Chapter 042 What Does a Woman Know?

When the noodles came out of the pot, Gu Xiaoxi opened his eyes at the smell.

Perhaps it was because of her culinary skills, she felt that her five senses were much sharper than before!

There was too much noodles and she couldn't finish it after eating half of it.

Lu Jiansen looked at the little girl's expression, naturally took the bowl from her hand, and ate the remaining noodles.

Gu Xiaoxi blushed slightly, but felt a little warm in her heart.

"There will be a car taking us back to the army in the evening. Do you want to go back too?" Lu Jiansen asked softly.

Gu Xiaoxi shook his head without thinking, "No. I want to go back with you."

She has already realized that the current situation is the best time to gain merit points.

There will never be another time when she can earn so much merit points in a day!

Lu Jiansen was actually worried that the little girl's body couldn't handle it, but seeing that she was unwilling to go back, he compromised.

"That's fine. But you need to get some rest tonight."

Gu Xiaoxi nodded quickly, "I will definitely have a good rest."

In order to show that she would take good care of herself, when Lu Jiansen was busy, she went to the nearest villager's house to borrow a place to take a shower, and went to bed early in the tent prepared for her by Lu Jiansen.

The next day, Lu Jiansen was afraid that the little girl was too tired, so he arranged a job for her. She stayed in the village and helped the villagers dry out the rice that they had harvested the day before.

Gu Xiaoxi was reluctant at first, she wanted to rescue supplies and earn points.

But when she saw that the people left in the village to dry the rice were all old people and children, she changed her mind.

If it rains again, she will be able to harvest the rice much faster.

Several military wives stayed with her, including Sister Feng Xia.

The two of them chatted and turned over the rice, surprisingly quite leisurely.

"Xiaoxi, I heard that the harvest in many places in our area is poor this year, and some places have also suffered from disasters, and food is in short supply. When you go back, you have to find a way to stock up more food. Otherwise, this year will be difficult!" Feng Xia whispered to Gu Xiaoxi.

Gu Xiaoxi nodded and said, "I'll save some food when I get back!"

Feng Xia couldn't help laughing when she heard this. "It's good that you don't have a child. Captain Lu won't let you go hungry."

Gu Xiaoxi heard her talking about the child and asked casually, "Sister-in-law, you have been away for so many days, how are your children?"

Feng Xia smiled and said, "You have never been to my house, so you don't know the situation there. My mother-in-law is at home! Sister Guifen's two children are also at my house, and my mother-in-law is looking after them."

Gu Xiaoxi praised: "Your mother-in-law is such a nice person, and she is very enlightened!"

Feng Xia laughed, "My mother-in-law is kind-hearted, and she listens to my husband. We are here to help with disaster relief, so she has to cooperate."

While the two were chatting, their hands were not idle. Soon some villagers discovered that the rice they were responsible for was drying up particularly quickly.

Someone touched it and then reported it to the village chief.

The village chief came over to see it and said immediately, "First collect some rice and go to the mill to see if we can do it."

After hearing this, Gu Xiaoxi immediately stepped forward and asked, "Village Chief, do you want to put it away?"

The village chief nodded and said, "Yes! Most of the food in the village has been washed away. Let's grind some rice first to deal with the emergency."

"Then let's harvest it!" Gu Xiaoxi went to help harvest the rice with swift hands and feet.

Not long after, a man from the village came carrying rice to grind it.

Just when the villagers thought they could eat new rice at noon, bad news came.

The old rice mill in the village was soaked in water and can no longer be used!

Just as Gu Xiaoxi was sighing, the word "repair" suddenly popped up in his mind.

Gu Xiaoxi reacted immediately. Yes, doesn’t she have a two-star repair skill now?

Thinking of this, she said something to Sister Feng Xia and ran to the village where rice was milled.

When she saw the village chief and others sighing at an old rice mill, she coughed, walked up to him and said, "Village chief, how about letting me try to fix it?"

Village Chief Zhao looked at her doubtfully, "Can you repair it?"

Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "I think so. My dad works in a machine repair shop. When I was a kid, I often watched him repair things. I learned a lot from him and can repair a lot of things. My dad even praised me for my talent in repairing things!"

When the village chief heard her say this, he also knew that she was a military wife, so he quickly gave up his seat and said, "Then you try to fix it!"

"Okay!" Gu Xiaoxi immediately rolled up his sleeves and checked the rice mill.

Obviously, she didn't know how to do it before, but after she touched the rice mill, countless repair knowledge flooded her mind. Then she shook the rice mill and found the cause of the problem just by intuition.

It took her less than ten minutes from the beginning to the end of the repair.

The village chief was skeptical at first that the rice mill could be repaired so quickly, but after trying it, he found that it was not only repaired, but also worked better than before.

He was really convinced this time, and kept giving the little girl the thumbs-up. "You're amazing! You're better at repairing things than the people at our agricultural machinery station."

The problem is that when the people from the agricultural machinery station here come to repair it, we have to pay them money, treat them to a meal, and still they are slow in repairing it!

Gu Xiaoxi smiled modestly, "No, it was just soaked in water and has a short circuit. It's easy to fix. If the village chief needs anything else fixed, you can bring it to me! I'm just turning over the rice anyway, so I don't have anything else to do."

At this time, a man next to him said, "Can you repair the tractor?"

The village chief was stunned for a moment before he remembered that the crawler tractor they borrowed from the neighboring brigade broke down. The people from the agricultural machinery station came to repair it twice but it still hasn't been fixed. It is still parked in the village committee warehouse!

Before the rainstorm, the village committee was still troubled by this problem, so now they looked at Gu Xiaoxi with anticipation.

Gu Xiaoxi didn't promise, and said tactfully: "How about I go and see if it can be repaired?"

The village chief immediately led the way for her, "Okay, okay. I'll take you to see it."

Gu Xiaoxi also hurriedly asked, "Village Chief, the rice mill is relatively simple, and simple tools can be used. Do you have tools to repair the tractor?"

The village chief nodded and said, "Yes, during the heavy rain, a comrade from the agricultural machinery station was in the village repairing a tractor. When he left, he left his tools in the warehouse."

The warehouse is located on high ground, so even though water entered it, it did not wash away the tools.

Fifteen minutes later, Gu Xiaoxi saw the old crawler tractor.

She climbed up and carefully examined it, then nodded to the village chief, "It can be repaired!"

When the village chief heard this, he almost couldn't hold back his smile and quickly arranged for two villagers to help take care of the creek.

Gu Xiaoxi didn't hold back and ordered the villagers to do all the heavy lifting and moving.

She literally just did the repairs, removing and tightening screws, and clearing away obstructions and debris that were preventing the tractor from moving.

She also dealt with the rusty parts.

Then, she felt that the tractor's performance was not good enough, so she made some minor changes.

She was so focused on the repair that she didn't notice more and more people coming to watch her repair the tractor.

In the crowd, a man in military uniform frowned as he looked at Gu Xiaoxi who was busy repairing a tractor.

"Don't fix it, but instead damage the tractor in the village."

A woman knows how to repair a tractor!