MTL - Since 1981 Health School-Chapter 7 The Chen family suffered a dark loss when they divided the land

  Chapter 7 The Chen Family Divides the Land and Suffers Dark Losses

  Xiaze Village is a small mountain village with 200 households and a population of more than 700.

  There are not many arable fields in the village. Even if some terraced fields were built in the passionate years, the total is only more than 200 mu of paddy fields, which is equivalent to an average of one mu per family.

   But accounts cannot be calculated in this way.

   At this time, people will give birth, and families with five or six children can be found everywhere.

  However, in some families there is only one elderly widow or widow, or the old couple set up a separate household and live separately from their children.

  So it is obviously unfair for each household to share the fields equally. It must be determined according to the number of people how many fields each family can get.

  The Chen family suffered a great loss, because Chen's father and mother passed away long ago, and Chen Qi was admitted to a technical secondary school, and his household registration was moved away, so the Chen family could only be counted as 3 members, and finally got 7 points of land.

   These 7 sub-fields are still terraced fields, far away from the village, so the output cannot be compared with the fertile fields by the stream.

  The four sisters were walking on the road, and the silly elder sister was full of unwillingness:

   "The village was too bullying when dividing the fields. Our family was given terraced fields, and it was only 7 points. Later, I went to the village to argue a few times, and the village gave us an extra piece of mountain land."

  The people in the mountains can not only divide the fields, but also divide the mountains. Anyway, the vast mountains are one after another, enough for the whole village.

  Silly big sister got an extra piece of mountain land than other people's family. At first she was very happy, but finally, when the third grandmother next door reminded her, she found out that she had suffered another dark loss.

   It turns out that the division of mountains is also particular.

  The mountains in Xiaze Village are divided into three types, one is bamboo forest, the other is bayberry forest, and the other is peach forest.

   Choose from the perspective of modern people. I believe that most people will definitely choose red bayberry or peach grove. This is delicious and easy to sell.

  However, in 1981, those who were related to the moso bamboo forest were divided up in advance, but the bayberry grove and water dense peach grove were left unattended.

Why?

  It's very simple. People in the mountains generally rely on moso bamboo for food. Mao bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, whip bamboo shoots, etc. can be sold to supply and marketing cooperatives to make money.

  Even if the fresh bamboo shoots cannot be sold, the dried bamboo shoots will be collected by the supply and marketing cooperatives. Some villagers who are more courageous will even pick them up and sell them in Keqiao Town, earning real money.

   Not only bamboo shoots are profitable, but also chairs, stools, bamboo baskets, bamboo poles, brooms, etc. made of bamboo can be sold for money.

  So for the mountain people, bamboo is a treasure all over, and it can be realized, and everyone treats it like a treasure.

  Xiaze Village’s bayberry and juicy peaches are also very famous

   In a few decades, Xiaze Yangmei and Mohu peaches will be famous. Every year when the production season comes, the suppliers have been waiting for it for a long time.

   But in 1981, these red bayberries and peaches could not be sold at all, and the supply and marketing cooperatives were unwilling to accept them.

  The reason is that Xiaze Village is too remote and there is no car access. If you want to sell these fruits, after picking them, the farmers have to carry them to Keqiao Town.

   It takes 5 hours to walk empty-handed, let alone carrying hundreds of catties of things?

  If they can make money, farmers are not afraid of working hard.

   What’s terrible is that bayberry and peach are two very delicate fruits, and bumps are not allowed at all. If you go over the mountains and carry them out of the mountain for a few hours, most of the fruits are probably rotten and can’t be sold.

  For example, Mohu peaches are very sweet, and the skin can be easily torn off. If you poke a hole in the peach with a toothpick and squeeze it with your hand, the juice will come out directly.

   Such peaches are definitely "extreme", but such peaches are not suitable for long-distance transportation at all, and they cannot be sent to the mountains at all.

  This is also the reason why Xingtang Supply and Marketing Cooperative is unwilling to buy red bayberries and peaches.

  Most of it was rotten when it was transported to the city, and the people in the city were not fools, so who would buy it? Then the supply and marketing cooperative is going to lose money to grandma's family.

   (Some readers will say, crooked melons and rotten peaches, the more rotten the better, cough cough, don’t argue.)

  That’s why it’s too hard for a child without a father and mother, how simple the peasants are, how simple-minded they are, how friendly they are, these are all written in the novel.

   Real peasants naturally have their "cunning",

  Especially in this era when supplies are extremely scarce and everyone is generally poor, everyone is scrambling to fill their own bowls, and will they take the initiative to give it to others?

   Are there fat people in the village? The biggest possibility is this group of people.

  The eldest sister is the head of the Chen family, and the only close relatives are the second uncle and the second aunt. Unfortunately, the second aunt is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the second uncle is a master of ears. Naturally, no one will help the fourth sibling of the Chen family to win.

  While walking, Chen Qi listened to his elder sister nagging, feeling rather strange.

   "Elder Sister, even if the peaches and red bayberries cannot be sold, we can eat them ourselves. What delicious fruits, people in the city can't get them if they want to."

  The silly elder sister laughed out loud:

"Of course peaches and red bayberry are delicious, but if I let you eat them every day, I'm afraid you'll vomit. For example, if you eat too much bayberry, your teeth will become sour, and the next day you can't even bite into tofu. Who dares to eat more?" ?

Besides, the peaches are really sweet and juicy, but if you eat too many peaches, you will get acid reflux and diarrhea. Last time, the third grandma next door ate four peaches in one go because she was very hungry, and she almost died of diarrhea. . "

  Chen Qi thought about watching TV in his previous life. One year during Chinese New Year, the TV station interviewed fishermen in Changdao, Shandong. The fishermen said how miserable they were before liberation, and how happy they are now.

   There is a segment that he remembers very clearly,

  On the TV screen, an old man said to the reporter: "Before liberation, we fishermen were miserable. During the Chinese New Year, the landlords ate meat, and we poor people can only eat sea cucumber and abalone."

   Eating sea cucumber and abalone is a miserable life? ?

  At that time, Chen Qi couldn't figure it out.

   Now I understand that the mountains of bayberry and peaches are rare fruits for urban residents, but for farmers in the mountains, they are tasteless.

  Since it is a "chicken rib", let's distribute it to the helpless fourth siblings of the Chen family. Even if an extra piece of fruit forest is given to them, the villagers have no objection, just to save the silly elder sister from going to the village committee to quarrel every day.

   But there is still one thing Chen Qi doesn't understand:

   "Sister, since the peaches and red bayberries can't be shipped out, why are these fruit trees planted in the village?"

"Where is this planted in the village? It was all planted by the landlords before liberation. The landlords were not short of money. I heard that they picked the peaches back then, wrapped them all in cotton quilts, and transported them to Putou Village as quickly as possible. , transported by water to the city and sold for big money."

   Yes, it turns out that landlords can solve the transportation link, so they can transport peaches and red bayberry to sell for money. Now farmers don’t have this condition, they can only watch the fruits rot in the field, and don’t bother to take care of them.

   Of course, part of the reason is that farmers dare not go to the city to sell fruit, for fear of being cut off by capitalism.

  Chen Qi listened to it but became interested. Maybe he has a way to solve the transportation? Can it be sold for money?

  (end of this chapter)