attack stream of life

When the new educated youth first arrived, the old educated youth asked them if they wanted to have dinner together as usual.

Generally speaking, everyone will not object, because eating seems simple, but as long as you think about the steps including collecting firewood, carrying water, washing rice and vegetables, lighting the fire, cooking and cooking, washing dishes, etc., you will know It is by no means an easy task.

If such trivial matters are put in the group, everyone will divide the labor and cooperate, and everyone only needs to do their own affairs well, and then they can eat in the end.This is really a good thing for mutual benefit.

The pretty Comrade He said on the spot that she doesn't know how to cook and doesn't have the energy to carry water, so can she do the dishes?When everyone heard it, they said yes, girls, be more careful, and the dishes are clean.The new male educated youth said that he was strong enough and was responsible for carrying water, and everyone agreed.

When it came to Comrade Bai, she looked easy to talk to, but she asked how much food she would pay every month and how much food she could eat every day if she joined the group.The girl calculated in her heart that it was wrong, she ate much less than what she handed in, and the marks appeared on her face.

She didn't know the various ingredients that comrades Xiaoyu and Zhaoming handed in every month, and she didn't know the tradition of old educated youths exchanging food with villagers for food. For a long time, he bullied her.

So she refused immediately, saying that she likes to cook by herself, so she won't bother everyone.

It's okay, it doesn't matter if there are fewer people.

At first, Bai Zhiqing thought she could do well, but things were not as she imagined.There are coal-burning stoves in the city, but firewood kilns in the countryside. She needs to spend more time collecting firewood and carrying water.He Zhiqing, who shares the same room with her, can sleep soundly and eat breakfast when she wakes up, but she has to get up an hour earlier to cook.

What's more, her cooking skills are not as good as Comrade Xiao Yu's, and the sauces and ingredients she has are not rich enough, so the food she makes can be imagined.

The fruits, vegetables and livestock in the yard belong to the educated youth. If she wants, yes, there is still an open space for her to use. She can grow her own vegetables and raise chickens.These are all easy to solve. Growing vegetables and raising chickens is not so labor-intensive, but there is no other solution for the sauce. It was brought out by Xiaoyu educated youth, as well as cooking wine, fermented bean curd, pickled poultry eggs, wolfberry and red dates, etc. Comrade Zhaoming took it out.

Some of the old educated youths have mastered the skills of fishing and hunting, and sometimes they can have a meal of fish and game.If the handed-in food is enough to eat, if there is any surplus, everyone will go to the villagers to replace it with locally available ingredients such as lotus root starch, lotus seeds, mushrooms, etc.

So, don't look at the fact that each staple food is only two taels, I really eat a lot, and there is a supper from time to time, and I live happily ever after.

Bai Zhiqing looked at himself with simple food and simple food, and then looked at the laughter and laughter over there, not to mention how unpleasant it was.But she wanted to join, but Comrade Xiaoyu was not used to her. At the beginning, this girl knew that she would hand in twenty catties of grain every month, but when the staple food was two taels for each meal, the look in Comrade Xiaoyu's eyes was simply amazing. I can remember it.

She is generous, that depends on the person, and now she looks like she is being bullied, is she sick?

Because of cooking, the old educated youth had a prejudice against Bai educated youth, and then something happened that made them even more resistant to this new lesbian.

The educated youth spot in Shangwan Village is often visited by villagers.

The team leader was afraid that the educated youth who had just arrived would not get used to it, so he came a few times to talk.A few wine-loving villagers came twice to exchange wine with the things grown in their private plots.The old lady in the village brought the pickled vegetables and spicy radishes she made herself, and came twice to change the sauce.There are also teenagers in the village who came to ask for advice with their textbooks.

These things are normal, that is, exchanges between the two sides, but for Bai Zhiqing, this is not normal.

She looked vigilant, the captain came, she hid, the wine-changing villagers came, she hid, the old lady came, she walked away when she saw it, even a few hairy children couldn't get her good looks.

Everyone is surprised, what is she hiding?Is there a monster chasing outside or something?

But the most unacceptable thing is that Bai educated youth broke the example of "self-reliance and self-improvement" among educated youth.

She worked well for the first half month. Although she was a foreign worker, she was still able to do a little bit. Later, she was very reluctant. At this time, a young man from the village walked over and asked if he wanted to help. The girl blushed. , didn't say anything, just stopped what he was doing.

Feeling invited, the young man was full of energy and finished the rest of the work.

