After the beginning of winter, the days in the north have become much shorter, and the sun has already set before half past five.
Normally, the members who work inside and outside the village are about to get off work.
But at this moment, the loudspeaker in the village suddenly rang, and the calm voice of the party secretary Li Fengnian came: "All the members and educated youths, please pay attention. The members' brigade will be opened at the brigade headquarters on time at six o'clock. The members who participate in labor must join!"
"Attention all members and educated youth..."
At the same time as the horn sounded, the whistle for dismissal also sounded.
The members and educated youths in the village stopped what they were doing one after another, and then walked towards the village carrying various working tools.
It's just that everyone was talking on the way back, why should we hold a members' meeting again if it's not out of date?
To be honest, if there is nothing urgent, everyone really doesn't want to go.
After all, it's not like summer or autumn now. The weather is not cold at that time, and holding a members' meeting in the evening is like eating.
But now it's freezing cold, especially after the sun goes down, and the temperature plummets.
No one wants to go out unless necessary.
At the same time, villagers from other villages who were employed in Babaoliang Village also rushed to the village brigade headquarters in small groups to prepare to collect their wages.
It's not easy for everyone to earn some money by working hard, and it's not sure how many days they can work, so they basically pay every day.
Soon, the brigade headquarters was surrounded by commune members and educated youth who had handed over tasks.
Since Liang Feng, Tan Shiqing and others were settling the wages of people from other villages who came to help, Zhou Yang picked up the work points notebook and registered the work points for the members of the village.
It was not until 6:20 that Liang Feng and others cleared away all the villagers in the outer village.
Later, Li Fengnian and others came to the yard of the brigade headquarters to prepare for the village members' meeting.
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Regarding the sudden meeting of members in the team, everyone was a little confused. There was no warning in advance.
However, what was unexpected was that Li Fengnian, secretary of the brigade, told everyone right from the start that there was only one thing for the meeting today—spending money!
As soon as these words came out, the hundreds of people in the whole brigade yard immediately became excited.
The members have worked hard for a year, but they are only looking forward to two days.
One day is to share food, the other day is to share money!
Sharing food can ensure that everyone is not hungry, and sharing money can make everyone have more money.
After all, throughout the year, the family always buys some oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and some cotton fabric to make thick clothes for the children for the winter.
There is also the famine that started last year and even the year before that. Let’s pay it back!
It's just that everyone knows that the money from selling love food every year will not be settled until after the Gregorian calendar year (New Year's Day), so before this, I never thought that the team would share the money with everyone.
It can be said that today’s event is purely an unexpected surprise!
Seeing everyone's excitement, village cadres Li Fengnian, Zhang Genwang and Wang Pingping were also very happy.
At this time, Zhang Genwang coughed lightly, then raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
Then, he said loudly: "Comrades, everyone is happy to hear the money is divided, and I am happy too, but we can't just be happy, there are some things we need to know!"
"Zhishu Li just told everyone that he wanted to share the money, but he didn't tell everyone in detail what money he would share!"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, and then hundreds of pairs of eyes looked directly at Zhang Genwang.
Including Li Fengnian and others in front of the crowd!
Zhang Genwang was not afraid of the stage and continued: "The money we are sharing today is not money from selling love food, but money from selling feed! In the past two months, our village has earned more than 20,000 yuan from selling feed. Now This is all the money you share!”
"To be honest, we can get this money thanks to Zhou Zhiqing."
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but nodded.
Everyone knows how the feed mill was built.
Not to mention that this miraculous feed itself was invented by Zhou Yang, but the large feed factory was built by him under his own leadership. Otherwise, from the perspective of the villagers, they would only guard the two in the big warehouse. Small fermentation tank.
So there is absolutely nothing wrong with Zhang Genwang saying that he has to thank Zhou Yang for this matter.
At this time, Zhang Genwang said again: "If it weren't for Zhou Zhiqing, there would be no feed factory, and we wouldn't be able to get this money. I suggest everyone applaud and let Zhou Zhiqing come forward and say a few words!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the audience burst into warm applause.
Zhou Yang didn't plan to say anything, but seeing this situation, he had to step forward.
He strode to the front of the crowd, then smiled and said: "Uncle Genwang's words are serious. It is the joint efforts of everyone to make money. It's just me, a weak scholar who can't carry his shoulders and his hands, and then there are I can’t afford to build such a big feed factory, so I suggest that you all do it for yourself!”
"good!"
After a burst of cheers, warm applause rang out in the courtyard again.
The long-lasting applause seemed to be contagious, and even the coldness of the northwest night dissipated a lot.
When the applause stopped, Zhou Yang said again: "Since I'm standing here, let me say a few more words!"
"Everyone has worked hard this year. From the start of the slack season in June to now, in more than four months, almost all men, women, old and children in our village have worked hard! Everyone has worked hard day and night, and they have suffered so much, Only we know how much we sweat."
"But efforts are rewarded. What we are receiving now is only the first dividend. Next, we still have money from selling grain and money from selling pigs. These must be divided among everyone..."
Before Zhou Yang could finish speaking, the audience burst into warm applause again.
After the applause subsided again, Zhou Yang continued: "Comrades, higher income is a good thing, but there are some things I want to make clear to everyone in advance. The first is that the village's distribution method will be adjusted later."
"The reason is that we have to use part of the money to maintain public facilities in the village, such as renovating schools, repairing roads, and maybe even buying agricultural machinery, etc."
"In addition, our feed mills and pig farms also need money to operate. In order to get as much money as we can every year in the future, the collective withholding will be higher than before. Everyone must be mentally prepared for this!"
After Zhou Yang finished speaking, Li Fengnian took over the conversation and said, "We'll talk about adjusting the distribution method later. I know everyone is impatient, so let's divide the money first!"
"By the way, after dividing the money, there are still members at home who owe money to the county hospital!"
After hearing what Li Fengnian said, the money was finally going to be divided, and the members became even more excited...
At this time, Liang Feng said loudly: "Let's start dividing the money now. The four teams will split up. The fourth team will go to the left to collect the money from Captain Wang Ping. The fifth team will go to the right to collect the money from Uncle Gen Wang!"
"Educated youths... Attention, educated youths, come to the brigade office to find me to collect it!"
Following the arrangements made by Liang Feng, the big accountant, the members of the two teams and the educated youth who jumped in line followed his instructions and lined up to receive the money.
"Chen Meizhong, five people in your family participated in labor and accumulated a total of 5542 work points, which equals 554.2 jobs. Each job is worth 3 cents. A total of 166 yuan, 26 cents and 6 cents can be distributed. Do you have any questions?"
"No problem...no problem..."
"No problem, just press your fingerprints!"
When Chen Meizhong pressed his fingerprints, Wang Ping had already counted the money.
As soon as the fingerprints were pressed, the money was handed to his hand. After counting it on the spot, Chen Meizhong took the money and led his wife away happily.
"Zhang Meiliang, four people in your family participated in labor and accumulated work points..."
"Feng Sanwa, two people in your family are participating in labor..."
As each member's name was called and then received the village's dividends, everyone in Babaoliang Village was filled with happy smiles!
PS: Chapter 3 is delivered!
