The fifth day of June is the first day of busy farming.
It was already very bright outside at around five o'clock, and breakfast was cabbage buns. Liu Yufeng admired Zhao Chunhua very much. She got up early every day to make breakfast and left work early to make lunch. Day after day, year after year, tirelessly.
Wang Jianying was in charge of the dinner, and Liu Yufeng would help in the past. I am so tired now that I want to lie down when I get home. How can I still have the energy to cook and cook?
After breakfast, everyone in the Wang family went out.
The sky has just turned white, and there is no animal smell mixed in. It is pure and refreshing, like an ink painting filled with the fragrance of grass.
The willow trees by the river lowered their heads, softly accepting the shower of morning light; the tall poplar trees were like the outstretched arms of a strong young man; the grass revealed a faint greenness from the moisture.
What a lovely summer morning, if only I didn't have to work.
Unfortunately, both June and July are busy farming periods. As the old saying goes: When you are in ambush, keep your hands on the hoe.
The early rice in the field has matured. From a distance, it looks like it has been covered with a golden carpet, so heavy that the stalks bend down.
Liu Yufeng bent over, holding a sickle in one hand and grabbing the wheat stalk with the other hand to cut hard. I have to say, this job is really tiring.
No, it should be said that there is no life that is not tiring. Every moment here feels like a year. Of course, she is not the only one who is tired. Everyone who works is also tired. After all, they are humans, not machines.
Liu Yufeng thought of the wheat-cutting artifact - Lurzi. It is said that Lurzi can be traced back to the Song Dynasty and was widely popularized in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, the Da'an production team does not seem to have this thing.
The plunderer is an improvement on the scythe. Its harvesting efficiency is 5 times that of the scythe. If one person can harvest one acre of land with a sickle, then one person can easily harvest ten acres of land with a plunderer.
The key problem is that Liu Yufeng is illiterate, let alone a technician. If you give an opinion rashly, you will definitely be regarded as a lunatic. For several days in a row, she had been thinking about how she could commit a crime naturally without being suspected.
After eating and resting this evening, people in the village like to chat under the big banyan tree and go to work the night shift when the horn sounds.
Suddenly, the melodious sound of the harmonica came from the distance. Everyone turned their heads and saw Su Mingli helplessly playing the harmonica under the entanglement of several educated youths.
The sound of the piano is melodious and pleasant, as if a cool breeze blows through my heart.
Under the setting sun, the young man was wearing a white shirt and leaning on a tree with his eyes closed. All the girls and wives were fascinated by this, including Zhao Jiaojiao and Wang Jianying.
Wang Jianying originally insisted on marrying a city man and eating commercial food, but at this moment, she admitted that she had fallen.
Su Mingli is good-looking and gives people an aura that can only be viewed from a distance but not played with. I have been here for several days, but apart from the educated youth and the captain, I have never spoken to any other villagers.
But Wang Jianying is a tiger, so she immediately walked over and asked him what the name of the song was? She loved it.
"Farewell." Unexpectedly, Su Mingli answered her.
"It turns out you are not so cold." Wang Jianying sighed.
"Aloof? No, no, no, I just came here and I don't understand what you are talking about? But you speak Mandarin very well."
"I often go to educated youth spots, maybe I've heard too much."
"So that's it."
The two briefly said a few words and then separated. When Wang Jianying returned to the team, many people gathered around and asked her what she said.
Wang Jianying didn't hide it, but said that Su Zhiqing didn't understand what the villagers said when he first arrived, so he rarely said hello.
"Your British girl is so brave." Sun Guixiang raised her eyebrows at Liu Yufeng, with a mixture of envy and ridicule in her eyes.
Speaking of which, all the young girls in the production team blushed and couldn't open their mouths when they met someone from another village, let alone chatting with educated youths.
Wang Jianying is different. She can talk and laugh, can get along well with everyone, and has a good reputation in and outside the village. As I grew up in the past two years, there were a lot of people coming to propose marriage, not only from their production team, but also from other production teams.
This was the reason why she firmly believed that she could marry a city man. Unfortunately, she was still too young when she met Su Mingli, a pretty boy.
When Zhao Jiaojiao saw this scene, she was so jealous that she turned away and cried.
However, no one except Liu Yufeng knew that all this was part of Su Mingli's plan. My grandfather died of illness, my parents were deported, and my sister is missing. Under such circumstances, what is love?
After that night, Wang Jianying often went to see Su Mingli. Su Mingli was polite to her, sometimes close and sometimes distant, which made her feel like a girl.
The accident happened on the night of June 15th. The wind was blowing very hard in the evening. Everyone put the wheat into the big vat and covered it to avoid getting wet by the heavy rain.
Half an hour later, thunder rumbled and heavy rain poured in. The raindrops fell on the ground and splashed with water, which was like small fountains.
The Educated Youth Camp was built on a low-lying site, and the eaves leaked. As hard as it rained outside, it rained hard inside the house. What was even more frightening was that the river rose and spread directly into the house, with the water level reaching above the knees.
Captain Zhao received the educated youth's request for help and quickly took people to his and the house of Lao Ma next door, and waited until daybreak to find a way to repair it.
It rained all night, and the captain held a meeting with everyone the next day. The educated youth spot collapsed and no one could live there, so we had to arrange to live with villagers.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they all expressed that they couldn't live in their homes. However, there are also people who are willing to let educated youths come to their homes, especially old bachelors, who want female educated youths by name. The calculation is loud and clear.
"You come to my house and live with my daughter." Liu Yufeng said looking at the short-haired girl who was left behind.
The girl's name was Liu Jingwen. The family valued boys over girls. The parents were reluctant to let their two sons endure hardship, so they forced their daughter to go to the countryside.
Liu Jingwen is very beautiful, with dark hair and big and bright eyes. In the original plot, Captain Zhao arranged for her to go to the home of Mr. Zhao. That family had a stupid son who couldn't get a wife, and the result was predictable.
On the third day after arriving at Zhao's house, she was violated by a fool, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a child, losing her freedom. From the heroine's perspective, Liu Jingwen is also a villain because she seduces men everywhere.
"You don't have an empty room at home, so come to my house. I have an empty room at home, so you don't have to squeeze in with others." Zhao Laosi's wife said with a smile.
"Thank you, aunt. I'd better sleep with Jianying. I'm familiar with her." Liu Jingwen spoke in a gentle voice, and Zhao Lao's fourth daughter-in-law continued to persuade her.
"Girl, please think carefully. Jianying and his second son live in the same room. He and his two siblings are nothing. It's very inconvenient for you, a yellow-flowered girl."
"This -" Liu Jingwen bit her lip and was worried.
"How big of a deal is it? If the second son said that he is a boy, why don't we just let him lay the floor in the hall? It's only a matter of a few days, not three to five years."
"Then I'll trouble Auntie."
"Okay, hurry up and get all your things, little sister, why don't you help me quickly!"
After the meeting, Liu Jingwen checked into Wang's house with her large and small bags. Before she could finish cleaning up, the loudspeaker started urging people to get to work.
Wang Jianping doesn't care how many people there are in his family, but Wang Jian'an is different, because the arrival of this woman means that he has to lay the floor! Therefore, they don't like each other everywhere.
