1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 100 A pair of dexterous hands (Added, thank you for your monthly ticket support! Please support me again!)
In the afternoon, the Dongxiang vegetable market was less hot and more cool and peaceful because of the rain.

After dinner, Chen Jiazhi and Li Xiu returned to the house and picked up the book that was still on the table. They had read the book over and over again so many times that it had almost become a hypnotic tool.

Li Xiu watched his actions and recalled the scene in the morning. The people next door were playing cards and it was very noisy. Jiazhi couldn't sleep, but he could concentrate on reading.

"Jiazhi, why don't you go back to school? With your intelligence, you'll have no problem getting into university."

Chen Jiazhi was stunned by the book in his hand: "Why do you say that suddenly?"

Li Xiu: "They all said it was a pity for you. Do you remember last year, we met Zhang Bo, and he even advised you to go back and take the college entrance examination. His grades were worse than yours, but he was admitted to a university in Shanghai. He said that as long as you study hard, you will definitely pass.

We have saved quite a bit of money now, and once you finish your studies, you won’t have to work so hard on the farm every day.”

Zhang Bo is Chen Jiazhi's high school classmate. His home is in the village next to theirs. He was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Before he passed the exam, Chen Jiazhi's father-in-law wanted to introduce Li Xiu to Zhang Bo, but Li Xiu stubbornly chose Chen Jiazhi, and Zhang Bo was also focused on studying and taking the exam at that time.

In his previous life, Chen Jiazhi already had two children. When Zhang Bo met them, he still asked them to go to college.
Because Chen Jiazhi's grades have always been better than his, his only weakness is English.

Chen Jiazhi looked at Li Xiu who looked serious and wanted to tease her.

"So what are you going to do? Take care of a baby and pay for my education?"

"Besides, what if I go to college and see the colorful world and all the pretty girls there, and then I turn around and don't want you anymore?"

After saying that, Chen Jiazhi closed the book and put it on the back seat of his bicycle, intending to return it to Hong Zhong next time he went out. However, when he turned around, he saw Li Xiu with tears in her eyes.

"What's up, Xiu?"

Li Xiu's eyes were filled with tears: "Have you always looked down on me for being uneducated? I can't even write properly, I fall asleep when I read, and I get dizzy when I ride in a car..."

"..."

Chen Jiazhi slapped himself in his heart. Why did he tease Li Xiu for no reason?

And Li Xiu is a very traditional woman.

"I have no conscience, absolutely not. Why would I despise you? I cherish you enough, and you're still working while pregnant. I, a bastard, would despise you!"

"Don't think too much. I won't go to school. I'll just focus on growing vegetables."

Li Xiu: "Growing vegetables is nothing compared to the comfort of sitting in an office."

Chen Jiazhi: "What's wrong with farming? Look at our daily income from selling vegetables during this period. Many people can't earn that much even if they sit in an office for a month.

Besides, life is diverse, just like food. Some people like sour, some like sweet, some like salty, some like sitting in an office, and I like..."

Chen Jiazhi suddenly stopped and suddenly thought of another explanation.

Li Xiu blinked: "You just like farming?"

After hesitating for a while, Chen Jiazhi finally decided to take the plunge: "No, I just like you~"

"what?!"

Li Xiu didn't expect this turn of events. She was stunned for a moment, then her eyebrows curved again and again and she smiled beautifully.

"When did you learn this?"

"Oh, I won't study anyway. Go to bed, go to bed, I'm sleepy."

Chen Jiazhi's toes had already clenched.

After saying a few perfunctory words, he fell asleep on the bed.

If it wasn't summer, Li Xiu estimated that he would have to cover his head with a quilt. Although Chen Jiazhi was thick-skinned, expressing his love so directly and explicitly was even more unusual than the sun rising from the west.

Is this a love story?

She hummed sweetly unconsciously.
Then I took a small stool and went out to thin out the seedlings. The weather was cool, but the seedlings in the field were being planted one after another, so I was in a hurry.

After taking only a few steps, two more little followers appeared behind him.

Only after hearing the door close did Chen Jiazhi open his eyes, feeling very strange.

According to later generations, he was a straight man of steel, the kind that couldn't be bent even with an axe.

