The autumn harvest was so tiring that even with Tang Baozhu's good physique and great strength, she felt she couldn't take it anymore.
I wonder how those female educated youths who had just been sent to the countryside survived a few years ago?
Working in the countryside in the north was incredibly tiring; it felt like the crops in the fields would never be harvested.
Wheat, sorghum, barley, millet, black rice, corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, cotton, soybeans... there are just so many things to harvest.
Not only did they have grains to eat, but they also had cotton for making clothes, and even peanuts and soybeans for pressing oil. They grew so many things.
After a full month and a half, all the grain was finally harvested. And this was just harvesting from the fields; it hadn't been processed at all. When it was time to eat it, we would have to grind it ourselves.
Tang Baozhu felt that if she hadn't secretly given herself extra food, she probably wouldn't have been able to make it through the autumn harvest.
Su Rui'an also often secretly went fishing, and whenever he caught any, he would send her a few fish so she could make soup to nourish her body.
Seeing how nice he was, Tang Baozhu always felt a little guilty when she ate alone, but it was impossible for her to reveal her private space.
Apart from Xu Rui knowing that he had a space, he had never told anyone else. This was because Xu Rui had his own space, so there was no need to worry that he would try to take it. Moreover, both of their spaces were given to them by others, and they both knew that they had their own space, so there was nothing to hide.
But other people shouldn't even think about finding out that they have a space.
After the crops in the fields were harvested, the weather began to cool down. Before the winter was over, everyone started shelling the corn.
There isn't even a kernel-removing machine; everyone has to remove the kernels by hand. However, some familiar old farmers actually use their shoes to remove the corn kernels, which looks quite unusual.
The work itself wasn't very tiring, but it was quite hard on my hands; peeling corn every day was tiring too.
Zhao Lidong, who was originally serving as the acting brigade leader, has now been directly appointed as the brigade leader of the village.
Thinking about building her own house, Tang Baozhu immediately entrusted the task to him.
Build a small courtyard, with one room for your own living, another room as a kitchen, a backyard for storing firewood for winter, and a front yard for drying things.
In order to raise the money to build a house, he even made a special trip to town after the autumn harvest.
The black market in town has almost fully recovered. I sold a lot of space and food there, made 1,000 yuan, and then quit.
It seems pointless to have so much money. In other small worlds, he had hoarded all sorts of money, but after leaving those worlds, he found that he didn't need it at all. He felt that enough was sufficient.
Not to mention the gold he had hoarded in his own space; once the reform and opening up began, he would never have to worry about not having money to spend.
Zhao Lidong was quite easy to talk to, and most importantly, at that time, most people still upheld the belief of serving the people.
They wouldn't refuse at all, but in order not to let them suffer losses, Tang Baozhu still gave them more wages, and even bought the adobe bricks for building the houses from people in the village.
The people in the village now are all people who moved here from other places. Since there is no hatred between them, how could they possibly let a profitable business slip through their fingers?
In addition, since everyone had just settled in, none of their minor flaws had been exposed yet, and they were still quite concerned about their image, so everyone was very united.
In addition, they were paid for helping build the house, earning at least several cents a day, so a lot of people came to help. The house was completed in less than half a month.
After Tang Baozhu finished building the house, everyone else at the educated youth settlement was extremely envious, and there were just too many people who wanted to move away.
After all, with so many people living on one kang (heated brick bed), some people would want to live in a room by themselves. However, they had been exploited too much in the past few years and had not saved much money, so they had to give up the idea.
I plan to save up more money before bringing up the topic of building a house later.
When Tang Baozhu first started building her house, Su Rui'an was worried that the young girl wouldn't have enough money, so he gave her all the money he had stored in the cabin.
Tang Baozhu simply refused his money. Although the two were secretly dating, it wouldn't work if they weren't together.
So she preferred to buy food outside to raise 1,000 yuan herself, rather than take other people's money casually. It would be too awkward if the two of them really couldn't stay together in the future.
Su Rui'an looked a little unhappy when he saw that the little girl wouldn't accept his money, but fortunately, Tang Baozhu quickly coaxed him back to his senses.
There's nothing a kiss can't fix; if there is, then two kisses will do.
She kissed him so hard he was completely mesmerized. In the end, they were both so engrossed in their kiss that they had completely forgotten about the money.
Fortunately, because the two were dating secretly, and Su Rui'an was a professor who had been sent down to a farm, Tang Baozhu did not live together before marriage as she would in the modern world.
In this era, she still didn't dare to be so bold. After all, once you come to a small world, you have to abide by the rules of this small world. There's no need to be too open until that time comes, lest you scare your boyfriend.
You have to understand, he's a professor at a research institute. What if he's a bit old-fashioned? We don't want to scare him.
By the time the first snow fell, there was nothing left to do in the fields; the children had already dug them up several times over.
Even after the harvest, many children still like to scavenge for leftovers in the fields, and they always manage to find a lot of things.
After all, the autumn harvest is a very rushed time, and everyone is worried that bad weather might ruin the crops. So there are always some grains left over, which just happens to benefit the children in the village.
When the first snow fell, Tang Baozhu had already moved into her new house.
The house had just been built, and Tang Baozhu hadn't even had time to gather firewood for the winter when she was stunned by the amount of firewood Su Ruian brought over.
“This was prepared in advance. Every day after work, when there was nothing else to do, I would go up the mountain to check on it. It was all piled up in a small valley. Now that your house is finished, no one here is paying attention, so I took this opportunity to deliver it to you.”
Tang Baozhu was astonished to find that he was already so tired from work every day, yet he still had to fish to nourish himself and find time to go up the mountain to chop firewood.
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