Chapter 93: Election

Another autumn rain fell, and the weather was getting colder. Lin Shu kept reminding her son not to catch a cold, but she caught a cold herself.

Tears and snot flowed together, and she felt very uncomfortable.

Fearing that it was the flu, she and her son slept in separate rooms, and the responsibility of cooking was taken over by Fang Dihua.

Today, the production team distributed dividends, and everyone was as excited as during the Chinese New Year.

Fang Dihua went to collect the money in person, which is an annual ritual.

Her family received another 168 yuan. It was

slightly more than last year.

This year, the family made more money than last year. Not to mention the third son, the old man worked as a barefoot doctor and got extra medical fees, the eldest daughter-in-law worked as a tractor driver and got subsidies, and the third daughter-in-law helped the team to count and also got food.

This is all money.

Lin Shu secretly sympathized with everyone. They worked hard before dawn all year round and slept in the fields during the busy farming season, but they only got 100 to 180 yuan.

168 yuan was the most, and the others were 120 yuan. Most of them were around 80 yuan. The least were 30 or 50 yuan. The least were even higher. Those

who owed money to the team were called upside down.

Those who were lazy at home, had little labor, and did not have enough work points to buy food had to give money to the team. Those who had no money had to pay off their debts.

Especially widows.

A widow with several children basically had to support the whole team, and the money owed would never be repaid.

For example, the widow Sun’s family owed the production team more than 40 yuan in total, because they did not have enough work points but had enough food.

The widow Sun was crying in the production team, “Leader, our family is in a difficult situation, it is really difficult, the debt is getting bigger and bigger every year, when will it be paid off?”

Some members who felt unhappy about being held back by them shouted, “Didn’t you remarry? Let the man earn work points quickly to make up for it and slowly pay off the debt.”

If time passes, the man will know that her family owes too much, and most of them will not dare to marry her.

Of course, there are other ways. If she remarries with the child in another village or remarries and leaves the child to her grandparents, the brigade will not be able to do anything. In the end, the brigade may even have to help pay for part of the food to feed the child.

The widow cried hard, and the bald man said that if she made more noise, the accounts might be erased.

Even if they couldn't be erased in full, half of them would be fine.

The secretary couldn't stand seeing people being so disrespectful, and he was worried. He said, "Let's do it this way for now. You can pay it back slowly when the child grows up."

Of course, the accounts would be erased, but not all of them, and they couldn't be erased carelessly. The boys had to know that they had taken advantage of the brigade.

The accounts would be settled after the widow's son grew up.

Zhang Xiuqin's husband worked in the county and received a salary, while she and her children worked on the land at home, and they were what the city people called half-households.

Her eldest son was studying, and she and her two daughters went to the fields to earn work points. If the work points were not enough to buy food, they had to use her husband's salary to buy food from the production team. She was dissatisfied when she saw that her grandson's widow's family owed money.

She said, "This is so unfair. Why should we spend money to buy food? Should her family just get the food? If that's the case, even if we don't buy food in the future, they will still give us some."

Others told her not to worry about it, "Your husband earns a salary, how can it be the same?"

Zhang Xiuqin's son said dissatisfiedly, "Why is it different? How hard is our life? We don't have enough to eat every day, and we have to eat coarse grains every meal. You all use work points to exchange for food, but my family still has to spend money to buy food. Why?"

He didn't even think about the fact that his father didn't earn work points, and he didn't earn work points either. How could the few work points his mother and sisters earned be enough to share food with the family?

Widow Sun: "If you don't like it, just let your father die. After he dies, your mother will be a widow, and she can owe the team money openly, right?"

Zhang Xiuqin's son was so angry that he cursed: "You bitch, you are so vicious!"

Zhang Xiuqin also cursed Widow Sun as a scumbag who dragged all kinds of men home.

Both women were powerful, you cursed me and I cursed you, and then they fought each other.

The head of the women's department hurried over to separate them, "Shut up, don't fight!"

The two women ignored her and continued to fight. When she went over to separate them, she was also scratched.

The head of the women's department: "Damn it, this is so unfair, stop it!"

The two women continued to fight passionately, not caring about others at all.

The brigade secretary and the brigade leader yelled at them several times, but it was useless. It was useless.

The secretary and the brigade leader were responsible for men's fights, but not women's fights.

There was no women's director, who was just a nominal position for nothing. She was so angry that she kept stamping her feet.

Finally, someone shouted, "Where is the second grandma? Hurry up and call the second grandma."

