Take Arada back to the past

Chapter 476: Good-looking is the original sin

Chapter 476: Good-looking is the original sin
Firewood needs to be collected, but not today.

After the meeting in the afternoon, it is already past two o'clock. I just had my last meal and now I am starting to prepare the next one.

Yang Xiaole also told the content of today's meeting.

"Oh, by the way, don't think about playing yet! There is one more thing to do at the meeting today. The brigade has allocated two plots of private land to each of us. If you have time, remember to get it out. It's later here than other places, but by April or May, we have to get it out."

This attracted everyone's attention.

"seriously?"

There is nothing to do here, so people are very interested.

Especially since every family in the village has their own private plot of land, they are still very envious.

I have already fantasized in my mind about growing fruits on my own land.

Yang Xiaole nodded. "Well, if there are no special circumstances tomorrow, the team leader will ask Accountant Chen and I to measure the land next to us, and each of us will get two plots of land. They also said that when the weather gets warmer, they will be busy with the team's fields and won't have time for us. So before the spring plowing this winter, everyone must open up the fields, otherwise there will be no time to do it."

"Hey, it's just two acres of land! It's not much!"

No one really cares.

Yang Xiaole smiled when he saw this and said, "Don't underestimate me! You will suffer for it later. Have you forgotten what happened when we were digging the hole?"

Although spring ploughing starts late here.

But it’s already early February, and there are only two months left until April, so it’s gone in a flash.

Besides, the soil is frozen now and it is impossible to move anything.

When we are able to move, we start to take care of village affairs.

There is not much time left for them.

Two acres of land, 133 square meters, not big.

But for these young people, it is not an easy job.

Wait until the weather warms up?
If you don't do the team's work and go do your own work, be careful not to be dragged away to attend a village meeting.

I didn't think it was a big deal at first, but when I thought about the scenes of digging holes these days, it was really painful.

But no one really cares.

Seeing this situation, Yang Xiaole didn't say anything else.

Everyone was chatting there and discussing how to take a bath.

It would be troublesome if this continued every winter. How could I bear not taking a shower for the whole winter?

Not to mention a few people in Shanghai.

Even northerners like Yang Xiaole in the old city have two bath tickets a month and can take a bath once every half a month.

Anyway, I can’t bear the thought of not taking a shower for several months in the winter.

So finding a place to take a shower became an urgent issue.

The effect was more obvious after the meeting.

Since the superiors have given instructions, we must naturally carry them out.

When dinner was almost ready, Xie Laosi came in from outside smoking a cigarette, but he had replaced the cigarette with a pipe.

"Cooking!"

Xie Laosi came over smoking a cigarette and asked with a smile.

"Captain~"

Everyone hurriedly greeted them.

"Turn down the fire, hold a meeting for everyone, and convey the instructions from above."

Hearing this, everyone became serious.

Turn down the fire under the stove.

They all came over quickly.

"Captain, get on the bed!"

Wang Laosan patted the kang and asked him to come up.

Xie Laosi shook his head: "It's okay, you guys sit on the kang, I'll just sit on a bench."

As he spoke, he found a bench and sat in the middle.

Seeing this, the others got on the kang and sat cross-legged there.

The girls naturally squeezed together.

After everyone was seated, Xie Laosi took out a newspaper and coughed lightly.

Then he said, "This is the first meeting for you, so don't be too nervous, but you must listen carefully and study the spirit of the above seriously."

He took the newspaper and began to read: "The highest directive! That... I remember how arrogant and domineering I was back then, but now..."

With an accent and incorrect sentences, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

But no one dared to laugh.

It’s called studying, but in fact it’s just reading newspapers.

I also took the opportunity to learn about current political affairs.

This speech took quite a long time. After all, the content of the newspaper was very long, and it took more than an hour to recite it.

Xie Laosi looked at the old watch on his hand.

It was already past four o'clock and it was going to be dark soon.

It stopped.

Then he said to everyone, "Well... let Comrade Yang Xiaole hold the meetings for you in the future. I may not have so much time normally."

Naturally, he also discovered the problem.

In the past, when I was attending a meeting for the villagers, I didn’t have to worry about what I read.

The people in front of us now are all educated people. The people in the commune’s office used to have the same level of education.

So he still felt some pressure when holding a meeting with these people.

Of course, I only feel pressure when it comes to typos. I have no pressure on anything else.

Then he looked at some people in the room and smiled, "Did Yang Xiaole tell you about the private plot?"

