Chapter 13 What a good comrade

When the wake-up whistle sounded, Su Mo woke up immediately. It should be a conditioned reflex that the original owner had developed in those ten days.

Ma Xiaojuan and Chen Lan also sat up and prepared to put on clothes.

"Su Mo, hurry up, we have to gather at the brigade headquarters at 5:30." Ma Xiaojuan urged.

During the autumn harvest, the wake-up whistle was blown at 5 o'clock, and we gathered at the brigade headquarters at 5:30 to listen to the brigade leader arrange today's production tasks.

There are more than 1,000 people in the Lujia Village Brigade, and more than 800 people can participate in labor. These more than 800 people are divided into eight production teams, and each production team has five production teams.

The brigade leader will assign production tasks to the production team leader in the morning, and then the production team leader will distribute them to the team leaders. The team leader then leads his team members to the mission area and assigns tasks to everyone on the spot according to the actual situation.

Basically, this is the process.

"Su Mo, hurry up. Today's breakfast is sweet potatoes. It's late. The big ones have been picked up." Ma Xiaojuan urged again.

During the autumn harvest, people go to work very early and there is no time to eat breakfast at home. Everyone prepares breakfast the night before and takes it with them the next day, eating while walking on the road.

"Xiaojuan, I want to take another day off today to go to the county town to buy some things." Su Mo hesitated and said.

The sooner things are done, the more at ease they will be. In case of any changes in the middle, she will have time to adjust. If she waits until the autumn harvest is over, time will be a bit tight.

"Then you have to go and tell the captain, he may not approve it."

Ma Xiaojuan also wanted to ask for leave, but she felt that the captain was targeting her, and she didn't know how she had offended him.

"If you can succeed, please bring me some things when you go to the county town, and I will give you the bill later."

"Okay." Su Mo nodded.

After Ma Xiaojuan and Chen Lan went out, Su Mo also took clothes to change.

Su Mo picked out the more low-key khaki pants and white shirt from the original owner's clothes, and then put on a pair of cloth shoes. Her hair was casually braided into a braid and hung on her shoulders.

The educated youth who were washing outside were a little surprised to see Su Mo come out dressed like this.

"Su Zhiqing, aren't you going to work again today?" Zheng Caiping asked with envy in her eyes. It would be nice if she also had a set of clothes like this.

"Well, I'm not going today. I want to go to the county town for something."

"If you have few work points, you won't get much food. The winter is very long here." Zheng Caiping reminded.

Although Su Mo may only earn 4 work points a day if she works hard, 4 work points are not bad.

"I know, it doesn't matter. My family will mail things and save money for me." Su Mo said.

Zheng Caiping: ...

It turns out that she is worrying too much. People may not care about these work points at all.

If it were two or three years ago, she might have said that Su Mo's ideological awareness was not good enough, and she should support rural construction after going to the countryside. But she had been sent to the countryside for three years, and she had long understood that people like them could not be supported in the city, so they were shoved into the countryside and were not welcomed anywhere.

The educated youth who came with her and whose families had some ability all wanted to find a way to return to the city.

Su Mo wet the towel with water and wiped her face. As for her teeth, she could only rinse her mouth.

Although she had a toothbrush in her room, she didn't have one in public, so she could only bear it.

She still had to hurry to buy something, because the days when she couldn't even brush her teeth were really uncomfortable.

Su Mo hung the towel on the rope in the room and was thinking about how to ask for leave from the team leader when she heard someone calling her outside.

Just as she was about to go out, Ma Xiaojuan ran in and winked at her.

"There's a soldier outside looking for you. He's handsome. Is he your date?"

Su Mo thought for a moment. She was the only soldier in the brigade who was handsome. He should be Lu Changzheng. She nodded.

"That's not bad. If it's him, it's okay."

Su Mo: ...

Yesterday I advised her not to get married. Ma Xiaojuan, I didn't expect you to be like this. You're still a beauty lover.

"Go out quickly. People are waiting." Ma Xiaojuan pushed Su Mo and then pulled her back. "By the way, if you go to the county, please buy me a pound of chicken cake. If it's convenient, please bring me an enamel basin."

After that, she gave Su Mo the bill.

In their room, only Chen Lan brought an enamel basin. It was too troublesome for three people to queue up to use it. She didn't dare to ask Su Mo to bring anything else, because Su Mo looked very weak and probably couldn't carry much.

Su Mo took the money and went out.

Lu Changzheng was standing outside the fence of the educated youth site. When he saw Su Mo coming, his eyes lit up.

His target was just good-looking!

"Comrade Lu, are you looking for me?"

Lu Changzheng took out two hot eggs from his pocket and handed them to Su Mo, "These are freshly cooked eggs. Eat them while they're hot." In

this era, eggs were precious. Many people in rural areas relied on this "chicken butt bank" to exchange things.

Although this was her new target, Su Mo was still a little embarrassed.

Su Mo, who was used to relying on herself, was not used to being cared for for a while.

"What about you? Have you eaten?"

"You eat!" Lu Changzheng did not answer, but asked Su Mo to eat quickly. Why would

a grown man like him eat eggs? His girlfriend just got sick and it was time to replenish her body.

"One for each of us." Su Mo peeled the egg in her hand and handed it to Lu Changzheng.

