The Pretty Military Wife

If you ask Liang Xinyue to talk about a bigger truth, she can't do it. She is not a philosophy major.

However, the most common way to survive is to make money work. The words I heard most in my previous life were to stimulate consumption and increase everyone's income.

With income, there is consumption. With consumption, the market is stimulated. With demand, there is more production and supply. With production and supply, there is investment and labor. In turn, the labor force can have income.

So, if we just let everyone contribute at the beginning, it seems to be correct. The resources belong to the country, and the canals used to repair them also belong to the country. Can't they be used for free?

But Liang Xinyue has a different opinion.

Sitting here, recalling her past from the beginning, Liang Xinyue knew that what she was cooperating with in the investigation was not just about the life of this body over the past twenty years.

So, when Liang Xinyue heard Old Man Peng raise this question, she knew that this was where the problem lay.

In theory, although my proposal is correct, it conflicts with the current management form.

Although several county leaders listened to him and started to do so, this is a county after all, and any move will not just be about moving a small piece of steamed bun.

So, these people were alarmed, and there was no need to guess their identities. Is there any need to guess? Anyone who could be recognized by Political Commissar Xu must have privileges.

But Liang Xinyue didn't think she did anything wrong.

Old Man Peng put down the walnuts in his hand, then took out a piece of paper and a pen from the drawer and said:

"I would like to have a deeper understanding of your idea. By the way, we have several comrades who would also like to hear your idea."

Liang Xinyue looked at him and shouted to the outside:

"Tell them to come in."

Then, several people wearing Zhongshan suits and glasses came in, each holding a folder and carrying a stool.

After they came in, they sat in a row in the middle of the room. Then they opened the folder, looking like they were talking and I was taking notes.

Liang Xinyue felt a little nervous.

She spoke in front of Director Ren and the others because everyone was familiar with her. So she spoke casually, but the scene before her was confusing.

I first investigated my life experience. I heard that all my notes had been read, so what secrets could there be?

But now I am asked to express my own views. Those views are from decades later. When applied to the present, they are contrary to the current legal provisions in some places.

In this era, it is easy to exaggerate. I usually just focus on farming and don’t pay much attention to these things. I think there are still two years left. After this era ends, things will slowly relax and everyone will dare to speak and act. A new era is coming.

But now I find myself among these people. Obviously, they are the ones who specialize in studying these things. If I say something wrong, everything may be wrong.

Liang Xinyue was nervous. What should she do now?

Even though she had lived two lives, she was still young and had not experienced some things. Moreover, in this era, things were completely different from those decades later. There were some things that could not be said.

Liang Xinyue stood there in a daze for a moment and kept silent.

Old Man Peng picked up his pen and wrote a few words, then looked up:

"What? You were quite talkative just now. Now, tell us more about the artistic level you told Xiao Ren and the others about. We want to hear it too."

Liang Xinyue looked at Old Man Peng with some embarrassment:

"Uncle Peng, I...I'm here to cooperate with the investigation. I've told you everything I have to say."

Old Man Peng twitched his lips slightly:

"Little girl, cooperation depends on your attitude. Just say what I ask you to say. Woman...ah, yes, yes, you are a woman."

The old man looked around:

"How about we change the place, and you be the teacher and we be the students, and listen to you?"

Liang Xinyue didn't dare to do that, and quickly stood up:

"No, no, no. I…I'm going to say it right here."

Liang Xinyue is the kind of person who becomes calmer the more things happen to her. After the initial panic, she was able to sort out some clues.

"In fact, when I was talking to Director Ren about repairing the canal that day, I suddenly thought of this idea. The whole idea is not perfect yet. It's just... just a sudden idea."

First, to lay a small foundation for what she was going to say, Liang Xinyue thought for a moment and said:

"At that time, Director Ren and his colleagues said that the county had a plan to help build a canal because they wanted the migrant workers to contribute. So they hoped that all the villages and towns would contribute their manpower and stones. In this way, the canal could be built."

"But what the county wants to build is just one main canal. It needs to be distributed to each township and village, and many branch canals need to be built. The county has limited money and cannot invest in these places."

"Most people in Xihuai County are still relatively poor. It's hard for them to even have food at home. Maybe one or two laborers can work, but they still need to eat."

"Each village still needs stones and cement to build a canal. For the main canal, those who have stones can contribute stones, and those who have cement can contribute cement. What about the branch canals?"

"We calculated that after the main canal and the branch canal were built, the length of the branch canal is more than four times that of the main canal. Can you calculate how much stone is needed from this village? I guess a whole mountain of stones will have to be leveled."

"How much labor is needed to flatten the mountain? What happens after it's flattened? There's still mud on the surface of the mountain, so it can still be used for farming. After it's flattened, this team might lose a lot of arable land. What are the people in this team going to eat in the years to come?"

“So, I think if you want to use stones, you have to buy them with money.”

"Here, I have a little idea. Let's see if it's right. This is just like the food chain in the animal world. This is the link for our survival."

"Tigers eat sheep, and sheep eat grass. However, there are fewer tigers than sheep in the world. If tigers eat all the sheep, will they eat grass?"

"So, if we want to use labor to do things, we have to pay the labor. Take me for example, if I go to repair the canal and I am paid one dollar a day, I may spend fifty cents on food for my children at home, and I still have fifty cents to save for tomorrow's food."

"And after I repaired the canal for a month, I only had fifteen yuan left. What can I do with fifteen yuan? At the end of the month, I can think about how I can buy food for the next month, buy a piece of cloth for my children, and let them eat meat once."

"I buy grain, and then the grain is sold from the grain station. I am just one person. If a canal is built, there will be hundreds or even tens of thousands of people like me. If I buy ten kilograms, maybe these thousand people can buy ten thousand kilograms. When the grain at the grain station is sold, the money from the grain station will also be collected."