Rebirth 1979: Marrying a poor girl at the beginning

"Thank you, Director Xu!" Lin Zhengjun said with a smile.

"Zhengjun, don't thank me. I don't have that much power. It's the Party and the government's policies that are good. You should thank the Party and the government!"

Xu Zhigong smiled and said, "On January 1, the higher authorities made the Decision on Removing the Labels of Landlords and Rich Peasants and the Class Status of the Children of Landlords and Rich Peasants."

"The decision points out that all landlords, rich people, and counter-revolutionaries and bad elements who have obeyed the law, worked honestly, and not done bad things for many years will have their labels removed and be treated as members of the rural people's commune after being reviewed by the masses and approved by the county revolutionary committee."

"Landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and rightists", collectively referred to as the "five black categories", includes not only themselves but also their children.

Children have faced discrimination and restrictions in graduation assignments, employment, military service, love and marriage.

Lin Zhengjun’s “removal of the hat” this time will of course be recorded in his file, so it will not affect his future college entrance examinations in the slightest.

The tractor drove to the door of Wei Hongbing's house in the filling workshop. Everyone worked together to move all the cans down, filling up the yard. They were busy for a while.

Xu Zhigong and Song Hebin left on a tractor.

Tang Xiaofu clasped her hands together and smiled sweetly, "Congratulations, Comrade Zhengjun. Good luck to you, and I'm soaring to the sky! From now on, you will have a smooth journey and rise to the sky!"

Lin Zhengjun was also very happy and said with a smile: "Don't worry, your debarment notice will probably arrive soon, and we will definitely be able to get into university together!"

"Yes! I believe it!" Tang Xiaofu smiled and nodded.

In the evening, Hao Jianguo also brought people to transport sucrose, baking soda and citric acid in a small truck.

Five hundred kilograms of white sugar!

One hundred kilograms of edible alkali!

Citric acid, two hundred kilograms!

When the members saw these things being transported in, they were extremely shocked.

"Five hundred kilograms of sugar!"

"400 cents per pound, a total of yuan? Just buy it!"

"This Lin Zhengjun is indeed a descendant of a landlord family, he is so extravagant!"

"Don't be unconvinced. Just because they can get sugar, it proves that they are capable!"

Everyone came to watch, and they were all drooling, stunned, and felt that their worldview had been refreshed.

How fresh!

In recent years, sugar, like meat, is a scarce substance, but it is also a necessity and everyone craves sugar.

Sugar is a rare tonic and nutritional supplement in this era. Women need to eat it during confinement, and the elderly and children at home also need to eat it when they are sick!

Therefore, the supply was strictly based on tickets. An adult would only have two kilograms of sugar tickets in a year. Moreover, everyone had low incomes, so they would only buy half a kilogram of cane sugar and brown sugar during the New Year and other festivals and mix it with sugar water to drink.

But what Lin Zhengjun bought was several hundred kilograms of sugar packed in snakeskin bags. His courage was really scary!

"Mad! We bought all of them with debt. If we fail and lose money, there will be famine. We might as well dig for food in the soil. At least we can fill our stomachs!" Chen Laoshi started to eat lemons again.

"That's not a big deal! We farmers should just work the land honestly. That's our destiny!"

"Why do you have to make canned yellow peaches? Is that something that we country folks can make?"

"You must be so ambitious and plan to make a lot of money. Just wait and see, you will end up with nothing!"

Many members with conservative ideas echoed this.

Lin Zhengjun didn't take these rumors seriously.

By the time the canned food is ready, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it can be put on the market immediately to make a lot of money, and the profits can be distributed as dividends to the cooperative members.

By then, you will no longer be eating lemons, but will become lemon spirits!

The cut yellow peach pulp was put into large basins and buckets and transported to Zou Chunfang's home to start the next process: pre-cooking.

"Sister Chunfang, the heat is very important. It needs to be cooked, but not overcooked. You have eaten canned yellow peaches in syrup, right?" Lin Zhengjun explained.

