Chapter: 46 Work Points

“Well, Lin Zhiqing, did you make this wooden box in the village?” Lin Weiwan asked Lin Huahua directly.

“Yes, there is a carpenter named Li in the village. It’s the last one to go north after leaving the educated youth point. There are two wooden gourds hanging on the door. It’s easy to find.”

Lin Huahua looked at Lin Weiwan with a smile, and her eyes kept wandering around Lin Weiwan’s face. She was so beautiful. If she looked like this, would Zheng Zhiqing fall in love with her?

Thinking of this, her face changed slightly, and she asked Lin Weiwan tentatively, “Little Lin Zhiqing is so beautiful, do you have a partner?”

Wu Erqiao had been listening to the conversation between the two, and kept curling her lips. When she heard this, her ears perked up and listened attentively.

“No, I’m only seventeen years old, and I’m not in a hurry to find a partner. What about Lin Zhiqing?”

Lin Weiwan looked at Lin Huahua who lowered her head shyly, and she probably had someone she liked.

“Not yet.” Lin Huahua thought of being rejected by Zheng Zhiqing last time, and her face became a little ugly again.

Lin Weiwan looked around the whole house. There were old newspapers stuck on the earthen wall. There were two wooden boxes on the ground, and two wooden stools under the boxes.

Opposite were two water jars and two clay pots, two thermoses and two enamel basins for toiletries.

“The boxes were left by the educated youth who left before. We are sharing them now. The left one is for food. You can mark your own food and put it in. Here are three keys for the door.”

Lin Huahua dried her feet, got off the ground, took out three keys from the box and handed them to the three people.

“Every morning we start work at 7 o’clock. You will rest tomorrow and get up at any time. Wu Zhiqing and I will make breakfast. We will leave your breakfast for you. You will start work with us the day after tomorrow. You should prepare your things tomorrow.”

Lin Huahua felt that she was a few years older after all. Although the new educated youth Lin was too beautiful, which made her feel a sense of crisis, she still explained the matter briefly.

“Thank you, Lin Zhiqing, you are so kind.” Lin Weiwan gave the cheerful and generous Lin Huahua a good person card.

“Then Lin Zhiqing, how are the work points calculated here? Can we take leave during normal times?”

Lin Weiwan continued to ask, and Wang Qiaoyun and Du Shanshan also stopped what they were doing and listened.

“Dongsheng Village now calculates a full month of work as 25 days. If you take one day off on the basis of 25 days, one day of work points will be deducted, and if you work one more day, one extra day of work points will be given.

Rest on rainy days and special weather conditions will not count or deduct work points.

As an advanced brigade, Dongsheng Village has standards for the work points of educated youth. Female educated youth must get a minimum of six work points a day, and male educated youth must guarantee at least eight work points.

During the busy farming season, our female educated youth’s full work points for a day are calculated as ten work points, and during the slack farming season, they are calculated as eight work points.

Previously, there was an educated youth who was lazy and ate too much. In the end, the work points he earned were not enough to support himself, so he was sent back by the brigade.

The production team will score each laborer and divide them into four levels. First-class workers will get full work points, second-class workers will get one less work point, and so on. The village will conduct an evaluation every quarter.

One work point is 1.25 cents. After the autumn harvest every year, the grain and vegetable distribution and the advance payment for the change of seasons will be deducted, and the rest will be given directly in cash.”

When he said this, he glanced at the three new educated youth.

“If you get sick or injured and end up with few work points, you may still owe the commune at the end of the year, and you will have to pay to make up for it.”

The three of them felt heavy in their hearts after hearing Lin Huahua’s words, facing the unknown environment and the hard work.

“Lin Zhiqing, I’m going to the city tomorrow to buy some daily necessities and pick up the parcels. Is there a bullock cart in our village to take us there, or do we have to walk to the city by ourselves?”

Lin Weiwan thought that the two parcels he had sent in the first batch must have arrived long ago.

“Tomorrow is the 30th, and on even-numbered days, there will be bullock carts entering the city. They will leave at 7 a.m. If you’re late, there will be no place. The positions of bullock carts are known.”

Lin Huahua calculated and said.

“Du Zhiqing, are you going to the city tomorrow?” Lin Weiwan asked Du Shanshan.

“Yes, I’m going to buy some daily necessities too. I don’t have enough things with me.”

Du Shanshan agreed immediately after hearing this. She only had two yuan in her hand, a small supermarket, and no enamel basin. She had to find a way to go to the city.

See if there is a black market like the ones in the novels, and try to sell some rice and flour in the supermarket for money.

“Then let’s get up early tomorrow and make the ox cart early.” After Lin Weiwan said this, several people had already fallen down to rest.

Wang Qiaoyun looked at Lin Weiwan and Du Shanshan with an unpleasant expression, and they made an appointment to go out, leaving her alone.

Why did Lin Weiwan and Du Shanshan ignore her when they were all the same educated youth who went to the countryside?

The next day, Lin Weiwan got up and quickly dressed and washed her face. She came out with a kettle on her shoulder, just in time to catch up with the old educated youth who were preparing to eat.

Lin Weiwan took her lunch box and filled it with corn paste that was too thin to look good, and two cornmeal steamed buns that were only the size of her fist.

Du Shanshan sat quietly and ate, but she didn’t think it was a big deal.

Wang Qiaoyun frowned, glanced at the male educated youth, and then looked at the food on the female educated youth’s side.

Seeing Lin Weiwan and Du Shanshan lowering their heads to eat, her frown deepened. Her face also became ugly.

Zhou Rongrong and the others also came out of the house and ate breakfast.

Cui Hongying also looked much uglier as she carried the porridge and two corn steamed buns in the lunch box.

“Lin Zhiqing, we won’t be back for lunch today, so you don’t have to make our share.” After breakfast, Lin Weiwan took Du Shanshan to say hello and left quickly.

When they reached the entrance of the village, they saw the uncle from yesterday driving a bullock cart at the entrance of the village.

“Good morning, Uncle Chen, we are going to the city.” Lin Weiwan saw that there were already four aunties and a girl from the village on the bullock cart, so she quickly took Du Shanshan on the bullock cart.

“Three cents a trip, five cents a round trip.” Chen Dasheng held a piece of grass in his mouth.

Lin Weiwan took out five cents from his shoulder bag and handed it to Chen Dasheng.

Du Shanshan glanced at Lin Weiwan, and when she saw Lin Weiwan take out five cents and hand it to Chen Dasheng, she couldn’t help but pout, and took out ten cents from her shabby shoulder bag and gave it to him.

Chen Dasheng directly gave Lin Weiwan’s five cents to Du Shanshan.

Not far away, Cui Hongying and a few others were walking together. When they saw Lin Weiwan and the other person already sitting on the ox cart, they rushed up and climbed up.

“Hey… there’s still room for three people, don’t squeeze in.” Chen Dasheng frowned again as he looked at the new male and female educated youth.

Cui Hongying sat down opposite Lin Weiwan, while Wang Qiaoyun, Zhou Rongrong and Wang Ping were blocking the way there, and no one wanted to give way.

Zhou Weinan, Shen Shili, Hu Jinbao and Shen Minghua, as male educated youth, did not squeeze into the ox cart with women.

“Uncle Chen, can’t we take one more person?” Wang Ping asked Chen Dasheng.