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Chapter 20
From now on, the autumn harvest has begun in Kaoshan Village.
Except for those who were too old or too young, and those who were sick due to postpartum confinement, all the educated youth and villagers, including Weisheng, gathered in the village committee compound.
In front of so many people, he came over and told me what he meant... Haha, isn't this just a weasel paying a New Year's visit to a chicken?
Weisheng possesses the original owner's memories, but the original owner only remembers being persecuted by Jin Menglan in her rebirth. If she hadn't learned after death that Jin Menglan was a heavy person, she would never have imagined that the world could be so fantastical.
As for Weisheng, his fate completely deviated from the plot from the moment she took out the folding cart.
According to the plot, Li Wenxuan would help Weisheng with his luggage and would stick close to him as they squeezed onto the long-distance bus, eventually squeezing onto it with Li Wenxuan's help. They would then stay overnight at the town guesthouse. The next day, while walking into the village, they would encounter Jin Menglan, who had come to pick them up in a donkey cart, not far from the town.
There was no friction along the way, and the four of them were very fond of the enthusiastic Jin Menglan. When Ma Junming was sentenced to death for speculation, everyone still felt quite sympathetic towards Jin Menglan for having met the wrong person.
Unfortunately, this time Weisheng had a folding bike to help him transport his luggage, and because he disliked Li Wenxuan, he always kept his distance from him... This led to a small friction between Weisheng and Jin Menglan when they met for the first time.
In reality, Jin Menglan didn't really like Li Wenxuan at the time. She was attracted to him because he was a wealthy boss and could serve as a comparison to Ma Junming. She was jealous that Weisheng, who was "inferior to her in every way," had married better than her.
So Jin Menglan, who originally only wanted to report Ma Junming and let the police station catch him red-handed, changed her mind.
If he waited until that day to trick Weisheng out, firstly, it might not succeed, and secondly, it would be easy to expose himself. If he lowered Weisheng's guard a few days in advance, it would be much easier.
Unfortunately, this digital life girl, who has been educated since childhood on how to prevent abduction and fraud, is not one to lower her guard so easily.
'If someone shows kindness without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief.'
Even though he didn't know why Jin Menglan came over to apologize so abruptly, Weisheng's first thought was that someone was plotting against her, and secondly, someone was trying to tease her.
Isn't it just making tea? Who can't do that?
If Weisheng hadn't been a little concerned about her reputation, she would have definitely hidden behind others at this time, and acted tremblingly, fearing that she would be unable to speak out.
"I believe you're targeting the issue, not the person. And you don't need to apologize to me, because you're apologizing to the village officials for their trust in you."
Weisheng was madly complaining in his heart, but he nodded calmly on the surface. However, the words he said made Jin Menglan almost bite her back teeth:
"The village trusted you, so they gave you the task. Regardless of the reason, if you didn't complete the task assigned to you, it's a problem of your ability and attitude. What you need to do now is not to apologize, but to conduct a self-examination. I suggest you write a 3,000-word self-criticism and read it at the village meeting. If you conduct a thorough self-examination, others will not think you are unfit for important tasks."
"Wouldn't it be even more embarrassing for me if I did this review?"
Jin Menglan hadn't expected Weisheng to be so sharp-tongued. She was furious, but didn't dare show it. She just gave Weisheng a stiff smile and agreed, "...I thought so too. But I still want to say sorry. I'm so, so sorry for what I did yesterday."
"Of course I believe you! Comrade Jin is obviously not that kind of idiot. We met for the first time yesterday, and we have no past or present grudges. How could you target me?"
Jin Menglan said yes with a hint of embarrassment, "No matter what, I was wrong about what happened yesterday. After a couple of days off, I'll treat you to some steamed buns at the state-owned restaurant in town."
"Oh, what's the point of spending that money? We're all from the same village, we see each other every day. If I eat your buns, won't my spine be broken?" Weisheng smiled and glanced at the villagers who were listening attentively. He said sincerely, "I just came down here and know nothing about farm work. The village just gave me half an acre of private land. If Comrade Jin has time, why not teach me how to grow cabbage?"
