nycdaug Chapter 331 Going to the countryside
Chapter 331 Going to the countryside
Since August, a mass movement of everyone supporting agriculture has swept across the city.
By the end of September, more than 9 cadres had been transferred to small teams to settle down, and the government had cleared and put about 4 workers into the front line of agricultural production.
Zhou Gui is on the list of cadres to be demoted this time.
After she applied to her leader, she also chose Zhoujiawan Production Team.
When they arrived at Zhoujiawan, Zhou Gui experienced all the preferential treatment that Zhou Rong enjoyed.
She was transferred to work as a clerk for Zhou Chuanyi and often went out to "study".
She thought she would not eat well during her training, so she prepared for the worst.
Qin Yanhua and Shen Bohang felt sorry for her, so they prepared a lot of long-lasting food for her and said they would send her food every now and then in the future.
After arriving in Zhoujiawan, Zhou Gui realized that she had thought too much.
Zhou Gui likes to fight a prepared battle. She is worried that because of the disaster in the village, everyone's life will be hard and there will be many emotions and conflicts. If she eats too well or receives packages too often, they will be snatched away by everyone. So she goes to Zhou Rong to find out about the situation in the village.
Zhou Rong said everything was fine in the village and told her to go there without worry.
Zhou Gui thought that her elder sister said nice things on purpose to appease her.
After she came, she found out that her elder sister did not lie to her.
Compared with those areas severely affected by the disaster, the lives of the folks are indeed better. Although the food is not as good as before, no one is starving to death. Only a few elderly people have suffered from hepatitis and edema.
When Zhou Gui was chatting with his fellow villagers, whenever they mentioned Zhou Rong, everyone would praise her, saying that although the harvest from the fields was not good, the dividends from the vegetable base and the breeding farm were enough for everyone.
There is a shortage of non-staple food everywhere now. The vegetables and livestock in Zhoujiawan have long been arranged by the government and distributed to various grocery stores, vegetable stores and supply and marketing cooperatives. All everyone has to do is wait for the regular distribution of money.
During the Great Leap Forward in 58, each unit expanded its recruitment in order to complete its tasks. The group of people who had moved into the city earlier took the opportunity to bring many of their brothers or relatives into the city.
Everyone had a stable job and would send some money or tickets home every month. If the harvest was not good, they would go to the commune to buy some food to satisfy their hunger.
All of this was thanks to Zhou Rong. If she hadn't previously secured 30 places for the village to go to the city, no one would have had the opportunity to bring others into the city.
He also said that the newly dug pond has helped the village a lot. Every time there is a drought and the fields and the base lack water, the pond is used to alleviate the drought.
Listening to the villagers' praise for Zhou Rong, Zhou Gui was happy for her elder sister from the bottom of her heart. She also knew that her elder sister had established a "kingdom" and let her "reap the fruits of her labor"...
In early October, the Municipal Party Committee issued the "Decision on Resolutely and Seriously Cleaning Up the Labor Force, Delegating Cadres and Strengthening the Front Line of Agricultural Production", requiring the clearing out of more than 10 laborers from counties, rural towns, rural people's communes, management areas and production teams to strengthen the front line of agricultural production.
And mobilize 12 to 15 people from informally registered personnel in government agencies, enterprises, schools, and factories, the displaced population in society, and those who can be mobilized to return to their hometowns for production to participate in agricultural production in rural areas.
After the "Decision" was issued, each jurisdiction took emergency action to mobilize those who could go to the countryside, allowing them to go to the countryside as soon as possible and contribute to agricultural production.
Some of the people who moved to the city from Zhoujiawan later were reluctant to give gifts to their leaders and had been temporary workers. After the policy was implemented, they were all persuaded to return to their hometowns...
In order to get promoted, Shen Bohang took the initiative to apply to go to the countryside, gave gifts to his leaders, and decided to go to Zhoujiawan so that he could accompany Zhou Gui.
Zhou Chuanjing assigned him a job as a scorer.
The couple's days in Zhoujiawan are very pleasant...
The man that Ma Erya had been dating before became a rural worker after being "recommended" by Ma Daya.
