He opened the brass lock of the iron gate, hung the key back on the hook, and walked out of the courtyard. He turned and closed the iron door, and then reached through the gap next to the iron door with his right hand, locked it again, and whispered to the two dogs who were watching him in the yard and kept wagging their tails: "Two good friends, take good care of the house! Bye-bye!"

At eight o'clock in the morning, Lu Yao put down his hoe and began to pack up the herbal tea bucket and water cup, ready to go back for breakfast. He was holding an herbal tea bucket in his left hand, and he raised a hoe in his right hand to hang it on a lychee branch.

"Lu Yao, didn't you sleep last night?" asked A-Ying's eyes widened.

"Sleep, I woke up at five o'clock in the morning. Just now I saw that it was almost eight o'clock, and I was about to go back for breakfast. Lu Yao raised his right hand and wiped the sweat from his face while looking at the electronic watch on his left wrist and said.

"From five o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the morning, at three o'clock, you have hoeed nearly two acres of land, and you have completed all the day's work?

"No, I'll go back and finish breakfast, and then come out and continue working. Lu Yao replied.

"Alas, you can't work hard day and night! If you continue like this, you won't be tired in a few days. You have to rest on time and combine work and rest so that your body doesn't have problems. A-Ying said.

"I'm in good health, and I've never had a problem doing this when I'm busy farming in my hometown. Lu Yao said.

"The climate in your hometown is different from the climate here, as long as there is wind in summer, it is generally cooler. And the summer weather here is very humid, very muggy, even the wind blows with a scorching heat, we call this kind of weather sauna day. People who work for a long time in such weather are prone to heat stroke. A-Ying said.

"No, I rested last night, and I'm going to take a lunch break from noon today. As long as you get enough sleep, there will be no problems. I also have Huoxiang Zhengqi Water and Cooling Oil, both of which can prevent heat stroke. Lu Yao said.

"The progress of hoeing must be rushed, but it is also very important to rest well and ensure good health! In this way, I will set a rule for you, I did not want to do this, but I see that your schedule is very unscientific. In order for you to be able to work in the orchard in good health for a long time, I have to give you a rule. From today onwards, your daily hoeing workload is two acres of land, that is, one acre in the morning, one acre in the afternoon, and rest on rainy days. You just need to complete the work according to the regulations, and the rest of the time you are free to arrange. A-Ying said.

"How long will it take to hoe two acres of land every day?"

"Hahaha! Haven't you ever done farm work? Have you been able to hoe the grass in the crops? Won't the grass grow again in the land you have hoeed today? This orchard has more than 300 acres, how long do you plan to hoe it alone? Let me tell you, the warm and humid weather in the south is relatively long, and in a year, it is less than a month to really count it as winter. In other words, the weeds in this orchard grow all year round, and you can't hoe them all. A-Ying said with a smile.

She smiled happily and showed a mouthful of white and neat teeth, and two small dimples on her smooth face, and her smile was very sweet and charming.

"Isn't there a herbicide, why not use it?" Lu Yao asked.

"Herbicides are really convenient to use to control grasses in orchards, but herbicides have strong side effects. First, it is easy to pollute the environment; second, it is also very harmful to the human body, it is a disease-causing and carcinogenic chemical; third, the harm to other organisms is also very serious. We plant lychee trees, and the lychees that come out in the future are to be sold to people for consumption, and we have to make sure that the fruits are not polluted. Therefore, our orchards must insist on manual weeding and eliminate the use of chemicals. A-Ying said.

"Oh? Lu Yao replied thoughtfully.

"This herbal tea was brewed at noon yesterday, right?" asked Ah Ying as he stared at the herbal tea barrel that Lu Yao was holding in his hand.

"Yes. Lu Yao replied.

"You can't drink this! It's so hot, the herbal tea brewed that day must be drunk on the same day. Overnight herbal tea is easy to oxidize, and the temperature is high and it is easy to be infected by bacteria, which is not good for the body when drunk. There are three kettles in the kitchen, and they are filled with boiled water that will not last more than two days, and if you don't have time to make herbal tea in the future, you can carry the kettle out, you know?" asked A-Ying.

"Got it!"

"Let's go, go back to breakfast, you should be hungry. After Ah Ying finished speaking, she turned around and walked along the shallow ditch between the two rows of lychee trees, with Lu Yao following behind.

They returned to the shack and finished breakfast, Lu Yao brought the freshly brewed herbal tea that A-Ying had cooked for breakfast, and went to the orchard to hoe the grass again.

For the next week, Lu Yao would get up at five o'clock in the morning, go to the orchard for three hours, come back at eight o'clock in the morning to finish breakfast, go to the orchard for three and a half hours, and come back at half past eleven for lunch. After a one-hour lunch break, and after another hour of study, he went to the orchard at two o'clock in the afternoon, and began his afternoon hoeing work until half past seven in the evening. His daily workload is basically maintained at about five acres of land.

In the past week, he and A-Ying have gotten along more and more. Several little girls also like Lu Yao more and more, and as long as they are free, Lu Yao will tease them.

During this period, Lu Yao never even saw Chen Gong once. A-Ying seems to be very accustomed to this kind of life, she has never mentioned Chen Gong in front of Lu Yao, and Lu Yao is naturally inconvenient to ask more.

On the eighth night, Lu Yao thought that his job in the park should be stable, so he found a letter in his suitcase and began to write to his family:

Dear grandparents and parents!Dear eldest brother and third brother, fourth brother and fifth sister!

It's been half a month since I left you, and I miss you all the time. Autumn is about to begin, and the weather in the mountains of my hometown is starting to get cooler, especially the temperature difference between morning and evening is very large. You must increase or decrease your clothes in a timely manner, be careful of catching a cold, and take care of your body!

In the first week after I left home, I dried all the winter jackets and quilts that my family wore in the winter. Grandpa has arthritis, grandma has bronchitis, and they can't catch a cold. Ask your parents to take out the jacket and quilt in advance and put them on your grandparents' beds, and when it's cold, you must always tell your grandparents to keep warm.