Chapter 23 Peanut Picking + Energy Absorption

The next day, Su Mo changed into blue work clothes, put on Liberation shoes, and went to work with the educated youth.

Today was still peanut picking. According to the team leader, there were not many peanuts, and the work would be completed in another three or two days. Then it was a matter of drying and storing them in the warehouse, and then handing over the public grain, settling the work points, dividing the grain and money, and killing the pigs for meat.

In short, after being mobilized by the team leader, the villagers who had been exhausted after more than a month of autumn harvest were full of energy again, and they were all very energetic.

After all, the farmers worked all year round just for this time to divide the grain and money. In addition, this year the new water conservancy project of the brigade began to be used, and the brigade planted several times more fine grain than in previous years, and the harvest was very good. Their work points should be worth a lot.

Many aunties started discussing on the way what they should buy after dividing the money.

When passing by another drying field in the brigade, Su Mo found a group of men holding something that looked a bit like diving flippers, hitting the wheat on the ground, and a few uncles were driving donkeys and pulling stone mills in circles.

Su Mo was a little curious, could this be the legendary threshing of wheat?

So she whispered to Ma Xiaojuan: "What are they doing?"

An old lady with sharp ears happened to hear it and explained: "They are threshing wheat. They have to thresh the wheat and dry it before packing it into bags and storing it."

"What are they holding? Can they thresh all the wheat like this?"

"That's called a flail. It's not that easy to thresh wheat. First, use the flail to beat the wheat on top, then pick off the wheat straw on top, and then continue threshing and picking. After the big wheat straw is picked dry, they have to use a wooden winnowing field to winnow the wheat husks and short grass, and the remaining full wheat can be taken out to dry." The old lady explained enthusiastically.

"It's really hard work!" Ma Xiaojuan sighed.

"The wheat is growing well this year, so it's okay to work a little harder. The worst thing is that it doesn't grow well, and all the hard work all year long is in vain." The auntie said with a smile, obviously very satisfied with this year's harvest.

When they arrived at the place, the team leader began to assign tasks, and Su Mo was the last to be assigned.

Looking at the small piece of land in front of her, Su Mo was stunned.

Although she was not sensitive to these measurement units such as mu and fen, she could see that this piece of land was definitely no more than one fen.

"Team leader, why do I get so little?"

Team leader Lu Guoping shook his head awkwardly, "Well, Brother Changzheng asked me not to give you so much."

Lu Guoping has been Lu Changzheng's follower since he was a child, and he listens to him very much. Even when Lu Changzheng went to the army, he would write to ask Lu Changzheng's opinion when he encountered problems.

Su Mo: ...

"Don't listen to him, just divide it as you want, otherwise how can I earn work points with such a small piece of land?"

Just kidding, she was still waiting to absorb energy, with such a small piece of land, she might as well go to the side to pull weeds.

In the end, Lu Guoping couldn't persuade Su Mo and gave her three-tenths of the land. Lu Guoping estimated that this was her limit, and maybe Brother Changzheng would have to come over to pull most of it later.

After Lu Guoping left, Su Mo squatted down to pull peanuts.

She grabbed the peanut vines close to the ground and absorbed the wood energy inside. The first few plants were a little dry because of the energy absorption. Later, I gradually mastered the degree. Each plant absorbed about one-third of the energy. In this way, the peanut vines look the same. Even if they look a little dry, people will think they are exposed to the sun.

Su Mo pulled while absorbing energy. The sandy soil that Lu Guoping originally allocated to Su Mo was easier to pull.

Soon, Su Mo pulled out a large area.

When Lu Guoping pulled peanuts for a while and got up to see if the team members were lazy, he found that Su Mo had pulled out a large area, and it looked not much worse than his.

It is not so easy to be a team leader these days. Not only do they have to take the lead actively and do the work quickly and well, but they also have to supervise the work of the team members to prevent anyone from cheating and damaging the collective interests.

Every day, they are the first to come and the last to leave.

Lu Guoping was elected as the team leader by the villagers because he worked quickly and well.

Lu Guoping blinked in disbelief and found that it was indeed a large area.

Could it be that Brother Changzheng was here just now?

But he looked left and right and did not find any trace of Lu Changzheng.

During the time he was observing, Su Mo pulled out another small piece of land. Lu Guoping then believed that it was really Su Mo who pulled it out herself.

Lu Guoping was shocked!

His brother Changzheng is really amazing. In just a few days, he transformed a backward worker into an active worker.

If his brother Changzheng came back to be the team leader, their team would have been an advanced team long ago.

When Lu Changzheng came over, he found that Su Mo had pulled out a large area of ​​land. He was a little unbelieving. He hurried over and whispered, "Wife, did you pull all this?"

As soon as Lu Changzheng approached, Su Mo immediately stopped absorbing energy.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"My wife is really amazing." Lu Changzheng hurriedly praised.

You can't judge a person by his appearance. He thought she was delicate and not suitable for farm work, but now he sees that her pulling speed is not slower than his mother.

"I don't need you to help me pick them, just carry them to the sun-drying area at the brigade headquarters."

Picking peanuts is not just about picking them, you also have to carry them to the sun-drying area for the aunties to pick. The tender peanuts will be collected and fed to the donkeys and cattle of the production team in winter, and the others will be dried and distributed to everyone for making fire.

Lu Changzheng quickly bundled the peanuts on the ground, carried a bundle on each end of a bamboo pole, and went to the brigade headquarters with his speed.

Seeing this, Lu Guoping's little fanboy was full of praise in his heart.

His brother Changzheng was really the best at everything he did.

Lu Guoping also carried his own bundle of peanuts and followed Lu Changzheng.

Seeing that some people had come back from picking peanuts, the children in the village who had been waiting for a long time set out one by one with their small bamboo baskets.

When picking peanuts, there will always be some left out in the fields, so the children go to the fields to pick up these remaining peanuts. The picked peanuts can be taken to the brigade to exchange for work points, or they can be taken home to eat.

In the past, some aunts would deliberately leave out some for their own children to pick up, but after being severely punished several times, this behavior of fleecing socialism gradually disappeared.