"Well, that's good. I'll just look for you from now on. Come and get food with me later. You'll have to cook for yourself from now on. Let's go and see where your educated youths will be responsible in the future.
That piece of land will be handed over to you. I will come often to visit you in the first year. From now on, you will have to rely on yourself.
Moreover, our educated youth here in Mizhi don’t have so many things to do. You just need to go to the fields and take care of them every day. Now that spring has begun, we have already planted the land. You just need to take good care of it." Secretary Ma said.
He said while walking ahead.
"Secretary Ma, don't we need to water and weed?" Tian Xiaobo didn't understand. Doesn't the book say that when farming, we need to fertilize, water, and weed?
"Water? You will understand after you are born. People here don't drink enough water, so we still water the ground? We all rely on the sky for food. God will reward you with food this year. This year's harvest will be good. If God is in a bad mood this year
, in autumn, you can only go hungry." Ma Zhishu
Everyone else exclaimed when they heard this. This was different from what they thought when they came here. Before they came, they thought they would just have some hardship and at least not go hungry. Now when they heard about whether there would be food after autumn,
, it depends on God’s mood, which makes these students who have just arrived in the countryside from the city panic in their hearts. After all, no one wants to suffer the feeling of starvation.
"Secretary Ma, if the autumn harvest was not good, how did you live in the past?" A girl asked worriedly.
"How do you live? If there is food at home, you can survive from meal to meal. If you don't have food, you can only go out and beg." Ma Zhishu looked at the innocent children in front of him and couldn't bear it in his heart.
But there is no way, this is the condition they have here.
"Ah, I still have to beg for food. If I don't go, how will I behave in the future?" A girl exclaimed.
Everyone else had a bad look on their faces. After all, no one wanted to beg for food. Zhang Jianjun didn't think about it that much, and he had never done this kind of thing before, which was quite interesting to think about.
"Secretary Ma, if you go out to beg for food then, you have to call us brothers. We haven't asked for food before. Let's go out with you and learn more." Zhang Jianjun said carelessly.
"Okay, your child has good adaptability and will definitely not starve to death in the future." Ma Zhishu
A girl said dissatisfiedly: "Zhang Jianjun, what do you think? Even before this happens, you are already thinking about begging for food. We can't afford to lose this person."
"Didn't you hear what Party Secretary Ma said? This is the tradition here in Mizhi, which means there are few good harvests in autumn. Am I not preparing for a rainy day?" Zhang Jianjun said nonchalantly.
After arriving at the place, Party Secretary Ma pointed to a piece of land on the hillside and said to them: "That piece of land there is your land. You must take good care of it. If the harvest during the autumn harvest is too different from that of the land managed by other commune members, but
Your work points will be deducted."
Ma Zhishu led them around the rugged hillside.
"Secretary Ma, didn't you say you have already planted it? Why do I see it is still a wasteland here?" Tian Xiaobo asked curiously.
"The seeds have been planted. It depends on whether it rains. If it doesn't rain recently, all these seeds will die in the ground." Ma Zhishu said with a sigh as he looked at the clear sky at this time.<
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"Then what are we here to take care of? There's nothing we need to do?" A girl didn't know what else they could do in the future.
"I just want you to come here and look around to see if any goats or other animals have eaten the seeds in the field. As for the rest, it will be fine. There is no other livelihood in the commune, so you can do whatever you want."
Ma Zhishu
Hearing this, these educated youths were all confused. They thought they would have endless work to do when they came here, but they didn't expect that there was no work at all. They could just eat and wait to die.
Wang Mo also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. He thought the commune would organize them to build canals or other infrastructure. He didn't expect such leisure, but it was just what Wang Mo wanted.
Returning to the educated youth point, several educated youths pushed the only trolley in the yard to the commune to collect food. This was the key to whether they could survive here in the future.
In a room in the commune, bags of grain were pushed full. Secretary Ma pointed at the grain and said, "This is your ration for this year."
It looks like a lot, but after all, there are many of them, and this is all the food they have for the past six months, and they have to hold on until the autumn harvest.
The educated youths excitedly loaded the food onto the trolleys, and the remaining boys carried a bag each and returned to the educated youth point.
They ran back and forth several times before moving all the food back.
Yesterday, they had been cleared out of the kitchen, and a simple place for storing food was also made.
After a few people excitedly tapped the food, they stopped talking. Even if the food here is eaten frugally every day, it is impossible to last until the autumn harvest!
"Aren't you deliberately trying to make things difficult? You just have to cut it in half every day to survive until the autumn harvest. But after the cut, the girls won't have enough to eat, let alone us boys." Tian Xiaobo said angrily.
Several girls were also discussing. Wang Mo, who understood the plot, certainly knew that Party Secretary Ma had deducted their food.
Since the state allows them to come to the countryside to join the queue, it is not asking them to starve. They must have been given enough food, and the village party secretary here must have withheld it.
Moreover, in the plot, this phenomenon is not only found in Zhong Yuemin’s commune. It is estimated that all communes have this phenomenon, and it is impossible for the county not to know about it, but no one cares about it, which means that even if you stab him, you may be unlucky in the end.
Yourself.
After all, in the future, these educated youths, whether they want to enter a factory, go to college, or return to Beijing, will need the village party secretary here to give you a letter of introduction, otherwise you can go back and give it a try privately?
Therefore, even if Wang Mo knew the situation, he was not prepared to tell them, in case they did not know the seriousness and offended Party Secretary Ma to death.
Wang Mo and Zhang Jianjun don't need Party Secretary Ma when they return to the city. They only need a transfer order from above to return to the city or serve as soldiers. However, other educated youths do not have the background of them, and they will have to deal with Party Secretary Ma frequently in the future!
Seeing that they were noisy and unable to reach a conclusion, Wang Mo said: "The food here is divided according to head. After all, we boys eat a lot, and there are many of you girls. If that doesn't work, let's cook separately. We
You gentlemen can't take advantage of you girls. You girls should save some food and I think you can still survive until the autumn harvest."