If you don't agree, do it! Roll up your sleeves, empty your property and go back to the country

In that era, private transactions were not allowed. I heard that some craftsmen in the brigade would secretly trade items like furniture with others in exchange for money or food, and the brigade headquarters would turn a blind eye to it, and the officials would not investigate unless the people reported it.

But the Qishui Brigade has its own rules. Anyway, these days everyone is interested in food, meat and the like. In the countryside, work points are equivalent to money. Craftsmen in the brigade will send their finished products to the brigade headquarters for inspection. If they are sold, the brigade headquarters will collect money and give them to the craftsmen as work points. At the end of the year, they can use the work points to distribute food and meat.

In this way, they can work openly to increase their family income, and the team can also generate income.

The key point is safety!

Once again, I feel that the Qishui Brigade is really a good place.

Bai Nuo followed the captain to the warehouse of the brigade headquarters and selected two kang cabinets that were 40 centimeters deep and 1.5 meters wide, a large wardrobe with double doors, and two wooden basins, one large and one small. Bai Nuo planned to buy these things that were difficult to make so as not to waste time.

She also picked out the doors and windows, and chose a wooden door covered with iron sheets as the gate to the backyard. This kind of door is not often used in the countryside, but there are many tube-shaped buildings in the city, and it is safer than a pure wooden door. I heard from the brigade that this door was brought back from the county town by the brigade headquarters, but it is rarely used by villagers, so the remaining few were left in the warehouse.

Then I chose a wooden door with a small glass window as the door leading to the backyard of the cabin, and a six-grid window. However, neither the door nor the window had glass, so I had to go to the county town to get it.

He also picked out a few logs more than two meters long and a dozen bamboos as thick as wrists. These thick bamboos should have been freshly cut and were still emerald green, just right for making bamboo doors for the bathroom and utility room. Bai Nuo had a way to preserve the original color of the bamboo, so it would definitely look good. He also picked out a large bundle of thin bamboo poles for the roof of the hut, a bucket of anti-corrosion paint for furniture, and borrowed some tools.

Although she had better tools, no one probably believed that she would bring furniture-making tools with her when she went to the countryside, so she had to borrow some commonly used tools to cover up.

Finally, the accountant did the math and, adding the materials for building the walls, the kang, and the stove, as well as the furniture and labor costs, the total was twenty-eight yuan and ninety-six cents. He refunded one yuan and four cents, and no receipt was required.

Bai Nuo felt that he made a lot of money.

Finally, before leaving, Bai Nuo saw an abandoned old stone mill and several thick wooden stakes in the corner of the warehouse.

"Uncle, can you give me this old millstone and the wooden stake?"

"What do you want this thing for?"

The captain looked at the little girl strangely. He almost suspected that her family was poor. Not only did she make her own furniture to save money, but she also wanted those junks that were of no use to them.

Bai Nuo smiled and raised his head, saying calmly, "Take it back and make a set of tables and chairs to put in the yard. You can drink water and read a book in the yard during your rest time."

"Can this thing be used as a table and chair?"

The team leader looked at the old millstone in surprise. It was taken down from their team's grain field and was temporarily thrown into the warehouse because no one wanted it. As for the tree stumps, they were used by the villagers as platforms for chopping firewood. They had dug up a lot of dead tree stumps from the mountains, and the remaining few that no one wanted were piled up in this warehouse.

He really couldn't understand how these two things could be turned into tables and chairs.

"Yes, I have decent craftsmanship. Although what I make can't be exchanged for anything else, it's still okay for me to use."

The captain smiled helplessly and waved his hand: "If you want it, take it back. It's useless anyway. It's just a pile there. Don't charge for it."

"Thank you, Captain." Bai Nuo's smile grew even brighter, as if he had gotten a bargain, which made the captain even more suspicious that this girl's family was really in poverty.

The captain went home and called his two sons to help Bai Nuo pull things. He followed Bai Nuo, becoming more and more curious. He couldn't help but ask, "You don't look unloved, girl. Why did you come to the countryside at such a young age? Are you the only one in your family who can go to the countryside?"

Bai Nuo glanced at the captain, pursed her lips, and the smile on her face faded a little. She said softly, "To be honest, my brother and I are the only ones left in my family. My mother was in the Air Force and died on the battlefield a few years ago. Later, my brother also joined the army, so I signed up to go to the countryside as soon as I graduated from high school. After all, I'm already so old, and it's not easy to find a job in the city after graduating from high school. It's not good to be supported by relatives all the time. As a young person in the new era, I naturally have to work hard to learn to be self-reliant. Only when I become strong can I be worthy of the motherland's cultivation of me, and I can't tarnish the reputation of my mother and brother. They are heroes, and I can't have a weak daughter and sister."

"That's right, that's right. You may look small, but you have great ambitions. Live well in our Seventh Water Brigade, but don't push yourself too hard. Do what you can. If you have any difficulties, go to the organization and the leaders. If you have anything to say, go to your Aunt Cui'e. She has a good heart and is straightforward. Don't worry about bothering her."

As a veteran, Wei Zhongping found it difficult not to look upon the children of fallen martyrs with a different eye, especially since the girl herself was sensible and well-behaved.

This immediately softened the tough and upright captain's heart, and he even thought of giving him special care in secret.

"Thank you, Captain Uncle. It's my honor to be assigned to our Qishui Brigade as an educated youth and to join our big family. I'm so happy. It must be my mother who gave me this luck."

Bai Nuo didn't dare to say anything like "the spirit in heaven". Although she was arrogant and domineering in her daily life, she was very self-aware and knew the current situation. She knew clearly that she could not be strong enough to go against the legal system of an entire country.

Therefore, she is very good at speaking the truth to different people and telling different stories to different people.

The two sons of the team leader followed behind, one driving a horse-drawn carriage, and looked at the backs of their father and the young educated youth with great curiosity.

"Brother, this is really strange. I actually saw such heartache and tenderness on our father's face. Oh my God, our sister doesn't have this ability."

Wei Qiang, the eldest son of the Wei family, rolled his eyes. "Our sister is such a tomboy. She often makes our father mistakenly think that he has five sons. She's lucky enough to have him lift the fire stick less often. And you call her gentle? What are you thinking!"

Wei Jian, the second son of the Wei family, twitched his lips, glanced at the little girl who was walking not far ahead, then thought about his own big and strong (not really) sister, and sighed softly.

He felt he had no way of contradicting his eldest brother.

When Bai Nuo returned to the educated youth compound, all the educated youth had already returned for lunch. Hearing the noise, only one educated youth, Xie, came out. After greeting the team leader and his father and son, he helped to move things.