Everyone at the table gasped.

They were frightened by Qiao Mu's resoluteness and ruthlessness, what kind of place is the Northwest Reclamation Corps, it is an extremely difficult place, if it is fifty points of hard work in a field like theirs, then going to the Northwest Reclamation Corps to reclaim the land is ninety points and one hundred points of hard work, and it may even be more than that.

Although the people of this era revere the soldiers and hope to join the army, they are not so stupid as not to understand the difference between the reclamation corps and the normal military camps.

All farmers know that the fields need to be raised, and the fields that everyone is planting now are ripe fields.

Ripe fields that have been cultivated by ancestors for generations.

Xintian is not only difficult to plant.

And the yield is extremely low.

The environment in the northwest is completely different from other places, and it is even more difficult for locals to go there to open up wasteland.

At the beginning, that is, in the early sixties, when the country called on everyone to go to the northwest to reclaim and contribute themselves, there were indeed many enthusiastic people who signed up one after another.

Ten years have passed, however.

Everyone has a scale in their hearts.

Some of the people who went back then finally came back with the help of their families, some left their lives there, and some have not come back yet, and they don't even know when they will be able to come back.

But the big picture is only about sacrifice.

I will only talk about dedication to the country.

Won't talk about anything else.

The only people who are distressed are probably their parents and themselves.

This is also one of the main reasons why the number of educated youths in the countryside increased year by year in the mid-to-late sixties, and in the cities, they obviously could not stay any longer, or were not allowed to stay any longer.

Then they have only three options.

Either you have to support the great northwest, or you have to go further south, that is, Yunnan and other places to contribute, or you have to go to the countryside.

Compared with the three, it is best to go to the countryside.

Don't think that Yunnan was a good place at that time, the northwest was hard and cold, but the south was also not a good place, at least it was definitely not a good place at that time, and people who were not familiar with the environment could not face the miasma and poisonous insects in the south.

In the case of insufficient medical resources.

It's easy to lose your life by accident.

For example, eating poisonous mushrooms.

For example, I was bitten by a poisonous insect.

Or maybe it's just sick.

In a few decades, the environment in the northwest will be okay, and Yunnan is a well-known tourist attraction.

That's not the case with those two directions.

It was because there were predecessors who went to those places one after another to carry out primitive development, which broke the miasma, removed most of the snakes, insects, rats and ants, and softened the environment so that it would not be difficult for outsiders to enter.

"Mother, isn't this too ruthless!

Mei Mei is a girl after all, we just need to teach more in the future, why bother? ”

Wang Weixi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly persuaded.

In his opinion, the cruel words that his mother left at this time were much more cruel than when he said that he broke his leg.

"Teach, then do you say she listens?

If she wants to listen, of course I'm willing to teach her slowly, but do you think she seems to be willing to listen, that's all, as I say.

I'm not going to stay home this afternoon.

I'm going to the county seat.

I don't want to eat this meal either.

Feel free to do whatever you want. ”

After Qiao Mu continued, a new idea was born in his heart, maybe there were other ways, for example, to get the two of them to work as workers in the county town, regardless of what type of worker, as long as they went, they had to leave the village, and they couldn't come back a few times a year, so it would naturally fade.

It is precisely because of this that arbor thought of this.

will suddenly say that he wants to go to the county seat.

Go to the county seat and see if you can find a way to get them two jobs, so let's get them out first.

It's better to sweep the streets and watch the gate than to let these two guys stay at home and toss blindly.

"Mother, you better eat something.

Don't be mad at them. ”

Wang Weixi continued to persuade.

Qiao Mu shook his head and didn't say a word.

So he went back to prepare his things in a muffled voice.

It is obviously not a good idea to send Wang Meimei and Wang Helong to the Northwest Reclamation Corps to reclaim the wasteland, and Qiao Mu brought it up just to scare the two of them.

If the two of them were really sent to the reclamation corps, and something happened when they turned around, the family would probably blame her, the initiator, and Qiao Mu would not do such a thankless task.

After Qiao Mu left, his lunch was very dull.

Wang Meimei was also a little thoughtful, not sure whether what her grandmother said was true or false, and some thoughts in her heart couldn't help but start to waver.

If her grandmother did that.

Is she still willing to fight for it?

……

In the afternoon, less than half an hour to be precise, Qiao Mu pretended to carry a small bamboo basket and walked to the county seat.

Ox carts are not something that can be called on call.

