Lin Yiyi got a headache when she heard about educated youth. Maybe she had read too many novels about the period, so she didn't have a favorable impression of educated youth. However, "How many people are coming? Have you arranged a place to live?"
The team leader's wife said: "It seems like there are six of them. They have been arranged to live in. Xiaozhen's father brought people to renovate the dilapidated and uninhabited houses." There are indeed uninhabited houses in the village, such as those left by families who had lost their families, and some left over from before liberation. They were originally uninhabitable as they had been leaking for a long time, but since it was arranged by the higher-ups, the team leader naturally made arrangements for them, so they took people to renovate the houses. This was the team's business, and they renovated them together, so it was quite fast.
Lin Yiyi said, "That's good. Since they are here to build the countryside, there is no need to be polite. Of course, don't bully them on purpose. Just treat them like our villagers and arrange how they should work and how they should go to work. The diligent ones can be assigned jobs with more work points, and the lazy ones can be assigned jobs with fewer work points. Anyway, they all earn food based on their work points, and whether they have enough to eat is their business."
The captain's wife said, "Will this offend people? What if they are powerful in the county? Then..."
Lin Yiyi: "No." The educated youth went to the countryside. What can their families in the county town do about it? "We are doing things fairly and impartially. If they are not hardworking, do you have to work to support them? Of course, since the educated youth have come here, they should also be treated like villagers. Every villager is guaranteed a piece of land, and the educated youth should also have it. In this way, if the food of the brigade is not enough, they can still grow some food themselves. The land is given to them. If they don't grow it, it has nothing to do with the brigade."
The captain's wife said, "You are right. We can give them their own plots of land and arrange everything properly. We just need to not feel guilty."
Lin Yiyi: "There is no need to treat them as ancestors. They have all gone to the countryside. Since they are engaged in rural construction, they should learn from ordinary people. However... the team leader can investigate them and see their character before choosing teachers. The educated youth have good academic qualifications. It is still reliable to choose one or two to be teachers." It is better to let the educated youth be teachers than to let them do work, so as to make the best use of them.
The captain's wife: "Well, I'll talk to your uncle when the time comes."
Lin Yiyi: "Of course, not everyone can be a teacher. We observe them for a month or two and see who gets the highest work points. Then let that person be the teacher. But then we have to choose one from the women and one from the men! Otherwise, the men are stronger than the women, so their work points will definitely be higher than the women."
The captain's wife said, "Yes, yes, yes."
Lin Yiyi thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we can rotate them semester by semester. For example, we can choose the two people with the highest work points as teachers this semester, and exclude them from the next semester's selection of teachers. We can choose the one with the highest work points from the other few people, and then the two people at the top can participate in the next semester. This way, we can also mobilize everyone's enthusiasm."
The captain's wife heard this and said, "Yiyi, wait a minute. I'll go call your uncle. I can't remember these things if I hear them too many times. Let your uncle come and talk to you."
Lin Yiyi: "...Okay." In fact, she didn't know how to deal with it. She just explained what she saw in the novel. Although what is written in the novel may not be true, some novels are also what some authors learned from their previous lives, so they may not all be false. But regardless of whether it is true or not, it is always right to make some plans.
Wait…wait…
Lin Yiyi suddenly thought of something. In the original plot, Lin Daya became the lowest-level "slave" of the Lin family. She trained several younger brothers to become workers. After becoming workers, the wives of several younger brothers were naturally not bad. Among them, wasn't Lin Dajun's wife an educated youth?
Oh my god. Thinking of this, Lin Yiyi felt terrible. I don’t know how many of the six people who came here are female educated youth, but there must be Lin Dajun’s wife among them. Because according to the time when Lin Dajun got married, his wife was among this group of educated youth. Because the original text is about the hostess, it has been describing the misery of Lin Daya, saying that everyone in the Lin family can bully her. There is not much detailed description of the Lin family’s brothers and sisters, but there are other descriptions, such as Lin Daya washes the clothes of the Lin family’s brothers and sisters... This kind of brothers and sisters, it can be seen that they have bad values and bad character, so Lin Yiyi is worried that people with such bad character will seduce Lin Dajun after he gets married?
