Chapter 33 Ergouzi
When Luo Cheng heard Er Gouzi talking about unified harvesting, Luo Cheng, who had already known the inside story of establishing a commune from Accountant Zhao, understood what was going on.
"Unified harvesting, you kid thinks this is a good thing. Let me tell you, a commune will be established in the town at the beginning of the month, and everyone's land will become collective. You still have several acres of land, and then it will all be collective."
"No, then the rice my family grows this year cannot be collective, right? Damn it, I'm going to cut it now."
"Why are you so anxious? The rice now belongs to you, but after the harvest, you will be paid according to the unified grain purchase. In the future, everyone will have no land."
"Where did you get the news? Is it accurate?"
After hearing Er Gouzi's inquiry, Luo Cheng told him everything Accountant Zhao had told him before. When the time comes, the pots will have to be turned in, and you will be compensated according to the price of iron. If there is no pot, you will not be able to cook if you don't buy and sell grains from the central government.
Why Accountant Zhao told him this must have something to do with why Luo Cheng came to deliver peanuts today.
"Accountant Zhao is going to marry his daughter to me a few days ago. Accountant Zhao said all this, and it's correct. Tomorrow is the day when his daughter and I will get married. I'm here to give you some peanuts."
"Accountant Zhao's daughter? Damn it, I remembered it. Didn't you save his daughter at the beginning of the year? The very pretty one, we had her in mind before anything happened. Oh, no, it was to drive her away. Just kidding.”
Feeling that he had said the wrong thing, Ergouzi immediately changed his statement.
In fact, it can be said to be an idea or a joke. Zhao Qian is beautiful and many people in the town know it. Before Luo Cheng and Accountant Zhao had not socialized before, he and Er Gouzi had joked that if they couldn't find a mother-in-law in the future, they would sleep with two good-looking ones in sacks.
Zhao Qian was one of the people who had to be put in a sack to sleep with, but that was really a joke, a fight was fine. The most people say is that he is young and energetic. If you really go to use a sack to sleep with a girl, you will be shot.
But the probability of being shot is 50/50. Luo Cheng and Er Gouzi joked that if they really slept with someone like that, they would marry them. If you don't get married, you'll be at the mercy of others, but the girl is basically done with it. If you get married, you won't be able to take advantage of one more daughter-in-law. Just bet on whether the family will tolerate it.
But this was gambling with his life, so when Luo Cheng told Er Gouzi those things, he was really just joking.
But what Er Gouzi didn't expect was that Zhao Qian was really going to marry Luo Cheng. But think about it, Luo Cheng has saved other people's lives, and he did it in such a way. Coupled with some rumors about Zhao Qian in the town, not to mention others, even he and his son suspected that Luo Cheng had seen her body.
It was normal for others not to believe her. Even Luo Cheng himself regretted not helping Zhao Qian put on her pants. Maybe he could have watched something by the way. But when he killed someone, he was so frightened that he went to find his father. In such a scene, the person involved has no intention of being a man or a woman. It’s useless no matter how much you think about it afterwards.
After chatting with Ergouzi for a while, Luo Cheng also told him that after the commune was established, everyone would eat together. Even if his mother doesn't have the energy to work anymore, she can go to the cafeteria and eat for free. But Luo Cheng didn't tell him that this group meal could only last for one year, and it was hard to tell him what would happen after one year.
"Er Gouzi, we have to eat together in the future anyway. Why don't you marry a wife as soon as possible? You don't have to raise it yourself. We all go to the cafeteria to eat together. Find a matchmaker to discuss which girl you like. I'll help you pay for the bride price." .”
"Yes, that's wonderful. If I hadn't been liberated, I wouldn't have been able to marry a few wives. It's good to have a communal meal, but I'm not very good at farming anyway. I can just work with everyone in the future."
"Okay, we are all getting married this year. I will give Chen Laizi some peanuts and ask him to get a wife together. When your wife has a daughter, I will ask my son to marry them."
"Damn it, if you want to be nice, you can't give birth to a daughter in your family, and my wife gives birth to a son, and let my son sleep with your daughter."
"Go away, now that you have a wife, someone like you who only knows how to put someone in a sack will end up with your daughter."
"I'm going to ask my mother to find a matchmaker today. I've agreed that if the woman I like is wanted in large quantities, you have to help me."
"Okay, I'm leaving."
Without further talking to Er Gouzi, after delivering peanuts to Chen Leizi, he was almost ready to pretend to get something.
It wasn't that far from Er Gouzi's house to Chen Laizi's side. If Luo Cheng hadn't separated his family, the distance between the three families wouldn't have been too far. On the way to Chen Laizi's house, Luo Cheng guessed that he might not be at home. Unless the weather was bad, Chen Laizi would basically go hunting. He would go out early in the morning, and there would be a lot of prey activity in the morning.
As expected, when we arrived at Chen Laizi's house, his mother and sister were the only ones there. It may be a genetic problem, his sister is also very short. He's already fourteen years old, so it can't be because he hasn't grown up yet.
He left the peanuts with Chen Laizi's mother and asked his mother to tell him. There was nothing else.
It felt like the time was almost up and Luo Cheng had to go get something. There is also a certain time to show up with things, otherwise he can appear on the streets of the town early in the morning with things. But the shuttle bus passing by here only leaves from the city to here at around ten o'clock. If you come back early in the morning with something, saying that you bought it in the city, it would be a bit unreasonable.
After spending some time, I tried my best to take a small path around to where I hid my things. Then he swaggered towards his home on the right road, probably because he had to harvest rice together, and there were many people free in these two days. Many people actually saw Luo Cheng walking home carrying a sack.
After Luo Cheng returned home, Zhang's wife next door came to tell him that Accountant Zhao had come to see him this morning. Lao Zhang's wife also told Accountant Zhao according to Luo Cheng's instructions, saying that he went to the city to buy some things.
Accountant Zhao also told Lao Zhang's wife that if she saw Luo Cheng, she would tell him not to wander around outside today. Tomorrow there would be people getting married, and they wouldn't even be able to find anyone. Accountant Zhao said that he should come to Luo Cheng again.
Luo Cheng didn't plan to go out, because he just had to prepare the ingredients for the banquet. His mother will definitely come to help with some preparations this afternoon, even if it is just a few dishes in total.
The time for the banquet is set at noon tomorrow. Anyway, these days, weddings in rural areas usually have banquets at noon. If it is scheduled in the evening, it is dinner. These days, only some units in the town have electricity, and there is no electricity outside the town. What if I have to eat late and live far away. Let people go back in the dark, or bring a kerosene lamp when they come to have a meal.
And tomorrow morning we have to arrange for people to go to the primary school in town to move tables and pick up the bride. So a lot of things that can be prepared in advance must be prepared today.