At noon, Guihua's mother-in-law brought lunch. When she saw Yao Qiyue still busy in the fields, she knew that she must not have prepared lunch.
"July, didn't you cook lunch?"
Yao Qiyue looked at the multi-grain steamed bun in Guihua's hand with a confused look on her face.
"Don't you have a lunch break at noon?"
When Guihua heard the word "lunch break", she was also confused for a moment.
But after a while she shook her head and said, "There is a time limit for spring planting. We must hurry and plant the seeds."
"So, at noon, we usually have one or two people from each family go home to cook and then serve food to everyone."
Yao Qiyue's shoulders slumped and he lowered his head back to the edge of the field.
"Sister Guihua, I'll go home and cook. I'll bring lunch tomorrow at noon."
"If anyone asks, please explain it to me."
Guihua thought that there were other people in Yao Qiyue's family, and they probably didn't know to bring lunch to the fields like Yao Qiyue.
"Okay. Go ahead, I'll watch over here for you."
Yao Qiyue hurried into the thatched hut, while Jiang Ye was busy cooking in the house.
Chen Qingyun can't cook. Even when he is alone in Beijing, he goes to state-owned restaurants or eats at Du Yun's house.
He rarely fired his own gun, and he didn't know that Yao Qiuyue and the others had to bring their own lunch.
When Yao Qiyue hurried back home, Jiang Ye had already packed lunch for her.
The other people in the room looked at Yao Qiyue with a guilty look on her face.
Yao Qiyue wanted to step in, but silently withdrew her foot.
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Yao Qiyue and others gradually got back on track in life in the Northeast, while Jiang Wentao in the South City was thrown into prison.
Jiang's mother spent a lot of money to send Jiang Jie to school.
Now, when he heard that the Red Guards were active in the school, he actually actively joined the Red Guards team.
This organization is a group of students who actively criticize the bad atmosphere in the school and teachers with bad ideas.
Jiang Jie led his classmates to discover the English books and the capitalist-oriented lifestyle of the teacher in the class.
He took the lead in reporting the teacher and asked the teacher to read big-character posters to them in class every day.
For a moment, Jiang Jie actually felt that he was in high spirits and was no worse than Jiang Ye who was admitted to university.
Jiang's mother looked at Jiang Jie jumping around at home and hid away consciously. She did not feel proud of Jiang Jie now. She just felt scared of Jiang Jie who was so heartless.
Jiang Wentao's imprisonment stimulated Jiang Jie to become even more crazy.
He actually published an advertisement in the newspaper to sever ties with Jiang Wentao.
Jiang's mother stayed at home and dared not go out, for fear that one day someone Jiang Jie had offended would come to the Jiang family to seek revenge.
She could only live a low-key life in South City.
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Yao Qiuyue worked on the farm for a few days, and when she returned home at night, her arms were so sore that she couldn't lift them.
Jiang Mei's job was much easier. She just had to cut grass near the cowshed every day and deliver it to the cowshed.
There was no one watching over her work, so she could cut as much as she wanted.
She knew that she got this job because Yao Qiuyue gave gifts to the team leader Ji Ping.
Now I see Yao Qiyue exhausted from farm work every day.
Jiang Mei couldn't bear it and said, "Sister-in-law, let's switch jobs. I'll go to the fields and take your place tomorrow."
Yao Qiyue looked at Jiang Mei biting her lips and couldn't help but suspect that she was unhappy working in the cowshed, so she asked with concern:
"What's wrong?"
"Is your work over there tiring?"
Jiang Mei was so scared that she kept shaking her head, fearing that Yao Qiyue would think she was having a hard time.
"No, sister-in-law, except for the unpleasant smell, the work is still very easy."
"No one cares about me, so I can still take some time to rest."
"I see you're too tired, so I want to change jobs. You can mow the lawn and have a rest every day."
Hearing this, Yao Qiyue breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you did a lot of work there."
"It's okay, no need to change. I'm used to working in the fields now, and it gets easier the more I do it."
"Besides, Sister Guihua also said that I work quickly and efficiently now, and I can earn eight work points a day, just like her."
Yao Qiyue feels that apart from the physical fatigue, her daily life is quite fulfilling.
So she is not so averse to farming.
Perhaps the farming gene in her bones had awakened. She even asked Sister Guihua for some vegetable seeds, planning to find time to plant some vegetables in the garden behind the thatched house.
Sister Guihua said that the roads were blocked by heavy snow in winter, so the villagers had to be self-sufficient and plant more portable food that could last through the winter.
For example, cabbage, potatoes, and radishes.
However, there is no need to rush to plant cabbage and radish, you can plant them in autumn.
Now she can grow some corn, rapeseed coriander, leeks, persimmons, beans and other vegetables.
Yao Qiuyue has looked at the size of the garden and has already planned what to plant and where.
Thinking of this, Yao Qiyue felt even more tired.
"Xiaomei, go and have a good rest. I want to sleep too."
"Don't worry, my body just hasn't adapted to such heavy farm work yet. It will be fine after a while."
Yao Qiyue comforted Jiang Mei.
Only then did Jiang Mei leave with peace of mind.
Chen Qingyun and Xiaowu are not idle every day.
As soon as the sky was getting light, the two men took their machetes and went into the woods to chop firewood.
Xiaobao and Xiaowu are at home looking after the house. Although Xiaowu is six years old during the Spring Festival, he takes good care of Xiaobao.
Yao Qiyue occasionally looked at Xiaowu patiently playing with Xiaobao.
After work today, Ji Ping stopped Jiang Ye and Yao Qiyue who were about to go home.
"You two come with me. You just arrived in Yanjiang Village and don't have much food with you."
"Several village cadres held a meeting and decided to lend you some grain. You will return it to the village when the grain is distributed this autumn."
Yao Qiyue was a little bit unbelievable when she heard this. The people in this village were quite humane.
There was a lot of food piled up in her cake shop, but she couldn't put it out in the open all at once.
Now with the help of the captain, she can also take the opportunity to get some food to improve her meals.
She felt that she had lost a lot of weight from doing farm work and now looked like a skinny girl.
Jiang Ye said gratefully: "Thank you for your help, Captain."
Ji Ping waved his hand: "Okay, you two follow me."
Yanjiang Village has its own grain storage warehouse, which is next to the village’s threshing ground and faces the east end of the village.
This place is spacious, with only two or three households in front and behind, and not many people. It is close to the fields in the village, making it convenient to transport grain.
Ji Ping was afraid that the food in the village would be lost, so he built two thatched houses on both sides of the warehouse and usually arranged for four elderly people to watch over the warehouse.
At this time, the village accountant was also waiting at the door of the warehouse.
Yao Qiyue and Jiang Ye bought grain on credit, and the village accountant had to register it.
When the accountant saw Captain Ji Ping coming with his men, he started waving from a distance!
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