Chapter 326: Canteen Disbanded (Please Read the Statement)
Li Lai Yu was fiddling with the land in the space and didn't care about the adults going up there. What could a two-year-old kid do? She couldn't take care of anything, not even herself.
The team had held several meetings, and the noise was particularly intense, especially with Wang Changshun, who was the most excited. This was because he had thought about that pig for a long time and tried every possible way to avoid the people at the pig farm and kill it, just to give his family a bite of meat. But he didn't expect the people in the cafeteria to be so bold and embezzle so much. How could he be happy about this?
Furthermore, he also wanted to take this opportunity to let his wife work as a cook in the canteen. That was a good job, and which cook would not secretly deduct things to supplement the family income?
The commotion was so big that the brigade held several meetings. The matter dragged on until July 20th when it finally came to a conclusion.
Hu Xinghong struck the gong he used to work, and called on everyone in the team to go to the wheat field for a meeting in the evening. Everyone in the team, regardless of gender or age, had to go.
On July 20, 1962, after more than ten days of unrest, the canteen of the Xiangshuigou Production Team was disbanded.
After the meeting that afternoon, each family received three days' worth of food based on the number of people in the household and went home to cook their own food.
After eating from the same pot for several years, the pot at home had long been handed over. How to cook was a big problem. Hu Xinghong couldn't take care of it, so he had to find a solution himself.
He was very busy, checking accounts and work points with the team's accountant and cashier, and then calculating the work point price as quickly as possible, and then distributing rations to the team members based on the work points per person.
I have to say that the job of production team leader is really not a job for humans.
There are no benefits, but a lot of troubles. If there is anything slightly wrong, people will attack and criticize.
The Li family didn't have a pot, but the previous stove was still there, and there were two broken clay pots, which were usually used to boil water. Fortunately, there were only four people in the family, and Li Lai Yu was not even half a person now.
A clay pot is enough.
No matter what, it is a good thing to be able to cook by yourself. After you get the food, you can decide how to eat it. It is a happy thing no matter how you think about it.
That evening, smoke began to rise from the roofs of every household in the Xiangshuigou Brigade. Such a scene had not been seen for a long time.
By the end of July, the team's rations were finally distributed. For the second half of the year, Li Guoping's family of five only received about 300 kilograms of food. This was because his family had many laborers and the weather had been good and the harvest had been good in the past two years, otherwise they might not have been able to get this much.
In addition to more than 200 kilograms of corn, there are also potatoes that have just been harvested.
These things were to be considered food rations for the second half of the year, using work points earned in the first half. In December, another round of food rations would be collected, using work points earned in the second half of the year, and then they would have to survive the entire next year.
Starting a fire yourself is not as optimistic as you might think.
After dinner, Li Lai Yu squatted in the gutter and urinated, and then was carried to the bed.
I squinted my eyes and heard the old couple discussing something.
"I'm not busy now. If it doesn't work, I'll start clearing the land tomorrow morning or evening. I'll start with a small amount. Planting some melons and beans is not very noticeable. I'll make some garden land and plant some things when I have free time. It will be better if I can at least make some money."
These words touched Wang Chengying's heart: "Then let's get started. Take your time. Take up the positions in front and behind the house first. As for the rest, let's see what they do on the left and right and then follow them." Things have to be done, but one must never be the first to do something.
The next day when the adults got up, Li Lai Yu was still sleeping soundly.
She wanted to get stronger quickly, so she had to eat more and sleep more. Eating more was a little difficult, but sleeping more was possible.
She has been able to walk very well recently. Hu Laixi started walking a few months earlier than her, but he was just so-so and often fell.
But she still slept most of the time, squinting her eyes and tossing around in her space.
The little bit of hard work I put in last time actually upgraded the place. Not only could it rain for irrigation, but the place also became a little more spacious.
She also discovered that the drizzle inside the space was different from that outside. The crop seedlings that had been rained on grew very fast, and the corn seedlings were already taller than her.
She had no idea what to plant in the newly added land, and she discovered something extremely frustrating: with her current physical conditions, harvesting the crops would be a very troublesome task. After all, her current strength was just enough to walk without falling. She was still a child. Expecting her to harvest the crops? It was simply a fantasy.
Li Guoping and his two sons dug the ground behind the house and in front of the door, but they didn't do it too obviously. The total area was less than two centimeters, which was not as big as the area of the land in Li Laiyu's space.
After digging it out, I dug up grass roots and picked up stones, and filled it with black soil fermented from leaves in the woods. Then, without caring whether it would work or not, I put some beans and pumpkin seeds in it.
Also sprinkled with a small piece of radish.
The same thing happened to Hu Xinghong's family and Li Guoan's family next door. They all started making plans for the future.
