Chapter 509: Different Joys and Sorrows, Start Working

No one knows whether Han Li helped Meng Zaihong to check her body, but when she left, she put her hands holding the snakeskin bag behind her back. It seemed that she was imitating some leaders, but in fact, she was lightly supporting her lower back, and her walking was also very different from usual.

Shanghe Village seemed to have calmed down after the farce of the Youth Academy.

When Hao Hongmin learned that Han Li had started to prepare medicinal materials, she found an excuse to come over and asked a little embarrassedly.

"Han Li, what medicine are you going to make this time?"

"This time I made the medicine I need for boxing practice, what's wrong?"

Hao Hongmin tried it, but in the end she didn't ask Han Li to help make the stretching pain-relieving ointment alone, and said the topic in a roundabout way.

"That. If you help people make the 'stretching pain-relieving ointment', can you make more? My mother uses it a little fast."

Although Han Li was a little confused about the speed at which Hao Hongmin's mother used the ointment, he still agreed to this kind of small thing that was done at hand very readily.

Wu Lili has been instilling the theories she heard when she returned to the city into Sun Yong and Niu Dechang recently. At first, Sun Yong refused because although he loved Wu Lili, he wanted to go back to the city to work or go to school as soon as possible. Of course, it would be even better if he could have a place in the army.

But Niu Dechang agreed with Wu Lili's proposal very much. Seeing that the two of them were getting closer and closer, Sun Yong felt like he was being poached and cuckolded, so he gritted his teeth and joined the discussion.

Then they began to look for other educated youth to bring up this matter. In their words, they were still the same as Wu Lili said, saying that they were all educated people and mental workers, and should not be restricted by the heavy farm work in the village. The village committee should give them some space and time to think about how to better build a new countryside, etc.

As for the villagers going out for a stroll every day to catch some snow frogs and sell them to the agency, of course, this depends on luck and skills. Most people can't catch many in a day.

Since there are almost no wild vegetables to dig in the mountains at this time, most of the sisters-in-law, aunts, and aunts in the village gather here every day to chat and do some needlework for their families.

The children are even more lively. They will gather here to read comic books whenever they have time. However, under the strict requirements and reminders of the Yun sisters, the children in Shanghe Village have all developed a good habit of washing hands in the past few days.

Many people have also joined the badminton team organized by Meng Zaihong. These groups of people have always filled the front of the sales point with laughter.

This situation makes the Yun sisters more interested in staying at the sales point, not to mention that Hou Yuhua helps there every day, and the other party is scrambling to do many things, which allows them to concentrate more on playing and chatting.

If Han Li wants to find He Mi to talk to each other these two days, he can only do it when she is playing chess with Hao Hongmin.

However, since Zhang Shulan, a homegirl, doesn't go out often, Han Li would come here to help her with psychological treatment if he didn't have a chance to succeed with He Mi.

Han Li was bored these days while preparing medicinal materials when he suddenly thought of several letters He Mi had given him when he just came back. He didn't take time to read them at first because he was visiting people to build relationships. Later, he actually forgot about this matter when he was free.

Now that he remembered this matter, Han Li hurried to the north room to take out the letters and read them through.

Two of these letters were from Fu Weihong of Bingcheng Post and Telecommunications Bureau. She said in the letter that she had collected stamps during this period, as well as some New Year and work trivia. This was a normal letter for pen pals to communicate.

After reading it, Han Li wrote a reply letter directly. First, he explained that he went back to Sijiucheng for the New Year last year, and received the other party's letter after he came back today. At the same time, he talked about the fact that he had found a stamp album by chance. Of course, he didn't forget to show off the Qing Dynasty dragon and many stamps from the Republic of China period on it.

The following are letters from two of Han Li's classmates. They were both sent to work in the Northeast, but they were not in the same area as Han Li.

Two of them could not go home this year, but they could get a letter of proof from the village. In the letter, they said that if Han Li did not go back for the New Year, they could arrange a time to get together.

This suggestion was good, but it was a pity that Han Li received it too late. Han Li replied to each of them and explained the situation.

The last letter Han Li opened was from Tian Xiaoxia, his classmate who was sent to work in the countryside in northern Shaanxi. When she wrote to ask for help, Han Li not only remitted 20 yuan to her, but also sent a large piece of very fat bacon.

Unfortunately, she was not seen among the classmates who returned to Sijiucheng today, but after Han Li opened the letter, he knew why she did not come back for the New Year.

If this matter is described in one word, it is "poverty", and if it is described in an idiom, it is "poverty breeds evil schemes".

The village where Tian Xiaoxia was sent to work in the countryside in northern Shaanxi is called Kushui Village. This village has been short of water since ancient times. It can be said to be an arid area in the arid area of ​​northern Shaanxi.

