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Chapter 3 The educated youth

On the way, a group of people chatted and strolled, and met a few women who came back from the county together.

"Old Wu, what are you doing?" asked the aunt who wore several patches on her body. She looked like she was in her 40s.

After seeing her, Aunt Wu's face paled a bit, and she replied nonchalantly, "Take some educated youths to Lao Liu's house to build an earthen stove."

Aunt Li smiled and said, "No wonder your old Zhao can be the team leader. You have helped a lot with all your busy schedule."

Back then, Captain Zhao and Accountant Li ran for the position of Captain of Yongsheng Village together. Aunt Wu helped her husband to publicize everywhere, and so did Aunt Li.However, when Li’s aunt promised the benefit of several families voting, the commune turned it over. It’s not a big problem. dragged its feet.

Aunt Wu was so indifferent that she didn't even look at her, "The educated youths stationed in the countryside are the instructions from above, and we, the cadres' family members, have to help, don't we? It's Lao Wang, you can listen to your old Li more, let's be a daughter-in-law It’s also the back of the family, so I should support my husband’s work in the front.”

This remark is suspected of turning over old accounts, but this old account is easy to turn over. Every time the previous matter is mentioned, Aunt Li's fire will be turned off.

Sure enough, Aunt Li gave her a gouged look and left angrily.

"Humph."

Aunt Wu glanced at her back and said no more.

Yunling took the relationship between the two seriously, and said without saying anything, "Auntie, besides farming and raising pigs in our village, do the commune members have any other side jobs?"

Aunt Wu thought for a while, what else could farmers do? Some went hunting in the mountains to sell money on the black market, but that was not the case, and some who grew crops in their own plots went to the buying station to exchange, and they didn't have much money.

She shook her head: "How can a farmer know anything else? There are some carpenters and masons in the village, but these craftsmen will not throw away their money-making work. People in our village don't change big things for several years, just you educated youths. Make new ones."

As the old saying goes, the apprentices of the church will starve to death of the master, and the general master will not hand over the important skills to the apprentice unless they reach the end of their lives. This also leads to the fact that most people only learn superficially.

Yun Ling understood it in her heart.

In fact, she had a plan in mind before she came, and she happened to meet Chu Silan on the way, which added an extra boost to her plan.

The land in the Northeast is fertile, and there are many herbs in the deep mountains and old forests. If Chu Songlan is with her, her original plan of planting herbs may be much smoother. After they study it, they will cultivate it for three to five years, and then teach it to the villagers.

It's not in vain that she, an educated youth, go to the countryside.

The vast land is where she makes a difference.

The more she thought about it, the happier she became, and her steps became a little lighter.

Shao Hua next to her caught a glimpse of her inexplicably happy, but felt a little more depressed. Why hasn't this person recognized him yet?

A few people came out of the old Liu's house, agreed to start work tomorrow, and then hurried to the Wang's house.

"Old Wang!" Aunt Wu yelled a few times before pushing the door in and explaining to them, "Old Wang is over 60, deaf, and his grandson Wang Shu usually watches over him. He hasn't opened the door for so long today. It should have gone out."

Although Lao Wang's ears are not good, his legs and feet are very agile, and the wood patterns on the large wardrobe are exquisitely carved on his hands.

Yunling's voice was intentionally louder, in case this Grandpa Wang could not hear her, "Grandpa Wang, we have to open a few lockers."

Lao Wang nodded, and then said louder: "When my grandson comes back, tell him that I can't read."

Generally, those who make furniture will have some descriptions of carved designs, and it is very inconvenient to communicate every time. With Wang Shu, who is half an expert, it will be much faster.

They had no choice but to wait. It was almost dark when Wang Shu came back, covered in moisture and his clothes were completely soaked.

Aunt Wu hurried forward and said "Ouch", "Wang Shu, did you go into the river? Why did you get wet?"

Wang Shu stroked the back of his head honestly, "Aunt Wu, I want to catch some fish to feed Grandpa."

"This early autumn is flooded, don't go in the river anymore, I still have a few salted fish at home, you have to exchange them with me."

Aunt Wu is really warm-hearted, and she will help if she can in the village, especially the lonely grandparents of the old Wang family. Every time someone asks her, she will introduce jobs to her. Fortunately, Lao Wang can do carpentry, otherwise it would be hard work.

Wang Shu quickly thanked her, and quickly said: "Aunt Wu, I'll go and change clothes and come out immediately."

When he came out, Qian Li got a little impatient, but fortunately she didn't lose her temper, but she was stung a few big bumps on her arms, which made her unable to bear the itching.

