Chapter 10: Thank you to the old intellectuals
After Su Mo finished writing the letter, she came out to see that everyone hadn't come back yet, and it was estimated that she was helping the new intellectuals again.
There are a total of 5 new intellectuals in this group of them, two men and three women. As soon as they came, they encountered the autumn harvest, and there was no time to adapt, so they often couldn't finish their work, and the old intellectuals and young people helped them after finishing their own work.
There are currently a total of 11 educated youths, six men and five women. Everyone gets along well for the time being, and the educated youth are also united and often help each other.
Thinking of the care of the old intellectuals and young people to the original owner some time ago, Su Mo was ready to cook a delicious meal for everyone.
After the whole autumn harvest, everyone saw that they had lost a lot of weight.
Su Mo took out the bag of rice left over from the last days, and there were about 2 catties left, all of which were poured into the basin, and then scooped two bowls of corn ballast into it, ready to boil a rice bud porridge.
After washing the water twice, Su Mo poured the rice into the pot, added most of the pot of water, made a low fire, and let it boil slowly.
Then I went to the vegetable garden outside, picked three cabbages, a few tomatoes, and took out a bacon of about a pound from the space, ready to make a bacon fried cabbage.
There are a total of two pots of educated youth, and everyone usually doesn't eat together, but only together during the autumn harvest. Now there is a pot to cook porridge, and there is also a pot to stir-fry.
The tomatoes are cut raw and then sprinkled with sugar on top for a cold salad.
This kind of food, in this era, is already very good. There is rice porridge, meat, and you can eat some sweetness, and the New Year is almost like this.
When the other intellectuals came back, they smelled the smell of meat from afar. Hungry, they all quickened their pace to rush to the Zhiqing Point.
When I returned, I saw Su Mo stir-frying in the kitchen, and the fragrance made them almost three feet long.
Ma Xiaojuan, who had the best relationship with Su Mo, hurriedly ran over and shouted happily: "Su Mo, are you back?" Is it braised pork? So fragrant. ”
Ma Xiaojuan is Su Mo's roommate, and there is another one named Chen Lan.
"It's not braised pork, it's the bacon I brought from home before, and I took it out to make up for everyone. It was a real hassle for everyone some time ago. Su Mo smiled.
The original owner's work is really the penultimate one, and basically everyone has helped her work.
When the old intellectuals heard this, they felt a lot more comfortable.
Ma Jianmin, the person in charge of the Educated Youth Point, said with a smile, "Everyone is a revolutionary comrade, and it is right to help each other." ”
In fact, the old intellectuals are not very willing to help the new intellectuals work.
But the educated youth are one, and the villagers are already a little xenophobic towards the educated youth, and if they are not united, they will be even more inferior in the brigade.
And after the autumn harvest, it will be winter soon. If the new intellectuals can't finish their work, then they won't have much work, which means they won't get much food.
Everyone is in the same place, and the new young people have no food, so they will definitely borrow from the old ones. Their own food is barely enough, and if they borrow the new educated youth, they will not be able to survive the next ration.
Therefore, I can only pinch my nose and help them do it, so that they can earn as much work as possible and share more food.
It's done, but there will be some complaints in my heart. Now that Su Mo is sensible and takes out good things to thank them, they feel a lot more comfortable.
"Su Mo, I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good." Chen Lan swallowed her saliva, her eyes staring at the pot, there was really a lot of meat.
When I saw her so delicate before, I thought she was a master who didn't touch the spring water with ten fingers, but I didn't expect that there was some merit.
Su Mo smiled and didn't speak. In order to be able to stir-fry the vegetables to bring out the meat flavor, she did not study cooking skills in the last days, can she cook well.
The dishes were fried quickly, and Su Mo took the big pot that usually holds the vegetables and brought it to the table.
Su Mo's knife work is good, the bacon was cut thin by her, with tender green cabbage, and everyone couldn't take their eyes off it.
"Oh my God, Su Mo, how much meat did you put here?" An old intellectual, named Zheng Caiping, exclaimed.
"It's not much, I guess it's just over a pound."
"More than a pound, you fried it all at once?" Zheng Caiping almost didn't scream, and looked at Su Mo with the eyes of a loser.
"Didn't I see that everyone had lost weight in the autumn harvest, so I just made more and let everyone eat well."
"Okay, Zheng Caiping, people invite you to eat meat, why do you have so many opinions? Hurry up and eat, you're not hungry and we're hungry. Zhao Guoping reprimanded.
He's really tired, and after doing his own, he has to help others, it's really fucked up.
"Yes, yes, open the meal." Some educated youths have gone back to the room to get their own lunch boxes.
Some educated young people lifted the lid of another pot and suddenly exclaimed: "Rice porridge!" ”
At this time, everyone didn't speak, and went back to the room to get the lunch box very consistently, for fear that it would be eaten by others too late. The old intellectuals have been here for a year or two, and the rice porridge is only willing to eat during the New Year's festival or when the body is not feeling well.
