Early the next morning, before dawn, the family home was bustling with activity.
The military wives did not cook this morning. They brought some dry food to eat while walking. They all went out early, carrying hoes and shovels on their backs.
They had been working for half an hour, but the talents from the art troupe were belatedly arriving, and everyone was trying to force a smile.
Seeing them coming, they didn't do anything. They all stood at the edge of the field and worked hard. Jiang Yaping said loudly: "Deputy Commander Li, Political Commissar Zhao has already told us that the cultural troupe will come to help us with spring plowing this time and will also mark the land for everyone." area.”
"There are a total of fifty acres of land here. The families of our first regiment are responsible for this area, the second regiment is next door, the third regiment is responsible for the ten acres to the east, and the twenty acres to the south belong to the cultural troupe. They must be plowed within three days."
"A flag has been erected in the field to the south. Please lead everyone to work quickly."
"The land ahead is plowing. No one needs to give guidance. You plow the land first. When you go back to plant and fertilize, I will come over and teach them how to do it."
Deputy Captain Li twitched his face, and there was a hint of forcedness in his smile: "Okay, I'll take them over to dig the ground first, and I'll have to trouble my sister-in-law to give them some guidance later."
"We belong to the same army, and we are all a family. We should help each other, unite and be friendly. This time, the military wives are very grateful to the art troupe for their help." Jiang Yaping shouted loudly.
Gong Linglong looked back at the people in the art troupe and saw that Meng Xiaoying's face was particularly gloomy. The expressions of the others were as ugly as eating dead flies. She looked at Yang Xiaolan next to her and was very happy to suppress her laughter.
There were a total of fifty acres of land, and the art troupe was divided into twenty acres. The pressure on the military family members dropped sharply, and they started working one by one with great enthusiasm. They just wanted to finish the work quickly and go home to rest.
"Miss Linglong is really a good worker."
Wang Yumiao is the slowest among all the family members in farm work. She works slowly but carefully. In addition, she is carrying a baby on her back. She has to urinate, feed and coax her at one time, so she has fallen behind. A lot.
Gong Linglong didn't want to take care of the children, and didn't have any other messy things to do. He just kept working hard with a hoe, throwing everyone away.
Wang Yumiao glanced at the fields to the south and saw that the people in the art troupe were all working as foreign workers. With so many people working together, the total land they turned was not as much as Gong Linglong's alone. She chuckled: "They will be ready in three days." I can’t finish it.”
"If you can't finish the work, just continue. Anyway, they must finish what is assigned to them. It delays the time of planting seeds and fertilizing, and they are the ones who get scolded."
Yu Ximei has been paying attention to the progress in the south. The way they are working, they will definitely be scolded today. Her husband told her that the leaders will come to check in the afternoon, but she will not remind the people in the art troupe to work more seriously. .
None of the family members in their group were cheaters. People like Wang Yumiao, who worked slower, were not criticized by anyone. She did not mean to slow down her work, but she had no choice but to take care of her children.
Everyone has been through it and knows that there are many trivial things involved in giving birth and raising a child, so everyone has a tacit understanding to help with more tasks.
With Gong Linglong, an expert at work, the First Regiment completed the task early today and finished work before eleven o'clock and went home. Not to mention the people in the Art Troupe were dumbfounded, and even the military wives of the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment were stimulated to speed up. Work speed.
Meng Xiaoying saw from a distance that the group had finished work, and Gong Linglong took the lead in striding home with a hoe and a big knife. Her resentment and depression were all solidified.
This was the first time she had done farm work, the first time she touched a hoe. Thinking of being tricked by these country bumpkin peasant women into digging the soil for farming, she had five or six blisters on her hands in one morning, and she became so angry that her face turned livid and her whole body Resentment was brewing from top to bottom.
Not only was she full of resentment, but others were too, but they didn't dare to show it.
Yesterday, they were waiting in the regiment for the military wives to make a fool of themselves at the cultural performance a month later. This morning, when Captain Xue informed them to cooperate with the spring plowing, everyone was dumbfounded.
They didn't want to do farm work, but this was an order from above and the entire art troupe had to participate. They had to suspend their work and honestly went to get hoes and tools to dig and turn the soil.
At this time, each of them was as depressed as if they had eaten dead flies. They had not yet seen the military wives making a fool of themselves, but it was their turn to be laughed at first.
"Hurry up and work quickly."
Deputy Captain Li also went to dig the soil himself. He led five or six male comrades to take charge of a piece of land. They worked at a decent speed.
He took some time to come and see the progress of the female comrades. He saw them working slowly, digging and resting for two or three minutes. After a whole morning, they were not as good as the pregnant women among the military wives. He was ashamed on the spot.
"Didn't any of you eat?"
"Everyone else has called it a day and gone home. You can only do so much. At this speed, how can you complete the task in three days?"
"If the spring plowing task cannot be completed in time, which will affect subsequent sowing, fertilizing and harvesting, can you afford the consequences?"
After being reprimanded by the leader, everyone was full of grievances. One of the lesbians said sweetly: "Deputy Captain Li, we have never done farm work. We are so tired that our hands have blisters."
"You haven't done it before, so you think I have done it. You are tired, but I am not."
Deputy Commander Li was actually very tired. After working all morning, his hands were sore and numb.
Thinking that they had brought this mission on themselves, they said with a straight face: "You should rehearse honestly in the regiment and do your job well. Don't go out and meddle in other people's business. Don't do small tricks behind your back. There is no need to come here to suffer." ?"
His words broke some people's faces. Although he didn't mention her by name, everyone knew in their hearts that he was talking about Meng Xiaoying.
It was not Meng Xiaoying who proposed this social performance with the military wives, but everyone knew very well that she was behind the idea and was proposed by someone who was close to her and supported her. She had nothing to do with it.
Deputy Captain Li glanced at Meng Xiaoying lightly. Seeing that she lowered her head and said nothing and did not work, his tone became more serious: "I must complete one-third of the tasks today. If I don't complete it, I will have to work overtime at night." Once this is done, these twenty acres of land must be plowed within three days, and we must not disgrace the art troupe."
One-third of the task was to complete seven acres of land. There were nearly twenty of them, and they worked up to two acres of land in one morning.
Still far from completing the mission.
Thinking about having to work overtime tonight, one of them felt aggrieved and cried.
The person next to them who had a bad temper and couldn't get along with them couldn't help but scolded, "Why are you crying? You are shooting yourself in the foot. How can you cry? We are inexplicably hurt by you and we don't even cry."
After saying that, she ran over to find the leader, "Deputy Commander Li, let me make a suggestion. Can you divide the tasks so that we can be divided into teams and each do our own thing?"
"Okay, I'll share it now."
Deputy leader Li took her advice and immediately came over with a hoe to equally divide the seven acres of land to be completed today.
In the end, Meng Xiaoying and Xu Wei were the two other teams with whom they had the best relationship. Their team completed the least amount in the morning. They worked overtime in the fields at noon and did not go back to the canteen to eat. They washed each one with boiling water. Wearing steamed buns to cushion your stomach.
