Quickly wear a life of peace

Taking advantage of the lunch break, team leader Lu Youfu and secretary Lu Mancang had a conversation with the educated youth.

The general meaning is that everyone should live here with peace of mind, work hard, and build the motherland.

Naturally, all the educated youths responded well and they all agreed obediently.

Otherwise, looking at the aura of these two people, and then thinking about the free big pot meal you will have later, whatever they say is right.

What's more, they readily took them to the granary and borrowed several kilograms of grain from them.

They also said that when the state-subsidized food arrives, it will be delivered to them immediately.

However, it was also specifically stated that the borrowed grain would be deducted when the grain was distributed.

How could anyone have any objections to this? Of course they all agreed and praised the team for being so kind and righteous.

What the educated youth didn’t expect was that this meal was not only free, but also included meat!

I heard from the aunties and grandmas around me that a wild boar fell from the mountain and died this morning, so the team decided to hold a farewell banquet for it with onions, ginger, garlic and other spices.

I also learned a little about the situation of Nangou Brigade from their conversation.

Nangou Brigade has a good geographical environment, with mountains and water, and basically no one has ever starved to death.

Everyone in the village is from the same clan and is very united.

During the early years of the Anti-Japanese War, the entire village, young and old, men, women, and children, all participated in the war.

So they are united and obedient. The whole village is developing very well, at least every household has tiles on the roof.

When the riots happened a few years ago, the village did not follow suit and lied, so the living conditions in the surrounding villages were all good. The villagers also trusted the team leader and the secretary more.

The purpose of saying this is actually to scare the educated youth so that they will behave themselves and stop causing trouble.

Although Nangou Brigade had never accepted educated youth before, other brigades had.

He caused a lot of trouble, ate a lot, worked little, and was very arrogant. Naturally, the villagers didn't want those troubles to happen in their own village.

Before the educated youth came, the village had made preparations. Two large mud houses were built for them at the entrance of the village. The educated youth no longer needed to stay in the homes of fellow villagers.

Both rooms have large kangs, and there is a kitchen in the middle that connects the two kangs. There is a shed at the door for storing firewood. There is also a vegetable garden behind the house, a chicken coop next to it, and a toilet behind the house.

After Lu Shengli brought everyone over, he introduced the place to them and said that this would be their educated youth point in the future.

The educated youths looked around the house and found it clean and tidy, well decorated, and even the vegetable garden had been tilled and planted with seeds. The kang had also been heated.

The young people were all very moved, and their fear about the unknown future was dissipated a lot.

Everyone packed up briefly, with men and women putting their luggage away separately. Then, under the leadership of Lu Shengli, they went to the carpenter's house in the village to order furniture such as boxes, tables, buckets and basins.

I also went to exchange some items such as brooms and mats with some aunties I chatted with during lunch.

Then, Lü Shengli led everyone to the mountain and brought back a load of firewood. In this way, they didn't have to go up the mountain to chop firewood during the busy farming season.

During this period, they also caught two wild rabbits in the mountains. Everyone was very happy and enjoyed the rich resources here.

But after they came back, a new problem arose: they had no pot!

Bowls can be replaced with aluminum lunch boxes, and chopsticks are also available, but without pots, how do they cook? How do they boil water?

Now, it had not been long since the Great Steel Production Movement, and few households could afford iron pots, so naturally there were no extra ones to be given to them.

After a discussion, they pooled their money to buy an iron pot and a ceramic pot for everyone to use.

At that time, they had just arrived in the countryside and still had some money on them. Young people were very concerned about their reputation, so there was no dispute over the matter and it was settled smoothly.

It was getting late, and in order to buy the pot as soon as possible, they asked Lu Shengli to ride a horse to the county town to buy it for them.

I also asked him to buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar so that I could cook the rabbit tonight.

Then everyone divided the work and cooperated with each other, some chopped wood, some cleaned the house, and some looked for villagers to exchange things. The whole youth league site became busy.

Two male educated youth from Ontario, Dou Jiakang and Du Weijie, went to the carpenter's house and pulled the furniture back using the unloaded cart.

The carpenter has two ready-made kang cabinets at home, and the rest will have to wait for him to make them.

I also bought a table, four long benches and five small benches.

There were plenty of basins and buckets, so they each asked for two basins, and together they asked for two buckets.

Seeing that they bought a lot, the carpenter gave them a shoulder pole so that they could carry water more conveniently.

Yan Feng and another person from Zhejiang Province, Huang Xuhua, were responsible for chopping wood. The axes and hatchets were borrowed from the team leader's house and they were returned as soon as they were done.

The remaining girls were responsible for cleaning and tidying up.

Yan Ning and the girl from Hai City, Jin Miaomiao, were cleaning the house, while He Fangfang, Xuanyundu and the girl from Shandong Province, Feng Li, were collecting the firewood that Yan Feng and the others had chopped.

After the work was assigned, everyone got to work in full swing.

We were all young people, young and impatient, and we worked very hard, and we quickly became familiar with each other.

Once the conversation starts, you'll have a general idea of ​​everyone's personality.

Jin Miaomiao is a bit picky and strong-willed, and likes to boss people around. Yan Ning is delicate and naive, but not stupid. Besides, she has her cousin Yan Feng to protect her, and they are not familiar with each other yet, so Jin Miaomiao did not dare to go too far.

Feng Li has an impetuous personality and is very straightforward, but she is also quite capable. It is said that when she is at home, as she is the eldest in the family, she is in charge of everything inside and outside the home.

I don’t know about the male educated youth. After all, boys who are only sixteen or seventeen years old tend to brag when they chat.

The furniture was quickly pulled back, and Dou Jiakang and Du Weijie started to fetch water again. Xuanyunduo went to clean the mats, tables and other things with Yan Ning and the others.

After fetching enough water, the two male educated youth went to the river to catch wild rabbits.

With everyone's concerted efforts, the educated youth site was finally cleaned up before dark and could be lived in.

Over there, Lu Shengli rode his horse and quickly arrived at the county. The Nangou Brigade was closer to the county town than the town, so the brigade went directly to the county town to buy anything.

Lu Shengli grew up here and was familiar with everywhere, so he bought everything quickly.

But I was afraid that the bottles and jars I was carrying might get bumped, so I didn't dare to ride the horse.

It was not until we left the county town and picked some wild grass from the roadside to lay our mat that we dared to speed up.

After all this trouble, it’s already late when I get back.

It is said that people in Northeast China are very hospitable. After Lu Shengli bought some things, he first returned the horse-drawn carriage and then continued to install the pot for the educated youth.

The educated youth in the city really don’t know how to do this job.