"Yes, I said it!"

"understood!"

Everyone was holding their quilts and nodding.

"Well, that's good to know!"

Xie Lao Si nodded and continued, "I don't think it's possible now. After the first month of the lunar year, we'll be able to do it. The sooner we do it, the sooner we can get out. Don't underestimate this private plot! If we don't have enough food this year, we'll have to rely on this private plot..."

The importance of private plots was explained there.

Everyone was listening there attentively.

Seeing that everyone understood, he prepared to leave: "Okay, you guys go cook, it's getting late."

Hearing this, everyone started to clamor.

"Captain, can we take a shower here? What should we do?!"

"That's right! Captain, when can we go to the commune?"

"Xiao Le said he would fix it himself, is that okay?"

……

Everyone was shouting there.

Even Liu Jinlian was there listening carefully.

Ignoring the overall situation for the sake of taking a bath shows a lack of awareness, but if you can think of using local materials to solve the problem of taking a bath, that is also a good thing!

Hearing this, Xie Laoxi looked at Yang Xiaole with a smile.

"What can you do?"

Bathing has always been a problem in the village.

Not only them, but other production teams also had the same problem.

Yang Xiaole saw everyone looking at him.

Then he thought for a while and said, "I have an idea, but it needs the approval of the brigade because it requires cement and oil drums."

"Oh, what's the matter? You want to repair the bathhouse?"

Xie Laosi was also curious.

Yang Xiaole shook his head: "That's not the case! A bathhouse requires too many things. I mean just cement, a pool, and an oil barrel outside. The heated water flows into the pool through the canal. The principle is the same as a bathhouse, but it can only accommodate a few people.

If that doesn't work, then build a fire wall to warm up the house, and it won't be so cold anymore."

Then he explained the general situation.

Xie Laosi naturally knew about the Firewall. The brigade headquarters was the former landlord’s house in the village.

After heating up, it was more than thirty degrees below zero outside, but it was very warm inside.

Apart from this, the whole village has kangs.

No one can build a firewall.

Because this thing requires bricks, and the amount of firewood needed to burn the fire wall every year is enormous. Although this place is close to the mountains, collecting firewood is really not an easy task.

If a tree is burned in a fire wall, it will be gone in three to five days.

Then he muttered: "If we make a cement pool as you said, it will take a lot of cement, right? And bricks, right?"

Yang Xiaole nodded: "Well, it will take a lot! It depends on the size of the repair! Captain, what is the price of our cement? Can I buy it?" Now is a special period, and I don’t know whether I can buy cement.

By the way, he handed him a cigarette.

The captain took the cigarette, lit it, and then said, "You can buy it, but the price is not cheap. It costs 44 yuan per ton, and 28 yuan for bricks. Are you sure you want it? How much do you want?"

Yang Xiaole made an estimate in his mind.

I used to be a science anchor and also watched other science popularization programs.

A house with an area of 40 square meters requires 2 bags of cement, which is tons.

The house opposite is not big, only about ten square meters, and the four walls together cover only about fifty square meters.

That is one ton, no more, no less.

Because there is already a wall here.

Fifty or sixty.

To add another layer of bricks, since there is already one layer, it would take about two thousand bricks.

That comes out to be a hundred dollars.

He then gave his estimate.

"...Anyway, adding up all the odds and ends, the total is a little over a hundred, five or six dollars per person! Do you want to do it? If you want to do it, let the team leader do it. If not, just ignore what I said!"

Yang Xiaole then said something.

When everyone heard the number was over a hundred, they were all nervous.

But then I thought, what about these twenty people?

One cent per person is just a few dollars!
Not cheap, but not unacceptable either.

Thinking of this, the girl naturally agreed.

Boys don't care.

But no one knew how long it would take to get out.

So I agreed.

Xie Lao Si clicked his tongue when he heard this: "Oh my god, just to take a bath, I have to spend more than a hundred yuan, five or six yuan per person, and the commune charges 35 cents per person for a bath. If I take a bath once a month, that's enough for 20 baths."

This statement dampened everyone's enthusiasm.

Yes, I only wash my hair about ten times a year, which is enough to pay for two years of washing.

Even the girl hesitated.

They all started talking at once.

Seeing this, Xie Lao Si laughed and said, "I think so! You might as well heat up the kang so that the temperature is not so low at noon. Then you can wash up, get on the kang, and cover yourself with a blanket."

