After a day of hard work in the county town, Song Chu and his friends returned just in time to get off work.
When the villagers walked back to the village from the fields, they saw the tractor approaching from afar.
Someone couldn't help but exclaimed, "Tractor, tractor, Song Chuzhen is back driving a tractor."
"Everyone, come and see the tractor." Tang Qing also made a trumpet shape with his hands and shouted loudly a few times.
When many people heard the voice, they stopped in their tracks and ran towards the village entrance.
More and more people gathered at the entrance of the village. Those who didn't hear the shouting just ran over when they saw others running.
Before long, almost everyone in the village, young and old, men, women, and children, had arrived.
When everyone saw Song Chu coming back driving a tractor, their eyes widened with expressions of disbelief.
I didn't expect that Song Laosi and Tang Qing were not bragging yesterday, they really got the tractor.
She drove a tractor back without spending a penny on the village. It was completely free-for-all. Isn't this village tyrant Song too capable? When she arrived at the entrance of the village, Song Chu stopped the tractor. The road ahead was blocked by the villagers. She was also ready to perform a show to mobilize everyone's emotions and passion.
Looking at the villagers who kept pointing at the tractor and talking, Song Chu stood up and climbed onto the back pocket of the tractor.
She laughed and asked loudly with high spirits: "Fellow villagers, I said before that I would take the oil to the county town to exchange for sugar, cloth, furniture and tractors. Have you done it?"
"Yes!" Many people responded.
"Will you still believe what I say in the future?" Song Chu shouted again.
Many villagers laughed and shouted, "I believe it."
I would definitely not believe it in the past, but now the facts are right in front of me.
Everyone was excited when looking at the tractor, but they were jealous when looking at the candy, cloth and furniture in their back pockets.
Before, no one took that small oil press workshop seriously. Another soybean-producing commune in their county also opened a soybean oil press workshop. They had more than a dozen oil presses and it became a collective state-owned enterprise, but it was still the same.
No one had ever heard of being able to exchange oil for anything, so no one took Song Chu's oil press workshop seriously.
But now they feel that they were blind before. Can Song Chu be compared with those people outside? Otherwise, how can he be a village bully?
Song Chu looked around and found that the other eleven people working in the oil press workshop had arrived.
She smiled and waved to her cousin and the others, "People from the oil press workshop, come here to collect your work points according to your work records. I told you that as long as you work hard, you can get benefits every month."
She was too lazy to make things complicated, so she organized the work situation into a work-point system. Everyone made a form every day, and the more they worked, the more they got, and things were distributed according to the work points.
"Today is the first time I have exchanged things. This month I will distribute the welfare benefits to the workers in the oil press workshop." This is what I said to the villagers.
"Fourth brother, get in the car and help." She waved to Song Laosi.
Song Laosi excitedly jumped up with his back pocket, "Okay!"
It’s her sister who’s the reason why he got the limelight today.
The eldest and second oldest Song were standing not far away and couldn't help but feel a little envious.
Especially Song Laoer, he felt that he had completely misjudged his own sister before. He should have signed up and followed her to the county town, otherwise it would be so cool to come back now.
It’s really a good deal for the fourth brother.
They had only worked in the workshop for less than half a month, and they were already receiving oil and benefits. How could it be so good?
Tang Qing knew that following the boss would bring him a bright future, so he stepped forward first, "Here I come."
Seeing this, Tang Youhua and others quickly walked over from the crowd and said, "I'm here too."
The three women were also surprised. They took some time to do something and actually got something to share. They smiled widely and walked forward, "And us."
Song Chu took out a notebook from the bag he was carrying, which recorded the work points of these people after they started working in the oil press workshop.
Smart people could see that she had been prepared for this.
"Tang Qing, if you pick two bags of tea oil fruit on the first day, you will get one work point. On the second day..."
Song Chu read Tang Qing's work situation, then took out a piece of cloth, a bag of white sugar, a bag of brown sugar, and a bag of rock sugar from the car, "This is your benefit for this month."
"Tang Youhua, first day..." After sending Tang Qing's message, he read the next one.
Tang Youhua picked more fruits than Tang Qing and worked harder in pressing oil, so Song Chu exchanged more work points for him.
Song Chu looked at him and asked, "You have six more work points than Tang Qing. You can exchange them for another piece of cloth or three bags of candy. You can choose what you want."
Tang Youhua didn't expect that the more he worked, the more changes he could get. He scratched his head with a smile, a little undecided.
Many women in the village joined in the fun with a smile, "Silly boy, you must need cloth, so you can make clothes for your wife and baby."
"It's also good to exchange for sugar, so that the whole family can have sweet mouths."
This made it even more difficult for Tang Youhua to choose. Seeing this, his wife couldn't help but shout, "Youhua, we want cloth, we want cloth."
Their family was well-off and they could have some sugar every month, but buying cloth was very troublesome because they needed cloth coupons. It took a long time throughout the year to save up cloth coupons to buy a piece of cloth to make clothes. His wife was anxious, fearing that Tang Youhua would do something stupid.
Hearing his wife's cry, Tang Youhua said to Song Chu, "I want cloth."
Song Chu looked at his second cousin's wife, smiled and took out a piece of floral cloth and handed it to Tang Youhua.
Sure enough, the second cousin's wife smiled even more brightly when she saw this, and she looked at Song Chu more favorably than ever before.
Next, another seven people who went up the mountain to pick fruit and press oil were rewarded. Several of them received the same work points as Tang Youhua, and each of them received an extra piece of cloth.
Yes, they were all gathered by their wives or mothers to emphasize that they wanted cloth.
They gave the things they got to their wives or mothers. Their families were very happy and extremely grateful that they had let their husbands/sons sign up in the first place, otherwise how could they have gotten so many things.
Next came the three women. Their work points were less than those of the nine people, so Song Chu gave each of them three bags of sugar. As for the cloth, he gave them one piece in total and asked them to divide it into three equal parts among themselves.
But this also made them extremely surprised, and their families were also very happy, it was like pie in the sky.
After sending out the twelve people working in the oil press workshop, Song Chu looked at Tang Ming and the others.
"The cadres in the village have worked hard. The furniture in the office is too old. The furniture I replaced specifically is for the office and workshop. So this time I won't give out benefits to the employees. I will replace a batch for the village first, and the rest will be used in the oil press workshop."
Tang Ming and several cadres didn't expect that Song Chu still thought of them and was considerate of their hard work. They couldn't help but feel moved and happy.
(End of this chapter)