Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

"Xiuhua, you are so lucky. Ergou is so successful that he actually recognized you as his godmother. He also bought you so many electrical appliances. I am so envious."

Aunt Li touched the air conditioner. It was so expensive. Even the families of city cadres could not afford such a good thing.

Zhang Xiuhua heard her tone was a bit sour, but she was used to it. She wanted to keep a low profile because she had money, but some things couldn't be kept low-key. So many villagers were watching. It didn't seem to be a bad thing to get so many benefits for free and endure the envious or jealous eyes of so many people.

Zhang Xiuhua went from being uncomfortable at first to being calm now, and she can even fight back now, "What you said is right! If you really envy me, when you see that pitiful child in the future, you can also help him, maybe you can have the same luck!"

Everyone acted as if they had never seen Zhang Xiuhua. In fact, Zhang Xiuhua lived at the end of the village. Everyone had a good impression of her. She was quiet and gentle. She never complained about being tired after raising six children. She was a good hand at making a living. Before, she asked Ergou to go to the capital for medical treatment, and everyone praised her for her kindness.

But now that she has gained benefits that no one in the village has, everyone's tone has naturally become sour. They don't have any ill intentions, they are just jealous! They just said a few sour words. If they really asked them to do something bad, they would not dare to do it.

It was just that Aunt Li Si dared to say it in front of Zhang Xiuhua, while they could only envy her in private.

But Zhang Xiuhua still felt unsatisfied after she finished her retort, and said with a smile, "It's not enough for you to just envy, you have to take action!"

Aunt Li Si laughed it off.

"We don't have your courage!"

"Your man can make money and has a formal job, but our family is not as rich as yours." A villager immediately responded.

Zhang Xiuhua clicked her tongue, "I heard that everyone in your family has become rich after returning from working in the south, and you're still trying to be modest in front of me?!"

"It's just a part-time job, how can you call that a fortune? They can't even get a fraction of Er Gou's money."

Zhang Xiuhua listened to them praising Ergou and sighed, "I'm just his godmother. I don't know whether Ergou has become rich or not. Doing business is too risky. You may make money today but lose it tomorrow. It's better to work as a worker."

Some people agreed with this, but some people said, "Ergou is in the electrical appliance business, why not let him take care of my man? We live in the same village and have such a close relationship. He still doesn't trust me."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't dare to agree. "I'm just his godmother, I can't be his boss. Please don't make things difficult for me. Business is not good, otherwise I would do it with Ergou. Why do I have to farm at home? But Ergou won't take me with him. What can I do!"

When everyone heard that Ergou refused to take her with him, they gave up the idea.

Seeing that they were no longer chasing Ergou, Zhang Xiuhua asked them if they wanted to go out to work next year.

"We have to divide the land and then go out to work."

This year, these strong laborers came back early to share the land. In the past, they would come back on the 27th or 28th of the twelfth lunar month, but this year they came back ten days earlier. It was the same after the Chinese New Year. They were willing to leave only after the land was divided. This is everyone's root. No matter how they do outside, as long as their roots are still there, they will not starve to death.

Some people are also dissatisfied with the land distribution. "I originally wanted to go to the south to work with my husband. Suddenly the land was divided, what should I do?"

"Give it to your parents-in-law to plant. Then they can give you some food." Someone had already thought of a solution. "After my family's land is divided, I will give it to the eldest son to plant. Then they can give you some food to eat."

Some people hesitated, "I don't know how much land I can get. Is it more profitable to farm or go out to work?"

No one knew the answer, and the brigade cadres did not reveal it, but everyone could roughly guess it.

"I estimate that each person can get 15 mu. You can do the math yourself to see if it's worthwhile to farm."

The current corn yield is 1 jin. A family of five people was allocated mu of land, and the yield was jin. At this time, farmers had to pay agricultural taxes, three levies and five unified fees, and compulsory labor. The three levies refer to the village levy, including provident fund, public welfare fund, and management fee. The five unified fees refer to the township unified fees, including village school fees, family planning fees, preferential treatment fees, militia training fees, and rural road construction fees. ()

The agricultural tax is 15%, which means that each family has to pay 4500 kilograms of public grain. The three-lift and five-unified tax is about 80 yuan per person. This year, the grain station buys corn at 11 yuan per hundred kilograms. It can be sold for 7 yuan. This is the cost. The cost of seeds and fertilizers must be deducted. If we calculate it at 2983%, there will be 5 yuan left. After deducting the three-lift and five-unified tax, there will be 2088 yuan left.

This is certainly not a small amount of money, at least the farmers are reluctant to spend it. Maybe these women will have to stay at home.

"It's unrealistic to give the land to others to farm. Every household has hundreds of acres of land, and who is willing to manage it all?" The daughter-in-law wanted to buy a walk-behind tractor.

With a walk-behind tractor, they can save a lot of trouble.

Xu Chunying asked them, "My husband has asked the team leader to order a walking tractor. Have you ordered one?"

A hand tractor can save a lot of trouble. Especially now that fertilizers are hard to buy, if you want a high yield, you have to cultivate the land carefully. Use a hand tractor to plow the land.

The wife hadn't expected it yet, and immediately said in surprise, "2000 yuan, so much money, you can buy it if you want."

"We have to buy it. With so many acres of land, if we have to plow it all by hand, we will be exhausted to death!" Someone raised an objection immediately.

There was a heated discussion in the room about the tractor.

Someone stuck his head out of the door, and it turned out to be Ergou's stepmother.

Seeing her, everyone had complicated expressions.

Zhang Xiuhua thought she was looking for Ergou, and immediately said, "Ergou is not at home."

When Ergou's stepmother heard the news, she left immediately and refused to stay for even a moment.

Xu Chunying curled her lips, "I think she regretted it. Who told her to always instigate men to beat up Ergou? She deserves it now that she can only watch with envy."

"If you ask me, it's Ergou's father who is wrong! If he really loves Ergou, how could he be fooled by a woman's words?" Zhang Xiuhua felt that her sister-in-law's words were too biased.

Everyone followed suit, "That's a fool!"

"Otherwise Ergou wouldn't hate him so much!"

……

Ergou's stepmother knew nothing about the situation in the house. She came to find Ergou according to her husband's instructions. Last night they were waiting for Ergou to come to get the household registration book, but he didn't come. This morning, he was walking around in circles at home, and he always felt that Ergou was holding back something bad, so he asked his wife to come and inquire.

At the entrance of the village, Ergou's stepmother ran to her husband and told him that Ergou was not at home.

Ergou's father was a little surprised, "Where did he go so early in the morning?!"

Just as I was wondering, Ergou's stepmother pointed to the path leading into the village and said, "That person riding a bicycle is Ergou, right?"

Ergou's father looked and saw that it was Ergou!

Ergou is wearing Youcai's cotton-padded jacket today. Youcai is a little fat, so his previous cotton-padded jacket can no longer fit him. Ergou is very thin, so it fits him perfectly. As for the new cotton-padded jacket that Zhang Xiuhua asked Tielihua to make, it is still being made, and it won't be ready soon. He will just wear the old one for now.

Ergou took the letter of proof and ran to the police station to report the loss of his household registration book. Because the household contract responsibility system was about to be implemented, members of each production team had recently been adding people to their household registration books. In the past, when a child was born, they didn't have to go to the police station. They just had to tell the production team, and then they would be given basic food. But now that the land was to be distributed, all the children in the family had to be registered. Regardless of gender or age, as long as they could breathe, they had to be registered.

He has been waiting in line for a long time and has been delayed until now.