After breakfast, everyone rushed to the threshing ground to gather and wait for the team leader to assign tasks to everyone.
Several people living in the courtyard also came on time. They were dressed similarly, all wearing straw hats, with towels hanging around their necks and water bottles on their backs, looking ready to go.
Li Cuihua rolled her eyes secretly. These people were really pretentious.
The walls of the granary near the threshing ground are covered with bright red slogans. It is estimated that the team leader Li Guodong had someone repaint them in the past two days.
So there seems to be a pungent smell of paint in the air.
Mu Yunxi's eyes lightly swept across the bright red slogans.
-------If you feel it is hard, think about the 25,000 Red Army soldiers. If you feel it is tiring, think about the old revolutionary predecessors.
-------Improving rural productivity is the focus of rural work."
-------It is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants.
Before Mu Yunxi finished reading the slogans, she heard the chattering of several aunts.
"Hey, I heard your son rushed to the commune to buy meat before dawn today. Did he get any pork?"
"I don't know yet. The people haven't come back yet, but I guess I won't be able to grab any. A few days ago, I went to the supply and marketing cooperative early in the morning, but when it was my turn, there was nothing left."
"Well, it's normal that we can't grab any. During this period of autumn harvest, everyone wants to cut down some meat to take home for some greasy food, but there is only so much meat, and we don't have any connections in the supply and marketing cooperative, so how can we grab it so easily?"
"Hey, that's right! My son saw that everyone was exhausted during the autumn harvest, so he thought he'd get up early today and try his luck at the supply and marketing cooperative to see if he could buy some meat to feed all the mouths at home."
"It will be fine after a while. The meat won't be so hard to get. Besides, in another month, our village's task pigs will be ready for slaughter. Then everyone will get their share of the meat."
As a few people were chatting, they saw the captain of the team coming to the front with several captains of the small teams.
The captain and the captains of several teams whispered to each other for a while.
Then they quickly dispersed and each went to organize the villagers who were sent out by their families to dry the grain, and assigned tasks to them.
Most of the villagers who came to dry the grain were women. After all, this job was not a big deal for the villagers who did farm work all year round.
The women who came to do this work found it much easier than working in the fields.
After the team leader assigned tasks to the villagers, he came to where the educated youth gathered and explained to them the main scope of work for the day.
After giving the instructions, he also gave some advice to the educated youth who were coming to the countryside later, asking them to form groups of men and women and work together. The men would pick the millet, and the women would harrow the rice in the threshing yard, so that everyone could have an easier time.
After the captain finished speaking, Sheng Zhiyi immediately turned to his partner and said,
"Xixi, you harrow the grain here. I'll go to the granary to pick out the grain. Come over and help me when I'm done."
Mu Yunxi nodded and said okay, then separated from Sheng Zhiyi and went to the room where the work tools were kept to get a bamboo rake.
When Mu Yunxi came to the threshing ground with a bamboo rake, Sheng Zhiyi also came over carrying the grain.
Mu Yunxi, who had more than ten days of experience in drying millet, was very adept at raking the millet.
The millet was raked very well from left to right and from top to bottom, and spread out very evenly for drying.
This threshing ground is not small. The millets are spread out on the ground to dry, and the ground is covered with golden color, like a golden ocean, shining in the sun.
The weather has been excellent these days, so as soon as the millet is fully exposed to the sun, a special smell fills the air.
That is the smell of autumn, the scent of harvest.
Everyone was busy turning the millet so that it could be heated evenly under the sun.
As the sun rises higher, the sunlight becomes more and more intense.
Everyone's forehead started to sweat from the heat.
The educated youth at the educated youth site rolled up their sleeves because it was hot.
Their faces and necks were burning from the sun. They wiped the sweat off their faces while working, and large white salt streaks appeared on their sleeves.
Soon, they felt thirsty and wanted to drink water.
Looking around, the villagers in the village are still working hard.
Although they were also very hot, they had long been accustomed to it.
Some villagers were afraid of getting thirsty, so they brought their own water to the threshing ground.
Some villagers also thought that they would find time to go back home to drink after work.
The educated youth living in the courtyard had made sufficient preparations before coming to the threshing ground, so when they were thirsty they simply picked up the water bottles they brought with them and drank water.
Mu Yunxi was also feeling a little uncomfortable under the sun, so she immediately went under the eaves to drink some water and rest.
She is not the kind of person who would work hard. After all, she doesn't plan to rely solely on these work points to make a living.
Seeing Mu Yunxi running to the eaves where the sun couldn't reach, and drinking water from the kettle, several people who were so thirsty that they wanted to jump into the river secretly swallowed their saliva-less mouths, and their eyes flashed with strong regret and desire.
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