Finally, this morning, instead of going to work in the fields, Sun Ye was carried on Wang Xiuzhen's back as usual, and the whole family, young and old, walked together to the dam of the team.
Many people gathered together one after another. Sun Ye listened to Wang Xiuzhen asking her to call this uncle, that aunt, this grandfather, that mother. In fact, Sun Ye remembered them all but did not say a word. She also received a lot of unpaid compliments.
There is a platform in front of the field, and my uncle's brother is standing there. He is the captain of the advancing team.
Sun Ye stayed steadily in Wang Xiuzhen's arms, and was also a little interested in this scene.
The dam was buzzing with voices and greetings. When the team leader saw that most people had arrived, he slammed the table hard and the whole crowd quieted down.
"Everyone, I won't waste any more time talking nonsense. In short, if you want to have enough food, you have to work hard. Do you want to have enough food?"
A group of people below answered loudly: "Yes!"
"Just think about it. It depends on your performance. The more centimeters you work, the more credits you get, and the more food and money you'll get at the end of the year."
“………”
"Get your stuff and get to work!"
Sun Ye felt that the team leader's eloquence was not very good. Even if he couldn't be said to be eloquent, at least he had to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people.
But she wouldn't express any opinions, at most she would mutter a few words in her heart.
The ground has been loosened. Wang Xiuzhen is responsible for sowing and covering the soil. She scatters rice seeds in patches and uses a hoe to gently dig the soil to cover it. Don't underestimate this simple task. After a day, she can't even straighten her back.
Sun Ye was sitting under a tree at the edge of the field as usual. What caught her eyes were people working as hard as ants. The little boys were also joining in. Her brothers said they were following their father Sun on the other side of the mountain.
She closed her eyes and communicated with the rice seeds in the field. From what she saw, the quality of the seeds did not seem to be very good.
Soon, the seeds sent feedback that they were malnourished, thirsty for water, not full, and were being eaten by insects.
While Sun Ye was understanding the situation, the team leader came over for an inspection. Seeing that Sun Ye had closed her eyes, he thought she was asleep and covered her with the small blanket on her legs.
In the distance, voices of "Captain Yang" kept coming into his ears on the road. It seemed that something important had happened, so the captain hurried over to see what was going on.
"What's wrong, Lao Li?" The captain saw that it was Li Ronghua, the captain of the neighboring Lianhua Village.
"Old Yang, you have to save our team." Captain Li had a bitter face and was full of anxiety.
"What's the matter? We've been neighbors for so many years, I'll definitely help if I can." Yang Guodong didn't make any promises of help. The lesson from the past was truly impressive.
"Isn't it spring plowing season? I rushed to the commune before dawn this morning to get rice seeds, but I didn't expect those bastards who went early to leave me only one bag of rice seeds. That's not enough."
Hearing this, Yang Guodong fell silent. He was one of those bastards who had gone to collect food earlier, but he didn't take more. He only took his brigade's share.
Besides, what Li Ronghua said might be exaggerated. When he went to collect grain for planting, he only had three bags of rice, and the rest were seeds that the team had saved with gritted their teeth.
"Teammate Li, don't worry. How much grain do you have left from last year?"
"The grain seeds were distributed long ago and eaten up. You know what happened last year. Captain Yang, please support the Lotus Brigade. We're all from the same commune."
"Old Li, let alone we're from the same commune, even if we were from the same parents, I wouldn't have any grain to support you. The Qianjin Brigade is even short on grain. I was just worried and was thinking of asking you to borrow some, but I didn't expect you to come to me first."
"What should I do? How can I farm without seeds? Everyone in the team is waiting for me to bring them back." Li Ronghua was so anxious that he couldn't help grabbing his hair.
"Old Li, considering our friendship over the years, I'll give you a suggestion."
"You say, I'll listen to you, as long as I can get the grain seeds."
"You said you only received one bag of grain seeds from the commune. You're supposed to get three bags. If you got less, someone else got more. Go to the commune and ask who got more. The commune leaders can't just watch your brigade starve to death. Whoever approved the note should deliver grain to your brigade."
"You mean to go to the commune and make trouble?"
Yang Guodong waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I didn't say that."
That’s what I mean.
