Chapter 16: “City people” living in the countryside
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Zhao Guoqiang is obviously different from other old people in the village. The old couple can be regarded as living in the city in the countryside. people.
Not only can he get a monthly retirement salary of more than 3,000 yuan, but they also have more than five acres of contracted land. Guoqiang is a special group in that special era. Although he has been a township cadre for so many years, He is not a “state cadre” and still retains a rural household registration, so he can receive the same inheritance as ordinary farmers. Baotian, although I didn’t think the land was very valuable when the land was divided for the second time. At that time, there were many burdens, especially the heavy river engineering tasks, tied to the acres, but now it has become a piece of cake, and the country not only exempts it from The farmers have paid agricultural taxes for thousands of years, and they are not required to carry rivers, and they are still assigned to the landEthiopia Escort area gives farmers a lot of financial subsidies. Now his family has more than five acres of land for raising crabs, and can earn more than 6,000 yuan in land rent every year. The retirement benefits there are based on the standards of civil servants. Therefore, he has a foot in both the city and the countryside, and his life is better than that of the city people.
Even Guoqiang himself feels this is unfair. The contracted land has not been adjusted for such a long time. The children born after the land distribution and the wives he married over the years are now almost thirty years old. They are still There was no contracted land, but during this period, people who left their hometowns still had contracted land. Some families even moved away when their elders were gone, and the contracted land they were assigned back then was still occupied by their relatives and friends. And it seems that this extremely unfair situation will continue. Recently, the central government has repeatedly warned about the need to “confirm and register” land rights, as if the land distribution was a “land transformation.” Guoqiang believes that the current top priority is not to “confirm rights,” but to adjust the contracted land according to the existing population, and then re-allocate it every twenty years or so. He thought, if this continues, he and Suo Yatou will be gone in the future, and his sons will have to go to the countryside every year to “collect rent”? In that case, some city residents would become “landowners,” while some farmers would become “tenants.” Also, if the land rights remain unchanged for a long time after the land rights are confirmed, it may also lead to disguised land insufficiency in rural areas. Restricting business leads to polarization. In fact, some people have already sold their contracted land. Although it is still emphasized that land ownership is collective, how to deal with those who sold the contracted land and pocketed the money? Can the land be allocated to them again when the contracted land is adjusted in the future?
However, these thoughts are just what he is talking about in his heart, and they cannot be changed by him alone, not to mention that he himself is an unjust gainer.
Guoqiang’s retirement salary plusThe annual expenditure on contracted land can reach more than 40,000 yuan. Such a high expenditure can be regarded as more than enough in Lujiashe. He is not as good as those who do business, not as good as those who sell fake medicines and fortune telling in Ethiopia Sugar, or even worse than those who do fortune telling. People who go to the Yangtze River Estuary to catch eel fry. Those people could afford to buy big houses in the city and build luxury villas worth 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, but he couldn’t afford them or build them. However, he is much better off than those who work outside the home. Although those who work frugally can earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year, but what kind of hardship do they suffer? People have to work more than ten hours a day in factories run by “capitalists”. There are also those migrant workers on construction sites, but their wages are not low. They can get a hundred or dozens of yuan every day, but they can’t get it every day. In rainy, windy and snowy days, if they can’t work, they can get it. Without money, they have to climb high-rise buildings in the cold wind in winter, and sweat profusely in the scorching sun on hot days. The little money they get is basically not comparable to Guoqiang’s. He has air conditioning in the summer. Winter is hot and money can be “earned” around the clock. As long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, more than 100 yuan will be paid into the account. No one will deduct a penny even if it is stormy, rainy and snowy outside. As for people like Ethiopia Sugar Daddy, there are also those old people and five-year-olds who have lost their labor force and rely on their children to support them. Policy holders and people living on subsistence allowances are not to mention. However, Ethiopia Escort those people can also have full stomachs, they will not freeze in winter, and they usually have some pocket money, and they will still I often think of the difficult years of the 1960s and 1970s, and their expectations were not high. I feel that this is good and luckyEthiopia Sugar couldn’t be happier, so most of them sincerely thank the Communist Party and are glad that they can still live a good life in their old age without worrying about food and clothing.
