"These are all from our village?"

Captain Zhao looked at the six young men and women in front of him, and his head suddenly became bigger.

In the past, there were more educated youths in their village than in other villages, but now there are six more, how can this be settled......

The commune officials were not too embarrassed, after all, these people knew that their place was not difficult, so they specially sent it, and it was really troublesome to offend.

"Captain Zhao, we have to follow the guidance from above, so that these young people can receive re-education from the poor and middle peasants, there are many of you, which means that the commune has entrusted you with a heavy responsibility!"

Anyone can say beautiful things.

Captain Zhao listens to it every year, collects it every year, and he is used to it, and he can't embarrass the cadres of the commune above.

He looked at these fair-skinned young men, and sighed in his heart, he couldn't do anything.

"Okay, of course we know, follow the leadership of the party." He waved his hand and let the men get into the ox cart.

"Da Zhuang, let's go."

The young man driving the ox cart waved his whip, the wooden wheel spun up, raising a pile of dust, and Qian Li at the back of the car didn't have time to cover it, and was covered with ashes.

"Ahem!"

But before she could get angry, the ox cart was so bumpy that it almost shook her lunch, and then turned her head to see the cow dung on the road, Qian Li's little face turned white, and she suddenly vomited.

When Captain Zhao heard the sound, he stopped Da Zhuang and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Qian Li vomited uncomfortably and couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Yun Ling took out a medicated candy from her pocket, which she made herself, and it had a miraculous effect on the treatment of motion sickness and vomiting, and she made a small iron box at home to carry with her before coming.

"Take this in your mouth, drink a few more sips of water, slowly."

Qian Li saw the translucent brown candy and threw it into her mouth without thinking about it.

As soon as the medicine entered the mouth, I felt the cool mint flavor and sweet sugar taste mixed together, not bitter but not very sweet, after a while, Qian Li was no longer uncomfortable.

She whispered thank you, blushing slightly, and no longer as proud as she was on the train.

Captain Zhao saw that she was fine, so he let her continue on his way.

Bai Lian shouted to rest for a while before leaving, "Lily was uncomfortable just now, let's rest for a while and then leave, it's not so urgent." ”

Qian Li didn't want to stop, the more uncomfortable it would be to delay on the road for a while, so it was better to rest early when she got to the place. But now as soon as she spoke, she felt the smell of cow dung burrowing into her mouth, so she didn't have time to stop it.

Captain Zhao glanced at him angrily, and said sternly: "It's already afternoon to pick you up at the train station, and it will take three hours to get from the county seat to the village ox cart quickly, and you have to clean up the house, and it's hard to say what time you can sleep at night." ”

"If you want to rest, I won't stop you, anyway, we have nothing to do after work." He took a puff of his cigarette, indifferent to his attitude, but made it clear that he didn't want to get used to him.

Bai Lian was choked, looked at the few people around him and didn't help him speak, snorted coldly, and put out the fire.

Yun Ling made a round, and took out a few pills of candy to share with everyone, "If there is anything uncomfortable, take one, let's go to rest early." ”

No one objected, and the ox cart arrived in the village safely, just in time for the villagers to get off work.

"Captain Zhao, you're back!"

"Yo, these few people with fine skin and tender meat will be offended when they go down to the ground."

"Come home and cook, these educated youths are here every year, and there is nothing to see."

"How do you speak, the people in the city look different, look at those few, handsome!"

The aunt pointed at Yunling Qianli and a few of them, looking at them like monkeys.

Qian Li lowered her head, a little shy, but Chu Xianglan and Yun Ling let them see it generously.

Shao Hua glanced up at Yun Ling, and seemed quite surprised that she had adapted well.

Captain Zhao stretched his neck and shouted: "Let's all go back, hurry back to cook, don't get in the way!" ”

A nest of people scattered.

Soon it was time for the educated youth.

Yun Ling looked at the only blue brick house in the whole village, and was a little surprised.