Yunling clearly stated the requirements: "Wardrobe, kang cabinet, bookcase, cupboard, kang table four sets each, large boxes and benches need eight, and I also need a medicine box to carry with me, make it thinner , carrying lightly."

ho-

This is a big deal! ! !

Before Aunt Wu came, she didn't expect that they would ask for so much, and it was up to the standard of a rural wedding.

When Chu Songlan heard that she wanted a medicine box, she quickly added: "I want a medicine box too."

The pen tip on Wang Shu's paper paused, then hesitantly asked: "Are you sure you want so many?"

With this income, he and his grandfather will not have to start work for a year.

Yunling looked at several other people, they all nodded, and said, "You do it, we have the resettlement fee for educated youth, so you're not short of money."

The resettlement fee for educated youth is 250 yuan per person, which is mainly used for housing resettlement, and the rest is used for learning materials, travel, production, living utensils, etc. There is also a winter clothing subsidy of 30 yuan in cold regions like the Northeast and Northwest.

But generally educated youths will post all the money home when they receive it, and in the end, they seldom hold the money by themselves.

"It's not a matter of money or not." Wang Shu wrote it down in detail, and then asked, "Do you need to carve?"

Everyone wanted to come as soon as possible, and they all said: "No, the simplest thing will do."

"The quantity of these is very large. I will start logging tomorrow. I will make them for you when my grandfather is off work. It will take half a month to finish them all."

They couldn't urge them, although they were a bit slow, but they had no choice but to agree: "Okay, you guys do it first."

Wang Shu calculated, "Except for the two medicine boxes, the other four of you will share, and each of you will give me [-] yuan, and the medicine box will only count as three yuan."

In fact, the medicine box can be made from the scraps of the wardrobe, so it can be more than half the price.

Aunt Wu saw that an income of more than 200 yuan entered Lao Wang's house, and suddenly realized that these people were really willing to spend money!
In previous years, it wasn't that there were no educated youths who bought cabinets, but they never asked for a complete set of furniture.However, the old Wang's wood is good, and the cost is half of the cost. Adding the manual cost, the real net profit left in the hands is only [-]%.

Aunt Wu is not a jealous person, even though she has personally witnessed that they traded such a large sum of money, she will not go out and yell.

Lao Wang exchanged a few words with his grandson, and looked at the four of them in amazement. The hands were a little quicker, his face was wrinkled and he smiled cheerfully. He set a time: "Come and pick it up in half a month."

When Aunt Wu came out of Lao Wang’s house, she really couldn’t see such a way of spending money, so she raised a few words worriedly: “Auntie knows that you have a lot of resettlement fees, but we don’t understand when you just came here. After a while, the autumn harvest will start. This year’s food brigade will temporarily lend you, but the amount is not much, and you will not be able to eat enough during the busy autumn harvest, so a large part of your money will have to be posted on food. After deducting the food borrowed this year next year, there is not much left. Save as much as you can, don’t spend money recklessly. Although the family may send you money, you must have cash in hand, right?”

Yunling and the others were taught together.

Aunt Wu began to babble: "Our Northeast is the best place in the whole country. There was a famine in Yu Province before, and many of them fled to our side. Compared with other places, it is really rare to see people starving to death."

"It's a blessing for you educated youth children to be assigned here. It's colder in winter, but we don't go out in winter. There is a kang in this room, so it's warm!"

The group returned to the educated youth spot, washed up and cleaned up, and after busy work, this day was considered a formal rest.

Wei Guoqing and Bai Li'an watched the few people moving things, not knowing what to say.

Bai Li'an went to Qian Li's room to ask a few words before he found out, and complained, "Why didn't you call me?"

Qian Li stroked the end of her hair, her tone was not good: "When I was called, you were still with the old educated youth. Seeing that you chatted so well, I thought Comrade Chen Liang and the others would tell you."

Hearing this, Bai Lian didn't have the confidence to say anything more.

Wei Guoqing found out from Shao Hua's side, and decided to go tomorrow, and tonight to make a living.

A dark curtain fell on the sky, the stars were dotted, and the educated youth became quiet.

Seeing the unlocked door, Yunling had no choice but to find a piece of wood from the back of the house and insert it from inside, and threw the old newspaper borrowed from Captain Zhao's house on the kang to prevent dust, and then began to spread out the bedding.

The quilt made by Shao Qi is really soft and thick, it looks like fresh cotton at first glance, and the quilt cover is also pure blue floral cotton cloth, which is suitable for making inner clothes.

Yunling thought that tomorrow she would tear up a few feet of old coarse cloth and cover them with fine quilts.

With a lot of thoughts in my heart, I gradually fell into sleep.

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(End of this chapter)