All the crops in the fields have been harvested, but that is not the end. They have to be dried, air-dried, peeled, and finally weighed and sent to the warehouse for public payment.
This is just the beginning.
At least, we have to be busy until early February, and then it will be time to buy food, and we have to take advantage of the free time after the autumn harvest to go into the mountains to chop firewood for the winter.
After all the crops in the fields were harvested, all the previous requests to start work an hour and a half earlier and leave work an hour and a half later in the morning were cancelled.
After discussing with each other, Qiao Jiuru, Su Huaiyuan, Cai Qingwen and Lao Feng decided to collect firewood near the foot of the mountain an hour early in the morning. They would collect as much as they could.
They are not as independent as ordinary members, and sometimes they can take half a year off to do other things. It's not possible without them. If there is work to do, they have to go.
Therefore, Qiao Jiuru and the others could take the time to collect firewood during their lunch break.
Otherwise, they can only go to the mountains after paying the public grain tax and there is basically no work on the fields.
Qiao Jiuru has always wanted to go into the mountains, where there are countless medicinal herbs and many mountain products.
After paying the public grain tax and distributing the grain, she planned to talk to Uncle Jiu and ask if they could take a day off and go into the mountains? !
She felt that Uncle Jiu would definitely agree. If Uncle Jiu agreed, there would definitely not be any problem with Bai Lianshan.
Qiao Jiuru just thought so, but she didn't expect Uncle Jiu to come to her in person.
"Uncle, are you saying that you want me to go talk to that educated youth Tao? Is her condition still so bad?!"
Uncle Jiu came to talk to her about Tao Aihua, the educated youth point. Ever since he came to say hello, she started to pay attention to him for a while, but later she was too busy to pay attention to him.
"That way you can be more open-minded, but I think we should still understand her situation. What if she gets upset and can't think straight? She's only a few years old and has a long life ahead of her. How can she not live like this?!"
Uncle Jiu thought about the boy who fainted and was sent to his bathroom. After he woke up, he muttered to himself that he didn't want to live, and sighed again.
This old man has lived a long time, and he wants to live another eighty or ninety years. Why doesn't he want to live? ! Why can't he live anymore? !
"Okay, I'll talk to her."
Qiao Jiuru herself had also been in despair, had felt helpless, and had thoughts of not wanting to live anymore. In fact, she understood and conceived such feelings too well.
Although her experience was different, she could still feel it.
Uncle Jiu's drive and ability are very strong. Qiao Jiuru had just agreed, but she didn't expect that after she went to work in the afternoon, she was called away by the team leader.
Bai Lianshan asked her to take Dabao and Xiaobao to the bathroom, and then go to call Tao Aihua.
"Uncle Nine, Aunt Qiao."
Tao Aihua was a little puzzled when she was called to the bathroom. It was not until she looked at Qiao Jiuru that she realized that it was Aunt Qiao who called her.
"You two can chat while I take Dabao and Xiaobao out for a walk."
Uncle Jiu nodded to the two of them, then waved to the well-behaved Dabao and Xiaobao. The two little hands immediately took his hands, and the old man and the two children went out happily together.
Qiao Jiuru looked at the happy backs of his two grandsons, and then turned back to look at the little girl in front of him.
"Xiao Tao, come on, let's sit by the door and talk slowly."
She handed a small stool to Tao Aihua, took one for herself, and invited the little girl to sit by the door and talk while basking in the sun.
Tao Aihua immediately realized that Aunt Qiao in front of her must be trying to help her. Her eyes reddened, and she quickly followed her and sat next to her.
Qiao Jiuru looked at the little girl who kept her head down and didn't speak. The clothes she wore were patched and her face was sallow, which was obviously caused by long-term malnutrition.
"Xiao Tao, can you tell your aunt about your story? Sometimes, things that you find difficult are not difficult for others. Have you ever heard that one person's plan is short, two people's plan is long? What you can't do alone, others may have a way to do. You are still so young, and you still have a lot of life to grow. There is no need to waste your life for others. Sometimes, going to the countryside is not necessarily a bad thing. It may be a good thing for many people. I think it should be a good thing for you as well."
It was probably not because of her family that a little girl was in this state. Moreover, she could ask Zhang Hong's daughter-in-law to help, which must be related to her family, Qiao Jiuru guessed.
Tao Aihua couldn't control her tears. Before Qiao Jiuru finished speaking, she couldn't help crying out of grievance.
