Era: 1979 From mountain man to richest man

Chapter 9 Work Points and Going Up the Mountain

Song Chaoyang watched his uncle and the team leader leave and remembered the dream he had last night.

He dreamed of this scene last night.

In the dream, they went to Yangjiagou to ask for water. They wanted to use the names of the uncle's two sons to ask the people in Yangjiagou to either pay money or pay for water.

Unexpectedly, others didn't buy it at all.

Uncle Song Shoujin, who felt his face was dull, said something more. The people in Yangjiagou felt provoked, and then they took action.

During the fight, the uncle's front tooth was knocked out by Yang Shulin, the militia platoon leader of the Yangjiagou Brigade.

Normally, there is no basis for such things as dreams, and I can't remember the dream very clearly, but Song Chaoyang remembered it very clearly.

It was as if it was really happening before his eyes.

However, Song Chaoyang thought for a while and shook his head. The two sons of the uncle's family were famous far and wide.

Since they were able to get compensation and bacon when they went to Blind Yang's house yesterday, it's impossible that the people in the village wouldn't buy it this time, right?
So Song Chaoyang immediately put this dream behind him.

……

Breakfast is sweet potato corn mush with clear soup and a little water, and a little pickles.

After breakfast, the production team began to gather people to work outside.

If you go, just sign in with your name.

In fact, at dawn in the morning, before breakfast, there were already people working.

It takes about an hour.

I don’t know about other places, but the calculation rules in Qingsong Bay are this: men will be counted as 2 points of work, women will be counted as 1 point of work, and children will be counted as 5 cents of work.

Then now, after breakfast, I start working until noon.

During this period, men will be credited with 3 points of labor, women will be credited with 2 points of labor, and children will be credited with 1 point of labor.

Then after lunch, we continued working until the sun went down.

During this period, men will be credited with 5 points of labor, women will be credited with 4 points of labor, and children will be credited with 2 point of labor.

From dawn to dusk, a man can earn 10 work points a day, a woman can earn 7 centimeters, and a child can earn 3.5 work points.

In other words, Song Chaoyang's family of five can earn 40.5 work points for one day's work.

If a full month is counted as 30 days, 1215 work points can be done.

Of course, humans are not machines and cannot work all year round.

If you want to rest, no one will say anything to you.

As long as your family has enough centimeters when distributing food.

Of course, there is no need to worry if your family’s work points are not enough. You can also use money to buy more work points from others through the production team.

Even for special groups, households with five guarantees, families of martyrs, and disabled people, the production team will guarantee basic rations. These rations are not given directly by the production team, but are purchased from people with more work points, and the state pays the bill.

Song Chaoyang's family is actually the kind of family that can earn work points very well.

However, my grandparents and uncle’s family are dependent on me, and my third aunt’s family doesn’t earn enough work points, so the work points are basically just enough.

In addition, the food distributed to the family and the insiders stole it and exchanged it on the street, there may not be enough food in the future.

Especially if we encounter dry weather like this year, it will affect the autumn harvest.

The production team harvested less grain. After paying the government grain and leaving seeds for next year, there was not much left to divide.

At that time, even if you had work points, you wouldn't be able to get much food.

In this situation, if there were less mountain goods in the mountains, people would start to starve to death.

So in a more serious sense, Yangjiagou's water grabbing is actually seeking money and killing people.

Song Chaoyang was injured while helping the team to grab water. The production team would not treat him badly and directly gave him full work credit for a week.

A total of 70 work points.

Let him rest at home.

Song Chaoyang originally thought about going to the educated youth center to borrow some books to read, but thinking that there was still about a year until next year's college entrance examination, he gave up. There were more important things now.

In these days of malnutrition, I feel like my brain is not full just to think about something. It is obviously due to lack of nutrition.

So he needs to get some food and improve his life!
So taking advantage of this time, he took his little sister to the mountains to get some mountain products.

After his father, mother, and second brother all went out with their farm tools, Song Chaoyang took his younger sister Song Yu with a basket on his back, a hoe, a sickle, and a bamboo tube filled with water and walked up the mountain.

