As soon as the wake-up whistle sounded, Su Mo woke up immediately. It should be a conditioned reflex developed by the original owner during those ten days.
Ma Xiaojuan and Chen Lan are also sitting up and getting ready to get dressed.
"Su Mo, hurry up, we have to gather at the brigade headquarters at 5:30." Ma Xiaojuan urged.
During the autumn harvest, the wake-up whistle is blown at 5 o'clock, and we gather at the brigade headquarters at 5:30 to listen to the brigade leader's arrangements for today's production tasks.
There are more than 1,000 people in the Lujiacun brigade, and more than 800 people can participate in labor. These more than 800 people are divided into eight production teams, and each production team has five production teams.
The team leader will assign production tasks to the production team leader in the morning, and then the production team leader will assign them to each team leader. The team leader then takes his team members to the mission area and assigns tasks to everyone on the spot based on the actual situation.
Basically, this is the process.
"Su Mo, hurry up. Today's breakfast is sweet potatoes. It's late, and the big ones have been picked away." Ma Xiaojuan urged again.
During the autumn harvest, we go to work very early and don’t have time to have breakfast at home. Everyone makes it the night before, takes it with them the next day, and eats it while walking on the road.
"Xiaojuan, I want to take another day off today and go to the county town to buy some things." Su Mo hesitated and said.
The sooner things are done, the more practical it will be. If anything happens in the middle, she will have time to adjust. We'll wait until the autumn harvest is over, as time will be a bit tight.
"Then you have to tell the captain, he may not approve it."
Ma Xiaojuan also wanted to ask for leave, but she felt that the captain was a bit targeted at her, and she didn't know where she had offended him.
"If you can succeed, go to the county and bring me some things. I will give you a money ticket later."
"Okay." Su Mo nodded.
After Ma Xiaojuan and Chen Lan went out, Su Mo also took some clothes and changed them.
Su Mo picked relatively low-key khaki pants and a white shirt from the original owner's clothes, and then wore a pair of white cloth shoes. Her shoulder-length hair was braided into two small braids, which hung down on her shoulders. She was beautiful but also playful and cute.
The educated youths who were washing outside were a little surprised to see Su Mo coming out dressed like this.
"Su Zhiqing, aren't you going to work today?" Zheng Caiping asked, with envy in her eyes. It would be great if she also wore such clothes.
"Well, I'm not going today. I have something to do and I want to go to the county town."
"If the work points are small, there won't be much food. The winter here is very long." Zheng Caiping reminded.
Although Su Mo might only earn 4 work points for a day's work, 4 work points is still good.
"I know, it doesn't matter. My family will mail me things and send money." Su Mo made an excuse.
Zheng Caiping:......
It's a pity that she worries too much, and others may not care about this point of work at all.
Two or three years ago, she might have said that Su Mo was not ideologically aware and should support rural construction when he went to the countryside. But she has been in the countryside for three years, and she has long understood that they are people who cannot be supported in the city and are forced to live in the countryside. They are not welcome anywhere.
The educated youths who came in the same batch as her, all of whom had some ability in their families, all found ways to return to the city.
Su Mo wetted the towel with water and wiped her face. As for teeth, all you can do is rinse your mouth.
Although she had a toothbrush in her space, she didn't have one on the surface, so she could only endure it.
I still have to go shopping quickly, and it’s really hard to live on a day when I can’t even brush my teeth.
Su Mo dried the towel on the string in the room, and was thinking about how to ask the captain for leave when she heard someone calling her outside.
Just as she was about to go out, Ma Xiaojuan ran in and winked at her.
"There is a soldier comrade looking for you outside. He is quite handsome. Is he your match?"
Su Mo thought for a moment, the one in the brigade who was a soldier and handsome should be Lu Changzheng, and nodded.
"That's not bad. It would be okay if it were him."
Su Mo:......
Yesterday, I persuaded her not to get married. Ma Xiaojuan, I never expected that you would be like this, a pretty face.
"Go out quickly, I'm waiting for you." Ma Xiaojuan pushed Su Mo and then pulled her back, "By the way, if you go to the county seat and buy a pound of chicken cake for me, if it's convenient, you can Bring me another enamel basin."
After that, give the money ticket to Su Mo.
In their house, Chen Lan was the only one who brought an enamel basin. It was too troublesome for three people to line up to use it. She didn't dare to ask Su Mo to take the others. Su Mo was so delicate that he probably wouldn't be able to carry much.
Su Mo took the money ticket and went out.
Lu Changzheng was standing outside the fence of the Educated Youth Point. When he saw Su Mo approaching, his eyes lit up.
His object is good-looking!
"Comrade Lu, are you looking for me?"
Lu Changzheng took out two hot eggs from his pocket and handed them to Su Mo, "Eat the freshly boiled eggs while they are hot."
In this era, eggs are precious things. Many people in rural areas rely on this "chicken butt bank" to exchange things.
Although this was his new target, Su Mo was still a little embarrassed.
Su Mo, who was used to relying on herself, was not used to being cared for.
"What about you? Have you eaten?"
"You eat!" Lu Changzheng did not answer, but told Su Mo to eat quickly.
As a grown man, he eats eggs. His partner is sick and it’s time to replenish his eggs.
"One for each of us." Su Mo peeled the egg in her hand and handed it to Lu Changzheng.
When Lu Changzheng didn't pick it up, he put it directly to his mouth.
