A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

After Shen Jiaren heard Aunt Zhou say that she would help watch over the rice, she started to harvest the rice directly.

It was Shen Jiaren’s first time to harvest rice. Not only were she unfamiliar with her hands and sickle, but she was also unfamiliar with her eyes and hands, and even her hands and head.

This unfamiliarity is directly reflected in the use of the sickle, bending over and the coordination of the hands. The more direct manifestation is that the rice is harvested slower and slower.

Aunt Zhou was standing next to Shen Jiaren. She couldn't help but feel a headache watching her cutting rice. She could only go home after completing this task. If Shen Zhiqing continued to work this way, it would be a question whether she could go home today.

But I can't say it directly, because it depends on the situation. Today is the first time for others to use sickles and harvest rice. I have to give them a chance to get familiar with it. Let's wait a little longer. Let's wait a little longer and see during the lunch break to see if Shen Zhiqing's hand speed can catch up.

Aunt Zhou looked at Shen Jiaren's movements and couldn't help but speed up her hands. After all, if her partner didn't work hard, she could only work harder. In this way, she might be able to keep her full attendance points for today.

For a moment, there was no sound of talking in the fields, only the sound of sickles "squeaking".

After working for a while, Shen Jiaren felt that her bent waist was a bit unbearable, so she prepared to stand up and drink some water.

Who would have thought that when Shen Jiaren looked up, she found that Aunt Zhou was cutting three more rows of rice than her and had left her far behind.

More importantly, Shen Jiaren discovered that someone in the field next door had already started to bundle rice and was preparing to move it to the threshing floor in front of the warehouse to dry.

On my side, Aunt Zhou's cutting was not bad, and it was still necessary to tie them up, but on my side, it was really horrible.

I thought about what the team leader Liu Dashan said yesterday morning, that you cannot go back until you complete the mission of the day, and you can take on new missions after completing the mission of the day.

Now, let alone taking new tasks, it is even a question whether the tasks for the day can be completed.

While drinking water, Shen Jiaren thought about it and felt that this was not a good idea, so she went to the field to get some peach cakes and some fruit candies and went to find Aunt Zhou.

When Auntie Zhou finished harvesting the rice and put it away, she found that Shen Jiaren started to walk towards them. She couldn't help but wonder what happened. Did she cut her hand? If she did, she would have to find a barefoot doctor to see if it was serious. She stood up and asked, "Shen Zhiqing, did you cut your hand? Or what happened?"

Shen Jiaren couldn't help but feel embarrassed when she heard Auntie Xiao Zhou caring about her so much, "Auntie Xiao Zhou, I didn't cut my hand. I just have something I want to discuss with you, and I need to tell you in person."

When Auntie Zhou heard what Shen Jiaren said, she couldn't help but become more curious, "What's wrong? What's the matter?"

"Auntie Zhou, I want to ask, has this ever happened in our brigade? If I can't complete my task, can I ask you for help? Of course, I'm not asking you to help for nothing. I'll give you the work points that correspond to the amount of task you completed."

"Yes, there are such cases. Generally, the educated youths cannot get full marks for the autumn harvest, but how to distribute the work points specifically requires two people to discuss it clearly, then talk to the team leader and the scorekeeper, and then it will be done.

Shen Zhiqing, you are asking about this matter, what's the matter?"

"Auntie Zhou, you can see that I was really slow in cutting, and I was a little afraid of getting cut by the sickle, which made me go even slower.

But the team leader said that if the mission was not completed on the same day, there would be no way to go home. We could only go home when we completed the mission.

But I think my progress in harvesting rice is really lagging behind you. Can we discuss this?

If I can't finish mowing the crops every day, please do it for me. I will give you the work points for the portion of the crops you mow for me.

If I can catch up with the progress later, we can discuss it.

Do you think it's ok?

As long as I can complete my daily work point tasks, we can discuss the work points."

"That's fine, but Shen Zhiqing, are you sure you want to do this? If you really do this, you might only get one or two work points a day. What will you do when the grain is distributed?"

"Auntie Xiao Zhou, it's okay. I have a grain subsidy, so food is not a problem. The only problem is that I can't complete the daily work point task during the autumn harvest."

"Sure. If there's no problem with your end, then when the scorekeeper comes to check the completion of the work points, we'll talk to him and then talk to the team leader when we finish work in the afternoon."

"Thank you, Auntie Zhou. I really ask you to be merciful with your sickle and not make me shave my head every day."

Auntie Zhou couldn't help but laugh when she heard what Shen Jiaren said, "Then you have to work hard, at least try to harvest enough work points every day."

When Shen Jiaren heard that Auntie Zhou agreed, she quickly said, "I will work hard, I will work hard, I will strive to make a little progress every day, and strive to work hard enough to earn five work points for the autumn harvest one day."

When Aunt Zhou heard what Shen Jiaren said, she burst out laughing.

Before Shen Jiaren had time to feel embarrassed, she noticed laughter coming from the side.

Shen Jiaren looked up and saw that it was Liu Hui's mother Zhang Aihua and father Liu Jun who were next to her.

When Shen Jiaren looked over, she found that it was Zhang Aihua who was laughing, while Liu Hui's father did not say a word and was silently bundling rice.

When Shen Jiaren saw that it was Zhang Aihua, she said, "Auntie, you are next door to me. I was wondering who is next door? You cut so fast, it turns out to be you, Auntie."

"We are all used to harvesting rice, so we can get the hang of it very quickly. You are just starting to learn how to harvest rice, so you can go slowly as long as you don't get any loose ends." Zhang Aihua said to Shen Jiaren with a smile.

When Shen Jiaren heard that Zhang Aihua was also teasing her, she stopped talking and took out some White Rabbit candy and said, "Auntie Zhou, Auntie Zhang, Uncle Liu, please stop joking. Eat a White Rabbit candy and make yourself happier. Then you might forget that I had to shave my head because of my work points."

When Aunt Zhou and Zhang Aihua heard Shen Jiaren say this, they laughed at the same time, but neither of them took the candy that Shen Jiaren handed over, because everyone knew that candy at this time was a precious thing, more precious than food, and hard to buy.

So no one answered. They all said at the same time, "You can eat more, we won't eat."

When Shen Jiaren saw this, she stuffed two White Rabbits into Auntie Xiao Zhou and two White Rabbits into Auntie Zhang Aihua, and then ran away, saying as she ran, "Two for each of us, don't fight."

Aunt Zhou and Zhang Aihua looked at Shen Jiaren's childish behavior and just laughed and shook their heads. She is really a child. She should help her more in the future.

The two men looked at Shen Jiaren's back as she ran away, knowing that it would be bad to refuse her again, so they both put the White Rabbit milk candies into their pockets and were reluctant to eat them.

I plan to take them home to feed my own children.

After all, at this time, people even have problems getting enough food to eat, and something as expensive as sugar is sometimes not available for purchase whenever you want, especially White Rabbit milk candy.

For children in rural areas, they may only eat malt sugar during the Chinese New Year.

So Aunt Xiao Zhou and Aunt Zhang Aihua were reluctant to eat them and planned to take them back to feed their own children.