Chapter 7 first cut

After sending the two sideline teams out of Fengjiatan one after another, the new captain Feng Baozi freed up his hands, and immediately implemented the reform of the production management system of the third team according to the plan of the team committee.Don't dare to delay for a day!The wheat seedlings on the sunny slopes are already turning green, and the spring equinox will come in a blink of an eye. The first thing to change is the production management system of fish ponds, pig farms, mills, vegetable gardens and "three-fork machines" (walking tractors).Over the years, members have had the greatest opinions on these single-person and individual livelihoods, and there is nothing they can do about it: one is because of the specific working environment of one person and independence, it is impossible for cadres to follow supervision, and whether they do it depends on their conscience; People with superior types of work always have some kind of relationship with the cadres of the big and small teams in Fengjiatan, and most of them have certain backgrounds, so the cadres have always been ignored.Members can only say a few miscellaneous words when they are free, "work point nest", "nursing home", and that's it.

Leopard and Niu Wa, the vice-captain, divided their jobs, and first talked to these people about the new management method.The two discussed the principles of the conversation: talk about a fresh management method, if you can accept it, if you are willing to do it, you are welcome to continue to do it; Leopard and Niuwa were discussing the division of labor and who to talk to, and when they reached the last one—the old man Feng Jingrong, the manager of Yuchi, they both looked at each other without speaking, hoping that the other would take responsibility. Leopard felt troubled: the old man Feng Jingrong was his second father, and since he was a member of the same family, it was difficult to speak.

Niu Wa said: "The old man's speech is very unpleasant. I have a bad temper, and I fell apart in three sentences, which is not easy to end. That is your second father. When talking to you, he has to pick and choose words..." What else is there to say?Leopard smiled, that's it.There was a word in his heart that he didn't say: Second Dad spoke harsher to his poor nephew who had been a soldier for seven years but didn't wear four pockets than to others.After breaking up with Niuwa, the leopard came down the river bank. The noon sun is already very hot. In the shade on the upper edge of the artesian canal, although there are still piles of residual snow sandwiched on the withered grass, and the forest belt woven by poplars and willows on the river bank has a faint light yellow. After all, the spring breeze is blowing. It's the creek.

Leopard is very motivated, and the two sideline teams, digging pipes for the water company and loading and unloading goods at the freight station, have finally started.If there are no major problems, the estimated income can be relied on.Generally, there will be no major problems.He is at ease, the deputy captain leads the sideline team, regardless of his age, he is only twenty, he has a good personality and great tolerance, even softer than the leopard himself.Such a person goes out, it is reassuring! Walking a few steps past the thawed rice fields, next to the water inlet of the artesian canal is the fish pond of the third team that never produces fish.The dry mitsubishi grass and long cordyceps grow half a person's height, and weeds are all over the edge of the pond. Occasionally, a few miscellaneous fish can be seen swinging on the water heated by the sun.

What about people?What about his second dad who manages the fish pond?nowhere to be seen.The leopard stepped onto the embankment and immediately saw a person sitting on the sunny side of the flood control dam, and two sheep gnawing hay on the grassy beach next to it.The person who sits basking in the sun and herding sheep must be the second dad.The young man couldn't help feeling a fire in his heart, and strode away. The second dad slept very comfortably.He sat on a flat river rock, with his back leaning against the stone stack of the dam, his back and buttocks resting on the rotten straw thatch abandoned during flood control.The gentle sunlight smoothed the old man's wrinkled face in winter, his eyes were safely closed, and his neatly trimmed short mustache was pouting high, showing the deep-rooted self-confidence and superiority of a sleeping person when he wakes up. The airy, even snoring rose from the neck wrapped in the fur collar and released through the thin lips.There was no sound of walking on the sand, and the leopard walked up to the second father, but still did not wake up the sleeping elder.The two big milk sheep were chewing early spring grasses such as wild alfalfa and thistle that had just emerged from the ground on the grassy beach.

