The sixth squad leader was also in his forties, and Lin Qingyan addressed him as "uncle".

"Alright, come with me to the field."

Yi Zhiheng, who was assigned to the third squad, kept his eyes on the direction Lin Qingyan left with after she turned around and followed the sixth squad leader, as if he was paying special attention to the direction they left in.

Seeing that the sixth squad leader looked unhappy, the brigade leader was afraid that he would make things difficult for Lin Qingyan in the fields, so he quickly ran up to him and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Sixth Brother, let me tell you, don't look down on this girl. You know what? Our baby hasn't been eating well lately, but this girl found out it had worms in its stomach and even sent me to the animal station to deworm it. Now our baby is eating grass with gusto. This girl is a real hero in our team."

"Oh? Really!"

The sixth squad leader was quite surprised: "Wow, she's so capable!" This immediately improved his mood: "Alright, for our precious one's sake, I can't look down on her."

"That's right, that's right."

The sixth squad leader called out to Lin Qingyan, "Come with me."

"Okay, Uncle."

Halfway there, the sixth squad leader asked Lin Qingyan again, "Little girl, you're so thin, can you do the work in the fields? Every time a new educated youth goes to work in the fields, they complain about this and that, and they cry and want to go home before they're done for a day."

"Uncle, I don't know if I can handle it. Although I'm physically weak, I will do my best to persevere. I know farming is not easy, but what isn't hard work? Since I've come here, I'm prepared to contribute to our agriculture. Uncle, you don't need to worry about me."

She is indeed in poor health and certainly cannot be compared with those normal people, but she cannot use her physical weakness to get the squad leader to change her job.

If she speaks up, the squad leader might think she's trying to avoid hard work and is saying it on purpose, which would definitely leave a bad impression on him.

Instead, she pushed forward with all her might, showing the squad leader her spirit of not being afraid of hardship or fatigue and daring to fight.

In this way, the impression left will be different.

Even if she really can't handle the hard work in the fields, she can change to another job later, and no one can say anything about her.

After all, she did her best.

"You, a young educated youth, are so enlightened. Unlike some people who know that working in the fields is not easy, they pretend to be dizzy or sick. You are much better than them. Knowing that you are not in good health, you still try your best to do your job well. You are too honest."

As they talked, they walked into the field, which was now lush and green with corn, cotton, sorghum, soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes.

As for rice, it's not grown here because there are no paddy fields here; it's grown in other teams' fields.

The sixth squad leader said, "Young educated youth, the main tasks now are to weed these crops, catch insects and prune the cotton plants, or turn over the sweet potato vines. Which one do you want to do?"

Lin Qingyan never expected that the squad leader would take such good care of her.

"Uncle, I'm not picky. Just tell me where you need me and assign me there. I'm willing to do any job."

The sixth squad leader sighed inwardly, "What an obedient little girl."

He pointed to a cotton field: "Are you afraid of bugs? If you're not, then catch the bugs for the cotton. It's much easier than weeding and pruning. Do you want to do it?"

"Uncle, I'm not afraid of bugs." She wasn't even afraid of mice, let alone tiny bugs.

“I’ll give you an acre of land first. Once you finish it, I’ll give you five work points. Other new educated youths also get the same amount when they first arrive. Let’s see when you can finish it, or how much you can do in a day.”

"Okay, Uncle."

The squad leader took a glass medicine bottle from his large pocket and handed it to Lin Qingyan.

"This is a washed medicine bottle, it's no longer poisonous. Put the bugs you caught in here, and give them to me after work so I can feed them to my chickens when I get home."

Lin Qingyan took the empty glass medicine bottle: "Uncle, give it to me. I'll give you all the bugs I caught after I finish work."

"Okay, okay, then."

She gave Lin Qingyan some pointers on how to catch insects and then left. Lin Qingyan followed her instructions and started catching insects in the field.

By this time, the cotton plants had grown very tall, almost reaching her chest. Even so, she noticed that the tips of the cotton plants had been pinched off; if they hadn't been pinched, they would have grown even taller.

After searching for two minutes, she spotted a large green worm on the stamen of a flower, caught it, and put it in the medicine bottle.

After finding one plant, move on to the next.

This job is actually quite easy.

She was so engrossed in catching insects that she didn't notice a dirty, ragged-looking villager walking towards her from the edge of the field. He was none other than Er Laizi, a notorious scoundrel in the village.

Erlaizi had just been weeding and turning over sweet potato vines in the sweet potato field when he complained of a stomachache and wanted to go to the cotton field not far away to relieve himself.

I just wanted to squat in the cotton field, rest for a while, and cool off.

He had just reached the edge of the cotton field when he saw Lin Qingyan, who was catching insects in the cotton field with her head down.

Although Lin Qingyan looked sickly, Er Laizi immediately noticed her beauty because of her good looks.

They are much better than the women in their village.

This must be a newly arrived female educated youth.

She's quite pretty and petite; if he wanted to do something to her, she probably wouldn't be able to resist.

As Erlaizi thought this, his heart began to itch, and he really wanted to go and make contact with them right now.

After work, he would intercept her on the way home and tease her, or find a secluded spot and pin her down to have some fun.

But after thinking about it, he suppressed that thought.