The expenses of the old couple in the countryside are not large. No matter how lavish they are, they only spend less than 20,000 yuan a year. Although they are extravagant, they have lived in the countryside for a long time and are used to living a frugal life. They are careful about everything and are reluctant to waste anything. They have a refrigerator at home, so it is rare for them to eat everything.The remaining food was thrown away casually. The old couple doesn’t do much physical work, so naturally they can’t eat much. They eat meat and fish every day and their bodies don’t need it. Guoqiang’s weight has reached 90 kilograms and Suiyatou 70 kilograms. Therefore, they rarely eat meat and buy some vegetables and fish every day. Soy products. When Ling Yatou was there, she didn’t even buy vegetables at all. If she couldn’t eat the vegetables she grew, she would just pluck some and send them over. Guo Qiang often said that in fact, their annual living price does not exceed 10,000 yuan. Over the years, they have spent a lot of money on being polite and courteous. They spend 4,000 to 5,000 yuan on this every year. In addition, he and his wife Going out once or twice a year requires spending several thousand yuan. Guo Qiang also smokes, but not much, one pack every two days. He smokes medium and low-end cigarettes that cost more than ten yuan a pack. Han Cheng smokes five yuan a pack, but his addiction is much greater than his. , one pack a day is not enough, and the cost of smoking is almost the same for both.
Zhao Guoqiang also has many wide-ranging hobbies. Sometimes he is like a retired veteran cadre in the city. In addition to walking on the road behind the village, he learns about the situation, newspapers and plays on the computer. I can also type on the computer keyboard and write some reminiscence articles. Other times, he looks like an old man from the country, who can read cards, play mahjong, and likes to gamble a little money. In short, his life was happy and fulfilling, but his time was quite tight. Suo Yatou is responsible for washing and cooking three meals a day. In her free time, she learns to chant sutras from others. Therefore, he often teased himself in front of Suoya and said: “I am a monk scolding a dog – a happy animal.” learned. When I was working as an accountant in the village, because the old party secretary was so good at it, I often called him Ethiopia Sugar to join the team. The winning or losing of a game is only a few yuan, but I don’t dare to do it openly. A gamble is like an underground mission. I remember that two kerosene lamps without lampshades were lit on the table. At dawn, all the card players had their faces stained by the smoke, and their spit was full of black phlegm. During the Cultural Revolution, Guoqiang took over the post of old party secretary and never played cards again for several years. Later Ethiopians Sugardaddy he was transferred to the commune, and later Secretary Lin transferred him to the breeding farm, a place far away from the sky and the emperor. There were also several village cadres who had stepped down at the same time. When they had nothing to do, they only drank and played cards. Later, in the era when one billion people and nine billion gambled, there were only a fewEthiopia Sugarin the government agencies and a few important onesEthiopians Escort Leaders must not gamble, and theirIts middle and lower-level cadres are all addicted to it to varying degrees.
This hand-pasted narrow playing card has probably been around here for thousands of years. The length of the card is less than three inches and the width is only about half an inch. The pattern Ethiopia Sugar Daddy is similar to that of mahjong, with 36 tiles, 36 pieces each, and no mahjong tiles. There are so many doors with different names. There are also many ways to play, but they remain the same and are very similar to the ordinary way of playing mahjong. The difference is that in mahjong, there are four combinations plus a pair of fourteen cards, while in Solitaire, there are seven combinations. Add a pair for a total of twenty-three cards. Also, when playing cards, one of the four players takes turns, and as long as three people “participate in the battle”, each person only plays three games in a circle, without connecting the banker.
