Chapter 227 1961 is coming

The wheel of history keeps moving forward, and more than two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

After New Year’s Day, we officially entered the year 1961, the Xinchou Year in the lunar calendar.

According to Liu Zhiye's later memories, this planet village was not very peaceful during that year.

Old Pu from South Korea, east of the mainland, rebelled against his father and stepped onto the stage of history.

The South Vietnamese in the south of the mainland also had physical conflicts with the M people, and the two sides fought each other for more than ten years.

This caused the M guy to suffer a lot, and the South Vietnamese guy was not having a good time either, his house was also in tatters.

M thought to himself, "I am also convinced. The people in this village are too evil. Anyone with the last name G can really fight and take a beating!"

The San Dezi in the west of the mainland also split up, and the two brothers leaned on the local boss. They built a wall in their yards and lived separately from then on, never seeing each other again until decades later.

The drought in China has entered its third year...

In recent months, Liu Zhiye's material sales business has been booming. As the shortage of materials has spread everywhere, he had to take the risk of increasing the shipment volume and changed his original monthly trip to Tianjin Port to two times.

This seemingly risky decision was actually the result of his deep desire to change the shortage of supplies in the market. On the one hand, it was to make more profits, and on the other hand, it was to allow more people to get some supplies, even if it was just a drop in the bucket.

Liu Zhiye knows very well that in this special period, every piece of material can become a ray of light in people's lives, bringing them hope and strength to survive.

With his unremitting efforts, he made a huge profit of nearly 10 million in just one year last year. This figure is impressive and made him feel the power of money.

However, as his wealth grew, he began to feel that the money was becoming "hot".

He began to think about how to distribute the wealth reasonably and how to circulate it. He thought that it was just a piece of waste paper and what was waiting to be depreciated was depreciation.

Therefore, most of the funds were used to buy items that could maintain and appreciate in value, such as gold, jewelry, antiques, artworks, precious Chinese herbal medicines, rare wood, jade, books, construction products, and investment properties.

There are countless treasures in Liu Zhiye's space, including RMB 1.4 million, more than 1,000 kilograms of gold, worth more than 4 million, 10 tons of Hetian jade ore, and 200 cubic meters of precious wood, including rosewood, red sandalwood, ebony, dark wood, golden nanmu, agarwood, and chicken wing wood.

There are also more than 20,000 antiques and tens of thousands of modern artworks, such as works by Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Liu Haisu, Pan Tianshou, Fu Baoshi and others; tens of thousands of rare and unique antique books and medical books; and tens of thousands of kilograms of Chinese herbal medicines and countless other grains, seafood, fruits, etc.

In addition to accumulating huge personal wealth, he also invested in education in Liujiazhuang, helping the village to establish elementary schools, night schools, and planned middle schools and vocational schools.

He also bought six "Dongfanghong" brand tractors for the village, which greatly improved the mechanization level of the village.

These tractors not only played a huge role in various engineering and agricultural production, but also formed a transport team to transport supplies from the mountains to the city for sale, and also transported construction materials for the village construction team.

His measures not only improved the work efficiency in the village, but also brought tangible benefits to the villagers.

This is a virtuous cycle. The village benefits more from the improved production efficiency, which in turn expands the scale of production.

Take this year's winter wheat as an example, the planting area has expanded by 2000 mu. Due to the rich income from rice farming, the village has also diverted water to irrigate the land in the absence of idle paddy fields, expanding it to more than mu of paddy fields.

The increase in tractors has also greatly improved the efficiency and progress of various projects. The village access road, which was originally scheduled to be completed next year, was completed ahead of schedule by the end of the year.

The increase in the number of tractors has greatly improved the work efficiency of various projects. The village road that originally had to wait until next year for its initial construction was completed ahead of schedule at the end of the year.

This made the road conditions of more than ten miles from the commune to the village much easier to travel, and the efficiency of entering and exiting the village was greatly improved. The journey that originally took half an hour now only takes a dozen minutes.

The whole village was prosperous, attracting more people to settle down here, which further promoted the production development of Liujiazhuang.

On New Year's Day, Liu Zhiye and his family returned to the village to celebrate the festival. Only Deng Ru and Gan Ning were left at home to take care of the little girl who was only three months old. This time when he returned to the village, Liu Zhiye felt a completely different atmosphere from previous years.

