Soon, the most important double harvest of the year arrived, and the fact that He Hong had run away was gradually forgotten by people.
Only Old Lady He and Tian Xiaocui were still upset.
For this reason, Old Mrs. He kept a close eye on the girls in her family.
She didn't want to raise another He Hong in vain.
Old Mrs. He also took out her resentment for He Hong's disappearance on Tian Xiaocui.
She felt that it was because her Tian family had bad roots that she gave birth to such a terrible thing as He Hong.
Tian Xiaocui's life in Lao He's house became increasingly difficult, and she became more determined to move out.
"Tian Xiaocui, you stinky egg-laying thing, why don't you hurry up and cook? Are you still waiting for me to serve you?"
"I'm here, mom. I'll go cook right away." Tian Xiaocui came to the kitchen and looked at the food that Old Lady He had poured out in advance. She couldn't help muttering in her heart: Who is this old thing guarding against? If he was afraid that I would steal the food, he wouldn't let me cook. What does he mean now? Who is he trying to annoy, this old thing?
After cooking, Tian Xiaocui did not forget to spit into the porridge. "I'll let you eat, I'll let you eat."
"Are you ready? You're so slow even when serving food. What else can you do well?"
"Here I come."
Seeing that the whole family had eaten the food that she had drooled over, Tian Xiaocui finally felt relieved.
In the afternoon, the village chief called everyone to the drying yard for a meeting.
"Fellow villagers, the annual double harvest is about to begin. To prevent people from slacking off and wasting their time, the village has decided to first assign tasks to production teams, which will then allocate the designated fields based on the number of people in each household.
If you fail to harvest and plant rice on time in the fields you are assigned, your work points will be deducted."
As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd began to chatter and discuss.
"Also, tomorrow each family will send one person to the river mouth to harvest the rice. Don't thresh the harvested rice. Place it in the most conspicuous large field at the river mouth. Reporters from the town will come to take pictures.
It has to be placed compactly, so that people can lie down without falling down."
When Su Qing heard this, he thought, isn't that just the exaggerated style he learned before?
One pig is enough to feed the whole farm for half a year.
What kind of rice produces thousands of kilograms per mu?
What a fat pig that looks like an elephant.
So all the historical events that you know will happen, but the timeline will be different.
Thinking of this, Su Qing had a rough idea in his mind.
After the meeting, go to the brigade to get the household registration book.
Because Su's mother and others also settled in Shuixiang Village, when the village chief helped to handle the household registration book, he directly added Su Che and others to Su Qing's household registration book.
Su Qing didn't care, as long as he didn't share the same household registration book with the He family.
After returning home, everyone started discussing how to divide the tasks.
"We have quite a lot of people in our family, so the workload is probably not easy." Su Che spoke first.
"How about this, leave the younger ones at home tomorrow and let the older ones go out. The sooner the job is done, the sooner it's over." Before Su Qing could finish his words, his mother hit him on the forehead.
"Who will take care of the child and cook the meal?"
Daya and Su Qianya raised their hands and said, "Grandma, I can do it. I will also watch over my sisters."
Wen Li thought for a moment, "Mom, how about this, let Qianya cook, and then Qianfan and Qianshan can come back to get it.
The eldest can look after the younger ones, and the fourth will be the only one who needs some care if she poops or gets hungry."
"I agree with my sister-in-law's proposal."
"I always listen to my wife." Su Che especially likes to rest his head on Wen Li's shoulder.
Wen Li habitually patted her husband's head and said, "If you don't finish it soon, I'll be in a state of anxiety. Mom, how about we arrange it this way?"
Su's mother thought about it. She had come from this era, so she naturally knew that the harvest depended entirely on God's blessing.
Otherwise, if God is not happy and sends some rain, all the food in the field will be destroyed.
"Okay, let's try this for a day. If it doesn't work, I'll make another plan. By the way, let Su Qing go to the river mouth tomorrow, and the rest of us who are more skilled will go to our own mission fields."
"Okay." Several people answered in unison.
Su Qing was puzzled. "I look clumsy? Do you dislike me?"
Several people nodded in sync.
Mother Su quickly comforted her, "I'm worried that you're too tired, so you can go on behalf of our family."
Early the next morning, Su Qing was fully armed, covering himself up so that only his eyes were exposed.
Mother Su couldn't bear to look at her silly daughter. "You're covered up like this, not only did you fail to protect yourself from the sun, but you also gave yourself a heat stroke."
Facts proved that what Su's mother said was right.
Su Qing was sweating profusely in a short while. Afraid of getting heatstroke, he could only take off his clothes and put them on the ground.
At the beginning, Su Qing was cutting rice while bending over, but later he just squatted down to cut it.
"Er Mazi, what are you doing? Don't think I don't know you're being lazy just because you're squatting. Move."
The patrolman suddenly yelled, and Su Qing was so scared that he sat down in the field.
"If I catch anyone slacking off again, I'll deduct their work points."
"Hurry up, the reporter will be here at noon."
Su Qing ignored her urging, as she didn't rely on work points to make a living.
Besides, the sickle is rusty. What if I cut myself? I don’t know if I can get tetanus shots in this era.
But because they were afraid of being called out by name, they continued to squat and cut the rice until the patrolman had gone far away.
Fortunately, the water village has a large population, so even a slow person like Su Qing completed the task by noon.
During the double harvest season, no one goes home to eat. They eat in the fields, take a break for a while, and then go back to work.
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