Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 133 New Blood

After performing a full set of "decontamination", they were housed in the dormitory of the quarantine station.The dormitories are separated for men and women, and each room has more than [-] beds.What surprised them was that the beds were double-decker.Those who sleep on it have to climb up.But everyone has their own bed with a clean straw mattress, and each person is given a thin blanket.This condition is like heaven for the children who have been living outside for months.

They also distributed a large pottery cup and washcloths—the towels require the technology of a knitting machine, which cannot be produced yet.In contrast, the toothbrush was put into production very quickly. The wooden handle, the bristles are made of horsehair, and the holes and bristles are all made by hand. Relying on extremely simple hand tools, the toothbrush was made—of course, the output is still very low, and only [-] can be made every day.

As for the indispensable mouthwash cups, rice bowls and other things, unfortunately they brought very limited, so they had to use fragile glazed pottery.If there is no stainless steel rice spoon, a wooden cart will do.These daily necessities, which are extremely simple to make, cannot be self-sufficient due to lack of raw materials.

The fierce maid took them to allocate beds, the younger ones would sleep on the lower ones, and the older ones would sleep on the upper ones.There are also many rules: you can go out, but you are only allowed to walk in the open space at the door, and you are not allowed to visit the dormitory next door; rice bowls, cups and other things are only allowed to be used by yourself, not mixed.Everything must be placed on the shelf in an orderly manner... Everyone gasps when they hear that, there are so many rules in this place.

There is the most effective way to punish those who violate discipline: go hungry.

"It's time to eat!" With the sound of the bell outside, someone shouted outside, and someone brought steaming food in a large iron bucket with a lid.The first meal is a thick fish board porridge, which is made of miscellaneous fish and chopped up to cook the porridge, and a lot of vegetables are added in it, which is considered comprehensive nutrition.Everyone was quite satisfied with the meal, but there was no need to add more—Wu Nanhai was afraid that they would have a stomachache if they ate too much at once.However, from the very beginning, here is three meals a day to increase nutrition-the health team is very clear that many epidemic infectious diseases have a lot to do with malnutrition.

During this 40-day quarantine observation period, they can't be left deserted. Travelers are not here to engage in charity.The two best graduates from the night school in Yanchang Village were sent to teach them literacy and Mandarin.Everyone distributed slates and chalk. The morning is the time for study, and the afternoon is the time for labor. The rattan wood processing factory in Bopu will send some simple handicrafts here. They learn to process rattan and weave rattan ware , open Zhumi, and sand the boards.Those children who showed dexterity on the job will be recorded as a direction for their future training.Before dinner, you can do some free activities and play games.After dinner, they clean up, take a shower, and then they have to go to bed——the traverser did not provide power and lighting to the dormitory.But when night falls, many children still gather by the wire fence to watch the twinkling lights in the row of red houses on the other side of the port.

For most children, such as Tian Liang, life is satisfactory now, with food and clothing, a clean house to live in, no fleas that always have to be scratched on his body, and several scabies on his body have also been plastered several times It was completely fine after that.Although I have a lot of homework every day and I am subject to discipline, I can still bear it.

Some older children are used to being wild because they have been wandering for a long time, and they are not interested in reading and writing, and they are even less willing to learn the short-haired mandarin that is not a donkey or a horse. After several failures of hungry education, the most stubborn child was transferred to the apprentice team of the production team.

Tian Liang often wanted to go to the girls' dormitory to see how Guo Fu was doing, but there was a tall bamboo fence between the two sides, and the door in the middle was always locked.Even if one can lean on the fence and see the scene opposite, it is difficult to tell which one is Guo Fu among a group of people.After a long time, I slowly gave up.

Ma Peng pushed a small wheelbarrow, creaking and walking on the ridge road, and the cart was loaded with his family's only possessions and his old mother.

"Peng'er, let's go like this, will Master Shorthair take us in?"

"Mother, how many times have I told you that you will take in as many family members as you come, this is what Chief Wu said personally."

"Ai, ai, you are really good, why did you quit the job at Master Fu's place! Master Fu treats us well."

"He treats us well, but isn't Shorthair better?" Ma Peng pushed the cart vigorously, "Working as a worker at Shorthair, he always has rice and fish. Doesn't he have everything? ? It’s only during the busy farming season that I have a meal of potato shreds. His wife will mutter if she eats too much.”

Just as he was talking, another group of loaders came from behind, all of them were baskets of rice, and the shoulder poles were trembling under the weight, and hurriedly walked towards Bairen City.

