After going to the countryside, I can fish as much as I can

Chapter 14, First day of work

After a good night's sleep, until dawn, the alarm clock set by Zhang Youyou rang again. She yawned and turned over.
Do you still have the cold noodles you made yesterday?So I just had a bowl of it this morning. Anle had nothing to say and was very happy.

"This noodle is so delicious. When I learn how to make it, I will go home and show it off to my mother."

"Come on, let's go to work. The bell rang just now. Didn't you hear it?"

"Ah, I really didn't hear it, then let's go quickly!"

"No, no! You wear leather shoes to work in the fields."

Zhang Youyou felt like he was going to be shocked for 1 years. Whose warrior is this?

"Can't you?"

Anle asked strangely,

"You really don't know any relevant knowledge! Wearing leather shoes will abrade your feet. Then you won't be the one who gets blisters and pain on the soles of your feet. Go and change them quickly. And don't tell me that you don't have gloves or a hat."

"Uh! I have a pair of rabbit fur gloves."

"Talent!"

Zhang Youyou gave her a thumbs up. While she was talking, she had already washed the dishes, went back to the room and took out two pairs of gloves.
"I'll give you a pair of thread gloves and a pair of cloth gloves. If you pull the grass, put the cloth gloves on the outside of the thread gloves. Otherwise, you don't need them. Just a pair of thread gloves is enough."

"Are you fully prepared? Then I'll go change to a pair of cloth shoes first."

The man grabbed the gloves and ran back to his room to change his shoes. Fortunately, he brought three pairs of cloth shoes with him, otherwise he would have been doomed.

When her mother dressed her up, she thought it was too tacky. Fortunately, she didn't throw the shoes out willfully.
When the two arrived at the village committee, there were already many people standing there. After all, they were new educated youths, and many people were looking at them.

This is true for both men and women, old and young. Looking at the two people from top to bottom, from their appearance, to their height, shortness, fatness, and some gossip I have learned in the past two days,
That was more powerful than the X-ray machines of later generations, making the two of them look confused.

But Zhang Youyou knew what the purpose of these people was to look at them?As long as he didn't touch her, she wouldn't care so much.
My ears have automatically blocked their sarcastic or disdainful remarks.
When the village chief sees that people have arrived, he assigns work one by one. This has been the case for many years, so who does what?Everyone knows who will do which type of work.

"Because one of the new Zhiqing Zhang and An Zhiqing is too young and the other has just arrived and is not used to the work here, we first arranged to go to a mountain to cut pig grass.
After two days of getting used to it, everyone started to get tools and start working without any objection. "

The village chief's words were very clear, and the other villagers had nothing to say. After all, except for the first and second batch of educated youths who went to the countryside, they all got to know each other for a while before arranging to work in the fields.
Moreover, one can tell at a glance that Zhang Zhiqing is still a little girl, and she comes from the city. What can she do even if she goes to the fields?When the time comes that I can’t support myself, I will have to borrow food from the village. If I borrow the food and fail to pay it back, I won’t be the one who suffers.

These people are actually very smart, so no one will say anything?Everyone got tools to do their own work,

"Yeah! You need the two of us to pull weeds! Where can we do it?"

"To pull weeds up is to pull up the weeds in the ground. To cut pigweed, you need to use a sickle. Of course you go to the mountains to cut it! Otherwise, what do you think?"

"Oh! Got it."

"Come on, at least one of you two has to fill this basket today. Each person has to carry two baskets of pig grass, and one basket has two centimeters. Do you remember?"

Wang Daya, who was distributing tools, had already finished distributing the tools. He looked at the two newly arrived educated youths, pointed to the backpacks on the ground and said,
"Oh! We have used up the backpack, do we still want to return it to you?"

"No, anyway, I think you two will do this job from now on. As long as you don't break the backpack intentionally, you don't have to bring it over. Of course, if it's broken, you can ask others to help repair it. You can take care of the sickle inside. If you want to lose it, , you will have to pay for it yourself.”

"Thank you very much, eldest sister. What do you call me?"

Zhang Youyou smiled and gave away a handful of orange candies. Wang Daya's eyes flashed with surprise, and she put them into her bag politely.

"My name is Wang Daya. My father is the accountant and scorekeeper in the village. If you need anything, come to me. I will try my best to help you if I can."

"Okay, then I will come to you if I need help."

After saying a few polite words, the two of them left carrying bamboo poles on their backs. Of course, Wang Daya pointed out the direction.

"Hey! Come here kid."

