At four in the morning, everyone got up in the dark. Zeng Wenjuan got up quietly, and Chen Yitang happened to hear the noise of the people living next door getting up. He couldn't sleep because of the noise, so he got up and wandered over here.
"Why do you have to get up so early? It's only 4:30 now." Chen Yitang glanced at his watch in the moonlight and said to Zeng Wenjuan.
Zeng Wenjuan lowered her voice and whispered, "We have to start harvesting early so that we can have more rest when the weather gets hot at noon."
"Then what about your breakfast? Will you come back for lunch?" Chen Yintang felt sorry for Zeng Wenjuan, but she didn't want to leave now. She could only watch her daughter suffer so much.
Zeng Wenjuan explained, "During this period, the canteen in the village will be open, and they will deliver meals. I will just eat in the canteen. Dad, I need you to take care of Goudan. The ingredients are all in the kitchen, just make whatever you want to eat!"
"Okay, Goudan is my grandson and I will take good care of him. Don't worry, I'm at home!" Chen Yitang nodded and agreed, and said distressedly: "Nannan, if you feel tired, come home and I will transfer your household registration back home."
Zeng Wenjuan is also a mother, and she can understand Chen Yitang's thoughts. She smiled and nodded: "Okay, I know."
After that, Zeng Wenjuan took the flashlight and left. Halfway through the journey, she met Zhao Hongtiao and Ge Qingqiu.
"You didn't take care of the child either! Is there anyone at home to look after him? There are a lot of kidnappers at this time! I paid a few cents to ask Granny Li from next door to help look after the child." Ge Qingqiu said to Zeng Wenjuan with a smile when he saw that she didn't take care of the child either.
Zeng Wenjuan smiled and nodded: "My father came to help me look after the child, otherwise I would not be at ease leaving Goudan at home alone." Otherwise, let alone the kidnapper, even feeding the child would become a problem.
Ge Qingqiu was somewhat envious. Ever since she got married, her parents didn't recognize her as a married woman, let alone come to help take care of the children. As long as they didn't ask her to help, it would be fine. As for her husband's family... widows are often surrounded by gossip. Her husband's family looked at her with disdain and even suspected that Shitou was not their grandson. She could only swallow her bitterness.
As they walked and chatted, they felt that time passed very quickly, and they soon arrived in front of the ancestral hall. Almost everyone had arrived and gathered together to chat.
"Hey, hey, hey... Today we officially start the rush to harvest, which will last for a month. I hope everyone will not be lazy and must work actively to strive to be the first village in the entire brigade to store grain." The village chief shouted loudly while standing on the platform.
After hearing the words of the village chief, the villagers all shouted the slogan together, which has been the slogan for many years and is also a kind of expectation for the autumn harvest. "It will not rain if the grain is stored in the warehouse, and the golden rice will be harvested into rice."
"Okay, everyone must start working now and race against time." After hearing them shouting the correct slogan, the village chief could also feel everyone's firm belief.
Each person was allocated two mu of land. If they finished harvesting the land within a day, they would get twelve work points. If they finished harvesting early, they could get another mu of land.
Zeng Wenjuan looked at the entire golden rice field and couldn't help feeling happy. This year's grain harvest was good. As long as all the grain was harvested, the villagers would have more grain left after paying their public grain tax.
Without thinking too much, Zeng Wenjuan bent over with a sickle and started harvesting. When the rice was piled up, Zeng Wenjuan carried the rice to the thresher and prepared to thresh it.
He picked up a handful of rice and placed the side with rice in front of the thresher, grabbing it with both hands. He stepped on the lever of the thresher alternately with his left and right feet, and the thresher began to work and thresh the rice.
They cut the rice and threshed it back and forth. By the time they had breakfast, Zeng Wenjuan had only cut a small corner.
Zeng Wenjuan unscrewed the kettle hanging around her neck and took a big sip of warm water. Then she turned around and walked towards the direction where the ladies in the cafeteria were distributing food.
This morning's meal was rice porridge with pickles and white flour buns mixed with paste residue. Zeng Wenjuan went over to get her breakfast. At this time, there was no distinction between men and women, and everyone was treated like cattle and horses.
"Wenjuan, over here." Zhao Hongtiao arrived early and had already started eating. There was an empty seat next to her, which should have been reserved for her.
Zeng Wenjuan walked over and sat down on the stone pier. She ate the steamed buns and porridge in big mouthfuls before asking, "How much did you harvest this morning?"
"My land is in a pretty good location, and I've carved out about three-tenths of it. How about you?" Zhao Hongtiao said while eating steamed buns and drinking porridge in big mouthfuls.
"I'm almost there too. Let's eat quickly! Let's work harder now while the sun is still low. We can take a break when the sun comes out." Although Zeng Wenjuan was used to doing farm work, her waist was very sore after bending for the whole morning.
The two of them quickly finished their breakfast, put the bowls and chopsticks back into the old lady's bucket, and quickly returned to the land assigned to them and started working again.
Zeng Wenjuan was harvesting rice in Yueli. Her foot, which was originally wearing waders, stepped on something particularly prickly. When she moved her foot away, she saw a meaty snail.
"Hey! It's actually meaty snails. The snails are so fragrant at this time. Let's pick some and take them home! After picking out the snail meat, we can eat the snails fried with leeks. It just so happens that the leeks planted in my own field have also grown a crop of leeks."
Zeng Wenjuan took the dustpan next to her and started picking them up. There were quite a lot of snails, and she could pick up a handful at a time. In less than ten minutes, half of the dustpan was full of snails, so Zeng Wenjuan didn't pick up more.
When it was time for lunch, Zeng Wenjuan thought that the weather was hot and wanted to prevent the snails from being sun-dried to death, so she put them into a small river nearby and weighed down the winnowing basket with two large stones.
"Wenjuan, you also like to eat snails! I like them too. They are even more delicious when fried with leeks. Do you have leeks at home? If not, you can come to my house to cut some." Ge Qingqiu saw Zeng Wenjuan's actions, and she happened to do the same, so he said to her with a smile.
After hearing what Ge Qingqiu said, Zeng Wenjuan smiled and nodded: "I also planted a little myself. Maybe the fertilizer on my land is good, and the chives have grown. But if mine is not enough, I will go to your vegetable garden to harvest them."
"No problem, just tell me when the time comes and I'll take you to the field." Ge Qingqiu was willing to give the vegetables he grew to others, but he didn't want others to harvest them without him knowing.
Zeng Wenjuan smiled and nodded in thanks. The two of them walked towards the place where they received their meals. Although the lunch did not contain meat, it was rich in oil.
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