Chapter 35 Are you seeking personal revenge?
Gu Yuehuai walked a long way before he saw Gu Zhifeng bending over to pick up manure in the woods.
He was assigned the job of carrying manure, but it was not just about carrying manure. When the members failed to fill their manure baskets, the manure carriers also had to help pick up manure with the manure forks. Most of the manure was from places where pigs, dogs, and oxen roamed during the day.
Sometimes we carry manure to the pigpen or cowshed. That work is even more tiring and we have almost no time to rest.
"Dad!" Gu Yuehuai waved and called out, and Gu Zhifeng immediately raised his head.
As soon as he saw Gu Yuehuai, his face immediately lit up with joy: "Nannan! Why are you here?"
Gu Yuehuai looked at his red cheeks and the sweat dripping down, feeling a little distressed, but most people of that generation were like this. If they wanted to integrate into the team as quickly as possible, doing farm work and earning work points was the fastest way.
"I'm here to bring you some water, Dad. Where's my brother?" Gu Yuehuai deftly poured the water from the earthenware jar into the ceramic bowl on the top of the jar and handed it to Gu Zhifeng. He also glanced around, but unfortunately he didn't see Gu Tinghuai.
Gu Zhifeng took the bowl of water, but before he drank it, his face darkened when he heard her words: "Don't mention it. Your brother has been assigned to the second team. You also know who the captain of the second team is. If your brother is sent to dig a river, how can that be an easy job?"
The smile on Gu Yuehuai's face also faded slightly. Digging a river?
Since ancient times, agriculture and water conservancy have been inseparable. The ancient dynasties even invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to regard water conservancy as an important matter in governing the country and maintaining national security.
The so-called "river digging" is simply the work of manually digging new river channels and reinforcing embankments.
This is recognized as the most tiring and difficult job in the brigade. Although someone has to do this kind of work, for a young man like Gu Tinghuai who has never been exposed to collective labor, he would probably be exhausted in just one day.
Chen Kang knew that Gu Tinghuai had never done heavy work before, and he didn't give him half a day to adapt. No one would believe him if he said he was not seeking revenge. The Chen family members were really one dirty man after another, the young ones were like this, and the old ones were also like this. If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked too.
Gu Zhifeng sighed, raised his head and drank the water in the bowl.
After drinking it, he realized something was wrong and asked suspiciously, "Nannan, did you put sugar in this water?"
Gu Yuehuai paused, looked up at Gu Zhifeng, and teased, "We have sugar at home? It's just ordinary water. Dad, you felt it wrong, right? Is it because I brought it to you that you think it's sweet? Then I'll come over to bring you water every day from now on!"
When Gu Zhifeng heard this, she thought it made sense and started laughing happily.
However, after drinking a bowl of water, Gu Zhifeng suddenly felt his tired body full of energy again. He was secretly amazed. When did water become so effective, like a panacea?
"Okay, girl. Dad is going to continue working!" Gu Zhifeng turned around and looked at the members who were busy working. He didn't dare to delay here any longer. After informing them, he returned to the group activities.
Gu Yuehuai felt relieved when he saw how energetic he was.
She packed up the clay pots and headed towards the river in another direction.
Zoumahe is the name of the river where the members worked. Widening the river and strengthening the embankments were all hard work.
Before Gu Yuehuai reached Zoumahe, he saw a sea of people.
In the Dahe section, red flags were waving and people were bustling about. Each member had a straw rope tied around his waist. He picked up a shovel, bent over, and put the dug stones and soil into half-man-high bamboo baskets.
Someone was carrying a load that was sticking out of his shoulder and walking back tremblingly. When he passed by Gu Yuehuai, she could hear the creaking sound of the pole, as if the man's shoulders would collapse in the next second.
All these rubble and soil had to be dumped a hundred meters away, one trip after another, and it would be impossible to do it without brute force.
"Strong backbone! Iron shoulders! Real ability! Hard work and unremitting struggle!"
Amid the inspiring slogans, one can occasionally hear shouts of “Hey yo… Hey yo…” and the sound of members spitting into their hands.
Gu Yuehuai was looking for Gu Tinghuai in the crowd. As he walked along, he couldn't help but be impressed by the suffering and spirit of the people of that time.
After an unknown amount of time, she finally saw Gu Tinghuai pulling mud from the bottom of the river. This place was sloped, and it was difficult to clean up the silt in the river whether pushing a wheelbarrow or carrying a load on one's shoulder.
At this time, the members need to pack up the mud and take turns pulling it ashore.
This kind of work ranks top among the "river digging" jobs. It is considered the hardest and most tiring. At the end of the day, the palms of your hands are peeling and bleeding, and you are trembling with pain.
Gu Yuehuai looked at Gu Tinghuai who was standing on the steep slope and exerting his strength. The veins on his neck were bulging. It was cold, but his whole body was steaming and his clothes were soaked.
Gu Yuehuai closed his eyes, and the hand holding the pottery jar had a faint green color.
After finally dragging a basket of mud ashore, Gu Tinghuai didn't even have time to rest. Chen Kang, who was standing on the shore, said, "Gu Tinghuai, Li Peng went to pee, you take his place again!"
Gu Yuehuai's eyes suddenly burst out with a biting cold aura, and she suddenly shouted at Chen Kang: "Captain Chen Er, my eldest brother is not an animal. How can he go to work tomorrow if he is used like this? Why don't you ask someone else to take his place?"
"Oh, I see. Is it because your daughter Chen Yin smashed my head and caused her to be criticized by the brigade? You hold a grudge against my family, so you specifically singled out my brother for punishment?"
"Captain Chen Er, you are not a competent captain."
"If you want to take revenge on someone in this way, we'll have to go talk to the branch secretary."
"After all, you are so narrow-minded. If you can treat my brother like this, then if any member of the club accidentally offends you in the future, won't they also be treated differently by you?"
Gu Yuehuai shouted at the top of his voice, and it instantly reached the ears of many members of the Hedao Society.
When everyone heard this, they thought, hey, it's true. Today is Gu Tinghuai's first day at work, and Chen Kang arranged him to do the hardest and most tiring work, and he always finds reasons to let Gu Tinghuai do more. Why is that?
There were people who didn't know the inside story at first, but after listening to Gu Yuehuai's words they understood that there was a personal grudge!
For a moment, everyone looked at Chen Kang and whispered.
As Gu Yuehuai said, it is not necessarily a good thing for them to have such a petty-minded captain. What if that sentence doesn't go well with them in the future and Chen Kang is offended? What if he does the same thing?
Chen Kang was so angry that he was shaking all over: "You little bitch, stop talking nonsense!"
Gu Yuehuai chuckled, tilted his head, and said, "If I was really talking nonsense, why was Captain Chen so angry? Oh, I forgot to tell you something. Just now, Director Wang caught Chen Yin cheating at work. I guess she will be severely punished. Why don't you go and take a look?"
Hearing this, Chen Kang's face suddenly changed, and he turned and walked away with a mixture of blue and red.
He couldn't help but curse in his heart: Chen Yin is a spendthrift, causing trouble all the time, and she is determined to break up this family!
Gu Yuehuai retracted the cold gaze that was projected on Chen Kang's back, and turned to look at Gu Tinghuai, with a smile on his lips, he waved at him: "Brother, come and have a rest, I brought you some water!"
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