Chapter 285 Specially Approved for You as a Homestead
Soon, thanks to Zhu Caixia's hard work, the kang table was filled with pots of steaming food.
Among them, there are fried bacon with green onions, smashed cucumbers, tomatoes with sugar, eggplant with mashed garlic, squash stewed with beans, as well as corn porridge and steamed buns.
Xu Yuping and Ma Shufen also cleaned Li Guoqiang's wooden house and took the sheets, quilts and pillows outside the yard to dry, behaving as virtuous as they could.
After dinner, under the leadership of Li Guoqiang, Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others all left their homes with happy faces and walked towards the threshing ground in the village.
Originally they had arrived early enough, but as soon as they reached the threshing ground, they found that most of the villagers had already arrived.
When the villagers saw Li Guoqiang coming, they took the initiative to step forward and greet him. Then, surrounded by Xu Yuchang, Sun Jinda and others, they were pushed to the door of the warehouse and sat together with Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres.
It can be seen from this that in the hearts of the villagers, Li Guoqiang's status is comparable to that of the brigade cadres, or even higher.
If Li Guoqiang said he wanted to run for brigade cadre, I guess no one would object, or dare to object.
You know, in just less than a month, Li Guoqiang brought back three or four hundred yuan for each of their families, which was much more work points than they had earned in the whole year.
Therefore, they must have been kicked in the brain by a donkey to oppose Li Guoqiang!
To put it bluntly, if this happened in the old times, as soon as Li Guoqiang returned, someone would probably have sent their daughters to him to be his slaves.
There might even be someone who would set up a longevity tablet for Li Guoqiang at home!
When Sun Maocai saw this situation, he felt very uncomfortable for a moment.
Who would have thought that the sickly boy who was despised by everyone would now become everyone’s God of Wealth!
If he had known this would happen, how could he have let Xu Guangfu snatch the person away? At the very least, he would have made Li Guoqiang a member of their Sun family.
Now, he could only secretly hope that Li Guoqiang would not set his sights on the position right under him.
Otherwise, this village will be ruled by the Xu family in the future.
Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Ma Changshun, and then they saw the same worry in each other's eyes.
However, there is no point in worrying. From the performance of the villagers, it can be seen that the situation is now in Li Guoqiang's favor, and they have no way to resist at all.
Soon, cheers broke out from the crowd.
Following the sound, I saw Xu Yuliang, accompanied by Xu Guangfu and Xu Guanglu, slowly walking towards the threshing ground.
Moreover, Xu Guangfu and Xu Guanglu each held a gun in their hands, which made the villagers unconsciously make way for them.
Not long after, Xu Yuliang walked to the door of the warehouse, sat down next to Li Guoqiang, and then slowly exhaled.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Guangfu and Xu Guanglu also sat down in their respective seats. Their originally tense faces relaxed and they smiled happily to everyone.
"Well, is everyone here?"
"We're all here!"
"Okay, let's officially get started now!"
Xu Guangfu and Sun Maocai exchanged a few words in a low voice, then slowly stood up and shouted to the crowd: "Fellow villagers, everyone should know why you are asked to come here for a meeting, so I will not elaborate any more.
This time, Comrade Li Guoqiang brought back a total of 10,000 yuan to our production team.
After a meeting and discussion, the team decided to keep 2000 yuan to be used for various expenses of the team, and the remaining 8000 yuan will be directly distributed to everyone as dividends.
In addition, for the sake of fairness, this time the dividends will be distributed per capita. No matter whether they are old, young, male or female, as long as they are registered in our production team, they are eligible to share the money.
Does anyone have any opinions on this? "
When these words were spoken, most people looked happy, and only a few people showed a hint of dissatisfaction.
These people are either not married yet, or have just gotten married and have no children yet, or they are not with their elderly parents when the family is divided.
According to the previous distribution method of working in the fields to earn work points, the elderly and children were considered a burden. But who would have thought that now those elderly and children would become so popular!
