After Su Mo finished writing the letter, she came out to see that everyone had not come back yet. She was probably working for the new educated youths again.
There are five new educated youths in their group, two boys and three girls. The autumn harvest hit them as soon as they arrived, and they had no time to adapt, so they often couldn't finish their work. The old educated youths had to finish their own work and then help them.
There are currently 11 educated youths in the Educated Youth Point, six men and five women. Everyone gets along well for the time being, and the educated youths are united and often help each other.
Thinking of the care given to the original owner by the old educated youths some time ago, Su Mo prepared to cook a delicious meal for everyone.
After the entire autumn harvest, everyone seemed to have lost weight.
Su Mo took out the bag of leftover rice from the last days, with about 2 kilograms left, and poured it all into a basin. Then he scooped two bowls of corn crumbs into it, preparing to make rice bran porridge.
After washing the rice twice, Su Mo poured the rice into the pot, added more than half of the pot of water, lit a small fire, and let it simmer slowly.
Then I went to the vegetable garden outside and picked three large cabbages and a few tomatoes. I also took out a piece of bacon from the space, which was about a pound, and prepared to make fried cabbage with bacon.
There are two pots in total for the educated youth. We don’t usually eat together, but only during the autumn harvest. Now there is one pot for cooking porridge, and another pot for cooking.
The tomatoes are cut raw, and then sprinkled with sugar for cold dressing.
This kind of food is pretty good in this day and age. There is rice porridge, meat, and some sweets, which is pretty much the same as during the Chinese New Year.
When other educated youths came back, they could smell the aroma of meat from a distance. Hungry, they all quickened their pace and rushed to the educated youth spot.
When they returned, they saw Su Mo cooking in the kitchen. The aroma made their mouths water almost three feet long from the smell.
Ma Xiaojuan, who had the best relationship with Su Mo, ran over and shouted happily: "Su Mo, are you back? Are you making braised pork? It's so delicious."
Ma Xiaojuan is Su Mo's roommate, and there is another roommate named Chen Lan.
"It's not braised pork. I brought some bacon from home and gave it to everyone. It was really troublesome for everyone some time ago." Su Mo smiled.
The original owner was really the worst at work, and basically everyone helped her with her work.
After hearing this, the old educated youths felt a lot better.
Ma Jianmin, the person in charge of the Educated Youth Point, said with a smile, "We are all revolutionary comrades, so we should help each other."
In fact, the old educated youth are not very willing to help the new educated youth work.
But the educated youth are one body, and the villagers are somewhat xenophobic towards the educated youth. If they are not united, they will be even more disadvantaged in the brigade.
And right after the autumn harvest, winter begins. If the new educated youth cannot finish their work, they will not get many work points, which means they will not get much food.
We are all at the educated youth point. If the new educated youth have no food, they will definitely ask the old educated youth to borrow it. Their own food is barely enough to eat. If they borrow the new educated youth, they themselves will not be able to survive the next food distribution.
Therefore, we can only hold our noses and help them, so that they can earn as much work points and share more food as possible.
I did it, but I still had some complaints in my heart. Now that Su Mo is sensible and comes up with good things to thank them, they feel much better.
"Su Mo, I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so good." Chen Lan swallowed and stared at the pot. There was quite a lot of meat.
When I saw how delicate she was before, I thought she was a merciless person, but I didn't expect that she actually had some merits.
Su Mo smiled and said nothing. In order to stir-fry vegetables with a meaty flavor, she spent a lot of time studying cooking skills in the last days. How could she be good at cooking?
The vegetables were cooked quickly. Su Mo took the big pot that was used to prepare vegetables, put it in and brought it to the table.
Su Mo's knife skills were excellent. She cut the bacon into thin slices and paired it with green cabbage. Everyone couldn't take their eyes away from it.
"Oh my God, Su Mo, how much meat did you put in?" an old educated youth named Zheng Caiping exclaimed.
"It's not much, probably just over a pound."
"It's more than a kilogram and you fried it all at once?" Zheng Caiping almost screamed and looked at Su Mo as if she were a prodigal.
"I don't think everyone has lost weight during the autumn harvest, so I might as well make more so that everyone can have a good meal."
"Okay, Zheng Caiping, why do you have so many objections when someone asks you to eat meat? Hurry up and eat. If you're not hungry, we're still hungry." Zhao Guoping scolded.
He was really tired. After doing his own work, he had to help others do it. It was really fucked.
"Yes, yes, let's have lunch." Some educated youths had already gone back to their rooms to get their own lunch boxes.
An educated youth opened the lid of another pot and immediately exclaimed: "Rice porridge!"
At this time, everyone was silent and went back to the room to get their lunch boxes in unison, for fear of being late and being eaten by others. All the old educated youths have been here for a year or two, and rice porridge is something they only eat during festivals or when they feel unwell.
During the meal, everyone ate in silence. It was so delicious that if they hadn't remembered that they were still educated young people, they would have wanted to be like the aunties in the countryside and just grab it.
