"Okay, Captain Liu is talking about it, I will pay attention to it."

"Captain Liu, sit down. You haven't eaten yet. Let's eat something together. This is the meal I cooked. Please eat something."

In order to ease the embarrassment, Liu Chen greeted him with a smile and took another pair of bowls and chopsticks.

Who dares to eat white rice like this? Who doesn’t eat whole grain rice? Rice is only eaten during the Chinese New Year. Young people don’t eat whole grains that make their throats irritate. If they are really hungry, they will eat some whole grain rice. Many families now eat it.

What I ate was double steamed rice.

Liu Chen didn't know about double-steamed rice. It was a self-deception practice during the Great Famine. After steaming the rice, scoop out half of it and add an appropriate amount of water to steam it again. You can get twice as much rice as before.

Rice. This is a type of "food consumption increase method". If you have more water, you will feel full and hungry quickly. At that time, many people ate double-steamed rice, which caused edema and even death.

It's not like Liu Chen's family, where they eat gleaming vegetable oil, bowls of white rice, and scrambled eggs. Those eggs are only eaten by rich people.

Liu Chen served Captain Liu a plate of rice and took the chopsticks.

Anyway, eating is the most important thing. Eat enough and then accept criticism and education.

Looking at the vegetables and rice in front of him, Captain Liu swallowed his saliva. Although he was the captain, his family had a large population, so he would only eat good things for the elderly and children at home. He also ate steamed buns and pickles.

.He doesn’t expect extravagant amounts of vegetable oil for cooking.

If you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know etiquette. Don't worry about it for now, the glutton in your belly is not willing to wait any longer.

Captain Liu picked up his chopsticks and started eating with big mouthfuls.

Fragrant, really fragrant. These vegetables are all grown by ourselves without pesticides. The oil is rapeseed oil, so the fried vegetables are fragrant. After a tiring day, everything you eat when you are tired and hungry will taste fragrant.

After finishing the meal, Captain Liu hit Liu Chen with his cigarette pole and said, "I won't do this next time."

"Brother, you are so brave, but the food is really delicious. It would be great if I could eat such delicious food every day."

"Sister, don't worry, believe me, brother, I will definitely make your wishes come true in the future."

"You can still dream."

Who dares to eat like this? Just stir-fry green vegetables, oh my goodness, the oil is swaying, and white rice. That’s half a pot. She ate three big bowls by herself. If the captain hadn’t stayed to eat, she would have thought

I'm going to have another bowl. There's also scrambled eggs with leeks. It's delicious, but there are too few eggs and I didn't eat enough.

Everyone's work is heavy, so their appetites are naturally big. Not to mention men, even women need several bowls if they want to have a full meal. Everyone has a big appetite because they don't have much fat or water in their stomachs.

...

The sky was bright, the sun was rising, Liu Chen was sleeping soundly, and the bell rang again.

"Baby, get up quickly, get up quickly, let's go to work."

Liu Jiefang patted Liu Chen's butt and shouted.

Today's task is heavier than yesterday's. Captain Liu said last night that today's task will be two hours earlier than yesterday's.

"What time is it? It's too early."

Liu Chen got up slowly and leisurely, feeling dazed, feeling uncomfortable and aching all over his body.

"Baby, get up quickly and don't stay in bed."

After getting up, getting dressed, and washing up, Liu Chen soon followed everyone to the wheat field.

"You kid, stop inking and hurry up."

From a distance, I saw Captain Liu pointing his pipe and pot at him.

"What time is it? It's not even bright yet, so it's too early."

Seeing Liu Chen slowly swallowing and walking unsteadily, Captain Liu felt that it was a mistake to place Liu Chen's household registration in the production team. This kid has grown so big for nothing that he is useless.

As the saying goes, money can't buy you a drought in May, but plenty of food in June with continuous rain.

When the wheat is ripe, it is necessary to harvest it quickly. If there is a continuous cloudy, windy and rainy weather, the wheat production will be reduced, and the food that reaches the mouth must not be let go.

Just like last year, there was a severe drought, and it could be said that there was no harvest. Every household was starving with stars in its eyes. God has been kind this year and has given everyone rations. The rations that are in your mouth cannot be let go.

All the members of the commune went to the custodian to receive the farm tools for their own use, and they were all very motivated and ran to the fields like crazy.

Although everyone didn't have enough to eat and didn't have warm clothes, they were full of energy and worked very hard.

"I see that you, too, have grown taller in vain. You will go to the mule train later and follow your rich uncle to drive the mule train."

As soon as he heard that Captain Liu assigned him the task of driving a mule cart, Liu Chen immediately perked up and nodded quickly with a smile.

This job is good, easy and not tiring, and the work points are good. This is a job that everyone wants to do. As long as you no longer use a sickle to cut wheat, any job will be fine.

The Liutang production team is not big, with about a hundred people, but although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. In addition to the team leader, accountant and cashier, there are also custodians who are responsible for the production tools and food in the production team, as well as team leaders and breeders.

, Carriage and Horsemanship Hall, Machinery Operators and other personnel.

There were no agricultural machinery at this time. Spring plowing and autumn harvesting were all done by hand, and transportation mainly relied on livestock. Each team had two large mule carts and several platoon carts. The large mule cart was usually pulled by three mules, and the platoon cart was pulled by a single horse.

