A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

After Shen Jiaren returned to the west room, she turned around and looked at her bathtub. She thought it was great. This wooden bathtub looked really good.

I finally have the wooden bath tub that I had always dreamed of.

Now I am just waiting to see when it can be officially used. I am really looking forward to it.

After looking at the bathtub, Shen Jiaren returned to the main house, washed up with the hot water that had just been boiled in the outer room, and then went to sleep on the kang.

The next day, when Shen Jiaren arrived at the door of the brigade warehouse, she found that many people were already standing there waiting and chatting.

Shen Jiaren was wondering if they were going to announce something. Why were they all here so early today? There were a few people who hadn't come until work started, but now they had seen it.

Why did Shen Jiaren know this? Because she had seen the team leader scolding these people several times, saying that they were not very active in earning work points. They should just not come, or if they came, they would be lazy and nagging.

Shen Jiaren saw him several times and became familiar with his face.

After a while, a few of the remaining educated youths arrived, and a few villagers also came one after another. When the team leader saw that everyone was gathered, he started beating gongs and drums to ask everyone to stop talking and keep quiet, saying that he had something to say.

Seeing that no one was talking, Liu Dashan shouted, "We asked the elders in the village to look around the fields in our brigade and decided to start harvesting tomorrow.

In view of the heavy task and large workload of autumn harvest, which requires coordinated cooperation, we will start drawing lots today. Young and middle-aged men will draw lots on the left, and women will draw lots on the right. Whatever you draw will determine what you will do during the next autumn harvest.

When it comes to drawing lots, once you grab them, whatever you draw is what you get. You cannot draw again, and you cannot ask the team to change it for you.

If you change it privately, that is your business. You can discuss it privately and register with me and the scorekeeper tomorrow. But remember, you can only change it once.

No matter what work you do, you must finish it. If you don't finish it, or if you feel that the next job doesn't matter and you don't want to do it, or if you deliberately slack off and delay the delivery of grain, the storage of grain, or the distribution of grain, then don't blame me for deducting your work points and being ruthless.

If anyone throws a tantrum and hopes to ask me to change his job, or does other things that affect the autumn harvest, and if such person has problems with his thoughts and behavior, I will send him directly to the labor camp in the town for ideological education.

Of course, if you don’t want work points, grain, or pork, then it doesn’t matter whether you work or not, I won’t care.

If you do not actively participate in the autumn harvest and ask the team to borrow grain at the end of the year, then in order to prevent you from starving to death, I will send you to the farm in town, because the farm provides food and accommodation and will not let you starve to death.

No matter who the cooperating people are, they must work hard together in the fields no matter where they are caught. They cannot be lazy or slack off. Every day, there will be scorekeepers patrolling the fields. Anyone who does not cherish food or wastes rice in the fields will be deducted points. Those with worse behavior will be reported to the town, which will coordinate and arrange a solution.

As for the arrangement of work points, it will still be according to yesterday's arrangement. You can get work points after you finish the work, and you can go home after you finish the work. Whether you finish the work early and go home, help others, or get new work points tasks, it is all your own arrangement.

Remember to find a scorekeeper to check the completion status of the work points task after finishing the work and then record the work points.

In addition, after drawing lots today, everyone will go back and rest for a day to replenish their physical and mental strength.

Starting tomorrow, I will arrive at work an hour earlier than normal and leave an hour later at night.

There is another thing. If anyone in the team eats with the educated youth again this year, they should discuss in advance what to eat, how much to eat, and how to eat. Then they should come to the team leader, that is, me, to issue a certificate. If there is a dispute in the future, the certificate will be the main basis. If they do not recognize this certificate at that time, then it will not be a simple matter of adjustment. Do you understand?"

When the people below heard that the autumn harvest would start tomorrow, they felt happy, because once the autumn harvest started, it would not be long before the grain was distributed.

After the grain was distributed, the next step was to slaughter pigs and distribute the meat. Every household could get some pork based on their work points to improve their lives.

Thinking about it this way, I feel that the autumn harvest is not that difficult. After all, there will be pork to eat after the autumn harvest, which is really the most anticipated thing of the year.

I feel even happier because I have another day of rest today. I can go back and clean up and prepare the tools, food, etc. for the autumn harvest.

But when I heard that we had to draw lots to cooperate, I felt a little unhappy, because there was a high possibility that I would be in a group with the educated youth. If they were the old educated youth, then it would be okay, because they had the autumn harvest records, and at most I could just help out a little.

But if it is a new educated youth, then he or she will need to carry out the workload of the new educated youths, which is equivalent to one person doing most of the work points of one person, but only getting the work points of one person. In the long run, it is really unfriendly to the person you are rooming with.

So many people were praying at this time that they could catch people from their own village and brigade.

But regardless of whether one prays or not, the drawing of lots must still be carried out, and the possibility of drawing lots for an educated youth in the same plot of land is also very high, because there are now a lot of educated youth.

After the team leader Liu Dashan finished speaking, he gave the villagers some time to react, and then began to shout, asking everyone to stand in two teams and start lining up to draw lots. After drawing lots, they could register with the scorer and then go home.

After listening to what the captain said, everyone started to divide into two teams, male and female, and draw lots.

Shen Jiaren was a little slow and was at the back of the line. She saw Chen Jiaojiao and Aunt Zhou working in the same field. How did she know?

Because after the person in front drew the lot, he started asking next to the scorer which field it was and who it was with.

Because almost no one in the village can read, although the village often starts literacy classes in winter, few people come. As the saying goes, "Hello, winter", so the winter should be spent secluded. This leads to the fact that even though the literacy classes have been running for so long, only a few people have been able to learn literacy.

Whenever I met someone who needed to learn literacy and arithmetic, I would basically ask a few people in the village team, especially the scorers, because I had to deal with them the most.

After Aunt Zhou finished drawing lots, she knew which field she was working in, but she didn't know who she would be working with, so she stood aside and waited to see who she would work with in the end. After a while, she found out that the person working with her was the educated youth who ran away crying after she said a few words to him last time, the same educated youth who was so pampered that she was scolded by the team leader.

When Aunt Zhou saw this, she immediately became unhappy, and went to the team leader, making a fuss and saying that it was not possible and that they had to draw lots again.

There was a lot of noise. Those who had caught the prizes and those who had not, all stood there watching Aunt Zhou look for the team leader to change people, asking if they wanted to change people or she would draw lots again.

The people around saw Aunt Zhou like this, but no one went up to stop her. They might have been thinking that if she could be replaced, then they could be replaced as well, especially if they caught someone who was far away, or someone who couldn't live well, or someone who was an educated youth.

So everyone remained silent and watched Aunt Zhou crying and yelling at the team leader.

The team leader saw that a circle of people had gathered around Aunt Zhou, but no one tried to stop them. People from the team wanted to come over to stop them, but the villagers were still talking and registering, so the team leader stood alone on one side and Aunt Zhou on the other, and then half a circle of people surrounded them.

When the team leader Liu Dashan saw this situation, he couldn't help but said angrily, "What are you arguing about? I said it before we drew the lots, and you can keep whatever you catch. What do you want to do by making such a fuss now?"

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, come here and take your wife away. If you don't, I will ask someone in the town to help you get her!" Team leader Liu Dashan shouted angrily.

When everyone heard that the captain was angry, they didn't dare to watch. Some went up to pull people away and some tried to persuade them. The rest of the people dispersed and started doing their own things.

After a while, a man who looked very old came up from the men's team and pulled Mrs. Zhou out of the team, cursing as he walked.