Chapter 12 Organizing
After all the furniture was in place, Tang Yue first took a basin of water from the well, then took a rag and scrubbed all the furniture. It was just after one or two o'clock in the afternoon and the sun was very strong, so the furniture was dried in a short while.
When Tang Yue was preparing to make the bed, she suddenly realized that she hadn't bought a mat, so she hurried out to ask everyone, "Did you buy a mat?"
After asking, we found out that no one bought it. In the end, Xiao Jun and Zhang Jianguo decided to go buy it together, and bring it back for everyone and give them the money when the time comes.
Zhu Xiaoqin next to her said, "Did you bring a pot? I have to go to work tomorrow and may not have time to buy a pot."
Everyone was dumbfounded. Except for Tang Yue who brought two iron pots, no one else brought any. Tang Yue looked at her watch and said, "It's almost 2:30 now. Go find the captain and ask him to ask Liu Zhu to take you there. You may need to pay for the gas yourself."
After Tang Yue finished speaking, Liu said, "Go and see who wants to go buy a pot together." After saying that, he ran towards the field.
Zhao Yingying said: "I want to go, but I still have a lot of things I haven't brought with me."
When Tang Yue heard Zhao Yingying say she would go, she said, "Please bring a straw hat for me. I'll need it when I go to work. If you don't have gloves, you should buy some. We just started working and our hands are tender. We can't do without gloves. The straw hat is to prevent us from getting tanned. It's best to wear cloth shoes or Jiefang shoes. It will be very inconvenient without them."
After listening to Tang Yue, everyone realized that they still had many things not prepared.
Just when everyone was discussing, Xiao Jun and Zhang Jianguo came back with mats. Xiao Jun knew that Tang Yue brought a pot, so he asked Zhang Jianguo to go and bring a pot for him. He was afraid that everyone had left and it would be unsafe for Tang Yue to be here alone. After all, for Xiao Jun, he would not feel at ease if such a beautiful woman like Tang Yue went anywhere alone.
Tang Yue asked Xiao Jun, "How much money do you have for the mat?"
Xiao Jun quickly refused, "Tang Zhiqing is giving it to you for free."
When Tang Yue heard this, she thought to herself, 놖 is not related to you, how could she accept your things? It would be hard to explain it later. "If you don't want the money, 놖 don't want it, 놖 go by yourself."
When Xiao Jun heard this, he didn't dare to think anything else and just said, "Fifty cents."
When Tang Yue heard about the fifty cents, she gave him the money and said, "Xiao Zhiqing, it's impossible for me to be with you. Don't put your mind on me." After that, she carried the mat and walked into the room, not caring how he would feel when he heard it.
Tang Yue spread the mat on the kang, wiped it with a wet rag, and then carried it outside to dry in the sun. The furniture that had been washed earlier was dried one after another.
Tang Yue first cleaned the kang in the inner room, then cleaned the stove. She thought she should light the stove first, but then she remembered there was no firewood, so she could only wait until everyone came back and go to the village to buy some. She would buy what she would use today and tomorrow first. If she got off work early tomorrow, she would have time to pick up some for herself. She first moved the wardrobe to the inner bedroom, and saw that the mat outside was already dry.
Tang Yue first carried the mat into the bedroom and laid it out, then moved the kang beam to the wall near the stove.
Tang Yue picked up the things in the four luggage bags one by one and put them away, placed the two pots on the stove, and went to the side of the yard to get some yellow mud, added water, and smeared a layer along the edge of the stove to prevent smoke. Thinking that she hadn't bought a water vat yet, she could only use buckets and enamel cups for now. She would buy them next time she had the chance, and also buy a few more large vats.
I heard that the winter in Northeast China lasts four to five months. There are no vegetables to eat and the only thing you can eat is sauerkraut and pickles. At the very least, you have to pickle a few jars of noodles yourself to avoid others' suspicion. When you have time, you have to open up the fields in the backyard so that you can grow a crop of radishes, cabbages and winter vegetables.
After Tang Yue packed up her things, she saw that it was only about 10 o'clock. It was still early. There was no firewood at the educated youth site, so she had nothing to cook at night. She locked the door and prepared to walk up the mountain.
When Xiao Jun saw Tang Yue going up the mountain alone, he quickly locked the door and followed her. He was unfamiliar with the place and he was worried about a little girl going up the mountain alone.
Tang Yue didn't know what Xiao Jun was thinking. She was only 16 years old this year, 17 years old and not yet 18 years old. Without considering this issue, she went back to lock the door, put on the backpack, and got some firewood. She could also find some wild vegetables while collecting firewood.
Tang Yue went up the mountain in the evening, and Xiao Jun followed her. Tang Yue didn't care about him. The road was so wide, and they were not alone on the mountain. They walked along the road behind the house and went to the back of the mountain. In about ten minutes, they reached the foot of the mountain.
Tang Yue actually didn't know much about wild vegetables. She had never picked any in her two lifetimes. It seemed that she had to learn before she could pick them. If she didn't know them, it would be terrible if she picked poisonous ones.
There is no firewood to pick up at the foot of the mountain. It may have been picked up by diligent people. The only thing we can do is walk up the mountain. If we walk a little further, we can see a lot of firewood.
Xiao Jun was very depressed when he saw Tang Yue picking up firewood, so he asked Tang Yue, "Tang Zhiqing, what do you think?"
"Is your opinion important?" Tang Yue replied.
How could it not be important? Xiao Jun asked, "Is it important?"
Tang Yue knew she had to make it clear, "I've never thought about this question. You're still young. Why don't you consider it before you turn 18?"
Xiao Jun hurriedly said, "Tang Zhi hopes that when you are 18 years old, he will give you a chance and he will wait for you forever."
