Some people picked watermelons, while others helped load the cars.
Ripe watermelons have basically been picked out, and workers transporting watermelons are still transporting watermelons.
The watermelon picked today is estimated to be 70 to 80 tons. It is still not an easy job for 30 to 40 people.
"Boss Ye, I'm a little dizzy." Ji Zhicai's wife's face was red, and her clothes had already been soaked with sweat.
Seeing that she was in poor condition, Ye Mo quickly moved a chair: "Take a rest. Apart from dizziness, do you have any other symptoms?"
"Dizziness, feeling weak all over."
"Sit down and rest..." Ye Mo brought her salt tea: "Drink less, Master Ji..." Ye Mo shouted.
"Hey." Ji Zhicai ran over.
"Sister Liang must have suffered from heatstroke." Ye Mo said, "Just keep watch. If Aunt Liang feels uncomfortable, tell us quickly."
"I'm fine, it's just heatstroke."
"Heatstroke is a big or small thing, don't hold on." Li Xuebin came over and said, "If you want to vomit, you have to go to the hospital for a checkup."
"It's just dizziness and weakness in limbs. It's nothing serious..." Sister Liang looked at Ji Zhicai: "You go to work, I'll take a rest."
"If you feel particularly uncomfortable, please tell me immediately. Don't delay," Ji Zhicai said.
"Don't worry, I know."
Ji Zhicai said: "It should be fine. I will continue working. She can rest here for a while."
Ye Mo took a look, then came to the female worker who was helping to dress the watermelons, and said, "Sister Liang has some heatstroke. If you feel uncomfortable, go and rest. Don't hold on."
"We're fine."
This is not the first time workers have suffered from heatstroke.
The temperature is too high. Doing heavy work in the high temperature in the open air can easily cause heatstroke. Some time ago, several people suffered from heatstroke.
Ye Mo looked at Sister Zhou, she just glanced at him...
"Sister Zhou, are you feeling unwell?" Ye Mo said.
"A little bit."
"Go and have a rest. Let's all go and have a rest. Rest for a while and then go home and help make dinner." Ye Mo waved his hand and said.
"Let's all go and have a rest. We men will do the rest of the work." Master Liu said.
"Stop holding on." Ye Mo shouted.
Everyone put down their work.
Ye Mo also called Zhou Yue and the others: "Go over and rest for a while and eat some watermelon."
This high temperature is really grinding.
Tang Xun's father and father-in-law had already gone there to sit and rest.
Ye Mo went over and gave everyone a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water. After everyone drank it, they started to eat watermelon.
"This damn weather..." Li Xuebin came over holding a watermelon.
Ye Mo was looking at the weather forecast and said: "The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow."
"real?"
"I saw the forecast from the Dongmen Town Weather Station."
"This..." Li Xuebin hesitated and said, "Then these watermelons have to be loaded onto the truck overnight."
"It's best to dress up and leave overnight."
"Okay, I'll call Lao Zhou."
It's almost eight o'clock, and a cart of watermelons is finally finished.
There are still a lot of watermelons in the field that have not been delivered...
"Master Liu, Master Zhang... have to work overtime today to load all the watermelons into the truck." Ye Mo said, "The weather forecast says it will rain in the evening."
At night...that is, after twelve o'clock.
This summer, it is very normal to rain at night.
It rains a lot and it usually comes after nine o'clock in the evening...or even in the middle of the night.
Master Liu and the others nodded.
When I returned to the dormitory, dinner was already cooked, but there was still crayfish to cook.
"Save the crayfish for supper." Ye Mo said, "Eat first, then after dinner... I have to work overtime in the evening."
"The watermelons haven't been moved yet?" Lin Xiaomian said.
"There's still a little left. Then we have to load the car..." Ye Mo looked at Sister Liang and Sister Zhou: "Sister Liang, are you feeling better?"
"Much better." Sister Liang said: "Today's temperature is too high, I can't bear it."
Seeing that Sister Liang could joke, Ye Mo was relieved and said: "Work overtime at night...if you feel unwell, just rest at home. We will take care of things like overtime pay, high temperature allowance, etc."
Zhou Yue chuckled and said: "There is also a high temperature subsidy."
"I'll give you a salary increase and give you a more fashionable name."
In the evening there was mung bean and millet porridge, pig's trotters, braised pork ribs, roasted chicken with potatoes, pork belly, and bacon. These bacon were all contributed by Uncle Xiaomian...
"Don't drink too much, work overtime at night and have supper before drinking again," Lin Shan said.
"Don't worry, you won't delay your work."
Li Xuebin sat next to Ye Mo and also poured beer into the bowl: "That's how farming is. As long as it's the mature season, no matter how hot it is, you have to grit your teeth and finish the work. Otherwise, after time, the previous hard work will be wasted...
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Watermelons, if sold to other places, need to be transported over long distances, so they have to be picked at the right time.
Someone once said this: Farmers...are competing with God for food.
"The temperature is a bit high today. But when it comes to hard work, it's nothing." Dad Ye said: "In our hometown, we grow mangoes. There are many mangoes on steep slopes. In some remote mango orchards, we have to carry the mangoes on our backs.
To get to the roadside, you have to climb hundreds of meters or even kilometers of steep slopes..."
"Climbing a steep slope on your back is not something ordinary people can bear," Zhou Yue said.
"I have to eat, but there is nothing I can do."
Everyone laughed. If you want to eat, no matter how hard or tiring the work is, you still have to do it.
"This damn weather has never been this hot in our hometown of Chuncheng." Zhou Yue said: "How long will this high temperature last?"
"Who knows?"
In the past few days, the highest temperature exceeded 40 degrees Celsius.
Fortunately, the temperature did not exceed 40 degrees Celsius today, otherwise it would have been really annoying.
"The temperature is high. If you feel uncomfortable, don't carry it." Ye Mo said: "I read on the news that it was extremely hot in Huacheng a few days ago."
Hot summers, especially some extremely hot weather, are so hot that they can kill you. It’s really not a joke, nor is it an adjective.
After drinking a bottle of beer and eating some rice to fill his belly, Ye Mo went to the melon field to build lights.
It's not dark yet.
After the lighting was installed, it became completely dark.
Li Xuebin's car also came over.
It is estimated that there are still four or five acres of watermelons that have not been moved here, and the remaining watermelons are all in the melon shed...
A large truck can hold 23 tons.
Because it was loaded directly into the truck without weighing, I looked at the loading... loading twenty-one or two tons, that's about it. I didn't dare to load more for fear of overloading.
Three female workers were feeling unwell and were resting in the dormitory. The rest came over.
More than a dozen people helped load the truck, and together with Li Xuebin's people, there were twenty people loading the truck.
There are eight people on Ye Mo's side, carrying watermelons.
It's dark.
It's still a bit hot, but it's much better than in the afternoon.
A truck weighs more than 20 tons. There are many people loading the truck and the speed is fast. It can be filled in less than an hour.
I was busy until after twelve o'clock before I finished loading the watermelons.
A total of three and a half cars were loaded today.
The last half of the truck, estimated to be a little over ten tons, was sent back to the company, and another truck was shipped before delivery.