Xu Yin: "..."
Do you think raising seedlings and transplanting rice seedlings is easy?
not necessarily! not necessarily! Not really!
Especially when it comes to transplanting rice seedlings, in the early 1950s when manpower was used to transplant rice seedlings, you had to actually bend over. Once you plant the rice seedlings, you will find that your waist is no longer yours.
Besides, does she seem to be lacking in strength?
So, she slowly walked to the first group position, but no one chose her, so she took the first place.
Everyone: "..."
"Comrade Xu Yin, how about you think about it again?"
Captain Fu was afraid that she had misunderstood, so he repeated the rough division of labor among the five groups, and then said:
"You see, the first group is responsible for pioneering the entire team. The task is very heavy, so just... leave it to the male compatriots! The uncultivated wasteland, according to the fellow villagers here, is seriously hardened and overgrown. If you go down with the hoe, you might still hit rocks, so..."
"I understand." Xu Yin said, "My strength is by no means less than that of my male compatriots, don't worry!"
"..."
How does this make him feel relieved?
Look at this thin little body, it feels like it will collapse when the wind blows.
Xiao Jing has experienced Xu Yin's strong strength. She can't even carry two bulging pieces of luggage. Xu Yin can easily carry it on her shoulders. But after all, this is a girl's family. If she can pick an easy job, why not pick it? , instead of doing heavy work? She couldn't figure it out.
Captain Fu saw that Xu Yin insisted on choosing the first group, so he had to let her go.
He thought that he would suffer a lot after working for a day tomorrow. Even if he didn't say anything, Xu Yin would come to him and beg him to change the type of work, so let's do this for now.
He divided the work among the remaining young men, and then asked everyone to go back to rest.
"Comrades, that's it for today. Go back and have a good rest. Work will officially start tomorrow. No matter how hard and tired you are, you have to carry on. Do you have the confidence?"
"have!"
After they broke up, Xiao Jing took Xu Yin and Huang Xiaohong and returned to Fang's house together.
"Actually, I don't have much confidence." Huang Xiaohong said with concern. "When I think about going to the ground, my hands and feet go numb. I heard that there are leeches in the ground that can suck human blood. Is it true?"
Xu Yin nodded: "There are leeches in the rice fields, but it's still early to transplant the rice seedlings. The fields haven't been planted yet, so your five groups should arrange to raise seedlings first."
Xiao Jing asked doubtfully: "Xu Yin, have you ever farmed? How come you know everything?"
Xu Yin smiled and said nothing, saying to herself that the land my sister has planted is more than the food you have eaten!
"Oops!" Suddenly, Huang Xiaohong slapped her forehead, "I forgot to ask the captain when the rations would be distributed. I only brought a few days of dry food, and I almost had enough to eat on the train."
Xiao Jing didn't bring much rations: "But my father asked someone to exchange a few national food stamps and gave them to me. If it doesn't work, I'll use my food stamps to exchange for some rice and noodles with my fellow villagers."
Xu Yin said: "You don't need to find a fellow villager, I will take care of you."
After returning, she took out the rice bag, grabbed two handfuls of brown rice, and took out a sweet potato: "I'm going to cook brown rice porridge tonight and simmer a sweet potato. Let's share it among the three of us. Do you think it's okay?"
"Okay!" Xiao Jing responded happily, and then gave Xu Yin a food stamp, "I can't take advantage of you."
Huang Xiaohong blushed and said, "I, I don't have food stamps."
"It doesn't matter, let's eat first!"
"Yes! I got the rations later, and it's the same thing when I give them back to Xu Yin."
The three of them agreed and started to divide the work to cook.
The food is in place, but where is the cooking stove?
"I brought a clay pot with me to make porridge." Xu Yin took out an old clay pot from her bag that had been used in some small world.
Xiao Jing and Huang Xiaohong looked at each other in surprise and said in unison: "Xu Yin, why have you even considered this? No wonder your luggage is so heavy."
"No matter where you are, no matter what you do, you have to eat, right? People are like iron rice and steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will starve!"
"Hahaha! That's right!" Xiao Jing said with a smile, "I'm going to ask Aunt Fang for a stove eye."
"Not only do we have to borrow stove burners, but we also have to borrow bundles of firewood. We can't use theirs in vain," Xu Yin said.
Huang Xiaohong slumped her shoulders dejectedly: "Why do you even need to borrow firewood? How can you pay back this borrowed money?"
"Cut it down and pay it back!" Xu Yin and Xiao Jing said in unison.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Huang Xiaohong curled her lips. This was so different from what she had imagined. She even regretted signing up for the reclamation team.
Xu Yin and Xiao Jing had no time to care about her mood. One went to Aunt Fang to borrow firewood for the stove to cook porridge and simmered sweet potatoes, and the other borrowed a hatchet and went out to chop firewood.
When Aunt Fang saw Xu Yin, a delicate girl, going out carrying a hatchet, she twitched the corner of her mouth and couldn't help but said worriedly: "Xiao Xu, you must hold it tight, don't hit your foot. I say Forget about a bundle of firewood. Anyway, we still have enough firewood at home, so let my eldest son chop it down tomorrow."
Xu Yin smiled and said, "It's okay. I just want to get familiar with the surrounding environment. Madam, please go back to the house. It's cold outside. I'll be back soon."
What the people in the village call cutting firewood is actually cutting weeds on the wasteland.
Hewozitun is quite far from the mountains, but very close to the river.
A large open river winds through Tunkou, like a silver ribbon on the boundless wasteland, glowing with waves in the sun.
Xu Yin raised her hand to cover her forehead, squinting at the desolate and deserted land in front of her.
It’s the end of March, and the ground is still frozen, the grass and trees are still withered, and the winter insects are still stiff...
The cold spring scenery is as cold as an ink painting, which is completely different from the pleasant peach red willows and green willows in the south of the Yangtze River. This made her sigh with emotion at the magic of nature——
We are all under the same sky. Some places have not yet left the embrace of winter, while some places have already begun to enjoy the enthusiasm of summer...
Suddenly, a cheerful bright yellow flashed across her eyes. That was - a roe deer?
The silly roe deer unique to Northeast China?
Xu Yin's heart moved.
After a while, she had a Taoyuan Star Deer beast in her hand that looked like a wild roe deer.
She had grilled and eaten the meat of deer beasts when she was in Taoyuan Star. It tasted great. At that time, she hunted a few of them and stored them in the system warehouse because they were so delicious. She didn't expect that they would come in handy now.
However, there are not many weeds.
She didn't care. With this "roe deer", how much firewood could not be exchanged? The key is to be able to eat meat openly. Kaisen!
"Ah! Xu Yin! What is that in your hand?"
"Is this a deer?"
"It does look like a deer."
As soon as he entered the village, many members of the land reclamation team gathered around him.
They also came out to collect firewood.
With the help of the villagers' houses, we had to ask them to borrow cooking pots and stoves. We couldn't borrow them in vain, so we went out together to collect some firewood to repay the favor.
Unexpectedly, just after leaving the village, I saw Xu Yin walking towards me, holding a wild deer that seemed to have just fainted. Her eyes were red with envy:
"Xu Yin, where did you catch him?"
"Are there any deer to hunt around here?"
"Is it because the winter is too long and they are too hungry that they come out to look for food?"
"Xu Yin can hunt it, then let's..."
Xu Yin: "..."
Brother who said the last sentence, are you polite?
(End of chapter)
