Reborn in 1977

Chapter 393: Ready, Sing

Good fortune we share, hardship we bear together.

It just so happens they also want to learn music, so let's all learn together.

And so, in addition to studying, the four girls had another task during their work breaks: learning to sing!

In the educated youth compound, Chen Fan sat on a chair, playing the accordion.

Jiang Lili and the other three stood in a row, their faces red, suppressing laughter, acting shy and coy. Even Huang Ying, the boldest of them all, had completely lost her usual heroic spirit.

Chen Fan didn't care. He played a prelude and then shouted loudly, "'The Commune Has Another Bumper Harvest,' ready, sing."

A sparse and scattered sound began.

"The bright sun… shines in the sky, illuminating the mountains and rivers."

Jiang Lili sang the first line in a mosquito-like voice, her head lowered, afraid to be seen. Then she realized that she was the only one who had finished the first line.

Yang Ju next to her only sang the two words "bright sun." Huang Ying and Liu Dan were only laughing and didn't sing a single word.

Chen Fan's lips twitched slightly. He stopped playing, looked at them helplessly, and said, "Xiao Ying, don't you usually like to sing? Why can't you open your mouth now?"

Huang Ying pouted, her head drooping lower than ever before, not daring to make a sound.

Chen Fan shifted his gaze to Liu Dan. "Xiao Dan, you're going to be a broadcaster. What's wrong? Are you not going to open your mouth as a broadcaster, and just rebroadcast other radio programs?"

Liu Dan curled her lips. Before she could even muster any sad emotions, she burst out laughing, then quickly suppressed her laughter and stood at attention.

Only the angle of her head was lower than Huang Ying's; her neck was long enough.

Chen Fan looked at Yang Ju again. "Xiao Ju did well, two points better than the other two."

Yang Ju's eyes lit up instantly, wanting to ask: Really? Which two points?

Then she heard Chen Fan say, "One word is one point, two words are two points."

Good heavens, she almost choked.

Chen Fan finally looked at Jiang Lili, "Lili, you sang okay, but your voice is a little too soft. Are you singing for the mosquito on your shoulder to hear?"

Jiang Lili waved her hand to chase away the mosquito, tugged at her collar with both hands, lowered her head and pouted, annoyed.

At this time, the music attracted many people, who crowded at the door of the courtyard, laughing and joking as they watched the fun.

"What are they doing?"

"Can't you tell? Learning to sing."

"I heard that there will be a National Day performance. Zhang Lianchang has already notified all the militiamen to select people for rehearsals."

"Director Yang (Xingxiu) has also notified us that each team will send two female comrades to perform in a chorus."

"Cadre An and Teacher Chen also have programs."

"What about those girls? Could it be that Teacher Chen will also bring them along for the performance?"

"Of course, he will bring them along. Teacher Chen has so many students and disciples, and those few are the closest to him. How could he not bring them along for the performance?"

"It's just that they don't seem to have learned Teacher Chen's skills. They can't even open their mouths. How can they sing?"

Then someone shouted,

"Xiao Dan, sing louder."

"Huang Ying, didn't you eat? Open your mouth."

"Xiao Ju, put some effort in. You're learning to sing with Teacher Chen. Others don't even have such an opportunity in their dreams. Don't embarrass yourself."

Chen Fan looked at the increasingly shy girls, immediately played a long note, and shouted at the door, "If you don't go to work, be careful that accountant Liu deducts your points."

A burst of laughter erupted from the crowd, and then they walked towards the fields, laughing and joking.

"I can't tell, Teacher Chen is quite protective of his own."

"Of course. You have feelings even for a dog you raise, let alone people you've lived with for more than half a year."

"This means that you can beat your own children, but others can't even say a word."

"Isn't that good? It shows that Teacher Chen treats them as his own people."

"Own people are own people, but there are a few too many of these own people."

"Then let your Xiao Dan come back, and there will be one less."

"Why? Why don't you say let your Huang family's girl go back?"

"Hey, we agreed not to use dirty tricks. What do you guys mean?"

"It's okay, it's okay, we're just joking."

…

After the crowd dispersed, Chen Fan looked at them and said, "Do you feel embarrassed?"

