Chapter 47 Youth Educated Point
The educated youth center in Zhongxing Brigade was newly built. The commune allocated some money and used red bricks, which were all removed from the old auditorium on the farm. The house was quite nice, after all, there were only a few families in the village who used red bricks to build their houses.
There are two rows of houses, with two rooms in the front and back and a small side room.
The two rooms in the front were allocated to the male educated youth. The small side room had a stove and a table inside, and was a public kitchen.
The two rooms at the back were where the female educated youth lived. There was no stove or kang in the small side room, and it was filled with a lot of miscellaneous items such as firewood.
Today happened to be the day off for the educated youth, so everyone was here. Lin Hongyan gave them a brief introduction and let Li Mao take charge of the arrangements.
Li Mao is the educated youth who has been here the longest and is also the oldest. Basically, he is in charge of all matters related to the educated youth site.
In addition to the eleven new educated youth, there were eight other people in the educated youth center, exactly four men and four women.
The male educated youth were Shi Yifan, Li Mao, Fan Xin, and Liu Jin.
The female educated youth were Zhao Jinhua, Luo Zhaodi, Meng Shengnan, and Wei Zi.
Good job, four rooms can accommodate nineteen people.
Everyone looked unhappy, but there was nothing they could do but stay like this.
The male educated youth were easy to deal with. There were five people in each room, and the rooms were allocated quickly.
There were nine female educated youth in total, four in one room and five in another.
The old educated youth originally lived in pairs, but now that so many new people have come, no one is happy.
Zhao Jinhua suggested: "Why don't the five of you sleep in one room? You all came here together and are familiar with each other."
Wang Lizhen disagreed: "Why? The kang is so small. Five people can't even turn over if they sleep on it."
No one could convince anyone else, and in the end there was no other choice but to draw lots.
Maybe Xia Zhizhi hadn't done any good deeds recently, so she was successfully assigned to share a room with four old educated youths.
Finally, everyone agreed that the old educated youth would sleep in the room on the left, the new educated youth would sleep in the middle room, and the far right would be the storage room.
Zhao Jinhua and Luo Zhaodi went back to the house, quickly rolled up the blankets and went to the room on the left. When the male educated youth helped them move the luggage in, there were already four blankets crammed on the kang.
Xia Zhizhi blinked her big innocent eyes and looked at them.
Zhao Jinhua said: "I am afraid of heat, I am used to sleeping by the window."
Luo Zhaodi said: "I have always slept on the kang."
Wei Zi said nothing.
Meng Shengnan said, "Xia Zhiqing, you should clean up the mess yourself. I have something else to do so I won't be able to help you."
"It's okay, go ahead and do your work." She was very easy to talk to.
As soon as Meng Shengnan went out, the rest of them followed suit.
She moved the quilt on the kang, took out her own blanket from her bag and placed it in the middle, then took out the washbasin, toothbrush, toothpaste, enamel mug, and towel, but did not pack up the other things.
There was a standing cupboard and two wicker boxes in the room, both locked, with two large packages on top. There was no place to put the things if we took them out.
Just as everyone finished packing up, the team leader arrived and brought them food, 20 kilograms of corn and 10 kilograms of sorghum per person.
The team leader instructed: "This food is loaned to you by the team. You must use your work points to make up for it by the end of the year. If you can't make up for it, you must use money to buy work points. I'm going to say this in advance. If you owe the team money and can't pay it back, you won't get food from the team next year."
Seeing that the newly arrived educated youth looked unhappy, he comforted them with a few words: "Don't worry too much. The conditions in our brigade are still good. In previous years, centimeters were more valuable than in other brigades. As long as you work hard, you will definitely not starve."
If you cheat and don't work hard, you deserve to go hungry.
The team leader's attitude towards the educated youth was mediocre, neither welcoming nor resisting. Although it was cold, it was actually quite good compared to other villages.
Because most of the educated youth did not get many work points, after they arrived, they had to distribute the rations to the people in the village. When some villages heard that they were going to distribute educated youth, they were very upset and treated them as if they were eating their own rice. If you were unlucky enough to be assigned to such a place, you would have no way to express your grievances.
The Zhongxing Brigade has a tractor, so it doesn't matter if we have more people. We can go to the foot of the mountain and open up a few more acres of wasteland. After two years of cultivation, it will become good land.
Therefore, as long as the educated youth did not act up, it did not matter to the Zhongxing Brigade whether there were more or fewer people. As long as they were a little more diligent, they would not starve to death.
"I know you are tired after sitting in the car for several days, so I will give you a day off tomorrow. When you hear the bell the day after tomorrow morning, you will go to work with everyone else."
After giving his instructions, the captain went back.
In the evening, Li Mao suggested that everyone have a good meal together to welcome the new educated youth.
After he made the proposal, he contributed 4 eggs.
Cui Zijin and Wang Lizhen worked together and took out a can of meat, Han Youran took out a can of fruit, Jiang Xiurong took out half a dried duck, Tang Mingli took out half a bag of biscuits, and Xia Zhizhi took out a can of fish.
Liu Lin took a piece of sausage and Xia Zhizhi sniffed it. It smelled especially good.
Several other educated youths gave out something more or less, but Zhao Jinhua gave nothing.
It was just a thoughtful gesture, and no one said anything.
Everyone contributed food. Before, the female educated youth would work in pairs to cook, taking turns, while the male educated youth would be responsible for fetching water and chopping firewood.
There are more people here now, so we will have to rearrange the cooking arrangements in the future. Today, the four old educated youth will cook first.
After the food was served, Xia Zhizhi took a quick look and found that the number of vegetables was obviously reduced.
No one said anything. Li Mao drank tea instead of wine and said a few polite words, which were nothing more than that we were in the same boat.
There are 19 people, one table and four benches, so of course there is not enough space for them to sit.
The men found a large wooden board, placed one end on the stove and the other end on the edge of the table. If there were stools, they sat on them; if there were no stools, they stood. That's how they made do.
Everyone responded sparsely. The new educated youth were tired from the long journey and wanted to eat something quickly and then go to bed to have a good rest.
The old educated youth were a little greedy. There were only a few dishes and so many people. If they didn't eat quickly, they wouldn't even get a taste of the soup.
Xia Zhizhi concentrated on eating. She spotted her spot and stood next to the sausage. The sausage that Liu Lin took out was so fragrant and delicious. It was just a small section with not many slices. She quickly picked up most of it.
She was making noises in her mouth and thinking that there seemed to be some sausage in her bag.
After dinner, Xia Zhizhi performed a show of showing off a handful of pills in front of everyone. She was afraid that the two heroines would notice, so she specially chose candy pills (for a prank).
Everyone's eyes widened. Western medicine is so expensive. How much does it cost to take so many each time?
Xia Zhizhi smiled shyly: "I can't help it. I have been weak since I was a child. I am sorry to embarrass you."
No one is laughing at me, I just feel like I have learned something new...
After dinner, the male educated youth took a shower directly with cold water, while the female educated youth had no choice but to wash their bodies with water in a basin.
Everyone had been on the train for several days and was exhausted. Soon, the room was filled with snoring, making one feel like one was traveling in a frog field.
Except for Xia Zhizhi's.
The four lesbians in the room had a day off today. They had a good rest and were not in a hurry to go to bed. They were trying to compete with her.
After all, it was very spacious for two people to sleep in one room before, and everyone was comfortable. Now that so many educated youth have come here, it must be annoying. Once you are angry, you will definitely talk in a sly way.