Leopard thought, how to wake up the second dad?The second dad was the best among the few well-to-do elders in the third team. The eldest son graduated from college and was assigned to Tibet to do geological exploration. The salary was high and he was very filial.There are often remittance slips that the neighbors envy are delivered to the home by the township postman.The old man often brags about his son’s letters in the field: “Every letter comes back with a sentence, protect your body and don’t do heavy work!” But the old man’s rural character in the third team is not good.He doesn't even talk to his second son (a farmer who often can't afford salt and vinegar because of heavy burdens and burdens) who can't always be filial to him, and now his relationship with his neighbors is more rigid than that of his neighbors.As for his nephew, Feng Baozi, who had carried a machine gun for seven years but didn't wear four pockets, the old man didn't pay attention at all.If you can't do it, you can't do it, and the young people who come to Fengjiatan to grab the head in the end, they are born crops!A worthless person!

Still have to wake him up.Otherwise, who knows how long he will sleep?Leopard thought: No matter what kind of person Second Dad is, or how people think of him, he can't control these things now, and he can't change Second Dad's temper for decades.However, the status quo that the second dad sleeps here in spring to bask in the warmth, and in summer lies in the shade of a tree to enjoy the cool and earn the working day of the production team is determined not to continue.We must change the management method, and make people of all temperaments, advanced or backward, conscientious or unconscionable, high-virtuous or low-virtuous, diligent or lazy, all be included in the new management. Come into the system, move!Do it!I can no longer be paralyzed half-dead!

"Second Dad—" Leopard sat down and called politely. Opening his eyes, the old man didn't feel embarrassed, and uttered a sentence naturally: "Oh! It's a leopard baby." While rubbing his red eyes from the sun, he turned his head to look at the two sheep on the beach, and then Turning around, he slowly took out a cigarette pouch from his leather jacket pocket. "Are there any fish in the fish pond?" Leopard asked casually. "There's no fish, why should I watch over it?" Second Dad said coldly. "About how many?" "I haven't even counted in the water!"

Whoa, great!Leopard was overwhelmed by his second dad for a moment.Based on these two sentences, the second dad couldn't talk to any captain who tried to intervene in the management of the fish pond, and sat by the river for six or seven years.why?It's nothing more than the elder brother of the second old man - Leopard's own father, who is the secretary of the party branch.Instead of looking at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, can the captain avoid the branch secretary and exist independently? "Whether there is or not, it's a thing of the past." Leopard relaxed and eased the atmosphere, "I'm here today, and I want to tell you that the management of Yuchi has to change the schedule."

The second old man stared suspiciously at the leopard with vigilant eyes. "Contract production." Leopard said, "Reward for overproduction, production reduction..." "I know about production cuts and fines!" Before Leopard could finish speaking, the second dad jumped into the conversation and said coldly, "I'm quitting, lest you put a cage on my head." The second dad gave Leopard a badass, but he couldn't afford it.Leopard held back his anger and said, "Well, if you don't do it, then I won't have to talk about it." After that, he stood up and was about to leave.