Huang Ying quickly nodded like a chick pecking rice, "Yes, yes, yes, Teacher Chen, why don't we go to the house on the slope to sing?"

The other three quickly echoed.

Being watched by so many people just now was really embarrassing.

Chen Fan said, "So you're embarrassed already? When you perform on stage that day, thousands of people will be watching you. Will you still be able to sing then?

I'm telling you, you should practice this ability to perform under the public eye. First, you must calm your mind. Second, you must practice concentration. No matter how many people are watching, you must treat them as cabbages planted in the ground and focus on completing your own work."

Saying that, he played a long note and said, "Let's start again. Open your mouths and sing with me."

Then he started playing again.

The four girls looked at each other, took a deep breath, and cheered themselves up.

This time, Chen Fan led them in singing, "The bright sun shines in the sky, illuminating the mountains and rivers. The people's commune is better than heaven. Splitting open the high mountains and the tiger's mouth cliff (ái), bringing in the underground Nine Dragon Spring…"

With Chen Fan taking the lead, they were finally able to keep up with the rhythm this time.

The four female voices mixed together, "A thousand drops of sweat for one seedling, ten thousand dan of yellow soil for one mu of land, ah ah ah ah eh…, fight against drought and flood with great effort, Dazhai flowers bloom in our hearts, Dazhai flowers bloom in our hearts."

After singing it twice in a row, as the notes fell, Chen Fan released the accordion and clapped his hands with a smile, "Good, good, that's how it should be."

The girls successfully finished singing and were all smiling.

At this time, Captain Yang walked in with his hands behind his back, smiling, "Preparing for the program, not bad."

As soon as they saw a stranger, their faces turned red again in an instant. Unfortunately, Chen Fan didn't say anything, so they could only stand there, so ashamed that they wanted to find a hole in the ground to hide in.

Chen Fan glanced at them, "Go to the house and continue practicing. First, get the song familiar, and then I'll accompany you."

Watching the four girls swarm into the house, he immediately stood up, took off the accordion, led Captain Yang into his room.

Entering the room, he first put away the accordion, then handed Captain Yang a cigarette, asked him to sit down, poured a bowl of tea, and then sat down himself, saying, "Captain, are you here for the National Day program performance?"

Captain Yang took a sip of water, leaned over to the lighter that Chen Fan handed over to light the cigarette, and then shook his head and said, "Our team doesn't care about the program. Anyway, the brigade will transfer people if they want to, and they can do whatever they want. We just need to cooperate."

After a pause, he turned to look at Chen Fan and said with a chuckle, "Xiao Ju said that you haven't fired pottery for a long time?"

Chen Fan also lit a cigarette to accompany him, nodded and said, "That's right, it's been a while since we opened the kiln."

Then he explained, "Now that the production team is developing so well, by next year, the primary school will definitely need to recruit a few new teachers, as well as the cooked food store and the cooked food workshop. With so many people, we will need to promote a few team leaders and store managers, as well as finance and accounting cashiers. In addition, the transportation team also needs to be formalized. All aspects need people.

Secretary Yang and the others have all discussed it. Like the selection of veterinarians, positions with cultural requirements will give priority to good candidates with high cultural knowledge, and except for more dangerous positions like machine repair, all other positions are open to both men and women.

There are currently 20 people in the brigade's study class. Including those four, that's 24. With so many people competing, some will definitely be eliminated.

Xiao Ju and the others are different from others. Everyone knows that they live under the same roof as me and eat small meals every day. If they are outdone by others, I don't care, but I'm afraid they won't be able to stand it.

So, some time ago, I asked them to put aside other things and devote all their time to studying, except for the work arranged by the team."

After saying so much, Captain Yang kept nodding.

After he finished speaking, Captain Yang said with a smile, "I understand, I understand the reasoning."

After a pause, he smiled again, "In this way, the team doesn't need those few work points from them now. I also kept the money that you gave them for making pottery before. After the autumn harvest, they don't have to go to work first and can stay at home to study."

Chen Fan laughed, "That would be great."

Then his eyes flickered slightly, and he asked hesitantly, "What about Xiao Jiang?"

Captain Yang smacked his lips, pondered for two seconds, and waved his hand, "Xiao Jiang has been here for almost four years and has always been well-behaved and willing to work hard. Let's count her in."

