Eating melons

Shenyang didn't expect that he came for this matter. This group of new educated youth looked rich and didn't know how to farm. He didn't expect that they would come to ask about farming.

Shenyang: “Yes.”

Then he pointed to a piece of land not far from the Youth League Institute and said, "See it? That's the land reclaimed by the educated youth in our Youth League Institute. That's our private plot."

According to the rules of the brigade, each of us educated youth could cultivate a maximum of one acre of land as private plot, but we could only cultivate wasteland.

We didn't have that much time to take care of our private plots, so six to eight of us educated youth would work together to cultivate one acre of land as our private plots. If there were more, we wouldn't be able to take care of it.

If you want to open your own private plots, you can reclaim the wasteland at the Youth League Institute as you like, but remember that each person can only reclaim one acre at most.

But it’s fine if you want to reclaim more land. We haven’t reclaimed that much land yet, so we can just say it was reclaimed by our partners.”

The Red Star Brigade was still very open-minded towards the educated youth, but the same could not be said for the private plots of the team members' families.

Because if these educated youth returned to the city, the reclaimed land would belong to the team.

In fact, at the beginning, the team members were still very dissatisfied with the fact that the educated youth had so many private plots, and they felt it was unfair.

But later, when I saw the few misshapen melons and jujubes that the educated youth had cultivated, I suddenly felt no longer jealous.

Although the team stipulated that each of these educated youth could reclaim a maximum of one acre of land, at the beginning, ten of them had not yet reclaimed an acre, so they had no chance to be jealous.

Yu Xi hadn't expected this to happen. "Okay, thank you."

Although Yu Xi said yes, he felt in his heart that this was impossible to happen.

Each person can cultivate one acre of land, and if three people work together, they can cultivate three acres of land.

Even if they could reclaim these three acres of wasteland, they wouldn't be able to take care of it! Not to mention that they couldn't reclaim three acres of land at all.

When I got home, I told Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao about this. When Wu Mei heard Yu Xi say that everyone could reclaim an acre of wasteland, she was so excited that she almost jumped up.

Seeing her excitement, Liu Jiaojiao said directly, "Anyway, I won't be planting that land. If you think one acre is too little, you can reclaim my share and plant it."

Liu Jiaojiao had no idea how big an acre of land was. Seeing Wu Mei so excited about having land to farm, she gave her share to her.

Anyway, this kind of thing is known to heaven, earth, you and me. As long as they don't say it themselves, no one will know that Wu Mei cultivates two acres of land by herself.

Wu Mei's excitement subsided after hearing Liu Jiaojiao's words. She was only concerned about the one acre of land and completely forgot that it was wasteland and she could not cultivate it by herself.

Even if the land is reclaimed, she still has to work. She cannot take care of such a wide field. She is not Liu Jiaojiao, and she knows how big an acre of land is.

Wu Mei: "No need. I can't even cultivate an acre of land by myself. Even if I could, I wouldn't be able to plant that much. I simply don't have that much time."

Yu Xi: "Then we can reclaim a small portion of the land, just like the old educated youth, just enough for our daily needs. This will also be more convenient for us."

Wu Mei: "Yes."

Liu Jiaojiao didn't want to reclaim wasteland. It was tiring to work there. The word "reclaiming wasteland" sounded scary and must be more tiring than working there.

Liu Jiaojiao shook her head. "I don't want to. I can't do it. I can just buy vegetables. But if you reclaim the land and grow vegetables, I'll give you the money for buying vegetables. But asking me to reclaim wasteland is impossible."

Hearing Liu Jiaojiao's words, Wu Mei also smiled, not unhappy at all, "Okay."

She had no intention of asking Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao for help, she just wanted to earn some money for their food.

Yu Xi looked at his watch. Although it was already dark, it was still early, just after seven o'clock.

I looked outside and saw a ray of light coming through the cracks in other people's doors. It was obvious that they were not asleep yet. I simply went straight to their doors and told them about the private plot.

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu did not have much opinion on this matter. Li Zhibin did not want to plant at all.

Li Zhibin: "This brigade leader is quite clever. Who wouldn't admire his move? He gave each educated youth one mu of land as a private plot. Who wouldn't say that the educated youth in this brigade are well treated?

The people in the team wouldn't say anything. After all, it was a wasteland. If the educated youth returned to the city and reclaimed the wasteland, it would directly belong to the team.

Moreover, no educated youth could reclaim an acre of wasteland and take care of it without delaying their work, so the team members would not be jealous.

Xiao Xuemu nodded and said, "Indeed, the captain of the Red Star Brigade has done a good job. Look at the brigades around us, which one is as wealthy as the Red Star Brigade?

Those capable families, such as the captain's family, live just as well as ordinary families in the town, and sometimes even better. Many families in the county don't have as much wealth as them."

Li Zhibin looked at Xiao Xuemu, "Brother Xiao, are you going to open up new land?"

Xiao Xuemu nodded, "Yes."

Li Zhibin didn't expect such an answer. "Why? This is such a waste of time! I'd rather go to the black market twice! With that little land, a year's work wouldn't even cover the cost of one trip to the black market."

Xiao Xuemu: "Others will definitely open up the land. We can't stand out from the crowd. That would be too conspicuous. We should keep a low profile.

Besides, looking at the appearance of Wei Wei and Jiang Qi today, they definitely know how to plant it.

When the time comes, we will ask them. If they want to plant more, we can open up our land together with theirs and let them plant crops. Then we can pick some vegetables to eat.

If they don’t agree, we can just make less, just enough for daily consumption.”

Li Zhibin nodded, "Okay."

When Wei Wei and Jiang Qi heard Yu Xi's words, if Yu Xi hadn't been there, they would have jumped for excitement.

As soon as Yu Xi left, the two of them immediately closed the door and jumped up excitedly.

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Wei Wei couldn't contain her excitement. "That's great! It will be convenient to sell vegetables then."

Jiang Qi was also very excited. "Well, who cares how much the work points are worth by then! They are definitely not as valuable as the vegetables from the private plots. We can focus on the vegetables from the private plots then."

You have to know that the cheapest vegetables are only two or three yuan per pound, and brown sugar is five yuan per pound. Two pounds of vegetables can be exchanged for one pound of brown sugar."

Wei Wei naturally thought of this as well. "But then again, how big is an acre of land? Is it big?"

Jiang Qi was also stunned. "I don't know about that either. It shouldn't be that big! After all, we are educated youth, and it's impossible for us to have so much private plots.

At that time, private plots seemed to be divided according to population. Aunt Liu's family had more than ten people, and we had seen their private plots. One mu of land should be about one-sixth or one-seventh of Aunt Liu's!"

Wei Wei calculated the size of one-seventh of Liu Aiying's private plot and couldn't help laughing. "That's enough. We can grow a lot!"

Jiang Qi: "Well, it's a pity that most of the grain seeds in your system can only be grown once. We can't plant them, otherwise they will be secretly picked and saved as seeds. If we can't grow anything, then we'll be finished."

Wei Wei was more open-minded. "It's okay. I can ask my sister to send me some seeds when the time comes. I just don't know if the seeds from the south can be grown in the north. I'll ask Aunt Liu for some more seeds when the time comes."

Jiang Qi: "Okay."