This child must have suffered a great injustice, otherwise she would be like this. Qiao Jiuru patted her on the back while gently guiding and comforting her.
Half an hour later, Qiao Jiuru gradually learned about Tao Aihua's affairs from her.
There is a stepmother and there is a stepfather.
When Tao Aihua was five years old, her biological mother passed away due to illness. Then, her biological father remarried. Not only did her stepmother work for her company, she also had a daughter the same age as her. Not long after the marriage, she got pregnant and gave birth to a boy. Three years later, she gave birth to another son.
Since her stepmother and stepsister came into the family, Tao Aihua's life has gradually become difficult.
Good things were not hers, except for the new clothes she made. Her stepmother also made her do housework and take care of her younger brother.
Tao Aihua felt very wronged at a young age, and often went to her father to cry and fight for her own interests. Tao's father was on the side of his own daughter at first, but later, when he had two more sons, his heart was completely biased.
Tao Aihua was the one who ate the worst in the family. Although she was allowed to go to school, she also had to do housework, but her stepsister didn't have to do housework. Tao Aihua felt it was unfair and complained to Tao's father, but Tao's father didn't care about these trivial matters at all, thinking that it didn't matter who did it! It was okay if someone did it, and it wasn't a heavy job.
After that, no matter how Tao Aihua made a fuss or a noise, it was of no use. Under the influence of her stepmother, Tao's father disliked his daughter more and more, and Tao Aihua was always scolded no matter whether she was right or wrong.
What made Tao Aihua collapse and despair the most was that she was the same age as her stepmother's daughter, but the Tao family let her go to the countryside alone, while her stepmother's daughter paid for a temporary job.
How could Tao Aihua accept this? She didn't want to go to the countryside either. Her father could have bought her a temporary job, but her stepmother secretly signed her up for a job in the countryside and didn't even give Tao Aihua the subsidy.
Before going to the countryside, Tao Aihua not only made a big scene at home, but also went to Tao's father's workplace to make a big scene. As a result, her situation at home became even worse, and she was not even given anything to prepare for going to the countryside.
Zhang Hong's daughter-in-law Luo Meiling couldn't bear it, and she knew from Tao Aihua's words that she had lived at home for so many years, so she couldn't bear to help her change her place of going to the countryside to Baigou Village, and made it difficult for her to find Qiao Jiuru's family who were sent down.
Afterwards, Luo Meiling asked the Women's Federation comrades of her unit to come to Tao Aihua's house and help her get back the subsidy for going to the countryside. With the help of several enthusiastic female comrades, she reluctantly bought things for the girl to go to the countryside.
"Xiao Tao, this is not your fault. Why do you have to punish yourself with other people's mistakes?! You don't have any relatives. Relatives may not be reliable, but you can come here and get subsidies for going to the countryside. It is with the help of so many kind aunts and sisters. There are still good people in this world."
At such a young age, she has experienced the ups and downs of life, but she has always been obsessed with it. Qiao Jiuru also sighed and tried to enlighten the little girl first.
"Aunt, I don't know what to do in the future! I can't see any hope, and I feel like there's no meaning in living. It's too hard and tiring to be alone."
Tao Aihua finally said what she had been thinking in her heart and did not listen to Qiao Jiuru's words.
"What should I do?! It's better to live alone! If you eat enough, your whole family won't be hungry. No one will tell you what to do. You can eat whatever you want, sleep whenever you want, and wake up whenever you want. How comfortable it is to be alone."
"Xiao Tao, let me tell you. Since you came to me, I can't just ignore you. You think you're desperate, but what about people like us who have been sent down? Aren't we even more desperate?! Aren't we even more hopeless?! We are not as self-reliant as you are. We work every day and can't go anywhere. When we came here, we had no money, and we couldn't see hope and the future. But we still have to continue to live and wait! Wait, and keep waiting!"
"Look at my two little grandchildren. They are still so young. They have to live like this. Compared to you, who is suffering, them or you?!"
"Besides, you have nothing to be nostalgic about. Your father was not yours alone. You abandoned a relative like him. Nothing can stop you."
"Look, there's nothing wrong with the production team here. You have money, so you can eat eggs if you want, eat fine grains if you want, and eat chicken if you want. You can't buy these in the city even if you have money. Xiao Tao, I think you should find a way to get money from your father now, lots of money, because money is the foundation of your life."
"Auntie is telling you, don't take others seriously, especially your father and stepmother, your stepsister and half brother. If you live well, they will feel uncomfortable. Think about it carefully, isn't it?!"
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