Reborn in the red age

Chapter 73 Officially Entering Cat Winter
Not even two days have passed since the comfortable days. All the granaries in the brigade are full. The grain in the granaries needs to be transported to the grain management office to make room for the grain that is still drying.

On the day when the public grain is handed over, all the animals in the team are hitched to the carts, and all the young and strong except the old, weak, women and children are dispatched. At two o'clock in the night, they have to get up and go to the brigade's granary to load the grain on the bullock cart.

There were three two-story granaries of several hundred square meters, and all the grain inside needed to be transported to the grain management office. Li Qingfeng subconsciously touched his shoulders and felt tired.

There are actually quite a few livestock transport vehicles in the entire brigade. There are a thousand people in the village and eight production teams. Each production team has six or seven cattle and horse transport vehicles of various types. The transport capacity is not small, but It is a complete dream to transport so much food.

All the fleets combined could not transport much grain. The rest of the grain was carried on shoulders and hands, wheelbarrows, and rack trucks. Thinking that the grain management station was more than ten miles away, Li Qingfeng wanted to die.

The standard for sacks during the Grain Management Office was 80 kilograms. When he carried the 160 kilograms of grain on his shoulders, Qingfeng Li almost fell to the ground. He gritted his teeth and carried more than ten bags of grain to the bullock cart. Qingfeng Li felt that he had lost all his strength. .

After loading all the grain into the truck, the team leader gave Li Qingfeng the care of him when organizing the grain transportation. Instead of Li Qingfeng carrying the pole, he gave Li Qingfeng a wheelbarrow with 2 bags of grain on it, totaling 320 kilograms. He followed the convoy to the grain management The food transported.

The teams transporting grain were lined up, and with the sound of the gong from the brigade leader, all the vehicles moved forward in the order they were lined up.

The handlebars of livestock carts sit comfortably on the carts and drive the animals, followed by those pushing wheelbarrows and frame carts, and finally the long team carrying poles.

The wheelbarrow was really laborious at first, but once the car started running, it became much easier. Qingfeng Li sighed secretly in his heart, it seemed that his things were not given away in vain, didn't this work?

The dirt road here is full of potholes, so you have to be careful when pushing a wheelbarrow. If you don't do it right, the wheel can turn over.

Halfway through the convoy, the bullock cart leading the way stopped. Everyone looked up and saw their convoy collided with grain transport convoys from other villages at the intersection.

A village lagging behind in delivering grain had to wait in line for an extra hour or two at the grain management office. No one wanted to wait that long. In order to be the first to deliver grain, the leaders of the two villages got into a fight at the intersection. In addition, the villagers The young and strong men pushed each other, as if they were going to fight to separate the order.

At the critical moment, the old man, the captain of the brigade, rolled his eyes and walked directly to the middle of the road without saying a word, acting like a rogue: "Come on, come on, you want to be the first, right? Your bullock cart will run over me. As long as you dare Press them over, and your team will deliver food first."

Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched as he watched from behind. This old man could still act such a rogue at such an old age. He really looked down upon him.

The leader of the brigade leader opposite twitched his lips. One of them, a little old man, also went to the front of the Qingshan brigade's motorcade and imitated the brigade captain's words, saying that he would be crushed to death by the ox cart of the Qingshan brigade.

Now the two sides fell into a stalemate, and it was not the same thing to have been so stagnant. In the end, they used the most primitive means to solve the problem of order, and the young men driving the cars on both sides had a fight.

This time, Qingfeng Li saw a good show. The top 30 people from both sides started fighting in the field. It was so exciting that Qingfeng Li clapped his hands and cheered from behind the crowd.

In the end, the Qingshan brigade won and had priority to go to the Grain Management Office to hand over the public grain. The brigade captain and several village leaders were like victorious roosters, walking past each other triumphantly.

The bullock carts were filled with grain, and the convoy moved slowly. It took more than two hours to arrive at the grain management station of the commune.

Arriving at the grain depot of the Grain Management Office, Li Qingfeng was dumbfounded as he looked at the long line of people queuing up to hand over grain.There was a queue that stretched for two or three miles, and it was so densely packed with people and convoys that it made one's scalp numb to see it.

There were so many people coming to pay the public rations. As soon as the convoy lined up here, two or three more villages came immediately behind, and the queue stretched out for several miles.

Queuing is the most tiring thing. We arrived before dawn. When it was time to eat at noon, it was not the turn of the Qingshan brigade. I was tired, hungry and thirsty all morning. Fortunately, all the people here were old men who wanted to go. The toilet only needs to be one stop away from the roadside, otherwise it would be even more uncomfortable.

Only by immersing yourself in the situation can you empathize. It is really not easy for farmers these days. Those professors in later generations who want to condemn farmers for being lazy should really deserve their death.

It wasn't until the afternoon that it was the turn of the Qingshan Brigade to inspect the grain. The quality inspector at the grain station took a grain drill and stabbed it hard into the sack. When he pulled it out, he could bring out a lot of grain.

