Since the old man said so, it would most likely be accomplished. She had heard people call the old man Mr. Li. Although she did not specifically inquire, Qiu Yuling had more or less pieced together that his son was an official in the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau.
Although it is not popular to use backdoors now, it is also a good time to promote talented people regardless of their relationships.
Qiu Yuling lit the kerosene lamp and wrote a letter to the Qiu family, briefly explaining what had happened so that they could be prepared.
"Yuling, why don't you go to bed yet? It's too late and it will hurt your eyes." Li Feidan and the others came back from the bathroom and saw Qiu Yuling still busy writing.
"Just go to sleep and finish it." Qiu Yuling folded the letter, stuffed it into the envelope, found a four-cent stamp and put it on it, and put the letter into her bag.
"Another letter home?" Li Feidan asked casually after accidentally seeing the envelope.
"OK."
"Our Yuling is still a child, and she is very diligent in sending letters from home." Bai Qiaolan followed behind and said this, and everyone laughed after making a joke.
In fact, sending letters these days is not cheap. Since the currency reform in 1955, with the new RMB as the monetary standard, the postage for letters has been adjusted to 8 cents for domestic mail and 4 cents for local delivery. It has basically remained unchanged for the next 30 years.
How much does an egg cost? Not everyone is willing to spend money on it.
After everyone laughed and joked for a while, they blew out the lights and went to bed.
In Qiuzhuang, Qiu Dashan had just received the secondment order. He was happy but confused at the same time. Then, Qiu Yuling's letter from home also arrived.
"That's what I said. There are so many senior engineers out there, but why would they choose to be interested in an apprentice like you? It turns out it's because of your sister's connection."
After listening to Qiu Dashan reading the letter, Qiu Jianshe finally understood.
Good news is good news. The team leader came specially to bring the news that Qiu Dashan should report to the agricultural machinery department of Yaojie Farm as soon as possible with the secondment letter and the relationship certificate issued by the team.
But it was too sudden, and everyone was confused. They asked the team leader Qiu Jianjun, but he didn't explain it clearly. He just said that we should cooperate with the arrangements made by the superiors, and besides, this was a good thing.
If you are seconded there, let alone three to five years, even if you learn for three to five months, when you have acquired the skills, you can directly join the commune's technical team when you come back.
Isn’t that better than scratching for food?
Everything else is fine, except this time when he goes away. He can't be at home all the time, and he's worried that his child is too young to remember him as his father after a few days.
"Don't be so fussy. Why don't you go first? Once you've established yourself, you can bring these women over with you."
So that's it. After just a moment of worry, the whole family happily packed up and went away.
"Don't panic, eldest brother's wife. The baby is still young right now. Even if you could go with him, it would only cause more trouble. You should stay home first and ask eldest brother to go and look for him first. Besides, this is a temporary assignment, not a permanent one. You never know when he will be back."
"This is a good thing. You can learn a skill and earn ten work points a day. Where else can you find such a good job? Stop thinking about it and pack up your things quickly." Qiu Jianshe rarely showed his power as a parent.
Interrupting the conversation between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"Duo'er, just rest assured and look after the three brothers. Dad is right. I'll be able to touch the machines when I go there. When I come back, I won't be a master, but a formal technician. I'm sure I'll be more successful than I am now."
Huang Duoer packed her luggage with a smile, including a sweat jacket, a vest, and cloth shoes... She packed an extra set of each for easy changing.
Ever since the letter arrived, the whole family has been trying to comfort her intentionally or unintentionally, as if she would drag the man down.
God knows, this girl is already a fool. Instead of coaxing her man to go out and earn a good life, she has to tie him to her belt. Is she crazy or what?
She was so happy about this good thing that she couldn't contain herself.
Qiu Dashan, on the other hand, looked very clingy. When he left the village, he looked back every few steps, as if he would not be back for a long time.
Finally, the person was sent out, and Huang Duoer breathed a sigh of relief. She had almost had enough to take care of the three little ones. If the man didn't leave home, she was afraid that she would get pregnant again.
It would have been fine if she had only one or two children this time. My parents-in-law said that they were in their prime and didn't want to stay at home idle, and they could take care of the children and take some time off. But once the number increased, they were just exhausted.
She was eager to go out to work.
But who can replace her? Those who can work in this family have earned full work points, so she is the only one who is suitable to stay behind.
However, the school has organized students to go to the countryside for two consecutive weekends to put the great man's ideas into practice and strive to let these children experience the greatness of the working people.
Qiu Yuling bent over, holding a sickle, and swung her arms mechanically.
She escaped Qiu Zhuang, but still couldn't escape this incident. Now she had no parents to support her and had to work.
Although my classmates were not all little princesses or young masters like in later generations, some of them had never worked in the fields. Even among those who had, not all of them could do every kind of work.
Anyway, the work of harvesting and bundling wheat has stumped many students.
Qiu Yuling wasn't much better; mowing the lawn was a quick job, stopping when the basket was full. Unlike now, it felt like the field had no end.
"Oh, I can't take it anymore. I really can't take it anymore." After finally getting to lunch, Bai Qiaolan burst into tears and said that she couldn't take it anymore in the afternoon.
She was a typical city kid and was supposed to go to university, but her family had many mouths to feed and money was tight, so she had to apply to a technical secondary school.
But the difficulties in the city cannot be compared with this.
"Me too. My father is the team leader and my mother never lets me go to the fields." Liu Xiaofang was the second one who couldn't stand the suffering.
"Yuling, you're the youngest, can you hold on?"
Qiu Yuling took off her cotton gloves, endured the pain and picked the blisters on the palms of her hands, and held the sickle tightly.
"It's almost too late, but the instructor said that no one can be left behind. This is related to our graduation grades and job placement."
Screw the assignment, at worst I can go back to their Qiu Village to take over Master Qiu Wu’s job and raise livestock.
But reason made her stretch it again.
After complaining, they ate the steamed buns they brought from school in the morning with cold water. Everyone looked sad again and encouraged each other to go to the fields.
Qiu Yuling didn't want to be a model worker, and her hands were sore, so she couldn't do as much work in the afternoon as in the morning.
When they went to the fields, there were team members and students interspersed among them.
The women in the same group started to say something strange, "The kids nowadays are too educated to do any housework. Not only are you guys working slowly, but I have to do more to make up for it. You're really doing more harm than good."
The instructor also came over to inspect the group where Qiu Yuling was. He happened to hear this and was about to tell Qiu Yuling about it.
Qiu Yuling took off her hand and saw that her palm was covered with bloody blisters from being scratched and crushed.
"Ah? How come it's so serious? This girl is such a taciturn person. Her hands are like this, why don't you tell me something? I'll let you do other work instead." The woman who had just said something weird felt a little bit sorry when she saw these hands.
Especially when I heard the school leaders, actually Qiu Yuling's instructors, say that she was only twelve years old, I muttered, "This girl has such a beautiful figure," and regretted what I had just said.
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