Reborn in 1977

Chapter 62: The Household Registration Problem

Hearing Chen Fan's words, Jiang Lili glanced outside again, and only after confirming that no one was coming in did she turn her head to look at him and said softly,

"If you register your household here, you'll be allocated a plot of land for a house and a piece of private plot. You'll also be assigned work points for participating in labor. The more you get, the less the other members of the production team will get, so of course they won't be happy."

"Ah?"

Chen Fan looked at her blankly, "Is that how it is?"

Jiang Lili nodded and lowered her head, "I heard that when the first batch of educated youth came here, the commune members were also very unhappy. The leaders did a lot of work and forcibly allocated a piece of land for the educated youth, and also gave the production team a lot of compensation before it was settled."

Hearing this, Chen Fan finally understood where the conflict lay. Land was the lifeblood of farmers. Although the land now belonged to the collective, grain was still distributed from this land. If one more person shared it, they would get one share less, so of course they wouldn't be happy.

So, to solve his household registration problem, he couldn't infringe on the interests of others.

Even if they called him "Little Master Chen" and various teams sent him gifts in return, it wouldn't work if he wanted to share a piece of land and work points with them!

After a pause, Chen Fan asked again, "Then what's the deal with the unregistered people? Why did Public Security Officer Zhu say that there are many unregistered people in the commune?"

"Oh, I know about that."

Jiang Lili raised her head and said softly, "Some units in the commune have collective household registrations, such as the Water Transport Company, the Substation, the Post and Telecommunications Office, and the Power Supply Station. If the employees are not locals and come here to work and live in the houses allocated by the units, their household registrations are generally under the collective household registration.

If someone with a collective household registration marries a girl from the countryside, the village will cancel the girl's household registration as an out-married woman. However, there are quotas for agricultural-to-non-agricultural household registration for collective households, which are generally only given to employees and their family members. In this way, the rural out-married woman's original household registration will be gone, and she won't be able to register a new one, so she will naturally become an unregistered person.

In addition, if they have children in the future, because the children have to follow their mother's household registration, if the mother doesn't have a household registration, the children will also become unregistered people. The unregistered people in the commune are basically from this situation."

Chen Fan was very surprised, "Doesn't being unregistered affect their lives?"

"Of course it affects them."

Jiang Lili explained, "Only people with household registration will be issued grain ration books and non-staple food books by the neighborhood committee."

Speaking of this, she looked at Chen Fan strangely, "You don't even know this, do you?"

Chen Fan smiled sheepishly, "I know that to buy rice, flour, steamed buns, noodles, and other grains, you must have a grain ration book. To buy meat, oil, sugar, salt, sauce, and other things, you need a non-staple food book."

Just kidding, he didn't read all those time-travel novels for nothing!

Seeing that Chen Fan knew, Jiang Lili said, "Without a household registration, you won't have a grain ration book. If the grain at home is not enough to eat, you can only spend money to buy high-priced grain. Do you think it has a big impact?!"

Chen Fan nodded in agreement, "That's indeed a big deal."

The difference between supply grain and high-priced grain is not small. It can be half the price at low times, and several times higher at high times. Although you don't need grain coupons, you spend more money.

Then he lowered his head and frowned, thinking about what to do.

Although it is easy to register a household in the countryside, if he registers, he will have to share the land, and people will definitely disagree. But if he doesn't want the land, what will he rely on to live in the future?

This is not a small problem.

Jiang Lili looked at him and comforted him softly, "Don't worry too much. There's always a way. With so much stuff, it should last a long time. And being unregistered also has its advantages."

Chen Fan suddenly raised his head, his face full of surprise, "Being unregistered has advantages?"

Jiang Lili nodded, afraid of being heard, and said softly, "Unregistered people are not managed. They don't belong to any production team or unit, so no one can control them.

When the flood season comes next spring, the commune's docks often need porters, so you can go there to do odd jobs to earn money, or you can find a temporary job in the county. Even if the temporary job pays low, it's still more than what you earn in the production team."

Chen Fan blinked, "Don't you need a letter of introduction?"

One of his impressions of this era is that you can't move an inch without a letter of introduction. Didn't he need a handwritten letter of introduction from Team Leader Yang to kill soft-shelled turtles in the brigade?

Jiang Lili smiled and said, "Not everything requires a letter of introduction. You need one to buy long-distance bus tickets, but not for short-distance ones. You need one to stay in a hotel, but not to eat. As long as you don't leave the Yunhu area, you basically don't need a letter of introduction.

As for dealing with inspections by public security and patrolling militiamen, you can ask Public Security Officer Zhu for a certificate, and you don't need a letter of introduction either.

If you really need to do something important, it's not difficult to ask the brigade headquarters to issue you a letter of introduction, but it can't be used for other purposes."

Chen Fan was immediately speechless, "So, as long as there's a way to earn money, household registration isn't that important?"

"Of course not."

Jiang Lili said seriously, "Being unregistered only doesn't affect basic life, but if you want to study, join the army, or participate in formal work, you must have a household registration. It won't work without one."

Chen Fan understood. It doesn't affect life, but it affects the future.

Who doesn't want a future?

Even if it opens up in the future and he goes south to work hard, he will still need a border pass and a temporary residence permit. Without a household registration, he can't get any certificates.

Chen Fan scratched his head and suddenly smiled, "If I don't want land and don't earn work points, will Team Leader Yang agree to let me register my household here?"

Jiang Lili pursed her lips and looked at him, "Probably."

After a pause, she asked worriedly, "But if you don't earn work points, what will you do in the future? You can't always rely on doing odd jobs. And after the flood season, the docks won't need temporary workers anymore."

Chen Fan smiled, "You forgot, I can still cook. At worst, I'll team up with Liu Jujiang and specialize in cooking village banquets for people in the future."

Jiang Lili burst out laughing, "Then won't they have to call you Chen Jujiang in the future?"

Chen Fan laughed, "Master Chen sounds better. You'll have to call me Master Chen in the future."

Jiang Lili wrinkled her nose and suddenly found that her mood was not so heavy anymore.

Chen Fan stood up and said, "That's about it. I'll wait for news from Public Security Officer Zhu. It's best if I can find someone. If there's really no one, then I'll do it this way. I'll go tell Team Leader Yang that I don't want land or work points, just register my household in this educated youth center. We'll be a family in the future."

Jiang Lili smiled and said, "We're not a family. My household registration is not here either."

"Ah?"

Chen Fan was stunned, "Isn't the household registration of educated youth who go to the countryside in the production team?"

As far as he knew, all educated youth had to cancel their household registration in their original place before going to the countryside, and then report and register their household in the local area, and the grain relationship was also transferred to the countryside. How could it not be here?

Jiang Lili smiled and said, "The household registrations of us educated youth are all under the collective household registration of the educated youth office in the commune, and the grain relationship is placed in the production brigade. The household registrations of all educated youth are managed separately. Unless someone in the production team gets married and has children, will they completely transfer their household registration to the production team, and then they will officially become farmers. I heard people say that this is done so that it won't occupy the agricultural-to-non-agricultural quota when the educated youth return to the city. As long as the educated youth can find a unit to receive them, it is very easy to transfer their household registration back to the city."

Chen Fan was stunned. So it could be done this way?