Chapter 009 First Work



Chapter 009 First Work

Wen Jiajia, who had been sitting on the bench in a daze for three minutes, was brought back to her senses by the aroma wafting from the pot.

The synthesis system didn't seem as useful as she thought. It might make her life a little better, but it couldn't make her rich and wealthy.

Well, let's just live our lives like this! Can it be worse than when I first came here?

Even if you can't make big money, can't you earn a little money occasionally to improve your life?

Wen Jiajia regrouped, took a deep breath, and got up to make breakfast!

It was getting light, but the sun was not yet out. I had to open the back door and the window to get some light into the kitchen.

The wood in the stove had burned out, but the charcoal still glowed like a firefly.

If someone had the ability, they could just stir the charcoal fire in the stove and light it without using a torch. But Wen Jiajia didn't have that ability, so she had to use a torch to light the fire again.

Use a small shovel to scoop out the charcoal from the stove.

After the charcoal is extinguished, it can be saved for use in winter. Winter in the south is also cold. Although it is not so cold that you need to light a stove or a kang, you still need to dry your clothes on weekdays.

Wen Jiajia was also thinking of making a stove with a clay plate, and then heating a ceramic pot, which would make it much more convenient to make soup in the future.

With a "bang", the stove door closed.

With a loud bang, the fire became fierce.

The warm bone soup in the pot became hot again. Wen Jiajia scooped out half of the soup and poured the rice soaked last night into the remaining meat soup. She planned to cook meat soup porridge.

As for the large bones, let them continue to cook, they are simmering.

Wen Jiajia went to the original owner's parents' room to get salted duck eggs.

Otherwise, why do people praise the commune leaders? It is true that the current leaders know how to get things done and do practical things.

The year before last, we proposed to generate income and develop side businesses to improve the quality of life of the members. At the beginning of last year, we immediately arranged the work. After approval, the Fuyang Brigade used ducks to generate income.

Thanks to a small wetland with dense water networks in Fuyang Brigade, ducks can be raised directly after being brought in.

We started raising them last year, and they began laying eggs in the middle of the year. By the end of the year, they were laying a large number of eggs. The Wen family received at least a hundred eggs. We pickled two jars of eggs in the room, and there is still one and a half jars left!

The duck eggs are pickled with wine lees. Remove the red wine lees, take two burning firewoods from the stove to the backyard, place stones of similar height on the left and right, put the newly made pot in it, pour water and bring it to a boil, then put the washed salted duck eggs in the pot and cook them. When they are cooked, the meat soup porridge is also cooked.

Wen Jiajia cut some Chinese cabbage and put it in the pot, then simmered it, and the breakfast with oil, vegetables and staple food was ready.

The two girls are so happy!

Perhaps because he had become more familiar with Wen Jiajia, his emotions became more and more open in front of her.

Wen Xuan washed her hands quickly and ran to the stove. She hugged Wen Jiajia's legs and looked up and said, "Auntie, it smells so good!"

"You can only say 'delicious'!" Wen Jiajia lifted her up like a chick, "Sit down nicely, I'll serve you some porridge, meat soup porridge!"

Speaking of the three bowls, one for each person, there was still two-thirds of the food left in the pot.

I used a cloth to hold the egg and cracked it. The egg was juicy and golden, and it tasted good.

She was no longer in a hurry to drink the porridge, and first scooped a spoonful of salted egg yolk for herself to taste it.

The two girls could not resist the temptation of the meat soup porridge. They put it in their mouths despite the heat and took a sip. Before they swallowed the porridge, the spoon was brought to their mouths again.

"It's so delicious!" Wen Chun said happily, with his chin resting on the edge of the bowl, and his pear vortex was so delicious that it was visible.

There isn't much meat on the bone, but there is bone marrow.

Wen Jiajia used chopsticks to dig out the bone marrow, mixed it into the porridge, and mixed it with a small amount of lean meat. The taste was definitely incomparable to rice soup and vegetable porridge.

Wen Chun swung her legs and turned to ask, "Aunt, are we going to eat this porridge tomorrow?"

Wen Jiajia: "No, I won't eat it tomorrow. I'll eat something else."

