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Chapter 205 205. The Hardships After Going to the Countryside
Although Yue Wenxuan and Bian Wendong seldom play together, they are considered to be the same age after all, so they must stand up and speak out.

Otherwise, with Bian Wendong's current sensitive attitude, he would definitely think that he looks down on others.

He knew that Bian Wendong was a man with strong self-esteem, and his current appearance was obviously a bit downcast. Yue Wenxuan was considerate, avoided those sensitive questions, and only asked him about his going to the countryside.

Bian Wendong had nothing to hide about this issue, so he introduced it in detail.

He signed up relatively late, and had no choice for a long time, and was assigned to a small mountain village in Yun* Province, where the conditions were very difficult.

An educated youth like Bian Wendong who grew up in a big city would find the conditions very difficult even if they were assigned to a village with better conditions. It would be even more difficult to adapt to such a small mountain village where the conditions are extremely difficult across the country.

How hard are the farmers in this small mountain village?After listening to Bian Wendong's brief narration, Yue Wenxuan and the others were deeply moved.

The small mountain village where he jumped in the queue had very little arable land, and the average land per person was only four to five cents.

With such a small amount of arable land per capita, even if it is placed in a fertile plain area, it will definitely not be enough to eat after working all year round.

Most of the land in small mountain villages is relatively barren, and most of them are hillside land, which not only has low yields, but is also difficult to cultivate.

The strong laborers in the small mountain village work hard for a year, and they can get five or sixty yuan.

In other words, the strong laborers in this small mountain village can earn about [-] cents for a day of work.

This kind of work point value is really too low. An educated youth like Bian Wendong who grew up in a big city is simply unimaginable, let alone acceptable.

After Bian Wendong finished introducing the work points of Xiaoshan Village, Wang Liying took the opportunity to educate the sixth and seventh sisters:

"Now you know that you were born in Fuwo, right?
In the past, you were not happy to ask you to make a matchbox. If the children in the countryside can have such a job, I don’t know how happy they will be.

If you children paste matchboxes, if you don't be lazy and paste them well, you can earn seventy or eighty cents a day.

The strong laborers in the countryside work hard for a day under the sun, and they only earn [-] cents.

Think for yourself how big the gap is! "

Seventh Sister immediately said obediently: "Mom, I will never be playful anymore. I will definitely study hard and strive for a high score in the next exam."

"Mom, I have never been lazy. I used to make matchboxes at home. If I could make a whole day, even if I didn't earn a dollar, I could still earn eighty or ninety cents." , Sixth Sister was a little unhappy.

Yue Wenxuan continued to ask: "Living in the countryside, earning more money and earning less is second to none. The key is whether you can eat enough. Can the village where you jumped in the queue have enough food?"

"Of course I can't get enough to eat!" When it comes to food, Bian Wendong's resentment is even deeper, "In our small village, each person has four or five cents of land on average, even if it's all fertile land, the grain harvested is definitely not enough to eat.

What's more, these four or five parts of the land are still some barren hillside land, even if other outputs are added, the villagers cannot eat it. "

Bian Wendong's current situation is too miserable, Yue Wenxuan can only sympathize and say: "Not enough to eat, this is a big problem."

"Who says it's not, the problem of eating has made us three educated youths very worried.

We educated youths have just moved to the countryside, and we are not used to anywhere. We are busy from morning to night every day, working exhaustingly, and can't earn full work points. The average is only seven or eight centimeters.

Fortunately, the distribution of food in the village is based on the principle of 'seven labors for three people'. Even if we earn less work points, the impact will not be great. "

The more difficult the living conditions are, the happier Bian Wendong is.

If it weren't for the good national policies, educated youths like them who have no strength to work, would not be able to eat enough.

"Seven people work three times" is the distribution principle under the rural people's commune system, and it is a rigid system for the distribution of agricultural labor products.

From the end of the 50s to the end of the 70s, until the rural people's communes disappeared in history, this distribution system also lost the soil for survival.

"Seven people work three times" is a distribution method widely adopted by production teams. It is a distribution system for the distribution of basic rations or supplies, that is, head counts for 70% and labor points for 30%.

