A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

At the brigade's warehouse and wheat field, everyone lined up to receive their work assignments for the day.

The team leader of the production team had come into contact with many educated youth before, and knew that the newly arrived educated youth were all spoiled children from the city. They had just arrived and could not do much work, and if they did, they would cause trouble for their partners. Therefore, the team leader Liu Dashan did not dare to assign any heavy work to this group of new educated youth.

The newly arrived female educated youth were responsible for weeding, while the male educated youth were responsible for tidying up the wheat fields and repairing the warehouses.

Especially the female educated youth, they were all assigned their own tasks and divided their own task fields.

Apart from the newly arrived female educated youth who were assigned the easy farm work of weeding, the rest were children in the production team or elderly people.

Even the people who went to tidy up the wheat fields and repair the warehouses were teenagers and skilled elderly people. After all, they just handed over tools and provided assistance, which required strength, but not too much.

These people who are given special attention by the brigade are not particularly strong and cannot do hard or heavy work.

Of course, easy work also means fewer work points.

This is the default rule in the brigade, and it can be regarded as special care by the brigade for the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the village. After all, without work points, there is no way to get food at the end of the year, and these people also need food, so this can be regarded as a kind of subsidy from the brigade.

When grain is distributed at the end of the year, in addition to work points, you can also use money to buy grain. If you have enough work points, you can get extra money.

However, the people in the brigade village basically rely on the fields for their livelihood and live on work points. Almost every household has to tighten their belts to make ends meet. If they want to eat enough and live a good life, in addition to working hard to earn work points, they also have to pick some wild vegetables and tend to their private plots more often. Otherwise, sometimes it is a problem to even get 50% full.

Shen Jiaren watched the people working enthusiastically after receiving the tasks. She felt that she could not work so hard. It didn't matter if the work points were low. Life was important. At most, she could use the money to buy food and work points at the end of the year.

Normally, I would go to the town more often to use my father's food coupon book more actively, so that I could have an excuse in the village.

Shen Jiaren wanted to take advantage of this time to take care of her health, pick up her books, and if possible, earn some money.

After Shen Jiaren arrived at the work place, the village aunt told her which weeds were and how to pull them out with less effort. Then Shen Jiaren started to work.

The grass at this time is relatively easy to identify. After all, it is close to the autumn harvest, and the rice and weeds are still easy to distinguish.

Shen Jiaren began to work hard to pull out the weeds. It was indeed not a difficult job and it sounded simple, but when you actually start to do it, you will find that it is very tiring.

After Shen Jiaren pulled for a while, she began to feel pain in her hands and her waist could no longer bear the pain.

I thought I made a mistake by not bringing any auxiliary tools like gloves.

Shen Jiaren looked up at Chen Jiaojiao and Xu Hongxia, who were also in an equally miserable state.

Xu Hongxia looks a little better, but it seems like she won't be able to hold on for much longer. After all, there is a big difference between doing housework and doing farm work.

However, Chen Jiaojiao had already started to complain and was unwilling to continue working.

The old people and children in the production team were very skillful in pulling out weeds, far surpassing the three of them. It was obvious that they did it often and were used to it.

Shen Jiaren looked at herself, then at Chen Jiaojiao and Xu Hongxia, and couldn't help feeling ashamed. What the villagers said in the morning was really right. They really were holding others back and working worse than the elderly and children.

An old lady who had finished more than half of the task and was resting on the edge of the field looked at Shen Jiaren and the others, especially at Chen Jiaojiao, and couldn't help saying, "These educated youth from the city are so precious. They can't even do the easiest jobs in the brigade, and they say they are supporting the construction of new rural areas. What can they build? Why don't they stay in the city and enjoy the convenience of commercial grain? Instead, they come to the countryside to learn farming from us. What are they thinking? Do they have bubbles in their brains and need to be shaken?"

If Chen Jiaojiao had heard the sarcasm from this lady before, she would have retorted a few words. But at this moment, Chen Jiaojiao looked at her hands and then at the field of work assigned to her this morning, and felt that what the lady said made sense.

Although she was mentally prepared when she went to the countryside, it was only after she actually arrived there and started working that she realized how fantastic her previous ideas were and how hard life in the countryside was.