In the mountain village, two-thirds of the arable land is planted with corn. After the corn is harvested, they will rush to plant a crop of radishes and cabbages for the winter.
Kaoshan Village has always had plenty of arable land, and each family has a private plot in addition to a vegetable garden. So, here, the vegetable gardens are mostly planted with vegetables and some potatoes and cabbage for the family's consumption, while the private plots are mostly planted with grains, cereals, and beans.
Weisheng also had a plot of land for his own use. It wasn't big, only half an acre. The village chief had shown them around yesterday, and Weisheng and his friends had taken the opportunity to claim their own plot, marking it out in the village's way. But now, the land was completely overgrown with weeds.
Weisheng had the original owner's memories and knew how to farm. She only had half an acre of private land, so she was not afraid at all.
After the corn harvest in the village, she would plant cabbage on her half-acre private plot of land. She would keep a few for herself and sell the rest, like the radishes and cabbages from the public fields, to the supply and marketing cooperative, using the proceeds to pay for her food.
When the spring plowing season comes next year, she will plant sweet potatoes on her half-acre private land.
When the time comes, you can steam it, roast it, or dry it into sweet potato chips as a snack. It makes me look forward to it more than cabbage.
He collected his thoughts, looked at Jin Menglan with a bright smile, and thought to himself: No matter what the purpose of this apology today is, we are not done yet!
Jin Menglan had no idea there was something even more unfortunate waiting for her. When she heard that it would not only save her money but also bring her and Weisheng closer socially, she didn't refuse. She agreed with a smile and then moved closer to talk to Zhang Xiaoyu.
Zhang Xiaoyu was standing with Li Wenxuan and Shen Zhao on one side, and the other female comrades from the Youth League on the other. Because of her previous apology, her presence didn't arouse suspicion.
But she suddenly stood between Zhang Xiaoyu and Li Wenxuan, which made Zhang Xiaoyu feel a little unhappy.
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More than 20 minutes later, Wen Chenglong, the production team leader of Kaoshan Village, took the roster and called out the names one by one.
Because the village chief had given advance notice, and Weisheng had specially worn a camera around his neck today, the production team leader also knew that Weisheng would take pictures of the villagers.
While offering free photos to the villagers was a good thing, Weisheng had to bear the cost. Furthermore, taking and developing the photos would definitely affect Weisheng's work efficiency, so the village decided to calculate Weisheng's work hours at 5 work points.
He first mentioned the photo-taking matter to the villagers during the gathering, and then when dividing the work, he directly assigned Weisheng to Yu Tao's group.
That group's work is the easiest, and they won't cause trouble just because Weisheng doesn't put in enough effort.
On the surface, Weisheng would take a daily photo of each villager, and a daily photo and a work photo of the village cadres. But privately, he would definitely have a focus.
After all, people like the village head, the party secretary, and the production team leader can determine her quality of life.
And when the villagers realized that he was partial to some and unfair to others, he reluctantly offered the low-price photography business to them.
Oh, it’s not a business, it’s a convenient service!
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After calling the roll and discussing the division of labor and precautions for the autumn harvest, Wen Chenglong thought for a while and found that there was nothing more to say, so he asked people to lift all the baskets onto the donkey cart.
The work during these two days is to break the corn ears, break all the corn ears off the corn stalks and transport them back to the village. After that, the tractor will cut all the corn stalks and leave them in the fields to dry for two days.
Once the corn stalks are almost dry, they are transported back to the village. The corn stubble, the roots of the corn stalks, buried in the soil, is then dug out. Once the dried corn stubble has been brought back to the village, the soil is plowed with a tractor and radishes and cabbages are sown.
After the radishes and cabbages are planted in the fields, the production team will organize the villagers to thresh the corn...
Combining the original owner's memory and Yu Tao's oral narration, Weisheng, after roughly understanding the work and rest schedule of Kaoshan Village, turned his attention to the tractor in the village committee compound.
That is the treasure of the whole village, a big guy that eats a lot of oil.
