Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

Some people are happy but others are sad.

Someone will always be caught when doing bad things, but not every family is willing to accept this outcome.

Shortly after the Li family finished drawing lots, the Xie Xintian family, a poor family in the brigade, came forward to draw lots.

After reporting the number, Xie Xintian and his family ran to the map and took a look, and they immediately refused to do it.

Like Li Youjie, Xie Xintian also caught two bad spots, and the locations were even worse than Li Youjie's.

"What kind of land is this! I told you to let me arrest you, but you refused. Look at your broken hands. You grabbed two pieces of such broken land!"

Xie Xintian's wife looked at the two most marginal pieces of land on the map and stamped her feet in anger, constantly complaining about her husband.

Xie Xintian didn't expect that his luck would be so bad. He grabbed two pieces of land, and both were bad lands.

"No! I want to catch it again!" Xie Xintian still held the note he had just caught in his hand, turned around and returned to the ballot box.

Niu Dazhuang had just grabbed two slips of paper from the ballot box, and before he could open it, Xie Xintian behind him suddenly pushed him and made him give up his position.

Xie Xintian reached out and grabbed it again.

Wang Jingui was quick-witted and grabbed Xie Xintian's hand.

"What are you doing?"

"I want to grab it again! Why are the two pieces of land I grabbed both useless and bad land? This is not fair!" Xie Xintian shouted with red eyes, increasing the strength of his hands and insisting on grabbing it again.

Wang Jingui snatched the ballot box away and, with his free hand, pushed Xie Xintian, shouting, "Xie Lao Er! You drew the lot yourself, so you have to accept it, whether it's good or bad. The rules have already been made, and you can't refuse to accept it!"

"Why? Why do others grow good land while we grow bad land? Aren't you bullying us just because we are poor?" Xie Xintian shouted loudly.

His wife also ran up, sat directly in front of the ballot box table, and started to make a scene.

"I'm going to die! You don't let me live, you just keep bullying me. People who are poor get bullied!..."

The couple was crying and making a fuss, and the drawing of lots was immediately disrupted.

There were people who had also caught Xie Xintian, and they all stretched their necks to see whether Wang Jingui would let Xie Xintian catch him again.

Some families who had seized good land were just there to watch the fun.

"You two, stop making trouble. If everyone acts like you, and retakes the land where it's not good, then how can we divide the land?" Accountant Zhao saw the couple making such a fuss and immediately started scolding them.

"I don't care! I'm going to catch him again!"

"If you don't let me catch me again, you can't divide this land!" Xie Xintian held a ticket box and pressed it under his body, which was considered to be a way of cheating to the end.

Wang Jingui tried several times but failed to snatch the ballot box from under Xie Xintian.

Seeing that the couple was unmoved by any persuasion, Wang Jingui released his hands, stood up straight, and immediately shouted, "You caught the bad land and don't want it anymore. You want to catch it again? Fine, as long as more than half of the people in the brigade agree to let you catch it again, I will let you catch it again."

As soon as Wang Jingui said this, the crowd below immediately became unhappy.

In the entire Dongsheng Brigade, there is only one fool named Niu Dazhuang, and no one else is stupid.

If Xie Xintian's family is arrested and re-arrested, the bad land will enter the ballot box again, and the people behind him may be arrested.

Letting Xie Xintian be arrested again would be like digging a hole for oneself, and no one wants that.

"You got a bad plot of land, why are you trying to cheat? The Party Secretary said before we started that each family only gets one chance. If you don't admit it, why are you drawing lots?"

"That's right! How shameless of you! Get out of the way, damn Leng Hantian, don't delay us from dividing the land!"

"If you're caught, you have to admit it. If you don't want it, you don't have to contract it. No one is forcing you to share the land."

"You blame others for your own failure. Why is your family so poor? You rarely work in the fields all year round, and the work points you earn are always at the bottom of the list. How can you not be poor? Do you think you are Li Youcai, who knows how to do business and make money?"

