There are tens of thousands of workers in the town, and fruit is a rare commodity. In addition, with the members of the Shangfen Brigade, 20,000 to 30,000 catties of oranges are indeed not enough to go around.
Nowadays, growing oranges relies entirely on manual labor, with little fertilizer. A yield of 2,000 jin per mu is already considered very good.
Yu Rujia: "How much will our team members get?"
Huang Guihua: "According to work points, in previous years, 1,000 work points could be divided into seven or eight liang (a unit of weight, approximately 500 grams). This year the harvest is better. I heard that 1,000 work points can be divided into one jin (a unit of weight, approximately 500 grams). Our family can get five or six jin."
Zheng Dayang and Huang Guihua are both efficient people. The couple earns about 18 work points every day. Now it's the end of October, and they have accumulated more than 5,000 work points.
Yu Rujia arrived at Shangfen Brigade in July, and by the end of October, he only had a little over a thousand work points, enough to earn one or two kilograms.
Gao Shujing came in August and still hasn't earned a thousand work points.
The two of them together could only get two or three pounds of oranges.
Yu Rujia is the team doctor, and only those who are particularly naive would dare to offend her.
When the team members distributing oranges saw Yu Rujia, they proactively picked out a large, thin-skinned orange for her. Even when she tried to take Gao Shujing's oranges as well, they kindly picked out a good one for her.
Carrying her share of oranges home, Duofu and the others, who had been waiting, came around her with their short legs as soon as they saw her come in.
Upon smelling the aroma, the warrior Duolu eagerly grabbed an orange and was about to put it in his mouth when Duofu reached out to stop him, but Yu Rujia stopped him.
That kid Duolu always tries to put anything new in his mouth. He's suffered several times but still doesn't learn his lesson. Anyway, orange peels aren't poisonous. Yu Rujia, with a wicked heart, wanted to see the kid suffer again.
Sure enough, Duolu was soon stimulated by the unique smell of orange peel and burst into tears, spitting out saliva as he cried.
Duoxi, who had followed along while holding onto the wall, sat down on the ground next to the oranges. Imitating Duolu, she stretched out her two little hands to hug a big orange and was about to put it in her mouth when she was startled by Duolu's crying and lost her grip. The orange fell to the ground and rolled all over the place.
Duoxi looked at her second brother, who was crying loudly, at a loss, not understanding what had happened.
Yu Rujia laughed gleefully from the side.
Duofu glanced at his aunt, who was laughing so hard she was bent over, and then at his foolish younger brother who never learned his lesson. Resignedly, he took out a handkerchief and wiped the snot and eyes off Duolu's face.
Duofu said with her little mouth, "Don't cry. I told you a long time ago not to always put new things in your mouth, but you wouldn't listen. Now you're suffering again."
Duolu said, feeling wronged, "Auntie said oranges are delicious. She's mean and lying."
Duo Shou looked at him with disgust in her big eyes: "The meat is delicious, why don't you eat it raw?"
The two little ones are getting more and more eloquent; they can now utter several words in a row.
Duoshou's expression of disgust was too obvious, and Duolu couldn't cry anymore, so he pouted and didn't say anything.
Gao Shujing was fixing something when he heard Duolu's wailing and thought something had happened. It turned out that Duolu had been eating random things again. He glanced at Yu Rujia, who was all smiles, and knew that she was doing it on purpose.
Gao Shujing sighed. "Fine, since Rujia knows what she's doing, let Duolu teach her a lesson."
Duoshou picked up an orange with both hands, walked up to Yu Rujia, and handed it to her: "Auntie, have some."
Oh, what a clever little thing! He didn't know how to eat it himself, so he gave it to Yu Rujia to see how she would eat it.
Yu Rujia glanced at Duolu, who was still looking aggrieved, and wondered if, when the twins were born, one inherited the entire brain and the other the placenta? Otherwise, how could there be such a big difference between them, even though they both took the Enlightenment Pill?
If he hadn't taken the Enlightenment Pill, how stupid would Dorje have become?
Despite her thoughts, Yu Rujia still took the orange that Duoshou handed her and demonstrated for him. She first peeled the orange, leaving the pulp, then broke the pulp into segments and stuffed a segment into Duoshou's mouth.
The boy frowned slightly at the sudden sour taste, but was quickly won over by the sweetness of the orange and started chewing it on his own.
Yu Rujia popped a piece of fruit into her mouth. The naturally ripened orange was fragrant, sweet and sour, and crisp and juicy. She couldn't resist popping another segment in.
After finishing the orange in her mouth, Duoshou leaned closer and said, "Auntie, it's delicious, I want more."
One fed the other, and the aunt and niece were having a lively time eating. Meanwhile, Duolu, forgetting the irritation he had felt from the orange peel earlier, walked over with drool in his mouth and ate the piece of fruit that Yu Rujia was about to feed Duoshou.
Enraged, Duoshou slapped him.
The thick-skinned, fleshy Duolu was so attracted by the sweet and sour taste of the fruit that it couldn't spare a thought to argue with Duoshou.
Duoxi crawled over from the ground to join in the fun, grabbing Yu Rujia's hand that was holding an orange and trying to put it into her mouth.
Yu Rujia quickly pressed the little one down: "Don't rush, Auntie will give you some to eat right away."
Although Duoxi didn't let go of her hand after hearing the words, she also stopped trying to put the orange in his mouth. Instead, she hung on Yu Rujia's arm, staring at the orange with her big, cute eyes, drooling incessantly.
Since Duoxi is only nine months old, we can't feed him piece by piece like we did with Duolu and Duoshou.
Yu Rujia broke the fruit pulp into several small pieces and fed them to Duoxi little by little.
With a gentle push, the juice burst out, and upon tasting the new flavor, his little mouth moved even faster.
Gao Shujing washed his hands and came over. He peeled an orange and gave it to Duofu, who was still struggling to peel it: "Here, eat this."
Duofu happily took the peeled orange and handed him the half-peeled orange, saying, "Thank you, Uncle."
After comforting Duofu, Gao Shujing quickly peeled two oranges, placed them on a plate, and handed them to the stools in front of Duolu and Duoshou, who were eagerly waiting for Yu Rujia to feed them.
Gao Shujing: "Duolu and Duoshou, if you want to eat, take it from here. Rujia, you can eat by yourself, I'll feed Duoxi."
With someone willing to share the burden, Yu Rujia naturally stopped insisting on feeding the little brats and pushed Duoxi into his arms, saying, "Uncle, feed our little Duoxi."
With his food supply cut off, Duoxi recognized his number one human, stretched out his little hand to push him, and squeaked and babbled to urge him on.
Gao Shujing carried the child to a stool, took an orange from the basket, peeled it, broke it into small pieces, and fed them to the little guy, finally calming him down.
Taking advantage of a break, Gao Shujing ate a slice and praised, "It's very juicy and sweet. We have a lot of space in our backyard, so we can plant a few."
Some families in Shangfen Brigade also planted one or two trees. Those that grew well could produce dozens of kilograms of fruit each year, enough for their own consumption.
Duofu chimed in, "It's delicious! We can plant more. Then we'll have even more oranges to eat."
Upon hearing this, the foodie Duolu immediately drew his little hands and said, "Plant more, eat more."
Yu Rujia: "Okay, plant Duoduo. We'll water it a lot and then we'll eat a lot of it, okay?"
As a fellow foodie, she naturally supported their decision.
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