Looking at her son's hesitant manner, how could He Meizhu not guess what it was? It must be that this brat had no restraint in his sexual affairs, which made Jiaojiao angry.
“I’m telling you, you’re just too idle. If you have so much energy to spare, go help your dad dig a ditch.”
The village is currently digging irrigation ditches in preparation for next year's planting season.
Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, Dawancun has also secretly implemented the household contracting system.
Each household was allocated land, and as long as they delivered the required amount of grain on time, the rest would belong to the contracted households.
This policy is undoubtedly great news for people who have earned work points for more than ten years.
They did it themselves, and whatever they did was theirs. The villagers' enthusiasm was higher than ever before!
Even though it's almost winter, everyone is still working hard to dig ditches!
Clean up the ditches so they won't be clogged when it's time to plant next year, making water diversion much easier.
This year's contracted land was distributed to households based on the number of people.
Gu Changzheng's family has five members, plus He Meizhu and Gu Jianhua, making a total of seven people, and they were all allocated twelve mu of land.
They had three children, and each child was allocated two acres of land.
Some people in the village are envious, but this is also one of the advantages of having many children in the family.
Furthermore, while distributing more land has its advantages, it also has disadvantages. The grain tax payable for each acre is the same, and Gu Changzheng's three children and Lu Huaijiao are clearly unable to work. If they can't pay their share of the grain tax…
That would be hilarious.
Many people in the village are waiting to see the joke unfold!
Gu Jianhua went to dig a ditch today, which is on their piece of farmland.
No one in the village wanted the fields on the mountainside, but Gu Jianhua, as the brigade leader, took it upon himself to take Gu Changzheng's share of the land.
The fields near the mountain are not as good as other places, but that doesn't mean nobody wants them, right? It's just that Gu Jianhua, the brigade leader, and the other village cadres have to make do.
He Meizhu privately complained that Gu Jianhua was stupid, but she never said anything in public.
You must give your husband plenty of face.
When Gu Changzheng heard that he was asked to dig a ditch, he frowned.
"Mom, wasn't the ditch already dug?"
"Once it's dug up, it needs to be sturdy enough. It can't break down after only two or three years, right?"
"Why make it so sturdy? What if we all go to the city? Who will have time to farm that land?" Gu Changzheng didn't want to be a farmer for the rest of his life.
Even if Jiaojiao is willing to stay in the countryside, he doesn't want her to suffer here.
"Going to the city, going to the city, that's not even a chance yet, and you're already thinking so far ahead?"
"Okay, Mom, you take Sanbao to take a nap. I'm going to catch a fish."
My wife is angry, so I went to the river to catch two fish to coax her and see if that would cheer her up.
Gu Changzheng felt terrible thinking about how his wife had been treating him coldly these past few days, even splitting their bedding into two separate beds! In a terrible mood, he naturally didn't want to do any chores.
"Be careful, go near the water."
"knew."
Gu Changzheng waved his hand, turned around and went out.
He first went to Gu Tiezhu to discuss selling pork before the New Year.
Their pig farm has now expanded to nearly a hundred pigs, and they can slaughter and sell the pigs during the Chinese New Year.
The two brothers were talking by the fishpond outside Gu Tiezhu's house.
"Changzheng, you said you'd slaughter all the pigs this year, and then quit next year?"
"Yeah, I'm quitting."
Gu Changzheng had his hands in his pockets and a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.
"Let them be responsible for slaughtering pigs and selling pork. I won't get involved. Just give me a smaller share of the money."
"ah?"
Gu Tiezhu was a little confused.
Gu Changzheng suddenly abandoned a pig farm that had been making money all along, and he didn't even participate in it anymore. What was he trying to do?
"Changzheng, what's going on?"
"The New Year is coming soon, so I'm going to start some other small businesses to earn more money. Otherwise, my wife and kids will go to the city after the New Year, and we won't be able to live without money."
Gu Changzheng looked up at the distant sky, his eyes deep, his mind filled with plans for the future.
"Didn't we just finish the college entrance exam?"
How could he be so sure that his younger siblings would be able to get into a university in the city?
“I understand my daughter, Jiaojiao. She’s so smart, she’ll definitely pass the exam.”
He had been to school and knew that school would start soon after the New Year, which meant there were only two months left.
He needs to earn 10,000 yuan within these two months.
He was too embarrassed to go back to the city with his wife because he had no money.
Gu Tiezhu didn't think as much as Gu Changzheng, but he trusted Gu Changzheng.
"Okay, then I won't go. If you need to do anything else, take me with you. We can go together and look out for each other." How the money is divided doesn't matter.
It's mainly because it's safer for multiple people to be out and about.
Gu Changzheng agreed.
"Let me investigate first before I say anything."
"good."
After the two brothers finished speaking, Gu Changzheng was about to go to the river to catch fish, but Gu Tiezhu told him to just catch one from the fishpond and take it back.
This is village property, but he doesn't say anything, so no one else knows.
Gu Changzheng glanced at Gu Tiezhu sideways.
"Do you often catch fish from the fishpond for your sister-in-law and Tao Tao to eat?"
"No, I haven't arrested anyone," Gu Tiezhu replied blankly.
"That's settled then, isn't it?"
Gu Tiezhu himself has been guarding these fishponds and hasn't touched the fish, so how could he possibly have touched them?
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