SIAS Chapter 69.1

“Team leaders, count whether all the people in your team have arrived!”

Early the next morning, everyone gathered together, waiting to be assigned tasks and go to work. Captain Zhao Youtian shouted as usual.

The scorekeeper was taking notes on the side.

Although everyone was dawdling in going to work, no one would be late if they did not ask for leave. Because if they were late for a short while, 1 work point would be deducted.

No one was willing to deduct the work points they had worked hard to earn for just a few minutes.

So usually, everyone was in the same place or someone had to ask for leave for something.

The first few teams today were quite normal.

“Team 1, all are here!”

“Team 2, all are here too!”

…

Until the team leader of Team 7 stood up and said, “Report, Team 7, Wu Cuihua hasn’t come yet!”

Captain Zhao Youtian frowned, “How about Team 8?”

“Only Comrade Zhou has asked for leave from Team 8. Everyone else has arrived.”

Usually, after saying this, everyone would gossip about Zhou Yanhong. After all, in the eyes of those who made a living in the fields, not going to work every day and running to the city all the time was considered not doing their job properly.

Some said that her plan to return to the city was a failure, and some said that she would have few work points after the autumn harvest and would be hungry and eat tree bark next year.

But today, Zhou Yanhong’s request for leave again did not cause any waves.

“What happened to Wu Cuihua today?”

“I ran into her this morning. She walked so fast!”

“She seemed to come later than usual these days, and she didn’t come with Erlinzi and his wife.”

“She was in a hurry, sweating all over. I don’t know what she did.”

“I know this. Before dawn yesterday, I came out to get water and ran into her carrying a basket up the mountain. When I asked her, she said that Goudan was gone. She felt sad and couldn’t sleep, so she went to the mountain to pick up some firewood.”

…

“Beep—” Captain Zhao Youtian blew a whistle, “Quiet!”

Finally, the noisy crowd quieted down.

Then, he shouted to Team 7, “Erlinzi, what happened to your mother?”

Zhao Shuanglin was also very anxious. He looked back frequently, his face pale.

Recently, her mother went up the mountain before dawn every day, saying that she missed Goudan. She brought back a pheasant the day before yesterday and a rabbit the day before yesterday.

Although there was nothing yesterday, she said that Goudan saw that they were suffering and felt sorry, so he sent the things. Today, she went up the mountain again.

His father was gone, so there was no one to control her mother in this family. However, nothing had happened in the past few days, and she even brought back things.

Even he vaguely felt that Goudan had returned.

He and his wife also wanted to go and see how Goudan sent things, but his mother didn’t let them follow, saying that he was a man with strong yang fire, which was not good for Goudan, and his wife was young and could easily bump into him.

These things were feudal superstitions, and now people all talked about science!

The family kept it a secret and didn’t dare to leak it out at all. They even hoped that Goudan would send something else.

But today, her mother had not returned yet.

When the Captain asked, he did not dare to tell the truth and stammered, “She said she couldn’t sleep, so she went to the mountain to collect firewood.”

“What kind of firewood is she collecting so early in the morning? It’s just a nuisance!”

Captain Zhao Youtian’s loud voice made Zhao Shuanglin lower his head.

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