No flowery words, not even sweet talk.

Not to mention the betrothal gifts and gifts. When I think about it carefully, it really seems like I haven't bought anything for her personally in the past few decades.

Fortunately, Li Xiu is a person who values ​​appearance.

However, although it was Li Xiu who insisted on being with him, wasn't it a bit too much?

When I was twenty, my family was very poor and I was lazy;
When he was thirty, both his sons were in primary school, and he had built a new house, which he was barely able to stand on its own;

When he was forty, he had bought three rooms and a shop in the city. Li Xiu bought himself a jade bracelet, which he despised.
When he was 45, there were restrictions on buying houses, so he and Li Xiucai hurried to get a marriage certificate, ending their undocumented marriage of more than 20 years. Li Xiu also had her first asset in her name.
When he was fifty years old, he had many children and grandchildren, and his eldest grandson was seven years old. Li Xiucai received the first bouquet of flowers in his life. It was bought by his son and had nothing to do with him.

Although she said buying flowers was impractical and a waste of money, Li Xiu changed the water every day and took good care of them for more than a month.
Thinking back on my past life,
He doesn't understand romance or sentiment, and has a strong desire for control. Everyone in the fields and at home has to obey him. Every day he is either growing vegetables or selling them.
He hopes to go further in his life, but also to appreciate the scenery along the way more calmly.

...

Wake up and open the door.

The sky is still dim and dark, and it is probably going to rain again.

Chen Jiazhi looked at his own plots of land. They were either green or yellowish, but not black. The sunshade nets were all uncovered.

After it has dried for a while, it must be completely covered at night, so don't take any chances.

After looking around, Chen Jiazhi finally found Li Xiu who was busy thinning out the seedlings in Plot No. 5.

She never raised her head. Even when she moved the small stool, she moved it with one hand while the other hand continued to thin out the seedlings.

Thinking about what Li Xiu said before taking a nap, it was obvious that he had lost his confidence.

Chen Jiazhi has been making money so fast in the past two months, and it's getting faster and faster, which has put a lot of pressure on her, and she may even be a little panicked.

Qi Yongfeng and Huang Juan were also thinning out the seedlings, but they were thinning out the seedlings in plot No. 7.

Plot No. 5 is under the management of Ao Dehai, but Ao Dehai and his partner are in charge of the most land. They have been producing a lot of vegetables recently and are a bit overwhelmed. There are still several vacant plots in the land, and they are busy building cowpea racks.

Chen Jiazhi also came to the vegetable field No. 5, squatted down in the ditch next to Li Xiu, and began to thin out the seedlings.

Li Xiu noticed him and was a little surprised. He jokingly said, "Boss Chen is willing to bend down to thin out the seedlings?"

Chen Jiazhi nodded. He never liked doing this job.

"It's raining, so we can't do anything else. We can only thin out the seedlings. These are a bit big, so it's not easy to thin them out." Li Xiu: "How can we not thin them out? We planted them on June 7th. How long have you calculated?"

Chen Jiazhi said exaggeratedly: "Wow, Xiu, you remember it so clearly, you have a good memory!"

Li Xiu: “…”

The performances are a bit exaggerated.

Chen Jiazhi is thick-skinned and acts as if nothing happened, praising the incident from time to time.

After a while, Li Xiu finished thinning out the seedlings in another furrow and started chasing Chen Jiazhi from behind.

A bed is about 1.5 meters wide and 5 meters long. There is a ditch between every two beds. There are probably dozens of beds in one area of ​​land.

When thinning out the seedlings, people either squat or sit in the furrows, and thin out half of the seedlings on each side of the two furrows at the same time. Another person does the same thing, and so on.

Chen Jiazhi felt that he had only said a few words when he found that Li Xiu was almost level with him.

He took a look at it for a while, and Li Xiu's hands pulled out the excess seedlings as accurately as butterflies flying through flowers.

He felt that the seedlings had grown bigger, and his hands were like those of an old man, shaking and dragging. Sometimes, instead of pulling out the weak seedlings, he killed the strong ones. He was worried, and it was not neat and tidy at all.
In order to delay being overtaken, Chen Jiazhi began to concentrate on thinning out the seedlings.

