Chapter 15 Easy Leave
It was almost noon when he looked up again. He had only weeded one-third of the field. Li Meng wanted to cry but had no tears.
When it was evening, Gao Di wanted to find the team leader to do some lighter work. He was really suffering from back pain and couldn't bear it anymore. He pounded his waist, left work and went back to cook, and continued in the afternoon. He called Wu Ruirui, and the two of them went back together.
"Oh my god, Mengmeng, look at my hands. They hurt even with the gloves on. When will this end? I want to go home, woo woo woo," Wu Ruirui spread out his hands for Li Meng to see.
Both of his hands were red. For someone who couldn't even cook, going to the fields was a real torture.
"Hurry up, hurry up. I'll make you some delicious tonic when we get back. I also have some ointment here. Apply it to you and you'll be healed soon," Li Meng urged Wu Ruirui to hurry up.
Back at the Youth Farm, Wu Ruirui washed rice and vegetables while Li Meng cooked. The two sisters worked more and more in harmony. When the meal was about to be served, Pei Yu and Zhou Hui also came back. As soon as they entered the room, Zhou Hui shouted that he was hungry.
"Sister Meng, you don't know how terrible it is to break corn. The corn leaves scrape the back of my hands like razor blades. Look at my delicate hands. My fingernails are about to turn inside out," Zhou Hui complained while helping to serve the rice.
Li Meng looked at Pei Yu and asked, "How is your hand?"
"It's okay." He didn't know how to use strength before, so he didn't know how to use it skillfully. He'll get used to it. Pei Yu smiled and spread out his hands.
Li Meng saw that his hands were fine, but a little red because he didn't wear gloves, so she bought a pair of gloves for them after dinner.
For lunch, they had fried bacon and mushroom and egg soup. It was convenient to have their own stove as they could cook all the food together. Li Meng felt that she was really smart for having two stoves. Otherwise, the lunch time was so short that she wouldn't have been able to rest.
After finishing the meal and cleaning up, everyone went back to their rooms for a nap. Li Meng told Wu Ruirui about her idea, and Wu Ruirui nodded immediately, "Mengmeng, you have to take me with you, you can't leave me alone", wuwuwu,
"Don't worry, I'll take it with you wherever you go," Li Meng pinched Wu Ruirui's round face.
"By the way, when I go there tonight, I have to take a day off. I plan to go to the town post office tomorrow to send a registered letter. I almost forgot to report my safety to my family after being here for a few days. Do you want to go?" Li Meng asked Wu Ruirui
"I won't go," Wu Ruirui thought for a moment.
"I'll write the letter, you can help me mail it. If the captain agrees to our request and agrees to change our jobs tonight, I will go there to get used to it in advance and come back to tell you about my experience," he said, and then Wu Ruirui took out the letter paper and started writing.
In the letter, Wu Ruirui wrote as miserable as possible, so that her parents would send her more delicious food, hehe.
It's time to go to work again. Li Meng was dazed when she went out. The lunch break was too short. She pulled some weeds and looked at her watch. It was already three o'clock. She wanted to have a cup of milk tea and a piece of tiramisu. The field was full of people and she couldn't enter the space. It was so depressing.
I turned around and saw Wu Ruirui pulling weeds very hard. He must have gotten used to pulling weeds in the morning and found the trick in the afternoon.
After work, the scorekeeper came to check the work progress. Because Li Meng was slacking off, he still got 6 points, as did Liu Huan. However, Wu Ruirui and Wang Fang both got 8 points. Wu Ruirui grinned and felt great.
On the way back, I saw the smoke rising from the village, which gave me a very down-to-earth feeling.
"Comrade Li, wait a minute," Li Meng turned around after hearing the voice and saw Sister Xiaohua coming over with a basket.
"Here, my mother made some wild vegetable steamed bread for you to try."
"Then I won't be polite. Please thank Auntie for me," Li Meng said without any hesitation, thinking that she would bring some rare gifts to Auntie tomorrow.
"I have something else to trouble you with," Sister Xiaohua kicked the dirt at her feet shyly.
