After performing a complete set of "purifications", they were placed in dormitories in the quarantine center. The dormitories are separate for men and women, and each has more than 20 beds. What surprised them was that the beds were all bunk. Those who sleep on it have to climb up. However, each person had a separate bed, a clean straw mat, and a thin felt per person. This condition is a paradise for the children who have been sleeping in the open for months.

I also sent out a large clay cup, a face cloth - a jishu that needs a knitting machine, and the towel cannot be produced for the time being. In contrast, toothbrushes were quickly put into production, with wooden handles, horsehair bristles, perforations and bundles all handmade, much to the surprise of the Ministry of Industry, for the local women made toothbrushes with very simple hand tools based on their drawings and requirements – and of course the production was still very low, only twenty a day.

As for the indispensable gargle cups, rice bowls and the like, unfortunately they brought very limited, so they had to use fragile glazed pottery. There is no stainless steel rice spoon, and it is okay with a wooden car. These daily necessities, which are easy to make, are not self-sufficient because of the lack of raw materials.

The fierce maid took them to the bed, the younger ones slept underneath, and the older ones were divided into the upper bunks. There are also many rules: you can go out, but you are only allowed to walk in the open space at the door, and you are not allowed to go to the dormitory next door; Rice bowls, cups, and other things are only allowed to be used by oneself, and are not allowed to be mixed. Everything should be placed on the shelves in order...... Everyone choked when they heard it, there are so many rules in this place.

There is the most effective way to punish those who violate discipline: starvation.

"It's time to eat!" As the bell rang outside, someone outside was shouting, and someone brought steaming food in a large tin bucket with a lid. The first meal is a thick fish plate porridge, which is made of trash fish and chopped into porridge, and a lot of vegetables are added to it, which is considered nutritious. Everyone was quite satisfied with what they ate, but there was nothing to add - Wu Nanhai was afraid that they would have stomach trouble if they ate too much at once. However, from the very beginning, three meals a day were used to increase nutrition - and the WHO is well aware that many epidemic infectious diseases have a strong relationship with malnutrition.

During this 40-day quarantine observation period, they cannot be deserted, and the travelers are not here to engage in charity. Two of the best graduates were sent from the evening school in Yanchang Village to give them literacy and Mandarin learning. Everyone was given slate and chalk, the morning was the time to study, the afternoon was the time to work, and the rattan processing factory in Bopu would send some simple manual work here to do, they learned to process rattan, weave rattan tools, open bamboo scorn, and sanded the boards. Children who are dexterous at work are recorded as a direction for their future training. Before dinner, you can move around and play games at will. After dinner, it's time to clean up, take a shower, and then go to bed - the traverser doesn't have electricity and lighting in the dormitories. But when night falls, many children gather around the barbed wire fence to watch the flickering lights of the rows of red houses on the other side of the harbor.

For most children, such as Tian Liang, his life is now satisfied, he has food and clothing, a clean house to live in, no fleas to scratch all the time, and several scabies on his body are completely cured after applying a few plasters. Although there is a lot of homework every day and there is discipline to be kept, it is still bearable.

Some of the older children have been wandering for a long time, they have become wild, they are not interested in reading and reading at all, and they are not willing to learn the short-haired tongue that is not a donkey or a horse, and some are unable to stand the constraints of discipline.

Tian Liang often wanted to go to the girls' dormitory to see Guo Fu's situation, but there was a high bamboo fence between the two sides, and the door in the middle was always locked. Even if you can get together on the fence and see the scene on the other side, it is difficult to see which one is Guo Fu in a group of people. After a long time, I slowly gave up.

Ma Pong pushed a small wheelbarrow and creaked along the ridge road, loaded with the only bit of belongings in his family and his wife.

"Peng'er, let's just go, will the short-haired master take us in?"

"Mother, how many times have I told you, how many family members and relatives have come to take them in, this is what Chief Wu said personally."

"Alas, alas, you are really, why did Haode quit his job at Master Fu! Master Fu treats us very well. ”

"He's treating us well, but isn't it better for shorthair?" Ma Peng pushed the cart vigorously, "Working as a worker in Shorthair, he has rice to eat and fish every meal, does he have it?" The farm is busy and only gives a meal of shredded potatoes to eat. After eating too much, his lady still muttered. ”

As he was talking, a team of burdens came behind him, all of them were baskets of rice, which were so flat that they trembled, and they hurriedly walked towards Bairen City.