As soon as we arrived at the foot of the mountain and before we went up the mountain, we saw many children walking up the mountain carrying bamboo baskets or carrying bamboo baskets on their backs. Some of them were carrying or holding their younger brothers or sisters.
Some are followed by two or three. It can be said that there should not be too many children.
Anle looked at it for a long time and chose a boy who was relatively cleanly dressed, and waved him over.
Zhang Youyou looked at this action and found it awkward.Thinking of the time she used to play with other people's dogs, she did the same thing.

"Little brother, I'll treat you to some sweets, but you have to do me a favor."

"What?"

When he heard that there was candy, the little boy looked happy, but he still asked cautiously,
"Then our task today is to cut pig grass. You have to tell us which grass can be fed to pigs." "Okay, you wait."

The boy was happy when he heard this. He turned around and plucked two trees on the left and two on the right. In a short time, he had a big bundle.

"These are pigweeds that can be fed to pigs. Come to recognize them yourself! Give me the candy."

"Hey! This little guy is quite smart."

Anle was very satisfied when he saw that many of the large bundles were different and gave the promised candies to the little boy.

The boy counted and there were five in total and ran away with satisfaction.
"How is it? I'm amazing!"

"Awesome, you are the most powerful."

Zhang Youyou opened her mouth to praise, without telling her that she knew some of them, but she didn't know as much as the little boy.
The two of them compared and searched in Manpo. In fact, the work was not tiring. It didn't take long to fill a basket with pigweed. The two happily went to the pig pen to hand out pigweed.

"This is only half of it. Remember in the future, press it a little and press the pigweed tightly, otherwise you will be too lazy to run back and forth. And what do you think the rope is tied in here for?

The pigweed must be pressed tightly and piled high. This rope is to prevent the pigweed from falling. It is pressed from the pigweed to fix it. Do you think the work points are so easy to earn! . "

The aunt who collects pigweed, everyone calls her Aunt Meihua, is in her 40s. When she pressed her hands, she saw half of the pigweed collapse instantly. Then she held the long rope tied to the other end of her back and demonstrated while teasingly saying ,

"Haha I know."

Zhang Youyou and An Le both smiled awkwardly, took their backpacks and ran up the mountain quickly.

"Ah! It's so embarrassing. Look at the look in Aunt Meihua's eyes just now. She must be laughing at me."

Anle said with some tears, she didn't know there were so many tricks for cutting pigweed!
"I do not know either!"

The two wandered around on the hillside again and finally filled the backpacks and fixed them high with ropes.
Then she carried the basket on her back to the pigsty. Aunt Meihua smiled with satisfaction when she saw it this time, and helped to carry the basket on her back.

"That's right, this is considered qualified. Anyway, you have to carry at least two baskets a day. If you bring more, you will be given work points. It depends on whether you deliver it in the morning or in the afternoon. You are relatively free at this time. .”

"I know! How many pigs does Aunt Meihua raise here? Does she need so much pigweed?"

Anle asked curiously,
"Two old sows and 18 piglets, do you think they eat a lot? Where are you now? When the piglets grow up, they will eat more!
Didn't you see that those children all go to cut pig grass, but their fathers are different from yours. "

"What's the difference?"

"They cut it home and collect enough, and then the adults in the family carry it and hand it over. The cents will not fall on them, but they will contribute to the family."

"Oh, I'm just telling you! No wonder they use bamboo frames to hold pigweed."

A few people chatted for a while, and it was almost noon when they got off work.
"Aunt Meihua has finished work. We have to go back to cook and eat. We'll come back in the afternoon."

"Well! Go ahead! If you deliver it first in the morning, I will include it for you."

"Ah! What should I do? My shoulder hurts so much. I didn't feel the backpack was put down just now. It's only been a while now and it hurts so much!"

"Let's go back and make a pad to wear on our shoulders. It shouldn't be so uncomfortable."

After all, Zhang Youyou has never done such physical work, so she took it for granted and said, but it is true that it can be relieved temporarily.

"It would be great if it didn't hurt anymore."

Anle rubbed her shoulders and muttered,

"What shall we have for lunch?"

"I still have some white rice that I sent over yesterday. Isn't there sweet potato in it? Make some sweet potato and white rice porridge and add cucumber to it. It should be enough for the two of us."

"Okay! I'll peel the sweet potatoes."

Anle turned around and took out two red-skinned and yellow-core sweet potatoes from his room, washed the dirt off the skin, and started peeling them.
Zhang Youyou used the small stove he used yesterday to make a fire and boiled water in a small aluminum pot to cook porridge.

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(End of this chapter)