Reborn in the red age

Chapter 63 My delicate and delicate hands

After having money, it was natural to build a house. The village chief planned to open a door in the wall behind the kitchen and build another room directly behind the courtyard of the educated youth, so that he would not have to find an extra place to build a new house.

These female educated youths also knew what happened in the past two days and naturally did not want to move out of the educated youth courtyard to live alone. They fully agreed with the captain's proposal.

The educated youths had no objections. The matter of building a house was decided. Taking advantage of the autumn harvest in about ten days, they gathered people and built the house as soon as possible. It only takes three to five days to build a mud house. .

The village was very active in building houses for educated youths. All the young and skilled old men came together and clamored to build houses for the educated youths. Even many women wanted to build new homes for the educated youths. make a contribution.

Seeing such an excited crowd, Li Qingfeng felt that there was something fishy here, so he pulled Old Wang, who had made several sets of furniture for himself, to inquire about the situation.

When he learned that the members who came to build houses were given ten additional work points, Li Qingfeng narrowed his eyes. The old man, the captain, was not honest.

We male educated youths help female educated youths build houses, which is voluntary labor. When people from your village come to build houses, do they get work points?Is this possible?
Stir, must stir.

Li Qingfeng stopped the team leader at that time and demanded that we educated youths must enjoy the same treatment as the villagers. Otherwise, the building fees will be given to us and we will find a way to build the houses ourselves.

After some entanglement, the brigade leader, who was reluctant to give up his work points, simply gave Li Qingfeng and other educated youths a few days off as long as the house was being built.

After the holiday, Li Qingfeng and the others were completely having fun. Those who were willing to go to the city went to the city, and those who were not willing to go to the city followed the old educated youths who were familiar with the conditions in the mountains.

The autumn harvest has not yet passed, and not many members have gone into the mountains to pick mountain products. Li Qingfeng and the others have won this year's jackpot. Every time they go into the mountains, they always come back with a full load. Not only the mushrooms and other mountain products fill the entire basket, but also hares, pheasants, etc. I can catch one or two a day.

Qingfeng Li and the others did not dare to go too deep into the mountains. On one hand, they were worried about getting lost. They were also worried about encountering wild animals such as wild boars. They did not bring guns or anything. If they encountered a wild boar, no matter how many people there were, they would really do it. But that stuff.

The house was built very quickly. In just five days, a large small house was built by the members.

The girls' dormitory this time is very spacious and can accommodate about ten people even in winter. It solves the winter housing problem of the educated youth courtyard. Zhou Yongjun no longer has to wait for the autumn harvest to go to the commune to ask for housing construction fees.

Don’t rush to live in the newly built house. Let it dry for a few days. Anyway, you have to wait for two more days before starting to burn the kang. It’s not too late to move in when you really need to burn the kang.

A few days after the house was built, the countdown to the autumn harvest officially entered.

Li Qingfeng, the newly arrived educated youths this year, began to sharpen their sickles under the guidance of veteran educated youths such as commune member Zhou Yongjun, and were ready to go to the fields to cut wheat at any time.

After everything is ready, this year's autumn harvest officially begins.

"I said, Li Laosan, hurry up. You haven't seen how far ahead of us the others are. You young man needs to hurry up."

In the seventh team, Qingfeng Li and Aunt Zhao were assigned to a group. Qingfeng Li was harvesting with a sickle in front, while Aunt Zhao was picking wheat ears behind her, and then tied them into bundles and stood on the ground.Aunt Zhao's mouth hadn't stopped all morning, urging Qingfeng Li to work faster, which made Qingfeng Li want to throw the sickle in annoyance.

Cutting wheat is really hard work. Even if you wear the gloves that you bought two days ago for the autumn harvest, your hands will still be so painful after a whole morning. If you continue like this, you will definitely get several big blisters on your hands.

After the harvest in the morning was over, Li Qingfeng dared to look up at the endless wheat field in front of him. All the strength in his body felt drained, and he collapsed on the ground: "Oh my God, how long will it take to harvest?"

"Don't look at it, just keep cutting. Once you look at it, you will lose the energy." After Aunt Zhao gathered the ears of rice that Qingfeng Li had cut, she collapsed on the ground tiredly and looked at Qingfeng Li in front of her. comforted.

Li Qingfeng, who had no strength at all, forced himself to take off the gloves on his hands and stretched them towards Aunt Zhao: "Aunt Zhao, look at my hands, they will definitely cause blisters if you cut them off. You think I'm so delicate? You have very thin hands.”

Aunt Zhao took Qingfeng Li's hand and glanced at it, then threw it aside with disgust: "How can a big man say that to me? It's not like the blisters have yet appeared. Once the blisters appear, just go back and get a needle to remove them." Okay, what a big deal, I wasn’t as delicate as you when I was young, I’ll just wait until the blisters turn into calluses.”

"When will these blisters turn into calluses?"

"It's hard to say. When I was young, I harvested wheat for the first time. I had to carry water every day. I guess it will be almost done by the time this autumn harvest is over."

Qingfeng Li lay weakly on the ground. Even under the dazzling sunlight, he could not feel any warmth and felt cold in his heart.

"Hey, Li Zhiqing, from Zhao Laoer's family, what are you doing there? Why don't you hurry back with a bundle of wheat?"

The autumn harvest is the time when the brigade leader pays the most strict attention. He patrols the fields constantly and does not allow anyone to be lazy. Anyone who finds a foreign worker will be slapped with a slap in the face, and then his or her work points will be deducted without any reason. Face can be said.

He didn't want to talk to the captain, but Qingfeng Li didn't dare to offend him at this time. He reluctantly got up from the ground and followed Aunt Zhao, carrying a bundle of wheat on her back and following the long flow of people towards the threshing floor in the village. .

Looking at the little old man driving the carriage back and forth to transport wheat without having to harvest, Li Qingfeng's eyes were full of envy. He also wanted to transport wheat. How easy this job was.

When they arrived at the threshing floor, the member in charge of guillotining the wheat ears had not stopped working. When Li Qingfeng saw this job, he began to envy him again. It was not a bad job. He sat down there and pressed down the guillotine. It's over, this life is okay.

The break at noon was not long. Li Qingfeng quickly put away his envious thoughts, threw the wheat bundle on his back on the ground, and dragged his heavy steps back to the small courtyard for educated youth. Now Li Qingfeng just wanted to lie down on the kang and rest. .

When Qingfeng Li went back, the other people in the Educated Youth Courtyard had not returned yet. He first simply washed his hands and arms to remove the dust. When he saw red spots the size of needle tips exposed on the unwrapped skin, Qingfeng sighed deeply. In one breath, it has only been a morning, and there is still a long time to come. How can I survive this?

After sighing for a while, Qingfeng Li went to the kitchen to light a fire and heat up the food. He was already like this, and the others were not much better, so he might as well help them heat up the food.

(End of this chapter)