Chapter 13 A Difficult First Day
"What did you do? How did it become like this?" Zhou Ziwen looked at the two girls with some amusement.
"Pulling weeds is so hard! Look, my hands are all broken! And the team leader complains we're not working too slowly. It's so infuriating..."
Chen Qiaoyi complained to Zhou Ziwen with a sad face, and her aggrieved look was so heartbreaking.
"Who told you to work hard? If you can't do it, you can just slack off!"
"As the old saying goes, you don't punish the diligent, you don't punish the lazy, you only punish the blind. You can learn from those aunties and ladies, see how they work, learn from them how to work and how to be lazy." Zhou Ziwen was a little amused. These two girls were too honest.
In the past two days, he has established good relationships with those aunties and grandmas, and also learned some little tricks, such as slacking off or taking a break when he is tired from work.
Of course, there are skills to being lazy. You can’t be too different from others, otherwise you will be easily noticed.
The best way, of course, is to work hard, but the Chen sisters are new here and have never done farm work before, so they naturally cannot compare with these villagers who have been working for a long time.
But you can always learn something by observing other people working.
Hearing this, Chen Shiying and Chen Qiaoyi both nodded in agreement.
They suffer from lack of skills and do not know the techniques for doing the work, which is why they have to work so hard.
"Well, I will definitely observe those aunties carefully in the afternoon to see how they work, and it would be best if I could learn their skills." Chen Qiaoyi stretched out her hand and grabbed, as if she could grab the working skills in this way.
"How are things over there?" Chen Shiying asked with concern.
"I'm fine. After all, I'm a man and I'm in good health. I can still hold on." Zhou Ziwen raised his hand to show the muscles on his arm, looking very strong.
"That's good. I heard that your team four has a heavy workload, and I was worried that you couldn't hold on!" Looking at the strong muscles on Zhou Ziwen's arms, Chen Shiying's ears blushed, and then she said nonchalantly.
"Okay, okay, let's go back quickly. I'm starving." Chen Qiaoyi urged.
When we got back to Uncle Wu's house, Aunt Chen was busy cooking.
Sister Chen wanted to help, but they were unable to do so. While weeding today, both of their hands were cut. They felt pain at the slightest movement and were unable to work at all.
"Haha, you guys just take a rest. You don't need to help. I'm here in the kitchen." Aunt Chen pushed them out with a smile.
"Yes, go and have a rest. Aunt Chen will be cooking for you!"
"You have never done farm work and haven't adapted to it yet. It will be fine after a while." Wu Dagang also said.
He still has a good impression of the two little girls. He has been busy at home these two days and is not lazy at all.
After all, she is a girl, and she doesn't do farm work, so she can't be as rough as boys.
Thinking of this, Wu Dagang took a special look at Zhou Ziwen.
He had heard about Zhou Ziwen's performance today, but he didn't expect that this kid was really not bragging and could keep up with the villagers' pace on the first day of work.
I heard that the captain of Team 1, 2 and 3 wanted to recruit him to his own team, but he was scolded back by Captain Zou of Team 4 as soon as he opened his mouth.
This is a talent that he had finally managed to get, how could he let it go?
He decided to train Zhou Ziwen as a capable person in the future.
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While the meal was not ready yet, Zhou Ziwen decided to take a bath in the river near the Youth League Institute.
I sweated a lot this morning and felt sticky. I couldn't stand it without washing.
Anyway, he is a grown man, he can just go to the river to wash, and he doesn’t have to worry about exposing himself.
A few minutes later, Zhou Ziwen arrived at the river and quickly resolved the battle within five minutes.
When he returned, he took a look at the house under construction.
A pair of adobe bricks and stones have been placed on the empty lot where the house will be built.
Most of the foundation has been dug. At the current rate of progress, it will probably be completed in a few days.
Zhou Ziwen was looking forward to moving into his own house as soon as possible. After all, staying in someone else's house was never as convenient as living in one's own home.
When we got back to Uncle Wu's house, the meal was almost ready.
While eating, the Chen sisters' hands were shaking when they held the chopsticks, and they even had difficulty picking up the bowls on the table.
Seeing the two sisters almost crying in pain, Zhou Ziwen felt a little distressed, but there was nothing he could do.
In the countryside, this kind of life will become their normal state in the future. Once they get used to the first few days, there will be no problem afterwards.
Fortunately, the Chen sisters are not self-pitying people. Although they feel that life is hard, they do not give up.
After dinner, Zhou Ziwen lay on the bed and took a nap.
I worked for a whole morning and although I wasn't very tired, I still needed a break.
The sun outside is very strong now, and there is nothing else to do except sleep.
Perhaps he did a lot of work in the morning, and he fell asleep as soon as he lay down on the bed.
Only when he heard the sound of the gong did he open his eyes, get up and go to work in the fields.
The work in the afternoon is the same as in the morning, continuing to clear the land.
However, compared with the morning, the big guy's movements were obviously slower.
First of all, people are most energetic in the morning and are more motivated to work.
After working for half a day, I had exhausted a lot of energy. Even after taking a short break at noon, I couldn't recover at all.
Secondly, the sun was scorching outside, and even before I moved much, beads of sweat started dripping down my body.
In this case, how can I concentrate on work?
Every once in a while, they would go to the shade to drink water or run to the toilet.
Even if I work, I don't have as much energy as in the morning.
The team leader also knew the current situation and did not rush everyone. He basically turned a blind eye and gave everyone time to rest.
But everyone knew what was right and wrong, so they would take a short break and then go back to work. When they got tired, they would run to the side to rest for a while.
Seeing this, Zhou Ziwen also followed the local customs. He was lazy when he should be lazy and worked when he should work. He neither rushed ahead nor fell behind.
When I had free time, I would chat and brag with everyone. In an afternoon, I became familiar with everyone.
Originally, everyone had some prejudice against the educated youth, but Zhou Ziwen proved with his actions that he was different from other educated youth.
In the production brigade, being capable is a skill.
If you have the ability, you will get everyone's respect.
Although he was an educated youth, Zhou Ziwen had already gained everyone's recognition and everyone was willing to interact with him.
Older men have more topics to talk about and are more gossipy.
Of course, the ones who talked the most were definitely women.
For example, which girl in the village is pretty, which wife is pretty...
Of course, there were also people talking about Zhou Ziwen, asking him if he wanted a wife, and if so, arranging for them to meet in the evening...
(End of this chapter)
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