The retired rough man dotes on his mother

Chapter 184 I know it well

In the afternoon, those whose names were called on the loudspeaker came to Shen Zhensheng's old courtyard one after another, ready to start the competition. Some women whose names were not called also came, mainly to join in the fun.

Shen Xiuxiu gave everyone a small piece of cloth that Xiao Baoer had prepared in advance, and asked everyone to sew a small object at random and use their free imagination.

In fact, Xiao Baoer arranged this competition to see their stitches, needle techniques, stitch lengths, etc. This is not only to see their needlework level, but also to see whether they are serious, so as to select more suitable people.

Everyone chatted while working, and Shen Xiuxiu even took out a piece of cloth to sew with them, which she found quite interesting. After sewing, they just handed the things to Aunt Song Yun, and Aunt Song Yun wrote their names on the cloth, and everyone could go back first.

After everyone left, Aunt Song Yun and Xiao Baoer looked at the cloth that everyone had sewn. Most of the women in this village knew some needlework and their stitching techniques were quite good. Some of them were even as good as her aunt's. Xiao Baoer was quite satisfied.

"Aunt, let's just decide on these people for now. I just counted them and there are about 20 of them. If you add my aunt, sister-in-law Niuniu, you, and my mother's family, we will have about 28 people. The production should be OK."

Aunt Song Yun thought that it was almost done. At the beginning, this number of people was enough. "I think it's OK. Let's just do it with this many people. It might be a little slow at the beginning."

After the two of them had agreed, Xiao Baoer asked Shen Zhensheng to find the captain and give him the list, asking him to announce it through the loudspeaker to avoid notifying each family one by one.

Shen Zhensheng was also going to see the team leader to discuss the food issue, so he could just send the list over together.

Xiao Baoer thought that even if the villagers needed food, they would probably want more coarse grains. The coarse grains in the space could be sold at the price when the village distributed grain. No tickets were required, but neither could they be sold on credit.

Xiao Baoer talked to Aunt Song Yun about the next arrangement, and they would start arranging the people who were confirmed today to work tomorrow morning. They planned to let the daughter-in-law from her uncle's family be in charge of the cutting, and would pay her 1 cents for each piece cut.

Aunt Song Yun thought Xiao Baoer's arrangement was also appropriate. "Your uncle's daughter-in-law is careful and meticulous in her work. It's most appropriate to let her do the tailoring."

"Okay, auntie. By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you. Isn't our fifth child dating an educated youth? This girl has a hard time working, and I really need someone to help me. So I asked her to come to my house to do accounting and let her stay by your side to help you every day."

Aunt Song Yun certainly had no problem with it. She felt that Jiang Yuqing was one of the few better female educated youth in the educated youth center. Some of the female educated youth were too restless, with worldly calculations in their eyes, and they didn't have the feeling of being educated youth at all.

Shen Zhensheng found the team leader, gave him the list of suitable people, and asked him to announce on the radio the names of the people who would be working tomorrow morning and their time. After that, the team leader gave him the amount of grain needed in the village as counted by the accountant.

"Zhensheng, see if you can gather enough food. If not, use the village's reserve grain to make up for it."

Shen Zhensheng took a look and found that this amount was just the amount of harvest in his wife's space, so it was not a big deal at all.

"Okay, I'll ask him to prepare as much as possible. It shouldn't be a big problem. I'll go to town again tomorrow and ask him to find a way to transport the food here as soon as possible."

After the two of them discussed it, Shen Zhensheng hurried home. He had to start work tomorrow and clean up the old yard. He was afraid that if he returned late, his wife would have to clean up by herself. It was freezing cold, so he couldn't let her do this work.

Fortunately, when I got home, Aunt Song Yun and Xiuxiu were still there, and Shen's mother and Liu Ying had also finished making pastries and came over. They wanted to see if there was anything they could do to help.

Shen Zhensheng let them talk, and he took his three sons to clean the old yard. He carefully checked whether the missing items had been replaced last time. Finally, he put a thermos bottle full of water for the workers to drink in winter.

After Aunt Song Yun and Shen's mother Liu Ying left, Xiao Baoer came over to see how Shen Zhensheng and his son were cleaning.

"Wife, take a look and see if there's anything missing. I just put a thermos bottle and a few tea cups there. These people who are working need some water, too."

Xiao Baoer looked around the rooms where work was done and found that everything was in place and the rooms were relatively clean. All they had to do was wait for everyone to start work tomorrow.

"I think it's pretty good and clean. If you need anything later, we can just bring it back. Okay, let's go back. It's too cold today and the children didn't take a nap in the afternoon. Let's eat early and let the children go to bed early."

The family returned home together. Xiao Baoer and Shen Zhensheng did not cook, but took the children into the space to eat.

"Baby, do you want to eat anything?" Xiao Baoer asked the three children.

Dabao casually pointed to a Thai restaurant in the space. Erbao and Sanbao had no objection to following their brother, so Xiao Baoer took them in.

As soon as they entered the store, Little Grape sent his little followers to follow them. As long as the owner wanted to eat something, as long as he said it, the little pets would use their spiritual power to prepare the meal and make it appear on the food counter.

Xiao Baoer ordered Thai pineapple fried rice, coconut milk sago cake, stir-fried water spinach, fried rice noodles, Thai lemon fish, Thai curry shrimp, Thai shrimp cakes, pumpkin and coconut milk steamed egg, and finally a Tom Yum Goong soup.

Little Grape had long ago instructed his followers that when the master ordered food, they should order small portions unless they specifically requested a large portion.

After a while, the food Xiao Baoer ordered was placed on the table. Shen Zhensheng went over to get it, and then took care of the three children and Xiao Baoer while they ate.

"You eat too, don't worry about us," Xiao Baoer urged him to eat quickly when she saw that he hadn't eaten much.

Dabao and Erbao picked up chopsticks and spoons to put food on their father's plate. Xiao Baoer served him a bowl of soup. Shen Zhensheng simply let Sanbao eat by himself, and he started eating what Dabao, Erbao and his wife had picked up from the plate.

"Wife, I'm going to the town tomorrow and bring back food just like I did last time when there was a heavy rain and I transported things to the village," Shen Zhensheng chatted with Xiao Baoer while eating.

"Okay, in fact, not only our village, but other communes and other villages will definitely reserve some more food. You can sell more to Zhou Bao and Xie Lan. In addition, you can also sell more wool and cotton to them. Cotton can be planted in the space and the harvest will be quick."

"Okay, I know what I'm doing," Shen Zhensheng also planned to sell more grain and cotton to the two of them. There would be several heavy snowfalls at this time every year. Before the next heavy snowfall this year, many villages would send people out to purchase supplies.

"If you have time, go to the scrap recycling station and give the old man some food, just coarse grains. He would be embarrassed to accept fine grains. Then ask him if he has any old items recently."

Shen Zhensheng nodded and understood. He would go to the town post office tomorrow to see if his wife had sent back the translated books and letters.