There are only two or three days a month to go to the county seat, and it is all in the morning, and Qiao Mu goes at noon, obviously it is impossible to get on the ox cart, so she can only choose to walk.

Fortunately, Qiao Mu has not fed herself any good things these days, so although her appearance has not changed much, she is still a little bald and her face is old, but her real physical fitness and system have been much better, and walking is nothing.

After more than an hour, Qiao Mu who came to the county began to inquire around, asking which side had recruitment, which side of the factory had vacancies or temporary vacancies, and so on.

It doesn't cost much either.

Just find some old men and old ladies who look like locals and nag, all they spend is a handful of melon seeds in their pockets, don't underestimate those old men and old ladies, all kinds of gossip in the county, except for the special handlers, there is no more sensitive than them.

After chatting casually, looking for seven or eight, and chatting for two hours, Qiao Mu found out the basic situation of the major factories and state-owned institutions in the county.

I thought about a few options.

One is the old cow of the meat factory, who is responsible for killing pigs, some time ago when he killed a male breeding pig, he had an accident, was hit by a breeding pig and hit his waist, and now he is almost half paralyzed, he has only one daughter at home, and he is already married, so he wants to sell his position.

Bid 500 yuan.

Or two hundred.

Plus half of the salary for two years.

Of course, because the news has not yet been completely spread, Lao Niu has not completely despaired of his lumbar vertebrae, and plans to look at it for another half a month, if it is really not good, it will be sold, so only a few neighbors know, otherwise he would have been robbed.

There is also the recruitment of temporary workers by the transport team.

The main thing is to follow the master to run the transportation.

This job is also popular, I heard that many people have already taken the registration exam, and it is not easy to do the specific way, but it is not a way to do it.

The other is a waiter at a state-run restaurant.

This is also a temporary position.

You need to spend money to buy, of course, in fact, people also recruit a second chef, that is a formal job, but unfortunately the second chef is to be able to cook, Qiao Mu and their two obviously cannot meet the chef standards required by others, and they are busy in vain.

But the waiter is still a little possible.

In addition, there are also vacancies in canneries and steel mills, there are not many of them, just one or two, and the lack of positions is not very good, either the janitor or the person in charge of burning the boiler, which is usually done by older people, and there are no young men in the past.

But there is one important point in all of this.

That is, you must have an urban hukou.

Rural hukou is not good.

You don't even have a high school diploma.

Of course, if you really have a skill, you can still set an example, for example, if you can repair, then the transport team will definitely be willing to accept it as long as you are sure, and if you have good cooking skills, the state-run restaurant will definitely be willing to accept it.

Someone who really has a craft.

As long as it's not a black household, you can mix anywhere.

But the key thing is that the two little rabbits of the Qiao Mu family have no skills, cooking, at most, they can only say that they can't eat the dead, as for the deliciousness, it is not a matter of the side at all, driving and maintenance or something, that is an international joke.

Therefore, many types of work are simply not available.

And relatively ordinary, jobs with no technical requirements, people will basically limit their hukou, and people in the city have long been scrambling for it.

I can't leak between my fingers.

After arbors struggled for a while.

I decided to do my old job.

That is, the black market buying and selling business.

It's better to make some money first, and then hurry up and find a way to buy a house in the county, no matter how big it is, as long as you can settle down, after settling down, you can be regarded as an urban hukou, and it will be more convenient to find a job at that time, so as not to be brushed at the beginning.

Previously, after Qiao Mu learned about the relevant situation, he had already inquired if there was anyone selling a house in this neighborhood, yes, there was indeed one, but the price was very expensive, to one thousand eight, the original body only saved a total of eight hundred yuan in cash, it can only be said that it is just a fraction, the big head is not at all, except for the one who is willing to sell the house, there is no one else to sell the house, therefore, Qiao Mu has no choice.

What if you don't have enough money?

In these years, the risk of taking gold and silver dollars directly to the bank to cash out is too great, so Qiao Mu would rather find a way to take the path of the black market.

It is also that they are located on the plain, there are really no mountains, if there are mountains, the arbor sneaks up the mountain, pretends to get a few century-old ginseng trees to the purchase station and sells them, and the money is basically enough.

But in this plain area, where ginseng has never grown, you say you dug up ginseng.

Doesn't that make a fool of ghosts?

So, to sum up the situation.

Of course, rice and eggs are not valuable, and it is too difficult to save a thousand yuan by rice and eggs, therefore, Qiao Mu also sells mechanical watches by the way, and sells one by one, and when electronic watches prevail in a few years, machine watches are not easy to sell among young people.