Chapter 26: Hard Work
"That's right, Qiao Mo. You will be in charge of all our meals from now on. Just let us know if you need us to do anything." Kang Mingyuan also nodded.
"Okay, I'll arrange our lives based on the amount of food rations we have." Qiao Mo nodded, then asked if they had any dietary restrictions. Finally, he asked, "Do we need to prepare our own farm tools or will the production team provide them?"
"You need to prepare it yourself, but it doesn't need to be too much. Since you're a girl, a hoe, a sickle, and a basket will be enough," Han Yimo replied. "You didn't bring any with you, did you? You can buy these things at the sales outlet, but you need industrial coupons for the hoe and sickle. Do you have any? No, I have a few here."
"I brought it, but I don't know what to do in the morning. No, I'll go shopping at noon." Qiao Mo sighed. She not only had to buy farm tools, but also a hatchet, a backpack, bowls and chopsticks, an oil lamp, a bamboo hat, a straw hat, etc. Fortunately, she could eat with them, but she also had to buy a rice cooker and a pot for boiling water.
"Just tell us if anything is missing. Don't be polite." Kang Mingyuan nodded.
"I understand. I won't be polite." Qiao Mo also nodded at them.
After dinner, Han Yimo happily went to wash the dishes, and Qiao Mo also went back to the house to prepare for work. In fact, he didn't prepare anything. He just took out a pair of thin gloves from the space and stuffed them in his trouser pocket. He didn't even dare to take out his straw hat.
The bell for work rang. Actually, it was not a bell, but the team leader holding an iron bar and hitting an iron block hanging under the eaves, telling everyone that it was time to go to work or to leave work. Then the team leader used a small loudspeaker to tell everyone that the men should go to the fields to weed and the women should go to the back mountain to turn over the sweet potato vines, and asked everyone to quickly gather in the threshing ground in front of the team headquarters.
Qiao Mo was relieved that no tools were needed to turn over the sweet potato vines. She followed Kang Mingyuan and the others to the brigade headquarters. Seeing men and women standing on one side and on the other side of the threshing floor, she consciously stood on the women's side.
"Xiao Qiao, are you used to living in the educated youth camp?" Aunt Wu asked her with a smile.
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Qiao Mo smiled at her.
"Do you cook for yourself or eat with others?"
"I'm partnering with Comrades Kang Mingyuan and Han Yimo. They take good care of me because I'm still young." Qiao Mo didn't hide it from her.
"They are all good kids. You won't suffer any loss if you live with them." Aunt Wu also nodded. The girl in front of her had good taste. Otherwise, if she lived with the two newcomers, she would suffer a lot. Her son said that those two were not easy to deal with.
"Well, they are both good people." Qiao Mo nodded with a smile and gave them both the good guy card without hesitation.
Soon, everyone was present except Chu Maoshen and Liu Ruoling who had asked for leave. The team leader arranged the work and asked everyone to go to the designated fields to work.
Qiao Mo and Aunt Wu went to the foot of the mountain on the east side to turn over the sweet potato vines: the nodes of the sweet potato vines can easily take root and grow small sweet potatoes, which will absorb too many nutrients and affect the growth of the sweet potatoes, so the sweet potato vines must be turned over every once in a while to prevent the nodes from taking root.
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