Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside

When Han Li was worrying about sleeping, someone from the educated youth in the same room rolled up the mat and went out.

Han Li: "Are you going to sleep somewhere else?"

"It was too hot in the house, so I went to sleep on the firewood pile in the backyard."

Sleeping outside didn't have that smell, but Han Li had a lot of pimples from mosquito bites.

At first he couldn't sleep because of biting, so he took a flashlight and started writing letters to his family.

Later, after writing the letter, he started scratching, and after a while, he fell asleep so violently that he slept more soundly than anyone else.

It wasn't until the rapid bells woke him up that he rubbed his eyes and realized that he had already gone to the countryside.

It was just dawn at this time, Han Li looked at his watch and it was only half past four in the morning, when someone asked in a daze.

"What's going on here?"

"The captain rings the bell to let everyone go to work."

"So early? It's still dark."

"You newcomers will have to rest for a day today, and you will get up at this time tomorrow, but you can rest for a while at noon."

"Ah, doesn't it mean that the ground is not busy now? Why do you have to get up before dawn?"

"Not busy? There is never a time when the crops are not busy, but compared with the autumn harvest, it is really not busy."

Sun Yong shouted at this time: "Han Li, if you go to the county town to buy things, you have to wait at the entrance of the village later."

"If you can't catch up with the ox cart, you can only rely on walking for more than 40 miles. By the way, if you want to eat together, you can take out some food and give it to Xiao Qin who is cooking today."

Han Li: "Thank you Brother Sun for reminding me to get up now, but we won't eat together."

"I bought an iron pot today and started the fire alone. I will move in after the house is built in a few days."

Everyone is fooling their stomachs at this point of work, and corn mush is the fastest breakfast.

If today's work is heavy, I will reserve two steamed buns the night before to warm them up.

But that's the treatment only available during the autumn harvest, and now a bowl of mush will kill my stomach.

Han Li didn't go to eat with them, but squatted in the courtyard with a cup and brushed his teeth.

At this time, Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying came to find them. After resting last night, they are much more energetic today.

Hao Hongmin: "Han Li, let's go shopping in the county together."

"Aren't you with other lesbians?"

"On the way, we wanted to ask you how the house should be built. They probably don't like to hear this, so I didn't ask."

Well, Han Li, what you said is indeed very reasonable. After all, building a house is really too hateful.

Today he received several envious and jealous eyes, and two eyes of giving spinach.

The three came to the intersection to wait for the bus together, only to find that several people who went to the countryside together were already waiting here.

They nodded awkwardly and smiled at each other, and they had divided their positions.

However, they were all passers-by who hadn't said a few words, and Han Li felt a sense of relief in his heart.

It costs 2 cents to go to the commune by bullock cart, and 5 cents to go to the county seat.

Han Li handed over his share and found a place to sit down. Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying sat beside him.

But with so many people on the bullock cart, it's hard to talk about building a house here.

They didn't speak, but the aunts and aunts in the car rarely stopped talking.

They didn't know what Han Li they were talking about before, but this time they, the new educated youths, became their topic.

Along the way, there were various inquiries about their situation, and Han Li was the key target among them.

The young man is very good-looking, and he is still tall. Needless to say, the family has never had any difficulties in eating.

There wasn't even a patch on the clothes on his body, and the most important thing was that he still had a watch on his wrist.

That is a watch that turns three times and rings once. There have been many educated youths coming and going over the years.

But I haven't seen a few people with watches, so it can be seen that he is definitely favored at home.

Along the way, Han Li chatted with aunts and aunts, chatting nonsense.

He didn't reveal much about his own family, but he heard a lot of news about the village from these people.

For example: Zhao Laosi usually beats his wife and children when he has nothing to do at home, while Liang Laowu's family is the laziest and doesn't go to work if they have a bite to eat.

Lao Li's wife often abused the girl in the family, and she raised her just to see if she would starve to death.

Zhang Liumazi is 30 years younger and has no wife. He often likes to go to other people's houses to peep on the wall.

The last time I was at Liang Laojiu's house to spy on someone's daughter-in-law taking a bath, I was almost beaten to death by Liang's family and so on.

Listening to the trivial matters in the village, Han Li and the others came all the way to the county seat.

Fortunately, the driver was an old man, he looked old-fashioned, and he drove the ox cart quite well.

Most of the potholes along the way were perfectly avoided by him, so Han Li's butt didn't suffer much.

After getting off the bus, the old man who drove the car left time to return to the village in the afternoon, so everyone dispersed.

Han Li first went to the post office to send a letter to his family. In his opinion, this is the most important thing right now.

Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things first, saying that so many educated youths want to buy things today.

If you catch up with the "market" in the county, you will not be able to buy what you want if you go late.

Afterwards, the three of them made an appointment to meet at the state-run hotel in the county seat at lunch time.

After the agreement was made, everyone began to work separately. Han Li first went to the post office to send letters to his family.

The current situation has basically stabilized, and Han Li was in the mood to appreciate the surrounding situation on the way to the post office.

There is not much to say about housing construction in this era, anyway, it is like that.

Most of them are adobe houses, and there are not too many brick houses. Small two-story buildings in the entire county are very rare.

Also, if you don't look carefully, you won't know, and you will be shocked if you look carefully.

It turns out that many of the old women in Northeast China are smoking big cigarettes, some chatting, walking, and smoking.

Some of them hadn't smoked yet, but their pipes were pinned to their waistbands, which really opened Han Li's eyes.

(The "collection" here means gathering materials and personnel. In the past, the materials were poor, and even the supply and marketing cooperatives could not openly supply them. Moreover, the people had limited money and time, and they could not come to the city to buy things at any time. Therefore, the county According to the local conditions, the leaders set a "collection" every once in a while, and provide as much supplies as possible to meet the needs of the people. Four or six, some have a big market every ten days and a small market every five days, forming such a regular market for buying and selling supplies. In fact, it is similar in nature to the previous temple fairs in the village, but due to special circumstances, most temple fairs were forcibly cancelled. up.)