Lu Yan turned off the room light and came out, sitting on the sofa in the living room. She looked at Lan Qingyue with a puzzled expression, "Don't you need to take a nap?"
She woke up a little later than Lan Qingyue this morning, and she's already feeling a bit sleepy.
Lan Qingyue sat down next to Lu Yan and replied, "I have a habit of taking a nap at school, but I don't have that habit during holidays."
Lu Yan: "Hmm?"
Isn't she a female celebrity? She graduated a few years ago, right?
Lan Qingyue realized she had let something slip and quickly corrected herself, "I meant that I used to take a nap in school, but after I started working, I got so busy that I gradually lost that habit."
"Oh, I just turned on the fan in the room, so it's not so hot now, right?"
The temperature on the second floor is high. If you don't turn on the fan, you'll feel stuffy as soon as you enter the room. Turning on the fan beforehand will make a difference.
"It's not hot anymore, it's not hot anymore. You're so thoughtful."
"Hmm." Lu Yan remained silent again.
Lan Qingyue felt a little awkward and glanced at the living room. "Your mother isn't back yet?"
Under the scorching sun, one would be drenched in sweat just by stepping outside. Lu Yan's mother still hadn't returned. Thinking of her own parents, who were also busy with farming at this time of year, she wondered if they were still working in the fields under the blazing sun.
Thinking of this, Lan Qingyue felt a pang of pain in her heart, yet she was helpless.
Lu Yan nodded. "She hasn't come back. The harvester has arrived, and she's waiting for it to harvest the rice."
"I see."
Harvesting rice by hand is hard work. After combine harvesters appeared in rural areas, many people chose to use them to harvest rice. However, in a village, the fields are usually concentrated in one place, so only a few combine harvesters come. One combine harvester harvests the rice of one team, and another harvester harvests the rice of another team. The farmers have to wait in line. If the harvester leaves and the driver is nowhere to be seen, the harvester will simply skip over that field and harvest the rice of the next field in order.
Waiting for the combine harvester under the scorching sun is better than harvesting rice by hand, facing the loess soil with your back to the sky and sweating profusely.
Just then, Lu Yan's phone rang. Lan Qingyue moved a little distance away and didn't hear what was being said on the other end of the line. Lu Yan hung up the phone and said to Lan Qingyue, "I'm going to the rooftop to harvest the rice. You can rest."
"Is it going to rain?" Lan Qingyue opened the door and looked outside. The sky was a deep, clear blue, stretching as far as the eye could see, without a single cloud in sight. "Is the rice on the roof dry? Are you going to collect the rice from the roof and dry some new rice?"
Having grown up in the countryside, Lan Qingyue quickly understood this point. After all, her family often did this: the newly harvested rice would be dried in the sun as soon as possible, and as long as there was no rain, it would be completely dry in two or three days.
"Yes, I'm going to harvest the rice first." Lu Yan didn't say anything more. She ran to her room on the second floor without disturbing Chu Chu who was sleeping, took the wide-brimmed hat from the wardrobe, put it on her head, and ran to the rooftop.
Lan Qingyue closed the door on the first floor and returned to the room. Chu Chu was sleeping very well, nestled in the bed, her hand clutching her fleshy earlobe. Her little face was slightly distorted by her chubby arms. She was having a sweet dream. Her little mouth was slightly open and moving, with clear drool hanging from the corner of her mouth.
Lan Qingyue smiled without even realizing it. He took a tissue and gently wiped her mouth, then unfolded the blanket into a sheet and placed it by the bedside. He turned the fan down and quietly went out to the rooftop.
He said to Lu Yan, who was sweating profusely as she harvested rice with a shovel, "Ayan, let's harvest rice together."
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