The food supply of the fifth company is very humane.

The food and grain expenses they pay for every month will be automatically deducted when their salary is paid at the end of the month.

This is very friendly to newcomers who don't have much savings.

Class 4’s lunch consisted of multi-grain pancakes and dumpling soup.

But the dumpling soup is only available to newcomers who have been engaged in the "traditional project" for a week.

Next week it will just be regular vegetable soup.

Each person also received two pickled radishes.

Jia Yumei likes this pickled radish very much.

"This pickled radish is delicious. Whose cooking skills do we have?"

Zeng Jianjun laughed.

"Our company doesn't have this skill. It was given to us by the Third Company. They are well-known in our regiment for growing radishes."

After eating and resting for half an hour, everyone continued to work while shouting slogans.

Sichuan girl Bao Zhihui is very happy.

"If we were sent to the countryside as educated youth and dared to have such food and rest like this, the captain's shoes would have flown off of us long ago."

Ma Changjiang pointed at everyone in a joking manner.

"You bunch of educated youth, you've got two work points today, is that too much?"

Everyone laughed.

Hao Aiguo shook his head.

"Keep going! Even though we didn't push you hard enough on the first day, you still have to complete the week's worth of tasks."

Although everyone worked hard, there was almost no result on the first day of work.

Only a little over 100 kilograms of soybeans were harvested, and more than 10 kilograms were damaged. Although Hao Aiguo and Zeng Jianjun didn't care much, after all, all the newcomers had gone through this, Bao Zhihui was so anxious that he kept wiping away tears.

"More than ten pounds of beans, enough for my family to eat slowly for half a month!"

"It's okay," Hao Aiguo collected the damaged beans, "these can also be fed to the livestock."

A group of defeated soldiers returned to the fifth company. Hao Aiguo forced everyone to wash and soak their feet in hot water before letting them lie down on the kang.

Not long after he lay there dead, the cafeteria bell rang.

Dinner was steamed corn bread with bean soup.

The soybeans used were harvested a few days ago.

The bell of the fifth company cafeteria could be heard from far away.

In Chunyang Village, many educated youth could faintly hear the bell.

“Pooh!”

Kong Zhili took another mouthful of the black goo with hatred.

"It's so fucking unfair!"

"We were all educated youth. They had salaries and could eat in the cafeteria. But we couldn't get enough to eat every day. After working hard all year, we only earned 20 or 30 yuan. We couldn't even afford a ticket to go home for the New Year."

Chu Miaohong huddled in the corner, silently eating the bland black porridge.

She was thinking that she had to make some money somehow.

Otherwise, if she doesn't replenish her nutrition, her body will still suffer from hidden dangers.

Chu Miaohong took a look at the forest area in the north and decided to apply to collect firewood tomorrow.

She has an operating room space, so all she needs to do when collecting firewood is to throw it directly into the space, which is not tiring at all.

You can also pick some medicinal herbs in the woods.

——I heard that there are black markets and pharmacies in town, but I don’t know if it’s safe.