Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Are you moving out?
In the past, arranging production tasks every day was just a formality. The five teams of the Dongfeng Brigade had been determined long ago, and everyone knew what to do. But there were new educated youths here.
The educated youth were not as hardworking as the villagers, and the newcomers were even worse. They didn’t know how food was raised in the city and couldn’t even tell the difference between rice and wheat seedlings.
When the first batch of educated youth arrived, they had no experience. They thought that they were all intellectuals from big cities, so how could they not understand such a simple thing as working? So they were put directly on the ground to work.
My goodness, that's no different from letting a group of wild boars into the field. Not to mention that they weeded the wheat seedlings, digging sweet potatoes is such a simple thing, wouldn't it be better to just dig them out of the ground? I don't know how they did it, but they could accurately dig the sweet potatoes in half with one hoe.
They knew that this was not right, so they had to use a stick to dig a little at a time. However, this was too slow and they couldn't finish the work. So they switched back to hoes and dug up half a sweet potato at a time. They were so anxious that they stood on the edge of the field and cried. That was a really stressful day. They couldn't finish the work in the fields and had to coax these young people.
So the villagers learned a lesson. The newly arrived educated youth were not allowed to rush to start working. They had to find someone to start with and train them on how to weed and use a hoe. After a week of adaptation, they could officially join the production teams.
But it is also important to choose who to lead them. With such a group of losers, normal production tasks will definitely not be completed. The villagers don’t like this group of educated youth in the first place, and if they calculate centimeters based on the amount of tasks like usual, no one will do it.
So the team discussed it and decided that no matter how much the task was completed, the leader would be calculated at 7 centimeters per day. You have to know that a woman can only grow 8 centimeters at most even if she works her ass off every day. But now a group of new educated youth can grow 7 centimeters. What's the difference between this and picking it up for free? Therefore, guiding new educated youth became a hot job that everyone, especially women, competed for.
In the end, Aunt Daya stood out from the many contenders with her good mouth and aggressive attitude.
"Come on, come on, new educated youth, follow me." She walked in front with a smile on her face. The new educated youth looked at each other and followed her like a group of little chicks.
She walked to the field at the edge: "Today we are going to pull out all the weeds in this field. Each person will have one ridge of four centimeters. I will first teach you how to distinguish between seedlings and weeds. Don't be like those educated youth before and mistake seedlings for weeds."
While the little chicks were listening to Aunt Daya's small class, they were looking at the long ridge of field with a look of despair on their faces.
Han Zhenzhen cried, "So many."
"Where is it more? Where is it more?" Xu Daya, who was immersed in the fun of educating the city people, was interrupted and showed an unhappy look on his face. "This is the leisure work specially arranged for you to adapt in the first few days. You will have more to do in the future."
Han Zhenzhen felt as if struck by lightning when she heard this. She looked at her little leather shoes covered in black mud and pouted, about to cry.
But Xu Daya didn't let her cat piss out: "Come here, you crying kid, I'll teach you how to use a hoe first."
Han Zhenzhen's tears were held back and she continued to shed tears.
Their group was only given one hoe, and they were not familiar with using the hoe, so while Xu Daya was teaching Han Zhenzhen, the others were weeding in their own patches of land.
Song Ruan put on work gloves and set off. She had pulled weeds before, and after taking some body-strengthening pills, she was now full of energy and could go to all corners of the ocean to catch turtles. Although she pretended to be unfamiliar, at least she would not pull up seedlings as weeds like those who were really unfamiliar.
"You are a good girl. You may be a little slow, but you pulled the weeds cleanly and didn't make any mistakes." Xu Daya walked over with his big teeth bared. He looked at the place she had pulled the weeds and nodded with satisfaction. "Auntie was right about you."
"Come and learn a little from me," she said loudly to the others.
Xiang Hongying looked at her, pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, and lowered her head to pull the weeds coolly. She pulled out all the tips of the weeds that had just emerged in the ditch.
Since the two female comrades were so capable, the boys felt embarrassed to be left behind. Lin Xinping pulled weeds with a tense face. His glasses slipped to the tip of his nose because of sweat. He raised his hand and pushed them away, leaving a black mark on his face.
Only Han Zhenzhen was clumsily handling the hoe and picking away the weeds bit by bit.
Seeing that the scorer had not come, Xu Daya turned over and sat on the edge of the field, watching the young people pulling weeds. He took off his straw hat and fanned himself leisurely: It's so comfortable, I wish I could have such a good thing every day.
Suddenly, a hysterical scream sounded from the field, followed by the dull sound of a wooden stick hitting flesh, and finally the sound of someone falling to the ground.
Several educated youth stood up suddenly: "Comrade Han!"
Song Ruan was quick to drop her work and rushed over to hug Han Zhenzhen: "Zhenzhen, what's wrong with you?"
Hehehe, no need to work.
Han Zhenzhen had a big bump on her head. She felt painful, tired and aggrieved. When someone comforted her, all the grievances of the past few days mixed with her tears, like a broken dam, surged down.
The commotion here also attracted the attention of other local people, and the captain walked over with a sullen face and his hands behind his back.
Xu Daya: ...
"What's wrong?" She hurried over and looked at Han Zhenzhen, who was crying so hard that she almost fainted. She was so scared that her voice changed. "Why did she grow horns on her head?"
Lin Xinping, who was closest, considered his words and said, "Well, Comrade Han might be a little tired, so he threw down his hoe... put it down to rest for a while, and unexpectedly, an earthworm suddenly appeared and frightened him so much that he jumped back, and ended up stepping on the hoe blade, and the hoe handle suddenly bounced up and hit his head."
