In addition, this time the autumn harvest was a full-scale effort. Aunt Li, who was taking care of the baby, also participated in the harvest, and Mumu and the two children were also brought with her.
Let Xiaodong and Xiaoli follow behind them to help, and as for Mumu, he was left at the back wearing a straw hat to play. He can walk now, but he is not walking steadily. However, it won’t hurt if he falls in the fields.
Fortunately, their autumn harvest came at the right time, and when the first snow of the year arrived, only some cabbages were left in the fields.
In order to prevent the cabbages from freezing in the ground, the team leader had to brave the light snow and have his men collect all the remaining cabbages.
This was also Song Tanglan's first time to harvest cabbage in the snow. She wrapped herself tightly before going out, even wearing gloves on her hands.
But when he touched the cabbage that had been frozen all night, he couldn't help shivering.
Fortunately, there were not many cabbages left in the field, and they were all harvested in just one day.
Song Tanglan was tired and cold, sitting on the edge of the field and gasping for breath. Xu Qi just came over to help when he saw the little girl pulling open her scarf and gasping for breath.
"Look at your red face, you must be really tired!"
After muttering, he looked at the sky and found that it looked like it was going to snow. He walked to her side helplessly and stretched out his hand.
"Get up, don't sit on the ground. It looks like it's going to snow again. Go back and rest."
"Brother Xu, why are you here?" Song Tanglan stood up following the force of his hand and patted the dust off her butt.
"My eldest sister's son has frostbite, so I brought him some frostbite cream. I got an extra bottle, so you can use it!"
Xu Qi took out another bottle of frostbite cream and put it in the little girl's hand.
"Brother Xu, I have frostbite cream, you don't need it."
"You have yours, this one works better, take it! I'm still going to find someone, go back quickly, don't wait until it snows and it's hard to walk!"
Looking at Xu Qi who refused to be refused, Song Tanglan could only nod sullenly and put the frostbite cream into her pocket.
Compared with the joyful atmosphere of the Red Star Brigade, the atmosphere in other brigades was more solemn, and even the other two nearby brigades were no exception.
Even though it was snowing heavily, the two team leaders kept urging them to collect the food.
We were busy until very late almost every day, and we were almost going to harvest crops with torches in the middle of the night.
Their actions also caused great suffering to the people of the two teams.
Everyone was exhausted. Yang Chunyan looked at the baskets of cabbages in the field, listened to the constant urging from behind, and gritted her teeth as she continued to pull them out with her hands.
The first snow hadn't fallen heavily in the past few days, but the unusually cold wind still made her shiver, especially since her coat was not thick enough and she couldn't afford the expensive rabbit-skin shoes.
She now only felt the biting cold all over her body.
Yang Chunyan thought about how she hadn't been able to contact that person during this period of time. Because she often failed to complete the tasks, there was no reward at all, and she was even scolded several times. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel her eyes turn red.
The fatigue and coldness of the past few days have caused a lot of frostbite on her hands. Even her cheeks have been blown red by the cold wind, and her skin surface is dry and rough.
Thinking of her current appearance, it was really hard for her to accept.
Especially when she heard her cousin talk about how well and freely Song Tanglan lived, she was filled with envy.
But there was always a voice in her heart, constantly telling her that it shouldn't be like this, and she shouldn't live like this.
But she didn't know where the problem lay. Now that she no longer had that person's support, the work points she earned were not enough to support herself. Her cousin was also unable to take care of herself, and her shameless parents often wrote to her asking her to send food home.
She had also heard about what happened in the Red Star Brigade some time ago, and she knew without a doubt that it was that person who was responsible.
Just hearing this news, she couldn't help but laugh at herself. She knew she had really been abandoned, otherwise why didn't she know about it? Even her cousin was involved in this matter.
Because of this, my cousin suffered and was disliked by her in-laws, which made her life miserable now.
Thinking of this and looking at the endless work in front of me, I could only grit my teeth and persevere.
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Since the first snow fell, Song Tanglan returned to her previous life of staying at home after the autumn harvest.
Mumu has already reached the age where he can talk and walk. After he learned to talk, he babbled all day long without stopping.
Seeing that Mumu could talk, Xiaodong and Xiaoli would come to him from time to time and ask him to call them brother or sister.
If it hadn't snowed and been too cold outside, and Mrs. Sun hadn't let them go out, they might have come to play with Mumu every day.
Every winter, when Song Tanglan has nothing to do, she will start making all kinds of delicious food. However, this year is special because the autumn harvest is late, so only 70% of the grain has been dried, and the grain has not been sorted out.
In this case, it might not be possible to distribute food before New Year's Eve, which made many people in the brigade very worried. After all, not every household has enough food stored to last until next year.
The grain harvested by the Red Star Brigade at least saw the sun, unlike the other two brigades, where it started snowing before they had even finished harvesting the grain.
Now, in order to prevent the grain from being spoiled, their team leader can only use a crude method, spending more firewood to dry out the moisture in the grain.
At least they can't let the food go bad, otherwise all their year's work will be wasted.
But even so, they cannot spend the winter peacefully on snowy days this year as in previous years. Now the team leader organizes some people to go to the office every day to take out the food and dry it slowly.
The person in charge of the brigade had thought about distributing the grain first and letting them dry it themselves later, but the situation is completely different now. They haven't handed in the public grain yet!
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