Captain Zhao introduced: "This was originally the ancestral hall in the village, but it was later slaughtered by the little devils, and there were not a few people left in the village, so it was abandoned. Later, it was changed to the residence of the cadres when the troops were stationed, so they were all single rooms, not chase shops. ”

"You don't need the main hall in front, and the educated youths live in the tiled houses at the back, and each house is built with a floor kang. It's early autumn now, and you can't use it yet, but you have to save some firewood, and you can only winter when it's hot. Fortunately, this piece is next to the foot of the mountain, so it is convenient for you to collect firewood. ”

Behind the main hall, there are four rows of tiled houses, a total of 20 houses, and there are large open spaces on both sides, some of which have fenced off the surrounding land as their own land and planted some vegetables and coarse grains.

Captain Zhao introduced as he walked: "There were a total of seventeen educated youths before, eight of whom were married in the village, and they didn't live in the educated youth, there are still 11 rooms left here, you can choose yourself." ”

He shook the cigarette pouch, and after explaining the general situation, he added: "I understand the situation of the educated youth families who come to our village, but since I have come, I have to work hard, and no matter how powerful I am, I have to dig in the field." If you get into trouble, don't blame me for being rude. ”

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little serious, he sighed and patiently explained: "A few years ago, there was a male intellectual, who didn't go to work after arriving, stole chickens and dogs all day long, and entangled with several female comrades in the village. I heard that his home is still in the capital. ”

Captain Zhao really has nothing to say to these educated youths, so it's good not to make trouble for him.

"Okay, you can pick your own house, and if you have something, go to the house next to the brigade at the three-way entrance in the village to find me."

Captain Zhao left without hesitation.

Chu Xianglan poked Yun Ling and asked her, "Where do you want to live?" Let's live together, it's safer. ”

Yun Ling has no opinion on this, it is indeed safer for girls to live together than to live alone.

"I want to live in the innermost north one." She has a quiet temperament, and the innermost part of the alley is at the foot of the mountain, which is extraordinarily quiet.

She can also enclose a plot of land at the back of the house, grow some vegetables and herbs, and then open a back door and go out to the mountains much more conveniently.

Chu Xianglan nodded, pointed to the room next to her, and said, "Nacheng, I'll live next door to your east, let's go." ”

Qian Li's ears were sharp, and when she heard their discussion, she thought about it, and immediately followed, occupying the next door on the other side of Chu Xianglan.

Without thinking, Brian went across from her.

Shao Hua walked unhurriedly to the innermost south room, which was the opposite door of Yunling.

The remaining one is a young man from Shanghai, named Wei Guoqing, with a tall and fierce figure, but his personality is quite dull, and he hasn't heard him say a few words along the way. He saw that everyone had gone to one place, and he didn't think about anything, so he occupied the empty room opposite Chu Xianglan.

The six of them all lived in two rows of houses to the north, and they were very different from the old intellectuals.

Chen Liang, the principal on the west side, came back from work and didn't go over to look when he heard the movement, but after eating first, he came over and symbolically asked twice if he needed help.

Bai Lian chatted with him for a few words, and the two seemed to hit it off at first sight, and they fought hotly, and they couldn't care about others.

Yun Ling visually measured that there were only forty square meters in the house, and the bedroom of the average family in the countryside was almost that big.

And this room is all in one place for accommodation, eating, and studying, and there is no toilet, so you have to go to the public toilet in the village, but it is still much more spacious than the tube building in the city.

However, she was used to living in the courtyard at home, and when she changed to this kind of house, Yun Ling still sighed, and she had to get used to it quickly!

The sunset on the horizon is infinite, and the fire clouds are burning at the end of the mountain, as if it is about to ignite the entire green mountain.

"The morning glow doesn't go out, and the sunset travels thousands of miles. Tomorrow is going to be a good day. ”

Yun Ling breathed a breath of green mountains, mixed with the smell of cooking smoke and firewood, quiet and peaceful, without losing the fireworks in the world, everything was as quiet as a pool of water, and there were no treacherous clouds in the city.

