The kangs on both sides are very large, and it is not a problem to sleep four or five people. The inside has been cleaned very clean, and the walls have been re-pasted with old newspapers. The pots and pans are ready-made. The chief of staff is an old acquaintance of the two.
I brought a lot of radishes and cabbage. These are good vegetables to improve the food in the Corps.
"There are not many vegetables planted this year, so there is not much left. If you eat radish and cabbage once a week, your life will be improved." The chief secretary pointed to the half bag on the other side, "That is half a bag of dried wild vegetables, soaked in water.
Open it, chop it up and you can eat it."
Lin Yutong flipped through it and saw that it was not all neat and tidy, so he asked: "Do you still have time to dry the vegetables?" With so many people eating, it would be impossible to have a leisurely time all day long.
"Where is it dried?" The chief of staff waved his hand, "It was the horse breeder, Geng, who picked it out from the horse's fodder. There is nothing we can do, there is really no food to eat."
"Then what are you eating now?" Lin Yutong frowned, "It's impossible not to eat vegetables."
"Soybeans." The Secretary-General smiled. "Those that are of export grade have to be exported. The second-class ones have to go to the oil pressing plant. The next-first-class ones are the ones that are crushed. We keep them. The crushed ones have to be exported."
For horses and mules."
"Boiled soybeans?" Lin Yutong said in surprise.
"Isn't it good?" The chief of staff waved his hand, "Where is Xiao Yin?"
"Look for someone to make some shelves. There is nothing in the infirmary in front?" Lin Yutong smiled.
"Then you're busy." The chief stood up, patted his butt and left.
She sighed, there were no vegetables, no vitamins. Without vitamins, she would become blind. At night, everyone would look like a blind man.
Where can I get some vitamin tablets?
The only thing she thought of was home. But even pharmaceutical factories have production tasks. In fact, she has no say at all about the whereabouts of the products.
But even if there are no vitamin tablets, other medicines will work. This one relies on traditional Chinese medicine, which will definitely not work. There are so many types of traditional Chinese medicine around here, and there are so many people, and they have to rely on themselves to collect, concoct, and process the medicine. It will exhaust yourself.
It's no use. It turns out that there is a hygienist in this company. I walked to the county hospital. The hygienist here has a medical kit, some red lotion for trauma, and several bottles of anti-inflammatory medicine and antipyretic medicine. There are also several bottles of injections, which are alcohol.
, it is also quantitative. It is a needle tube, but there is only one needle. This thing is too unreliable. It is too dangerous to use for infectious diseases. It is not as reliable as your own acupuncture.
When Fourth Master came back, Lin Yutong told her about this, "Do you want me to write a letter and send it home to ask first?"
"Then ask." Fourth Master whispered: "I have already made an agreement with the company for these food. When the salary comes down, I will use the money to make up for it."
"Finally I can use money openly and honestly." Lin Yutong breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them actually spent a lot of money during this period, but they didn't dare to use it. They all used the excuse of sending it from home.
The fourth master nodded, "This must be because Party Secretary Wu is a good person. I heard that in some villages down there, the practice is really abominable. In the name of checking letters, everything inside is searched. Packages and stuff, let alone
Now. Life is hard."
Lin Yutong handed over the steamed buns. The steamed buns were steamed by mixing wheat and cornmeal. They also looked yellow. As long as they didn't come in front to take a closer look, they wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
There are not many people in the company now, half of them have gone back to their hometowns to visit relatives. Lin Yutong and Fourth Master are also busy celebrating the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, I brought Yinwei over to be reunited.
"Aunt Wu asked for pickled vegetables, but I guess you don't have them." Yinwei looked around and said, "This place is not bad."
She is a restless person and rushes into the yard to clean it.
"Sister, please leave it alone." Lin Yutong took out two kilograms of meat, "You chop the stuffing, and we will make dumplings later."
"It's not easy to eat pork nowadays." Yinwei said about her time in Inner Mongolia. "You can't say you eat meat every day, and you can't kill sheep. But there are no people around. No one cares about the game.
It’s different from here, you can trap two rabbits in a crop field without being discovered.”
"What's going on? Who has an accident in the village?" Lin Yutong asked while talking to each other.
"Old Uncle Kang trapped two rabbits. Shunzi next door saw it and exposed it at that time. He said he was embezzling collective property. This crop belongs to the collective, and everything in this crop field belongs to the collective."
Yinwei shook her head, "The rabbit was confiscated, and two large pots were set up at the entrance of the village, one rabbit in each pot, and a pot of soup was stewed with radish, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. Everyone in the village shared half the bowl. Captain Li also left some for me.
A rabbit head." He said with a smile.
Lin Yutong was also amused. "This Shunzi is a famous lazy guy in the countryside. This is not the first time he has done this."
