Traveling through time and space, wanting to lie down, but being forced to move forward

Liu Jingxue told Aunt Sufen about sending educated youth to the city to find factories and sell vegetables for the villagers. She let the matter go and didn't take it to heart any more.

However, after hearing this, Wu Sufen felt like there was a cat scratching her heart the whole afternoon and she couldn't even work.

Normally I can finish picking all the corns very quickly, but today I was a lot slower because I was thinking about that thing in my mind.

When the work points were calculated in the afternoon, she used to get 8 full points every day, but today she only got 6 points.

The others who were waiting to be assigned tasks after the work was completed asked her.

"Sufen, what's wrong with you today? You can't work properly.

Don’t you usually finish 8 work points and leave work early on weekdays?

How come I only got 6 work points today after working so hard for so long? "

Someone nearby answered for her, "It's probably because of the autumn harvest, which has lasted for more than a month. She has been working in the fields from morning till night and must be exhausted.

Plus, I saw that the autumn harvest would be over in a day or two, so I lost my energy and spirit all of a sudden.”

The other person rubbed his sore arm and said, "Don't even mention Sufen, I feel exhausted too.

If I hadn’t thought that if I worked a little harder today, maybe I could finish the autumn harvest tomorrow, I wouldn’t be able to work any more.”

“Yeah, it’s finally over.

After it’s all done, I’ll have to take a good rest for two days before I get back to work on the farm and go into the mountains to collect products.

Over the past month, I feel like my body has been drained.”

"Bah, did you drain your body by working in the fields?

In my opinion, it was drained away by your husband.

Autumn harvest is so tiring. I don’t take enough time to rest at night and am still thinking about those things in bed.

We can hear the noises from your family even though we are some distance away from your house."

Seeing someone making dirty jokes, the villagers around them all started laughing.

"Oh my god, how loud must the noise be to reach your house?"

The person who was being teased blushed and pulled the other person to tickle her.

"Hongmei, you little slut, what are you talking about here? I'm going to tear your mouth apart.

Your house is more than ten meters away from ours. If the sound could reach your house, how loud would it be?

I haven’t even mentioned that the noise from your family’s business has reached my house.”

Someone brought the matter to Wu Sufen.

"Su Fen wasn't in the right state of mind to work today. Could it be that she was tired out by the team leader at night?"

Everyone started laughing again.

Wu Sufen spat at the man and said, "You are the most shameless person in our village. You say whatever you want.

I have something else to do, I don't want to bother with you."

After Wu Sufen finished calculating the work points, she hurried home.

Halfway through the walk, she turned and headed towards the brigade headquarters.

Given her husband's temper, he must not have gone home at this time. I didn't see him in the field just now, so he must be in the brigade headquarters.

As expected, Wu Sufen successfully blocked Captain Zhang at the brigade headquarters.

Captain Zhang was very surprised to see Wu Sufen walk into the office.

He wondered, "Sufen, why are you coming to the brigade headquarters at this time instead of going home?"

"I have something to tell you," Wu Sufen said.

The captain was a little confused. "Why didn't you go home and tell me what happened? Why did you come here to find me?"

“I can’t wait for you to come home.

I've been thinking about this for the whole afternoon, and it's prevented me from working properly."

"Then tell me what is it that makes you so impatient."

"Is the secretary here? I need to talk to both of you about this."

"He should be here. I just heard some noise next door." The captain became even more curious. "Why do we need to involve him in this?"

Wu Sufen said, "Wait for me to find him and I'll talk to you two together."

Then she went next door to find Secretary Xu.

After Secretary Xu came over, the captain said to his wife, "What is the matter? You can tell me now."

Wu Sufen told the two of them everything Liu Jingxue had said about selling vegetables.

"After I heard what Xiaoxue said, I spent the whole afternoon thinking about it, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was feasible.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion. Whether it can be done or not still needs to be discussed among you cadres.”

Captain Zhang took a puff of his pipe and asked the village party secretary beside him, "Old Xu, what do you think of Xiaoxue's proposal?"

“I think so.

It says that private individuals are not allowed to do business, but it does not say that it is not allowed to do it in the name of a collective.

Didn’t our superiors ask us to find ways to generate income for the villagers? Some villages started breeding in the name of the collective, and then contacted factories to sell them.

Since they can sell meat in the name of the collective, we can also sell vegetables in the name of the collective." Secretary Xu thought for a while and answered the captain's question.

The captain muttered, “I also think this method is feasible.

It’s just that it’s hard to find someone to go to the factory to negotiate a deal.”

After hearing what he said, Wu Sufen interrupted and said, "Xiaoxue said that the educated youth can do it.

The educated youth in our village are generally junior high school or high school graduates, so they should be able to do this.

Xiaoxue said that the educated youth generally lacked food, and if they negotiated a deal, they could be given some food.”

Secretary Xu nodded, "That's a good idea."

He looked up at Captain Zhang and said, "Why don't we have a meeting with a few officers to discuss this matter.

The prices of those vegetables and the standards for distributing food to the educated youth had to be determined.

After these matters are agreed upon, we can talk to the educated youth.”

The captain nodded, "Then call them together for a meeting and settle the matter tonight.

Once the autumn harvest is over, we will have to start taking care of this.”

"Okay, I'll go find someone to call them over." Secretary Xu said as he went out and asked someone to call other village cadres over.

The captain looked at Wu Sufen and said, "Sufen, you go back first.

Don't wait for me to eat, just leave some food for me.

After dinner, I have to talk to the educated youth about this matter. I don’t know when I can go back.”

Wu Sufen nodded, "Okay, I'll go back first, I'll leave some food for you."

Thinking of what Liu Jingxue said, she quickly reminded, "As for letting the educated youth sell vegetables, you can just go to the educated youth camp and find those educated youth. Xiaoxue, you don't have to go.

She said that she was not short of food, nor was she the type to talk to strangers, so she couldn’t do it.”

The captain nodded, "Okay, I understand, I won't go looking for her.

She was indeed not short of food, and she received a monthly allowance for the children of martyrs.

The last time the human trafficker was sent over, Director Xie said that there would be a reward for her from above, probably with money and tickets.

However, it will only be issued after this case is completed and application is made to the higher authorities.

Don’t show it to others, or someone will get jealous.”

Wu Sufen sneered disdainfully, "People who risk their lives to catch human traffickers shouldn't deserve those rewards.

If anyone has red eye disease, let them go up the mountain to catch the human traffickers themselves.

I'm afraid they would be scared to death if they saw anyone, so how could they dare to confront anyone?"

"Okay, just say this in front of me, don't say it in front of others."

"I'm not that stupid." Wu Sufen turned around and left without looking back.