Fang Dihua was rushing home to take care of her third daughter-in-law.

She was asking Aunt Qiu, Aunt Wang and others, "Do you have an old hen at home that doesn't lay eggs? My third daughter-in-law has a cold and is probably tired from doing the accounting for the brigade. I'll buy her a chicken to make up for it."

Several old women said that everyone had a hen.

Old Mrs. Chang listened and said sarcastically, "Tsk tsk, her third daughter-in-law doesn't work in the fields or do any work. She just walks around all day and buys chickens to eat. Why is she so tired?"

Aunt Li: "She is tired from doing the accounting for the brigade. If she hadn't done the accounting for the brigade, would you have been able to distribute the rations and profits so quickly? We who have no brains should not doubt those who do the work of brains. I tell you, accounting is tiring. I do n’t believe you go home for your grandson to calculate the primary school mathematics problem. " Several elementary school students nodded sharply,

" Calculating the account is tired! " What do she do? "Sister -in -law, not beating, but not fighting, let them not fight." Fang Yanhua: "Fighting , scattering when you are tired." What can a woman fight? Drink soup. Fang Dihua had previously asked Father Lu to buy some Chinese medicine for the family, including astragalus, dangshen, and angelica, as well as red dates and wolfberries.

When stewing the chicken soup, she added astragalus and dangshen, and a little angelica and red dates. In addition, she added wolfberries when the soup was almost out of the pot, so as not to rot inside and become sour.

Fang Dihua said that she was not partial, but after a long time of getting along well with someone, the feelings naturally deepened, and her heart became partial. After

the chicken soup was cooked, she poured out all the thick chicken soup, and removed the chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken gizzard and two chicken legs and put them in a bowl for Lin Shu and the two children to eat.

After serving, she poured a warm pot of boiling water into the pot, and stewed potatoes and cabbage in a pot. This was everyone's dinner.

With such a good old hen, what wouldn't be delicious?

This is all thanks to the third daughter-in-law.

At dinner, everyone saw a hen stewed with potatoes and cabbage, which was delicious.

However, Second Sister-in-law Lu paid attention to the dish. When she didn't find any trace of chicken legs, she knew that her mother-in-law was partial to Lin Shu and the children, and she couldn't help but curl her lips.

She hoped that Lu An would have chicken legs, but the two brothers didn't say a word and didn't even think about chicken legs.

Lu Cuicui didn't dare to do it, she just kept her head down to grab the chicken skin. Second Sister-in-law