Of course, the main meals were porridge and fried cabbage with bacon. As for tomatoes, they were completely ignored.
It wasn't until we were almost finished that someone picked up a piece of tomato to eat.
"Sweet! Did you add sugar?"
Su Mo nodded, "Put some sugar in."
Everyone quickly picked up the tomatoes again, and as soon as they ate them, the sweetness was more than just a little bit added. Everyone didn't speak and ate silently and quickly.
The sugar and sumo were put out early and had already melted by the time everyone came back, so no one else noticed.
There is a reason why the white sugar was put out earlier. The white sugar in later generations not only has small particles, but also has a snow-white color. The white sugar at this time has larger particles and is a little light yellow in color. In order to avoid being discovered, Su Mo sprinkled the sugar on it early.
Needless to say, the delicious food was all gone. Even the sugar water was divided among several male educated youths and poured into the porridge.
After eating, everyone thanked Su Mo politely, and then each boiled water to wash up and went back to their rooms to rest.
As for ideological and political studies, let’s talk about it after the autumn harvest. Everyone is almost exhausted.
Su Mo sat for a while and then returned to the room.
At this time, there was no electricity in the countryside, and kerosene lamps were used for lighting. Su Mo and the others had only one kerosene lamp brought by Chen Lan, and they borrowed the kerosene from an old educated youth.
With only one lamp lit in such a large room, it is conceivable that the light is just barely enough to see things.
Su Mo saw that there was nothing he could do, so he laid out his bed and got ready to sleep. Get up early tomorrow and go to the county seat.
At this time, Ma Xiaojuan just came back from taking a shower, approached Su Mo, and suddenly asked doubtfully: "What did you put on it? It smells so good."
Su Mo's heart skipped a beat. She washed her hair and used shampoo. The fragrance of daily necessities in later generations is not comparable to the things today.
"I rubbed some oil on my head. I bought it from the Friendship Store." Su Mo said briefly.
Ma Xiaojuan had no doubt that he was there. They were in the same room. She had seen it before when Su Mo was getting clothes. Those clothes looked like imported goods.
Ma Xiaojuan's family is not bad either. She has also gone to Friendship Store to buy things, so she still has some good eyesight. But there were many children in the family, and one of them had to go to the countryside, so she volunteered to go to the countryside.
The family subsidizes her every month, so she is not afraid. If you can't do farm work, do it. If you can't do it, forget it. Among the educated youth, Su Mo was the last at work, and she was the second to last.
"Are you okay? I wanted to take leave to take care of you, but the team leader refused and said that we should be active in labor. It really pissed me off." Speaking of this, Ma Xiaojuan became angry. She also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to be lazy.
Ma Xiaojuan is different from Su Mo. Su Mo really can't do anything, but Ma Xiaojuan is the kind of person who is always lazy.
However, the team leader despised this kind of person the most, so Ma Xiaojuan simply refused to ask for leave. If other hard-working educated youths went there, he would approve it.
However, the other three female educated youths were unwilling to give up their work points and did not even mention taking care of Su Mo. The captain had no choice but to ask Lu Changzheng to visit him occasionally. Anyway, there was a doctor in the health center, and the doctor should be able to take care of her.
"I've heard some rumors from the aunt in the village in the past two days. You don't really want to marry that soldier, do you?" Ma Xiaojuan was a little worried.
Her mother is a doctor, and she knows that this is a normal first aid measure, but these ignorant villagers don't understand.
"Well, I'm dating him now."
"What? Are you being coerced?" Ma Xiaojuan was shocked. "We can go to the commune leaders together. This is a normal first aid measure."
Su Mo is so beautiful, maybe the soldier is lustful.
"No, he is a good person."
"Then we can't marry him. If we really marry him, we might live in the countryside for the rest of our lives..."
"The countryside is nice sometimes." Su Mo didn't want to say more and changed the subject, "The autumn harvest should be almost over, right? What are you doing now?"
"We're pulling out the peanuts and it's almost finished. I heard from the aunties that after pulling out the peanuts, it's basically a matter of drying them and putting them in storage, and then they're waiting to hand over the public grain." Ma Xiaojuan answered.
"Do you think I should buy some meat after the autumn harvest is over and treat everyone to a meal?"
Seeing that Su Mo didn't want to say more, Ma Xiaojuan didn't continue to ask, but changed the topic.
"If conditions permit, I think it's okay. After all, we have caused a lot of trouble to the educated youth during this period." Su Mo replied.
"Okay, then when the autumn harvest is over, I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to cut some meat, buy some chicken cakes or something, and treat everyone to a meal."
"When the time comes, let's invite the two of us together." Chen Lan happened to come in and spoke immediately after hearing it.
Her family's financial situation is average, and she can't afford to hire each of them individually.
"Okay, then we can invite them together when the time comes." Ma Xiaojuan responded simply.