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Uh?

This can also be a trap.

Li Youcai watched from the side and sighed that Wang Jingui's grassroots work over the years was not in vain. This tactic of diverting contradictions was used quite cleverly.

Now, what Xie Xintian and his wife had to face was no longer the branch secretary Wang Jingui, but all the members of the brigade.

Soon, a burst of curses was heard in the threshing ground, all blaming Xie Xintian and his wife.

Xie Xintian was so embarrassed that he stood up and threw the ticket box back on the table.

"Get up! You still think you haven't lost enough people! Go home!"

"I won't get up. The land reaches the foot of the mountain and can't produce any grain. If we divide it among them, how can we pay the tax and levy if we can't grow any grain in the future? We will be left with nothing." Xie Xintian's wife still refused to get up.

But what she said did make some sense.

Nowadays, there is no chemical fertilizer used in rural farming. All we use are human and animal feces and some nitrogen fertilizers. The fertility of the land is very limited.

The land at the foot of the mountain has not been fertilized for many years, and the annual harvest is not very good, not even half of that of good land.

"Then what to do!"

Xie Xintian also knew that what his wife said was right, but unfortunately he was caught.

"oops!"

Xie Xintian was so upset that he just squatted on the snow with his hands covering his head.

Just as Wang Jingui was about to ask someone to take the couple away, Niu Dazhuang suddenly said, "I'll switch with you."

"What?" Xie Xintian simply couldn't believe his ears.

Niu Dazhuang raised his hand and handed over two folded slips of paper: "I just caught them and haven't looked at them yet. Do you want to exchange them?"

"Change...change~!" Xie Xintian's wife jumped up from the ground with a start, saying a series of "changes", fearing that Niu Dazhuang would regret it if she was slow.

Although Niu Dazhuang had not opened the note in his hand and did not know what kind of land it was, he knew that no matter how bad it was, it would definitely not be as bad as the two pieces of land he had grabbed.

Just when Xie Xintian's wife was about to snatch the note from Niu Dazhuang's hand, Wang Wanru rushed over and stopped Niu Dazhuang.

"Don't change!"

"Da Zhuang, you are stupid!"

Seeing that the note she had in her hand was snatched away by Widow Wang, Xie Xintian's wife suddenly became anxious!

"Widow Wang, what are you doing? He wanted to trade with us. What does it have to do with you?"

"How can it be none of my business? You are bullying Dazhuanghan. You have lost your conscience!" Wang Wanru snatched back Dazhuang's note and refused to give it to Xie Xintian's wife.

"He is willing to do so. We didn't force him. Stop meddling in other people's business!" Xie Xintian shouted, but his eyes were fixed on the note in Wang Wanru's hand, as if he was ready to reach out and snatch it away at any time.

Seeing this, Li Youcai immediately walked forward.

Li Youcai and Dazhuang had a good relationship. The whole brigade knew that Liu Pi scolded Li Youcai and was almost beaten to death by Niu Dazhuang.

Xie Xintian dared to snatch the note from Wang Wanru, but he didn't dare to act rashly when he saw Li Youcai.

"He was the one who said he wanted to change it," Xie Xintian whispered to Li Youcai.

Li Youcai ignored him and looked at Niu Dazhuang.

"Da Zhuang, the division of land depends entirely on luck. The land you catch is yours. You don't need to sympathize with anyone."

Da Zhuang said naively, "My grandparents' graves are right at the foot of the mountain. I want to cultivate that piece of land. I want my grandparents to watch me cultivate the land. They will definitely be happy."

As soon as Da Zhuang said this, the scene fell silent.

Nine out of ten fools are filial.

Da Zhuang's filial piety really touched many people.

"Then let's change it." Li Youcai said softly.

Wang Wanru handed the note in her hand to Xie Xintian. The latter no longer had the excitement of successfully exchanging land. He felt a little heavy holding the two notes.