After allocating the relief food, the team divided the remaining food according to the head, and the commune members gathered together to calculate. Replacing some refined grains with whole grains can last longer.
This winter, the members are full of hope and energy. In the spring of next year, they will have to work harder to be worthy of the food!
After December, January is the coldest time before the Chinese New Year. The weather seems to have changed overnight. The temperature dropped sharply, and the weather was gloomy. Not long after that, snowflakes began to float in the sky.
Dahuai Village is backed by a mountain, and the mountain turns into a snow scene every winter.
Commune Primary School is on holiday, and the four children of the old Qin family who go to school, the twins black and white, can't sit still. They want to play snowball fights.
Dahua was helping her mother in the house, Xiaohua was sitting in the main room with her chin up and looking at her little cousin, the milk said, look at her little cousin well, turn back and give her brown sugar water to drink, Xiaohua blinked. Don't blink.
Danzi was holding a pen and writing and drawing on the paper, drawing crooked lines, and looked up at Xiaohua in confusion.
"Sister Xiaohua, are you free?"
Xiaohua shook her head, she was not busy, she was leading the task to help take care of her little cousin.
After shaking her head, Xiaohua thought about it, took out a small sugar cube from her arms and handed it over, "Sister Yinyin here."
This was given to Xiaohua by Nian Lin before she went out, and asked her to coax her little cousin to prevent her from being tricked out by the black and white brother to play wildly.
The milk said that if she coaxed her sister well, she would be rewarded with some leftover candy when she came back.
Dahua is learning to make clothes, and it's fine to sit on the kang in cold weather.
In the past, the clothes were too short to be taken apart, and new fabrics were sewed on. If there was excess cotton at home, they could be stuffed into it, and then it would be a new little padded jacket for sewing and mending.
This cotton-padded jacket, which has been dismantled several times and re-sewed several times, is the most precious piece of clothing in Dahua, and relies on such a piece of clothing for the whole winter.
Dahua thought of the third uncle's daughter, the little cousin Yinyin who was a little soft.
She knew that she shouldn't care about three-year-old children, and she also knew that sister Yinyin was well-behaved and sensible. She was also good to their sisters and brothers, and she shared everything with them generously, but Dahua thought of milk and asked her third uncle to go to the county supply and marketing agency to give to her sister. Buy a new padded jacket, can not help but red eyes.
The only cotton jackets she and Xiaohua have been wearing since childhood. It was made by her mother herself. How could Yinyin buy new clothes, or ready-to-wear.
I heard that the cotton-padded jackets from the supply and marketing cooperatives are not easy to buy. If you have a ticket, you have to have money. It costs more than ten yuan a piece, and milk is even willing!
Zhao Yueya's belly is already very big, and she may give birth at any time. Chen Qiuhua said that she must have come out years ago.
Seeing her daughter's absent-minded appearance, Zhao Yueya reached out and touched her head, asking what's wrong
"Mom, why do you think milk is so biased?"
As soon as Zhao Yueya heard this, she understood what her eldest daughter was thinking. She also asked herself earlier, why
Zhao Yueya couldn't understand this question herself. She was about to give birth, and she didn't want to fall out with her mother-in-law over this matter. If she could give birth to a son, she would have the confidence to argue with her mother-in-law.
At this moment, I can only touch my daughter's head and say, "Don't think about this as a child, don't you want to learn needle and thread and sew cotton jackets for yourself? Have you learned?"
Dahua shook his head and lowered his head to thread the needle.
The old Qin family has been quiet for a long time. To be precise, the entire production team is like this. Now that the time has come, there is no need to go to work or do any work. If you have nothing to do, just stay at home and make a cup of hot water. There is nothing more delicious than peanut seeds.
In the team, only the team leader's mother, Chen Qiuhua, is still in her post. The four pigs she raised are still in the pen, and they will have to wait until the official handover at the end of the year before they can rest.
The dumpling was quite serious at first. She drew herself, and added a tall father beside it, and then drew her grandparents in. After she finished drawing, she lay down. There are two pairs of uncles and aunts, as well as twin brothers and sisters.
However, after drawing these, it was already the limit of Dango, and her patience was exhausted.
Lying on the table, the little fat face wrinkled, "Sister Xiaohua, why don't you think Dad is back?"
