Back to the era with space supplies

Chapter 139 Afternoon, Leisure~
The little girl frowned, her eyes alert and curious.

Si Ningning frowned, raised his signature smile, and shook the bucket: "I heard from Sanya that your house has a well, and you want to fetch a bucket of water, is that okay?"

The pressurized well is in the courtyard, and Si Ningning has seen it just now.

This matter is not too much, Zhou Xiaocui opened the door without hesitation.

After that, Si Ningning pressed the water, and she watched from a few steps away.

Seeing that Si Ningning's hands and feet were slow and unable to press the water for a long time, Zhou Xiaocui couldn't hold back a step forward, picked up the bowl containing the water from the wooden manhole cover, poured the water inside into the pressurized well, and pressed Si Ningning's hand Quickly pressed the rocker a few times, and the water came on quickly.

Zhou Xiaocui backed away a few steps and said dryly, "The pressurized well needs to divert water."

"So that's how it is." Si Ningning pursed her lips and smiled more gently, "Thank you."

Si Ningning is good-looking. Although the materials and styles of the clothes are common, they are all cleaned up. Zhou Xiaocui can clearly feel the difference between herself and Si Ningning.

However, Zhou Xiaocui is not old enough to understand the difference between rural people and city people, but from what her mother said to her, "City people like to be particular and don't want to get in touch with village people". Ning Ning did not feel this feeling.

This educated youth is not only good-looking and good-sounding, but also very gentle and easy to get along with.

Zhou Xiaocui hesitated for a moment, and finally pursed her lips and shook her head with a smile, to the effect that you are welcome.

Si Ningning filled a bucket full of water, smiled and waved to Zhou Xiaocui before leaving, and when they approached cautiously, she took out candy from her pocket and handed it over as she did to Sanya and Hegu before.

"No, I don't want it." Zhou Xiaocui stepped back and refused.

"Take it." Si Ningning smiled, pointing to the bucket again, "I'm in charge of the work of the pigsty at the back, if possible, I may come to fetch water tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and every day in the future... If you don't think I'm bothering you, this candy You take it and eat it, okay?"

Fetching water is not a big deal. Some people in the team don’t have wells in their homes, and they will go to neighbors with wells to fetch water. Zhou Xiaocui hesitates to accept the sugar. When Si Ningning leaves satisfied, she calls people to stop: "You, wait a minute!"

Si Ningning paused, Zhou Xiaocui put the candy in his pocket, quickly turned around to the well, grabbed two oranges from the adjacent orange tree and handed them to Si Ningning, "My mother won't let me take other people's things for nothing. , this orange is for you."

The little girl's expression was firm and stubborn, Si Ningning laughed and said "It's not for nothing" stuck in her throat, she smiled helplessly, and took the two oranges that were as green as avocados, "Then I have to thank you, Haven't asked the little comrade what's your name?"

"Zhou, my name is Zhou Xiaocui."

"Okay, Comrade Zhou Xiaocui." Si Ningning put his fist to his lips and laughed softly, waved his hand for a while and said, "Then, Comrade Zhou Xiaocui, see you tomorrow."

"Ok!"

The children on the team are usually called "girls" and "boys", but no one has ever called these half-grown children "comrade".

Zhou Xiaocui held her face and laughed twice, full of joy.

She must be the first little comrade of the third team!

Thinking about it, Zhou Xiaocui glanced at the alley again. The female educated youth had already walked around the corner and was out of sight.

Zhou Xiaocui stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked around for a few more times, before turning around and jumping into the courtyard after a while.

On the other side, Si Ningning returned to the pigsty with water, took some pigweed out from the space, and put a few pigs in the corner to eat without disturbing them.

She pulled out the hoe, pulled out all the feces, rotten vegetable stems, and vegetable leaves hidden in every corner of the pigsty, and pushed them into the ditch, and finally scraped vigorously with the broom head.

Although the pigsty was made of mud, it was stepped on very firmly, and its cohesion was comparable to that of solidified cement. When Si Ningning scraped off the dirt, he only picked up a little dirt.

After rubbing and flushing with water, layers of black water flowed into the ditch with residue. Because there were too many things accumulated in the ditch, it was blocked and could not flow at all.

Si Ningning noticed this situation after flushing a bucket of water, and immediately pursed her lips to look around. Seeing that there was no one else, she carried the bucket and walked into the space. The bucket was more or less stained with feces and mud, and Si Ningning gave up. Enter the house, fill a bucket of water directly from the stream beside the vegetable field, and then step out of the space.

After repeating this several times, the dregs accumulated in the ditch were finally washed away by the water, and flowed all the way to the cesspool with the water.

