Li Xiyue tried it once as she said, and it wasn't difficult. She smiled and said, "Grandma, I got it."
"Our Yueyue is so smart." Grandma Yu smiled dotingly.
Yue worked hard and soon finished a bundle, but she didn't know how to tie it.
Grandma Yu picked up a straw, pressed one end with her thumb, wrapped the other end around it a few times, and then pulled it.
Li Xiyue followed the instructions and successfully tied the knot. She found this job very new and she worked very enthusiastically.
She learned everything quickly and soon did things better than experienced people.
Wang Jiaxing came over carrying an empty basket. Seeing the large pile of rice seedlings beside her, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Li Zhiqing, you are amazing."
"This is a job for the elderly and children. It must be easy for a young man like me to do it. Please stop talking about it. People will laugh at you." Li Xiyue felt a little embarrassed.
She took advantage of the situation and it was not right for her to act like a good boy.
Wang Jiaxing smiled, packed up the seedlings, and carried them to the paddy field next to him.
Li Xiyue saw him throwing bundles of seedlings behind the members who were planting the rice. The members could get them by turning around after planting the rice. The rice seedlings were planted upside down, so they had to be thrown behind their backs.
"When it comes to working hard, Xiangyang is the best." Grandma Yu pointed to someone working hard not far away. "He's the fastest in our team at planting rice."
Li Xiyue saw that he was indeed fast and had planted a lot more rice seedlings than the people planting with him. Moreover, the rice seedlings he planted were neatly arranged, with the spacing between the seedlings in front, behind, left and right being the same, as if they had been measured with a ruler.
Grandma Yu added, "But if our Yueyue does it, she can do it as well as him."
Li Xiyue would not dare to be careless about such things. Everyone has their own strengths, and she is better at curing diseases and saving lives.
"By the way, Yueyue, remember to go to the river at night." Grandma Yu said again.
Li Xiyue asked doubtfully, "What are you doing by the river?"
"You kid, you forgot that today is the third day of March, the Shangsi Festival."
Shangsi Festival?
It seems that people in later generations have never heard of this festival. Li Xiyue was confused.
Grandma Yu said, "March 3rd, the Shangsi Festival, is a very important festival for us. In the evening, the people in the brigade will hold an event by the river."
Li Xiyue had never celebrated this festival in later generations, and wanted to know how it was celebrated, so she agreed.
"Oh, this damn leech!" Grandma Yu felt itchy on her feet. She lifted her feet and saw a leech sucking blood from the blood vessels on the back of her feet. It had become round. She angrily pulled the leech off and was about to throw it away.
Li Xiyue saw it and hurriedly stopped her, "Grandma Yu, don't throw it away, give it to me."
"This is a leech. It sucks blood. Be careful not to hurt you." Grandma Yu said worriedly.
Li Xiyue said: "It's okay, I'll wrap it with leaves."
She picked a wild taro leaf from the edge of the field, wrapped the leech in it, and tied it with straw so that the leech could not escape.
"Sister Li, why are you wrapping leeches?" Hu Zi leaned over and asked.
Li Xiyue said: "Leech is a traditional Chinese medicine that can be used to treat diseases."
"Leech are medicinal herbs?" Hu Zi looked at Xu Guoqing beside him.
Xu Guoqing nodded and said, "I think I heard my grandfather say that."
"I have one here." Hu Zi lifted his foot and looked. There was a leech on his ankle sucking his blood. He pulled it off and gave it to her.
Li Xiyue saw that his ankle was bleeding, "Huzi, be careful of the wound getting infected."
"It's okay. Everyone here has been bitten by leeches. It's just that the wound is a little itchy. It will be gone in a few days." Hu Zi didn't care.
Li Xiyue looked around and saw that many people were pulling leeches off their feet, but no one took it seriously.
This is because I have been bitten for a long time. Have I developed immunity?
Leeches are poisonous.
But no one was hurt. I guess the leeches at that time were not so poisonous.
Li Xiyue asked, "Are there many leeches here?"
"There are a lot of them. Look, they are everywhere in the water." Hu Zi pointed to the paddy field.
Li Xiyue looked and saw that there were indeed quite a few of them, swimming back and forth in the water, which made people feel numb.
Fortunately, she was wearing high rubber shoes and gloves, so the leeches could not bite her, but all the villagers worked barefoot in the fields, and many of them had leeches crawling on their feet.
Leeches crawl onto your feet silently to suck blood. You won't notice unless they suck blood to a certain extent and your feet become itchy.
It is impossible to look at it from time to time while working, so I usually only look at it when I feel itchy.
There are so many of them that when you pull one out, there are others coming to suck your blood. It's so annoying.
Li Xiyue thought about it, looked around, and found Lai Di. She waved to the little girl, "Laidi, come here."
Lai Di must have come to the fields to catch insects, holding a small net bag in one hand and a small bucket in the other.
"Leech are also medicinal herbs. You can catch them, but not with your hands. You have to use a net." Li Xiyue whispered.
Lai Di's eyes sparkled. There were so many leeches. Wouldn't that mean she was going to get rich again?
After hesitating for a while, Lai Di asked in a low voice, "Sister, can I ask my eldest and second sisters to help me too?"
"Sure." Li Xiyue nodded. "If you have friends you like, you can ask them to join us."
People are not worried about scarcity but inequality. If one or two children benefit, other people will have objections, but if there are more, there will be no problem.
Lai Di happily agreed and ran away with the bucket.
Not long after, she appeared in the field with three or four equally thin children. Each of them was holding a small bucket and a net bag, scrambling to pick up the leeches.
Li Xiyue smiled. This not only reduced the number of leeches, but also allowed the children to have enough food, killing two birds with one stone.
The children were very efficient. As soon as they finished work at noon, Lai Di and others came to the educated youth point with small buckets to "deliver the goods".
Each person scooped out a small half bucket. They were still alive and crawling around in the bucket. It was so tempting to see claustrophobia.
Li Xiyue gritted her teeth and poured all the leeches into one bucket, which ended up filling up two small buckets.
She asked quietly, "I have candy and cookies, what do you want?"
"I want candy!" Lai Di raised her hand.
Her two sisters also asked for candy.
Yesterday my younger sister brought some candy home, and the three sisters hid and shared it without letting my mother and brother know. One piece of candy was too little for three people, and they wanted more.
Some of the other children asked for candy and some asked for cookies.
Li Xiyue gave each of them two White Rabbit candies and two biscuits, and repeatedly reminded them not to let their family members know. The children obeyed and ran away happily.
After the children left, Erniu quietly walked in, carrying a small bucket in her hand, and called out crisply, "Sister."
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