Thinking that the fermented bean curd might have problems again, Chen Zhaozhao was a little worried and anxious.
It wasn't that she was worried that the problems she encountered could not be solved, but she was worried that Liu Guihua would become angry, self-doubt, and suffer in various ways.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Zhaozhao asked immediately after entering Yu Jinggui's room.
"Don't worry, nothing happened." Seeing her anxious look, Yu Jinggui first reassured her, and then said, "Two comrades from the propaganda team in the factory want to take half a month's leave. It's really hard to divide the work among the people in the team.
Too busy.
I heard that your third sister is good at drawing and writing, and I would like to ask her to take over from get off work. As long as she writes the blackboard report every day, do you think it will work?"
It turned out that there was no problem with the bean curd. Chen Zhaozhao was relieved, "Then I should ask my third sister about this."
"Don't your sisters all listen to you? I want to ask your opinion first."
"I want to find a substitute. There are so many units in the county, so it should be easy to find one."
"It's easy to find a substitute, but it's hard to find someone you can trust."
Chen Zhaozhao understood, "As long as my third sister is willing, I have no objection."
"Okay." Yu Jinggui nodded and asked Tao Rongguang to call Chen Sanmei.
When Chen Sanmei heard that she was going to work as a substitute in the factory, she frowned and said, "My family is so busy. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it when I leave."
"It doesn't matter what happened at home. I'm here. Do you want to go?"
"If you perform well as a substitute, you can stay." Yu Jinggui said.
This is also the reason why he wants to find a suitable and trustworthy person. Generally, this kind of substitute will stay in the end as long as the performance is not very poor.
While he wanted to select the workers in the factory, some people wanted to take this opportunity to insert people into the factory.
When she heard that she could stay, Chen Sanmei's eyes lit up and she looked at Chen Zhaozhao questioningly.
Chen Zhaozhao knew that Chen Sanmei was moved. For people in this era, eating public food was always a good thing.
"You can go if you want, I think you can." Chen Zhaozhao said.
"Okay, I'll go." Chen Sanmei agreed happily.
After finishing the matter, Chen Zhaozhao and Chen Sanmei went out, and Tao Rongguang chatted with Yu Jinggui again before leaving.
Not long after Tao Rongguang left, Lu Linfeng came.
Lu Linfeng's expression was serious and his steps were hurried. He entered Yu Jinggui's room for a long time before coming out.
Chen Simei, who was in the kitchen, had been quietly paying attention to the situation there. When she saw Lu Linfeng coming out, she mustered up the courage to go out.
"Comrade Lu, are you just leaving?"
"Yes." Lu Linfeng nodded friendly to Chen Simei.
"Then this is for you." Chen Simei ran over and handed Lu Linfeng a paper bag.
Lu Linfeng looked at the paper bag but did not pick it up, "What are you talking about?"
"You helped me again last time. I haven't thanked you properly yet. I don't know how to thank you. I can only give you something to eat. Don't dislike it." Chen Simei said embarrassedly.
Lu Linfeng took it and said, "Thank you, actually you don't have to be so polite."
Chen Simei smiled.
Lu Linfeng was stunned for a moment, his heart seemed to be hit by her smile and he became nervous, "Then I'll leave first."
"Goodbye." Chen Simei smiled brightly and waved to him.
Lu Linfeng felt his heart beating rapidly, but he nodded and turned away without any expression on his face.
Chen Simei watched him off and ran back to the kitchen with a smile, like a happy bird.
Lu Linfeng pedaled his bicycle for a long distance before exhaling and slowly regaining his heart rate.
After dinner, Chen Zhaozhao carried some things and went to talk to Zhao Youchang about weeding the soybean field.
"Having someone do the weeding?" Liu Jiamei immediately objected after hearing this, "Zhaozhao, you said at the beginning that you were responsible for the management of the soybean field. Now it is the time to transplant rice seedlings. Where can you find someone to do the weeding for you?
Moreover, we need to count the work points for weeding. If the soybeans are not harvested, how many work points will the village owe?"
Liu Jiamei felt that soybeans would never be grown, and Yu Jinggui didn't know why he wanted them to open up wasteland to grow soybeans. Wasn't this a trick to them?