Afterwards, the same situation happened again, when a courteous young man came to help, she was that shy, not refusing or admitting it, and the young men in the village misunderstood her, thinking there was something going on, and she worked very quickly.

The big brothers in the educated youth frowned. They were old educated youths, and no matter how tired they were, they didn't ask anyone to help them with the work. They would rather get less work points and owe no favors. The newcomers were too ignorant.

Alas, once this trend rises, it will be difficult to suppress it.Doesn't this little girl know that it's not free to let people do the work?It's okay now, but in the future, people will feel that they are not reconciled to doing so much work?If this is going to cause trouble, won't the educated youth in their village be as noisy as other villages in the future?

While worrying, Big Brother saw Zhaoming walking over.

"Hey, Brother Maodan, don't bully her because our new comrade doesn't know the situation."

Zhaoming smiled, his eyes bent into crescent moons, and he said in a playful way, "It is a rule in our village that gay men only work in the fields for free for the future father-in-law. The new comrades probably don't know the situation, so I don't understand why you can do me a favor." Is it wrong to be your daughter-in-law?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I, I don't think so." The young man blushed and secretly glanced at the new female educated youth embarrassingly.

"You don't think that way, so don't do it. So many people are watching, what if you accidentally become a fact? You are simply embarrassing."

Zhaoming turned to look at the educated youth Bai who smiled awkwardly, "The atmosphere in the village is relatively conservative, so if you don't know the situation, you should not do such misleading things. Comrade Bai, if you want it, then say yes, If you don’t want to, then refuse. You are so hesitant that you can’t speak, it’s really easy to be misunderstood.”

Usually quite good at talking, why?Did you saw your tongue when you refused?You can't treat everyone as a fool.

"I didn't think..." There are more and more people looking at this place. This favored female educated youth seems to have not expected that there will be someone like Zhao Ming who doesn't understand the style and doesn't give face. She opened her mouth to explain, but she only said three times Zhaoming truncated it.

"Have you heard, I don't have that kind of heart. The lesbian is just embarrassed. If you don't speak up when you see this lesbian in the future, just take it as a refusal. Oh, girl, shy, you know."

Seeing many young people from the village gathered, Zhaoming raised his voice, "We came here from the city to receive re-education. If you come here but don't work and eat for free, then what kind of re-education is it? We are not relatives, not old friends." How many shameless people can do this? Our comrade Bai is not such a shameless person. She is thin-skinned and embarrassed to refuse. I am thick-skinned and I will refuse for others , so you all must stop helping with the work, this is not helping others, it is harming others."

Zhaoming also said this meaning again in the local dialect with a particularly malicious heart. Several young men who had helped with the work before were taken away by their mother twisting their ears, leaving behind a white educated youth with an embarrassed expression, who looked at Zhaoming. He hesitated to speak.

But the other educated youths did not comfort her, nor did they say that Zhaoming was wrong, so what should he do.

This incident broke Zhaoming's usual gentle appearance, and he was still tough when he should be tough.Anyway, even the big brother of the educated youth felt that he probably couldn't do it, and he couldn't speak when he saw the teary eyes of the girl on his face.

The lesbians knew it and didn't say anything.

They knew what kind of person Zhaoming was.Although he is young, he is good at taking care of others, and he is also careful with women, and he doesn't have the mentality of a man who looks down on lesbians.Once a girl came to have a small day, her face turned blue from the pain, and the other gay men didn't notice, so he quietly sent a glass thermos bottle filled with boiling water.

What's more, they themselves don't look down on the new white educated youth.

I really don't know how the family was raised. It's not like the whole family just imitated the intrigues played by the big family in the feudal period when they had nothing to do?Otherwise, how did you raise such a caring girl?

Here Zhiqing He has something to say.She and Bai Zhiqing live in the same room, because she eats group meals, so she doesn't have to get up so early in the morning.But Bai Zhiqing cooks by himself, so he has to get up early.She is very unhappy, very unbalanced, and it is finished quietly. She has to fall into a pot and smash the pot, just like the symphony.

That's fine, He Zhiqing loves beauty, but the current condition is to wear a flower, a small flower with a bow on her head, and put some snowflakes on her face.That's it, as soon as he is seen, he will say something about capitalism in a weird way.

Pooh!I am beautiful!I am beautiful!

Chef Yu also said that he would borrow seasonings over and over again, but he would not return them.Let her return it, she said that this little seasoning is fussy and stingy, if she doesn't let her return it, she will be angry.Chef Yu's seasonings were collected from more than half of the county. It was not a matter of money, but a matter of spending a lot of effort.

