Author: Li Ming.
The name of the farm is the Corps, and military uniforms are not issued, and all clothing and daily necessities are provided by the educated youth. I once remembered that the cloth used to make bed sheets and quilts was all back-spinning cloth, that is, the rags were broken and re-spun and woven. Its fibers are short, underfast, and the warp and weft are thick, which makes people itch and uncomfortable, but it is quite warm. The cotton blanket used is also spun back. The cotton coat can be worn and covered, and it can best keep out the cold, which belongs.
Luxury. My friend Liang Jun's one was purchased at a consignment store (that is, a thrift store) and was reduced to 18 yuan, which was enough to cover the allowance for the first three months (after deducting the food money).
The clothes and trousers of the educated youth are washed white with salt water, and they are broken and repaired, mended and torn, even if they are sturdy labor cloth dual-purpose shirts and trousers, because they cannot withstand the long-term shoulder burden, the vulnerable parts are often patches and patches. As for the ones worn on the feet, yellow liberation shoes are the majority, and then there are short-top blue or black pull-back sneakers, which have a short lifespan. The educated youths either dig seawalls, dig canals, pick cow dung, and cut wheat, and within a few months, their faces will fade and the bottom will be smoothed. The worst fate was the galoshes. A new pair of semi-uniform galoshes, no matter how careful you are, will not be soaked in the saline mud all day long, often after a river work, the shoes will leak everywhere, which means that the 6 yuan allowance will be reimbursed. There are also socks that break when you wear them, and your toes are often exposed to take advantage of the wind. As a result, Sunday became an unregulated "mending day", when everyone would pose in their beds to mend torn socks or simply re-support their soles. This has exercised our female red skills to a certain extent.