These days, both gasoline and diesel are in short supply, and the village's oil reserves are very tight, so the village will not use this thing for any work that can be done by manpower.
The villagers walked to the fields in twos and threes. Wen Chenglong packed up the roster and prepared to go to the fields as well. Seeing Weisheng looking at the tractor parked in the carport on the east side of the village committee compound, he couldn't help but ask, "Can you drive it?"
Weisheng looked at Wen Chenglong who was asking the question and replied in a resounding voice, "Yes!"
That's really cool~
Although he had heard some of this from the village chief, Wen Chenglong still asked Weisheng himself: "Have you ever repaired a tractor before?"
Wei Sheng nodded again upon hearing this, "I have practiced it."
The original intention of studying mechanical manufacturing was to build a tractor. Later... let alone repairing a tractor, she could build a tractor with better performance if she was given some materials.
I don't really believe it.
Although Weisheng spoke with great confidence, her age was still there. If it weren't for the village chief's solemn oath, Wen Chenglong would have thought Weisheng was talking nonsense.
It's just a mule or a horse, it always needs to be taken out for training, and there's a chance these days.
The village head and the production team leader have been dissatisfied with the party secretary and his son for a long time.
The village party secretary wanted his son to be the production team leader, but the village chief could not allow both the party secretary and his son to become village committee cadres and eventually combine to check and balance him.
The production team leader was unwilling to be replaced, so after a few rounds of negotiations, the village chief and the production team leader joined forces to keep each other warm.
The village chief and the production team leader had thought about letting other people in the village learn how to drive a tractor, but the village party secretary was a relative of the technician in the town.
Even if the other villagers didn't "break down" the tractor, they could still make it break down. After a few times, the idea of letting the villagers learn to drive a tractor was abandoned.
If Weisheng could really drive and repair a tractor as she said, then he would certainly break the advantage of the branch secretary and his son.
And yesterday the village chief arranged Weisheng to stay with his eldest daughter-in-law, which might be an alternative way to win him over.
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Weisheng didn't care about the gossip among the village cadres. Seeing that Wen Chenglong had nothing to say, Weisheng quickly walked to Yu Tao's side and continued to walk with her to the public land.
Along the way, the villagers chatted and laughed, and from time to time someone would come up to Weisheng and ask about taking photos.
Wei Sheng had a very good attitude and talked to the villagers about free and non-free photo promotions, and then he talked about how time-consuming and labor-intensive it was to develop photos.
Afterwards, Weisheng consulted many female comrades and asked them what requirements they had for their own individual life photos. Do they want to take them at any time, or in the afternoon or tomorrow?
The people who were asked discussed it for a while and decided to go home at noon to change into clean clothes, and then let Weisheng take pictures of them when they went to work in the afternoon.
By the way, some of the more thoughtful villagers have already decided to use the photos taken by Weisheng to go on blind dates.
When they arrived at the fields, each person was given a basket and then the corn was picked according to the ridges.
After breaking the corn for a while, Weisheng ran around with his camera, taking two pictures here and two pictures there. After all this time, he didn't break much corn and didn't take many pictures.
Weisheng was openly slacking off by claiming he paid for the villagers' photos. Besides Jin Menglan, who disliked Weisheng, several other educated youth were also quite dissatisfied.
We all came to the countryside to work in the fields, why are you so high-profile?
Unfortunately, Weisheng hadn't had any contact with them since he entered the village yesterday, and he hadn't even thought about interacting with them. Their dissatisfaction and jealousy didn't bother Weisheng at all.
These days, only those who feel comfortable know!
When he got home at noon, Weisheng told Yu Tao that he had two steamed buns in his backpack that he had bought in the city yesterday morning. If he didn't eat them today, they would go bad tomorrow. Yu Tao, hearing this, made egg and persimmon soup and stir-fried some green vegetables for lunch.
After a quick bite, Yu Tao returned to the east room to rest. Wei Sheng went back to the space to make some chicken soup, then went to the second floor to look for the steel plate he had placed there earlier.
First, use professional scissors to cut a small piece of steel from the steel plate, and then make a corn-cracking tool according to memory.
