Time passes by little by little, and the annual autumn harvest time is gradually approaching.
A breeze blew in the morning, bringing a slight coolness. Yao Qiyue yawned and went out to wash her face.
The autumn harvest is the busiest time of the year, and Ji Ping started shouting mobilization slogans through the loudspeaker early in the morning.
Jiang Ye handed Yao Qiyue a multi-grain bun, and while Yao Qiyue was eating breakfast, he used the whetstone to sharpen the sickle.
Yao Qiyue finished her breakfast in no time.
He took his water bottle and sickle and said, "I'm done eating, let's go!"
During the autumn harvest, the whole family has to go to the fields to work.
During the harvest season, schools are closed, so both teachers and students have to participate in the work.
Yao Qiuyue's family was assigned to harvest soybeans today. Yanjiang Village also grows rice, corn and sorghum.
Soybeans need to be harvested one handful at a time using a sickle, and there are not so many large harvesters now.
It all depends on human labor.
Yao Qiyue was wearing a big straw hat on her head. The weather in October was very hot and it was easy to get sunburned if you were exposed to the sun for a long time.
Jiang Ye carefully prepared a straw hat for Yao Qiyue.
When I arrived at the field, Wei Hong was already waiting at the edge.
This year, the task assigned to the team leader's family is next to that of the Yao family.
Wei Hong saw Yao Qiyue waving enthusiastically: "Your family will start harvesting soybeans from this ridge today. I'll be right next to you."
Yao Qiyue and Wei Hong get along well, mainly because Wei Hong is straightforward and decisive in doing things.
She walked over to Wei Hong with a smile: "That's great!"
"Let's start right here!"
Wei Hong didn't say much and started to work with Yao Qiyue.
Damao, Xiaowu and Xiaobao were picking up the broken branches that had been collected at the back.
Pick them up and put them in the backpack.
In Yanjiang Village, according to the autumn harvest tradition, the grains picked up by the children in the backyard belong to them and do not need to be shared by the public.
So, a harvested field was surrounded by several children from every household.
The adults were harvesting crops in front and didn't need to keep an eye on the children.
Everyone is very positive, which is a good thing that is not found in several nearby villages.
Ji Ping also greatly boosted the enthusiasm of the entire village to work.
Of course, it is impossible if you deliberately leave food for your own children.
The people who record work points hang around in the fields every day, and there are other villagers around every household. If this happens, you can report it to the team.
Then all the food picked up by your child will be confiscated.
Being able to pick up food from the fields is already a good thing.
Everyone is very content and will not let these things destroy the overall unity of Yanjiang Village.
Yao Qiuyue also truly felt that Yanjiang Village was different from other places. It seemed to be more humane.
In the midst of a bountiful harvest, Ji Ping was rushing to harvest in the fields next to the road at the edge of the village.
The golden rice fields in front of us are the lifeblood of Yanjiang Village.
I was lost in thought,
A teenager wearing a green military uniform and a red armband appeared in front of Ji Ping.
"Fellow villager, is this Yanjiang Village? I'm Jiang Mei's younger brother, Jiang Jie. I came all the way from South City specifically to look for her."
Ji Ping stopped what he was doing, stood up and looked at Jiang Jie.
His features are somewhat similar to Jiang Ye's, and you can tell at first glance that he's a relative.
But Ji Ping did not dispel his doubts.
Jiang Ye and Jiang Mei went to the countryside for five months, and no one ever mentioned that they had a younger brother at home.
"yes!"
"What do you want?"
Jiang Jie glanced at Ji Ping with dissatisfaction, wondering how an old country man could speak so without any sense of boundaries.
What did he want to talk to Jiang Mei about? Why did he have to tell a farmer?
"My friend, this is our family affair. There's no need to tell you, an outsider."
Ji Ping nodded, lowered his head and continued to wave the sickle in his hand to cut the rice.
Jiang Jie was completely left aside.
Jiang Jie has been dominating Nancheng for so long, and no one has dared to treat him like this for a long time.
His face flushed with anger, and he pointed at Ji Ping and yelled, "Hey, old man, how can you be so tactless?"
"I said I wanted to find Jiang Mei, you should take me there!"
Jiang Jie was so angry that he had no place to vent his anger. He knew the purpose of his trip. This matter was particularly important to him. If it succeeded, he would be the brother-in-law of the director of the Revolutionary Committee.
It was because Jiang Mei and Jiang Ye were too cruel. They didn't even write to their families when they went to the countryside.
If it weren't for his future brother-in-law's connections, he wouldn't have known that the two of them were hiding in this remote place.
His future brother-in-law has a father who is a commander. With such a marriage, Jiang Mei’s ancestors would be filled with resentment.
If his future brother-in-law didn't have any sisters, Jiang Jie wouldn't have come to find Jiang Mei.
Ji Ping, a man in his fifties, would not be able to see the dissatisfaction in Jiang Jie's eyes.
Although he is a farmer who makes a living from the land, he cannot be looked down upon like this.
Whoever his brother is.
In short, Ji Ping is too lazy to care now.
When Jiang Jie saw Ji Ping's attitude towards him, he was so angry that his teeth were itching.
"Well, old man, just wait. If you don't take me to look for it, I'll go in and look for it myself."
"I just don't believe it. I can't find anyone in such a big place."
Jiang Jie tried hard to straighten his back and make himself look extraordinary, so that this old country man would know that he was not someone to be trifled with.
Ji Ping didn't want to pay any attention to Jiang Jie's bold words. Although he was a low-key person, he had been the captain here for a long time. He was not someone to be trifled with.
"You'd better leave quickly, or I, the old man, will cut off your dumb tongue with my blind sickle."
Jiang Jie stood on the edge of the field and saw that there was no one around Ji Ping. He became so angry that he grabbed a piece of dirt from the ground and threw it at Ji Ping's lower back.
Ji Ping was caught off guard and felt a pain on his back. He turned around and saw Jiang Jie running towards the village.
"Hey, good boy, you're not that old, but you're full of bad intentions. You even hit an old man."
Ji Ping looked at Jiang Jie's receding back and sighed.
He doesn't look like a brother to Jiang Ye and Jiang Mei, but more like an enemy who is looking for trouble.
Ji Ping put away the sickle in his hand and walked hurriedly towards the village.
It was almost noon and a woman hurried home to prepare lunch.
Jiang Jie just asked anyone and found out where Jiang Mei was.
He followed the route pointed out by the villagers and saw Jiang Mei and Yao Qiyue sitting on the edge of the field eating lunch.
Jiang Ye wanted to help Yao Qiuyue harvest more grain, and the work points were calculated based on how many ridges each person harvested.
Jiang Ye has finished harvesting the crops, and still has to help Yao Qiyue and Jiang Mei from time to time.
Lunch was the pie I prepared last night, which can be eaten cold.
Yao Qiyue and Jiang Mei found a place to sit on the ground and started eating.
The two were too tired to pay attention to the people around them.
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