Chapter 53: Going to Work
On the first day of work, Shi Luo and other old educated youth went to the brigade headquarters to line up to get tools.
When the educated youth arrived, the other people in the team had already received their tools and went to work in the fields.
Because we arrived late, there were only a few hoes with chips on them left in the warehouse.
Shi Luo chose a hoe that looked better, registered it with the accountant, and went to the field with the others.
When they arrived at the field, the team leader was waiting for them there.
After arriving at the fields, the old educated youth went to his own team. After receiving the task from the team leader, he went to work in the fields he was responsible for.
Jiang Jianguo looked at the six new educated youth and felt a little worried.
"You have been in our team for a while now. When you first arrived, you were able to enjoy the winter, which was a blessing. Today is your first day of work.
Since you have chosen to go to the countryside, don't be afraid of hard work and be sure to work hard. You should know that your food rations are linked to your work points.
Our brigade is very fair. All the people in the brigade and the educated youth are treated the same. All of them are given work points according to how much work they do. Whether you can have enough to eat in the future depends on your performance.
By the way, you still owe the brigade centimeters, so from today on, you must all work hard and stop messing around."
Shi Luo and the others nodded repeatedly as they listened to the captain's words.
Jiang Jianguo called the seven team leaders of the brigade to start the distribution.
"Xie Chen, Li Zhe goes to the first team"
"Xia Tian, go to Team 2"
"Lin Yue, go to Team Three"
"Su Niannian, go to Team 4"
"Shi Luo, go to Team 6. Okay, you team leaders, take your assigned people and go."
After Jiang Jianguo finished speaking, he went to work in the fields with his hands behind his back.
Originally, Jiang Jianguo was the team leader. Even if he didn't work, he could still get full work points every day, and the commune would also subsidize his salary by five yuan every month.
But if Jiang Jianguo goes to the fields to work, he will get the work points for his work, so when he has nothing to do, Jiang Jianguo will still go to the fields to work and earn more work points.
Shi Luo took a hoe and followed his team leader Hanzi to the territory of Team Six.
Shi Luo smiled the first time he saw the team leader. He lived up to his name, he looked silly and honest.
Hanzi pointed to an empty field and said, "You work here, turning the soil. The full work points for men in our brigade are 12 points a day.
I am working on the field next to yours. If you need anything, just call me. When you go back to eat at noon, don't forget to ask me to record your work points. We record them every half a day.
Come on, get back to work. I have to get back to work too."
Shi Luo obediently took the hoe and started digging the ground from the edge of the field.
Shi Luo had never done farm work before, and even though he was strong, it couldn't make up for his poor skills.
When he used the hoe for the first time, he almost dug off his foot. Fortunately, Shi Luo reacted quickly.
Later, I slowly figured it out and got the hang of it.
Shi Luo dug the ground seriously for a while and didn't want to do it anymore. There was no other way. Digging the ground with a hoe required him to bend and straighten his back all the time, which was too tiring.
Shi Luo had never suffered such pain in his three lifetimes. Now he just wanted to go back and lie down.
Hanzi looked at Shi Luo sitting on the stone in the field next to him and shook his head helplessly.
Originally, at the beginning, Hanzi was quite happy to see Shi Luo working seriously and in a professional manner. But after ten minutes, he found that Shi Luo was only digging the ground intermittently. After another ten minutes, Shi Luo had completely sat on the ground.
Hanzi knew that the educated youth were not good at working. After all, Shi Luo was not the only educated youth in the team. There were two or three educated youth assigned to his own team alone.
But Hanzi didn't expect that Shi Luo, a man, worked worse than the female educated youth named Zhou Lihua in his team.
Hanzi wanted to say something to Shi Luo, but then he remembered the half pound of brown sugar that Jiang Hao had given him before he went to work today, so he swallowed the words.
That’s right, Shi Luo was assigned to Team 6 because of Jiang Hao and his father’s efforts. In fact, Jiang Jianguo had not yet considered how to allocate the educated youth at that time.
So when Jiang Hao brought it up, and with Liu Cuihua's assistance, Jiang Jianguo thought it wasn't a big deal anyway, so he agreed.
After Jiang Hao saw that his father agreed, he took a cigarette and went to give a gift to the captain of Team Six.
Why did Shi Luo have to be assigned to Team 6? Of course, it was because Jiang Hao also belonged to Team 6.
Of course it was because among the seven teams of the Red Star Brigade, the captain of the sixth team, Hanzi, was the easiest to talk to and the easiest to fool people.
If you were in other teams and wanted to slack off or be lazy, you would be scolded for a long time if you were caught.
But Team Six is different. Hanzi is a good and honest person. At most, he will say a few words to you. If he sees that you are not being too lazy, he will leave it alone.
After all, there are only a few people in the entire team who like to be lazy, and the other team members all want to earn more work points in exchange for more money and food.
So as long as it doesn't delay the overall progress of Team Six, Hanzi basically turns a blind eye.
Jiang Hao gave Hanzi a gift so that he would close his eyes when facing Shi Luo.
Of course, Hanzi also said in advance that it doesn’t matter when it’s not busy, but except for the first month after starting work, during the busy farming season and autumn harvest, it’s not acceptable if you can’t get six work points a day.
We will definitely take care of it when the time comes. After all, at that time, even a five-year-old child in the team could earn two work points a day by picking rice ears and peanuts from the ground.
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