Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

After hearing what Gao Junsong said, the newly arrived educated youth left in groups. Gao Junsong took out a pack of Economy brand cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Gao Baolin, and lit one himself. Gao Baolin put the cigarette under his nose and sniffed it, and asked: "Has the commune dealt with it?!"

Gao Junsong replied, "We managed it. Fortunately, we distributed the meat last night, otherwise it would be troublesome to distribute it today. Maybe most of it would be taken away by the commune."

Gao Baolin said: "These years, it has been really hard for you and Dazhuang."

Gao Junsong said nonchalantly, "Third Uncle, you are wrong. Qingshan Brigade is our hometown. Who wouldn't want their hometown to be better? Don't worry! Our future will only get better and better!"

Gao Baolin then asked, "I saw you and your team renovating our old canteen a while ago. Are we going to start eating from the same big pot again?!"

Gao Junsong said: "We are not going to eat from the same pot. We are going to make use of that place and open the first workshop of our brigade."

"Open a workshop?!" Gao Baolin lit up his pipe, took two puffs, and said, "When I was young, I learned how to make tofu and bean curd skin from someone in the county."

Gao Junsong heard the hidden meaning in Gao Baolin's words and said with a smile: "Uncle, I know the tofu you make is delicious. But making tofu is too tiring, and now there are teams that have opened tofu workshops. We can't steal business from others, right?!"

Gao Baolin was stunned for a moment and asked, "So what are you going to do?!"

Gao Junsong replied: "To make sugar. Use sugar beets to make sugar."

Gao Baolin was stunned for a moment and asked, "Beets can be used to make sugar?! Were you guys being fooled?!"

Gao Junsong said, "Yan Zhiqing knows this skill. He plans to teach the people in the brigade. Anyway, we have planted a lot of sugar beets this year. It doesn't matter if we do some experiments. If it succeeds, our brigade will have more income in the future. If it fails, there will be no loss."

Gao Baolin thought about it, nodded and agreed: "What you said makes sense." Then he asked: "How many people do you plan to recruit?!"

Gao Junsong said: "The current plan is to accept one family at a time, with priority given to families of military martyrs and families in need."

Gao Baolin said: "Okay! I'll tell those old guys when I get back. No matter what, this is a good thing!"

Two hours passed quickly, and the educated youths all returned. Seeing that everyone was present, Gao Junsong gave the order to set off without further delay.

Because there are new educated youth arriving in the village today, Gao Junsong gave each of the male and female educated youth three more pounds of meat when distributing meat yesterday. So the dishes at the welcoming dinner of the educated youth today are particularly rich. Although the new educated youth have some complaints about the arrangement of the brigade, who told them to come at the wrong time? ! Even if they are unhappy, they can only bear it when they are in someone else's territory.

The next morning, the new educated youth got up one after another under the urging of the old educated youth. After a simple breakfast, the educated youth and the villagers went to the threshing ground. After Gao Junsong arranged the work, he also went to the field to work.

In the past, everyone in the production team only knew that Yan Jiekuang worked fast, but because of the work point limit, Yan Jiekuang always restrained himself. Now it is the busy farming season, and there is no work point limit. You get as many work points as you can do. So Yan Jiekuang loosened his speed.

Yan Jiekuang was like a human harvester, and the sickle in his hand left afterimages. Others worked for a while and then took a break, but Yan Jiekuang never took a break and worked an acre of land in one breath. In one morning, Yan Jiekuang did as much work as the entire team and had some left over.

"Old Gao, let me tell you something!" During lunch, Tian Dazhuang walked up to Gao Junsong and said.

Gao Junsong asked: "What's the matter?!"

Tian Dazhuang said: "Everyone has opinions."

Gao Junsong was stunned for a moment and asked, "What happened?!"

Tian Dazhuang said, "It's because Yan Jiekuang worked too hard. He did more work in the morning than a small team of them did."

Gao Junsong finally realized that it was the others who were jealous. Gao Junsong asked, "What should we do? We can't restrict Yan Jiekuang from working, right?!"

At this time, Wu Haiwang also came over and said, "How about letting Yan Zhiqing work half a day and rest half a day? If he continues like this, he will take away all the work points of others."

Gao Junsong thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this! Starting tomorrow, let Gao Hu assign Yan Jiekuang a task of twenty work points. No matter when he finishes, he will be allowed to leave. Also, let Yan Jiekuang make some sugar samples. When the busy farming season is over and the public grain is paid, we will start the sugar-making workshop."

Tian Dazhuang said: "With this arrangement, the people in the team won't say anything. I think it's okay!"

"I think so too!" Wu Haiwang echoed, then said with a wry smile: "But in this way, I think Yan Zhiqing is at a disadvantage."

Gao Junsong sighed and said, "There's nothing we can do about this. Lao Tian, ​​go over and tell Gao Hu to let Yan Jiekuang go off work this afternoon!"

"Okay!" Tian Dazhuang responded, turned and left.

"Jie Kuang!" After about a quarter of an hour, Gao Hu came to the side of Yan Jie Kuang and Su Zihui. Yan Jie Kuang asked, "Captain, what's the matter?!"

Gao Hu said somewhat embarrassedly: "You can leave work now."

“What?!” Yan Jiekuang was stunned, thinking he had heard wrongly, and asked again: “Are you really going to let me get off work?!”

Gao Hu said, "Just stop working! If you continue to work, others will be dissatisfied. The team leader and the branch secretary have discussed it and decided to assign you 20 work points every day during the busy farming season. You can stop working when you finish your work."

After hearing what Gao Hu said, Yan Jiekuang pursed his lips unconsciously and said, "Okay! I'll leave now." Then he thought of Su Zihui and asked, "Team Leader, can I do ten more work points every day? But don't worry! These ten work points don't have to be counted on me, but on Su Zhiqing. What do you think?!"

Gao Hu said, "You two don't lack work points. Let me make the decision. When you finish work, Su Zhiqing will also finish work."

"Well! Then we'll go back first!" After saying that, Yan Jiekuang winked at Su Zihui, took his things, and left with Su Zihui.

After Yan Jiekuang and Su Zihui left, Carpenter Wu asked, "Huzi, what do the captain and the others mean by this?!"

Gao Hu said, "Uncle Carpenter, someone noticed that Yan Zhiqing is a very hard worker. The scorekeeper just counted and found that Yan Zhiqing did more work in the morning than our team. Others were afraid that Yan Zhiqing would take all the work points. So they went to the team leader and the branch secretary to give their opinions."

"Isn't this bullying?!" Aunt Lanhua, who loves to fight injustice, couldn't help but grumble after hearing what Gao Hu said, "Only Yan Zhiqing is easy to talk to. If it were anyone else, they would have started a commotion a long time ago."

"That's right!" others echoed.

Gao Hu said in a pleading tone: "Dear uncles and aunts, if you are dissatisfied, go to the team leader and the branch secretary. It is useless to complain to me."

Carpenter Wu also advised: "Okay! Everyone, don't make things difficult for Hu Zi. It's not easy for him either. Since you don't let Yan Zhiqing work in the afternoon, just do more work."