Wen Moyu's visit to the hospital was mostly intended to scare Wen's parents, hoping it would soften their hearts and make them feel guilty, and perhaps even give them some money or coupons.
In the end, they got nothing.
That was bad enough, but two days later she heard that Wen's mother had given meat and walnuts to the two uncles of the Mo family.
This time she really couldn't hold back anymore. She cried and made a scene at the machine tool factory's residential building, telling everyone she met how stingy Wen's parents were to her. They said that when she, a pregnant woman, came to their house, they wouldn't even give her a walnut. They lied and said that the neighbors had given her a few and that she had eaten them all, but then they turned around and gave each of her two uncles several kilograms of walnuts.
The residents of the family building also had some complaints, feeling that the Wen family was being petty in this matter.
Mo Yitao was furious and, disregarding the embarrassment in front of others, directly told her...
"To tell you the truth, there are indeed still walnuts, peanuts, and melon seeds at home, but I can't give them to you. These were all brought back by Xiaoxue for us, and given what you did to Xiaoxue, you don't deserve to eat them."
Wen Moyu's stomach was really uncomfortable this time, and she was hospitalized again.
Changhe Brigade, Hongxing Commune.
Lu Yun and Wen Moxue were unaware of the commotion at the Wen family's residence, and the two of them lived busy and shameless lives every day.
The harvest has begun, and Lu Yuan is finally getting down to work in the fields properly.
It was indeed tiring. The brigade's motto was, "Work before dawn, eat two meals in the fields, and work until you can't see anymore."
Working from dawn till dusk, exhausted to the bone.
On the first day of the harvest, Lu Yuan's hands were blistered, and his back ached terribly. He only recovered after taking a bath in the spiritual spring water that evening.
That night was the first time he had worn a vegetarian dress since consummating his marriage with his wife, and he was somewhat unwilling to accept it.
He had his wife take him into the space, and he looked at the agricultural machinery in the field with great envy.
If only we could get these agricultural machines out and use them, we could probably harvest all the grain for the whole brigade in a day or two.
At that time, there were no large combine harvesters, only hand tractors, which were tracked tractors, and they didn't appear until two years later.
However, these tractors with harvesting capabilities were only initially tested in some local state-owned farms. In each brigade, the traditional mode of relying on human sickles was still in use.
Lu Yuan suddenly felt an urge to thoroughly study the agricultural machinery in his space. Once he had a good grasp of it, he might be able to make a trip to the machinery factory.
However, we can discuss these matters later; the immediate priority is to address the current issues.
After much thought, the only thing that could be done was to modify the sickle, replacing the short handle with a long one so that the wheat could be cut directly without bending over.
However, this creates a new problem: if the wheat is not held in hand beforehand and cut, it will fall over and become crooked, which will not only affect the subsequent cutting work, but also require some tidying up, increasing the workload.
Either you need someone to organize and bundle the harvested wheat, or you need to lay the harvested wheat in one direction, or ideally, arrange it neatly.
So Lu Yuan came up with another idea: he took a piece of birch bark and fixed it upright on the right side of the sickle, so that the cut wheat would fall in one direction because of the bark's obstruction.
But this stuff wasn't sturdy at all; the bark spoiled after only a short time. Since they couldn't find anything else to replace it, they had to give up.
He found a fellow member of the commune to help him; he cut the wheat in front while the others bundled it behind. This made the process much faster, and he wasn't as tired, at least he didn't have to bend over all the time.
The next day, many people followed his example and lengthened the handles of their sickles, but not everyone improved their work efficiency.
This requires the sickle to be extremely sharp and to use skillful force to quickly cut the wheat.
In previous years, the harvest usually took about ten days, but this year it only took a week. With a tractor for transportation, the manpower for carrying grain on shoulder poles was saved, and the speed of cutting and threshing wheat was much faster than in previous years.
During this period, Yang Caihong worked as a scorekeeper.
She was responsible for keeping accounts and guarding the warehouse as the wheat was dried and stored.
The team leader gave her this job, and she was initially very proud of it, but when she saw Wen Moxue driving the tractor to transport grain, she couldn't be proud anymore.
She realized that she was only chosen because the other staff didn't want the scorekeeper position.
When the grain was being stored, the team leader reminded her to keep a record of the quantity stored each time.
"Make sure you register the wrong information, and keep an eye on the warehouse so that no one can take advantage of the situation."
She solemnly promised that no one would take advantage of the situation, but she couldn't help but want to take advantage of it herself.
This is all grain, tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, it looks so tempting.
During her two years in the countryside, she never had a full meal. If she had a few dozen kilograms more grain, she wouldn't have gone hungry for the entire year.
With so much grain, a loss of a hundred or two hundred pounds wouldn't be noticeable at all. Besides, she was the one who registered and guarded the warehouse. Even if she missed a little bit in the register, no one would know, and it wouldn't be discovered during the investigation.
It's so convenient! Everything is in her favor – the timing, the location, and the people all work together for her. The more she thinks about it, the more feasible it seems, and the more tempted she becomes.
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She faced two problems: how to steal the grain and how to transport it back to the educated youth settlement.
The second problem isn't difficult; once everyone is asleep late at night, she can secretly carry it back.
Everyone is exhausted every day, and when they get off work, they just collapse into bed and sleep soundly. She's not worried about anyone staying up late and wandering around.
The main problem now is grain theft.
It didn't take long for her to come up with an idea.
The warehouse was divided into two sections, an inner and an outer one. The larger inner section was the actual granary, used for storing grain, while the smaller outer section was used to store farm tools and miscellaneous items.
Looking at the room filled with clutter, she thought she could take the grain out and hide it in the clutter first. As long as no one digs through it, no one would find it.
Everyone is too busy to rummage through the pile of junk.
Although people come and go all day, most of the time they are busy outside. Except for those carrying grain in to store it, no one comes in easily.
This gave her many opportunities to take action.
So next, she prepared a sack, and when no one was around, she quickly filled a large sack, placed it in the pile of miscellaneous items, and covered it with other miscellaneous items.
I don't know the exact weight, so I'll have to weigh it again later. This will also make it easier for her to register fewer quantities tomorrow.
"Alright, that's it for the day. Yang Zhiqing, you should go home and rest early too."
After Lu Guoan weighed the last load of grain and put it into storage, he locked the granary door and said loudly.
Yang Caihong didn't move. "Captain, let me tally up the work points for the past few days. You can go now. I'll deliver the keys to your homes later."
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