After listening to it, everyone felt that it was feasible.

So, the matter of taking a bath was put on hold.

Yang Xiaole naturally didn't care too much about it. This was because everyone was complaining about the difficulty of taking a bath, otherwise he wouldn't have come up with this idea.

"Okay, you guys go cook, Xiaole, come out for a moment!"

After greeting everyone, Xie Laosi said something to him.

Led the way out of the room.

The girl naturally continued to cook.

After coming out, I came to the door.

Xie Laosi looked at the door of the educated youth center and whispered to him, "Xiao Le, you need to be more careful here at the educated youth center, especially at night, don't let anyone go out!"

This made Yang Xiaole frown: "What do you mean? Did something happen?"

There must be something wrong, otherwise, Xie Laosi would not say such a thing.

Xie Laosi nodded and said, "You are also a member of the brigade committee now. I'm telling you, don't make it public. There is a female educated youth in the third team who is missing."

"Ah? What's going on? Isn't Team 3 Gao Yifeng's production team?"

Yang Xiaole asked curiously.

Xie Laosi threw his cigarette butt on the ground and nodded: "Yes, it was Gao Yifeng's production team. When we had the meeting today, everyone was still there. When we returned after the meeting, we found that there were fewer people. Maybe they ran away because they couldn't stand the hardship! I'm worried that something will happen to our educated youth site again.

But I didn’t say anything until the matter was fully investigated. I will show it to you all after it is fully investigated. This matter is very serious. You must not let anything happen to your educated youth camp again.”

Yang Xiaole frowned when he heard this.

Then he said, "Captain, you can see that there are more than ten people in this room. It is inevitable that someone will go to the toilet at night. If someone goes out, how can I know? Not to mention girls, I can't keep an eye on them!"

Xie Laosi put his hands behind his back and nodded gently: "I know! I asked Honglin and the militiamen from Team 3 to go look for him and see if we can find him. We'll talk about the details tomorrow!"

Yang Xiaole was thinking there.

He had heard about the experiences of many educated youth girls.

I've only been here for a little over half a month, so even if it's hard, it shouldn't be that serious!

There is something wrong with Gao Yifeng.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Which direction is the Third Brigade heading? Is it far from here?"

"Southeast, about seven or eight miles away. What's going on?"

"Oh, nothing, I was just asking."

"Well, let me tell you about the matter. If these educated youth have any emotions, remember to tell me in time. If you have any difficulties, also tell me."

Xie Laosi waved his hand after he finished speaking: "Okay, you go back first, I'll leave first."

After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and walked outside.

It was already dark by this time.

When Yang Xiaole returned to the house, he heard everyone chatting there.

Looking at Feng Xue who was still cooking, he said, "I'm going to go out for a while. I have something to do. I'll be back soon."

Feng Xue smiled and nodded: "Okay, go ahead!"

Didn't ask anything.

Yang Xiaole left the yard.

Looking at the vague night sky outside, he walked to the corner and disappeared into the darkness.

Along the foot of the mountain, we rushed towards the direction of Team 3.

He deliberately walked in the middle so that he could observe the footprints on the mountain roads on both sides.

If a person runs, he will definitely run into the mountains and will definitely leave footprints.

Ten minutes later, he appeared three kilometers away.

There was a flash of light on the hill to the east, and it flashed by. Although it was not very obvious, it was there.

Without thinking, I knew that it must be Xie Honglin and his people who went to look for someone.

Because Xie Hongbing went to the commune today, Xie Honglin led the team.

They should also be looking for someone by following the footprints.

A few minutes later he came to the light.

Sure enough, Xie Honglin and the village militia were there.

He didn't recognize some of the other people, and thought they were militiamen from the third team.

And Gao Yifeng is right here.

Gao Yifeng was heard muttering: "I told you, there's something wrong with this family. The escape route is across the boundary river, so it must be connected to the other side..."

What it means is that the woman has a problem with her thinking.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole quickly passed these people and rushed forward along the footprints.

This one was driven away quite far.

Twenty minutes later, he finally saw a woman's figure at the edge of a cave.

The other person was wearing a green cotton jacket and was lying there motionless.

In the meantime, he found out from the traces that the woman must have fallen several times.

Fortunately, no one died!

Yang Xiaole thought about how to get there.

At this time, the other party was already confused and was muttering something.

After listening for a while, he heard it clearly.

"Gao Yifeng, you beast, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost."

These few sentences are repeated over and over again.