GBP Chapter 321 60 Control Group Cannon Fodder 9
Chapter 321 60 Control Group Cannon Fodder 9
After harvesting rice, harvest corn, and then harvest sweet potatoes...! She goes to the fields before dawn and returns at sunset. Even if she applies sunscreen, Zhou Xiaoxiao has become two shades darker after more than 20 days!
But even so, it was much better than the others. She became a pseudo wheat color, while the others became a glossy charcoal color.
But Lan Xuejing is an exception. She has been exposed to the sun for so many days without using sunscreen. Although she is a little tanned, she is still a little whiter than Zhou Xiaoxiao who wears sunscreen every day! Alas! The heroine is the heroine, and she is not comparable to cannon fodder like her!
These days, she gradually got used to the intensity of the labor, and her muscles no longer ached like they did in the first few days. She could rest in the space for more than two days every night, eat well, and get enough sleep. Although she was tired, she did not lose weight. With her careful feeding and conditioning, the Zhou family did not lose too much weight, but became stronger and stronger!
The next step is the finishing work of the autumn harvest, such as peanuts, beans, sesame, etc. Zhou Xiaoxiao and her colleagues are threshing corn, drying it, etc.
A few days later, the entire brigade began to pay public grain! Because every village had to pay public grain during these days, they had to line up. They had to get up before dawn, and all the laborers in the village set out, some pushed with carts, some pulled with ox carts, and some carried on their shoulders...!
Zhou Xiaoxiao's family all went out. Dad and the eldest and second brothers transported food, while Yang Changying and Zhou Xiaoxiao went to the town to shop! After all, they hadn't bought anything for a month, and the family was short of daily necessities.
So they followed the group to the town to mail letters. During this period, she wrote all her articles on her space, and most of them were realistic articles praising the working people's hard work in the autumn harvest!
After sending the letter, the mother and daughter went to the supply and marketing cooperative. Zhou Xiaoxiao used most of the tickets sent by the newspaper to buy meat, cloth, salt, rice, sauce, vinegar and so on!
Zhou Xiaoxiao wanted to use her money to buy it, but Yang Changying firmly refused. She just told her to save the money and use it as her own companion money when she gets married!
Seeing that she was determined to do so, Zhou Xiaoxiao did not force her to pay. She would keep the money for now anyway, and she could use it to buy something when she found a job!
Zhou Qingmiao handed over the food and came to pick up his mother and sister. It was already noon, so his mother took him and his sister to the state-owned restaurant to eat a bowl of vegetarian noodles each, and packed six big steamed buns for the father and son at the food station!
Zhou Xiaoxiao also took out two lunch boxes from her bag and packed a portion of braised pork and a portion of fried fish. The meat dishes at this time were all sufficient, absolutely genuine, and tasted very good. Even if she asked her mother to go back and cook, she would not put such heavy ingredients!
"Kid, why are you so loose-handed? Aren't we buying meat? How come I didn't know you brought a lunch box?" Yang Changying glared at her, and then felt a little sorry for the money.
"Mom, let's eat the meat tomorrow. It can be kept since the weather is cooler! I thought everyone was tired these days, so I made two meat dishes as a snack. I knew you wouldn't agree, so I carried the lunch box on my back! Besides, we've been busy for so long today, so I'll just fry two side dishes for dinner and heat them up and we can eat!" Zhou Xiaoxiao replied with a smile.
"You! You work so hard every day and stay up late to write and earn money. You must have used up most of the bills!"
"Mom, now that the tickets are gone, we can just earn more. Money or tickets, they are earned, not saved!"
"Little sister, the autumn harvest is over, and you have worked hard during this period. In the next period of time, you just finish your writing peacefully! The rest will be left to dad and brothers." Although Zhou Qingmiao knew that his little sister could make money by writing, he felt a little embarrassed to let his little sister use the money she earned to support the family!
But now he doesn't have the ability to help his little sister, so he can only do more as much as possible so as not to let these things disturb his little sister's creation.
"Brother, don't worry. I know what's going on. There's nothing to worry about next! Besides, I won't be going out for the whole winter. Are you afraid that you won't have time to write?"
"Okay, if you have anything else to say, just tell my second brother."
"I guess you'll be busy in the future, second brother. Two of your rabbits are pregnant, right? They'll probably give birth in a month! You still have to spend time preparing food for the little rabbits to survive the winter!"
"Yes, how could I have forgotten about this?" Zhou Qingmiao slapped his head!
When they passed by the food station on their way back, Yang Changying asked Zhou Qingmiao to deliver the steamed buns to the father and son, and to push their own cart over, as they wanted to go back first. They didn't want to go with the main group, lest they be asked questions and cause unnecessary trouble.
Zhou Qingmiao didn't let them wait too long before pushing the cart out. They put their things on the cart and hurried back! The one and a half hour journey didn't seem long as they chatted and laughed, and they soon arrived home.