The whole village was filled with a festive atmosphere, with lights and decorations hung in every household, and laughter and joy were heard everywhere. This place was in stark contrast to other places outside.

This year, the villagers of Liujiazhuang can have a prosperous and fruitful year.

Although they are busy all year round, they are well fed, warmly dressed and have much better living conditions than people in other places who are starving and idle.

At the end of the year, everyone counted on their fingers and found that every household had earned an extra thousand yuan.

What else can we say? It's the New Year, so we can buy a few feet of flowered cloth for the girls and boys to make new clothes. We can also buy the food that we were reluctant to spend in previous years.

Then go to the supply and marketing cooperative, buy a few pounds of fragrant "Erguotou" in a basket, and buy some candies, snacks, fruits and other New Year's goods, preparing to entertain the guests who will visit during the New Year.

Today, the village also slaughtered several large black pigs. The pigs had been carefully raised for more than a year and were fat and strong, each weighing about 400 kilograms.

In this way, every household can get two pounds of pork and make meat dumplings for the festival. Some families who are willing to spend money will also buy a pig's offal, clean it up, and stir-fry a few hard dishes to go with the wine.

It was the end of the year, and the Liujiazhuang farm had reached the harvest time. The two or three hundred fat pigs and a hundred or so sheep in the farm were targeted by several large state-owned enterprises, including the Red Star Factory and the Cotton Mill.

However, there are too many wolves and too little meat. Even before the time for livestock to be slaughtered, these units have hurriedly sent personnel from the purchasing department to come to "Sha Jia Bang" and they are stationed there permanently, keeping an eye on the situation, fearing that other units will steal these scarce meat and food supplies.

The relationship between Liujiazhuang and these units has been very harmonious in the past two years and is in a honeymoon period.

As a result, the village obtained many scarce daily necessities, such as bricks, tiles, cement for construction, fertilizers and seeds for agricultural production, as well as production tools such as tractors.

At the same time, these units have also solved the employment problems for some educated young people in the village, and both sides can be said to have achieved mutual benefit and win-win results.

The villagers of Liujiazhuang were very satisfied with this. They made full use of these materials, vigorously developed various undertakings in the village, and achieved remarkable results.

During the New Year's Day holiday, Liu Zhiye's family decided to return to their hometown to celebrate the holiday. In previous years, they would bring their grandfather to the city to celebrate New Year's Day, but this year they changed the tradition and decided to return to their hometown for a family reunion.

This decision had been discussed in advance. Everyone felt that the old man was already quite old and could not stand the cold winter, so going back and forth like this made them all come back.

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On a cold afternoon, Liu Zhiye's family huddled on a big kang, enjoying the comfort brought by the warm kang.

This kang is connected to the stove in the outer room, separated by a fire wall, and also to the stove in winter. In this way, the kang is really a hot kang. As long as you boil water and cook, the kang will be warm.

In winter, as long as the fire is on, the kang will always be warm. Sometimes, when the family uses too much fire, the kang mat at the bottom will have a years-old smell, like the smell of hay.

They all took off their heavy cotton-padded jackets and coats, and ate a hearty meal with great enthusiasm, followed by two pots of hot wine. Soon, everyone was sweating profusely.

The atmosphere on the kang was very lively, and the laughter of the family echoed in the room. The aunt was busy serving food to everyone, while the uncle was greeting everyone warmly.

"Eat! Everyone, try this pig head meat. I was lucky this morning and bought two big pig heads in one go. I stewed them for more than two hours and added a lot of secret ingredients. The taste is amazing!"

After listening to the uncle's advice, everyone picked up a large piece of fat meat with their chopsticks, put it in their mouths and started chewing, "Hmm! Delicious!" Eating the fat meat and taking a sip of wine, life was really comfortable!
Liu Zhiye likes to watch the old man drinking with others. When the old man drinks, he just says "slowly". Anything in the world can be fun if you slow down.

I saw them holding up their wine glasses, clinking them lightly or knocking them on their respective tables, when the wine reached their lips, they closed their eyes slightly, with a relaxed look on their faces, sipped their lips, and swallowed, as if they had done an important job. Their brows instantly relaxed and smiles followed.

He put down the wine glass, picked up a piece of fat and lean pork head and ate it bite by bite. The aroma of wine mixed with the aroma of vegetables and meat spread everywhere, filling the house and warming the sky.

(End of this chapter)