The reason why team cadres such as Xu Guangfu and Sun Maocai decided to distribute dividends based on the number of people was mainly because Li Guoqiang told them that the apiary belonged to everyone in the village and everyone should get dividends.
What's more, they were one of the more populous families in the village, so it was naturally impossible for them to object.
Seeing that no one raised any objections, Xu Guangfu announced directly: "Okay, let's start distributing dividends now.
When your name is called, please come up and sign to receive your money."
After saying this, he did not sit down, but directly picked up a population register and shouted loudly: "Xu Guangshou!"
Hearing the shout, Xu Guangshou immediately walked out of the crowd with a proud look on his face and walked towards Li Guoqiang.
Seeing this, Li Guoqiang stood up quickly and shouted seriously, "Master!"
"Ok!"
Xu Guangshou looked at Li Guoqiang's tall and straight figure, reached out and patted Li Guoqiang's arm, then nodded with satisfaction and praised: "Good job!"
After saying that, he turned around and walked to Xu Yuliang, picked up a pen, signed his name, pressed his fingerprint, and then excitedly took the 81.08 yuan that the three of them had shared from Xu Yuliang.
Although this amount of money may not seem like a lot, it is more than the work points he earned in the production team in an entire year.
Immediately afterwards, Ma Changxi heard Xu Guangfu calling his name, and he immediately ran to Xu Yuliang excitedly, then signed and sealed his name, and received the full 216.22 yuan.
Originally, in addition to the old couple, their son and daughter-in-law, there were four children in their family, and their life was extremely hard.
However, now, because there are many people in their family, they received more than 200 yuan at once, which is almost catching up with their family’s annual income in the past.
If he were to say who he is most grateful to now, it would undoubtedly be Li Guoqiang.
As everyone looked at the small stack of banknotes in his hand, their eyes became more and more excited.
At the same time, many people have already been planning in their minds that after getting the money, they must find a matchmaker to help introduce partners to their children and quickly marry more daughters-in-law.
Similarly, some people have made up their minds to find a live-in son-in-law for their daughters.
After all, if you can get one more cent, you can get an extra twenty or thirty yuan at a time, but if you marry your daughter off, you won't get any money.
The difference between the inflow and outflow is quite large, almost equal to the work points a person earns in a year by working in the fields.
Soon, as representatives of the household owners came forward to collect their money, the scene gradually turned into a sea of joy.
The topics people talked about changed from the usual gossip to what they were going to do in the future, with faces full of beautiful visions of the future. When everyone received the money, Xu Guangfu slowly exhaled, put down the population register in his hand, and then stretched out his hand to press it, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet for a while."
After that, he waited for everyone to quiet down, and then he continued with a serious face: "I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words to everyone, and I hope everyone can remember them carefully.
First of all, we must thank Comrade Li Guoqiang for his hard work and selfless dedication for being able to share so much money today.
In addition, when you get the money, you must not spend it indiscriminately, but must spend it on the right things.
Finally, everyone should understand that wealth should not be shown to others. If I find out that anyone shows off to people from other villages, I will punish him or her. You will be finished.”
Having said that, he glanced at everyone sharply, his eyes full of warnings, causing many people who were planning to go out and show off to others to lower their heads guiltily.
Afterwards, he didn't say anything else and simply adjourned the meeting.
At this point, the first dividend distribution meeting of Jinshanbao Production Brigade was successfully completed.
After everyone dispersed happily, Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and other brigade cadres took Li Guoqiang directly to Xu Guangfu's house, and then asked seriously:
"Comrade Li Guoqiang, in view of your outstanding performance and outstanding contributions, you can now make any requests to the brigade. As long as the brigade can do it, we can agree to it."
"Need not!"
Hearing this, Li Guoqiang quickly waved his hand and politely declined, "This is what I should do. I don't have any requests."
"very good!"
When Xu Guangfu heard Li Guoqiang's answer, he couldn't help but praise him: "I was right about you."
Although the others did not speak, they did not hide their admiration in the least.
