Grandpa Niu looked at the educated youth and said, "You'd better leave quickly. The educated youth camp can't accommodate so many of you. When you get to the village, some of you will have to live with the villagers. If you go early, you can check out the places and maybe choose a good one. If you go too late, it will be dark. Not only will you be assigned to a place, you won't even have time to clean the place where you live."
Chen Yu jumped up again when he heard this: "How can that be? We are educated youths who came to the countryside to support your construction. How can you not even arrange a place for us to live? Isn't this disappointing to all of us?"
At this point, Song Jinxi took Tang Tiantian to stand a little further away, and most of the other educated youth also moved a little further away. They wanted to show that they were different from this brainless person, and that they should not take me with them, because you cannot represent me.
She started offending people like crazy as soon as she arrived. I really don’t know how to describe her stupidity!
Uncle Niu ignored her and continued to talk: "Just now the team leader asked me to tell you something, so I will tell you. Now is a famine year, and the grain production is not good. We have always eaten together, and you can eat some porridge and some vegetable cakes no matter how much you work.
However, there are always some people who are cunning and cunning, and the food reserves in the warehouse are not much, so starting from the day after tomorrow, the collective meals will be cancelled. So whether you can eat enough depends on yourselves. Since 1959, we have been suffering from famine here, and drought has killed people!
The big river in the village has dried up, and only a few wells in the village can still draw some water. However, the water in the village can only be used for irrigation. Everyone has to go to the underground river in the mountains to fetch water for washing and cooking. You are also lucky. Our village, that is, the brigade, is one of the only two brigades with underground rivers in the mountains.
Compared to those villages that rely on well water, we just can't let people use water as much as they want, because no one knows how long it will take for the famine to end. It's a pity that this underground river was discovered too late. Unlike the Red Flag Brigade next door, which discovered the underground river during the winter hunting in 1959, ours was discovered five days ago. Otherwise, so many people in the village wouldn't have died.
Oh~ no more, no more. You can all go to eat with me these two days, but you have to figure out your own way after that. There are only two meals a day, at 6:30 and 3:00. No waiting after that! There will also be bullock carts going to the county tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. If you don’t have a spatula or something, or need to buy something, remember to come to the village entrance at 7 o’clock to take the bullock cart. "
Seeing that Uncle Niu was silent, Tang Tiantian moved closer to Song Jinxi and whispered, "Jinxi, now that the news has spread, there must be a lot of people going to the county town to buy pots, bowls, and utensils. We may not be able to grab pots and other items tomorrow. Although I don't have a big pot, I have a small pot, a coal stove, and bowls and chopsticks. I thought the things in my hand were heavy enough today, so I didn't go to get them. So we can make do with it anyway."
Song Jinxi nodded and replied in a low voice: "You are very well prepared! So am I. Don't worry, I have all the pots and pans, I will go get them tomorrow. We both have to get up early tomorrow, there will probably be a lot of people going to the county town, there is only one oxcart, it is said to leave at 7 o'clock, but if it is full early, there will be no waiting."
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