After finishing his meal, Chu Tian was still thinking that it was inconvenient to have no stove in the dugout. It was also unrealistic to add a mud stove now. It would be even more unrealistic to build a fire wall in the main hall. It seemed that he had to buy a ready-made iron stove!

However, an iron stove is obviously made of iron. In the 1960s and 1970s, steel was regulated. You couldn’t buy it without a special ticket. No, even if you had a ticket, you might not be able to buy it...

Well, no matter what, you need to have an iron stove ticket first.

In the following days, Chu Tian did not continue to go to the regiment. It was not because he did not want to make money, but because it was too cold. It was more than ten kilometers from the brigade to the regiment. If it was not winter, it would take no more than an hour to walk there. However, it was winter now, and the snow outside was knee-high. Even though there were marks left by carriages on the road every day, it was still not easy to walk.

Thinking back to the day when we rode in the brigade’s carriage and walked for two hours, wouldn’t walking take twice as long? Chu Tian didn’t want to walk for four hours in the cold wind to get to the regiment…

Chu Jun walked beside Chu Tian and said earnestly, "Oh my God, you, you have been so disrespectful to your mother recently..."

Chu Tian knew Chu Jun's character and said indifferently, "Brother, it is said that a loving mother makes a filial son, but only a loving mother can make a filial son..."

"Do you think mother is kind to me?"

Chu Jun paused and said hesitantly, "But, but she is my mother..."

Chu Tian said helplessly, "But big brother, I didn't say that I won't respect my mother in the future. Anyway, what should be done in the future is what should be done. I won't use any excuses to shirk what I should do, but you don't have to think about what I shouldn't do..."

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Chu Jun was filled with worry. He couldn't understand why he had become like this. Chu Tian was like a thorn in the side every day, and his mother also had a stern face. What used to be a harmonious life had now become a life of fear and trepidation...

Chu Tian pretended not to see his expression and strode towards the brigade headquarters. In the past few days, he went to the brigade headquarters with Chu Jun every day to twist hemp ropes together. He had experience in twisting hemp ropes, so even though he was slow at the beginning, he gradually caught up with their progress after twisting a few ropes.

It’s not because he is attracted by the few cents he can earn every day, but Chu Tian wants to get more familiar with the people in the team so as to avoid confusion in future interactions!

Accountant Xu from the brigade saw Captain Sun and quickly stood up to greet him, asking, "Captain, you're back? What happened to the company calling? Are you calling us for another meeting?"

Captain Sun sat on the bench next to Chu Tian and nodded, "Yes, they said that each brigade should select one person to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting tomorrow. Look, the company has asked the captains of each brigade to go."

Accountant Xu asked in confusion, "What kind of meeting is this? Could it be related to distributing money to the team members before the New Year?"

Captain Sun shook his head. "The discussion about how to distribute food before the New Year was already held a dozen days ago. In previous years, the regiment headquarters never cared about how each company distributed money to its members. I don't think that's the case."

"Why is that? Don't tell me we're going to have another bean-buying meeting... It's almost the end of the year, and it's unlucky to have all this fighting and killing..."

Chu Tian listened to the conversation between the two and suddenly remembered something. The 1960s and 1970s seemed to be the peak period of the "Down to the Countryside Movement". However, in the late 1960s, there was not a single educated youth in the Red Flag Corps. It's not that there were no educated youth sent to the countryside, but those who did were arranged by the government to go to the Corps farms, and not to the various companies...

Chu Tian thought, could it be that the Corps’ farm is full of people and they have to be relocated to various companies?

Afterwards, Chu Tian had to admit the truth. It was really because the regiment could not accommodate them that they had to be divided into different teams! But that was all later...