"Educated youth comrades, we resolutely implement the party's leadership, let the educated youth comrades receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants, and enable the educated youth comrades to make great achievements in the vast land of the motherland..."
Captain Zhao spoke the clichés that are necessary every year on the stage. The old educated youths were tired of hearing it, but they had to stand obediently under the sun and listen.
Qian Li stepped on her toes, played with her braids casually, and talked to Chu Songlan: "How long will it take?"
Chu Songlan: "Listen, it's better to go to the fields and work directly for a while. If you work for a while, you will get backache."
Qian Li wanted to refute her, but she couldn't think of anything to say, because she really didn't want to work, so she had to respond in frustration.
Chu Songlan was calm. He had a medicinal field at home, and he was very familiar with working in the field.
She looked at Yunling's fair skin and handed her a pair of work gloves, "You have to buy a hat when you go back, otherwise your skin will be sunburned sooner or later."
Yunling took it, held her arm, smiled lightly and gently, "You still have experience."
When Qian Li saw it, she pouted and said with a bit of squeamishness, "Why don't you give it to me?"
Chu Songlan sighed secretly. It was his bad luck to be entangled with her. He resignedly took out the other pair he had prepared and said, "Here you go, remember to buy it back for me later."
Qian Li happily took it and shook her head, "I'm sure, I won't covet a pair of gloves from you."
See, this is the benefit of having a backer!
The captain rambled on and said a lot of seemingly encouraging words, but most people didn't listen to their hearts.
"The old educated youth have returned to their respective labor positions, and the new educated youth are following me."
Captain Zhao led the six of them to the field, pointed to the endless crops and said: "Our main food is corn, wheat and rice. The wheat has been harvested. The wheat field you were just in is a wheat field. Spring corn will be harvested in August. The harvest has been completed, and the autumn corn harvest just started not long ago, as well as the rice. Of the six of you, three will go to the corn fields and three to the rice fields. Does anyone want to sign up voluntarily?"
September to October is the time when the autumn harvest is busy. It has just begun now, so it is not too tiring. It will only feel strenuous in mid-September. These young people don’t know if they can handle it.
Yunling thought about it and decided that she would rather break the corn in the dense cornfield than bend down to harvest the rice.
"I'm going to the cornfield." Hearing her say that she wanted to go to the cornfield, Chu Silan and Qian Li quickly followed and said they were going to the cornfield too.
Captain Zhao thought for a moment and realized that the corn harvest was not busy yet, so it would be a good time for female educated youths to go there. Most of the women in their village also went to the corn fields.
"Then you three go to the rice fields, do you have any objections?"
The three men have no objections. Where are they going to work?
When Yunling and the others arrived at the cornfield, they saw Aunt Wu. She greeted her warmly and continued to break the corns one by one.
There were four teams in the cornfield, and the three female educated youths were assigned to three of them. The remaining team was led by Aunt Li, whom they had just met yesterday.
Aunt Wu was relieved when she saw this: "Fortunately, Old Zhao was still a bit thoughtful and didn't give Old Li's family any points as educated youth."
When Yunling heard that there was something going on here, she took out the sunflower seeds she had prepared in advance and gave them to Aunt Wu.
Aunt Wu was happy: "Hey, you kid is pretty good."
It turned out that this girl had peach blossom eyes, and her eyes were cold and indifferent when she wasn't smiling. I thought she was someone difficult to get along with. As a result, when I saw her smiling face today, her eyes were crooked and her water was shining. It was as if a pair of moves could capture people's soul. It made people drown in the spring water. Where could she be noble and cold? temperament.
When Yunling came yesterday, she saw a group of women eating melon seeds after work, so she took a bag of them before going to work today.
Aunt Zhao was gossiping while eating melon seeds, and her work was not left behind. "You don't know, the team of educated youths was assigned like this when they came last year. It was the team led by Lao Li, and a female educated youth was assigned to his wife's house." Team, Wang Yan was not happy at that time, yelling that the educated youth was holding her back, and also said that Lao Li Jing was looking for trouble for her. She was so angry that Lao Li's face turned red with anger, and he didn't say a word. Then what happened The female educated youth went to the second team next door, and then she was safe."
Yunling didn't know what to say, so she could only continue: "It's true that women can hold up half of the sky in this place."
She quarreled with her husband in front of outsiders, and even scolded her unilaterally. Of course Yunling admired Aunt Li's temper.
Aunt Wu was so amused by these words that she laughed so much that she quickly agreed.
"Don't tell me, except for the old Zhou family who later came from Lu Province, our Gada was not very patriarchal at first. Don't look at Wang Yan's confusion, her family still pampered her own family. Where’s the granddaughter!”
Yunling nodded. Due to the gap in the labor force these days, no matter how loud the slogans are, the old idea of favoring boys over girls is still deeply ingrained. It is rare for Aunt Li to directly criticize her husband in public.
The times are like this and it is difficult to change.
She couldn't help but wonder if there would be such a problem in the era of the system, so she asked.
The system checked some information and gave the answer: "We have a majority of interstellar brain workers, so men and women are equal in this regard, but places like military academies are still dominated by men. Although genetic changes have greatly narrowed the physical strength gap between men and women, civilization It’s hard to be influenced.”
