60s Splendid Life

The scorching sun in July is like fire. This is not an exaggeration, but the sun in July and August is really like fire. The scorching light shines on people's bodies, causing burning pain.

But despite the sun, the movements of the hands of the people working in the fields did not slow down at all.These people are all good at doing farm work. Those who work in the same field are afraid of falling behind others, as if it is a shame to fall behind others, so they all work hard.

In this glorious era of labor, commune members compete with each other in terms of work, teams compete with each other for harvest, and villages compete with each other for harvest, so everyone is fighting for the word "first" at the moment. .

The main crops planted in Lujia Village are rice, wheat, sweet potato and corn, among which rice is the most grown.

In the rice field, many people with straw hats on their heads and sickles in their hands are bending over to cut the rice. The cut rice is piled together, and someone will come to transport the rice away, take Go to the threshing floor in the back and beat out the grain.Someone at the front is in charge of cutting, and someone in the back is in charge of beating. After beating, someone is in charge of transporting the grain to the sun-drying field for drying. After a trip, all the people are sweating profusely, but no one stops to rest.

In the field where peanuts, sweet potatoes and corn are planted next door, there are also people pulling out peanuts and hoeing sweet potatoes. Once the peanuts are pulled out, they have to be picked one by one. Sweet potatoes are not an easy job to dry.The corn is also picked one by one, and then the picked corn is transported away to dry.

Things like millet, peanuts and sweet potatoes will inevitably fall. The adults are working in front, and groups of children carry a basket in their hands and pick up things behind the adults. The main responsibility of the children is to pick up these dropped items If you pick up the food and bring it to the captain to register, it can also be counted as work points.

"How much did you pick up, Xiaolian?"

"I have half a basket, how much do you have?"

Lu Qinglian walked with a few girls in her class. In fact, there were not many girls in her class, and she was only five girls in total, but because there were a few boys following them, there were more than a dozen in their team.

Naturally, Lu Haochen followed his sister, along with Lu Daqing and Lu Shilei, and the boys they brought.

But the boys in their class have another small team, a team led by Lu Songguang.

Ever since he was repaired by Lu Jin, Lu Songguang didn't dare to trouble Lu Qinglian and Lu Haochen, but he didn't like those two people either. Said to form a team with them.Normally, Lu Songguang and Lu Jinbao often scolded Lu Qinglian and his brother behind their backs for being wild children without parents, and there were a few boys in the class who discriminated against others like them, so they came together.

What made Lu Songguang most angry was that ever since he was beaten up by Lu Jin, Lu Daqing and Lu Shilei ran to play with that brat Lu Haochen instead of playing with them. Feeling betrayed, he had a fight with Lu Daqing for this.But he couldn't beat Lu Daqing, and he was beaten up by Lu Daqing that time, and he didn't even dare to tell his mother when he got home.

So now, apart from talking about taking advantage of him, Lu Songguang dare not really find someone to fight in school.

In fact, it is reasonable to say that an eleven or twelve-year-old boy can go to work in the field with an adult, and shouldn't be picking up millet in the field with a few children.But Chen Aihong is partial to her son. She feels that her son is still young, and she is reluctant to let him do heavy work, so she let her son do light and simple work. Lu Songguang got mixed up with a group of children who were smaller than her. up.

The sun near noon is the hottest. After picking up the millet in the field for a morning, Lu Qinglian already felt the burning pain on the neck and face where the sun was exposed. No wonder she wanted to wear shorts when she went out this morning. When the sleeves came out, her brother insisted that each of them wear an extra long sleeve outside.

"My basket can't fit anymore, I want to go back. Do you want to continue picking it up?" This is already the fifth basket she picked up, and Lu Qinglian felt so thirsty that her throat was about to smoke.The water in the kettle she brought has already been drained. In addition to her own drinking, the female classmates who came with her also drank her water, so they have already finished drinking.

Lu Qinglian still remembered her brother telling them to drink plenty of water to prevent heatstroke. Although she didn't know what happened to heatstroke, she also knew it meant illness.She didn't want to get sick. Being sick meant seeing a doctor and taking medicine, which cost money, so she didn't want to stay here any longer and wanted to go home.

"My basket is full too, so I won't pick it up anymore."

"Then let's go back and come back when the sun is not so bright in the afternoon."

Several other girls said one after another that they couldn't find it.

If it weren't for the few girls who insisted on picking it up here, the boys would have wanted to leave a long time ago. Now that they heard that the girls were willing to leave, of course they couldn't wish for it.As for Lu Songguang and Lu Jinbao's team, they had long since disappeared, and they seemed to have left long ago.

A few boys and a few girls took the millet they picked up to the team. After registering, they took their respective baskets and carried them back home.

Lu Qinglian made an agreement with a few girls to wait until the afternoon sun was less sunny before picking them up, and then she took her brother back home.

When they got home, the door outside the yard was still locked, "Brother, they haven't come back yet." Lu Qinglian said to her younger brother, took out the key hanging around her neck, opened the door, and took her younger brother home.

