Because they are used to harvest rice, the sickles have been sharpened in advance and the blades are white.

When she met Qin Hanshu's cold eyes again, Liao Yujie felt her heart tighten.

She forgot that the educated youth worked as a group, and her slacking off affected everyone, including Qin Hanshu.

Liao Yujie is now really afraid of Qin Hanshu.

Seeing the sickle in Qin Hanshu's hand move, Liao Yujie hurriedly shouted: "I won't be lazy anymore, isn't it okay if I don't be lazy?!"

After saying that, Liao Yujie bent down and started to cut the rice. Her efficiency was no less than that of Zhang Kangmei, an expert at work.

Before long, Liao Yujie caught up with the progress. The female educated youth group finally completed the task when lunch was delivered.

In order to rush the harvest, during the busy farming days, the brigade specially organized people to steam buns and then deliver them to the people working in the fields.

Everyone washed down the steamed buns with buckwheat tea. After lunch, they took a short break and started working again.

The intensity of this labor was several times higher than before, and the newly arrived educated youth finally truly experienced the hardships of farmers.

Under the bright sun at noon, Qin Hanshu felt a little shaky.

At this time, Accountant Niu ran over and said to Qin Hanshu, "Xiao Qin, there is a shortage of staff over at the drying dam. The secretary wants you to go over there."

Accountant Niu, who usually dresses decently, changed into work clothes today, but he still wore the pair of black-framed glasses on his nose.

The educated youth had long heard that Accountant Niu was not actually nearsighted, and he wore glasses to pretend to be an educated person.

In fact, he had never been to school for a single day. He only learned a few words from his father and learned the skill of accounting.

Seeing that he refused to take off his glasses even when he got down from the ground, I couldn't help but laugh.

Accountant Niu noticed this and his face immediately turned sour.

Without saying anything to others, he pointed at Zhang Kangmei and said, "How dare you laugh! Look at the rice you harvested, there's still a lot of rice stalks left in the field! It's unqualified, you have to do it again!"

This is a blatant lie. Zhang Kangmei is the best worker in the female educated youth group.

This is purely targeted at Accountant Niu.

After saying that, regardless of Zhang Kangmei's protest, he adjusted his glasses pretentiously and urged Qin Hanshu, "Go quickly, just go and find Lanhua at the secretary's house."

Qin Hanshu was puzzled, but when he saw Accountant Niu urging him, he didn't ask any more questions. He put away his sickle and walked towards the ridge of the field.

Behind him, Liao Yujie asked, "Accountant Niu, did you notify the wrong person? The secretary wanted me to go to the sunbathing area, right?"

Accountant Niu said with an impatient "tsk" and said, "You doubt my ability to do things? And you notified the wrong person...I can make such a low-level mistake?!"

Liao Yujie looked at Accountant Niu's back and said "Puh".

Zhao Ru asked, "What's wrong with going to the sunbath?"

Liao Yujie rolled her eyes at her and said impatiently, "The job at the drying dam is to turn over the grains and dry them. This is the easiest job during the autumn harvest."

Liao Yujie grumbled and complained: "I have a better relationship with the secretary's family, so he should take care of me. Why does he always consider Qin Hanshu? He was the same when he was laying floor tiles for Qin Hanshu a few days ago. He didn't care that there was no furniture in my cave...

Mingming was clearly very nice to her when she lived at the secretary's house.

Zhao Ru listened to Liao Yujie's complaints, but her grip on the sickle became tighter and tighter.

***

Accountant Niu pointed Qin Hanshu in a direction and let Qin Hanshu go to the drying dam by himself.

After the rice is harvested, it is threshed with half a bucket and then pulled to the drying dam to dry.

The drying dam is very large, and there are seven or eight people there at the moment, either older women or young girls.

They first use a rake to scoop out the straw leaves from the millet, then spread them out flat on the drying dam. After a period of time, they will thicken or thin the leaves depending on the situation to ensure that the millet is evenly dried.

You don't have to do this work all the time. You can hide under the shade of a tree in your spare time. It's much easier than working in the fields.

As soon as Qin Hanshu arrived, Zhou Ruilan trotted towards her and waved at her happily, "You're here!" Her big eyes emitted burning warmth towards her from a distance.

This is an inexplicable feeling...

Qin Hanshu smiled politely and said, "Comrade Zhou Ruilan."

Zhou Ruilan said quickly, "Just call me Lanhua. Or to be more intimate, you can call me Lanhuahua. My dad likes to call me that when he's happy."

"...Lanhua," Qin Hanshu looked around, "Why can't I see Aunt Zhao?"

Zhou Ruilan said, "My mother is in the fields. My father told me that you can just stay with me in the sunbathing area for the next few days and don't need to go to the fields."

Qin Hanshu thought for a moment and said tentatively: "The secretary has taken such good care of me. I don't know how to repay him."

Zhou Ruilan quickly shook her head, "Don't ask for anything in return! This is what I should do!"

Qin Hanshu wondered: "Should?"

Zhou Ruilan seemed to realize that she had said something out of turn and quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

Qin Hanshu was about to ask more when an old lady came over. She looked at Qin Hanshu and said, "Lanhua, who is this woman? Why does she look unfamiliar?"

There were many people in the production team who had never seen the educated youth.

Zhou Ruilan said, "She is the educated youth who came here a while ago, Xiao Qin."

The old lady smiled and said, "I thought she was your third brother's girlfriend."

Zhou Ruilan glanced at Qin Hanshu, then acted angry and said:

"My third brother hasn't even come back yet, so where would he get a partner? Aunt Qi, please don't talk nonsense, or you'll ruin the reputation of the young educated youth Qin!"

Aunt Qi smiled awkwardly, "It's my fault, it's my fault. Lan Huahua is getting stronger and stronger as she grows older. She is just like Sister Chun Miao when she was young."

Aunt Qi quickly turned around and left, walking towards a few old ladies not far away.

Qin Hanshu saw her waving her hands at the old ladies, "She is not the third boy's type! No!!"

Zhou Ruilan said to Qin Hanshu: "She is the most popular person in our village, just ignore her."

Qin Hanshu nodded, and then asked casually: "Your third brother must be very popular with the matchmaker, so those ladies like to ask about him so much."

"That's true!" Zhou Ruilan smiled proudly, "My third brother hasn't been home since he joined the army, but there have been many people looking for marriage proposals for him."

The main thing is that his qualifications are there, and he is indeed a rare and outstanding young man in the blind date market.

Qin Hanshu imitated Zhou Ruilan in raffling straw while chatting, "So, the Party Secretary and Aunt Zhao didn't like her?"

In this era, parents still make the final decision on marriage. Especially for Zhou Ruilan's third brother, who has a special profession, it is normal for him to be notified to come back and get married even if his parents have chosen one.

Zhou Ruilan shook her head. "My parents said that they would not let my third brother marry a blind man. At least we have to wait until he comes back and agrees after seeing each other."

"But he's not young anymore, so..." Zhou Ruilan looked at Qin Hanshu, "My parents are still very anxious about my third brother's marriage, so they hope he can find one himself!"

Qin Hanshu: "......" What does it have to do with her? Why are you looking at her like that?