SIAS Chapter 29.1

It is now late July. Wheat had been harvested in early July. Sorghum, soybeans, and sweet potatoes were still in the fields. The daily work mainly involved tending to these crops.

The team gathered at the field at the entrance of the village and assigned tasks to each team.

Today was the first day for the newly educated youths to work. The first thing to do was to decide where they would be assigned.

There were exactly 8 teams and 8 newly educated youths, so one in each team. The old educated youths would also be assigned one in each team.

Zhao Youtian didn’t waste any time and immediately started to assign people.

He named her first, “Yi Qingqing is the first team, Li Mengxue is the second team, Qian Lailai is the third team, Liu Chunxing is the fourth team, Wang Lingling is the fifth team, Yun Guyuan is the sixth team, Zheng Xiaolong is the seventh team, and Chen Zhihe is the eighth team.”

Each of them stood in their own team.

Among them, Zhou Qiang and Zhao Fang were responsible for the teaching work in the village primary school. They would only work in the fields during the busy farming season. They were just listed in their respective teams and did not go to the fields at other times.

Zhou Qiang was in the 1st team, and Zhao Fang was in the 6th team, which meant that there were no old educated youths in the teams of Yi Qingqing and Yun Guyuan.

Everyone in the front could see that Yi Qingqing was the most capable among the female educated youths.

But in this way, even the other team that envied Yi Qingqing could not say anything because there was one less person on the other side.

Although the educated youths did not work as well as the villagers, at least, there was one more labor force to share. Anyway, they would get work points according to how much work they did.

Yi Qingqing was quite happy. The leader of the women’s group of Team 1 was Aunt Guihua. As soon as she heard her name, she pulled her to her side as if she was going to take care of her to the end.

Yi Qingqing thought that the more courtesy, the better.

When Aunt Guihua introduced people in the women’s group of Team 1, she quietly stuffed a small piece of candy into each of them.

She even gave Aunt Guihua an extra piece, saying, “Although we educated youth came to the countryside to support rural construction, when we get to the fields, you villagers know more about farming, so I have to learn from you. Please take care of me in the future. I will try my best to work hard and not drag our team down!”

“Oh, stop talking like that. She is such a lovely girl.”

The aunts in the group waved their hands, holding the candy given by her in their mouths. Moreover, her words were so pleasant to the ear. This intellectual person from the city was so humble. Wasn’t she more likable?

“Guihua, you are right. This Little Comrade Yi is a good one. Look at the other educated youths. When they first arrived, they all pointed fingers and made a lot of jokes. How could she say she wants to learn from us?” Someone said to Lin Guihua.

Lin Guihua also felt that Yi Qingqing had made her proud. This was the person she had been talking to her husband about for half the night, and the other team members all agreed.

Didn’t this prove that she, Lin Guihua, was good at judging people?

So, she was more friendly to Yi Qingqing, “Little Comrade Yi, our task today is to turn over the sweet potato vines so that the sweet potato vines will not grow roots, which will affect the yield and make it difficult to harvest. Just follow me later.”

Yi Qingqing didn’t know what turning over the sweet potato vines meant. She had never been to the fields in her two lives.

Her knowledge of potatoes and sweet potatoes came from hearsay and the information she accidentally saw on the Internet. She only knew that they had a large yield, were easy to feed, and could fill the stomach.

If she doesn’t understand, just ask. Besides, she also had to take care of her own plot of land later.

So, she asked, “Auntie, I have never planted land before. Can I ask you how to plant sweet potatoes?”

 

 

 

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