At a meal, everyone ate without making a sound. It's so delicious, if they don't remember that they are still intellectual youths, they all want to be like the rural aunts, and they will grab it directly.
Of course, the main food is porridge and bacon fried cabbage, as for tomatoes, they are completely ignored.
It wasn't until it was almost finished that someone took a piece of tomato to eat.
"Sweet! Did you put sugar? ”
Su Mo nodded, "Put some sugar." ”
Everyone slipped the tomatoes again, and when they ate them, the sweetness was more than just a little bit. Everyone didn't speak, silently speeding up to eat.
The white sugar Su Mo put it early, and when everyone came back, it would have melted away a long time ago, so no one else noticed.
There is also a reason for the early release of white sugar, the white sugar of later generations is not only small, the color is also snow-white, the white sugar at this time, the particles are relatively large, and the color is still a little yellow. In order to avoid being discovered, Su Mo sprinkled the sugar early.
Needless to say, the delicious food is also refined, and even the sugar water was divided into the porridge by several male intellectuals.
After eating, everyone politely thanked Su Mo, and then each boiled water to wash up and went back to the room to rest.
As for ideological and political study and the like, let's talk about it after the autumn harvest, people are about to die of exhaustion.
Su Mo sat for a while and went back to the room.
At this time, there was no electricity in the countryside, and kerosene lamps were used for lighting. Su Mo and her kerosene lamp were brought by Chen Lan, and there was only one one, and the kerosene was borrowed from the old intellectuals.
With only one lamp in such a large room, the light can be imagined, but it is barely enough to see.
Su Mo couldn't do anything, so she laid out the bed and prepared to sleep. Wake up early tomorrow and go to the county seat.
At this time, Ma Xiaojuan just came back from taking a bath, approached Su Mo, and suddenly wondered, "What did you wipe?" It smells so good. ”
Su Mo felt a sigh in her heart, she washed her hair and used shampoo. The fragrance of daily necessities in later generations is not comparable to what is now.
"Wiped the oil, I bought it from the Friendship Store." Su Mo simply brought it.
Ma Xiaojuan has no doubt that there is him, they are in the same room, when Su Mo took the clothes before, she had seen them, and those clothes were imported at a glance.
Ma Xiaojuan's family is not bad, and she has also gone to the friendship store to buy things, and she still has some eyesight. It's just that there are many children in the family, and one of them has to go to the countryside, so she volunteered to go to the countryside.
The family will subsidize her every month, so she is not afraid. Do the farm work as you move, and forget it if you don't do it. In the educated youth, Su Mo is the penultimate in work, and she is the second-to-last existence.
"Are you alright? I wanted to take a leave of absence to take care of you, but the captain refused to let me, saying that I should be active in work, which really me off. Speaking of this, Ma Xiaojuan was angry, she still wanted to take the opportunity to be lazy.
Ma Xiaojuan is different from Su Mo, Su Mo really can't do anything, and Ma Xiaojuan belongs to the kind of person who is used to being lazy.
It's just that the captain can't look down on this kind of person the most, so Ma Xiaojuan directly refuses to approve when he asks for leave. If other hard-working intellectuals go, he will approve it.
However, the other three female intellectuals were reluctant to work, and they didn't say anything about taking care of Su Mo, the captain had no choice but to ask Lu Changzheng to take a look occasionally, anyway, there are doctors in the health center, and the doctors should take care of them.
"I've heard some rumors from the aunt in the village in the past two days, you don't really want to marry that soldier, right?" Ma Xiaojuan was a little worried.
Her mother is a doctor, and she knows that this is a normal first aid measure, but these ignorant villagers don't understand it.
"Well, I'm dealing with him now."
"What? Have you been coerced? Ma Xiaojuan was shocked, "We can go to the commune leaders together, this is a normal first aid measure." ”
Su Mo is so beautiful, maybe it's the soldier who has a lustful heart.
"No, he's a good guy."
"Then you can't follow him, if you really marry him, you may be in the countryside for the rest of your life......"
"Sometimes it's good in the countryside." Su Mo didn't want to say more, so she changed the subject, "The autumn harvest should be almost over, right?" What are you doing now? ”
"I'm pulling peanuts, it's almost over. I heard those aunts say that after pulling out the peanuts, it is basically a matter of drying them and putting them into storage, and then they are waiting for the public grain. Ma Xiaojuan replied.
"You said I want to finish the autumn harvest, go buy some meat, and invite everyone to eat."
Seeing that Su Mo didn't want to say more, Ma Xiaojuan didn't continue to ask, but changed the topic.
"If you can, I think so. After all, during this time, we have troubled the old and young people a lot. Su Mo replied.
"That's it, then when the autumn harvest is over, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to cut some meat, buy some chicken cakes or something, and invite everyone to eat."
"When the time comes, let's go together." Chen Lan just came in and immediately spoke when she heard it.
Her family conditions are average, and if she asks them alone, she can't afford to ask for them.
"It's okay, then we will join us together when the time comes." Ma Xiaojuan deserves it simply.