"What's the matter, Sister Xiaohua? Why are you being so polite to me?" Li Meng asked curiously.
"I'm going to be leaving home in a few days. I want you to do my eyebrows and make-up. Is that okay with you?"
"That's not a matter of a word. I promise to draw you a beautiful picture, Xiaohua. Just tell me one day in advance. Remember to treat me to candy," Li Meng joked.
"Of course, of course. I'll go first then," Xiaohua ran away shyly. Hehe, girls at this age are so innocent that they blush after just a few words.
The sun went down and the moon came to work. Li Meng and Wu Ruirui quietly set out with their baskets and knocked on the captain's gate.
It was the captain's wife who opened the door. "You are here to look for my old man, right? My last name is Tian, so you can just call me Auntie Tian. Come in and sit down. Old man, get up quickly. Someone is looking for you."
"Hey, here I come," there was a rustling sound of someone putting on clothes in the room.
Captain Huang frowned when he saw Li Meng and Wu Ruirui at the door. "What's wrong? Why are you looking for me at this hour instead of sleeping?"
"Hehe, uncle, I want to ask for a leave. I have been here for a few days and forgot to send a telegram home, so I plan to go to town tomorrow to take care of some things and buy some daily necessities," Li Meng said with a grin.
"What about you? Are you also asking for leave?" Captain Huang looked at Wu Ruirui and asked.
Wu Ruirui stretched out his palms and pretended to be helpless and said, "Captain, I'm not asking for leave. I want to ask if you can give me a lighter job. You know, I don't rely on work points to support myself. Look at my hands, they are all broken. I have never done such work at home. If my parents knew, they would be heartbroken. I am their only child, and I have to consider them. If I get sick from overwork, how will my parents live!"
When Captain Huang heard this, his brows furrowed so much that they could pinch a fly to death. What kind of nonsense is this? Why are girls from the city so pretentious? Aren’t they here to go to the countryside to build the country? Who are these people?
"Auntie Tian, this is a little gift from us to honor you, please accept it," Li Meng said, and then put the basket on the table.
"What are you doing? Take it back quickly," Captain Huang said with a serious face.
"You can't do this, take it back quickly," Captain Huang said, picking it up and handing it to Li Meng.
"No, uncle, we're not asking you to make a mistake. We're just trying to show our filial piety to you and your aunt. Don't think too much about it." Li Meng put the basket back.
Looking at the heavy basket, Auntie Tian looked at the old man without saying a word, feeling so sad. If the old man got stubborn, she would be reluctant to accept it.
Seeing what Aunt Tian was thinking, Li Meng started to fool her again, "Uncle, you see, I have no relatives here when I came here, and the first villager I met was you. I feel destined to be with you. I really treat you as my uncle. Isn't it my duty to respect elders? If you refuse, it means you don't want to recognize me as your eldest niece, and I will be very sad," he said while pretending to be sad.
"Okay, old man, this is not a big deal. If you can help, please help. Don't make the girls sad," Auntie Tian said, and gave her old man a look.
Captain Huang received the signal from his wife and felt so embarrassed. What a cheap old woman!
"Okay, okay, then I'll give you a day off tomorrow," Captain Huang compromised.
"Captain, what about me?" Wu Ruirui was afraid of being forgotten, so he said, "I'll make arrangements during the gathering tomorrow. You two should go back quickly."
"It's getting late. I'll take you there. The road is dark and it would be bad for a little girl to be in danger," he said, and planned to take them back.
"No, no, uncle, don't you still not believe in my strength?" When you meet a bad guy, everyone is afraid of him. We left, Li Meng waved her hand and prepared to leave,
"Girl, your basket," Auntie Tian said as she reached out to take the basket.
"Aunt, I'll come get the empty basket tomorrow. I'll leave it here first. Goodbye, Auntie Tian. Don't send me off." After saying that, he pulled Wu Ruirui to the door quickly. Captain Huang was about to close the gate.
Then Li Meng stuck his head out again and said, "Uncle, if it's convenient, give me an easy job. Hehehe, I'm leaving. I'm really leaving this time. You don't need to see me off."
Captain Huang was speechless. How could there be such a shameless person?
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