Spring planting season passed quickly.
The brigade leader notified the educated youth that the full day off that the new educated youth had taken from them would be made up for today.
If anyone needs anything, they can simply go to the town commune to buy it.
When everyone arrived, the food they had borrowed from the team had already run out.
To continue borrowing from the team, one must use work points as collateral and write an IOU; of course, one can also purchase the grain directly from the grain station.
Su Qingci and several other newly arrived educated youths planned to visit the grain station.
Because the new batch of grain hasn't arrived yet, the team doesn't have much grain left, and most of it is coarse grain.
Luo Song, Li Li, and their group all came from Kyoto, and with the subsidies they received for being sent to the countryside as educated youth, they all had some savings.
Spring planting season is already physically demanding, and the food isn't great either; everyone has lost weight in such a short time.
There has never been peace in the educated youth settlements due to constant friction.
On the way to the commune, Li Li pulled Su Qingci aside to discuss it.
"Qingci, there's something I want to tell you."
"Luo Song and Lu Linping asked me to ask you."
“The three of us plan to stop sharing meals with the older educated youth after we finish these ten jin of grain.”
"We'd like to eat by ourselves, why don't you join us?"
"I really can't stand Chen Haiying anymore, she's always being sarcastic and weird."
“Each time, the branch manager, Feng Jianjun, appeared to be handling things fairly, but in reality, he was always biased towards her.”
"Otherwise, how could she be so arrogant!"
"Eating with her affects my appetite; I eat much less. It's such a good deal for them."
"And it's the same with the male educated youth. The Meng brothers kept teasing Luo Song for eating too much, but the others didn't say anything."
"Luo Song brought out the cured meat he brought from home last time and shared it with everyone as an extra meal."
"As a result, Liu Qunfu and Meng Changxiu made some small fish into fish sauce, and they put it in jars and ate it all by themselves."
"When Lu Linping and Luo Song asked for it, they were met with a barrage of sarcastic remarks."
"The four of them ate that jar of fish sauce, excluding Luo Song and Lu Linping."
"Feng Jianjun also said that it wasn't his stuff, but he himself was eating other people's food, so he couldn't say anything about others."
When Li Li talked about the grievances she had suffered during this period, she was filled with righteous indignation, which showed that she had been holding back a lot of anger.
"So, they asked me to ask you what you think."
"If we split up, the four of us can cook for ourselves."
"Life will definitely be no worse than it is now!"
"If we divide the work, they will be responsible for fetching water and firewood, and the two of us will cook."
Seeing that Su Qingci remained silent, Li Li continued.
"If you don't want to cook, I can do it by myself. You have a small appetite, so we're the ones taking advantage of you."
"Don't feel pressured. If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything."
"I agree."
"What?"
"I said I agreed to share the food with you."
"I won't cook, but I can gather some firewood when I'm herding cattle."
"As you know, I have to go herd the cattle in the morning and I don't get back until late at night. I don't have to work at noon. If you finish work late, I can help you with lunch."
Su Qingci smiled.
"They've been talking about me lately, saying that I only get three work points a day herding cattle and can't even support myself!"
"Everyone's afraid I'll 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 playfully held up three fingers to Li Li.
Li Li grabbed Su Qingci's fingers. "So what if I only have three work points? I only have five work points."
"Two more than you!"
"At worst, at worst, if we really don't have enough to eat, I'll give you one work point, and we'll each have four. We won't starve to death."
Su Qingci burst out laughing when she saw Li Li's righteous and indignant demeanor.
"Okay, okay, I was just kidding."
"If there really isn't enough food, I'll work hard to earn work points."
"However, I appreciate your kind intentions."
Su Qingci has now almost figured out the rules of the farm.
It is true that the farm automatically refreshes every night after 12 o'clock.
After refreshing, she will have one hour to enter.
The clock on the TV started automatically when she went in and stopped automatically when she came out.
The timer will only resume when she goes back in.
Once the time is up, the farm will forcibly and unkindly send her out.
Moreover, if she doesn't use up all of that one hour each day, she can accumulate it and use it later.
There is no such thing as resetting or becoming obsolete.
She cooked a lot of food last time, so she hasn't gone in much these past few days.
I went in and took a look yesterday; the timer had already accumulated 4 hours and 37 minutes.
Adding today's hour, there should now be a total of 5 hours and 37 minutes on the farm.
With such a powerful cheating device, Su Qingci no longer cared about coarse grains and wild vegetables.
I always pretend to have a small appetite and only eat a little bit at each meal.
He saved his stomach for himself, to enjoy a treat while herding cattle.
Anyway, she's already laid up and spends all her free time thinking about things at home.
She's been here for a while now, so the packages her family sent her should have arrived by now.
Besides buying things, she also needed to visit the post office during her trip to the commune to see if she had any packages to send.
If not, she would have to tentatively call home or her grandfather to ask.
The market was held every three days, and people from the surrounding villages would come to the market on that day to buy or exchange the items they needed.
The town was bustling as soon as we arrived at the entrance, crowded with people carrying bamboo baskets, shoulder poles, and even leading livestock and carrying goods.
They were in a hurry, mostly wearing dark gray clothes with patches on them, and they were thin with sallow complexions.
Bicycles are rarely seen, and when one occasionally whizzes by, it attracts a lot of envious glances.
There were quite a few human-powered trolleys.
Su Qingci and her group all arrived on foot.
At that time, only the commune could own tractors; they were shared by several production teams. If a production team needed one, it would borrow it from the commune.
Horse-drawn carriages and oxcarts were also collective property and could only be used for sideline transportation.
The walls on both sides of the road were painted white, with various quotes written on them in black or red paint.
The veteran commune member who had been traveling with them called out to the educated youth behind them, "Let's split up here. Go and take care of whatever you need to do or buy."
"The grain station is in front. Walk to the end of this street and turn left. The supply and marketing cooperative is diagonally opposite the grain station."
"Around 10:30 to 11:00, we will meet at the town entrance and head back. If we don't see anyone, we will go back on our own."
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