After dinner, it was getting dark. Yang Baiyi put a coat on his sister, locked the door and walked towards the brigade headquarters.
The winter in Northeast China is very long. The autumn harvest has just ended, and it is still warm during the day, but the temperature drops below ten degrees at night.
In the yard of the brigade headquarters, lanterns were hung high. The members who arrived early greeted each other and asked each other the reason for today's meeting.
"Xiaoxiao, the sandbag is for you."
Goudan brought his younger brother Choudan and handed over the sandbag in his hand.
"Brother Goudan, Sister Erya, I have some melon seeds and candies here. Let's go over there and play."
As soon as they entered the brigade headquarters, the little girl ran away with her friends. Yang Baiyi and the other two came to where the educated youth were.
"Comrade Yang Baiyi, Comrade Lin Xiao, have you eaten yet? I don't know what we're going to discuss in today's meeting."
Cui Jinfa handed Lin Xiao a cigarette. Lin Xiao put it under his nose, sniffed it, and then clamped it on his ear.
"You'll know in a moment. Anyway, it's definitely a good thing."
Lin Xiao said mysteriously.
Lin Xiao was there the whole time when they were drinking at noon, so he knew exactly why the meeting was held today.
The group chatted for a while, and when no one came in from outside, the voice of team leader Chen Baiwang rang out in the center of the meeting room.
"Comrade members, educated youth, perhaps you are still curious about why we have a meeting tonight.
I can responsibly tell you that today I want to tell you something incredibly good, something that is of vital importance to everyone.”
Having said that, Chen Baiwang deliberately paused and let everyone discuss it below.
"Are we going to distribute the food?"
The best thing the members could think of was the distribution of grain after the autumn harvest.
"What are you thinking? The corn is still piled up in the threshing yard and the public tax hasn't been paid yet. How can we distribute the grain?"
This speculation was soon overturned.
"Did the commune reward us for our good work on the autumn harvest?"
"The team leader has been at the team headquarters every day these past two days, and I haven't seen him go to the commune for meetings!"
The members were talking about it and sharing their own guesses.
Chen Baiwang has been the team leader for more than ten years and has experienced countless meetings of all sizes. Although he hasn't learned anything else, he has learned very well how to motivate everyone during meetings.
Hearing the members' heated discussion, Chen Baiwang nodded with satisfaction.
"Fellow members, the sacrifices of our martyrs have enabled us to defeat our powerful enemies and enjoy a rare era of peace.
The country’s good policies allow us to live in peace and fill our stomachs. We should thank the country and the organization.
Through our unity and hard work in reclaiming wasteland and cultivating land, we have more and more fields, and our work points have increased from 20 cents to 40 cents.
This is all due to good policies, the care of our leaders, and our own efforts.
Just this afternoon, Doctor Yang came to me and the old Party Secretary and proposed a bold idea. If it works, it would be entirely possible for our work points to increase to one yuan in the future."
After the members had finished discussing the matter, Chen Baiwang released an explosive piece of news.
"boom!"
"What? Did I hear that right? What can I do to earn a dollar a day?
"How much can a worker in the county earn in a day? Twenty or thirty yuan at most."
"Captain, are you kidding?"
…
The members were shocked. If Chen Baiwang hadn't said that it was Yang Baiyi who proposed it, they would never have believed it.
Unknowingly, Yang Baiyi established supreme prestige in Chenjiatun and gained everyone's trust.
"Comrade Yang Baiyi, what plan did you come up with for the team leader? How could you possibly increase the work points by such a huge amount?"
"Are you taking everyone in the village to the mountains to hunt?"
"If we could really make that much money, our lives would be much better."
The educated youth surrounding Yang Baiyi were naturally very curious and started asking questions at once.
"You guys are so stupid! You took the whole village to the mountains to hunt. Do you want to make the animals in Wohu Mountain extinct?
Isn't the captain talking about this? Just listen carefully."
While answering the questions from the educated youth, Yang Baiyi blamed Chen Baiwang in his heart.
Wouldn't it be better to finish it all at once? Pause until you get to the important points, and whet everyone's appetite.
Those who know you say you are the team leader, while those who don’t think you are a storyteller.
"Captain, stop keeping us in suspense and tell us how you can earn so much money."
The impatient members have already started to urge.
"Our Chenjiatun has an advantageous geographical location, with not only a large amount of farmland, but also hillsides and riverbanks, which are our unique natural conditions.
As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. The solution Dr. Yang came up with for us is to plant fruit trees on the hillside and sunflowers on the riverbank.
Sunflowers and fruits can be exchanged for money when they are ripe, which can greatly increase our income."
After Chen Baiwang finished speaking, he looked at the members below with pride, looking forward to their excited reactions.
But the reactions of the members were beyond Chen Baiwang's expectations. He did not see any excitement on the members' faces. Instead, the scene became quiet.
"Why do I feel that this idea is not very reliable?"
I don’t know who it was, but someone whispered something below.
"That's right, the fruits in the mountains are sour and astringent, not tasty at all. I ate enough of them during the famine a few years ago, and even now my mouth still turns sour just thinking about them."
"Yeah! Every household grows sunflowers, who would spend money on that stuff?"
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