"It's better not to wait. Maybe you will fall in love with someone else, so your wait will be in vain." Tang Yue really doesn't like him.
Tang Yue ignored Xiao Jun. She wanted to pick up more firewood as no one was out of firewood. When Tang Yue was ready to go down the mountain, she found that she had picked up ten bundles of firewood, which should be enough. She put a basket of flammable leaves for ignition in her backpack, took out the firewood and chopped two sticks, one 1.5 meters and one more than 2 meters. She carried the 1.5-meter stick with her and the two-meter stick for carrying firewood later. She tied the ten bundles of firewood with vines, five bundles on each side, and then stuck the sticks in and she was ready to go.
Seeing that Tang Yue had collected so much firewood, Xiao Jun looked at his own bundle and felt really frustrated and powerless. Tang Yue saw that Xiao Jun was almost done, so she helped him chop a bundle, so that he had two bundles on each side, just enough for them to go down the mountain together.
After they came down the mountain and returned to the educated youth site, they saw that all the people who had gone to the commune had returned. Zhao Yingying said, "Yueyue, I brought you a straw hat."
Tang Yue thought that was perfect. "I'll give you some extra money. You can also bring back a bundle of firewood for cooking tonight."
"It's not expensive, only fifty cents. Yueyue, you are so nice. I was just worrying about what to cook. It's just that you don't have to give me the fifty cents. After all, I took your firewood." Zhao Yingying jumped up happily.
Tang Yue put the firewood outside the door and asked everyone to take a bundle back. Everyone thanked her.
When Zhu Xiaoqin saw that there was firewood, she said, "Tonight is our first meal at the educated youth site. Let's eat together. Everyone can just contribute a little bit of food." Everyone agreed.
Tang Yue said: "놖 There is bacon 놖, 놖 this is what I ordered."
Everyone contributed a dish. Although we had just met, we all showed good tempers. I wonder if we were hiding it too well? The meal was very warm. We were all people who had just left home, and we felt like we had found a group. The meal lasted for an hour before it ended.
Tang Yue returned to her bedroom, locked the door, and instantly entered the space. She didn't know if the pigs, cows, sheep, and rabbits were starving, so she quickly used her mind to take a lot of sweet potato vines and went in to feed them. They could be slaughtered in about a month, but she kept them for the time being to let them have more cubs.
Walk along the horizontal fence to the rightmost place, feed the chickens, ducks and geese and pick up eggs. After picking up the eggs this time, don't pick up the eggs for the next time. Leave them for the old hens to hatch chicks, so that there will be a constant supply of eggs and chicken. Looking at both sides of the river, I thought that I didn't see pine trees and other trees on the mountain today. It may be that I don't know them. Next time I will go up the mountain with the aunties in the village to learn more.
Tang Yue returned to the yard and poured a glass of spiritual water. Tang Yue found that there was no reaction after drinking the spiritual water. It should be that the toxins in the body were cleared out. After drinking it, her skin became better.
After a tiring day today, Tang Yue planned to rest early as she had to go to work tomorrow morning. Although she was very strong, she had never done this before and it would take some time for her to adapt.
Tang Yue woke up at 12 o'clock in the morning. She cooked some noodles while there was still time. She boiled some hot water in the pot, put the steamer in it, and went to brush her teeth and wash her face. When she came out, she saw Xiao Jun and Zhang Jianguo just came back from jogging.
After washing her face, Tang Yue changed into the equipment she was going to wear. She also took out the military water bottle of the original owner's father, washed it and put it away. After the dough had risen, she kneaded it into a round shape and cut it into steamed buns. She made a little more in the morning and came back in the afternoon to heat it up in the pot and eat it. She took out a bottle of hot sauce from the space, scraped the paper wrapping clean, and dipped the steamed buns in it.
I walked outside to see if my friends were up. Several male students were already up. I was afraid that they would be late for breakfast and would not have time to eat.
Tang Yue could only knock on their doors to wake them up. Tang Yue knocked on Zhao Yingying and Zhu Xiaoqin's doors to wake them up. When they answered, they left. Zhang Mei didn't have to go and call Xu Kai herself, because Xu Kai would call her.
I returned to the room, took out a steamed bun and dipped it in sauce. I had to eat one more bun because I had to work today. I filled the kettle with water and just in time I heard the radio outside. I checked the time and it was only seven o'clock. I didn't know if this sound was the bell for getting up or going to work.
I put on the original owner's clothes, thought about the strong sun in China, applied lotion, cream and sunscreen, put on gloves and Liberation shoes, took the kettle, filled it with spiritual water, put on a straw hat, and finally took the 1.5-meter-long stick and prepared to set off. Seeing that everyone had just woken up, I knew they had not had breakfast.
"Yueyue, do you have anything to eat? It's too late and we don't have time to cook. I'll give you some food when I come back." Zhao Yingying asked from the side.
Tang Yue asked, "Do you want some steamed buns?"
When Tang Yue asked, everyone quickly said yes, because they hadn’t eaten yet. Even the two male volunteers who got up the earliest hadn’t finished cooking. Later they found out that they didn’t know how to cook.
I gave each of them a steamed bun, and they ate as they walked, following the old educated youth in another direction. When they got there, the team leader was already standing at the platform waiting for them.
Then I heard the team leader say: "The weather is too hot now. Go to work earlier in the morning and take an extra hour's rest. Eight new educated youth came yesterday. Each team has two. There are two more. You team leaders can draw lots for yourselves."
In the end, Tang Yue, Xiao Jun and Zhao Yingying were divided into one team, Zhu Xiaoqin and Zhang Jianguo were divided into two teams, and Xu Kai, Zhang Mei and Liu were divided into two teams.
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