Chapter 62: Working in the Fields

Lin Weiwan looked at the broken sickle in her hand and said, “This sickle is so broken that it can’t be used. Change it for me.”

“Why can’t it be used? Tools are limited. Whoever gets their turn gets it. Everyone uses it this way. Why is it that it’s your turn and you can’t use it?”

Li Zhaodi looked at Lin Weiwan provocatively. Finally, it fell into her hands. Let’s see how she will deal with her.

“Yes, everyone uses it this way. Why can’t you educated youth use it when you come? You are so hypocritical.”

The old lady behind her knew what was going on at a glance. She didn’t care what Lin Weiwan used or how he used it. She quickly followed Li Zhaodi’s words to flatter her.

“Did you hear me? Get out of the way if you have received your things. There are still many people who haven’t received their tools. Don’t delay everyone.”

Li Zhaodi became more and more proud as she spoke. Looking at Lin Weiwan, she was thinking about how she would trouble her later.

“You can use it. Today you can be an example and use it for a day. I will learn from you, a skilled person. If you do it well, I will use it every day in the future.”

Lin Weiwan looked at Li Zhaodi. It seems that people really don’t learn from their mistakes.

“My job is to distribute tools. If you can’t do it, learn it well and tell me what to do.

If you can’t do anything, pack up and leave quickly. Don’t occupy the toilet without doing anything.”

“I really can’t do anything in your toilet. Hurry up and change it for me.”

“I can’t change it. Use it if you want. If you don’t want it, just grab it with your hands.” Li Zhaodi was very proud and vaguely saw the tall figure behind him.

The whole person pulled his clothes uncomfortably and waited for the person to come over.

“Village head, I report Li Zhaodi for targeting educated youth.”

Many people who received tools and were waiting for work assignments and those who didn’t receive tools all looked at Lin Weiwan.

Li Changgui was originally discussing how to assign people with the team leader and several others, and heard Lin Weiwan’s voice and hurried over.

“Everyone, disperse. What are you doing?”

“Village chief, Li Zhaodi is targeting me. This is the tool she gave me.”

Lin Weiwan handed the sickle with four broken holes in her hand to the village chief.

Li Changgui saw the severely rusted and broken sickle in his hand and looked at Li Zhaodi with a bad face.

Didn’t we agree last time to just pretend that nothing happened? Why didn’t Accountant Li tell his daughter?

“Village chief, Zhaodi just took the wrong one. Hurry up and change it for Lin Zhiqing.

He is an educated youth from a big city. How can he compare with us country people?

You took a good one and acted like you were bullying me. I’ll see how I deal with you when I get home.”

The village chief frowned and watched Accountant Li act, but he couldn’t say anything in front of so many people.

Lin Weiwan, who took an 80% new sickle, followed Du Shanshan to the other side.

Soon, the personnel had been assigned. Lin Weiwan was assigned to one of the three teams, responsible for cutting the seedlings with a sickle.

Behind him, the aunt of the member holding a hoe dug sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes dug out in the afternoon were filled with baskets and carried to the drying yard, which was considered the completion of today’s task.

Two people were in a group, responsible for three rows of sweet potatoes, with a length of 60 meters.

Walking on the ridges, many members were barefoot wearing straw sandals they had woven themselves, and many male members were barefoot.

Following the scorekeeper of the third group to the assigned place, “Aunt Liu, this is a new educated youth. You can help teach her how to use the sickle later.”

“Okay, don’t worry, leave it to me.” Liu Yongmei agreed cheerfully.

She started to teach Lin Weiwan how to hold a handful of sweet potato vines in one hand and cut them quickly at the root of the vines.

After a few times, Lin Weiwan found the key points, thanked her aunt, and started working directly.

Feng Qingzhen, who was standing behind him, turned his head to look at Zhao Chunhua who was not far away, and the two nodded to each other.

Cutting vines is not an easy job. You have to bend your body all the time, and your waist will start to ache after a long time.

Lin Weiwan cut a distance of five or six meters, stood up, and pulled his gloves.

“Lin Zhiqing, don’t be lazy when you work. We have to finish all the work in the field today. You can’t hold us back.”

Lin Weiwan heard the voice behind her and turned to look at the aunt who was leaning on the hoe and glaring at her.

“Don’t worry, aunt, I won’t.” Lin Weiwan didn’t know how she had offended the aunt in front of him, and spoke so harshly.

She turned around and started to cut again. As long as Lin Weiwan stood up and straightened her back, she would hear the aunt’s voice behind her.

Lin Weiwan held the kettle and drank a sip of the spiritual spring water, looking at the aunt who was more than ten meters away from her.

He looked at Aunt Liu who was pulled down more than five meters by him, and understood directly that this person who met for the first time was targeting him.

“What are you looking at? Hurry up and work. This person from the city is not good. She has a pretty face but can’t lift anything. Don’t delay me from going home to cook after work.”

“Scorer, Feng Qingzhen is lazy.” Lin Weiwan shouted directly to the scorer on the ridge.

Li Junhua heard the voice and came over with a notebook, looking at the new educated youth.

“What’s the matter?”

“Feng Qingzhen is lazy, standing there without working. The aunts next to her are much faster than her, and even the new educated youth Du does more than her.

If this continues, our group will not be able to complete the task tonight. She is holding us back.”

Lin Weiwan pointed to the nearby sweet potato field. Feng Qingzhen was a bit lazy to begin with, and today she deliberately looked at Lin Weiwan, so she stood there and talked big for even longer.

“Feng Qingzhen will be deducted two work points. If she is lazy again, she will be deducted one work point for the whole morning.” Li Junhua is the nephew of the village chief, so he is naturally not afraid of these old-timers in the village.

“I… It’s all because of this educated youth Lin that I work slowly.”

Feng Qingzhen couldn’t agree to the deduction of work points when she heard that she would have to work.

If her husband knew about this, she would have a hard time when she went back.

“Aunt Feng, am I pulling your arm or hugging your thigh? I’m cutting my own, and you’re grumbling and being lazy behind me, and you’re saying that I’m delaying you. What am I delaying you for?”

Lin Weiwan asked with a smile, looking at Feng Qingzhen’s big round face that was swollen with dark red.

“Okay, if you make trouble again, I’ll deduct your work points.” Li Junhua took a look at Lin Weiwan’s work and couldn’t help but praise him in his heart, saying that he was a hard worker.

Lin Weiwan looked at the land that was about to be worked to the end, stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

After work at noon, he ran back to the educated youth point.

He took out the bacon and the rapeseed that Aunt Li gave him, fried a plate, and steamed a bowl of rice for himself.

He fetched water and went into the house to wash his body. When he came out, the rice was just cooked.

He opened the lid of the pot and sat on a small chair to eat.

Du Shanshan looked at Lin Weiwan who had already eaten, and her stomach growled with hunger.

Zhou Rongrong and Wang Ping, the new educated youths, were still busy cooking.

“Xiao Wan, I’m so hungry, can I eat with you today?”

Du Shanshan thinks that the relationship between people is built by getting along with each other, and it will be fine if we get closer.

When we were in college, didn’t we also share food in the same dormitory?

We are getting closer and closer. Sometimes I don’t buy clothes for a season and wear my roommate’s clothes. No one says anything and everyone is happy.