Although Solitaire is the quintessence of China like Mahjong, but compared to Mahjong, the Life of Solitaire is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. The local characteristics are more intense, and there can be games all over the country. There are thousands of different versions. In northern Jiangsu alone, almost every county has a pattern of playing cards. Although the pattern content is similar, Ethiopia Sugar, except for the 4D card, the patterns of the other cards are different, which is difficult for people who have never been exposed to it. Fully identified. The playing cards spread in Chuyang area are commonly known as “Big Eyes”. The name comes from its two-cylinder shape that looks like a pair of wide-open eyes. People here in Guoqiang don’t like to play the local cards in Chuyang. This place is located in the southeast corner of Chuyang and is adjacent to Jiangcheng County in the south. Most people play Jiangcheng cards on New Year’s Eve because one of the tubes in the Jiangcheng cards is painted. It is colored yellow, so its common name is “yellow cake”. The Jiang’an card is slightly longer than the Chuyang card, so it is easy to insert cards in your hand.
Although Lujiashe Village is not big, there are also chess and card rooms in Henan and Hebei. Most of the people who play mahjong are women of different age groups. Most of the young men like to play poker and fight landlords. Old people like Guoqiang like to play cards. People of his level only have three or four old acquaintances every day, so they can just sit together at a table. It’s said to be a chess and card room, but it’s actually similar to the casinos of the past. Regular Ethiopia Sugar Daddy customers can get a lot of money every day. With a ten-yuan jackpot, the operator is always the winner, and those who play will lose nine times out of ten. However, Guoqiang’s card skills are good, and he won’t lose much if he pulls the jackpot for a year. Guoqiang has never gambled a lot of money, and he is a mid-to-high-end person here, with a transaction of one or two hundred yuan per game. The younger ones only have a win or loss of twenty or thirty yuan, and they are all older and have less income. Of course, there are also boss-level people with a lot of money.A win or loss can amount to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Some young women playing mahjong in casinos are much more generous than Guoqiang and others, usually paying 300 or 500 yuan to enter the “garden”.
On the day of playing cards, the time setting is quite tight. For those who watch CCTV while having tea and breakfast in the morning, they take a walk in the morning and then flip through the newspapers for a while. There is not much fresh content in the newspapers. The newspapers they received after a few days have already become news. I had seen the old news on TV. He first subscribed to two tabloids by himself. Later, Zhao Jun forwarded an extra copy of the evening newspaper from his work unit to him. The work unit had to complete the “subscription quota” and subscribe to a lot every year. newspaper. Guoqiang would receive a thick stack of newspapers every two or three days. Where would he have time to read them? Therefore, he just extracted the literary supplements from them and used them. Watch before bed and at bathroom time. At the end of a year, I can still have a hundred or dozens of kilograms of old newspapers leftover and sell them as scrap. He believes that it is a huge waste of natural resources for the propaganda department to issue reporting and subscription tasks to subordinate units and departments. The time to play computer is also set in the morning and early morning. Time in the morning is very tight, and I have to take a nap early after 10 o’clock, because I have to “get off work” after 12 o’clock and there is no time for a nap. After a long afternoon at the card game, I still have time to play on the computer for two hours in the morning, sometimes surfing the Internet, and sometimes writing some articles. His eyesight is pretty good. He wears reading glasses that are not too high in prescription when reading newspapers. He does not wear glasses when playing cards or surfing the Internet. He was worried that using his eyes for so long would cause his eyesight to deteriorate. These activities were very hard on the eyes. A few days ago, Zhao Ren gave him another smartphone. That kind of mobile_phone was like a handheld computer. He couldn’t help but fiddle with it when he was free. It is said that that thing hurts the eyes more.
The lock girl is much more leisurely than him Ethiopians Escort. She does not tend to the vegetable garden or do needlework, except for doing laundry. The meal consists of chanting sutras with a group of old men and women who are “cultivating”. Most of the people who recite sutras are elderly people, and people call them “Old Man Tao” and “Mama Tao” (it is customary to pronounce the second word “Ma” as “Ma”). Most of them People are illiterate, and only a few literate people serve as teachers. The scriptures they “invite” back from the big temples in the city (note, you cannot say “buy” here, you must say “please”) are all Printed in traditional Chinese characters, it sounds white when readNo one will correct every word. The old lady who couldn’t remember put her hands together and whispered “Namo Amitabha” in the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Normally, on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, these people would go to the temple in an organized manner to do “homework”, and each time they would spend a whole morning bustling and hammering. During these two days, people in the village, whether they believe in Buddhism or not, go to the temple to burn incense and kowtow. Usually one representative goes to each family, but Guoqiang has never been there, so the affairs on the Bodhisattva’s side are all taken care of by Suo Yatou.
