After a night of heavy rain, it finally stopped the next morning, but the sky was still very overcast.
Guo Daming arrived at Li Jin's house early in the morning to say goodbye to the brigade leader and ask him and Li Xiangdong if there was anything else he wanted to tell them.
It's only six o'clock now. Zhao Sufang has just finished cooking the rice and hasn't even taken it off the stove yet.
Li Jin gave a few more instructions: don't work in the rain; if Longshui Village doesn't provide meals, spend money to go to the village for a hot meal, and the brigade will reimburse you for the expenses.
Li Xiangdong got dressed and pushed his bicycle out. "Brother Daming, I'll take you there! It's over 80 li (about 40 kilometers) long. If you walk, how long will it take you to get there!"
Guo Daming waved his hand, "The clouds in the sky are dark and thick, it might rain in a while. If you come with me, you might get soaked on the way!"
"Don't worry! Let's go, I'll check out the situation in Longshui Village while I'm at it!"
Li Xiangdong lifted the pot lid, took a steamed bun, put it in his mouth, and pushed his bicycle outside.
Zhao Sufang felt sorry for her son and wanted to speak up to stop him, but after thinking about it, she didn't say anything.
Li Jin was overjoyed, feeling that his son had truly grown up and was now capable of standing on his own.
...
The rain was so heavy that the fields along the way were filled with shimmering water. Li Xiangdong tested the water level and found it to be at least an inch deep!
The wheat fields were bustling with people harvesting grain. Men, women, and children all rolled up their trousers and waded barefoot in the water. Some were cutting the wheat with sickles, while others were pulling it up by hand.
Because of being soaked in water for so long, both hands and feet became waterlogged! Adults could manage, but children couldn't stand it for long.
This is unbearable!
While working, people cursed God for being blind and the county government for giving bad orders.
Li Xiangdong felt a deep sense of desolation. He had been reborn, and now he only had this much power, enough to save just one Lijiapo village...
The road to Longshui Village is a dirt road, which was soaked by the heavy rain last night and turned into mud.
Fortunately, the curbs on both sides of the road were relatively high and sturdy, so Li Xiangdong rode his bicycle with Guo Daming on the sidewalk.
The curb was uneven, and Li Xiangdong lost his grip on the handlebars, causing the two of them to fall into the mud in the middle of the road.
Ouch!
Li Xiangdong reacted quickly, jumping onto the opposite curb the instant the car reversed. Unfortunately for Guo Daming, he fell into the mud and water, getting half of his body wet.
Li Xiangdong quickly lifted the car off Guo Daming and pulled Guo Daming up.
Hahaha~
"You're covered in mud!"
"A mediocre person!"
When the people in the wheat fields on both sides saw the two men's disheveled appearance, they forgot about their work and pointed at them, laughing heartily.
Li Xiangdong and Guo Daming squatted down by the field, scooped up a handful of water from the ground, and washed the mud off their faces.
"Hurry up and get to work, old man! He's grinning from ear to ear, showing his big teeth! It's going to rain again soon!"
After Li Xiangdong finished speaking, he got on his bicycle and rode off with Guo Daming.
The old man cursed angrily, and after watching the two people walk away, he resignedly lowered his head and continued pulling wheat.
It took the two of them three or four hours to reach Longshui Village.
As soon as he arrived at Longshui Village, he heard a commotion coming from the edge of the village. Guo Daming looked in the direction of the argument and exclaimed, "Oh no! That's where the harvesters are parked!"
Li Xiangdong took two quick steps and saw five or six women surrounding Li Xiangchao, shouting insults. The leader was a man in his forties named Zao He.
That's right, she's a woman shaped like a date pit.
She had a pointed head, thin legs, and a rather large belly in the middle, making her whole body shape like an oval, just like a date pit!
"You'd better get to work in the fields! Let me tell you, my brother said he gave you three thousand yuan so you could harvest the wheat for us!"
"That's right, Director Zhang said that you'll have to pay for all the losses Mai Zi suffered!"
"Yes! Give me back the three thousand yuan!"
The cacophony of voices, combined with the distant croaking of frogs, created an annoying symphony.
Li Xiangchao, a young man in his early twenties, was surrounded by a group of unfamiliar women. He couldn't argue with them and didn't dare to lay a hand on them. His face was flushed with embarrassment.
"Get your battalion commander here!"
Li Xiangdong, a fourteen-year-old boy, directly pushed aside the women who were forming a circle and protected Li Xiangchao behind them.
Anyway, he's still young, so no one will accuse him of being a pervert if he touches a woman!
"Brother, don't be afraid, I'm here!"
Li Xiangchao nodded emphatically. With his younger brother here, his pillar of support had arrived!
The date pit rolled its eyes. "Who are you? What kind of brat are you?!"
"If you don't come, we're leaving!"
Without further ado, Li Xiangdong instructed Guo Daming and Li Xiangchao to operate the combine harvester.
When Zaohe saw that both drivers listened to the child and started the harvester to drive out of the village, she hurried home to find her husband, the head of Longshui Village.
Captain Zhang went to the fields this morning. The water was up to his ankles. As soon as you stepped in, your feet sank into the ground. It took a lot of effort to pull your feet out of the mud!
Now almost all the labor force of the brigade has gone to the fields, but even so, the harvesting speed is very slow.
It's true that man proposes, God disposes. If it were a sunny day, the harvester would have finished harvesting in no time!
Having just washed the mud off his legs and feet, Captain Zhang sat on a bench in the main room smoking, puffing away. In the white smoke, his long face looked like a bitter gourd.
Zhang, the woman with the skin of a date pit, rushed in, looking flustered. "Dad, those two harvesters are leaving!"
Captain Zhang was taken aback. They'd already taken the money, so why were they leaving now?
Sister-in-law Zhang had no choice but to reveal her great deeds of scolding the driver in place of her husband, which made Captain Zhang furious and he cursed her as a spendthrift woman!
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