field.
Li Yu was sweating profusely as he dug the ground again and again.
His expression was solemn and serious, yet mixed with a hint of pain.
This kind of work is really hard and requires a lot of knowledge.
The soil needs to be turned over and the stones need to be cleared away.
When I first started doing it, my arms became sore and my back ached after just a few moves. Within ten minutes, my calves were cramping.
There were only two meals a day, potatoes and pickles.
However, after a tiring day, the originally bland potatoes became a little sweeter.
Even at night I can sleep soundly and fall asleep as soon as I touch the pillow.
After two days, although it is still painful to work, it feels better than at the beginning.
I can only bury my head in work like this. I should be able to go home earlier after finishing the work...
Not far away, Fang Chenyu was lazily lying beside a tree, with his legs crossed and a piece of grass in his mouth.
He was wearing a straw hat that he got from somewhere, half-covered on his face, and lamented that the days were passing by like years.
He never works, not even since the day he called.
I'm too lazy to do it, and there's no point in doing it!
Just wait for someone to pick you up and go home early to enjoy life.
"Hey... why haven't you come to pick me up yet... it's been three days."
He was talking to himself when Maodan's figure gradually appeared not far away, holding a small basket in his hand.
This is to bring them food.
Maodan ran to Fang Chenyu and whispered, "Brother Fang, I'm here to deliver the meal."
"Who is your brother? You keep yelling at me all day long! Today it's pickled potatoes again?" Fang Chenyu didn't even raise his head.
"yes...."
"It's boring...just leave it there." Fang Chenyu raised his toes, but his upper body remained motionless.
Maodan bent down and put a bowl of pickled potatoes aside, then walked towards Li Yu and Zhou Fugui.
After taking two steps, Fang Chenyu suddenly put down his legs.
Maodan was tripped and fell flat on his face, with his tiny body falling to the ground.
"Ah..." Maodan burst into tears instantly.
While crying, she frantically checked the basket of potatoes.
Fortunately, she was conscious and protected it before she fell, so the food inside did not spill out.
"You bullied me again.. oooo..."
With tears on her face, Maodan wiped her face with her hands, then stood there at a loss with the small basket in her hand.
"Tsk! Take out the meat hidden in your house, and I won't bully you anymore." Fang Chenyu raised his hand and slightly lifted his straw hat, his face full of disdain.
"There is no meat in my house..." Maodan cried aggrievedly, wiped his tears and turned to walk towards Li Yuzhou Fugui.
Dad hasn't eaten yet, so she still has to bring him food.
Seeing that he was in vain, Fang Chenyu put on his straw hat and continued to take a nap.
Li Yu saw this scene from a distance and immediately became furious. He dropped his hoe and strode towards Fang Chenyu.
When Maodan saw her coming, he immediately picked up the small basket and said, "Brother Li, let's eat."
Li Yu stopped and said softly, "Oh, you and your father eat first, I'll eat later."
After saying that, he continued to rush towards Fang Chenyu.
He walked closer, raised his foot and kicked the tree trunk next to Fang Chenyu's head, shouting angrily: "Fang Chenyu, get out of here!"
Bang!
Fang Chenyu was so frightened that he trembled all over and his straw hat fell off.
Seeing that it was Li Yu, he kept patting his chest and said, "Oh... Old Li, you scared me to death, what are you doing?"
Li Yu clenched his fists, stared at him fiercely and said, "Let me ask you, you didn't work for the past two days, so why did you bully Maodan? I warn you, if you dare to bully her again, I will beat you up!"
Fang Chenyu curled his lips: "Lao Li, we are brothers, you want to beat me up for an outsider?"
"Besides, it's not like I haven't worked. Look over there." Fang Chenyu pointed to a small pile of rocks behind him and said, "I'm fixing the toilet. If I'm done, don't use it."
Li Yu angrily said, "Who wants to use it! If you continue like this, you are no longer my brother. Maodan cooks and delivers meals to you every day, and you still bully her?"
Fang Chenyu smacked his lips: "So what if I bully her? This little liar."
"Say it again?!" Li Yu glared.
Fang Chenyu waved his hands helplessly: "Old Li, I see you working so hard all day and getting tired, but you still haven't figured it out, right?"
"What did you see?" Li Yu's anger subsided a little, replaced by confusion.
"Forget it, I'll just tell you directly. It seems like you can't figure it out yourself."
"It's fake! It's all fake. Everyone is acting. Can't you see that?" Fang Chenyu stretched out his hand and pointed at the people who were farming everywhere. "Those farmers around here. Maodan, Zhou Fugui, and his father are all actors! They just act in front of us, and you really go to work with them."
"What makes you say that?" Li Yu asked.
"Let me ask you, do you usually read newspapers?" Fang Chenyu asked back.
"Look, isn't it that the morning reading in school is all about reading newspapers? What does this have to do with newspapers?"
Fang Chenyu shook his head and sighed, "That's right. When we read the newspapers, don't they always say that our business is thriving and people's lives are getting better and better?"
"How can there be so many poor people? They can't even eat meat or drink honey water every day. Is this reasonable? Is it all in vain?"
Li Yu was a little confused.
It seems so...I didn't feel anything before he said it, but as soon as he said it, I felt something was wrong.
When I read the newspaper every day, I see so many wonderful things in it. Where do all these poor people come from who can’t even eat meat?
It’s really unreasonable!
Fang Chenyu continued: "Also, what do we eat every day?"
"Potato, two meals a day, what's wrong?"
"That's even more wrong. I used to read in the newspaper that there were small stalls in the capital selling potato snacks that could make more than ten taels of silver a month! People in my father's newspaper office can't make that much!"
"Also, those who grow flowers and melons and sell this and that have all made a fortune! They have everything they need at home. Why don't Maodan's family just eat potatoes every day and sell them to make money? What's the point of digging the ground every day?"
Li Yu scratched his head.
"Hiss...hiss...you're right! Why doesn't Maodan's family go to the capital to sell potatoes? Isn't that much easier than farming? But maybe they don't know how to do business?"
Fang Chenyu said disdainfully: "I can think of it, how could you not think of it? It seems that you are still not awake..."
"There are no poor people in Dajing. I have evidence!"
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