Chapter 18: Overnight at the firewood stack

Just when Han Li was worried about sleeping, someone in the same room rolled up the mat and walked out.

Han Li: "Are you going to sleep somewhere else?" ”

"It's too hot inside the house, so I'm going to sleep on the firewood stack in the backyard."

Sleeping outside didn't smell like that, but Han Li had a lot of pimples from mosquito bites.

At first, he couldn't sleep, so he took a flashlight and began to write letters to his family.

Later, after the letter was written, he began to scratch and itch, and after a while his sleep came so violently that he slept more soundly than anyone else.

Until the rapid sound of the bell woke him up, rubbing his eyes and guessing that he had gone to the countryside.

At this time, it was just dawn, and Han Li looked at his watch and it was only half past four in the morning, when someone asked dizzily.

"What's going on?"

"The captain rings the bell to tell everyone to go to work."

"So early? It's still dark. ”

"You newcomers have a day off today, and tomorrow will be the same time to get up, but you can rest a little at noon."

"Ah...... didn't you say that the ground isn't busy right now? Why do you have to get up before dawn? ”

"Not busy? There is no time when the crops are not busy, but it is really not busy compared to the autumn harvest. ”

Sun Yong shouted at this time, "Han Li, if you go to the county seat to buy something, you will have to wait at the entrance of the village." ”

"If you can't catch up with the ox cart, you can only rely on you to walk for more than forty miles, by the way, if you want to eat together, you can take out some food and give it to Xiao Qin, who is cooking today."

Han Li: "Thank you, Brother Sun, for reminding me to get up now, but I won't eat together." ”

"I'll buy an iron pot today and come back and open the fire alone, and I'll move in a few days when the house is built."

At this point, everyone is fooling their stomachs, and corn paste is the fastest breakfast.

If today's work is heavier, two nests will be reserved the night before to warm up.

But that's all the treatment that is only available during the autumn harvest, and now I can pass the stomach with a bowl of mush.

Han Li didn't go to eat with them, he squatted in the courtyard with a cup and brushed his teeth.

At this time, Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying came over, and after last night's rest, they were more energetic today.

Hao Hongmin: "Han Li, let's go shopping in the county seat together." ”

"Aren't you with the other lesbians?"

"On the way, we wanted to ask you how the house should be built, and they shouldn't like to hear that, so I didn't ask."

Han Li...... Well, what you said does make a lot of sense, after all, building a house is really hateful.

Today he received several white eyes of envy, jealousy and hatred, as well as two eyes of spinach.

The three of them came to the intersection together to wait for the bus, only to find that several people who went to the countryside together were already waiting here.

They nodded and smiled awkwardly at each other, and they could be considered to have divided their positions.

However, they were all passers-by who hadn't said a few words, and Han Li felt a burst of relief in his heart.

It costs 2 cents to take an ox cart to the commune, and 5 cents to get to the county seat.

Han Li handed over his share and found a place to sit down, and Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying sat next to him.

However, there are so many people on the ox cart, and it is difficult to talk about the construction of a house here.

They didn't speak, but there were very few times when the mouths of the aunts and aunts in the car stopped.

Originally, they didn't know what they were talking about, but this time, they, the new educated youth, became their topic.

Along the way, there were all kinds of inquiries about their situation, and Han Li was the key target among them.

The young man is very good-looking, and he is still a big and tall man, needless to say, there is no difficulty in eating at home.

He couldn't find a patch on his clothes, and the most important thing was that he even had a watch on his wrist.

That's a watch that turns three times and one ring, and there are a lot of educated youths who have come and gone over the years.

But I haven't really seen a few people with watches, so it can be seen that he is definitely more favored at home.

Han Li chatted with his aunts and aunts along the way.

He didn't reveal much about his own situation, but he heard a lot of news from these people in the village.

For example: Zhao Laosi usually beats his wife and children when he has nothing to do at home, and Liang Laowu's family is the laziest and doesn't go to work if they have a bite to eat.

Lao Li's wife often abuses the daughter in the family, and she is completely raised according to starvation.

Zhang Liu Mazi is thirty years old and has no wife, and he often likes to go to other people's houses to peep at the wall.

Last time I peeked at Liang Laojiu's house to watch someone's daughter-in-law take a bath, I was almost killed by the Liang family...... Wait a minute.

Listening to the trivial matters in the village, Han Li and the others came all the way to the county seat.

Fortunately, it was a big man who drove the car, and he looked old-fashioned, and the ox cart was quite good.

Most of the potholes along the way were perfectly avoided by him, so Han Li's ass didn't suffer much.

After getting off the bus, the old man who drove the car left time to return to the village in the afternoon, and everyone dispersed.

Han Li first had to go to the post office to send a letter to his family, which in his opinion was the most important thing at the moment.

Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy things first, saying that so many educated youths had to buy things today.

If you catch up with the county town to meet the "market", you won't be able to buy what you want if you go late.

Then the three of them made an appointment for the time and place of the meeting, and the time was set for lunch, and the place was the state-run hotel in the county seat.

After the agreement was made, everyone began to go their separate ways, and Han Li first came to the post office to send a letter to his family.

The situation was basically stable now, and Han Li was in the mood to appreciate the situation around him on the way to the post office.

There is nothing to say about the construction of houses in this era, it is all like that anyway.

Most of them are adobe houses, there are not too many brick houses, and two-story small buildings in the entire county are very rare.

There is also the fact that I don't know if I don't look carefully, and I am shocked when I look closely.

It turns out that many of the current Northeast ladies are smoking big cigarette bags, and some are chatting, walking, and smoking.

Some of them didn't smoke for the time being, but their cigarette pouches were pinned to the waistbands of their pants, which really opened Han Li's eyes.

(The "set" here means to gather materials and personnel, and the materials were poor in the past, and even the supply and marketing cooperatives could not be open to supply.) And the money and time in the hands of the people are limited, and they can't come to the city to buy things at any time, so the leaders of the county town will set a "set" every once in a while according to the local situation, and try to provide as many materials as possible to meet the needs of the people. In fact, it was similar to the nature of the previous temple fairs in the village, but due to special circumstances, most of the temple fairs were forcibly canceled at that time. )