Wang Ke escaped from the farm clinic and ran to the cooking class in a blink of an eye.
Zhou Daguang, the cooking squad leader, was worried. He had boiled water and no one was delivering it, because it took more than an hour to go back and forth. Shouted: "Wang Ke, you didn't come here to find a job, did you?"
When Wang Ke saw Zhou Daguang's expression, he immediately said, "I know you are short-handed, so I'm here to help you deliver boiling water."
Zhou Daguang was not polite, and immediately filled two buckets of boiling water, took a ladle with him, and covered the buckets with a piece of cloth. Only then did he watch Wang Ke carrying a load of boiling water towards the hemp field.
Ma Tei is less than 3 kilometers away from the station, and it still took more than half an hour to walk with a load of boiling water. Strangely, Wang Ke didn't sweat.
The boiled water was delivered to the field. Company Commander Bearded Tian saw Wang Ke coming with boiled water from a distance, and immediately shouted: "The whole company will take a 20-minute break and come drink boiled water."
Seventy or eighty people from the whole company ran over together, and more than half of a load of boiling water weighing one hundred kilograms was removed in the blink of an eye. Wang Ke picked up the sickle and walked towards the area where the command platoon was responsible.
"Come back, come back, Wang Ke, what are you doing?" the bearded company commander shouted behind him.
"I'll help us line up and chop the hemp stalks for a while."
"No, no, no, don't you see? Everyone in your command platoon is as if they have been given a shot of chicken blood. The least people do the most work. We are in a competition now. If you want to kill, help our company headquarters and driver squad to kill. Bar."
"Okay then! I'll help you chop for an hour, and then I'll help our command platoon chop for another hour."
"You are so beautiful, you are only allowed to chop for ten minutes." Company Commander Bearded Tian said.
"Ten minutes is too short, I didn't even break a sweat." Wang Ke was bargaining.
Instructor Ding came over at this time and said to Wang Ke: "If you want to stay with us to help, I will arrange a job for you and make sure the company commander agrees."
"What kind of job?" Wang Ke became excited upon hearing this.
"You just sit here and help us sharpen our knives. If the knives are sharpened well, we will be able to work smoothly. How about it? Do you want to do it?"
"I'll do it, I'll do it!"
The bearded company commander knew that Wang Ke was a restless person, so it was almost impossible for him to stay in his room and rest. So he acquiesced to Instructor Ding's proposal.
Wang Ke stayed and set up a stall on the edge of the field to sharpen his knife.
In fact, sharpening a sickle is also a delicate job. As the saying goes, "Ten positive strokes, eight negative strokes, grind from top to bottom." It seems like a simple thing to sharpen a crescent-shaped sickle well, but some people get better at sharpening their knives. The blunter it is, some people sharpen the sickle as fast as the wind.
Wang Ke quickly polished a batch, and in the blink of an eye the person disappeared. The bearded company commander shouted loudly: "Wang Ke, where are you running to again?"
Wang Ke responded from the front: "Report to the company commander, I am here. Let me try to see if the knife can be sharpened quickly?"
"Come back! Sharpen my knife."
Wang Ke hurriedly came back from running and played with the sickle. Although he had never been in the countryside seriously, his brain responded quickly and he was good at summarizing and observing, such as cutting rice! It is more difficult to cut than wheat. Most people cut it with a knife, a handful at a time, but Wang Ke cut it with one knife, turning his hand behind him like a grinder, and cut out a bunch with his backhand and hook with the knife, which is a bundle. It can cut three to five meters horizontally.
There are some plots of land on the farm that are not suitable for mechanization. The reason why Company Commander Bearded Field agreed with him to join the commando team to cut rice is because ordinary laborers can cut an acre of land in a day, which means they are fast. What about Wang Ke? At most, two to two acres of land can be cut in one day.
Later on, when the machinery is too busy, the whole company comes in and does the cutting manually. Most of the rice fields on the division's farm are endless mechanized fields, which are seven to eight hundred meters long. In the commando team, Wang Ke was also the first to cut to the end, and then returned to help his comrades. Therefore, during the autumn harvest period, he was the most active person and the most popular person. Some patients often like to be next to Wang Ke, because there will always be help in the end.
"Company Commander, please use my knife first. I will sharpen your knife now."
With Wang Ke's help, the whole company's speed suddenly became faster. Almost everyone kept coming to Wang Ke to sharpen their knives. In the next more than an hour, Wang Ke couldn't even remember how many knives he sharpened. Clear.
Hemp grown in hemp fields is rarely seen by people nowadays. At that time, this cash crop was still relatively popular. Its scientific name is Amaranth, a herbaceous plant belonging to the Malvaceae family. It grows taller than weeds, the tallest can reach two meters. It is planted in spring and harvested in autumn. Looking from a distance, it can be seen swaying in the wind. There is a layer of fine hair on the stems, branches and leaves. The leaves have serrations, small yellow flowers, and a disc-shaped fruit. The dark brown seeds are smaller than mung beans.
Peel off its bark fibers, process and rub them into strands, which can be used to weave hemp ropes or directly woven into curtains, which are strong and beautiful. In ancient times, people also used it to make linen clothes.
