"Okay then, can we still eat it tomorrow?"
Qin Yi simply took his bowl away.
"You'll have to ask your third aunt, but if you overeat and get a stomachache, then there won't be any good food left. Your brothers will eat, and you'll just have to watch."
Qin Yi didn't find it inappropriate at all to scare the child. He even laughed maliciously as the child was so frightened that the meat in his mouth fell out.
"Want some more?"
Qin Heng was so frightened that tears welled up in his eyes, threatening to spill over at any moment. Xiao Hu gave him a speechless rebuke.
"You've got some nerve, scaring kids and you're even proud of it?"
Qin Jing realized what was happening and was somewhat speechless, but he still tried to comfort the child first.
"Don't cry, Xiao Heng. We'll stop eating when we're full. Otherwise, we'll eat something delicious later, and there won't be any room in your stomach, okay?"
Qin Heng blinked and reluctantly agreed, his eyes still filled with defensiveness and accusation as he looked at Qin Yi, instantly making him seem like the bad guy.
The old lady was still smiling as she looked at it.
"Little Yi still prefers to tease children,"
"Auntie, you've wronged me. I just saw that this boy had almost forgotten me, so I wanted to get to know him better."
The old lady didn't want to get involved in their work. After finishing her meal, she sat for a while and then went home. She was indeed tired after traveling for several days.
The remaining few people chatted idly.
"It's not harvest time yet, otherwise these people would have learned it and could have tried it out themselves,"
"It's alright. Once you learn it, you've got a skill. Besides, there's still someone to till the land. Let's find some wasteland to experiment on, and then we can find someone to come and give us some guidance after the autumn harvest."
"There's no need to go to so much trouble. Isn't this land ready? We can turn it over manually and let the machine try it out, so everyone can see the difference."
"Hey, you know, not many of these kids can read. I wonder if they can even understand it properly. Don't let them only have a half-baked understanding and then falter when it comes to the real test."
Qin Qinghuai paused for a moment, then instead of replying, asked,
"Commander, tell me, if they were also literate, wouldn't you still feel at ease?"
Commander Lin sighed.
What do you think I'm worried about?
There were only a few literate people among them. They weren't afraid of knives and guns during training, but when it came to recognizing characters, they all became incredibly knowledgeable.
"Tell me about this tedious work, that machine. I'm looking at those labels, the instructions, and those buttons. If they can't remember them, they can't take notes or anything. They can't even understand it themselves. What if they just spout nonsense and we don't even know what they're talking about?"
Qin Qinghuai nodded slightly.
"I see."
At this moment, he fully understood his wife's considerations and concerns. Now it was peacetime, and an army full of illiterate people was destined to be a group of soldiers. This was an obvious weakness, and decline was an inevitable and inevitable trajectory.
"What do you understand?"
"Commander, our school's plan needs to be brought forward, and the scope of the target audience needs to be expanded."
Commander Lin's eyes were like mosquito coils.
"What the heck?"
"Commander, you are a leader, you should set an example."
The infrastructure construction here has officially begun. Qin Qinghuai and Cheng Chao are busy from dawn till dusk every day. Cheng Chao, who was supposed to go back once things were on track, has not let go of his responsibilities and has been busy with all the arrangements. He has hardly been able to come back at a normal time.
The two families across the street were so busy that they were nowhere to be seen. Many family members in the compound were also working to earn work points. Sister Wang was one of them. Jian Dan often heard from Sister Wang that they were turning the soil today, making ridges tomorrow, and watering the day after. Jian Dan had also gone to check. Although it was a little late, it didn't take long before the seeds she had specially smuggled out from her space were planted in the ground.
What followed was a tense wait, with Professor Yu and Professor Wei staying in the field every day to watch over things.
The family members and Commander Lin would also go over to take a look, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Soldiers going to and from get off work would also walk around that side. This was hope, and everyone kept it in their hearts.
Now that the old man is free, he goes there almost every day. He doesn't do anything, but he always thinks about it even if he doesn't go.
At the breeding farm, since it was their first time raising piglets, they raised dozens of piglets that Cheng Chao had brought back. When Professor Zhu came over, he brought several chicks that had been hatched by the elderly ladies in the family compound. This made the family compound quite lively, since it was a topic that the women in each family liked and were familiar with. You could hear it as soon as you walked around the family compound.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you go to the chicken farm?"
Sister-in-law Wang immediately beamed with joy.
"I went, I went, why didn't I go? If I hadn't run out of food at home, I would have brought a few back with me."
These were just the beginnings; she hadn't been involved in the details at all and knew nothing about them. She listened with amusement and curiosity.
"Can I take it home and raise it myself?"
"Yeah yeah,"
Sister-in-law Wang came over.
"Girl, you know what, this year's policy is really good. You can raise pigs and chickens and earn work points. Several families with only elderly people who can't do much work have taken a few chicks home to raise. When they return them, they can still get work points. It doesn't interfere with their household chores at all. They can still do laundry, cook, and tidy up the garden."
"Really? That's quite humane."
Sister-in-law Wang didn't quite understand what "humanized" meant, but she knew it was a compliment.
"That's right. Those old ladies kept slapping their thighs, saying they didn't want to come here and burden their children, but now it seems like they have more hope than the rest of the village."
"By the way, girl, isn't the housing complex here enough? I've seen several more rows of houses being built over there, all with small yards."
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