Li Erniu quickly stopped He Yuanfang and said, "Uncle He, you have already brought the food, why are you leaving?"

He Yuanfang stopped and unloaded the pole on the field ridge.

In his heart, he must have sold all the basket of vegetables to Li Erniu.

I can't afford to go early if I don't have any profit, and these days are not the busy time for farming.

Who has nothing to do to get up at three or four o'clock to pick vegetables?

And he also picked a big basket, which he couldn't finish all. The commune's demand for vegetables was not rationed every day, but depended on luck. If you were unlucky, the commune would not be able to collect the vegetables and would have to feed them to the pigs.

But he looked at He Hongli's eyes again, thinking about what He Hongli had just said, and thinking about how many acres of rice fields there were at home, so he shook his head dejectedly, carried the vegetable basket, and was about to go back.

Some other farmers are also afraid of going to jail. They are even more afraid that their farmland will not be flooded. During the autumn harvest, they will be teased by He Youcai's family, deliberately making it difficult for them to harvest more grain.

So even though I was feeling depressed, I carried the vegetables and walked back.

Li Erniu quickly blocked everyone's way: "Everyone is here, so just put down the dishes and I will buy them for you in cash."

At this time, He Hongli said: "If anyone is willing to sell vegetables to Li Erniu, then let him keep the vegetables. If he doesn't want to, just leave quickly."

"I will definitely tell my father about this matter and ask him to report it to the leaders of the commune. If you don't follow the rules, you really can't do anything!"

Most of the villagers in the brigade are relatively honest. Being able to get up so early to pick vegetables and sell them is a good way to earn some hard money.

They didn't dare to stay here after being threatened by He Hongli, so they all left.

No matter how stupid Li Erniu is, he still knows that there must be something Hongli is doing to get in the way.

Li Erniu spat on the ground, pointed at He Hongli's nose and cursed: "He Hongli, what do you mean?"

He Hongli smiled and said to Li Erniu: "Erniu, we are all in the same production team, and my father is also the captain of the production team."

"You and Lu Shanhe are buying and selling vegetables from the collection brigade. Do you think it's okay if you don't tell me about this?"

Li Erniu saw that He Hongli came here with bad intentions, "It's our business to collect vegetables. The folks in the countryside give us vegetables and we give them cash. We don't owe anyone a penny. It doesn't matter if I tell you about this or not." ?”

"Li Erniu, don't be so shameless!" Wang Xiaolong stood up and said: "For the past 30 to [-] years, Uncle Cai has made the decision on everything in our team!"

He Hongli pressed his hand to silence Wang Xiaolong: "Li Erniu, do you know why these people dare not sell vegetables to you?"

"Everyone has to weigh their interests, unless they don't want to live in the commune."

If the commune is a big family, then He Youcai is the head of this big family.

Some interests are not on the surface, but hidden in the dark.

For example, the sequence of irrigating water to rice fields.

In many cases, the effect of rice grouting is different between watering one day in advance and watering one day later.

The sun has been very hot these past few days, and the ground is short of water. If watering is delayed a day, the rice filling effect will not be good, and the yield will be reduced.

Whoever fills the water in advance and who delays the watering, this is He Yili’s final say.

Another example is that in autumn, Jiangcheng County will encounter the rainy season.

At that time, everyone will be rushing to harvest rice.

When harvesting rice in the commune, you help me and I help you. People in the brigade help each other.

Which family should be harvested first and whose family should be harvested later is basically decided by the captain of the brigade.

A few days later, a heavy rain may lead to another reduction in production.

And if it rains continuously, there is no way to dry the rice. The best way is to send it to the commune's drying room for ventilation and drying.

There is no electric drying technology these days, and firewood is generally used to pour hot air into the warehouse.

However, the capacity of commune drying rooms is limited.

Whose rice can enter the granary?Whose rice cannot be dried in the granary?

Is this why Youcai has the final say?

If there is a rainy season that lasts for more than 10 to 20 days, the rice that has not entered the drying room will definitely become moldy.

When the time comes for the commune to collect the grain, either these moldy grains will not be collected at all. Even if it is a trust relationship, at least two or three kilograms of dried grain will be collected according to the standard of one kilogram.

It will still be the farmers who will suffer the consequences.

The farmers in the brigade have figured this out and will not offend He Youcai just for a few cents or a few dollars of vegetable profits.

Li Erniu had clenched his fists at this time and his eyes were red.

Li Erniu has been bullied by He Hongli and others since he was a child because of family reasons.

When I was in elementary school, I would pick up dog shit in the commune in the freezing cold to earn centimeters. He Hongli and his gang would rob Li Erniu of a basket full of dog shit and send it to the commune to count centimeters.

And Li Erniu, who didn't count centimeters, not only had to be beaten when he got home, because his family didn't have any grain or meat when they distributed grain, Li Erniu had to go hungry again.

Later in junior high school, these people thought that Li Erniu was slow and dull, so they often bullied him after school or on the way to school, peeing and defecating on him, pushing him into the ditch in the middle of winter, etc. .

Now that everyone is adults, they didn't expect that He Hongli would bully them again.

Li Erniu couldn't help but beat someone.

Unexpectedly, He Hongli laughed playfully and said, "What do you mean by holding this fist? Do you want to hit me?"

"Water will be released for irrigation tomorrow. How many acres of your land do you no longer want to irrigate?"

Yang Hongtao, Jiang Dawei and others, who had been waiting for Li Erniu's return at Li Erniu's house, saw that Li Erniu had not returned for a long time, so they came out to look for someone and saw the confrontation between Li Erniu and He Hongli.

"Er Niu!" the two shouted and quickly stood beside Li Er Niu.

Both of them have difficult families, and they have been Li Erniu's good friends since childhood.

Only then did Li Erniu put down his fist and said, "Let's go back."

"Why are you leaving!" He Hongli stopped Li Erniu and said, "Erniu, it's not impossible for you to do something."

"I can tell my dad that from now on, I will ask my neighbors to deliver vegetables, fruits, etc. to my house, and you can pick them up at my house."

"But you have to give me [-]% of the profits from your vegetable delivery."

When He Hongli said this, Li Erniu was furious, "When we caught eels in the paddy fields, were you the ones who caught those eels?"

He Hongli laughed and did not deny the matter.

"You're thinking shit! There's no need to talk about this matter." Li Erniu said.

He Hongli's expression suddenly changed, "Okay, then don't even think about collecting vegetables in the brigade from now on."

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