In response, Li Guoqiang just smiled and did not say anything.
In fact, he had already told Xu Guangfu and others what he wanted, so there was no need to say it again. It would be better for him to show his humility and make Xu Guangfu and others feel more at ease with him.
"How about this!"
Xu Guangfu hesitated for a moment, then spoke softly, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to get a piece of residential land to build a house? Several of us brigade cadres have discussed it and decided to grant you the land next to Sister Yinfeng's house as a residential land. Once the formalities are completed, you can build a house on that land."
"This"
Upon hearing this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but said in surprise: "Isn't this a bit strange?"
"What's wrong with that?"
Xu Guangfu glared at him, and then said in a somewhat unpleasant tone: "You have already made so much money for everyone, so what if I grant you a piece of residential land now? Who dares to object?"
"no!"
Li Guoqiang shook his head, then explained softly: "That's not what I meant. I'm just worried about the bad influence."
"fine!"
Upon hearing this, Xu Guangfu immediately waved his hand with a look of disapproval and said, "This matter was decided by a vote of all the brigade cadres. If there are any problems, we will take care of it for you, so you can rest assured."
"That"
Li Guoqiang hesitated for a moment, then looked at Xu Guangfu, Sun Maocai and others who were determined, and finally nodded and agreed: "Then I will be disrespectful to refuse."
In fact, he knew that the main reason why Xu Guangfu and others did this was because they were worried that he would stay in the city and not come back, so they wanted to give him a real home here so that he could completely become a villager of the Jinshanbao Production Brigade.
If he insisted on not accepting this kindness, they would probably not be able to sleep well at night.
"Good good!"
When Xu Guangfu saw Li Guoqiang nodded in agreement, he couldn't help but cheer with joy.
Sun Maocai and others also showed a satisfied smile on their faces.
In this way, they can finally relax and let Li Guoqiang return to Sijiu City to continue helping them make money.
Afterwards, Li Guoqiang didn't stay for long before he got up, said goodbye and went back home.
Immediately afterwards, he went to the apiary with Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others to check the situation and help the employees of the apiary solve some accumulated problems.
By the time we finished visiting both apiaries, it was already past 4 p.m. without us noticing.
Seeing that it was still early, Li Guoqiang made an excuse that he wanted to go for a walk in the mountains. Then he got two pheasants and two rabbits from his small world and prepared to take them home as a snack for Xu Yuping, Ma Shufen and others.
When he returned home with the things, Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani saw him and immediately came up to him with joy, took the things from him, and then ran to the well to start working.
After more than half a year of training, both Zhu Caixia and Xu Dani have become experts at doing housework.
In a short while, they had killed all the chickens and rabbits.
Ma Shufen and Zhu Caiyan were also busy. Besides helping Li Guoqiang make the bed, they also fetched water and chopped firewood to boil water.
When Qu Yinfeng and Xu Yuping got off work and returned from the apiary, as soon as they walked into the yard, they could smell the tempting aroma of food wafting from the house.
Later, when they learned that Li Guoqiang had just casually wandered into the mountains and caught so many prey, they immediately couldn't help but reveal a smile of admiration.
Immediately afterwards, Qu Yinfeng ran to Zhu Caixia without saying a word and personally taught her cooking skills.
Xu Yuping took Ma Shufen to the bathhouse and washed herself.
After they finished washing, they went to change to Zhu Caixia, Xu Dani and Zhu Caiyan.
Finally, before dinner, except for Qu Yinfeng, everyone else took a shower, sat on the kang, and surrounded Li Guoqiang.
Looking at their faces, big and small, some cute, some youthful and beautiful, some charming and attractive, Li Guoqiang couldn't help feeling comfortable in his heart. It was a good interpretation of what it means to be a feast for the eyes.
"Here we go! The last dish, the spicy rabbit, is here!"
"Ping'er, why are you still standing there? Fill Qiangzi's glass quickly!"
"Oh!"
(End of this chapter)