She wanted to go see if there were any eels or loaches to catch today. If not, she would eat amaranth cakes tomorrow. She found a lot of wild amaranth in the backyard, which were very tender.

After that, each of them picked up a chopstick of salted duck eggs and urged them, "Eat quickly. After you finish eating, I will send you to school."

Wen Xuan immediately raised her hand: "No need, Auntie, Teacher Chen will take us there."

Wen Jiajia: "Who is Teacher Chen?"

"It's Teacher Chen."

Okay, Baiwen.

Wen Xuan really didn't lie. Wen Jiajia was standing in the front yard looking into the distance, wondering if anyone was going to work, when she saw a girl in a white shirt, black pants, and two braids walking towards her.

"Are you Wen Chun and Wen Xuan's aunt?" The girl looked very straightforward and was the first to speak. "I'm Chen Ai from the Youth Home. I work in the nursery."

Wen Jiajia understood immediately that the teacher was taking special care of the two girls.

"My name is Wen Jiajia. Sorry to trouble you. Thank you very much." Wen Jiajia said with a smile, thinking in her heart that she could give her some salted duck eggs as a token of her thoughtfulness.

The villagers here can make salted duck eggs, but it must be very difficult for the educated youth.

Because salted duck eggs require wine and distiller's grains, it is easy for villagers to buy them from the winery, but it is difficult for educated youth.

Wen Jiajia handed the two children over with confidence, then put on a straw hat and went to work.

It turns out that these days there is no need for group training before starting work. Everyone has to go to the warehouse to get tools and go to the designated location to work.

Normally, that is, when it is not time to rob, it doesn’t matter whether you work fast or slow, as long as these tasks are completed within the specified time.

If you get 10 work points, you will be assigned more areas. If you get 3 work points, you will have less work to do.

Along the way, Wen Jiajia thought about it again and again, and she decided to set a small goal first.

Well, just take 3 work points to test the waters.

If not, take 2 work points!

"Two work points!" Fang Baoguo was shocked. "Two six- or seven-year-old kids in our team can earn two work points just by cutting pig grass for most of the day."

"Really?" 2 work points didn't seem easy to get, so Wen Jiajia hesitated and said, "Then 3 work points will do."

Wen Jiajia, who is well aware of the broken window effect, first mentioned 2 work points and then 3 work points.

Fang Baoguo said "Ouch", frowned and scratched the back of his head: "I'm really in a dilemma. Where can I find a job for you that pays 3 work points? Let me think about it."

After thinking for half a minute, Fang Baoguo pointed to the east and said, "Why don't you go pick some peanuts? The spring peanuts are in season today, and it's an easy job. A six-year-old child or a sixty-year-old man can do it."

A job that didn't require paving the ground sounded quite easy, so Wen Jiajia happily agreed.

She walked along the path in the field all the way to the peanut field, observing the crops on both sides.

The most commonly planted crop in Fuyang Brigade is rice, and it is planted twice a year.

The summer rice will be harvested soon. Now the rice is almost mature, the degree of its bending is increasing day by day, and the grains are becoming fuller all the time.

In addition, crops such as peanuts and soybeans are also grown.

Looking up the mountain in the distance, we can see that even oranges are grown. Below the orange slope is a huge sugarcane field, waiting to be eaten at the end of the year.

The peanut field is not far away, on a terrace.

"Jia Jia, how much land will you get?" The team leader in charge of this area asked loudly while standing on the top of the hill.

Wen Jiajia was rarely embarrassed: "3 work points."

"Oh! That's really too little. If you only take 3 work points, you can finish weeding this small hill in two days." Someone said.

Wen Jiajia believed it to be true, she put on her labor protection gloves and started pulling.

This pair of labor insurance gloves was brought back by the original owner. In addition to folding matchboxes, the original owner also worked in a furniture factory for two weeks. The factory workers saw that she was young and gave her a pair of gloves. The original owner has kept it well.

You have to bend over to pull the peanuts. The wetter the soil, the easier it is to pull.

Wen Jiajia grabbed a handful of peanut seedlings, pulled them out with a little force, shook them a few times to shake off some of the dirt attached to the peanuts, and then put them on the ground to dry.