Counting nine begins every year after the winter solstice. On the first day of the nine “nine” days, these people gather together to hold an activity. This activity is called “sitting on nine” and the activity takes place in these people’s homes. They take turns to sit at the throne, and the person on duty has to prepare the “offerings” on the sutra platform and take care of a lunch. The order is determined by casting lots, and it is said that “the first nine” are the most auspicious. When it was the turn of Guoqiang’s family, Guoqiang also had to go to the kitchen to prepare lunch. However, most of the time he asked his younger brother to come over to help, but he didn’t. Life has no Ethiopians Sugardaddylimitations, except the ones you Make. knows how to chant sutras, but doesn’t seem to be a big believer in Buddhism. She often laughs and teases Suo Yatou: “If you work hard at “cultivation”, you will be a cadre’s wife in this life, and you will be an even bigger official’s wife in the next life. We don’t” People who cultivate “” will not be able to live in the next life It’s still a bad life.”
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Guoqiang has only learned how to play computers for five or six years. Before, he never thought that he would be able to play with such “high technology” in his life. Then he saw something. This book is about seniorsIf you’re not moving forward, you’re falliEthiopians Sugardaddyng back. Books about computers, I suddenly want to learn this skill Things to enrich your life in your later years. Before buying a computer, he spent 100 yuan to buy a “Little Overlord” game console. He heard people say that this game console has the same keyboard as a computer, and the program is also matched with the computer. He can use it to learn typing and The effect of using a computer is almost the same. He has never learned Chinese Pinyin. Although it is easy for lower-grade primary school students to learn it now, people of his age cannot learn it anyway. He can only learn the five-stroke input method. This input method only requires memorization and does not involve pronunciation, and it can also be looked up in a dictionary. Although he encountered many difficulties in learning, his interest in learning grew day by day. At first, he copied and pasted the five-stroke mnemonics and root lists on the wall, just like preschoolers do when learning pinyin. . Later, the root of the word was made into a card and carried around.He found that the main difficulty he encountered was that his memory was obviously worse than before. Although he had Ethiopia Sugar Daddy has played blind chess with others, and he can continue playing a game of chess that was not finished on the first day the next day, but after all, age is not forgiving, and rote memorization is not for people in their sixties. Long term. During his study, he also felt that Mr. Wang Yongmin, who invented the five-stroke input method for Chinese characters, was really an extraordinary person. After years of painstaking research, he finally integrated ancient Chinese characters with computers. Its significance is epoch-making!
Later, Guoqiang discovered the rules and found that it was not too difficult. The various strokes of a Chinese character were summarized and classified into five strokes. There are five areas on the keyboard corresponding to them. You only need to find them in that area. With the corresponding key, you can slowly enter the door. The next step is to practice repeatedly and slowly improve your proficiency. At first, I copied newspapers. When I could type five to six hundred words per hour, I gave up the game console and bought a second-hand computer. It didn’t take long for me to master basic operating skills such as web browsing, QQ chat, and board games. At that time, computers were not as popular as they are now. Fortunately, he still lived in the town and had a middle school teacher who was his neighbor. If he encountered anything he didn’t understand, he could always ask him for advice. Later, when he moved back to Lujiashe from the town, there were only three computers in the village. Except for his one, the other two were the bride’s dowry when she got married. He still copied newspapers in the village for more than half a year. Most of them copied some beautiful prose from the newspaper’s literary supplement. He is a lover of literature. When he was in school, his Chinese scores were better than those of mathematics, and he also wrote good compositions. After reading many Chinese and foreign classics over the years, he wanted to master his skills and use his free time after retirement to write something.