Then he raised his head and looked at Chen Fan with a suspicious face, "I see that you care about her quite a bit. Are you two…?"

Chen Fan's face remained unchanged, and he said with a straight face, "Xiao Ju and the others also live here. What kind of relationship do I have with her? Do you think they don't know? Besides, aren't Xiao Ju and the others living here to prevent a single man and woman from making mistakes? How dare I go against the grain?"

Team Leader Yang frowned slightly, "Are you saying that if Xiao Ju and the others didn't live here, you would dare to commit the act?"

Chen Fan was immediately speechless, "Team Leader, your thinking is quite jumpy."

Team Leader Yang chuckled, "Well, I'm just giving you a reminder, no other meaning."

He also stopped there, lest he say too much and cause Chen Fan's resentment, which would outweigh the gains.

Taking a step back, even if Chen Fan really had ideas about Xiao Jiang, as long as Xiao Jiang could stay in the production team, he wouldn't be unable to accept it.

If Xiao Jiang stays, can Xiao Chen fly away?

Seeing that he didn't mention this matter anymore, Chen Fan also breathed a sigh of relief and casually asked, "Are you here today just for this matter?"

Team Leader Yang raised his head and said "Ah", and said softly, "That's the situation. Didn't our team set up a toilet construction team before? Later, when we started the cooked food workshop, it was changed to a decoration team, but the original old business hasn't been lost.

Now that the team's tasks have been completed, and only the autumn harvest is more important in the near future, after the autumn harvest is over, it will be easier for a while, so many people have come to the door, wanting to ask the decoration team to help them renovate toilets and kitchens."

In the past, although the conditions of the members of Lujiawan were not particularly bad, they were not very rich. Whether it was building a house or renovating, they usually started preparing two or three years in advance.

Didn't they earn a sum of money this year? When the next batch of chickens, ducks, and geese leave the pen, plus the year-end bonus that will definitely increase, I'm afraid that after deducting expenses, the family's annual net income may be several hundred, or even thousands, which is two or three times more than last year, and the income will be even higher next year when the rabbits are massively on the market.

With money, who doesn't want to live better? As a result, many people have the idea of building or renovating houses.

After listening to this, Chen Fan blinked his eyes strangely, "Renovate the kitchen?"

Team Leader Yang chuckled, "Speaking of which, the kitchen is simpler than the toilet. You don't need a major worker, just find a few people to do it, but only our decoration team can get pottery pieces from you. If they want to build a stove with pottery pieces, they can only find us."

Speaking of this, Chen Fan also understood his intention, "So you want me to start the kiln again to supply the decoration team?"

Team Leader Yang nodded repeatedly and smiled, "That's what I mean."

After a pause, he said again, "We also know that you are busy, and the girls have to focus on studying. Kneading the pottery blanks is also a more tedious task. I discussed it with the leaders of the decoration team. See if this works."

He gestured and said, "The team will find a few nimble women to come over, and you will teach them how to make pottery blanks and dry pottery blanks. After that, we will also send people to work on the kiln firing. You only need to guide them on the side.

The squatting pans, pottery bricks, and pottery pieces that are fired will still be settled with you by the decoration team at the original price, 10 yuan each for our team, and 12 yuan for other teams. As for those who make pottery blanks, how did you divide the money with Xiao Ju and the others before, and you will follow the same division in the future.

That is to say, no matter how many people make pottery blanks, you get 60% of the money from the sale, and they get 40%. This will not affect you, and it will also give them more income.

Also, kiln firing is not every day. One kiln can fire a large batch. The decoration team also needs time to construct, and it is estimated that one firing a month is enough. You don't need to do anything, just provide technical guidance.

What do you think?"

After he finished speaking, Chen Fan narrowed his eyes and weighed the pros and cons.

Team Leader Yang stared at him intently, feeling a little puzzled in his heart.

The conditions have been offered to this point, why don't you agree?

But to say that Chen Fan is stingy, that is even more impossible. How could a stingy person hand over the diesel engine? Can you lead everyone to run a cooked food workshop and open a cooked food store?

So, what is he hesitating about?

What Chen Fan hesitated about was that there was too much money, and it was too hot to handle!

