The next morning, the team leader took Yunyan's corn peeler and asked the accountant to take it to the county town to find a blacksmith.
In the afternoon, the accountant came to the corn peeling point with a dozen corn peelers and gave one to each person assigned to peel corn kernels.
With the corn peeler, the work that used to take five or six days can be completed in two days.
After picking the corn kernels, the team leader allowed Yunyan to continue cutting grass for the pigs, but Qian Qian and Li Shuwan still had to help pick peanuts.
Ten days later, all the grain in the brigade had been dried and bagged. After paying the public grain tax, the brigade began to distribute the grain.
Distributing food is something everyone looks forward to. They work hard for half a year just for this day.
All the villagers gathered in the drying yard, waiting for the team leader to distribute the grain.
"The harvest this year is good. The food we've been given should be enough to feed me until I'm 70% full every day."
"Yes, I hope every year in the future will be as prosperous as this year."
Yun Yan listened to the discussions of the villagers around her and felt that people nowadays had very simple wishes. They would be satisfied as long as they could have enough to eat every day.
People in the 21st century can have enough food to eat every day, but they no longer have this kind of simplicity.
Soon the team leader came out with the accountant, and after a few opening remarks, he began to distribute the food.
Yunyan came to the Hongqi Brigade in April. Before that, she had been collecting grass for pigs and earned three work points a day. During the summer harvest, she earned seven work points every half month. In addition, she contributed a corn peeler to the brigade, and the brigade rewarded her with 100 work points.
In the end, Yunyan received a total of 507 work points. Each work point in the Red Flag Brigade was worth eight cents. After deducting the food borrowed from the Brigade, there was less than 30 yuan left.
Yunyan exchanged all her money for sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts, and then used the money to buy rice from the brigade.
The food from the brigade was much cheaper than that from the supply and marketing cooperative, so every time the food was distributed, there would be villagers or educated youth who would buy food from the brigade.
The brigade's rice was 40 cents per pound, corn kernels were 30 cents per pound, potatoes and sweet potatoes were 8 cents per pound, and peanuts were 15 cents per pound.
Yunyan bought 100 kilograms of rice, 30 kilograms of corn kernels, 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and 50 kilograms of peanuts.
I borrowed a cart from the brigade and it took me three trips to move all the food back home.
Qian Qian's work points were even fewer than Yun Yan's, so in the end he had to pay out of his own pocket to buy 300 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of corn kernels, and 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Li Shuwan had even less. After paying back the food she borrowed from the brigade with her work points, she had almost nothing left. However, she didn't expect to support herself with work points.
She bought 300 kilograms of rice and 100 kilograms of corn kernels, but didn't take any sweet potatoes or potatoes.
Chen Zhaodi had the highest work points among the newly arrived female educated youth, but she did not exchange them for rice. Instead, she exchanged them for 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes and 100 kilograms of corn kernels.
Other educated youth also chose different foods, but most of them were mainly sweet potatoes and potatoes.
After two days of rest, the village started the second crop, and Yunyan also planned to continue her money-making plan.
While there are still loaches and eels, Yun Yan decided to collect more, as she can put them in the space anyway.
Hu Zi and his friends started catching loaches yesterday. Yun Yan decided to go into the mountains again during the two days when the loaches were spitting out mud to see if she could find any wild game such as pheasants and rabbits.
Originally, Qian Qian wanted her to go with him, but before she left, the postman told her that there was a package for her in the county town, so she had to go and pick up the package first.
Yun Yan didn't care, as she had originally planned to go alone.
Yun Yan was walking alone on the mountain. After more than half an hour, she still found nothing. When she was about to go back, she suddenly fell into a trap.
Fortunately, there was no wild boar trap in the trap, otherwise I would have been crippled if not killed.
Yun Yan looked up and saw that the trap was at least three meters deep. It was impossible to get out without auxiliary tools. Yun Yan tried to shout a few times but no one paid any attention to her.
Sitting in the trap, Yun Yan felt so sad that she could not even cry. She wondered if she was going to die here.
Half an hour later, Yun Yan tried calling out a few times and finally heard a response.
"Girl, where are you?"
"I've fallen into a trap. Can you help me go to the village and call someone to pull me out?"
"Wait a minute, I'll be back soon."
After a while, a vine was dropped from above the trap. "Girl, I've tied this end of the vine to the tree. Try to see if it's strong enough."
Yun Yan pulled the vine hard and felt that there should be no problem, then she pulled the vine and climbed up.
When she was almost at the cave entrance, she saw two white-haired old men. They also saw Yun Yan and immediately reached out to pull her out of the trap.
After Yun Yan came out, she thanked the two old men, and then she realized that they were the two old men below in the cowshed.
The two old men also knew that their identities were not suitable for contact with Yun Yan, so they left in a hurry.
Looking at their backs as they left, Yun Yan didn't know how to thank them.
After a while, Yun Yan also went down the mountain and went home. After returning home, Yun Yan was extremely upset. Why did she go up the mountain when she had nothing to do? Now, she didn't meet any pheasants or rabbits, but she still owed such a big favor to someone.
If it was the villagers or other educated youth who saved him, he could express his gratitude openly, but it was the people living in the cowshed who saved him, so he had to thank them secretly. Otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives saw it, he didn't know what crime they would accuse him of.
When I read period novels in the past, the heroines often gave gifts to the people who were sent down to the countryside. Now that I have traveled through time myself, I realize that it was pure nonsense.
The villagers now regarded the people living in the cowshed as bad elements, and they didn't know how many eyes were watching them. If they could deliver something once without being noticed, they were lucky. But if they could deliver a lot of things every few days without being noticed, it would be pure nonsense.
The reason why she didn't go to help the people in the cowshed like other heroines in time-travel novels after arriving at the Red Flag Brigade was because she was afraid of getting into trouble.
But now I have to think carefully about how to repay this life-saving grace.
After thinking all night, I finally came up with a way to have the best of both worlds. I put the things I wanted to give them in the trap I fell into yesterday and let them get them themselves.
The next morning, before dawn, Yun Yan went to the trap. Seeing that there was no one around, she took out the things she had prepared the night before and threw them in, then left quickly.
While handing in the pig grass to record the work points, I approached an old lady who was cleaning the pig pen and whispered to her, "Go back and tell those two uncles that I left something there yesterday."
Before the old lady could react, Yun Yan had already left.
Whether they can get those things is up to fate. I have already tried my best.
On the other side, Luo Yun returned to the bullpen and asked his husband: "Old man, did you and Shen Lei encounter any problems yesterday?"
After hearing what his wife said, Zhang Hua looked at her and said nothing.
Luo Yun knew from his expression: "Is it related to the female educated youth who lives near us?"
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