When Ma Xiaojuan came back from picking out the peanuts, she was shocked to find that Su Mo had pulled out nearly a third of the remaining peanuts.
How did Su Mo become so powerful?
Is it because I'm in a relationship and am full of energy?
Or is it because you will take root in the countryside and start working actively in the future?
Ma Xiaojuan felt that it was the latter, and she couldn't help but sympathize with Su Mo.
Su Mo saw Ma Xiaojuan coming back and saw that the time was almost 11 o'clock, so she said, "Xiaojuan, I'll pull it out for a while and then go back. It's our turn to cook today. The rest will be pulled out in the afternoon."
During the autumn harvest, work usually starts at 6 o'clock in the morning and ends at 12 o'clock; in the afternoon, work starts at 1:30 and ends at 6 o'clock.
Because time is tight at noon, the educated youth whose turn it is to cook will usually tell the team leader around 11:30 to go back and cook.
Anyway, the daily tasks are arranged. If you don't finish them in the morning, you will continue to do them in the afternoon. The team leader usually won't say anything.
Ma Xiaojuan nodded fiercely. Su Mo had already done a lot of plucking for her. She might be able to get another piece of land for plucking in the afternoon, earning four work points a day.
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On the other side, Li Yue'e also finished plucking four cents of the ground this morning. She left a bunch of peanuts for Lu Changzheng to pick out, and hurried home to cook.
She had already found four aunts she knew well, and together they went to the educated youth center to propose marriage, and also called the women's director in the village.
At noon, these helpers must be treated to a simple meal.
The staple food is the Erhe noodle steamed buns that were steamed last night, and some big rice porridge will be fine.
I heard from the third child that he had cut two kilograms of meat back in the morning. Then cut a pound of stewed cabbage, scramble some eggs with green peppers, and fry two green vegetables with lard. That's it, it's decent.
As soon as Li Yuee finished cooking, the aunts arrived. They knew they were going to help, so they came over from work early, and some even went home to change their clothes.
Li Yue'e hurriedly asked them to come to the table, leaving aside the food for the rest of the family, and they, the group of people who had to do things, ate first.
After dinner, Li Yue'e changed into clothes that were 70% new and had no patches. After carrying their things, a few people went to the educated youth spot.
At this time, it was when everyone was having lunch. Many people saw them and asked where they were going. Soon everyone in the village knew that Lu Changzheng was going to propose marriage to Su Zhiqing.
After Li Cuihua heard the news, she was so happy that she drank two more bowls of Da Zhuzi porridge, and it was finally done.
From then on, Li Yuee was a head shorter than her.
When Li Yuee and others arrived, the educated youths had just finished their meal.
Knowing that someone would come over to propose marriage at noon, which might disturb the rest of the educated youths, when Su Mo was cooking, she specially took 6 eggs and made a big pot of scrambled eggs with green peppers.
Eaters are soft-spoken, and even if they are really disturbed by the time, it will be hard for them to say anything.
"Hey, are you eating?" The person who spoke was Lu Guilan, the women's director of the brigade. When we were having dinner just now, we had already agreed that she would be the matchmaker.
The other educated youths were confused when they saw the women's director bringing a group of aunties to their educated youth spot.
"I just finished eating, Director Lu, what can I do?" Ma Jianmin, the person in charge of the educated youth spot, stood up and asked.
"It's something, something happy." Lu Guilan said with a smile, "We are here today to propose marriage to Comrade Su Mo on behalf of Comrade Lu Changzheng."
"Huh? Oh, oh! Please sit down quickly."
Ma Jianmin panicked and quickly asked the educated youth to clear the dining table and let the aunts sit down.
Then I thought about getting something to entertain.
Oh my God! Someone help him! He was a young, unmarried guy who didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing.
After sitting down, Li Yuee put the basket she was carrying on the table.
Su Mo took 6 clean bowls from the cupboard and carried a large iron teapot from the educated youth class. She poured some water into each bowl and gave it to each aunt.
"Aunts, drink some water." Su Mo said with a smile.
Su Mo knew that people at this time like to drink sweet drinks, so she had already boiled a pot of sugar water and put it in the big iron teapot of the educated youth point. It was just that it was still hot just now, no one drank water, and no one noticed.
This large iron teapot, two pots, cupboards, a set of dishes and chopsticks, and several vegetable pots were all prepared by the production brigade for the educated youth camp. It's just that when educated youths eat, they mostly use their own lunch boxes and rarely use the bowls and chopsticks provided here.
An aunt took a sip of water, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she secretly said to the aunt beside her: "Sugar water."
Several aunts heard that it was sugar water and took a sip from their bowls.
It seems that this Su Zhiqing is also sensible. Seeing that her eyes are bright and she does not act coy, but entertains them generously, it should be good.
