Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 85: The Village Secretary Visits (Subscription Request)
There is not much to see in Hongjia Village. The rural scenes are all pretty much the same.

Because it is close to the mountains, many people in the village have returned to the mountains. The food they receive this year is more than last year, and they can eat at least 70% full.

People now have the energy to go into the mountains, and they haven’t been in the mountains much for a year or two, so perhaps the natural resources in the mountains have recovered a lot.

When there was a food shortage in the first year, the villagers almost pulled the bark off the trees on the nearby hills. Later, they gave up because they couldn't find anything to eat.

Father Zhou probably came up with the idea of ​​raising pigs after seeing the lush pig grass in the mountains.

".When my elder and second brothers come back, I will ask them if they want to go into the mountains. If they do, we can go in together to have a look. I have not been in the mountains many times."

Zhou Fengnian brought Zhou Yan to the road leading into the mountain and pointed at the intersection and said.

"Fengnian, have you never been into the mountains before?"

"Very rarely, almost never. I have never even worked in the fields before. As soon as I knew a little, I was sent to study."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said that at that time, it was considered a bit of foresight on the part of Zhou's father.

The whole family worked together to support a scholar. If his original body had not been a bit of a beast, the Zhou family would definitely have been able to live a good life.

Digging for food in the fields can at most ensure that you won’t be hungry, but you will definitely not eat well.

"If you go up the mountain in the summer, you might encounter prey, but there seems to be very few prey in the winter."

Zhou Fengnian had no experience either, so he introduced Zhou Yan based on his original body's memories.

When Zhou was a child, his father often took his older brothers into the mountains. After they came back, they would talk about what happened in the mountains. At that time, the original body heard it and took note of it.

There is a large pond near Hongjia Village, but it is frozen now, otherwise you could go fishing there.

On the country road, he met a villager from Hongjia Village. After seeing Zhou Fengnian, he greeted him and said, "Hey, Third Brother Zhou, are you back?"

"Yes, this is my partner. Bring him back to meet me."

"Bro. Congratulations, Mr. Zhou."

A young man from Hongjia Village who was returning from the mountain after chopping firewood saw the young and beautiful Zhou Yan, felt nothing but jealousy in his heart.

The Zhou family was already one of the best-off families in the village. Several family members went to the city to work as workers, and their house was renovated.

Now even Zhou Laosan has found such a beautiful woman
Afterwards, he met many more people one after another, but the first thing they asked about Zhou Fengnian was about Zhou Yan's situation.

"Zhou Laosan? Is this your wife?"

"I haven't gotten married yet, I plan to find a time next year"

"The third son of the Zhou family is back. Is he bringing his wife back with him?"

".Yes, show it to the family."

After explaining it so many times, Zhou Fengnian finally didn't bother to explain that they were not married yet and just accepted it.

Moreover, Zhou Fengnian quickly understood the reason why his mother asked him to bring Zhou Yan out for a walk. This was to use other people to announce that he had a girlfriend and was about to get married.

There have been a lot of people going up the mountain to chop firewood recently. Zhou's mother must have known about this, so she drove him out.

In rural areas, people burn firewood and straw, etc. If there are children at home, the amount of fuel burned is even greater, and sixty or seventy kilograms a day may be enough.

Taking advantage of the time before it snows, almost everyone goes up the mountain in waves.

Whenever Zhou Fengnian walked here, he met quite a few people. After a few greetings, two days later, everyone in the village knew that he had a girlfriend, and that she was a beautiful girl from the city.

"My mom looks carefree, but she is much more calculating than my dad."

Zhou Fengnian figured it out and laughed, then turned around and asked, "Zhou Yan, she didn't ask anything excessive, did she?"

"No, Auntie is fine."

Zhou Yan said with a smile: "She also said that if you bully me, I can complain to my aunt at any time."

"How could I possibly bully you?"

Zhou Fengnian's voice weakened. He wanted to take Zhou Yan to the mountain; however, there were many people chopping wood on the mountain, so he gave up the idea.

There is nothing interesting to see in Hongjia Village; it is simply a farming village.

Apart from going up the mountains and down the river, there are very few entertainment activities in the village, and all people think about all year round is how to fill their stomachs.

After walking around for a while, Zhou Yan felt tired, so Zhou Fengnian took her back.

You can go to the commune market tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, near the threshing ground. People from several villages will come to exchange agricultural and sideline products.

It stopped in the past two years, but seems to have resumed this year.

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"Dad, we are back."

After Zhou Fengnian pushed the door open and came in, he saw his father Zhou Fugui entertaining another person.

There were peanuts and melon seeds on the small round table on the kang, and the guests were almost served and were just about to leave.

Zhou Fengnian flipped through his memory and quickly recalled that this was the village party secretary.