Yinwei smiled, "Actually, it's all thanks to Shunzi for being so noisy. You probably don't know what's going on outside in the Corps. Aunt Wu's maternal cousin trapped a pheasant. He secretly took it to the county seat and talked to a clerk at the grain station.
I changed some fine grains. As a result, when the clerk went home to stew the chicken, the smell spread. This person of unknown origin was said to have accepted bribes from others. Taking bribes is a serious crime. How could he dare to admit it?
?Immediately said that he used his own grain in exchange for the purpose of replenishing my mother's health. This involved Aunt Wu's cousin. One who bought it and the other who sold it all entered the study class to learn.
Half a year later, the clerk at the grain station was also unlucky. Because of this, I heard that the children at home who were supposed to go to the grain station to arrange work were also in trouble."
Lin Yutong heard something interesting. This was because Yinwei was worried that the two of them would make some mistakes after going back and forth.
She explained: "That's because you only know one thing but not the other. It's difficult to be a clerk at a grain station, but it's not difficult for a station manager. Take the grain station as an example. Although there is a certain amount of grain collected every year, there are still loopholes.
It can be drilled. For example, loss. The longer it is left, the natural loss of water is part of it. In addition, there are rats and rain and water leakage. This is a loophole. Who has the final say how much is lost? As long as your
The loss report has been submitted, and there happens to be someone above it who can approve it for you. So where does this part of the loss go? Who can say clearly? People without any power cannot handle this matter. And they are not afraid of others.
People who complain. Of course, others don’t dare to complain. The higher you go, the smarter you are. This is different from the people below who only rely on a reckless enthusiasm. The top eats the big head, and the bottom eats the small head.
No one is hungry."
"What do you mean by eating small heads?" Yinwei asked.
"Hey! The flour-grinding machine is also controlled by humans. Once the screws are loosened, just sweep up the leaked grain, and you can get two or three kilograms a day. Such fine grains are in great demand. If you replace it with coarse grains, it will be enough.
A month's worth of food. Otherwise, where would you get the fine food you need to work as a clerk at the grain station?" Lin Yutong said softly.
"Is there such a thing?" Yinwei felt that she had learned a lot.
"This is all tacitly understood. No one dares to say it. If it is revealed, it will offend the public." Lin Yutong confessed in a low voice.
"Then how did you know?" Yinwei asked.
That's because Fourth Master can see through the tricks here at a glance. In the past, no one knew better than him how much moisture was reported in the granaries below. Every time the grain and grass were requisitioned, the figures were inconsistent. Those losses
Where did he go? He had already studied it thoroughly.
Those who are careless and do not think carefully about these things will not understand them.
Lin Yutong only smiled and said: "Keep it secret."
In the middle of the afternoon, the fourth master came back carrying two fish weighing three to four kilograms.
"Where did you get it?" Lin Yutong was a little surprised. Although the fish was frozen into popsicles, it was still fresh fish.
"The chief of staff took people to dig a hole by the river, and they went there all of a sudden. Fortunately, they came up with a big bag. This year's New Year's Eve dinner is ready." Fourth Master said, and went to the stove to warm up.
"People in the fishery industry don't care," Yinwei asked.
The produce in this river is also managed by someone. The produce near the village belongs to the village. It cannot be fished across the border. But the corps is not within the scope of others.
"Those who patrol along the river also have to celebrate the New Year. Didn't they do it secretly while others were away? The whole company's New Year's Eve dinner is on this one." The fourth master said, stuffing it under the stove pond.
firewood.
Lin Yutong cleaned the fish quickly and said, "Steam it. Steaming it tastes delicious."
"Leave one." Yinwei said reluctantly, "Aren't you planning to go to the county town to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year? You can handle this."
The recipient of this New Year's greeting is Mr. Xu's security platoon leader, surnamed Wang, who is in his forties. He is now the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee. Although this person occupies an unpopular position, he has done nothing.
The unpleasant thing is that by virtue of their status, they secretly helped a lot of people. Professor Cheng and Teacher Feng were both devolved to work, but they were not ruined. They just changed places and lived peacefully.
If he wasn't such a person, Mr. Xu wouldn't ask Fourth Master to find him. Last time they visited, they had a good sense of each other. Of course they had to visit once during the Chinese New Year.
"Eldest sister, let's go together," said Fourth Master. "We're not outsiders either. Uncle Xu has an old relationship with my father."
"Is it appropriate?" Yinwei hesitated.
"It would be rude if you really don't go." Fourth Master comforted him, "You will have to live here from now on, and you won't see me until you look up. Let's go and sit for a while. Don't worry about the New Year's ceremony, I've already arranged it.
Already."
Yinwei nodded.
Lin Yutong felt that the Fourth Master might have other plans. After all, asking Yinwei to settle in Kaoshan Village was just a temporary measure. (. )