After resting at Zhou's house for one night, and having breakfast the next day, Zhou Cuiling went to work at the grain station, and Meng Tao went back to the courtyard of Meng's house and began to tidy up the room she wanted to live in.

The educated youths had already had breakfast and were about to go to work, when they saw Meng Tao coming in with two travel bags, and they had to talk around her for a while.

They are all a production team, and Meng Taohua didn't care about people in the past, but she knew what the names of these young people who lived in her house, and the five male young people were Jiang Xiaodong, Sun Yutang, Qian Jin, Wu Guoliang, and Zhao Ming; The three female intellectuals Jiang Limei, Qian Xiaoyun, and He Huijuan, she and these eight people will get along day and night in the future.

The educated youths said hello and went to work, Meng Tao closed the courtyard door and walked into the house, three main rooms, the middle is the hall, there is a compartment behind the hall, some of the furniture used by the old man Meng and Meng Taohua before is stored there, the east house is now three female intellectuals live, the male intellectuals in the west have vacated, and they have also been repainted, although the technology is not good, but the four walls are white and clean to look very comfortable, Meng Tao only needs to clean the lime and floating sand sprinkled on the ground, hang a curtain on the window, and then put the bed frame at the back of the hall, Tables, chairs, and cabinets are scrubbed clean, moved in, and placed in peace.

Hmm, it seems that there are still shortcomings in things? Bought bed sheets and mosquito nets in the provincial capital, but no quilts!

It's late autumn now, and I want to cover a thin quilt at night, so let's go through it tonight, and take a look tomorrow, go to the commune supply and marketing cooperative, and buy two quilts back.

Let's see what the shortcomings are, and I bought them together by the way.

Meng Tao walked out of the house and looked at the courtyard, a few educated youths are good, the yard is very well tied, the left wing room is now a male dormitory, they wrapped the cement given by the wind, in front of the wing room with stones and waste bricks to build a rectangular flower bed, dig the soil loose, I don't know where to get two holly trees and unknown low plants planted in it, like a decent one, the edge of the flower bed is built wide, you can sit on it to enjoy the shade, you can also place a washbasin, wash your face and brush your teeth every morning to water the plants directly.

On the right is the kitchen and firewood room, and in front of the kitchen is a large water tank, which was originally there; In the corner of the courtyard of the firewood house, a large chicken coop was built with bamboo chips, and several small hens and roosters were kept in captivity, and two long bamboo poles were set up between the courtyard wall and the persimmon tree, which was enough to dry clothes and quilts.

The back garden is planted with melons and vegetables, and there are toilets and bathing rooms.

Meng Tao walked to the water tank and uncovered the bamboo lid, there was more than half a tank of water in it, she decided to use the water to scrub the furniture first, and then pick it up when it was finished.

After more than two hours of busyness, I finally finished scrubbing the bed frame and some furniture, not the ones that were moved back from the Tian family, but the single bed frame and small wardrobes, tables and chairs used by Meng Taohua when she was "unmarried", the wood is good, and they are all very strong, and there is even a small dresser with a simple and elegant shape, it is conceivable that Mr. Meng really loves his granddaughter very much.

Meng Tao couldn't move the bed frame by himself, so he first cleaned the floor of the room, hung the curtains, and just bought some light-colored floral cloth in the provincial capital, cut a piece and then put it on a little needlework.

Then carry the empty bucket to the well to carry water, the previous Meng Taohua was used to farm work and housework, it was no problem to pick a few loads of water, and she also had that strength, but Meng Tao just felt uncomfortable, her shoulders hurt, her balance was not good, and she splashed a load of water at the beginning, but fortunately, most people were working in the field at this time, and no one saw her embarrassed appearance, otherwise it would be strange: Peach Blossom went to the provincial capital and came back, and she wouldn't even pick the water?!

When she filled a jar of water, the educated youths all finished work and came back for lunch.

Several male intellectuals enthusiastically helped her move the bed frame, cabinets, boxes, tables and chairs into the room, and Sun Yutang also brought a leftover iron wire from them to help her hit two nails in the room and pull them up, so that she could usually hang her clothes, and she could dry them in the house if she washed her clothes on rainy days, and Meng Tao expressed her gratitude.

The female intellectuals were ready to cook and asked Meng Tao to eat with them, Meng Tao politely declined, no one had much rations, and if they ate other people's, they couldn't eat enough and had to go hungry.

She needs to go to the brigade headquarters and say to Captain Bao Shunfeng that when they come back from work, they will go and return the advance travel expenses, and by the way, advance the food and support it until the day of the food distribution.

Although she now has money and food stamps, she can live without food advances, but she still shouldn't be too lascivious, so as not to make people notice that she is not consistent with the previous Meng Taohua.

Meng Tao went to the brigade headquarters, the captain and the accountant cashier were there, Meng Tao returned the thirty yuan and ten catties of food stamps, looked at the cashier and ticked her name on the notepad, indicating that "the money has been repaid on a certain day in a certain year, a certain month", and then began to handle the advance of grain, got a slip, and waited for the captain to approve and seal, and then went to the warehouse keeper to receive food.

Captain Bao Shunfeng is giving a certificate to a member, training people while opening, waiting for the member to leave, it is Meng Tao's turn to go over to seal the seal, and he was also taught a lesson, to the effect that Meng Tao should be able to do things neatly, he should figure out the family this morning, and he can go to work in the afternoon to earn work, and if he doesn't earn work, the food is not enough to eat.

Meng Tao agreed twice, the captain is a black-faced Bao Gong, his temper is positive, and he is not afraid of him if he is familiar with him, just when he loves to nag during menopause, just go in his left ear and out of his right ear.

I read Aunt Yang's small scoring book last night, and the strong laborers earn ten cents a day, three cents for one job, three cents for ten, and only three cents for a day, my God, the price of two bowls of noodles in the provincial capital, and food stamps have to be added.

Coming out of the brigade headquarters, Meng Tao went directly to the warehouse keeper to receive the grain, the warehouse keeper had already been greeted by the captain, took the strip and looked at it, and saw that Meng Tao was holding a few cloth bags in her hand, and began to weigh her grain, Meng Tao didn't care to see how many catties, just looked at the scooped out of the grain and was dumbfounded: half a bag of corn kernels, half a bag of high grain, half a bag of husked wheat, and half a bag of rice, all of which are unprocessed!

She had to carry herself to the mill, grind it into flour and threshing it herself before she could eat it.

Meng Tao only felt that her scalp hurt, "Who knows that Chinese food is hard work", it is not easy to eat some food!

Meng Tao borrowed a flat pole from the warehouse keeper, tied four cloth bags at two ends, and staggered away.

When I went to the mill at the head of the village, there happened to be a grandmother with an eight or nine-year-old grandson grinding noodles in it, and there were also several bags, the grandparents and grandchildren had complete tools, with dustpans, sieves and straw brooms, Meng Tao didn't bring anything, so she asked to cooperate with them to grind together, they were two people, Meng Tao also had to borrow tools, and then give them the chaff, so it was not a advantage.

The grandparents and grandchildren readily agreed that now is not a terrible famine, and people do not need to eat chaff, but it is good feed for chickens, pigs and cows.

So the three of them pushed the stone mill for a few hours, and when the sun was in the west, they were finally all polished, and each carried his burden home.