Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

The brigade arranged for Jiang Yanqiu and several other female educated youth to help with cooking. Chef Gao Feng also helped with cooking, and in addition to cooking, he also prepared firewood.

They also followed other teams to fish in the river to improve everyone's lives. No one here cared how much they caught; it all depended on their own ability.

Jiang Yanqiu used the space to cheat and had a harvest every day. Later, when there were fewer fish, she released some of the fish she had previously collected in the space.

She later encountered two more salmon migrations and put about 20,000 kilograms of various fish into the space, but she didn't take too much, just enough to eat.

The Shanshui Brigade had fish to eat every meal, but even so, by the time the river embankment was repaired, everyone had lost a lot of weight.

This is mainly because people of that era worked so hard that they even competed in work, working themselves to death just to get the enamel pot as a reward.

So, when the communes and brigades were compared with each other, they would pick up a load of one or two hundred kilograms and run away. It would be strange if they didn't lose weight.

When I returned to the team, it was already the hibernation season!

There were two letters from Jiang Yanqiu and a remittance slip for fifty yuan! The remittance slip and one of the letters were from Jiang Mingzhu.

The letter asked her to take leave to go back and visit her family because her elder brother Jiang Kaijie was getting married at the end of the year, and this money was given to her by Jiang Kaijie as travel expenses.

Jiang Yanqiu actually wanted to go back and take a look, mainly to see if she could find a job and return to the city.

Although you can return to the city in two years at the latest, who doesn’t want to leave the countryside as soon as possible?

Moreover, with Qiao Lei and Gu Qingqing here, she would be worried if she wanted to change herself.

Gu Qingqing was relatively okay, but Qiao Lei was always staring at others when she had nothing to do. She was very suspicious and was afraid that Qiao Lei would notice anything unusual if she was a little bit different.

Secondly, she personally thinks it is better to go to the capital to take the university entrance examination. She wonders if there are any preferential policies for local household registration.

However, after getting into university, you don’t have to worry about staying in the capital to find a job.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Yanqiu opened another anonymous letter, she found it was a receipt letter from a supply and marketing cooperative in the capital and a job registration form!

This was such an unexpected surprise! Jiang Yanqiu didn't even know who sent it to her, but it definitely wasn't from the Jiang family.

I don’t know whether this is true or false. Let me go back and take a look first.

She first went to the commune and the Youth League Office to complete the formalities. Even if it was fake, she would go back and find another job.

The work arranged by my family went smoothly from the brigade to the commune and then to the Youth League Office.

She completed all the procedures in one day and even withdrew the money she had deposited in the savings bank. She almost forgot about it.

The brigade has also started distributing food, and this year's food is much less than last year.

In addition to the 50 kilograms of wheat distributed previously, each person only received 100 kilograms of corn, 10 kilograms of rice, 10 kilograms of glutinous rice, 10 kilograms of rhubarb, and 10 kilograms of soybeans. The rest were dried sweet potatoes and dried potatoes.

Because there was not enough food to go around, Jiang Yanqiu did not distribute the food to the brigade.

She had previously planned to harvest some uncontaminated rice for later consumption, but this year she had no hope. Fortunately, she had secretly harvested more than 2,000 kilograms of rice last year.

Although they didn't get any food, they got a lot of money. Jiang Yanqiu got 167!

Even the grain seeds have been handed in this year. The grain seeds will be distributed in a unified manner next year, and the rest will be converted into money and returned to us.

After the formalities were completed, Jiang Yanqiu happily treated everyone to a meal and announced her return to the city. This time everyone was really envious.

After the dinner, Jiang Yanqiu still had seven hens and three geese left. She was thinking about what to do with them.

Unexpectedly, it suddenly snowed heavily and the roads were blocked. She simply made the remaining chickens into smoked chickens and smoked geese and took them away. This way, when she wanted to eat meat in the city, she didn’t have to find an excuse!

Jiang Yanqiu packed up the mountain products, clothes and food.

She prepared to send away the remaining grain, a sack of grain from her private plot, two sacks of mountain products and dried vegetables, and a sack of clothes.

