A wonderful life through the 1970s

Captain Shen asked Shen Baoguo to drive the tractor to the brigade headquarters first, and he went to the office to get the keys to the two houses. He then took Lan Xiyue and the other four to see the houses.

First, we went to the small courtyard at the end of the village. There were two rooms and a kitchen in it, which was enough for Sun Kai. It looked OK, and it didn't need any renovation. It could be lived in after a bit of cleaning. Sun Kai was very satisfied and booked it right away.

Sun Kai took his luggage down and said to Lan Xiyue and the others, "You go and look at the house first. I will stay here to clean up these two rooms. We will stay here tonight."

"Okay, then let's go to the foot of the mountain to take a look at the house. You clean up first." Lan Xiyue agreed.

They soon arrived at the yard, which was quite large and made of blue bricks and tiles. There were three main rooms, a living room in the middle, and two bedrooms each. There were two side rooms on the west side, a kitchen and a bathroom on the east side, and a shed for storing firewood next to it. There was also a well in the yard, so it was convenient to use water. There was also a large open space at the back where they could grow vegetables.

There are four bedrooms in this courtyard, one for each of them, and one can be used as a guest room.

The three of them were also very satisfied after seeing it. They looked around and found that only a few tiles on the kitchen roof had fallen off, but everything else was fine.

Seeing that it was still early, Captain Shen asked Shen Baoguo to go up and help repair the fallen tiles.

Shen Baoguo said he would go back to find a ladder and some good tiles to repair the problem.

"Okay, Brother Baoguo, you can tell me how many tiles you need and I'll give you the money later." Lan Xiyue said hurriedly.

Captain Shen looked at the fallen tiles and said, "Go to my house and get some. I have some."

Lan Xiyue took out two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes from her bag and said with a smile: "Then I'll trouble Captain Uncle and Baoguo Brother."

"Girl, this is a good thing! Are you really going to give it to me?" Shen Hongwei asked jokingly.

"Look at what you said, of course I'll give it to you. I'm a little girl and I don't smoke."

"Then Uncle Xing will not be polite. I'll ask Baoguo to get as many tiles as we need from my house. It will be ready before dark. Come on, all of you follow me to the brigade headquarters to pay the rent to the accountant and pick up the food. I'll give you one day tomorrow to pack up, and then you can go to work the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, captain uncle."

The three people followed Captain Shen to the brigade office, where the brigade accountant was also there.

Captain Shen and the brigade accountant talked about their housing rental problems. In fact, more and more educated youth have been sent to the countryside in recent years. The educated youth settlements built before simply cannot accommodate them, and the educated youth from the city who have better conditions are not willing to live in the educated youth settlements.

Later, several cadres of the brigade held a meeting and found a way to build some small courtyards. Each courtyard has a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen. It is suitable for one person to live in, and if two people live together, one bedroom can also accommodate them.

These small courtyards are all adobe houses, built by villagers during their spare time. The adobe is made by themselves, and the wood is cut in the mountains. Villagers can cut wood in the mountains to build houses, as long as they report to the brigade, but they are not allowed to buy or sell. The men in the village are strong, so they built many such small courtyards.

The rent for such a courtyard is not expensive, just a symbolic one yuan a month. Anyway, the house belongs to the village, no one can take it away, and it can also increase some income for the village.

In recent years, many educated youth have rented this house. Although it is a mud house, at least there is a separate space and they don't have to sleep in a large dormitory at the educated youth site.

After learning about these situations, Lan Xiyue began to admire the village cadres here.

In addition, Captain Shen's statement that "the more you work, the more you get" when he first arrived also stimulated the villagers' enthusiasm for work. It reduced the number of people who took advantage of their work, so that those who were capable could get 15 or 20 work points a day, while those who were not capable could only get a few work points, which was also fair.

It seems that the Qingshan Brigade is pretty good.

The brigade accountant made a record and collected thirty yuan in rent. Lan Xiyue, Ji Xinyue and Liu Chaoyang each paid ten yuan out of the thirty yuan.

Each of them received 30 kilograms of food, but they all paid for it. They wanted fine food, and they were all well off, so they didn't care about the money.