Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

Before they knew it, it was time to harvest reed stalks, and Jiang Yanqiu finally saw the newly arrived educated youth, a total of six men and six women.

Among them was a couple who came to cut in line with their two children.

These educated youth were generally older than those at the educated youth centers. The oldest were 27 or 28 years old, and even the younger ones were at least 25 or 26 years old.

The oldest unmarried educated youth in Shanshui Village was only 22 years old.

After everyone greeted each other briefly and introduced themselves, no one remembered who was who. No one chatted much and just got to work enthusiastically.

These people are all skilled at their jobs! In a short while, Jiang Yanqiu and her group were left far behind.

The team leader nodded his head when he saw this. There is still a huge gap between those who get paid and those who don’t!

In just two days, Xu Yan, the community leader, became very close to the other person and knew everything about his regiment's life.

The Corps had a large area of ​​land and few people, so when the weather was bad, many crops would fall over and could not be harvested by machines, so they had to be harvested manually, which was much more tiring than working in a production team.

They had to attend ideological education classes every night and hold meetings to recall the bitter past and reflect on the sweet past.

There was also endless work to do in winter. Not only did we have to work during the day, but we also had to go into the mountains late at night to cut strips for sheds.

It is said that the temperature is lowest in the middle of the night, and the small tree branches are frozen brittle. With one swipe of the axe, a branch can be easily chopped down. It is so quick and neat, and the efficiency is higher than during the day.

Jiang Yanqiu and the others expressed doubts about this statement. In the Great Northern Wilderness, when is the temperature not low, day or night?

But what is surprising is that the married couple of educated youth did not have their own room before coming here. They lived in the same room with other married educated youth, and the three couples just had a curtain between them.

Tian Mi said in surprise: "Then if I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I won't have to worry about getting into the wrong bed."

The other party said cheerfully: "Unless it's intentional, it won't happen."

He then said that it is still relatively good now. In the past, a company only had two rooms for couples, and you had to apply in advance if you wanted to do something.

What’s even more exaggerated is that once two couples got married together, and the two brides went to the couple’s room early to wait. The brides were shy and didn’t turn on the lights.

The two grooms were drunk. The first one went into the wrong room, went back to the room, picked up the person and did it. The second one went into the right room, but heard some noise in the room, so he went to another room.

I only realized I had made a mistake when I woke up the next day. What should I do? I could only let it go.

Hearing this, Xu Yan and Tian Mi couldn't help but burst into laughter without any restraint, and laughed so hard that they fell directly into the snow.

Later, rooms were arranged for married people, but several families shared one room.

But they are all arranged in shifts. One family goes back to the house two hours in advance, and the other two families play somewhere else and go back two hours later, and they take turns like this.

Anyway, those are the things that everyone understands and can comprehend?!

As for why we don't build houses, there's endless work to do every day, so how can we have time to build houses? Houses are waiting to be distributed by the company like in the city.

Generally speaking, it’s not easy to be an educated youth anywhere!

Although the educated youth in the rural areas of the Corps received wages, they had to work every day and their home leave was restricted. The educated youth who went to the countryside to work were poor, but free.

This year we don’t have to go up the mountain to hunt like before. After we cut the reed stalks, we can distribute the food to everyone.

This year we had a bumper harvest, no disasters, and we opened up several hundred acres of land. The work points were higher than before last year.

The more than 100 kilograms of rice distributed previously were not counted in the per capita rations, and the grain was still distributed according to last year's standards.

After distributing the grain, Jiang Yanqiu, together with the work points he earned from the mountain products, received a total of 68.5 yuan, which was relatively good!

After the food was distributed, the educated youth also had to go back to visit their families. Before the Gu sisters left, Gu Qingqing did not forget to take out the stone mill and tofu-making tools.

In the blink of an eye, only five people were left in the educated youth center: Jiang Yanqiu, Zhao Lanlan, Gu Qingqing, Gao Feng and Xu Yuefei.

Gao Feng’s reason for not going back was laughable. He was too fat and it was too difficult for him to squeeze into the car.

Xu Yuefei no longer stole things in the brigade, but after making money, he became more arrogant than before.

At the educated youth point, he was not afraid of anyone except Qiao Lei and Tian Mi, so he probably ignored them.

After everyone left, Zhao Lanlan moved in with Jiang Yanqiu. This way she could save firewood and she wouldn't be afraid of being alone.

Gu Qingqing also often came to Jiang Yanqiu's place and stayed until bedtime before going back.

Zhao Lanlan also wanted to go home, but when she thought about the 70 yuan round-trip fare, she started to feel conflicted.

One year's dividends are not enough to cover the transportation costs. I really can't bear to spend it.

In those days, many educated youth went home without paying the fare, but Zhao Lanlan was too timid to do so.

Xu Yan said that she and Qin Yiheng helped her to evade the ticket to Shanghai, and she could just buy a ticket to Pingdu when she got there, but she didn't dare to do that.

However, during the winter, the brigade started a literacy class. The teachers not only had to give extra lessons to the primary school students, but also provided literacy education to the illiterate people in the village.

According to the brigade cadres, "Everyone should learn a few more words if they have nothing to do, so that they don't get confused when they go to the city and can't even tell the difference between men's and women's restrooms. Even if they don't want to learn to read, it's good to read the newspaper and broaden their horizons."

When Qiao Lei went back to visit her family, Zhao Lanlan took over her shift and earned ten work points a day.

As a result, Jiang Yanqiu spent most of her time alone at the educated youth site.

At the beginning, some people from the village came to work with them to make tofu, bean skin, and malt sugar, but later on it was almost always her alone.

This is exactly what Jiang Yanqiu wants, as she has time to study. In addition to studying high school textbooks, she is also studying Chinese herbal medicine books.

I don’t know where Gu Qingqing got these books, but they are quite comprehensive.

At first I just wanted to learn how to dig herbs, but as time went on I gradually became interested in it.

Before, she was hesitant about what major to study in college, but now she thinks pharmaceutical science is a good major.

In her previous life, she majored in accounting in college and worked as an accountant for ten years!

Now she doesn't want to do accounting at all. The twists and turns involved are not something that a simple-minded person like her can handle.

If you can learn Chinese medicine well, which is about ability, it would be great if you have the ability to enter a research institute in the future.

Or it would be nice to become a university teacher or a medical school teacher, so that you can have time to go out and play during the winter and summer vacations!

After setting her goal, she divided her daily time into two parts: studying junior high and high school knowledge and learning Chinese herbal medicine knowledge, and she had plenty of time every day.

A few days before the Chinese New Year, three uninvited guests came to the educated youth point, three middle-aged people, one man and two women.

The three of them were all dressed very elegantly, and it was obvious that their living conditions were very good.

Looking more closely, the older men and women looked a little haggard, and the marks of time had quietly crept onto their faces.

The younger-looking woman, who was probably in her early thirties, looked very similar to Gu Qingqing, especially her lively and charming fox eyes, which were exactly the same.

The three people were brought by Aunt Chen. When Jiang Yanqiu opened the door, Aunt Chen said, "Jiang Zhiqing, these comrades are here specifically to look for Gu Zhiqing. They say they are Gu Zhiqing's family. Please let them sit here for a while to keep warm. I'll go and call Gu Zhiqing back."

As soon as she finished speaking, Aunt Chen disappeared like a whirlwind.