When the brothers Chu Ren and Chu Yi heard this, their eyes lit up instantly. So many work points! They had heard from Chu Tian and others that work points in Xinjiang were much more valuable than those in their hometown. One work point in Xinjiang was equivalent to 1.67 work points in their hometown, but in their hometown, even during the autumn harvest and spring plowing, the most they could get was ten work points, and that was only for people who were particularly good at farm work. Generally, they could get around seven or eight work points.

So he nodded without hesitation and said, "We will go dig the canal, and the women in the family will open up the wasteland."

This is also what they asked Chu Tian and others privately. They knew that women accounted for a large part of the land reclamation work. Because digging canals is more tiring than land reclamation, but it is not so bad. It is still much easier than autumn harvest and spring plowing.

Team leader Sun nodded with satisfaction. Actually, when he first agreed to let the two families move to their brigade, he was still a little nervous. After all, he didn't know what the people were like, whether they would work diligently, and whether they would drag down the entire brigade. But now he is not worried anymore. He just looked at the whole family, young and old. Oh, no, the children under seven years old did not come, and the rest all came to work.

I don’t know the details, but I can see that both families are doing well.

As for a person's character, you can only know it after spending a long time with him.

Seeing that they had all decided what to do, Chu Tian went to do his farm work without any worries. He had enough food and money, and he would not do too strenuous work to ruin his body just because he was young, so he went to the cotton fields to weed, catch insects, and other women's work...

"Brother Tian, ​​why don't you accompany your relatives to work?"

Yes, Sun Weiguo's work place is adjacent to Chu Tian's, so there is no other way. He now listens to Chu Tian's words more than his father's.

It was because Chu Tian said that as long as one is not living a life where one cannot afford to eat one meal, one should not over-consume his body, otherwise he will suffer when he is old. So, even though his father and his elder brother did not understand, he still resolutely stated that he would not go to open up wasteland or dig canals.

Of course, his wife agreed with his choice, because she and his brother Tian had the same idea. They both felt that one should not work too hard when young, otherwise one would be full of diseases when old.

Chu Tian glanced at him, his hands moving non-stop, "Don't you trust your father?"

Sun Weiguo was stunned for a moment, "Believe it!"

Chu Tian raised the corners of his lips slightly, "What's there to accompany them for? The captain has already arranged everything for them!"

"Besides, they have to live their lives on their own, and their future depends on themselves. I can help build houses, introduce them to people in the team, and occasionally help with any work that needs a hand. I can do all of this, and that's already fulfilling my duty."

"As for how they will live their future, that has nothing to do with me..."

Sun Weiguo said "Oh" and digested what Chu Tian said while working.

After Chu Tian finished a row of land, he let go of the hoe, straightened his back and stretched his shoulders. After a while, he saw that Sun Weiguo had also finished a row of land, and then he said, "Weiguo, when you went to the regiment the day before yesterday, did you ask Li Gang what was selling fast on the black market recently?"

Sun Weiguo wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought for a moment before saying, "Cloth, meat, fruit, white sugar, brown sugar, red dates, longan, peanuts, walnuts, and other things."

Chu Tian frowned. "There's nothing much to say about the first five. They're always available. I'm just curious, why are things like red dates also available now?"

"Especially red dates. Our supply and marketing cooperative has an ample supply every autumn. You can buy them anytime you go."

Sun Weiguo chuckled, "Brother Tian, ​​you also said it was in autumn, but it's only July now. It will take more than three months for the supply and marketing cooperative to supply red dates. It won't be available until mid-October..."

Chu Tian was stunned. He forgot that it was the 1970s and not the future where logistics was in a daze.

"Ah, yes, why?"

Sun Weiguo grinned, "Because it's the busy farming season, every household has vegetables in their gardens and raises chickens. So every year at this time, many people are getting engaged or married. What do ordinary people like us need to get engaged or married?"

"Aren't they just some red dates and longans? They're easy to buy, not very expensive, and they don't require tickets, right?"

Chu Tian suddenly realized, "Ah, yes, you are telling the truth."

"How about this, you come to my house tomorrow morning and deliver some supplies to the regiment."

Sun Weiguo was pleasantly surprised. "Okay, I'll go there in the carriage tomorrow morning."

After work, Chu Xia did not go home directly. Instead, he found a deserted place and slipped into the space. He rummaged through the space and found various dried fruits that were wholesaled in the dried fruit market at that time. He packed five sacks of red dates, two sacks of longan and three sacks of walnuts into sacks.

Just as he was patting the dust off his hands in satisfaction and preparing to leave the space, he caught a glimpse of boxes of glass emerald grapes stacked up from the corner of his eye. After thinking about it, Chu Tian took down a box and used the baskets in the space to fill one basket of about three kilograms of grapes, one basket of five kilograms, and one basket of ten kilograms.

The next morning, Chu Tian watched Sun Weiguo load ten sacks of dry goods onto the carriage before he took out a basket containing about three pounds of grapes from the house and handed it to him.

"Give these grapes to Brother Li Gang, and don't charge me. I'm giving them to him to eat."

After a pause, he continued, "I've prepared some for you, but it's inconvenient for you to carry it now. I'll give it to you when you come back."

"Thank you, Brother Tian!"

Sun Weiguo was pleasantly surprised to hear this. It just so happened that his wife had been complaining about when the plums in the yard could be eaten, wanting to eat fresh fruits. He was just worrying about this, and now she had it.

"Hey, please thank Brother Chu for me. I just happened to receive a small can of yogurt from a herdsman this morning. It's especially suitable for children. Please bring it back to him and tell him that I gave it to his daughter."

Li Gang laughed heartily when he heard that Chu Tian had given him three kilograms of grapes. In fact, three kilograms of grapes were not expensive on the black market now, and he never cared about such small favors, but he was just happy that Chu Tian treated him as a friend rather than an ordinary buyer and seller.

So, he generously gave the yogurt that was originally intended for his son to Chu Tian.

"Hey, I'll give it to Brother Chu when I get back."

Sun Weiguo heard from the earliest people who came to the frontier to build the area that some of the Kazakhs (short name for the Kazakh people) here make great dairy products, especially since they have left over milk and make it into various foods like milk lumps and yogurt. The most famous of these is yogurt, which is really well made.