lcionline Chapter 580 No Need to Cut Pig Grass
Chapter 580 No Need to Cut Pig Grass
If he doesn't understand something, he can ask the dormitory head or the team leader. Does she have the obligation to waste her time for him?
After returning home, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out with flashlights. In fact, crayfish came out at night in April, but there were fewer big ones and more small ones in April, so the two of them did not go out to make money until the nights of May.
Wenxi quickly went to the kitchen to boil water for a bath. It was already a bit hot in this season, and she had to take a bath every day, otherwise she would feel really uncomfortable. After taking a bath, she would boil another pot of hot water and keep it warm in the pot, so that they would have hot water for a bath when they came back.
Ever since she started planting watermelons, Wen Xi no longer uses the evening to teach Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui. Instead, she asks them to come directly to the watermelon field to find her, and teaches them directly in the thatched hut.
Under the pretext of teaching them how to grow watermelons, they were allowed to take classes in the watermelon field.
However, I will be able to return to the city at the end of this year, and I do need to train a few apprentices, but I definitely cannot train them just the two of them, because they are old enough to register for the college entrance examination.
Wenxi has been in the Fengshou Brigade for two and a half years, and it will be three years by the end of the year. Wenxi knows a lot about many people and things in the village. She knows that many women are not favored by their husband's families, and she also knows that many girls are not favored at home.
But the people who married into the Fengshou Brigade were not their own people after all. If the watermelon-growing technology was passed on to them, it might be passed back to their parents' home. Not to mention that the team would disagree, even Wen Xi herself would not dare to do so.
So she asked Captain Qian for ten girls in their teens who were not married yet but had not yet gone to school. Girls of this age worked at home and did housework. After working at home for a few years, they would be married off. Learning to grow watermelons would also make their lives easier.
As for when they get married in the future, Wenxi won't have to worry about it, because by then the land will be distributed to each household, and every household can engage in planting or breeding.
By then, watermelons will no longer be exclusive to the Harvest Brigade. Everyone can grow them, so Wenxi naturally won’t have to worry about anything.
That morning, Wen Xi arrived at the watermelon field and saw ten little girls standing there awkwardly. Knowing they were there to learn how to grow watermelons, he said, "Don't be nervous. Working here is just like earning work points. The work is pretty much the same. Starting today, I'll teach you how to grow late-ripening watermelons."
It is almost time to harvest wheat, so naturally we can only plant late-ripening watermelons, while early-ripening watermelons will soon be ripe for picking.
"In fact, early-ripening watermelons and late-ripening watermelons are the same species, they just mature at different times!" Wen Xi took them to a place where watermelons had not yet been planted, and assigned them to Shen Jiaojiao, Jiang Yue, and Lin Yiwan. They were all girls in their teens, and he was worried about leaving them with the male educated youth.
Moreover, the villagers will not let them off just because they are young. They will not let anyone off.
After a day of rest, which was the second day after the educated youth gathering, the newly arrived educated youth went to work with the old educated youth. They were assigned to the leaders of various groups and had the group leaders arrange suitable work for them.
Xue Qiujun came to the team leader and whispered, "Team leader, I can support myself. It's okay if I don't have work points. Can I apply to cut pig grass?"
"Comrade Xue, our Fengshou Brigade no longer has to collect grass for pigs," said Captain Qian.
"Ah? Is there no work to collect grass for pigs or are there enough people collecting grass for pigs?" Xue Qiujun asked in surprise.
"Our team doesn't need to cut grass for pigs." Captain Qian said.
Xue Qiujun was very confused. Did she remember it wrong?
Aren’t there many young ladies from wealthy families who, after going to the countryside and not wanting to work in the fields, apply to be pig feeders?
It is easy to collect grass for pigs. You only need to do it for a short while a day and you don’t have to do anything else.
"Comrade Xue, if you don't want to go to the fields to earn work points, you can go to the pig shed to raise pigs. The Harvest Brigade has 30 pigs and needs manpower." Captain Qian said.
Xue Qiujun was even more surprised when he heard "thirty pigs". What kind of production team could raise so many pigs?
"Comrade Xue, are you going?" asked Captain Qian.
Xue Qiujun thought about it and nodded, "I'll go."
Working in a pig shed should be easier than working in the fields. Working in the fields means you don’t have a moment’s rest, but working in a pig shed is different. You should be able to rest after you finish your work!
Afterwards, Captain Qian took Xue Qiujun to the pig shed and handed her over to the aunt who was in charge of looking after the pig shed. "Comrade Xue has applied to work in the pig shed. You should teach her well."
"Captain, don't worry, I will definitely train Comrade Xue." Wu Lihua said.
After Captain Qian left, Wu Lihua said to Xue Qiujun, "Comrade Xue, my name is Wu Lihua. You can just call me Aunt Lihua like everyone else."
"Aunt Lihua." Xue Qiujun also understood that on someone else's territory, a dragon had to coil up and a tiger had to lie down. What's more, she was neither a dragon nor a tiger, so she could only listen, so she called out obediently.
Wu Lihua pointed to the tool for cutting grass nearby and said, "Go over there and cut the grass. Just cut it the same size as I cut it."
"Okay." Xue Qiujun nodded, walked over, sat on the chair, bent down, picked up the knife and started to cut.
Wu Lihua reminded, "Put on gloves, otherwise your hands will be scratched all over in a while."
This grass is very similar to corn. Corn leaves can hurt people, so grass leaves can naturally hurt people as well, especially these young people from the city, who have delicate skin and tender flesh, and are more easily scratched.
Xue Qiujun felt a little disgusted when she saw the gloves stained green and white by grass juice, but she also felt that if her fair and tender hands were scratched, it would definitely be painful and ugly.
Let it be dirty, you can wash your hands after they get dirty.
The new educated youth were not in the same team, so they were assigned different tasks, such as weeding in rice fields and corn fields. Some were assigned to the wheat fields to help move and bundle wheat and deliver it to the threshing ground.
When they first arrived, they didn't know how to do farm work, so the farm work they were assigned was different.
After Feng Xintong finished her confinement, she went back to work for a few days and then sold her job. There were too many members of the Gu family, and they would definitely ask her to give up her job to them on the grounds that she was too busy taking care of the children. So she exchanged her job for money and put the money in her own passbook, which was safer.
From now on, Gu Ningzhi’s salary will be enough for daily life.
If the Gu family asked, she would say that her job had been taken back by her parents' family. The Gu family would not go to her house to look for her family!
The Lin family was very surprised to see Lin Yihui appear outside the door. They had never expected Lin Yihui to come back, and Lin Yihui had not informed his family that he was coming back.