The entire autumn harvest lasted for more than half a month. By the time all the grain was harvested, Xiaoxiao felt that she was so tired that she had lost a lot of weight and darker.
Xiaoxiao swore that she would never ask for weight loss again.
Why don't you eat pork? Don't eat fat? Don't eat frozen meat?
She would eat a whole pig now, as long as there was meat to eat.
The bacon she brought was specially made for her by her mother, the kind with a lot of lean meat.
Oh, I regret it a little. It would have been better if there was more fat.
I miss my mom again. I wonder how they are doing?
Although the team leader finally gave her a new job as a dam-dryer, it was not either .
In addition to preventing people from stealing, you also need to prevent birds from stealing.
Moreover, thunderstorms are prone to occur in summer, so we have to rush to harvest.
I can't sit idle at other times, I have to break corn kernels.
Fortunately, we now have Jiefang sneakers, which are a great helper in rubbing corn kernels.
With this skill, Xiaoxiao successfully broke into the circle of the ladies who look after the drying dams.
"Ye Zhiqing, you have a really good brain. This is much easier than using your hands."
"Yes, yes, and the speed is much faster. I can earn at least two more work points a day."
...
Xiao Xiao: "Auntie Tan, Auntie Wang, please stop praising me. If you continue praising me, my tail will be lifted up."
Xiaoxiao felt that if she stayed with these aunts and ladies for a long time, she might have a chance to become a community leader in the future.
"Xiaoxiao, do you have a meat ticket? I want to exchange it with you?" Aunt Tan suddenly asked.
"What? Xiaoxiao, you have a meat ticket, so can you give me some too?"
Xiaoxiao: ...
"Auntie, who told you that? I don't have any meat coupons, and I don't have many coupons to bring with me to the countryside."
Aunt Tan didn't believe it, "Xiao Xiao, you are not honest. I still treat you as my own."
Xiao Xiao: "Auntie, I really didn't do that. Where did you hear that? I can confront you."
Aunt Tan looked unhappy. "You don't have any, so why do you eat meat every day? Where does the meat come from?"
Now Xiaoxiao understands.
I could only explain, "Auntie, you should have smelled it, it's bacon.
I brought some with me when I went to the countryside, and I ate it all by myself. Every time I cut a small piece and fried it in a pan to cook, which could also satisfy my craving.
If you don't believe me, I'll take you to my house. Now there's only a tiny dot two fingers wide left, probably about two taels left."
Only then did Aunt Tan believe it.
Auntie Tan is the captain's wife, and Xiao Xiao doesn't want to offend her unless it's absolutely necessary. After all, she will have to live here for a long time.
And we get along pretty well normally. Although she didn't really cut a small piece, this explanation is reasonable.
And sometimes she really makes a lot of oil, so save the oil and put one or two slices in the stir-fry.
Aunt Wang: "Don't say that, Xiaoxiao, this is a good idea. If you smell the meat every day, you won't be greedy. But unfortunately, there are many people in our family, so this won't work."
In this age when cooking requires only a little bit of oil applied to the pan, Xiao Xiao doesn't dare let anyone know that she uses a lot of oil.
She usually cooks when everyone else is cooking, and when someone comes to fry the oil, she immediately scoops it up and puts it in the car. So what others see is her frying a piece of meat.
Even if I'm jealous, I can't say anything.
Xiaoxiao thought that for safety reasons, he should go to the market to see if there was a coal stove, buy one and put it in the carriage, and then cook the meat inside.
Thinking of this, Xiaoxiao decided to ask the ladies.
"Ladies and aunts, do you know where I can find a coal stove? I want to buy one."
Aunt Tan: "Why did you think of buying that thing? Not only does it waste coal, it also slows down cooking. And it's not convenient to pull the coal briquettes."
Xiaoxiao: That's right. And I wonder if coal briquettes require tickets?
But let me explain it now.
