Seventy cannon fodder is a ruthless man

Chapter 35

After resting at Zhou's house for one night, after having breakfast the next day, Zhou Cuiling went to work at the grain station, and Meng Tao went back to Meng's yard and started tidying up the room she wanted to live in.

The educated youth had already eaten breakfast and were about to go to work. When they saw Meng Tao come in with two travel bags, they had to talk around her for a while.

They are all a production team. In the past, Meng Taohua didn't care about people, but she knew the names of these educated youths who lived in her family. The five male educated youths were Jiang Xiaodong, Sun Yutang, Qian Jin, and Wu Guoliang. , Zhao Ming; three female educated youth Jiang Limei, Qian Xiaoyun, He Huijuan, she and these eight people will get along day and night in the future.

The educated youths said hello and all went to work. Meng Tao closed the gate of the courtyard and walked into the house. There were three main rooms, the hall in the middle and a compartment behind the hall, which Old Man Meng and Meng Taohua used before. Some of the furniture is stored there. The east room is now inhabited by three female educated youths, and the westward male educated youths have been vacated and repainted. Although the technology is not good, the four walls are white and clean and look very comfortable. Meng Tao only needs to clean up the lime and floating sand on the ground, hang a curtain on the window, and then clean the bed frame, table and chair cabinet at the back of the hall, move it in and place it, and then you can live in peace.

Hmm, seems to be missing something?Bought sheets and mosquito nets in the provincial capital, but no quilts!

It's late autumn now, and I have to cover with thin quilts at night. Let's go through it tonight, and look at it tomorrow. Go to the commune supply and marketing agency to buy two quilts and come back.

Let's see what else is missing, and buy it together by the way.

Meng Tao walked out of the house and looked at the courtyard. A few educated youths were good. They kept the yard very well. The wing on the left is now the dormitory for the male educated youth. Build a rectangular flowerbed, dig loose the soil, and plant two holly trees and unfamiliar low plants in it. Put the washbasin, wash your face and brush your teeth every morning and water the plants directly.

On the right is the kitchen and the firewood house. There is a large water tank in front of the kitchen, which was originally there; a large chicken coop was built with bamboo pieces in the courtyard past the firewood house, and several little hens and roosters were kept in captivity. Inside, two long bamboo poles are placed between the courtyard wall and the persimmon tree, enough to dry clothes and quilts.

There are melons and vegetables in the back garden, and there are toilets and bathrooms.

Meng Tao walked to the water tank and lifted the bamboo skin cover. There was more than half of the water in the tank. She decided to use the water to scrub the furniture first, and then pick it up when she was finished.

After busying for more than two hours, I finally finished scrubbing the bed frame and some furniture, not the ones brought back from Tian's house, but the single bed frame, small wardrobe, table and chairs that Meng Taohua used when she was "unmarried". The wood is good, They are still very sturdy, and there is even a small dressing table with a simple and elegant shape. It can be imagined that Mr. Meng really loves his granddaughter very much.

Meng Tao couldn't move the bed frame by herself, so she first cleaned the floor of the room and hung up the curtains. She happened to buy some light-colored floral fabrics in the provincial capital, cut a piece and stitched it a little.

Then he carried the empty bucket to the well to fetch water. In the past, Meng Taohua was used to farming and household chores. It was no problem to pick up a few buckets of water, and he had the strength, but Meng Tao just felt uncomfortable, with shoulder pain and poor balance. With a load of water, fortunately most people were working in the fields at this time, and no one saw her embarrassed appearance, otherwise it would be strange: Peach Blossom went to the provincial capital and came back, can't even pick water? !

By the time she filled a tank of water, the educated youths had all finished work and came back for lunch.

Several educated youths enthusiastically helped her move the bed frame, cabinets, boxes, tables and chairs into the room. Sun Yutang also brought a piece of iron wire they had left over and helped her drive two nails in the room, so that she could Hanging up the clothes, after washing the clothes on rainy days, you can hang them in the house to dry. Meng Tao expressed her gratitude.

The female educated youth was about to cook and asked Meng Tao to eat with them, but Meng Tao politely declined. No one had much rations. After eating other people's food, they would not be full and starve.

She needs to go to the brigade headquarters and make an agreement with Captain Bao Shunfeng. When they return from work, she will return the travel expenses in advance, and by the way, advance the food to support it until the day of distribution.

Although she now has money and food stamps, she can live without paying for food in advance, but she should not be too lavish, lest people notice that she does not match the previous Meng Taohua.

Meng Tao went to the brigade headquarters, the team leader and the accountant and cashier were there, Meng Tao returned the 30 yuan and ten catties of food stamps, and watched the cashier tick her name on the notepad, indicating "a certain year The money ticket has been paid on a certain day of the month", and then I started to process the advance payment of grain, got a note, and waited for the team leader to approve and stamp it, and then I could go to the warehouse clerk to pick up the grain.

The captain, Bao Shunfeng, was giving a certificate to a member, and he was training people while he was driving. When the member left, it was Meng Tao's turn to stamp the seal. He was also taught a lesson. The family has figured out that they can go to work in the afternoon to earn work points, but if they don’t earn work points, they will not be able to eat enough food.

Meng Tao agreed twice, the captain is a black-faced Bao Gong, and his temper is righteous. If you are familiar with him, you will not be afraid of him. Just when he is menopausal, he likes to nagging, and his left ear goes in and right ear goes out.

I read Aunt Yang's score book last night. A strong worker only earns ten work points a day, one work point is three cents, ten is three cents, and a day's work is only three cents. My God, in the provincial capital, it is only two cents. The price of the bowl of noodles had to be added with food stamps. Meng Tao was hit. At first, he felt that he might not be able to support himself by earning work points alone. Now he is even less motivated to go to work.

After coming out of the brigade, Meng Tao went directly to the warehouse keeper to get the grain. The warehouse keeper had already been greeted by the brigade leader, took the note and looked at it. Seeing that Meng Tao was holding a few cloth bags, he began to weigh her grain. Meng Tao didn't bother to look at how many kilograms, but was dumbfounded when she saw the scooped grain: half a bag of corn kernels, half a bag of high grain, half a bag of hulled wheat, and half a bag of rice, all unprocessed of!

She had to carry it to the mill herself, grind it into powder, and thresh it before she could eat it.

Meng Tao only felt a pain in her scalp, "Who knows that Chinese food is hard work", it's really not easy to eat some food!
Meng Tao borrowed a pole from the warehouse keeper, tied the two ends of four cloth bags, and staggered away.

When I went to the mill at the head of the village, there happened to be a grandmother who was grinding noodles with her eight or nine year old grandson. There were also several bags. The grandson and grandson had all the tools, including dustpan, sieve and straw broom. Meng Tao had everything. If I didn't bring it, I asked to cooperate with them to grind the mill together. They were two people. Meng Tao had to borrow tools, and then gave them the rice bran.

The grandfather and grandson readily agreed that now is not a terrible year of famine, people do not need to eat grain bran, but it is good feed for chickens, pigs and cattle.

So the old and the little three pushed the stone for a few hours, and when the sun was in the west, they were finally finished, and they each carried their burdens and went home.

(End of this chapter)