Chapter 31 Planting Skills



After work, Yi Qingqing hurried home to cook before it got dark. Today she made scrambled eggs with leeks and loofah soup.

After eating, she washed up and went to class. The sign-in area urged her to study harder and earn sign-in points!

The next day, when everyone went to weed the sorghum field, she saw that Li Mengxue was only assigned one ridge of land, and after finishing the work, she went to rest under a tree by the field. Only then did she remember to flip through the big golden book.

Just like in the original book, Li Mengxue set her sights on the job of a school teacher, but there was no shortage of positions in the village primary school, so she had to settle for the second best and temporarily take fewer work points and do less work.

However, this matter caused a lot of gossip in the original book. The villagers said that they had never seen someone who would rather sit idle than work points, and that he was an educated youth who did not know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt were.

That means she is a female educated youth, otherwise she would be as famous as the lazy men in the village.

But the capable aunts in the women's group of the second squad were happy. Li Mengxue did not actually change her position. She just distributed the work under her name to other aunts in the group. If they were capable and worked more, they could also get a share of the work from Li Mengxue.

However, Li Mengxue's reputation for being wealthy had spread. After all, how could she dare to do this without any money or tickets?

For a moment, the fact that Yi Qingqing had bought a new bicycle was completely unnoticeable. After all, she was still working hard to earn work points like everyone else, which showed that she was not as generous as Li Mengxue.

Yi Qingqing glanced at the description in the golden book, knew what had happened, and stopped paying attention to it.

Today’s check-in points have also been credited to my account, and I have finally accumulated 3 check-in points.

There is still some time before the next team holiday. By that time, I can reach the sign-in location in the kitchen of the county state-owned restaurant by relying on the sign-in points accumulated every day.

Among the three check-in points now, Yi Qingqing plans to choose one from the farmland check-in site and the hunter's cabin check-in site.

These two are most likely skills, and the skill teaching level they are equipped with is level 3.

Now we are in the field, so of course I would choose farmland.

[Sign in at the farmland gathering area in Xiangshui Village to gain planting skills.]

It turned out to be a planting skill. I was worrying about how to plant in my private plot and had planned to ask Aunt Guihua for advice. However, even so, I was afraid that it would be difficult to have a good harvest. Unexpectedly, I came across the planting skill.

Yi Qingqing called up the system panel.

[Host: Yi Qingqing]

【Check-in point: 0】

[Skills: Cooking Level 2 8%, College Entrance Examination Level 1 93%, Carpentry Level 1 0%, Planting Level 1 1%]

She already has four skills, and the progress of her planting skill is 1%. It seems that she has been asking Aunt Guihua about farming these days, and it has been of some use.

A new course also emerged in the skill teaching model.

【Planting skills teaching course】

[Farmer of Xiangshui Village (Level 3 72%)]

Is the teacher of this course from Xiangshui Village?

Yi Qingqing was extremely curious, but she couldn't go in to see it now. She waited until she got off work at noon and found some time to go in and take a look. Only then did she discover that the teacher was not a villager of the current Xiangshui Village, nor was he a villager who had existed in the past.

He had a simple appearance of a farmer and introduced himself, "I am the collection of planting experience of farmers who have worked on this farmland. Here, I will teach you the planting techniques and key points of various crops. The crops you can choose are wheat, sorghum, soybeans, rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts... Please choose one."

In other words, anyone who has farmed here can teach her all their planting experience. No wonder her skill has a level 3 and 72% level, which is currently her highest upper limit.

Yi Qingqing did not choose those grain crops first. These things were grown by the team together. Even if she didn't know much about them, she could follow everyone. What mattered now was her own private plot.

She picked these out, and the first one she chose was the green pepper, which she loved to eat. July was the right time to plant it.

Then a piece of solid land appeared in front of them.

The farmer started teaching her from turning the soil, explaining to her step by step the key points of pepper planting at different stages, demonstrating as he went along.

The sown pepper seeds quickly sprouted as he explained, and then were transplanted and grew rapidly. During this time at noon, Yi Qingqing witnessed the entire process of pepper from sowing and seedling raising to growth.

Although it was mainly the farmers who were doing the work and she was just watching but had not done it herself, it was much more vivid than listening to how to plant it orally.

After watching for a while and taking her notes, she tried it in her own private plot. The results might not be as good as those grown by the farmer, but at least she wouldn't have to worry about them not surviving.

From that day on, Yi Qingqing had a planting class added to her nightly curriculum in addition to the college entrance examination skills class. According to her arrangement, she would be able to upgrade her college entrance examination skills to level 2 during the next team holiday. At the same time, she would review the planting methods of the vegetables that could be grown with this skill and understand the basic process.

Even when everyone was taking a break during work, she would take a small notebook and a pen and copy the key points of planting that she remembered from the previous night's class into the notebook, so that it would be more convenient when the actual planting started.

"Xiao Yi, the educated youth, is really serious. She even wrote down matters like this on the land in a notebook and said that farming is a science! This is what it means to go to the countryside to learn, not to fall behind," said Liu Chunxing, an old lady from the 4th team, sarcastically, as she fell behind again.

"That's right. The work points are hers and we have no right to interfere. But it would be bad if she delays everyone else's work," some people from Team 5 also gossiped.

These two days, the aunts from these two teams were the most dissatisfied.

There were no female educated youth in their group before, but now that there are some, they would feel better if they didn't have anyone to compare themselves with. Now there is the capable and studious Yi educated youth in the front, who can't do the work herself and gives the work points to others and lets others do the work. Li educated youth is behind, and even Qian educated youth in Group 3 has made obvious progress and knows to put on a smile even if he works slowly.

The two new educated youth in their group who worked slowly and were reluctant to pay work points to ask others for help were an eyesore. One was spoiled and could not work faster no matter how much she was urged, and the other looked bitter all day long, as if someone had bullied her. This approach didn't work on these old ladies. Besides, she was not as pretty as Tang Lan from the seventh team. Even Cai, the educated youth in the same team, ignored her.

"You just pretend to be nice," Liu Chunxing said angrily with her head down.

I didn't dare speak too loudly for fear of being heard.

To Yi Qingqing's surprise, the most capable male educated youth was Yun Guyuan.

Yi Qingqing was shocked the first time she heard Aunt Guihua and the others mention this in their conversation.

The powerful pills were still enough, so she hadn’t paid much attention to Yun Guyuan during this period.

After work, they are either busy cleaning up their own plots or practicing their skills in the house.

Even though we lived across the street, we didn't say a word to each other for several days.


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