It's a pity that Shen Mu Ning is too young and doesn't want to be her family's daughter-in-law right now.

Otherwise, she would definitely have caught him.

"We're almost all here, let's start collecting our shares now!"

Time slipped away, and dawn broke.

Having arrived at the mission location assigned to his team early on, Gu Xiangyang, who was waiting there, didn't want to wait any longer.

Let's assign tasks to the people who arrive first.

Otherwise, if we wait any longer, who knows how much longer it will take?

We need to start harvesting the rice early, otherwise it will get hot once the sun comes out.

Working in the fields is not so comfortable.

I didn't see that when their brigade was harvesting in the autumn, the tasks were assigned yesterday afternoon.

Even the mobilization meeting that was supposed to be held today was canceled.

This is because the captain and his team didn't want to waste this time in the morning.

So he simply stopped coming on time.

Anyway, they keep track of the rice harvest area based on the area of ​​rice harvested by each person.

"Alright, let's spread out for now!"

Upon hearing this, the representatives of the hardworking women in the brigade who were standing next to Li Guihua all loudly agreed.

It's cool now, so they'll work a little longer.

Once the sun rises and the temperature increases, we can rest a little longer.

So the first team members dispersed around a large paddy field.

Of course, there were also Li Guihua and Hongmei, who were with Shen Muling.

They were all very perceptive and stayed away from her.

Anyway, they all knew without asking Shen Mu Ning how many centimeters she was assigned to do.

After all, whenever there is such a large-scale agricultural task, she would first try it out by wearing a 10-centimeter-long top.

After harvesting the ten-centimeter-long ones, she will go to the squad leader to receive her task, depending on her speed and the time around noon.

So without even asking, everyone tacitly cleared out the rice paddies for her.

Regardless of what others speculated, Gu Xiangyang still needed to find out exactly how many centimeters Shen Mu Ning was going to work on today.

“Shen Zhiqing, you…”

"Let's start with ten centimeters!"

Actually, she didn't know how the centimeters for harvesting rice were calculated now.

So she directly asked the squad leader to write down the task of 10 centimeters for her.

She only needs to look at the starting point of her task to know how much work she needs to do.

Gu Xiangyang heard what she said and counted the number of rows of rice again.

Yes, that's good. The aunties in our brigade really understand Shen Zhiqing.

The amount of rice left for her was exactly ten centimeters.

If Li Guihua and the others knew what he was thinking, they would definitely look down on him first.

In other words, he, as the squad leader, never worked in front of the female comrades.

Looking at the records in their notebooks, they had no idea how oppressive and shocking Shen Mu Ning was.

Even though she hadn't worked for several days, the topics of conversation between them remained unchanged.

Her speed of work and her dashing figure will always remain in their hearts.

It's something I can't forget, even if I want to.

"Okay, your starting points are here and here."

Gu Xiangyang gestured to show Shen Mu Ning the location so she could see it clearly.

Only after seeing her nod did they continue walking forward to record the tasks assigned to others.

Shen Mu Ning first asked Li Guihua:

"Aunt Guihua, how are we going to collect this?"

She knew of two methods: one was to harvest only the rice ears, and the other was to harvest them at the base.

The main reason is that she doesn't know what's used to remove the grains from the rice stalks in this day and age.

Therefore, it's difficult to predict how they intend to harvest the crops.

Although she also had memories of the original owner returning to the countryside, she herself had not participated in it and therefore knew very little about it.

"We'll just harvest them right up to the roots, and then place them in bunches, alternating between them."

Li Guihua knew that Shen Mu Ning was a girl from the city and had never seen rice harvesting before.

He didn't laugh at her, but instead demonstrated for her while explaining.

"Okay, is this all?"

In Shen Muling's opinion, harvesting rice was probably the simplest job she had ever done.

"Just leave it like that. When the afternoon comes, the men will move the threshing machine and the threshing bucket to the field and thresh all the rice."

(PS: I've known since I was a child that a threshing bucket is used, but I only just realized that I have no idea what its scientific name is.)

(This is it, um, the picture is a bit blurry.)

Seeing her curious expression, Li Guihua explained the rest of the procedure to her.

Shen Mu Ning nodded upon hearing this; she knew about threshing machines and threshing barrels.

This is a farming tool that I heard my classmates talk about in my previous life.

The threshing machines she knew were generally powered by electricity or diesel.

I wonder what this era is like now.

However, it will most likely be driven by human effort.

"Okay, why don't you give it a try?"

Although she knew that Shen Mu Ning was capable and had a strong learning ability.

At least before, no matter what kind of farm work she did, she could do it well after just one lesson.

But she was still worried and insisted on watching her try it.

Only when everything was alright could she feel at ease to harvest the rice.

Shen Mu Ning knew what she was thinking, so she simply started harvesting on the spot.

The first two strokes were rather clumsy, as if the sickle wasn't quite to his liking.

But after one harvest, she gradually adjusted.

Once she got the hang of it, her hand speed increased rapidly.

"Fine, then you can cut it yourself slowly, I'm not going to bother with you anymore."

Li Guihua watched as Shen Mu Ning went from having absolutely no experience to having lightning-fast hand speed.

There was no need to keep an eye on her anymore, and I could start reaping the rewards.

However, before leaving, she still gave him some detailed instructions:

"Xiao Shen, your aunt knows that once you've mastered the skills, you'll be much faster."

"But be careful when you use the sickle, don't cut yourself!"

In the past, there have been instances where people who were just learning to harvest rice cut their fingers or legs.

So, she was quite worried about that.

In addition, she noticed that the sickle in Shen Mu Ning's hand was quite sharp.

Given the strength of her grip, if she were to accidentally cut herself, it would definitely leave a long gash.

Even though the injury wasn't serious, her husband wouldn't let her take leave.

Working while injured is a pain that only those who have experienced it can understand.

"Thank you for reminding me, Auntie. I'll be careful!"

Although the chances of her cutting herself were very small, the fact that her aunt reminded her was because she cared about her.

Shen Mu Ning wasn't ungrateful, so she sincerely thanked Li Guihua for reminding her.

She also slowed down a bit, showing through her actions that she would definitely be more careful.