Life passed by in a dull and uneventful manner. As soon as the farm was ready, the autumn harvest began. Chu Tian happened not to be driving during this harvest. Every morning after the meeting at the transport team, he would immediately rush back to the brigade to help Yao Xiujuan with the work.

"Brother Tian, ​​can you take a rest?"

Yao Xiujuan took a towel and handed it to Chu Tian.

Chu Tian straightened up and took a long time to take the towel and wipe the sweat off his face. As soon as he finished wiping the sweat off his face, Yao Xiujuan handed the kettle to Chu Tian in time.

Chu Tian drank a few sips of water, looked at the less than half an acre of wheat that had not been harvested, and said, "Let's work harder and try to finish harvesting before one o'clock. That way we can go home and rest until the afternoon..."

The land allocated to Yao Xiujuan today is only three acres of wheat field. If he doesn't come to help, it will be just enough for Yao Xiujuan to work for a whole day. But if he helps, it can be finished in one morning.

The brigade now stipulates that the assigned land must be completed every day, otherwise work points will be deducted. Although Chu Tian does not care about those work points, Yao Xiujuan and Old Lady Chu do care...

What can Chu Tian do as both a grandson and a husband? He can only cooperate with them...

Just as Chu Tian was about to continue working with his sickle in hand, he caught a glimpse of Xinxin and Pingping, each carrying a basket and walking towards him from a distance. He was stunned for a moment and spoke to Yao Xiujuan in confusion.

"Why are Xinxin and Pingping here at this time?"

"Ah? Xinxin and Pingping are here? Who will look after Lele?"

While Yao Xiujuan was still looking around for the two people, Chu Tian had already started shouting at them.

"Xinxin, Pingping, what are you doing in the fields?"

Xinxin and Pingping were looking for Chu Tian and Yao Xiujuan when they suddenly heard Chu Tian's shout. They quickly pulled Pingping beside them, pointed at Chu Tian, ​​and ran towards them.

"Dad, Mom..."

"Dad, Mom..."

The two of them ran to Chu Tian and Yao Xiujuan, panting.

Chu Tian asked, "What are you two doing in the fields? Didn't I tell you to stay home and look after your sister?"

Xinxin was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Grandma took my sister to the threshing ground and asked us to help Dad and Mom pick up the fallen wheat."

Chu Tian frowned and was about to say that the two of them were not needed in the fields when he heard Yao Xiujuan speak.

"Then you two should start picking up the seeds from the ground!"

Xinxin and Pingping nodded when they heard this, and walked towards the edge of the field with their baskets.

Chu Tian glanced at Yao Xiujuan, and before he could say anything, he saw Yao Xiujuan smiling at him.

"Brother Tian, ​​I know you're spoiling Xinxin, but who in our brigade doesn't have children working in the fields? Xinxin is old enough now, it's okay for her to do some work!"

Chu Tian smiled and shook his head. "It's not that I don't want her to work, it's just that the sun is so strong here in Xinjiang, I'm afraid Xinxin will get sunburned..."

Yao Xiujuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and waved her hands, "Brother Tian, ​​you're exaggerating. No one in our team was injured. At most, they just got a little tanned."

“·····”

Chu Tianxin said, he just didn't want his sweet, soft, fair and tender daughter to get tanned...

The autumn harvest hadn't ended yet, but Chu Tian was already busy. Before he left, he repeatedly told Yao Xiujuan, "Don't work too hard, okay? Just do enough..."

Yao Xiujuan nodded repeatedly and said perfunctorily, "Brother Tian, ​​I understand. Just go to work without worry!"

Chu Tian opened his mouth and thought to himself, I don’t believe you, but in the end he didn’t say anything else to her. Instead, he looked at Old Lady Chu.

"Grandma, please help me supervise Xiujuan and don't let her work herself to death. Our family doesn't lack those work points..."

Old Mrs. Chu laughed, "Okay, okay, grandma will help you supervise!"

“······”

Chu Tian felt that Old Lady Chu was turning a blind eye to his supervision. He wanted to say something, but he saw Yao Xiujuan waving her hand, holding a basket in one hand and a sickle in the other, and left with Chu Min's wife who had just come out of her home.

"Okay, go ahead, your second brother has been waiting for you for a while."

After she finished speaking, Old Lady Chu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, then slowly walked towards the threshing ground with Lele and Xinxin and Pingping, two children who were still on their autumn harvest holiday.

“·····”

Chu Tian looked at the four people walking away speechlessly. It took him a long time to look away and turn to look at Chu Min who had been waiting for him for a long time.

"Second brother, let's go!"

"good···"

Chu Min smiled and nodded, then got on his bicycle. After he started riding, Chu Tiancai jumped on the back seat.

To be honest, the Chu family has quite a few bicycles. With only two bicycles in the entire brigade, the Chu family has five bicycles in total. Now Chu Jun has asked him to help get another bicycle ticket so that he can buy a bicycle for Daya to make it easier for her to travel between school and home in the city.

"Chu Tian, ​​come here..."

Chu Tian and Chu Min had just arrived at the transport team and had not yet had time to jump out of the car when they heard Director Li calling him.

Seeing this, Chu Min said, "Little brother, go and do your work. I'll go park the car."

Chu Tian said "OK" and quickly jumped out of the car, turned around and walked towards Director Li's office.

"Director Li, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Director Li sat back in his chair, looked at Chu Tian, ​​smiled and said "sit down". Seeing that he sat down, he continued.

"Yesterday, the regimental headquarters held a meeting and announced that our 11th Division would select one vehicle from each of the ten regiments below it to form a temporary convoy and make a trip to Kouli."

"Captain Meng's team hasn't returned from southern Xinjiang yet, so they can't go. Only your team two can go..."

After a pause, he continued, "To be exact, only you and Chu Min can go!"

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, "We need to arrange two drivers?"

Director Li nodded, "Yes, because we are going to the mouth, we are not allowed to bring a co-driver."

Chu Tian thought for a moment and asked doubtfully, "I can understand why we're not allowed to bring a co-driver, but all the drivers in our second team are here now. Why do you have to designate Chu Min and me to go? And why not let the transport team that often runs from the city go? Besides, our division also has a transport team..."

Director Li smiled and said, "I'm sorry I didn't explain it clearly. This is our division's business and has nothing to do with the city. Moreover, the division's requirement is that we must have two drivers with mechanic licenses."

"And in your team, only you and Chu Min have passed the mechanic's license exam, so..."

Chu Tian finally nodded in understanding and said simply, "Okay, I understand. When do we leave? To that place in Kouli?"

Director Li picked up two already issued letters of introduction from the table, along with some national food coupons, and handed them to him. "Honestly, I don't know!"

"But I heard that they were going to first pull a truckload of goods south, then go around to the north, and finally come back."

Chu Tian suspected he had misheard and asked in disbelief, "This, this south and north trip means how many months will you be away?"