Eating melons

Seeing the grass and crops in the field, Wei Wei was just glad that the crops were quite tall now, otherwise she really couldn't tell the difference between the crops and the grass.

I saw many aunts working, each with a small basket beside them. After asking, I found out that many of the grasses in the fields were wild vegetables that could be eaten.

Just pick them out when pulling weeds. Wei Wei's eyes lit up when she heard this, but unfortunately, she couldn't tell which were weeds and which were wild vegetables.

So you can't be impatient about this, you have to take it slow and learn a few common wild vegetables first.

Although they had gloves, they all squatted on the ground to work, but this was a first time doing this work, and soon they felt numbness in their legs and pain in their hands.

The sun in June is also quite scorching. Although I was wearing a straw hat, it was still very stuffy even with long sleeves. There was not much wind, and sweat started falling down in a short while.

Wei Wei didn't know if it was because of the heat or because the dipping sauce she had eaten in the morning was too salty, but she just felt very thirsty and drank water several times in less than an hour.

It must be a combination of both reasons. She drank the entire pot of water in the morning.

The four of them pulled weeds for the entire morning, but they still didn't pull as much as their aunt who was leading them did alone.

There were four people, three of them were slacking off, and only Wu Mei was working seriously.

There was no way. None of the four had done farm work, and Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, and Liu Jiaojiao didn't want to support themselves by earning work points.

Jiang Qi and Liu Jiaojiao's families send them money and things, so they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

Wei Wei has the system as her backup, so she is not worried at all.

Wu Mei is different. Although she still has some money, her family can't give her much help. She even hopes to help her family, so she must study hard.

But even so, the four of them didn't do much work in the whole morning, and they still felt sore in their backs, numb in their legs, and they couldn't even straighten their waists.

Wei Wei didn't know how many times she looked at the time in the morning, but time passed so slowly. Every time she thought more than an hour had passed, she would find that it was less than half an hour.

Although they were slacking off, they were still tired. After all, you can't slack off openly. You are just a little slower. But if you squat for a long time like this, you will feel dizzy and your legs will go numb when you stand up.

After waiting for a long time, it was finally time to get off work. Everyone's stomachs were already rumbling.

As soon as the bell sounded, Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, and Liu Jiaojiao sprang into action, each one faster than the last. Wu Mei was surprised. Hadn't these three been saying they were exhausted? How did they suddenly become so energetic?

If the three knew Wu Mei's thoughts, Liu Jiaojiao might say, "How can eating be compared with doing farm work?"

As for Wei Wei and Jiang Qi, “they are not active in eating after get off work, so there must be something wrong with their thinking.”

When the few people got together, Li Zhibin saw the work gloves on the four people's hands and their clean hands. Then he looked at his own hands, which were covered in mud, even between his nails, and were twitching in pain. He suddenly felt a little aggrieved.

Li Zhibin: "Great! You guys, you have such a good thing, but you don't share it. You're not the comrade of unity, friendship, and mutual assistance! It really hurts my heart."

Jiang Qi hadn't really considered this. "Oh, sorry, I really forgot."

Li Zhibin: "Whose is this? Do you have any more? I want one too."

Wei Wei: "There are six pairs left, 50 cents a pair, first come, first served."

Li Zhibin: "I'll reserve a pair first."

Xiao Xuemu: "I want one too."

Yu Xi: "I want one too."

Wei Wei: "Okay, I'll give it to you when I get back from my afternoon break."

Jiang Qi: "Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by those aunties? The four of us have been grumbling about it for a long time, and they're still grumbling now! They say we're wasting money, using such nice gloves to pull weeds."

This is true. When their aunt saw the three of them pulling weeds wearing new work gloves, she kept saying that they were spendthrifts. It seemed that she must have been doing something behind their backs.

Li Zhibin didn't care at all. "Let them grumble, no matter how valuable they are, they can't be as valuable as my hands. My hands are cramping and I can't control them. They can do whatever they want. I won't lose any meat. I don't care about them!"

A group of people came to Zhang's house. The meal was already prepared. It was the same dish from the morning, but it was good enough to fill their stomachs at this time. They didn't need to worry about anything else.

After dinner, when I returned to the educated youth residence, I saw a lot of white circles outside. They should be the foundations that the team leader had someone measure. I didn't expect the team leader to act so quickly.

The old educated youth were still eating, so Wu Mei quickly boiled a pot of water while there was still time. After it boiled, several people filled the cups and kettles and filled the thermos.

When they saw the water drying in the yard, they realized that the water for bathing at night could be dried in the sun.

