Chapter 119 Quota of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers
Wen Wan walked over and squatted in front of him, reaching out to give him some water: "Cold water, you're washing your hair with cold water right now, and you're stripping naked, be careful not to catch a cold."
Lu Dongping reached out and wiped the water off his face and said, "The sun is right overhead, so I won't catch a cold. I've been used to it since I was a child. I always shower with cold water when it's colder than now."
"Where have you been? I heard from Donglin that you got up very early, but I haven't seen you yet. Is there something going on in the commune?"
"It's okay!" Lu Dongping reached out and wrung out the towel to wipe it: "I went up the mountain, and something fell into the well. I got it out before dawn." As he said that, he took out a roll of things from his trouser pocket and gave it to her.
Wen Wan hesitated for a moment before reaching out to take it. It was filled with both money and bills. "Isn't it dangerous?" Isn't private trading prohibited now? It's said the crackdown is quite strict.
"No, I give it directly to people. I give the goods in one hand and get the money in the other. I don't sell it myself on the black market, so it's just a little cheaper. It's not a big deal."
"You, don't be naked like this, go put on some clothes."
Lu Dongping responded, hung the towel on the rope to dry, and poured the water outside the yard.
Wen Wan stood at the doorway as they entered the house and said, "My things are all packed. What about yours? Clothes and stuff. Do you want to take them now?"
As for clothes, Lu Dongping had only a half-new military coat and a sweater in winter that was still in good condition. All his other clothes were patched and sewn again and again.
He took those two items, along with the one Wen Wan had made for him, with him temporarily. He also locked up the soaps, lotions, and other things he had bought for Wen Wan in a drawer and gave them to Wen Wan to keep. Now that he had his own house, all the furniture, and their marriage certificate, he didn't need to put those things away.
Wen Wan muttered as she packed, "There are too few clothes, not even enough to change."
"Hey, Lu Dongping, why don't you wash your military coat while the sun is shining? It will be thoroughly dried in two days."
Lu Dongping responded from outside: "Put it aside for now. I'll wash it in the river later."
Wen Wan definitely didn't care. She couldn't even lift her own cotton-padded jacket, let alone this military coat. When she saw the weight of the water, she really couldn't lift it.
As they were talking, the people who went to work came back.
The backpack that he had carried up in the morning was now carried back by Lu Mingjiang. Lu Chun'e helped him carry the hoe, and her face was tanned red.
Lu Donglin also joined them and took out a full basket.
Lu Mingjiang put down his backpack, stood up, wiped the sweat off his face with his clothes, and asked him, "Today is Sunday. Is there anything else going on at the commune?"
Lu Dongping hummed.
"Have you cooked yet?"
Lu Dongping said: "I just came back, Wanwan cooked porridge, but no pancakes."
Wen Wan came out of the house and called out to Lu Mingjiang and Zhang Hongying, a little embarrassed. "I just don't know how to cook, and I don't know how to make pancakes, so I just made some grits porridge. I went to the private plot and picked some vegetables and washed them all."
Zhang Hongying put down her hoe, took a deep breath, and said, "It's okay. Mixing vegetables is quick and easy. It will be done in two seconds." The rice was already good. As for what kind of rice, she didn't ask. As long as it could be made and cooked, it was fine.
Lu Chun'e entered the kitchen, lifted the lid of the pot and said, "It smells so good! Sister, you said you couldn't cook, but you cooked so well! I feel like I can save on side dishes and don't need to bake pancakes. I can just drink this, I can drink two big bowls."
Wen Wan felt even more embarrassed: "I just don't know how to cook it, so I just made a hodgepodge, chopping up a little bit of everything and adding it in."
Lu Dongping praised: "It's great. We make grits porridge every day at home, but I didn't expect to find such a way to make it."
"At that time, at the educated youth camp, we had grits porridge twice a day, and no vegetables. So we had to cook wild vegetables and onions in a pot, and that was all I knew how to cook."
Zhang Hongying chopped the cucumber and chili pepper with a knife, then added salt and vinegar and mixed them.
The rice becomes thick after being in the pot for a long time, so there is really no need to make pancakes.
They saved time on cooking, and Lu Dongping had already fed the pigs. After dinner, Lu Mingjiang and his wife went into the house to take a nap.
Lu Chun'e didn't feel sleepy at all. She took out her homework and started writing.
Lu Donglin had originally planned to go to the dam to play, but when he looked at her, he suddenly didn't want to go there anymore, so he took out his notebook and started writing.
"Aren't you going to the creek to fish today?"
Lu Dong sat up straight for a rare moment: "What are you talking about? Touching fish! That's just a boring child's trick. I'm a grown-up, why would I do that?"
Lu Chun'e glanced at him several times, a little curious, wondering how long he could keep pretending to be serious.
"Dad said that if you repeat a grade again, you won't have to go back to school. Congratulations, your dream has finally come true."
Lu Donglin snorted twice: "Who said I would repeat a grade? I will definitely succeed in getting promoted to the fourth grade. Don't look down on me."
"I'm not looking down on you. I'm telling you the truth. It's you who didn't study hard enough, and you keep saying you don't want to go back to school."
