Sister Lao has always been straightforward and straightforward, and directly took her sister and brother to the single dormitory, "Xiao An still has a week's vacation, settle down in the dormitory first and then go back to her parents' house, discuss it with your mother, and see what she thinks about the Han family."

You have discussed, while you have just gone to work in the past few days, the eldest sister is not so busy, take you to Lao Han's house for a trip, and let them quickly come up with an attitude! ”

Although production cannot be stopped, according to the usual practice, non-production departments and organs do not begin their formal work until after the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Sending them to the dormitory, Sister Lao enthusiastically gave a few words of advice and left in a hurry.

Zhou Xiaoquan excitedly looked left and right in the bachelor dormitory, "Sister, this time you have your own bed!" ”

Zhou Xiaoan squeezed a bed with her mother and nieces before she got married, and was often kicked down by her wayward niece, and the marriage bed was occupied after she got married, and a bed of her own was too precious to her.

Zhou Xiaoquan is really happy for his sister, he has a hunch that from now on, his sister's hard life will come to an end!

Everyone went to work, and there were only two sisters and brothers in the single dormitory, Zhou Xiaoquan hurriedly took out the basin and went outside to fetch water and wipe the bed board for his sister.

These days, Zhou Xiao'an's hands can't touch the water, and the child consciously takes on all the washing and washing work, and even the clothes are washed properly.

Zhou Xiaoquan told his sister while busy working, "Sister, I will wash your clothes in the future, and I will come back every three days to wash your clothes!" I'll wash you when your hands are ready! ”

He was ignorant before, and he didn't know how to take care of his sister at all, so that she suffered so much, and he must make up for it in the future.

The single dormitories on the mine are more than a dozen rows of red brick houses, each row of a dozen rooms, each ten square meters, which will be able to squeeze into four bunk iron beds, the aisles have to be sideways to pass, and all personal belongings have to be stuffed under the beds.

In order to save bricks and wood, the house was only two meters high, and only a small window was left, even at noon, the house was dim and dark.

There is no heating or stove in the house, and the water in the basin can be frozen into a solid body overnight in winter, and the humidity is so strong in summer that everyone gets prickly heat.

But in such an environment, there are thousands of single workers lining up to squeeze in.

Peizhou is a semi-basin terrain, and it is not easy to expand to a certain extent. So the house has been very tight, even when Zhou An'an lived, the housing prices in Peizhou were also close to the first-tier cities.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, several large factories such as steel mills and textile mills were built in Peizhou, and coal mines were also vigorously expanded to recruit workers, and houses were in great short supply.

Therefore, it is not only Zhou Xiaoan's dream to have a bed of his own, almost all single workers are looking forward to living in a single dormitory and no longer crowded with a family.

It can be seen that Sister Lao really helped Zhou Xiaoan a lot this time.

After making the bed and stuffing two packs of biscuits for Zhou Xiaoquan, the sister and brother made an appointment to meet tomorrow, so they let him take his things home.

Zhou Xiaoan set off with a military satchel on his back and went to give gifts.

First go to Peizhou Mining Hospital, and go straight to the inpatient department to find Tao Weiwei and Duan, the head nurse.

The first meal she had when she came to this world was only eaten thanks to their care, and then they really helped her, and now that there is an excuse to repay them a little, Zhou Xiaoan will definitely seize the opportunity.

The little nurse Tao Weiwei was not in today's class, and Nurse Duan was very happy to see Zhou Xiaoan, so she pulled her for an examination first.

The bones of the hands have basically grown, but they still can't do hard work for a month or two, and the wound on the head has also scabbed, but fortunately, the wound is in the hair, and nothing can be seen when it is covered.

After measuring her blood pressure again and briefly looking at her eyelids and tongue coating, Head Nurse Duan was quite satisfied with Zhou Xiao'an's recovery, "If you take care of it for another two months, you can start growing meat!" ”

Zhou Xiaoan was stunned, why did it take two months? She still has to be yellow and ugly for two months?

Nurse Duan couldn't help but smile when she saw her staring at her with big eyes and blinking and being devastated.

This little girl is really interesting, everything in her heart is written on her face, and people can see it at a glance.

Zhou Xiao'an was grateful to Nurse Duan, she was kind and kind, she wouldn't be nervous at all with her, it was rare to have an expression on her face, but she didn't want to be laughed at, and her face began to turn red.

Nurse Duan couldn't help but smile when she saw her blushing, it was really rare to see a girl with such thin skin, and she was more patient when she talked to her.

"You are chronically malnourished, and it is impossible to recover in a few days. After two months, your body will recover, and of course you will grow meat! There's no need to rush now. ”

It's really useless to be in a hurry, Zhou Xiaoan took out the prepared things and handed them to Nurse Duan, "What I brought back when I went back to my hometown is not a good thing, it is dried vegetables dried at home, mostly dried radish, and a little dried plum vegetables sent by relatives in the south, all from previous years." My wife asked me to bring it to thank Nurse Duan and Weiwei for taking such good care of me when I was in the hospital. ”

The grass roots and bark in the countryside are all gone, and in the city, you can imagine how precious dried vegetables are after queuing for hours to buy a radish.

Nurse Duan said that she would not accept anything, and asked Zhou Xiaoan to take it back to replenish her body.

Zhou Xiaoan whispered to her, "A few years ago, there was a bumper harvest of vegetables in the self-kept field, and my wife dried a lot of dried vegetables, and there were several bags at home, which really didn't affect anything." ”

Zhou Xiaoan repeatedly emphasized that this was the wife's intention, so Nurse Duan had to accept it.

Zhou Xiaoan asked her to hand over a copy to Tao Weiwei, and let Tao Weiwei have time to go to the dormitory to play with her.

When the head nurse Duan sent Zhou Xiaoan out of the hospital gate, she had already changed from the head nurse Duan to the eldest sister Duan.

Zhou Xiaoan hurriedly ran back to the mine, stopped Sister Lao on the way to get off work, and gave Sister Lao the same dried vegetables after some words.

She is truly grateful to Sister Duan for their help to her, and she does not deny that this is to pave the way for her future life.

She needs friends, she needs kindness, and she is more willing to give her heart in exchange. This is the world she will live in in the future, and now she must plan and plan for herself.

Patiently listened to Sister Lao's meticulous advice, Zhou Xiaoan made an appointment with her, and went back to her parents' house to say goodbye to her.

She rushed to the evening school to sign up.

Sister Lao is very supportive of this, "No matter what, you have to be able to read the food book and calculate the salary!" ”

At present, most of the workers in the mines are recruited from the rural areas, and good physical strength and ability to work are the most important things.

In the early days of the founding of New China, the illiteracy rate of the Chinese population was as high as 80 percent, and workers accounted for a large proportion, and literacy eradication became the top priority.

The workers' clubs in the city hold amateur cultural study classes for workers all year round, and provide free literacy to workers.

Of course, Zhou Xiaoan is not going to eradicate illiteracy, she is going to pave the way for her own gilding and relationship.

After learning by herself at home and no one knows, she can't run to write a few words to the leader and say to others, "You see I'm not illiterate, you can arrange a clerical job for me", right? She had to get herself an academic qualification that everyone could see and recognize as soon as possible.

Of course, if she just wanted to take off the hat of illiteracy, the literacy class run by the mine was enough, and she went to the literacy class run by the workers' club in the city, and she went to a teacher there. (To be continued.) )