The next day, Dong Huaihua took advantage of the Lantern Festival and went from street to street shouting with a loudspeaker, saying that the brigade wanted girls to braid straw patterns.
Women braided grass, cattail fans and materials as the members earned work points for their labour.
Generally, not everyone was able to do this kind of side job. Han Yongfang liked to pick those who were diligent, clever and quiet.
He hated gossip the most.
Therefore, some people could not be chosen even if they have skills, but they could only hold back from expressing their opinions.
At this time, after Dong Huaihua asked women to braid the plants, all of them became energetic.
Spring ploughing was coming next and the men were ploughing the manure in the ground. There was still some time before the spring planting commenced and the women were still free for the time being, so they could do some side jobs.
But Dong Huaihua only wanted girls between the ages of 9 and 15, unmarried women or old wives!
Although everyone had their opinions, since the brigade assigned this job to Dong Huaihua, even if she said so, it would be difficult to get Han Yongfang to interfere.
Therefore, those who have girls of such requirements at home happily send their girls to work to earn work points.
Dong Huaihua was responsible for recruiting people and Lin Lan was responsible for writing the script. Letting the girls work for a few days to get familiar with each other would be ideal before they start talking about other things.
Talking about such things straight from the get-go would make the girls shy and resistant.
Lin Lan went to the brigade during the day to arrange the team of girls with Dong Huaihua. In the meantime, she observed that Yanyan and Caihua were indeed here as well.
The two little girls were inseparable and seemed to be very popular. Other little girls were willing to talk to them, especially Caihua, whom she had a vague feeling of being the queen of the girls.
Lin Lan observed and found that Caihua was very good at forming small groups. For example, when there were three of them, she would pull Yanyan to isolate the other one and have her stick by her side to suppress any other intruder.
After a long time, several girls around her started to fawn over her.
But in terms of work, Caihua was not outstanding. On the contrary, Yanyan learnt things quickly and did it seriously instead of floundering at a slow pace.
As expected of the heroine.
Lin Lan quietly observed Caihua, but in fact, the girl herself also quietly looked at her.
Suddenly, their eyes collided and Lin Lan smiled while Caihua would look at her as if she was saying, wow you look even prettier today.
Lin Lan paid more attention to her, but unfortunately she couldn’t see anything special about her. However, it also reminded her to pay attention and not go too far.
When publicising in the future, she would try to make mistakes and use the language of the countryside and the radio. It would sound very fashionable and cultured, but when it was heard by truly educated people, it would feel very deliberate and very rustic.
When Lin Lan was thinking wildly, Maisui came over and said, “Mother, didn’t you say you wanted to take us to wrap some Yuanxiao?”
“Oh, I almost forgot,” Lin Lan quickly told Dong Huaihua that she was going to head home first.
Dong Huaihua told her to just go.
Caihua chased out, “Maisui, aren’t you going to play with us?”