For rural people, as long as they want to move, there is endless work to do.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, even though the wind was still biting cold, it couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for earning work points.
It turned out that Qiu Jianjun had just returned from a meeting at the commune and had organized meetings for each team, passing the task down layer by layer until he finally assigned the task of maintaining the highway.
One person gets one work point for pulling a cart of sand, and two people can work together. This time it’s yours, and next time it’s his. There is road construction work every day, and those who are diligent can earn endless work points.
Although Qiu Dashu is going to take the technical secondary school entrance exam this year, he is still very active when it comes to stretching his muscles.
He followed his elder brother to work for two days before school started, and each of them earned dozens of work points.
There are more and more families in the team who own carts, and their wooden wheels are somewhat of a hindrance to their work.
Although they had the strength, they didn't know how to use it. After some consideration, Li Qingmei and Qiu Jianshe gritted their teeth and spent 64 yuan to buy a second-hand cart. The cart was bigger than the one they made themselves, but the tires were rubber, so it actually took less effort to pull it up than the original one.
I also sold my original car as second-hand for 35 yuan.
The Qiu family was working hard, and even Qiu Yuling went to help push the cart for two days.
However, an accident almost happened while digging sand and loading it into the truck.
If they go deep into the sand pit here, the sand will be on the surface, but that requires walking a little further. There are also places nearby to dig sand. Usually there is sand at the base of the embankment, but there will be a thick layer of soil one or two meters or even two or three meters above it.
That day, Qiu Dashan went down into the sand pit. After digging twice, he felt the sand above his head falling down.
He immediately felt something was wrong and wanted to climb out. It would have been better if he hadn't climbed up. Lying down would have accelerated the collapse of the embankment. With a "crash", the embankment that was one person high and three feet thick slid down, and in an instant only Qiu Dashan's head and shoulders were exposed.
He shook himself, but his legs and waist couldn't move at all.
Fortunately, the whole family was out at the time, and seeing the situation, they swarmed over to dig the soil. Huang Duoer was afraid of slipping again, so she threw out the horse whip that she brought as a dowry and hooked it tightly around her man.
A few people didn't dare to use shovels for fear of accidentally hurting someone, so they started digging the soil with their hands. Later, other people in the team who had returned to load sand also helped to dig the person out.
Everyone was still in shock, and on the way back someone had already reported the incident back to the team.
Qiu Jianjun came over early to see how the people were doing and whether they were injured.
"It's okay, it just scraped off two pieces of oily skin the size of a fingernail. It's us diggers whose fingernails hurt a little." Qiu Jianshe helped answer his cousin.
"It was really dangerous, we almost made a big mess." Other cousins and nephews who were standing nearby added to the conversation.
"It's really okay, but it also serves as a warning to the other members of the team. From now on, they must work in groups of two, so that there will be more people to take care of them if anything happens." Qiu Jianjun immediately gave a targeted policy.
Because some families don't have cars, they have to wait until other families have used their cars or are taking a break before they can go there alone. This makes it more likely that something will go wrong and help won't be provided in time.
A small accident scared the Qiu Jianshe family so much. The first thing that was affected was that Qiu Yuling stopped following them. Needless to say, Qiu Dashu rolled up his bedding and went to school the next day.
Qiu Dashan was also forced to rest for two days.
The old couple pulled the cart to deliver sand themselves, and asked, "Brother, sister-in-law, why don't you use a donkey to pull it?" People who were curious saw that Qiu Jianshe and his wife had animals at home but they were not using them, and they were working hard there.
"It's a long way to go. It's better for us to push and pull it ourselves. Besides, it's my daughter-in-law's dowry. How can we use it everywhere?" Qiu Jianshe replied frankly. He was reluctant to part with it, but he had the strength. What's wrong with that?
Qiu Jianshe and Li Qingmei pulled carts every day to earn work points. On the third day, Qiu Dashan could no longer sit still and insisted on working hard. Qiu Yuling also checked on her elder brother and found that he was in good health, had no broken bones, and could move.
Huang Duoer felt sorry for her husband, and this time she refused to let him pull the cart no matter what. "Animals are born to be used as servants. Why should we bother raising them if we just keep them as servants?"
Once the donkey is harnessed to a cart, people only have to load and unload the cart and drive it, which is much easier than pulling the cart manually.
But when people pulled the donkey cart, it would tilt backward and fall over, so the donkey cart had to be taken down and put back on again and again.
After a few people discussed it, they decided to leave two people at the sand loading area, one person to drive the cart, and one person to unload the cart.
They were just the right number of people, an old couple and a young couple.
Qiu Yuling immediately went to the stove and started preparing meals.
But she didn't help for many days. A week later, her own school started. As soon as the new semester started, she started to slam the papers and arrange exams.
The kids' families are complaining that the mode switching is so smooth that there is not even a gradient. They have neglected their studies for the whole year and have offered all their knowledge as tribute to their ancestors.
Qiu Yuling performed as steadily as ever, scoring full marks in every subject.
The principal actually took the initiative to talk to her about asking her to apply for the technical secondary school entrance exam in advance after she entered the first grade of junior high school to test the waters. Qiu Yuling asked if this was possible. The principal said it was possible, but asked her to study hard now.
Therefore, although Qiu Yuling was only in the fifth grade, she had already taken the junior high school textbooks and started studying, and her classmates gradually became accustomed to it.
At first, some people almost had the idea of being competitive, but she never did badly. No matter how difficult the test was, she always got excellent grades. 100 points was the upper limit of the score, not Qiu Yuling's.
It was even said to be incredible, saying that even if Qiu Yuling were to take the technical secondary school entrance exam now, she would still be able to take first place.
Those who believe in it worship it more and more, while those who don't believe in it are waiting to see the joke. Isn't it said that a person who is smart when he is young may not be a good person when he grows up?
Qiu Yuling's focus gradually shifted from household chores to her studies. She brought her own lunch every day, ate one portion herself, and gave one portion to Qiu Dashu.
As for that bicycle, she held the beam and leaned forward, without delaying anything.
Soon the day of the technical secondary school joint entrance examination arrived.
The day before, Qiu Yuling brought Qiu Dashu a cup of malted milk with added ingredients. She put a [brain-refreshing pill] in it. The function was not amazing, it just made people think clearly, and the price was only 10,000 points.
Qiu Dashu did not apply for an English-related major. The subjects he took were politics, Chinese, mathematics, geography and chemistry. After two days of exams, even the options he had chosen and the thoughts he had written were clearly imprinted in his mind.
In short, when I see the questions in the exam room, I feel like I can probably recall which part of the book they belong to, or which type of questions in the papers I have done.
He felt that he had performed exceptionally well this time. If he had originally been 70 or 80 percent confident, by the time the last exam was handed in, he would have felt that his chances of passing were probably over 90 percent.
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