Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 112
"That's right. I think the people in this village should be pretty good. At least the few of us are treated well. Unlike the village I went to last time, the attitude towards the students was very bad. At the beginning, all the students were assigned to us. That kind of strenuous work can't be finished without rest, and the food provided is poor and scarce, and the stomach is not full at all, and within two days, half of the people will be exhausted."

"You were assigned to that village last time." Another person who was assigned to this room with them heard the conversation between the two of them and also interrupted: "I heard from my brother that the people in that village Most of the people are not very good, it is the ten miles and eight villages that are notoriously difficult, the students who are assigned to that village every year are tortured enough, and the school knows it."

"Then it's okay to not distinguish?" Lu Zhen said, anyway, he didn't have a good impression of that village.

"No, how could it be no way? I heard from my brother that the village is counting on these batches of students to go over and do the hard work for them every year. If they don't give them any money, they will make trouble in the commune. They said at the gate of the commune Look down on them, say it's unfair, a few old men are dying at the gate of the commune, and those leaders have nothing to do, they can only draw lots by the teacher every year, and which class they draw counts as which class."

"That's it, that village is so powerful." Lu Zhen asked curiously.

"It's not that the people in their village are powerful, but that they can make trouble. Whenever something happens, the group of 70-[-]-year-olds in their village say that they have lived enough and don't want to live anymore, and they won't be given a way to live."

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At the beginning, it was Zhang Yu and Lu Zhen chatting, and then it became Lu Zhen chatting with another person, and Zhang Yu listened with interest.

The three of them fell asleep while chatting. The next morning, when Zhang Yu woke up, he saw that the sky outside was already bright. He checked the time again, and quickly pushed him to sleep next to him. Lu Zhen, " Wake up! Wake up! It's getting late."

"Well, when is it?" Lu Zhen rubbed his eyes and said.

"It's already 6 o'clock, we don't know if we have time to eat today?" The aunt told them during the meal yesterday, and now at this time, the loudspeaker will notify them to go to work at [-] o'clock, so that they can go to work earlier rise.

But because they were a little tired after tossing around for a long time yesterday, they overslept all of a sudden.

Zhang Yu quickly got dressed, and then began to knock on the door of each room, "Wake up, wake up, I'm going to work soon."

When Zhang Yu heard the voice coming up from inside, he didn't bother anymore. He quickly walked to the next door. At this time, the aunt next door had already packed her things.

When he saw him coming, he said, "I'm going to call you. You probably won't have time to eat slowly this morning. I made tortillas. Divide them into two for each of you. Let's take them and eat as you walk. I'll probably eat them in a while." Going to work."

Zhang Yu brought a box of tortillas over, and just as he divided the tortillas, he heard a bell ringing from the middle of the village, resounding over the entire small village.

The production team leader shouted in his thick, slightly hoarse majestic voice: "Community members, please pay attention, everyone is ready to go to work, the time is up..."

At this time, they had no choice but to follow the aunt to the village entrance while eating pancakes. Fortunately, the place where they lived was still some distance from the village entrance. When they got there, they also finished eating the corn pancakes in their hands.

After arriving at the entrance of the village, the captain and the others first distributed tasks to the members. Zhang Yu saw that the male members were assigned heavier tasks, while the female members were assigned lighter tasks. Of course, for Zhang Yu and the others That being said, lighter tasks are also difficult.

After the distribution was completed, a group of people went to work, and the team leader said to them: "It's the first day for you to come here, and you haven't done much work, so you can go with Uncle Chen today and let him teach you. "

"it is good."

Then the captain called to the old man who picked them up yesterday, "Uncle Chen, they are young people who don't know how to do it, please take them."

"Okay, just leave it to me, you go and get busy." Knowing that during Chun Geng, the captain had a lot of things to do, he readily took over the group of young people, and then signaled the captain to go and do his own work.

"Okay, you teach them to work, see what they can do, and let them weed if they can't do it."

"I see, I will arrange these students."

After the captain left, he smiled and said to Zhang Yu and the others: "Come on, come with me, I'll take you to see what we're going to do."

Zhang Yu and the others were also very happy to have someone who was a little more familiar with them lead them. Hearing what he said, they followed behind him obediently. Beside him, he smiled and said, "Uncle Chen, what are we going to do today?"

"You'll know later." Then he introduced them as he walked: "As the old saying goes, autumn plowing is deep and spring plowing is shallow. Spring plowing is like turning over cakes, and autumn plowing is like digging a well. A lot of dung. Spring plowing refuses to be busy, and my face turns yellow after autumn. Spring plowing is very important, and this year's rations depend on it!"

"So what are we planting now?"

"Growing wheat and sweet potatoes."

"Wheat?" Zhang Yu also discovered at this time that instead of growing winter wheat like later generations, most farmers now grow spring wheat, and the technology of winter wheat has not yet spread.

As they walked all the way, they could see that the whole family, young and old, would participate in spring plowing in this era.

People seize every day of spring plowing, want to get a good income, want to harvest more rations, so that the whole family will not go hungry.

After walking for about 20 minutes, the old man stopped suddenly and said to them, "We've arrived, you can just work here today. Your task today is to weed out the grass in this field." As he spoke, he pointed to a large weedy field in front of him.

Then he demonstrated them with a hoe, and then said: "We don't have enough hoes in our team, so there are only a few left. You can take turns to use them. If you can't get your turn for the time being, use your hands first."

After speaking, Uncle Chen took the ox to the field next door that had already been weeded, hung up the plow, and went to plow the field.

I saw the cow pulling the plow in front, and Uncle Chen was holding the plow handle in the back, controlling the depth and direction of the plow; It began to move forward slowly, and the land was slowly cut open. The few people watching were eager to try.

(End of this chapter)