"Don't worry, I've eaten it. It's just a little tough and crispy. It can't be sticky!" Zou Chunfang quickly boiled water in a pot, and several educated youth helped.

"After cooking, it needs to be trimmed. The flesh must be especially beautiful, without any scars or blemishes..." Lin Zhengjun instructed.

"Okay, I remember it!"

Zou Chunfang was not sure about the peaches because she cooked them for the first time. There was not much pulp, so she kept poking the yellow peaches with a chopstick and only took them out when they were cooked to the right degree.

Lin Zhengjun took a bite and said, "It's overcooked. It needs to be a little chewier and crispier!"

The second pot was much more successful!

Zou Chunfang looked at his watch and said, "I see. It takes about five minutes in boiling water. Any longer than that and it won't work!"

Next, the pre-cooked fruits were transported to Wei Hongbing’s home for the next step: filling with sugar liquid and pulp and sealing.

“To make the sugar liquid, add sugar and citric acid, then pour in about 350 grams of fruit pulp and 140 grams of sugar water…” Lin Zhengjun gave more instructions.

In fact, Lin Zhengjun’s canned food has more fruit pulp and syrup than other canned food, and the corresponding cost will be higher, but Lin Zhengjun doesn’t care.

By selling at low prices and making quick returns, and passing on the benefits to consumers, you can gradually build a brand.

"The other step is secondary disinfection. After filling, the fruit is steamed for only two minutes. The purpose is not to steam the pulp, but to heat it and then cool it down to form negative pressure. Once the pot is opened, the lid is immediately put on while it is hot, and it is first cooled naturally to about 80 degrees Celsius, and then soaked in cold water to cool."

Lin Zhengjun said: "There are two benefits here. First, disinfection and sterilization. Second, thermal expansion and contraction will form negative pressure, which is the same as the effect of air extraction and exhaust in state-owned factories. The closer to a vacuum in the can, the better it is for preservation! This is what I call a folk method!"

"understood!"

Wei Hongbing and others took notes carefully in their notebooks and started working enthusiastically.

Twenty minutes later, the first can of syrupy yellow peaches came out fresh from the oven.

"It looks impressive!"

“If it were labeled, it would look exactly like the cans you get at department stores in the city!”

Everyone looked around the finished product, excited and filled with a sense of accomplishment.

"Everyone, try it!"

Lin Zhengjun twisted the lid for a long time before he finally opened it and poured the liquid into the bowl.

All the cooperative members came over, each holding a small spoon, took a bite, and immediately praised it with great joy.

"The sugar water is so sweet!"

“The flesh is so fragrant!”

“It’s no worse than the canned food from state-owned factories!”

"If the shelf life is OK, then it's done!"

For a moment, everyone was full of confidence and hope. It was as if a fire was burning in their hearts and their blood was boiling.

Lin Zhengjun said confidently: "Don't worry, although we use traditional methods to produce our products, our craftsmanship is not inferior to that of the state-owned canning factories in the city. The shelf life is one year without any problems."

Lin Tiedan asked: "Commander Lin, I'm not good at math. Can you calculate how much money we can make if we sell all the cans?"

"The yellow peaches from the Linhe Brigade, including those on the trees and the batch given to us, total 6 kilograms, which can make at least canned bottles. Based on the gross profit of cents per bottle, we can make at least !" said Lin Zhengjun.

The crowd was silent.

Everyone was dumbfounded and completely stunned by this number.

"If I perform well, I will get the highest 1% of the bonus, which is yuan? I'm not good at math, did I calculate it wrong?" Lin Tiedan asked with a trembling voice.

"You're not wrong!" Lin Zhengjun nodded.

"Fuck, then I can buy a bicycle too!"

"Four hundred dollars! That's too much! Even if I work hard in the fields for ten years, I may not be able to earn that much!"

"It's still more promising to follow the main army and do a side job!"

The crowd was in jubilation, everyone was smiling, their eyes were shining, their blood was instantly boiling, and they were full of energy.