Lu: "Mom, the director of women's affairs is really upset today, and she asked you to put out the fire." Fang Dihua: " Why do you care about others?" Second Sister-in-law Lu saw that her mother-in-law didn't agree with her, but instead confronted her, and she was a little suffocated, "She is still the director of women's affairs like that, and she can't control anything." Fang Dihua: "Why, can you control it?" Second Sister-in-law Lu immediately raised her head and looked at her mother-in-law hopefully, I can! Fang Dihua picked up the chicken head and gave it to Mrs. Lu to eat, and picked up the chicken feet for Father Lu, letting him chew it while drinking wine, which was very delicious. Brother Lu looked at her with stars in his eyes, "Mom." My father gave me wine to drink, so you should also give me some chicken feet to chew. Chicken feet and wine are more delicious. Mrs. Lu gave him the chicken head. Brother Lu picked it up and gave it back to her, saying softly: "Guiying, you like to eat chicken heads, you eat it." Everyone at the table became strangely quiet, those who were picking up food paused, those who were chewing rice stopped, and they all looked at Brother Lu at the same time. When Brother Lu saw Fang Dihua picking up chicken feet, he dropped them back into the basin before he could pass them to her. He quickly came over and said, "Why are you all looking at me? I'm just a deputy accountant, it's no big deal." He even pretended to be humble. Lin Shu was blowing her nose and laughing on the kang. Brother Lu was really... the family couldn't even eat without him. He was so capable. But Second Sister-in-law Lu was very angry. Wasn't the brigade about to hold an election? The head of the women's department was so unqualified, why didn't they replace her? How was she not better than the head of the women's department? She thought that if Fang Dihua supported it, she could talk to Aunt Li and others, and the brigade would definitely elect her as the head of the women's department. How impressive it would be if she became the director of the women's team? She wouldn't have to work in the fields under the sun and rain, and she could earn full work points, as well as receive salary subsidies. I heard that the salary of the director of the women's team is not given by the team, but by the county, or the Women's Federation. She also receives additional welfare subsidies every year, such as rice, flour, oil, meat, etc. She will have face when she returns to her parents' home! She thought her mother-in-law didn't understand what she meant, so she wanted to go back and explain it clearly. How could Fang Dihua not understand? Wherever she turned her tail, Fang Dihua knew what she was going to do. She belittled the director of the women's team, and then brought it to herself to brag a few words, and by the way, asked if she wanted to give it a try? What are you trying for? What did you do to make the team like you? Lin Shu caught a cold. Although she was not very powerful, she was just lazy and had no energy. In the evening, Tiantian and Panpan came to tell her about the brigade meeting and the dividend distribution, and performed the fight between Widow Sun and Zhang Xiuying. Panpan opened and closed her mouth, and when she talked about the part where Widow Sun and Zhang Xiuying cursed each other, she was immediately interrupted by Lin Shu. Lin Shu: "Don't imitate others to curse." Panpan scratched her head, "It won't look like it then." Lin Shu: "I just know it's cursing." So when Panpan and Tiantian acted out, it became, "You bastard, you are the one who curses, you dead bastard, you..." Lin Shu held her forehead, "My son, I mean we should skip the curse words, instead of saying them and then removing them." You two are very good at the harmony of cuckoldry. After the son finished the performance, Father Lu came over and gave her a few more injections. Acupuncture on a few points can help her nasal ventilation and sleep more comfortably at night. After acupuncture, Father Lu took Tiantian and Panpan back to the east room to sleep, and asked Fang Dihua to apply ginger patches on the acupoints to Lin Shu. This is a plaster that Father Lu made himself according to medical books. Lin Shu was alone in the west room at night. She felt lonely and missed the feeling of sleeping with a milk-flavored dumpling in her arms. The kang was very warm. Fang Dihua stewed chicken here at night. I don’t know how long she slept, but she woke up with a sweat. The kang was too hot. She had acupuncture and plasters before going to bed, which increased her yang energy. Wouldn’t she sweat at night? With a "creak", the door opened. Lin Shu: "Lu Shaotang?" "Yes, it's me." He closed the outer door, turned on the light, poured water, washed his face and feet, and went into the house. When Lu Shaotang entered the house, he saw herself sleeping at the head of the kang, but the two children were nowhere to be seen. "Where are the children?" Lin Shu said with a heavy nasal voice, "I have a cold, they are all in my parents' room, you should go over too." Lu Shaotang took off his clothes, went to the kang lightly, lifted the quilt and got into her bed. Lin Shu: "!!!" Don't take advantage of others' misfortune. She wanted to grab the quilt back, but the man had already laid down beside her. Lin Shu's voice was soft, hiding her coquettishness that she herself didn't even realize, "I have a cold."

Lu Shaotang asked softly, "Do you feel uncomfortable?" He touched her forehead with his big hand, "Do

you have a fever?" Lin Shu: "No, there's a doctor at home, don't worry."

Lu Shaotang was relieved, and he stretched out his arm to pick up his soft wife into his arms.

Lin Shu's body tightened, "...I have a cold."

Lu Shaotang: "I just...hug you."

This reminded Lin Shu of the jokes she had seen, what about I just rub against you, I just...

Fortunately, Lu Shaotang kept his word, he really just hugged her to sleep, his hands and feet were well behaved.

Originally, Lin Shu felt scared, nervous, and resistant to being hugged by a man who was much taller than her, but when he hugged her in his arms, she was not scared, but...felt very safe.

This was due to his previous close but not excessive contact, except for the time in the guesthouse, when he would at most hold her hand and play with her fingers, or let her touch his limbs at will without fighting back. She felt no danger from him and slowly let down her guard.

Now can't he hold her to sleep?

There is a refreshing and pleasant scent on him, not the smell of soap, but the scent of his hormones. Everyone has their own unique smell, and she is sensitive to smell, so it smells more clearly.

She lay quietly with her back against his chest, and soon she felt that he was very hot.

Why is his body temperature so high?

If it were her, this body temperature would be considered a fever, right?

She slept during the day and slept for a few hours at night, so she was not sleepy at this moment.

"Why do you always come back at night?" If someone in the family gets up at night, they will think there is a thief or she is cheating on him.

Lu Shaotang: "Are you not free during the day?"

Lin Shu: "Then you are busy during the day and running around at night, can you rest well?"

Lu Shaotang: "Of course."

He is much taller than her. She is obviously not a small person, but she looks very petite in his arms.

