He Caiwei put all the harvested wheat into her spatial storage, which would automatically dry it and then return it to the bag.
He Caiwei looked at so much wheat and was a little speechless. This place was all planted with wheat, and she couldn't even see a single rice seedling. She wondered to herself, "Don't these people eat rice?"
After a month and a half of hard work, He Caiwei didn't know exactly how much grain the two of them had obtained. She only knew that at each farm they visited, they managed to pluck as much wheat as they could from the seemingly endless fields into their own pockets.
He Caiwei was worried that her little brother was getting tired, so she would give him extra water from her space every day to help him relieve fatigue.
After such a long period of busy work, this young man is really tired. Every night when he lies down, he is completely still and starts snoring in less than three seconds. Even when He Caiwei massages his hands and feet with a massager, he doesn't feel anything.
If he weren't stewed with a pheasant or rabbit every two or three days, I wonder how thin this young man would have become? If he went back looking like that, his aunt would be heartbroken.
On the way back, Lu Qingzhu kept hesitating to speak. He wanted to ask his sister where the wheat had gone, but before they came, his father had only told him to follow his sister and do whatever she said, without asking or saying anything. Now he didn't know how to bring it up.
Thinking about it, I decided against it. My sister must have a way to get those things back, otherwise, all that hard work they've put in for over a month wouldn't have been for nothing.
Sure enough, when they returned to the cave where they had rested on their first night on the mountain, his sister told him to go down the mountain first to call their father and ask him to come and pick up the things. She told him that there were a lot of things and that it might take several trucks to load them all. She also told him to stay in the county town and wait for the people their father sent to come and bring them up the mountain together. But how could he let his sister stay on the mountain alone?
After making the call, he bought some food and then hurriedly ran back to the mountain. When he arrived, the entire cave was already filled. Since one cave wasn't enough to hold all the stuff, he found another cave, which was also half full, before he could finally put all the wheat they had harvested over the past few days into the cave.
They waited for two days, only to have their uncle come in person. Seeing their disheveled state, their uncle felt sorry for them.
The uncle was surprised to see the entire cave piled up to the brim, but he didn't ask why.
He told his niece to take as much as she could, and she took his words to heart, taking as much as she could.
"Little girl, come and tell your uncle, how many bags are there?"
"I don't know either. At first, the two of us could harvest twenty-five bags a day, but later it was more than that, probably around thirty bags. For a month and a half, apart from traveling, we spent the rest of our time harvesting wheat. There must have been at least a thousand bags. The heavy snow over there has completely covered the wheat, so even if we wanted to look for it again, we couldn't see it. It was all white, and when you stepped on it, the snow was up to your waist, so we came back." He Caiwei knew that Lu Qingzhu wouldn't count how many there were, so when she released the wheat, she added dozens more bags to her space.
"Hey, if you want to go again next year, you'll have to go a little earlier. The Russians' main food isn't wheat, it's potatoes. They grow a lot more potatoes, in huge fields. When we went, all the potatoes had been dug up. We occasionally picked up a few, but not many." Lu Qingzhu was already thinking about going again next year.
He Caiwei rolled her eyes when she heard what he said. What do you mean by "not much"? The potatoes they picked up must have weighed at least hundreds of pounds, okay? They were just small in size.
"Thank you for your hard work. I've already called a truck, but the mountain road is too rugged for the truck to get up. I need to go down and find someone to carry all this stuff down. You two should stay here and watch over things, or go and rest in the truck first." Lu Zhining thought that he would let the two of them rest, and after he finished moving the stuff, he would take them home with him.
“Uncle, come with me. There are more caves in this area. I’ll show you the right place. We need to go back to the car to rest. We’ve traveled so far and must be tired.” He Caiwei didn’t want to waste any more time with them.
"Alright, I'll go check out the other cave. You go back and rest. Sit by the first vehicle. That vehicle will leave first and take you to the train station. I've already bought sleeper tickets for you. Rest on the train and we'll leave together after we load the truck." He had taken leave specifically for these two children, coming here personally to pick up the grain and ensure their safety.
"By the way, did Dad get my college admission notice? I should have missed my registration deadline, right? Uncle, did you ask for leave for me after I registered? I still need to go back to school." He Caiwei suddenly remembered that she had been away from home for so long, and university should have started by now. She wondered if her uncle had gone to get it for her.
How could he forget to fill in his uncle's address on the university admission letter?
"It's all done, it's all done. It's only been less than half a month since school started, and I've already asked the teacher for leave. I'll take you to cancel your leave when you come back, so it won't interfere with your studies."
After finding the cave, the two men descended the mountain. They had no idea how long they had traveled or how long they hadn't slept before finally climbing into the back seat of the vehicle and falling into a deep sleep. They weren't awakened until someone woke them up, at which point they realized they had arrived at the train station.
They boarded the train with their tickets, found sleeper berths, and lay down to sleep. It was as if they hadn't rested in a long time and wanted to make up for everything they had missed.
The two didn't truly wake up until they heard their uncle calling them to get up and eat. There was nowhere to shower on the train, so they would have to go home to shower.
When she first arrived at her uncle's place, her aunt gave her bath tickets, but after learning about the conditions inside the bathhouse, she hesitated.
She had never been to a public bathhouse before, neither in her past life nor in this one. After hearing her aunt's description, she was even more afraid to go. She didn't want so many people watching her.
It took them two whole days to transport all the grain. Uncle Lu was amazed. How did these two little kids manage to bring back so much grain without anyone noticing? They were really amazing. He thought he had to apply for some welfare benefits so his little niece wouldn't work for nothing.
At this moment, Lu Zhining didn't consider that his son had also gone, his preference for girls over boys was all too obvious.
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