GBP Chapter 183 Assigning tasks
Chapter 183 Assigning tasks
After everyone had received their rations, Gu Huaian told Captain Qian about buying a house. Captain Qian then took the three of them to see two houses in the team. One of them belonged to Qian Liang. After Nie Xiulan was punished, Qian Liang was also arrested and would not come back for many years. In order to get pension from Qian Liang, his family sold Qian Liang's house. The money from the sale of the house was used as pension for Qian Liang's parents.
Another place is Qian Chenggong's house. After Qian Chenggong was arrested, the wife he married immediately divorced him and ran away with their four children. Donghua chose to keep her grandparents' house and sell Qian Chenggong's house.
She was only ten years old and had no purpose, nor did she understand anything like revenge. She just listened to Wen Xi's words and wanted to exchange some money and then go to school to sign up for school. Otherwise, she knew nothing and had no future.
Gu Huaian finally chose Qian Chenggong's house because it had many rooms, was fully furnished, and had cookware in the kitchen, so they didn't have to go through the trouble of buying anything.
It’s just that this place is fifty yuan more expensive than Qian Liang’s house, costing one hundred and fifty yuan. But Gu Huaian is very happy to be able to solve the problem with money.
So Gu Huaian handed over the 150 yuan to Captain Qian under the witness of Captain Qian, and Captain Qian handed the certificate of the house to Gu Huaian.
Captain Qian said to Donghua, "Donghua, it's not safe for you to carry so much money by yourself. How about Grandpa Qian keep it for you and give you five dollars a month? And when you need money, you can come to Grandpa Qian, how about that?"
By the time the 150 yuan is spent, Donghua will be twelve or thirteen years old. She should be able to protect herself, right?
Donghua also knew that it would not be easy for a child to keep the money, so she agreed to Captain Qian's suggestion. Captain Qian gave Donghua five dollars and gave the rest of the money to the accountant to make a separate account book to make sure that the child's money would not be misappropriated.
Gu Huaian and the other three took the food directly, then went back to the educated youth site and brought the unopened luggage directly over.
Afterwards, Xia Minglei took three female comrades, Tian Xiaoke, Tang Xiaoyun and Wang Caiyun, to the carpenter's house to buy the furniture they needed. Now everyone in the team knew that he and Tian Xiaoke were a couple, so naturally no one said anything when they went out together.
The carpenter's furniture was not so complete, so they bought what he had first and waited for the carpenter to make the rest of the furniture for them.
After buying the furniture, they went back to the educated youth site to pack it up.
Although she had prepared herself mentally, Tang Xiaoyun still couldn't stand the poor living conditions that were not even as good as the public toilets in the city schools.
There isn't even a bunk bed, and so many people are sleeping on a big bunk bed, heads touching heads, faces facing faces. Isn't it too disgusting?
If she was face to face with Xia Minglei, she wouldn't mind at all. On the contrary, she was very much looking forward to it. But now, she was asked to face to face with the female comrades on both sides, and she really couldn't do it.
Tang Xiaoyun looked up at Tian Xiaoke with resentment. Tian Xiaoke was making the bed at the end of the big dormitory. It seemed that he had really made up his mind to live in this big dormitory. Although he was reluctant, Tang Xiaoyun could only pack her bedding. She didn't want to live outside alone, as she would not be able to supervise Tian Xiaoke and Xia Minglei.
She didn't want to give Tian Xiaoke and Xia Minglei a chance to be alone, and she would not give them a chance to get married. Xia Minglei was hers, and Xia Minglei's wife could only be her.
In fact, Tian Xiaoke couldn't accept the living conditions in the countryside. After all, she had been living alone in such a big yard, which was so comfortable. But she was also afraid that someone else would seduce Xia Minglei, so she wanted to stay by Xia Minglei's side and take good care of him.
Moreover, she and Xia Minglei have been together many times, just like a married couple, except that there is no paper certificate. She must make Xia Minglei responsible for her and must not let other women get away with it. After all, this man was trained by her.
Three of the six new educated youth lived outside, so now there were only three female educated youths left: Tian Xiaoke, Tang Xiaoyun, and Wang Caiyun. Seeing that the time was almost up, Xia Minglei reached out and knocked on the door of the girls' dormitory, shouting inside, "Xiaoke, do you want to eat with us old educated youths, or build a kitchen to cook for yourself?"
"Brother Minglei, I'll eat with you." Tian Xiaoke responded happily.
"Then you all come out and redistribute the tasks. Try to be fair and don't let anyone suffer any loss." Xia Minglei said.
Tian Xiaoke, Tang Xiaoyun and Wang Caiyun came out of the girls' dormitory and came to the cafeteria. They sat together to discuss fetching water, collecting firewood and cooking.
Not seeing Tian Shengnan and Song Lan, Tian Xiaoke asked curiously, "Brother Minglei, why don't I see the other Comrade Tian?"
"The three of them eat together and built a small kitchen at their own expense. If you don't want to eat with everyone, you can also build a small kitchen together. It's just right for you three girls to eat together." Xia Minglei said.
Tian Xiaoke immediately shook her head after hearing this, and then said shyly, "Brother Minglei, we are now an engaged couple, so I naturally have to have dinner with Brother Minglei."
Song Lan, Zhou Bai and Tian Shengnan eat together and have built a small kitchen. Lu Xiaoyun is married to Liang Zhaodi and no longer lives in the educated youth site. Li Jianguo, Gu Huaian and Lu Mingxiu, who just arrived today, also live outside. So currently there are six male educated youth eating together: Xia Minglei, Wu Guoqiang, Li Wei, Jiang Mo, Cheng Yu and Gu Xiangbei. Together with Tian Xiaoke, Tang Xiaoyun and Wang Caiyun, there are nine people eating together.
So we discussed it and selected three male comrades who could cook. From then on, one male and one female comrade would work together to cook every day. The three extra male comrades would be responsible for fetching water and collecting firewood. If the others were free, they could also go collect firewood and pick wild vegetables for a snack.
Seeing that no one objected, Xia Minglei made a decision, and the nine of them would work together like this from now on.
Tian Xiaoke and Xia Minglei are an engaged couple, so naturally they cook together, Tang Xiaoyun and Wu Guoqiang, Wang Caiyun and Li Wei.
Although Tang Xiaoyun really wanted to cook with Xia Minglei, she couldn't do it openly since Xia Minglei had a fiancée, so now she could only listen to Xia Minglei's instructions.
After seeing the new educated youth, Wenxi went straight to the canteen. Everyone cleaned up together and went to the river bend to fetch water to clean the tables, chairs and benches, and cleaned up the stove so that they could use the canteen directly tomorrow.