Du Xiaoying stood on tiptoe and took a closer look. Su Zhiqing's little face was pale and bloodless, half leaning against the tree.
Zhang Zhiqing was frantically running around, calling out in a panic, "Yueyue, what's wrong? Are you feeling better?"
"Hey, sister-in-law, where are you doing?" Wang Jianguo, who was helping to carry wheat straw up, shouted when he saw this.
Du Xiaoying picked up the army green water bottle from the car and pointed to a tree not far away. "Jianguo, let me go over and take a look. Once it's full, you drive over first. I'll come find you later."
"Oh, I see."
"All of you, move aside. Stop crowding around. It's cutting off air circulation."
Seeing the noise, several female educated youth hurriedly dispersed. Zhang Xian was anxious and a little flustered. Seeing Du Xiaoying coming up and pulling her cousin's clothes, her face suddenly changed. She stretched out her hand to stop her, her face red from the sun, full of anger.
“What are you doing!”
Du Xiaoying frowned, "If you don't want your cousin to feel better, just hold on to me and don't let go."
"You—" Zhang Xian looked at her pale-lipped cousin, bit her lip, and angrily threw her hand away, "You'd better have a solution, otherwise I..."
Du Xiaoying ignored Zhang Xian's aggressive behavior and opened the kettle, passing it to Su Yueyue. "Su Zhiqing, this is mung bean soup for cooling down your internal heat. You'll feel better if you drink some."
Su Yueyue reached out to hold the kettle in a daze, and instinctively drank the mung bean soup in big gulps.
"One person will stay here, and everyone else can go back to work." Du Xiaoying took the kettle, tightened it, and asked Zhang Xian, "Is there any water?"
"Yes, yes, yes, just wait!" Zhang Xian didn't have time to think about it. She hurriedly ran to get an army green water bottle and handed it to Du Xiaoying breathlessly.
"Did you put sugar in it?"
"Let him go."
Du Xiaoying paused while pouring water on her hands and shook her head. "Forget it, I'll wash my hands later."
Zhang Xian was confused. The next second, she saw the other party pinching her cousin's neck with his index and middle fingers. She was so scared that she quickly shouted to stop him.
"What are you doing? My cousin is already in such a state of distress, and you are still bullying her like this. You are going too far!"
Du Xiaoying patiently explained, feeling both amused and annoyed, "Zhang Zhiqing, this is called 'Gua Sha'. It's a traditional method in our countryside, just pull out the dark red sha on your neck and elbows."
Zhang Xian let go of her hand half-believingly and stared at Du Xiaoying grabbing her hand. She felt so painful for her cousin.
Soon, Su Yueyue, who had several dark red sha spots on her neck and elbows, gradually regained consciousness and thanked her softly, "Thank you, sister-in-law. I feel much better now."
Du Xiaoying shook her sticky hands and said, "It's okay. It's hot. You can make more mung bean soup. If you don't have any, you can come to my house and I'll give you some."
Zhang Xian was shocked. "Is this true? It's healed so quickly?"
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In the fields, the autumn harvest is in full swing. Men, women, young and old, sweating all over from the heat, are all working hard.
Based on the experience of previous years, the brigade did not dare to assign the new educated youth to dig potatoes, otherwise, with one shovel, all the potatoes would be crushed, wasting food.
Several new educated youth made mistakes in the busy schedule and made a fool of themselves - either they almost cut themselves while cutting wheat, or they did not tie the bundles of crops tightly enough, and the bundles fell apart when the members in charge of transportation picked them up, forcing the members of the team to tie them up again while cursing.
As the scorching sun overhead gradually set in the west, gusts of wind blew away a lot of the heat. The people working in the fields felt much cooler and their movements became more efficient.
In the evening, people from each household who had gone back to cook and feed the pigs came back with food one after another.
People who had been working all day and were sitting casually on the edge of the field couldn't help but stretch their necks and look around expectantly, their stomachs already protesting with hunger.
Du Xiaoying smiled as she watched the father and daughter, one tall and one short, carrying a basket as they approached from afar.
The four sisters stared at the baskets in their father and eldest sister's hands.
"Meat? Xiaowu seems to smell meat?" Wu Ya sniffed and moved closer.
Daya took out the food with a smile and said in a low voice, "Mom, Dad brought back a big piece of meat today and made pork stew with corn tortillas."
As the aroma of rice mixed with the aroma of meat wafted out, the mother and daughter couldn't help swallowing, took the bowls and chopsticks and started eating voraciously.
People are short of oil and water these days, so they are particularly sensitive to the smell of meat. They are so greedy by the tempting smell of meat that they swallow their saliva and stretch their necks in envy.
"Meat! Where does the smell of meat come from?"
"Who's eating meat? It smells so good!"
"Hey, Guoliang, what delicious food are you guys eating? It smells so good."
Song Guoliang said in a deep voice: "This is not a rush to harvest. We finally managed to cut two taels of meat. Cut two slices for each meal. It will at least give them mother a little oil and water."
The mother and daughter didn't say anything but just ate with big mouthfuls. It was a habit they had formed before the family split up. In the past, if they didn't eat quickly in the old house, other people in the Song family would find all kinds of excuses to snatch their food away.
A bunch of the old ladies were almost envious to death. Why didn't they think of marrying their daughters to Guoliang in the first place? Look how capable he is now and how caring he is.
The people around were full of envy, breathing in the aroma of meat in the air and eating their food in big mouthfuls.
"Hey, didn't the second brother's family give you two some meat as a filial gift?"
The Song family members' faces were uglier than each other. They gritted their teeth in hatred when they thought of that family who lost money eating the delicious meat.
Liu Lanhua kept swallowing her saliva, staring at the second wife who was eating with her bowl and chopsticks, and muttered in dissatisfaction.
"Second brother is really something. He doesn't even think about honoring his parents when he eats meat. What an ungrateful family."
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