When the team leader came back from supervision, he happened to pass by Huang Yuelan's house and saw Wang Jianguo and Huang Yuelan reclaiming a small piece of wasteland outside the yard.
No need to guess, he must want to grow some vegetables or something.
When he saw Wang Jianguo working efficiently and vigorously, he immediately had an idea.
In the past, he had thought about giving Wang Jianguo some private plots and letting him work in the production team to earn work points. But he considered that Wang Jianguo had lived in the mountains since he was a child and was not used to working in the production team. Besides, his previous dress did not fit in with the villagers, and he was afraid that the villagers would laugh at him and make fun of him.
Things are different now. Team leader Fan Ming found that Wang Jianguo is quite capable at work, and with a trimmed beard, he looks not bad at all. He is better looking than Sun Gousheng in the village.
Since he no longer dresses like a wild man and has married, and I heard that he is also supporting Huang Yuelan's two younger brothers, he is a really good person.
The team leader thought about arranging farm work for Wang Jianguo so that he could earn some work points and support his family better. In addition, he could also allocate some private plots to their family so that they could grow some fruits, vegetables, etc., which would also reduce their living burden.
After all, as the team leader of this production team and the person who provides food and clothing to everyone, he has to share the worries of every villager.
Now, in addition to the collective fertile fields within the production team, there are also some small fields in the corners. These lands cannot be wasted and will be distributed to each household in the village as private plots according to the number of people.
Generally, a strong laborer could get one mu of land, but children and the elderly could not.
Although the area of the private plots is not large, the villagers obviously work much harder on their own plots than they do on the work for the village collective.
The team leader saw that Wang Jianguo had plenty of strength and worked very hard, and was not the kind of person who would cheat or slack off. The team leader thought that it would not be a problem to assign him a job that would earn more work points.
In a short while, Huang Yuelan and Wang Jianguo had already prepared the small vegetable plot in front of their house, and they just needed to buy some seeds.
While waiting for Wang Jianguo to go out to buy seeds, Huang Yuelan was responsible for shaking off the dirt on the weeds and putting them aside to dry.
It would be a pity to throw away these grasses. After drying, they can be used as firewood, and they can be used as kindling very quickly.
After Huang Yuelan finished drying the weeds, she turned around and looked towards the village. It was a look that made her heart skip a beat.
My two younger brothers were playing with their friends in the big pool. Many of their friends had already jumped in, and my two younger brothers also wanted to jump in as well.
Huang Yuelan remembered that her two younger brothers could not swim at all. The pool was so big and more than ten meters deep. If they fell in, they would easily drown.
Without even bothering to lock the door, Huang Yuelan dropped her farm tools and ran towards the big puddle in the village.
That big puddle was specially used for storing water in the production team. Because they were in a mountainous area and growing crops depended on the weather, there was a particular shortage of water. So, at the call of their superiors, they dug many big puddles to store rainwater. People could come here to fetch water for washing clothes or watering the fields.
Huang Yuelan finally came to the big puddle after jogging all the way. The Yueqiang brothers couldn't resist the temptation and were about to jump in, but Huang Yuelan caught them in one fell swoop.
Yue Qiang thought someone was playing a joke on them, but when he turned around, he found that it was his sister: "Sister?!"
"Can you two swim? Just jump in with others." Huang Yuelan asked back.
Huang Yueqiang: "Sister, look how well others are having fun, I want to go down and play too."
"Don't go in. The water is so deep. There might be water snakes in it. If they bite you, you won't be able to run away." Huang Yuelan remembered that she also lived in such a rural area when she was a child. The adults were busy with work and had no time to take care of the children, so they let them run around the village. Many children fell into puddles and were already dead by the time they were discovered.
At first, Huang Yueqiang and the other person didn't take it seriously. After all, everyone was playing down there, and no one seemed to have any problems. But just a moment after Huang Yuelan finished speaking, a little friend started floundering on the water and shouting for help, with blood oozing out from around him.
Seeing this, the other kids quickly climbed onto the platform on the shore, and they were all terrified.
Huang Yuelan saw a rope not far away, walked over, picked it up, made a big loop of it, threw it over the child's head, and then pulled him to the shore.
While waiting for the little boy to reach the shore, his friends nearby were all stunned.
Blood was oozing out of the little boy's legs, and it was obvious that he had been bitten by something.
Now is not the time to worry about what bit the child. We need to quickly send the child to the village doctor, that is, the barefoot doctor.
Everyone brought the injured boy over together. The experienced village doctor knew at a glance that it was a bite from a water snake. Although it was not poisonous, there was a risk of drowning if he was not fished out in time.
Seeing this, Huang Yueqiang and the other man admired their sister even more.
My sister is right. We can’t swim in such a deep pool anymore. There are really water snakes in it. What if we get bitten to death?
This time, the little friend was lucky enough to meet his sister, but not everyone is so lucky that they can be rescued by others every time they fall into the water.
