Chapter 122 The Production Team is Becoming a Village
After Gu Xiaoxia and her friends came back from the exam, Li Long and Tao Daqiang fished for two more days. After selling the fish in Shicheng, they decided not to go fishing again. Firstly, the ice was very thin, so there were fewer fish to be caught in the ice holes. Secondly, there were more fish sellers in Shicheng, so the price could not be raised. Li Long thought it was better to wait and see.
There was nothing to do here, and Li Long didn't want to go to the mountains for the time being, so he just walked his rabbit trap every day and carried a small-caliber hunting rifle to Hongliu Beach.
The last time he sold the fox skin at the purchasing station, he got twenty-eight yuan, which made Li Long think that hunting foxes was not a bad idea.
Unfortunately, he didn't encounter any foxes in the next few days. The rabbit did encounter two, but his marksmanship was not very good. He shot one and the other ran away.
That day, Li Long was reading a book in the east room. He had finished reading the previous book "The Legend of Tang Dynasty Wanderers" and now switched to "Seven Swordsmen from Tianshan". He was very yearning for Ling Weifeng of the Tianshan School and the Tianshan Divine Light in his hands. Then he heard Xu Chengjun's voice coming from the loudspeaker.
"Notify, notify! Puff, notify, notify! Now I have two things to notify. One is about the people in our team who are taking the county exam. I will now tell you who has passed..."
As soon as the notification sounded, 80% of the team opened their doors. Men and women came out of their houses, looked up at the loudspeaker from different directions, and listened carefully to the sounds inside.
"...Gu Xiaoxia..."
Hearing that Gu Xiaoxia passed, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, he was not disappointed!
"Only two people from the county passed the exam. Gu Xiaoxia went to the commune middle school, and Zhao Chengyang went to the central primary school. Next, we will notify those who passed the exam in the township... Wu Shufen... Those who passed the commune exam will teach first and second grades in the team..."
The general direction of Wu Shufen's destiny has not changed, she is still teaching first and second grades.
As far as Li Long knows, those who currently teach first and second grades will still have the opportunity to teach in the central primary school after the team is disbanded one year later, but they will still need to take exams and interviews.
Wu Shufen did not seize this opportunity at that time.
This is not something Li Long needs to consider.
"Announce, announce! Next, the second thing to announce is that all member representatives, please come to the team headquarters for a meeting now. There is an important matter to be discussed!"
Li Long knew that the history of the production team was about to come to an end.
Gu Xiaoxia stood in the yard in a daze. Although there was no sound coming from the loudspeaker, she still didn't want to go into the house.
Although there was no movement, Gu Xiaoxia's heart was extremely excited at this moment!
Now, I am a middle school teacher!
In other words, I am about to get rid of my identity as a farmer and eat commercial grain!
This was simply like a dream - in just over a month, I went from barely having enough to eat to soon eating commercial grain and receiving wages. This was a sea change!
"Come in, it's cold outside." Gu Boyuan reminded at the door, "Take some time to thank the Li family. If it weren't for their Xiaolong, you might not have been admitted."
"Yeah." Gu Xiaoxia nodded vigorously and went back to the house.
Gu Boyuan looked in the direction of the captain's house again. He had a feeling that something big was going to happen. The member representatives hadn't held a meeting for a long time. It was still a while before the spring, so it was not the right time to work. In previous years, even if they worked in the spring, it was just a few cadres in the team meeting and making a decision.
We are going to have a meeting now, so it shouldn’t be a small matter.
At the Li family, Li Jianguo heard the notice, went into the house, put on a coat and went out. Seeing Li Long still outside, he said:
"I'm going to a meeting, you stay at home."
"Yeah." Li Long responded.
He knew that the meeting was probably to discuss the division of land and property among households. He didn't know if there would be any changes to the two mu of land per person, but it had nothing to do with him. Ten mu of land per family was not enough for his elder brother and sister-in-law to deal with.
Li Long was lost in thought in the yard, while Gu Xiaoxia was a little flustered at the moment.
After hearing that she had passed the exam to become a teacher, many women in the team came to visit her home.
"I said Xiaoxia doesn't look like a country girl. She even works like a city girl! Look, she's passed the exam. She can eat commercial grains in the future!"
"That's right. When I go to middle school, I'll have so much free time. I can stay in the house every day without working. I'll have two holidays a year, and I'll get paid. It'll be so comfortable!"
"Does Xiaoxia have a boyfriend? My Dagang has always wanted to talk to you about dating. Do you think it's suitable?"
"What's your Dagang? Xiaoxia will be eating commercial grain in the future, how could she be interested in your Dagang? Xiaoxia, my nephew is an apprentice at the county leather factory and will be a regular employee in the summer. Do you think I should introduce you two to each other..."
Usually, due to some unexplainable reasons, not many people came to the Gu family, and the father and daughter were used to the quiet days. Except for a few families like the Li family who had a good relationship with the Gu family, the other families had only average relationships.
Today's lively scene was a headache for Gu Xiaoxia, not to mention Gu Boyuan. After all, all the people who came were women, and it was not easy for him, a grown man, to interrupt. It was only when the loud speaker came that Gu Xiaoxia was asked to get a letter of introduction that his family got out of the chaos.
Li Jianguo returned home excitedly, and asked Li Qiang to call Li Long to the west room.
"Brother, are we going to divide the land?"
"Yes." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "The land is going to be distributed. Not only the land, but many other things were discussed at this meeting. One, our commune has been changed into a township, the production team has also become a village, and the brigade has been abolished. There will be no brigade in the future."
This is a big change. The brigade has always been a buffer and bridge between the commune and the production team. Now that the brigade is gone, the production team, or the village, will directly contact the township, which will require a long period of adaptation for many village cadres.
But this has nothing to do with Li Long, and he has no plans to become a village official.
"When will the land be divided?" Although Liang Yuemei had heard Li Long talk about this before, she was still very excited now that she was actually going to have her own land, so she asked.
"We will divide the snow as soon as it melts, so it won't affect farming."
"Which piece?" Liang Yuemei asked immediately.
"It's this big piece of land in front of the settlement. We'll draw lots to arrange the order, and each person will get two mu." Li Jianguo rolled a Mohe cigarette and said to Li Long with a smile:
"The captain said that if you can get a sheep, then when the land is divided, you can get a sheep first and the team will give you money. Then we can cook the mutton and divide the land!"
"Okay, tell me the time in advance, and I'll go to the mountains to pull sheep then." Li Long said with a smile.
This is definitely a good thing. I think the members or villagers will not have any opinions about it.
Although each person was only given two mu of land this time, it was enough to give everyone a very bright hope. I think in the future, collecting manure will definitely become everyone’s top priority.
Li Long was thinking about whether he could borrow the team's horse carriage and bring back two more carts of manure when he was pulling the sheep.
(End of this chapter)
