Qian Shulan made a few notes in her notebook and then fell into deep thought.
Although the eggs are now in market and she doesn't need to open up the market again, this will not be the case in August.
She needs to contact more companies.
"Mom, the new educated youth are here." Sun Daqin rushed in from outside.
Qian Shulan nodded, closed the notebook, and handed her the money she had just collected for the eggs.
Sun Daqin hesitated for a moment, but seeing her mother-in-law's expression was calm, she tried to find out, "Mom, you keep it. I'll keep it when you're gone."
After saying this, she looked at Qian Shulan pitifully.
Qian Shulan rubbed her eyes and said, "Okay, I'll go to the county town in a few days, and you can keep it by yourself then."
Sun Daqin's face froze, but she knew she couldn't refuse anymore, so she quickly agreed.
"By the way, you just said that new educated youth have arrived. How many people are here this time?" The educated youth will definitely be arranged to work in chicken farms or food factories, so she has to know.
Sun Daqin then remembered, "This time there are more, twenty."
Qian Shulan was shocked. "So many? Didn't our production team have so many last time? Why are there so many this time?"
In terms of work, these educated youths are far behind the country people. Children aged 14 or 15 in the countryside earn more than these educated youths aged 18 or 19.
Qian Shulan heard Wang Shouquan complain to President Zhou more than once, saying that these educated youth were not good at work. President Zhou also said that he would definitely give them less this year.
Why is there more distribution this year
Qian Shulan stuffed the accounting book into her bag and strode out. Sun Daqin hurriedly followed.
When we arrived at the entrance of the village, we found that the small area was surrounded by a group of people.
Many members stood under the tree and pointed at the group of people.
Qian Shulan walked over and saw that the group of people were surrounding Wang Shouquan and seemed to be discussing an explanation.
Wang Shouquan was humiliated by this group of educated youths. Qian Minghua was excluded. Seeing his good brother in this state, he shouted with a gloomy face, "Scatter. If you dare to make trouble again, each of you will have fifty work points deducted."
As soon as this voice fell, the educated youth who had originally surrounded Wang Shouquan all dispersed, but did not leave. They stood one step away, surrounding Wang Shouquan like a circle.
Qian Shulan then had the chance to get closer and saw that Wang Shouquan's clothes were wrinkled and several buttons were missing.
Qian Shulan helped him brush off the dirt on his body, a little confused, "Shouquan, what happened?"
Wang Shouquan saw Qian Shulan as if he had seen the organization, with a bitter face, "My God, this brigade secretary is really not a human being."
Qian Minghua also squeezed over, patted his shoulder, and answered Qian Shulan's question for him, "There are quotas for workers, peasants and soldiers. Our county has three, and one of them went to our commune. The commune leaders have decided to give the quota to our production team. My father and I went to the county to pick up the educated youth and then went to the commune to pick up people. When the educated youth saw the notice posted at the gate of the commune, they started to make a fuss."
No wonder! Qian Shulan looked around. There were a total of 34 educated youths. Wouldn't they have to make a fuss for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Unfortunately, these people misjudged one thing. The places in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University were not specifically for the educated youth, but for those from the production teams.
In the minds of the members, the educated youth were outsiders. Who would give things that belonged to them not to their own people but to outsiders instead
You should know that the primary school in Wangjia Village Production Team was free, so there were many people who could read and write. There were many people with junior high school and high school education. They were not much worse than these educated youth.
So this matter has nothing to do with the educated youth.
Qian Shulan glanced at the faces of these educated youths and frowned slightly, "Did they say when to submit the list?"
Wang Shouquan straightened his clothes and answered her, "It's not urgent. Just report it before August."
Qian Shulan looked at the two of them and said, "This isn't a simple matter. Just vote!"
Wang Shouquan and Qian Minghua looked at each other and said, "Of course we told these people. But they wouldn't give in."
After all, voting is not the fairest way, because people are selfish.
There are now 1,300 people in the village, 1,000 excluding the children, and there are only 34 educated youths.
With such a huge disparity in numbers, is there any need to question the outcome of the vote
These educated youths are making a fuss just to fight for this quota. It would be better if the brigade secretary directly appointed the person, rather than voting.
But they didn’t think about it. Even if the brigade secretary appointed him, would he appoint an outsider
If Wang Shouquan really did this, his spine would be broken.
Qian Shulan glanced at the educated youth and said, "You have to be at least a high school student to attend the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, right? Are all of you high school students?"
The educated youths looked at each other in bewilderment. That’s right! All students who go to university are selected from high school.
So what was just a circle gradually formed a gap.
Qian Shulan pointed to an empty space and said, "Those who are not high school students, please stand aside. We need to list the number of people who can run for election."
Those with low education levels are leaving.
In the end, only thirteen were left.
Qian Shulan took out a notebook and said, "I will write down your names first, and then ask Director Ma to investigate your original place of residence. As long as the situation is true, you will have a chance to run for election."
"Didn't we have resumes when we came here? What are we still investigating?" Someone panicked and replied subconsciously.
