I eat pancakes in the morning and put the noodles in the cupboard to cook at noon.
After breakfast, Wang Shuning looked at the rising sun. She had no idea what time it was, so she decided to wait for Aunt Zhu to go with her.
I have to find a way to buy a watch. A Shanghai brand all-steel watch costs about a hundred yuan, but the main reason is that watch tickets are difficult to get.
There are four factory workers in Wang Shuning's family, none of whom owns a watch. The only thing at home is an old alarm clock to tell time.
One reason is that watches are expensive, and the other is that watch tickets are hard to get.
When Aunt Zhu was about to leave, she called out to Wang Shuning's room, "Shuning, let's go."
After hearing this, Wang Shuning immediately followed with a kettle.
When they arrived at the field, the five new people had not yet been assigned to a production team.
The other villagers had already gone to work in the fields, and the village chief called over the three production team leaders.
He Daniu, who went to pick up Wang Shuning and others the day before yesterday, was the captain of the first production team, and they didn’t know the other two people.
"There are five new educated youths. Divide the food among them." The village chief said to the three people.
He Daniu immediately said, "Village Chief, I want Lv Beichu."
He Xianfeng and He Liangliang's faces turned dark.
He Xianfeng yelled, "No, you can pick the men from the educated youth who came here in the first half of the year and leave us a few skinny girls. We must pick first this time. I want Lü Beichu and Zhao Heping."
There are two men and three women. Two men must be chosen. The village chief cannot allow those who cannot work to come in.
He Liangliang slammed the shovel in his hand and said, "Last time, the village chief stuffed two women into our third production team. This time, it must be all men."
Wang Shuning, Zhang Meili and Guo Jingyi felt a little embarrassed standing here, being despised by others.
Finally, He Haiming assigned Lu Beichu to the third production team, Zhao Heping and Guo Jingyi to the second production team, and Wang Shuning and Zhang Meili to He Daniu.
He Daniu stared at the two thin female educated youth standing in front of him. He was very angry, but when he thought about how he had taken advantage of the previous group of educated youth, he couldn't vent his anger.
"Aunt Dajiao, Aunt Ronghua, these two educated youth are now in your care." He Daniu shouted towards the sweet potato field, and then let the two of them go over.
Wang Shuning placed his water bottle on the edge of the field, stepped into the mud covered with pine boards, and walked towards Aunt Da Jiao who was bending over in the distance.
Seeing this, Zhang Meili immediately followed.
The two aunts assigned by Captain He looked to be in their early fifties, had black hair, and appeared to be in good health.
There was a bit of disdain in the two people's eyes, and even some gossip.
Aunt Da Jiao said to Wang Shuning, "Follow me. First, pull out all the withered sweet potato vines. Then use a shovel to dig up the mud on top. Remember to be careful not to break the sweet potatoes. Broken sweet potatoes will not last long."
Wang Shuning watched the other person's skillful movements, grabbed the dry and yellowed sweet potato vines with both hands and pulled hard, but unexpectedly it broke in the middle.
After watching her movements carefully, I realized that she was pulling it out by the roots.
The withered vines were very rough. Not long after pulling them out, Wang Shuning felt a pain and numbness in the palm of his hand.
When I opened my palm, the skin on my palm was not broken, but it was already red.
Aunt Da Jiao didn't hear any movement behind her, so she turned around and found that Wang Shuning in the next row was already twenty meters behind her.
"Hurry up and do it. If there is less, the scorekeeper will deduct your work points when you get off work. And your hands won't hurt when they are calloused. Hurry up and don't be so pretentious."
Wang Shuning clasped his hands together, his palms felt a little hot, and he used his fingers to pinch the sweet potato vines.
Even though this thing is dry, it is still very tough. It is difficult to dig it out with just your fingers without applying force, and the process will be even slower.
Wang Shuning hesitated and picked up a shovel to start digging, but was stopped by Aunt Dajiao. "We need to tie up the sweet potato vines and take them back to burn. You just dig them up. There is still soil on the roots. How can we use them?"
Wang Shuning pursed his lips and swallowed the anger in his mouth, "After I dig out the vines, I will knock the soil off the ground one by one."
Aunt Da Jiao glanced at her with disdain and said, "The educated youth from the city are just pretentious. Your work points have been deducted by more than half."
Wang Shuning's mouth twitched. "Aunt Da Jiao, I'm not being pretentious. I'm spoiled by my family. Just deduct the points. Anyway, I don't have to worry about the few work points I have to live on."
Aunt Da Jiao put her hands on her hips and continued to teach: "Girls have to get married when they reach a certain age. If you can't endure hardships, how can you serve your parents-in-law after you get married?"
Wang Shuning couldn't help but complain about this idea in her heart, and directly refuted it: "I have my future husband to take care of me. They didn't give birth to me and raise me."
Aunt Da Jiao was stunned, her fingers pointing at Wang Shuning could not help but tremble, she just felt that this remark was extremely ridiculous.
Wang Shuning didn't want to argue with the other party anymore, so he continued to dig sweet potato roots with a shovel.
During this time, she drank water three times and emptied the kettle.
It's so tiring to keep bending over all the time. I feel like my lumbar disc is going to herniate.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the gong sounded to signal the end of work. Wang Shuning quickly put down the shovel in his hand, walked to the edge of the field, picked up the kettle and left.
Aunt Da Jiao walked over to He Daniu who was beating the gong, holding a shovel and said, "Captain He, this educated youth Ning is just a phony at work. I'm afraid he will hold back our First Production Team."
Captain He sighed, "The educated youth from the city has never done farm work. Look at her small arms and legs. I guess she doesn't even have 2 taels of fat on her body. She gets work points based on how much work she does. If she doesn't do enough, I'm afraid there won't be enough food for her to eat when the grain is distributed at the end of the year."
Aunt Da Jiao rolled her eyes and when she saw Aunt Ronghua passing by, she immediately chased after her to ask about Zhang Meili's performance.
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