The noise in the crowd slowly died down, with only a few...one or two...until they completely disappeared.

"Our Jianhua Village is the poorest village in the entire township, and even in the entire county. We don't have enough food every year and have to eat resold grain. Whenever there is a shortage of crops, we want to chew even a blade of grass in the field."

"

Huang Zhongfu said, although the villagers didn't know what Huang Zhongfu said had anything to do with tonight's meeting.

But everyone fell silent after listening to Huang Zhongfu's words.

Because the protagonist of this story is talking about Jianhua Village and everyone present.

"I have been the village secretary for more than 20 years, and I have been called the begging secretary for more than 20 years. The population of our Jianhua Village has not increased much in these years. I am a bachelor who is over 30 years old in the village and has not yet married a wife.

After calculation, there are about 40 of them."

Huang Zhongfu really understands the situation in Jianhua Village.

"It's not that the men in our village are not good, but that our village is too poor. No one in the nearby villages is willing to marry a girl who was raised by his own family to suffer hardship and starve.

We in Jianhua Village are poor enough, and we are also afraid of poverty."

As Huang Zhongfu spoke, the villagers became even more silent, but there was a momentum brewing in the silence.

Lu Xun wrote in "In Memory of Mr. Liu Hezhen" "If you don't explode in silence, you will die in silence."

Although Huang Zhongfu has never heard of this sentence, he knows that when a person is suppressed to the extreme, he will either explode or be completely crushed.

Although the words are different, the principle is the same.

"Some time ago, Factory Director Xiaobai told me about a system that would allow the villagers in Jianhua Village to get rich, and from now on they would be able to have enough to eat and be clothed warmly."

The villagers' eyes were all red, staring at Jiang Xiaobai and Huang Zhongfu.

"He said that the land should be distributed to the villagers, and the annual harvest, except for the harvest that is handed over to the collective, would all belong to individuals. He also gave this system a name called the household contract responsibility system. I was shocked when I heard it.

I’m scared, isn’t this about dividing the country’s land? Isn’t this the landowners of the old society?

I didn’t agree, but it seemed to take root in my heart, so the Autumn Harvest Reform came about..."

Huang Zhongfu's voice suddenly became impassioned.

"In the past, the autumn harvest took us more than a month, or even two months, but after the autumn harvest reform, the autumn harvest was completed in just half a month. Facts have proved that the autumn harvest reform was successful..."

"So I was thinking about the household responsibility system day and night. I lay in bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep every night. All I could think of was that we villagers in Jianhua Village were wearing warm new clothes and had round bellies...

"

"I don't want to be poor like this. I don't want to go out without raising my head. I don't want to go to the wrong relatives' houses. I was told that my family has no money or food before I even open my mouth. I don't want to see my son grow up. When the matchmaker heard about it, Jianhua Village

Just refuse."

Huang Zhongfu's voice got louder and louder as he spoke, and the villagers below were all wearing rough clothes, and their white breaths spread far under the light.

"I have decided to do it. I will implement the household contract responsibility system in our Jianhua Village and distribute the land to you. Anyway, our Jianhua Village is already like this. How much worse can it be?"

"Whether it's a broken jar or a dead horse being treated as a living horse, I did it. If something happens, I, Huang Zhongfu, who is the secretary, will be beheaded and shot."

"It's done." A sky-shattering roar came from the Jianhua Village brigade headquarters, rushed into the sky, and shattered the dark clouds.

This is the voice shouted by 765 people from more than 100 households in Jianhua Village.

This is the voice of hundreds of millions of farmers...

"Done." This was the second sound. The dogs in the village did not dare to bark, and the chirping insects were quiet.

"It's done." This was the third sound, breaking through the darkness of the night.

Three neat tones represented the aspirations of all the people in Jianhua Village.

The development of the matter was beyond the expectations of everyone including Huang Zhongfu and Jiang Xiaobai.

After Huang Zhongfu finished speaking, Jiang Xiaobai explained to everyone in detail what the household contract responsibility system is.

"Director Xiaobai, if my family harvests a lot of grain, should I hand over the grain? Will the rest be my own?"

"Yes, keep enough of the collective, and the rest is yours."

"Director Xiaobai, after the land is allocated to me, it will be mine?"

"No, this land is allocated to you for farming. It is still the country's land. You only have the right to use it, not the right to buy or sell it."

"Director Xiaobai, what should I do with the livestock used in the field?"

"Each team is assigned an animal and uses it in turn."

"Director Xiaobai..."

"Director Xiaobai..." one by one the villagers raised their hands and asked.

And Jiang Xiaobai also answered them one by one.

"Finally, I announce: All brigade cadres, Jiang Xiaobai, Wang Jianguo, Ma Jianjun... and others will form a reform team and start measuring the land starting tomorrow."

Seeing that the villagers had finished asking questions, Huang Zhongfu stood up and spoke loudly and forcefully.

"Bah bang bang." The villagers clapped vigorously, their hands turning red.

In the courtyard of the entire brigade headquarters, heads trembled, as if the severe cold of the winter night was suddenly driven away.

It was already late at night, but Jianhua Village was still very lively.

There are villagers talking in twos and threes everywhere.

The village is about to divide the land. For farmers, the land is the sky and the lifeblood.

Now that the land is being divided, I don’t know how many people will have trouble sleeping that night.

"Successful." The villagers in the brigade dispersed, leaving only Huang Zhongfu, the brigade cadres of Jianhua Brigade, and Jiang Xiaobai.

Huang Zhongfu looked at several people with a happy face and said.

"Successful." Several village cadres also expressed excitement.

"Jianhua Village cannot continue to be poor, absolutely not."

Huang Zhongfu’s eyes were firm.

"Secretary, don't worry, no matter what, we will follow you."

The village chief looked at Huang Zhongfu with respect on his face.

"Secretary, I listen to you. I will do whatever you say."

The newly appointed accountant also behaves like a man who would die for his confidant.

"Okay, let's work together to get Jianhua Village out of this poor life."

Huang Zhongfu and others expressed their determination on the sidelines, but Jiang Xiaobai did not participate.

It was already late at night, and he was too sleepy to open his eyes.

He just wanted to go back to bed early. Seeing their enthusiasm for allocating land, he wished he could allocate land overnight tonight.

It is estimated that tomorrow morning, very early in the morning, I will ask myself to measure the land.

And to be honest, Jiang Xiaobai is not from Jianhua Village, nor is he like other natives of Jianhua Village.

Jiang Xiaobai only had a deep impression of the feeling of being poor for more than 20 years after coming to Jianhua Village.
Chapter completed!