The more Chen Jiaojiao thought about it, the more sad she felt, and finally she started crying.

The old lady saw Chen Jiaojiao started to cry, and felt that Chen Jiaojiao was spoiled. "What's wrong? What's wrong? Can't you say a few words? Can't you say something if it's not a big deal? What? Are you girls from the city more valuable than us? Can't you say a few words? How can you be so arrogant that you can't even say anything?"

After hearing this, Chen Jiaojiao ran away crying.

Xu Hongxia looked at Chen Jiaojiao's back as she ran away crying, and thought that the job she was doing now was related to her own food rations, and that Chen Jiaojiao might just cry for a while and it would be okay. After she finished pulling the weeds, she would go to comfort her, and it should be fine.

After all, I'm still eating with her, and my food is subsidized by her, so I definitely can't ignore her.

After thinking about it, Xu Hongxia didn't get up and continued to pull out weeds.

Shen Jiaren looked up at Chen Jiaojiao's back as she ran away, and couldn't help thinking, it's just the beginning and she's crying like this. She's just come into contact with the most powerful aunts in the village and she's already like this, what should she do in the future?

Shen Jiaren sighed silently, ignored Chen Jiaojiao, and started pulling out weeds.

However, another mother-in-law who was working with Chen Jiaojiao said after seeing her run away, "Hey, Aunt Zhou, what are you talking about her doing? We all do our own tasks, and we just need to collect our work points after we finish the work. What are you talking about her doing? The new educated youth are all thin-skinned, don't talk about her and make her do something stupid?"

Aunt Zhou, who was still muttering about how precious and hypocritical this educated youth was, felt embarrassed when she heard what people from the same village said. She also thought, "No way, I just said a few words, and she can't let it go?"

"It's unclear, so you should talk to the team leader. If something happens, you will be held responsible, and our production team will be accused of bullying the educated youth. What if the town punishes our team?"

When Aunt Zhou heard this, she wanted me to take responsibility? ? How could I take responsibility? I just said a few more words. If this girl really doesn't think it through and does something, what should I do? ?

When Aunt Zhou thought of this, she stopped working and immediately got up to find the team leader and told him about the matter.

Team leader Liu Dashan couldn't help but feel a little headache when he heard what Aunt Zhou said. This new educated youth had just started working on the first day, and he had caused such a thing. Liu Dashan thought and glared at Aunt Zhou, "You talk too much. If you think this job is too easy, I will arrange other work for you, so that you don't have to gossip all day long, either offending this person or provoking that person?"

Aunt Zhou didn't dare to say anything when she heard this. After all, she was the one who started it all because she was the one who talked too much. But she didn't expect to encounter something like this. "Dashan, I didn't expect this either. Isn't it that people in the village talk while working? I just said a few words, but I didn't expect this new educated youth to be so pretentious and not be able to say a word?"

"What's wrong with you if they are being pretentious? Everyone does their own tasks and gets their own work points. What do you think they are doing? I think you are just idle. Otherwise, how would you have time to watch how they work?" Team leader Liu Dashan replied angrily when he heard Aunt Zhou's words.

Seeing that Aunt Zhou stopped complaining about the matter, Liu Dashan stopped arguing with her and hurried to the wheat field to call a few people to look for Chen Jiaojiao.

A few people searched several places and finally found Chen Jiaojiao at the educated youth site.

When we found Chen Jiaojiao, she was packing her luggage, crying as she did so.

After seeing this, Liu Dashan couldn't help but ask, "Chen Zhiqing, what are you doing?"

Chen Jiaojiao cried and replied, "I want to go home. I don't want to stay here and be despised by others."

"You have already been sent to the countryside. You cannot go back to the city whenever you want. The Youth League Office will not let you go, and the city will not accept you. You must stay here and continue to support the new construction of the countryside. You regret it now and want to go back, but there is no turning back." Liu Dashan replied with a frown.