He poured the food he brought out into his hands, observed and tasted it first, and then told the clerk standing behind him about the grade of the food.

This job is a fat job, and the grade of the grain depends entirely on others. On the first day when I came to hand over the grain, the brigade leader made a special trip to give some small gifts to the inspector. Then he did not embarrass the Qingshan brigade and honestly gave Qingshan The team was graded, and there were no more bonuses or less deductions.

After checking the dryness and wetness of the grain, it was followed by weighing. The leader of the local grain station was a real person and did not do such disgusting things.It’s not easy for farmers. Every year, they pay [-]% of the food they grow and keep [-]% of the food they grow. In more ruthless places, it can go as high as [-]%.

The leaders of the grain stations in some places are so evil that they will make a fuss about the scale of the grain delivered to the public. Once the grain is weighed by others, it is not enough. They either give gifts to the leaders or go back to replenish the grain. , in short, just thinking of ways to bully people.

After half a month of going back and forth about handing over the public grain, I finally handed over all the grain.

After the autumn harvest was completely over, the commune issued an order that each brigade must arrange people to build roads, and every household must send people. This is called voluntary work, and the centimeters are recorded by the team. There is no money.

All young and old people had to go, while the old, weak, women and children stayed in the fields to collect cabbage and radishes from the vegetable garden or private plots.

Qingfeng Li would have no problem with this kind of volunteer worker building roads. Don't let him work. He just wanders around the construction site every day, working like a foreigner in an upright manner.

After working on the construction site for a few days, the team leader couldn't sit still. This old man, Mr. Li, had been working on the construction site for three days and even if he didn't work, he still had to be given a credit. Didn't the team suffer a loss?So he immediately drove Qingfeng Li back.

This is exactly what Li Qingfeng wants. Anyway, he is not short of money or food. Why not rest if he can? As for other people gossiping?Qingfeng Li could only say whatever he wanted, since everyone in the brigade knew that he was a lazy guy, so it didn't matter.

Back at the small courtyard for educated youth, Li Qingfeng did nothing and slept until noon. After waking up, he followed the commune members to the mountains to collect firewood to prepare for the winter kang burning.

After staying in the small courtyard for educated youth for two days, Li Qingfeng noticed something was wrong. Every day he watched Zhao Haixia and the other two female educated youths leave early and return late. After following the large army into the mountains, no one could be seen. What were they doing?The educated youths have no private land to work on, so maybe they have secretly opened a piece of land outside, right?

When Li Qingfeng and Ma Wenhui were smoking in the kitchen that day, they saw that Zhao Haixia and the others were not there. Li Qingfeng asked about them: "Hey, Sister Haixia and the others go out early and come back late every day. You know they What are you doing outside?"

Ma Wenhui looked around to make sure there was no one else around, then she put her head over and whispered: "The two of them opened a piece of land on the mountain and planted a lot of sugar beets. Don't go out and mess with others." explain"

"Who am I to tell you? Am I the kind of person who talks nonsense? But speaking of which, these two people are really brave. If someone discovers this, it will be a disaster."

Li Qingfeng had some guesses in his mind. He didn't show any surprise after hearing Ma Wenhui's words. Instead, he sighed at the two of them's boldness. After all, they were girls from coastal areas, and their thoughts were very lively.

Beet can be boiled into sugar. Although brown sugar is not as good as white sugar, it is still a precious commodity and can be sold for a good price on the black market. If you plant more of it, the output of that mountainous area may be higher than theirs in a year. There are more work points.

"If you don't tell me, I won't tell you. Who knows? Besides, every commune member in the brigade has private land to do some side business, but we educated youths don't have it. What happened to the land? Aren't they forced to do so?"

"What you said makes sense. Don't say it next time. I have promised you that you and Hu Jiabao should not follow their example. If someone discovers this, it will really not be a joke."

"I know, I know, I know it"

The two of them stopped talking about Zhao Haixia and the others, but stopped talking about it. Instead of continuing to talk about Zhao Haixia and the others, they talked about something else.

The road construction work has been going on for more than half a month, and it finally stopped. Li Qingfeng's happy life was finally over. The team leader arranged for the educated youth to carry out the work of picking dung from the latrines of every household to the ground. go.

In the Northeast, manure is soaked in manure in the winter, and when spring comes, the manure that has been frozen all winter is turned into the ground.

This job was assigned to the educated youths. New educated youths like Li Qingfeng were in trouble. One or two of them were too dirty and did not want to do the job of picking dung.

Is it okay if you don't want to do the job assigned by the team?That couldn't be done. After some struggle, Li Qingfeng and the others still picked up the excrement bucket and went door to door to collect excrement.

Fortunately, the weather has cooled down now and the smell is not as bad as in summer. If they had to do this work in summer, these educated youths would be even more unbearable.

After cleaning out the cesspits of all the houses in the village, the fields were completely dead. The radish and cabbage harvested from the vegetable garden were brought from the brigade. All members of the commune officially entered the cat winter period, which lasted for three or four months. These educated youths finally Completely idle.

(End of this chapter)