Her turbulent heart calmed down a little.

Only if you live well here, your family will not worry about it, and you will not be able to cause trouble for them.

Yun Ling leaned on the window and looked at the distant mountains, and said to herself softly: "You have to be fine." ”

She cheered up, put down her burden, borrowed a broom and rag from the old intellectual, Sun Qian, and cleaned up the ashes in the house, but the ashes on the kang couldn't be swept clean, Yun Ling remembered that when she entered Sun Qian's house just now, she saw a layer of straw mats on her kang, and she had some plans in her heart.

She's going to have to go to the captain's side.

When I went out, I happened to meet Shao Hua who was also closing the door, because he was not familiar with it, so he smiled and said hello and left.

Shao Hua was about to say something, but he stopped talking, and his expression was a little depressed.

Yun Ling knocked on Chu Xianglan's door by the way, and asked her at the door: "I'm going to the captain to ask if I can find someone to build a stove and buy some furniture and utensils, do you want to come with me?" ”

Chu Xianglan was worried about how to cook in the future, so she dozed off and came to the pillow, and decisively agreed: "Let's go together!" ”

Seeing that Yun Ling was carrying a bag of things, she also took a pound of brown sugar from the bag.

It's easy to ask for something to do!

Qian Li heard the movement here and hurriedly ran over and asked, as if she was afraid that they would not bring her, "Where are you going?" ”

Chu Xianglan didn't look at the posture of the eldest lady on the train before, so she didn't reply.

Yun Ling could see that although this little girl was arrogant but also naïve, she still maintained a high-profile arrogant style in the countryside, which showed that she was a careless person, but no heart did not mean that she had a good character, but she still said kindly: "We are going to the captain's house to ask if we can buy some utensils." ”

After the toss on the ox cart, Qian Li lowered her head no matter how arrogant she was, and now she was like a newborn chick, grateful to Yunling's candy, and felt that she was a good person and could follow her.

"I'll go with you." Then he looked at the expressions of the two of them, and asked cautiously, "Is it done?" ”

Yun Ling felt that it was okay to go together, maybe the captain would be better to help because there were more of them.

"Then you prepare some gifts, not too much, mainly with money, come with us."

Qian Li immediately went back and carried half a bag of White Rabbit toffee, and obediently followed behind the two, not leaving an inch.

When the three of them got out of the Zhiqing Point, they saw that Shao Hua was also in front of them from a distance, and after walking for a while, they found that they seemed to be a destination.

Qian Li waved her hand happily: "Comrade Shao! You're going to the captain's house too? ”

All four of them were carrying things in their hands, and none of them were empty-handed.

Yun Ling looked at it, and he was holding it like tea leaves.

Shao Hua looked at Yun Ling first, and then nodded at Qian Li: "Let's go together." ”

The four of them found the captain's house, at this time Zhao Youzhi had finished eating, sitting on the bench in the courtyard and smoking, seeing them arrive at the door, puzzled: "What are you?" ”

Shao Hua: "Captain Zhao, we are not familiar with this place when we first came here, thinking that you are the captain here, and you are right to find something wrong." ”

Come on, I'm looking for trouble.

Captain Zhao knocked on the ground with a cigarette stick, shook the ashes, and his face was expressionless, "Let's go into the house and say." ”

Captain Zhao's daughter-in-law saw the four of them coming in, her eyes fell on the things in their hands first, and she immediately greeted them with a smile: "Old Zhao, these are the young dolls who just came today?" ”

Zhao Youzhi knew what kind of character his daughter-in-law was, and hurriedly drove her to the stove room: "Go and go, pour some hot water from the kettle." ”

Wu Chunli pouted, she loves money, but she doesn't do anything that violates her principles, she usually accepts other people's gifts to do some practical things, and helps people introduce a job without delaying big things.