Qin Yuli went out to the county town to buy things in the morning. In addition to buying a jacket for her daughter to keep out the cold, she also had to buy something for the New Year. Even if she couldn't eat anything good, Chen Qiuhua planned to divide the pigs equally, and the family would be on New Year's Eve. Dumplings to eat! Meat stuffed!
There was no white flour at home, so Qin Yuli carried five catties of beans and went out to exchange with someone, and added a handful of dried shiitake mushrooms, so that person was willing to exchange.
It was exchanged in the free market here. Before the Chinese New Year, everyone was short of money and materials, so they took out the extra things from the family's products and exchanged them with others.
In such a small free market in the county seat, it is specially set up for the common people. Here, it has not been strictly enforced in the past few years. As long as you don’t buy or sell it, you can trade your own things in the free market.
Qin Yuli should have left after changing the white face. Yu Guang saw some old books on a stall. The most striking thing was the stack of small comic strips with colorful covers.
With this hesitation, Qin Yuli always felt that he was unable to move forward, and walked to the booth with his feet disobedient. He squatted down and flipped through the small colorful picture book, and asked, "How do you sell this?"
The book seller was a middle-aged old man. When he saw a young man flipping through a small comic book, he said with a smile, "Brother bought it for your daughter?"
"This is what my stinky boy used to stay. He is now going to the capital with his mother. If he doesn't come back, I just want to pack it up and sell it casually. It's not a waste to show it to other children."
The middle-aged man was still a little emotional. Seeing that he wanted to say something, Qin Yuli frowned and asked, "What price?"
A total of three, coincidentally is a complete set.
The uncle smiled and said: "Just give a few pounds of meat tickets, hehe, add a meal for the New Year."
Not only is meat hard to buy in the city, but meat tickets are also in short supply. Every day, before you finish the line, the meat is sold out.
Especially now before the Chinese New Year, these meat and fish are the most in short supply.
Qin Yuli didn't have the meat ticket on him. He went out for a walk, returned to the booth, and handed the meat ticket over. The middle-aged man looked at it, three pounds! He hurriedly handed the book over, "Take it away."
After picking up the three comic strips, a book under the cover caught Qin Yuli's attention, "A complete book of mechanical principles?"
Qin Yuli said, "give me this book too"
When the middle-aged uncle got the meat ticket, he thought of closing the stall and left. The weather was so cold that his hands and feet were freezing.
He tilted his head and saw that it was a mechanical dismantling book. He couldn't read it, so he just threw it away, "Comrade, today you are pleasing to the eye, you should be a friend."
Qin Yuli asked: "This eldest brother, there is such a book at home, should he understand it?"
The middle-aged uncle waved his hand, "It's not me, it's my dad. He used to be an old worker in our machinery factory. It's a pity that I don't live up to my expectations. It's a big deal to learn these things..."
This middle-aged uncle is a bit talkative. He caught a person talking and told the anguish in his heart. He said that he worked in the largest machinery factory in the county, and he had no talent for machinery since he was a child. As soon as he started school, he had a headache. Later, his father retired and used the position of a well-paid maintenance engineer in a machinery factory to change the position of managing the warehouse with someone else.
Warehouses are naturally not as popular as skilled workers, especially those of masters, who are well paid and have stable jobs.
He talked a lot, Qin Yuli extracted useful information, secretly wrote down this person, thought about it when he left, and threw a bag of dried shiitake mushrooms into his box.
This thing is from the mountains, and it is suitable for stewing soup.
There were two rains after the autumn harvest. Chen Qiuhua went to pick some fresh mushrooms while mowing the hogweed. After drying, they stored them in a jar. What kind of soup is going to be stewed? .
This time, it was because I had to go out and change some white noodles to bring some for emergencies, and it really came in handy. People in the city were very fond of this. The three jins of meat tickets for the book were also exchanged by Qin Yuli with Shiitake Mushrooms.
Zhu Dawei was stunned for a while. Seeing the little brother running fast, he couldn't help but shake his head with a smile. This little brother is too polite. Didn't he just give him a broken book, so he gave him a packet of dried mushrooms.
Country people are really sincere, and dealing with such people is reassuring.
When Qin Yuli got home, the snow that had been falling all day just stopped.
He was stunned before stepping into the door. At the entrance of the main room, a small dumpling sat on a pony, with his hands on his fat chin, and looked at the door eagerly. When he saw him coming in, the dumpling's eyes lit up and rushed like a small cannonball. He went over, hugged Qin Yuli's thigh, and tried to climb up with both hands and feet.