"Mother, look, these are all going to Dongmen City to sell grain. The money of these short-haired chiefs is really more than sea water." Ma Peng turned his mouth a little proudly, thinking that being a long-term worker for short-haired workers Fu Buer, the owner of the rural land, has gained a lot of face.

Just as he was talking, the person in charge turned around and said, "Little brother, are you going to Dongmen City too? Take the old lady to open your eyes?"

"I'm doing long-term work for Shorthair. I'm picking up my old lady."

The leading man laughed: "Little brother is kind! Dare to work for them."

"It's nothing. The short hair is not a man-eating goblin with three heads and six arms. Speaking of which, they are not bad." He talked about what happened after he went to war with Fu Buer and was captured, including various things. Anecdote.

"... I think it's not the same thing to work for, at least the short-haired side eats well."

The man nodded: "That's right, just like our master, at first he was terrified when he heard the news, and he was afraid that the short hair would come to beat him every day, but later he heard that the short hair was harvesting rice, and the price was high, so he became more active. The family has gone to deliver food. The government’s autumn grain, he is pushing back and forth, and it’s good here, it’s not counting if you sell it once, it’s the second time.”

"Lao Cai is just looking for money."

While talking, a group of people have arrived at Dongmen City.In just half a month, the place has become very lively.The red brick building standing majestically in the middle of a large area of ​​bamboo sheds is very conspicuous.The loaders and carts selling food formed a long line here, and on the other side, there was a shop of some welfare agency that had spread all over the county recently, and the front door was also crowded with people. People who looked like women were also here to look at things and bargain with women in beautiful blue cloth clothes.It has been almost a month since Ma Peng left here, and now everything is really fresh.He felt more and more that it was right for him to come back this time, and the short-haired chiefs would not leave!

He parted ways with the team that came to sell grain—Ma Peng was going to the production team camp on the Wenlan River outside the south gate.When he walked out of a homestead, many people he had never seen were putting up scaffolding to build a house.It was completely different from the houses he had seen in the past, that is, no bamboo, wood, or rammed earth were used, and the houses were built with bright red bricks.Ma Peng never dreamed that this would be their home.

The reporting rate of the Bairen production team is amazing. Wu De originally estimated that at most 95% to 120% of the people would return to the team after the busy farming season. Unexpectedly, more than [-]% of them returned after the busy farming season. Many people even brought their family members .Some people who expected better treatment here at Shorthair followed suit.Added together, the entire Bairentan production team has [-]% of the original number.Better than their original optimistic estimates.This made the executive committee overjoyed - before that, they had been unable to confirm whether they had the ability to attract the hearts of the people, and now it seemed that they were doing a good job.

The people who migrated from Damei Village—had been organized by Wu De into the second production team of Bairentan, experienced the busiest farming season in their lives.The men are busy cutting wood, quarrying, digging soil, and burning bricks, while the women spread and clean the harvested rice. There is an endless stream of loaders just sending the rice to the mill by the river—now there are thousands of people in Bairen City. There are more than 300 mouths, and the daily demand for rice alone is one and a half tons.Ma Qianju instructed: Mills use rice mills to process rice only to brown rice, and are not allowed to process polished rice—one is to preserve nutrition, and the other is to increase grain yield.Older women help cook in the kitchen, and even half-grown children have to go to the farm to help loosen the soil and weed.From the first time the cock crows in the morning to the end of the day, I work more than ten hours a day.But the hard work is hard work, and the food provided by the short-haired people is also good!There is no need for them to start a fire to cook, and three meals a day are ready-made and delivered to the construction site: hot rice is enough, and there are meat and fish for the two meals at lunch and dinner. I have never seen it.In addition, wages are also given. Although they are colorful pieces of paper, according to the people from the production team who came earlier than them, these pieces of paper are very valuable, and they can buy rice and fish in the cafeteria.If there are children and elderly people in the family who need to support them, they can support their families with this work point voucher.So although the work is heavy, I don't have any complaints.

Ma Qianzhu himself was born in a large state-owned enterprise, and he never forgets the welfare system of state-owned enterprises that benefits employees, old and young.He saw that many women were unable to go out to work because they had young children or many children, and a lot of labor was wasted. He set up the first nursery school in order to liberate women with children to participate in labor.He found Fang Yijing—she used to be a childcare teacher, managed everyone's dormitory before crossing, and is now the head of the management committee of the residential area—appointed her as the director, and first selected some women to receive simple childcare and hygiene training.Ma Qianju knew that coercion was ineffective in changing people's long-established living habits, so he adopted some economic strategies: stipulated that all meals for children who were willing to enter nursery schools would be provided by the cafeteria.

(End of this chapter)