Now that Sanjun has joined the army, she doesn't have to worry. Dajun is married, so she thinks it's still possible for him to be seduced. Then there's Sijun. Sijun is already 16 years old and will be in the first grade of junior high school in the second half of the year, but a rural boy of this age can find a partner and get engaged. Lin Yiyi is also worried that someone will seduce Lin Sijun.
How about getting Lin Sijun engaged sooner? He should marry someone with a strong personality who can control him, but also has good character and is not a troublemaker.
The more she thought about it, the more Lin Yiyi felt that she had to settle on Lin Sijun. As for Lin Zhen being taken advantage of, she didn't think that would happen. Shanglin Production Brigade was Lin Zhen's base camp, and she herself had only graduated from junior high school, so her conditions were no worse than those of the educated youth. In addition, after marrying Lin Dajun, she was well-fed. Moreover, Lin Zhen was also a smart girl, not the kind of weak and easily bullied person. So Lin Yiyi felt that even if an educated youth came to hook up with Lin Dajun, Lin Zhen would not let him go. But a reminder was also necessary.
Lin Yiyi: "Xiaozhen, if there are any female educated youth among the educated youth who come this time, you will have to take charge of the Main Army and the Fourth Army." She did not beat around the bush. For the sake of family harmony, it was best to speak directly.
Lin Zhen was stunned: "What do you mean, elder sister?" She really didn't understand.
Lin Yiyi said: "There are some differences between girls from the county and girls from the countryside. Dajun is okay, he studied in the county and is knowledgeable, but Sijun has never been outside and I'm afraid they will be dazzled, so you have to be careful. Also, if the girls from the county can't stand the hardships in our countryside, they might want to find a man with good conditions..."
Lin Yiyi: “That’s good.”
"Yi Yi, I called your uncle." said the captain's wife.
The captain followed in and asked: "Yi Yi, what do you think about the educated youth?"
Lin Yiyi expressed some of her thoughts: "...These are just my thoughts. Whether they are appropriate or not depends on your decision."
Lin Yiyi: "This is simple. The educated youth don't get paid, only work points and food. Now the teachers in primary schools are paid, but not work points and food. But the educated youth are the same as us villagers. They are teachers just like working, so they don't get paid. They can get 1 to 10 work points per day. Work points can be exchanged for food and wages, so they don't get paid separately. This is the easiest job in the whole brigade."
The captain heard that this arrangement was fine. Moreover, the educated youth were given housing and private plots, which meant that the educated youth were treated the same as the villagers, so the educated youth had nothing to say. Then, the two discussed the educated youth for a while, and then the captain left.
After the captain left, his wife and Lin Yiyi started chatting again.
Lin Yiyi: "Auntie, among the people you know, are there any girls who are more reliable? Good character, slightly strong personality, but not a troublemaker, and her family doesn't ask for money, and the best education is at least junior high school."
Lin Yiyi said, "No, Sanjun is in the army, and the wife he wants to find may be from the army. I want to find one for Sijun. Sijun is 16 years old this year, and he can get married in a few years, so a wife can be decided earlier. But Sijun's personality is a bit childish, so I hope his wife can be a sensible and generous girl like Xiaozhen. In addition, the current situation is a bit chaotic, and there will be educated youth coming in the future. I don't know their personalities, so I want a strong and slightly aggressive girl. But the kind of person with good character, otherwise our Lin family will be in chaos."
The captain's wife said, "Okay, I'll ask around for you."
After chatting for a while at the Lin family's house, Lin Yiyi left with her son. The captain's wife and Lin Zhen saw them off to the door. When they were out of sight, Lin Zhen said, "Mom, my elder sister told me something about the female educated youth..."
The captain's wife heard this and said, "Yi Yi is right. You should be careful about the female educated youth, whether they are from the Main Army or the Fourth Army. Especially if the wives of the Fourth Army are not good, it will be difficult to deal with your relationship as sisters-in-law. Girls in the city are used to being spoiled, and when they go to the village, they may not even know how to work, which is quite troublesome."
The captain's wife said, "It's not easy to find one, but we can take our time. Yiyi had never mentioned the idea of having a wife to the Fourth Army before, but now he suddenly mentioned it. Maybe he is really worried about the female educated youth. It seems that I have to consider your brother's marriage as well."