When he spoke, his breath fell on her ears, causing her skin to have dense little bumps.

She wanted to say, why don't you take the quilt and let's sleep separately.

But his embrace was so warm and safe that she wanted to occupy him.

He has abdominal muscles, I want to touch them.

With such random thoughts, she fell asleep.

When Lin Shu woke up the next day, Lu Shaotang was gone.

She was puzzled. Not counting the time when they were not at home, Lu Shaotang had come back four times at night. Not only did the neighbors not know about it, but the dogs in the brigade did not even bark.

Then... if someone was as skilled as him, they might not be discovered if they sneaked into the village to steal in the middle of the night.

Especially in June when it was freezing cold, people slept soundly at night and might not notice someone entering the house.

Now that every household has some money from dividends, they really have to be careful.

She decided to remind her mother-in-law and the others and ask the brigade to arrange patrols at night.

With the triple effects of chicken soup, acupuncture plaster and Lu Shaotang's human-shaped warm baby, Lin Shu felt much better in the morning.

Tiantian and Panpan ran over and whispered in her ear, "Dad came back last night, and he kissed us when he left."

Every time they said, "I must wake up when Dad comes back," they never woke up, not even when Lu Shaotang took Pan's son over and naggled him, because the child was sleeping so soundly.

Although Lin Shu felt better, she did not go to the accounting office immediately, but asked Big Brother Lu to help.

She was also very happy when she heard from her son that everyone praised Uncle.

When she recovered from her cold, the brigade was ready to hold elections.

The elections included: brigade leader, production team leaders, accountants, women's director, public security director, etc.

The brigade secretary was not elected, and was directly appointed by the commune.

The team leader is nominated by the secretary based on daily work, the commune nominates two based on data, and then the backbone members of the brigade elect them.

The production team leader is nominated by the brigade secretary and the team leader, and the members of each production team elect them.

The others are similar.

The brigade accountant is generally nominated by the brigade secretary, and the team leader also nominates one, and then finds a runner-up and lets the members elect him.

There is a lot of room for maneuver in the election. No matter how the election is, in the end, it is basically the person who is elected by the commune and the secretary.

The secretary is appointed by the commune, and the person chosen by the secretary is basically the one who finally takes office.

There is no suspense for the others. The secretary and team leader are still the original team. The production team leader Lu Jiazhuang has not been replaced, and the other production teams have replaced one.

Accountant...

The biggest change is accountant.

At the election meeting, Lu Shaocai was furious when he saw the list of candidates written on the blackboard by Zhang Peijin!

This branch secretary was too much, he was actually doing something behind his back!

There were actually three candidates for the brigade accountant this time: Lu Shaocai, Lu Changgong, and Lu Shaofeng.

Lu Shaofeng was Big Brother Lu.

Lu Changgong was almost scared to death. What virtue did he have to dare to compete with his two uncles for the brigade accountant?

He didn't have it, he didn't know, it was none of his business.

Big Brother Lu was also stunned for a moment, why was he allowed to compete for the brigade accountant?

Wasn't he... a helper's deputy accountant?

He gave himself the title of deputy accountant, he was actually a helper.

The brigade secretary said, "Like in previous years, everyone will vote."

The custom is that everyone basically votes for the first one, because that was nominated by the commune and the secretary, and the two behind, especially the last one, are just runners-up.

Now the last one is Brother Lu, and everyone is quite satisfied with him.

Compared with Lu Shaocai, Lu Shaofeng is simply too useful.

Choose him!

Who else to choose?

Old Changtou and the families of the women beaten by Fang Dihua, except for Wang Pozi's family, all others chose Lu Shaocai.

Sun Guafu's family also chose Lu Shaocai.

Lu Shaocai is still proud, because there are still many people who chose him!

Then Zhang Peijin chose Brother Lu.

Old Chang's eyes widened. What's wrong with you?

Zhang Peijin immediately turned his head to look at the blackboard, pretending that he knew nothing, as if he had voted for the red bean in his sleep.

Needless to say, the other families who were on good terms with Fang Dihua, Lin Shu, and Sister Lu also voted for Brother Lu.

Those old guys who were originally from Old Man Lu must have voted for Brother Lu.

Not to mention that Old Man Lu didn't say anything, even if Old Man Lu asked them to vote for Lu Shaocai, they didn't want to.

Who doesn't want to elect a village cadre who can get things done?

Lu Shaocai often miscalculated the work points for the members. When they went to him, he cursed and refused to recalculate. When they went to the team leader or the secretary, he was very reluctant to recalculate and refused to admit his mistakes.

