Chapter 24: First day at work

The days of rest are always short, and a few people always feel that they have to start work tomorrow before they realize it.

After Wen Xin got the package back that day, she went inside and fell asleep. You have to take a good rest while there is still time, otherwise it will be difficult to have the opportunity to sleep in later.

It felt like I hadn't slept for a long time when the sound of work horns came from outside.

Wen Xin was awakened by the harsh sound, got out of bed irritably, and made the bed roughly.

Then I went to the yard and started washing up.

Doesn't every household have running water? It would be great to have a well at home. If not, the only option is to fetch water from a stream, which is far and inconvenient.

Fortunately, there is a well in the courtyard of the educated youth. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the educated youth to fetch water due to their small stature.

Wen Xin squeezed out the toothpaste and went out to brush her teeth, brushing her mind while wandering.

In the eyes of the villagers, these city dwellers who came to the countryside were probably industrious, and it was impossible to expect to work. Therefore, the villagers are full of disgust towards them. Gossip is always forbidden.

But Wen Xin decided to be a thick-skinned person and just say what she said without losing any weight.

She is only 17 years old now. If she really works hard, she will be able to return to the city in three years and her body will be useless. Work points are more or less enough. She doesn't rely on this to make a living anyway. The most important thing is her body, which is the capital of the revolution.

With space, Wen Xin can be said to have no worries about food and drink. The money she earned before was enough to live a comfortable life for a long time.

So here, Wen Xin plans to find a lighter job with the captain after a while.

In fact, girls of her age in rural areas are already very good at working in the fields. In addition, they have to help with cooking and cleaning at home. They are really a labor force. She is a year or two older, and when people look at each other, they will know that this girl is hard-working and hard-working, and is still very popular.

But Wen Xin didn't think so. She wanted others to think she was delicate and not to have any ideas about her.

The educated youth who go to the countryside these days are generally not very old and their bodies are not fully developed. They work hard in the countryside and do not eat very well. Some people sincerely believe that they are here to build rural areas, and they just work hard when they come here. In the end, they make themselves sick and have to go back to the city for medical treatment.

After returning to the city, life was not so easy. I had no job, no income, and had to spend money on medical treatment. My family was busy, and it was unclear whether I could take care of myself. After a long time, family conflicts will all come out, right?

Wen Xin thought about her own strength and ability, and she still had self-awareness. She could do as much as she could and would never fail.

I had just brushed my teeth and washed my face, and was about to go in, when I heard a howling.

Wen Xin was frightened. Just when she wanted to see what was going on, she saw Zhang Yingying coming out of the toilet with her mouth covered and vomiting.

How can toilets in rural areas be clean and hygienic? At this time, even manure is fertilizer. Villagers will save a certain amount and pick it out to fertilize the farmland to calculate their work points.

But as for the educated youth, they can't accept this. They don't want to earn these work points, so there is no one to use the toilet, the weather is hot, and there are many mosquitoes. The smell was so pungent that it hit the heavens.

Zhang Yingying vomited for a while, her face turned pale, her eyes were watery, and she said to Wen Xin in a choked voice, "Wen Xin, I can't adapt to it. I miss home."

Wen Xin sighed in her heart. She was still a minor girl. This was her first experience like this. "Yingying, we have to stay here for a long time. We will get used to it slowly and it will eventually pass. It's okay."

Zhang Yingying was also shocked and her mentality collapsed a little. She was comforted for a while and she was fine.

After everyone cleaned up, the educated youths went to the wheat field together.

Seeing the old educated youth wearing straw hats and towels, the new educated youth followed suit.

When they arrived at the wheat field, the captain who had gone to pick them up was on top.

The captain saw that all the educated youths had arrived, none of them were late, and he looked satisfied.

When everyone arrived, the captain first introduced the five new educated youths to the villagers.

Listening to the captain's introduction, the villagers looked at the educated youth as if they were monkeys in the zoo. Wen Xin tried hard to convince herself to ignore their looks and pretend they didn't exist.

Zhang Yingying and Wang Yumei blushed at the looks from around them. A voice came from the villagers, "Educated youths are still thin-skinned. These two young educated youths are blushing. Which young man are they attracted to?"

There was a burst of laughter nearby.

The two of them blushed even more, wondering why the people in this village were so vulgar and making fun of others.

The captain looked at the people who were making noises, straightened his face, and shouted at the villagers, "Don't talk nonsense. If you continue to make noise, your work points will be deducted."

Work points are food and money, so they would be very angry if they were deducted. The villagers who heard the captain say this gradually restrained themselves. They didn't want to have their work points deducted because of a joke.

This is the ignorance of people at this time.

In this age where rumors can kill people, many things are caused by jokes that some people think are funny.

Back to the present, the population of Linjia Village is not small. It is divided into four teams and has four team leaders.

The captain of a small team seems to have an honest personality, but he is also too evil-minded. He immediately asked Lin Kai, the only boy among the new educated youths, to leave.

The other team captains immediately disagreed. Why would a male educated youth go to your place? There were four female educated youths in each team, and the male educated youth asked him to choose.

Finally, by drawing lots, Lin Kai and Zhao Wanqing went to the first team, Wang Yumei went to the second team, Zhang Yingying went to the third team, and Wen Xin went to the fourth team.

Seeing this grouping, Wen Xin thought that it really followed the plot in her book, and Lin Kai and Zhao Wanqing were grouped together.

In Wen Xin's book, each team has different strengths. A small team of people does the best work and gets the most work points and food at the end of the year. Several other teams pushed back in order. People in the fourth team earned the least work points.

Because there are many people in the fourth team working as foreign workers, and everyone does not do much, the work points and food at the end of the year will naturally be less.

But Wen Xin, who was assigned to the fourth team, was still very happy. Since no one is working hard anyway, I am not so out of the ordinary, and I can save some effort.

In the past few years, God has been kind and the harvest has been good. Even the fourth team of foreign workers did not starve to death because of food.

They came at a good time, just after the summer harvest, and the work in the fields was not heavy. That means cleaning up the corn stalks, weeding the fields, watering the fields, etc.

Today's job is weeding. Wen Xin observed that the villagers were pulling weeds with bare hands. They were probably used to it and didn't feel any pain in their hands.

Wen Xin, who was watching from the side, said that her hand hurt. After pulling it out for about half an hour, Wen Xin looked at her hands that were reddened by the grass and trembling slightly, crying in her heart.