He can ask the dormitory head or the brigade leader if he doesn't understand something. She has no obligation to waste her time for him!
Back home, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue took flashlights and went out. Actually, crayfish come out at night in April, but there are more small than big ones in April, so the two of them waited until May nights to go out and earn money.
Wenxi hurried to the kitchen to boil water for a bath. It was already getting a bit hot this season, and she had to take a bath every day, otherwise she would feel really uncomfortable. After she finished bathing, she would boil a pot of water and keep it warm in the pot so that the two of them would have hot water to take a bath when they came back.
Since she started growing watermelons, Wenxi no longer teaches Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui in the evenings. Instead, she has them come directly to her in the watermelon field and she teaches them in her thatched hut.
Under the pretense of teaching them how to grow watermelons, they made them attend classes in the watermelon field.
However, I can return to the city at the end of this year, and I do need to train a few apprentices. But I definitely can't train those two, because they are old enough to take the college entrance examination.
Wenxi has been in Fengshou Brigade for two and a half years, and will have been there for three years by the end of the year. Wenxi knows a lot about many people and things in the village. She knows that many women are not favored by their husbands and that many girls are not favored at home.
However, the women who married into the Fengshou Brigade were not actually from the brigade. If the watermelon planting techniques were taught to them, they might just be passed back to their own families. Not only would the brigade disagree, but Wenxi herself wouldn't dare to do that.
So she asked Captain Qian for ten girls around ten years old who hadn't found husbands or gone to school. Girls of this age work and do housework at home, and after a few years they'll be married off. Letting them learn to grow watermelons would also make their lives easier.
As for what happens after they get married, Wenxi doesn't need to worry about it, because by then the land should be distributed to individual households, and every family can engage in planting or raising livestock.
By then, watermelons won't be exclusive to the Fengshou Brigade; everyone can grow them, so Wenxi won't need to worry about anything.
That morning, Wenxi arrived at the watermelon field and saw ten little girls standing there nervously. Wenxi knew they had come to learn how to grow watermelons, so she said, "Don't be nervous. Working here is also about earning work points in the fields. The work is pretty much the same. Starting today, I will teach you how to grow late-ripening watermelons."
The wheat harvest is almost here, so naturally we can only plant late-maturing watermelons, while the early-maturing watermelons will soon be ready for harvest.
"Actually, early-ripening watermelons and late-ripening watermelons are the same variety; they just ripen at different times!" Wen Xi led them to a place where watermelons had not yet been planted and assigned them to Shen Jiaojiao, Jiang Yue, and Lin Yiwan. They were all young girls around ten years old, and she didn't feel comfortable leaving them with the male educated youth.
Moreover, the villagers won't let them off the hook just because they're young; they're not one to let anyone off the hook with their mouths.
After a day of rest, which was the second day of the gathering at the educated youth settlement, the newly arrived educated youth went to work with the older educated youth. They were assigned to various group leaders who would then arrange suitable work for them.
Xue Qiujun approached the brigade leader and whispered, "Brigade leader, I can support myself. It's okay if I don't have work points. Can I apply to cut pig feed?"
"Comrade Xue, our Fengshou Brigade no longer needs to cut pig feed," Captain Qian said.
"Huh? Is there no work to gather pig feed, or is the pool of pig feed gatherers full?" Xue Qiujun asked in surprise.
“Our team doesn’t need to cut pig feed,” Captain Qian said.
Xue Qiujun was very puzzled. Could it be that she remembered it wrong?
Aren't there many rich girls who, after being sent to the countryside, apply to cut pig feed because they don't want to work in the fields?
Gathering pig feed is easy; you only need to be busy for a short while each day, and you don't need to do anything else.
"Comrade Xue, if you don't want to work in the fields to earn work points, you can go to the pigsty to raise pigs. The Fengshou Brigade has raised thirty pigs and needs manpower," Captain Qian said.
Hearing about 'thirty pigs', Xue Qiujun was even more surprised. What kind of production team could raise so many pigs?
"Comrade Xue, are you going?" Captain Qian asked.
Xue Qiujun thought for a moment, then nodded, "I'll go."
Working in the pigsty should be easier than working in the fields. When working in the fields, there's no rest for a moment, but it's different in the pigsty. Once the work is done, you should be able to rest!
Afterwards, Captain Qian led Xue Qiujun to the pigsty and handed her over to the aunt who was in charge of looking after the pigsty. "This Comrade Xue has applied to work in the pigsty, so you should teach her properly."
"Captain, don't worry, I will definitely train Comrade Xue well," Wu Lihua said.
After Captain Qian left, Wu Lihua said to Xue Qiujun, "Comrade Xue, my name is Wu Lihua. You can just call me Aunt Lihua like everyone else."
"Aunt Lihua." Xue Qiujun understood that on someone else's turf, dragons had to coil up and tigers had to lie down. Moreover, she was neither a dragon nor a tiger, so she could only listen and obediently called out.
Wu Lihua pointed to the hay-cutting tool next to her and said, "Go over there and cut the hay to the same size as I cut it."
"Okay." Xue Qiujun nodded, walked over, sat down in a chair, bent down and picked up the knife to cut.
Wu Lihua reminded, "Wear gloves, otherwise your hands will be covered in cuts in a little while."
This grass looks very similar to corn. Corn leaves can hurt people, and grass leaves can naturally hurt people too, especially these young people from the city, who have delicate skin and are more likely to get scratched.
Xue Qiujun looked at the gloves, which were stained green and white with grass juice, with some disgust. But she also thought that if her fair and tender hands were scratched, it would be both painful and unsightly.
So what if it's dirty? I can always wash my hands.
The new educated youth were not in the same team, so they were assigned different tasks. Some were weeding in the rice paddies, some in the cornfields, and others were assigned to the wheat fields to help carry and bundle wheat and transport it to the threshing ground.
They were newcomers and didn't know how to do farm work, so the farm work they were assigned was different.
Feng Xintong went back to work for a few days after her maternity leave, and then sold her job. There were too many people in the Gu family, and they would definitely use the excuse that she was too busy taking care of the child to force her to give up her job to the Gu family. So she converted her job into money and put the money in her own savings account, which was safer.
From now on, Gu Ningzhi's salary will suffice for daily living expenses.
If the Gu family asks, she can just say that her job was taken back by her family. Surely the Gu family won't go to her house to look for her family!
The Lin family was quite surprised to see Lin Yihui appear outside the door. They had never expected him to return, and Lin Yihui had not informed them of his return.
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