There is water in space. The reason why Si Ningning went to Zhou's house with great fanfare was because he considered a certain situation.

In the future, if someone finds fault, the Zhou family, or even Zhou Xiaocui, will be her "witnesses".

Si Ningning carefully flushed the pigpen several times. During the period, some pigs came to make trouble after eating pig grass, but she swept them away.

After cleaning up all the corners of the pigsty, Si Ningning turned his attention to the pigs.

Not only are the pigs ugly, but their white and powdery skin is so dirty that they have changed their breed directly, making them even more flower girls than the flower girls in the movie "Hands Up".

Si Ningning poured water on the pigs. It was a hot day, and the watering could cool down the temperature. The pigs were quite cooperative. Later, when she dipped the broom end in the water and rubbed her upper body, they all jumped up and down... ...Si Ningning was already sweating after finishing brushing. She was really exhausted.

But this was just cleaning up the pigs and the pigsty, Si Ningning had other things to deal with.

Tightening the space of the bucket, Si Ningning turned out of the pigsty and went straight to the cesspool.

The pig manure problem, which has been a headache for a long time, is finally going to be solved now.

Si Ningning went in and out of the space seven or eight times, wearing a mask and rubber gloves, and transported it in a household trash can. Only then did all the pig manure accumulated in the space for three or four days be transported out and pushed into the manure storage tank.

It's not that the space doesn't have large trash cans, it's that the cesspool is tightly covered. If she uncovers it, the smell will be terrible, and others will definitely notice the traces of being turned over later.

Therefore, we can only rely on the "ditch" to push the pig manure transported out into the septic tank in stages.

In order to remove the traces, Si Ningning flushed half a bucket of water before giving up. After such a busy work, I don't know if she has the smell of pig feces, but there is a bad smell anyway.

Seeing that it was still early, and it was not time to finish work, and no one would come here, Si Ningning randomly found a blind spot in his field of vision, and squatted down into the space.

Because my aunt didn't leave, it's not good to take a bubble bath for a thorough SPA, so Si Ningning took a shower, put a mask on her face, put a thick hand mask on her hands and put on a pair of thin disposable plastic gloves, Just lying comfortably on the sofa in the living room of the villa, waiting for the automatic reminder from the mobile phone on the table, so that I can pinch the space to get busy.

This is the case for the rest of the days.

However, it is worth mentioning that Zhao Hongbing was very efficient in his work. As he said, he went to the brigade on the day Wu Yong moved into his house. Two days later, the brigade leader Luo Daqing personally came and took Wu Yong away.

There were a total of eight educated youths on the team, and suddenly one was missing. The educated youths knew the cause and effect, but the members did not know what was going on.

All of a sudden, the members of the commune had a lot of discussion and different opinions.

Some people said that Wu Yong committed a crime, some speculated that Wu Yong had a big background, and his family in the city entrusted his relationship to get him back.

They have different opinions. Sometimes when the educated youths go to and from work and walk on the ridge of the field, they will be stopped by the commune members and asked, what is the situation?
The educated youths had already passed the gas, and they couldn't answer all the questions related to Wu Yong clearly.

Over time, this matter was also submerged in the upsurge of busy farming, and no one cares about it since then.

The monthly seasoning distribution was originally divided into a group by Wu Yong and Li Lingyuan. After Wu Yong left, it became a group of Song Shuhan and Li Lingyuan. It can be said that Wu Yong's departure did not bring much change to the educated youth spot.

If we really talk about changes, then probably the only change is Si Ningning.

Si Ningning goes to the pigsty twice a day in the morning and afternoon, working step by step.

Other educated youths have to go to the fields, either to harvest wheat or rice, or rush to harvest cash crops such as cotton. The workload is heavy and very hard.

Si Ningning couldn't see it, and took the initiative to take over the work of ordering three meals a day for the educated youth, but other than that, she didn't interfere in anything else.

Si Ningning doesn't want to go through that kind of helping out of kindness but being questioned or even humiliated by others.

The conflict collided with the original intention in his heart. Maybe it was because of a step or action that had to be done right, or it was too much. Everyone noticed Si Ningning's deliberate alienation.

Everyone didn't show the mountains and dews on their faces. In fact, they were hiding this matter in their hearts. It was just that they carried heavy farm work on their shoulders every day, and they really didn't know how to resolve Si Ningning's alienation, so they all chose "I don't know." ".

Over time, the atmosphere in the educated youth spot became more and more strange, but it didn't last long.

The turning point of the matter happened on a breezy afternoon, most of the educated youths were resting, only Si Ningning was not asleep, squatting in the vegetable field reclaimed by the door, cleaning the small weeds among the tiny radish seedlings with two fingers together.