When Chen Jiaojiao heard what the team leader said, she cried even harder. "How did I know that life in the countryside was like this? Everyone said that we should respond to Chairman Mao's call to support rural construction and that intellectuals should build the countryside. How did I know that it was built like this? How did I know that life in the countryside was so hard? "

After hearing Chen Jiaojiao's answer, Liu Dashan was speechless.

These are not the first batch of young people who have gone to the countryside. They have been supporting the countryside for several years. No one has told you about this. Don't you know how to understand the situation in the countryside? Others talk about the wind and you just listen to the rain. You are really stupid. No, not stupid, you are just stupid. If the countryside is really that good, why do so many people want to go to the city, want to be workers, and want to eat commercial grain?

Chen Jiaojiao cried and made a fuss as she watched the captain's face becoming increasingly gloomy. He didn't even give her a letter of introduction and let her go. She calmed down in despair.

Liu Dashan saw that Chen Jiaojiao had finally calmed down. After comforting her with a few words, he told Chen Jiaojiao that it was okay and she could go back to work.

After Liu Dashan left the educated youth center, he couldn't help rubbing his swollen head, hoping that after getting used to it after a while, he wouldn't be so noisy.

Chen Jiaojiao's disturbance was not entirely a bad thing. At least the people in the brigade and village would think twice before talking about it, fearing that something might really happen.

The previous educated youth were not used to the life in the countryside, especially the female ones, who also made trouble, but few of them made such a big scene.

When Chen Jiaojiao came back to work crying, Aunt Zhou didn't dare to say anything after seeing Chen Jiaojiao's look. After all, she was afraid that something really might happen and she wouldn't be able to explain herself even if she was right.

After being interrupted by Chen Jiaojiao's matter, everyone felt that time was not so unbearable.

After a tiring whole day, I finally finished today's tasks.

On the way back to the educated youth site, no one spoke.

The newly arrived educated youth couldn't help feeling sad when they saw that they only earned two pounds after a day's hard work.

That's it. Can you really support yourself by relying on your own labor to earn work points?

The older educated youth seemed to be doing better, probably because they had been there for a long time and had gotten used to the situation. The male educated youth could earn eight work points a day, and the female educated youth could earn six points. Although neither of them could get full attendance of ten points, it was still okay. At the end of the year, they could barely earn enough work points for their food rations.

Of course, compared with other people in the village team, the work points the educated youth got were a little bit insufficient, but for them, these work points were the best they could get after trying their best.

The new educated youth couldn't help asking, "Captain, with the work points you have, can you have enough to eat???

Zhao Yuanchao heard the answer, "You can barely eat enough, but you still have to plan your meals. In spring, you can pick wild vegetables and plant private plots. In autumn, you can go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables. This way, you will have something to eat in winter. Otherwise, it will not work if you only eat dry food in winter."

When I first came here, I didn’t know much. I ate porridge all winter and didn’t have any vegetables. By the second year, I started learning how to pick wild vegetables, grow vegetables, and pickle vegetables. If I had money, I would go to the supply and marketing cooperative in town to buy things to improve my life.

I also suggest that after you get used to working for a while, you should still go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and mountain products as a supplement to your winter food.

If you have money, remember to buy some vegetables when every household in the village starts to collect their own vegetables. You can dry them and eat them yourself, or pickle them yourself. You can learn how to do it. If you don't know how to do it yourself, just spend money to buy some vegetables that the villagers have prepared, so that it is convenient to eat. That's how you spend more money.

Don't think that what I said is a bit exaggerated. The winter here is particularly long. People here start to hibernate when winter comes. The demand for firewood and vegetables is particularly great. If you are not well prepared, you will really suffer in winter.

You must also prepare winter clothes. Last year, there was an educated youth who didn't take it seriously. He basically wrapped himself in a blanket when he went out in winter and would not get out of bed. He got frostbite even though he did that. You should also be careful. "

The newly arrived educated youth couldn't help but want to cry after listening to what their team leader Zhao Yuanchao said. It would be fine if their families could provide some subsidies, but if their families couldn't provide any subsidies, wouldn't they have to wrap themselves in quilts when going out? Even the quilts couldn't resist the cold, and they would get frostbite.

It seems that I still need to pick up more firewood, so that at least I can ensure that there is firewood to burn and keep warm.