Two generations of military wives compete for time

Lying beside Qian Ma, Qian Yizhen was full of thoughts. At the moment, what worried her most was Qian Ma and the tuition fees. Qian Yizhen, who had traveled through time from a female doctor, deeply felt that the extremely poor Qian family was like being stuck in a quagmire. She had no choice but to calm down and take this opportunity to experience the life of a farmer while waiting for the university to start.

The next morning, as soon as it was light, Qian Yizheng started to get busy. She washed the family's dirty clothes, fed the chickens, pigs and sheep, swept the yard, steamed a pot of sweet potato flour buns, ate breakfast, and settled her mother down.

Qian Yizhen put on a straw hat and went to the village kiln factory to ask if there was any work that could be paid on a daily basis. The uncle who was in charge of the kiln factory saw the handsome Qian Yizhen and said, "Yes, yes, yes, moving bricks and transporting bricks will be paid on a piece-rate basis, and the wages will be calculated on a daily basis. Can you do it with your body?" The greasy uncle looked at Qian Yizhen with a lustful look. Qian Yizhen nodded and said, "I worked here with my brother before."

Qian Yizhen put on work clothes and started to work. The work process is to move the adobe bricks onto a cart, push them to the designated location in the brick kiln, stack them neatly, light the fire and burn them. After they are burned, they are transported from the brick kiln to the designated location and stacked in a cart under high temperature. At the end of the day, the limbs are sore, the nose is black, the face is covered with dust, sweat is pouring down, and the hands and feet are covered with blisters. They can earn 2 yuan.

Hearing that the village beauty was working as a bricklayer in the kiln factory, Li Dazhuang, the son of the village party secretary, waited for Qian Yizhen's arrival in front of the kiln factory early in the morning. Since Li Dazhuang's father became the village party secretary, he has built a rich business for his only son. The kiln factory, grain trading, transport team, etc. are all his family's businesses.

Li Dazhuang is a well-known playboy in the village. He only has a high school diploma. He is 21 years old, fat, big ears, small eyes, big buck teeth, and red and yellow curly hair. He spends all day lying on his father's property, eating, drinking and having fun. At present, the biggest task given to him by his parents is to find a beautiful wife, get married and have children, and continue the family line.

Li Dazhuang had long coveted Qian Yizhen, and he thought the time had come.

Li Dazhuang bared his big buck teeth, walked up to Qian Yizhen with a grin, and excitedly confessed: "Sister Qian, let's be friends. I have admired you for a long time. You are beautiful, good at studying, and the child you give birth to will definitely be both smart and beautiful. My family has plenty of money, so you will enjoy endless blessings." As he spoke, he was about to hug Qian Yizhen's waist.

Qian Yizheng dodged quickly and said politely to Li Dazhuang: "Thank you for your high regard for me. I don't want to fall in love and get married now." He bowed to Li Dazhuang, quickened his pace, walked into the factory gate, and moved bricks to earn money.

For several days in a row, Li Dazhuang waited at the factory gate and said to Qian Yizheng with a cold face, "Don't be shameless. You have to agree even if you don't want to. Otherwise, your family will suffer," etc., using threats and inducements.

Qian Yizhen just gritted her teeth and quickly ran into the brick factory, ignoring Li Dazhuang. Li Dazhuang was furious and pulled Qian Yizhen's collar: "Are you deaf? Didn't you hear me talking to you?" Qian Yizhen was thrown heavily to the ground. She got up and glared at Li Dazhuang angrily. Seeing this, the security guard quickly pulled Li Dazhuang away.

In order to avoid and guard against Li Dazhuang's harassment, Qian Yizheng carried with him an awl that his grandmother used to sew shoe soles for self-defense.

In the brick factory, Qian Yizhen was sweating profusely while moving bricks. Li Dazhuang, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan and smoking a cigarette, would come to the brick factory from time to time to harass Qian Yizhen, but Qian Yizhen kept his head down and worked, ignoring him.

Li Dazhuang kept talking, using vulgar language, and constantly provoking Qian Yizhen. Some of the people working with him were angry but did not dare to speak out, while others were just waiting to watch the fun and laugh at the joke.

Once, when Qian Yizhen went to the toilet, he was suddenly hugged by Li Dazhuang. Qian Yizhen angrily took out a needle and stabbed it into Li Dazhuang's thigh. Li Dazhuang screamed and fled.

Qian Yizhen recalled that she was raped in a kiln factory in her previous life. Not wanting to be harassed by Li Dazhuang again, she resolutely quit her job as a bricklayer in the kiln factory and looked for another way out. She found three ways to make money: digging herbs and wild vegetables, loading and unloading, wrapping candies, and spinning at a high frequency like a gyroscope.

Go up the mountain to dig herbs and wild vegetables in the morning.

In order to collect more wild vegetables and herbs, Qian Yizhen usually worked in clothes soaked by dew and shivered in the cold. When he was hungry, he ate a few steamed breads to fill his stomach. When he was thirsty, he drank water from the stream. He also had to keep an eye out for wild wolves, wild boars and snakes. He risked cutting his hands, spraining his feet and rolling down the valley, and kept rushing to dig and collect, until he dragged the wild vegetables and herbs back home with soreness all over his body.

Then, spread the collected herbs in the yard to dry, clean the collected wild vegetables simply, and sell them at the morning market.

Afterwards, he went to the grain purchasing station in the town and worked as a loader.

In order to work as a loader, Qian Yizhen cut her hair short and dressed as a man. Not only did she have to carry sacks weighing hundreds of pounds like a male worker, but she also had to endure the teasing from her coworkers, who laughed at her for being a gigolo and a shy girl who was not like a man. In order to earn 3 yuan a day, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

From 8pm to 12am, I went to the food factory to wrap candies by hand, and was paid by piecework, earning about 80 cents a day.

All in all, Qian Yizheng worked eighteen hours a day doing odd jobs to earn tuition fees, and this did not include the housework assigned by Qiannai.

The female doctor's soul felt it was incredible. She had lived in a wealthy family with no worries about food and clothing since she was a child. Her grandparents were state officials, her parents were university professors, and there were a lot of uncles, brothers and sisters in the family. She was the only little girl. She had beautiful clothes, sea cucumbers, abalone, beef, mutton, fruits, vegetables, chocolate, etc. to enjoy. She lived like a royal princess all day long. She had never worried about money and had never thought that there were people like Qian Yizhen alive.

The female doctor's soul was a little depressed. In order to earn a few dollars, she would rather bleed and endure great pain. She didn't see meat or oil all year round, and ate corn, sweet potatoes, sorghum, pickled radish, and did heavy physical work. What kind of experience is this? She truly felt the pain and helplessness of Qian Yizhen's flesh and skin being torn and torn and his muscles and bones tired. Thinking of her previous life of luxury, the contrast was too great.