Yunling understands this change. Absolute fairness in society is almost impossible. As long as gender differences exist, there will be no complete equality. The idea of equality between men and women will change only when women have enough influence in society to shake the status of men.
Even as an only child, she faced the phenomenon of favoring sons over daughters in school.
The insignificance of each person makes it impossible to do anything when encountering such a thing, but every change in social thought is also initiated by these insignificant people.
Yunling thought more and more deeply, but the work under her hands did not stop.
Aunt Wu would like to praise her after just one glance, "Xiaoyun educated youth, you are such a good hand at farm work!"
Yunling smiled and said nothing: That's all thanks to the system's sign-in function.
In fact, not long after she worked, Yunling was already sweating profusely. She was prone to sweating. On the one hand, she was born with it, and on the other hand, she was really weak. Her mother also treated her, but there was no obvious change.
This was not a big problem, so I ignored it.
But now Yunling felt the annoyance of sweating too much. The sweat on her forehead flowed down and hung on her eyelashes, blocking her sight. The sweat on the tip of her nose fell on her lips and she couldn't do it without wiping it off.
Coupled with the corn leaves scratching from time to time, her face felt red and itchy.
"well--"
I promised to adapt quickly, but in fact I couldn't stand it for half a day.
Yunling secretly complained about her squeamishness, wiped her sweat and continued her labor.
[Daily Task 1: Three hours of hard work has been completed. The reward is five kilograms of fine rice and 100 upgrade points, which have been automatically distributed to the host's backpack. 】
Oh, at least half a month's worth of food.
"System, do you think mental work counts as labor?" Although it was a bit of a trick, she didn't want to have to go out to work when the temperature was over 30 degrees.
System: "Forget it."
That would be easy.
Anyway, Yunling has to read at least three hours a day and complete her daily tasks.
The morning was finally over. Even with the effects of the Dali Pill, Yunling still felt a little tired. The main reason was that the sticky feeling of sweat made her uncomfortable.
The captain came to give them the rations they borrowed this year.
According to commercial grain standards, one person has 30 kilograms of grain per month, of which eight kilograms of refined grains include six kilograms of white flour and two kilograms of rice, and the rest are coarse grains, including eleven kilograms of cornmeal and potatoes.
Let's borrow them for two months. The next food distribution will have to be after the autumn harvest. But they are all newly arrived educated youths. They have only been working for a few months and they won't be able to get much. They probably have to borrow it from the brigade.
Yunling was carrying two large bags of food as if they were empty bags, making it impossible to feel that she had anything in them.
Chu Songlan went back with her and was surprised: "I really underestimate you!"
Qian Li followed the two of them slowly, her steps were frivolous, she didn't want to say anything, and she was completely without the excitement she had in the morning.
Yunling saw that she was showing signs of heatstroke and said to her: "Go to my place later to get a packet of Huoxiang powder and drink it with water when you go back."
Hearing this, Chu Silan also looked at Qian Li and nodded in agreement, "You have a bit of heatstroke. Go back and drink more water."
Qian Li couldn't even say a word of thanks. She walked between the two of them, leaning left and right.
They didn't have a stove or an iron pot. They discussed it with Sun Qian last night and decided to go to her house to bring rations for dinner in the next two days. They would go to the county to buy an iron pot on the weekend. The stove would be ready by then.
The three of them brought some extra rations and arrived at Sun Qian's house.
"I'm sorry to trouble you these days. Let's take turns cooking and washing the dishes. Do you think that's okay?" Yunling felt that she had to work since she took over someone else's pot. The food for four people was not small, and it was tiring to do it.
Sun Qian waved her hands and said that this little thing doesn't matter. She can cook for one person and four people. "Okay, if you don't come, I'll be bored by myself."
Yunling helped her pinch the cornmeal pancakes and put them on the side of the pot, then cut the potatoes into pieces and stewed them in the pot. Finally, Sun Qian went to the field behind to pick up a few handfuls of beans, washed them and threw them in.
Chu Songlan took a look at the bowl and chopsticks and said, "It's quite convenient to eat like this."
"I learned this from the villagers after I came here. I just stew it in a pot. By then, the soup of potatoes and beans has soaked into the pancake. It's delicious without dipping it in soup."
Sun Qian seemed to have a lot of experience in cooking, "Come over tonight, and I'll make a cold dish, cucumber peeling."
Qian Li recovered at this time and felt a little energetic. She asked curiously: "What is facelift?"
Sun Qian introduced it to her: "It seems to be made with potato starch. I don't know how to make it. I just change it directly with the aunts in the village. The transparent pink skin is thin but full of flavor. It is served with cucumber and garlic. At the end, it’s particularly refreshing.”
"I can't wait." Qian Li had just finished drinking the Huoxiang Powder water. Her mouth was bitter and she needed this refreshing cold dish to relieve the taste.
Sun Qian smiled and replied: "That's not possible. I don't have a facelift now. I have to get it changed after work in the afternoon."
Yunling took out a pack of mints and divided them among them, giving a few more to Qian Li.
