Yun Yan was relieved to hear Yang Qian say that she was reading. She couldn't tell her directly that the college entrance examination would be resumed in a few years, so she could only remind her indirectly to read more.
She also had her own selfish motives. She hoped that after the college entrance examination was resumed, Yang Qian would be able to get into a university in Guangzhou like herself. Her future career focus would be in Guangzhou, so she bought the land there.
Soon it was time to distribute the rations. Just like in previous years, the team leader gave a few encouraging words and then began to distribute the rations.
This time, Yunyan earned nearly a thousand work points, all of which she exchanged for rice. She also spent money on sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn kernels, and peanuts.
Because sweet potatoes are the raw material for making vermicelli, the brigade stipulates that each person can only choose a maximum of 50 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
The twenty acres of wasteland in the back mountain yielded a total of more than 70,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Because it was the first year of reclamation, the yield was a bit lower.
Including the sweet potatoes grown in other fields, the brigade harvested a total of 150,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes this year. After deducting the sweet potatoes taken by the villagers, there were still 120,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes left. Although this 120,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes is a lot, if it is made into sweet potato vermicelli, the maximum yield is only a little over 20,000 kilograms.
So the team leader went to several nearby brigades and bought 150,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. With the raw materials in hand, the team leader announced that the workshop would continue to make vermicelli.
It's no wonder he was anxious. During this period, the brigade had been receiving calls from people wanting to sell sweet potato vermicelli, but unfortunately the warehouse was out of stock, and they could only watch the money float away from them.
After all the sweet potatoes in the wasteland were harvested, the team leader ordered people to start planting the second crop of sweet potatoes to ensure that there would be no shortage of raw materials for the workshop.
As soon as the sweet potatoes were planted, the team leader announced that it was the Red Flag Brigade's turn to dig ditches this year. Each family had to send one person to dig the ditches, and the educated youth chose to do so voluntarily.
Digging ditches paid twelve work points a day, and while the work was high, it was tiring. Every time someone went, they came back looking like a beggar. After all, digging ditches was hard, tiring, and difficult to eat or sleep.
Every time it was a brigade's turn to dig a ditch, that brigade would be in chaos. Most people haven't split up yet, and the whole family lives together.
No one wants to dig the ditch, otherwise the families whose elderly people are biased will make a fuss.
As Yun Yan walked in the village, she could hear the sounds of villagers quarreling everywhere.
"I say, old lady, you are too partial. Your youngest son is a treasure, but your eldest son was just picked up? Last time it was the team's turn to repair the dike, it was our eldest son's family who went. This time it should be your brother-in-law's turn." A woman shouted loudly.
"I'm not dead yet, so it's not your turn to make the decision in this family. If I say let the eldest son go, then let him go. If he doesn't go, he would be unfilial." An old lady's voice came out.
"That's right, sister-in-law, our mother has told us to let brother go, and he has no objection, so why are you making a fuss here?" A man's voice came out.
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Yun Yan listened to their quarrel and shook her head helplessly. Throughout history, most of the discord between brothers was due to parents' inability to treat them equally. Those biased elders would never understand this truth.
The ditch digging issue had finally reached a point where several families whose elders were partial to each other were arguing about splitting up the family. Those who were arguing about splitting up the family were ruthless people. Splitting up the family meant splitting up the households, and now they were requiring each household to contribute one person.
Even if they split up and had to let their own men dig ditches, they would not let the son who was favored by the old man be spared. This is called "rather die with honor than live in disgrace."
There was another thing that caught Yun Yan's attention. Mrs. Xu was reluctant to let her son go to dig the ditch, so she planned to let her daughter-in-law go. As a result, Pan Di's mother actually went to the team leader and asked Pan Di to represent their family to dig the ditch.
The shamelessness of this family once again pushed Yunyan's bottom line. She even suspected that Pan Di was picked up by the couple.
Pan Di was only twelve years old this year, so the team leader would certainly not agree. When Pan Di's mother saw that the team leader did not agree to let Pan Di dig the ditch, she immediately started a scene in the team office.
The team leader was fed up with her and warned her that if she continued to make a scene in the team office, he would cancel their family's workshop dividends this year.
When Pan Di's mother heard this, she immediately got up from the ground and dragged Pan Di home, beating and scolding her as they walked. She said Pan Di was a jinx, a money loser, and that she had wasted food raising her to such a young age, only to have her be of no use to her.
Yang Qian watched her beating and scolding Pan Di, and was so angry that she wanted to rush over to argue with her. Yun Yan held her back. "It's the parents beating their child, so who are outsiders to interfere?" Besides, the team leader hadn't said anything, so how could she, an outsider educated youth, have a say?
By the end of October, the weather was slowly cooling. Yun Yan's loach and eel business had come to a halt. She calculated her assets and realized she had earned over 5,000 yuan just from selling loaches and eels this year.
If you add the dividends she gets from the workshop at the end of the year, she can earn almost 10,000 yuan a year.
The thought of being a millionaire in the 1970s was truly heartening. She would go to Guangzhou again if she had the chance to see if she could sell two more plots of land.
Even if the clothing industry is in recession in the future, she can still rely on those plots of land to become a landlord. In her previous life, she envied the lives of those landlords.
I remember her landlord and his wife being very carefree, traveling all over the place. They were native to Guangdong Province and had never seen snow.
The couple traveled all the way from Guangdong Province to the Northeast just to see the snow scenery.
In this life, I also want to live a carefree life like that, and never work as a hard-working worker again.
By mid-November, the sweet potatoes from the wasteland were ready to be harvested. The team leader had everyone dig up all the sweet potatoes, leaving some for seed and sending the rest to the workshop.
This time we harvested more than 80,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, so the workshop will not run out of raw materials in the short term.
The workshop has been in operation for three consecutive months. In addition to the sweet potato vermicelli that has been sold, there are now more than 8,000 kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli piled up in the warehouse.
When the team leader was worrying, he received a call from Guangzhou City. They ordered 8,000 kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli at one time.
The captain's face finally brightened up, and he immediately arranged for someone to deliver the goods to Guangzhou.
Because the order from Guangshi was brought back by Yang Qian, the team leader allowed her to follow the car and go to Guangshi.
"Be careful on the way there and back. Riding a bus is different from riding a train. Anything can happen." Yun Yan said.
"I understand. I will be careful. You don't have to worry about me." Yang Qian said with a smile.
Yun Yan had brought her some food to eat on the way. Yang Qian didn't hesitate to accept the package and said thank you.
The next morning, Yang Qian set off with the vermicelli delivery vehicle. She didn't say a word along the way. This time she went to Guangzhou for something very important to do.
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