Time flies, and soon the sweltering summer arrived.
Su Qingci, who was herding cattle, was doing alright, but people like Li Li and Chen Xiuxiang were several shades darker.
They have to carry several jugs of water to the fields every day.
Everyone was tired during this period, but Shen Chuntao always liked to stick to Su Qingci, no matter what.
After the others returned to the educated youth settlement, they basically washed up, ate, and rested, and there were far fewer frictions and conflicts.
In Hunan Province, two seasons of rice are planted.
Summer is the busiest time. The early rice needs to be harvested and then the late rice needs to be planted immediately. The soybeans in the field also need to be harvested soon.
Then comes harvesting peanuts, corn, late rice, digging sweet potatoes, and planting radishes and cabbages—keeping busy until winter.
Liu Dazhu had already announced that when it came time to harvest, everyone, whether they were in charge of herding cattle, cutting pig feed, or even those lazybones who were pampered by their families, had to work.
This is about the villagers' food rations for the whole year. If anyone drags the brigade down, it will cause public outrage!
Su Qingci was dragged to chop soybeans all morning, and before the work was even over, she collapsed on the earthen bank, her legs in the air.
She has enough to eat and drink, and doesn't want work points, so can she not come?
The dried bean stalks were fuzzy and prickly, and her palms were already covered in cuts and bruises after just one morning.
My whole body was burning with pain; my arms, calves, waist, and even my neck and face ached.
"Scorekeeper, come quick! Su Qingci is slacking off again."
As soon as Xiao Yuehua saw Su Qingci lying on her back, she immediately started shouting at the top of her lungs.
Su Qingci and Li Li were cutting crops in the field on the left, while Xiao Yuehua and Feng Jianjun were cutting crops in the field on the right. Xiao Yuehua had been holding her breath all morning.
That bastard Feng Jianjun keeps secretly staring at that little slut, it makes her furious.
Looking at Su Qingci's pink sandals and floral dress, Xiao Yuehua thought, "She doesn't look like someone who's here to work in the fields."
These are women who come to the fields to seduce men.
"Qingci, Qingci, get up quickly."
"The scorekeeper is coming."
When Li Li saw Xiao Yuehua shouting at the top of her lungs, she quickly ran over to pull Su Qingci away.
Su Qingci waved her hand weakly, "Don't pull me, I won't get up."
"I can't get up, I can't get up."
Upon hearing the shout, scorekeeper Li Fen ran over with a serious expression.
"Su Qingci, what's going on? How many times has this happened already?"
"These tasks are all assigned. If you don't finish them, don't go back for lunch. You'll have to work in the dark at night."
Su Qingci remained motionless. "Recorder, scorekeeper, find a few commune members to carry me to the health center."
"I, I, I feel that I can't do it anymore."
"In my family, there is only one daughter, me."
“If something goes wrong, you will be held responsible.”
Li Fen saw that her face was deathly pale, her hair, soaked with sweat, was clinging to her forehead, and she was lying motionless on the ground.
I was also worried that something might really happen to her.
He hurriedly stepped forward and touched her forehead.
Are you dizzy? Do you feel like throwing up?
"I felt dizzy and nauseous, my heart was racing, I couldn't breathe, my whole body ached, and I wanted to sleep."
"I feel like if I close my eyes, I won't be able to open them again~"
Li Fen was startled. "It's nothing, it's nothing. I'm probably just not used to being in the sun and have a bit of heatstroke."
"Come on, Li Li, help her down under that big tree to sit for a while, and give her some water."
Su Qingci lay slumped under the shady tree for a while before she felt herself come back to life.
In the middle of the morning, the sun was at least thirty degrees Celsius, blazing down on exposed skin.
Just standing outside like that, you'd be sweating buckets, let alone working all the time.
She didn't know why other people were so amazing, but she knew she couldn't do it.
Some of the villagers who were working had already finished ahead of schedule and were heading home.
Li Li was still working hard all by herself.
They work together; if one of them doesn't do it, the other has to do two.
Su Qingci had no choice but to grit her teeth and squat on the ground, slowly chopping away with her sickle.
Seeing Li Li's clothes, soaked and clinging tightly to her body, Su Qingci's face was full of shame.
Even if she's thick-skinned, she has to admit that she dragged Li Li down with her.
"Oh my, this sun is really strong. This is the hottest time of the day."
"After being exposed to this sun all morning, I'd probably be dried into a dried-up human body, hehehe~"
"Thank goodness, we're done. Time to go home!"
Xiao Yuehua, with her nostrils flared and a smug look on her face, passed by Su Qingci and Li Li's fields.
Feng Jianjun hesitated for a moment.
If I lend a hand at this moment, Su Qingci would probably be very touched, right?
Bang~
Ah~
Before he could make a move, Xiao Yuehua's sickle handle had already smashed into his head.
"What are you looking at?"
"You pretend to be impotent every night, but now you can't resist a little vixen?"
Feng Jianjun was so angry he almost fell backward, his face flushed red with embarrassment.
He felt that all life around him was mocking him.
"You, you, you've lost your mind? You're a complete shrew, utterly unreasonable."
After saying that, he flung his hand behind his back and strode away as if fleeing for his life.
Xiao Yuehua rolled her eyes at Su Qingci with disgust, then followed behind with her nose in the air.
Su Qingci had no time to pay attention to anyone else; all she wanted to do was finish quickly and go home.
She would ask for sick leave in the afternoon, and if the team leader disagreed, she would go directly to the health center.
She doesn't rely on these work points for food, so there's no need for her to risk her life.
Even if she didn't have a farm, she'd rather hook up with rich guys and live off them than come and harvest the crops. It's infuriating.
"Qingci, Qingci, how are you?"
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