"You, a saint, came out of Feng's family!" Seeing that the leopard was about to leave, the second dad jumped up suddenly and changed his face, "When I first took office, I was really capable of operating on my head first!" Leopard was a little unexpected, and when he saw his second father making trouble, he was stunned.He explained: "Second Dad, look, the pig farm, mill, and vegetable garden are all engaged in production contracting. How can you be attacked?" "I knew a long time ago that someone was angry!" Second Dad yelled, "I don't want to be rewarded by you, and I don't want to be punished by you! Whoever wants to screw a screw on my head, look at his hand!" "No one wants to punish people." Leopard said, "You don't care about the fish pond, and no one forces you. The cost accounting responsibility system should also be implemented in field production. Don't worry, it's hard to earn labor points without effort—" "I don't earn your work points!" The second father said in a rough voice, "I left those bad work points, and I still wear leather jackets, smoke cigarettes, and eat!" Leopard's ears were about to explode.Second dad's deceitful tone of using the rich to overwhelm the poor is too cruel!Thinking that I just took office, everything is difficult at the beginning, and if I quarrel in a fit of anger, everyone will laugh at me.What does the snobbish and sharp second dad care about? "That's good! I'll find someone else." Leopard said, turned and left, took two steps, then turned around again, "Actually, if you think about it calmly, after the production contract, the team can increase income, and you can also increase income. If you think about it again, before the membership meeting at noon tomorrow, if you want to, you can still..." After Leopard finished speaking, he stretched his legs and left. Second father's voice mocking his nephew came from behind. After countless repairs and repairs, the "Shanzhuang Temple" at the east end of the village has become somewhat nondescript.The ancient glazed tiles are mixed with mechanically pressed and baked red machine tiles. A few thick wires pass through the gable wall, and there is a rhythmic rattling sound of baskets coming from the door. When Leopard walked to the door, Feng Dekuan, the miller in charge of the electric mill, was pouring a bucket of processed wheat into it.Leopard shook his hand, Feng Dekuan nodded, tightened the screws on the grinding mouth, and jumped off the grinding platform.The two walked under a mulberry tree, and the sound of the electric mill was no longer deafening. Looking wide-eyed and wide-eyed, Leopard put forward his opinions on the management of electric mills straight to the point, so as to avoid the old and honest man's doubts: "Brother Dekuan, we want to change the management of electric mills this year." "Hmm!" Dekuan stared at him closely.The meaning must be: how to change?Will it help him earn work points?His eyes were serious. "The labor is counted according to the actual processing of grain." Leopard said, "How many catties are grinded for a work point, and I want to hear your opinion." "That's not a big problem, the team won't treat me badly." Shicheng was very open-minded, and then asked: "Does everything that you grind during the day and night count?" "It's all counted." Leopard said simply, "You deserve it for your hard work." "Then if there is no one grinding noodles, can I work in the team?" "welcome." "Okay!" Lao Cheng had a happy expression on his face, "I welcome this approach from the team." "That's it." After Leopard finished speaking, he stood up. "Don't be in a hurry, bro!" Dekuan grabbed Leopard's sleeve and said in a bit of embarrassment, "Brother Leopard, let me lock the fucking electric mill, okay?" Leopard didn't expect, not at all, that Dekuan would ask his wife to take care of the electric mill, so it was difficult to open his mouth. "She has learned from me in the past few years, and it's so easy to control!" Dekuan said, "I usually have a headache, and she grinds the noodles for me." Leopard suddenly thought: let Dekuan's sister-in-law take care of the electric grinder, but it has liberated Dekuan's hard work.I went out to two sideline groups, and there seems to be a shortage of male labor, especially middle-aged male labor, just right!While he was happily calculating like this, the old honest man thought that the leopard would not agree, and sincerely explained the reason why he asked the woman to manage the mill for him: "Well, my brother! I have two elders who are over seventy, and three children who are going to school. I rely on you to work hard with your sister-in-law! Every year, I get a lot of work points, and my life is miserable. The work points are worthless! To put it bluntly, two old people don’t even have a pair of birthday kits. What if... Alas! The