On December 30, four days had passed since An Bangguo, Huang Anguo and other leaders came to inspect!
In the past few days, the entire Babaoliang Village seemed calm on the surface, but in fact, there was already a turbulent undercurrent secretly.
After receiving so much money all at once, the educated youths in the village were extremely excited. Those who were hungry hurriedly filled up the empty salt jars, vinegar jars and soy sauce bottles at home.
In addition, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so many people take advantage of the money they have to quickly buy some new clothes for their wives and children.
After all, the family situation of some commune members is really difficult. Many families lack cotton-padded clothes for winter. The five or six people in the family only have one or two pairs of cotton pants, which can only be worn by whoever goes out.
If you can't go out, you can only stay at home.
Now that I have money, I can finally buy everyone a pair of cotton-padded clothes and trousers for winter!
For a time, the members of Babaoliang Village almost crossed the threshold of the supply and marketing cooperative!
The small supply and marketing cooperative in the commune was already limited in scale. In just a few days, everything from oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to cloth, cotton and other items were almost emptied out by the members of Babaoliang Village.
This incident directly caused a small-scale sensation!
And those educated youths were not idle either. Besides buying things, they were also busy writing letters to their families!
There are also a few educated youths who directly asked for a long leave from the team and planned to go home to see their parents.
The team also approved of this. Anyway, it is already winter, and the livelihood in the village is also reduced.
Now, except for the feed factory, bone meal factory and livestock shed, which still need some labor, there is no need for other places. It is enough for sixty or seventy people in the village to work every day, and they can take turns to rest.
Under such circumstances, those who are willing to earn more work points can take the initiative to apply with the team, and the team can arrange more shifts depending on the situation!
If you have something to do at home and want to rest more, that’s okay!
Anyway, judging from the situation this year, the more work points you earn, the more money you will receive at the end of the year, so you don’t have to worry about no one to work.
At the same time, the news that Babaoliang Village distributed year-end dividends to distribute money and prizes to the educated youth members spread like wildfire. It spread throughout the entire brigade in a short time, and quickly spread to the entire commune and even the entire county!
In this year's situation, commune members in other places cannot even guarantee the most basic rations, but Babaoliang Village not only received enough rations, but also received a large amount of money.
Due to the lack of information, some people said that a person in Babaoliang Village received one hundred yuan, others said that he received two hundred yuan, and there were also rumors that each person received three hundred and fifty yuan!
But no matter how much money it was, it aroused the envy of the members of other brigades!
As the matter continues to ferment, more and more people have come to the village to inquire about the news in the past few days. Every day, people come to the village to ask questions on the pretext of visiting relatives.
When it was learned that the village had actually distributed money to the members, things started to develop in another direction - there were more matchmakers.
That's right, there are suddenly more matchmakers in the village!
From juniors aged 17 or 18 to seniors in their twenties, they have all become the targets of inquiries from matchmakers. Even old bachelors in their thirties and forties are being inquired about. This makes the villagers very happy. .
But everyone knows in their hearts that this is not because of how outstanding the young people in the village are, but because they take a fancy to the welfare benefits in the village.
After all, as long as you marry in Babaoliang Village, you will become a member of the village. At the end of the year, you can also share the money and food, which is much better than marrying in another village.
Anyway, this is a good thing after all.
For the woman, the girl in her family can enjoy happiness if she marries to Babaoliang Village, and can occasionally help her parents' family.
For the man, it not only solves his son's life-long issue, but more importantly, he has added someone to the family, and he will be able to share one more person's money when dividends are paid next year.
If you are lucky and the wife you marry can give birth to a baby that year, the extra share will not be one person's money, but two!
Therefore, in just a few days, boys from two families got engaged, and there were seven or eight families currently negotiating!
In comparison, the female dolls in the village are a little confused.
Although some people inquired, most of the family members were unwilling to marry them off.
In fact, the principle is the same. If a girl gets married, there will be fewer people in the family and less money to share.
As a result, some villagers threatened that the girls in their families would not marry outsiders, but that they would find a son-in-law!
All in all, the village has been very busy these days with all kinds of gossip news flying all over the place!
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However, these things have nothing to do with Zhou Yang. At this time, he is cooking in the old house of the Li family, while his mother-in-law Zhang Guiying and sister-in-law Lin Aizhi are helping out.
Today is Zhou Jiayi's fourth birthday. Zhou Yang plans to cook a good meal and call all the old and young people in the old house over to have a good time.
But considering that the venue here is too small and there is only one pot and stove, it is impossible to do it.
Therefore, I finally decided to prepare the ingredients and go to the old house.
At this time, the braised pork stewed in the big pot was already emitting an attractive aroma, and the chicken stewed on the big stove was almost cooked. The braised beef with potatoes on the other side had long been rotten, and the whole Li family's old house was full of It smells like meat.
However, the eyes of everyone in the house were not on these stews, but on the basket on the other side!
Zhou Yang looked at his watch and said immediately: "Mom, it's almost half an hour, you can turn off the engine!"
"OK!"
As she spoke, Zhang Guiying pulled the fire around the stove a few times, and then closed the stove door.
When the adults and children in the house saw that the pot was being cooked outside, they all ran out and surrounded us!
Zhou Yang first asked the children to lean aside so as not to get burned.
Then he took down the upper and lower cages and lifted the wooden covers above.
The moment he opened the lid of the cage, a rich milky fragrance hit his face.
There were two white enamel basins placed in the cage. Inside the basins were neither meat nor rice, but a basin of golden dough!
"Dad...Dad, is the cake finished?" Baoer asked excitedly.
That's right, in this basin is the birthday cake Zhou Yang made for his precious daughter.
In order to organize this birthday party for his daughter, Zhou Yang can be said to have taken great pains.
Needless to say, in terms of ingredients, in addition to the beef distributed at home, Zhou Yang also made a special trip to the county town and bought a lot of pork and two chickens.
But when he wanted to buy a cake for Bao'er, he found that there was no place to sell it!
A birthday without a cake would be soulless. In desperation, Zhou Yang could only buy the ingredients and make it himself!
Since there is no oven, Zhou Yang’s cakes are steamed in a steamer!
Considering that there were many people in the old house, Zhou Yang specially steamed two!
But when the heat dissipated and he saw the finished product, Zhou Yang almost cried!
Although it smells sweet and delicious, the appearance is really not good, and it is completely different from the cake I imagined.
More importantly, when Zhou Yang tried to get the "cake" out of the basin, he found that the sides of the cake and the walls of the basin were so sticky that it was impossible to get it out unless the cake was broken.
But in order not to disappoint Bao'er, Zhou Yang still said bravely: "Well, it's done. You can eat it after the cake is dry!"
"Daddy, you are so annoying!" the little girl said with admiration.
Huzi and Erniu next to them also said in unison: "Uncle, you are so awesome!"
Looking at the adoring eyes of the children, Zhou Yang was somewhat embarrassed.
After all, his cake was really a bit rough, and he just hoped that it would taste better when he ate it later.
Otherwise, it would be a complete failure!
While Zhou Yang was busy at the stove, his old father-in-law Li Fengnian pushed his bicycle into the yard, then waved to Zhou Yang and said: "Xiao Yang, come here, I have something to tell you! "
Zhou Yang responded immediately, then brought two "pots" of cakes into the room, and then walked towards his father-in-law!