The rural production team is the basic accounting unit. The grain, cotton, vegetables, especially grain produced in the field, excluding those handed over to the state and the seeds and public items left by the team for the next year, the rest is distributed to each household.

The annual distribution is based on [-]% of the population and [-]% of labor.

To use an analogy: [-] catties of grain, [-] catties are divided according to the number of people, and the remaining [-] catties are distributed according to the work points earned by the labor force every day.

This is not the case with the distribution of money. At the end of the year, the distribution of money is based on work points, not per head.

There are also production pairs that implement "six labors and four labors" or "five labors and five labors". The state has not made rigid regulations on this ratio.

The distribution system of "seven labors for three people" contains some elements of "distribution according to work", which is more egalitarian.

The five-guarantee households, poverty-stricken households, military martyrs, sick and disabled households in the production team, and those who have no or lost the ability to work are all beneficiaries of this distribution system.

For the villagers in the production team, the most important thing is food. For those villagers who have no or poor labor ability, even if they do not earn work points or earn less work points, they can still be allocated part of the food per head.

It also prevents this part of the people from suffering from hunger because they have no ability to work.

The beneficiaries of this policy are mainly the elderly and children, and educated youths like Bian Wendong with poor labor ability have also become beneficiaries of the policy.

Many villages are unwilling to accept educated youths, and it is also for this reason that the arrival of educated youths seizes the villagers' food, so it is naturally unpopular.

The poorer the mountain village, the greater the resistance to the educated youth.

Life is already very difficult, and the educated youths still come to grab food, so the villagers naturally have opinions.

Most members of the Yue family were not clear about this distribution policy, so Bian Wendong explained it in detail.

"Then if you distribute food according to this policy, how much food can you get each year?" Yue Wenxuan asked with concern.

"I've only been there for a few months now, and the exact number is still unclear.

As far as I know, the strong laborers in the village can get about [-] catties of wool grain throughout the year. "

Speaking of this number, Bian Wendong's tone was very heavy.

"This is too little! How can this be enough to eat?" Yue Wenxuan had already guessed that Bian Wendong's life must be very difficult, but he was still quite surprised when he heard this number.

There is a saying in rural areas called "is enough three hundred and six", which means that if the gross grain allocated to each person can reach 360 catties throughout the year, it is basically enough to eat, if not, then you will have to starve.

In the small mountain village where Bian Wendong joined the queue, even if the strong laborers get more food, they only have two hundred catties of gross food, which is far from being able to fill their stomachs.

Allocating such a small amount of food, you can only eat half full, and everyone in the village will be in a state of extreme hunger for a long time.

Wang Liying herself came from the countryside, and she has a deep understanding of how difficult life in the countryside is. Thinking of Bian Wendong's hardships, and thinking of the two daughters who are far away in the Corps, her heart is even more touched, and she feels even more that Bian Wendong is a man. The child suffered greatly.

She couldn't help asking: "The conditions over there are so difficult, how did you come here these few months?"

"It's just going through it slowly. I definitely didn't get used to it at first. I had to be hungry every day, and I didn't have much energy to work.

Don't look at our small mountain village with very little arable land on average, but the daily farm work is even more tiring.

The less land you have, the better you have to take care of it. If you want to plant the hillside land well, the hardship you pay is several times or even ten times that of the plain area.

When we first went there, a few of us were not used to it. We had to work hard all day, not up to the standard, and hungry. My personal feeling was like falling from heaven to hell. Every day is huge torment.

Looking back now, I don't even know how I got through the past few months, it's like life is worse than death. "

Wang Liying didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only say:

"When you get home, tell me about the grievances in your heart.

I can't help with other things at home, so I can send you more money every month, and save some food stamps for you. It should still be possible. "

Bian Wendong smiled wryly, "If it's only a month or two, it doesn't matter, the family will definitely not ignore me.

But it's not a month or two, or even a year or two, it could be a lifetime.

The family is not very well-off, especially the monthly food stamps, which are all rationed. If you give me a little more, others will follow suit.

It’s okay to support me once in a while, but how can I continue to support, besides, I’m not the only one who goes to the countryside in my family, but also my brother and sister.

