Compared to doing farm work, Lin Shan would of course prefer to teach. Her eyes were burning, and her head kept nodding like a chicken pecking at rice: "Huaying, I understand."
"Okay, don't think too much about other things. Now that we're here, we should make the best of it. What we should do now is to adapt to life here as quickly as possible. We also have to believe that we will definitely be able to leave here and Jing County in the future. Let's treat this period of educated youth life as a period of experience and tempering."
Yun Huaying has the benefit of rebirth and is very clear about the future policy direction. The original owner's soul is also more calm and composed than Lin Shan. Now that she shows this side of herself, she is not worried that she will notice anything unusual.
They will stay here for no more than a year. The college entrance examination will be resumed at the end of next year, and the educated youth will return to the city one after another. This special period will finally end.
Her words were like a bowl of chicken soup. Lin Shan felt relaxed all over after drinking it. The discomfort in her heart instantly dissipated. She grinned and said, "Huaying, I'm so lucky to have you as my friend."
Yun Huaying raised the corners of her lips, threw back the quilt and lay down: "Okay, we have to start working tomorrow, go to bed early tonight."
"good."
Although they changed the environment and the bed, neither of them recognized the bed and fell asleep quickly.
After hearing the sound of even breathing from Lin Shan next to her, Yun Huaying gently stood up and slipped into the space.
Yun Huaying brought all the pots, pans, and utensils from home, and also placed the stove and coal briquettes in the space. She raised sixty or seventy chickens and ducklings in the space. She couldn't let them eat air, so she had to light the stove late at night to cook some sweet potatoes and vegetables to feed them.
It took an hour to cook a big pot of sweet potato and vegetable porridge, which I put in two flat enamel basins, and then let out all the chickens and ducks that were locked in the small wooden box to eat.
There were a lot of sweet potatoes, potatoes and vegetables planted in the space. Half of them were thrown into Lingyan, and the rest that could be harvested were dug out and piled in the corner. In the future, they would not only be her food, but also the food for the chickens and ducks.
She also brought the small wooden bed from her home and placed it in the space. She would come to the space to rest whenever she had the chance and use the special airflow inside to nourish and regulate her body.
I will sleep with Lin Shan tonight. In order to prevent her from discovering the secret, I will go out to sleep after feeding the chickens and ducks.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!"
When the roosters crowed again, those who had slept well all night slowly opened their eyes.
Yun Huaying usually gets up early. She used to have to get up to make breakfast for the lazy kids at home, and then rush to school after breakfast, so she developed the habit of getting up early.
She got up first, and Lin Shan got up right after her. One of them made the bed while the other went to the kitchen to get some water for washing.
Jiang Yuan also got up early, greeted the two of them, and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
Yesterday, Zhao Xuelin gave them half a month's worth of food, but they didn't touch the food and locked their food in their rooms.
Jiang Yuan steamed some steamed buns and flower rolls left over from yesterday. Yun Huaying ate some of their steamed buns, but she took out a can of malted milk and made a bowl for each of them. After the three of them had eaten and drunk their fill, they went to the educated youth institute to meet up with Yang Min and the others.
As for what work they were going to do today, they had no idea and had to follow the arrangements of the team leader Yang Min.
They arrived quite early, and the old educated youth were still eating. Seeing that the three new educated youth were not at all spoiled, had a good sense of responsibility and attitude, and arrived early and not late, Yang Min had some expectations for them.
The male and female educated youth each had a team leader. Yang Min was in charge of the female educated youth and explained the day's arrangements to them: "It's been quite busy lately. The late rice has been planted for a month, and we've been busy weeding and watering lately. The male educated youth will be in charge of watering and irrigation, and we'll be in charge of weeding. Come with me later, and I'll teach you how to weed."
"Okay, thank you for your help, Sister Yang Min."
Jiang Yuan thanked them politely. Her hometown was in the north, and the fields there were planted with wheat, while the fields in Yang County were all planted with rice. She was also a novice and had to learn from them slowly.
After the educated youth finished their meal, they each took their tools and went to work.
Yang Min briefly explained the distribution of the fields and continued, "Our labor is calculated based on work points, which is the value of our labor. Men earn ten work points a day, while women generally earn eight. However, there are some very capable women who perform just as well as men at the end of the day, and the scorekeepers will give them ten work points, or even more, at their discretion."
Lin Shan had never thought about surpassing the male comrades, so she asked with a shy smile, "Sister Yang Min, is there anyone who earns less than eight work points?"
"Yes, I have."
Yang Min smiled and said, "Most newly arrived educated youth earn five or six work points, and it takes them half a month to adjust before they can earn eight work points."
"Okay." Lin Shan felt that she might not even get five or six work points.
Arriving at the paddy field, Yang Min taught them how to identify weeds and demonstrated the weeding process. Once they had mastered it, she handed the large field over to them: "The three of you will be responsible for the upper and lower fields. After you finish, each of you will earn seven work points."
Lin Shan looked at the two acres of land and swallowed: "We will try our best."
Yun Huaying didn't say a word along the way. She took off her cloth shoes and went straight to the ground without lifting up her trouser legs.
The weeding work was not tiring, and there was no one watching them. They chatted while working, and their pace was steady, no slower than the old educated youth working in the fields above.
Yang Min and the other female educated youth were working in the fields above. They would occasionally look down at the situation below. Seeing that the three of them were doing a good job, she smiled at the people around her and said, "These three new educated youth are not bad. Apart from other things, their personalities are okay."
Yin Mei, who was good friends with her, smiled and said, "She's just too pretty. I guess there's going to be a lot of gossip in the team in the future."
"It's not a crime to be beautiful. People have their own mouths, so let them say whatever they want." Yang Min has long been accustomed to life here and knows the people in the Dongjiang Brigade well.
When Han Zheng came over with a hoe on his back, they had already finished working two acres of the field. Standing at the edge of the field, he called out, "Huaying, are you all right?"
Yun Huaying straightened up, her face light and calm: "Not bad, do you want to go to the fields to work too?"
"My grandfather is in charge of the cotton fields on the back hill, and I go over there to help him with the work."
Han Zheng got up early in the morning, washed the clothes of the grandfather and grandson, filled the water tank, cooked breakfast, and stayed with his grandfather to eat before coming out.
"You go ahead and do your work. I'm working." Yun Huaying said and bent down to continue.
Han Zheng nodded to Lin Shan and Jiang Yuan, then turned and left with his hoe.
Yang Min and the others had all seen him. They saw him accompanying Old Man Han to the back mountain and had a private conversation with him: "Isn't Han Zheng in the army? Is he here to visit his family again?"
"He came here with Yun Zhiqing and the others yesterday. It seems that he is very familiar with Yun Zhiqing."
Yin Mei has been in Dongjiang Brigade for more than two years. She met Han Zheng shortly after arriving here and knew that he was the grandson of Mr. Han.
As for the reason why the old man lives alone in the village, they are not quite sure, and the locals in the village are not sure either. The village cadres asked them not to ask too much and also told them not to disturb the old man's life.
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