Song Ruan: ...
Xu Daya: ...
The captain who came over thinking something had happened: …
Even Han Zhenzhen stopped crying for a moment. She buried her face in Song Ruan's arms, and cried even louder as if to save her breath.
Team leader: He has lived for so many years, but this is the first time he has seen someone hit himself with a hoe. How dare he cry?
But what can we do about this delicate baby from the city?
He wiped his face helplessly: "We don't even have a barefoot doctor here. The nearest health center is in the commune. If your condition is not serious..." Then just bear with it?
When Song Ruan heard that her joint leave was going to be revoked, she pinched Han Zhenzhen's chin and raised her head to the captain.
Wow, it’s really a big bag, like a bull’s horn.
Han Zhenzhen's body was hunched over with her mouth half open, and she looked like she was about to vomit.
He changed the topic: "Then you can take a day off today. Then you can help her go back and take care of her for a while, and then come back to work in the afternoon."
Song Ruan put Han Zhenzhen's arm around her neck and half-supported her to stand up: "Okay, Captain."
Fortunately, Han Zhenzhen was still awake and able to walk. Although she was stumbling along the way, she finally walked back to the educated youth site by herself.
But she was indeed feeling uncomfortable and didn't even have the strength to speak. As soon as she got home, she lay down on the kang.
Song Ruan made her a cup of brown sugar water, which she drank with red eyes. She fell asleep soon after. In her dream, she was sobbing and calling for her parents. With the big bump on her head, she looked very pitiful.
Song Ruan didn't disturb her. She moved a chair and sat under the eaves to bask in the sun.
As the sun got higher, smoke began to rise from the chimneys of many houses. It was the result of the labor of some women who had come home early to make lunch.
Song Ruan thought for a moment and then stood up, taking the brown sugar with him to go to the captain's house.
Sure enough, the captain’s wife was one of those who came back early to make lunch.
She plucked a handful of peppers from her own plot, turned around and saw a young educated man standing at the door with a smile on his face. He was a little confused: "Who are you looking for?"
"Is this the captain's home?" Song Ruan tilted her body, revealing the brown sugar in her hand, which looked like it weighed more than half a pound. "I'm a new educated youth, my name is Song Ruan."
The captain's wife's eyes lit up, and she welcomed her in enthusiastically: "Yes, kid, come in and sit down, your uncle will be back soon."
Song Ruan smiled and stuffed a can of vanishing cream into her hand: "When I saw you, I felt like I saw my dear elder sister. This is the vanishing cream my sister likes to use. Would you like to try it too?"
The captain's wife was holding the vanishing cream and was flattered by her, and she was overjoyed: "Oh my, I'm already old, how can I still be your sister?"
As he was talking, the team leader came in with his pipe in his pocket, complaining as he walked: "Wife, you don't know how screwed those new educated youth are. This is the first time in my life that I have seen someone hit himself with a hoe..."
"You old man!" the captain's wife yelled, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Why are you so fierce..." The captain looked up in confusion and saw one of the "damned educated youths" he mentioned standing in the yard, staring at him, with a bag of brown sugar in his hand.
"Ah, this." The captain stopped where he was, a blank expression appearing on his dark face.
The captain's wife tried to smooth things over: "Xiao Song, the educated youth, wants to talk to you about something. You two can go inside and talk first. Xiao Song, I'll pour you a glass of water."
The captain nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, come in quickly, Song Zhiqing, what do you want to talk to me about?"
The steps had been given to him, and since he needed help at the moment, Song Ruan naturally would not insist on it. He followed him into the house and explained his purpose.
"You want to move out?" The captain was choked by the dry tobacco and shook his head repeatedly, speaking in dialect anxiously, "No, no."
Song Ruan quickly expressed his attitude: "Captain, I will pay for the materials and labor costs of repairing the house myself."
"It's not about money," the captain said, his brows furrowed with worry, he took a deep breath, and hesitated, "How can I explain this?"
Song Ruan asked again: "Is it a problem of housing land? Our educated youth camp does not have enough land to build another house. So, captain, please grant me a piece of land. If I return to the city in the future, the house will belong to the team."
"Oh, it's not about the ground."
"That's right. It's not safe for a little girl like you to live alone."
He was too embarrassed to tell him directly that our village party secretary was an old pervert and had just targeted you, and you didn't hide away but lived alone. This is just like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth, bumping into things and your face turning red.
Song Ruan understood, but her wits were not enough to buy a "Strength to Pull Mountains and Courage to Overcome the World" for the time being. She was reluctant to use it for demonstration even if she bought it, so she could only play dumb: "The people in our brigade are simple and honest, and their hearts are full of enthusiasm. If I really encounter any problems, everyone will help me."
Don't trust them too much, there are bad people among the masses!
The captain almost blurted out the answer, but hesitated and just waved his hands: "No, no."
Song Ruan was not giving up: "Or do you know some good people with empty houses that I can rent...borrow?"
Forget it, I am also worried. What if someone else persuades the village party secretary and he finds an excuse to go out? Then you will be finished.
"No, no, go back quickly and take the candy back." The captain thought for a moment and reminded him, "You too, stay with your fellow educated youths and don't wander around alone if you have nothing to do."
The captain's wife understood what was going on. She was reluctant to part with the brown sugar that was about to fly away, but also didn't want to return the vanishing cream she had just received. She gritted her teeth and pulled him aside: "Why not? Our nephew's house is so big, isn't it just empty?"
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