Eating melons

When they saw Liu Aiying and Zhao Xing, the new educated youth rushed over as if they had found their organization.

Wei Wei looked at the team members with smiles on their faces and was a little confused. Did they really like working in the fields? Wouldn't it be more profitable to pick mushrooms in the mountains?

Wei Wei: "Auntie, why are you all so happy?"

Liu Aiying smiled and said, "Now that the vegetables are harvested, everyone can stock up on winter vegetables, pickle sauerkraut, and dry vegetables. How can we not be happy?"

The most important thing is that if you have enough vegetables stored at home, you can sell them and make some money.

However, this batch of vegetables will be transported to the city to be sold, but the proceeds will be distributed to these team members. The higher the price, the more valuable their work points will be, so everyone is happy.

Wei Wei was a little surprised to hear that they wanted to dry the land. "Isn't your huge plot of land enough for you to dry it? You still want to dry it?"

Liu Aiying: "This is not enough for us to eat! And you educated youth will buy a lot.

The little private plots you educated youth have cultivated are not even enough for yourselves to eat, let alone drying and pickling vegetables.

And with your limited work points, you won't get much in the way of vegetables. You'll definitely have to buy them from the team members' homes, otherwise there won't be anything to eat in the winter. So there aren't many vegetables left in the team members' private plots."

Jiang Qi and Wei Wei just felt that they couldn't understand what was said.

Wei Wei: "Private plots? Are you talking about the private plots of the educated youth? Auntie, do we educated youth have private plots too?"

Liu Aiying was a little confused. Didn't the educated youth always have private plots? "Yes! Everyone does, but you educated youth are not good at farming. You only grow a little on such a large plot, just enough for your own consumption. There's nothing left for drying vegetables."

Wei Wei: "But we didn't even know we had our own private plots!"

After saying that, he looked at Wu Mei, Xiao Xuemu and the others, "Do you know?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Liu Aiying was also shocked when she saw this situation. She didn't expect it to be like this. She asked Wei Wei and the others why they had to buy onions and garlic!

Liu Aiying: "Didn't those old educated youth tell you?"

Wei Wei shook her head, "No."

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Aiying knew that those old educated youth were bullying the new ones!

The educated youth here didn't look too happy, only Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu looked indifferent.

In fact, it didn’t matter to Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao whether they had their own plots of land or not, but they both looked unhappy after being bullied so blatantly.

The same goes for Wu Mei. Although she rarely buys vegetables, they are all bought by Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao, but if they have their own private plots, they won’t need to buy vegetables.

Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi don't know how to grow vegetables, but she does! If she grows vegetables and doesn't have to buy them, then Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao will definitely give her money.

Among this group of educated youth, she is the one who is most in need of money. How can she keep a good face in the current situation?

The ones with the worst looks were Wei Wei and Jiang Qi. In the past few months, they had tried every possible way to cook all kinds of dishes just to make some money.

The two had complained countless times about why they didn't have land. It would be much more convenient that way. They could just grow the crops themselves and sell them directly. They could pick as much as they wanted without worrying about arousing suspicion.

I didn't expect that they had land, but the old educated youth deliberately concealed it.

You have to know that they have been in the countryside for almost four months. If they had planted a batch of vegetables as soon as they arrived, they would have sold them countless times.

The main reason is that they can’t say anything to the old educated youth. After all, they just don’t tell you, but they don’t hide it from you.

If you ask them, they will just say, "You didn't ask!" and they will be speechless.

I get so angry when I think about this, it’s really frustrating.

But I can’t say anything now. I can only go to work first, and then ask where the private plot is after work.

Even if you ask, you can't plant it now. You can only wait until next spring when the frost thaws and spring comes.

It is about to frost, and today's task is to harvest cabbages. When they arrived at the place where they were to harvest the cabbages, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi felt that they still had too little knowledge.

This must be several acres of land! Looking as far as the eye can see, it's all cabbage.

Liu Aiying and Zhao Xing took the initiative to take on the task of guiding these new educated youth today. Wei Wei looked at Liu Aiying next to her and said, "Auntie, will everyone have enough to eat all these cabbages?"

Liu Aiying smiled and said, "How can we possibly give it all away? Only a small portion of the cabbages we cut today will be distributed. Most of them will be transported to the city and sold to the purchasing station. The money will be distributed according to work points at the end of the year. This year's harvest is good, so the work points will be valuable."

It turned out that they were to be sold in the city. She thought that all these were to be divided among the people in the brigade!

Wei Wei: "Collect some today? Didn't they say we had to collect everything today?"

Liu Aiying: "This whole piece of land is for sale, and we will divide it among the other pieces of land."

Wei Wei nodded, "Is that so!"

This is normal. Private transactions are not allowed now. People don’t farm in the city, so they definitely need vegetables. They can only be sold collectively in the countryside.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi both know how to chop cabbage, having done so before in the Zhang family's private plot.

The female comrades cut the cabbages, and the male comrades transported them, and then delivered them to the county by ox carts, flatbed trucks and tractors.

The Red Star Brigade had a lot of land and vegetables, and they had tractors, so the crops were sent directly to the county town. Of course, the purchase price in the county town was higher than in the town.

It would take so many people a whole day to cut down all the grass in this field. You can imagine how big the field is.

When they got off work, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi supported each other and patted their waists as they walked back.

My waist has been hunched over all day today and feels like it's going to break.

When she got home, Wei Wei finally couldn't help it and her mouth kept chattering.

Wei Wei: "Ouch! My back hurts so badly, I'm so tired! Isn't it called the Great Northern Wilderness? Shouldn't it be all wasteland? How come there are so many arable lands? I'm so tired!

No wonder the heroines in period novels always go to the Northeast whenever they go to the countryside! With so much land, how could they possibly starve?

Jiang Qi: "That's not necessarily true. The main reason is that the Red Star Brigade has more arable land. Other brigades don't have that much land, and there are many people who go hungry."

Wei Wei was a little confused. "The other brigades have so much less land than the Red Star Brigade? Won't they feel it's unfair? Won't they fight?"

Jiang Qi: "That's because the land of the Red Star Brigade is all wasteland reclaimed by the members of the Red Star Brigade themselves.

Because the Red Star Brigade has a clear work point system, where the more you work, the more you earn, almost every household volunteers to join the reclamation effort every year, which is why there is so much arable land."

Wei Wei was still confused. "All that wasteland needs fertilizer, right? Otherwise, how can we grow crops? Where do they get so much fertilizer?"

Jiang Qi: "Most of the land here is black soil, which is already very fertile and doesn't require too much fertilizer.

The Red Star Brigade has the highest annual grain output, which is twice as much as those poor brigades. Therefore, when the Red Star Brigade goes to approve fertilizers, the leaders will not hold back and will generally approve them.

The team also has a lot of fertilizer. We raise a lot of chickens, ducks, and geese, and their feces can be used as fertilizer, so there is still a lot of fertilizer."

Wei Wei was stunned when she heard this. "Our brigade also has animal husbandry? How come I didn't know about this? We've missed out on so much! Although we don't dare to kill chickens and ducks, we can still sell those eggs for money!"