usatvline Chapter 127 Harvesting Rice
Chapter 127 Harvesting Rice
Lin Sitian, who was alone in the room, didn't know that her brother and Zhou Tinghao had discussed with Director Zhou until midnight before returning to Director Zhou's house to eat a bowl of noodles before resting.
Anyway, she just did what she should do. After handing all the information to her brother, she saw her brother leave the yard and started chatting with her friends at the dining area.
Even his friends were no longer worried after meeting Lin Zhiqiang in person. Instead, they took advantage of the special chat time to ask Lin Sitian to talk in detail about her experience climbing the mountain today.
Lin Sitian looked at the medicinal herbs piled in the corner that had not yet been prepared, so she took them one by one in her hand and introduced the uses and effects of these herbs to her companions one by one.
He used these herbs to bring out his experience of discovering the cave, and tried various ways to test whether there was anyone in the cave. After finding that there was no one, he walked in and saw that there were too many things inside, so he called his brother.
Lin Sitian finished her experience on the mountain in just a few words, satisfying her little friend's curiosity.
Guan Huijun grew up in the compound. After listening to Lin Sitian's story, even if he didn't go to see those people, he could guess most of what happened.
Now, seeing Lin Zhiqing still laughing foolishly in his yard, he was worried that she would not see her brother return tomorrow, so he reminded her:
"Lin Zhiqing, your brother and the others probably won't be back tomorrow. They probably still have to cooperate with the Public Security Bureau to catch the other bad guys.
After all, didn't your brother tell us not to tell this news to anyone when he came back to get food? It's easy to guess that there must be accomplices in the other teams.
Therefore, they will definitely be delayed for a day or two. During these two days, you should stay in the fields to harvest. Don't worry, even if your brother is busy with the harvest and can't help you, you can definitely leave work early.
We will help you a little so that you still have time to go back to the yard to prepare your herbs. If you have prepared all the herbs, you can also make some ointments, potions, etc. for your brother while he is working.
In this way, when his home leave is over, he can take the money with him to the army, and you won’t have to bother sending it back and forth.
Anyway, you didn't use the batch of medicinal herbs given to you by the commune. You found them all yourself. If you want to do something reasonable for your brothers, no one will dare to say anything to you.
So it’s better not to go to the mountains recently. If you encounter one or two fish that have slipped through the net, you will be in danger.”
Hearing Guan Huijun's caring advice, Lin Sitian responded with a smile:
"I know, thank you for your concern. I won't be going up the mountain these two days, as I'm busy with the autumn harvest anyway.
Even if I finish work early, it would be good for me to come back and pack up the herbs so I don’t have to go up the mountain.
If I really want to find medicinal herbs, there are common herbs that clear heat and detoxify on the ridges of fields, on hillsides, etc.
If I really can't stay idle, I can go dig for those safe and fresh herbs that I can always have."
After chatting about these things, they saw that it was getting late, and the person who boiled the water today had already heated it up, so they all got up and prepared to wash up and go to bed.
After packing up everything, Lin Sitian snuggled in her bed and recalled her performance today. Only after she was sure that she had done nothing wrong did she feel relieved.
After thinking about her performance today, she remembered what Guan Huijun and the others had just said. Anyway, she would usually find some medicinal herbs in the mountains to make medicine for her brother. Now that her brother and Zhou Tinghao have made such a great military achievement, their status will definitely rise a bit.
The most likely possibility is that they will be allowed to participate in the research and development of the batch of military information they submitted. Even if they do not participate in the research and development, they may be the first group of people to be allocated that batch of weapons.
The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. With military merits like my brother's, they will definitely be assigned to do more dangerous tasks, so I have to keep up with the medicines here.
Thinking of this, she flashed back to the space, walked to the area where she stored medicines, and saw the various kinds of medicines she had stored.
After picking and choosing, I finally picked out a lot of medicines that my brother might need. Among these medicines are: anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, hemostatic powders and various tonics.
Lin Sitian looked at the medicines she had picked out, and after thinking for a while, she decided that she couldn't give them out in their original form, otherwise it would easily arouse suspicion.
After all, the things sent to the army are quite strict, and with his brother's personality, he would definitely not use them all by himself, so he decided to grind all these tablets or powders into powder.
Anyway, I ground the calcium tablets into powder and added it to the mung bean soup. My friends didn't notice anything wrong, so I just did it this way.
The reason why the medicines I selected from the space did not include commonly used cold medicines or medicines for common headaches and fevers.
This is because she thought it would be better to make these simple medicines by herself. This way, she could use pure wild Chinese herbs and also add spiritual spring water into them. This way, while taking the medicine, she could not only recuperate her body as quickly as possible, but also enhance her body's original resistance.
