"That's right. I think the people in this village should be quite nice. At least they received a few of us well. It's not like the village I went to last time which had a very bad attitude towards the students. They gave us all the grades at the beginning.
It's such a strenuous work that you can't rest until you finish it, and the meals provided are mediocre and sparse, and you won't be full at all. In just two days, half of us will be exhausted."
"You were assigned to that village last time." Another person who was assigned to this room with them heard the conversation between the two of them and jumped in: "I heard from my brother that the people in that village were
Most of the people are not very good, but Shiliba Village is famous for being difficult to deal with. The students assigned to that village are tortured every year, and everyone in the school knows it."
"Isn't it okay to not tell them apart?" Lu Zhen said. Anyway, he didn't have a good impression of that village.
"No, how could there be no separation? I heard from my brother that the village expects these batches of students to go over and do hard work for them every year. If they are not given to them, they will cause trouble in the commune. They said at the gate of the commune.
Look down on them and say it's unfair. A few old men are fighting for life or death at the gate of the commune. The leaders have no choice but to have the teachers draw lots every year, and whichever class is chosen will be the class."
"Is that so? That village is so powerful." Lu Zhen asked curiously.
"It's not that the people in their village are great, it's that they make trouble. When something happens, the 60 or 70-year-olds in their village will say that they have had enough of life and don't want to live anymore, and they won't give them a way to survive."
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"..."
At the beginning, Zhang Yu and Lu Zhen were chatting. As they chatted, Lu Zhen chatted with another person, while Zhang Yu listened with interest.
The three of them fell asleep while chatting. The next morning, Zhang Yu just woke up and saw that it was already dawn outside. He looked at the time again and quickly pushed Lu Zhen, who was sleeping next to him, "
Wake up! Wake up! It’s getting late.”
"Well, when is it?" Lu Zhen said as he rubbed his eyes.
"It's already 6 o'clock. We don't know if we will have time to eat today?" The aunt told them during the meal yesterday. Now at around 6:00, the loudspeaker will notify them to go to work, asking them to go to work earlier.
rise.
But because they were tired after working for a long time yesterday, they overslept this time.
Zhang Yu quickly put on his clothes, and then started knocking on the door from room to room, "Wake up, wake up quickly, we are going to work soon."
Zhang Yu heard the sound of getting up inside and stopped caring. He quickly walked to the next door. At this time, the aunt next door had already packed up her things.
When he saw him coming, he said: "I was about to call you. You probably won't have time to eat slowly this morning. I made corn tortillas. Each of you can divide them into two. Take them and eat them while walking. I'll probably eat them in a while."
It’s time to get to work.”
Zhang Yu brought a frame of corn tortillas over. As soon as he divided the corn tortillas, he heard the ringing of a bell from the middle of the village, which resounded throughout the entire small village.
The production team leader shouted with his strong, slightly hoarse voice: "Members, please pay attention, everyone is ready to go to work, the time is up..."
At this time, they had no choice but to follow the aunt and gather towards the entrance of the village while eating pancakes. Fortunately, the place where they lived now was still some distance from the entrance of the village. When they got there, they also finished the corn pancakes in their hands.
After arriving at the entrance of the village, the captain and the others first distributed tasks to the members. Zhang Yu saw that the male members were assigned heavier tasks, while the female members were assigned slightly lighter tasks. Of course, for Zhang Yu and the others,
That being said, even lighter tasks are difficult.
After the distribution was completed, a group of people went to work, and the captain said to them: "This is the first day you have come here, and you haven't done much work yet, so you should follow Uncle Chen today and let him teach you.
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"good."
Then the captain called to the old man who picked them up yesterday, "Uncle Chen, these young men don't know how to do it, please guide them."
"Okay, just leave it to me. You can go and do your work." Knowing that during spring plowing, the captain had a lot to do, he readily took over from these young people, and then motioned to the captain with his bare hands to just go and do his own thing.
"Okay, you teach them some work and see what they can do. If they really can't do it, let them weed."
"I know, I will make arrangements for these students."
After the captain left, he smiled and said to Zhang Yu and the others: "Come on, follow me. I will take you to see what work you have to do."
Zhang Yu and the others were also very happy to have someone a little familiar with them to lead them. After hearing his words, they followed him obediently. At this time, Lu Zhen took two steps quickly, surpassed those people, and walked to him.
Next to him, he said with a smile: "Uncle Chen, what work are we going to do today?"
"We'll find out later." Then he introduced them to them as he walked: "As the old saying goes, plowing in autumn is deep, but plowing in spring is shallow. Spring plowing is like turning cakes, and autumn plowing is like digging a well. An inch deep in spring plowing can make a lot of money.
Make sure you don't bother with spring plowing, and your face will turn yellow after autumn. Spring plowing is very important, and this year's food rations depend on it!"
"So what do we plant now?"
"Grow wheat and sweet potatoes."
"Wheat?" It was also at this time that Zhang Yu discovered that instead of most farmers planting winter wheat like in later generations, now more spring wheat is planted, and the technology of winter wheat has not been spread yet.
As they walked along, they could see that in this era of spring plowing, the whole family, young and old, would participate.
People seize every day of spring plowing, hoping to get a good income and harvest more food so that the whole family will not go hungry.
After walking for about 20 minutes, the old man suddenly stopped and said to them: "We have arrived at the place. You can just work here today. Your task today is to finish weeding this land."
As he spoke, he pointed to a large piece of land covered with weeds in front of him.
Then he used a hoe to demonstrate to them, and then said: "We don't have enough hoe in the team, so these are the only ones left. You can take turns using them. If you can't take a turn for the time being, use your hands first."
After saying that, Uncle Chen took the cow to the field next door that had been weeded, hung up the plow, and went to plow the field.
I saw the cow pulling the plow in front, and Uncle Chen behind him holding the handle of the plow with one hand to control the depth and direction of the plowed land. With the other hand, he raised the bullwhip and shouted, and the cow with its head lowered struggled forward and started plowing.
It began to move forward slowly, and the land was slowly opened up. Several people watching were a little eager to try.