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

After introducing the work points situation in the village, Captain Zhang continued to talk about other things.

"You have just arrived. After completing the formalities at the brigade, you can advance 30 kilograms of coarse grains to the brigade, and repay it with work points later."

Zhang Pingan asked, "Can it only be coarse grains? No fine grains?"

"Only coarse grains. If you want fine grains, you can exchange them with villagers or go to the grain station and buy them with coupons."

Zhang Yingchun knew that he was not cut out for farm work, so he asked, "Team leader, we must go to work during the autumn harvest. If there are special circumstances, can we ask for leave?"

“That depends on the special circumstances.

If you are too sick to work, you can ask for leave. But if it is for other reasons, it will not be approved."

What this means is that unless you are so sick that you cannot get out of bed, you have to go to the fields to work and race against time to harvest.

Liu Jingxue asked, "Captain, do our farm tools belong to the brigade, or do we have to provide our own?"

“The big items are definitely for the brigade to use, but the small items, like sickles, hoes, shovels, rakes, etc., you must bring your own.

By the way, you must bring an axe with you, after all, you have to go up the mountain to collect and chop wood."

Liu Jingxue asked quickly, "Captain, where can we get these farm tools? Should we buy them from the supply and marketing cooperative?"

"The supply and marketing cooperative doesn't have this kind of stuff, we can get it in our production team.

When the time comes, you can just go find Lao Wang. He used to be a blacksmith and knows how to make these things."

"Speaking of collecting firewood, I have to remind you. Our winter is extremely cold, and we need to heat the kang and the fire wall to avoid freezing to death.

It will snow here at the end of October, and the snow will not thaw until the end of March next year.

You should hurry up to the mountain to collect firewood. You should hurry up and collect more firewood, as it will be used to heat the kang for several months.

Don't think about waiting until the autumn harvest to pick up firewood. By that time, even if the mountain is not blocked by heavy snow, it will start to snow. The firewood you pick up will be wet, and there will be no sun to dry it, so you can't burn it at all.

I'm not trying to scare you. Every winter here, some people freeze to death because we don't have enough firewood.

Besides, others will not help you or share firewood with you at that time, after all, their whole family still wants to survive."

"Captain, you just said that it is the autumn harvest season now and we have to go to the fields to work the day after tomorrow and we cannot ask for leave.

Then we don’t have time to collect firewood.

We had never done farm work before, and after a day's work, we were probably too weak to move, let alone have the energy to collect firewood.

Besides, after finishing work, it was already late, and we didn’t dare to go up the mountain to collect firewood at night.” Liu Jingxue said.

After hearing what Liu Jingxue said, several people became anxious and immediately started talking to Zhang Dabiao for advice.

"Yes, Captain. It's already the end of September. We need to stock up on firewood to last for a few months. We are also busy with the autumn harvest. We really don't have time to collect firewood."

"Captain, please help us think of a solution."

"Captain, you can't just watch us freeze to death."

Liu Jingxue suggested, "Captain, do you think this will work?

I have my own firewood, and I collect it myself. But can the village allow me to leave work earlier every day and take time to collect firewood?

As for them, I estimated that they were too exhausted from dealing with all that work every day to move and had no chance of collecting firewood.

If they want to pick up the firewood themselves, they can also leave work earlier to pick it up. If they can't collect the full amount, can they be allowed to exchange their belongings with the villagers for firewood?

If they really rely on themselves to collect all the firewood, they will definitely not be able to gather enough, and they will probably freeze to death, and you will not be able to explain to your superiors."

After hearing this, Chen Guoqing, Zhang Pingan, and Zhang Yingchun nodded quickly, "Yes, Captain, can you allow us to leave work earlier to collect firewood?

Let us find some villagers to trade with, otherwise we may not survive this winter."

Feng Chunyan didn't say anything. Judging from the clothes she was wearing, she didn't seem to be from a well-off family. She probably didn't have anything good to exchange for firewood from the villagers.

But it would probably be difficult for her to collect so much firewood by herself when she has to work every day.

But this is her own business, and Liu Jingxue is not so busy as to consider these things for her.

Zhang Dabiao thought for a moment and said, "It's okay to let you leave work earlier to collect firewood, because it's the wrong time for you to go to the countryside.

But you can only leave work one hour earlier than usual, no more than that.

Exchanging firewood with the villagers is your private matter, I will pretend I don’t know, no need to tell me specifically.”

Several people were overjoyed when they heard this and hurriedly thanked the captain.

“Let me tell you more about the situation in the village.

Our village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. The mountains are rich in products. As long as people are diligent and willing to spend the effort to go up the mountain to search for products, they will never starve to death. "

Hearing that the village was surrounded by mountains, Chen Guoqing couldn't help but ask curiously, "Captain, are there any prey in the mountains?"

"Of course there is."

"Then can we go into the mountains and get some rabbits, pheasants, or something like that?

Do you need to hand in the things you get?" Chen Guoqing continued to ask.

“If you only catch one or two, you can just take them back and eat them yourself without anyone noticing. There’s no need to hand them in.

But if you catch a large animal, such as a wild boar, you must hand it in.

But the village won’t let you suffer any loss. When distributing the meat, the person who handed it in will definitely get more.”

After hearing this, Chen Guoqing and Zhang Pingan immediately smiled.

That’s great! It looks like I’ll be able to eat meat from time to time in the future.

Zhang Dabiao quickly reminded them, “But you can only move around outside the mountain, and never go deep into the mountains.

There are herds of wild boars, wild wolves, tigers and other large animals in the deep mountains. You went there to deliver vegetables to them.

People in our village don’t dare to go to the mountains.”

Liu Jingxue didn't feel anything when she heard it, but the others were all shocked.

"Captain, those things won't run into the village, right?" Feng Chunyan asked hurriedly.

"Normally not, but if they can't find food deep in the mountains, they will go out to the periphery to look for food."

Zhang Yingchun worriedly said, "Then the village will be in danger."

“You don’t have to worry about that. When the season comes, the village will arrange people to patrol.

There are also good hunters in the village. The villagers have lived here for so many years and know how to deal with those things. You just need to watch quietly from behind and don't disturb them. "

After hearing this, several people breathed a sigh of relief.

“You are new here and don’t know the situation in the mountains. Don’t go into the mountains alone. Find someone who is familiar with the situation to lead you.

The mountains are densely wooded and if you are not careful you will get lost and won’t know where to look for your way.

So you must not go into the mountains alone." Zhang Dabiao repeatedly warned.

"That's basically the situation in the village. You will find out the rest when you arrive. I won't say more," Zhang Dabiao said finally.

"Captain, please tell us about the situation at the educated youth site," Chen Guoqing asked.

If you want to live with someone, you should at least know a little bit about them and whether they are easy to get along with. If you meet someone who is difficult to deal with, you may have a hard time in the future.

“I don’t really know the situation at the educated youth camp, so I won’t say much.

When you get there, someone will introduce you to it.”