Li Ronghua spat and left in a hurry.
Yang Guodong sighed. It's not easy for anyone. Fortunately, he went to the commune a few days earlier. Whoever committed the crime would be held responsible. Their team really didn't have any extra grain seeds.
Sun Ye had good ears and heard the conversation clearly. Even the defective grain seeds were being scrambled for.
With her little hands, she picked up a rice seed, facing the faint sunlight, and then buried it in the small earthen hole with the force of her hands. She then pulled the dry grass next to it to cover it, muttering, "You must eat and drink enough so that you can grow tall and bear many offspring."
This rice seed is planted next to a tree, and its future depends on its own destiny.
The sound of a gong rang out, and the people in the fields couldn't help but stretch their waists and rub their backs.
Time to get off work!
No one can bear to do such heavy work all of a sudden.
"Ye Zi, let's go home and have dinner."
Wang Xiuzhen carried Sun Ye on her back, straightened her back, picked up the hoe and slowly walked home.
Lanny from the eldest room of the family prepared lunch. Her job was simple, and she was the only one who had to cook for the whole family. After a while, when Lanny went to school, the four rooms would have to take turns going back to the room to cook breakfast.
There was nothing delicious, this was for Sun Ye, but today's food was indeed much better than usual. The rice was still dry corn and sweet potato rice. Working in the fields was very tiring, especially for men. The land was not easy to plow. There was only one cow in the team, and the land could not be plowed, so the men had to come.
We start work at one o'clock in the afternoon and have a two-hour break.
Wang Xiuzhen and Sun Xuejun finished their meal, cleaned up, and went to bed in the house, closing their eyes and falling asleep. The two naughty boys knew their parents were working hard, so they stopped making trouble and went to sleep too. They were tired too. Sun Sen and Sun Lin were planting sweet potato seeds on the other side of the mountain. They played and rested, and a day counted for two centimeters, but they were only four or five years old.
The only one who had no feelings in this family was Sun Ye, a baby who had just turned one month old.
Sun Ye followed Wang Xiuzhen for ten days and a half months. Every day she was so bored that she counted the clouds in the sky.
As for what was planted there, she knew it very well. She found that most of the crops planted there were filling, such as rice, sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes. Even the little bit of soil between the fields was planted with soybeans, and not a single inch of land was wasted.
In April, we hurried to plant peanuts on the last bit of land, and the busy farming season was finally over.
The Sun family has lost a lot of weight. They have put in a lot of effort, but the results are gratifying. They have grown a lot taller.
Old Mrs. Sun led her four daughters-in-law to the foot of the mountain to dig wild vegetables. Each of them carried a large basket. It had rained a few days ago, and the mushrooms and wild vegetables in the mountains must have grown abundantly.
People kept saying hello along the way.
"Auntie Sun, are you guys going to pick mushrooms?"
"Yes, you can pick them and eat them as a vegetable."
"Hey, then go ahead."
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"Auntie, go pick some wild vegetables."
"Well, yes."
When the people on the team saw each other, they asked a few questions and were very warm to each other.
The captain's house was right in the middle. Yang Guodong's wife, Li Lanhua, was picking greens in the vegetable patch. Seeing her sister-in-law and her family walking down the street, she called out, "My dear mother-in-law, where are you going?"
Yang Shufen glanced at Old Lady Sun before replying, "Sister-in-law, we're going to the foot of the mountain to pick mushrooms. Do you want to come with us?"
Li Lanhua wiped her hands on her apron and quickly replied, "That's great! I'll go home and get the basket. Wait for me to order."
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you."
Li Lanhua soon came hurriedly with a basket of vegetables, saying, "You must be getting impatient, let's go."
"Hey, let's go."
The foot of the mountain is not far away, only about ten minutes away. The rain was good, and the newly planted crops received enough water.
Wang Xiuzhen and Zhang Xiuying from the fourth room went to dig wild vegetables, while Old Lady Sun and the people from the first and second rooms went to pick mushrooms in the woods. After all, Wang Xiuzhen and her husband were bringing their children with them, so it was not convenient for them to go into the woods because the woods were very slippery.
