After finishing his meal, Qin Hanshu looked up into the air and waved to Ma Chaoyang.
Seeing Qin Hanshu's gentle and friendly smile, Ma Chaoyang ran over and asked, "What's the matter?"
Qin Hanshu smiled and said, "Nothing much, I just wanted to ask you about our accommodation. Do you know what the team is planning?"
Ma Chaoyang scratched his head. "How would I know? Didn't the branch secretary say that the announcement would be made at the meeting tomorrow?"
Qin Hanshu sighed, "The two cave dwellings in the team headquarters are obviously not enough to live in. Are we going to be assigned to live with our fellow villagers? I have some pretentious habits in life. If we can't get along well, it will be hard for others and I won't be happy either."
"Oh, I'm really worried..."
Ma Chaoyang thought seriously for a while, "What else can I do? I can't..." Ma Chaoyang paused, looked at Qin Hanshu, and asked uncertainly: "Will the team build a new dormitory for us?"
Qin Hanshu said: "If a new dormitory is built, several people will definitely live together, which is not much different from living in a fellow villager's home."
Ma Chaoyang rubbed his chin with some worry, "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have thought about this. I've lived alone in a room since I was a child. Thinking about living with someone for a long time...even if it's Lin Zhiheng, I'm not very happy about it. It's too uncomfortable!"
In this era, Ma Chaoyang's family was indeed well-off, as he was able to live alone in a room since he was a child.
Qin Hanshu knew that Lin Zhiheng came from a good family, but at this stage his parents both went to the cadre school, so he joined the team.
She didn't know Ma Chaoyang originally, but she learned from previous conversations that he and Lin Zhiheng lived in the same military compound.
Qin Hanshu continued, "Ma Chaoyang, let's apply to the team and pay for a cave to live in. What do you think?"
Ma Chaoyang's eyes lit up, but he hesitated and said, "Okay, but will the team agree?"
Qin Hanshu thought for a moment and said, "They should agree. We won't affect others and we can save the team money."
"Okay!" Ma Chaoyang agreed readily, "Let's go find Secretary Zhou tomorrow."
***
The next morning, all the educated youth gathered in the courtyard of the team headquarters.
Secretary Zhou was indeed talking about renovating the dormitories.
"...As for the dormitories, the team will be fully responsible and won't let you do anything, but you have to send two female comrades to cook for the laborers working in the kiln."
"Don't worry, the food will also be provided by the team."
After saying that, Party Secretary Zhou looked at a male educated youth and said, "Xue Zhiqing, I'll leave the cooking arrangements to you."
Although Xue Xinrui had only arrived last year, he lived in the team headquarters and was responsible for conveying any matters concerning the team to the educated youth. As time went by, he was simply given the title of educated youth team leader.
Xue Xinrui immediately responded: "Yes, I will make sure it's arranged."
When the meeting was over, Ma Chaoyang winked at Qin Hanshu.
The two of them went to the team office tacitly.
Secretary Zhou was alone in the cave, writing something. When he saw the two men, he raised his head and asked, "What's the matter?"
Qin Hanshu and Ma Chaoyang looked at each other and explained their purpose.
After hearing this, Secretary Zhou frowned but said nothing.
Qin Hanshu said: "Secretary, don't worry, we will bear the relevant expenses ourselves. We just need to trouble the team to help arrange for craftsmen to build the kiln. Of course, we will also pay for the craftsmen's meals."
Secretary Zhou shook his head and said, "I'm worried that the other educated youth will have objections if you two live alone in a cave."
Seeing that Qin Hanshu wanted to speak, Secretary Zhou raised his hand and said, "Even if you pay for it yourself, it will inevitably arouse envy. I'm afraid you won't get along well with others in the future."
Qin Hanshu said: "How can you get along well with everyone in this world? Moreover, if someone is jealous of others, it means that he is petty. Maybe something has triggered his jealousy. Should I not even live my life just to consider others?"
Ma Chaoyang looked at Qin Hanshu, then nodded quickly: "I think so too!"
Qin Hanshu added: "Secretary, thank you for considering us. But things have their priorities. For me, living alone is more important than anything else."
Ma Chaoyang nodded again: "Me too!"
Secretary Zhou pondered for a moment and said, "Well, then, it's up to you."
