Chapter 150 They are military dependents
While Gu Xixi and He Jinglan were whispering, several women who were pulling their children looked at them anxiously, worried that this hard-earned job would fail again.
Gu Xixi nodded to He Jinglan and looked at the women and children, but didn't have time to speak.
A young woman holding a child stood up first and said, "Boss Gu, we didn't bring our children here to take over or earn money. Our children are too young and there is really no one to take care of them at home."
The women with children nodded and looked at Gu Xixi pleadingly.
Several women who didn't have children chimed in, "We are all young wives, and the babies we are carrying are our first babies. We are not like us, who have grown up brothers and sisters at home who can help take care of the children."
"Yes, we usually bring the children to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables. We all come here this way, and we will never delay our work."
Gu Xixi looked at the pairs of earnest eyes and was moved.
They are hardworking and help each other, and are worthy of being the women of the dependents' village.
She smiled at everyone and said kindly, "Don't panic, sisters-in-law and aunts."
"Now is the time when I need your help, and I'm so grateful that you're here."
"You all work so hard and are so loyal. How can I think that you take care of children just to get more money?"
The women looked at each other, their tense emotions relaxed instantly, and they all smiled sincerely.
"Boss Gu, Miss He, just tell us what kind of grass you want us to dig and how much. We'll take care of the rest!"
Everyone looked at Gu Xixi, her smile full of confidence, completely different from the nervousness she had just shown.
In the field they are good at, there is nothing they are afraid of not being able to accomplish!
Gu Xixi's emotions also ignited, "Okay! Let's get started!"
A group of women walked towards the outside of the village.
As Gu Xixi walked, she said, "I'll dig a few first and give them to you as samples."
"We pay for half a day's work, so at the beginning you don't have to rush, you have to be accurate and don't mix in other weeds."
"As for how much to dig, the more the better. When I think it's enough, we'll call a halt."
A woman said, "Don't worry, Boss Gu. It will only take us half an hour to get familiar with the digging. It won't be a problem to increase the speed after that."
Someone agreed, "After all, Boss Gu wants a lot, so we have to be quick."
Someone else joked, "Boss Gu and Miss He gave us the opportunity to make money, we can't deliberately work slowly and delay for the sake of wages!"
Everyone laughed, "We didn't think so, have you ever secretly thought about it?"
Gu Xixi lived in the family village several times and was always busy going out early and coming back late, so she did not have much interaction with the people in the village.
At this moment, she saw the strong bond between the women, and her heart felt warm and filled with strength.
The place where the cook dug up the epilepsy grass was outside the military camp.
However, Gu Xixi did not plan to take everyone there.
Firstly, the Northwest Army had military discipline prohibitions.
Secondly, if enemy spies sneak in, their actions will easily attract attention.
Thinking that new species would spread to the surrounding areas after taking root, Gu Xixi chose a piece of weeds that had been facing the wind direction of the military camp for a long time.
She bent down and searched for a while, and sure enough, she found something.
Each of the women picked up a blade of grass, looked at it carefully, and then without saying much, they scattered and started digging.
Gu Xixi let out a long sigh.
He Jinglan turned her head to look at her, "What's wrong with you? You look relieved."
Gu Xixi whispered, "I'm not worried. They asked me what this grass is used for? Can it be eaten?"
"How should I respond to this situation?"
He Jinglan understood, "I didn't expect that they didn't ask anything?"
Gu Xixi nodded, "Did you say something in advance?"
"Why do I need to tell you?" He Jinglan said meaningfully, "Have you forgotten that they are all military families?"
Gu Xixi was stunned for a moment, then resolutely admitted her mistake, "I shouldn't have underestimated them."
Huo Jiang was strict in military discipline, and even the entire northwest was under his control.
What’s more, it is a family villages located near military camps?
Gu Xixi rolled up her sleeves with great enthusiasm and said, "Let's dig quickly. We can't fall behind."
While He Jinglan was digging grass, she kept talking and told Gu Xixi a lot of things she saw and heard in the village.
These military wives can reunite with their husbands from time to time.
Although it involves confidential information that cannot be disclosed, women hear a lot of it during pillow talk at night.
For example, don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask, and don’t listen to what you shouldn’t listen to.
Especially when you meet a stranger, you cannot say anything no matter what you are asked, and you must report it as soon as possible afterwards.
Gu Xixi sighed, "I was so confused that I treated them as ordinary married women."
"Now that I think about it, the older ladies in this village have probably seen more wars than I have in the northwest."
"I was worried about them, but in the end I realized that I was the one who didn't know the seriousness of the matter."
He Jinglan chuckled, "Not really, not really. I've heard them praise you before."
"Oh?" Gu Xixi was curious.
He Jinglan said, "In fact, everyone envy you. They envy that you can come and go as you please, and that you can make your own way like those men."
"Even for something as seemingly commonplace as growing crops, you have the ability to make the general look up to you."
Gu Xixi was silent for a moment, then said in a muffled voice, "It's not easy to be a woman in this world. There are times when you can't decide what to do, so how can you really come and go as you please?"
He Jinglan looked at her with a strange expression and asked with concern, "What difficulties have you encountered?"
Gu Xixi sighed silently, and when she raised her head again, her face was relaxed, "No."
“I just have some emotions.”
What could she say? Say that she was a person who traveled through a book and that she might die a miserable death because of Mu Nanzhao?
She said that everything she had done until now was just trying again and again to grasp her destiny.
But who has the final say on whether it will succeed? When will it be concluded?
have no idea.
I don’t know but I have to keep doing it, there is no other choice.
When it comes to being forced to do something against one's will, Gu Xixi, the person who travels through the book, has it no easier than anyone else in the book.
As expected, everyone was not bragging. By the end of the morning, the weeds had piled up into small haystacks.
Gu Xixi randomly grabbed handfuls of grass from several directions to examine.
It's all pure epilepsy, not a single bit of other stuff mixed in.
Gu Xixi suggested that everyone go back and rest for a while at noon and continue after an hour.
But the women said they did not want to go back and took out the dry food and water bags they had prepared long ago.
There were also women who opened their arms and breastfed their babies.
Now that the weather is getting warmer, it is quite pleasant to sit on the ground in the sun.
Gu Xixi and He Jinglan looked at each other.
They didn't think of preparing food!
An elderly woman saw the two's dilemma and greeted them with a smile, "I made some pancakes, let's eat together."
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