Chapter 152 Autumn Harvest (I)
After cutting grass for pigs this morning, Lu Xiaoxiao heard the team leader announce on the loudspeaker that the autumn harvest would begin tomorrow and asked everyone to gather at the threshing ground in the afternoon.
After returning home and having lunch, Lu Xiaoxiao thought about the autumn harvest that the captain had mentioned. She wondered what kind of work she would be assigned this time, and suddenly she felt a little excited.
Lu Xiaoxiao came to the threshing ground in the afternoon. She saw that many people had already arrived. When she was thinking about finding a place to stand out of the sun, she heard her second sister calling her.
Lu Xiaoxiao looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw her second sister and her family standing under a tree not far away, and her second sister kept waving at her to come over.
Lu Xiaoxiao walked to the tree where her second sister was. She greeted her second sister's parents and then stood next to her.
"Xiaoxiao, what are you going to do during the autumn harvest?"
"I don't know. This is my first time participating in the autumn harvest. What did you do during the autumn harvest in the past?"
"During the autumn harvest, children can pick potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat ears and peanuts. Doing these is five work points a day. And I'll tell you a secret. When everyone picks things, they will secretly hide some and take them home. Don't forget to hide some when you go."
Haha... I didn't expect that there would be such interesting things during the autumn harvest. I guess the captain knew about this, but because the children picked up the food left over after the autumn harvest, they handed most of it over to the team and only hid a small part, so the captain must have turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it.
"Second sister, what are you going to pick up this time?"
"My sister and I are going to pick up everything. Xiaoxiao, do you want to come with us?"
"Okay, then I'll go to your house early tomorrow morning and pick it up with you two."
Lu Xiaoxiao had just finished talking with her second sister about what they were going to do after the autumn harvest when she heard the captain asking everyone to be quiet.
"Tomorrow the team will start the autumn harvest. The crops this year have grown very well. All our hard work this year has not been in vain. In the next half month, we must work harder and strive to store all the crops in the warehouse as quickly as possible.
After all the food that should be handed in is handed in, we will start distributing it. That’s all I have to say. Everyone remember to gather at the rice field tomorrow. Remember not to be late. If anyone is late, don’t blame me for deducting his work points.”
After the gathering, Lu Xiaoxiao said hello to her second sister's family and walked towards home. She thought about the autumn harvest tomorrow and wondered what kind of work the team would arrange for the masters. Although she had made delicious food for the masters from time to time in the past month, and their health was much better than when they first came, they were so old after all, and she was afraid that they would not be able to bear it if the work was too heavy.
After returning home, Lu Xiaoxiao lit a big pot. She took out four chickens from the space and planned to cook a pot of chicken soup, so that she could send a bowl of it to the masters every night. Eating something oily would help the body to withstand the brunt of the pain.
In the evening, Lu Xiaoxiao came to the cowshed with a big bowl of chicken soup. She asked the master and others to drink the soup first and then talk about other things.
When Mr. Fan and his three companions saw the big bowl of chicken soup on the table, their eyes became a little wet. They knew that this was specially prepared for them by the apprentice, fearing that they would not be able to make it through the autumn harvest. To have such a smart and filial apprentice in their old age could be said to be a blessing in disguise.
The four of them took the soup handed over by Xiao Yatou and drank it silently. Only after they finished all the soup did they start to say that the soup was delicious.
Seeing that the four masters all liked to drink the chicken soup, Lu Xiaoxiao was also very happy, so she said: "Masters, I will come to give you chicken soup during the autumn harvest period. Don't rush to say no. Health is the capital of revolution, so you must take care of your health. What's more, I have bought the chickens. What if you don't want to eat them? I don't know how to raise them."
(End of this chapter)
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