Chapter 17
Spring planting time passed quickly.
The team leader notified the educated youth that the new educated youth’s entire leave that was taken up on that day would be made up today.
If anyone needs to buy anything, they can go directly to the town commune to buy it.
When everyone first arrived, the food they borrowed from the team had already been eaten up.
If you want to continue borrowing from the team, you have to use your work points as collateral to write an IOU. Of course, you can also go to the grain station to buy it yourself.
Su Qingci and several other newly arrived educated youth planned to visit the grain station.
Because the new batch of food has not arrived yet, there is not much food in the team now, and most of it is coarse grains.
Luo Song, Li Li and their group all came from Kyoto, and with the subsidies for educated youth sent to the countryside, they all had some savings.
During this period of spring sowing, the labor is very heavy and the food is poor. In such a short time, everyone has lost a lot of weight.
There has always been friction at the educated youth sites and there has never been peace.
On the way to the commune, Li Li pulled Su Qingci aside to discuss something.
"Qingci, I have something to tell you."
"Luo Song and Lu Linping asked me to ask you something."
"The three of us all planned to stop sharing meals with the old educated youth after we finished these ten kilograms of food."
"We want to eat by ourselves. Will you join us?"
"I really can't stand Chen Haiying. She's so sarcastic all the time."
"Officer Feng Jianjun always seemed to be handling matters fairly, but in reality, he was always biased towards her."
"Otherwise, how could she be so arrogant!"
"Eating with her affects my appetite. I tend to eat less. It's really a bargain for them."
"It's the same with the male educated youth. The Meng brothers have been bullying Luo Song for eating too much, and the others just listen and keep silent."
"Luo Song brought some bacon from home last time and gave it to everyone as a snack."
"In the end, brothers Liu Qunfu and Meng Changxiu made some fish sauce from the small fish, which they then jarred and ate all by themselves."
"Lu Linping and Luo Song asked for it, but were met with a barrage of ridicule."
"The four of them shared the can of fish sauce, excluding Luo Song and Lu Linping."
"Feng Jianjun still says that what he says is not his, but he himself eats other people's food, so it's not right for him to criticize others."
When Li Li talked about the grievances she had suffered during this period, she was filled with indignation, and it was obvious that she had been holding back a lot of anger.
"So, they asked me to ask you what you mean."
"If we divide it up, the four of us can cook for ourselves."
"Life will definitely be no worse than it is now!"
"As for the division of labor, they will be responsible for fetching water and firewood, and we will do the cooking."
Seeing that Su Qingci didn't say anything, Li Li continued.
"If you don't want to cook, I can do it myself. You have a small appetite, so we are taking advantage of you."
"Don't feel pressured. If you don't want to, just pretend I never said anything."
"I agree."
"What?"
"I said I agree to share it with you."
"I won't cook, but I can pick up some firewood when I'm herding cattle."
"As you know, I have to go herd cattle in the morning and come back late at night, so I don't have to work at noon. If you get off work late, I can help with lunch."
Su Qingci smiled.
"They've been talking about me lately, saying I only get three work points a day herding cattle and can't even support myself!"
"Everyone is afraid that I will take advantage of them."
"What I'm more curious about is, aren't you three afraid that I'll take advantage of you?"
"I only get three work points a day."
Su Qingci jokingly extended three fingers to Li Li.
Li Lishen grabbed Su Qingci's finger and said, "What's wrong with three work points? I only have five work points."
"Just two more than you!"
"No big deal, no big deal. If there's really not enough to eat, I'll give you one of our work points. We'll each have four, so we won't starve to death."
Su Qingci looked at Li Li's righteous expression and burst out laughing.
"Okay, okay, just kidding."
"If there really isn't enough to eat, I'll work hard to earn work points."
"However, I appreciate your kindness."
Su Qingci has now almost figured out the rules of the farm.
It is true that the farm will automatically refresh after 12 o'clock every night.
After the refresh, she will have an hour to enter.
The clock on the TV started counting automatically when she entered, and stopped automatically when she came out.
The timer will start again when she goes in again.
When the time is up, the farm will forcibly and unfriendly send her out.
Moreover, she can't use up the one hour a day, and can accumulate it for future use.
There is no such thing as clearing or becoming obsolete.
She cooked a lot of food last time, so she hasn't been in here much these days.
I went in and took a look yesterday, and the timer had accumulated 4 hours and 37 minutes.
Including the one hour today, the total time on the farm should be 5 hours and 37 minutes.
With such a big cheating artifact, Su Qingci no longer cares about those coarse grains and wild vegetables.
Every time I eat, I pretend to have a small appetite and eat just a little.
Keep the stomach for yourself and have a snack while herding cattle.
Anyway, she is lying down now and spends her free time thinking about things at home.
It has been a while since she arrived, and the packages sent to her by her family should have arrived by now.
This time when she went to the commune, in addition to buying things, she also had to go to the post office to see if there was any package for her.
If not, she would have to tentatively call home or her grandfather to ask.
The market is held every three days, and members from the surrounding villages and towns will go to the market on the market day to buy or exchange the items they need.
As soon as we arrived at the town entrance, it was very lively, crowded with people carrying bamboo baskets, shouldering loads, and even leading livestock and carrying items.
They were in a hurry, most of them were wearing black and gray clothes, most of which were patched, and they were thin and had dark and yellow faces.
It is rare to see people riding bicycles. Occasionally, one will pass by and attract a lot of envious glances.
There are quite a few human-powered trailers.
Su Qingci and her group all came on foot.
At that time, only the commune could own a tractor, which was shared by several production teams. Any production team would go to the commune to borrow one when needed.
Horse-drawn carriages and ox-drawn carts are also collective property and are only used for sideline transportation.
The walls on both sides of the road were painted white, with various quotations written on them in black or red paint.
The old member who had been traveling with us looked at the educated youth behind us and said, "Let's split up here. Go and do whatever you need to do or buy."
"The grain station is in front. Go to the end of this street and turn left. The supply and marketing cooperative is diagonally across from the grain station."
"Around half past ten or eleven, we'll gather at the town entrance and head back. If we don't see anyone, we'll go back on our own."
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