Later, Chef Yu stopped borrowing, and Bai Zhiqing complained to others, saying that Chef Yu was ostracizing her, and the old women in the village would come, but she would not find it if she asked.Chef Yu was so angry that he told Bai Zhiqing directly in front of everyone: "When did the village aunt come to change the sauce empty-handed?"However, Comrade Bai dares to use other people's sauces empty-handed, so I don't give them, is there a problem? '

Comrade Xiaohua was not happy either, because Comrade Xiaohua was in good condition, and she had everything, such as Shanghai market creams, canned meat, malted milk...she was not stingy, but she was not generous enough to give it to everyone she saw.She gave something to Chef Yu, that means they are friendly, what did others say?It was Bai Zhiqing who accused Sang and scolded Huai for engaging in small groups.

Just engage in small groups, are you angry?You are mad.

Afterwards, the situation was calm, and the young men and women who were ready to move were separated by their parents and went to work in another area. Those who worked with the educated youth were the old men and women in the village.Originally, the educated youths did relatively light work, which was suitable for the elderly in the village.

The first time Bai Zhiqing stretched out his tentacles, he was severely injured, as if he was a little devastated, and he was as quiet as a ghost for more than half a month.On the contrary, the pretty He Zhiqing blended in very quickly. He should eat and drink, work for half a day and rest for half a day, struggling to wait for rescue in the city with four or five work points a day.

The eldest brother in the educated youth group laughed and said that Comrade He seemed to have the shadow of Zhaoming back then.

Zhaoming also thought about the time when he first came last year, he mixed some medicinal wine, gave a bottle to the new educated youth in the same room, and gave a bottle to each of the two new female educated youths.But although he also gave it to Bai Zhiqing, his expression was not very enthusiastic, and he didn't say much.

Bai Zhiqing chased him out with medicinal wine, she frowned, feeling particularly wronged, "Comrade Zhaoming, do you have any objections to me?"

"Yes." Zhaoming said it bluntly, he was rarely so rude to others.

Bai Zhiqing's tears almost fell down.

"Do you know how much effort we have spent in order to live well here and to integrate into this place?"

Zhaoming looked at Bai Zhiqing indifferently, "Why doesn't Brother Liu need money to repair machinery in the village? Why is Miss Yu willing to exchange sauces with the village aunt when she loses her money? Why do we use our rest time every day to make textbooks in the evening?" teach people?"

"So much energy wasted, why? Just to rectify the name of the educated youth and let people know that although we are not good at doing farm work, we are willing to take responsibility, have a sense of responsibility, have morality, and have many skills. Therefore, the villagers are also willing to respect We, regard us as our own people, and are willing to provide a lot of convenience and help. Instead of treating us like cancerous tumors and stinky shit like other villages."

"You almost destroyed it!"

Bai Zhiqing trembled, and the tears finally fell from his eyelids.

The bayberry trees planted in the village were all bearing fruit, and the purple-red ones were hanging on the branches. The team leader gathered a group of skilled women to pick bayberry with ladders.

This kind of fruit can't be kept, and it will go bad after two days of picking, but the fresh fruit can't be sold at a good price when it is put on a cart all the way to the county. Make some bayberry wine.The local bayberry wine is actually fresh bayberry soaked in sweet potato wine, and this wine will not work for too long.But it is troublesome to make Zhaoming's kind of fruit wine fermented with bayberry juice without adding wine and water.

Comrade Xiaoyu decided to teach the women in the village how to make dried bayberry with rock sugar. After the dried bayberry with rock sugar is made, the size shrinks and becomes smaller. It can be stored in a sealed glass jar for a long time. The small grain is sour and sweet, not only for children, but also for women. I also like it.If there is a canning machine, you can also make canned bayberry, which is much more affordable than dried bayberry, but unfortunately there is no one.

There are a lot of bayberry trees in the village, and they are not mature in batches, and there can be a month of fresh bayberry one after another.He couldn't finish these things by himself, Zhaoming made a lot of money in speculation, so he wondered if he could send these things outside.Xiaoyu gave me advice, she can make rock sugar dried bayberry, bayberry powder, bayberry jam, and bayberry wine, all of which are easy to store.

The village was also thinking about it. When the educated youths talked about it, they thought there was something interesting, made some samples, and asked people to take them out to test the water.There are some young people in the village who are as dexterous as Brother Ying, so they are asked to take samples to several big factories to see if they accept them.

