In the early morning, with the crowing of the rooster, there began to be movement in the warehouse.
The educated youths got up one after another, washed, dived, and made breakfast.
Well, considering that the educated youth point no longer had food, Fang Xiaoyue donated a bunch of potatoes again.
In fact, if it weren't for Fang Xiaoyue's righteous warning before, these educated youths might have been tempted to grab him and ask about the origin of the potatoes.
Compared to the rabbit stew with potatoes last night, the boiled potatoes this morning were just like that.
But even so, the long period of hunger has made everyone develop the habit of saving every grain of food. In the end, even the potato water in the basin was drank by Li Xueqing.
"Okay, let's go."
After eating several meals of potatoes, Fang Xiaoyue's prestige was established in the educated youth center.
So as soon as he spoke, everyone hurriedly picked up their hoes and followed him out of the warehouse.
Today's work arrangements were notified by the village yesterday. In the morning, we will weed and catch insects in the fields that are about to be harvested in summer, and in the afternoon, we will repair the canals.
Anyway, just looking at the work schedule, everyone’s time is fully scheduled every day.
But when you really get to the bottom of the field, you will know what it means to fish in troubled waters and cheat.
Fortunately, these educated youths are not very good at cheating and sneaking because they are young after all.
Some middle-aged villagers in Kuixing Village are well versed in this knowledge. Those sneaky and slippery tricks are hard to guard against, even if there are scorekeepers on hand to supervise them.
When we arrived at the end of the field, some diligent villagers from Kuixing Village had already arrived. When they saw these educated youth coming, they all smiled and nodded towards them.
In the following time, the villagers of Kuixing Village came to the field sporadically.
Adult men gathered together, passing yellow leaf cigarettes to each other, taking off the pipes from their waists, skillfully cutting off the tobacco leaves, rolling them into small cylinders, inserting them into the mouth of the cigarette, taking turns to light them with a fire stick, and then enjoying themselves.
Take a puff and puff out gray smoke one by one. The expression on your face is one of great enjoyment.
The women also gathered in a group and exchanged various information with each other from Shilibapu, such as the wife of a certain family in Wangjia Village stole a man, the village chief of Zhangjiao Village died of a sudden illness, etc.
The children also gathered in a group. They were too energetic and played with each other. Their thin little faces were filled with lively smiles, as if hunger had nothing to do with them.
Only the educated youth gathered together, peeping at each other, staring blankly at the dogtail grass, the river in the distance, and the treetops, as if they had not yet woken up.
Time passed bit by bit until the sun was about three o'clock in the morning. It was estimated that around ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining down and the temperature became a bit sultry. The head of Kuixing Village, Wang Defu, a middle-aged strong man with a red face, walked slowly and slowly.
come over.
This is not surprising. As the head of a village, Village Chief Wang has many things to deal with. For example, the widow Owari of the village has been complaining about the wrong calculation of work points last year.
Besides, the summer harvest is approaching and there are many affairs in the village. As the head of a village, being late is not a big deal.
But according to convention, only the village chief can arrange the next work.
Therefore, the villagers are not in a hurry, and even some villagers who are good at calculation hope that the village chief will come as late as possible. Anyway, they have arrived. Even if the work starts at 11:30 and ends at 12:00, they should get no less work points.
of.
"Ahem, comrades women, please lower your voices. Sir, please take care of the baby."
The village chief is not a big official. The villagers meet in the morning, afternoon and evening. They are so familiar. Therefore, even when Village Chief Wang arrives, the men are smoking leaf cigarettes dullly, while the women are still immersed in various folk activities.
They couldn't extricate themselves from the gossip, and the children were still playing excitedly, which made Village Chief Wang frown involuntarily, coughed twice, and started to say hello.
As soon as the village chief spoke, the villagers below immediately started scolding him.
The men scolded their women, and the women yelled and scolded their children. The naughty children stopped playing. There was no way. If you were going against your parents at this time, you should go home at noon and wait for them.
There will be violent corporal punishment such as dried bamboo shoots and fried lean meat.
These days, no experts or scholars stand up to say anything about protecting the rights of minors, and no one says that spanking children is wrong and requires encouraging education.
Anyway, children these days are very stubborn. If they disobey, they will be beaten by their parents. If they are disobedient, they will be beaten again. Only when they are obedient can the family be harmonious and healthy.
After a lot of commotion and uproar, the scene finally calmed down.
Village Chief Wang just nodded with satisfaction and began to arrange today's work: "Fugui, I have to go to the town for a meeting today. The score keeping must be strict and we can't let sneaky guys fish in troubled waters. I won't be here to repair the ditch in the afternoon.
, Clerk Cheng Deshun will be in charge of overall management of the General Administration, and militia company commander Huang Laoyao will be in charge of security work. Okay, that's it, I'll leave first."
After Village Chief Wang arranged the work, he took out his pipe, got together with the smokers, took the tobacco leaves, skillfully rolled them into smoke pillars, inserted them into the mouth of the cigarette, used the fire, and then took a nice puff.
The red light on the smoke column flashed desperately, consuming his own life and adding to the happiness of Village Chief Wang.
After smoking a cigarette, tapping the cigarette stick on the sole of his shoe, and coughing twice, Village Chief Wang left the field with his hands behind his back.
At this time, the scorer Tian Fugui, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face, stood up and said without saying much: "Comrades, let's start working. Today the men's team is from here to here, and the women's team is from here."
At this point, the children's group will continue to shoot pigweed as usual, remember, don't go into the mountains, be careful of snakes and insects..."
After a few words of instruction, Tian Fugui announced the disbandment, and the men, women, and children got busy according to their respective groups.
Weeding, catching insects, and killing hogweeds all have their own technical requirements and differences.
Fang Xiaoyue, who was assigned to the men's group, carried a hoe and entered the green rice fields with a hint of yellow.
At this time, it is already the end of the rice filling period. In order to ensure mature harvest and ensure the successful completion of the summer harvest, and there is no chemical fertilizer available at this time, it is a typical period of intensive farming. The water in the rice fields has been drained a few days ago. Now,
The weeds grew extremely luxuriantly.
In later generations, when chemical fertilizers and herbicides are used in large quantities, it would be impossible to get rid of weeds before the summer harvest! Isn’t this just looking for something to do?
But at this time, as long as it is conducive to harvesting more grain, even if it is just one grain of grain, the work that needs to be done must still be done.
Fang Xiaoyue waved the hoe and carefully dug out a piece of barnyard grass, grass and mud, avoiding the rice, and dropped it on the field ridge.