So they dragged out their bathtubs to dry the water, and the task of fetching water was given to several male comrades.

Only after finishing all this did she have time for lunch break. Wei Wei took the opportunity to give the three people the work gloves while she remembered, and then another one dollar and fifty cents was deposited into her account.

When he gave the gloves away, Liu Hong and Shenyang saw it, and the remaining three pairs were taken away by the two of them, earning another dollar.

The remaining pair had to be left to Aunt Liu. When she saw their gloves at noon, she asked Wei Wei if she had any left. She asked for a pair and told her to give them to her when she went to have breakfast the next morning.

Wei Wei felt extremely miserable when she heard the bell for work at noon. She didn't sleep well last night, was tired in the morning, and now she was forced to turn on the computer. She felt completely exhausted.

Wei Wei was fine, she just felt weak all over. Jiang Qi and Liu Jiaojiao were in a terrible state, they just felt pain in their arms and legs.

Jiang Qi was speechless. "We're doing the same work, why are we the only ones feeling the pain?"

Wu Mei: "It's just that the time hasn't come for us yet. It will hurt when we wake up tomorrow morning, and it will hurt even more tomorrow morning."

Hearing Wu Mei say this, Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, and Liu Jiaojiao were all a little scared.

In the afternoon, it was that piece of land again, and the four of them worked hard again.

What’s frustrating is that the afternoon is even hotter than the morning, and the ground is so stuffy, like a furnace.

Coupled with the sore waist and numb legs, and the buzzing of countless mosquitoes in their ears, several people were even more collapsed. Seeing the appearance of the four people, their aunt laughed happily.

"You're lucky. These are soybeans, not very tall. It would be hard to weed in a cornfield!

Although it's not that sunny, the leaves are very prickly and it itches when you touch them. If you scratch them, you'll get bumps all over your body, and there will be more mosquitoes."

Hearing this, Wei Wei felt extremely relieved that the team leader did not arrange them to go to the cornfield.

No wonder the two educated youths were covered tightly, even their faces. They must have gone to the cornfield to pull weeds!

After pulling weeds for a day, Wei Wei, Jiang Qi, and Liu Jiaojiao each received three work points, and Wu Mei received four work points, which means they only earned 30 cents after working so hard all day.

Several people couldn't sleep again at night. This time it was not the snoring or grinding of teeth, but the twitching pain in their arms. Even Wu Mei couldn't sleep.

When Wei Wei and the others woke up the next day, they felt the pain that Wu Mei had described as even worse.

Thigh muscle strain, arm pain, lower back pain, thigh pain.

Now I almost walk with my feet turned outward. It's fine when I go up flat ground and uphill stairs, but it's a disaster when I go downhill stairs, just like I'm doing square dance.

The most frustrating thing is going to the toilet.

The toilet was dirty to begin with, it was just a pit with a few wooden boards and two stones.

There were maggots and black pupae (dead maggot bodies) all around. There were already many flesh-colored bugs on the wood, which were maggot larvae. If you squatted there for too long, they would crawl up your shoes and onto your body.

So they always finish going to the toilet quickly. If they need to poop, they just flush the wood with water and finish quickly.

But now, not only can they not solve the problem quickly, it is even difficult for them to squat down. They have to find something to hold on to.

So when it came time to go to the bathroom, everyone started crying, even Wu Mei was no exception.

After pulling weeds for several days in a row, the three slacking off guys were able to gradually gain four or five centimeters, and Wu Mei was able to get six work points.

The back pain of several people was also relieved. They must have adapted to it. At least they can go to the toilet now.

Wei Wei had a great gain these days. She got to know several kinds of wild vegetables from several aunts.

They each weeded a piece of land, but after two days, each of them was quite far apart.

So Wei Wei always brought a small basket with her to work, under the pretext of digging wild vegetables. However, the amount of wild vegetables she brought back to Zhang's house was actually pitifully small. Although she worked like a tiger for a meal every day, it was not even enough for herself to eat.

But she still dug up a lot, but she sold them all to the system.

She doesn't have to worry about making the wrong choice because the system has an automatic recognition function when it acquires.

As she guessed, the system's purchase price for wild vegetables was quite high. Vegetables like dandelions and shepherd's purse were sold at seven or eight yuan per catty. She took a look and found that if she bought them, the pure wild ones would be sold at ten to twelve yuan per catty, but the cultivated ones were cheaper, only four or five yuan per catty.

So anything with the word "wild" in it will be expensive.

Her single-digit savings gradually improved. Although it was not much, at least it increased.