I dreamed of being like Lu Miao, wearing a watch, applying cream, and living a prosperous and bright life from then on.

Li Yue, who was as dark and skinny as a village girl, swallowed.

I mustered up my courage and walked into the National Kumon English Society with my recommendation letter in hand and my head held high.

With the compulsory countryside class coming up on Monday, Lu Miao could only put off dealing with Lu Yuanzheng until later.

Early in the morning, it was bright outside the house, and there was a crescent moon hanging in the sky and a few stars falling.

Tang Mei got up early to cook.

Lu Miao got up sleepily after hearing the noise.

Fu Jingyou followed her and lifted up the thin blanket.

Lu Miao squatted on the side eaves of the kitchen, brushing his teeth next to the vegetable patch.

Fu Jingyou mixed some warm water for her to wash her face with, and then she bowed down by the well and washed herself quickly.

The stubble on the forehead was hung with water drops, and I didn't have time to wipe it off.

Fu Jingyou walked into the small vegetable patch where grasshoppers and crickets were screaming.

I picked two juicy cucumbers, followed them for a long time, and picked four or five tomatoes with most of their faces red.

Lu Miao finished washing her face and came out of the room with her hands and face moisturized.

Tang Mei had already packed her lunch box and water bottle, and was packing her bags and giving her instructions:

"The drinking bottle is made of glass. Be careful when carrying it on the road. Don't drop it or get cut."

"Have you got the money? Keep an extra dollar with you in case you need it for other purposes."

"It's okay if you work slowly, take a rest when you're tired, and have a good lunch."

Tang Mei is an old mother who is worried about her children.

She couldn't rest assured that her daughter, who was carefully raised at home, had to work in the fields.

He was chattering and had endless things to say.

Lu Miao is also like a rebellious child in adolescence. He can understand his parents' painstaking efforts, but he dislikes their parents' excessive nagging.

"Oh, I got it, little aunt!"

Taking the handbag, Lu Miao opened the mouth of the bag and let Fu Jingyou put the washed cucumbers and tomatoes inside.

"I'm going out. I'll be back in the afternoon."

"Be careful on the road."

"knew."

Lu Miao responded, grabbed Fu Jingyou's clothes at the back of his waist, and sat tremblingly on the back seat of the bicycle.

Tang Mei stood at the door, watching the bicycle swinging past the corner of the alley, then closed the courtyard door and entered the house to continue working.

The bicycle clanked twice and stopped halfway.

There was no time to eat at home, so Fu Jingyou bought two fried dough sticks for Lu Miao.

Lu Miao stuttered and asked:
"Is it cold?"

Lu Miao shook her head.

It has just entered May, and it is still a bit cold in the morning and evening.

But it doesn't matter, it's already summer, the sun comes up early, and everything will be fine after the sun comes out.

Lu Miao's appetite was not very good in the morning, and the fried dough sticks were very greasy. After eating half of them, she pushed her hands away and refused to eat them.

Fu Jingyou had no choice but to stuff the remaining fried dough sticks into his mouth twice.

He unscrewed the cap of the glass bottle for her and watched her take a few sips to relieve her tiredness before continuing to take her to Junda.

The school gathers at six o'clock in the morning.

Fu Jingyou walked Lu Miao to the school gate and stopped.

He straightened the broken hair around Lu Miao's ears and said:
"I'll finish class early this afternoon and come to pick you up then."

"understood."

Lu Miao said "hmm", waved to him, and trotted into the school.

Fu Jingyou stared at the spot for a while, then turned his bicycle around, went back to have a hasty breakfast, and hurried to school.

Working on Labor Day corresponds to the title of this holiday. This compulsory class brought together several grades and classes in the school.

It took more than an hour of walking from school to get there.

The land in the north thaws late in spring.

In May of the Gregorian calendar, the spring wheat that was sown earlier has only sprouted more than ten centimeters of wheat seedlings, and is about to turn green and join the stage.

This stage belongs to the post-emergence management period, and the main work is weeding and top dressing.

Others are the sowing period of early spring crops such as sesame, spring peanuts, and sweet potatoes.

It is said that this period of time is the busy farming season in the north, and the work is plentiful and complicated.

But maybe because they were too embarrassed to bother the students in these schools, the corresponding production team did not arrange such troublesome work for them.

Lu Miao was assigned to a small courtyard in the morning.

The women on the production team picked out two large bundles of sweet potato vines and taught her and two other female classmates to cut them into small sections.

The cut sections are sweet potato seedlings, which need to be collected afterwards and taken to the ground for cutting.

The work is neither heavy nor tiring.

I just sit on the pony with my head lowered all the time. After a long time, my shoulders, back and lower back are extremely sore.

Lu Miao put down the scissors and straightened her back with both hands on her lower back.

When the two girls next to her saw her moving, they also put down their scissors and took a rest.

"When I came here just now, I didn't see anyone planting rice in this area. When I glanced around, it was all wheat."

"It's like this in the north. There are few people growing rice..."

"That's what I'm saying! But the land here is really nice. There are vast tracts of land. When I go to the fields in my hometown, I often have to climb one or two hills..."

No one had spoken before while working, but now that they were resting, small voices started to sound.

Someone saw Lu Miao wearing a watch and stretched his neck and asked:

"Hey, classmate, what time is it now? Is it time for dinner?"

Lu Miao took a look and said:
"Come on, it's already a quarter past eleven."

When the school set off, the cafeteria was not open yet, and all the students who came together were empty stomachs.

When I arrived in the morning, within an hour of walking, people were already complaining about hunger, let alone this time.

Lu Miao had a bite in the morning, but he didn't eat much. He was a little hungry here.

Two big bundles of sweet potato vines, three people can work together easily.

There wasn't much left, so Lu Miao thought about finishing it early, eating early, and almost resting, so she picked up the scissors again.

The same was true for the other two female classmates.

They asked about the time just now, and the distance between them briefly narrowed.

While working behind the scenes, everyone chatted and the time passed quickly.

For lunch, the three of them also sat under the tree and ate together.

Lu Miao originally wanted to spend a cent or two to ask a fellow villager to heat up the lunch box as Tang Mei had asked.

As a result, they didn’t accept it at all.

He kept saying that it was not easy for them to study, and they had to find time to work for them, which was so hard.

Not only did they heat up the rice for free, but they also stuffed three steamed sweet potatoes into Lu Miao's hands and let the three girls share a portion among themselves.

Lu Miao brought her own food, while Wang Hong and Zhao Ying, who worked together, only brought dry sesame pancakes.

Mingyi and Mingxia had two pieces each as big as their fists, which they had received in the cafeteria a few days ago.

Dry pancakes are filling and durable, so they are not afraid of spoilage during this season.

It's just that it hasn't been as crispy as it was after being away from the stove for a long time.

Now the taste is weak, the bite is strong, and the texture is like chewing a rubber band.

Lu Miao gave them all the sweet potatoes, and the two of them felt embarrassed:

"You'd better keep it for yourself!"

Lu Miao shook her head, "It's okay, I brought enough food with me." (End of Chapter)

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