To be precise, this thing should be called a corn husking tool.
A palm-length steel rod with pointed ends. In the middle of the rod are two iron rings that can fit fingers, and on the outside of the iron rings are three hooks pointing inward.
When using it, put two fingers on the two iron rings, or use the tip of the stick to pick open the corn husk tightly wrapped around the corn cob, or use the three inward-facing hooks to peel off the corn husk.
You can break corn off the stalk as a whole ear, or you can pull the husk and break the corn off the stalk. This tool is for the latter.
After making two peeling tools, Weisheng cut a small piece of steel plate to make two corn threshing tools.
This threshing artifact is also extremely simple. It is an iron barrel as wide as a palm on the outside, with a small round barrel with a serrated edge welded inside.
When using it, hold the outer iron bucket with one hand and use the other hand to rotate and push the peeled corn cob into the serrated small barrel. When the corn cob enters the small barrel from the serrations, the corn kernels will fall off due to the force.
After decades of experience in mechanical manufacturing, Wei Sheng had a full set of manufacturing tools in his space, so it was only a matter of time before he could make something like this. However, these two artifacts were not invented by Wei Sheng, but he saw them online.
After putting the two sets of tools in his backpack, Weisheng washed his face and left the space.
As soon as I opened the door of the west room, I saw Yu Tao coming out of the east room after packing up.
After "lending" a set of small tools to Yu Tao, the two of them walked towards the village committee compound.
When she got to the field, Yu Tao tried out the little tool Weisheng lent her. You know what, although she wasn't very sure how to use it at the beginning, after getting used to it, she found that it was very labor-saving to use this little tool to break corn.
However, the corn in the field had never been dried in the sun, so the threshing effect was not as good as expected. But after trying it, I am more excited about it.
The reason why he took out both gadgets was because he knew that Jin Menglan was reborn, and he also knew that she would sacrifice her conscience for his own good. So Weisheng was sure that Jin Menglan, like him, had lived in an era of advanced technology.
Just like when Jin Menglan discovered Weisheng's candid photo and subconsciously said "delete", this word is mostly used on digital cameras and smartphones, and rarely, if ever, appears on film cameras.
Since she had lived in the modern world, she should be familiar with such gadgets. If she only took out one today, it would be a reminder to Jin Menglan. And if she took out two at once, even if Jin Menglan had thought of it, she would have lost the initiative.
The appearance of the two gadgets immediately attracted the attention of many villagers and production team leaders. After Yu Tao said that these were brought by Weisheng, everyone looked at Weisheng at the same time.
When asked about this, Weisheng simply said modestly, "Using knowledge to serve the people is the true way to maximize the power of knowledge. Being able to help everyone is also the purpose of my trip."
After saying the official words, Weisheng glanced at the scorekeeper in the crowd, then smiled innocently at the production team leader and the village chief.
Wen Chenglong/Shan Xing'an: ...I understand!
In the following time, the villagers came over one by one to try out the small tools in Tao's hands, while Weisheng first took some photos of the villagers who had dressed up carefully, and then broke off a few ears of corn, and then chatted with the villagers who came over to talk to her. The first day of autumn harvest passed like this.
However, during this period, she could always feel Jin Menglan's burning gaze. So whenever she found Jin Menglan looking at her, she would look back with a puzzled look, and then Jin Menglan would always subconsciously avoid Weisheng's sight.
Seeing this, Weisheng couldn't help but sneer in his heart: If everything is because of jealousy, then let the jealousy be even more intense!
Jin Menglan is not only jealous of Weisheng, she now also has doubts about her own rebirth.
Is she really reborn?
Why doesn't everything related to Weisheng Yiran match my memory?
Could it be that Wei Sheng was also reborn?
But if Weisheng Yiran was also reborn, then wouldn’t her attitude towards Li Wenxuan be too distant and cold?
Were they all reborn, or was there something wrong with her memory, or perhaps... she wasn't reborn at all, but just had a delusional mental illness.
In the next few days, Weisheng tried every possible way to be lazy every day, but this also allowed the villagers to see Weisheng's "versatility".
