He smiled silently, patted their heads one by one, and threw the empty basket on the ground, leaving it to them to divide it among themselves.

Shu Miao, who was pushed aside, observed the reactions of others calmly.

But after smiling as usual, they either went about their own business, or happily played with the children, acting so harmoniously as if they were a family.

Although I have long witnessed Yue'er Bay's exceptionally tolerant attitude towards its own people, I still find this scene incredible every time I see it.

You have to know that in the Frontier Brigade, any agricultural and sideline products that can be exchanged for work points belong to the collective. If members want to eat or use them, they must exchange them for work points. How can it be as casual as Yue'erwan?

It was such a large persimmon forest, but in the end we only harvested three ox carts worth of persimmons.

All in all, at least three-quarters of the persimmons were consumed by the members themselves.

There are many similar situations.

For example, in the dredging and canal digging task some time ago, whoever was lucky enough to catch fish and shrimp could take them home as a snack.

For example, the fish caught in the fish pond, except for the big fish, are picked out and taken to the supply and marketing cooperative to be sold.

All the remaining fish were distributed to the members, without even having to exchange them for work points.

Take the Shu family for example, they each got a fish weighing almost two kilograms.

There are also cotton seeds, which can be obtained without spending work points. Just go to the brigade warehouse to peel cotton, and then you can take the cotton seeds home.

Children as young as three or four can do the job of peeling cotton seeds, which is equivalent to providing direct benefits to the members.

When this matter was handled in the Yanhe Brigade, children were picked from the members' families to do it. Not only did they have to work for a whole day, but they still did not receive any work points.

In addition, the children of this commune can directly use their work points to deduct tuition and miscellaneous fees.

Even those children who have no one to adopt them can earn work points by picking grass for pigs, so that at least they can finish elementary school.

There are other benefits that she doesn't understand or hasn't seen. This series of operations really makes it difficult for people not to feel a sense of belonging.

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When Shu Miao returned home with a basket full of persimmons, he was not surprised to see Zili processing the persimmons.

Ziliben was feeling a little depressed, but when he saw that his younger sister also had a lot of gains, he immediately smiled.

Shu Miao decisively joined in the big project of peeling persimmons and preparing to make persimmon cakes.

Three days passed in a flash, and Li Qiao still didn't return home.

If Aunt Qin had not informed Zili in time, and Li Qiao had not called back and agreed on the specific time to go home, Zili would have been anxious to go look for someone.

Another three days passed before Li Qiao hurried home and brought back good news.

Shu Ziqiang passed the entrance examination of the Railway Machinery School!

In this era when junior college graduates are guaranteed jobs, as long as he works hard until graduation, it is equivalent to achieving class advancement.

Li Qiao just got home to take a break and make sure that both children were fine. Then she immediately took the admission letter and went to the team leader to get a certificate.

To prevent any accidents, the team leader even rode his bicycle to personally take her to the Ministry of Public Security to handle the household registration transfer procedures.

After going around in circles for half a month, Li Qiao finally stopped to take a break.

Immediately afterwards, the most important event in Yueer Bay came: the pigs from the brigade’s pig farm were slaughtered!

The county meat processing plant directly sent a fleet of vehicles to transport the pigs because they needed to weigh the pigs and then grade them according to the thickness of their fat.

So pigs had to come one by one, and the sound of pigs howling could be heard floating over the brigade all day long.

After school, when the children flocked to watch the fun, the pig weighing was already coming to an end.

Shu Miao, who was watching the scene, poked Zi Li who was blocking his view and said, "Get out of the way! You're blocking me!"

Hearing this, Zili reluctantly squeezed to the side, still muttering to himself,

"That's really strange, why don't we see Big Fatty and Little Fatty?"

Hearing him talk about the two big fat pigs that were comparable to his own Xiao Hei, Shu Miao also felt a little strange and stood on tiptoe to look for

But after looking around, I didn't see it, and I was a little puzzled.