Reborn in 1977

The four corners slanted outwards by more than a foot. Good heavens, it was like adding a foot-wide frame around the original house foundation!

Originally, the area was 166.66 square meters, but now it must be over 180 square meters!

Chen Fan was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He invited them again, "It's already noon. Why don't you just have a simple meal here? It'll save you the trouble of going back and cooking."

When people are being polite, you can't take it seriously. Besides, it was just digging a hole and burying a post. They had already received a pack of cigarettes, so how could they possibly eat a meal?

The four of them declined with smiles.

"Next time, next time, definitely next time."

"The meal is already prepared at home. We'll invite Teacher Chen for a drink another day."

With a few words, they carried their carrying poles and ropes, went down the slope, and left.

However, Captain Yang hadn't left yet.

He walked over with his pipe, pointed towards the educated youth's courtyard down the slope, and said, "Come on, I still have something to tell you back there."

As he spoke, he walked forward.

Still have something?

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows slightly and quickly followed. At the same time, he took out a pack of Peony cigarettes and pushed one out from the bottom to hand it over.

Captain Yang chuckled and didn't refuse. He took the cigarette, put it under his nose, and smelled it. "Having a foreign treat today."

Chen Fan also took out a cigarette for himself and held it in his hand, accompanying him with a smile. "What kind of foreign treat is this? Another day, I'll go outside and bring you back a pack of foreign cigarettes. That's what you call a foreign treat."

Foreign cigarettes were also sold now, categorized as Class A cigarettes, which were not easy to buy.

There were also easy-to-buy imported cigarettes, and they were very cheap. There was a type called "Diamond," imported from Albania, which was the same price as economy cigarettes, only 8 cents a pack. However, this type of cigarette was super difficult to smoke, and its sales were naturally very poor. Generally, after someone bought it once, most people, including those around him, would never buy it a second time.

A slightly better one was the Cuban cigarette at 20 cents a pack. Everyone knew that Cuban cigars were good, but their cigarettes were a bit indescribable. They were even more choking than old leaf tobacco. Instead of spending 20 cents to buy that cigarette, it would be better to find some leaves and roll them yourself.

Besides these two, there were also Korean cigarettes, still in flat, hard boxes, and the cigarettes were also pressed flat, also 20 cents.

Needless to say, these cigarettes were imported to support "brotherly" countries.

The really good cigarettes to smoke were those imported from Europe and America. These were naturally Class A cigarettes, and even with coupons, you might not be able to buy them.

When Chen Fan said he would treat Captain Yang to a foreign treat, he was naturally referring to this type.

Captain Yang didn't care and just took it as a joke, nodding and smiling, "Okay, I'll wait."

Soon, they arrived at the bottom of the slope. He looked at the back wall of the educated youth's courtyard in front of him and said, "How much distance do you plan to leave here?"

Chen Fan made a gesture, "Thirty-three feet."

That was 10 meters. Retreating 10 meters from the backyard wall of the educated youth's residence would be the courtyard of Chen Fan's new home. Climbing up a small earthen slope would be his house foundation.

And this 10-meter area was nominally a "road" and could not be used for anything else. The width of this wasteland was 50 or 60 meters, which meant he was taking advantage of another 500 or 600 square meters of open space for free.

Captain Yang nodded, "You can open a back door here when the time comes, so it will be convenient to go back and forth."

He was planning for his daughter. Having a back door would make it convenient to come and go. If the contact was cut off, how could she succeed?

It was just that Yang Ju and the others had moved in under the guise of preventing "lonely men and women." After Chen Fan moved out, could they continue to live there?

Wouldn't it become a back door to facilitate Xiao Jiang's coming and going?

Yang Chuanfu was a little conflicted for a while, thinking about whether to stay there under the pretext of asking for help with his homework.

Chen Fan, on the other hand, was full of excitement and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that's what I was thinking too."

