The manure transport team transports manure in buckets carried on their shoulders. The manure was accumulated in the team's pig pens and cow sheds.
Lu Xianjin was obviously being targeted. He was the only male educated youth assigned to the manure transport group. In this group, everyone else was a strong laborer in his thirties who had already started a family.
Yun Guyuan and his friends were assigned to the autumn ploughing group.
Yi Qingqing was lucky. It didn't take long for her to run into Lu Xianjin, who was carrying two buckets and staggering along the road.
This is not like carrying water. At most, some water will spill out due to shaking, and it’s no big deal if it splashes on your body.
It is very uncomfortable to have feces splashed on your body.
Lu Xianjin himself obviously didn't want to encounter these things.
He was seen frowning, holding the rope with both hands, trying his best to steady the shaking dung bucket, but every time the dung bucket swayed a little towards him, his whole body could not help but bend backwards, with his attention completely focused on the bucket. He could not even steady his own body, let alone steady the dung bucket!
Yi Qingqing noticed that there were suspicious colors on his shoes and trouser legs.
For a man like him who wants to use women as stepping stones to climb up, his external image is his only bargaining chip. Now, after carrying a few loads of manure, he has basically lost it all.
Moreover, in the eyes of the members, his seemingly overwhelmed appearance was not pitiful. What everyone pitied more was the feces water that was shaken out by him.
This is a good thing for fertilizing the fields and ensuring the grain output next year. If we waste any of it, it would be like cutting flesh from everyone's collective property.
"Lu Zhiqing, be careful. Don't just try to dodge the bucket. You have to walk steadily first, and then the bucket will be stable. You are swaying all over, how can the bucket be stable? If you continue like this, you will spill so much and you will be deducted centimeters. These cents can be used to fertilize the land!"
"How can you even carry two dung buckets like this? To be like Lu Hanwen, you have to have some skills, right? Can you make a living just by relying on your looks?"
"The manure is a bit dirty, but this kind of work on the land is always dirty. The crops depend on these things to grow well. Why hide from it? He will never be able to carry it well like this. Let him carry half a bucket each time. However, this job is half easier than ours, and the work points will be half as much!"
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Lu Xianjin did not react to these words. Ever since he deliberately made his illness more serious in an attempt to gain the woman's sympathy by using a self-torture tactic, but did not get the expected result, it seemed as if he had become unpopular overnight.
Not only did the village chief's family not allow him to enter the house, they also stopped Gao Xiaoxiang from getting close to them, and the villagers looked at him differently than before. As for Wang Lingling, whose previous confession of love had failed, she even returned all the things he had given her, and said that she didn't know he had that kind of idea and that she could not accept it, so she couldn't accept his things.
Some time ago, when he was working in the fields, the village chief's wife no longer took care of him, and even tried to trip him up in some ways, both overtly and covertly.
But he must win back Gao Xiaoxiang.
Wang Lingling refused flatly and had been refusing to communicate with him during this period. She showed no signs of softening and even avoided him, which made him feel very frustrated.
But he also knew that there was probably no hope with Wang Lingling, so he simply didn't want to continue wasting his energy on him.
So now Gao Xiaoxiang is no longer his backup means, but a life-saving straw that must be saved.
Although she was stopped by her parents and family, she still felt distressed when she saw herself lying on the ox cart that day.
He knew Gao Xiaoxiang's character very well, and as long as he was given a chance, there was still hope of redemption.
Otherwise, he didn't know how long this kind of life would last. He was really afraid that his ambition would be worn down by these dirty jobs and he would be trapped to death in such a poor place. How could he be willing to accept this?
After all, he went to high school and always ranked at the top. How could he let the land dampen his ambition?
“Qingqing!”
Hearing someone calling her from behind, Yi Qingqing turned around and saw Li Mengxue, Qian Lailai and Wang Lingling running in front, while Zheng Xiaolong, Chen Zhihe and Yun Guyuan were behind: "Why are you all here?"
"It's time for a break. I see you've come out, so let's go to the bathroom together and get a bowl. How are you doing in the cafeteria? Are you comfortable?" Li Mengxue ran over and held her arm.
The four golden flowers gathered together and walked in a row arrogantly.
"It's not easy either. I've been rolling noodles for the whole morning and I can only go to the toilet now. I'm also going back to the educated youth camp to get a bowl." Yi Qingqing said, "What about you guys?"
"The three of us were assigned to dig sweet potatoes. Our backs and waists ached. It was so tiring! We could only catch our breath during the breaks. But one of my aunts said that the autumn harvest had just begun and it wasn't that busy yet. We might not even have time to rest in the future. It was too scary. I didn't want so many work points. I couldn't even change to a lighter job because during the autumn harvest, every laborer was treated like an ox."
Li Mengxue touched her face and felt exhausted! When will this kind of life end?
If only I could have traveled through time a few years later, autumn harvest is simply not a human task!
This body of hers had been poorly clothed and fed when she was a child, and was a little weak. After she came here, she had finally recovered a little. After being so tired, she would probably be back to the state before liberation overnight.
The situation of Wang Lingling and Qian Lailai is slightly better.
The two of them never got into a bad mood while working, and they just gritted their teeth and did the tasks assigned to them.
Although it was the first time I felt so tired, I have gained some exercise after working in the countryside for a few months.
In particular, relying on his hard work, he contracted the private plots of Li Mengxue, Zheng Xiaolong and Chen Zhihe, and paid Li Mengxue to collect firewood.
She usually does more work and has good physical strength.
Yi Qingqing looked at the three men at the back. After half a day's devastation of the autumn harvest, Zheng Xiaolong and Chen Zhihe were obviously more haggard, at least they were not in the mood to be cheerful.
Only Yun Guyuan looked the same as usual, with no major changes. Yi Qingqing looked over and saw that he was still smiling gently as usual.
The way he acted made Yi Qingqing wonder if he had also taken a powerful pill.
Although they are gay men, the work they do is much more tiring than that of lesbians.
Yi Qingqing felt that Comrade Yun’s physical strength and abilities were like a bottomless pit, and there was no way to fathom the bottom.
This mysterious man!