baby is going to school and sees his baby wearing plastic sandals, so he asks me for two or three dollars. Things, we can't afford it for the baby, and we spank the baby..." The honest man had tears in his eyes, and his voice was trembling. The upright and warm-hearted machine gun squad leader of the border guards—the new captain Feng Baozi, dared not look at the sleepy and guilty eyes of this old brother of the same generation, nor did he I had the heart to watch his strong body tremble with sadness.At this moment, the young captain completely forgot the unhappiness of his fiancée's change of heart after being demobilized, and only had sympathy and pity for the middle-aged elder brother. "Alas! Don't be afraid of your brother's jokes. My father is in his seventies. Don't talk about what to eat and what to wear. The old man's cigarette packs are dried cotton leaves..." Lao Cheng covered his face with his hands, and the blood flowed between his fingers. Strings of teardrops. Leopard gritted his teeth, letting the tears that were about to overflow his eyes flow back, and a salty liquid flowed from his throat into his stomach.He said: "Brother Dekuan, your idea is good. We are short of labor!" De Kuan raised his head: "I'm not afraid to work hard! As long as our old man and baby can be like other people's old man and baby, I'm willing to break my bones." "Brother Dekuan, I know your situation." Leopard said. "Oh! This is good. This is good!" Dekuan sighed sincerely, "In the two years since I bought the electric grinder, the labor was calculated according to the actual poundage of the flour, and the more I worked, the more I got. I came to the working group that year. People say that I earn more work points, and I am an upstart! Good God, I earn about a hundred more working days a year than others, and the value is only thirty or fifty yuan. How much can I explode? next..." "Stop talking, Brother Dekuan!" Leopard persuaded, "That's all." "Okay, okay! Brother, please give us a good fight for the third team. I will help your sister-in-law manage the electric mill to make the members satisfied!" , We have plenty of strength!" Leopard was a little embarrassed, turned around and left. Leopard came home to have lunch. At the gate of the street, he saw his second father coming out from the gate.He naturally stopped his feet, made way for the angry second father, and let the elders go out first.The second dad drove straight out with his hands behind his back, without even looking at his nephew, he walked into the street. Leopard had a guess at the moment: the second dad had filed a complaint against his father. He heard people talking about how his second dad had been working in Yuchi for many years, trying to be free and easy. In a certain year, the new captain was angered by the voices of the members and made the decision to replace the second old man.The second dad went to find the father who was the branch secretary, and the father went to the captain to "do work"... After that, the second dad was still happy in the willow forest by the fish pond, and the members of the club stared at him!Now, is it time to move again? Mother took the food out of the small kitchen and put it on the square table in the back room, where my father was already sitting. Leopard sat down opposite his father. The big old bowl contained yellow corn grits, and the enamel plate contained sauerkraut from the nest in the early winter of last year.From the harvest of corn last autumn to the harvest of new wheat in May of the lunar calendar this year, during the eight months of this year, the members of the Fengjiatan community eat corn grits for three meals a day.Some people say "take corn as the key link", and some even made up a jingle: "Drink grits for breakfast, drink grits for lunch, and peel off the corn for dinner." Instead of buying high-priced grain, you can drink grits until you can catch new ones. Mai's family is a well-to-do household envied by everyone. The leopard could not take issue with such a monotonous meal.Once there was dissatisfaction, my father began to recall bitterness and sweetness, saying that he was too greedy for being used to him in the army. When Dad started to drink, his voice was very loud and long, like a rag.As soon as the leopard picked up the bowl, his father stopped his chopsticks and asked, "I heard that you want to release the pig farm and fish pond to private individuals?" "No." Leopard said, "It's just a change in the management method. Both the pig farm and the fish pond are owned by the team." "Don't you call the cat Mi?" "Contract production, production responsibility system, joint production and pay. The name is called by people." Leopard said, "The key is to mobilize the production enthusiasm of the members." "Can't you wait a little longer?" Dad's tone