As soon as Qiao's father and Qiao Yibing returned to the brigade, they were surrounded by other cadres waiting in the brigade headquarters, and they were all very concerned about the price of dried straw mushrooms.

There are 150 catties of dried straw mushrooms, which doesn't look much, but when converted into fresh straw mushrooms, it is more than 1,000 catties, if you can't sell the price, it will be a big loss.

Qiao's father found a chance to get out and returned to the canteen of the fourth team, just in time to see Qiao Hongliang coming out of the mushroom room on the side.

"Abba. Qiao Hongyuan shouted, "Isn't it smooth to go to the supply and marketing cooperative?"

Father Qiao shook his head and approached the mushroom room, "How is the mushroom room now?" ”

Qiao Hongyuan was not excited when he heard this price, "What about the dried straw mushrooms of the other three production teams?"

"Five pieces of dried straw mushrooms a catty, do you think the price is not big?" Qiao's father understood the second son's thoughts, "This is just right, and it won't make the other three production teams jealous." ”

Qiao Hongyuan has always been unable to grasp people's hearts, so he has no doubt about Qiao's father's statement, "Then do we want to expand the mushroom room?"

It happened to be a slack farm, and there was a lot of labor that could be used.

Father Qiao shook his head, "No, that's just right." "Now is not the time to expand," in a few days, the commune will arrange for roads, canals, and reservoirs to be built, and everyone will be empty. ”

"That's fine. Qiao Hongyuan also felt that it was just right now, within the scope of being busy.

Qiao's father is actually worried that if the income of dried shiitake mushrooms is too much, it will lead to changes in the psychology of the members, and with the information circulation of various teams, there will be trouble coming to the door.

I don't know what Qiao Yibing said, the cadres of the brigade have the ambition to hide the price of dried straw mushrooms from the members.

Qiao's father thought to himself: It's rare for them to be smart and know that they are clumsy.

In fact, everyone's mentality is not difficult to understand, afraid that relatives will come to borrow money, afraid that other brigades will follow suit, after all, when they sold straw mushrooms before, the price was falling all the way, so don't be too distressed.

After the dried shiitake mushrooms and dried straw mushrooms were sold, the money was collected by the captains of each production team and left for the end of the year to be divided according to the work share.

At this time, the public grain and grain purchase of the entire commune were completely ended and entered the winter break mode, but this did not mean that there was nothing to do.

In the first two years, in addition to the large-scale steel smelting, the construction of roads and reservoirs was carried out, and in the next ten years, the latter will become the theme of winter.

To be honest, Qiao's father is also in favor, after all, the traffic is too inconvenient now. Besides, if you have something to do, you won't be cranky and cause trouble.

This winter, the task given by the commune to the Gaoshan Brigade was to build roads, open up the road from the commune to the Gaoshan brigade, and strive to open it to traffic.

The experience of handing over public grain twice this year made the members of the Gaoshan Brigade realize that the difference between having a car to the door and not having a car to the door is very big, and of course they actively responded to the call.

None of the middle-aged men of the Alpine Brigade were missed, and a few women were selected to cook.

Not to mention that there is work to build roads, there are also food subsidies, and this work is not mandatory, it is still relatively popular, except for those lazy.

Road repair is still based on the production team, Qiao's father and Qiao's mother have to get up before dawn every day, one is to make breakfast in the canteen, and the other is to roll call, check tools, etc.

There were less than half of the people in the village, and it was much quieter at once, and the women and children who remained were not idle, and there was not much to do.

The children only have more time on weekends, and they help out for five days after school on weekdays.

And Qiao Jiayue was assigned the task of weeding, catching insects, and tying straw to the cabbage field, so that there would be two jobs in a day.

This work score is too low, but for the children of the fourth team, it is full of motivation, and the work points accumulate a lot, and at the end of the year, they can also share a dime and a few cents, and they can buy a lot of candy.

Qiao Jiayue is usually with Qiao Hongliang, and occasionally Qiao Qiuyue will come over to talk and talk about some secrets and gossip between girls.

For example, two days ago, the madman ran back to the village from nowhere, covered in dirt, with his torn clothes stuffed with straw, and went to the canteen of the third team to grab a lot of food, and then he hid somewhere.

Qiao Jiayue keeps a distance from people who are not sober-minded, and she doesn't want to watch the excitement.

According to Qiao Qiuyue, the madman seems to be very familiar with the canteen, runs very fast, and only takes the canteen of the third team, everyone says that he is crazy and still knows which production team he belongs to, and there is still room for treatment, but unfortunately he is too poor.

In comparison, the people of the fourth team did not pay attention to this madman, at most they said a few words, and everyone's minds were on food.

The daily ration of the road construction team would only be higher than that of the production team, and even if the commune had a food subsidy, it would be a drop in the bucket.

Fortunately, there are finches in the fields, and the old people and women will go to pick the finches and wheat, dry them and make wild vegetable dumplings with sweet potatoes in a certain proportion, and take them away when the road construction team leaves.

The other brigades are also about the same food standard, although there are fewer sweet potatoes and more wheat, but they can finally fill their stomachs.

After a light snowfall, the temperature dropped a lot, and when the snow fell, the temperature was lower, and when I woke up in the morning, there was a layer of ice floating on the surface of the water in the tank.

Qiao Jiayue was very sad to catch a cold, high fever, runny nose, sore throat, and the shortage of medicine in the health center, so the two young doctors could only grab a few packets of herbs with Granny Lan's earthwork.

And there are not many people like Qiao Jiayue in the entire Alpine Brigade, and for a while, the herbs dried by Granny Lan and Granny Yang Shu were not enough.

Qiao Jiayue was afraid of infecting her three elder brothers, so she kept her distance from them and didn't dare to say a word.

The health room also found that the cold would be contagious, so it was busy telling the members to keep their distance, drink more water, pay attention to hygiene, etc., but the effect was not very good, and more and more people were recruited.

At first it was the old man and the child, then the women, and then the men who went to build the road were also sick.

Seeing this, Qiao's father immediately discussed with the other captains to suspend the road repair and let the members have a good rest.

Everyone has a family member who has been recruited, and they are naturally happy to be able to rest.

Qiao Jiayue quietly took the medicine in the package, and it got better relatively quickly, but Qiao's mother was worried about her and didn't let her come into contact with other people.

Qiao Hongliang looked at it again, she couldn't do anything if she wanted to.

On the morning of the first day of the road construction stoppage, the door of Qiao Jiayue's house was knocked on.

Qiao's father went to open the door, and saw Qiao's sixth uncle and Aunt Qiao's sixth aunt holding the child crying outside, and when they saw it, the child in their arms was burned and their faces were red.

"Second brother, you are the captain of the production team, save your nephew, he has a high fever, if he doesn't get rid of the fever, he will burn into a fool, what can we do?

As soon as Aunt Qiao saw Qiao's father, she burst into tears, crying as if she was about to faint.

Qiao Jiayue was woken up by this crying sound in the house, and couldn't help frowning, she didn't have any impression of this sixth aunt, she was a person with no sense of existence in Qiao's family.

Father Qiao looked at Uncle Qiao with dissatisfaction, "Sixth, the child is like this, why don't you hurry up and take it to the health room, I am not a doctor, how can I save him?"

Sixth Uncle Qiao opened his mouth, his expression was a little stunned, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Second brother, you are the captain of the production team, send Xiao Yan to the commune to see the doctor, there is medicine over there. Aunt Qiao was crying, and the purpose was obvious, she wanted to take her son to the commune or the county seat to see a doctor.

But they don't have the ability, can only fight Qiao's father's idea?