Whenever Yun Shudai stayed in her room, she would either study painting online, paint on her own, or chat with He Wan across time and space.
He Wan recently received her share of grain. With her limited work points, she received a total of over twenty yuan, 120 jin of cornmeal, and 100 jin of sweet potatoes. Even if she ate one jin of grain a day, the cornmeal would last her for over a hundred days. If it were thinner, it could last her for about a hundred and fifty days. Well, she would have to make up for the rest herself. Su Ranran, Zhang Cuicao, and a few other educated youths bought some more grain from the brigade with extra money.
She saw that every household in the village had ordered soybeans, so she ordered seven catties of soybeans, fifty catties of potatoes, and two catties of wheat flour.
"Sister Cuicao, I ran into Aunt Juhua and Aunt Chen yesterday. They were both making soybean paste. Did our educated youth settlement make it in previous years?"
“In previous years, no one made them; we bought them from families in the village who made a lot of them.”
"I received seven catties of soybeans and plan to cook them myself. Do you want to join me?"
Zhang Cuicao nodded in agreement. In previous years, everyone would eat together and no one would cook, but now it was just her and Su Ranran working together.
To make sure she eats better, she naturally has to do it, especially since she knows how to pickle vegetables. There's also cabbage and radishes; the radishes will be harvested in a week, and we'll share them then. Let's pickle some sauerkraut ourselves.”
Su Ranran said, "If we pickle them ourselves, we won't have to spend money to buy them. I'll go buy some soybeans in a bit. I saw that Ershuanzi's family up ahead has two big vats of pickled soybeans. There are six adults and three children in their family. How many should we pickle, Cuicao?"
Zhang Cuicao said, "One small jar is enough for the two of us."
He Wan glanced at the cabbages and radishes in her vegetable garden; there were quite a few, enough for her to pickle sauerkraut.
Each family here has a large yard, and many families grow vegetables in their yards, so there's no shortage of vegetables. In the front yard of their educated youth settlement, there are woodsheds and vegetable gardens, and several families in the back yard have also built a woodshed, but each family has a designated area. Apart from the woodsheds, they've planted vegetables on everything else that can be grown.
She learned all of this from He Wan and Zhang Cuicao. Besides the back, Xie Meihui and the others also planted scallions and ginger in the small area in front.
Besides fetching water and gathering firewood, the male educated youth knew nothing about planning.
Later, He Wan and Wang Jianguo discussed it and decided to separate the vegetable gardens, each with its own plot. There's a large area from the front yard to the back yard, accessible from the left.
There's a vegetable garden and a toilet over there. The distance isn't small. Xie Meihui's side has a woodshed next to the toilet, and He Wan's side has a shower room. The remaining area is divided into twelve rectangular vegetable plots, with a path in the middle and vegetable plots on both sides. To be fair, they are all long and narrow, about 70-80 centimeters wide and more than three meters long.
In the backyard, everyone divided up the vegetable plots, giving two plots to Xie Meihui and Qin Xuxiang.
Chen Qing got one piece, Su Ranran and Zhang Cuicao each got one piece, and Wang Xiaorong and the other two each got one piece.
He Wan planted one plot, leaving three plots. Xie Meihui planted another plot, leaving two plots. Chen Qing also planted one plot, and the remaining three plots were given to Wang Xiaorong.
Xie Meihui and Chen Qing didn't think anything of it, but Wang Xiaorong felt embarrassed.
After all, He Wan helped them plan the land; there was a plot of land behind the house and another plot in front of it, enough for them to have more vegetables to eat all year round.
Su Ranran didn't want that piece of land, mainly because she saw that Wang Xiaorong and her two husbands were big men who ate a lot, so she didn't want to compete with them. The two of them had a plot in front of the house and a plot behind it, which was enough for their daily vegetable consumption.
To the left of the front yard is an open space of three or four meters.
He Wan left enough space for a road and divided the area into seven plots. The area was large, so the vegetable plots were also large.
We'll divide it into seven parts first, and then redistribute it when new educated youth arrive. You'll each organize your own parts from now on.
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