Because of the spring plowing, the school was temporarily suspended and construction would resume after the busy farming season. The few people could only suppress their anxiety.
Zou Jianguo and Sun Mingjie found out from somewhere that several female educated youth who came with them secretly gave gifts to the team leader, and they couldn't help but have some thoughts about them.
They came here together and should have huddled together for warmth, but unexpectedly, they had no such idea at all.
Since Zou Jianguo was assigned to plant sweet potatoes, his work has become much easier, but he still feels tired and has a sore back every day.
Originally, everyone was going to eat together, and the cooks had already been arranged, but he thought that being a female colleague was not easy, so even if it was not his and Sun Mingjie's job, the two male colleagues would help.
But unexpectedly, once their interests were involved, they kicked them both aside. It was completely impossible to tell that they were good colleagues and teammates who ate at the same table together on weekdays.
After planting the sweet potatoes, the new educated youth thought that their life was over, but they did not expect that there were still vast paddy fields waiting for them.
When they saw the endless paddy fields, not only did the new educated youth feel so angry that they almost fainted, but even the old educated youth Yi Xiaoqiu started to feel pain in his waist.
She remembered that there seemed to be leeches in the paddy fields. When Yi Xiaoqiu thought of that thing, she shuddered and got goose bumps on her body.
At this time, Yi Xiaoqiu wished time would pass quickly so that he could quickly get to the college entrance examination in 1977.
Not only Yi Xiaoqiu and the new educated youth looked unhappy, but all the new and old female educated youth looked unhappy.
When harvesting rice, although there is no end to the rice, it is harvested in handfuls. However, transplanting rice seedlings requires planting them one by one, which is much more time-consuming and laborious than harvesting rice.
The endless paddy fields are so despairing.
Can this be grown with just hands?
The newly arrived educated youth were almost crying when they saw the paddy fields in front of them.
Shen Ruofei's group of educated youth, who were neither new nor old, also turned pale as they looked at the paddy fields.
They have never planted rice seedlings before!
Lin Dongyan and Qian Donglai looked numb.
Yi Xiaoqiu has never planted rice seedlings, but she has the memories of the original owner.
The original owner had only worked in the fields once, and the scene that left the deepest impression on her was the scene of her being bitten by leeches.
When Yi Xiaoqiu thought of this, all the pores on his body stood up.
It was so scary. She was most afraid of those soft and cold flesh worms, and her heart went numb.
But there is no way, no matter how desperate everyone is, they still have to go to the fields.
The water in the field was not as cold as Yi Xiaoqiu had imagined. It was rather warm. After she got used to it for a while, she no longer felt cold.
That’s right, Yi Xiaoqiu went to the fields barefoot.
She forgot to buy boots. She seemed to have seen those long plastic boots at the supply and marketing cooperative before, but they were quite big and expensive. Most people would not afford to buy them.
City dwellers can’t use it and farmers can’t afford it.
Yi Xiaoqiu and Shen Ruofei, who had been doing farm work for a while, were fine, but the newcomers had just entered the water and didn't even have time to stand firmly before falling into the water in the blink of an eye.
This immediately caused a burst of laughter.
You won't be asked to change clothes at this time. After all, you are in the water, so it is normal for your clothes to get wet.
After everyone stood firmly, each of them took a handful of seedlings in their hands and started the day's work.
I thought the rice planting work would be so boring, but I didn't expect that after a while, Yang Xiujuan screamed not far away.
"ah!!!"
She screamed, and everyone looked up at Guo Dian.
Yang Xiujuan stood on one leg, desperately swinging her other foot, tears streaming down her face. "Help! Someone come quickly! Ah! It's drilling into my flesh!"
She looked kind of funny that way.
Come on, you know what it is without even looking at it.
The people nearby burst into laughter again.
Yi Xiaoqiu felt sympathetic and couldn't help but look at his legs.
At this time, a sister-in-law next to Yang Xiujuan walked over and said, "Don't move! I can't help you if you move."
Yang Xiujuan obediently stopped swinging her feet, and saw her sister-in-law reach out and gently take the leech off.
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Yang Xiujuan thanked with tears in her eyes.
The sister-in-law glanced at her and nodded helplessly, "There's nothing to be afraid of. There are many of them in the fields."
The sister-in-law originally wanted to comfort her, but unexpectedly it had the opposite effect. After hearing this, Yang Xiujuan's face turned even paler.
As soon as Yi Xiaoqiu heard this, he felt a tingling sensation on his calf.
Yi Xiaoqiu lifted his leg and looked, then he couldn't stand anymore.
With a "bang", Yi Xiaoqiu sat down in the water, her legs shaking and screaming.
"Ah! A leech bit me!"
"Hurry! Someone come and help me!"
Everyone's eyes turned to Yi Xiaoqiu again, accompanied by laughter.
"Yi Zhiqing has been doing farm work for so long, why is he still afraid of that thing?"
"This is too timid!"
"To put it bluntly, city kids are spoiled!"
Although these words were unpleasant to hear, Yi Xiaoqiu did not take them to heart as no one meant any harm. Her mind was now filled with the image of leeches sucking blood from her calves.
Yi Xiaoqiu was almost crying.
So scary!
That thing kept drilling into her flesh, causing both pain and itchiness.
She watched helplessly as the leech grew larger in the blink of an eye.
Yi Xiaoqiu didn't dare to reach out and touch the thing. She swung her legs desperately, trying to throw it away.
The thing was sucking too tightly, and Yi Xiaoqiu did not get what he wanted.
"Someone come quickly!"
She was desperate. Why had no one come to help her for so long?
Although Yi Xiaoqiu didn't cry, she swung her legs even more exaggeratedly than Yang Xiujuan.
She was wrong. She shouldn't have laughed at Yang Xiujuan in her heart.
Yi Xiaoqiu felt that the leech had been sucking on her leg for a century.
Finally, she waited for Song Ying to come over.
Yi Xiaoqiu put his hands in the mud and water, his body was soaked.
With tears in her eyes, she looked at Song Ying, as if she saw an angel coming.
"Yingying, you're not afraid of leeches, are you?"
Yi Xiaoqiu's face was full of hope, afraid that Song Ying would utter the word "afraid".
"Don't be afraid." Song Ying squatted down, reached out to help her remove the leech, her face very calm.
As soon as the leech left Yi Xiaoqiu's skin, a stream of bright red blood flowed from her white leg, which was very eye-catching.
"Thank you." Yi Xiaoqiu breathed a sigh of relief. She only then realized that she was almost half lying in the water.
"Get up, it's no longer dangerous." Song Ying comforted.
Lu Huaian saw Yi Xiaoqiu fall into the water from afar and immediately ran over.
Yi Xiaoqiu saw the leech in Song Ying's hand and was terrified. "You have to throw this thing onto the ridge of the field."
Song Ying looked at her leg, which was still bleeding, and nodded helplessly. "Do you need me to help you up?"
She knew Yi Xiaoqiu's concerns.
"No, I need to slow down first." Yi Xiaoqiu's legs were still soft, and they were bleeding. If he put them in water, what if the smell of blood attracted leeches?
It’s better to wait until the wound stops bleeding before putting it in water!
Song Ying said nothing and left holding the leech.
At this time, Lu Huaian ran over wading through the water.
"Yi Zhiqing, are you okay?" Lu Huaian asked with concern.
"No, I was just bitten by a leech." Yi Xiaoqiu looked at the blood on her leg that had not yet coagulated and felt like crying.
It’s despairing to think that this kind of life will continue for a few more years.
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