After making inquiries from many sources, Ma Daya finally found out the other party's real intention in agreeing to marry Ma Erya.
Ma Erya has been converted to a regular employee in Luo Qiuyue's tavern. The other party has taken a fancy to Ma Erya's regular employee position and wants to marry her and then do some ideological work on her so that she will give the job to her sister-in-law.
They felt that Ma Erya had no parents to rely on and was easy to manipulate. They could coax her into marrying a wife without paying a bride price and also get a formal job. This deal was a great bargain.
When Ma Daya learned this, she was very angry and immediately replied to the matchmaker, saying that the other party's personality was not compatible with her sister and they would look at other families.
The matchmaker felt that the Ma Daya sisters were not very good in terms of their conditions and were arrogant, so he made a few sarcastic remarks when chatting with others. Unexpectedly, Luo Dafen who was passing by heard it and turned around to tell Ma Daya.
Ma Daya did not react at all at the time. As soon as the new policy came out, she imitated the tone of the leader and wrote an anonymous "recommendation" letter to the neighborhood committee, listing the various circumstances of the recommended people and saying that they all met the conditions for going to the countryside.
The neighborhood committee secretary thought that the person on the recommendation letter had offended a leader and did not dare to neglect him.
The matchmaker's son and her nephew from her mother's side all became rural workers...
Chen Maocai, Chen Wenjie and Chen Wenjun, father and son, returned home after serving their sentences three years ago. They hated Chen Moli and had no contact with her.
Thinking that she has no support from her natal family, her life in her husband's family must be very difficult.
As long as Chen Moli goes home and cries, they can take the initiative and ask Chen Moli to do whatever they want.
But for several years, Chen Moli has not set foot in the house, as if she has forgotten that she has a father, mother and brothers.
At first, the Chen family did not cause trouble for Chen Moli for the sake of face. In the past two years, disasters occurred frequently and food was tight. The Chen father and son did not have stable jobs and relied entirely on Jiang Ruyi's savings to make ends meet.
The family had less and less money, and Chen's father and son wanted to ask Chen Mulan for help, but they were driven out by Zhu Yufeng.
They were so humiliated that they completely severed ties with Chen Mulan.
When Chen Maocai and his friends went to attend a wedding banquet at a relative's house, they heard that Zhou Jiafu had become the workshop director. He regretted his decision and took the initiative to visit him to repair the relationship.
Chen Moli was cold and ignored them, and asked Zhou Jiafu to ignore them as well.
Seeing how heartless Chen Moli was, Chen Maocai decided to give it his all and asked Jiang Ruyi to go to the iron factory gate to cry every day, saying that Chen Moli was unfilial and did not even go home to see her parents when they were sick.
They also said that Chen Moli behaved improperly, living with a man without getting married, and even her parents didn't know she was married.
This led to fellow workers talking about Chen Moli behind her back.
Some people with ulterior motives even posted a poster on the factory bulletin board, listing the various bad behaviors of Chen Moli and Zhou Jiafu, hoping to use the opportunity to bring Zhou Jiafu down.
Zhou Jiafu is a special target of attention from above. The leader asked Chen Moli to handle the Chen family's affairs as soon as possible and minimize the adverse impact. Nothing else was done.
Chen Moli first wrote a letter of clarification and posted it on the bulletin board, briefly explaining the grievances between herself and the Chen family, and then took out an advertisement in the newspaper to sever ties with the Chen family.
Chen Maocai went to the family quarters of the iron factory and cursed Chen Moli, saying that she was ungrateful and would definitely be punished.
Chen Moli was too lazy to argue with him and directly reported to the police, who arrested Chen Maocai on charges of endangering factory safety.
Chen Maocai is now afraid of the police, but once he entered the police station, he became well-behaved. After being detained for a few days, he was released only after he repeatedly assured that he would not cause trouble for Chen Moli.
In order to prevent future troubles, when the new policy came out, Chen Moli gave some money to the head of the neighborhood committee where the Chen family lived, and all the people in the Chen family, including Jiang Ruyi and Fang Ping, became rural workers...