Chapter 629 Prepare for a Rainy Day 1

Chapter 629 Prepare for a Rainy Day 1

After Sun Yong and Huang Ying dripped blood to acknowledge their master and carefully put on the pendant, Zhou Xiu smiled and said, "Xiao Yong, Nan Nan, we were just discussing your elder brother's wedding. It will be a little over a month away. We don't need to clean up the house anymore. We can just put up couplets, wedding characters, and window decorations. Let your elder brother write the couplets and wedding characters himself. This year, everyone who sees the couplets we put up praises that they are masterly. As for the window decorations, I'll ask the female comrades from the street office to help. According to your elder brother's wishes, I'll still trouble He Daqing and He Master and his wife, we will find a few people to help them when the time comes. The higher-ups have been emphasizing thrift and diligence, and with your elder brother's current status and position, we can't hold a grand wedding. Therefore, we will only invite a few of your elder brother's old comrades, old leaders, and a few deputy directors of the Security Department. I think the main leaders of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill will come, and then Director Wan of the Municipal Bureau. I would like to invite Director Wang from the Street Office. Your sister-in-law also has a few uncles who have always taken good care of her and her daughter. Please take the time to send an invitation to the couple and invite them to attend your elder brother's wedding banquet on February 8th."

Lin Nan and Sun Yong looked at each other, smiled and nodded in agreement.

Lin Yu lit a cigar and said calmly, "I'll leave the wedding banquet to Sun Yong and He Daqing. After the Spring Festival holiday, I'll have people build two courtyard houses of the same size next door. One will be given to Mingming and the other to Lin Zhou."

Huang Ying quickly said, "Lin Zhou is so young, there's no need to prepare a house for him so early."

Obviously Zhou Xiu knew about these arrangements in advance. She waved her hand and said, "This is the house that Lin Yu gave to the two children. From now on, the house will be under their names. Don't refuse. Just continue to listen to Lin Yu's arrangements."

Lin Yu flicked the ash from his cigarette and continued, "Starting this year, a lot of big things will happen in the country. I can't comment on it here. I just want to remind you that the tide of history is irreversible. Just do your job well and don't try to stand out. Especially Lin Nan and mother, the Red Star Steel Mill Security Department is special and won't be affected much, but you work in a government department, so remember to be careful in what you say and do."

Hearing Lin Yu's words, everyone present couldn't help but be secretly shocked. Everyone heard a warning in Lin Yu's words.

Lin Nan has been following her elder brother since she was young. Although her elder brother is now a powerful leader, in her mind, he is still the elder brother who cares about her. So she said nonchalantly, "Brother, can you please make your words clearer? Who can understand you if you only speak halfway and are so confused?"

Before Lin Yu could speak, Zhou Xiu scolded him, "Lin Nan, you've already started working, married, and become a mother, why can't you use your brain? Okay, all of you go to the kitchen and prepare dinner."

Sun Yong quickly pulled up Lin Nan, who was already pouting and looking unhappy, and said with a smile, "Let's go. Show us your cooking skills tonight."

Huang Ying also came over with a smile: "Come on, I'll help you."

Obviously they all understood that Zhou Xiu wanted to say something to Lin Yu alone.

After the three of them left the main hall, Zhou Xiu sat down at the eight-immortal table and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Yu, what big thing is going to happen? If it's inconvenient to talk about it, forget it."

Lin Yu took a puff of his cigar, smiled bitterly and said, "Starting from this year, domestic society will fall into a period of turmoil to a large extent. First, people's communes will be implemented in rural areas, and villages will also establish urban and rural cooperatives. All land will be nationalized for collective farming and collective management. Next, we will eat from the same big pot, promote collectivism, and advocate catching up with Britain and the United States. Following this, the whole nation will make steel."

Zhou Xiu asked in confusion: "Isn't the implementation of the people's commune a good thing? Now many people in the countryside have been allocated land, but instead of cultivating it themselves, they sublet it and collect rent while working and living in the city. What is the difference between these people and the landlords before liberation? Aren't they taking advantage of the country for nothing?"

Lin Yu also sighed helplessly: "The situation you mentioned does exist. Such people must be cracked down. After all the land is nationalized, only by working in rural cooperatives can you earn work points and get food rations. This can indeed prevent those guys who take advantage of the country for nothing. However, everything has its two sides. After the implementation of rural cooperatives, there may not be too many problems at the beginning, but after a long time, there will be some sneaky people who take the opportunity to slack off and take advantage of loopholes. If each rural cooperative can properly handle this situation, it will be fine, but in rural areas, on the one hand, the cadres of those cooperatives basically have limited cultural level, lack of work ability and experience, and on the other hand, many local clan forces in rural areas have considerable influence, and even many villages are almost related to each other. Therefore, even if strict rules and regulations are formulated, it may be difficult to really implement them. In the long run, it will seriously affect the normal production order and give farmers the idea that it doesn’t matter whether they work more or less."

Zhou Xiu frowned and pondered. She had also worked and lived in the countryside for a long time, so she knew what her son was talking about. After a while, she said, "Is there no solution?"

Lin Yu was of course aware that the way to solve this problem was to implement the "household contract responsibility system", but in the current social environment, even if he made such a proposal, it would not be allowed.

So he shook his head slightly: "There is really no better way now." Lin Yu glanced at his frowning mother and continued: "After the implementation of the rural cooperatives, we will start eating big pot meals soon. In the past, every household calculated their lives and measured their belongings for clothes and food. However, after the implementation of the big pot meals, with the ability and level of the current rural cooperative cadres, it is difficult to grasp the limits. And those ordinary people who used to be able to barely make a living by careful calculations now have the opportunity to eat and drink. Who will care whether it causes waste? How many people will think about how to live in the future? It is estimated that it will not take much time before the grain and livestock collected by the collective will be wasted. In the end, they will have to disband the canteen and stop eating big pot meals. It will return to the previous cooking of each household. However, after such a waste, the grain originally accumulated at home has been handed over to the collective and consumed. Therefore, for a long time, the countryside will have to live a hard life for a while."