"Mother, you see, these are all going to Dongmen Market to sell grain, and the money of these short-haired chiefs is really more than the sea." Ma Peng pouted a little proudly, feeling that it was more face-saving to work as a long-term worker for shorthair than to work for the rural landowner Fu Fuji.

As he was talking, the person who led the burden turned around: "Little brother, are you also going to Dongmen City?" Take the old lady to open your eyes? ”

"I carry the long work for the shorthair. I picked up my mother. ”

The leading man, Haha, laughed: "Little brother has a kind!" Dare to give them work. ”

"It's nothing, short-haired is not a three-headed and six-armed man-eating goblin. Speaking of which, they're not bad. Talking about what happened after he went to war with Fu Fuji and was captured, he also talked about all kinds of anecdotes.

“…… It's not the same thing who I want to work for, at least the shorthair side eats well. ”

The man nodded: "That's right, just like our master, at first, he was frightened, and he was afraid of shorthair every day, but then he heard that shorthair was harvesting rice, and the price was high. The autumn grain of the government, he is pushing three obstacles and owing four things, this side is good, it is not counted if it is sold once, this is the second time. ”

"Old wealth is the eye of money."

As he spoke, the group had come to Dongmen City. In just half a month, this place has become very lively. In the middle of a large bamboo shed, the red brick building stands out majestically. On the other side, there is a shop of a welfare cooperative that has recently spread throughout the county, and the front door is also crowded with people, in addition to ordinary households, there are also some landlords and old rich people who look here to look at things and bargain with women in beautiful blue cloth clothes. It's been almost a month since Ma Pong left here, and now everything is really new. He felt more and more that he was back this time to come back to the right place, and the short-haired chiefs would not go!

He parted ways with the team that had come to sell grain -- Ma Pong was going to the production team's camp on the banks of the Wenlan River outside the south gate. As he walked out of a homestead, many people he had never seen before were scaffolding houses. It was completely different from the houses he had seen in the past, that is, they did not use bamboo, wood, or rammed earth, and the houses were made of red bricks. Ma Pong never dreamed that this would be their home.

Wu De originally estimated that at most 60 or 70 percent of the people would return to the team after the farm work, but he did not expect that more than 95% of them would return after the farm work, and many of them brought their families. Some people who were looking for better treatment here at Shorthair followed. Taken together, the number of people in the entire Bairentan production team is 120% of the original. It was better than their original most optimistic estimates. This made the Executive Committee overjoyed – until then they had not been able to confirm their ability to win the hearts and minds of the people, and now it seems that they are doing a good job.

The common people who migrated from Damei Village, who had been organized by Wu De into the second production team of Bairentan, experienced the busiest farming season in their lives. The men were busy cutting wood, quarrying, digging and burning bricks, and the women were drying and cleaning the rice they earned, and the caravan of carrying the grain to the mills by the river alone was flowing - now there were more than 1,300 mouths in the city, and the daily demand for rice alone was one and a half tons. Ma Qianzhuo instructed: Mills use rice milling machines to process rice only to brown rice, and are not allowed to process rice to polished rice -- first, to preserve nutrition, and second, to increase the rate of grain production. Older women help cook in the kitchen, and even half-grown children have to go to the farm to help loosen the soil and cut grass. From the beginning of the morning rooster crow to the end of dark, the working hours are more than ten hours a day. But tiredness is tiredness, and the food provided by the shorthairs is also good! They don't need to cook on the fire, and the three meals a day are ready to be delivered to the construction site: the hot rice is enough, and there are meat and fish for two meals in the middle and evening, and the portion is large enough for oil and water. In addition, they were paid for the papers, which were colorful pieces of paper, but according to the people who produced the first team that came earlier than them, they were very valuable, and they could buy rice and fish in the cafeteria. If you have children and elderly people to support at home, you can support your family with this work voucher. So although the work is heavy, there are no complaints.

Ma Qianzhu himself was born in a large state-owned enterprise, and he never forgot the welfare system of state-owned enterprises that benefited employees and children. He saw that many women were unable to go out to work because they were surrounded by young children or children, and that a lot of labor was wasted, so he set up the first nursery school in order to free women with children to join the workforce. He called Fang Yijing, who used to be a nursery teacher, who had managed everyone's dormitory before the crossing and was now the head of the management committee of the residential area, and appointed her as the director, and first selected some women for simple childcare and sanitation training. Ma Qianzhu knew that in order to change people's long-standing habits, coercion would not work, so he adopted some economic strategies: stipulating that all the children's meals would be provided by the canteen for those who were willing to put their children in nursery.