Chapter 12: How to Get Foodstuffs - Enchantress Translations

Enchantress5-6 minutes 24.01.2022

At this moment, Ma Yumei continued to talk about things with the child on her womb.

Zhao Xiulan replied, “Auntie Mei, my father just told me yesterday that I need to continue to carry on the **spirit of camaraderie. I don’t help people just to get something from them! If I accept it, I don’t know what the other people will say!

I’m afraid that some people will think that I have this purpose of saving people, and making up unpleasant words will have an impact on my reputation, and it will also have an impact on my father’s reputation.

You can go and tell my father, but I’m certain that he will be on my side too!”

Ma Yumei didn’t expect Zhao Xiulan to speak like this!

Since Zhao Xiulan fell into the river, she has suddenly changed into a different person!

Zhao Xiulan’s words blocked Ma Yumei, so Ma Yumei didn’t know how to argue and could only stare at Zhao Xiulan angrily.

Well, ah, this bitch is capable now! We’ll see, once I complain to Zhao Weiguo, I’ll let him sort you out!

Zhao Xiulan didn’t bother to pay attention to Ma Yumei anymore, so she cleaned up and went directly to the paddy field.

At this moment, many people are already waiting for the team leader to assign tasks.

After a while, the team leader took the workbook and assigned tasks one by one.

Because Zhao Xiulan did a ‘good thing’ yesterday, she was praised by the team leader. In addition, Zhao Xiulan’s health was not very good, so the team leader specially assigned her a relatively easy job, herding cattle!

There are a few oxen in the production team and herding them should be the easiest job. You can just pull them wherever you see grass and let them eat.

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However, because the work is relatively easy, the work points you’ll earn are relatively low. Generally, it is only 2 work points a day, so it is still better to do some heavy tasks and earn more work points.

For this kind of task, some people who can endure hardship and want to earn more provisions are unwilling to do it, as this will just be a waste of time and cannot give them much rations. Only those who like to be lazy look forward to doing this kind of task.

Liu Gensheng obviously noticed this and said to Zhao Xiulan, “Xiulan Ya Tou, you go and herd the oxen, and I will give you 5 work points later!”

Just like yesterday, Liu Gensheng recorded more work points for Zhao Xiulan. Liu Gensheng’s usual 2-work point task is now more than doubled, and he attached more importance to work points than the heavy task!

Zhao Xiulan was not an ignorant person either, so she held the two rope-ends of the oxen, said some words of gratitude, and then herded the oxen.

The large-scale steel production has damaged the environment severely for a few years, and there are very few places with lush vegetation in the production team. Zhao Xiulan led the oxen and searched for a while before she found a place to stop and let them eat some grass.

Zhao Xiulan had nothing to do while the oxen were grazing. She found a lawn to sit on and began to think about how to live in the future.

She has a lot of foodstuffs in her hands, but she has to find a legitimate reason to take them out. Of course, she can’t take out too much. In addition to arousing suspicion, the most important thing is that she doesn’t want to be taken advantage of by Ma Yumei’s mother-daughter pair!

While she was thinking deeply, a voice came in, “Xiulan Ya Tou, what are you thinking?”

Zhao Xiulan looked up and found that it was Wu Jinhua, so she smiled and greeted her.

Wu Jinhua was assigned the job of cutting hogweeds, and when she found some nearby, she also saw Zhao Xiulan, so she called out to her.

Because Zhao Xiulan saved her Goudan, the more Wu Jinhua looked at Zhao Xiulan, the more cordial she felt.

Wu Jinhua was not in a hurry to cut the hogweeds, so she sat down next to Zhao Xiulan and chatted with her for a little while.

It just so happened that it was not easy for Zhao Xiulan to ask others about some things. After having a friendship with Wu Jinhua, Zhao Xiulan was ready to set things up after hearing Wu Jinhua’s opinion and prepare for her future days.

“Auntie, I would like to ask, apart from working in the production team to earn work points and provisions, is there any other way to get foodstuffs and other things that we can eat?”