After performing a complete set of "purification", they were placed in the dormitory of the quarantine center. The dormitories were separated for men and women, and each room had more than twenty beds. What was novel for them was that the beds were all double-decker. They slept in
The people above have to climb up. But everyone has a separate bed with clean straw mats, and each person is also given a thin felt. This condition is very difficult for the children who have been sleeping rough for several months.
It's almost like heaven.
They also distributed a large-mouthed pottery cup and a washcloth-towel, which requires knitting machine technology and cannot be produced yet. In contrast, the toothbrush was put into production very quickly. It has a wooden handle and bristles made of horsehair, which are punched and bunched.
The hair was all handmade, and people from the Ministry of Industry were surprised because local women made toothbrushes based on their drawings and requirements with very simple hand tools. Of course, the output was still very low, and they could only make two pieces a day.
Just ten.
As for the indispensable mouthwash cups, rice basins and the like, unfortunately what they brought was very limited, so they had to use fragile glazed pottery. If they didn’t have a stainless steel rice spoon, they could just make do with a wooden car. These are simple to make.
However, daily necessities are not self-sufficient due to lack of raw materials.
The fierce maid took them to allocate beds, and the younger ones slept on the bottom bed, while the older ones slept on the upper bunk. They also set many rules: they could go out, but they were only allowed to walk in the open space at the door, and they were not allowed to visit the dormitory next door;
You can only use rice bowls, cups and other things by yourself, and you are not allowed to mix them. Everything must be placed on the shelves in an orderly manner... It made everyone choke. There are so many rules in this place.
Those who violate discipline have the most effective way to punish them: starvation.
"It's time to eat!" As the bell outside was ringing, someone shouted outside, and someone brought steaming meals in a large iron bucket with a lid. The first meal was thick fish plate porridge, made with
The offal fish was made into fish fillet, cut into pieces and cooked into porridge, and a lot of vegetables were added to it, which was considered to be comprehensive in nutrition. Everyone was quite satisfied with the meal, but there was no need to add more - Wu Nanhai was afraid that they would get upset if they ate too much at once. However,
Here, there are three meals a day from the beginning to increase nutrition - the health team knows very well that many epidemic infectious diseases are closely related to malnutrition.
They cannot be left idle during this 40-day quarantine observation period. The time travelers are not here to engage in charity. Two of the best graduates from the night school in Yanchang Village were sent to teach them literacy and Mandarin.
Everyone was given slates and chalk. The morning was a time for studying, and the afternoon was a time for working. The rattan processing factory in Bopu would send some simple manual work here. They learned to process rattan and make rattan utensils.
, open bamboo poles, and polish and sand the wooden boards. Those children who are ingenious at work will be recorded as a direction for their future training. Before dinner, you can move around freely and play games. After dinner,
After cleaning, taking a shower, and then going to bed - the travelers did not provide power and lighting to the dormitory. But every night, many children would gather beside the barbed wire fence to watch the twinkling lights in the rows of red houses on the other side of the port.
For most children, such as Tian Liang, their current life is satisfactory. They have food, clothing, and a clean house to live in. There are no fleas on their bodies that they are always scratching. He has also applied several plasters to the scabies on his body.
I got completely better after that. Although I had a lot of homework every day and had to be disciplined, I could still bear it.
Some older children have become wild because they have been wandering for a long time. They are not interested in reading and writing, and they are even less willing to learn short-haired mandarin that is neither a donkey nor a horse. Some cannot stand the constraints of discipline.
After several failed attempts at starvation education, the most stubborn children were transferred to the apprenticeship team of the production team.
Tian Liang often wants to go to the girls' dormitory to check on Guo Fu, but there is a high bamboo fence between the two sides, and the door in the middle is always locked. Even if he can get close to the fence and see the scene on the other side, in a group of people
It was also difficult to tell which one was Guo Fu. As time went by, she gradually gave up.
Ma Peng pushed a small wheelbarrow, which was loaded with his family's only belongings and his wife, and walked creakingly on the road between the fields.
"Peng'er, let's go like this. Will Mr. Shorthair take us in?"
"Mother, how many times have I told you that we will take in as many family members and relatives as you want. This is what Chief Wu said personally."
"Oh, oh, you really did a good job and resigned from Master Fu's job! Master Fu treats us very well."
"He treats us well, but wouldn't Shorthair be better?" Ma Peng pushed the cart with great enthusiasm, "When I work as a worker at Shorthair, I have rice and fish for every meal. Isn't he a good person?
?I only gave him a meal of shredded potato because he was busy with farming. His wife even grumbled after eating too much."
As they were talking, another group of bearers came behind them, carrying baskets of rice, which made the poles tremble under the weight, and they hurriedly walked towards Bairen City.