Li Lai Yu was also making plans for herself. She could use her mental power to smuggle things into space, but she couldn't be lazy when it came to farming and harvesting, she had to do it herself.
Of course, it's also possible that she hasn't figured out how to operate this space yet. When she asks 501, 501's answer is always the same: "This is a system where you get rich through hard work. Getting something for nothing is shameful!"
Her land has now expanded, but she has not been able to find suitable crops to plant in it, and the newly added land is still empty.
It got harder day by day, and soon she could run around on the ground by herself.
Then, after running around, she discovered a new skill: she could clean up after herself.
There are always corn husks or leaves around the pit toilet. I rub them in my hands and then use them, but they still hurt my butt.
However, the conditions are what they are, and if they cannot be changed, we can only accept them.
Li Lai Yu felt that distributing grain to each household based on work points was the wisest decision. In this way, the more work one did, the more points one would get, and the more food rations one would get at the end of the year. For the sake of food, no one would cheat and slack off on work.
Even if there are some who are not aware of it, they are just individual cases. With everyone supervising each other, the situation won't be too bad.
I work during the day and come back at night to work on the fields in front of and behind the house with torches. Whenever I have time, I squeeze out some time to go to the mountains to get some food to make up for the shortfall.
Year after year, life becomes much more relaxed than before.
Li Lai Yu grew up day by day, and her space was also expanding little by little. Now, in addition to a green field of crops, there was also a pond and a small courtyard built with thatched roofs.
There is a warehouse inside, which is filled with things she has grown over the years.
Occasionally, some people would secretly take some out and mix it into their own food.
Although I can't eat to my heart's content every meal, I don't go hungry one day and full the next.
And her body gradually returned to normal due to day-to-day exercise, and she was even much stronger than Hu Laixi, who was the same age as her.
The only drawback is that she is not tall.
The two people are obviously the same age, but she is thinner than Hu Laixi, darker than Hu Laixi, and half a head shorter than Hu Laixi.
In the blink of an eye, the two little girls were six years old. Apart from eating, they no longer needed adults to worry about them. They either carried baskets and followed adults to the fields to pick wild vegetables, or went to the nearby woods.
Li Lai Yu has her own things to do and likes to stay at home most of the time. Now, she no longer needs to fall asleep to enter the space. She can enter as long as she wants and concentrates.
When she is free, her favorite thing is to find a place to stay by herself, and then go into the space to do her own things, but Hu Laixi especially likes to find her, and is willing to stay with her whenever he doesn't go out with adults.
After finishing his meal, he would run over here with his little basket, shouting, "Rain, rain, let's go up the mountain!"
Li Laiyu sighed melancholy and followed her out the door, carrying the basket. It was March or April, neither too hot nor too cold, and the mountains were covered in clusters of wildflowers. The two little girls, carrying their baskets and shovels, walked down from the yard to the wheat field below.
In this season, there are many wild vegetables on the riverside fields.
Qingming vegetables, shepherd's purse, dandelion, shallot, and prickly ash sprouts are all edible.
The adults all have to go out to work, and although they can't do much at their age, they won't sit idle either. They try their best to bring things home.
Not long after I reached the edge of the field, I saw Li Guoan, who taught at a junior high school in the commune, walking towards me in a hurry with a bag on his shoulder.
Li Laiyu greeted him, "Second Master, why are you back at this time?"
Li Guoan was in such a mess and preoccupied that he didn't notice the two little ones. Suddenly, he was brought back to his senses by the greetings. He instinctively put his hands up to cover his face and said, "Lai Yu and Lai Xi are digging wild vegetables. Be good and don't run too far!"
After saying that, he left in a hurry.
Li Laiyu noticed two spots on his face.
Hu Laixi didn't notice it because he met Li Guoan and talked about school matters with Li Laiyu.
"Lai Yu, I heard from my father that I can go to school in the second half of the year, together with my third brother."
The Hu family was better off. Even though life was difficult in the early years, the children in the family still went to school. The eldest, Hu Wenfa, was in the second grade, and Hu Wencai was in the fifth grade. Although they have retired and are working in the team now, they can still read and write, so they are not blind.
The third child, Hu Wenhai, is eleven years old this year and is in the third grade at the brigade primary school. If Hu Laixi goes to the first grade, he can be his companion.
"Laiyu, are you going to school? Your grandpa and grandpa can read, and your handwriting is even better than my brother's. Are you going? If you go, we'll have company."
Li Lai Yu shook her head: "No." What's the point of going to school? She had learned everything she needed to learn in her previous life, and those half-baked words in this life would not be difficult for her.
If she has that much time, why not just farm and save more food?
Hu Lai Xi was a little disappointed and pouted for a long time.
When Li Laiyu met the somewhat strange Li Guoan, he didn't think much about it. Who knew that something would happen just two days later.
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