Chapter 30

The man who was joking just now said: "I said Wang Qiaozhen, I just talked about it casually, why can't you help being funny like this?"

I sneered and said, "If your sister and your wife go out to work, you will be so relaxed when others make jokes like this? I don't like joking. If you are willing to find someone else, I don't owe you anything."

The man muttered a few words in a low voice, and then stopped talking.

Sun Lao Si collapsed on the back of the car and began to sleep. I looked at these men coldly, and I became much more honest.

What Mrs. Bai said was really good.If you want to live well, you must learn their law of the jungle.

I instantly thought of the knife under Lin Cailian's pillow. She must have suffered such a thing before, and that's why she was like this. Do I need to find something to protect myself?
The car has been driving eastward for nearly three hours. The road conditions here are very bad, so the car keeps bumping, and my bones are about to fall apart.

Finally came to the work place at noon.

There is almost no human habitation. Looking around, there are rice to be harvested everywhere. They are all mature and waiting to be harvested.

This piece of land is not endless, but full of potholes, with hillsides and depressions, and almost no flat land of a few meters.

It is precisely because of this that large harvesters cannot enter, otherwise they would not spend a lot of money on labor.

Everyone jumped out of the car one after another, and those who were sleeping soundly became refreshed in an instant.

Sister-in-law Bai came over and told us loudly what we should pay attention to, basically how to work, she does not interfere, the task of one person and one piece of land, and we can get paid after finishing the task.

"I have already drawn the place for you. Each person chooses a piece. This work will be completed within seven days. After the rice is cut off, it will be thrown on the flat ground here. I will give you 140 yuan immediately after finishing the work. If If you work fast and complete the task, I will give everyone an extra 30 yuan!"

Everyone cheered loudly, and I was also very surprised that I could earn nearly 200 yuan in seven days!My elder brother was digging wells outside, and he paid less than 100 yuan for ten days. This is already an astronomical figure!

Sister-in-law Bai said: "Wages are calculated, you can get it once a day, or you can get it together, you choose."

Most of the people chose a one-off, because it was not the first time they came to work, and they all believed in her, and even if they took the money, it was not convenient to hide it.

Sister-in-law Bai smiled and said, "Okay, you all go to choose the land!"

As soon as her words fell, the group of people rushed into the rice field like crazy.They circled the field they chose with their clothes or hats or whatever.They are very experienced, so they can choose which one is relatively the best to do. When I was in a daze, there was only a big field ridge in the distance that was the most difficult and tiring.

This is the farthest from the flat land where the rice is placed, and the area is also the largest. No one would like to do it.

I smiled helplessly, it was really a huge test.

Sister-in-law Bai came over and patted me on the shoulder: "How about it, are you going to retreat now? If there is still time to regret it, I can ask the driver to take you back directly when he returns home."

"No!" I said firmly, "I have strength, and I'm not afraid."

"Okay, you go get the tools. Also, I only have two meals a day here. You'd better go to a nearby small store to buy some bread or something. Otherwise, if you can't grab them for dinner, the food will be gone. You're going to starve. I'll go to the shed and cook for you."

She said and left.In the open space in front of the rice field, there is a temporary straw shed made of wood, which is full of dilapidated things. It is a place for cooking and resting.

It didn't take long to see black smoke rising from the lawn.

I walked over to get the tools, and at this time those people were already working quickly in the field. They came here to make money, so they were completely different from the lazy attitude in the car. They were cutting rice without raising their waists, and no one spoke.

Especially Sun Laosi, who looked like a bull, didn't lift his head, and hummed, and soon there was a hill of rice on the ground in front of him.

I can't just stand and watch, go in and work with a sickle.

I thought that although I was not as good as my elder brother in the field, I was already an old hand, but compared to them, I really couldn’t do it at all. After a while, my waist hurt like it was about to break, and I couldn’t work hard with gloves on. , but after taking off the gloves, my hands hurt like hell, so I can only put them on and take them off like this, and repeat them all the time.

The sweat on my head kept flowing down like rain, dripping into my eyes, and it was too late to wipe it off.

Although noon had passed, it was still so hot that people would pass out, and there was no clean water here. If I was thirsty, I could only go to the ditch next to it to get a tap water pipe for watering the ground and drink a few sips.I saw someone holding a water pipe and pouring water on their body and head without thinking, and it was probably too hot to die.

Couples who come out to work can help each other and take a break occasionally, but like me, I can only rely on myself.

