Chapter 15 Hard-earned Money
Lu Miao rolled his eyes, suddenly becoming as cunning as a little fox, and heartlessly began to attack the snake with a stick: "Does it rain often in the south? I don't have an umbrella. Can you weave a bamboo hat?"
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"Here it comes. The porridge has been in the pot for a while, and it's just the right temperature now. Lu Zhiqing, try it."
"Thank you, Auntie~"
Chen Guifen came back soon, and Lu Miao took the coarse porcelain bowl from her hand, smiling sweetly and obediently.
Can it not be sweet?
Lu Miao confirmed that Fu Jingyou would weave a hat for her today, and persuaded Fu Jingyou to weave a bamboo hat for her. She was in such a good mood!
The porridge in the bowl is very thin, but the rice soup cooked with firewood is very fragrant.
After eating dry coarse grains for several days, this bowl of rice soup was very much to Lu Miao's liking. She drank it in small sips without leaving any.
Food rations were precious, so Lu Miao certainly wouldn't eat for free. She wasn't sure how to give out food coupons, so she put two cents on the table when she stood up.
Chen Guifen didn't see her little action, but Fu Jingyou saw it but said nothing.
Seeing Lu Miao preparing to go back, Chen Guifen called her: "Lu Zhiqing, wait a moment, auntie will get you something."
thing?
What?
Lu Miao was very confused, but he stood in the main room and waited obediently.
Chen Guifen returned soon, with a gourd ladle in her hand, which was filled with a few crisp cucumbers and small tomatoes with yellow and red.
"They are all grown in our own private plots. This year's harvest is better than in previous years. You can take some home and eat them. Don't be disgusted."
Lu Miao was flattered and took the gift, thanking him repeatedly: "Thank you, Auntie. I'll return this half gourd to you when I go to work tomorrow."
"The gourd ladle isn't worth much. We have plenty at home. Just leave it at the educated youth camp!" Chen Guifen waved her hand cheerfully. "Go ahead. Walk faster on the way. You'll get very hot."
Lu Miao nodded, smiled sweetly at Chen Guifen, and trotted out the door holding the gourd ladle.
Chen Guifen laughed and looked away, just in time to run into He Hongjin coming out of the kitchen.
He Hongjin snorted, "You have a kind heart. You just agree with whatever others say."
"Haha, what else can we do? A little girl so far away from home, don't you feel sorry for her?" Chen Guifen smiled as she gathered the bowls. She saw two cents folded up on the corner of the table. She picked them up and asked, "Whose are these?"
He Hongjin snorted twice and said nothing.
Obviously not his.
Fu Jingyou didn't say anything either.
When Chen Guifen thought about who was sitting in this position just now, she understood what was going on.
"That girl is a little spoiled, but she's honest. She couldn't handle the cornfield work, but didn't she manage it well for a few days?"
"It's better to be frank and honest about what you can and can't do. Think about the first few years when the first batch of educated youth arrived. Even now, I still feel bad for the peanut seedlings on that half-acre field."
He Hongjin also felt very sad about what Chen Guifen said.
At first, we thought that the educated youth had just arrived, so we wanted to let them do some light work to help them adapt. However, we didn't expect that they didn't know the difference between grains. They mistook peanut seedlings for weeds and pulled up half an acre of land.
The second production team became the laughing stock of the brigade. It was small, but it was a pity that the seedlings on the half-acre of land...
Peanuts are an economic agricultural and sideline product. It cost a lot of money just to buy the seeds, which was the hard-earned money of the team.
I shouldn't have mentioned this. When I talked about it, He Hongjin felt so distressed that he started scratching his scalp.
Thinking of something, He Hongjin asked anxiously, "You said Lu Zhiqing has been working in the cornfield these days? Which field is she working in? Have you checked it out? Don't dig up the corn seedlings for me this time!"
Fu Jingyou straightened his back at the table, wanting to say something, but Chen Guifen spoke before him, "Don't worry, I've already told the old farmhands in the team that day and asked them to help keep an eye on things. Besides working a little slowly, Lu Zhiqing is reliable."
"Oh, I was so scared that I almost couldn't breathe."
He Hongjin patted his chest. It was also because the weather had been getting warmer recently and the team had more and more work to do, so he didn't consider this aspect for a while.
"What about the others? How are they?"
"They're all okay. The brother and sister from the three northeastern provinces are very skillful. I asked them before, and they said they grew up in the countryside. They can do farm work very well."
Hearing this, He Hongjin felt a little relieved. "What's going on up there? Why are they always giving away these golden nuggets?"
Chen Guifen smiled and said, "Gold nuggets? Ordinary people can't raise such golden nuggets."
She was talking about Lu Miao.
He Hongjin sighed softly, "I don't expect every one of these educated youth here to be useful. It'll be enough if there are two or three who can do the job."
After all, she was his partner, so Chen Guifen knew what he was thinking. But then she added, "When you have time, go say hello to the old farmhands in the team. If the city kids can work slowly, then they can work slowly. Don't be so rude to them wherever you go. If you end up suppressing the enthusiasm of the educated youth to work, won't the team suffer the consequences?"
"Okay, I understand."
He Hongjin nodded, carried his hoe and went out.
Fu Jingyou had finished his meal. When Chen Guifen was cleaning up the dishes, he was helping from the side, but as soon as he reached out his hand, it was slapped away.
"You should also pack up and get back to work. Why would you be needed here?"
Fu Jingyou followed his instructions and went to pick up the hoe. When he reached the door, Chen Guifen suddenly called him again:
"Oh wait, Jingyou, I suddenly remembered something..."
There weren't many plots of land that met the requirements of being close to the forest and doing easy work, and the few that were available were not close to the production team.
It is definitely impossible to let Lu Miao go alone, but if the farm workers in the team are arranged to go together, no matter whether they are old or young, Chen Guifen would feel uneasy just thinking of Lu Miao's beautiful face.
After much thought, Chen Guifen decided to go after Fu Jingyou.
After so many years, Fu Jingyou has become her own child. Chen Guifen understands his character and feels more at ease.
Fu Jingyou was a little hesitant, but when Chen Guifen asked him to go, he agreed.
When he gave Lu Miao the straw hat in the afternoon, he passed on the message to Lu Miao:
"Auntie said she wants you to go with me tomorrow... You're a girl, and she's afraid the villagers might spread rumors, so she told us to leave early."
"Um."
Lu Miao hummed softly, tilting his head to look at the hat in his hand over and over again.
The hat is made of straw. Even if you ignore the natural smell, you can tell it is newly woven, but...
It seemed as if it was made in a hurry, not very delicate, and the brim was not braided bigger as she had requested.
Lu Miao wasn't very satisfied, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he followed Fu Jingyou's words and asked, "Will it be just the two of us tomorrow?"
"It's just the two of us." Fu Jingyou pursed his lips, his Adam's apple sliding up and down. "The place is far away, and we have to eat lunch in the fields. You should prepare some dry food in advance."
"All right."
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