hotmtlnovel Chapter 118 Epilogue 1978...lights on
Chapter 118 Epilogue 1978...lights on
At the end of 78, many policies were quietly opened. Liu Ping's husband's family is closer to the county seat and not far from the city. Those advanced places are more advanced than remote rural areas, and the society has slowly opened up the market.
She thought that when she had free time in the future, she would definitely go to the county and the city for a tour, personally investigate the current market conditions, and go out and try out new sales channels in person.
At the end of November of the lunar calendar, the weather has gotten colder, but this winter is different from previous winters. Aunt Ya's family, including the whole family, has put on clean and new winter clothes, which no longer look tattered.
This is especially true for Xiuxiu's family. As early as two months ago at the grain distribution meeting, Xiuxiu converted all the work points owed by the Feng family into money, paid back half of it first, and promised that next year she would repay the money owed to the village. All the money is paid off.
Now that Xiuxiu can sew clothes, her family no longer has to worry about their clothes. Seeing the changes in Xiuxiu and Aunt Ya's family, the villagers all felt that Xiuxiu could make money by making clothes, and anyone who was diligent would come to Xiuxiu's house to learn from their experience.
Xiu Xiu and Aunt Ya were worried at first that the team would grow so big that there would be too much supply and less money for everyone.
But after a period of communication between Aunt Ya and the aunts and aunts, only four people were willing to join. The others backed down as soon as they heard the details of their work.
The reasons are similar. They are both willing to learn, but they feel that the work of Xiuxiu and Aunt Ya is too strenuous. They have to go out to work for the village during the day, and have to sew clothes under the candlelight until very late at night. There are old people and young people, but they are not willing to put in so much effort.
Xiuxiu looks back at this period in her previous life
Most of the rural people in the country still live under the planned system and are accustomed to the model of everyone working together and waiting for collective distribution. In addition, this year's harvest is good and every family is living well. Inertia and laziness are difficult to overcome.
After such analysis, Xiuxiu felt that this phenomenon was normal. First, she had no intention of alleviating poverty in Xiaoxi Village. Second, even if she wanted to alleviate poverty, she had not yet opened up more sales. If too many people joined at once, it would be easy. Smash.
There are currently six people in total, which can just make up for the shortage of winter clothing she and Aunt Ya have. Before expanding production next time, she must personally inspect the market to open up sales.
In winter, when there is no farm work to do, Xiuxiu's "garment factory" can be fully operated. It was a rural area in the 70s in the cold winter. There was no air conditioning or heating. The working conditions were a bit difficult than she imagined.
On the last day of the Gregorian year, it was so cold that no one could hold a needle. Everyone had a hot water tank next to them, and they had to cover their hands after sewing for a while.
Six people, Xiuxiu and Aunt Ya, were sitting in the room studying new styles of cotton-padded jackets. Suddenly, they heard a loudspeaker from the brigade:
"Comrade members, please pay attention! Today at four o'clock in the afternoon, our Xiaoxi Village will officially connect to the new power grid. All village households who have signed up to have their homes connected to the line and have lights installed must be at home to watch on time. Whether the lights are on or not, you have to come to the brigade to report and sign! The load of the new power grid can fully meet the electricity needs of the whole village. If anyone wants to sign up, please let me know at any time! Say it again..."
"Electricity is about to be connected!" Aunt Ya said: "They are really capable when it comes to building a building! They will really connect us to the electricity by the end of the year!"
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Auntie said: "My little Yazi has been running around with Zhang Jiancheng every day for more than a month. With this hard-working spirit, what can't he do?"
Aunt Wang scratched the needle on her scalp, and frowned as she sewed the needle and said:
"If you ask me, this is a waste of effort. There are a few people in our village who are willing to use their own money to wire and install lights at home. Wang Dayou is a fool. He insists on doing the thing of increasing the electricity. The power supply that was introduced in the early years Just light up enough electricity to use the brigade’s loudspeaker for broadcasting, but this is a waste of time and money!”
Xiuxiu smiled and said seductively: "You can't say that, Aunt Wang! We have to look at it from the perspective of development. In the past, we made our own clothes and sold them to whom. Look, now, the counties and cities want to buy clothes from us. There are more and more people, which I didn’t dare to think about before!”
Aunt Li glared at Aunt Wang and said to Xiuxiu: "Don't listen to your Aunt Wang, she loves to complain. When it comes to pulling wires to enter the house, their old Wang is the first to sign up!"
Aunt Wang slapped her thigh: "That's not because our old Wang was blinded by Wang Dayou's cowhide smoke and was fooling around! I don't agree!"
Aunt Ya said while pulling the cloth: "It must be said that people who have returned from the army are capable. At that call, all the young and old men in the village joined the battle. No matter if they are useful or not, they must first bring us the electricity! If before, With such advanced things, who should come to our Xiaoxi Village!"
Aunt Wang nodded in agreement: "That's true! The two grain harvests this year have broken the record of our Xiaoxi Village! No grain harvest has ever had such results before!"
Several people in the room were discussing each other, and then listened to the brigade's broadcast saying something new:
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One thing! After the power grid is successfully connected, at seven o'clock tonight, on the playground of the primary school, we will hold a New Year's Day bonfire party in Xiaoxi Village! All members attended on time! Everyone brings their own benches! Notice again..."
Aunt Wang put down her needlework and said puzzledly to the window: "What kind of bonfire lantern festival? What's new about this!"
Aunt Li curled her lips and said, "Just light a fire and look at the lights. Wang Dayou just wants to show off that the electricity in Xiaoxi Village is bright and good!"
Aunt Ya quickly said: "Xiu'er! Let's sit together tonight! Bring your work and borrow the team's lamp to sew another one!" For Aunt Ya now, making money is more important than anything else.
Xiuxiu smiled: "Auntie! You should dress up Erya beautifully tonight and have fun!"
At around six o'clock in the evening, the villagers gathered early in front of the primary school playground after dinner. In the middle of the playground, a dry firewood chopping block was set up, and a shelf was set up next to the firewood pile.
Xiuxiu hugged her balls and squeezed to the seat that her father had already occupied. From a distance, she saw Zhang Jiancheng directing the young adults to make various preparations. They had already set up a stand and pull strings on the simple audience stage in the north of the playground. A light bulb was installed.
Xiuxiu had no such memory in her previous life. In her previous life, the power grid upgrade was completed in 1981, and the army engineers came to support the construction.
In those two years, two major infrastructure projects began to be constructed around Xiaoxi Village, one was a highway and the other was a railway. At that time, members of the production teams from the surrounding villages were mobilized to join in the construction.
Since we were in the middle stage of structural reform at that time, people's enthusiasm for responding was not too high, so
The construction progress has been very slow, and the construction of the two lines has not been progressed for more than two years.
It was not until Cheng Guoqiang stayed in Zhixi City after graduating from university and Xiu Xiu moved there that the construction of these two lines began to accelerate again under the operation of the market economy.
Xiuxiu's thoughts were swirling with the tremendous social changes in her previous life. When she came back to her senses, she saw that Zhang Jiancheng had already walked over.
He had just finished his work, put on his military coat again, walked up to Xiuxiu, straightened the cotton hat in her arms, and asked: "How is the electric light at home? No problem!"