Feng Qingxue planned to visit Wang Jiao after finishing her work, and to find out more about Wang Jiao's background. However, she didn't know that the work that was supposed to be done in winter was postponed to now for some reason. In order not to delay farming and irrigation, everyone went out early and came back late, and was exhausted every day. Later, many women took part in the work themselves, and it was only finished after a month.

Feng Qingxue felt so tired that she was almost peeling off several layers of skin.

This is the first time in my two lifetimes that I have suffered such hardship and endured such fatigue.

In the second half of a month, because there were too many people working, there was not enough food, so the staple food changed from three-grain flour rolls to wild vegetable steamed buns. The fist-sized sweet potato and cornmeal steamed buns were not enough to fill the stomachs of the working people. They could only drink more wild vegetable soup, so that everyone's stomach was rumbling while working.

Feng Qingxue left one of the steamed buns for her younger sister and survived by eating the food in the space with someone on her back.

Do you think you can take a break after finishing the river work? That is too naive.

The farm work of the production brigade officially began.

The snow was very thick in winter, and the wheat seedlings in the field were moistened and grew particularly vigorously. After the snow melted, a large green field could be seen. I thought that the harvest next year would be good, but who knew that there hasn’t been a drop of rain since the Chinese New Year. Spring rain is as precious as oil, and too much rain will cause trouble. But now there is no rain, so won’t the wheat seedlings droop their heads?

Therefore, in addition to digging ditches and canals for irrigation, weeds growing among the wheat seedlings must be removed.

At that time, there were no pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and crops relied entirely on manure and manual weeding.

Feng Shuanzhu arranged light work for Feng Qingxue, asking her to help Feng Teng record work points while taking care of the two task pigs in the production team's barn. In response to other people's protests, he directly said that Feng Qingxue only earned six work points a day, which was almost half of what everyone else earned. In this way, no one disagreed. Who doesn't want to do more work and earn more work points?

The production team still owed Feng Qingxue money, and Feng Qingxue didn't need any work points.

The work points earned by everyone were calculated into money when grain was distributed, and then the money was used to buy grain from the production team.

The mission pigs were actually quite easy to take care of. All we had to do was cook three meals a day, with the feed grain allocated by the production team and the pig grass that the teenagers cut to earn work points. The two pigs ate with relish, and then rolled around in the mud after they were done.

The pigs ate deliciously, but the pigpen smelled so stinky that Feng Qingxue, who loved cleanliness, was almost suffocated to death.

Although it was unbearable, Feng Qingxue still insisted on completing her work and cleaning the pigsty every day, because she truly understood the difficulties of this generation and she had no reason to enjoy comfort.

Feng Teng is an accountant. He records work points, but he doesn't need Feng Qingxue's help. It's just a formality every day.

That day, Feng Qingxue greeted him in advance, and asked Aunt Feng to help her cook pig food and feed the pigs at noon, and then took her sister to Wang Zhengguo's home to visit Wang Jiao.

Feng Qingyun was very reluctant, but she had not forgotten what Wang Jiao said in front of her sister.

"Alright, little girl, you're quite hot-tempered! My cousin seems to have forgotten those things, so don't mention them."

"Maybe she is pretending. I heard from my aunt that my cousin stole the money and things from my aunt's bottom of the box. Maybe she didn't want to return the things, so she pretended to be injured and forgot about it." Feng Qingyun said.

"So we'll go check and see if she really forgot or is just pretending."