Deng Jiandang turned around and said to the people behind him: "Let's go. If you get tired on the way, you can rest."
After saying that, he walked forward, and everyone hurried to follow him. They walked out of the commune and walked on the country dirt road. On both sides of the road were tracts of farmland. The corns in the fields were now as tall as a person, and some people had already started carrying corn on their backs.
A group of people were walking on the road, in front of them was a bullock cart full of luggage. After walking for a while, the crowd became very quiet.
Gan Jiawei was walking in front, thinking of asking about the situation in the village first. He took a few quick steps forward and asked Deng Jiandang, "Uncle, are you the captain of our brigade?"
Deng Jiandang thought that these young people would wait until some time before asking, but now they could not wait any longer and did not want to embarrass them, so they answered directly: "I am the captain of the Qianjin Brigade, Deng Jiandang, and the person next to me is Deng Laosan, the village chief of the Dengjia Village Group where you are about to move in.
If you have any urgent matters in the village in the future, you can ask him to handle it if you can't find me."
"So it's the team leader and the village chief. I wonder what we should do next?" Gan Jiawei asked with a flattering smile.
Because this was the first batch of educated youth to go to the countryside, they didn't know why they were here to help build the rural areas. Most of them were still daydreaming, thinking that they were here to teach and educate people and do some leisurely work.
After Deng Jiandang heard what he asked, he turned his head and looked at him. He saw from the corner of his eyes that several people behind him had come closer to eavesdrop, so he spoke: "What else can you do? You should do what the villagers do. Your future food will be linked to your work points, so you must work hard in the future."
"Aren't we here to be teachers, or do some easier work?" Lu Dandan asked before anyone else could speak.
"Teaching? Why does our village need so many teachers? The worst people in our countryside are those who farm to earn work points. That's what you are here for," said Deng Lao San.
These kids really think highly of themselves. The easy jobs in the village all fall on the villagers. There are not enough positions for the villagers, so how can they be given some?
He thought the same as the team leader. Since these children came to share food with them, they just had to go to the fields and earn work points themselves. Otherwise, how could they get so much food for free?
"But we can read. When educated youth go to the countryside, knowledge should be the main thing," Lu Dandan said without giving up.
"Knowledge? Can knowledge alone keep you full? In our village, knowledge is not important. The most important thing is to earn work points and food." Deng Laosan once again said something to attack them.
For a moment, several people were speechless. They were all shocked, but they had already come here, and it was not easy to go back now.
After all, their current food supply has been transferred here. If they sneak back to the city, they will be punished. When they lose their food supply, they will have nothing to eat or drink, and they will definitely not be able to find a job.
Tong Yiya had been listening to their conversation silently. After walking for more than 40 minutes, the group arrived at a bend. Except for Tong Yiya, the other eight educated youth were exhausted and out of breath.
When the team leader saw this, he asked Deng Laosan to go ahead and ask Uncle Deng to stop the ox cart by the roadside to eat some grass. He turned around and said to the eight people, "You must be tired. Rest here for five minutes before going on."
When Lu Dandan heard the call for a rest, she quickly found a rock to sit on. The others also found a place to sit on the side of the road to rest.
"I'm so tired. If I had known how hard it would be to go to the countryside, I wouldn't have come," Zhang Qian complained.
"That's right, that's right," Lu Dandan also responded in a low voice
No one else said anything, but Gan Jiawei was thinking to himself, if it were possible not to go to the countryside, who would go there?
Tong Yiya was still not sociable as usual. She just sat aside and listened to them, never expressing her own ideas.
After resting for about five minutes, the team leader came over and told a few people to continue. After walking for more than half an hour, they finally saw some households in front. They were so tired that they wanted to rest early, so they quickened their pace. After all, victory was just ahead.
Ten minutes later, the ox cart and they entered the village. Tong Yiya saw a big banyan tree at the entrance of the village. There was a flat area under the tree with a few stones that looked like benches. She guessed that this was the place where the village ladies gossiped.
About 50 meters into the village, the team leader pointed to a brick house and said to the others, "This is our team headquarters. The granary is also here. If you have any problems in the future, come here to find me. If it's night time, go directly to my house. The yard over there is my home."
Several people looked over and saw that the brigade headquarters that the captain had pointed to was composed of three rooms with a large open space in front.
Walking a little further along the road, they arrived at the captain's yard. They memorized the approximate location and nodded in agreement.
Seeing that everyone had recognized each other, the team leader continued, "The Youth House you live in was originally the old house of a landlord. It was demolished a few years ago, leaving only three houses. No one has lived there in recent years.
Half a month ago, when we knew that educated youth would be coming, the villagers in our brigade went to do some simple cleanup. They repaired the roof and rebuilt the walls with earthen bricks.
It’s right in the middle of our village. You guys go back and clean up first. We’ll have dinner today at the village chief’s house, but the food will be deducted from your share.”
"But Captain, we just arrived here and didn't bring any food with us," Cao Jun asked hurriedly.
"Don't worry about this. The villagers have already discussed it. When you first arrive here, each villager will lend you 30 kilograms of coarse grain. After the autumn harvest, it will be deducted from your work points," the team leader explained.
As they were talking, they arrived at the gate of the Youth League Home. Uncle Deng and the village chief had arrived earlier and had already unloaded their luggage from the ox cart and placed it at the gate.
Uncle Deng felt that his oxen were too tired today, so he drove the ox cart back to let the oxen have a good rest.
A few people arrived in front of the yard, picked up their luggage, and then followed the captain into the yard.
The yard looked fairly tidy, with three rooms lined up together, the kitchen in the middle, two rooms on both sides, and a shed on the left, which seemed to be used for storing firewood.
The yard is very large. The team leader said that the toilet is in the backyard. A vegetable plot is also reserved for them, the educated youth, but they need to dig it out themselves and then ask the villagers to exchange some vegetable seeds for planting.
The captain told them the simple layout and asked them to clean up first and then call them for dinner in the evening.
Tong Yiya asked the system to check the time. It was only around three o'clock in the afternoon, so they would have to go for lunch around five o'clock, and there was still time to clean up.
After the team leader left, several people began to discuss how to live. In the end, the male educated youth lived on the left and the female educated youth lived on the right.
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