Lu Donglin remained silent. This was the fact.
Wen Wan didn't join the siblings in their murmurs. There was a desk in the room, facing the window. It was bright and cool. She took a stool and sat there, first doing the questions she had given herself, writing down the correct answers, and then began to correct the papers one by one.
Lu Dongping didn't disturb her and went to sleep in his own room. He got up in the middle of the night and it was the hottest time of the day, so he was very sleepy.
After two hours of rest, the time was almost up. There was a sound of talking outside, and then the sound reached the door. Xu Qingming's voice rang out outside: "Wanwan!"
Wen Wan stood up, shook her stiff neck and walked outside: "Seventh Brother!"
Although they were in the same production team, Wen Wan hadn't seen Xu Qingming for more than half a month. He seemed to have become darker than last time.
"Why are you here at this hour?"
Xu Qingming stood at the door and glanced inside without going in: "I came to take a look. I ran into Lu Dongping a few days ago. He said that you guys have set a date and will hold the wedding at the end of next month. I thought I should come and take a look."
I just took a quick look and found that it was indeed very good in the local area. Lu Dongping had put a lot of thought into it.
They are all men, even if he has never been in a relationship, he knows that the person who can make him spend time and energy must be someone he likes and cares about very much.
Now he no longer said those words that he was not worthy of.
Sometimes whether you are worthy of each other is not the main thing, what matters is whether you are willing to put in the effort under limited conditions.
He saw what Lu Dongping was thinking and had nothing to say.
As for what would happen at home, he wondered if he would be able to take care of it even if he knew that Wen Wan had married here.
Except for the two elders of the Xu family and Uncle Xu who works in the military, everyone else in the family who should be demoted has been demoted.
He pulled a ticket out of his pocket. "It's too late to write back now to tell them you're getting married. If you were in the capital, your family would definitely give you a good dowry, but now, circumstances don't allow it. I don't have anything else to give you, but since you used to like doing this and that, here's a ticket for a sewing machine. I remember you told me last time that my dad gave you a ticket for a radio. If you have enough money, go buy them. Lu Dongping's family has renovated their house and bought furniture. If you buy these two as a dowry, you won't be taking advantage of them, and you'll be marrying into their family with honor."
"Seventh Brother!"
Wen Wan opened her mouth but didn't say a word. She and Xu Qingming were of similar age. They had played together since they were young and had a deep affection for each other through their playful fights. In the blink of an eye, they were both adults.
Xu Qingming laughed: "What's wrong? Are you so moved that you want to cry?"
"Who's crying? Why are you so annoying?"
Xu Qingming laughed even more wantonly: "Okay, okay, I'm annoying, girls are outgoing, I'm leaving, I'll come find you when I'm free."
Wen Wan followed him out and called out to him, "Hey, wait a minute, let me ask you, have you written a letter home? Last time I sent something back, I also wrote a letter. It's been half a year, and there's no news at all."
Xu Qingming seemed not to hear it. He turned around and greeted Zhang Hongying and the others, then walked out of the yard like a ghost.
Wen Wan muttered, "What's wrong with this guy?"
She looked at the ticket in her hand. It was not easy to get a ticket for sewing. Where did Xu Qingming get it from, and why did he send it at such an auspicious time?
In the afternoon, Lu Dongping also went to the fields. Wen Wan still did not go. She rested in the house for a while, and while it was cool, she went to the bamboo forest to wash clothes. When she turned around after work, she saw Wang Jianmao, who rarely followed Lu Minghai to the Lu family yard.
She simply nodded as a greeting, and after the person passed by, she looked at him again and asked Lu Dongping: "It's been a long time since I saw people from the educated youth site coming here. Why are they here today? Are there no rations?" Apart from this, she really couldn't think of why Wang Jianmao came to the Lu family at this time.
Lu Dongping washed his face and said, "It's not about rations. He's going back to the city!"
"Go back to the city?" Wen Wan was stunned!
Lu Dongping looked at her, feeling a little annoyed that he shouldn't have told her this.
Wen Wan came back to her senses: "Can we go back to the city now?"
"No!" This was the truth, and Lu Dongping hadn't even thought of trying to coax her out of it. "It's a spot for the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers University, and it went to our production team this year. I don't know where Wang Jianmao got the news from, but he started going around before the New Year, so he should be here by now. He's been with the team for five years now, has good relationships, and has some connections. My uncle won't hold him back. We'll have a meeting after we're done with the work in a few days, and there shouldn't be any problems with the public vote. Then we'll get a letter of introduction and a letter of recommendation, and once they've been stamped by the brigade commune, it'll be done, and the grain relationship will be transferred back."
Wenwan nodded.
"That should be no problem. He's quite good."
It is said that Liu Changqing was sent down with him. He has been here for five years and still can't go back!
Liu Changqing has a straightforward temper and cannot tolerate any sand in his eyes. Regardless of whether he has any connections or not, he will lose to Wang Jianmao even in the public vote.
The quota for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University is a very important matter, and Lu Minghai alone cannot make the final decision.
The work in the fields had just been completed, and in the evening of the next day, each household was notified to go to the wheat field for a voting meeting.
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