Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Hard Struggle

The work site was in the fields, not in the village, and the educated youth did not need to go to the village, but could go directly to the work site.

There were more than 300 households and over 800 people in Wangjiagou Brigade, divided into four labor groups. The four educated youth were divided into two teams according to gender and were in different labor groups.

The first group has the most young men and they have accumulated the most work points per year. Most of the group members are between the ages of sixteen and fifty, but there are usually few who are over forty.

Due to continuous high-intensity labor, a person's physical age is often older than their actual age. After the age of 40, their physical functions begin to decline, which manifests as more or less physical problems, and has a significant impact on their life expectancy.

Of course, it's not without bugs.

Some people's health actually gets better and better with high-intensity physical labor. This is a genetic bug. They often have good bones, which is what martial arts masters like the most.

The fourth group is composed of middle-aged and elderly people and women with weaker bodies. In addition, there are some teenagers and girls under the age of sixteen, and children who can get 1 to 3 work points during the autumn harvest also belong to this group.

The second group and the third group have similar personnel composition, including both men and women, who can do all kinds of work. The work points they get are not as good as those in the upper group, but better than those in the lower group.

Han Jing and Xu Fei, as young men, were assigned to the first group; Ye Yu and Hua Feifei were assigned to the third group. When they were divided into groups, the captain took one more look at Ye Yu.

Han Jing and Xu Fei felt that they were highly valued and gladly accepted this arrangement. Hua Feifei was also very energetic. Only Ye Yu rarely showed any emotion on her face, and seemed to be calm and indifferent to everything.

Ye Yu once thought so. What kind of farm work is difficult for her? Is it harder than killing mutants?

Then she cracked! Open!

“…”

Rural construction was completely different from what the educated youth had imagined, which shocked them greatly.

In fact, we have already passed the most important and labor-intensive double harvest season in rural areas. For example, the main crops in the village, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans, pumpkins, and corn, have basically been harvested. It is not like the spring when there are many crops that need to be planted.

There is much less farm work.

But it doesn't mean there is nothing at all.

First of all, fertilizer is needed after the autumn harvest.

In this era, there are fertilizer factories specializing in the production of carbon, ammonia and phosphate fertilizers, but the output of fertilizers is still low and cannot be supplied to all rural areas. The vast majority of rural areas still use relatively traditional farm fertilizers, which are slightly modified at most.

The same is true for Wangjiagou.

Farm manure is mainly human and animal feces, including the pig pens and cattle pens in the team, as well as the toilets of every household. It is piled in three large pits on the ground, about 10 meters wide, 20 meters long and 3 meters deep. Water, straw, rotten grass, certain leaves and other ingredients are added to make a piece of manure. Once the farm manure is ready, it can be used on a large area in the spring.

“The success of crops depends on fertilizer”, as this familiar slogan shows, the importance of fertilizer to farmers is self-evident.

Although fertilizer is important, the work is dirty and tiring, and it is a double test of vision and smell.

There are also various small insects attracted by the farm manure. Some people start to feel itchy when they see them. Unfortunately, it is late autumn and the weather is getting cooler, so the number and variety of insects are relatively small.

Ye Yumin's sharp sense of smell and inhuman vision became a burden at this moment.

It almost broke.jpg.

Even if you secretly use space isolation, you cannot really lock yourself in the space. There must be a breathing passage. This place is ventilated on all sides, and there is more than one manure pit, so the smell cannot be blocked anywhere.

Or maybe it was because he was living too comfortably after being reborn. He wouldn't have even blinked an eye before. People tend to retreat in a comfortable environment. Ye Yu spat on himself with an expressionless face.

Two words:

"Weak! Chicken!"

The others who saw it for the first time were not much better. Hua Feifei was the first one to vomit. The meal she had this morning was wasted. She might have vomited up all the food she had yesterday. She definitely wouldn't be able to eat anything at noon today.

Han Jing and Xu Fei also vomited many times. Finally, Han Jing took the second step and Hua Feifei was left behind. Xu Fei was determined not to vomit, but his stomach kept churning and clamoring to refuse.

The villagers who were working together burst into laughter and said that the children from the city were just coquettish.

Han Jing once thought that he was a man of integrity. When he was a child, he served as a Boy Scout in his grandfather's military camp. Wasn't that just going to the countryside? It was nothing.

But at this moment I was slapped in the face.

Faced with the villagers' ridicule, the educated youth could not find any reason to explain it, because the facts were just like that, so they held their noses and tried to adapt.

But it's still a bit difficult.

In fact, the work of manure is not particularly hard, except that picking out the manure is a little difficult, but this is what we do all the time. Stirring and adding water are not too difficult. It’s just that the mental pollution is too serious.

Fortunately, the team leader just wanted the educated youth to learn about farm work and did not want to torture them. After they had seen the fertilizer production, he let them do the work they are actually responsible for today.

In addition to fertilizer, the autumn harvest is also the time to plant wheat every year. People who plant wheat may not be able to eat white flour, but wheat is also one of the important grains in the north.

Planting wheat requires land preparation, which mainly includes weeding and plowing.

Aside from extremely rare exceptions, the innate physical strength difference between men and women objectively exists. Women are mainly responsible for the first type, while men are mainly responsible for the latter two.

There was a shortage of herbicides in those days, and the wheat fields were overgrown with weeds.