Because he hadn't done much work these days, Weisheng had helped the postman who delivered mail to the village repair his bicycle; helped the branch secretary's son Xu Hongbing drive a tractor when he 'suddenly' had diarrhea; helped the scorekeeper check work points; helped the production team leader pack up his music box; and helped the branch secretary's daughter-in-law repair her sewing machine...
At this moment, many people in the village felt the same way as the bus driver.
You city people really don't take bean buns as dry food~
Compared with Weisheng who is in the spotlight again and Jin Menglan who is in self-doubt, Li Wenxuan already has the idea of becoming a revolutionary partner with Weisheng.
If he and Weisheng married, he could move out of the Youth House. Weisheng knew so much that even if he was not good at farm work, he could still support their small family.
Once he learns how to take and develop photos, he can open a photo studio in town and no longer have to work in the fields.
However, there are many people who have similar ideas as Li Wenxuan.
Among these people are educated youth and villagers. When the news from Kaoshan Village reaches Nanqiao Town, Weisheng's popularity in the marriage market will soar by several percentage points.
Today was the day for Weisheng to tidy up his own land.
Because Weisheng was not the only one who needed to take care of the private plots, Li Wenxuan, Zhang Xiaoyu and Shen Zhao also needed to plant their own plots. So that day, not only did Jin Menglan come, but all three of them came as well.
Weisheng was quite shrewd. She'd said yesterday that she'd used up a roll of film and would develop all the photos when she had time. Then she mentioned planting her own plot of land today. So, after breakfast, many people came strolling over. Even Yu Tao and Shan Xingchen, the sister-in-law, came.
Jin Menglan was teaching Weisheng how to farm on his private plot of land, and more and more people came to help. When they saw Jin Menglan teaching, they couldn't help but talk, and the classroom discipline and atmosphere were completely destroyed.
Seeing other villagers chatting and laughing as they helped Weisheng cultivate cabbage, Jin Menglan took the initiative to help Li Wenxuan cultivate the land. While Jin Menglan and Li Wenxuan were chatting awkwardly, Zhang Xiaoyu and Shen Zhao, whose private plots were next to Weisheng's, were also taken care of by the enthusiastic villagers.
After clearing the land and planting cabbage seeds, all that’s left is to water it from time to time.
Fortunately, there is a well for farming not far away, and it is very cheap to draw water for irrigation.
Weisheng looked at the well, then at the four connected plots of land. His eyes swiveled and a plan came to mind.
Li Wenxuan's private plot of land was almost entirely worked by him and Jin Menglan. If she boiled a few buckets of hot water to help Li Wenxuan water the land... the cabbages planted by other villagers would all sprout, but Li Wenxuan and Jin Menglan's land would be barren. This was quite a "good story".
You say you are so good!
Knowing that the autumn cabbage crop was a matter of timing, if he waited ten days or half a month to replant it, he would definitely not expect a good harvest. Without this season's autumn cabbage, Li Wenxuan's loss was minor; the bigger issue was whether he could survive the villagers' criticisms and have another child.
Oh, and there's also Jin Menglan who's making things worse.
Weisheng was quite active. He jumped out of the west room window that night and rode his bicycle to his private farm.
After using the boiling water in the space to water Li Wenxuan's private plot of land, Weisheng rode his bicycle back home. Passing by the village committee compound, Weisheng tilted his head to look inside, then jumped in and tinkered with the tractor parked in the shed.
Between waiting for an opportunity and creating one, Weisheng chose the latter. So the tractor had to have a minor malfunction.
The next day, after breakfast, Weisheng and Yu Tao were tidying up the vegetable garden. Unexpectedly, before eight o'clock, a villager came jogging over. As soon as they saw Weisheng, they asked her to take her tools and go to the village committee compound to repair the tractor.
Upon hearing this, Weisheng pursed his lips and frowned. He looked at Yu Tao, then at the vegetable garden, and finally at the villagers who had come running over. He asked reluctantly, "Does it count as work points?"
She looked like she didn't want to go, but if she was given work points, she would go and take a look reluctantly.
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