All he had left was a suitcase with a change of clothes and a radio in it.

She had originally planned to send the quilt away, but she wanted to take away the thermos that the original owner had bravely kept, and also the honey jar that she had made earlier. It weighed more than ten pounds, and it would not be easily damaged if it was placed in the quilt.

She had originally planned to send it by mail, but Gu Qingqing told her, "We're going back to visit relatives. Gu Qingshi has found a truck to pick us up in the city. You can leave some clothes for replacement, and the rest can be checked in. This is more cost-effective than mailing."

Jiang Yanqiu expressed her sincere gratitude and said, "Thank you so much!"

As for the other things, Gu Qingqing and the others took the iron stove.

The foundation of their house was not very good. It sank due to freezing in the first year and started to leak drafts last year. It was only repaired when they got married.

As a result, the weather this year is colder than the previous two years, and the house is leaking a lot, as if it had never been repaired.

Gu Qingqing had originally planned to buy another iron stove when she came back from visiting her relatives, but now that Jiang Yanqiu is leaving, she decided to replace it with Jiang Yanqiu's, as it would only be used for two years anyway.

Jiang Yanqiu gave them the iron stove without asking for money. She made a lot of money from Gu Qingqing in the past two years.

Although Gu Qingqing made a lot of money, it saved me a lot of trouble and I didn't take any risks!

As for iron pots, kettles, buckets, etc., everyone had them, so Jiang Yanqiu asked Aunt Chen and Aunt Yang to take whatever they needed.

The winter-stored dried vegetables were originally planned to be given away, but then Secretary Wang came to see Jiang Yanqiu and asked, "Jiang Zhiqing, what are you going to do with your house?"

Jiang Yanqiu didn't understand why, so she said directly, "We agreed on this when we built the house. I'll hand it over to the team when I leave. The team will definitely make arrangements after I'm gone!"

Jiang Yanqiu originally wanted to let a few female educated youth move in first.

But since Secretary Wang had brought it up on his own initiative, she couldn't say anything. After all, they had agreed to give the house to the brigade when they left.

Secretary Wang didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Then let the female educated youth move in. The three male educated youths in the front yard will live in the female educated youth dormitory. Give them your firewood and winter vegetables and let them convert them into money for you."

Secretary Wang was really troubled. He had previously said that there was no need to worry about the new educated youth because they had subsidies.

As a result, he repeatedly instructed the three male educated youth to prepare things for the winter, but it turned out that these three people not only did not prepare any food for the winter, they didn't even have firewood.

The other four old educated youth who had settled there temporarily also left, and these three people didn't even have firewood to burn.

Jiang Yanqiu prepared a lot of firewood and used a lot of it when drying grain. However, it was not used for more than a month when the river embankment was being repaired, so it was still enough to burn for the whole winter.

Jiang Yanqiu naturally wouldn't refuse if he had money, so she said readily, "Secretary Wang, just make the arrangements. I'm sorry for causing you trouble these past two years. When I get back and settle down, I'll write to the brigade and give you my contact information. Remember to let me know if there's anything the brigade needs in the future. I won't refuse to help you if I can."

"Well, you are all great. Go back and work hard to contribute to the country!"

Secretary Wang felt very miserable. All the obedient and sensible educated youth had left, and the ones in the future would be difficult to manage.

No team leader for the educated youth had been appointed this year as it was felt unnecessary, but now Secretary Wang has appointed Gu Qingshi as the team leader.

Only Gu Qingshi can control those male educated youth!

The next day, the female educated youth moved in. Tian Mi said with a face that asked for a beating: "We finally moved into your house."

Seeing her like that, Jiang Yanqiu couldn't help laughing and said, "You can stay here as long as you want. It's up to you, for the rest of your life."

She's gone, so why would she care who moves in?

As for how they divided the firewood and winter vegetables, Jiang Yanqiu never cared.

She was not pretentious about the money given to her. That was all the money she earned through hard work. She would not be so generous as to give it directly to people who had no relationship with her.