Qian Xiaoman was crying while washing her face by the river. After washing her face, she asked the team leader for leave and went to the town hospital.
She went to the hospital and had the doctor examine her face, and then he brought back two small boxes of ointment.
After leaving the hospital with the ointment, Qian Xiaoman went to the post office again. She wanted to send a telegram back, asking her parents to take her back to the city as soon as possible.
Even if we can't get her back to the city for the time being, we should send her more money and food.
She didn't want to go to the fields with everyone else and wanted the team leader to give her a lighter job, even if it meant less work points.
But she had to tell her family about this first, otherwise she would have no food to eat.
When Qian's father and mother received the telegram, they were heartbroken.
I decided right then and there to give my daughter an extra five yuan and twenty kilograms of food each month. They could just save some money in the city. My daughter was suffering in the countryside! How could I let her suffer when it came to food?
So, one week after Qian Xiaoman sent the telegram, he received money and food from home.
After receiving these things, she took a pound of red dates and went to the team leader's house privately, asking him to help her find a lighter job, no matter how many work points she earned.
The team leader also knew that Qian Xiaoman's family was well-off and didn't care about that little bit of food, so he nodded in agreement.
The next day, the captain brought up the matter.
However, this easy job was not just for Qian Xiaoman. He was afraid that other educated youth would be dissatisfied, so he gave the right to choose to them.
When the other educated youth heard that they could choose their jobs, he quickly asked what kind of jobs they could choose.
In reality, there was no such thing as easy work in the countryside. Those easy jobs were reserved for the elderly, the weak, women, and children, and naturally paid very few work points.
Just like the several tasks that the team leader has proposed now: cutting grass for pigs, herding sheep, patrolling the fields and releasing water, and turning over the grain in the drying yard.
For these types of work, the most work points you can earn is only three centimeters, and the least is two centimeters.
Moreover, the work points are different and the importance of the work is also different.
If food is distributed according to work points, we will never be able to eat enough.
For someone like Qian Xiaoman who had food sent from home, it was fine. These centimeters alone definitely wouldn't be enough. Not to mention the two grown men, even an ordinary woman wouldn't be able to eat enough.
Lin Yizhen herself has no shortage of food, so naturally she doesn't care about the number of centimeters.
After Qian Xiaoman, she quickly chose the job of cutting grass for pigs.
Seeing that Qian Xiaoman and Lin Yizhen had both chosen to cut grass for pigs, Lu Zhaodi wanted to do the same. But when she realized that the grass was only two centimeters thick, she backed off.
With such a small size, she couldn't be full even if she ate one meal a day, and no one at home would send her food.
After much deliberation, I chose a job that offered relatively high work points and was relatively easy. It involved following the women in the village to turn the crops in the drying yard. If I did a good job, I'd earn four work points a day.
This is the time when corn is ripe, so the corn needs to be turned over and dried in the drying yard every day.
Hu Haifeng and Chen Gui also wanted to choose lighter work, but these kinds of work were mostly done by women. The two grown men felt embarrassed, so after some thought, they decided to go harvest corn.
They had no experience in the fields for the first time, so they just had to protect their hands and faces. Harvesting corn wasn't that difficult; the key was to keep it a few centimeters high.
A higher centimeter means more food, so naturally the two of them wanted to get more food.
So, the two decided to do their original work.
The team leader was very satisfied with their choice and even had someone teach them how to protect themselves while working.
Hu Haifeng and the other man were very surprised and worked even harder.
After arranging the affairs of several educated youth, the team leader left as he had other things to do!
Lin Yizhen left after the team leader left. She had no intention of going to the back mountain with Qian Xiaoman. She planned to go home to get her backpack and then continue up Fulong Mountain.
Speaking of going up the mountain, Lin Yizhen remembered that the wild boar she killed last time was still in the warehouse.
I happen to be free today, so I can go to town and deal with the wild boar.
However, the mountain road to the town was not easy to walk on and it was too circuitous. After much deliberation, Lin Yizhen decided to go over from Nanshan.
Even though they had to travel such a long way by ox cart, Lizhuang Village was not far from the town in a straight line.
However, because Jingshan Mountain in the south is too high and there are ferocious beasts in it, no one dares to go there.
If you go directly over Jingshan, you will avoid taking a lot of detours.
A journey that normally takes half a day by ox cart can now reach the town in just two hours from Jingshan.
Therefore, Lin Yizhen decided to go to the town first. After dealing with the wild boar, she could just cut some grass for the pigs from Jingshan Mountain.
Lin Yizhen did it as soon as she thought of it and hurried back to get the backpack.
After returning to Ahuapo's house, Lin Yizhen walked out carrying a backpack and a sickle.
When they reached the gate of the courtyard, Lin Yizhen suddenly stopped and turned back, saying to Grandma Ahua who was turning the soil in the yard: "Grandma, if I don't come back at noon, don't cook for me."
"I understand." Ahua Po replied.
After hearing Ahua Po's response, Lin Yizhen continued to walk out.
The backpack that Lin Yizhen is carrying now was custom-made by the bamboo craftsman in Zhuang after she received the bathtub.
It is larger and stronger than the ordinary backpacks used by villagers.
Lin Yizhen, due to her martial arts skills, was much stronger than the average person. She felt that a normal backpack was too light and couldn't hold much.
In order to make it easier for her to go up the mountain in the future, she ordered several large backpacks to be made to order.
She only took one back, and put the others in the warehouse for future use.
Lin Yizhen quickly arrived at the foot of Jingshan Mountain in the south with a backpack on her back. She found that the trees here were taller than those on Fulong Mountain, and there were a lot of weeds under the trees.
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