Yang Changying took Zhou Qingmiao to tidy up the granary. After all, the grain would be distributed immediately after paying the public grain. This was the family's food ration for a year, so the place where the grain was stored had to be tidied up and reinforced to prevent it from getting damp or being eaten by rats digging holes!
Zhou Zhisheng and his son did not return until the afternoon. After delivering the grain, Zhou Zhisheng, the team leader, breathed a sigh of relief. There were no natural disasters or man-made disasters this year, and they finally completed the mission successfully.
In the evening, the family saw the braised pork and fish, their eyes lit up, and they sighed when their wives (mothers) became so generous? It was not until Zhou Qingmiao explained that these were bought by Zhou Xiaoxiao that the father and son suddenly realized. Zhou Zhisheng kept saying that it was still good for his daughter to enjoy the blessing before she got married.
Zhou Qinghe and his brother looked at each other. Was Dad ordering them? But they couldn't care less about the delicious food. The whole family had a delicious meal!
Food distribution will begin tomorrow. Once the food is distributed, the team leader’s main work for the year will come to an end!
The next day, except for Zhou Xiaoxiao, everyone else got up early. Zhou Zhisheng led the village leaders to distribute food to the villagers! This day was the most exciting day for the whole village. After a year of hard work, they finally saw the results today, so everyone's face was beaming with joy.
Everyone was carrying shoulder poles and sacks and pushing carts, their eyes almost glowing green as they looked at the food. Zhou Zhisheng said a few words briefly and then had people line up in a long queue, distributing food according to the number of people and work points.
One person on this side took a notebook and pen to do the calculations, and after it was correct, he asked people to sign and receive the grain. Two people on the other side weighed the food, and they cooperated very well.
Some people did not leave even after the food was distributed, and stood by to watch, fearing that they had given too much to others; some asked how many work points others had and how much food they had been distributed. Some felt that the food was not enough, and would buy some from the team after everyone had distributed the food! Anyway, the whole brigade was very lively today.
The food was distributed, the weather became cooler, and everyone began to prepare food and firewood for the winter! After all, the winter in the north is long, so firewood needs to be prepared in sufficient quantities.
The Zhou family was no exception. They got up early and led the villagers to the forest to start chopping wood in the designated area. This would take several days to prepare enough firewood!
Zhou Xiaoxiao was bored at home, so she also joined in. She simply wanted to go to the mountains to pick chestnuts or something, and then help put the firewood neatly together and bundle it up, so that her father or brother could come and pick it up!
Then I started preparing radishes, cabbages, etc., and of course pickled cabbage was indispensable...
Zhou Xiaoxiao was busy all the time. She also received a letter from the newspaper. This time it reached a record high, a full 35 yuan! This is a worker's monthly salary, which made her very happy!
She went to the city again before the weather got too cold, and visited the gates of various factories. She checked in at the gatekeeper and told him to look for a job if there was one, and wait if there wasn't. It wasn't urgent anyway!
When I came back, I sorted out 12 kilograms of cotton and a few defective cloths in my space, preparing to make cotton clothes for my family! I also brought some cakes, fruit candies and other snacks, and I didn’t go home until the evening!
"My daughter, why do you come home at this time again? Are you frozen? Come in and warm up!" Zhou Zhisheng saw that his daughter's nose was a little red from the cold, so he quickly let him in.
"Child, it's so late and the weather is cold, why don't you sleep in the hotel? If I had known that you would come back at this time, I should have asked your eldest brother and second brother to pick you up on the road! It's not safe for a girl to be outside at this late hour." Yang Changying was also heartbroken, and hurriedly grabbed her hand and put it under his mouth to blow on it.
Zhou Xiaoxiao was afraid of being exposed, so she teleported to a place about 100 meters away from home before walking back. In fact, it was just cold not long ago!
"Mom, didn't I get lucky? That's why I decided to come back at night. If I come back during the day, people will definitely be jealous. Mom, it's not cold to walk. My body is warm!" Zhou Xiaoxiao quickly asked her eldest brother to bring the backpack over.
"Mom, can you open it and see what this is?" Zhou Xiaoxiao pushed the backpack in front of her mother and motioned her to open it and take a look.
"Is this cotton? It's white and it's obviously this year's new cotton. Where did you buy it, girl? There are so many of them?" Yang Changying was surprised. How heavy must such a big basket be?
"Isn't this just luck? He only sold one kilogram of cotton, and I saw that the cotton was of good quality and the price was fair. I asked him if he had any more, and he said he still had more than ten kilograms at home.
I thought of you, dad and brothers, all the cotton-padded clothes were no longer warm, so I bought all of them and made a set of cotton-padded clothes for everyone to celebrate the New Year! I also thought that even if I had cotton, I would not be able to do without fabric, so I went to the department store and secretly gave the salesperson a few candies and bought some defective fabrics.
But these 10 pounds of cotton may not sound heavy, but it’s such a big pile, won’t I have to come back at night? Mom, we have the cotton and the fabric, the rest is up to you to make a set of clothes for you, dad and brothers.”