Chapter 132 Respect
The Red Flag Brigade had a large number of people and a large amount of food, so it was naturally very slow to distribute the food.
Wang Yuanchao's family of three received a total of more than 4,400 kilograms of grain. Wang Yuanchao's family received less grain, mainly because his young wife and mother-in-law only gained a few centimeters in a year. However, this amount of grain was enough for Wang Yuanchao's family to eat for a year.
The young wife and mother-in-law knew that Wang Yuanchao was used to eating rice, so they asked for 1,400 kilograms of rice, 800 kilograms of flour, 800 kilograms of corn kernels, 800 kilograms of sweet potatoes, 400 kilograms of potatoes, 100 kilograms of peanuts, and 100 kilograms of soybeans.
In fact, Wang Yuanchao wanted to distribute more sweet potatoes and potatoes. After all, sweet potatoes can be made into sweet potato flour, and potatoes can be used to cook dishes.
But my young wife and mother-in-law are tired of eating coarse grains and wild vegetables these years.
It was a rare year that rice and wheat had a bumper harvest, so they could distribute the fine grains. Only a fool would be willing to distribute the coarse grains. The two women took the initiative to divide the grain.
Wang Yuanchao borrowed Aunt Chunhua's cart and made six trips to deliver all the distributed grain back home.
After the Red Flag Brigade had distributed all its grain, Secretary Zeng arranged for everyone to sit down in the threshing ground and continued:
"Okay, this year's grain has been divided among us.
Now let's start to divide the money. I believe everyone knows that this year our Hongqi Brigade built a poultry breeding base and started sideline production.
This year, the total amount of live poultry sold at our poultry breeding base is 465,300 yuan.
Several cadres from our village committee held a consultation meeting.
It was decided to take out 300,000 yuan to distribute dividends to all the villagers in the Red Flag Brigade, and the remaining 165,300 yuan would be used as production expenses for starting side businesses next year.
The dividends are also distributed according to the model of 60% for 40% of the work.
Each person received fifty-one dollars and thirty cents.
The rest will be divided according to their respective work points.
Finally, I would like to announce that tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, the brigade will slaughter pigs and distribute the meat. Everyone should remember to attend on time.
After distributing the pork, our Red Flag Brigade has completed its production task for this year.
Before everyone goes to hibernation, remember to collect more firewood and keep warm, otherwise our Red Flag Brigade will just have good days coming and people will freeze to death in the winter because they don’t take good warming measures.
Now we start distributing the money. When your name is called, go to Accountant Wang to sign and receive the money."
As Party Secretary Zeng finished his speech, there was a jubilant scene on the threshing ground. People's cheers were like surging waves and overflowing with passion. At this exciting moment of receiving dividends, the cheers of all the villagers were like a flood and unstoppable, pushing the atmosphere on the scene to a climax.
Wang Yuanchao led the Hongqi Brigade to establish a poultry breeding base. After working hard for a whole year, he earned more than 400,000 yuan for the Hongqi Brigade.
At this time, the family waited in line for more than an hour, and when they got the dividends back, they saw that, wow, the family of three got less than 200 yuan.
Wang Yuanchao sat down on a recliner on the porch of his home, his eyes unfocused, motionless like a sculpture, only his inner thoughts running wildly. Even though Wang Yuanchao didn't need the money, the huge gap between his input and return made him feel unbalanced.
Widow Du and Zhang Yuanyuan had long noticed that Wang Yuanchao looked very strange after he returned.
Wang Yuanchao's depressed mood at this time was like a haze hanging over the hearts of Du Guafu and Zhang Yuanyuan, making it obvious at a glance that he had lost his former vitality and smile.
Although Widow Du was not the worm in Wang Yuanchao's stomach, she could roughly understand why Wang Yuanchao was lost at this time.
So he pulled Zhang Yuanyuan, who wanted to go forward to comfort him, and went to the kitchen to boil water and make a cup of black tea for Wang Yuanchao.
Then they washed two wild apples that they had picked up from the mountain with their daughter yesterday, cut them into pieces, and then they came to Wang Yuanchao and said:
"Aid Korea, come, when you are in a bad mood, drink a cup of tea and eat some fruit,
These are the wild apples that Yuanyuan and I picked on the mountain. Try them and see if they taste good.”
Wang Yuanchao was indeed very disappointed just now, but Wang Yuanchao had lived a lifetime in his previous life and suffered a lifetime of grievances. What he was best at was the ability to adjust his mentality.
Seeing Widow Du and her young wife coming over, he relaxed a little, took the enamel pot and fruit plate, put them on the coffee table next to the recliner, and reached out to hug his young wife.
He said to Widow Du: "Mother-in-law, I'm fine. When we were dividing the money just now, I did feel a little unbalanced. It was mainly because the gap was too big and I couldn't adjust for a while.
Don't worry, I'll hold Yuanyuan for a while and adjust my mentality, and everything will be fine."
"Well, okay, aid Korea,
According to my understanding of Secretary Zeng and his team, you have helped the Red Flag Brigade generate such great economic benefits this year, and they will definitely commend you individually later.
There is no need for you to rush.”
Wang Yuanchao held his young wife in his arms, rested his chin on her shoulder, rubbed his face against hers, and kissed her from time to time. He felt much better.
I also know that this is the way things are in this era, the strong should help the weak, and what everyone pursues is common prosperity, so I don't have much expectation for the commendation that my mother-in-law mentioned.
It would be better to spend more time accompanying your young wife and mother-in-law, worry less, and live your own life leisurely.
And now that I have come to this passionate age, I can use my knowledge and abilities to help more people live a good life.
This sense of accomplishment is very good. Wang Yuanchao feels that it can purify his soul which has already become very materialistic.
Killing the New Year pig is the happiest day of the year for the Red Flag Brigade, because there will be pig-killing dishes and the meat will be distributed, so everyone can have a few good meat meals.
The Hongqi Brigade distributes the New Year pigs no longer based on per capita work points, but instead distributes them based on households. This year, the Hongqi Brigade has ten New Year pigs, and each household can get about ten pounds of pork, which makes everyone very happy.
The offal, blood and large bones of the New Year pig will not be separated. They will be saved for cooking the pig-killing dish at noon, and everyone will have a good meal together.
Although Wang Yuanchao's one year of hard work in the Hongqi Brigade was not rewarded financially, he was remembered by the villagers of the Hongqi Brigade. The reason why everyone was able to share so much meat and money this year was all due to Wang Yuanchao's work after he came to the countryside as an educated youth. The villagers of the Hongqi Brigade had a scale in their hearts to measure who had made the greatest contribution. Therefore, at the scene of slaughtering the New Year pig, Wang Yuanchao was the most handsome guy in the Hongqi Brigade. Not only did the brigade give Wang Yuanchao an extra pig's head and a pair of pig's feet as a commendation.
Moreover, the vast majority of the villagers of Hongqi Brigade came to Wang Yuanchao to express their gratitude and goodwill. At this moment, Wang Yuanchao realized that his efforts in the past year were not in vain, and he had won the respect and trust of the vast majority of the villagers of Hongqi Brigade.
This feeling made Wang Yuanchao feel both extremely happy and heavy.
(End of this chapter)
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