The village chief rolled his eyes at the two Cheng brothers, then glanced at Wang Guihua, who looked a little haggard after working all morning, and then he spoke:
"Okay, we'll be relying on Yue'er for the next half month. Do whatever you want, don't worry about the food.
In previous years, your mother and your two sisters-in-law cooked, but they were always reluctant to do anything. After the entire cooking period, everyone in our family lost weight."
Cheng Mingyue happily agreed.
The large plate of shredded potatoes and noodles brought by Chen Mingyue was eaten up by several people.
Moreover, her eldest and second brothers kept smacking their lips, and it seemed that they were not full yet.
Cheng Mingyue thought to herself that she would do more tomorrow.
Cheng Mingyue packed her things and went home with her mother.
Cheng Mingyue now has a rough idea of what she, as a scorer, usually does.
In the morning, she distributes tools and registers the number of people working. In the afternoon, she checks whether the tools are damaged. Then each team leader reports the villagers' work points for the day to her, and she just needs to register them. The rest of the time is basically free for her.
So the job of a scorer is quite easy. If she hadn't graduated from high school and her father was not the village chief, she would never have been given this easy job.
It was precisely because it was easy that the original owner, who was so lazy and gluttonous, only worked for five months.
In the afternoon, Cheng Mingyue had nothing to do, so she took her textbook to the brigade office to read.
This made Accountant Xu very happy.
"Mingyue, why are you suddenly in the mood to read?!"
You have to know that although the original owner graduated from high school, her academic performance was only average. It is simply a fantasy to say that she loves studying.
Cheng Mingyue ignored Accountant Xu's look, which seemed to show that he had discovered a new world, and said with a smile, "I'm free anyway, so I might as well read a book to kill time.
And now I am really benefiting from reading. I always thought studying was hard before, but when I went to the place where the canal was being repaired in the morning and saw how hard everyone was working, I realized that reading is the easiest thing.
I really miss my school days now. If I could go back to school, I would definitely study hard.”
Accountant Xu nodded, seemingly lost in thought.
If we were to say who is the smartest person in Baihe Brigade, it would definitely be accountant Xu Youcai.
When others were reluctant to send their children to school, he sent all three of his children to school, and all of them graduated from high school.
Now all three children have easy jobs and receive a good salary every month.
His vision is incomparable to those who dig for food in the soil.
He also read the newspapers that the commune distributed to the village carefully over and over again every day, and he had a vague feeling that the college entrance examination would definitely be resumed.
Now that Xu Youcai saw Cheng Mingyue reading a book, he silently took note of all these things in his heart and planned to talk about them with his daughter and two sons when he returned home in the evening.
Let them read more books and review carefully when they have time.
If the college entrance examination is really resumed one day, they will have prepared in advance, and they will definitely have an advantage over others and be able to get into better schools.
Cheng Mingyue put down the book in her hand, looked at the newspaper in Xu Youcai's hand, and said, "Hey, Uncle Xu, do you still have the newspaper you read before? Let me see it."
Xu Youcai took out a thick stack of newspapers from the cabinet on his desk and handed it to Cheng Mingyue, asking, "Why do you suddenly want to read the newspaper again?"
Cheng Mingyue didn't hide it, "I want to write a few manuscripts and send them to the newspaper. I'm not sure about it, so I thought I'd read the newspaper and learn a little."
After Cheng Mingyue finished speaking, she leisurely picked up the newspaper and began to read.
When she reads a newspaper, she mainly looks at the specific style of the newspaper and thinks about what kind of articles can be published in the newspaper.
After reading many newspapers, she had a rough idea in her mind.
But she was not in a hurry to start writing. She picked up the textbook and started reading it carefully.
The afternoon passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was time to get off work.
Cheng Mingyue tidied up her desk, picked up her notebook, and waited for the villagers who had repaired the canal to return their farm tools.
After she checked all the farm tools, several team leaders came to her with notebooks to report the villagers' specific work points for the day.
Since Cheng Mingyue had already prepared the form, she only needed to fill in the work points according to the name, so she completed all the statistical work quickly today.
The team leaders were all extremely surprised. After looking at each other, they leaned over to look at the record book in front of Cheng Mingyue.
Cheng Mingyue didn't hide anything and said cheerfully, "I think the old way of recording work points was slow and messy. Now that we have made it into a table, it is not only convenient to record, but also easy to find later. It will be easier to calculate the total work points in the end.
And you can also make a table, so you don’t have to spend so much time writing your names in the future, and you can do more work and earn more work points.”
The team leaders nodded excitedly.
The team leaders had little education before, and their names were written crookedly. They racked their brains every day to record the villagers' work points. Now that they have this simple method, they only need to write their names once a month.
It saves so much trouble!
After everyone left, Cheng Mingyue locked the drawer and went home.
As soon as Cheng Mingyue walked out of the brigade headquarters, she saw Lu Chen standing not far away.
"Are you waiting for me?" Cheng Mingyue looked around and asked uncertainly.
"Yeah." Lu Chen responded and then fell silent again.
Cheng Mingyue now has some understanding of Lu Chen. When this guy wants to talk, he talks non-stop. When he doesn't want to talk, he is like a mute person and refuses to say a single word.
Just like at noon, her father asked several times, but he kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
Speaking of noon, Cheng Mingyue naturally thought of Lu Chen's strange appearance at that time. She looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so she asked, "Do you know the two men from the Baiyang Brigade?"
Lu Chen never expected that Cheng Mingyue would ask this out of the blue. He raised his eyes and looked at Cheng Mingyue. He found that her eyes were big and bright, especially when she looked at him seriously, her eyes twinkled, not to mention how smart they were.
And her nose is straight and upturned, and her mouth is rosy...
Lu Chen rubbed his fingers subconsciously, cleared his dry and itchy throat, and said in a low voice: "It's not convenient to talk here. I'll tell you when we get home."
Cheng Mingyue didn't force it.
She knew in her heart that what Lu Chen wanted to tell her must be very complicated, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.
Neither of them said anything else and returned to their home at the foot of the mountain together.
Cheng Mingyue pushed open the courtyard door, first scooped a full spoonful of water into the basin, washed her face and hands carefully, then sat on a wooden block beside her, staring at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen didn't know whether he had this habit before or developed it after arriving in the countryside. He just saw him scrubbing each finger very carefully, even the gaps between his nails, until his fingers became clean and there was no dust at all. Only then did he nod with satisfaction.
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