Siheyuan: Space takes me to exchange!

Chapter 16: Picking Cotton on the Frontier

Did Li Xiuyuan hear Qin Huairu knocking on the door?

He really didn't hear it, because at this moment, he was also in a daze...

How did I travel through time again?

When Li Xiuyuan opened his eyes, he found that this was not his house in the courtyard.

He even once suspected that he had been kidnapped by the beasts?

It turned out not to be.

Is it because I opened my eyes the wrong way?

After checking the space and finding that it was still there, Li Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but recall how he came here.

As a human being, you not only need to know how you died, but also how you came into being.

Last night, he was lying on the bed planning to enter the space to practice, but after entering the space, he found that the space was different.

There is an extra night pearl in the middle, yes, it is a night pearl, because it glows.

Li Xiuyuan was very curious and felt that the things in his space would not harm him, so he controlled his sea of ​​consciousness to touch it, and the result was... he came here.

I don’t know which will come first, an accident or tomorrow?

Some sudden accidents constantly challenge Li Xiuyuan's strong nerves.

Curiosity really killed the cat, and this time it killed a person.

The body that Li Xiuyuan traveled through this time was called Gousheng. Just by hearing the name, you can tell that he has an indissoluble bond with the land.

Gousheng is a cotton picker who comes to the Frontier Corps from the rural areas of Henan Province to pick cotton. He is also called a "flower picker."

Gousheng did not come alone, he came with his wife Erniu.

The original owner had a relative who worked at the county recruitment office, so Gousheng and his wife had the means to come to this border area to pick cotton.

"Gousheng, get up quickly, it's daybreak!"

Gousheng’s wife Erniu came to the boys’ dormitory to wake them up.

Li Xiuyuan covered his eyes as soon as he took a look at his wife Erniu, who was short and tanned.

I couldn't bring myself to do this even if I killed Li Xiuyuan.

The days are long and the nights are short on this side of the border. It gets light at 5:30 in the morning and they have to get up to pick cotton.

You can still watch the sunset at 11 o'clock at night in the frontier...

How many hours are there in a day?

Seventeen or eighteen hours.

They had to work at least fifteen hours a day without any rest. When they were hungry, they would take some dry food and eat it in the cotton fields, and then continue working.

It takes so long!

Li Xiuyuan wailed. He didn't want to get up and pick cotton.

But there is no other way. I only earn this month's money every year. I owe a favor to my eldest relative for allowing Gousheng and his wife to come. If I don't earn some money to go back, I will not be able to face the people of Henan Province.

No matter how reluctant Li Xiuyuan was, he had to get up and work.

After getting up, he simply wiped his face and started eating and working without even brushing his teeth.

In the original owner's memory, he lived for twenty-eight years and never brushed his teeth, so he didn't know what toothpaste tasted like.

When Li Xiuyuan thought about this, he felt a little nauseous while eating.

After breakfast, I watched my wife Erniu pack up the dry food, and then she took two large gourds and filled them with two gourds of water.

The couple followed a large group of people to the cotton field.

The endless cotton fields are white as snow.

The team leaders shouted, “Pick cotton!”

A group of twenty people began to bend down and pick cotton.

……

After a while, Li Xiuyuan wiped the sweat from his face and looked at the sun above his head. The temperature difference in this border area was really big.

The temperature at night is ten degrees, and sometimes the lowest temperature can reach five degrees, so you have to wear a coat.

The daytime temperature is around 27 or 28 degrees, sometimes even up to 30 degrees, so you have to wear short sleeves.

In his previous life, Li Xiuyuan only knew about the temperature difference in the border areas, but he didn't expect to experience it now.

Li Xiuyuan picked cotton for two hours and felt pain in his waist and neck. The cotton bolls were very hard and pricked his arms and hands.

Men of high stature have to bend down when picking cotton, but it is much better for them to be like Erniu.

So Erniu can pick a maximum of 300 kilograms of cotton a day, while Gousheng can pick 200 kilograms a day.

A pound of cotton costs one cent, Erniu can earn three yuan a day, and ninety yuan a month.

Gousheng earns 60 yuan a month, and the couple earns 150 yuan a month, which is more than they earn in a year working on the farm.

Of course, this comes without food rations, so they still focus on farming. They pick cotton once a year, and after deducting various expenses, they can save a hundred yuan, which makes the couple very satisfied.

Finally, it was time for lunch. Li Xiuyuan took a bite of the hard dry food, ate a mouthful, and then drank a sip of water to wash it down.

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