After performing a complete set of "decontamination", they were placed in the dormitories of the quarantine facility. The dormitories are separate for men and women, and each room has more than twenty beds. What was new to them was that the beds were all double-decker. People who sleep on it have to climb up. However, everyone has a separate bed with clean straw mats and a thin blanket for each person. This condition is almost like paradise for the children who have been sleeping rough for several months.
I also returned a large-mouthed pottery cup and a washcloth-towel requires knitting machine technology, which cannot be produced yet. In contrast, the toothbrush was put into production quickly. The wooden handle, bristles were made of horsehair, and the holes and bristles were all made by hand. People at the Ministry of Industry were surprised because the local women only based their drawings and According to the requirements, toothbrushes were made using very simple hand tools - of course the output was still very low, only twenty could be made per day.
As for the indispensable things like mouthwash cups and rice basins, unfortunately they brought very limited supplies, so they had to use fragile glazed pottery. If you don’t have a stainless steel rice spoon, you can make do with a wooden one. These daily necessities, which are extremely simple to make, cannot be self-sufficient due to lack of raw materials.
The fierce maid led them to allocate beds. The younger ones slept on the bottom bunk, while the older ones got the upper bunk. Many rules were also set: you can go out, but you are only allowed to walk in the open space at the door, and you are not allowed to visit the dormitory next door; rice bowls, cups and other things can only be used by yourself and are not allowed to be mixed. Everything must be put on the shelves in an orderly manner... Everyone choked when they heard it, 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 food in a large iron bucket with a lid. The first meal was thick fish plate porridge. The fish plate was made from miscellaneous fish and chopped into pieces to cook the porridge. A lot of vegetables were added to it, which was considered to be comprehensive in nutrition. Everyone was quite satisfied with their 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, 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 has a slate and chalk. The morning is a time for studying, and the afternoon is a time for working. The rattan processing factory in Bopu will come here to do some simple manual work. They learn to process rattan, weave rattan utensils, and start Zhumi, polish and sand the wood board. Children who show ingenuity at work will be recorded as a guide for future training. You can move around freely and play games before dinner. After dinner, it was time to clean up, take a shower, and then go to bed - the time traveler did not provide power and lighting to the dormitory. But every night when night falls, many children still 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. It was completely fine after that. Although there is a lot of homework every day and I have to be disciplined, I can still bear it.
Some older children have become wild because they have been wandering for a long time. They are not interested in reading or literacy at all, 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 wanted to go to the girls' dormitory to check on Guo Fu, but there was a high bamboo fence between the two sides, and the door in the middle was always locked. Even if you can get close to the fence and see the scene on the other side, it is difficult to tell who is Guo Fu among a group of people. As time went by, I slowly gave up.
Ma Peng pushed a small wheelbarrow and creaked along the field road. The only thing in the car was his family's belongings and his wife.
"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 as possible. This is what Wu Chang said personally."
"Oh, oh, you are so good, why did you quit your job at Mr. Fu's place? Mr. Fu treats us well."
"He treats us well, but isn't Shorthair better?" Ma Peng pushed the cart with 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 potato shreds during the busy farming season. His wife even grumbled after eating too much. "
As they were talking, another group of bearers came behind them, all carrying baskets of rice, which made the poles tremble under the weight, and they hurriedly walked towards Bairen City.
"Mom, look, these are the ones who go to Dongmen City to sell grain. These short-haired men really have more money than the sea water." Ma Peng pouted a little proudly, feeling that working as a long-term laborer for the short-haired men is better than paying Fu Buer, the rural land owner, has gained much more respect for his job.
Just as he was talking, the person who was leading the load turned around and said, "Little brother, are you going to Dongmen City too? Take me to open your eyes with you?"
"I'll 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! 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 what happened after he went to war with Fu Fuji and was captured, including all kinds of things. Anecdotes.
"...I think it's not the same thing no 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 paid a high price. Now he became more flexible and gave it to me. They sent food. He owes the autumn food from the government, but it's good here. 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 of people arrived at Dongmen City. In just half a month, this place has become very lively. The red brick building standing majestically in the middle of a large area of bamboo sheds is very conspicuous. There was a long queue of people selling grain and carts. On the other side was the shop of some welfare society that had recently spread throughout the county. The door was also crowded with people. In addition to ordinary people from small households, there were also some landlords and wealthy people. People of good looks are also here to look at things and bargain with women wearing beautiful blue cloth. It has been almost a month since Ma Peng left here, and now everything is really new. The more he felt that he had done the right thing by coming back this time, the long-haired men would never leave!
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 setting up scaffolding to build houses. 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. Mapeng never dreamed that this would be their home.
The registration rate of the Bairen production team is 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% of the people would come back after the busy farming season, and many of them would bring their families. . Some people who expected better treatment here in Shorthair also followed. Added together, the number of people in the entire Bairentan production team is 12o% of the original number. Better than their original most optimistic estimates. This made the Executive Committee overjoyed - before this, they had been unable to confirm whether they had the ability to win over the people, but now it seems that they are doing a good job.
The people who migrated from Damei Village, who had been organized into the second production team of Bairentan by Wu De, experienced the busiest farming season in their lives. Men are busy logging, quarrying, digging, and baking bricks, while women spread the rice they earn to dry and wash it. There is an endless stream of teams carrying rice to the mills by the river. Now there are a thousand people in Bairen City. There are more than three hundred mouths open, and the daily demand for rice alone is one and a half tons. Ma Qianzhu instructed: The mills use rice mills to process rice only to brown rice, not to polished rice - one is to preserve nutrients, and the other is to increase grain yield. Older women help cook in the kitchen, and even half-year-old children have to go to the farm to help loosen soil and cut grass. From the first rooster crow in the morning until dark, I work more than ten hours every day. But it's hard work, and the food provided by the shorthairs is good! There is no need for them 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. Not to mention eating such good food, they can’t even eat it. Never seen it before. In addition, workers were also paid. Although they were colorful pieces of paper, according to people from the production team who came earlier than them, these pieces of paper were very valuable and could be used to buy rice and fish in the canteen. If you have children or elderly people to support at home, you can support your family with this work-point coupon. So although the work is heavy, I have no complaints.
Ma Qianzhu himself came from a large state-owned enterprise, and he has never forgotten the welfare system of state-owned enterprises that benefits employees of all ages. He saw that many women were unable to go out to work because they had young children or had too many children, thus wasting a lot of labor, so he established the first nursery to free women with children to participate in labor. He found Fang Yijing - she used to be a childcare teacher, managed everyone's dormitories before time travel, and is now the person in charge of the management committee of the residential area - and appointed her as the director, first selecting some women for simple childcare and hygiene training. Ma Qianzhu knew that forcing people to change their long-established living habits was ineffective, so he adopted some economic strategies: stipulating that for those willing to enroll children in day care, all three meals for their children would be provided by the canteen.