"Mom, look, these are all going to Dongmen City to sell grain. The money of these short-haired leaders is really more than the sea water." Ma Peng pouted a little proudly, feeling that working as a long-term laborer for a short-haired boy is better than paying a salary.
Rural landowner Fu Buer has gained a lot of face in carrying out his job.
Just as he was talking, the person who was leading the load turned around and said, "Brother, are you going to Dongmen City too? Take me to open your eyes?"
"I do a long job for Shorthair. I'm just picking up my mother."
The leading man burst out laughing: "You have some talent, little brother! You dare to work for them."
"It's nothing. Shorthair is not a man-eating goblin with three heads and six arms. Speaking of which, they are not bad people." As he spoke, he talked about how he went to fight with Fu Fuji and what happened after he was captured.
Strange anecdotes.
"...I think it doesn't matter who you work for. At least the short-haired ones have good food."
The man nodded: "Yes, just like our master, he was frightened at first when he heard the news, and was afraid of being beaten by Shorthair every day. Later, he heard that Shorthair was harvesting rice and offered a high price. Now he became more flexible and gave it to me.
They sent grain. He owes the autumn grain from the government for many reasons. It's good here, and it doesn't count if he sells it once. This is the second time."
"Lao Cai is just looking for money."
As they talked, the group had arrived at Dongmen City. In just half a month, the place had become very lively. The majestic red brick building standing among a large number of bamboo sheds was very conspicuous. The people selling grain were carrying burdens.
There is a long queue of carts here. On the other side is the shop of some welfare society that has recently spread throughout the county. The door is also crowded with people. In addition to ordinary people from small households, there are also some landlords and wealthy people here.
Looking at things and bargaining with women in beautiful blue cloth clothes. Ma Peng has been away from here for almost a month, and now everything is really new. He feels more and more that he is right to come back this time, and the short-haired leaders will not leave.
have to!
He parted ways with the team that came to sell grain - Mapeng was going to the production team camp on the bank of the Wenlan River outside the south gate. When he walked out of a homestead, many people he had never seen before were
Putting up scaffolding to build a house. It was completely different from the houses he had seen in the past. It did not use bamboo, wood, or rammed earth. The house was made of red bricks. Ma Peng never dreamed that this would be their home.
The registration rate of the Bairen production team was astonishingly good. Wu De originally estimated that at most 60 to 70% of the people would return to the team after the busy farming season. Unexpectedly, more than 95% would return after the busy farming season, and many of them would bring their families.
Some people who expected to get better treatment in Shorthair also came. Taken together, the number of people in the entire Bairentan production team was 120% of the original. It was better than their original most optimistic estimate. This made the executives
The committee was overjoyed - before, they had been unsure of their ability to win over the people, and now it seemed they were doing a good job.
The people who migrated from Damei Village, who had been organized by Wu De into the second production team of Bairentan, experienced the busiest farming season in their lives. The men were busy logging, quarrying, digging, and baking bricks, and the women
The harvested rice is spread out and washed, and there is an endless stream of teams carrying the rice to the mills by the river. Now there are more than 1,300 mouths in Bairen City, and the daily demand for rice alone is one and a half tons.
Ma Qianzhu instructed: The mill uses a rice mill to process only brown rice, not polished rice - one is to preserve nutrients, and the other is to increase the grain yield. Older women help cook in the kitchen, even half of the rice.
The older children also have to go to the farm to help loosen the soil and cut grass. They are busy from the first rooster crow in the morning until dark, and the working hours are more than ten hours a day. But it is tiring, and the shorthairs provide food
That's fine! They don't need to start a fire to cook. Three meals a day are ready-made and delivered to the construction site: enough hot rice, meat and fish for the lunch and dinner meals, large portions and enough oil and water. Don't tell them about such good food.
Eat, I have never even seen them. In addition, they also give wages. Although they are some 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 can be used in the canteen.
I can buy rice, fish and meat. If you have children and elderly people at home, you can feed your family with this work-point coupon. So although the work is heavy, I don’t have any complaints.
Ma Qianzhu himself came from a large state-owned enterprise, and he was obsessed with the welfare system of state-owned enterprises that benefited employees of all ages. He saw that many women were unable to go out to work because they had young children or had many children, which wasted a lot of labor, so he founded the first
In order to free women with children to participate in labor, he found Fang Yijing - she used to be a childcare teacher, had managed everyone's dormitory before traveling, and is now the person in charge of the management committee of the residential area - and appointed her
When she became the director, she first selected some women for simple childcare and hygiene training. Ma Qianzhu knew that to change people's long-term living habits, relying on force was ineffective, so he adopted some economic strategies: stipulating that all those who were willing to enroll children in day care
, all three meals for the children are provided by the canteen.