Qin Yuli picked up the dumpling, reached out and rubbed her fat cheeks that were red with cold, and said, "Sit at the door and blow the cold wind?"
The dumplings are almost wrapped into balls, and the coat they wear is contributed by the white-faced brother. He is a boy, and his treatment is better. This year, he will make a new one. This small one will be dismantled and changed for the younger sister to wear first.
The dumplings had only been here for half a year, and the clothes they had purchased earlier were only enough for autumn, but definitely not enough in winter, so they were brought in for emergencies.
The old cotton-padded jacket was taken apart and a lot of cotton stuffed inside. Chen Qiuhua took into account the small body of his little granddaughter, so he made it almost as thick as the quilt.
The trousers are also stuffed with cotton, and they are thickly worn to make a pair of short legs even fatter.
Yinyin is a smart child. Don't look at her blushing face, but she's actually not cold at all. Her little paws are tucked into the pockets of her clothes and her body is wrapped like a ball. It's so cold that no one can keep her cold.
Qin Yuli walked into the house with her daughter in her arms, her footsteps were much lighter than when she came in just now.
He carried a bunch of things on his back, and when he took out the three half-new color comic strips, the children of the old Qin family stared straight at them.
"Three, uncle three, where did this come from?"
"Third uncle, can you lend me a look?"
Little Fatty of Commune Elementary School is the richest kid in the whole school. Even he only has one comic book. He has read it over and over again, and cherishes it so much that he is reluctant to let people touch it.
At first glance, the books in the hands of the third uncle are better than those in the hands of Pang Dun, and the paintings are very good-looking.
Qin Yuli dodged the twins' claws and stuffed the three books into Tuanzi's arms, "Take them to play with."
Twins big and small: "..." The third uncle is too eccentric...
A few years ago, Qin Yuli made several trips to the county seat, and when he came back, he got into his own house. Later, he went to the commune several times, tossing back and forth for several days.
Everyone in the old Qin family didn't know what he was doing, they just thought he was recovering his nature and started to run around happily. The third child used to be like this. He likes to play and make trouble.
There is no need to work now, and the people of the old Qin family are too lazy to care about him.
There is a mother-in-law who is expecting to give birth. Apart from men, only Chen Qiuhua and her second daughter-in-law can work.
Chen Qiuhua was very busy, instructing her second daughter-in-law to do this and that, to prepare for the New Year.
Before the Chinese New Year, Qin Yuli went to the county town under the heavy snow, ran back, and announced good news to the old Qin family.
Chen Qiuhua reacted the most, and asked in a trembling voice, "San, San'er, what did you just say? Where are you going?"
Qin Yuli repeated, "I have a relationship with the people in the machinery factory, and I've been busy with this for a while now."
"You went to the commune to learn how to drive with a tractor? You also got a relationship with the machinery factory. They helped you a lot and introduced you to work?"
"Mom, I have been rewarded by the commune, a working people who have been in the newspapers. When Secretary Yang heard that I wanted to learn, he agreed."
"The comrade Mechanic has a good heart. You also know that your son is very popular, and he can get along with him wherever he goes..."
"Go, go, tell the point!"
Chen Qiuhua was impatient with her son, she suspected that his son was bragging, did he want to do something again
How hard is work these days, no matter how generous the worker in the machinery factory is, can’t he introduce him to a job
This time, it really happened by luck, and Qin Yuli did it deliberately.
At the end of the year, all work stopped. The only difference was the motorcade. They still had to run back and forth to deliver supplies to various units in the county.
The old brother Zhu Dawei, who sold books to Qin Yuli, is a genuine second-generation worker. He grew up in the county workers' compound since he was a child, and he knows many people in the major factories and units in the county, even if he doesn't have much You can also say a few words.
It happened that an elder brother in the machinery factory who was in charge of repairing the cars of the food factory team inadvertently muttered that today’s young people are less and less able to bear hardships, complaining that the weather is cold and that it is difficult to drive in the snowy days. Several people invited Fake, I don't even want to run the work at the end of the year, and I don't want to drive away after the car has been repaired.
People are waiting outside the province, waiting for the supplies to be delivered here. Who knows that the convoy has gone on strike several times, and they have made various excuses not to go. They say that if the road is blocked by heavy snow, they may not be able to go. When I came back, I had to live on the road even during the Chinese New Year.
