Since no one has lived in the house for more than 20 days, it is not only deserted but also full of dust, so Zhou Yang did not invite Da Zhuang and Liu Lu into the house as guests.
After seeing these two off, Zhou Yang immediately found some wheat straw, brought in a pile of dry wood from the woodshed, and started to light the fire.
It's already early December. In previous years, the stove would have been lit at home at this time.
But when Zhou Yang and the others left, the temperature was not low enough to turn on the stove, so now the stove has not been installed in his house.
So much so that when he first entered the house, Zhou Yang felt as if he had entered a cold storage.
Therefore, he asked Li Youwei and Bao'er not to take off their cotton-padded clothes while he burned the kang first.
Wash the pot, add water, light the fire and burn the wood!
Pull the bellows, and soon the dry wood in the stove will be ignited.
Ten minutes later, the water in the pot was boiled.
Since the water had been there for more than 20 days, it was obviously not drinkable, so Zhou Yang did not give it to Li Youwei and Baoer.
He asked his wife to watch the stove fire, while he got an iron bucket and carried a pole to the well to fetch water.
Zhou Yang originally thought that he would meet many villagers on the road, but until he came to the well, he only saw a few people who were giving water to the large animals, and they were not from the village.
From this alone, Zhou Yang knew that the village must be very busy during this period.
Soon, Zhou Yang returned home carrying a load of water.
Use a ladle to ladle all the boiling water into a large iron basin and soak the dirty clothes brought back from the capital into it.
Afterwards, Zhou Yang started to boil water again.
After the water boiled this time, Zhou Yang first filled two full pots into the thermos.
Then he poured a bowl each for Li Youwei and Bao'er to warm them up.
After doing this, Zhou Yang went to the small room where the firewood was kept and found the small iron stove and the stove barrel that had been covered in dust for more than half a year.
I swept the dust on it with a broom for a while, and then carried these things into the house to prepare to install the stove.
In the winter in Saibei Province, such a coal stove is a must-have item, even more important than pots and pans.
After all, in the extremely cold temperature of minus 34 degrees, if there is no stove for heating, it is really possible for someone to freeze to death.
There is no technical content in installing the stove. Zhou Yang installed the stove with ease. Zhou Yang drove a large iron nail into the walls on both sides and found iron wire to fix the stove barrel.
Then, he went to the yard and shoveled some soil in.
Add water and mud, and then apply the mud to areas prone to smoke. This can effectively prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
After doing this, Zhou Yang lit the fire and started the stove!
When the red fire came up, the originally deserted room instantly became warm.
While Zhou Yang was installing the stove, Li Youwei had already wiped the dust off the kang.
Afterwards, Zhou Yang asked mother and daughter to get on the kang to rest for a while while he dealt with the things he brought back.
All kinds of documents were put away first, as well as the clothes of the family of three, and all the gifts were placed in the main room.
By the time he finished packing these things, it was already half past five. Zhou Yang asked Li Youwei and Baoer to stay at home while he planned to visit the brigade headquarters.
.......
When Zhou Yang came to the brigade headquarters, he was catching up with the members getting off work.
Just when he arrived here, Zhou Yang discovered something unusual.
First of all, there are a lot more people in the brigade headquarters, and there are a lot of unfamiliar faces.
At this time, everyone was divided into two parts, and Tan Shiqing was responsible for registering work points for the members of the village.
Next to him, Liang Feng and Zhang Zhenhua were in charge of the strangers.
I saw Liang Feng and the others doing the accounting while handing out cash to the strangers.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yang was also a little shocked.
At the door of the brigade office, Li Fengnian and Zhang Genwang were squatting there, smoking a dry pot.
The two of them were puffing away, how comfortable they were!
When Zhou Yang appeared at the brigade headquarters, the villagers in the village greeted him one after another, and Zhou Yang responded one by one.
When Li Fengnian saw that his son-in-law had returned, he immediately stood up and waved to Zhou Yang.
As soon as Zhou Yang came in front of him, Li Fengnian smiled and asked, "When did you come back?"
"I've been back for almost an hour. I just lit the stove. Why don't you come over here!" Zhou Yang said.
“Is there any carbon in the house?”
"There's still some left over from last year, and I can still burn it for three to five days!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, take some time and ask the fourth child to send you a car!" Li Fengnian said.
"OK!"
Then Zhou Yang pointed to the unfamiliar young adults and said, "Dad, are they all from other villages?"
"Well, there are a lot of things to do in the village, and the people in our village are too busy, so I transferred some people from Yanjiadian, Dawuhao, Zuojia Village and Xiaohuangtu Village!" Li Fengnian said.
"How much does this person earn per day?"
"A meal at noon is 50 cents a day!"
Hearing this, Zhou Yang nodded immediately.
Fifty cents a day is really not a low wage.
After all, even if the members of the village are calculated based on ten centimeters per person per day, that translates to only thirty cents a day, not to mention having to take care of a meal.
However, these work points in the village will eventually be counted as dividends, which must be much more than this, so no one will have any objections.
But when Zhou Yang saw the hundreds of people in Wuyangyang, he asked with some concern: "Dad, with so many people employed, can our village's finances be sustained?"
"Yes, do you still remember that the meat factory planned to buy our biological feed?"
"Remember!"
"After you went to the capital, they bought a batch of biological feed from us. After they found that the effect was very good, they bought another batch!"
Then Li Fengnian continued: "Now they have bought more than 400 tons of feed, which is a lot for the village!"
The price of biological feed was set by Zhou Yang long ago. One ton is 50 yuan, and 400 tons is 20,000 yuan.
No wonder the wealthy people in the village hire people from other villages to do the work. It turns out they are really rich.
The income of 20,000 yuan, plus the 6,000 yuan from selling the black pigs, is a huge sum of money!
Zhang Genwang on the side, perhaps afraid that Zhou Yang would not know the situation, immediately explained: "Some time ago, our village had to build a feed mill and a bone meal factory. We also had to expand the laboratory for Teacher Qin and others. The labor force in the village was simply not enough."
"Seeing that it's going to freeze soon, there's nothing we can do, so we discussed it and called in the idle labor from other production teams in our brigade to help!"
Zhou Yang immediately nodded and said: "Well, I think it's good. We have done the work here, and they have also made money, as long as no one says that we exploit comrades in other villages!"
"No, this kind of thing happened in previous years too!" Li Fengnian said.
This is true. In previous years, if some villages did not have enough manpower for a major project, they would ask people from other villages to help.
They also manage food and pay workers, but most villages don't have so many people.
"That's good!"
Originally, Zhou Yang planned to go to the village to see what the village had become after so many people had been busy for so many days.
But by now it was getting dark, so I had to give up.
Li Fengnian was also very happy to see that his daughter and son-in-law had returned from the capital safely.
Knowing that they had just come back, there must be no party at home, so he asked Zhou Yang to go back and invite Li Youwei to have dinner at the old house.
And he went home first and asked his mother-in-law to prepare well!
PS: I am going to have my teeth treated today, but I don’t know when I will be back, so I got up at four o’clock in the morning to update.
Two chapters will be released first, and the third chapter will depend on the situation, I hope it will be released soon!
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