Seeing that Lu Changzheng did not take it, she handed it directly to his mouth.

Lu Changzheng's mouth curled up high. His girlfriend really loved him and would share half of the delicious food with him.

In the end, he could not bear to refuse her kindness, and opened his mouth to swallow the egg.

Then he took another egg, peeled it in a few seconds, and handed it to Su Mo.

Seeing Su Mo finish the egg, Lu Changzheng handed her the straw basket in his hand.

"I bought some eggs in the village yesterday. You have just recovered from your illness, so you can cook one or two eggs every day to nourish your body."

Su Mo was a little surprised. She didn't expect that this man was so caring.

This kind of straw basket is woven with wheat straw. It is elliptical and cylindrical in shape. It is quite deep and can hold a lot of eggs. Lu Changzheng spread some wheat straw on it. It is not clear how much there is, but there must be one or two kilograms.

"No, you can take it home to eat." Su Mo thought it was a bit too much. If it was just a few, she might have taken it. After all, she was in the end of the world and hadn't eaten eggs for a long time.

"We have some at home. You just recovered from your illness, and it's time to make up for it."

Lu Changzheng frowned. He didn't like Su Mo's politeness to him. Didn't she peel eggs for him to eat just now?

"But, it's a bit too much." Su Mo said. In this era, eggs are quite expensive.

Lu Changzheng's weather turned from cloudy to sunny in an instant. His girlfriend was really a good comrade, not greedy at all, and even this little bit of eggs was too much.

"Not much, take it quickly." Lu Changzheng handed the basket over again. Just a few eggs were nothing. He was also thinking about going to the county supply and marketing cooperative to ask if they had maltose and buy two cans for her.

Maltose is a precious thing, which is usually only available in supply and marketing cooperatives in big cities. Their county supply and marketing cooperatives may not even sell it.

[Popular Science: Maltose first entered China in 1920 when a businessman named Wang Yaqing introduced it from Britain. The first stop was Shanghai. At that time, Wang Yaqing promoted maltose in many ways, which soon caused a sensation in Shanghai and was favored by many celebrities and politicians, becoming a symbol of fashion.

In 1937, Shanghai Jiufu Pharmaceutical Factory introduced production technology from Switzerland and developed the domestically produced maltose "Lekoufu". Once launched, it was highly sought after and became a "luxury product" for a time.

Maltose only became popular in China in the early 1980s. Before that, maltose had always been a high-end luxury nutritional product with high prices and only available in big cities. In the 1970s, many people had never even heard of the term "maltose".

Production: Before 1976, maltose was basically only produced in Shanghai. After the end of the special period, various places gradually introduced the production technology of maltose, the production of maltose increased, the price was reduced, and it began to enter the eyes of ordinary people until it became popular in the 1980s. 】

Su Mo finally took it. When she lifted it, she found it was quite heavy, probably more than two kilograms.

"Are you going out later?" Lu Changzheng asked. Judging from the way he was dressed, he didn't look like he was going to rest at the educated youth camp.

"Well, I want to take a leave to go to the county town to buy some things."

"It just so happens that I'm going to the county town too. I'll take you with me later." This was not a coincidence, he was also going to the county town.

"During the autumn harvest, there are no donkey carts in the village to go to the county town. It will take you two or three hours to walk there. I'll take you on my bike, which is faster."

Su Mo thought about it and said, "Thank you, Comrade Lu."

"You're welcome. Then you wait at the educated youth camp, and I'll pick you up later." Lu Changzheng said and left.

The people at the educated youth camp had long been curious. When they saw Su Mo coming in with a straw basket, Zheng Caiping couldn't help asking first, "Su, educated youth, who is that?" What did they give you?

"My girlfriend." Su Mo said, there was nothing to hide.

"Ah? When did you find a girlfriend?" Zheng Caiping was surprised.

Several male educated youths at the educated youth camp also looked a little unnatural. Su Mo was the most beautiful girl at the educated youth camp, and she was just stolen away like that.

"Yesterday." Su Mo said briefly.

"He's wearing a military uniform. Could he be the son of the branch secretary who is a military officer?"

Su Mo nodded, not wanting to say more, and went into the room carrying the straw basket.

The old educated youths' faces became subtle again.

They had been here for a long time, and they knew that the branch secretary had a son who was a military officer, and they heard that he was a high-ranking official. I didn't expect Su Mo to be so lucky. She got to know the son of a military officer in the village party secretary's family right after she went to the countryside. No wonder she didn't go to work today.

The expression of another female educated youth, Lin Xia, was even more interesting.

When Lu Changzheng's house was built and the aunties in the village went to watch, she also took a look and liked it very much. Although she came from the city, her family of six was squeezed into two bedrooms and one living room. She didn't even have her own room and could only sleep on a bunk bed in the corner of the living room with her sister.

She was not bad looking either, and she had imagined that Lu Changzheng would come home to visit his relatives, fall in love with her, and then she would live in that house.

I didn't expect that Su Mo would snatch her away now.

She was so angry that she gritted her teeth and cursed in her heart, what a vixen.

Maybe Su Mo waited by the river on purpose that day, waiting for Lu Changzheng to arrive before jumping into the river. Otherwise, she could have asked for leave on any other day, but on that day. She

was really scheming!