"Hold this thing in your mouth to refresh yourself. The hottest time is in the afternoon, so you won't suffer from heatstroke if you have this."
Qian Li held them in her hands as if they were treasures, and was once again impressed by Yunling's ability.
"Why are you so powerful? It seems like you have everything."
Yunling shook her head and spread her palms, "I won't have it after dividing it. I don't take much with me when I go out. If I still want to eat, I have to make it again."
Chu Songlan looked at her and said pointedly: "If you need any medicinal materials in the future, you can tell me and I will contact you."
Yunling raised the corners of her lips, thinking that this is the right thing, cooperation is a win-win situation.
"This thing is very simple. It's hawthorn, licorice, mint leaves and maltose. It's easy to find. I won't bother you if I want to make anything else later."
Chu Songlan nodded.
Sun Qian felt a little confident when she heard their conversation, but because she wasn't familiar with the other party, she didn't say anything out loud.
Qian Li was immersed in the joy of hugging a thigh and didn't hear what they were saying at all.
After taking a nap at noon to relieve her fatigue, Yunling took some time to look at these daily tasks.
[Daily Task 1 - Three Hours of Labor: Completed]
[Daily Task 2 - Two acres of planting space farmland]
[Daily Task 3 - Breeding five poultry and livestock]
[Phase mission - Upgrade the space farm to the first level]
At present, the farm's appreciation progress bar is zero, and the detailed information shows the farm's attributes: a 20-square-meter thatched house, 10 acres of farmland, and a breeding farm capacity of 20 animals.
Yunling calculated that it would take five days to fully reach the level of farming and breeding and reach the zero level. The attributes of a first-level farm are: a 40-square-meter thatched house, 50 acres of farmland, and a breeding farm capacity of 60 Only.
There is a small line of words below the attributes. If you don't look carefully, you will 100% ignore it.
[Warm reminder: System farm crops and real agricultural products can be exchanged one-to-one, and both can be exchanged for system upgrade index for consumption. 】
In other words, real things can be brought into the system, and items produced and rewarded by the system can also be used in reality.
"Why is this written so small?"
The system felt aggrieved: "The main intelligence brain has set up regulations prohibiting inducing host consumption. This is suspected of inducing consumption."
…
Yunling sighed: "You are really rigorous."
In the evening, I finally had the legendary cucumber peel. It was as delicious as Sun Qian described. Four people ate up the whole plate, even the minced garlic.
After work, Uncle Liu, the mason, came over to build the stove for everyone as agreed, taking turns starting from Yunling at the end.
Yunling poured a bowl of cold brown sugar water for Old Uncle Liu.
Lao Liu didn't refuse, wiped the ashes on his hands and carefully picked it up to drink. After drinking it, he felt happy.
After all, this brown sugar is usually given to women and children who are in confinement. The grown men rarely drink it. The captain's family rarely brings brown sugar water to receive people.
After careful consideration, I decided to build several extra strong and heat-resistant stoves for these people to ensure that they would not leak smoke and would not collapse easily.
Seeing that the person had finished drinking, Yunling went to get another bowl, but this time Lao Liu said he didn't want to drink anymore.
"This stuff is good. You can keep it and drink it for yourself. A bowl of it will satisfy your taste."
Yunling placed the bowl on the adobe brick next to Uncle Liu and said with a smile: "This is specially used to entertain you, so don't be polite to me."
Not to mention that this cultural man was very nice to talk to, but after hearing this, Old Liu thought he was some important guest and not just here to work!
She continued: "Uncle Liu, I think your craftsmanship is very good. I wonder if you can make a wall?"
Old Liu thought to himself, is there still life?
He immediately stood up and said, "Whether it's building a house or building a wall in this village, everyone has to come to me because I work carefully and don't fool anyone."
Yunling's smile deepened: "That's just right. I also want to enclose a private plot in the backyard and build a high fence with a back door."
"Xiaoyun educated youth, don't worry. After I finish building the stove for you, I will find someone to pull bricks and build the wall for you. Leave this job to me, don't worry!" Old Liu promised, patting his chest.
"I'll rest assured if you leave it to Uncle Liu." Yunling pointed to the stove, "When I finish buying the iron pot, you can find a few people to build a wall. Then I can make meals according to the rules of the village, and the bricks of labor will naturally be given to me. of."
These days, as long as you give money, there's nothing you can't do.
Old Liu saw that she was open and bright, so naturally he had to do practical things. He thought that he would ask the son of the brick factory to pull bricks. First, he would repair the dilapidated house of Xiaoyun educated youth, and then build a high wall. This trip would make a lot of money. That’s a lot of money!
After finishing the work on the stove, he saw the tattered tiles on the roof and enthusiastically helped, "Xiaoyun educated youth, your roof tiles tend to leak. I'll go up and pick up the tiles for you."
Yunling quickly borrowed the ladder, which saved her a lot of trouble.
Before leaving, she didn't treat them badly and gave them all the remaining brown sugar.
She walked around the house, with the neat straw mats on the kang, the stove waiting to be dried, and the bright and clear windows, and gradually it began to look like it could be lived in.
