That day, Huang Yuelan was cleaning the yard when she suddenly heard the village loudspeaker ringing and the team leader began to speak.
The team leader Fan Ming shouted loudly into the loudspeaker: "Good morning, fellow villagers! I am issuing a notice now. In order to welcome the 26th birthday of our motherland, our village needs to write some propaganda slogans. I hope that villagers with special skills in this area will report to the team and will receive corresponding work points as rewards..."
Hearing this, Huang Yuelan was moved.
She was good at writing slogans and drawing posters. After all, in later generations, she was always responsible for making the class blackboard newspaper.
Of course, what excited her the most was the work points. Otherwise, how could she be willing to do these jobs when looking at so many children?
At that time, the production team's work points were divided into labor points and political points. Labor points were very simple, and you just had to work in the production team. The number of work points was assessed based on the quantity and quality of labor. The total labor points were ten. If you could get ten points, others would be very envious, but few people could get them.
Political work points are just like what they are now, which involves organizing propaganda, writing slogans and drawing posters.
However, it is not so easy to get political work points. Although it looks easy, and there is no need for strong wind or sun, just write and draw on the wall, but you have to have real ability to do it. Otherwise, if someone finds something wrong with you, it will not be as simple as deducting work points, and you may also be accused of a serious crime.
It's OK if the slogan is decided in advance and you can just copy it. But I'm afraid of the kind that allows you to express yourself. If a word is not well written and someone finds it out, you will be in trouble.
However, Huang Yuelan could not earn work points from working in the fields, so she thought about trying this form.
She thought that if it was assigned by her superior, it would be fine. If it was up to her to perform, she would not take the job, no matter how high the work points were.
Huang Yuelan came to the brigade headquarters and found the brigade leader Fan Ming.
When Captain Fan Ming saw Huang Yuelan coming, he felt like he had seen a savior and quickly found a stool for her to sit on.
The event had already been promoted on the loudspeaker in the morning, but by noon, not a single person had signed up, and he was very anxious.
Captain Fan Ming knew very well what the consequences would be if no one signed up.
If you fail to complete the tasks assigned by your superiors, you will definitely be criticized, but it is hard to say what the punishment will be.
The production task is still better, but if this political task cannot be completed, it can be big or small.
So the team leader Fan Ming was extremely anxious. He was thinking that if there was really no one to take on the task, he could take it himself.
But his handwriting doesn’t look good when written on paper, let alone on the wall.
Seeing Huang Yuelan coming, the captain guessed that she was probably here to ask about this mission, so he greeted her with great joy.
"Captain, I heard you say on the loudspeaker today that you need people to write slogans. Do you still need anyone now?" Huang Yuelan asked.
Team leader Fan Ming: "I was just worrying about this, and then you came. I need it, I need it very much! Our village has a small population, and there are only a few people who go to junior high school. Even fewer have good handwriting. You say that writing on the wall is different from writing on paper. Although there are work points, no one dares to take it. Fortunately, you are here."
Someone in the village had taken on this task before, in order to avoid hard labor and to escape the scorching sun, but when he wrote it down, he almost scared the villagers' eyes out.
The characters looked like dog crawling. They looked particularly ugly when written on the wall. They couldn't even form a single line and were all uneven.
If he had known it would be written like this, team leader Fan Ming would rather write it himself. Although the handwriting is not good-looking, at least it can form a line.
There was no other way. Apart from the ugly handwriting, there was nothing else to find wrong with it. In the end, the work point reward had to be halved.
"Captain, can I take a look at the mission notice first?" Huang Yuelan is not sure whether she can accept this mission. Although there is a shortage of talent in the team, she cannot take her own destiny lightly.
If anything happens to me, there will be no one to take care of my children.
"Okay, this is the task notice, take a look first!" The captain handed a document to Huang Yuelan.
Huang Yuelan took it and looked at it carefully, reading it carefully from the first word to the last word, especially the slogan and reward parts.
Seeing that the political work points were quite high, Huang Yuelan was immediately attracted.
Seeing that the task was relatively simple, Huang Yuelan immediately decided to take it.
"Captain, I've also read the notice, so I'll give it a try." Huang Yuelan said after reading it.
The captain smiled happily when he heard this, and felt relieved that someone finally took the task.
"Okay! Then you have to be careful. I'll find you a more stable stool. Be careful when you step on it. If you need anything, just tell me." The captain knew that Huang Yuelan was pregnant now, so he had to ask her to be careful.
Writing big words on the wall is different from writing on paper. Some walls are very high and you have to climb on a stool to reach them. If you are not careful, you might fall off the stool.
Although it is not too high, it is still very dangerous for a pregnant woman to fall.
The adult may be fine, but it’s hard to say about the baby in the belly.
So someone had to write the words, and Huang Yuelan's personal safety had to be protected.
Huang Yuelan was touched when she heard the captain's concern. "Don't worry, I will ensure my safety."
Compared with the women in the village, Huang Yuelan felt that writing big characters was nothing special.
Many wives were still working in the production team even though they were eight months pregnant, not to mention three months pregnant.
Some worked in the morning and went home to give birth in the afternoon. After giving birth, they did not wait to complete the confinement period, but returned to work in the team after two or three days, for fear of missing out on earning work points and receiving less food at the end of the year.
"Okay, I'll go find you a sturdy stool and bring you everything you need." The captain gave many instructions, fearing that Huang Yuelan might fall.
Huang Yuelan took the document and read it carefully several times, because she had to write according to the words on it and must not make any mistakes.
These slogans are common slogans that Huang Yuelan often sees in the Little Red Book.
Ordinary long benches are too thin and it is easy to step on empty space. The captain brought a chair from his home. The chair is very sturdy and has a backrest. Most importantly, the chair surface is wide, so it is not easy to step on empty space and it is safer.
"Comrade Huang Yuelan, I found a stool for you. Use this one, it's sturdy. These are brushes and buckets. They're all here." Team leader Fan Ming quickly found a stool and necessary tools.
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