"Secretary Hong, you two are talking about something, so you two can continue chatting. I'll go to the other room."

Zhou Fengnian was just about to leave and take Zhou Yan to his younger sister's room, but before he left the room, he heard Secretary Hong say

"Fengnian, I've finished talking to your father, and I'm leaving now."

After Secretary Hong finished speaking, he put on his shoes and turned to Zhou Fugui before leaving, "Fugui, I'm sorry to bother you with that matter."

As soon as Secretary Hong left, Zhou Fengnian asked curiously, "Dad, what can I do for you?"

His father is an old farmer. He is good at farming, but there is nothing else he can do.

Father Zhou hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, nothing."

Zhou Yan on the side said, "Fengnian, I'll go back to the house to take a look. Call me if you need anything."

"Okay, take some peanuts and sunflower seeds back to eat."

Zhou Fengnian handed Zhou Yan a plate of peanuts and melon seeds, then sat cross-legged on the kang and said to Zhou's father: "Dad, you are so petty. You have to speak quietly when you have something to say. This is too obvious."

Doing it behind Zhou Yan's back means that the matter is related to him.

"It's nothing. I wanted to refuse just now, but I couldn't think of it for a while."

Father Zhou paused, and while his two grandsons were away, he took out a cigarette and lit it: "The secretary did come to see you, he wants you to make a decision."

"Make a decision? What decision?"

“It’s our village’s idea.”

Father Zhou paused for a moment, then continued, "When I first settled in Hongjia Village, it was my father who brought me here. At that time, the secretary's father gave me a lot of help.
Now, the secretary thinks that our family is the most promising in the whole village, and he also wants to develop Hongjia Village, but he doesn’t know how to do it, so he wants to ask you for advice. "

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Zhou Fengnian didn't know what to say for a moment, and the room suddenly became quiet. After a while, he asked, "Dad, what does the secretary mean? He asked me to find two jobs for the village?
Let me make it clear first, I really don’t have this ability, otherwise I would have gone to the city with my second sister-in-law.”

“I know, the secretary doesn’t want a job, so how will we divide it if he comes?
It’s hard to tell, but it’s true that the village is poor. Not to mention Sanshui Commune, our Hongjia Village is at the bottom of the list in the entire Changping.”

After saying this, Father Zhou took another puff of his cigarette. This was a rare opportunity for him to take advantage of the fact that his two older grandsons were not around.

In the past, he would go outside to smoke and come back only after the smoke had dissipated. Zhou Fengnian scratched his head and sighed, "I know the village is poor, but Dad, your son has some abilities, but he is definitely not a god."

His golden finger is to improve himself, not to create things out of thin air. There are only so many places, and he can't create gold.

And Zhou Fengnian is afraid of trouble.

He can come up with ideas, but what if he messes up?

Hongjia Village is not a machinery factory. Luo Cheng is backing him up in the factory, and all the work in the factory is what he is good at. If Hongjia Village fails, who knows what the villagers will say about him.

"I know. I didn't agree. The secretary just came to ask."

After Zhou's father finished speaking, he continued to smoke. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't blame his son.

Zhou Fengnian didn't continue talking, as he was afraid that if he spoke, he would take on the responsibility.

Although he didn't say it, he was thinking about it in his heart, thinking about it while eating melon seeds.

There are quite a few people in Hongjia Village, with more than 70 households. It is considered a relatively densely populated village in Sanshui Commune.

But no matter how many people there are, it is still a poor village. Under normal circumstances, the harvest depends entirely on the land; if you want to increase your income, you can do it.

Live by the mountain, live by the water, live by the water, this is the convenience of the countryside; if you were in the old city, you would have no opportunities except working. Now everything is clearly arranged for you.

There are several ways to have a side job, but Zhou Fengnian doesn't have the ability now. He has to go to Sijiu City to find some professional books and then improve his skills.

Without skills, he can’t even convert rural resources into products.

The matter was temporarily left unresolved, and neither the father nor the son mentioned it again.

However, Zhou Fengnian knew that the secretary of Hongjia Village would definitely come. If the cadres at this time did not think about benefiting the village, they would be incompetent.

Even if he couldn't do it, he would try his best to find someone who could do it; otherwise, he would feel uncomfortable watching people in other villages cutting meat during the New Year while his village ate rye flour steamed bread during the New Year and no one scolded him.

In the evening, Zhou Fengnian cooked a delicious meal himself.

He used a lot of the preserved food he brought back. Zhou's mother felt a little sad when she saw the dinner, but she didn't say it out of consideration for entertaining her future daughter-in-law.

Zhou Fengnian noticed the distress in his mother's eyes, and comforted her with a smile, saying that there were still many New Year's goods to be bought.

He didn't bring back most of the New Year's goods, and this time he had to carry Zhou Yan with him, so he couldn't bring much.