The corners of Lu Changzheng's mouth were raised. His partner really cared for him and would share half of the delicious food with him.
In the end, he couldn't bear to brush off her kindness and opened his mouth to swallow the egg.
Then he took another egg, peeled it off in twos and twos, and handed it to Su Mo.
After watching Su Mo finish the eggs, Lu Changzheng handed the straw basket to her.
"I bought some eggs in the village yesterday. You are recovering from your illness. You can boil one or two every day to replenish your health."
Su Mo looked at him in shock. She didn't expect this man to be so attentive. She didn't know whether to answer it or not.
This kind of straw basket is made of wheat straw and has an oval cylinder shape. It is quite deep and can hold many eggs. Lu Changzheng spread some wheat straw on top. He couldn't tell how much there was, but there must be a pound or two.
"No, no need. You can take it home and eat it." Su Mo thought it was a bit much. If there were only a few, she might just accept it. After all, she was in the apocalypse and hadn't eaten eggs for a long time.
"There is food at home. You are just sick and it is time to take care of yourself. I am your partner, so it is normal to give you some eggs."
Lu Changzheng frowned, not liking the way Su Mo was being polite to him. Didn't you peel the eggs for him just now?
"But, it's a bit too much." Su Mo said.
Lu Changzheng's clouds turned clear in an instant. His partner was really a good comrade, not greedy at all, even this little egg was too much.
"Not much, take it quickly." Lu Changzheng handed the basket over again, just a few eggs were nothing. He also thought about going to the county supply and marketing cooperative later to ask if there was malted milk and buy two cans for her.
Malted milk is an expensive thing, and it is usually only available in supply and marketing cooperatives in big cities. The supply and marketing cooperatives in their county towns may not be able to sell it.
[Popular science: Malted milk powder first entered China in 1920, when a businessman named Wang Yaqing introduced it from the United Kingdom. The first stop was Shanghai. At that time, Wang Yaqing promoted malted milk powder in various ways, which quickly caused a sensation in Shanghai and attracted many Favored by celebrities and dignitaries, it has become a fashion symbol.
In 1937, Shanghai Jiufu Pharmaceutical Factory introduced production technology from Switzerland and developed the domestic malted milk extract "Lekofu". Once launched, it was highly sought after and became a "luxury product" for a time.
Malted milk powder only became popular in China in the early 1980s. Prior to this, malted milk powder had always been a high-end luxury nutritional product, expensive and only available in big cities. In the 1970s, many people had never even heard of the term "malted milk".
Production: Before 1976, malted milk was basically produced only in Shanghai. After the end of the special period, various regions gradually introduced the production technology of malted milk. The output of malted milk increased, the price dropped, and it began to enter the eyes of ordinary people until it became popular in the 1980s. 】
Su Mo finally took it. When she mentioned it, it was quite heavy, probably more than two kilograms.
"Are you going out later?" Lu Changzheng asked. Judging from the way his partner was dressed, it didn't look like he was staying at an educated youth spot to rest.
"Well, I want to take leave and go to the county town to buy some things."
"It just so happens that I am also going to the county seat. I will take you with me later." This was no coincidence, he happened to be going to the county seat as well.
"During the autumn harvest, there are no donkey carts in the village to go to the county town. It will take you two or three hours to walk there. I will take you on a bicycle, which is faster."
Su Mo thought about it and responded, "Thank you, Comrade Lu."
"You're welcome. Then you, educated youth, wait and I'll pick you up later." After Lu Changzheng finished speaking, he left.
The educated youth had long been curious. Seeing Su Mo come in with a basket of straw, Zheng Caiping took the lead and couldn't help but ask, "Su educated youth, who is that?" What did I give you?
"My partner." Su Mo said, there was nothing to hide.
"Ah? When did you fall in love with someone?" Zheng Caiping was shocked.
Some of the male educated youths in the Educated Youth Spot also looked a bit bad. Su Mo was the most beautiful one in the Educated Youth Spot, and yet they were snatched away just like that.
"Yesterday." Su Mo said concisely.
"Looking at him wearing a military uniform, could he be the son of the branch secretary who is an officer?"
Su Mo nodded, not wanting to say anything more, and carried the straw basket into the room.
At this time, the expressions on the faces of the old educated youths were a little subtle.
They had been here for a long time and knew that the party secretary's family had a son who was an army officer. They heard that the officer was quite old. Unexpectedly, Su Mo was so lucky. As soon as he went to the countryside, he became the son of an army officer in the party secretary's family. No wonder he didn't go to work today.
The expression on the face of another female educated youth, Lin Xia, was even more exciting.
When Lu Changzheng's house was built and the aunts in the village came to watch it, she also took a look and liked it immediately. Although she came from the city, her family of six was squeezed into two rooms and one living room. She didn't even have a room of her own, so she could only sleep on a bunk bed in the corner of the living room with her sister.
She wasn't bad looking either, and she had also imagined that Lu Changzheng would come home to visit relatives, fall in love with her, and then she would move into that house.
Unexpectedly, Su Mo would cut off his hair now.
At that moment, I was gnashing my teeth with hatred, cursing secretly in my heart, what a vixen.
Maybe Su Mo waited by the river on purpose that day and jumped into the river just in time for Lu Changzheng's arrival. Otherwise, it would be bad for her to ask for leave on a certain day, but she would ask for leave on that day.
What a scheming person!