"I was thinking that if I had a coal stove, I could just leave the cooked food on it and eat it all day long."
Aunt Tan: "Now we have porridge, multi-grain steamed bread and cakes. In this weather, it doesn't matter whether it's hot or not."
Porridge is best drunk when it's cold.
Xiaoxiao: ...
She mainly wants to eat meat.
"Auntie, when can we go to the market?"
"It will be soon. We can go there in a few days."
Xiao Xiao: "Can we go every day? Isn't there a rule that it's only once a week?"
Aunt Tan: "That's during normal times. During the busy farming season, no one has time to go. After the busy farming season, we definitely have to go and exchange things."
...
On market days, everyone rode in ox carts, and those who couldn't ride had to walk.
Of course, there are also people who want to save money, charging 5 cents for a round trip.
Xiaoxiao met the educated youths in the Youth Home again.
To be honest, she now works separately from them, and there was a lot of unpleasantness when they first moved out, so they basically have no interaction.
Now most people in the village call her Xiaoxiao, and very few call her Ye Zhiqing.
Sometimes she herself had the illusion that she was just a villager, not an educated youth.
When she saw the educated youth today, she felt like: Oh, it seems like I am still an educated youth?
Naturally, other people would feel uncomfortable when they saw Xiaoxiao.
Although Xiaoxiao feels that she has become thinner and darker, she actually gets very little sun exposure. The contrast is obvious when compared with other people.
"Hey, isn't this someone who is more precious than our eldest daughter, the one who can't do farm work?
If you ask me, you don't even know how to find a good excuse. I've never heard of the body choosing its own work."
The sarcastic tone of voice was clearly Wang Meiling's.
Xiao Xiao would not indulge her, and said in the same sarcastic tone: "Hey, which lady came down to inspect the work?
Hey, I want to work hard, but my body is not doing well. Miss, can you please be kind and stop finding fault? "
Wang Meiling glared, "You... who are you saying is the eldest lady?"
Xiao Xiao: "It's up to whoever is right. People like us, the working class, three generations of poor peasants, naturally can't compare."
Wang Meiling: "I'm obviously talking about you. You're avoiding labor."
Xiao Xiao: "Hey, Miss, you really wronged me. I have no choice. My family is poor and I didn't take good care of myself since I was a child, so I have a chronic illness.
If you don't believe me, please be kind and take me to the hospital for treatment.
Maybe if you can help me a little more, I can get better and work harder? "
After saying this, he looked at Wang Meiling expectantly.
Wang Meiling wanted to say something else but was stopped by Zhou Weiguo.
"Comrade Ye Xiaoxiao, Comrade Wang Meiling doesn't have any bad intentions, why are you being so aggressive?
She just thinks that we all came to the countryside to participate in rural construction and should not avoid labor."
Xiaoxiao looked at Zhou Weiguo and she was angry.
"Excuse me, what is the relationship between Comrade Zhou and Comrade Wang? Do you know what she wants to say?
Is Comrade Zhou blind and unable to see that it was Comrade Wang who was picking on him? Even if he is blind, he cannot hear anything?
Besides, when I went to the countryside to build the countryside, didn't I work? I got 8 work points a day, how many did Comrade Wang get?
How did I avoid labor?
"Impossible! How can you earn 8 work points? I don't believe it." Wang Meiling yelled.
"Tsk, just because you can't do it, do you think others can't do it?"
"Isn't it only 4 work points to watch over the drying dam? If it's so much, why should you do it? This is not fair."
Xiao Xiao rolled her eyes. "Who said that you don't need to do anything else besides watching the drying dam? Do those corn cobs thresh automatically or something? Don't we need people to peel them?"
"That can't be that much, right? That job is so easy."
"Then do you know how much we have to peel to get one work point? You are just making a fuss without knowing anything, trying to show off your ability.
How do you become a responsible person when you know nothing, are jealous and intolerant?
Isn't it because of age?"
I couldn't help it and continued to stab him.