More and more people came to the threshing ground. The short captain moved a small table and jumped on it, holding a loud speaker in his hand.
"Comrades, fellow villagers, the busy farming season is about to begin. Other teams next door have already started their work, and our team is about to start as well. We gathered everyone together today because we want everyone to actively work, and we will try not to lag behind."
"Captain, just speak frankly. Don't talk about self-awareness. Is there anyone with self-awareness in our team? Just tell us how many heads each family will have." Someone in the crowd shouted.
The captain was so angry that his chest was choked. He said angrily, "One person per family, who will be sent? You can decide by yourselves. I'm going to make it clear in advance, whoever skips work will not be able to get any benefits from the team in the future! All right, after you have discussed it, come and register!"
The captain turned off the horn and jumped down. Not afraid that no one would come, he pulled out a chair and sat down to wait.
"What if someone doesn't go to register?" Meng Qidi couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
"If you don't register, he will fill it out randomly, and you will definitely be deducted points for absenteeism."
Ling Xiao explained that the welfare of the team was in the hands of the captain, including work points, meat coupons, and grain coupons, which were all in his hands.
Ling Xiao tilted his head slightly, "Although the team members are not diligent, the captain still has ways to deal with them."
Meng Qidi nodded gently, "What about our home? Should I go?"
"No, our family is unique. With that reputation, I guess the team members don't want to work with our family. We have already been excluded from this meeting."
Meng Qidi rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Then why did you bring me here?"
"Come and see how special our family is."
As soon as Ling Xiao finished speaking, the captain raised the loud speaker and said, "Ling Xiao, I have reported your wife. The girl from the Ling family was working at the reservoir a few days ago and she is a good laborer. The captain of Team 7 specifically asked me to take care of her."
Meng Qidi chuckled and looked at Ling Xiao mockingly, "You're still asking for special treatment? We shouldn't have come. Hahaha."
Ling Xiao...
Is it his fault? Is it because she is too famous?
"Captain, Ling Xiao's family...are you sure you want them to come? If something happens to them, who will be responsible?" someone in the crowd shouted.
Meng Qidi glanced at the woman who was talking. She was a relative who had come to their house for a banquet a few days ago.
She was enjoying the meal that day, so why didn't she say anything about it?
The captain frowned and looked at the dissenter unhappily, "Wu Guihua, this is socialism, you can't have such superstitious thoughts. Didn't we say that the incident in the team before had nothing to do with Wang Po's family?"
The captain spoke for them, and Meng Qidi did not embarrass him. She stood up and said, "Captain, I want to say a few words."
The captain looked at Ling Xiao helplessly, and only agreed when he saw Ling Xiao nod, "Okay, come on."
Meng Qidi walked to the front, glanced at the villagers, and spoke loudly.
"Everyone, I understand that you have taboos against our family. The captain asked me to go to work, and I can't refuse. I can't guarantee that if anything happens to you, I won't take responsibility. If it's because of me, Meng Qidi, that's the cause of the trouble, I will take responsibility!"
She can actually take this opportunity to postpone going to work, which is totally fine.
But she couldn't, because she would no longer be in Lingjia Village in a year, and she had to change the Ling family's reputation in the village.
Otherwise, not only will it affect Ling Xiao's future career in the army, it will also be of no benefit to the old lady and Xiao Chengzi in the village.
Someone spoke up, "You said so, but if something happens to us because you are at work, who will be held responsible?"
"I still don't understand what this uncle means, but you can't blame us for everything, right? If you don't look at the road when walking, can you blame us for falling? If a bird pees on your head, can you blame us for bird poop?"
Someone sneered, "Isn't it because you brought us bad luck?"
Although the other party was a scoundrel, Meng Qidi was not annoyed and just smiled.
"What the old man said is right. This is just bad luck, but it doesn't mean I'm unlucky. You probably don't know yet, but lotus flowers are blooming in the stagnant pond in front of our house."
The stagnant pond in front of the Ling family has bloomed?
The villagers looked at each other in bewilderment. They had pushed Wang Po's family there because the land over there was not good.
"If you don't believe me, you can go and have a look. I'm not afraid of exaggerating. With my luck, within a year, the hill in front of our house will be transformed from waste to treasure, and the Ling family's life will get better and better!"
Meng Qidi glanced at everyone and said, "As long as you don't regret it, you can refuse me from working today, but in the future, don't say that our Ling Xiao has become rich without taking the big guys with him."
The woman in front exuded confidence, with a faint smile on her face, and her words were convincing.
Ling Xiao half-closed his eyes and looked at her. Perhaps she was too confident. He was almost convinced. It was as if he had seen the future of the Ling family...
"Tsk, go ahead and blow it, the lotus flowers in front of your house haven't bloomed yet."
Ling Jinyue sneered, with a look of dissatisfaction on her face, "She is such a liar. The pond in front of their house is just covered with lotus leaves. She is so stingy. She refused to let me catch two fish even though I wanted to. She insisted that she would open the pond to catch fish during the New Year."
Are there really lotus roots? And fish?
No one paid attention to Ling Jinyue's dissatisfaction. They were all surprised by the Ling family's pond. Could it be that the dead pond really came alive?
Is Ling Xiao's new wife really that lucky?
You know, those two ponds are really smelly and dirty. If you throw a loach into them, it will immediately turn upside down.
Ling Jinming pulled his sister worriedly. She was talking nonsense. What if the village took back Xiaoge's pond?
Meng Qidi was not surprised that Ling Jinyue would help speak up.
The captain quickly struck while the iron was hot, "Fellow villagers, don't you want our team's grain production to go from last to first? Xiaoqi is lucky, what if there is no insect famine this year? What if the weather is good this year? Wouldn't our team's grain production increase?"
Someone complained, "Captain, the increase in grain production in the team has nothing to do with us, but it was taken away by the government."
The captain said unhappily, "Who said it doesn't matter? If you work harder, our team's production will go up. Are you afraid that you don't know the benefits behind it?"
He gets angry when talking about this. Every year he tries his best to get food delivered to the team, otherwise he would not be able to collect enough food.
Everyone shrank their necks, "So, Captain, what exactly are the benefits?"
Isn’t it because these grains have to be handed over to the government, so they don’t benefit from it?
Meng Qidi coughed lightly, "Well, actually the team has regulations on handing in public grain. If the team produces more this year, it will be directly distributed to each household."
Don't tell her that Lingjia Village has never distributed food...
As soon as Meng Qidi finished speaking, the villagers started whispering to each other. They really didn't know about this news. They thought that the extra food would not be returned. Anyway, there were only so many work points...
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