Afraid of leaving marks on her white shirt, Jiang Xinyu rubbed it several times with pig soap. After washing the clothes, the hot water in the pot was almost ready. When she felt comfortable and returned to the house, Comrade Jiang Yuzhu was still not asleep.
Jiang Xinyu thought she was still reading the script, so she said, "Sister, you are too attentive."
Jiang Yuzhu raised the book in her hand, which was "How Steel Was Tempered" that Chen Yi borrowed from Jiang Xinyu.
"Little sister, I heard from mom that the commune is going to start recommending and selecting university students who are workers, peasants and soldiers."
Jiang Xinyu was stunned.
From the memory of the original owner, we learned that the commune recommends and elects worker, peasant, and soldier college students every year, and the quota is not certain every year.
"How many are this year?"
Jiang Yuzhu said: "Nine, 4 are college students, 4 are secondary school students, 1 is a college student who does not want to transfer his household registration, and one is a college student who has come to work in a company."
The so-called commune to commune means that you do not transfer your household registration, you come from the commune and then go back to the commune. After you go to college, you will definitely go to the commune of your place of origin.
Nine places sounds like a lot, but there are more than a dozen production brigades and dozens of production teams under Hongqi Commune, and each brigade can't allocate one.
In the memory of the original owner, there were only seven places last year, and this year there are two more than last year. Looking at the indicators, there is only one place for serious college students, but technical secondary school and college students are also very popular.
Jiang Xinyu spread the cream evenly on her face, rubbed her hands and sat on the edge of the bed, "Sister, do you want to be a worker, peasant, and soldier college student?"
Jiang Yuzhu sighed, "Are you stupid? I have graduated from high school less than two years ago, so I am not qualified to participate in recommendation and selection."
Jiang Xinyu was stunned again, then patted her head and said, "I forgot."
The conditions for the recommendation and selection of college workers, peasants, and soldiers are that they must participate in production labor at the grassroots level for two years after graduating from junior high school or high school.
Jiang Yuzhu didn't think it was important whether she went to college or not, but now she is quite interested in it. The Workers', Peasants and Soldiers' University may be her only chance to go out.
One year after she graduated from high school, she wanted to participate in the recommendation selection, but she had to wait another year.
Seeing Jiang Yuzhu's regret, Jiang Xinyu started to draw cakes for her again, "Sister, believe me, by the end of next year at the latest..."
"The college entrance examination will be resumed."
Jiang Xinyu didn't even finish what she said, so Jiang Yuzhu angrily finished it for her.
I really don’t know where the little sister got her confidence, so much so that she started to believe her unreasonable guesses.
Jiang Xinyu, who was not worried, fell asleep very quickly. She thought she had forgotten what happened during the day, but in her dream, a headless torso holding a knife chased her. No matter how she tried to escape, she could not escape. She was sweating profusely and her heart was still frightened. wake up.
"Having a nightmare?"
Jiang Yuzhu was not asleep yet, and the sudden noise startled Jiang Xinyu again.
Jiang Xinyu patted her chest, "Sister, you're going to scare me to death. Why are you still not sleeping in the middle of the night?"
Jiang Yuzhu turned sideways to face her, "I can't sleep."
Jiang Xinyu was so frightened that she didn't dare to sleep for the time being. "Sister, let's change places. I'll sleep against the wall."
Sleeping against the wall feels safe.
After the two of them quietly changed positions, Jiang Yuzhu asked in a low voice: "How do you feel when you and Chen Yi are together?"
Jiang Xinyu asked back: "Do you have someone you like? Li Lei?"
She had seen Jiang Yuzhu and Li Lei standing together and talking. Li Lei was the best son-in-law candidate among the seven aunts and eight aunts in the brigade.
Jiang Yuzhu was a little embarrassed, but still said: "I thought he was okay before, but he is just like that now."
Jiang Yuzhu didn't like the way Li Lei looked at her, as if Li Lei in her family was rich.
"It's okay. Do you like it?"
Jiang Yuzhu said: "It's okay. I think if I marry him, my life will be the same, and I can't say I like him."
Girls in the village all get married when they reach old age. She didn't think there was a problem before, after all, everyone was like this.
Jiang Xinyu understood that Jiang Yuzhu just thought that Li Lei was a suitable marriage partner. After all, his conditions were good in the brigade.
"How do you feel when you and Chen Yi are together?"
Jiang Yuzhu circled the question again. It seemed that she wanted to get an answer from Jiang Xinyu. She suspected that Jiang Yuzhu had someone he liked.
Jiang Xinyu hesitated and said, "Well, I feel happy when I see him. That's it."
Jiang Yuzhu pursed her lips and smiled.
Jiang Xinyu was a little embarrassed and scratched her, "Tell me, who do you like?"
Jiang Yuzhu hesitated for a long time and refused to say anything. No matter how much Jiang Xinyu tickled her, she didn't say anything.
The voices of the two sisters woke up Chen Xiuyun, "Why are you two laughing? You are still not sleeping."
The two of them shut up immediately and lay there quietly.
In a hazy state, Jiang Xinyu didn't know when she fell asleep again. Her dream was so messy that she didn't sleep well all night.
After eating rice porridge, steamed buns and pickles, Jiang Xinyu was taken to work by Chen Xiuyun.
Jiang Xinyu had a pout that could hang from a bottle of oil and had a slumped look on her face. Chen Xiuyun looked at her and said with a smile: "Which girl in the team didn't go to high school like you and didn't have to work every day during the holidays?"
She made money by selling pig soap. When others saw that her family was living a good life, when asked, she would always say that it was the help of her relatives.
But if you live a good life, there will always be jealous people who say nasty things behind your back.
My little girl and Chen Yi are talking about each other. Chen Yi took her little girl to watch a movie in the county yesterday. The aunts, aunts, and daughters-in-law in the brigade were all saying how good Chen Yi was to her little girl. Along with that, her little girl was squeamish and so on.
Not only did they say it to themselves, they would also gossip about it in front of Widow Wang.
Chen Xiuyun knew that some people were just jealous, but she could not allow such rumors to grow.
Letting little girls go to work in the fields will always shut up some people.
"Okay, okay, just work for half a day. When you come back at noon, you can wash your hair and tidy up."
Jiang Xinyu's pouted mouth retracted a little.
The life of a farmer is really hard. There is life all year round, except for the period around winter and Chinese New Year.
The rapeseed in the field is already ripe, and the wheat is almost ready for harvest. The wasteland has been opened up to grow sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn and other crops, as well as a large cotton field.
The team leader is assigning jobs to everyone who comes to work, including weeding, carrying water, harvesting rapeseed, and plowing the ground for sowing.
The only precious tractor in the team is plowing and sowing seeds, and a little donkey is also pulling a cart to transport cut rapeseed.
Jiang Xinyu only worked for half a day. Captain Li gave her two points of land to collect rapeseed, and she was credited with three work points after completing the work.
When it was time to work, Jiang Xinyu tied a piece of breathable gray cloth stuffed in her pocket to her head, covering her face. She also wore a straw hat on her head, which seemed to be covered tightly.
You also have to be careful when using a sickle. The force is too strong and the hand is too wide to cut the rhizome. If you are not careful, you will scratch your leg. It is too easy to cause accidents. Generally, the captain will not assign this job to half-year-old children.
The land not far from her is Su Qingqing, who works hard with a sickle and sweats like rain.
Jiang Xinyu was confused. Didn't she like asking other gay men in the team to help her in the past? Why did she seem to be a different person today?