was deliberative and sincere. "This 'big pot of rice' can't be eaten anymore, Dad." Leopard said, "When working, you look at me and I look at you, just because I am afraid that I will work harder. When eating, you look at me and I look at you. I’m just afraid that I’m missing a spoonful! It’s what the members say, the smart people teach the stupid people to be smart, and the lazy people teach the hardworking people to be lazy! It’s been more than 20 years, why does everyone see that such a management system can’t get along? , but can't you change it?" Dad smiled wryly, and said, "I'm not blind either! In 1971, I implemented quota management in Fengjiatan, and it was hot for two years. In the year that Confucianism was approved, I became the second child of Confucius in Fengjiatan..." "Then you should do it now." Leopard expressed that he understood his father's difficulties, "The situation is better now!" "Hmph!" Father smiled indifferently, "I think Feng Jiatan will follow up after the whole society is up and running." "Then you wait!" Leopard said, "The third team will not wait." silence.Two voices of drinking corn grits, like tearing cloth, came and went alternately on one side and the other side of the square table. "Let's just talk about the fish pond managed by my second dad!" Leopard couldn't keep silent, and started to talk again, "I checked the account, and in seven years, the team spent more than 500 yuan on the fish fry in the fish pond, and the bran used to feed the fish The skin is tens of thousands of catties. He himself has 360 working days a year, which is more than 100 yuan in 30 cents, and 700 yuan in seven years. But how many fish have been produced? Except for giving gifts, it is impossible to calculate. The actual income over the years is only three hundred yuan!" Dad's face was very calm, indicating that he was not ignorant of the situation, but just helpless.He said: "Let's wait a little longer. Don't get ahead of yourself in everything, shoot the bird out of the head. I just told him about your second dad. Learn to study faster in the future." Leopard thought, the second dad really came from "Zouben".Before he could open his mouth, his mother, who had always been strictly non-interfering in government affairs, interjected: "The second child is too lazy! I can't be bothered to see him! The commune members scolded him, and our ears are feverish! Tell me, you shouldn't be sensible. he!" Dad called softly, and seemed to have unspeakable difficulties for the behavior of this unsatisfactory brother. Leopard smiled and said to his mother: "There are loopholes in the management method. If you put diligent people there, you will be lazy in two years, not to mention the second dad..." "It's good to engage in contract production." Dad said calmly, "I have been a cadre for more than 20 years, can't I still tell the difference?" "That's good." Leopard said, happy to agree with his father on this point. "I think it's better to wait." My father finally expressed his concern quietly, quite mysteriously, "I heard that the opinions of the county and the prefectural committee are not unified, so there has been no settlement yet." "Let them continue to discuss." Leopard said mockingly, "Those officials who have regarded tumors as a sacred superiority, if they stop paying their wages, let him come to Fengjiatan to earn 30 cents On working days, eat corn grits and sauerkraut for three meals a day, and taste the rotten cotton leaves that his father put in the smoke pot-the taste of new tobacco that tobacco experts have not yet discovered. It's time to end..." Dad stopped his chopsticks and put down the bowl, he let out a long breath and looked at his son solemnly without any intention of recalling bitterness and sweetness. "I won't wait a day, Dad." Leopard said, "The change of production management methods for fish farms, pig farms, etc. is the first step to remove tumors. Field production is followed by a responsibility system, and The second knife, the third knife..." According to the prior agreement, Leopard and Niuwa will meet at Leopard's mansion tonight to exchange information about their respective jobs. Niu Wa came in, Leopard saw the result from the excited face, and felt relieved. As soon as Niuwa entered the door, he slammed his hand from the top and beamed with joy: "No problem, we have accepted the new management method!" Leopard listened, feeling so happy!Looking at Er Niu, who was born in the same year as me, and my inseparable companion when he was mowing grass and studying when he was young, there are already well-developed sideburns in front of his ears and on his chin.At the age of twenty-six or seven, he is still naked!Such a strong and honest young man, in the dense villages on both sides of the river, can't find a partner, all of them are poor!The