The weather and geography have made Ku Shui Village extremely poor. People here have no concept of time. All their schedules are based on the weather. In the whole village, there are no watches, not even ordinary timekeeping tools. It can be said that they work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise.

What she eats most here is soup, cabbage soup, potato soup, radish soup. Drinking some soup with oil is considered to improve life. For this reason, the old educated youth who have been here for a long time have specially made up a jingle.

The educated youth love to drink soup. In the morning, they drink soup to greet the sunrise, at noon, they drink soup to warm themselves up, at night, they drink soup to look at the moon, and they drink soup until their stomachs are bloated.

In Kushui Village, let alone electric lights, even kerosene lamps and candles are rarely used.

Moreover, people live in cave dwellings here. It is still bright outside, but it is already dark inside and you can't see anything clearly.

In order to save some kerosene, everyone will carry their bowls and walk out of their own cave dwellings when they eat at night. They gather in groups of three or two to talk about family matters. However, the wind and sand here are too strong, and many educated youth can't enjoy this treatment at all. They would rather eat in the dark inside the house than eat a mouthful of dust outside.

Because this place is too poor and the roads are very difficult to walk, many of them have never even been to the nearby county town. Not to mention having eaten anything good, most of the villagers in Kushui Village insist that sour soup dumplings and oil-splashed chili are the most delicious foods in the world.

When these educated youth from all over the country explain the various delicacies of their hometowns to the villagers, they all deny it.

If you say it a few more times, the villagers in Kushui Village will unanimously think that you have never seen the world, and you must have never eaten sour soup dumplings to talk nonsense here. How to say it? The villagers in Kushui Village are the kind of poor and stubborn.

However, the reason why Tian Xiaoxia and others cannot return to the city this year is still because of poverty. The son of the leader of Kushui Village fell in love with a girl in the county town. They were classmates when they were in school.

But the girl's family didn't like him at all, and they didn't want their daughter to marry into the bitter ditch of Kushui Village.

In order to make the man give up, the woman proposed a sky-high bride price, which included having a house in the county town, even if it was a broken cave.

If it were an ordinary family, they would have backed off at that time. However, the captain's family had seven daughters and only had a son as their treasure. How could they bear to make their son suffer? Moreover, if his son married a girl from the county town, his grandson would most likely become a city dweller in the future, and it would not be impossible for him to get a household registration that could eat commercial grain.

However, the captain's wife robbed several daughters' families, but still could not raise enough money for her son's marriage.

In order to make his son marry smoothly, the captain set his sights on the educated youth.

He privately withheld all the work points and rations that should have been given to the educated youth, and used all the money he got for his son's marriage.

There was a huge gap between the rich and the poor among the educated youth. Some of them relied on these work points and rations to go home for the New Year, while others relied on these rations to save their lives.

However, they could not wait for the distribution of work points and rations, so they began to grumble. At this time, a well-informed person found out that the work points and rations of the educated youth were all withheld by the captain.

What was he withheld for? It is not difficult to guess it by looking at the lively scene of the captain's wedding a few days ago.

After the educated youths got the news, they were so angry that a group of male educated youths rushed into the captain's cave and beat him up.

After the fight, they were surrounded by the captain's uncles and nephews, and then the two sides had a conflict.

Let alone the conflict between the educated youths from outside and the captain, even if you conflict with an ordinary person in the village, you will not get a good result.

So the male educated youths in this conflict all ended up miserably. An educated youth who was less injured and had a faster brain reaction used the captain as a shield and ran to the commune.

The commune immediately sent people down to arrest those who should be arrested and investigate those who should be investigated. The captain of Kushui Village was taken away at the first time. His final fate is still unknown, but last year, none of the educated youths in Kushui Village could go home.

Han Li smiled bitterly after seeing this. The country is really too big, and it is not surprising that different places have their own situations.

And it was not until the 1990s that everyone's food and clothing were barely solved. In this era, anything that happens is normal.

However, the relaxing days in Shanghe Village were still very short. That afternoon, the voice of Captain Liang came from the loud speaker in the village.

"Hey, hey, all members and educated youth, please pay attention. In order to make everything go smoothly during the spring plowing, we will start to clear the corn silk and sorghum roots in the fields from tomorrow morning, and remove the snow from some places with thick snow. In short, everything must make way for spring plowing. Everyone should go to the threshing ground early tomorrow. "

After hearing the voice of Captain Liang, the villagers were eager to try. After all, there has been no income from work points in their families for several months. Even if it is like this every year, they always feel a little uneasy without the income from work points.

After hearing this, the other educated youths wailed immediately, because once they started working, unless it rained, they would basically say goodbye to rest this year.

Only Wu Lili became excited after hearing the broadcast. Only when the village started working could she say her suggestions. If she succeeded, it would not be in vain for her hard work these days. If she failed,