Qian Shulan said as a matter of course, "We have to check your academic qualifications and political background before we recommend you, right? Otherwise, when you arrive at the school and get rejected, we, the brigade cadres, will be embarrassed."
Some of them looked gloomy and beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads.
Qian Shulan kindly reminded them, "If you don't want to run for election, we don't need to investigate."
Several educated youth heaved a sigh of relief when they heard her words and quickly stood to the other side.
One of them laughed and said, "I don't need to go. I went to high school by mistake and I have forgotten everything. I'd better give the spot to someone else."
It's not that he was being modest, but these educated youth were really busy criticizing this and fighting that in school, and the teachers didn't dare to teach in depth in order to protect themselves.
She now only wants to pick qualified people to go to college, so naturally she has to choose from high school students. What's the point of choosing junior high school students or elementary school students
She had heard people say before that almost no students at these Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University had real abilities.
The educational levels of the students recommended vary widely, and some are even elementary school students. They simply cannot understand the lectures given by university professors, and such good places are wasted in vain.
Qian Shulan naturally wanted to prevent such problems. After all, going to college was a very good opportunity.
Qian Shulan counted them again, "There are only nine left."
She turned her head to look at Qian Minghua, "Go back and count all the high school graduates in our production team."
Qian Minghua nodded, then waved to the group of people and said, "Go away."
After saying that, he supported Wang Shouquan and walked towards the village.
Qian Shulan glanced at the faces of these educated youths and said, "If you make trouble again, the troublemaker will be deducted 50 work points, and the others will be punished and 20 work points will be deducted."
After saying this, she left. They were all fools, knowing that making trouble was useless, but still making trouble. These old educated youth were also interesting, they didn't take the lead in persuading these newcomers, but watched the show from the side.
The nine educated youths were dumbfounded. “Is that the end?”
The older generation of educated youth didn’t care about the quota for the workers, peasants and soldiers university. They were more concerned about the last sentence. What did it mean? Why
Shen Yanhong leaned close to Kong Qiuyun's ear and whispered, "I'm afraid we have no chance, right?"
Thinking back to the previous food factory operators, they all failed. This time, they definitely won’t be able to do anything either.
Kong Qiuyun was also a little disappointed. She had good grades in school, and if the college entrance examination had not been cancelled, she would have had a great chance of passing.
Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes.
She lowered her head slightly, not knowing what she was thinking.
The new educated youth wanted to go and make trouble, but were stopped by the old educated youth, "You are not allowed to go!"
A new male educated youth stiffened his neck and sneered, "You are cowards, but we are not! Get out of the way!"
The old educated youth surrounded these people and said, "You can't cause trouble. If you do, it will cause trouble for us and we will have our work points deducted."
The new educated youth glanced at him with disdain, "It's just fifty work points, what are you afraid of?"
The old educated youth was so angry that he stamped his feet. "What do you know? If you don't have enough work points, you have to make up for it. Do you want to dig canals in the middle of winter?"
Last winter, those who didn't have enough work points had to dig canals to make up for their work points. Otherwise, they wouldn't get any food. No one wanted to go hungry, so they had to go digging.
In the middle of winter, the north wind is howling and the cold wind is biting. Even if you don't move, you will shiver with cold, let alone digging in the cold wind.
The soil was frozen like an ice lump. They worked very hard for a month before they made up the work points.
That's why they put all their efforts into hatching chicks at the beginning of this spring.
Although hatching chicks is hard work, at least it is neither too cold nor too hot, which is great.
Although they did not earn as much as the villagers, they could at least earn ten work points a day, which was much better than working in the fields to harvest wheat.
But these people insisted on causing trouble, and twenty work points were deducted from them each time. How could we tolerate this
Anyway, when the voting comes, those members will not vote for them, so why bother and implicate them.
The two sides began a tug of war.
Qian Shulan also knew why there were still so many educated youth this time.
Qian Minghua smiled, feeling somewhat gloating, "Our production team has 20 people, which is still a small number. For example, the Linjia Village production team has 30 people this year. I think Old Lin is so worried that his eyebrows are about to be knotted."
Qian Shulan rubbed her eyebrows, and the tears kept coming down.
The educated youth center of their production team is probably going to expand as well.
In the end, these educated youth did not cause any commotion.
They were not stupid and knew that making a fuss was useless. So after repeated explanations from the old educated youth, they finally understood their current situation.
"Stop making trouble. It's better to earn work points and feed yourself as soon as possible."
"Yes! There are still more than two months before the grain harvest, and you don't have any work points. If you don't have enough work points, you won't get any grain."
These are the experiences that the old educated youth gained through blood, tears and hard work. People remind you with good intentions.
Some of the new educated youth were unwilling to give up, "Can't we just buy food?"
"They don't even have enough to eat themselves, how can they sell it to you?"
The new educated youth sat on the simple kang, their eyes full of confusion. Looking closely at their expressions, they were so similar to those of the old educated youth from a year ago, as if they had overlapped with each other.
The author has something to say: Everyone has their own selfish desires, and voting is not actually the most fair. But that’s how the system works.