The next morning, after having breakfast early, Lin Guoqing, as usual, took his third monkey, Lin Shuchao, and carried a large water bottle to work in the fields. Chen Chunhua put little Shumei in a backpack and carried it on her shoulders, ready to go out. She also told Lin Shuying not to go to class today and to rest for a day.
Lin Shu was the only one who was responsible for sweeping the floor, feeding the chickens, and removing pests from the vegetables in the yard. In the morning, Chen Chunhua had already put the food in the pot and could eat it right away.
People who go to work in the village can eat from a big pot. The third and fourth children are still young and can't eat much. The big people in the village usually turn a blind eye to children who are not old enough to go to school and come to eat for free. However, each person is only allowed to bring one child. If you bring more, you will be kicked out. So the couple always bring the two youngest children with them for lunch.
March is the time when everything comes back to life and it is a good time for spring plowing. It is also the time when the most work is done in the fields.
The men plowed the soil and weeded, while the women raised seedlings and prepared for transplanting.
When Lin Guoqing arrived with his children, team leader Chen Jinshui was already standing on the edge of the field and cursing.
"I'm going to call you beasts! You're not happy! You all just sit there lazily on the ground, and I'm not happy!"
Early in the morning, he was more energetic than anyone else.
Lin Shuchao stood beside his father and called out in a baby voice, "Grandpa Jinshui."
Chen Jinshui stopped cursing immediately and lowered his head to touch Lin Shuchao's head.
"Chaochao is here. There's no grass for you to play with today. Sit under the tent and play with the other brothers and sisters. Don't run around."
The land in the south is not as flat as in the north, so large agricultural machinery is not very useful. The village does not have it and cannot afford it, so the people who turn the soil are either old oxen or men who are about the same age as old oxen. And a week before turning the soil, the crop fields need to be weeded.
The weeds in the fields of Sihe Village have been almost removed. Today's task is to plow the soil. The plowing depth before spring plowing is required to be about 30-40 centimeters. After a winter, the soil in the field has become clumping and very hard, and the men have to spend a lot of effort to plow it.
Now everyone has a hoe, so children should just stand aside. What if they get hit by something while running around?
Lin Shuchao nodded obediently and sensibly at this moment. What will happen later...we can only talk about it later.
Chen Chunhua was carrying her little daughter on her back in the nursery shed, looking at the seedling area she was responsible for, and chatting with Aunt Wang next to her.
"Chunhua, you took two days off, and all your work points were almost deducted by that female bully in our team!" Aunt Wang's voice was very soft, and only she and Shen Chunhua could hear it.
"My daughter is sick, what can I do?" Chen Chunhua curled her lips, her words full of indifference. "I asked for leave according to the rules, and she can only deduct points from me according to the rules. If she does it recklessly! I will go to the team to ask for an explanation!"
Aunt Wang lowered her voice even more, and whispered to Chen Chunhua,
"You don't know! Yesterday, Yinling was deducted half a point!"
Cai Yinling, the hardest-working woman in their team, was well-known throughout the village. Just a month after giving birth, she was already back to work. Should she be deducted points for such a hard worker?
Chen Chunhua raised an eyebrow. She really didn't know. "What's the reason?"
At this time in her previous life, she was still busy sending her daughters to the county hospital. Later, the eldest daughter became ill, and the second daughter started to get sick again. After a lot of twists and turns, by the time the funeral was over, the second daughter had completely recovered, and it was almost the New Year.
In fact, from that time on, she basically stopped coming to the team to work. Later, the land was distributed to households, and she really didn't know what happened in the team later.
"Noisy!" Aunt Wang spoke even more excitedly when she saw her asking the question.
"She's still breastfeeding! Her sister-in-law also gave birth and said she had no milk. At first, she fed the baby rice porridge, but these past two days, she suddenly refused to drink the rice porridge and the baby is crying out in hunger. Her parents live not far away, so her mother brought the baby over and wanted her to feed him a few times!"
When Aunt Wang said this, she glanced towards the entrance of the shed on the side, and only continued after making sure that no one was coming. Her tone became more and more indignant.
"At that time, there was still half an hour before the lunch break, and Yinling went out to feed her baby twice and came back soon. The female tyrant accused her of skipping work and deducted half a point from her job!"
Chen Chunhua frowned. This was too unreasonable! People have to go to the toilet urgently. Those who escaped to the toilet for half an hour should not have their points deducted. Yinling worked diligently, but she should be deducted points just because of a mouthful of milk?
"Yinling didn't make a fuss?" she asked.
"Why didn't she make a fuss? She cried the whole afternoon!" Aunt Wang felt sorry for Yinling, "But who can blame her for being the captain's wife?"
The female tyrant is called Ma Fengjuan, she is in her early thirties this year. The production team leader Lin Fuqiang is actually almost fifty years old. His previous wife died of illness. Ma Fengjuan is his second wife and gave birth to a son and a daughter for Lin Fuqiang.
Perhaps because of the big age difference, Lin Fuqiang is very obedient to his wife who is a generation younger than him and gives her whatever she wants. Even though she is obviously not good at anything, he still made her a team leader.
After becoming a team leader, Ma Fengjuan began to show off her official power. Those who didn't know her would think she was the mayor. She walked around all day long with a teacup in her hand, as if she was on inspection.
She couldn't control the people in other teams, but she would deduct points from the people in her own team whenever she got the chance. Chen Chunhua had her points deducted several times.
Those who don't know would think that the deducted work points could be counted on her, but in fact she didn't get any extra benefits and was looked down upon everywhere. She was a typical example of harming others and not benefiting herself.
Chen Chunhua fiddled with the seedlings in her hands, rolled her eyes, and said in a cold tone,
"God is watching what we do. With her personality, she's going to cause trouble for Lin Fuqiang sooner or later. Just wait and see. It's not that I won't take revenge, it's just that the time hasn't come yet."
When Aunt Wang heard her words, she couldn't help but be shocked. Chunhua looked like she knew some inside story about Captain Lin's family.
But she didn't dare ask more questions. Curiosity killed the cat. Sometimes you should just listen to what the elderly say.
Instead, he turned to look at Lin Shumei, who was quietly playing with a piece of wood in the backpack.
"Your Shumei is so well behaved, she doesn't cry or make a fuss." Girls are really obedient, unlike those naughty monkeys in her family.
"Hey, how's Shuying's condition? What's wrong with her? Is her fever gone?"
When Chen Chunhua came to ask for leave that morning, her face was pale. If you didn't know, you would think she was sick!
"It's gone. It's mild pneumonia. She was on IV drip for two days. She's been taking medicine at home these past two days. I told her to rest at home for a few more days and not rush to go to school."
Aunt Wang nodded in agreement.
"Right, right, right. You can take your time with school. Your health is the capital of revolution! She's only a few years old, and there's no rush to take the college entrance exam!"
As we were talking, we suddenly heard a few children crying outside.
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