The next day, Tian Cai went to the county again to deliver shampoo to the Qian family, and never went out again.
Qian Liming said that people who wanted to use shampoo didn't have much time recently and didn't consider the issue of acupuncture for the time being, so she took the money and went back to the village directly.
In the past few days, Tian Cai has returned to the embrace of the mountains, running all over the mountains with Mimi every day. If they come across mountain products or herbs, they pick them, and if they don't, they play with them. Mimi's hunting ability has also improved by leaps and bounds, and her belly is bulging with food every day.
Over there, a man and a cat were having fun on the mountain every day, and the grain in the threshing ground was dried after a week of sunny days. The team leader led people to pack the grain into bags and weigh it, and then used the team's tractor to transport it to the commune in batches.
After all the grain that needed to be handed in was collected, it was time to move on to the next step that everyone was looking forward to the most, which was - grain distribution.
There were several heavy rains this summer, which generally did not have much impact on the harvest. The final calculation showed that the amount of money that could be exchanged for one work point was only one point lower than last year.
On the day of grain distribution, the first few people whose work points were high were all well-known hard-working people in the village. The highest scorers were the two brothers of the Hu family, both with nearly 3,000 points.
These two guys are really hardworking. Whenever there is work to do in the team, you can always see them. They are almost the first ones to start work and the last ones to finish work in the team.
The clothes of these two people were patched up with patches on top of each other, and the stitches of the patches were crooked. It was obvious that the two young men had sewn them themselves.
Or Zhang Defa would always say every time he saw them, "A family can't do without a woman."
It is said that the two brothers lived with their widowed mother before, but the old mother of the Hu family was in poor health. No matter how capable the two brothers were, they could not afford the money spent on medicine, not to mention that the old mother could not be left alone.
The old mother of the Hu family cried to her neighbors more than once, feeling that she had delayed her sons' development. The family was impoverished because of her illness, and her two sons were in their twenties but couldn't even find a wife. She felt guilty towards the ancestors of the Hu family.
The old people in the village could only comfort her with a few words, but everyone also knew that it was indeed the mother of the Hu family who was a burden to her two sons. Otherwise, with the hardworking spirit of these two children, they would have been able to make a living and would have been able to marry any wife they wanted.
Later, the old mother of the Hu family passed away suddenly. Most of the villagers thought that she had reached the end of her life and did not take it too seriously. After all, she had been ill for many years, and her condition had been intermittent over the years and had not improved.
Instead, everyone was happy for the Hu brothers, feeling that they finally had hope for the future.
Tian Cai also thought so when he first heard about it. Later, Aunt Du said that the old mother of the Hu family hanged herself. She couldn't reach the beam of the house, so she tied her belt to the door handle and strangled herself.
Aunt Zhao and several nearby neighbors saw it at the time, but for the sake of the Hu brothers' reputation, they helped to conceal the matter and told others that the old mother of the Hu family had died of illness.
When Tian Cai came to Kaoshan Village, the incident had just subsided, so she heard everything from the villagers.
The Hu brothers, Hu Gang and Hu Tie, seem to be only one or two years apart in age, and look quite similar. When the mother of the Hu family just passed away, the two boys were not in good conditions, so families with daughters were still in the wait-and-see stage as to whether to marry them.
The work point system at that time can be understood as the annual salary in later generations. No wages were paid on normal days. Of course, if you had no food to eat, the team would not watch you starve to death. They would still lend you food on credit and deduct it back when calculating the work points.
It is said that the Hu brothers only borrowed food on credit once this year, and ate it with wild vegetables at other times. In spring, they went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and mixed them with wheat bran to make wild vegetable nests to satisfy their hunger. In summer, when the wild vegetables were old, they ate prickly ash, mixed it with sorghum flour, and steamed it. However, prickly ash would make the throat sore even after it was cooked.
Tian Cai got to know them because one time the two brothers hunted a wild boar in the mountains. One of them was scratched on the thigh by the wild boar. Tian Cai happened to meet them when he went up the mountain to collect herbs. He bandaged the wound with the medicine he brought with him and left the remaining medicine to the two brothers.
After that, the two brothers sent her firewood every few days, but Tian Cai insisted on paying them before they stopped.
Everyone could clearly see that the Hu brothers' faces turned red with excitement when they heard the work points, and their hands were shaking when they went up to press their fingerprints. It must have been a hard time for these two brothers over the past year.
Some families with daughters will have some ideas in their minds at this time.
Tian Cai worked a full year this year, earning five work points every day. In addition, he worked harder during spring planting and autumn harvest, so he earned full work points almost every day. The total amount exceeded two thousand.
When the scorer announced the results, Tian Cai was quite surprised. During the two months she went to the commune to study this year, she did not treat patients in the village. During that period, anyone who was sick went to the commune's clinic or the county for treatment. The work points she earned in these two months were very high.
Tian Cai felt that after the work points were read out, the eyes cast upon him were all kinds of people, including envy, jealousy, and even calculation.
The work points for these two months were not checked, and the fact that the two team leaders took care of her did not mean that Tian Cai could take this part back with peace of mind. She could not say it in front of everyone, so she decided to wait until everything was distributed before going to find the team leader.
Tian Cai estimated her annual food rations and asked for an extra hundred kilograms on this basis. The rest was converted into money. If she couldn't finish it, she could still sell it to the county. However, she had just received so many work points and would be the focus of attention in a short period of time. She would have to wait for a while before she could do anything.
When Tian Cai was packing up his food, he happened to hear the work points of several educated youth. The one with the most was Yan Xudong, followed by Liu Yanqing and her brother. As expected, Qiu Xiaohuan and Li Lili had the least.
Yan Xudong has the highest academic qualifications in the entire Kaoshan Village. When distributing grain last year, he used his brain to conquer the two team leaders. After the spring plowing this year, he was directly given a civilian position in the brigade. He is usually responsible for the team's clerical work, data reporting and other work.
The rest of the time, I have to go to work like the villagers.
The Liu siblings were very happy to get so much food. They never cheated when working this year, and the food they earned was enough for them to eat for the next year, and they could send some back home.
Even if there is not much left, you can use the money to exchange with fellow villagers. It is much easier to buy food in the countryside than in the city.
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