Wild vegetables are the freshest at this time of year, and there are many of them outside the forest. Grandma Sun took out a small wooden shovel, squatted down, and shoveled lightly. A plump and tender shepherd's purse was firmly grasped between her fingers.
Sun Ye was quiet on Sun Ma's back, but Sun Miao, who was standing beside him, was stubbornly pushing towards Sun Ye, screaming continuously. He was as loud as several people, and his body kept leaning towards this side.
Sun Ye didn't like to pay attention to Sun Miao, but Sun Miao always came closer to her. When Sun Ye gave Sun Miao a look in return, Sun Miao jumped even harder on Fourth Aunt's back.
"Third sister-in-law, we shouldn't be together, you see."
Zhang Xiuying said this weakly. She was speechless because of the torment she had caused by the little devil on her back. She was more excited to see Sun Ye than to see her mother.
Grandma Sun smiled and said, "Miao'er is very energetic and blessed."
"Don't be so lucky. I just hope she can be like Ye Zi, not so noisy."
"Other people's children are the best. I was hoping Ye Zi would do something."
"Hey. There's a patch of horsetail orchids here. They're still tender. Pick some and take them back."
“…………”
Watching the third sister-in-law spinning and running, he smiled without saying a word, patted his daughter who had a loud voice, and walked towards Grandma Sun according to his daughter's wishes.
After a while, the baskets were full of shepherd's purse, horsetail, purslane, and dandelion, all green and pleasing to the eye. The two of them went to the intersection to wait for Grandma Sun and the others, guessing that they would be out soon.
Old Mrs. Sun also returned with a lot of things, all with a smile on her face.
“Today’s food is so delicious!”
Sun Xuejun touched his bulging belly and sighed.
"It's just for this one meal. I have to dry most of the ones I pick later and store them so that we can have more vegetables when we run out of them."
Grandma Sun fully agreed with her mother-in-law's move. She would eat a large meal first and then save the food slowly.
"Hey, today I heard from my sister-in-law that the fields of the neighboring brigade are not fully planted."
After saying this, Sun's mother looked at Sun's father mysteriously, as if to say, "Come and ask me, I'll tell you."
Father Sun was also happy to cooperate with Mother Sun. He obediently asked, "Why is that?"
"I heard from my sister-in-law that the commune leader accepted a gift from the Red Star Brigade and gave them extra grain seeds. The Lotus Brigade went to make a scene and that's when they found out. Besides, that leader has been transferred now, so that rat shit is finally out of the commune."
"Then how do you know so clearly?"
"Don't worry, I still want to tell you. The idea of going to the commune to cause trouble was actually proposed by our team leader. Team leader Ren Lianhua even sent him a bottle of wine and a piece of meat."
When Father Sun heard this, he quickly said, "Don't tell anyone about this, or someone in the commune might find out and give our team some trouble."
"Who do you think I am? I'm telling you something no one else has said."
Only then did Dad Sun nod.
Sun Ye looked at the couple and wanted to ask if they had forgotten that there was a living person like him standing here pretending not to see.
"That's meat. It's been a long time since I last had meat."
"I want to eat meat, too."
The couple looked at each other for a moment, then lay down to sleep. In their dreams they had meat to eat.
Sun Ye opened his eyes. It depends on how the captain handles this matter. I'm afraid there will be more trouble.
But does this have anything to do with me? Don't think about it, Sun Ye tried hard to disperse those thoughts, remember that she is just a little baby now, a little baby, let the adults worry about these things, she just needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
Well, that's it!
Close your eyes! Sleep!
After a while, Sun Ye turned over suddenly, but unexpectedly, he couldn't turn over. He was so angry that he rolled his eyes at the ceiling.
She didn't know if her character was influenced by the baby, but she couldn't help but shed tears, opened her mouth, and burst into tears.
"What's wrong? Did you pee?"
Sun's mother quickly turned over and came to check, but there was no urine. Could it be that he was hungry?
He rolled up her clothes and was about to feed her, but Sun Ye turned her head away and refused to open her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
"Oh oh oh oh ~ Good boy, Ye Zi, don't cry ~"
Mother Sun held Sun Ye in her arms, rocking her gently and humming softly.
Sun Ye was too embarrassed to look at anyone at this time. He felt extremely embarrassed that the high priest was actually crying.
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