After thinking about all this, Lin Sitian left her own space and began to snuggle in the quilt to try to fall asleep. As she was trying to fall asleep, she unconsciously thought of Zhou Tinghao who had been courting her all day.
Lin Sitian always felt that her mind was so confused at this moment. Sometimes she thought of the scene by the river that day, sometimes she thought of the image of Zhou Tinghao whose appearance did not match his voice, and sometimes she thought of the scene of him eagerly giving her eggs...
Dor's messy picture was that Lin Sitian was getting more and more sleepy, and fell asleep unknowingly.
In her dream, she saw her brother and Zhou Tinghao had captured many people in this cave and obtained a lot of information, so they had to stop their vacation and return to the team early.
After all, the personnel lists and information in their hands are extremely important, especially the military information that they secretly mixed in.
Lin Sitian watched Zhou Tinghao, who was sleeping, find her on the morning of his passing, right next to the stream where he had confessed his love to her.
Zhou Tinghao looked at him affectionately with his well-defined face, and said aggrievedly:
"Sister Xiaolin, I'm almost gone. Can you give me some definite news? I really can't bear to leave you. I always feel that time flies by so fast. We just met, but I have to leave in a hurry. I don't know when we will meet again.
Little Lin sister, Little Lin sister, my dear sister, please have pity on me, your brother. My heart is directly moved by your every word and action (*≧3)(e≦*)(*≧3)(e≦*)."
…………………… (Lin Sitian in a dream)
The next day, Lin Sitian was awakened by the work bell. All she could think about was Zhou Tinghao's pitiful appearance and the voice that called her "Little Sister Lin" with a rising tone at the end.
I shook my head, hoping to get rid of the images in my mind, but when I found that I couldn't get rid of them at all, I gave up the idea and thought that I might as well make the best of it. After all, they were just a few images and would not affect me.
He hurriedly got out of bed and began to tidy himself up. He fixed his hair, put on the clothes, pants and rubber shoes he wore to work, and walked out of the room.
They took their toiletries and went to the kitchen to get the boiled water. After washing up quickly, they quickly finished their breakfast, filled their kettles with boiled water, and then walked towards the team.
When I arrived at the threshing ground where work was usually assigned, I found that it was the branch secretary, not the team leader, who assigned the tasks today.
In fact, everyone knew it clearly in their minds. They knew that the team leader must not have returned to the team yet. After all, Dr. Lin’s brother didn’t go to work with him, right?
Because all the corn was moved and stored in the corresponding place yesterday, I have to do a different job today.
The work we are going to do today is harvesting rice. We are assigned to a group, and each group is responsible for a piece of field. Each person in the group is responsible for harvesting rice, bundling rice, and threshing rice.
This time, because Lin Zhiqiang and Zhou Tinghao were not there, the two male educated youth who were originally separated when moving corn were also assigned back. They still thought that they had to stay together in their compound, otherwise they would not know if they were bullied.
Lin Sitian's group was assigned to two teams, one was Zhuzi and the other was Gangzi. Both of them were the big guys who followed Lin Zhiqiang yesterday.
After what happened yesterday, the two men's admiration for soldiers like Lin Zhiqiang and Zhou Tinghao reached an unprecedented level, so today they took the initiative to volunteer to follow Lin Zhiqiang's sister in the same group.
Zhuzi was responsible for bundling the rice with Wang Wenxiang and Zhao Wenhua, while Gangzi was responsible for threshing the rice in a special container with Guan Huijun and Liu Zhipeng.
The reason why there were two team members was because the branch secretary was afraid that these educated youth who had just gone to the countryside did not know how to beat the rice stalks, how to knock as much rice as possible off the stalks to avoid waste, and how to bundle the rice stalks more firmly. Therefore, Gangzi and Zhuzi were responsible for teaching the new educated youth in the early stage.
Yun Ya, Bai Wanting, Lin Sitian and Xia Zhiyan were responsible for harvesting the rice. They only needed to cut the rice and place it in the rice fields.
This was the first time that the people in their yard were neatly divided into a group, which allowed them to happily chat with each other throughout the working hours.
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I checked on my phone and found that rice can be harvested after corn. In the 70s and 80s, the main crops grown in the autumn harvest in northern China were soybeans, wheat, and corn. People usually ate corn, grinding it into cornmeal to make steamed bread or pancakes. They also made corn grits and cooked them into large or small grits porridge. Rice was grown in the late 70s and early 80s. At the time of this article, which is the three years before 1977, rice was available, but not much was grown.