Chapter 041 The little girl who is easily happy!
Lu Jiansen said softly, "The water level has receded a little today. The area around the bend in the waves was flooded, and the rice that had not been harvested in time was exposed. Although the loss is huge, the political commissar means that we should still help the people to harvest it."
Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "I understand!"
"Then you can pick up rice ears on the shore." Lu Jiansen assigned a job to the little girl.
"Okay!" Gu Xiaoxi quite likes this job.
If you put rice and other items in the second-hand goods warehouse, wouldn't it be easier to exchange them for new ones and earn points?
An hour later, Gu Xiaoxi and his friends arrived at Langliwan.
When she arrived at the place, she found that there were not only people from their first battalion, but also people from the third battalion.
Among them were also some local people.
In addition to large tracts of rice fields, there is also a river and a low forest near Langliwan.
Although the water has receded a lot, the water in the rice fields still covers half of the rice stalks.
So, everyone basically collects them in the water, and it is cold water.
When Gu Xiaoxi was feeling emotional, she saw her Li Guifen running towards her from a distance, holding a dustpan.
"Sister Xiaoxi, you are here too!"
Gu Xiaoxi turned around and smiled, "Sister-in-law Guifen!"
Li Guifen pulled her aside and whispered, "I just heard the village party secretary say that whoever picks up the rice scattered in the water gets to keep it!"
Gu Xiaoxi was slightly startled. "Really? Isn't this a collective thing?"
Li Guifen sighed, "Several brigades here have suffered heavy losses, and many families are afraid they will go hungry. The team has no food to distribute to the villagers, so they say whoever picks up the food gets it, which makes everyone more motivated."
Gu Xiaoxi blinked and said, "This doesn't include us!"
Li Guifen lowered her voice, "Not including the soldiers, but including us, the wives of soldiers! Didn't you see over there, those wives of soldiers are so energetic."
As she spoke, she pointed to several military wives who were fighting alone in the distance.
Gu Xiaoxi was very surprised by the secretary's decision, so he said, "Then sister-in-law, you go and pick some up quickly! I'll pick some up too."
"You have to look around first to see if there are any handy tools." Li Guifen shared her experience with her.
"Well. Let me take a look!" Gu Xiaoxi looked around and walked away.
However, she did not find any handy tools, but picked up a torn woven bag.
She pulled the woven bag towards a place with grass, then exchanged the old bag for a new one. She then opened the bag and began to scoop up rice floating in the water nearby.
At first, she didn't catch many grains of rice, but after she used her garbage cleaning and sorting skills, she collected half a bag of rice without making a sound.
She washed the woven bag in water, easily removing the garbage and impurities from the rice.
Because she felt that the rice soaked in water had a strange smell, she also carried out deodorization and sterilization.
Because there were many people nearby, she didn't let the weaving dry in the wind, but threw the not-so-full rice grains into the second-hand goods warehouse.
Then, she found three options in the new product showroom: 1. Rice ears. 2. Rice seedlings. 3. Rice seeds.
Gu Xiaoxi thought about it and then chose the rice seeds.
However, the original quality of these rice grains was not good, and the quality of the rice seeds also looked poor. She hesitated for a moment, and then threw the rice seeds that had just been exchanged for new ones back into the second-hand grocery store.
Then she saw her rice seeds turned into a pile of straw and there were no other options to choose from.
Gu Xiaoxi: “…”
Feeling depressed, she grabbed another handful of straw and threw it into the junk warehouse.
Then, she saw that the straw turned into a handful of straw ashes!
Unconvinced, she threw the handful of straw ashes into the junk warehouse.
Oh wow! The grass ash disappeared into thin air, leaving her with only a wisp of air.
After taking two deep breaths, she calmed down again.
Forget it, she still has a pile of straw left!
She took the woven bag and went to collect rice again.
However, this time she only cleaned, sterilized and deodorized them, and no longer put them in the junk storage.
After filling a bag with rice, she did not keep it for herself, but put it together with the rice looted by the soldiers and gave it to the village.
Because of this action, she gained another merit point and learned a new skill: minor success in porridge making!
She was really happy that she had acquired a cooking skill out of nowhere!
After that she became more active. She dragged a piece of oilcloth from the warrior, poured the rice in the bag she had just woven onto it, and then started picking up rice ears and rice grains.
No one noticed that every time Gu Xiaoxi returned, there would be much more rice, and the previous rice was dried up by the wind without anyone noticing.
Every once in a while, Lu Jiansen would look in the direction of his little girl.
Seeing that she was like a hardworking and happy little bee, working non-stop with a smile on her lips, a smile flashed in his eyes.
What a little girl who is easy to satisfy and happy!
When it got dark, everyone was still busy. Gu Xiaoxi, who had been a little clumsy before, took advantage of the light and collected the rice ears and grains scattered in the water and soil more quickly.
Before she knew it, her merit points had accumulated to 22 points.
By the time the large rice field in Langliwan was harvested, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening. Gu Xiaoxi and his team followed the villagers into the village and set up camp on a barren slope in the village.
Secretary Lin of the village Party Committee was deeply impressed by Gu Xiaoxi. Seeing that she, a little girl, was not afraid of hardship and fatigue and helped them recover a lot of losses, he did not take a single grain of rice for himself, but specially sent her a pound of flour from the limited supplies.
After the soldiers of the first battalion found out, they couldn't help but admire Gu Xiaoxi more, and they showed her more respect when they saw her.
Lu Jiansen felt proud. Looking at the flour sent by the branch secretary, he rubbed the little girl's head and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you!"
Gu Xiaoxi winked playfully, "Noodles! Hand-rolled noodles!"
"Okay!" Lu Jiansen decided to make the noodles thinner for the little girl, so that the clear soup noodles would not taste bad.
Gu Xiaoxi sat nearby and watched Lu Jiansen busying himself, and also looked at the row of new skills that had just been refreshed in the skill store.
Small accomplishment in cooking: requires 1 merit point.
Pastry Master: Requires 2 merit points.
Master of Shaping: Requires 5 merit points.
Baking Master: Requires 5 merit points.
Two-star repair technique: requires 9 merit points.
Gu Xiaoxi calculated and found that after learning these new skills, she had just used up all her merit points.
It's like someone has calculated it for her?
With curiosity and doubts, she silently learned all these new skills.
When she closed her eyes, others thought she was tired, but Gu Xiaoxi herself was constantly shocked, moved, and enlightened.