As the weather gets hotter, the summer harvest is getting closer.
The rice gradually turns golden yellow, and looks like a golden beach from a distance.
As the breeze blows gently, the waves roll like a golden ocean.
On this day, the weather was nice and cloudless.
The summer harvest bells have rung.
On such an important day as summer harvest, all those who can work go out.
During the summer harvest, the twins were looked after by his grandmother, while Guo Haochen followed Deng Qingling to work.
Guo Haochen is five years old this year and can do some work.
The rain was good this year, and the rice grew very full and heavy, bending the stalks under its weight.
Because we are afraid that it will rain during the summer harvest and the millet will fall to the ground and germinate, we harvest rice first and then corn this year.
When Deng Qingling went to harvest rice, Guo Haochen followed behind her and picked up the rice that fell on the ground, which also earned him work points.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Deng Qingling left work early and went home to cook. After the meal was ready, she gave some to the twins, and then took the meal to the field to eat with her mother-in-law and others.
Because it is summer harvest, the meals are very simple, just corn and grain rice, scrambled eggs with cucumber, and tomato and egg soup.
After eating, you can take a rest under the shade of the tree. If you feel hungry while working, you can eat a tomato or cucumber grown at home. The taste is so delicious.
Summer harvest is tiring. Even Guo Haochen was exhausted after picking millet for several days.
Every day after work, the adults would carry him home. Deng Qingling didn't have any requirements for him, as long as he didn't make trouble.
When the sun is too strong, Deng Qingling will rush him to rest under the shade of a tree, otherwise he will get heatstroke. Even if she has medicine in her space, she can't let him do that. Health is important.
At the beginning, Guo Haochen ran around in the fields, picking up some millet from time to time. Later, when he saw other children picking up a lot of millet, he was unwilling to admit defeat and said that he would pick up more than them. He was full of energy for a while, but after several days in a row, he was exhausted!
Deng Qingling thought that it would be good to drink more mung bean porridge in such hot weather, so after dinner, she cooked the mung bean porridge in advance, put it in a wooden barrel and placed it in the well to keep it stable, so that she could take it to the field the next day.
What I cooked was kelp and mung bean porridge. It was not very sweet, just a little bit. In addition to rock sugar, I also added a little salt. The taste was still good.
During the day, I would send some mung bean porridge to my uncles.
The uncle and his family were quite nice to Guo Haochen and his friends. They were reluctant to eat the things that his cousin bought, but whenever the children went to his house to play, he would give the children something to eat.
The children would also tell Deng Qingling when they got home what delicious food they had eaten at their great-grandfather's house.
As for my second uncle's family, they just happened to be my son, so it would be bad not to give it to my eldest uncle's family.
After harvesting the rice, they harvested the corn. When harvesting the corn, Deng Qingling did not let Guo Haochen go to help, and let him play at home with the twins.
Everyone was busy for more than a month, planting soybeans, peanuts and sweet potatoes, and only had some free time after the public grain was handed in.
On the first day of the slack season, Guo Youxing used the radio to inform everyone early in the morning that he had something to announce and asked each household to send a representative to gather in the threshing ground after breakfast.
After breakfast, everyone went to the threshing ground one after another. When Guo Youxing saw that everyone was there, he began to speak.
Basically, children from all villages go to primary school in the town. Some places are remote and inconvenient for students to go to and from school, so the town leaders decided to build a school between each production brigade.
The leaders thought our village had a good atmosphere and simple folk customs, so they chose our village and decided to build the school opposite the village army.
Guo Youxing also said that the leader said that women hold up half the sky, and that everyone should send all children of appropriate age to school, and should not favor boys over girls. We cannot let the town leaders be disappointed in us and make them regret building the school in our village.
Guo Youxing also talked about the benefits of girls learning to read and write, saying that girls who can read and write can find a good husband, ask for more betrothal gifts, and if they are lucky, they can even work in a factory.
So those families who favored boys over girls reluctantly agreed.
Then he said he wanted to find someone to help build a school. Those who didn’t have money could help, and they would be paid for their work. After the school was built, his children could attend it for free for one semester.
At one time, everyone signed up enthusiastically to participate in building the school, hoping to spend less money.
As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. The school was built in just half a month.
We wanted to build it better from the start, so we built a house with blue bricks and tiles. It is a bit expensive, but it can be used for decades or even 100 years. The house is still there even after people leave, so it can be used by several generations.
A two-story tiled house was built with five classrooms and one office.
A mud brick and tile house was also built next to it to serve as a kitchen. The reason for building the kitchen was to make it convenient for students to heat up their meals when the weather was cold.
The cost of building the school was paid half by the town and half by the production brigade.
During the period of school construction, the educated youth in the Youth Academy were in a state of restlessness. They all wanted to be teachers to escape from labor. Who would want to work in the fields if they could support themselves without working in the fields?
At one time, many people came to the door with things and wanted to go through the back door.
Guo Youqing and Guo Youxing were almost annoyed by them, and had no choice but to broadcast again to notify everyone to attend a meeting.
Guo Youxing said that a few days before school starts, there will be a competitive exam, which will be prepared by teachers in the town, and the town leaders and teachers will go to the countryside to supervise the exam.
Anyone who wants to be a teacher can take the exam and be admitted based on their exam scores. The two educated youth with the highest scores will be admitted, and two people from the village will also be admitted.
As a teacher, you get six work points every day and a salary of five yuan per month. You have to go to the fields to harvest during the summer and autumn harvest holidays.
At first, everyone was talking about the news, but later when they heard that there would be both wages and work points, everyone became excited.
If there are people in the family who have been to school, I will tell them to read more books when they get home. I don’t ask them to help with housework. They should try to get good grades in the exams and get a teaching position. That way, they won’t have to worry about the rest of their lives.
The educated youth returned to the Youth Home and agreed to go to the town to buy some books the next day to review. After all, they had not read a book for a long time, and they didn't know whether they had returned the knowledge they had learned to the teacher.
Chen Chen and Lu Xin thought that Guo Youxing's family had three high school students, so there must be a lot of books left at home. Instead of going to the town to look for them, it would be better to go directly to the village chief's house.
The two of them came to visit together with their belongings, explaining their purpose and wanting to borrow books.
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