As a result, a wire drawing factory in the county fell in love with the sweet and sour rock sugar dried bayberry. Their factory has many children and workers, so they can use this as a benefit.A state-run pastry shop also needs a batch of dried red bayberry, and a state-run restaurant... There are actually many state-owned enterprises that have this intention to purchase.

Where there is a market, there are sellers. Immediately, there was another "Yangmei Products Factory" attached to the commune in the village, and agreements were signed with several factories.

But in this way, the bayberry in the village may not be enough, and we have to go to the nearby villages to buy some raw materials.

Making red bayberry is an easy job, and even half-grown children, the elderly and women who are pregnant with children who cannot do it at home can do it.

Comrade Xiaoyu invited the young women in the village to pick red bayberries together. There are standards for this thing, and it is not acceptable to have red bayberries that are not ripe, or too ripe.After picking the fruit, the next step is to make rock sugar dried bayberry.

Zhaoming just went to the sugar factory a month ago, and now he is going there again to sign a contract with the sugar village brigade on behalf of the village's freshly baked "Yangmei Products Factory" and buy a lot of rock sugar at a low price, which reduces the cost .

Fresh red bayberry should be washed and drained, mixed with rock sugar, boiled with water, and a certain proportion of herbs such as tangerine peel, hawthorn, licorice, etc. should be added in the middle, and lemon juice should be squeezed out until there is only a little juice in the pot. Take it out, put it on the grill, and bake in the oven.

This process is usually done by the old women in the village. They have dealt with the stove all their lives and can master the heat well.

The collected glass jars are washed and boiled in boiling water, then pulled out with bamboo clips, drained, quickly put in dried bayberry, and sealed with oiled paper. This is a finished jar.Each can of dried bayberry is about half a catty, but the price is more than ten times that of fresh bayberry.

There is also the bayberry syrup left over from boiled bayberry, which is very thick. These can also be sold for money, and a small spoonful can melt into a large bowl of rock sugar bayberry juice.But because there is not much of this concentrated bayberry juice, it is directly distributed to the villagers to compensate for the regret that the villagers cannot eat bayberry this year.

Although the villagers took money and juice again, they didn't feel regretful in their hearts.

Because this stuff is a secret recipe given by Comrade Xiaoyu, it is because of her recipe that these dried bayberries with rock sugar have a special flavor, so that picky-mouthed urbanites like it as soon as they eat it, so she has made great contributions. The village cannot let her work for nothing.

In order not to leak the formula, all kinds of herbs were put in a burlap bag, and only Comrade Xiaoyu, the women director and the team leader knew what was inside.The village also worried that Xiao Yu's heart would be chilled, so she spoke out the formula in a fit of anger.

After discussing with several cadres in the village, from now on, Comrade Xiaoyu will be in charge of this matter every year during the red bayberry ripening season, which is regarded as full credit.In addition, in the first three years, one layer of the net income of dried red bayberries will be used as a reward for Comrade Xiaoyu, and after three years, the reward will be reduced to [-]%.

For example, this year, these dried red bayberries were sold for more than 700 yuan. After deducting the price of glass jars, bayberries from other villages, rock sugar and various herbs, there are still more than 500 yuan, of which more than [-] yuan is Comrade Xiaoyu's bonus.After three years, Comrade Xiaoyu's bonus has become more than five yuan.

No one in the village is dissatisfied, and they are all very convinced now.You said, they are all human beings, so why are they so smart?If they were here, the red bayberry would just rot in the ground, but if they were here, they would be strings of money.

The women and the elderly in the village also thank her. The village gives them eight points of work points a month, and the village’s strong laborers only have so much a day. unqualified products.

The only regret is probably Zhaoming. He probably won't be able to make bayberry wine this year, and he won't be able to make it in the future.If it weren't for the old leaves of loquats that are used to make loquat paste, Zhaoming feels that it is not clear whether he can make loquat wine.

But he wasn't completely useless, at least he took a note to the sugar village. In addition to the low-priced rock sugar for the village, he also got some brown sugar to sell on the black market in the county.

Most importantly, he bought a set of ancient books and several antique jewelry boxes at a low price through Qiao Kuan in the county.There are better things, but unfortunately he can't afford them, and there are some ancient books of calligraphy and painting, but he doesn't know how to appraise them.

Zhaoming suddenly remembered that the old village head said that one of the exiles sent to Shangwan Village ran an antique shop. He wondered if it was too late to learn from a teacher.

But the idea just passed through his mind.

No time to.