"Today, the women will weed, and some of the men will weed, while others will clean and tidy up the ridges and dig irrigation channels on the other side of the river. We must hurry up to sow and irrigate after the autumn harvest! Don't be passive and lazy just because you think there is less work now. The autumn harvest will be in ten days, so hurry up!" Team leader Chen Shengli said loudly.
Chen Shengli became furious when he saw the lazy people in front of him. No one had been working actively these days. Even though the weather was hot, they shouldn't all be lazy, right?
"Mu Qingli, Fang Lili, Li Jiaojiao, Su Qingya, Huang Li, Li Shiyao, all of you go and weed that sweet potato field. One acre of land per person. You can only leave work after you finish the work. If you can't finish it, you can continue working at night!" Chen Shengli said, pointing to a field of sweet potatoes with green grass protruding.
Mu Qingli curled her lips secretly. It's almost time to harvest, right? Why are you still weeding? How could she know that sweet potatoes are usually harvested last?
Chen Shengli looked at Wang Shuhui, who was wearing a short-sleeved skirt and small leather shoes, and Feng Mei and Zhang Yawei, who were dressed up beautifully, and he almost spit out blood.
"You three, go and weed that cornfield! One acre each!" Chen Shengli was stunned for a moment, then pointed at a cornfield with yellowing leaves and said unhappily.
Mu Qingli almost burst out laughing. Was this really intentional? A cornfield? It's only ten days until harvest. Is there still a need for weeding?
The others also looked at Chen Shengli with strange eyes, and some looked at Wang Shuhui, Feng Mei and Zhang Yawei and laughed out loud.
The three people who were laughing were confused. They looked at each other, trying to see if there was anything wrong with what they were wearing. As a result, there was nothing wrong, and the three people became even more confused.
The male educated youth were assigned to dig ditches, and some villagers also rushed to go. Although it was tiring, the work points were high. Weeding only earned a few work points, so the male laborers in the village were unwilling to go.
It was not until they started working that the three of them realized what was wrong. They crawled into the cornfield and their arms, legs, and even faces were all scratched and disfigured. There were scratches all over their bodies, and after sweating, it was a burning pain.
The three of them couldn't stand it anymore after less than half an hour. They left the cornfield with their hair in a mess of corn leaves on their heads, and said they would not work anymore.
Chen Shengli had been wandering around here and had been keeping an eye on the three of them. He knew that they could not hold on any longer. "Is this your attitude towards work? You really can't do anything! I don't know what you female educated youth are doing in the countryside! Go over there and weed the sweet potato field!" Chen Shengli pointed to a piece of land for each of them and asked them to go to work.
When they arrived at the sweet potato field, they all looked at Mu Qingli, who was packed tightly, and then looked at each other's embarrassed faces. Their eyes were hard to describe. How stupid were they? They were still thinking about leaving a good impression in front of the villagers. Isn't this a joke?
Mu Qingli never looked up. She kept her head down and quietly pulled out the weeds in the ground bit by bit. She didn't feel tired at all. She leisurely pulled out more than half an acre in the whole morning.
Looking at the others, some of them stood up and patted their waists, some stood up and wiped their sweat, or just stood there in a daze. It was almost time to get off work at noon, but they hadn't finished weeding the three acres of land yet.
After work at noon, these newcomers returned to the educated youth site, exhausted and with sore backs, and none of them wanted to move.
The old educated youth were assigned to take turns cooking. After work, someone went to cook. Mu Qingli was not in a hurry, but took a bucket and went to fetch water.
"Lili! Let me go, you take a rest!" How could Mu Qingfeng let Mu Qingli fetch water? He said, and immediately grabbed the bucket and rushed out.
"Brother, let's go together!" Mu Qingli also followed behind and ran out.
After fetching a few buckets of water and resting for a while, the old educated youth finished cooking and started serving the food.
The brother and sister also started to get firewood to cook.
"Brother, I'm going to get off work early today. I'll go pick up some firewood after work!" While burning the fire, Mu Qingli deliberately spoke loudly so that the educated youth who were eating under the trees outside could hear it.
The brother and sister still did not cook complicated meals, but simply cooked porridge, took out the remaining buns and a small plate of pickles. It was not convenient to cook now, so the two of them just made do with what they had.
"Feng Mei! Go cook!" Wang Shuhui looked at her fair and tender arms, which were covered with wounds. She felt so painful that she wanted to cry. She was so tired that her waist and legs seemed to be broken. That's why she didn't go to cook. Besides, she didn't know how to cook.
"Well! Huihui! Take a rest!" Feng Mei felt uncomfortable, but she still had a smile on her face.
When she went to cook, she saw that the old educated youth had not even washed the pots. She felt extremely disgusted, but there was nothing she could do. She borrowed their pots, so how could she have the right to ask them to wash them?
In the afternoon, Mu Qingli finished her work early, recorded her work points and left. She decided to go to the hill to take a look at this supernatural power and see if there would be any surprises.
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