Chapter 69 Pursuit
Look, this educated person speaks differently, and the reasons he gives are so hard to refuse.
You can't refuse others from engaging in production, right? If their comrades catch moths and put them in your basket nearby, you would be embarrassed to stop them.
Tang Mingli was watching the two of them chatting and laughing while catching moths from behind, and the expression on his face was unimaginable.
It's like a housewife who climbs to the sixth floor with fifty kilograms of rice on her back, only to open the door and see her husband having an affair with another woman. But for the sake of her children, she cannot let the family break up, so she can only pretend she doesn't know, close the door, and hide in the corridor to complain about everything.
Cui Zijin looked at his expression and felt it was a bit tragic and a bit funny.
But he soon stopped laughing.
Li Xiangsong and Wang Fei switched shifts, and now it was Wang Fei and Han Youran's time.
The two brothers had already discussed it, one would pursue one, and the main point was to help each other.
As for why he didn't chase Xia Zhizhi, that thing had already disappeared.
Not only were there a lot of mosquitoes in the fields at night, but moths also brought up dust when they fluttered around. There were so many moths in the cotton fields that she felt like she was suffocating if she stayed there for too long. Plus, it was time for her to go back to bed.
While others were working overtime in the fields late into the night, she was about to collapse the kang.
Thinking that she had at least been to the fields, the team leader, the scorer and the accountant discussed it and gave her four work points. This was the first time she had received work points, but unfortunately she didn't know it herself.
The next day, while other educated youth were catching up on sleep, she checked the information in the space and wrote an article about catching moths.
A small part of the fun of catching moths was mixed with some useful information, which was the method of preventing and controlling cotton bollworms that she had painstakingly searched for in a book.
It is not a complete copy. According to the current conditions, I have deleted and reduced some of the methods that can be used now.
After she finished writing, she asked Ah Ju to copy more than ten copies according to her notes, and sent one copy to all the newspapers with her mailing addresses, noting that it was submitted to multiple newspapers and she could use it if she wanted.
Tomorrow she will ask for the mailing addresses of other local newspapers. It is definitely not because she is greedy for the few dollars in royalties. This kind of academic article must be promoted nationwide.
It rained in the afternoon of the second day after we caught the moths. After the rain, it was the peak season for moths. Fortunately, we had organized people to catch them by hand the day before, so the situation was still under control.
After that, it rained for several days.
The captain arranged for everyone to take turns catching moths.
Although catching moths requires staying up late into the night, you can still catch up on sleep by sleeping until noon the next day. The work points you earn are not small, so everyone is happy to go.
Since Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong didn't have a plan to catch moths yesterday, they decided to go pick mushrooms today.
The two were so excited that they woke up in the middle of the night and steamed a pot of vegetable buns in the dark for breakfast.
Seeing that Xia Zhizhi's door was still tightly closed, Han Youran knocked on the door and woke her up. Seeing that she was yawning with her head tilted back, he pinched her face and said, "Didn't you agree to go mushroom picking with us yesterday? Go wash up and we'll set off after breakfast!"
By the time she had finally finished packing, Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong had already finished packing with their backpacks.
Han Youran put the backpack on her back, and Jiang Xiurong stuffed two buns into her mouth: "Let's go earlier and come back earlier."
Xia Zhizhi looked at her watch. She didn't think she would go before five o'clock. She was also steaming buns, so she would have to get up at three o'clock...
Hurrah!
Everyone was so slow when it came time to go to work that they would not get up until the call was heard twice. When they were told to go pick mushrooms, they woke up at two in the middle of the night!
The sun rises early in the northeast, and the sky is bright at five o'clock. After she finished eating the buns, she woke up and asked, "Why didn't Cui Zhiqing, Tang Zhiqing, and Wang Zhiqing come?"
You know, when the heroine goes out, the two of them always accompany her. As for Wang Lizhen, she goes wherever Cui Zijin is.
Jiang Xiurong said: "Tang Zhiqing and Cui Zhiqing went to the mountain to collect firewood early in the morning, and Wang Zhiqing said he would go to the commune today."
