Chapter 19 The Cock and the Hen
It was said to be a drawing of lots, but teams eight and ten were eliminated.
After all, Team 8 already has Jiang Panyu, and Team 10 is full of little girls and children, so they can’t manage these educated youth from the city.
After drawing lots, each team was assigned a young intellectual, and then, under the leadership of the team leader, each team member went to work in the fields.
The task assigned to Jiang Panyu was to loosen the soil in the wheat field and catch insects. It was not a hard job, he just had to be careful not to hoe the wheat seedlings.
Jiang Panyu was brought by the team leader to Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei, who asked them to keep a close eye on Jiang Panyu and teach her more. After all, if one less seedling meant one less bowl of rice at the end of the year, and food was very precious these days.
Jiang Panyu smiled at Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei. They were old acquaintances that he had met on the train. Yang Guiying assured him, "Don't worry, Captain. I will definitely keep an eye on her."
The team leader left with peace of mind, and Jiang Panyu smiled and greeted the two aunts: "Nice to meet you again, aunts."
"Jiang girl, I didn't expect that you would end up in the same team with us. Take your stuff and do one for us to see. If you don't know how, I'll teach you how to do it."
The two aunts were very nice to Jiang Panyu because of the wonderful experience they had while gossiping on the train.
Jiang Panyu took the tools and started loosening the soil quickly and efficiently. She would certainly not make any mistakes on this. She also grew up in the countryside in her previous life and had been doing farm work with her grandparents since she was a child.
Loosening the soil was a piece of cake for her; she hardly even had to look at it. The soil was loosened and the nearby seedlings were not damaged.
The aunties watched for a while and found that the little girl did a pretty good job, better than some country girls.
It's just a little slow, but that's normal. As a little girl, as long as she finishes the task assigned to her, speed doesn't matter.
In fact, the team leader did not assign many tasks to Jiang Panyu. After all, Jiang Panyu's current appearance was really scary. If he really got sick from overwork, that would be troublesome!
Jiang Panyu worked slowly and finished in two hours. Others were still working hard in the fields, but Jiang Panyu could no longer bear it. Her vision was blacking out. She walked to the edge of the field dizzily and sat down. She fumbled for her water bottle and drank a few sips of the drink made with malted milk. After a long time, the blackness in front of her eyes finally disappeared.
Jiang Panyu took out a paper bag from her pocket, which contained a few crushed biscuits. She used them as a snack while working.
Jiang Panyu was eating the biscuits happily. Then she heard the sound of swallowing saliva behind her. She turned around and saw several children staring at the biscuits in Jiang Panyu's hand.
The eager expression was clearly written on their faces, and their noses were still sniffing the faint aroma of biscuits, but no one dared to ask for it, and no one even dared to get close to Jiang Panyu.
Jiang Panyu swallowed the biscuit and felt that the opportunity to infiltrate the inner circle of Lianshan Village had come. She passed a few bites of the biscuit in her hand to the children and said, "Do you want to eat? Come and take one each!"
The children's mouths watered when they heard this. The oldest one looked at Jiang Panyu and shook his head: "My mother said that we can't just take other people's food."
Jiang Panyu smiled amiably: "I'm treating you. Your mother said that because she wanted you not to steal other people's things. But it's also someone else's treat, so you can eat it."
"real?"
"Really? Come on, one piece each."
Jiang Panyu distributed biscuits to the children as he spoke. The children lost their reserve any more and squatted at the foot of the field ridge after taking the biscuits, trying hard not to be seen by the adults who were working there. Then they began to nibble on them carefully, just like little mice. After eating for a long time, the biscuit did not seem to have been eaten much.
Seeing that the team leader did not come over to assign her tasks, Jiang Panyu chatted with the children with great interest: "Whose children are you?"
"My brother and I are from Yang Guiying's family. The one over there wearing a straw hat and with a big mole on her mouth is my mother."
"I'm from Chen Lamei's family, and the one talking to Aunt Guiying is my mother."
"I am..."
Several children took turns introducing themselves, and Jiang Panyu also figured out whose children they were. These children were all the children of the women in Team 8.
Jiang Panyu still remembers that Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei had gone to the army to visit their sons. The eldest was old enough to serve in the army, and the youngest was still a child. It seemed that women these days really gave birth to children from the beginning to the end.
Jiang Panyu rested for a while, and the team leader assigned her another task of working on a piece of land. This time, when Jiang Panyu was working, there were a few more little tails around her, who helped Jiang Panyu very diligently.
Yang Guiying, Chen Lamei and several other women turned around and saw their children helping others with work, and they immediately felt that they had raised their children in vain.
Your mother is working while you are peeing and playing with sand beside her. You can't see that your mother is sweating and gasping for breath due to exhaustion.
Instead, he is being attentive to a young girl who has just arrived. Is it just because Jiang Panyu looks like a child?
Why is there such a big gap between people?
Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei naturally didn't know that several children had eaten Jiang Panyu's biscuits. Although the children were young, they knew that if you take something from someone else, you should be grateful. If you eat someone else's food, you should help them with some work!
Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei stood up and wanted to see why the children were so close to Jiang Panyu. When they took a few steps closer, they heard Jiang Panyu talking about something vividly.
Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei took two steps closer, and Jiang Panyu's voice came into their ears: "Once upon a time, there was a village with a big rooster who was particularly dishonest. He particularly liked beautiful little hens and often seduced the little hens to lay eggs for him.
But the big rooster's wife, the big hen, is very fierce. If the big rooster is discovered by the big hen, the big rooster will be plucked of a lot of feathers, so the big rooster has always been sneaky.
But one day, when the big rooster was playing with the little hen in the woods, the big hen suddenly came looking for the big rooster, and the big rooster panicked and ran up a tree.
That tree is very, very tall. If the rooster falls down, it will definitely get hurt.
Someone tried to persuade the big rooster to let him come down, but the big rooster thought that he must make the big hen forgive him, otherwise he would be beaten by the big hen if he came down.
So the big rooster shouted on the tree: Wife, I don’t dare anymore!
But because the tree was so, so tall, when the words reached the foot of the tree they became: Wife, I don’t want you anymore!
The hen was so angry that she jumped up and down, but she was afraid that the rooster would fall down from the tree, so she said: "Stop talking and come down from the tree first."
But when this sentence reached the big rooster in the tree, he heard this: Good man, jump down if you have the guts.
The big rooster was shaking with fear and shouted: Wife, I dare not look for the little hen anymore, I’m scared to death!
But the big hen heard it as: I am looking for the little hen, I am not afraid of death.
The big hen shouted: Come down first, I won’t stop you from looking for the little hen!
But the big rooster heard it as: If you jump down, I will beat you to death and then I will kill the hen.
The big rooster shuddered and cried out: I will never dare to seduce the little hen again, please let me go.
But the big hen heard these words: I am going to seduce the little hen, I don’t want you anymore.
When the hen heard this, she got angry and took an axe to chop down the tree. The rooster fell to death on the tree.
Before the rooster died, he was still thinking, he knew he was wrong, so why did the hen still chop down the tree, it was so unfair! ”
Several children were laughing so hard that they were staggering all over the place. Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei were laughing so hard that Yang Guiying started talking to Jiang Panyu: "Jiang Zhiqing, your story is quite interesting. You scholars tell Jiang's story differently. It's really interesting to listen to."
Jiang Panyu blinked and said: "I am not making this up, this is a true story.
I replaced the people with roosters and hens not because I was afraid of corrupting the children. ”
Yang Guiying and Chen Lamei's eyes lit up instantly, with that light that only spectators have: "This is really a true story, Jiang girl, please tell us what happened in detail."
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