When the eldest and second brothers are on vacation, the annual meeting they bring back will definitely make Zhou's mother smile from ear to ear.

There were almost 100 kilograms of fine grains alone, and more than ten kilograms of pork and other miscellaneous New Year's goods, most of which were distributed by Zhou Fengnian's factory and bought by him at the pigeon market.

The rest are New Year’s goods distributed by Electrical Appliance Factory No. 1, which is a lot for four people.

The family had a delicious meal. Zhou Fengnian's cooking skills were impeccable, thanks to his proficiency simulation system.

Even if you don't deliberately study and upgrade, as long as you do the same thing every day, you can improve your proficiency and upgrade.

After the upgrade, he will be instilled with new knowledge of the corresponding level. Now Zhou Fengnian can cook cuisines from all over the country and has reached the level of a third or fourth level cook.

There is nothing to do in the evening after a full meal.

However, the family still squeezed into the main house, and the two children also slept there. Because of limited firewood, they only heated one kang at night.

It would take dozens of kilograms of firewood to heat two kangs every night. Father Zhou didn't have to do anything all day long but go into the mountains to chop firewood.

Zhou Yan also sat on the bed, holding a nephew in her arms and teasing him constantly, with a smile on her face full of love.

After seeing this scene, Zhou Fengnian breathed a sigh of relief. There was nothing fun in the countryside. He brought Zhou Yan back, and he would feel a little bad if it was really too boring.

Zhou's mother and second sister-in-law kept talking about gossip in the village and the commune, and their tone was ups and downs. Not to mention Zhou Yan, even Zhou Fengnian seemed to be a little excited when listening.

It is almost human nature to be curious about gossip and join in the fun.

As they were talking, it turned to him. Zhou's mother valued Zhou Yan as a daughter-in-law. She was outstanding in appearance and had a job. She couldn't find anyone like her in the whole town, so she wanted Zhou Yan to marry into the family.

Moreover, Zhou Yan came to visit the family before she got married, and she was so humble. How could Zhou's mother not see it?

The two of them got along very happily. Zhou's mother even rushed to tell Zhou Fengnian about his embarrassing childhood, such as the time he was reading while walking and ended up falling into a ditch in a field.
Zhou Fengnian felt strange about what he heard. Although he didn't do it, Zhou Yan was laughing at him.

The family gathered together on a kang and chatted until the two children were sleepy, then they went back to their rooms to prepare for bed.

While brushing his teeth and washing up, Zhou Fengnian asked Zhou Yan, "Is the village okay? There aren't many entertainment options. I'll take you to the market tomorrow."

"I think it's pretty good. The uncles and aunts are very nice, especially the aunt."

Zhou Yan said with a smile: "At least I like this kind of family."

It's much better than her family. If she hadn't married yet, she would have wanted to call Zhou's mother "Mom".

"Then you should go to bed early. If it's cold at night, come and knock on my window."

"Don't worry, Auntie gave me thick quilts, so I won't feel cold at all."

Zhou Yan smiled and said that her quilt was thicker than Zhou Xiaomei's, and she felt a little embarrassed.

After chatting for a while, it was too cold outside, so they went back to their rooms to sleep.

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Early the next morning.

Zhou Fengnian was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt someone getting up and getting dressed. He opened the curtain and saw his father putting on his coat.

"Dad, what are you doing so early?"

"Did I wake you up? I'm going up the mountain to fetch some firewood. You can continue to rest."

"It's not even daybreak yet, why are you going so early?"

"It will be light when we get there. There will be no one there in the morning. Your brother and sister-in-law will be back in a few days. Take this opportunity to save more."

"Then I'll go with you."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian took off his pajamas and found his clothes to put on.

"Why are you meddling in this? If you have time, take a rest."

"How can the father work while the son rest? Besides, I am stronger than you. If I can carry more, I won't have to run so many times."

Zhou Fengnian quickly put on his clothes and followed his father out.

The father and son took three basket frames and an axe, then quietly went out and headed for the back mountain.

Just as Zhou's father had expected, it was daybreak when they arrived at the back mountain, so the two of them went up the mountain to chop firewood.

Normally, Zhou's father could chop about 100 kilograms a day, but after a few days, there were more people in the family and they couldn't just heat one kang.

At least you have to fill up the firewood pile at home and save up thousands of kilograms of dry firewood.

The father and son ran straight towards the tree with thick legs and arms, and then Zhou Fengnian picked up the hatchet and started chopping.

After an hour or two, they chopped down two small trees, and together with the dry firewood picked up by Zhou's father, they each carried more than 100 kilograms of firewood before they went down the mountain.

When she came back, Zhou's mother was making breakfast. Zhou Yan had also woken up and was helping in the kitchen.

It looks like a family scene.

(End of this chapter)