As soon as the two brothers and sisters got home, they poured water from the kettle. You took one cup and I took another cup. The two siblings drank more than half of the water in the kettle, sat down on the small stool by the door, and moved I don't even want to move.

"Meow?" Lazy raised her head and looked at the two little masters, her cat's eyes were full of doubts, wondering what the two little masters were?

"You are back, when did you come back? Why is it earlier than us?" When Lu Jin came back with Xiaobao, what he saw were the two children in their family looking exhausted. The little face was flushed red.

"Brother." Lu Qinglian called out weakly.

Lu Haochen was tired looking at his brother without speaking.

Lu Jin put little Baoer to sit on the mat, went to get a dry towel and came over to wipe off the sweat of the two children, and asked them what they did this morning.After listening to what the two children said about what they did in the morning, he asked, "Then are you still going in the afternoon?"

Lu Qinglian gritted her teeth and said, "Go! I have an appointment with my classmates, and I will go in the afternoon."

On the contrary, Lu Haochen wanted to shrink back a little, he thought it would be good to stay at home and watch his brother.But when he heard his sister say go, he also nodded and said he would go.

"This is the path you have chosen, so you have to persevere. Do things from the beginning to the end. Don't give up halfway. If you really can't go on, then tell me." Lu Jin still hopes that the children can persevere, not because If the labor is difficult, he will not do it. Similarly, in other things, he also hopes that the children can learn to persevere.

Because he was afraid that the two children would suffer from heat stroke after being in the sun for such a morning, he bought Huoxiangzhengqi pills at the pharmacy before, so he poured a few Huoxiangzhengqi pills into the two children with water.Little Bao'er wanted to eat it too, but he didn't give it to him. Instead, he gave the child a candy to coax him.

At noon, Lu Jin cooked a pot of dumplings, as well as the leftover porridge and steamed buns from the morning. The four brothers and sisters ate lunch.After eating, he went to fetch water to bathe Xiaobao and Chenchen, let them take a nap on the kang, and said to his sister, "Xiaolian, you also go to take a bath and change into clean clothes. Lie in the room for a while, and I will wake you up in the afternoon."

"Okay bro." Lu Qinglian went out to the floating bathroom, took a shower and changed into clean clothes, then went back to her own room to sleep.

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The work of the autumn harvest cannot be done in one day, even if the whole village is mobilized, it will take ten to eight days for several production teams to finish all the work.Like Lujia Village, there are production teams in all the villages under Qingcheng Town, and everyone is busy collecting food.

This time, on the day of going to the market at Lijiaao, no one from their tofu shop went to sell things, because all the production teams were rushing to collect grain at the moment, and they went to the market to sell and buy things There are not many people here, and the market will be lively after the autumn harvest is over.

So after learning the news, Lu Jin discussed with their team leader and canceled the last two plans to go to the market.

Since their tofu shop arranged for people to go to Lijia'ao to go to the market, Lu Jin has followed them quite a few times. In addition to shopping there, now he also goes there to sell something, but every time he does Just be careful and secretive.Another advantage for him in the countryside is that it is very convenient to buy things, and there is no need for a ticket to buy things in the countryside, and the price is cheap.After knowing that there will be many people selling things in the market over there after the autumn harvest, he was a little bit looking forward to it.

However, in the past few days of the autumn harvest in the village, they did not go outside to sell things, they only sold in their own village, and the business was good.

Working hard in the fields during the busy season, many families are willing to spend some money to buy a piece of tofu and dried tofu to go home to add vegetables. Now there is no one in the village selling pork. The best things are tofu and dried tofu from their tofu shop. up.

Not to mention that the tofu and tofu flowers in their tofu workshop can be exchanged for beans. Someone will plant beans in spring, and the beans in the field can be harvested at this time. Can the harvested beans be brought to the tofu workshop? Went to change tofu.

In recent days, there are a lot of people who come to their tofu shop to exchange tofu, and there are also a lot of beans collected, and they are all new beans picked this year.One of the things they have to check for the new beans they bring is to see if they are dried in the sun. If they are not dried in the sun for a long time, if they are mixed with good beans, they will spoil the good beans.

Since the weather got hotter, the business of their new cold beancurd sticks is also very good. It costs [-] cents a bowl, and if you add some shredded cucumbers and mix it, the big bowl can be filled to the top.Also, stewed tofu has always been very popular. Recently, many people have bought it. The big pot of stewed tofu cooked in their tofu shop in a day can be sold out.

"Bring two pieces of stewed tofu."

"Uncle's stewed tofu has been sold out, how about a bowl of cold bean curd?"

"It's sold out, okay, bring me a bowl of cold bean curd sticks."

People who can’t buy stewed dried tofu can only settle for the next best thing and replace it with cold bean curd sticks, but the cold bean curd sticks are also delicious, and the quantity is also large, which is not a loss.The people who came later couldn't buy dried tofu, so they all left with a bag of cold salad.

But not long after, the cold salad was also sold out, and all other tofu and tofu flowers were gone, and those who came later could only buy some yuba and cook it by themselves.