But she still greeted them warmly: "Sit down, and I'll pour you hot water." ”

Yun Ling smiled and replied: "Trouble aunt." ”

The captain watched Wu Chunli enter the stove room before asking, "Say, what's the matter with you?" ”

Shao Hua smiled decently: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that when I cleaned up the house today, I found that there were a lot of living utensils in the house, there was nothing in the house, there was nothing in the cooking broom, and the cooking stove and door had to be done. ”

These people are not bad for money, and their wages don't cost a lot of money.

Captain Zhao thought about it, it was indeed not a big deal, those educated youths had also looked for him when they first came, and it was his daughter-in-law who helped Zhang Luo.

He called out his daughter-in-law: "Tell them, how to calculate and how to calculate." ”

Aunt Wu gave him a blank look, and it was not the old lady who came.

Then he snapped his fingers and came one by one: "The best work of the masons in our village is the old Liu family at the head of the village, I will take you to him in a while, he is careful not to fool people." We can help you do it with our aunts, one person has to make two kang mats, you children are delicate, one is afraid that you will dislike the kang, and you have to hang a straw curtain at the door in winter to protect from the cold, which is at least three. ”

"We can do things like brooms, brooms, and so on. As for the iron pot and kettle, we can't find it, that thing is expensive to ask for a ticket, and the house is old. ”

Chu Xianglan added: "There are also cabinets. ”

Aunt Wu slapped her leg violently and added: "Yes, yes, yes, the carpentry job is looking for Lao Wang, you tell him what you want first, it is estimated that he will be able to make it for you in a few days, you just go and get it." I'll take you all to identify him in a moment, and then you can find him yourself. ”

Several people discussed, and after more than ten minutes, they found that everything that should be purchased was written down, and it was all written down on the piece of paper that Shao Hua brought.

Yun Ling nodded: "Auntie, look, how much do we give this price?" ”

Aunt Wu nodded her fingers and counted a few times, "In the village, eggs are generally exchanged, and you just thought that there was no one, so you can only pay for it." You don't have a pot, you can't cover the food, and the salary is more. ”

"Lao Liu's side will give three yuan per person, Lao Wang's side will be calculated according to the wood and craftsmanship, and we can give a total of four yuan for those of us, but you have to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives of the commune to buy these barrels and pots, and no one in our village will do them."

I don't need straw mats to collect three cents outside, and the brooms and brooms don't add up to a lot of money, but Aunt Wu is tightly knitted, and the educated youths need a lot of money.

Now the wages of workers outside are less than one dollar a day, and these things are not considered sky-high prices.

Yun Ling smiled and paid: "Then auntie, if you are free now, will you take us to find someone?" ”

The four of them put down their things, and Captain Zhao repeatedly excused himself, and Aunt Wu felt a pain in his flesh.

He refused: "It is my duty for you to come to us for settlement, and we can't accept gifts without gifts." ”

Yun Ling shook her head and pushed things over, "Captain, we understand your kindness, but Aunt Wu is also very tired after having to accompany us for a while, these things should be given to you and Aunt Wu." ”

She saw a few small wooden carving toys on the kang, and then persuaded: "Besides, this brown sugar and toffee are all reserved for children to eat, you can still entertain people when you drink tea, and the pastries can be tasted by everyone, and they can all be used." ”

The other three nodded, piled things together, and then stood behind Yun Ling, looking like "you can keep it".

Captain Zhao thought of his greedy little grandson, and Aunt Wu saw that he was a little shaken, and also answered: "Hey, it's all the children's hearts, it's not good if you don't accept it." ”

"Then take it, only this once, not next time."

The captain sighed secretly, this is a thing, and he will inevitably have to take care of it when he encounters something in the future, his mother-in-law is enthusiastic, but he knows that the original group of people who know the youth point will not stop.

I'll have to be busy in the future.

"Old woman, take them there." Captain Zhao waved his hand helplessly.