The brigade's attitude towards the educated youth has always been to let them do what they want and not interfere too much - as long as they don't cause trouble for the team.
It was thoughtful of Zhou Changan to point out the possible negative consequences of living alone.
After Qin Hanshu returned, Zhao Ruxian came up to him and said, "Hanshu, when the dormitory is repaired, we can live in the same cave, okay?"
Zhao Ru wanted to live with Qin Hanshu, not only because she was more familiar with Qin Hanshu, but more importantly, she found that although Qin Hanshu looked delicate, she was actually much stronger than her.
In life, there are bound to be some hard work, how can she cope with it? And Zhang Kangmei is a difficult person to get along with.
Zhang Yao seems to be quite capable, but her conditions seem a bit poor, and she might be taken advantage of if we live together.
After all the calculations, Qin Hanshu is the most suitable one.
Unexpectedly, Qin Hanshu said: "I have already made an agreement with the secretary. I will pay for a cave and live there myself."
Qin Hanshu's words made Zhang Kangmei and Zhang Yao stop what they were doing and look over.
Qin Hanshu said: "It's not just me, but also Ma Chaoyang."
Zhang Kangmei frowned and said, "You were sent to the countryside to help with rural construction, not to enjoy life. Yet you are asking for special treatment."
Qin Hanshu pretended not to hear.
Zhang Yao seemed to be thinking about something but didn't say anything.
Zhao Ru was the most disappointed. "Ah...what should I do? Are you just going to abandon me like this?"
Along the way, Qin Hanshu also had a basic understanding of Zhao Ru's style of doing things. She was a person who felt that she was weak and wanted to rely on others for everything.
Her little thoughts of wanting to live with him were clearly shown on her face.
Qin Hanshu frowned and said, "What do you mean by abandoning you? I'm not your mother."
Zhang Kangmei also replied seriously: "That's right, she is not your mother, your words are inappropriate!"
Zhang Yao couldn't help but pursed her lips, but quickly turned her back.
Zhao Ru paused, and the pitiful expression on her face froze instantly, looking a little distorted.
The slight sense of closeness to Qin Hanshu in my heart disappeared in an instant.
***
There are many kinds of cave dwellings. There are three types of construction methods. One is to dig a hole directly on the mountain wall, one is to build it with adobe on flat ground, and the other is to dig underground.
The construction for the educated youth was definitely the lowest-cost method, which was to dig holes in the mountain wall, commonly known as earth caves.
Almost half of the households in Haowan Village live in earthen caves.
Although cave dwellings are warm in winter and cool in summer, they also have obvious disadvantages. For example, they are not ventilated, have poor lighting, are very damp in summer, and are prone to small insects such as fleas.
More importantly, earthen caves are at risk of collapse, and there have been cases of people dying from collapses in the past.
As long as the family conditions are better, they will choose to build a kiln on flat ground.
If the conditions are better, you can build a brick house.
For example, Secretary Zhou lives in a spacious and bright five-room brick house.
However, among the nearly 200 households in the entire Haowan Village Brigade, only a few can afford to live in brick and tile houses.
Qin Hanshu and Ma Chaoyang discussed it and decided not to be too high-profile and just build an earthen cave house like the educated youth dormitory.
While the dormitories were being built, the newly arrived educated youth could not just sit there and wait, so they quickly participated in agricultural labor.
However, this was the calm period before the autumn harvest, and there was relatively little farm work, so only five or six hours of work a day was needed. The work assigned to the new educated youth was also easy, so everyone could cope with it.
However, at Guangming Farm, which is 60 miles away from Haowan Village Brigade, life is not so good for the newly arrived educated youth from the Corps.
Compared with the educated youth who went to the countryside to work, although the educated youth from the Corps received 31 yuan a month and did not have to worry about work points, the intensity of their labor was far beyond that of the educated youth who went to the countryside to work.
The Corps has strict management and there is no laziness or evasion of labor.
A group of newly arrived educated youth from the capital the day before yesterday fell ill with heatstroke after only two days of labor.
One of them is Hu Wenwen.
In the infirmary, Hu Wenwen finally woke up after lying down for half an hour.
She looked around for a moment in horror and confusion.
Then, his face showed great joy.
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