After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 47, Episode 0047: Suspicion stems from a desire to save on wages.
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“Sun Hua had already been beaten badly, and then he was hung up all night. He already had a fever. Later, he was torn apart by Tie Dan’s mother and then fainted. The brigade leader had someone send him to the clinic.”

"After being persuaded by Tao Hua, Widow Sun went back on her own. It's estimated that the captain of the Second Brigade will have to be replaced. When I left, I heard the old Party Secretary say that Captain Zhou is getting more and more confused. The brigade captain said that at the end of the year, the people of the Second Brigade will vote to re-elect a captain."

In Hongxing Brigade, except for Brigade 1 which is directly managed by village cadres, Teams 2, 3, and 4 each have their own team leader. However, this team leader is not a village cadre and does not receive a proper salary. Just like the team leaders in Brigade 1, they are elected by the villagers.

Thinking of this, Aunt Wu's old face turned stern and she said, "Back then, Hongxing Brigade only had our Brigade, the Second, Third and Fourth Brigades weren't included. Then they got jealous that we got a tractor, so they went to the commune and insisted on merging us into one brigade."

Originally, when the village was first transferred to brigade management, this area was also divided into one village and one brigade.

Because it was a village of heroes, and because it had always performed very well, the First Brigade was always the leading brigade without any doubt.

At first, things were alright. Although there were benefits to being an advanced brigade, the commune was poor. Not only was their commune poor, but the county and city were poor as well. So the benefits that the advanced brigade received were just banners, enamel mugs, and other small things that would make people envious but not so much as to make them jealous.

In 58, the county acquired three brand-new tractors. One of them was allocated to the Hongqi Commune, and the Hongxing Brigade, which had been an advanced brigade for nearly ten consecutive years, unsurprisingly got the opportunity to own this tractor.

Li Dayou borrowed money everywhere, even from Old Master Leng, and finally managed to snag this precious piece of iron.

This is incredible! Which brigade wouldn't be envious?!

Coincidentally, the captain of the second brigade was arrested for committing a crime, and an investigation following the captain's arrest revealed that all the village cadres in the brigade had problems.

At that time, the commune leader was unreliable, and the people of the Second Brigade staged a collective plea for leniency. They were not pleading for the village cadres who had committed the offense, but for the village to be merged into the Hongxing Brigade.

Whether the commune leader couldn't withstand the pressure or had that idea all along, he actually let Li Dayou and the others take charge of the Second Brigade's affairs, saying that since they were so close, it was no different from being in the same village, so they could take charge for the time being.

And then, that was it. Less than six months later, the Second Brigade was directly incorporated into the Red Star Brigade.

The key point is that the people of the Second Brigade were also happy to become members of the Red Star Brigade. That meant they were also part of the advanced brigade, and they would get a share of the tractors too.

As for the money to pay off the tractor, there were more than a thousand people in the two brigades combined, and if it was divided among individuals, it would be paid off in two or three years.

Then the Third and Fourth Battalions were also incorporated into the Red Star Battalion for different but similar reasons. There was no resistance either. Everyone felt that the benefits outweighed the drawbacks, especially since with more people, the cost of the tractors was even less when divided among individuals.

The hardship is for village cadres like Li Dayou. They receive one salary but do far more work than four-tenths of what they're paid.

Li Dayou and his colleagues strongly suspected that the commune was simply using them like cattle in order to save on the salaries of three village cadres.

The positions of the First Brigade and the Second and Third Brigades form a triangle, with the First Brigade in the middle, the Second Brigade to the north, and the Third Brigade to the right. They are all within a ten-minute walk, so they are not far. However, the Fourth Brigade is different. It is separated from the Third Brigade by the Third Brigade and takes more than half an hour to walk there. In between, you have to cross a big mountain.

One reason was that there were too many people, and the other was that they were too far away to manage. So, the Second Brigade Leader and the Third and Fourth Brigade Leaders came into being. The Second, Third and Fourth Brigade Leaders did not receive a salary and were not recognized as cadres by the commune. However, they received full work points every day and could also get coupons at the end of the year [which Li Dayou shamelessly asked the commune for].

“They took advantage of us and forced us to get promoted. After the advanced brigade was gone, they blamed us for not keeping it.”

Lin Yuexi silently poured another cup of sugar water for Aunt Wu, to sweeten her mouth and cool her down.

Well, in her opinion, the commune was indeed somewhat unreliable in this matter. After talking for a while, Aunt Wu left; she had to rush back to make lunch.

The process of gathering mountain goods is different from the work time. People who go up the mountain usually bring their own things to carry, and once they are full, they bring them back. There is no fixed time for them to return. When they return, they are usually hungry. The people who stay at home prepare food in advance, or steam some buns and make some pancakes.

People who go up the mountain eat whenever they come back, then continue up the mountain, and bring some back for their families still on the mountain.

For those whose families have someone left behind, they can at least have a hot meal. Many of them get up early in the morning to prepare the food and then eat the hard, cold dry rations in the mountains.

Lin Yuexi didn't want to be too useless, and appropriate activities would be good for her.

I slowly walked to the kitchen, took a clean large bowl, poured in flour, added yeast, and then mixed it with warm water mixed with sugar. After kneading the dough to the right consistency, I covered it with a clean towel and set it aside to ferment.

She was already sweating profusely from doing such a small task.

This body is still too weak and frail; when faced with danger, it can only stand there and take the beating.

If it weren't for her psychic abilities, she really wouldn't have the confidence to survive in this world.

After quickly wiping herself down and changing into clean clothes, Lin Yuexi had no choice but to use her mental power to close the door before returning to her room to rest.

When she woke up, Leng Xingran and the others had all returned. They had already prepared a meal, and even the dough she had kneaded before bed had been turned into large white steamed buns and placed on the table.

Lin Yuexi thought everyone would condemn her for kneading the dough. Although it was out of good intentions, she felt she wouldn't be happy if it actually happened.

Perhaps she is naturally more solitary, and she would feel that it is a kind of constraint.

Fortunately, no one mentioned it. They just warmly invited her to sit down and eat after she came out.

Ren Yan brought over her special steamed egg custard. "Xi Xi, we made a fortune today! Zhang Ze and Xu Zhichuan dug up two small ginseng roots. Uncle Liu said they're about thirty years old."

Liu Huai slurped his mushroom and egg soup and laughed, "Those two are just lucky. Many people have walked past that place, but no one saw those two ginseng roots. Zhang Ze slipped and fell, and two ginseng roots just happened to fall out."

Luck is a fickle thing.

However, in the end, the two ginseng roots still fell into Liu Huai's hands. Well, actually, they were handed over to Chen Wenkun through Liu Huai, and used to make Yangrong Pills.

It was only then that everyone realized that although they were all called Ginseng Nourishing Pills, their quality differed, depending on the age of the medicinal materials used in their preparation and the skill of the person who made them.

Take the ginseng Lin Yuexi ate as an example. The bottles she ate before were all treasures left by the ancestors of the Chen family. Even the lowest quality bottle could keep someone alive with just one ginseng. The ginseng in the bottle was at least 500 years old. The last bottle Chen Wenkun gave her was the most precious of all, a family heirloom of the Chen family, made with thousand-year-old ginseng.

After learning this, Lin Yuexi didn't dare to breathe loudly. She felt that even her breath smelled of money, and she owed him a huge debt of gratitude.

From now on, the affairs of the Chen family are Lin Yuexi's affairs; otherwise, she would have no face to continue breathing.