Donkeys and oxen pull together.

"Uncle Fugui, Captain Liu asked me to team up with you and ask you to teach me how to drive a mule cart and fight in the field."

Other members of the commune put the wheat on the mule cart, and Liu Chen pulled the mule forward.

Liu Fugui is an old bachelor in the team. He is in his forties. He has worked all year round and is malnourished. He is as thin as a man in his fifties and sixties. He married a daughter-in-law during the famine, but unfortunately she died in childbirth.

Already.

He heard that Liu Chen saved the life of Erniu's wife, and he might have been able to save his own wife if Liu Chen had been there at that time. He couldn't help but be extra affectionate to Liu Chen.

Some women bundled wheat into the cart, and Liu Chen pulled the cart toward the threshing floor.

Looking at Liu Chen's thin skin and tender flesh, he thought that this kid was smart and not stupid, so he shouldn't be difficult to teach.

Liu Fugui supported the big mule cart, first took out the main mule, tied a scarf, and tied a rope around its mouth to prevent the animals from kicking and biting the disobedient animals. Then he drove the mule backwards and shouted into the cart, and loaded it.

Splint cover, put the saddle and tow strap, then remove the support, tie the mule's girdle firmly, and finally put the harness on the left and right.

After completing a series of actions, Liu Fugui taught Liu Chen some "official languages" for communicating with animals. When the animals go on the road, they shout "drive", stop and shout "pu", "da da" to the left, and "ta da" to the right.

Say "oh oh".

After remembering this, Liu Chen took the two-meter-long whip from Liu Fugui's hand. He swung the whip back, hit it forward hard, and shouted "Drive, drive" loudly.

The mule stood motionless. Liu Chen was confused. Why was this mule so disobedient and motionless?

Seeing the strength of Liu Chen's whip, Liu Fugui laughed and said,

"My darling, you must use more force. You are like a girl, you have to use all your strength to suck milk."

He grasped the whip again, swung it back, hit the mule forward with force, and shouted "drive, drive". It hurt from the beating, and the mule walked forward.

Let's go, it's still very simple. It's still an easy job, and Liu Chen feels happy.

Everyone quickly took the wheat to the threshing floor and dumped it on the ground. After the wheat arrived, several members spread it out with forks to dry. It was a scorching sun. When the weather was good, they picked it back and forth a few times and then used stones to dry it.

It's time to thresh the grains in the slug field.

"Okay, go and push the stone roller over."

Liu Fugui now wants to teach Liu Chen how to play.

There are many stone rollers placed one by one on the field, large and small, all made of bluestone. Liu Chen is familiar with stone rollers. There is also one in his hometown in the countryside. It was a large cylinder used for playing in the field when he was a child.

, there are stone roller eyes at both ends.

Liu Chen rolled the stone roller over, and Liu Fugui brought the square wooden frame and tied it with a rope.

"What are you standing here looking at? Go and get the mule."

Liu Chen brought in a mule. This animal was a cross between a male donkey and a female horse and was sterile. But it was very good and very capable. It had the energy of a donkey and the agility of a horse. It was about the same size as a horse and was a workhorse.

A good hand. He plows in spring and harvests in autumn, pulls camels and rides, but he still exerts a lot of effort.

"Have you never seen a mule? You should bring it here quickly."

Hearing Liu Fugui's shout, Liu Chen hurriedly led the mule.

After the rope was tied, Liu Fugui handed the rope to Liu Chen. At first, he thought it was as simple as before, but who knew the mule would stop doing it now.

"XuXu"

Liu Chen started running after the mule. What was going on? He originally wanted the mule to run in circles, but why did he start running disobediently? Liu Chen kept shouting to stop, but the mule didn't seem to understand.

Then he ran, but Liu Chen had no choice but to follow the mule.

"Here comes my child, why are you running around with this beast? Hurry up and let go." Liu Fugui sat next to him and took a sip from his cigarette pot, shaking his head and shouting.

Can Liu Chen not want to let go? But this thing is chasing his butt. What should he do if he lets go and hits himself? Because he used too much force, he got blisters from holding the sickle yesterday, and they got worse today, and his hands were bruised.

A large piece of skin was rubbed off, and it was burning and painful.

Liu Fugui looked at Liu Chen's stupidity and realized that this kid was not good at the moves and needed more practice. He pulled the rope and said "whisper", and the mule stopped obediently.

Liu Fugui took the whip and hit it on the mule, "drive it". The mule obediently pulled the stone roller to circle the field.

Circle after circle, after a few laps, the mule stopped.

As the saying goes, if you have a drum in front of you and a gong in front of you, if you offend the captain, you will be assigned a bad job, if you offend the accountant, you will poke with a pen, if you offend the keeper of the weight, if you offend the captain, you will not be able to survive.

If he hadn't seen him save the life of Erniu's wife, Captain Liu would have given him this good job in the field. This is a job that many people would envy. How many people would like to learn but have no chance to learn. Liu Chen took it.

Uncle Fugui used his whip and rope to drive the mule. He followed Uncle Fugui's example and hit the mule with his whip, shouting "drive".

The mule started walking slowly and slowly, pulling the stone wheel and turning it. It was okay now, and finally it didn't follow the mule.
Chapter completed!