"It's time to distribute the rabbits! It's time to distribute the rabbits!"
"Everyone in the village, hurry up and assemble at the brigade's canteen!!"
After Wu Fengshou and the others worked themselves to the bone carrying over three hundred rabbits out on donkeys, they headed straight for the radio station without taking a break.
It started yelling loudly at the broken loudspeaker.
Unbeknownst to them, the atmosphere in the village had already changed.
Before yesterday, most of the villagers, who had nothing to do after the autumn harvest, stayed at home.
After the rabbits were distributed yesterday, now every day at dawn, people from all households scurry into the woods like mice emerging from their holes.
It was time to distribute the rabbits, and the loudspeaker blared for quite a while before a few people finally returned from the distant mountains.
"Let's call out to each other, there are two rabbits to go today!"
Wu Fengshou noticed that the returning villagers were not only unenthusiastic, but also looked disappointed, so he could only urge them on again.
"Two? That's great, it was worth the trip back here."
The villagers all know how to weigh things. A rabbit is worth twelve yuan, while they can collect dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of pine cones a day in the ridge, which is worth one hundred yuan.
Although you still have to dismantle and peel it, it earns more than a rabbit.
Wu Fengshou spent most of the day working in and out of the canteen, but strangely enough, he didn't manage to attract many people.
"Fine, no group meeting today," Wu Fengshou said, returning to the broadcasting room. After hurling insults into the microphone, he finally got to the point:
"Don't come any closer! There's no meeting!"
He then addressed the dozen or so villagers who had managed to get through:
"Well, you guys go and deliver the rabbits to each household according to the registration form. Once a household receives one, have them sign their name at the back."
While he was busy with all sorts of things, Lin Mo and his two childhood friends had already gone into the mountains again, not only cleaning up the pits but also digging about ten more.
On the way back, they each carried back twenty sacks of pine cones.
If I'm this lucky tomorrow, I'll be able to finish all the village tasks in one go.
Then go hunt deer!
When Wu Fengshou finally finished his work and went to the canteen, he was so slow. His family had two rabbits, and it had been several hours, and they still hadn't finished dividing them.
Compared to Lin Mo, who was suffering from backaches and pains all over his body, Miao Qingsong and Miao Wang were the happiest.
After the three hundred rabbits were divided equally among the villagers, the remaining 65 were split equally between his two families.
These days, the two families have an astonishing number of over seventy rabbits, so many that they've emptied their house and now have to squeeze in with their parents to sleep.
Lin Mo shouted to the village chief:
"Since the weather is still unusually sunny today, how about we invite some villagers to go fishing together?"
These words struck a chord with the village chief.
Wu Fengshou pondered that he needed to have fish in his hands before he could contact the fishing grounds.
If we go empty-handed, they definitely won't pay any attention to us.
"Okay!" he replied first, then voiced his doubts:
"But how do we fight? We don't know how."
"That's easy," Lin Mo said casually.
“That black-haired guy is a carnivore. He first sets up a large net in the middle, then goes into the mountains to dig out some rat holes and smashes them to pieces, skin and all.”
"Just throw them all into the river to create bait."
Wu Fengshou listened attentively, but he finished speaking in just a few words, as if fishing were really that simple.
He couldn't help but narrow his questioning eyes.
"Hmph, you can't get people to come when you're dividing rabbits, but you should be able to get people to come when you're fishing."
Perhaps the shouts at the rabbit-sharing event failed to attract all the villagers, which seriously damaged his prestige as village chief.
Once inside the broadcasting booth, he launched into the loudspeaker and gave another shout:
"Everyone! It's noon! After you've gone home for lunch, check on your rabbits!"
"Then we'll hold a village meeting! A collective meeting!"
"Let's catch fish together!"
I don't know if it was because it was midday or because of fishing.
This call to action indeed drew villagers from all over the village one after another.
Meanwhile, the educated youth also heard it clearly.
"Brother Xu, they're courting disaster again." Liang Zhenguo glanced at the bustling activity in the production team from afar and whispered menacingly in Xu Zhenting's ear.
Xu Zhenting narrowed his eyes with a cold smile and turned to look into the supply and marketing cooperative, where Chen Gang was sitting motionless next to his desk.
Although he didn't seem to react, he had already caught Xu Zhenting's gaze out of the corner of his eye.
“It’s alright, you don’t have to worry about it,” Xu Zhenting said loudly, with an almost blatantly provocative smile.
"At that time, even you will be the one being managed."
"snort!"
Xu Zhenting got up and left, and the other educated youth followed him.
Chen Gang then hurriedly stood up and ran out to see where they had gone.
Seeing that the educated youth were all heading towards their dormitories, Chen Gang felt a faint sense of wishful thinking.
"They keep threatening me with the higher-ups, but they never actually go to the county. Could it be just a bluff..."
Chen Gang thought to himself with a sense of侥幸 (a lucky break).
Looking up, Wu Fengshou was already leading all the villagers, learning from Lin Mo how to make thick nets by tying hemp ropes in a crisscross pattern.
The net has already been tied up to a length of more than ten meters; with so many people, the speed is really fast.
With the weather turning freezing cold, fishing is far more tempting to the villagers than rabbits.
Because fish can be preserved by pickling, if we can catch a lot of fish, then this barren winter will no longer be so impoverished for our family.
At least we can eat fish during the winter, that's great.
Lin Mo led some villagers to pull up the nearly abandoned bamboo baskets that had been thrown into the water earlier, and then called on each household to bring a bamboo basket.
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