In fact, this job doesn't require much technical skills, it just requires hard work.

It felt easy when she was pulling out the first acre of land, and she still had some strength left when she was pulling out the second acre of land. But when she was pulling out the third acre of land, Wen Jiajia began to feel backache and numbness and weakness in her legs.

Due to long-term repetitive bending of the waist and exertion of force on the legs, these two parts of the body are the most affected.

"Why!"

She squinted her eyes, and the sweat flowed into her eyes from her eye sockets, causing a stinging pain. She wanted to rub her wrists, but her wrists were also covered with sweat.

Wen Jiajia had no choice but to sit down and rest, took off her gloves, and wiped her face with the towel hanging around her neck.

She had the foresight to bring a towel.

Wen Jiajia gulped down some water. It was light salt water, very suitable for drinking after sweating profusely.

The villagers on the nearby slope watched with great joy.

Even when the farmers were chatting, they did not stop working. They just bent over and chatted:

"Wen San is a very capable kid. He's more capable than the newly arrived educated youth." Someone laughed, "He does farm work well and can plough three acres of land in one breath. It's safe for him to get five work points."

Don't underestimate five work points. At that time, the men in the team generally got eight to ten work points, and some weaker ones only got six or seven centimeters.

Women get five to eight work points. On the one hand, women are not as strong as men, and on the other hand, women are tied to housework and childbirth. There are also many women in the village who get five work points. What does five work points mean? It means that it is enough to support themselves. When arguing with their husbands, they can stop and say, "I don't rely on you to live. I earn enough to feed myself!"

"Team leader Fang Duotian is a big talker, but this time his talk paid off. If he only got three work points, it would be fine if he could finish picking all the peanuts in three days, but he insisted on two days."

"Look at what you said. Young people can't make progress without pushing themselves."

"How can they be called sisters? Wen San, who is so energetic at work, looks quite like her second sister."

"Hey, who was the guy her second sister had before? Logically, Xuanxuan from the Wen family should be raised by him."

"Who knows? If you want to know, go to the Youth Educated Office. The Wen family is a whole family of honest people. If I were in his place, would I let him go? I would not be done until I broke his leg with a stick."

That's the let-go rabbit, once you let go you can never get it back.

They were chatting happily, and at the end the noise was so loud that Wen Jiajia could hear a few words from time to time.

Are you talking about my idle talk, or are you talking about my family's idle talk? Don't keep your voice down.

Wen Jiajia was angry and picked the peanuts faster and faster.

The original owner's body was far better than she thought. Although he was extremely tired, he could still hold on.

Wen Jiajia even had time to think: Can I get a stool and tie it to my waist? This way I can sit while picking peanuts, saving at least half the effort, and my waist and legs won't be so sore.

Don't mention it. I'll really have to think about it carefully when I get home.

The sun broke through the clouds, and the dew on the peanut seedlings disappeared after being exposed to the sun.

This peanut field is a windy place. With the straw hat on and the wind blowing so hard, it was really hot.

By noon, she was extremely hungry.

The two bowls of meat porridge she had in the morning were not enough to sustain such heavy work. Wen Jiajia drank up a whole pot of water and only then did she manage to hold on until now!

You have to know that it was a 1.5 liter water bottle, which she filled up with it! Even that was still not enough. After drinking it, she didn't even go to the toilet for the whole morning, and she only metabolized it into sweat.

That’s why they say farmers suffer the most in every era. Their suffering is indeed worse than soaking in bitter water.

"Wen San, go home and have dinner!"

Someone called her.

Wen Jiajia sat half-dead under a big tree next to him, with his back against the trunk, not even having the strength to say "OK".

Passing by her on the way downhill, the uncle said, "You are so impressive! You have already cleared 40% of the land this morning."

The auntie said: "After all, he is a farmer's child, born with talent! Let's work harder this afternoon and finish weeding this area."

Fang Duotian was the last to come down. He smiled and said with great satisfaction: "Not bad, you got 6 work points for a 3 work point job. Young people can't help but be motivated. From now on, you will be counted as 6 work points."

Wen Jiajia was dumbfounded: "That won't work!"

Even if I don’t die, I will still be depressed!

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