Tian Cai greeted everyone one by one before saying, "I've prepared some summer soup for everyone. I'd like to ask someone who's free to bring it to the edge of the field. Anyone who needs it can go and have some!"
"I'll go get it. Doctor Tian's summer heat relief soup is always effective! I'll drink a big bowl of it when I get to the fields!"
"You better get out of here. What if someone gets heatstroke after I've done what you've done?"
Everyone has experienced Tian Cai's heat-relieving soup. In previous years, there were always a few people who suffered from heatstroke while working, but since Tian Cai came, no one has collapsed from heatstroke.
Tian Cai saw several unfamiliar young men and women standing by the threshing ground, and they must be the educated youth that Luo Xiuyan had mentioned yesterday.
After all, normal people who go to the countryside know that they have to work in the fields, so who can dress so slickly? Tian Cai guessed that they felt that it was their first time appearing in front of the villagers, and they had to leave a good impression on everyone, so they wore all their nice clothes. Of course, maybe they just dressed like this in their daily lives.
Tian Caigang and Luo Xiuyan met up and were about to discuss what to do today when the team leader Zhang Defa arrived.
"The team has started the autumn harvest today. The crops have grown well this year. Everyone's hard work has not been in vain. In the next few days, everyone should work hard. We will strive to store all the crops in the warehouse as quickly as possible. As usual, we will see which of the five teams can harvest the crops the fastest and best. After the crops are harvested and all that should be handed in is delivered, we will start distributing the crops. Team leaders, remember this. If anyone is late, leaves early, or slacks off, don't blame me for deducting their work points!"
"Open the sickle!"
At Zhang Defa's command, the crowd dispersed and headed towards their respective destinations. Tian Cai then realized that they had already divided the land into sections, and only Tian Cai and a few educated youth were left in the threshing ground.
She looked around and ran towards Luo Xiuyan's group. Since she was not assigned any group, she would just work in that group for a day.
Today's job is to harvest rice. Not only adults came out, but even children came along. Their main responsibility is to pick up the rice ears dropped by the adults in the fields.
Tian Cai bent down with a sickle as Aunt Du taught her and started cutting. At the first few times she was trying to get the feel for it, so her speed was much slower than others. But after a few strokes she found the posture that suited her best, her movements became more and more skillful, and her speed quickly increased.
When she reached the finish line without even looking up, she realized that she had left Luo Xiuyan far behind, so she quickly turned around to help her cut the grass.
With a rough understanding of his own speed, Tian Cai kept it at a similar level to others, neither too fast nor too slow, while still maintaining his physical strength.
A few people quickly finished mowing an acre of land. She didn't even break a sweat because she might be hated if she told others about it.
Tian Cai didn't know whether her physical condition had improved because she ate vegetables irrigated by dew every day. Anyway, with her current physical condition, it shouldn't be a problem for her to kill a wild boar without weapons.
After finishing the harvest, the few people took a break and began to carry the bundled rice to the designated location at the edge of the field.
Next, those who pick up rice ears can leave.
Tian Cai drank some summer-heat-relief soup, and she saw a familiar figure among the children picking rice ears. It was Yu Guoqing's little grandson, the little boy Lu Daner who had been scalded before. He was also among them, carrying a small basket and sticking his butt out, trying hard to follow the other children to pick up rice ears.
After clearing this acre of land, team leader Luo Fuli directed everyone to another piece of land and continued to work in full swing.
While giving orders, Zhang Defa also had his own portion of rice to harvest. He stood up to take a breath and pound his waist when he saw a few educated youth standing in groups of three or four on the ridge of the field. His face suddenly fell.
He hadn't been paying attention to the news in the commune recently, so he had no idea that the meeting yesterday was to decide the allocation of educated youth.
The title of educated youth sounds good, but they are not good at work at all. Two or three of them may not be able to do the work of one countryman. Even if they come, they have to take up places in the team, so no one wants them.
However, these were all distributed by the commune at its sole request. He tried to refuse them but was rejected every time. He had no choice but to take them back, but he was too lazy to even introduce them to everyone.
As a result, you see, those people who are dressed well now stand stupidly on the ground like pillars, without any sense at all, which makes him so angry that his head hurts.
At the edge of the field, Qiu Xiaohuan frowned slightly, her eyes unable to open due to the scorching sun, and she felt inexplicably irritated.
She felt a little regretful.
She could have followed her family's arrangements and not gone to the countryside, but she insisted on following Yan Xudong to this remote place.
Walking all the way from the village, the little leather shoes on her feet had long since turned gray and their original appearance could no longer be seen. Her mood was just like these shoes, shrouded in a shadow.
"Are we going to work with them tomorrow?" Li Lili said worriedly, watching the production team members tirelessly swinging their sickles in the fields. "It looks so tiring, and if we stay in the sun like this, we'll get tanned in a few days!"
He Yuzhen covered her mouth and coughed softly a few times, then said softly, "We came to the countryside to support rural construction, ahem. We're not afraid of any hardship or fatigue!"
Xu Bingshuai glanced at He Yuzhen with admiration. Seeing that she was still coughing and covering her mouth, he asked with concern, "Is your cold still not gone? Otherwise, I'll go tell the captain that you should continue to recuperate tomorrow!"
He Yuzhen quickly waved her hand to refuse, "Forget it. It's not good to ask for leave right after arriving."
Xu Bingshuai was about to say something when Yan Xudong interrupted him, "Let's learn how to harvest rice. Why are you all standing here? Let's go down to the fields and learn from the villagers."
After saying that, he took the lead and walked down the ridge of the field, heading towards an old man who was cutting rice.
After Yan Xudong left, the second people to move were Liu Yanqing and Liu Yanlin, brother and sister, who ran towards Tian Cai.
Liu Yanqing had just observed that the villagers were quite respectful to this young girl, and the way they addressed her also let her know that this girl was actually the village doctor.
Liu Yanqing had no other thoughts when she went to the countryside except to earn more food, take good care of her younger brother as he grew up, and if there was any surplus, she would send some to her parents and older sister.
The remaining few people also felt that it was not good to stand there stupidly, so they dispersed and went towards the villagers working in the fields.
Tian Cai was leisurely harvesting rice when she suddenly felt two pairs of gazes falling on her. She calmly followed their gazes and saw that they were two educated youth, a man and a woman. Soon they walked up to her.
Seeing Tian Cai stop what he was doing, Liu Yanqing quickly introduced herself, "Hello, Doctor Tian, my name is Liu Yanqing, and this is my brother Liu Yanlin. We are both educated youth who went to the countryside."
Tian Cai nodded without saying anything. She was suspicious of any stranger who deliberately approached her.
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