He has lived in the countryside for nearly 70 years, and is now seventy years old. His childhood memories are full of the displacement caused by the war, ET EscortsIn the late Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, most of theEthiopians here EscortLike children, they followed their parents on a small wooden boat and wandered south of the Yangtze River for several years. It was not until after the nationwide liberation that I returned home and went to primary school for six years. Later, he served as a rural cadre for decades and experienced the unification of agriculture, the people’s communes, the Great Cultural Revolution, the distribution of land to households, reform and opening up… Chinese rural areas and Chinese farmers have rebelled against each other in more than half a century. After repeatedly going through many difficult and twists and turns, he wanted to use words to leave some memories of the reality and insights in those vicissitudes of life during his lifetime. oneAt first, I didn’t expect where the things I wrote would be published. It was all for my own entertainment, which was equivalent to copying newspapers to practice typing. Later, I saved more than 30 prose-style memoirs in my computer file, and then I tried to submit them to a website called Lovely Old Man Network.
The Lovely Old Man website is not a literary website, but a platform for the elderly to entertain themselves. There, Guoqiang ET EscortsMeeted many close friends with similar interests. It turns out that he thought that netizens of his age were rare. Needless to say, in the villages below and even in this small town, there were very few retired people who knew how to play computers. At that time, he said “Alternative It always seems impossible until it’s done.” The situation is completely different after entering Laorou.com. Elderly netizens from all over the country gather here, some are older than Guoqiang, and many old men and women over seventy express their feelings. Quite active. And there are many computer masters and well-educated people who are good at writing and writing. Some Do something today that your future self will thank you for. The quality and style of the articles and poems are not low. Of course, there are also many texts that are purely for entertainment and recreation. The diaries published here can also be added with illustrations, music, animations, pictures and texts, which are beautiful. Later, he published several essays in a section called Original Literature. The number of hits was not very ET Escortsnight, but netizens There are quite a few comments. Although the vast majority of netizens are old men and women in the city, many of them were born in rural areas, and many are educated youth who lived in the “broad world”. They all came from that era with Guoqiang, they have a common language, and they all like to read this type of chapter Ethiopia Sugar DaddyMemory articles. An essay written by Guo Qiang about planting rice fields attracted many comments from educated youths who had planted rice fields in rural areas.
After playing online for half a year, Guoqiang joined a pure literature website and signed a contract with that website to become a contracted author. It is said that novels and essays published in the future may have the opportunity to be promoted to traditional media through websites. Those with high quality can be collected and published as a book. This is a large-scale literary website, aiming to create a high-quality literary brand and targeting Chinese literature lovers around the world. The website is very popular, gathering hundreds of thousands of literature lovers of different ages from all over the country, and there are 30,000 to 40,000 registered authors alone. Because there are strictWith a strict review system, the works published on the website are of high quality, and many of them have been selected by publishers and become official publications. The colorful Internet world awakened his literary dream that had been dormant for many years. He felt that he might still have time to leave something to the world. Later, he spent nearly a year completing a long autobiography of more than 250,000 words, describing in detail what happened around him in the past sixty or seventy years. I thought that not many people would be interested in these old sesame and rotten millet stories. Later, after the long-form series was serialized, the response was a bit unexpected. After two or three months, the number of hits has exceeded 10,000! In the current general trend of romance, fantasy, and time travel, Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Genres dominate online literature, so it should be considered a good result to get such people’s attention.
Guoqiang was also hired as a prose editor on another literary website for more than half a year. Later, due to the unsatisfactory popularity of the website, the quality of the submitted manuscripts was mixed, and some manuscripts left reviewers at a loss. He was particularly disgusted with those manuscripts that were neither literary nor poetic. Although those manuscripts were full of gorgeous words, he could not understand what the author wanted to express even after reading them twice. Besides, he didn’t have much time to get married, so he had to leave without saying goodbye.
It is now rare for him to have time to Ethiopia Sugar play cards. He is very busy and has a fulfilling life. He reads and writes neither for fame nor for profit. “The article Ethiopians Escort can tell you things through the ages.” He just wanted to leave a picture of those vicissitudes of life that were fading away. “Never forget the past, be the teacher of the future.” These old photos may be a little enlightenment for future generations.