The sun in July and August can cause pain on people's bodies early in the morning. Fortunately, there are lush trees in the mountains and forests here.

Song Chaoyang took his sister through the woods, and most of the sunlight was blocked by the tree crowns.

However, there are many places in the nearby mountain forest that have been rummaged by humans. This is the place where most people come to pick up goods.

I want to find new mountain products in this place, unless it rains a few more times.

Otherwise, with this weather, nothing would grow.

The two brothers and sister knew that nothing could be dug here, so they kept walking up the mountain.

It seemed that after walking for more than an hour, we had covered seven or eight miles.

At this time, they still didn't find anything to dig out, so the two brothers and sisters found a stone and sat down to rest.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew from the mountain, which cooled the two of them a lot.

He picked up the bamboo tube filled with water and took a sip of water.

Song Chaoyang stood on the stone and looked down the mountain through the gap in the forest.

These days, there is no industrial pollution. You can see very far away. You can clearly see the Qingsong Bay production team in the ravine.

There are many people working in the fields at the moment.

The two rested for a while, drank some water, and then set off again to continue walking up the mountain.

After walking for a while, we were already on the mountainside.

Before, you could still see some paths made by people, but now there are only some paths hidden in the grass and walked by wild animals.

In addition to the chirping of cicadas and birds, you can also hear the calls of some animals in the forest.

You can even see some hoof prints and droppings of wild goats and wild boars on the roadside.

"Okay, third brother, we can't go any further. I heard what my mother said. There is no way up, and no one in the village will go up, and there is a possibility of encountering wild boars or black bears."

"And we have to rush back for lunch." The little girl Song Yu wiped the sweat from her head and said to Song Chaoyang nervously.

Song Chaoyang nodded and said:
"Okay, let's look around here to see if there are any mountain products we can pick."

In his previous life, Song Chaoyang had read popular science that the temperature dropped by 100 degrees for every 0.6 meters of elevation. Now they had climbed halfway up the mountain, wearing only one piece of clothing, and even felt a little cold.

As a gust of mountain wind blew by, the hairs on Song Chaoyang and his sister's bodies stood up.

Looking at the sun, it was estimated that it would be noon in a while. The two quickly speeded up and searched around, hoping to get the mountain goods as soon as possible and then go back down the mountain.

Not many people come to these places on weekdays, but they really found some treasures.

Black fungus, Ligusticum chuanxiong, wild banana (August melon), Angelica sinensis, and even the cicadas lying on the tree trunks and chirping are not spared. Throw these things in the fire and they will become a delicacy.

But the two brothers and sisters had been busy for half an hour, and the baskets they carried just barely covered the bottom of the baskets.

Seeing that it was approaching noon, they had to prepare to descend.

This mountain product is not enough to eat at home, let alone sell it for money.

But there was nothing they could do, unless they were not afraid of danger and continued walking up the mountain.

At an altitude of 1500 meters, there should be more medicinal materials.

It's just that Song Chaoyang and his sister didn't plan to take this risk. Today they were going up the mountain to find some mountain products to make bacon.

If you want to go up the mountain in the future, you can ask other villagers to go with you and bring hunting dogs to clear the way. That will be much safer.

On the way down the mountain, Song Chaoyang suddenly felt that the mountain col on one side looked familiar, and then he suddenly remembered the dream he had last night.

There is a ditch in this place, and that place is covered with Gastrodia elata.

"What's wrong with third brother?" Seeing Song Chaoyang slow down, the younger sister Song Yu asked with some confusion.

Although he knew that the scene in the dream was not believable, Song Chaoyang had already reached it and planned to take a look.

So he said to his little sister:

"You just wait here for Third Brother, and I'll go take a look at the mountain col."

Hearing that the third brother was going to look over there, Song Yu looked around and said quickly:

"Then let me go too!"

She was also afraid of leaving her here alone.

It's better to go with your third brother.

(End of this chapter)