Wang Lizhen felt that life was very difficult. Two days ago, Cui Zijin was provoked by Wang Fei, and she was constantly disturbed when it came to understanding love.
Han Youran is such a beautiful girl, and it's not like no one is eyeing her. If he hesitates any longer, today there's Wang Fei, tomorrow there's Li Fei, and the day after tomorrow there's Zhang Fei. Who knows if she will be seduced away by one of those Feis, and then he won't even have anywhere to cry.
It's not that there are no people in the village who have been attentive to Han Youran, but the gap between them is too big. He doesn't think Han Youran can appreciate him at all, so he is naturally not that anxious.
Once he meets someone he finds threatening, he won't care about his neighbor Qingmei's feelings.
I found an opportunity to play cards with Wang Lizhen.
Of course, this was not the first time he told Wang Lizhen that he only had a brotherly and sisterly relationship with her and nothing else.
Wang Lizhen had always let him talk and did what she wanted to do, but this time Cui Zijin said directly: "Lizhen, I like Han Zhiqing, I want to pursue her, and I want to establish a revolutionary friendship with her. I will keep a distance from you in the future, and I hope you will keep a distance from me too. I also hope you can find someone you like soon."
Wang Lizhen was extremely sad and cried her heart out.
Cui Zijin didn't have anyone he liked before, and she was the only opposite sex around him. She thought that time would tell and one day Cui Zijin would be moved by her. But now Cui Zijin said that he wanted to pursue someone else, which was worse than the sky falling for her.
Cui Zijin saw her crying, and although he felt a little bit reluctant, he still didn't soften his heart, because Wang Lizhen was like this when he talked to her before. He softened his heart at that time, but ended up dragging it out until now, which delayed her instead.
Poor Wang Lizhen, her sincerity was wasted. I guess she is now calling her family to complain.
In fact, there were mushrooms in the small woods near the fields of the educated youth, but everyone saw them when they passed by and picked them up. If they wanted to pick more, they had to go to the woods at the foot of the mountain to look for them.
It rained several times in a row, and the muddy road was particularly difficult to walk on. Every time we walked a distance, we had to scrape off the mud stuck on the soles of our shoes on the grass by the roadside. Otherwise, it would take only 1.6 meters to go up the mountain and 1.8 meters to come back.
Fortunately, these three people had a lot of ideas in their heads, so they easily overcame the small difficulties.
Although people come to the forest every day, a large number of mushrooms will grow in one night, and it is impossible to pick them all.
There are many hazel mushrooms and broom mushrooms in this forest. They are easy to recognize. From a distance, you can see a white and yellow patch of mushrooms that are different from the leaves. They must be edible mushrooms.
It's not like the forests in the south, where there are endless varieties of mushrooms and you have to be careful to distinguish them, otherwise you might end up falling down.
Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong picked a full basket in more than two hours.
Xia Zhizhi was not working properly. She was running around with her camera, taking pictures of mushrooms, the grove, and the two of them picking mushrooms. When they returned, there was not even 1/3 of the mushrooms left in the basket.
The baskets they brought were quite large, and the wet mushrooms were quite heavy, so a full basket was extremely heavy. Fortunately, they were picked with great effort, so Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong were reluctant to throw them away. They rested every three steps and carried them back on their backs.
After returning home, Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong poured the mushrooms into a pot, picked off the grass residue on top, and cut off the soil at the roots, leaving behind the ones they wanted to eat and drying the rest in a winnowing basket.
It is easy to eat mushrooms but difficult to handle them. Plus, both of us like cleanliness, so it took us a while to clean up.
After cleaning up, the two went to make lunch.
Originally it was agreed that three people would do it for one day, but Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong both have good personalities and don't care too much. They are willing to lend a hand when they have time.
"It would be better if you could put some meat in it." Jiang Xiurong said sadly while smashing garlic.
Unfortunately, there is no refrigerator at the moment, and the meat bought in the hot summer cannot be kept. If I buy it now, it will take two or three hours to go to the commune and back, which is really a waste of time.