I became the richest man in the world after losing my life in a vegetative state.

1979 11 Month 1 Day.

Thursday.

Western Guangdong.

Shijiao Commune, Lian County, Zhancheng Prefecture.

A place called Chenjiacun Production Team.

Since the beginning of this year, Chenjia Village has just distributed fields to each household. Each household has drawn lots according to the number of adults and the total field area of ​​the production team.

Calculated, the Chenjiacun production team has an average family of only about five cents of land per adult.

In addition, the threshers (rice threshers), buffaloes and other tools that originally belonged to the production team were also distributed to each household by lottery. With good luck, a family could be assigned a thresher. Or get a buffalo.

Villagers who are assigned threshers can thresh the rice with their feet when it's time to harvest the rice.

Villagers who did not get a threshing machine can only borrow threshing machines from other villagers, or they can only thresh the grain in the most primitive way. However, it is very hard and it is easy for a lot of sediment to seep into it.

There are also villagers who draw a buffalo and can use the cow to plow the fields. If they don't have one, they can only rely on the labor of one family to dig the fields with hoes, which is quite hard.

For the current villagers of Chenjiacun.

Every family has as many as ten brothers, eight is normal.

There are not many brothers, maybe five or six.

In this era, before the distribution of fields to households, people simply did not have enough to eat. Just after the distribution of fields to households, with low labor force and extremely low rice production, they still did not have enough to eat.

Because almost half, or even two-thirds, of the food needs to be handed over to the country as public food.

The rest is yours.

The national public grains handed over must meet the requirements. If you really can't hand them over, you can only pay to buy the public grains turned over from others.

In this case, most people's families are still very poor.

So why aren't there other jobs?

Don't even think about it!

Except in big cities, such as Yangcheng and Zhancheng, where there are many state-owned enterprises and many citizens can enter the factories of state-owned enterprises to earn an iron rice bowl, in rural areas, especially in remote rural areas like western Guangdong, there is no need to think about having a formal job. .

In other words, after a month, not only will there be insufficient food, but the monthly income may be one yuan, or even two yuan.

If you have skills, you can make some weaving products, such as bamboo products, and sell them on the streets of Shijiao Commune to exchange for some money.

If you don’t have skills in this area, then there is no need to think about it at all.

In addition, there are some special craftsmen, such as folk Taoist priests who perform rituals and fast, and they will also earn some income.

However, when everyone is very poor, life is the best. Maybe they are the captain of the production team or the accountant. Their income is much higher, and at least the family can have enough to eat.

As for reading?

When I go to primary school, there are still many families who support me.

You have to go to junior high school. In the two-year system, you will graduate in the second year of junior high school. Even if there is high school and even the college entrance examination is resumed, many families may not be able to afford five yuan at home.

Chen Yajiu, a family in Chenjia Village, has six sons and one daughter.

Among these children, the daughter ranks second.

She was good at school and went to junior high school in Shijiao Middle School in Shijiao Commune.

Completing the second year of junior high school in a two-year program means either graduating or continuing to take exams.

Now you can also take the exam to a high school or a normal school in the county.

If you can get into a normal school, you can work as a primary school teacher after graduation.

In this era, if an ordinary person can become a people's teacher, it is considered an iron rice bowl, and it is also very glorious in the village.

Chen Yajiu's daughter Chen Xiulan knows the situation at home. Now that there are many brothers in the family, it is difficult to even have enough food. She wants to go to high school, but her family cannot support her. Therefore, she wants to try to see if she can be admitted to the normal school in the county and graduate. You can become a teacher.

When she learned from her class teacher that the registration fee and examination fee would cost 3 yuan, Chen Xiulan went back and asked Chen Yajiu for money to register for the examination.

3 yuan?

For Chen Yajiu, what is this concept?

This is definitely a lot of money.

After a year, he had no income at all, and he had to support so many people at home. After turning in the public grain, there was not much food left. Now rice is still less than 1 cents a catty (the rice sold privately in rural areas is much higher than that in urban areas). (cheap), this is equivalent to the price of thirty or forty kilograms of rice.

Where can he get 3 yuan?

If I register for the exam but fail, the registration fee and exam fee of 3 yuan will be gone at once.

Even if she passes the exam, where will she get the money to pay her tuition?

"Xiulan, dad really doesn't have the money to sign you up for the exam."

Chen Yajiu looked helplessly at his second daughter Chen Xiulan and said.

He only has six sons and one daughter, and he still dotes on this daughter.

However, in Chen Yajiu's mind, in this era, what is the use of studying, especially for women, who have to get married as soon as they reach old age.

As for being a teacher and having an iron rice bowl, he had never thought about it.

It was at that time that Chen Xiulan knew that because of her family's poverty, she had no choice but to give up the exam.

On the same day, Chen Xiulan took all the school books back without selling them, but she did not review them again.

Just that night.

Chen Xiulan's mother, Lin Yingmei, went out to chat with her neighbor, and suddenly heard news that surprised her.

That is, the Labor Bureau of Lian County is recruiting people.

Although this job is not a guaranteed job, I heard that as long as you sign up and get hired, you will be paid 20 yuan a month.

A monthly salary of 20 yuan!

For western Guangdong, Lian County, and even rural areas across the country, it is definitely a huge amount of income.

The eldest son of Chen Yajiu and his wife is called Chen Zhida. He is now 20 years old. After returning from junior high school, there was no job at home. They originally wanted to introduce him to the job at Changshan Farm through connections.

It was said that after working for a long time, after becoming a full-time employee, he could join the farm, become a farm worker, and enjoy the benefits of a farm worker, which would also be regarded as an iron rice bowl. When Chen Zhida came over, he realized that he was going to cut rubber for the farm.

Most of the time when cutting rubber, you have to go to work in the early morning. Many times, you cut rubber alone.

Chen Zhida went to work with relatives on the farm several times, but he had to go alone. He found that he often had to go to the rubber forests with many graves, and he was afraid of running back the next day.

In the next few years, he went to learn furniture making from an uncle, which was regarded as learning a craft.

However, he studied this art with his uncle for several years. He neither learned any skills nor made any money, so he ran back.

It's not that he doesn't want to learn, it's mainly that he's really not interested and his uncle can't teach him anything.

When Chen Zhida was twenty years old, he was already at the age of marriage. However, now Chen Yajiu and his wife have no money at all, and they have no choice.

Now, when Lin Yingmei heard the news, she immediately ran back to her husband Chen Yajiu to discuss it and let Chen Zhida apply for the job at the Lian County Labor Bureau.

Of course Chen Yajiu agrees.

Now Chen Zhida can't do anything at home, and he has to earn a share of food to support him. Why not let him do a job with a monthly salary of 20 yuan to improve the conditions at home. When he makes money, he will Money married.

Nowadays, in this era, there are many men and women of marriageable age, and many families are very poor. This does not mean that there is no need for gifts, or that money does not need to be used when getting married.

That night.

"Zhida, the county labor bureau is recruiting people now. The price is 20 yuan per month. Will you go?"

Chen Zhida didn't even have to think about it, of course he was going.

The most important thing is that when he learned that his second sister Chen Xiulan could not even afford the 3 yuan exam fee and had no choice but to give up the exam and become a teacher, he felt that there was really no way out for him to stay in the countryside. If he could have a job Of course it's the best.

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