Now that the secretary has shown signs of wanting to replace the accountant, of course they have to follow suit.

If the commune and the secretary don't want to replace Lu Shaocai, then the two runners-up behind him will be people like Lu Changgong who are not as good as Lu Shaocai, so there will be no need to get someone better than him.

The secretary and the team leader really want to replace Lu Shaocai.

They have also considered the new candidate, and if they want to take down Lu Shaocai, they must choose someone from the Lu family.

If Lu Shaocai is useless, there will be nothing wrong with his own family replacing him, and Lu Shaocai will have nothing to say if he complains to his own father. Moreover,

the person chosen must have a reputation in the team. If they choose an ordinary person, even if he can do the accounting, it will be troublesome enough if the members are dissatisfied with him and come back to make trouble.

The son or daughter-in-law of Father Lu do not have this problem, as their reputation can suppress it.

They like Lin Shu the most, and asked Fang Dihua privately. Lin Shu herself refused and recommended Brother Lu to them.

They think that Brother Lu's status is similar to Lu Shaocai, and he is much more capable and more useful, so naturally they are more willing to let him be the accountant.

Brother Lu was elected with an overwhelming majority of votes, and the members were very happy to elect an accountant they were satisfied with, and they applauded.

The director of women's affairs is still the original one, and the members have no feelings about this position, and Wang Lijuan herself has no sense of existence.

Except for going to the commune county to hold meetings, she really has little sense of existence in the brigade.

To the members, this position seemed to be just a decoration. They just supported her for nothing in order to give her work points and salary subsidies.

The director of women's affairs herself had no ability and prestige. When the women fought, they didn't give her face when she tried to persuade them.

She felt very aggrieved and wanted to tell the secretary and the team leader that she would quit and let them choose someone else.

The secretary comforted her and asked her to continue to do it. Anyway, that was how it was.

The reason why Wang Lijuan could be the director of women's affairs was because her aunt was from the county women's federation. Even if she had no ability, the brigade didn't need her to do anything anyway, and the brigade must have such a person, so it didn't matter who would be the secretary and the team leader.

Big Brother Lu was still in shock after getting the appointment. He went home and confirmed with Fang Dihua and others one by one, "Am I really the accountant?"

"Why am I so awesome?"

"I knew I was extraordinary, I couldn't be an ordinary person!"

Second Brother Lu responded to him, affirming his extraordinaryness, and Fang Dihua rolled her eyes at him.

If it weren't for your sister-in-law, would it be your turn?

Big Sister Lu... Big Sister Lu was not at home, and their tractor drivers went to the commune to maintain the tractor.

For tractor drivers, tractors are like children, and they have to take good care of them.

Because Big Brother Lu was selected as the brigade accountant, Lin Shu recovered from her cold and her sense of taste recovered, so she specially prepared a table of dishes to celebrate.

Clam meat stewed with radish, roasted peppers and cabbage hearts, chives and egg boxes...

When Big Sister Lu came home, they started the feast.

Father Lu was very happy and specially asked the eldest and second brothers to drink two cups with him.

Lin Shu also specially stewed hawthorn and snow pear water for the children and added sugar to it.

Pour a bowl for each of them.

Panpan held her bowl and raised it to the eldest brother Lu, "Grandpa, you are really amazing, I want to congratulate you."

The eldest brother Lu raised his small wine cup and clinked it with him, and smiled: "When can I be as enjoyable as you."

How enjoyable would it be to drink with such a big bowl?

Father Lu gave the old woman a look, you deserve a beating, you are so arrogant just after becoming an accountant, you really can't go a day without a beating.

Fang Dihua: "Being an accountant is not for you to show off and enjoy life, but for you to do practical things for the members. If you are lazy, greedy and make mistakes, and make mistakes in the calculation for others, I will beat you."

Brother Lu: "..."

On such a happy day, why are you saying such a spoiling thing? How dare I?

He secretly asked Sister Lu to save him. Sister Lu

laughed and said, "Mom, he is just teasing the child. You give him a teacup and he dare not drink it. He is afraid of more than three cups."

She stole his father's wine for him to drink, and he only drank three cups at most. He would not drink a drop more, saying that being slightly tipsy is just right. Getting drunk would be embarrassing and he would be beaten, so he would not count.

While people were celebrating happily here, Lu Shaocai next door was banging pots and bowls and crying, "My mother, you died so early, my grandfather, your eldest grandson has no one to take care of him."