"Hey, I'm busy! Si Zhiqing." Chen Lianmi came to visit at this time.

She holds the teapot in her left hand, and the edge of a woven bamboo basket in her right hand, with the other side of the basket on her right hip.

Seeing Si Ningning looking over, Chen Lianmi smiled and said, "You probably don't have a kettle here, right? I packed one up this morning, it's a little old, so don't dislike it."

While talking, Chen Lianmi raised the elephant trunk pot in Si Ningning's direction.

Si Ningning clapped his hands, raised the straw hat on his head and quickly got up to take it, "Thank you, Auntie, when the weather just got hot a while ago, the big guys offered to pay for one, it's not that busy these days, so let's just let it go gone."

The elephant trunk pot is silver-gray and made of aluminum. It is covered with a lot of dust and tea stains, and there are still scratches from scratches. It should be cleaned vigorously, but it can't be washed.

The living handle on the top has also been damaged, and now it is replaced by two strands of twisted iron wire, perhaps because it may burn your hands, and the place where you usually lift and hold it is carefully wrapped with rags, and the traces show that it is newly wrapped.

Si Ningning deliberately took a second look, and saw that there were traces of pliers on the twisted wire handle, and there was no rust on the edge.

With just these two eyes, Si Ningning knew that the damaged part of the teapot was newly repaired.

For a moment, she sighed softly, with more or less emotion in her tone, "Thank you, Auntie, thanks to you and the captain for taking care of us, otherwise, sometimes I really don't know what to do."

"How old is a baby, why are you so old-fashioned?" Chen Lianmi smiled, and arched her hips to let Si Ningning look at the basket, "The commune distributes benefits, and the cadres' family members share some lotus roots. My two sons are not at home. , I can’t hold this lotus root, so I’ll bring some for you to try.”

After that, he pretended to squint his eyes and looked at Si Ningning in reproach, "After standing for a long time, why don't you bring a horse over and let me sit?"

Si Ningning said, "Where is this?" stuck in his throat, his bright red face flashed with embarrassment, he hurried into the room and put down the teapot, took out two small mats and placed them at the door, and sat down with Chen Lianmi. .

The innermost kitchen has no back door, but the windows are wide open. The bamboo forest behind the house rustles, and the breeze passes through the hall. It is cool and refreshing, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Chen Lian's rice basket was filled with five lotus roots and some tomatoes of different sizes, all of which had been washed.

In the past, Si Ningning didn't understand. Sometimes when reading books or novels, people would compare the arms of children and babies to lotus roots. Now when she saw the lotus roots in the basket, she understood.

The lotus root in this season has not yet produced lotus root powder, which is quite different from the lotus root in late autumn and winter. The whole body is plump, white and tender.

This is just lotus root, if it is really a child's arm, white pink and fleshy, wouldn't it be more pleasing?

As Si Ningning thought about it, he felt that this description was very appropriate.

Seeing that she had been staring at the lotus root, Chen Lianmi lowered her head to look at it twice, and handed it to Si Ningning carefully, "Try it."

"Ah? Auntie, this..."

"This season's lotus root is also delicious to eat raw. Keep it in the basket for them to stir-fry at night. This is specially made for you by your aunt." Chen Lianmi smiled kindly, holding the lotus root and handing it over.

Si Ningning was a little embarrassed, but still accepted it.

Hearing from Chen Lianmi that it could be eaten raw, Si Ningning didn't peel the skin, so she took a small bite out of the edge, and with a small "click", a burst of sweetness entered her mouth.

Si Ningning's eyes lit up, "Crispy and sweet, not like lotus root, but like eating fruit!"

As he spoke, he took another bite, which was much bigger than the last one.

"Tender lotus root is best eaten raw, and old root root is best stewed in soup." Chen Lianmi happily sat on the side to enjoy the cool, "Is there such a thing in the city?"

Si Ningning thought for a while, and said: "There are lotus roots sold in the market around the year, no tickets are required, but the quality is not very good."

"The lotus root in winter is made of lotus root powder, which can be made into soup, but it tastes bad when eaten raw." Chen Lianmi said, and then said: "The mud on the lotus root surface in winter can't be washed, and it will rot... The lotus root can’t be washed without washing, and the mud can’t be weighed.”

"That's the truth."

The bamboo forest is swaying back and forth, and in front of the Wuwa red brick and wooden door, there are middle-aged women and charming girls sitting on the left and right.

The girl occasionally lowered her head and gnawed a mouthful of the white and tender lotus root until she ate a piece of lotus root. The girl puffed out her chest and hiccupped indistinctly. Before she could say "I'm full", the middle-aged woman squeezed two more tomatoes handed over...

(End of this chapter)