Not to mention the pottery pieces used in the kitchen, just talking about squatting toilets, the decoration team can build up to 3 toilets a day, which is 90 a month. With a heavy discount, calculated at 50, the minimum monthly income is 500 yuan.

He doesn't do anything, just provide some technical guidance and take away 60%, 300 yuan?

The entire production team has 586 households. After deducting those that have been renovated, there can be half a year of business, plus the town's and other production teams... According to the calculation of about 5,000 households in the entire commune, he takes 60%... Three 10,000-yuan households?!

Moreover, the technical content of kiln firing is not very high. As long as you are a little quick-witted, you can explore it almost after firing three or five times by yourself. For example, if Jiang Lili and the others are asked to fire the kiln now, they will probably be able to fire it successfully at one time.

This is different from doing a side job outside by relying on your skills. For example, those who can make horseshoes rely on their skills to make a living and do it themselves. It is right to earn more money, but Chen Fan doesn't do anything, just moves his lips and keeps taking money for nothing after giving a few pointers?

Still taking the big share?

Isn't this burying a mine for yourself?!

After a brief consideration, Chen Fan turned to look at Team Leader Yang and said with a smile, "Team Leader, when I took Xiao Ju and the others to fire the kiln before, strictly speaking, it was at most a family workshop. No matter how we divide the money, it is a matter between our few people. Even if the commune's market supervision comes, they can't find any major problems.

However, if the team also participates and arranges for the members to make pottery blanks, the nature will be different.

This belongs to the collective sideline business, and all income must belong to the collective, and then a part of it is turned over to the collective, and the rest is distributed by you according to the contribution of each person to determine the salary. It is against the regulations for you to let me take the big share."

When Team Leader Yang heard this, he immediately gasped, frowned and said, "Oh, we really didn't consider this."

He turned his face to look at Chen Fan, "You have a lot of ideas, think of a way, anyway, you will definitely not be treated badly inside and out."

Chen Fan took a deep breath, thought for a while and said, "There is no way. If you have to run a sideline business properly, you can only operate it as a team property. Those who can enter this team property are considered members of the sideline team. The income refers to the official construction team workers to pay wages, and the profits are turned over as public property."

He turned to look at Team Leader Yang and smiled, "If the business is good and the profits turned over are high, you can calculate a salary for me. The position can be listed as a technician. If you don't earn much, forget it."

Don't look at the fact that the money from the dividend is a lot, but when the manuscript fee is restored, you can earn it back by moving your pen.

In contrast, it is more important for him to lay a good mass foundation and pave the way for future fortune.

Speaking of which, this is his third salary!

Team Leader Yang frowned, "Isn't this a bit of a loss for you?"

If Chen Fan had more selfishness and pulled Yang Ju and the others to make pottery blanks every day, he could earn several hundred a month, and he wouldn't be afraid of anyone coming to investigate.

But with this change, his income would be much less. Even if the salary is set according to the technician level of Master Wang, it is only 112 yuan a month.

Before coming here, they also calculated the accounts. One is at least 300 yuan, and the other is at most 112. The gap is a bit big.

After thinking for a while, he had no other choice. The people from the decoration team were still waiting for news at his home.

Besides, this is also the safest and most stable way that Chen Fan himself proposed, so he nodded lightly, "Okay, then do as you said."

Chen Fan smiled, "Then I'll wait for you to arrange the people, and I'll teach them how to make pottery blanks and fire kilns."

After a pause, he said again, "But the location of the kiln should not be placed here. I have more animals here, and it is not convenient to be too noisy."

Everything else is fine, he is mainly afraid of scaring Gun Gun.

Team Leader Yang naturally had no objection to this small matter, and immediately nodded and smiled, "Okay, anyway, the place where the brick kiln for building the water tower was built before also belongs to our Team 6, so let's just build the kiln there."

Hearing him mention the brick kiln, Chen Fan said again, "Then let's just fire red bricks together, and bring some other materials. There are always people who are willing to spend money to save trouble. It's good to earn a little. As long as you don't sell bricks alone, it's hard for the brick and tile factory to say anything."

Team Leader Yang clapped his hands with a smile, "That's a good idea, let's settle it like this."