During lunch, Company Commander Bearded Tian found the platoon leader Hu Zhijun of the command platoon.
"Wang Ke can't sit still. It's almost impossible for him to rest at home. Just let him sharpen his sword with us." Company Commander Bearded Tian suggested.
"Company Commander, can you agree to his signing up to join the Qizhong Commando Team?"
"What do you think? Is it okay if I don't agree? But whether I can let him go in the end depends on his health."
The cooking class delivered the rice to the field. During the meal break, Wang Ke ran to the cooking class. First, he helped to prepare vegetables and meals. After he finished eating, he ran to help everyone fetch water to wash the dishes.
When he walked to the river, Wang Ke took advantage of the fact that no one was around and lifted up his clothes. He saw that a layer of skin had really begun to peel off from his chest to his belly. After the skin peeled off, a lot of red rashes appeared.
Wang Ke picked up his two sleeves and two trouser legs again, only to see that the skin flakes were gone, and the red rash on his arms and calves had obviously subsided, and it seemed that the itching was really gone. Hey, that medicine really works.
He thought of Wu Xiangyu and touched his pocket. The tube of medicine was still there.
He stared into the distance, trying hard to capture the scene where he and Wu Xiangyu were together, but unfortunately he didn't. He closed his eyes and imagined, but still couldn't. But why could I immediately see that scene when I smelled her body fragrance when I was in the field clinic, but why can't I find it now? Is it that her perception ability is not strong enough, or that she will have too few interactions with him in the future? In addition, under what circumstances can I see those past or future scenes? There are still no rules and it is completely natural and uncontrollable.
It would be great if you could look at whoever you want to see and feel whatever you want to feel.
There is another thing that scares Wang Ke. So far, except for the abdominal cramps, he has not experienced what the black pill spit out from the mouth of the big toad will be like after he swallows it. Is it a natural talent, or how does it help with your own sensory abilities? Completely unknown. Some of the scenes I see now are still the effects of the old Chinese medicine practitioner in Anseong.
If that black elixir is just to prolong life and strengthen the body, it would be too far away for me to actually use this black elixir now that I am still very young.
In fact, Wang Ke's swallowing of the black pill was completely driven by a communication between him and the toad. He did not expect that he would be of any help to him, such as opening up his two channels of Ren and Du, and then having a unique skill in the world. .
Thinking of this, Wang Ke put down his sleeves and trouser legs, picked up two full buckets of water, and walked towards the hemp field.
This hemp field is so big that if you look around, you can see that the company has only harvested a corner today. According to this progress, it will take at least three to five days. The harvester is of no use, and it may all be cut down by hand.
After lunch and a short rest, the company continued to chop hemp stalks in this hemp field.
Wang Ke continued to sharpen his knife in the field.
The late autumn sun is still quite poisonous, and it’s still quite hot when it shines on your body.
At first, Wang Ke didn't notice that everyone in the company was sweating profusely and their clothes were soaked, but Wang Ke didn't sweat at all, including the fact that he had just walked for more than half an hour carrying the load of boiling water. Along the way, including when I went to test the knife just now, I didn’t even sweat.
This makes Wang Ke a little embarrassed. There is no sweat on his body, which makes people mistakenly think that you don't have to work hard to sharpen the knife, so you don't sweat.
In fact, it was very laborious for Wang Ke to sharpen the knife. His upper body was always moving in tandem, like a piston. Both hands were also very sore, and there were several blisters on the palms.
Wang Ke can't remember which philosopher said: More suffering and less happiness are inevitable in life, being able to suffer and be happy is the calmness of life, and turning suffering into happiness is the detachment of the wise.
No matter what happens in this life, it is better to have fun secretly than to frown.
Those who help others are happy, and those who suffer themselves are happy. Suffering is a challenge, and happiness is the result. There is joy in suffering, happiness in suffering, suffering and happiness are always the hurdles that you need to overcome. It depends on how you deal with it and how you choose?
Slowly, Wang Ke noticed the difference in himself, and the itching on his body disappeared.
Are my sweat pores closed? Why don't I sweat? Didn't he swallow that black pill and turn into a cold-blooded animal? Although toads are not cold-blooded animals, they are just like snakes and always hide in dark corners.
Wang Ke thought for a moment, feeling a little scared.
He prayed to himself: Never, never turn yourself into a cold-blooded animal.
The sun quickly set behind the horizon, and the sky above Baiyangdian was bright red in the sunset. The autumn wind passed by, and everyone felt a chill. The weather in late autumn is like this. It's cold in the morning and evening, hot at noon, and you need to light a fire in the middle of the night.
However, Wang Ke suddenly found that he was not afraid of the cold, just like he was not afraid of the heat just now. A set of shirts and underpants inside, and a single military uniform outside. At this moment, I touched my hand again and it was hot.
"I don't have a fever again, do I?" He put the back of his hand on his forehead, his body temperature was normal. Too many things have happened these days. I accidentally took an overdose of traditional Chinese medicine and swallowed the toad's black pill. As a result, I developed a 42-degree fever, secreted dark greasy skin, and now have peeling skin and rashes. , could it be that I am reborn...
Wang Ke didn't dare to think any further.
