said you didn't want to work in the county and wanted to build roads. Don't go back on your word."
Luo Mantang then realized that if the Seventh Production Team did not go, then all of their team's quota would be given to the Fifth Production Team.
Originally, the county did not assign quotas to each production team. It only said that young and middle-aged people, preferably no older than 40 years old, who were able to work, were needed, and each production team had no fewer than 50 people.
The commune naturally had to limit the number of places. Who wouldn’t want to go to the county to work and save food for the family in the middle of winter?
In addition, the factories in the county are now engaged in large-scale production and will definitely recruit workers in the future. Who doesn’t want to be a worker and eat commercial grain?
Going to the city to work as a helper is the first step in preparing to become a worker.
These people are not stupid.
Looking at Ji Changgeng is like looking at a fool.
"No regrets!" Ji Changgeng certainly understood this truth, but he did not regret it. He would first repair the roads in the village. With Ji Xia around, the Seventh Production Team would definitely get better and better in the future.
After the meeting, Luo Guangsheng and Ji Changgeng went out together. "Changgeng, you know that working in the county means three meals a day and work points, right?"
Ji Changgeng shook his head, "I don't know, but that's what I think!"
“Where do you get the money to build roads and schools?”
Luo Mantang was angry and didn't ask just now, mainly because he didn't want the Seventh Production Team to gain face in front of other production teams. Look at how proud Ji Changgeng is!
"It was donated by several large factories in the county." Ji Changgeng confessed. The main thing was that Ji Xia didn't say that he couldn't say this, so he had to tell the truth. Otherwise, people would say that it was black money that their production team got from somewhere.
"Donated? How much?"
Ji Changgeng knew very well that Luo Guangsheng was helping Luo Mantang to inquire. He was about to report to Luo Mantang, but Luo Mantang said that this was their production team's business and they could handle it themselves and there was no need to report to the commune.
The meaning is very clear. If you can afford it, then you can build it. If you can't afford it, don't ask the commune for money. There will be no money even if you ask.
"They didn't specify how much to donate, but it was just two kilograms of grain and three ounces of meat per person per day. Plus, the money for buying materials was reimbursed on a reimbursement basis. There was nothing else."
"Three ounces of meat?" Luo Guangsheng exclaimed, immediately attracting the attention of the other team secretaries. Hearing that each person was given two pounds of food per day, someone asked, "What kind of food is that?"
"One pound of white flour and one pound of coarse grains, mix them together and eat them." Ji Changgeng was indeed very proud when he said this. Ji Xia directly gave the grain to the production team, as well as pork and lard. He only told them this standard and asked them to control it, and didn't say anything else.
He also said that no matter whether you are male or female, young or old, as long as you come to work, you will be fed.
Ji Changgeng knew that Ji Xia was taking the opportunity to pull the people in the production team. The team members also knew that now those lazy people who were idle during the busy farming season were working enthusiastically.
While working, they were discussing that now that the asphalt road is built, there will be no mud when it rains or snows in the future, and it will be much faster to go to the county.
The road from their village will be built directly to the county. Fortunately, they are not far from the county. They can just follow the current dirt road to get there. However, it is still more than ten miles away. Fortunately, Ji Xia said that they would send a steamroller or something like that.
Now we just need to level the road, widen it a bit, and lay down gravel. When the weather improves, we'll have a few people with equipment to repair it, and it will be done quickly.
Ji Changgeng was still feeling uneasy after leaving the commune. He went to the county quarry, but they were unwilling to give him gravel, saying that they had no plan. Ji Changgeng was not upset, as they all relied on the mountains. If the quarry refused to give them the stones, they would just go to the mountains to blast the stones themselves and transport them here.
Luo Guangsheng was also very jealous. When he went to the county to work, he was provided with three meals a day, which must be coarse grains. After all, who eats refined grains at home nowadays? Even if he mixed half coarse grains and half refined grains, he couldn't afford it.
Even during festivals, people would buy a few pounds of fine grains to eat, but only families with better conditions could afford it.
There is also meat to eat!
Isn’t it true that the Seventh Production Team is celebrating the New Year every day these days?
"Two kilograms of grain a day for one person, plus three ounces of meat? A kilogram of white flour and a kilogram of coarse grain mixed together? Did he really say that?"
Luo Mantang was very angry. The big factories in the county had given him a lot of money and supplies. Ji Changgeng and Yang Muchun didn't even report such a big thing to him. Also, why did the big factories in the county support the Seventh Production Team?
No, he wanted to report this problem to his superiors. These two people were not suitable to lead the people of the Seventh Production Team.
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