The next day, before dawn, Su Tian's alarm clock rang. She glanced at it and saw it was four o'clock, then tossed the alarm clock back into her spatial storage.
She hurriedly got up, fetched water to wash up, ate three steamed buns, drank a bottle of pure milk, and then threw the trash into her space.
There are still several boxes of milk in the room, enough to last for a while.
The other educated youth also got up one after another, and those who were responsible for cooking their own breakfast had already prepared it.
They cooked a pot of thin white rice porridge and steamed more than twenty sweet potatoes. The white rice porridge and sweet potatoes made up their breakfast.
Su Tian changed into long sleeves, black pants, gloves, a long towel around her face, and a straw hat in her room.
He stuffed a few fruit candies into his pocket, hung a water bottle around his neck, opened the door, went out, and then locked the door again.
"Tingting, Chunling, it's time to get to work," Li Chanjuan said.
Ma Chunling shared a room with Zhang Tingting and Li Chanjuan. There was an empty bed that could be used to store things.
"They're here, they're here..."
The educated youth hurriedly finished their breakfast, grabbed their work permits, and ran to the assembly point.
Upon arriving at the meeting point, Zhou Dajun counted the number of people and found that two were missing.
It turned out that it was Chen Gang and He Hua, who were new to the job. They were late on their first day of work. Wasn't this just causing trouble for the educated youth settlement?
How would the villagers view these educated youths? They had always worked diligently in the village, and he was worried that the villagers' dissatisfaction with them would affect him. He was very anxious and dissatisfied with the two men.
Being late on my first day of work wasn't just laziness, it was extreme laziness.
"Zhao Liguo, is Chen Gang still not up?" Zhou Dajun asked.
"I don't know. I called him when I came, but he hasn't come yet?"
"Xie Qiuying, is He Zhiqing still not up?"
"I called her, but she ignored me, so I left because I was in a hurry."
With ten minutes left before the brigade leader was about to assign tasks, Zhou Dajun hurriedly called Xie Qiuying to go back to the educated youth settlement with him to gather people.
When they arrived at the educated youth settlement, panting, and opened the door, they found Zhou Dajun laughing in anger.
Chen Gang was still fast asleep on the bed, unaware that he had even opened the door. He was sleeping soundly.
He shouted, "Hey, Chen Gang, get up and get to work!"
Chen Gang, still half asleep, muttered, "What kind of work?"
"Get up, time to work, the team leader is yelling."
Chen Gang finally came to his senses, quickly rinsed his mouth with the mouthwash cup, wiped his face haphazardly, and didn't even have time to pee in the morning.
Looking at the female educated youth, Xie Qiuying called out more gently. She called softly, "Educated Youth He, get up." She even shook He Hua, but He Hua didn't move.
She had no choice but to shout loudly, "He Hua, get up, it's time to go to work."
"Um... I don't want to go, I want to sleep."
"Hurry up, we're going to be late, and the captain is yelling at us."
"Ah...it's not even dawn yet."
"I don't care about you, hurry up, I need to get to the meeting point." After saying that, Xie Qiuying called Zhou Dajun and they ran off together.
He Hua suddenly became anxious. She quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face, and ran to the meeting point without even tying her hair up.
When she arrived at the assembly point, the team leader had already assigned tasks.
By this time, the captain had also noticed that the two of them were late.
Considering it was their first time working, the team leader didn't reprimand them.
But the villagers are different. They don't care if you're new or came later. They look down on lazy people.
They also despised He Hua's procrastination, saying that these educated youth from the city just wanted to be lazy, and that they would end up with few work points, little food, and no food to eat, all while shouting and yelling.
After the work was assigned, Su Tian and Zhang Tingting went to the warehouse to register and received a sharp sickle.
"Young Su, this sickle will only be returned after the rice harvest. You must take good care of it and not lose it," said Accountant Song.
"Okay, thank you, Accountant Song." Su Tian nodded her thanks and followed behind Aunt Song with a sickle in hand.
Aunt Song Chunhua took Su Tian to a one-acre paddy field. She was responsible for taking care of Su Tian and teaching her how to harvest.
The other two were responsible for tying the grains together and threshing them. Each field was managed by four people.
"Su, do you know how to use a sickle?" Song Chunhua asked Su Tian, who was nearly 1.7 meters tall and had fair skin.
"No, I've never used a sickle." Su Tian shook her head honestly.
“Then watch how I use it, and you’ll learn. This knife is easy to learn.” Song Chunhua replied cheerfully, cutting as she spoke.
Looking out into the distance, the vast rice paddies resembled a golden ocean, rippling with golden waves in the gentle breeze.
The heavy ears of rice drooped their heads, full and plump, each grain like a dazzling gem, radiating the glow of maturity.
The ripe rice exudes a faint fragrance, the scent of the earth, the scent of sunshine, and the scent of the farmers' hard work and sweat.
This was a taste unlike anything seen in the apocalypse. Looking at the golden rice, Su Tian was instantly filled with renewed energy and began harvesting.
Su Tian grabbed one stalk of rice after another, swiftly cutting down the stalks before setting them aside and cutting down another.
The speed of her movements suggested she wasn't a novice, and Aunt Song was even happier to see how efficiently Su Tian worked.
“Su Zhiqing, you work really fast, even faster than me. It doesn’t seem like this is your first time working.”
"Oh, I'm quite strong, harvesting rice is no problem for me," Su Tian replied with a chuckle.
Seeing how efficiently Su Tian worked, the others felt reassured; they had assumed Su Tian was a delicate person.
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