So I still have to listen to my sister. From now on, no matter whether it is a big puddle in the village or elsewhere, I can't get close to it, let alone swim in it.
"Never go swimming in big puddles or reservoirs. Do you two understand this in the future?" Huang Yuelan warned her two younger brothers.
Huang Yueqiang and his brother nodded vigorously, "Remember, sister, we will never go swimming again. That place is too dangerous. We won't go there even if you give us money."
Huang Yuelan felt relieved when she saw that her two younger brothers were sincere.
You should know that preventing children from drowning is a top priority in school safety education in later generations. This reminder is given every summer vacation, but children drown every summer vacation.
Not to mention the current situation. There are so many big puddles in the village and the parents are busy, so the children run around everywhere, and many children fall into the puddles and drown.
Her parents were already dead, and Huang Yuelan only had two younger brothers. She couldn't let them drown.
Although the two younger brothers promised not to play in the big puddle anymore, Huang Yuelan also remembered one important thing: the reason why her two younger brothers were running around was because they didn't go to school.
Now both of them have reached school age. If they were in school, they would study hard and would definitely not run around with these idle kids.
"Yueqiang, you two have reached school age. Wait for the school to start in September so I can take you to school," Huang Yuelan said to her two younger brothers.
When the two brothers Huang Yueqiang heard this, they looked at Huang Yuelan in disbelief: "Sister, you are kidding, right? With our family conditions, can we still go to school?"
The majority of people in the village do not go to school, especially girls. It is considered good if two out of ten go to school. There are a lot of illiterate people.
Although it is said that women hold up half the sky, many elderly people still favor boys over girls. Boys can go to school, but girls have to help with hard labor. Going to school is a waste of money. For example, Sun Gousheng's five sisters are all illiterate.
Yueqiang and his friends had never thought about going to school. They just thought that as long as they could eat eggs and meat, their life would be good. As for going to school and learning to read, they should stop dreaming.
After all, the tuition and book fees each year are not a small amount of money.
"When have I ever lied to you two? Of course what I said is true. I've thought about it. I'm going to keep all the compensation money I got from grandma for your tuition. It's more than a hundred yuan, and it won't be a problem for you to go to school until you graduate from junior high school." Huang Yuelan said to Huang Yueqiang, and couldn't help sighing in her heart that it is so cheap to go to school now.
"Wow, sister is really the best sister in the world!"
"Sister, we love you so much."
They both knew that if grandma took the money, she would definitely buy meat for herself, not to mention sending them to school, and would not allow them to know.
Because a lot of cloth was cut and the two younger brothers were rather thin, there was still a lot of cloth left after making three sets of clothes with the 25 feet of cloth. Huang Yuelan thought that the remaining scraps could be made into school bags for the younger brothers, which would be just right for them to use when they went to school in a few days.
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After several days of publicity, the Autumn Harvest Campaign has finally begun!
For farmers, what is the purpose of working hard all year round? Isn't it just to hope for a good harvest?
The grain harvest was good, and not only could they pay their public grain taxes on time, but the most important thing was that everyone could share a lot of the remaining grain to ensure that they would not go hungry.
Seeing that the grains are growing well and are plump, it is a good year for a bumper harvest, so we have to hurry to harvest the grain and store it in the granary for safety.
Otherwise, no matter how well the crops grow, if they encounter extreme weather such as heavy rain, the crops will be wasted.
The team leader had observed Wang Jianguo working before, and found that this man was really stronger than ordinary people. Others had to rest for a while before pulling up the soil after digging with a hoe, but he didn't even take a break, and kept digging with one hoe after another, and he dug very deep into the ground.
In view of the fact that Wang Jianguo was extremely strong, the team leader assigned him an important job this time: pushing grain.
The grain in the fields was put into bags and then placed on wheelbarrows. Wang Jianguo was responsible for pulling the grain to the threshing ground. It could only be put into the grain bin after it was dried. If it was not dried, it would easily become damp and moldy.
Everyone was curious when they saw Wang Jianguo coming to work.
"What is the captain thinking? This wild man has been in the mountains all the time. He is not fit for work at all. It's good that he doesn't come to cause trouble."
"It's because our captain has a good conscience. Seeing that he is married now, he wants to take care of him."
Just after he finished speaking, everyone felt a figure passing by in front of them, and then something went by with a whoosh and a breeze.
When everyone turned around to look, they were immediately stunned.
That was not a gust of wind, that was Wang Jianguo pushing the grain!
Others could only push three or four hundred kilograms of grain by pushing a wheelbarrow to the sky, and it required the cooperation of two people, one pulling in the front and the other pushing in the back. However, Wang Jianguo did not need anyone's help to pull it. He pushed it very fast by himself. The grain piled on it must have weighed seven or eight hundred kilograms, but he pushed it easily, and he pushed it uphill as if it were flat ground, which stunned the members who were working.
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