Li Yue'e was also secretly observing Su Mo, and was quite satisfied when she saw that she acted calmly and generously.
Although the room at the educated youth point was large, it was still a bit crowded with a large group of people. Several male educated youths took the opportunity to return to the room, leaving only Ma Jianmin, five female educated youths and the six aunts.
"Su Zhiqing, Comrade Lu Changzheng said that we are very consistent with your revolutionary goals and hope to form a revolutionary friendship with you as soon as possible. I don't know what you are thinking here." Lu Guilan asked.
"I will follow Director Lu's arrangements." Su Mo smiled shyly.
The smile on Lu Guilan's face deepened, and she agreed to let her arrange it.
"I think you and Comrade Lu Changzheng are very suitable. Since the revolutionary goals are the same, it is better to join forces as soon as possible and continue to participate in the revolution together."
"Okay, just listen to Director Lu." Su Mo agreed with a smile.
Director Lu said some official words to Su Mo, and finally said two quotations from the chairman, which was nothing more than the formality of that stage.
Su Modu responded obediently.
Finally, Li Yue'e spoke: "We don't have many rules in the countryside, so you two just have to live a good life together. You can share the things in this basket with everyone later, and everyone will be happy."
Then, he took out a thick red envelope from his pocket and handed it to Su Mo: "If your family is not around, our old Lu family will not treat you badly. We will do it for you in the proper way. This is the betrothal gift." , you take it and make arrangements yourself."
Su Mo didn't expect that the red seal would be so thick. Judging from the width, it should be a big unity, at least a few hundred dollars. She didn't know whether to accept it or not.
Seeing that Su Mo didn't answer, Li Yue'e took her hand and put it in her palm.
"Here, when his eldest brother and second brother got married, they also gave him a bride price. But your family is not around, so it can only be handed over to you. You can just discuss it with your parents."
"Yes, thank you, Auntie." The other party said so, and Su Mo accepted the call.
"Okay, everyone is tired from the autumn harvest, so we will go back and won't disturb your rest." Li Yue'e also worked vigorously and resolutely, and left as soon as the work was done.
"Drink another bowl of water." Su Mo quickly poured another bowl of sugar water for the aunts.
After the aunts finished drinking, they were ready to go back.
Today's meal was really profitable. It didn't require any effort, no need to say anything, and there was still sugar water to drink.
Seeing that they were leaving, Su Mo thought of what Li Yue'e said just now, and divided the things among everyone. He picked up the basket and saw that the contents were in double portions, so he took out one portion each, and then handed the basket back to Li Yue'e.
"Auntie, I don't understand the customs here either. Please help me share these things with the aunties."
Li Yue'e saw that Su Mo was good at being a good person and was very generous, so she happily accepted the offer.
If the woman didn't give a return gift, she would have to pay each of them two cents of their hard-earned money when she went back. Now that she has a return gift, that's no longer necessary.
The aunts were very happy when they heard the return gift, and each praised Su Mo a few times.
Lin Xia kept watching with cold eyes, full of jealousy in her heart.
No wonder Little Hoof had scrambled eggs and changed clothes at noon. It turns out he was waiting here.
Such a thick red envelope probably cost one or two hundred yuan, and it was such a decent thing to buy so many Li Lilies.
Why is God so blind? Why did such a good thing happen to Su Mo?
Su Mo sent the aunts out of the educated youth camp, returned to the kitchen, and said to Ma Jianmin: "Ma educated youth, please call the other educated youths out. I'll divide the things. I disturbed everyone just now."
"This is a good thing. Don't interrupt. We are all revolutionary comrades." After Ma Jianmin finished speaking, he went to call other male educated youths.
After everyone gathered, Su Mo divided some of the sugar, egg cakes, and red dates among each person and shared them equally.
After returning to the room, Ma Xiaojuan said to Su Mo with admiration: "Su Mo, aren't you nervous? If it were me, I would be scared to death. You can still entertain them so decently."
Su Mo pursed her lips and smiled, but said nothing.
She's been through everything before, it's just a marriage proposal, there's nothing to be nervous about.
As soon as the aunts left the educated youth spot, they all gossiped around Li Yuee and asked: "My dear, how much do you give as a gift? It's such a thick gift."
Li Yue'e stretched out four fingers.
"Forty?" It doesn't look like it, "Is it four hundred?"
Li Yue'e nodded.
All the aunts gasped, even Lu Guilan was not surprised.
400 yuan!
Many people have never seen so much money in their lives!
So, after Lu Changzheng proposed marriage to Su Mo, the Lu family gave a sky-high price of 400 yuan as a betrothal gift, which swept the Lujiacun brigade.
