Many educated youth also contacted their families to ask for help in preparing materials for the Gaokao. That year, many people lined up overnight at the city's bookstores, and those who couldn't buy books copied them from the bookstores.
Even so, there are still many people who lack materials.
Zhang Xingrong and Xu Weiyin discussed with others, sorted out their materials, took a copy to the commune, and asked the commune to find a way to get more and distribute it to the educated youth in each production team so that everyone could study together.
Zhang Xingrong went along to help harvest rice while reviewing at the same time.
Lugou Village planted a lot more rice this year thanks to terraced fields on a mountain. The rice is growing incredibly well, and the villagers are delighted to have harvested bags of it.
Everyone was very happy during the busy farming season, which lasted for more than half a month. The people of Lugou Village were more diligent than in previous years. In the past, they didn't have much rice and the corn harvest was poor, but they didn't expect such a good harvest this year. How could they not be happy?
After the rice was harvested and stored in the warehouse, the villagers had some free time. But the educated youth were very busy. The college entrance examination was less than a month away, so how could they not be busy?
After more than half a month of busy work, the college entrance examination finally began.
All applicants from the commune took a bus to the examination center to take the exam. After the exam, everyone returned to their production team to wait.
This gave everyone some free time. With the Spring Festival still about two months away, Zhang Xingrong felt the team could find some new opportunities. Planting fruit trees takes time, and they don't require the entire village to care for them, so finding other work would be a good idea.
She thought that there were many mountains here, and there were many vines on the mountains, including green vines, gray vines, and many winding vines.
Perhaps we can use these. Right now, there is a lot of work to be done, and next year will be the first year of opening up, so perhaps we can take advantage of this opportunity.
After making some plans and drawing some blueprints, Zhang Xingrong went to find Luo Darong.
Luo Darong hadn't seen Rong Ya for a few days, and he was very happy to see her suddenly: "Rong Ya, you're back!"
"Captain, is everything okay in the village these days?"
Luo Darong nodded. "That's great, Captain. I saw some people in our village weaving baskets and even chairs with vines. They were very beautiful. Captain, I thought maybe we could weave some things and sell them at the supply and marketing cooperative or the city department store. When I went to the city to take the college entrance examination, I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and the department store. They had some woven baskets, but no woven boxes or chairs for sale. Maybe we could give it a try!"
Luo Darong was surprised. He felt that Zhang Xingrong had too many ideas, with one coming out every once in a while. He had believed them before, but now he wasn't sure if this one was credible.
"Rongya, is this okay?"
"We'll know if we give it a try!" Zhang Xingrong thought it was possible, "We're not doing anything illegal anyway."
Luo Darong was very hesitant: "Rong Ya, individuals cannot do business privately. If they are labeled as capitalists, it will cause trouble."
Zhang Xingrong smiled and said, "Of course not in my own name, but in the name of the production team. Once we're done, we'll go find the team leader, and I'll negotiate with the supply and marketing cooperative in the name of the production team."
Luo Darong nodded and said, "Okay, as long as you know what to do, just do it!"
He didn't hold out much hope for this.
"Captain, can you take me to find the best weaver in our village? Tell them this is a production team assignment, and since we've been idle for the past few months, I'll pay first, in the name of the production team."
"Okay!" It's not him who's going to show up anyway, so what's wrong with just saying a few words?
The two of them went to find some of the best hand-weaving people in the village.
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