Chapter 25 Moving into the House
As soon as the house was built, the educated youth site held a small meeting.
“In a few days we will start harvesting corn. We have experienced this once or twice, but you are new here and don’t know how busy the farming season is, so you must be mentally prepared.
Also, at the beginning of the busy farming season everyone is quite tired, so they eat a lot, and they have to eat well, at least with some meat and vegetables.
So the purpose of today's meeting is to tell everyone that everyone should take out some money and tickets, and let's go to the town to buy a piece of meat.
I am not trying to enrich myself, but I have to eat meat during the busy farming season, otherwise I may not be able to survive." Li Baoguo said seriously.
A few old educated youths were afraid that the new educated youths would not believe them, so they nodded and agreed: "When the busy farming season comes, I have to lose several pounds.
Normally we can just eat a little to get by, but if we don’t have some meat at this time, we will definitely not be able to make it through.”
“If you don’t believe it, you can ask the villagers. Also, during the busy farming season, everyone’s meals must be better and they must eat more.
The new educated youth don't have much food left, so you have to go and exchange some with your fellow villagers. That's pretty much all I want to say at this meeting. As for whether you are willing to pay for the money and tickets, that's up to you.
Let me make it clear first, if you don’t pay the money and pay the ticket, you can’t touch the meat or vegetables.” Li Baoguo stared at the new educated youths, and the seriousness in his eyes proved that what he said was serious.
Li Ruolan said: "Deng Zhiqing and I will not add any more food. Once the busy farming season is over, we will move away and then we won't eat with everyone else.
As for the money to buy the meat, we will pay whatever amount everyone contributes."
Qin Wan, Xu Tao and Guo Xiaoya said the same thing as Li Ruolan. Li Baoguo didn't care about it and nodded in agreement.
As for the money to buy meat, everyone contributed one dollar. Not many people had meat coupons, and only six people had meat coupons, and they each contributed some. The others who didn't have meat coupons added a few cents more.
So Li Baoguo and Zheng Hongmei went to the town the next day and bought two chickens, ten kilograms of pork belly, and four fish.
"Two chickens plus the ticket cost nine yuan in total, ten pounds of pork belly cost 79 cents per pound, so ten pounds cost 79 yuan in total, and fish cost 0.11 yuan per pound, so these four fish weighed about 15 pounds, and I spent 1.5 yuan.
I have about six dollars left, and I'll use it to buy meat next time I go to town."
It’s not that they don’t want to buy all the meat at once, it’s just that you have to queue up to buy meat at the meat processing plant, and even if it’s your turn, if you want a lot of meat, the people at the meat processing plant won’t sell it to you.
They always left some for the people behind, and each person could only buy a little. Li Baoguo and Zheng Hongmei queued separately, so each bought 5 kilograms of meat.
Even though we bought so many things, there were quite a few people at the educated youth site, twenty-two people, and this amount of food was not enough for them.
The next day, Li Baoguo went to the town again and brought back five pounds of meat and a pig's liver. Of course, pig liver, pig heart, and pig lungs were also meat.
The busy farming season began the day after the meat was bought.
The working time was early. They started working as soon as it was light, and then everyone in the production team started working in the fields.
The female comrades were responsible for breaking the corn, the male comrades were responsible for transporting the corn, and some were responsible for cutting the corn stalks.
The most feared thing during the busy farming season is rain, so everyone starts working hard, which is called rushing to harvest.
Li Ruolan's assigned job was to break corn. She wore a long coat and long pants, tied her cuffs tightly, and wore gloves. However, even so, after a day, her neck and face were covered with many scratches from the corn leaves, and her hands were rubbed red.
And it was so tiring. Li Ruolan's kettle was filled with spiritual spring water, and even drinking this water wouldn't make her feel much better.
After work and dinner, everyone was exhausted. Like zombies, they climbed onto the kang with stiff hands and feet and fell asleep with their pillows. They were so tired.
It felt like the moment I closed my eyes and opened them again, it was already dawn. Before everyone had a good rest, they had to go to work in the fields again.
Fortunately, they ate pretty well during this period. There was meat at every meal, and the staple food was large enough to fill them up, so they managed to hold on.
Every time this time comes, the people in the team will eat better, just like during the Chinese New Year, they will have meat for a meal almost every day.
However, there were some families who could not afford to buy meat, so during the harvest season, because they did not eat enough or had not enough to eat every meal, they just fainted in the fields.
Most of them are women, and there are also some elderly men.
In short, I fainted from exhaustion every day, but the work points achieved at this time were also very gratifying.
A strong young laborer can earn about ten to twenty-three work points a day, and even female comrades can earn full work points.
This went on for seven or eight days, and everyone at the educated youth site shed a layer of skin. The little weight that Li Ruolan had gained with great difficulty was lost again in the past few days.
The male educated youth had also lost a lot of weight. At night, there was no one to talk to at the educated youth center. They all tried hard to eat and then went back to sleep.
The old educated youth had at least experienced it once or twice and had some experience, but the new educated youth felt that they were almost exhausted.
However, among them, there is still someone who is relatively relaxed, and that is Qin Wan.
Because she often runs up and down the mountain, her supernatural power has been upgraded to the first level. The first level supernatural power has made her physical fitness much better and her strength increased a bit.
Therefore, Qin Wan did not feel very tired when she was picking corn. On the contrary, she could absorb some wood-related abilities in the cornfield, which made her feel extremely relaxed.
Although Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao have lost a lot of weight, they are supported by the spiritual spring water. Although they are not as good as Qin Wan, they are better than others.
In this way, the corn was finally harvested. On the third day after harvesting the corn, the weather changed. Early in the morning, the team leader began to call people back to the warehouse to send all the corn spread on the ground.
Everyone in the brigade, regardless of gender, age or status, all went to work. Just as they put all the corn into the warehouse, heavy rain began to fall from the sky.
Every autumn rain brings a chill, and along with the rain comes cold air. The temperature suddenly drops, and many people start to wear padded clothes.
The captain gave everyone a day off, and everyone finally had time to rest.
Li Ruolan and the others had been waiting for this day. As soon as the captain announced that they could rest, the two of them immediately packed their luggage and moved into the newly built house.
There is a main room and a large courtyard. The door of the main room is on the west side, and inside is a spacious kitchen with cabinets, tables, chairs and benches.
A warm wall was built next to the earthen stove. The kitchen is connected to the bedroom. When you open the door and go in, there is a kang by the window, and two large wardrobes are placed against the wall opposite.
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