We were busy until the evening of the third day. At 6 o'clock, we had peeled all the corns. When we were about to go home for dinner and then come back to rub the corn kernels, the sky suddenly changed color and a huge lightning flashed into people's eyes. But before we could react, we were hit by a loud thunder and the corns were "burnt on the outside and tender on the inside"!
Someone couldn't help but say: "It turns out that it's really going to rain. Our hard work these days has not been in vain."
Someone chimed in, "I was cursing the captain in my heart yesterday, blaming him for forcing us to harvest food in such hot weather and sleep less than three hours a day. I didn't expect that it wasn't the captain who thought too much, but I thought too little. I'm sorry, captain!"
Song Jinxi and Tang Tiantian: “······” Actually, you don’t have to say this out loud, it’s enough to just know it in your heart!
Captain: “…” Oh? So you said something bad about me. Write it down in your notebook.
After everyone was celebrating, the sky became even darker, thunder rumbled, and everyone in the brigade burst into tears.
But Song Jinxi and the others knew that they were not crying because they were scared, but because they were crying with joy. It was finally going to rain~
The captain was quite rational and quickly told everyone: "If anyone needs a fan at home, go home. If not, shred the corn kernels here. Seal the bags once they are packed and put them on the wooden rack. Don't let the grain we have worked so hard to collect get damp."
That night, no one went home, and they worked in the brigade office, chatting and laughing. No one complained, and by the early morning, all the corn kernels had been packed into bags, and it was still raining outside.
Song Jinxi and Tang Tiantian returned home with an umbrella, and fell asleep without saying a word. They slept until 5 o'clock the next morning.
When Song Jinxi woke up, he found that the rain seemed to have subsided and now it was just a drizzle.
After the rain stopped completely, Song Jinxi and Tang Tiantian went to the captain's house again.
Just as I was about to knock on the door, I ran into Aunt Guihua and a slightly younger man who were about to open the door. I hurriedly asked, "Aunt Guihua, where is Uncle Song?"
"Hey, it's Jinxi and Tiantian. Come in quickly. This is your eldest brother's wife. She just came back from the city with your eldest brother this morning and decided to live in the village. Just call her sister-in-law."
Then he instructed the woman, "Hurry up and make Jinxi and Tiantian some sugar water to warm them up. It's damp and cold after the rain."
"Don't bother me, aunt. Jinxi and I are not thirsty. We just want to talk to Uncle Song about something."
"You're here, come in quickly~ I'm here."
When the two heard Uncle Song's voice in the house, they said, "Hey, here we are. Uncle Song, we have something important to tell you. It's probably raining heavily here now. We are the only one among the eight brigades in our county that has not been affected by the disaster because we collected the grain in time. It's a good thing, but we will also become the target of public criticism. Have you thought about what to do?"
Aunt Guihua, who came in with them, brought two bowls of sugar water and handed them to the two of them, saying, "Come, girls, drink some hot sugar water. It's sweet and delicious! Can you explain to me how there is still danger even though the grain is collected in time?
"Hey, thank you, Auntie. We both feel that food is life for everyone now. Our lifeline has been saved, but there are still many people whose lives have not been saved. We didn't think it was a big deal when everyone was the same before, but now we are different. I'm afraid we will be envied."
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