The young man ran over and took the thing from her hand.
"I thought you must be hungry after being up in the mountains for so long, so I cooked some food and also made a portion for the comrade from the county."
The young man took the pot and opened the lid to see that it contained brown rice porridge. He opened a corner of the cloth bag and saw that it contained sorghum steamed bread and two sweet potatoes.
He gripped the lid tightly, his face full of embarrassment.
"Mom, have you used up all the food at home? What will the little egg eat? I'm not hungry. I'll eat it with dinner when the food is delivered in the afternoon."
The woman saw her son was so thin that his eyes were bulging. She said with concern, "You work and you eat. We'll eat in the evening. Go and take it to the comrades from the county."
The woman pushed her son towards Lin Qingqing, and the young man took out two sweet potatoes.
"This is for you and Xiaodan." After saying that, he ran to find Lin Qingqing.
The woman sighed and put the sweet potatoes in her pocket, intending to leave them all for her eldest son's one-year-old grandson.
"Teacher Lin, my family brought us some food. It's past dinner time, so please eat."
He looked at Lin Qingqing in a bit of embarrassment. He was afraid that Lin Qingqing would dislike the food.
Lin Qingqing didn't look at the food in his hand and said with a smile, "We brought some food. Comrade Zhao went down the mountain to get it. You can eat it. Thank you."
Seeing that Lin Qingqing had a calm expression and was neither refusing nor looking down on the things, he took the things and gave them to the woman.
"Mom, Teacher Lin brought some food. You can take this home and eat it. I'll eat it tonight."
The woman hurriedly took the thing, glanced at Lin Qingqing, and then nodded.
Seeing the young people in the village squatting on the ground looking for something, she asked, "What are you doing? Can I help? There's strength in numbers. Maybe we can get ten pounds in less than three days."
The young man scratched his head. His mother was illiterate. Digging stone grass looked simple, but there were many things to pay attention to when starting out.
He said, "Really not."
The woman didn't believe it. She thought that after working in the fields all her life, she was not as experienced as the young boy.
"I'm not asking you. I'm going to ask the comrades in the county."
She walked over to Lin Qingqing, smiled warmly, and asked softly, "Girl, I see they are all busy. Is there anything I can do to help?"
Lin Qingqing saw the woman's expectant look and thought that she should go wash and dry the clothes.
"Auntie, please wait a moment."
She waved to Yang Guoli, who immediately ran over.
"How is everyone doing now?"
Yang Guoli reported one by one: "Everyone in the four groups is almost proficient, but finding the stone grass takes time, so each person has a small amount of it."
Lin Qingqing looked at the woman and said to Yang Guoli, "Then we can add more people now. Take me to identify the faith stone grass. If I can find it, you can dig it. It will be twice as fast this way."
She originally planned to make these people proficient today, and then they would teach the villagers themselves in the future.
The woman nodded happily, saying, "I can do it, I can do it."
The young man was also happy to see Lin Qingqing arranging work for his mother. He pulled the woman aside and said, "Mom, you should drink some porridge. How can you have the energy to work without food?"
The woman thought it made sense, so she opened the clay pot and drank several mouthfuls of brown rice porridge from it. After wiping her mouth, she went over to follow Yang Guoli.
As a result, people who work in the fields all year round have good eyesight and can identify plants accurately.
Yang Guoli showed the Xinshi grass to the woman, who remembered it immediately and started looking for it in front. When she found it, she called the young men in the village to dig it up, which made the progress much faster.
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