Zhong Songbai smiled and said:
"It'll be ready in a minute. Xia Zhiqing and my older sister go wash your hands, and we'll eat right away!"
Zhong Wanwan also pulled her along and said:
"Come on, come on, go wash your hands. Don't try to take my job! I'm the one who does all the cooking in our house!"
The Zhong family's breakfast consisted of cornmeal steamed cake, stir-fried cabbage slices and cucumber salad, and tomato and egg soup.
The cornmeal steamed cake was made with dough that Zhong Songbai had prepared last night. It rose exceptionally well, turning golden and soft.
The three siblings were all growing up, so they didn't skimp on food. Since they started cooking for themselves, they never made soupy dishes.
Xia Ning's eyes lit up when she saw the Zhong family's meals. She hadn't had such a delicious breakfast since she went to the countryside!
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After teaching for three days, Zhong Wanwan taught the inside of the tractor twice. On the night before the autumn harvest, she knocked out the dent from the impact on the front of the tractor and reinstalled it.
After three days of practice, Xia Ning and Zhong Songbai were also quite skilled at driving the tractor.
The autumn harvest officially began on October 1st.
Early in the morning, all the villagers and educated youth from the farm rushed to the rice drying ground.
Director Wei stood on the wooden platform, held a loudspeaker, and gave a mobilization meeting to everyone. He then assigned tasks to each group, solemnly explained the autumn harvest discipline, and the autumn harvest at Hongxing Farm officially began with drums and gongs!
As new tractor drivers, Zhong Songbai and Xia Ning were assigned relatively simple tasks: to transport the harvested corn back to their hometown.
Zhong Wanwan, Zhong Baiyang, Wei Maisui, and Zheng Nannan are responsible for inspecting the tractor every day and ensuring that any problems with the tractor can be repaired immediately!
The division of labor among these four people involved some degree of favoritism on the part of Director Wei and Accountant Zheng!
Otherwise, leaving only Zhong Wanwan to provide logistical support for the tractors would be enough, while the other three could join in the harvest.
Every family loves their daughter dearly. If you don't have the means, there's nothing you can do; you can't let your own child be treated differently.
Now that we have the means to let our daughter have a more relaxed life, we'd rather our son do more work than let our daughter take over the harvest.
As for Xiaobaiyang, he's only 12 years old and still a child, so he can't do any heavy work. It's good that they all stop doing it!
As for this group of educated youth, they were all assigned to harvest corn. The male educated youth cut the corn in front, while the female educated youth plucked the corn.
Rice and millet cultivation is technically demanding; a single mistake can easily result in cutting your leg and scattering rice and millet on the ground.
Director Wei wasn't concerned about whether the educated youth had their legs cut off; his main concern was the food supply.
There are fewer concerns when harvesting corn. If you cut the corn stalks with such force and then cut your leg, he has reason to suspect that you are shirking your work!
At this time, avoiding labor would result in being sent to a direct struggle session, and even the most rebellious educated youth wouldn't dare to do that!
Harvesting corn isn't technically that difficult, and peeling corn isn't as strenuous as cutting it, but bending over back and forth is still very tiring, and the outer layer of corn leaves is very gritty.
Before she could even finish one row of land, Bai Yueyao was exhausted. Not only did her back feel like it was about to break, but her hands were also aching from being pulled so hard.
Looking at the four people under the shade of the tree, who were ostensibly observing the tractor but were actually just chatting casually, Bai Yueyao was so angry that her face turned green!
Repairing the tractor won't delay the harvest. If it breaks down, we can just call someone to fix it. Why can they find an excuse not to work, but she has to do this exhausting work?
If she hadn't just committed a crime, she definitely would have dragged those people down with her when assigning tasks!
Tang Zixuan is a good-for-nothing. She was giving him all sorts of meaningful glances, but he didn't even utter a sound and just pretended not to see them!
Bai Yueyao was angry as she peeled the corn. The angrier she got, the harder she pulled the corn leaves, and the harder she pulled, the more her hands hurt. This vicious cycle turned Bai Yueyao into a pufferfish from anger!
Just then, Bai Yueyao heard Zhou Xiaohong, a female educated youth who was lagging behind like her, muttering discontentedly:
"Why should the tractor repairman stop working? Working doesn't stop the tractor repair. It's not enough for one person to quit; all four have to quit too. It's unfair. I'm not having it..."
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