Village chief Li ran and shouted loudly.
"Don't cut them all, pull them back quickly and put them in the cellar."
"Remember, put it in the cellar."
After a tiring day and night, even if everyone drinks herbal tea to restore their energy and spirit, the physical fatigue is not so easy to eliminate.
Whether they were strong laborers, women, children or the elderly, their legs were shaking with fatigue.
Not to mention lying on the bed, even on the rice stalks, there are many people who can perform a one-second sleep performance on the spot.
But there was less than two-tenths of the rice left in the field, and it could all be harvested in less than half an hour.
But the village chief has already said that we have to take all the crops home before we can continue harvesting.
Since the village chief has absolute authority in the village, no one disobeys and everyone takes the rice home.
"Why did the village chief ask us to put it in the cellar? The rice is still wet. If we throw it in the yard, it will be completely dry in two or three days."
"How would I know? Anyway, we just do what the village chief tells us to do. Why think so much?"
"But there's so much rice, all piled up in the cellar. What if it gets moldy? Harvesting early already resulted in a lot of losses, and now there will be even more."
"Didn't the village chief say a locust plague was coming, with a large number of locusts passing through? Don't you know that they won't leave even a blade of grass? If you leave them in the yard, why bother cutting them and taking them home?"
"Of course I understand, but I feel a little sorry for the rice. In another half month, the rice will be full, but it's not even ripe yet."
"I'm tired now, I still have the energy to talk, I might as well get home quickly."
Such conversations were not only taking place in Xinghua Village, but also in the other six villages.
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Lotus Village.
Ma Wei was breathing heavily, his clothes were soaked with sweat, with not a single dry spot. He took weak steps and struggled to move the rice into the yard.
Then, regardless of whether it would dirty his clothes, he sat on the ground.
"call……"
"No more, no more. I've been cutting rice non-stop since yesterday. My waist is so tired that I can't even move it anymore."
Ma Wei's wife held the stool with one hand and pounded her lower back with the other, saying slowly, "Yeah, we're all exhausted."
The two rested for a while and then started working again.
The same goes for the other people in Lianhua Village. Although they are all farmers and have been farming all their lives, they have never experienced harvesting rice all night.
Because he kept cutting rice with a sickle and repeating the same action over and over again, his knuckles cracked and blood oozed out of the wounds.
Even when he was tying rice with his hands, he couldn't help shaking.
In the past, it only took a few minutes to make a bundle of rice, but now it’s much slower than before.
After a day and a night, the rice that was endless yesterday morning was only left with a few scattered clusters still standing firm in the ground after the harvest.
This side of Xinghua Village.
"Hey, why are there still large tracts of land that have been confiscated?"
Village chief Li saw that the rice in his own field had been harvested, but there was still a little left. He didn't have to work in the field, and his two sons could do it.
He was sitting on the doorstep at this moment, with a gong placed next to his right foot, a yellowed handkerchief with frayed threads draped over his shoulder, and he was wiping the sweat from his forehead with his left hand.
I looked up inadvertently and saw the rice in the distance.
In the past, the village chief might not have been able to find it from such a distance.
Now the rice of every household in the village has been harvested, and only one or two pieces are left standing, and it is not obvious whether they are good or not.
When Village Chief Li saw that the entire piece of land had not been moved at all, his head was buzzing for a moment and he couldn't remember whose land it was.
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