Traveling through time and space, wanting to lie down, but being forced to move forward

Today is the last day of work for the autumn harvest, and Liu Jingxue has no plans to finish work early.

In the past ten days, she has sent more than fifty dead trees to the cowshed. According to Grandpa Zou, this amount of firewood is enough for them to get through the whole winter, and there is still some left, so she doesn't need to send more firewood there.

Liu Jingxue planned to finish work with everyone else today and do more work to avoid people complaining that it was because they, the educated youth, finished work early that some work was left unfinished.

Perhaps they had the same idea as her, as several newly arrived educated youths all persisted to the end and none of them left work early.

Even so, there were still some things left unfinished.

But there isn't much left, and if everyone works hard, we can finish it in an hour.

But it was already getting dark, and it was past the usual time to finish work, so it was impractical to work in the dark.

The captain waved his hand and said, "That's enough for today, everyone can call it a day.

Starting tomorrow, the educated youth will no longer be forced to go to work.

The villagers will continue to work tomorrow, finish the last bit of work, and get some people to go to the drying dam to thresh the grain.

The men pulled up the corn stalks and took them back to feed the pigs or to burn as firewood.”

At this time, Zhou Wenbing, an educated youth, asked, "Captain, if the educated youth want to continue to earn work points, can they come to work?"

"Come whenever you want," the captain replied.

Liu Jingxue pulled Zhang Yingchun beside her and asked quietly, "Is Zhou Zhiqing short of food?

Those old educated youth have been busy throughout the autumn harvest, so isn't he tired? He still has to work hard to earn these few work points."

Zhang Yingchun leaned close to her ear and whispered, "I heard from other old educated youth that his family conditions are not good.

Not only did he not receive any subsidies when he went to the countryside, he also had to send money and grain back home to supplement the family expenses.

They said that Zhou Zhiqing worked hard every day to earn work points, and he lived frugally, often going to the mountains to buy mountain products and sending them back home.

Liu Jingxue suddenly realized, "No wonder he dresses almost the same as the villagers, or even worse than the villagers with better conditions.

I said he didn't look like an educated youth from the city, but it turns out he is like this."

Zhang Pingan interrupted, "We all choose the easy jobs when we go to work, but he always picks the jobs with the highest work points, just to save more work points and get more money and food."

Thinking of what Aunt Cuihua had said to her, Liu Jingxue was puzzled and said, "But I heard from the aunts in the village that only 30% of the grain distributed in the village is based on work points, and 70% is per capita grain.

No matter how many work points he saved, he wouldn't be able to get any more money or grain.

Doesn’t he know that?”

Zhang Pingan sighed, "How could I not know.

Even if he didn't know at first, he has been in the village for three years and should have figured it out long ago.

But no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and a little bit is better than nothing.

We were trapped in the countryside, and what else could he do except work hard in the fields to earn more food to supplement the family income? "

"Actually, he is a nice guy. He is always willing to lend a hand when others have problems. It's a pity that he is dragged down by his family," Zhang Yingchun said regretfully.

"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. Talking about him makes us depressed." Zhang Pingan changed the subject.

"Liu Zhiqing, we have been working for more than ten days. You earned fewer work points in the first two days, but you still earned more than ten work points a day. Later on, you earned more than thirty work points a day.

How many work points have you earned in total?

Hearing Zhang Pingan's words, Zhang Yingchun also asked curiously, "Yes, Xiaoxue, how many work points did you earn?"

When Liu Jingxue went to the scorekeeper to calculate her work points, she specifically asked, "548."

"My God, you earned 548 work points in less than days.

You are not mistaken. ", screamed Zhang Yingchun.

Liu Jingxue nodded, "Yes, I just asked the scorekeeper.

How many work points did you two earn?"

Zhang Yingchun said with a bitter face, "I only have about 80 work points."

Zhang Pingan touched his nose and said, "I am slightly better than her, but I only have about 120 work points."

“You are already doing pretty well, after all, you have just arrived and have just started farm work.

Next year, when you have adapted to the job and become proficient in it, you will be able to earn more work points." Liu Jingxue consoled him.

Zhang Yingchun was unhappy. The contrast was too tragic.

She hummed, "You just arrived, and you've already earned so many work points."

Liu Jingxue laughed, "You know my situation, and you still want to compete with me.

You are pushing yourself to death."

“We don’t have the ability to compete with you.

I only earned 6 work points a day at most, which is even more than what the aunties and aunties in the village could earn. I am really ashamed.

I hope I can do better next year. I can’t get the full work points like the men, but at least I can get 8 work points.

I can’t say that I can support my family as much as Zhou Zhiqing, but at least I can’t let my family support me too much, otherwise I will be too embarrassed to see anyone.” Zhang Pingan set a small goal for himself.

Zhang Yingchun stretched out his hand and said pitifully, "I can earn at most 5 work points a day, and that's only on a few days.

On the rest of the days, it is generally four work points.

If I really had to work in the fields to earn work points to support myself, I would probably starve to death."

“Even if I only earned a few work points a day, I would always feel sore all over when I got home.

I fell asleep as soon as I lay down on the bed, and if they hadn't called me in the morning, I wouldn't have been able to get up.

This day is finally over.

Tomorrow I must sleep until I wake up naturally and get enough sleep.

If anyone dares to disturb my sleep, I will kill her to death." Zhang Yingchun said with a stern face.

She had a round face, so even if she put on a fierce expression, it had no lethality. Instead, it made Liu Jingxue laugh.

She consoled him, "Don't worry. With the exception of a few, I think everyone at the Youth League Center will sleep in tomorrow, so no one will disturb you."

"Xiaoxue, will you go to work tomorrow?" Zhang Yingchun asked curiously.

Liu Jingxue quickly shook her head. She was not a masochist. She was not forced to work, so why should she come?

She has no shortage of food and doesn't rely on work points to make a living, so why should she make herself suffer?

"I won't come to work. I'm exhausted these days. I need to sleep in."

“Then you’re not going into town to pick up the package?

Your package should have arrived at the post office several days ago."

A few days ago, the postman came to the production team and delivered some letters from villagers and educated youth, and also brought news to Liu Jingxue.

She had a package that had arrived at the post office in town, so she was asked to take some time and go to the post office with her ID to pick up the package.

During the autumn harvest, no leave is allowed unless it is absolutely necessary.

I just went to the town to pick up a package, so delaying it for a few days wouldn't have much of a impact, and the production team was even less likely to approve my leave.

Liu Jingxue could only wait until the autumn harvest was over before going to the town to get it.

"The package has been in the post office for several days anyway, so I can go there the day after tomorrow after tomorrow."

Zhang Yingchun quickly invited, "I'm going to town the day after tomorrow, too. Let's go together then."

Since they said so, Liu Jingxue couldn't refuse, so she had to say, "Okay.

The autumn harvest is over, and many people will probably go to the town during this period, so the village will probably send ox carts over.

Let's go ask Uncle Liu tomorrow whether the ox cart will go to town the day after tomorrow.

If there were bullock carts, we wouldn’t have to walk, we could take a ride there and back.”

Zhang Yingchun was immediately happy when he heard this, "Then let's go ask tomorrow."