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

Early in the morning, the villagers and educated youth gathered at the sunbath.

The team leader stood on the high platform and carried out the routine autumn harvest mobilization.

Looking at the eager crowd in the audience, "Everyone knows what needs to be said, so I won't say any more.

If everyone works harder today, we can harvest all the grain today.

If everyone is lazy, we have to continue tomorrow.

Anyway, there is only so much land that has not been reclaimed, so you can do whatever you want."

"Okay, team leaders, take your people to work in the fields." The team leader was too lazy to say more, so he waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse.

Zheng Jianmin hurried to the captain and handed him a list.

"Captain, here is the list of the names of the educated youth who have signed up to participate in the matter you mentioned last night.

Liu Zhiqing didn't live in the educated youth camp.

When I saw her just now, I was worried that if I told her about this, the villagers nearby would hear it, so I didn't ask her.

I'll find a chance at noon and go find her and tell her about this."

The team leader took the list, opened it and looked at the names on it. Except for a few educated youth, all the educated youth in the educated youth point were on the list.

He exclaimed, “There are quite a lot of people who signed up.

Don't ask about Liu Zhiqing, as she was the one who brought up this matter in the first place.

But she has already said that she will not participate."

The captain was very happy at this time.

With so many educated youth signing up, there will always be someone who succeeds.

People in Northeast China attach great importance to stockpiling autumn vegetables and sauerkraut, and they are targeting factories.

As long as one order is successful, a lot of vegetables can be sold, and the excess vegetables of many families in the village can be consumed.

When Zheng Jianmin heard this, he immediately understood why the village cadres suddenly had this idea. It turned out that it was Liu Zhiqing who reminded them.

If they could think of this, it would not be surprising that he had been in the village for three years without any movement.

He was grateful to Liu Jingxue.

It was she who had previously suggested that the village build single rooms at the educated youth site so that they could be rented out to the educated youth.

Now it is proposed that the educated youth help the village sell vegetables. On the one hand, this will allow the educated youth to earn extra income. On the other hand, if this is successful, the relationship between the educated youth and the villagers will be greatly improved.

With that thought in mind, he didn't rush to leave after handing the list to the captain.

The captain looked at Zheng Jianmin, who was standing in front of him and did not leave, and felt a little strange.

"Zheng Zhiqing, do you have anything else to tell me?"

Zheng Jianmin quickly came back to his senses, "Captain, I mentioned before that we should build single rooms at the youth camp to rent out to the youths. I wonder if the cadres in the team have discussed this matter?"

“The team has discussed this matter and consulted the villagers, and everyone agrees.

But this can only be built after the thaw in the spring next year."

Zheng Jianmin suggested, "Captain, isn't the autumn harvest almost over now? Can we start construction this year?"

“Although the autumn harvest is over, the work is not over yet.

Everyone is busy stockpiling autumn vegetables and sauerkraut, and also has to go up the mountain to collect mountain products.

Even if we start now, if it snows before the house is built, we will have to stop construction.

By that time, a house that is half built might be frozen to death after a winter.

That was not built in vain." The chief explained patiently.

When Zheng Jianmin heard this, he thought it was right, so he had no choice but to accept the fact that construction would start after the thaw next year.

"Captain, I have something I want to discuss with you."

The captain nodded and said, "If you have anything to ask, just tell me and I'll see if I can do it."

"Captain, I have been working in our village for three years. Now I only see educated youth coming to the village every year, but I have never seen anyone returning to the city.

Judging from the current situation, we don’t know how many years we will stay in the village.

As the educated youth get older, getting married becomes an urgent matter.

Since the village has agreed to build single rooms at the educated youth site, can you please build a few slightly larger ones that can accommodate a couple or a family of three?

This way, when the educated youth grow up, they will also have a place to start a family.”

The team leader thought about it and realized that many of the educated youth had indeed reached marriageable age.

Although their household registration is in the village, the village will not allocate residential land to them like other villagers and let them build their own houses.

And even if they were given residential land, they might not have the money to build a house.

When these educated youth reached a certain age and wanted to start a family and move out of the educated youth site, they had to target the girls and boys in the village.

Previously, there was an incident where an educated youth was secretly dating several young girls and boys in the village, which caused quite a bit of trouble.

The village is going to build single rooms for rent anyway, so it’s not a big deal to build a bigger one. At most, the rent for the bigger room will be higher.

It also saves the educated youth from harming the children in the village.

After making up his mind, the captain readily agreed, "Okay, I can take charge of this matter for the village now.

At that time, in addition to some small single rooms rented out to single educated youth, we will also build some larger ones and rent them out to couples.

However, a larger house uses more materials, so the rent will be more expensive than a small single room.

I hope you can understand too.”

Zheng Jianmin was overjoyed when he saw the village chief agreed, and quickly said, "Don't worry, village chief, we have no objection to this."

"Okay, now that we've finished talking, you can go to work.

After you finish your work today, those of you educated youth who want to go to work tomorrow can go, and those who don’t want to go can just tell the team leader.

As for the vegetable sales, I'm sorry to bother you."

"Okay, Captain, I'll tell them after we finish work this afternoon.

As for selling vegetables, you can rest assured that we will work hard even if it is just to earn food for ourselves."

As soon as Liu Jingxue arrived at the field, she was grabbed by Aunt Sufen.

She came close to Liu Jingxue and whispered, "Xiaoxue, what you told me yesterday is done.

My husband came back yesterday and said that the cadres in the team had discussed the matter and agreed to allow the educated youth to find factories to sell vegetables.

But this must be kept secret from the villagers first.

They were worried that if they told the villagers in advance, the vegetables would not be sold and the villagers would be disappointed and complain instead. "

"Your captain also asked me to tell you not to let anyone know."

Liu Jingxue nodded quickly, "Aunt Sufen, don't worry, I will keep this a secret and won't tell anyone."

She rolled her eyes and said to Aunt Sufen, "Aunt, go back and tell the captain.

The mountain products picked by each family, as well as dried mushrooms, can also be sold by the educated youth.

If these things are sold, they can all be converted into money.

The same goes for the dried vegetables and wild vegetables that each household has stored.”

Wu Sufen thought for a moment and said, "You are right.

These things are worthless in our countryside, but once you get to the city, you have to buy them and they can all be exchanged for money.

I'll talk to him about it when I get back."