On a country road, a young girl walks among the golden rice fields.

She looked so innocent and pretty, and the sight of her walking towards the sunshine made the young men in the village stare at her in amazement.

Those young men who had just gotten married couldn't help but steal a few glances.

The wheat ears used to be beautiful and were recognized as the flowers in the village, but they felt that the wheat ears now were more beautiful.

The young wives looked at it with disdain.

"Tsk, you're twisting and turning when you walk, what a mess, you look so unserious!"

"That's right, you can't even walk properly, no wonder you keep falling into pits, you deserve it!"

"But Mai Sui's skin is so white, why didn't I notice it before?"

"If you stay at home and don't work every day, you can also keep your skin this white. If you don't believe me, try it."

"How can I try this? We don't have the conditions at home. If we don't work, what will our family eat?"

"Don't be envious. Even if she's pretty, she's still a fool. Whether she can get married or not is still a problem."

“........”

Mai Hongcai saw the wheat ears from a distance, and his heart tightened as if he saw a tigress coming down the mountain.

He quickly notified Mai Lao San who was slacking off next to him: "Dad, my sister is here!"

Mai Laosan was so frightened that he was still in pain from the beating he received at noon.

"Hongcai, what is your sister doing here?" Mai Laosan's voice was trembling.

"How would I know? You can't be here to work, right?"

"Oh no!" Mai Lao San suddenly slapped his thigh and said in horror, "I didn't go back to wash the dishes after running out at noon!"

Mai Hongcai became visibly nervous when he heard this, and said tremblingly:

"Dad, it's your turn to wash the dishes today. Sister won't hit me, right?"

Mai Lao San glared at his son in annoyance and said, "What are you talking about you and me? I'm your father, do we really need to be so clear about it?

I don't care. If your sister goes crazy later, you must hold her back. Dad's arm still hurts."

"Dad, I'm in pain too..."

"Young people need to endure more hardships so that they can have a good life in the future."

Mai Lao San patted his son on the shoulder and said, "It's settled!"

Mai Sui asked several villagers before he found Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai.

The rice in other people's fields has been almost harvested, but they have only finished one-third of it.

No wonder others can get ten full work points, but they only get five.

Mai Sui looked at it, feeling somewhat dissatisfied, and subconsciously raised his hand to pinch his eyebrows.

When Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai saw Mai Sui's action, they quickly took three steps back.

Because Mai Sui also likes to pinch his eyebrows before hitting someone.

Mai Laosan and the others have formed a conditioned reflex.

Mai Sui said with a cold face: "I thought about it, what the captain said makes sense. Since I am a member of Lotus Village, I should go to the fields to work like everyone else."

"ah?"

Mai Laosan and the other man were dumbfounded. Are they really here to work?

However, today's work was divided up in the morning.

Besides, the work would be over in two hours, and it would be impossible to find new work for Mai Sui at this time.

So, Zhang Guozhu, the team leader in charge of this side, asked Mai Sui to work with Mai Laosan and the others.

If you can finish this field today, you will get 2 work points for the wheat ears, otherwise you will get nothing.

One work point is equivalent to seven cents, and two is equivalent to 1.4 cents.

It’s...it’s hard to put into words.

However, prices are also low now.

The best quality rice is 23 cents per pound, the inferior quality is 20 cents, flour is 17 cents, and soybean oil is 52 cents.

However, most people generally like to eat lard and buy their own fat to cook at home.

Not only can you get oil, but you can also get a pot of oil residue.

This is all meat!

Most people make lard before the Chinese New Year, and they make it for a whole year.

If it’s not enough, you’ll have to eat less.

There are only so many in a year anyway, and they’ll be gone once you eat them.

The remaining oil residue can be saved for Chinese New Year and fried with cabbage as a meat dish.

If we have the chance to buy meat, everyone likes to buy fatty meat, and few people like lean meat.

The current price of pork is 78 cents per pound, which is more expensive than ordinary grain.

Therefore, people in rural areas seldom buy food for themselves.

Usually we wait for the village to divide it.

Now is the era of collective economy. Every brigade raises pigs. After paying the public grain at the end of the year, they will take out one or two pigs to distribute to the villagers.

This time of year is the happiest time for everyone.

The wheat ears arrive at an untimely time. It is only July and the day for distributing the meat is still a long way off.

However, Mai Sui did not treat himself badly.

She had eaten all three chickens at home.

There is a limit to the number of chickens you can raise in rural areas, and you can't just raise them randomly.

There are three people in Mai Sui's family, so they can only raise three, and at most one more.

Any more would be considered a 'capitalist tail' and must be 'cut off'!

Even if you don't want to cut it, others will do it for you!

Mai Sui has been trying very hard to adapt.

But after all, she was a big boss before, with wine and meat for every meal. Even if the people at the bottom lived a hard life, she would not suffer.

Nowadays, she only eats three chickens in half a month, which is already very little. What else do you want her to do!

Not to mention now, she, a big boss, is willing to condescend and work in the fields for just two work points.

It's really touching, isn't it!

Although Mai Sui had never done farm work, he looked at other people and thought it was quite easy.

It's nothing more than harvesting the rice, bundling it up, and then giving it to others to thresh it with a thresher.

Simple!

So Mai Sui harvested all the rice in the field in one go, and then asked Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai to collect them.

As for her, she just stood on the edge of the field and watched them work.

Because Mai Sui discovered that the two of them were particularly lazy and had to be watched all the time.

Otherwise, if she can’t finish the work before closing time, she will lose her two work points.

Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai have a lot of grievances.

Originally they planned to take three days to harvest the land, but once the wheat ears arrived, their workload increased suddenly!

And not doing it is not okay, and doing it slowly is not okay either!

Because the tigress Mai Sui was standing not far away watching, they took a short break and a piece of mud was thrown over.

I don't know where this damn girl got the strength from, she hit me so hard that it hurt like hell!

When they finished work at six o'clock, Zhang Guozhu came to check and was surprised to find that Mai Laosan and his team had finished all the work!

Mai Lao San was exhausted and out of breath, but he did not forget to take credit for it with Zhang Guozhu:

"Dazhu, I have completed today's work in excess of the quota. You must give me and Hongcai ten work points. I won't agree to less!"

Zhang Guozhu smiled naively: "Uncle Mai, don't worry, I am a very fair person. Since the work is done, you will get some work points.

You and Hongcai will get ten work points today, Mai Sui came late, so he gets two work points."

"OK!"