The man in her family is the village chief. Originally, if there was any leftover food in the village after paying the public food and exchanging work points, they could deduct some of it to eat.
Therefore, their family is never short of food, but if there are extra work points to pay for the food, with the temper of the man in her family, others will ask for a few words to stop them from taking out all the remaining food?
What do they eat at home?
Therefore, Liu Jiamei was the most opposed and angry about the matter of clearing wasteland to plant soybeans. Originally, according to the previous calculation of work points, their family would not suffer too much loss.
But now Chen Zhaozhao wants someone to weed again, which is simply taking food from her mouth, and she is very unhappy.
"Auntie, don't worry." Chen Zhaozhao smiled gently. She knew Liu Jiamei's virtues and what she did behind her back.
She was too lazy to eat, so she earned work points by spending three days fishing and two days drying nets. If it hadn't been for the withheld grain, their family wouldn't be able to eat as well as they do now without worrying about food.
You must know that most families in the village cannot afford all-you-can-eat white rice.
She felt that soybean cultivation was not possible and that she had seriously violated her interests. It was strange that she didn't get angry in a hurry.
"I know it's busy right now with rice transplanting. I don't want to transfer the rice transplanters. The school will have a busy farming holiday this weekend, so let the children go. Anyway, there are too many people working in the fields in our village."
In the village, children over the age of twelve who are too old to go to school are working in the fields, but there is still available labor, and that is the children who are in school.
Of course, if it's too small, it won't work, but if it's a junior high or high school student, it's fine.
Nowadays, there is not much homework in school. On weekends, students have to help the family to earn work points, and they cannot be idle when farming is busy.
There are a total of fifteen children in junior high school and high school in the village. It is a busy farm holiday plus weekends for a total of five days. The grass is not very deep now. As long as ten people are willing to go, they can finish the work.
"Zhaozhao, the most important problem now is not manpower, but work points." Liu Jiamei said angrily.
"In terms of work points, children don't have to pay for work points when they go to the fields." The smile on Chen Zhaozhao's face was a little chilly.
"Is that the same? They are doing a useful thing by planting rice seedlings, but it is a useless thing by weeding the soybeans." Liu Jiamei was even more rude.
"They earn work points for doing useless things but they have to pay them back in the village. How can this be such a good thing?
Besides, the work points earned from working in the soybean fields might not be redeemable, and they would definitely not be willing to go.
Originally, you were responsible for all the management of the soybean field. There are so many people in your family, so why don't you just go and do the weeding yourself?
My family is busy making money, but I need someone from the village to weed."
"That's enough for you. The soybean field originally belonged to the village." Zhao Youchang scolded Liu Jiamei, but he also felt that what Liu Jiamei said made sense.
Although he actively cooperated with the land reclamation to plant soybeans, he had no confidence in the soybean fields.
"Auntie, I told you not to worry, just listen to me first. Since I have taken on the responsibility of managing the soybean field, there is no need for the village to redeem work points for hoeing."
After Chen Zhaozhao said to Liu Jiamei, he turned to Zhao Youchang, "Uncle Zhao, go and ask for me if they are willing to go. If they go, after hoeing the grass, I will pay them work points immediately."
"Will you redeem it after hoeing?" Liu Jiamei said happily, "Can you redeem it?"
"Of course I can, but I can't, and I won't say this anymore."
"Who doesn't know what to say, but why do you make people believe it?" Liu Jiamei didn't believe Chen Zhaozhao's words at all. She felt that Chen Zhaozhao said this just to trick them into working first.
She knew very well how many vegetables Chen Zhaozhao and the others sold every day. Every time the vegetables were replaced with soybeans, they had enough to feed themselves.
Where does the money or food come from to exchange for work points?
The prices charged by the supply and marketing cooperative for Chen Zhaozhao's vegetables were different from those of other families. Later, when they sold more, the money was not brought back directly by Zhao Youchang at first, but paid by himself.
This is to prevent the villagers from knowing how much money they make.
Otherwise, if Zhao Youchang knows how much they earn, Liu Jiamei will know, and the whole village will know.
Let the whole village know that the fire of jealousy will burn their family to ashes.
But the question now is, how can people believe her words?