When we arrived at the gathering point, quite a few people were already there, and more were gathering from all directions.
This was Jiang Wanwan's first time participating in the autumn harvest. She remembered that the original owner had also participated in an autumn harvest once, but at that time she was standing in the team of educated youth, thinking about how to let Du Jiaming escape the hardships of the autumn harvest, and did not pay attention to anything else.
In the countryside, autumn harvest is a big event, which affects everyone's food supply and whether they can have a warm and comfortable winter. Almost everyone who can come from each household comes, forming a large crowd of people.
Jiang Wanwan didn't know her location, so she just followed Lu Xiao. She was worried about being squeezed out by the crowd, so she simply grabbed the man's big hand.
Lu Xiao turned around and saw the uneasiness in her eyes. He then held her little hand in his palm and said, "We should break corn in the morning. Just follow me."
The Red Star Brigade is located in the north. The main crops are wheat and corn, as well as sorghum and various beans, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The so-called autumn harvest in the brigade generally refers to the process of harvesting corn and sowing wheat.
This was an era when people had not yet solved the problem of food and clothing, so everything was centered around having enough food. Two-thirds of the land was covered with grain crops, and the corn stalks had turned yellow, stretching as far as the eye could see.
After everyone arrived, the team leader gave a brief speech and began to assign tasks to each team. Each team then led its members to the assigned task site.
Jiang Wanwan naturally stood with the Lu family. There were several other families in their team. The team leader was named Wang, Wang Dazhuang.
The Red Star Brigade is not big, with about 100 households and four major surnames: Wang, Lu, Li, and Zhang. Among them, Wang is the most common. Jiang Wanwan knew that the branch secretary and the director of public security were both surnamed Wang. When she heard the team leader was called Wang Dazhuang, she felt it sounded familiar.
Lu Xiao whispered in her ear, "Team leader Wang Dazhuang and security director Wang Dahai are brothers. Wang Dazhuang's wife is also one of your educated youth, but she has been married to Wang Dazhuang for three years."
Jiang Wanwan couldn't help but look at the man. How did he know what she was thinking?
However, I do have an impression of Wang Dazhuang's educated youth wife Jiang Wanwan. That educated youth named Feng Huining came to the countryside with Cao Jiangtao and was one of the earlier group of educated youth.
These educated youth said that they responded to the policy of going to the countryside, but they could not forget their life in the city and held a glimmer of hope of returning to the city. How many of them were willing to really take root in the countryside and live here for the rest of their lives?
Didn't someone as steady, honest, popular, and upright as Cao Zhiqing also stand alone and guard that bottom line? So people like Feng Huining are really rare.
I heard that she started thinking about marrying a country man in the second year after she went to the countryside. Everyone knew that she couldn't stand the hardships in the countryside and wanted to get married to help share some of the burden.
At that time, many people were not optimistic about her marriage to Wang Dazhuang, and even felt that Wang Dazhuang was a big victim. He had spoiled his wife for several years, and when she returned to the city and left, he would be left alone. Even now, there are people waiting to see the two of them make a fool of themselves.
Jiang Wanwan thought about Feng Huining's gossip and suddenly realized that if she married Lu Xiao, would the man around her also be regarded as the second big victim by the villagers?
Lu Xiao felt that the gaze of the little woman beside him was somewhat malicious. He looked at her with a puzzled look. Jiang Wanwan smiled and hooked her finger at him. He bent down slightly.
A sweet and hot breath rushed over, and the voice was not loud but he could hear it clearly, "I won't let you be a big enemy. I said, I will only be your big enemy."
Lu Xiao actually understood the incoherent words. He straightened up uncomfortably and raised his big hand to straighten the little head. "Watch the road carefully."
Jiang Wanwan loved the man's awkward look. She grabbed his big hand again and scratched his palm.
In the crowd, Du Jiaming looked at two people not far away with a gloomy face, his hands clenched tightly and his teeth grinding.
Qiao Wenwan had been paying attention to the two of them, and saw Du Jiaming's reaction clearly. She was jealous to the point of going crazy, but her face still showed gentleness and helplessness.
"How could Wanwan do this? Even if she's mad at me, she shouldn't have implicated you, Brother Jiaming. You know exactly what kind of educated youth she is. She actually wants to send you to the police station. Does she really want to spend her whole life with that landlord's son?"
Of course, Du Jiaming didn't expect Jiang Wanwan to be so cruel. He thought that if he called the police, given his status in her mind, she would definitely go back to the educated youth site with him no matter how reluctant she was. He even thought that if she had to choose between Lu Xiao and him, Jiang Wanwan would definitely choose him.
She had been able to ignore him before and even went to Lu Xiao to marry him, but that was just because she relied on the fact that he doted on her and was being petty with him. She would never abandon him when the real problem arose. When the time came, it would be a good opportunity to arrest that Lu Xiao and take him to the police station, preferably locking him up for life.
He dared to have ideas about Jiang Wanwan. Even if nothing happened between the two of them, he would feel disgusted at the thought of Jiang Wanwan sleeping in the same room with such a dirty person.
But I didn't expect her to protect that peasant and even send herself to the police station. Has she really changed? How could she have changed?
Hearing Qiao Wenwan's words, she blurted out without thinking, "Since you know she's angry with you, be nicer to her in the future and don't always have ideas about her. Xiaowan has a good temper, so you can't always bully her."
Qiao Wenwan's eyes widened in disbelief. Was she bullying her? Was he blind? Not to mention, Jiang Wanwan had even asked her to take off her clothes in public a while ago.
Taking a deep breath, Qiao Wenwan raised her hand and wiped the corners of her eyes. "It's not Brother Jiaming's fault that he misunderstood me. I'm really weak. If I were working in the city, it would be fine, but life in the countryside is hard, and the work in the fields is heavy. It was also because I was loyal to her. When I heard that Wanwan was going to the countryside, I was worried that she would be bullied, so I signed up for the quota without thinking about my actual situation..."
Du Jiaming frowned at her and said with a look of agreement, "It's good that you know your situation. You are the same. Your family is much worse off than Xiaowan's. How could you raise a child who can't even lift anything? Don't you have so many brothers and sisters? Why are you even more spoiled than Xiaowan, asking Xiaowan to take care of you all day long? If you had known this would happen, you might as well not have come. You didn't take care of others and you only caused trouble for Xiaowan. And what about those clothes? Do you have nothing to wear or what? You have to wear Xiaowan's? Xiaowan is the most stubborn and the most concerned about face. She can't say anything if you take her clothes. Don't you have any self-awareness? How can you be so shameless?"
Now Qiao Wenwan couldn't even maintain the expression on her face. She stood there in a daze with a constipated look on her face, watching Du Jiaming's back as he left.
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