Xu Xinning also has a heavy task: she needs to ensure the villagers can beat the heat, as good physical health is of utmost importance for a successful harvest.

The brigade has large buckets left over from the old days of communal cooking, specifically for holding soup. Xu Xinning plans to brew cooling tea every day and send it to the fields, but there are quantity restrictions: one bowl in the morning and one bowl in the afternoon for each person, so each household has to prepare their own water to take with them.

No one is exempt from the harvest, so Xu Xinning also had to participate, but she was assigned to the grain drying group.

Several female educated youths were also assigned to the grain-drying group.

Although Xu Xinning wasn't good at farming, she was still more experienced than the other educated youth.

When the rice was sent to the threshing ground, Xu Xinning would skillfully rake it evenly and then occasionally stir it. The female educated youth, on the other hand, were very clumsy and couldn't even manage to make it even at first, let alone stir it.

The male educated youth had even more problems. When they were harvesting rice, they tried to keep up with the speed of the brigade members and accidentally cut their fingers. After a flurry of activity, they were bandaged up and then sent to Dadaogu.

But threshing rice looks simple, but it's actually a skilled job. Otherwise, the rice won't be threshed cleanly, and after a busy period, you have to go harvest more rice.

Of the six male educated youth, Mu Jingheng and Jiang Juecheng adapted the best.

Jiang Juecheng is really amazing. He was probably trained in the army. He's a real workhorse. He adapted to the job in no time and even the young men in the brigade couldn't compare to him.

Mu Jingheng relied entirely on his intelligence. He learned things exceptionally quickly, but unlike Jiang Juecheng, he didn't work recklessly. He only did what he set for himself, and after finishing, he went to help Xu Xinning prepare her medicine.

Mu Jingheng knew perfectly well that he didn't live off work points, but pursuing a wife was something he couldn't be careless about; if he relaxed even slightly, his wife might be snatched away by someone else.

Mu Jingheng noticed that Xu Xinning seemed to really like Jiang Juecheng's muscles, and he had seen the two of them chatting and laughing several times.

Mu Jingheng's alarm bells were ringing. He had long known that letting Jiang Juecheng move into the Xu family's house was not a good thing, so how could he let his guard down?