So, the five of them set out together, digging bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest during the day and setting traps at the same time, and going up the mountain to hunt at night. At daybreak, they sold all the goods to the middlemen.
They are all capable people. Although it was only three short days, each of them earned more than two hundred yuan.
It was already the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month when they returned to the educated youth point at Dongshan Brigade. Before they could recover from the shock, they heard some shocking news.
The first one is that Hua Mingli got married. She married Wu Daming's military officer brother who came back to visit his family. She had already followed the man to join the army a few days ago.
Another thing is that Shao Lidong is going to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, and the road construction time has been extended from one month to forty days, so Wang Jiaming and the others will not be able to come back for at least ten days. The last one is that something happened at Chen Ran's home, and she asked for leave to go back and deal with it.
None of this had anything to do with Qiao Mo. She had just thought Hua Mingli and Shao Lidong were a couple, but she hadn't expected them to get married suddenly. As for Shao Lidong going to college, he had the longest seniority among the educated youth, performed well, and had a good relationship with the brigade leaders, so it was natural for him to get the quota.
Another quota of the brigade was given to Wu Daming, so by the spring of next year, Shao Lidong and Wu Daming would be able to escape from their life of working in the fields and become college students that everyone envied.
The news related to her was that He Dongqing and Yang Xiaoyun, two educated youth from Xishan Brigade, had come to see her. After learning that she was repairing the reservoir, they were worried about her. She decided to find some time to visit them in Xishan Brigade and tell them that she was living a happy life.
Qiao Mo and the others just listened to the news that had nothing to do with them. The first thing they did when they returned to the educated youth site was to cut sweet potato slices: because the reservoir was being repaired, the sweet potatoes they had hung on the second floor had not been processed. They had to take advantage of the good weather to wash the sweet potatoes as much as possible, cut them into slices, steam them, and dry them, so that they could be stored for a long time.
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. It started to rain after only three days of work, so they had to stop the work. The remaining sweet potatoes could only be dealt with later when another opportunity arose.
Then the team distributed food and dividends. This was the last time food was distributed that day, as there had been a distribution after the autumn harvest. This time, Qiao Mo only received 100 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of corn, 10 kilograms of soybeans, and 5 kilograms of mung beans, in addition to 21 yuan.
Kang Mingyuan and his men were strong laborers and had more work points than her, so naturally they got more food. However, they didn't care and put it together with Qiao Mo's. As for the money they got, they each put it into their own pockets.
Although Qiao Mo did not stop them from putting the food together, he thought about finding an opportunity to go to the town a few times and take out some of the food in the wooden bracelet space to fill his own gap.
"Momo, we want to go to the county town tomorrow and buy some goods. Do you want to go?" Kang Mingyuan asked Qiao Mo during dinner.
"I won't be disappointed. Count me in as well if you buy some goods." Qiao Mo thought of the frenzy of people scrambling for goods in the early days. She was a little frightened and retreated shamefully. She took out ten yuan to buy some goods for Kang Mingyuan and wanted to leave everything alone.
"Don't you want to go to the city to take a look?" Han asked in disbelief.
"I don't want to. It's freezing cold, and it's too difficult to go out because I have to walk and squeeze into the car. I might as well read in bed." Qiao Mo shook his head.
"It's a bit tiring to go to the county town, but it's not too tiring at all." Kang Mingyuan accepted the ten yuan without hesitation. "Mo Mo, is there anything you need to bring back? We'll bring that back too."
"No need, my cousin has sent me everything I need." Qiao Mo shook his head.
She sent all the chestnuts and quercetin distributed after the autumn harvest to Yang Weiguo. He was reluctant to eat them, so he sold all the black chestnuts. He used the money to buy her two defective pieces of cloth and a pair of Warrior shoes. Together with the supplies in the wooden bracelet space, she now had everything she needed.
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