trustee ordered (actually bought) a girl from the Shangluo mountain area, and spent more than a thousand yuan. I only met once, and the introducer led the girl away. I can’t even find her. "Damn it!His eagerness to reform the status quo of Fengjiatan's third team, which is dying, is stronger than his desire for the opposite sex! "Leopard! The two old men in the vegetable garden welcome our new regulations with both hands! Feng Laisheng of the pig farm also welcomes him, but he only proposes to let him open the wasteland east of the pig farm as a feed land... I think it can be done. , anyway, the land is deserted. He can grow some black beans and alfalfa to feed pigs, which can reduce the cost..." "Give it to him!" Leopard said, "open up that piece of wasteland and feed the pigs to the team, what's wrong with that! Lowering the cost is good for him and even better for the team!" "I see, we can hold a club meeting tomorrow to announce!" Niu Wa said, "It's just that your second dad doesn't accept it alone, so it doesn't matter to the overall situation. There are plenty of people who want to eat this bowl of food. Don't bother with him!" "Yes!" Leopard was very encouraged, "Now, let's reconsider the specific plan, and we will take it out tomorrow..." At this moment, an elderly woman walked in quietly through the door.Leopard turned his head, oh, it's Erniang, Leopard quickly got up from the stool and let Erniang sit down.Erniang is a wise and gentle elder, and Leopard respects her very much. Erniang clasped her hands, put them on her chest cautiously, stood along the kang, looked at the leopard and the cow baby a little embarrassedly, and finally chose the words to say: "You two children are busy with work, I just say Just leave with one sentence. Your second dad... let me tell you back, saying that he is willing to follow the new rules...to manage the fish pond." Leopard smiled, and said kindly to Er Niang: "That's all right!" Niuwa and aunt joked, with sarcasm: "Second Aunt, I disagree. Second Uncle got up early and said nothing, why is he 'climbing the back wall' again now?" "Don't bother with that second son." Er Niang replied with a smile, "That second son will not talk to people for the rest of his life, and he will finish hurting people." "No!" Niu Wa continued to tease Er Niang, "Let Second Uncle speak for himself." "Forget it!" Er Niang begged. "No way!" Niuwa was even tougher. "Then...then I'll call him! It's okay to fix his bad temper..." Er Niang was very serious, and turned around to go out. Niu Wa burst out laughing suddenly, grabbed her aunt, pushed her to sit on the edge of the kang, and said, "Good Second Aunt, I'm joking with you. You're right if you say it!" Although Erniang was teased by Niuwa, she smiled reassuringly. "Tell me, why did the second uncle accept the 'contract production' method again?" Niu Wa asked, "Didn't he brag that he didn't want to earn such a bad job?" "Listen to his nonsense!" Er Niang became angry, "Writing letters to my baby all day long asking for money! My baby also has a large family in Tibet, food is expensive, and the whole life of my baby is very tight..." "Second uncle, he has two steamed buns in his hand, so he's shaking it in front of the beggar!" Niu Wa said sarcastically, "If the value of our labor day increases to one yuan this year, how can he still shake it in the third team?" Leopard has been unable to intervene, in front of him is the wise elder Er Niang.He was afraid that Er Niu Tu would be happy for a while, so he continued talking unrestrainedly, which would hurt the old man's feelings, which is not good at all!He held Erniang's arm and said, "You tell Erba, that's fine." He sent her out of the house. The two sat down again, and the leopard looked at Erniu affectionately. Er Niu was embarrassed, and stared: "Look at me, don't you recognize me?" Leopard smiled knowingly: "You are a scholar!" Er Niu felt shy: "How come you also learned how to make people?" "No." Leopard was quite serious, "You just revealed a truth!" "What?" Niu Wazi was also surprised when he heard it. "You said, 'If the value of our working day grows to one yuan, the two buns in my second father's hand will not be able to be shaken in front of the poor!' That's right! Very right!" Leopard said, "We will do this year The most important thing is to liberate everyone from poverty, so that they don’t have to worry about poverty anymore! Let the commune members stiffen their waists and live with thick waists!” After hearing this, Niuwa had a strange light in his eyes, and said with a smile: "I actually told a truth! I am a serious piece of material! What a pity! What a pity! It's a pity that no girl recognizes our piece of material... Haha... " The leopard also laughed, and punched Niu Wa hard on the shoulder: "Let's talk about serious business!"