As Grandma Qi ate, she pondered whether or not to remind He Tiantian. He Tiantian hadn't been staying at their house for very long, and if she talked too much, would He Tiantian get annoyed?
But if she didn't say anything, Grandma Qi was worried that He Tiantian was too young and didn't understand social etiquette, and that she would suffer in the future. She was very conflicted.
He Tiantian noticed that Grandma Qi only picked out long beans and not rabbit meat, leaving the rest for her.
Touched, He Tiantian picked up a piece of rabbit meat and said with a smile, "Grandma Qi, have some meat!"
Looking at the boneless rabbit meat in the bowl, Grandma Qi gritted her remaining teeth and, without eating the meat, looked up at He Tiantian and said, "Tiantian, Liang Hongyu came to you because she must want you to help take care of those people who have been sent to the countryside. You're a kind child; you always help others whenever someone says something or you feel sorry for them. There's nothing wrong with what you're doing, but you have to be careful. If something happens, you'll be the scapegoat!"
He Tiantian stared blankly, blinking her eyes. Grandma Qi's words made a lot of sense.
Getting close to the staff who had been sent down to the countryside at this time was extremely dangerous.
She's on Secretary Qi's side now, but if things go wrong or she gets caught red-handed, Secretary Qi will step in to help her.
But now that Secretary Qi himself is in dire straits, how could he possibly help her?
He Tiantian's face was pale. Unbeknownst to her, she had already found herself in a very dangerous situation. The convenience of her rebirth made her believe she had the upper hand; however, as she changed the things around her, new situations different from her previous life began to emerge.
The person is still the same person from the previous life, but the events are no longer the same.
"Then... what am I going to do in the future?" He Tiantian said with a bitter face. "If I... don't do what Aunt Liang or Secretary Qi said, I will offend them and I won't have a good life in Qijia Village."
Grandma Qi San looked at the flustered He Tiantian and sighed, comforting her, "Tiantian, I'm not saying this to scare you, but to make you aware of the situation. People may be kind to you for a while, but they may not always be. When you're out in the world alone, think about the consequences of your actions. You can help those people in the future, but don't do it often, and don't do it in front of others. As the old saying goes, 'A small favor is appreciated, but a large favor breeds resentment.' If you go to great lengths to help those people now, they will resent you if you can't help them when you're in trouble. If you only help occasionally, they will see it as a timely help and be grateful to you."
"Grandma Qi, I've got it," He Tiantian said. She had overlooked many details, and she wouldn't have known if Grandma Qi hadn't pointed them out!
"Good that you've remembered," Grandma Qi said. "As long as we don't starve, we shouldn't take any risks!"
These are the self-preservation tips that Grandma Qi has summarized after living to this day!
"Yes, Grandma Qi is right," He Tiantian said. In the future, it's okay to secretly help those people, but we absolutely can't do it so obviously anymore.
At the same time, He Tiantian also remembered that her relationship with Secretary Qi and Liang Hongyu was one of exploitation and being exploited. She needed to find the right balance; she couldn't be too distant, nor too close.
At least for now, things have to be this way. As for the future, that depends on what Secretary Qi and Liang Hongyu do. If they are truly sincere towards her, He Tiantian will treat them the same way.
With Grandma Qi's reminder, He Tiantian became much more cautious in her actions. Old Man Bai, Professor Gu, and the others noticed this, but simply assumed it was because He Tiantian was being overly cautious.
The crops had been brought to the threshing ground. Except for Old Man Qi and Old Man Bai, who stayed with the livestock team, everyone else went to the threshing ground to help.
Everyone was busy, making the most of every second!
Several small wooden huts were built next to the threshing ground using materials such as wood and straw mats for the people who looked after the threshing ground to live in.
The livestock team only had four cows, all of which were brought over to thresh the rice. Without enough livestock, they had to use manpower. Four people pulled a large stone roller to thresh the rice, removing the grains from the surface. The village's only tractor powered the threshing machine, with several people standing behind it, their mouths and noses covered with towels, threshing bundles of rice.
The village children were driven by the adults to the fields to glean rice ears; once they brought them back, they were their own. If they were lucky, they could gather several kilograms of grain in a day.
The old man was husking and shredding corn on another threshing floor; there wasn't a single idle person in the entire village. Even the old dog that belonged to the production team had been going out to the fields to catch rabbits and mice these past few days.
During the busy farming season, we eat together in the canteen and don't need to cook at home, just to save time.
He Tiantian and several other female educated youths were assigned to the grain drying group. Their main responsibility was to spread out the clean grain delivered by the Yangyang group and dry it properly. They had to turn it over with a wooden shovel every half hour to speed up the drying process.
Huang Jingli and Lin Xiaoru are in one group, and He Tiantian and Ye Xiaofan are in another group.
"It's so hot, so hot!" Lin Xiaoru kept muttering as she quickly ran to the shade of a tree.
Huang Jingli followed closely behind, and after arriving under the tree, she drank water in large gulps, but unlike Lin Xiaoru, she didn't complain about the heat.
Ye Xiaofan rolled his eyes. Lin Xiaoru and Huang Jingli were so careless in their work. The grain on the threshing floor was uneven and of varying thickness. It would probably take more than an hour to turn the whole threshing floor over, but these two finished in less than fifty minutes.
He Tiantian didn't say anything. She knew that Lin Xiaoru and Huang Jingli were just like that. They always worked like that, always trying to take shortcuts.
It's no use talking about it; they'll just keep doing the same thing. So He Tiantian and Ye Xiaofan are not going to say anything anymore and are not going to argue with them.
"Sister Xiaofan, let's begin." He Tiantian put on her straw hat, wrapped a towel around her face, and put on gloves, fully armed as she stepped into the sun.
"You're here." Ye Xiaofan was dressed similarly to He Tiantian, completely covered up, not wanting the sun to damage her skin.
He Tiantian and Ye Xiaofan were both very meticulous in their work. They carefully flipped over the areas that Lin Xiaoru and Huang Jingli had previously spread too thickly, ensuring the surfaces were neither too thin nor too thick. It took them a total of one hour and ten minutes to flip the entire large area. This clearly demonstrates how careless Lin Xiaoru and Huang Jingli were in their work.
The rice grains were divided into different areas according to the order in which they were harvested. After being dried, they could be put into bags and stored in the granary at night.
While He Tiantian and Ye Xiaofan rested, it was Huang Jingli and Lin Xiaoru's turn to work. They took turns like this, and the work wasn't too heavy, so He Tiantian could manage.
"These two are truly birds of a feather," Ye Xiaofan said disdainfully. "Tian Tian, you don't live at the educated youth settlement, so you don't understand them. I'm not saying this to speak ill of them, but they're just too much. Not only do they never do housework or cook at the educated youth settlement, but they also don't clean their own rooms. When they go out to work, they always find ways to slack off. Whoever is in a group with them is doomed."
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