In front of me is endless rice, it feels like I have entered a strange and lonely world, the only thing I can do is keep working, working...

Finally, someone shouted: "It's time for dinner!"

Everyone agreed to go out, and I worked hard to move a bundle back and piled it into a small mountain bag.And the rice piled up by those people around me is basically a mountain of rice.

I was very anxious, can it be done at this speed?

Everyone was so tired that some people lay directly next to the rice and gasped for breath.

The other two daughters-in-law just sat there and started crying. It seemed that they were here for the first time, but they really couldn't bear it.After discussing with each other, they helped each other to find Mrs. Bai, calculated some wages, and then left directly.

Because Mrs. Bai had made it clear in advance that if she couldn't do it and could only give a few dollars, they would be grateful and leave with the three dollars.

This kind of thing happens every year, and everyone is familiar with it.

At this time, the smell of rice wafted from the thatched shed in front, and everyone rinsed it under the tap, and then went to eat.

I rubbed my shoulders and walked in, looking at the sun, I found that I had worked for nearly five hours without knowing it, no wonder I was exhausted.

"It's time to eat! The old rule is, two bowls of rice per person, and if it's not enough, just order it!"

Everyone agreed, and started to rush in like crazy again. The inside of the thatched shed was filled with the smell of smoke.A small hawthorn-like light bulb is on the roof of the shed. The room is not small. On the right is a simple floor covered with kang mattresses. On the left is a large stove smoking everywhere, and a big dirty black pot sits on it.

Open the lid of the big pot and see that the heat is steaming, and there is steamed rice inside.Someone put a large pot of fried cabbage and potato chips on the table. They were white and had no trace of oil. This was our meal.

But even this kind of dish is going to be snapped up. I took a rice spoon and desperately fished out two spoonfuls of potato chips from the gap between these people, added a little soup, and ate like this.

Sun Laosi didn't like this dish, so he just took the soy sauce bottle and poured a lot of soy sauce into the rice, and just ate it with the rice.I saw that the inside of his big bowl was dark, and I felt very uncomfortable.

Although the bowl contained rice, it was basically a mixture of porridge and rice. Some rice grains were not cooked very well, and there were a lot of gravel, but the big guys devoured them all.

Because there are not enough bowls and chopsticks, some people use their own lunch boxes, plastic boxes, or even thermos bottle lids to serve their meals. Those who don’t have chopsticks break off tree roots to eat outside.Because I ate slowly, I couldn't grab them, so the second bowl only filled half a bowl.

I mixed it with the vegetable soup in the pot, sat there, and kept crying while eating.I actually didn't think it was too hard, but the tears kept streaming down, probably because my arm hurt too much.

At this time, a woman came over, took a large spoonful of rice from her bowl, and put it in my bowl.

"Eat more, how can you do with such a little food?"

I hurriedly thanked her, and vaguely remembered her, as if she was a woman from the next village, she was in her 40s, tall and strong.

She said: "You have to be careful, haven't you heard someone say that? One bowl is flat, and two bowls are full. When you eat the first bowl, just fill it with a little. After you finish eating, hurry up and fill the second bowl. You have to hold it tightly once to fill it up. It must be like this, or you will starve to death!"

"I see, thank you, auntie."

"Thank you? It's really hard for you to come out to do such a job at such a young age. You can just call me Aunt Fang, and ask me if there is anything you don't understand."

I felt sore, thinking what would my mother think if she saw me doing coolies like this?

Nine times out of ten, she just cares about how much money I can get, right?He also thought of his second brother who was already so fat that if he came to work, he would probably die here one day.

After eating, we took a quick shower and got ready for bed.

This is the Datong shop. Men and women are in the same room. The man sleeps near the door, with some straw and a lot of sundries in the middle. About two meters away is the woman's place.

Aunt Fang slept next to me, and whispered to me: "Those men sometimes get up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and they may come here to make a fuss. You are so good-looking, you will probably be targeted. I will protect you. If anyone dares to If you bully you, you can call me, otherwise they will come to you if they get the advantage, and your reputation will not be good at that time."

I was very angry in my heart: "It's too much! Why do they do bad things, but we have a bad reputation?"

"There is no way, this is the life of our women." Aunt Fang sighed.

I was very helpless in my heart, but I couldn't fight against this trend by myself, after all, I am not Sister-in-law Bai.

(End of this chapter)

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