As he spoke, he turned around and pointed to the top of the slope more than ten meters high with one hand and the educated youth's residence with the other, gesturing, and said, "My terrain is uneven, with potholes, making it unsuitable for raising livestock."

Captain Yang's old face turned slightly red. If he didn't know that Chen Fan's words were unintentional, he would have thought he was mocking him.

This wasteland was indeed unwanted, so it was approved for Chen Fan. Anyway, it was making use of waste, and no one in the team objected at the time. This was also one of the reasons why he took the initiative to give Chen Fan a dozen extra square meters of house foundation today, which could be considered a small compensation.

Another reason was naturally to thank him for helping the 6th team cultivate a veterinarian.

Yang Chuanfu didn't know that this kind of land that didn't rely on the front or the back was exactly what Chen Fan wanted.

It was large, quiet, and simply couldn't be more satisfactory.

Chen Fan was still excitedly telling him about his plans, "It just so happens that the educated youth's residence has a large unused livestock shed, so I want to raise all the livestock here and open a back door here, so it will be convenient to go up and down."

In fact, it was just that he didn't want to be too close to the livestock shed.

In this respect, he was no different from those who opened vegetable gardens 10 meters away from the educated youth's dormitory.

As for other small thoughts such as building a manor, it was naturally inconvenient to tell Captain Yang.

Captain Yang turned around and looked at it, then looked at the cleared two-mu small earthen slope, and suddenly smiled, "You said you wanted to plant trees just now, you wouldn't be thinking of taking over this nearly 10-mu wasteland, would you?"

The corners of Chen Fan's mouth twitched slightly. Was his intention already so obvious?

Then he quickly smiled and said, "Look at what you're saying, what's there to take over? Who else besides me would come here to build a house?"

As he spoke, he made another joke, "Could it be that you're going to pick up another person and put them together with me as neighbors?"

It was impossible for people from the village to come over. Even if they wanted to build a new house, there were reserved house foundations in the front and back, enough to double the number of households in the village. Who would be so stupid as to run here to keep him company?

Captain Yang immediately laughed, "If I pick up another one as capable as you, my little temple can't hold it!"

After saying that, he smiled and walked back with his cigarette in his mouth.

Soon, he arrived at the educated youth's residence, entered the courtyard, and Captain Yang took out a small notebook and handed it to him, saying softly, "This is your purchase certificate."

Purchase certificate?

Chen Fan was stunned. Jiang Lili had told him before the New Year that if his household registration was settled here, he would be assigned production tasks, responsible for raising pigs and chickens. He didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Then he reached out and took it, looking at it carefully. It was just a square card, which became a small rectangular notebook after being folded in half.

(Purchase Certificate)

The cover was written with his personal information, including the commune, production brigade, and team. Finally, there was the name of the householder. The back was the precautions. After opening it, there were three types of purchase information: live pigs, live poultry, and fresh eggs.

Below was a table with the date, quantity, weight, and the name of the person in charge.

After receiving this purchase certificate, Chen Fan was officially a "rural person" and had to accept the production tasks assigned by the higher authorities and contribute to the country's construction and development!

But fortunately, his task was not heavy.

Captain Yang smoked his cigarette and said softly, "You're just one person, so we won't assign you a very heavy task. Considering the actual situation, you only need to hand in one pig every four years, weighing no less than 120 catties. That's all. You don't need to hand in any other live poultry or fresh eggs. There's no shortage of live poultry and eggs in the past two years. The food station hasn't issued a purchase task for two consecutive years. They only collect live pigs.

The purchase price of live pigs is determined according to the grade. The highest is the special grade, followed by the first, second, and third grades. The purchase price of special grade live pigs is 5 mao 7 fen 5. I won't mention the others. Anyway, with your relationship with Lao Zhu, it must be a special grade pig."

As he spoke, he chuckled again, "But you get two shares of work points by yourself, so you don't care about this little money. Just treat it as completing the task."

Chen Fan grinned dryly. Hand in one pig every four years?

I wonder if there will still be a purchase task four years from now!