On the Red Flag Brigade side, all the educated youth had returned by the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. This time, they also brought an order for nearly 2,000 kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli. The brigade leader was so happy to see this that he couldn't stop smiling and immediately arranged for the workshop to start making sweet potato vermicelli.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the team leader announced the start of work in the fields. Although it was still a bit cold, this did not dampen everyone's enthusiasm for going to the fields. There was no other way. If they didn't work, they would get no work points, and no work points meant going hungry.
Compared with other brigades, it has to be said that the atmosphere in the Red Flag Brigade is still very good. Although there are some people who cheat at work, they are only a very small number of individuals.
Because the piglets hadn't been caught yet, there was no need to arrange for anyone to cut grass for the pigs. Yun Yan spent her free time at home reading books, drawing blueprints, and even made herself two sets of summer clothes.
The main work in early spring is weeding, plowing and fertilizing. Only by taking good care of the land can more food be produced.
The team leader did not forget about growing sweet potatoes. Several village cadres held a meeting and decided to apply to the commune to select a piece of wasteland in the back mountain specifically for growing sweet potatoes.
The team leader submitted his application to the commune, but the commune leaders told him to go back first and would reply to him after they held a meeting to discuss the matter.
In a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and the piglets of the brigade were also caught.
Yunyan is now very busy cutting grass for pigs and tidying up her vegetable garden every day.
Just as the first batch of sweet potato vermicelli from the workshop was drying, it began to drizzle. Without the sun, the workshop had to temporarily halt operations.
No one went to work on rainy days. Yang Qian and Wang Fang often went to Yun Yan's place when they had nothing to do. They had a lively chat together.
"I heard that the brigade is going to expand the educated youth site, but I don't know if it's true." Wang Fang is the only one among the three who lives in the educated youth site. She is very concerned about whether the site will be expanded.
"Since there is a rumor, it is probably true. In two months, this year's educated youth will be here again. How can we accommodate so many people if we don't expand the educated youth site?" Yun Yan replied.
I had overheard the team leader and his colleagues talking about expanding the educated youth camp during a meeting. After all, we had made some money from selling sweet potato vermicelli last year, and now the team's funds were not as tight as before.
"That's good. I was worried about where the new educated youth would live when they arrived." Wang Fang felt relieved after hearing Yun Yan's words.
The girls' dormitory at the educated youth camp is already crowded, and we don't know how to accommodate more people if they come.
"Yun Yan, I saw high school physics textbooks on the desk in your bedroom. Why are you still reading those books now?" Yang Qian went to the bathroom and accidentally saw her books, and she was a little curious.
"It's a way to kill time when you're free, and reading more books is also beneficial." Yun Yan explained.
"Now that universities have been cancelled, is it still useful to read these books?" Wang Fang asked puzzledly.
"Yes, I've been in the countryside for three years and I almost forgot the knowledge in the textbooks." Yang Qian said with a wry smile.
"You can also find a couple of books to read when you have time. Maybe the country will resume the college entrance examination someday." Yun Yan reminded them implicitly.
"The college entrance examination has been suspended for five years. Will the country really resume it?" Wang Fang was a little skeptical.
"No matter whether the college entrance examination will be resumed or not, it's never a bad thing to read some books. If the commune recruits teachers one day, maybe you can be selected if you read some books in advance." Yun Yan said all she wanted to say. As for what they should do, it all depends on themselves.
Wang Fang and Yang Qian thought what she said made sense, and they both secretly decided to find two books to read after returning home.
The rain, which had been falling intermittently for four days, finally stopped and the brigade resumed production.
Half a month later, the brigade's land was basically plowed over, and the brigade leader assigned some people to expand the educated youth site.
It was called an expansion, but in fact it was just adding two rooms to the original educated youth site and repairing the previous roof.
Because there were more female educated youth at the educated youth center, the two additional rooms became female dormitories. Although the male educated youth were a little unhappy about this, no one said anything.
By early March, the commune's opinion finally came through. The county held a meeting and agreed to the team leader's request, allowing him to select a piece of wasteland in the back mountain, no larger than 20 mu, and to plant no crops except sweet potatoes.
After returning from the commune, the team leader gathered all the village cadres for a meeting, and Yunyan, as an important staff member of the sweet potato vermicelli workshop, was also among them.
Although the county agreed to the captain's request, Yun Yan could tell he wasn't very happy. Perhaps the county had assigned him some kind of mission in exchange for agreeing to his request?
After the meeting, the team leader led everyone to the back mountain and selected a piece of land at the foot of the mountain to grow sweet potatoes.
Now the yield of sweet potatoes per mu can reach four to five thousand kilograms. With these twenty mu of sweet potatoes, the workshop will no longer have to worry about sweet potatoes.
After choosing the location, the team leader immediately arranged for people to open up the land and try to plant sweet potatoes.
When the workshop was first opened, the commune approved 300 yuan for the business, which resulted in a 38% profit. Besides the 10% Yunyan took, the remaining 28% went to the brigade.
After deducting the wages of the workshop workers, there is still about 20% profit left. The team leader and others held a meeting to discuss it. In addition to keeping 10% of the profit as the team's working capital, the remaining 10% of the profit will be calculated as the team's production value and divided equally among all the people in the Red Flag Team.
Because of this decision, the villagers who did not raise funds to invest in the company stopped making noise.
Everyone in the Red Flag Brigade participated in this land reclamation. Land reclamation was a troublesome task, as not only did they have to weed, but they also had to clear out all the stones.
After four days of concerted effort, everyone finally managed to cultivate all twenty acres of wasteland. The next step was to fertilize the land. The team leader used all the fermented sweet potato residue in the workshop to fertilize the wasteland.
After the wasteland was cleared, the brigade began to raise rice seedlings. A month later, the rice seedlings were ready, and the Hongqi Brigade officially began spring plowing.
Everyone in the Red Flag Brigade was busy, and spring plowing was finally completed in mid-April.
Fortunately, just a week after the spring plowing, it began to rain lightly. As the old saying goes, "Spring rain is as precious as oil," this year will definitely be a good harvest.
With the brigade's work complete, the villagers began to work on their own private plots. Yunyan traded pepper, eggplant, tomato, and bean seeds with a village woman and planted them in her backyard, saving her from having to pay them to buy vegetables.
While everyone was busy, a major incident occurred in the village. The son-in-law of the brigade accountant was caught having an affair with a young woman in the village. The two were caught on the spot.
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