Chen Liangcai was expelled from Gongyi Primary School, and Principal Wang was dismissed from his post. This news reached Qinghe Village seven days later.
The children in the village who attended the public primary school probably knew what happened and were all thinking that Song Zhiqing was too powerful. His younger brother was kicked by the teacher, and the teacher was fired right after. Even the school principal was fired.
As a result, Song Yun's status in the village became even higher. Not to mention talking about her to her face, even behind her back, very few people dared and no one was willing to offend a woman like Song Zhiqing who was so capable and vindictive.
The corn was ripe and the teams began to harvest it. They were busy. Even Song Yun went to work for a few days and helped Yang Lifen to pick corn. The school specially gave them a few days off for this purpose. Teachers who had production tasks also had to go to the fields, and the children also had to help to the best of their ability.
Xiao Ziyi formed a bird-hunting team and took a group of children to hunt birds with slingshots. They could catch a lot of birds every day. They either roasted them and ate them themselves, or gave them to the children in need at home as a snack.
In just seven days, Ziyi went from being a poorly received outsider to being the village's most popular child, respected by all the other children.
How could they not respect him? Ziyi's slingshot never missed, whether it was a bird pecking at corn or a bird flying happily in the sky. Ziyi's slingshot hit whatever he pointed at, and they just followed behind Ziyi, picking up the ready-made birds. Every child had a bird every day, and they received a lot of praise from the adults at home.
The days passed one by one, and in the blink of an eye it was mid-October, when Lian County welcomed the first snow of 1973.
The snow near Black Horse Mountain was heavier than in other areas. In just one night, the whole landscape was covered in white snow.
Early in the morning, we heard the sound of gongs, followed by Captain Liu's shouting, which meant that food would be distributed today.
Song Yun became excited. She had been earning full work points since August, and it had been several months now. She didn't know how much grain she could get. Although Yang Lifen came later, she had worked for a lot of hours, so even though her work points were not high, she should still be able to get some.
The two sisters quickly finished their breakfast, sent Ziyi out, and then hurried to the threshing ground.
Generally, group activities with a large number of people are held in the threshing ground. Several rooms in the brigade headquarters are now filled with food to be distributed, such as wheat, corn, brown rice, and sweet potatoes.
Captain Liu had previously told her that this year's harvest was better than previous years, and everyone would receive more grain. She had even inquired about this. If work points weren't enough for grain distribution, and the brigade still had some leftover after distributing it, they could buy more grain, aside from planting crops next spring. Some families in need could even get grain on credit to get through the winter. They couldn't just stand by and watch people starve to death. Of course, this presupposed the brigade had a surplus. In previous years, there usually weren't any, but with a good harvest this year, there might be some.
Captain Liu also said that the reason why the poor families in previous years were in difficulty was mostly because of illness. The laborers in their families were injured or sick, and they spent all their family savings on medical treatment. They did not earn enough work points, so they naturally became poor families when it came to food distribution.
This year is different. This year, the village has Song Yun, a barefoot doctor. There is no poor family like in previous years this year. For this, Captain Liu is very grateful to Song Yun and tells her about the experience of how to choose the types of food when distributing more food.
After an impassioned year-end summary, the distribution of grain finally began. Captain Liu called out names, and when their names were called, they went to the accountant to get a slip, and then took the slip to the warehouse to collect grain.
Song Yun and Yang Lifen's names were mixed in with the educated youth. Song Yun had the highest work points among this batch of educated youth and received 66 kilograms of grain, including 20 kilograms of wheat, 20 kilograms of brown rice, 20 kilograms of corn kernels, and 6 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Wheat, brown rice and corn are all rationed. If you exchange wheat for brown rice and sweet potatoes, you can get more. Song Yun didn't exchange them. She wished she had all wheat.
Yang Lifen only received ten kilograms of wheat, ten kilograms of brown rice, and five kilograms of corn. She didn't want the sweet potatoes and exchanged them for one kilogram of brown rice. This was something she had agreed with Song Yun in advance because there were too many sweet potatoes at home.
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