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

The educated youth gathered together and talked, and the villagers stood in groups of three or four.

There was a clear distinction between the villagers and the educated youth, and they did not interfere with each other.

Seeing this, Liu Jingxue quietly asked Qin Fang beside her, "Have the educated youth and the villagers always been like this?"

Qin Fang looked around and whispered to her, "It wasn't like this at the beginning, the villagers still interacted with the educated youth.

But then something happened and the relationship between the villagers and the educated youth became strained, and it turned out like this.”

"Sister Qin Fang, what happened that caused the educated youth and the villagers to become enemies?" Zhang Yingchun asked curiously.

Liu Jingxue also requested, "Yes, please tell us in detail so that we can be prepared and avoid falling into the trap in the future."

She also saw that Qin Fang had a cheerful personality and thought she should be someone who was easy to talk to, so she dared to ask her this.

Qin Fang looked around and said, "There are so many people here, it's hard to say.

I’ll tell you when I have the chance.”

At this time, a villager shouted, "Captain, most of the people have arrived, can we talk about what happened?"

Captain Zhang, who had been standing on the high platform, looked at the villagers and educated youth standing below, counted their number, and found that all those who should have come had indeed arrived. He cleared his throat and began to speak.

As expected of a military officer, he is a man of swift and decisive action. He doesn't engage in pretentious stuff and goes straight to the point.

“Before we start work today, I will mainly talk about two things.

The first thing, I think the team leaders have already told you yesterday."

At this time, a villager interrupted, "Captain, are you talking about the fact that a group of human traffickers have been arrested in the town, but there are still some who have escaped and are still wandering around outside?"

The captain nodded, "Yes, that's it.

This was told to us by Liu Jingxue, the educated youth, after she came back from the town yesterday. I also asked someone to verify it, and it is true.

Our village is not far from the town, and there are mountains all around our village. Those human traffickers who are being chased by the police might run to the mountains.

Then our village will be in danger.”

“Like I told you yesterday, the children in our village who are not old enough to work in the fields should not go to the mountains these days.

Don't leave young children at home.

There is only one person in the family who doesn't work in the fields and has to do housework, so there are not enough people to take care of the children.

Human traffickers are very shrewd, and they might sneak into a home and take the child away without anyone noticing."

"All the children who don't work in the fields are gathered together and brought to the drying dam.

All those who did not go to the fields went to the drying dam to look after the children.

Young girls and wives who stay at home should not stay home alone, lest they be bewitched and taken away. They should also go to the drying dam and must not be left alone.

The village militia no longer needs to work in the fields. Instead, they should be divided into three teams, with two teams working and one team patrolling the village.

The sunbath area is a key defense area, so we have to make sure there are a few young guys around there."

Someone shouted from below, "Village head, if we don't let the children go into the mountains, what will we do with the pig grass?"

The village chief had already made plans for this. "Let the elderly people who don't work in each household take over for a few days, and they will still be counted as work points."

The villagers had no objection to this, and they thought the human traffickers probably looked down on the elderly.

Someone shouted, "Captain, are we going to send some militia to patrol the mountains?

Those human traffickers might be hiding in the mountains.

If we catch him, it will be a great achievement."

Captain Zhang said, “I would like to, but I can’t do that now.

The strong laborers in our village are all working in the fields, and the militia cannot be mobilized in full. With the limited manpower available, it is impossible to patrol the mountains.

All we can do is to prevent the children from going into the mountains and prevent the women from being left alone and falling into their hands.

As for other matters, we can only wait for the police to handle them.”

Secretary Xu interjected, "We will arrange the mountain patrol after we finish the autumn harvest.

We can patrol the mountains and hunt together then.

The most important thing right now is the autumn harvest. If we don’t collect the food, you will starve for the next year.”

The villagers below shouted one after another, "The autumn harvest is indeed the most important. We have been busy for several months just to collect food for the autumn harvest."

"I don't want to be hungry."

But someone shouted from below, "But captain, the adults in our family are all working in the fields, so we have to rely on the children to go up the mountain to collect firewood during this period.

If we restrict them from going up the mountain, what will we do if there is not enough firewood in the winter? They will freeze to death.”

When the villagers nearby heard this man say this, they immediately started cursing.

"Wang Dafa, are you stupid? Didn't the captain say that the human trafficker might be hiding in the mountains?

If you let the children go up the mountain at this time, are they to collect firewood? That would be giving their heads to the human traffickers.

The older children were working in the fields, and for the little kids who were only a few years old, they were just delivering vegetables to the human traffickers.

You want to sell your own child for a few pieces of firewood?

If you don’t find any firewood and the child isn’t taken away by human traffickers, I wonder where you can go to cry.”

"That's right. Every family would prepare enough firewood before the autumn harvest. It's just that his family is lazy and hasn't prepared enough firewood yet.

They are comparable to those educated youth. "

"It's always been like this in their family, you know that."

“It’s a sin to be born into his family as a child.

I don’t feel bad for my own children. "

Seeing the villagers below collectively denouncing that man, the team leader quickly stopped them.

"Okay, stop wasting time here, finish what you have to say, and get down to work."

“We don’t have enough firewood, and there’s no rush at this time.

After the autumn harvest, the village organizes villagers to go up the mountain to chop firewood. When there are more people, they can go deeper into the mountain.

This way, we won’t have to rush to send our children up the mountain to collect firewood in the next few days.”

The captain looked at the man who had just expressed a different opinion and said, "Well, you won't force your children to go up the mountain again, will you?"

The man had just been scolded by the villagers and had been awakened long ago.

Seeing the captain's arrangement and staring at him to make a statement, he dared not act rashly and said quickly,

“The captain’s arrangement is the best, my family will not force our children to go up the mountain to collect firewood.

They must be kept well at the drying dam."

"Okay, now that we have finished talking about the first thing, let's move on to the second thing.

The day before yesterday, five new educated youth came to our village, two men and three women.

Today they will be assigned to four production teams.

The last time the educated youth came, no one was assigned to the fourth production team. This time it is simple. One educated youth will be assigned to each of the first to third production teams, and two educated youth will be assigned to the fourth production team. "

Some villagers complained, "Captain, why did the higher-ups give us this group of educated youth?

Nearly twenty educated youth have come to our village.

These people can't do any work, they just come here to take our food and cause trouble for us."

"That's right, Captain, can you please talk to the higher-ups and ask them not to send any more educated youth to our production team?

We don’t even have enough food for ourselves, and we have to share it with them.”

Captain Zhang waved his hand and said, "Alright, stop saying these useless words. What do you think I want to say?

This is national policy and we can only comply with it.”

Captain Zhang looked at the new educated youths and said, "Come up and introduce yourselves so that the villagers can get to know you.

Team leaders, prepare to select educated youth. "