"Hey, Tayun, why are you so dirty? You're covered in mud."
As soon as she entered the yard, Chen Qiaoyi saw Ta Yun shaking off mud in the yard.
Seeing Tayun's appearance, the younger sister of the Chen family was stunned.
"Haha, Tayun is the great hero of our family. It's all thanks to Tayun that we can dig so many sweet potatoes today." Zhou Ziwen climbed out of the cellar with a colander in his hand and a smile on his face.
"What hero? Sweet potato?" Hearing this, the two sisters were puzzled.
"Tayun has a sharp nose. I took it to the sweet potato field to dig sweet potatoes. Look, with Tayun's help, we dug a basket full of sweet potatoes in just one afternoon. It weighs dozens of kilograms!"
Zhou Ziwen estimated that the basket of sweet potatoes today might weigh around 70 to 80 kilograms.
"So amazing!" Chen Qiaoyi was a little amazed, and looked at the dirty Tayun with surprise, "My Tayun is really smart."
"Ziwen, let me take care of these sweet potatoes. You take a rest first." The eldest sister of the Chen family took the colander from Zhou Ziwen's hand, gently and virtuously.
"I'll go give Tayun a bath." The younger sister of the Chen family also showed off her diligence, not to be outdone.
"Okay." Zhou Ziwen nodded with a smile.
Anyway, the work in the mushroom house is not tiring, so Zhou Ziwen is relieved to let them do the work.
After the Chen sisters went home and got busy, Zhou Ziwen had some free time. After a tiring day, he also planned to take a break.
While there was still some sunshine outside, Zhou Ziwen made a cup of tea, took a book, and went to the stone table in the yard to read leisurely.
This stone bench is not very soft to sit on, so he plans to get a reclining chair after a while, where he can bask in the sun, drink tea, and hold a book in his hand. What a leisurely life that would be!
The ground in the yard also needs to be taken care of and paved with some stone slabs.
This is not an era for extravagance and waste, but if it is created by one's own labor, no one will gossip about it.
Whoever is gossiping, let him do it himself!
Soon, the cleaned Tayun came running over from next door. The little guy's hair had obviously been wiped, but it still looked a little wet. The little guy was not very satisfied with his condition and kept shaking his body, trying to dry his hair.
"Come, Tayun, stand on that stone slab to bask in the sun for a while." Zhou Ziwen stood up, called Tayun over, and pressed it onto the stone pavement in the yard.
Except for a stone path, the rest of his yard was all mud. If he rolled around on the ground, his bath would be in vain.
Today's dinner is the sweet potatoes that Zhou Ziwen dug up, and sweet potato rice. Of course, Chen Shiying was reluctant to use only rice, so she added a lot of corn cobs to it. Strictly speaking, it should be sweet potato and corn rice.
Zhou Ziwen had to buy this rice in the county town with great difficulty, and he spent a lot of money and tickets!
After buying it, the eldest sister of the Chen family was reluctant to take it out and eat it.
After dinner, Zhou Chaoyang and Shen Zhaodi came over to visit.
"I heard that the village got a few job recruitment quotas, and the people from the Youth League Institute ran to find the team leader." As soon as he sat down, Zhou Chaoyang began to share his gossip.
This guy likes to hang out at the Youth League Home, not for any other reason, but just to join in the fun. After all, there's a lot of fun going on there, and there's always something going on every few days.
"Didn't they say there were places available at the Workers and Peasants University? Have they been decided?" Zhou Ziwen asked curiously.
Some time ago, Chen Yang was still saying that the village had a quota for admission to the Industrial and Agricultural University this year, and in the village, he and Liu Lingling were the ones with the greatest hope of getting this quota.
"Yes, the quota for the Workers' and Peasants' University was announced together with the quota for workers," Zhou Chaoyang explained.
Not to mention the quota for the Workers and Peasants University, this quota for workers can actually only be considered half-worker and half-farmer.
This type of workers are not allowed to transfer their household registration. They are still educated youth or farmers who have been sent to the countryside, and their treatment is much worse than that of formal workers.
"It looks like there's going to be some competition now." Zhou Ziwen commented.
He had no interest in any of these places. In the past few years, he just wanted to stay in the countryside and not go anywhere.
His life now is much more carefree than when he was in school or working as a worker.
Not to mention this part-time worker and part-farmer status, he wouldn't even go to be a formal worker.
He had mushroom growing skills, so the production team treated him preferentially. It didn't matter whether he was working or not, he could do whatever he wanted.
And here are the Chen sisters. With such beautiful girls around him, he doesn't want to go anywhere.
"I heard that the village has leaked the news that only educated youth who have been in the countryside for more than two years are eligible to participate in the competition." Zhou Chaoyang said.
"Haha, even if there are quotas, the villagers will definitely be given first. We educated youth are from outside after all, so it's not easy to get a quota." Zhou Ziwen said with a smile.
"No way!" Shen Zhaodi was a little surprised. "Aren't they afraid that the educated youth will cause trouble?"
"What's there to be afraid of? How much contribution have the educated youth made to the village? How much contribution have the villagers made to the village? If we can get a quota, it would be considered generous of the production team." Zhou Ziwen shook his head.
After all, the educated youth are outsiders, so if there are any benefits in the village, they must take care of their own people!
"That's true." Shen Zhaodi was not a fool. After thinking about it for a while, she knew that what Zhou Ziwen said made sense.
Not to mention that the villagers already looked down on these educated youth, anyone would know how to choose between being a family member and an outsider.
The next day, the news of recruiting workers had spread throughout the village. When Zhou Ziwen and the Chen sisters went to the production team for the morning meeting, everyone was talking about it.
To be a worker requires a certain level of cultural knowledge. In this regard, the educated youth did not actually have much advantage. After all, many young people in the village had received education, but their cultural level was not very high.
But workers don’t need a high level of education. They can read and write, or even not write, to get in and just watch how the work is done.
During the morning meeting, the team leader did not mention the quota issue, but arranged everyone's work as usual.
Although the autumn harvest is over, there is still a lot of work to be done. In the countryside, the thing that is least lacking is work.
After the meeting, the educated youth were still reluctant to leave. They found several village cadres and talked about the quota issue in various ways. Finally, the team leader became impatient and scolded them with a stern face, and everyone gradually dispersed.
Zhou Ziwen did not join in the fun as he was not interested in the quota.
Of course, everyone loves to join in the fun, so he was quite interested in the outcome of this matter.
After all, there are not many entertainment activities in this era, otherwise people would not have so many children.
In this era, as long as a family can have as many children as they want, they will basically have as many as they want. According to Zhou Ziwen, there are even families in the village who have eight children.
When he first heard the news, he was shocked for a while.
Wow, this is amazing! (End of this chapter)
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