However, less than a minute later, Li Xiu moved the small stool forward again, but Chen Jiazhi was still standing there motionless.

Li Xiu was puzzled: "You were talking so enthusiastically just now, why did you suddenly stop talking?"

Chen Jiazhi: "You're thinning out the seedlings too quickly. I can't keep up."

Li Xiu: "Oh, then I'll give you a little more space. Please don't be silent."

Chen Jiazhi: "Yeah, wait until I catch up."

In order to let him catch up, Li Xiu put her legs in the middle of the bed, with them spaced very wide apart.

If a bed is 1.5 meters wide, she would make it 1.35 meters wide, leaving 0.15 meters for Chen Jiazhi to save face.

Chen Jiazhi took a look and saw that she had also cut the next patch of soil more than 1 meter wide.

In this way, Chen Jiazhi barely caught up with the progress.

Is this her hand speed at her peak?

Oh, there is a baby in my belly, and it’s not the peak yet. Oh my god, were Li Xiu’s hands so dexterous when she was young?

After finishing one ditch, Li Xiu asked him to go to the next ditch, which was 0.5 meters wide on one side and 0.15 meters wide on the other side.

Li Xiu's is 1 meter wide on one side and 1.35 meters wide on the other side.

The two of them barely managed to keep up the same pace.

Chen Jiazhi had no other work arrangements in the afternoon, so he focused on thinning the seedlings.

The two of them went back to the toilet, and Chen Jiazhi also took the time to go and see how Ao Dehai and the other three were harvesting vegetables.

The handwork is still very stable.

After all, it's a commission, not a piecework rate.

We are now harvesting the Chinese cabbage that was planted on May 5.24th, and the next ones will be May 5.30th and May 5.31st.

Can barely connect.

So the vegetable harvesting task remains unchanged, still 260 kilograms of high-quality Chinese cabbage and 700 kilograms of ordinary Chinese cabbage.

Harvesting cabbage hearts is actually the same as thinning out seedlings. It is also a bit boring to repeat the same actions.

It had been a long time since Chen Jiazhi had thinned out the seedlings for such a long time, but with Li Xiu by his side, he felt that his speed seemed to be okay.

Hey, at least there's no distance between them on the surface.

Night slowly fell over the vegetable fields.

The two of them also rushed to grab all the choy sum seedlings that were harvested a little late before dark.

The path beside the wing was filled with the torn vegetable seedlings, and there was no end in sight in the night.

Chen Jiazhi twisted his hips left and right. Li Xiu said, "It's a shame to throw away these choy sum seedlings. It would be better to feed them to chickens."

I actually fed a lot of chickens in my previous life.

Every year, I not only eat it myself, but also send free-range chickens to my relatives.
Chen Jiazhi looked at her and said, "There are so many people here now, it's not convenient to build a chicken coop. Let's move somewhere else later."

Li Xiu nodded. During the afternoon chat, Chen Jiazhi also talked to her about some future plans, including the land exchange.

After stretching for a while, the two began to wash their hands in the ditch.

"Fuck, these hands are really dirty."

"It's dirty, so what? I get dirty every day."

After transplanting seedlings for an entire afternoon, not only were my hands stained dark green by the vegetable juice, but there was also a lot of dirt in the cracks of my fingernails.

It's hard to wash it clean in a short time.

I have to go back and wash it slowly with soap.

Chen Jiazhi looked at Li Xiu's hands with slender fingers and smiled, "Li Xiu, you are actually very capable. There are few women in the world who are more dexterous than you."

Li Xiu's eyebrows curved: "Is there?"

"Of course!"

"Have you seen many women's hands?"

"..."

"No, but I can tell by the way you thin out the seedlings. Do you think anyone in Dongxiang Vegetable Market can thin out the seedlings faster than you? No one!"

Chen Jiazhi held her hand, which was still very smooth. "I've decided. To protect your hands, we must hire workers to thin out the seedlings tomorrow!"

Li Xiu: "Then what do I use my hands for?"

Chen Jiazhi felt a little hungry, but was too embarrassed to say it. When Liu Xiu understood what he meant, he pinched his waist hard with his hand, and the two puppies that came out of nowhere ran away in fright.

(End of this chapter)