After lunch, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the whistle for work sounded again.
Everyone continued to work hard to harvest, and the educated youth still received tasks assigned by the team leader.
Qiao Qingqing had already transferred the spiritual spring water into her own water bottle. She drank a few sips of the spiritual spring water to replenish her strength, and then resumed harvesting rice with great vigor.
As expected, Qiao Qingqing met the target again in the afternoon task and got another day off.
Zhou Aiguo looked at Qiao Qingqing's posture and realized that he could no longer use this kind of reward and punishment method in the future.
Otherwise, after the busy farming season, every educated youth in the same team as Qiao Qingqing would be able to save up a month or so of vacation, so wouldn't these educated youths have to play for more than a month?
Giving a long vacation to one educated youth would not have much impact, but if he gave long vacations to several educated youths, the society would have something against him as the team leader.
The society believes that he does not know how to allocate labor properly and does not know how to manage.
Qiao Qingqing didn't know that Zhou Aiguo had begun to think about a new system of rewards and punishments.
Since the educated youth were all very excited to go fishing and were tired after a long day, they went to bed early at night.
They had to get up at 5:00 the next day and start harvesting rice at 5:30, which left them with little time to sleep.
Qiao Qingqing listened to the soft snoring of the two little girls in the room, covered her head with the quilt, and entered the space directly.
In the open space of the space, there were piles of Lu family’s belongings, as well as the things she and Lu Heng had frantically purchased.
Qiao Qingqing took out the coal stove and stew pot, took the pot to the pond to wash it clean, then scooped a spoonful of well water from the large water tank nearby and poured it into the pot.
This is the well water she drew this morning.
After lighting the coal stove, Qiao Qingqing began to boil water.
Then, holding a basket, he walked around the water tanks and buckets containing seafood, selecting the appropriate seafood.
Only simple food could be prepared in the space, so Qiao Qingqing finally chose only a few large crabs and three or four pounds of large shrimps.
Put ginger slices into the pot and start steaming crabs and shrimps.
After steaming, it is rinsed with Lingquan water to help cool it down.
The washed spiritual spring water is not wasted and is used to water the vegetables.
The vegetable field was planted with the vegetable seeds she had sown ten days ago. With the water from the spiritual spring, they grew like twenty-day-old vegetable seedlings.
Qiao Qingqing replaced the water in the pot with clean water, put in the washed rice, and started to cook porridge.
While the porridge was cooking on the stove, Qiao Qingqing sat by the pond and began to peel shrimps and crabs.
Although there is no sun in this space, it always looks like daytime, so she never worries about the light problem.
Put the peeled crab meat and shrimp into the white porridge that has been simmering for a while, sprinkle with minced ginger, cover the pot and simmer over low heat.
When the porridge becomes thick, add appropriate amount of salt and stir evenly.
The porridge was ready and Qiao Qingqing removed the coal.
After serving the seafood porridge and leaving it to dry, Qiao Qingqing left the space.
Taking advantage of the quiet night, Qiao Qingqing came to the cowshed again.
This time she just imitated the cat's meow twice, and Shi Meijun came.
Under the moonlight, when Shi Meijun saw Qiao Qingqing holding a pot, she was so shocked that she was speechless.
Qiao Qingqing asked her to sit down, took out a bowl, a ladle and a spoon from the package, and served her a bowl of seafood porridge.
Although Shi Meiyun couldn't see the food in her hand clearly, she could smell the fragrance. After three days of hard life, she couldn't help but saliva from her mouth.
Qiao Qingqing reminded her, "Mom, eat quickly. When you're done, go in and call Grandpa and Dad out."
Shi Meiyun knew that this was not the time to be pretentious, so she nodded with a sob and began to eat the food in the bowl quietly.
The peeled crab meat and shrimps have been deodorized with ginger slices, and there is also ginger powder in the porridge, so it doesn’t taste fishy at all, only the freshness and sweetness of the seafood remains.
As a native Beijinger, Shi Meiyun was not used to southern food. But anyone who has been hungry for three days would think a bowl of seafood porridge full of meat is a delicacy.
After eating one bowl, Shi Meiyun felt full, and the habit she had developed over the years made her refuse the second bowl.
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