Even the food factory was bubbling in a hurry, scolding the drivers one by one, and it was useless to finish the scolding.
Originally, it would be New Year's Eve to have a sports car even if it was extra overtime. If the workers were unwilling to work here and force them, if they sued the labor union, the factory would be in trouble, and the food factory couldn't bear this big order. Just stand still.
The speaker has no intention of listening, but Qin Yuli came to his mind after listening. He spent several days preparing for it. He wanted to take the job.
These days, Qin Yuli came to ask for advice on the pretext of not understanding mechanical principles, and got along well with this middle-aged fat man surnamed Zhu. Fatty Zhu himself was blind, and he didn't know how to do machinery, otherwise he could sell that big book go
When he got home and had not eaten a bite of meat, he was severely beaten by his father.
It was at this time that Qin Yuli came to the door.
He came to the door on the pretext of asking for advice, and every time he came back, he would not come back empty-handed, and he would bring some country stuff to his door.
Maybe Zhu Fatzi was looked down upon by others. He was used to not understanding machinery. Seeing Qin Yuli asking for advice humbly, he satisfied his vanity everywhere, and waved his hand and said that he could teach him some basics.
A blind teacher who doesn't know anything, but the student is smart, and he can be stumped by just asking a question. Fatty Zhu frowned, and he really didn't want to lose face in front of Qin Yuli, a "countryman apprentice", so he shamelessly went. Asking his father for advice, Master Zhu found out the clue, so Qin Yuli logically appeared in the sight of Master Zhu.
Following Mr. Zhu's examination to the school, Qin Yuli said a few words, and when he found a "good seedling", he immediately raised his heart to accept his apprentices.
These days, I don’t like to talk about apprentices, so I just discipline students, and the master guides students. Mr. Zhu regretted that his son could not inherit his skills. Now it’s a mistake. The people who bought his books are very talented and smart and diligent. , Mr. Zhu is a very fulfilling teacher.
In this way, Qin Yuli and the Zhu family got to know each other very well in just a few days. When Qin Yuli said that he wanted to try helping other people's sports cars, Mr. Zhu personally came forward to help him introduce them.
It's easy to say, it's almost New Year's Eve, no one is willing to go, just let you help run the sports car, just give people a little salary for this trip, and it won't make the leaders unhappy, and you're still stuck after the work. In your own hands, it doesn't matter.
The only concern is, will this young man drive? Will there be some temporary problems with the condition of the car that will be resolved? You have to be bold and careful, and you might run into some gangsters who block the road and kill thousands of knives.
I heard that Qin Yuli can drive, he has passed the test, and he is a student of Mr. Zhu, and he is learning mechanics and doing maintenance with him. That person is relieved.
Qin Yuli learned the car in the commune. This thing is very simple, and he is naturally good at it. Let the driver over there give some pointers, and he will drive back and forth a few times to practice.
Later, when he went to the county seat, the first thing Mr. Zhu did was to ask him if he knew how to drive, and then he heard from his disciples that he knew how to drive, but he didn't have a license. Mr. Zhu has repaired cars for people all his life, and he knew a lot of people in this area. Qin Yuli was blocked. Go in for the exam, and the certificate will come out after the exam. It only takes two days before and after, and the efficiency is very fast.
Drivers are rare these days, especially those with licenses. If I ask him if he has a certificate, he has already agreed for the most part.
He also said that he learned maintenance from Mr. Zhu, and the average driver knows a lot. If he encounters anything on the road, he can also find a way to solve it.
When that person's eyes lit up, it was you!
Even the ten dollars that I planned to give at the beginning was added to twenty dollars for hard work.
Of course people cannot be replaced privately by workers, they have neither the right nor the courage, but they can be recommended.
Qin Yuli was hired by the machinery factory in the name of a temporary worker to help transport the last batch of materials out of the province.
After hearing this, the old Qin family smashed their tongues and looked at the third child with incredible eyes.
Seeing that he was still acting like a fool, but quietly ran down to take a job, he was still a temporary worker in the county machinery factory!
Even if the temporary worker is only valid for this period of time, it is very precious. If you have been a temporary worker in a machinery factory, this will be written into the file, and it will be much easier to find any opportunity in the future.
Chen Qiuhua reached out and wanted to touch his son's forehead to see if he had paranoia. Qin Yuli shook his head and threw the signed contract in front of them, "Don't think it's true, tomorrow morning at five in the morning. Many teams are leaving."