Even if their situation is better than mine, they are also jumping in the queue in rural areas, so I'm afraid it's not much better. "

Yue Wenxuan really didn't expect Bian Wendong to say such a thing.

It seems that it is not all bad to go to the countryside to suffer a little bit of hardship. Bian Wendong has learned to be considerate of others after he has been away for several months.

In his impression, Bian Wendong has always been a relatively selfish person, he must think of himself first, and rarely consider other people's difficulties.

Now that he has endured so much hardship in the countryside, he doesn't blame others blindly. It seems that the difficult environment really trains people.

Of course, it is also possible that Bian Wendong is smarter and has a longer-term vision than before.

Now that he is in the countryside, if he uses the way he used to get along with his family to ask for things, the effect will definitely be greatly reduced. On the contrary, a little more understanding like now will win the sympathy of his family.

Walking into the courtyard, the return of Bian Wendong caused a sensation in the whole Shikumen.

Especially his current black and thin desolate appearance has brought a huge touch to everyone.

After Grandpa Liu in the front building moved out, all the four families in Shikumen, except for Auntie’s family in the rooftop, all had children who went to the countryside to join the queue.

Seeing Bian Wendong's current situation, he also thought of the current situation of his own children.

The thought of the children who were pampered and spoiled from an early age is suffering, the hearts of several parents are extremely bitter.

Bian Wendong just returned, and everyone was very curious about his experience of jumping in the queue in the past few months, and they gathered around to ask questions.

Bian Wendong did not show any signs of impatience when asking questions from his family and curious questions from his neighbors, but answered the questions patiently.

The quality of Yue Wenxuan's family was relatively high, and they didn't ask those sensitive questions that Bian Wendong was unwilling to answer, but not all other neighbors had such qualities, and they asked all the questions that should be asked or shouldn't be asked.

Before dinner at night, everyone in the entire Shikumen knew everything about Bian Wendong's experience in the past few months.

When Bian Wendong came back this time, it was not on family leave, but on sick leave.

Even if it's sick leave, the time is not long, only half a month, which also includes the time on the way back and forth.

Bian Wendong just came back, at least in the past few days it was a hot topic, and the topic of Yue Wenxuan's family also revolved around him.

After dinner, the family sat and chatted, and the elder sister said:
"I heard that Bian Wendong asked for sick leave because of a heart problem. Since he was a child, hasn't he always been healthy?

In his 20s, he was at his healthiest. When he was young, he had no illnesses. When he was in his 20s, he suddenly had a heart attack. Don’t you think he’s just pretending? "

Yue Wenxuan said with certainty: "You don't need to ask, it must be a fake, if he doesn't say that, how can he ask for sick leave.

He came back suddenly at this time, there must be a purpose, I guess he doesn't want to go back, but he wants to stay in the city, the difficulty is too great, the possibility of getting what he wants is very small. "

"He has only been away for a few months, and he wants to go back to the city. His spirit is really high enough, and I don't like him either.

Not to mention ordinary people like us who have no connections, even those powerful families have never heard of any family whose children returned to the city after leaving for a few months.

If he doesn't worry, wait and see and see how other people go through the procedures, maybe he will have a chance in the future.

It's still too early to want to go back to the city after only walking for so many months, no matter how you think about it, it's impossible. "

Yue Guangping is also not optimistic about Bian Wendong.

Seeing Bian Wendong's current situation, the fourth sister is even more glad that she can stay in the city, and cherishes her current job even more.

After all, Bian Wendong is also a healthy young man. With his good physical fitness, he had such a miserable life after going to the countryside. If she, a helpless little woman, went to the countryside, I don’t know what would happen. What the hell does it look like.

Yue Xiangju is an ambitious person, she is not afraid of suffering, but she is afraid of hopelessness.After going to the countryside, she has to deal with the yellow land every day, facing the loess with her back to the sky, what hope can she have, this kind of torment without seeing the future, she will definitely not be able to stay for a day.

For Bian Wendong's current situation, the fourth sister was very sympathetic, she said:

"Although Bian Wendong is a bit selfish, he is definitely a smart person.

He suddenly came back at this time, and I guess he was somewhat sure, but I don't know what he was thinking, but I was curious about his next operation. "

(End of this chapter)