Weeding requires skills. Weeding without skills is not only slow but also easy to get injured.

However, mastering the weeding technique is not the most difficult part. The most difficult part is that you have to bend over all the time.

After two hours, Hua Feifei had not done much work, less than one-fifth of the members of the same group, and some of them had not been completely removed and needed to be reworked.

“…”

Despite this, Hua Feifei was so tired that her back and waist ached, and she felt dizzy and it became difficult for her to squat again. There were many red marks on her hands from the weeds, and there were several bleeding wounds, so she smeared some herbal medicine on them.

"You city people are too delicate." Several aunties in the same group stretched out their hands. Their palms were full of old scars and knots.

Some people say: "When you work long enough and have hair on your neck, you won't feel the pain anymore."

Hua Feifei wanted to cry but had no tears. She didn't want to work, nor did she want to have ropes on her hands. At this moment, she suddenly missed home more than ever before, and her work slowed down.

Whether the villagers in the same group were sincere or not, they all tried to comfort the victim, but some people even made false statements in front of the victim. The villagers had little fun and liked to gossip, so the newly arrived educated youth would undoubtedly become the new protagonists of their gossip.

Although Ye Yu was in the same group as Hua Feifei, he was not in the weeding group. Instead, he went to the plowing group which could earn eight to ten work points, with ten work points representing food.

Her goal was simple, to spend the same amount of time and get as much food as possible. She took ten work points not because she could only take ten centimeters, but because the maximum she could take was ten work points.

The plowing group is mostly composed of young and strong men, with only a small number of women.

Because of her performance in losing points during the fattening exercise, many people questioned Ye Yu in the beginning. They all thought that she was overestimating her abilities. After all, judging from her appearance, Ye Yu was quite different from them and did not look like someone who could do this job at all.

"Comrade Ye, you have skinny arms and legs. You should go back and pull weeds. You're delaying the plowing time."

"Yes, yes, plowing the land is too hard and not suitable for you lesbians."

"The little girl didn't listen to the old man and suffered the consequences."

“…”

There were many people who spoke with good intentions, many who tried to please others, and some who spoke with frivolous eyes and insincerely.

Ye Yu ignored their stares, but she certainly hadn't gone down to the fields. Her eyes were looking at the villagers next door who were plowing the fields.

The main tool for plowing the land is a plow. One person controls an ox to pull the plow, or if there are not enough oxen, two people work together to pull the plow. The land is plowed back and forth twice, and then several people use a wooden rake to harrow the land over and over again to make it smooth.

People who plow the ground can get ten work points every day as long as they make no mistakes and rework; a few people who rake the ground can also get ten centimeters, but more people get about eight work points, depending on the amount of labor completed by each person.

Ye Yu immediately decided that plowing was more suitable for her, but she had limited plowing tools. She looked around, refused the help and guidance of several frivolous guys, and walked towards a woman with her back straight. She asked: "Excuse me, comrades, can I join you?"

This woman also wore patched clothes, had dark skin and a thin body. The difference was that her spine was always straight when she stood up. There were actually very few people with such a normal body posture in the village, much fewer than the number of people with hunchbacks.

A bit eye-catching.

Of course, Ye Yu noticed this person not because she had a straight back, but because she was the only woman present who was plowing the land with a plow, and a more difficult double-share plow, the kind that usually required livestock or two people to pull the plow together.

From the chapped and swollen backs of the woman's hands before winter, her clenched teeth and the sweat all over her body, it can be seen that she is using this not because she is particularly strong, but more because of her amazing willpower.

It's not that she couldn't choose to harrow the fields, but the wheat fields were limited after the autumn harvest, and she couldn't compete with other young people, and she couldn't get ten centimeters every time. Judging from the thinness of her clothes and the number of patches she had, her family conditions were also at the bottom of the village, and ten work points were very important to her.

The woman was a little hesitant about Ye Yu's request. After all, Ye Yu didn't seem like a hard-working person, and she didn't know whether she was helping or making things worse. She was able to get the plow thanks to the care of the new team leader and the women's director. Now she just wanted to do her best to do her job well and hold on even if she had to grit her teeth.

"No……"

While she was hesitating, before she could finish her words, Ye Yu had already touched the plow, and the woman's eyes suddenly widened.

Unbelievable!

Ye Yu only had one hand, which made her work much easier. Not only did she have more strength, but she also significantly improved the amount and quality of the plowed land in just a short distance.

It turns out that this female educated youth was not bragging when she said she was strong!

The woman was embarrassed and couldn't say her apology out loud. Ye Yu blinked at her knowingly.

Initial cooperation reached√.

The villagers who were watching had not expected things to turn out this way. Even the old farmers could not find any fault with the way they plowed the land. At this time, the village accountant came over and shouted, "Why are you standing there? Be quick. If you can't grow crops well, don't you want to eat?"

He was somewhat surprised that Ye Yu chose to harrow the fields, but seeing that she and the widowed sister-in-law Guihua raked the fields better than any man, he did not say anything. He was even quite proud that he had a capable female educated youth relative, so he smiled and nodded at her.

The fields soon became busy again.

In addition to land preparation, planting wheat also involves plowing, tilling, and fertilizing, which are all equally difficult procedures. The villagers' work is not limited to applying fertilizer and planting wheat. Before the cold winter comes, there are still many big and small things to do.