Su Rui's job is a picker, four days off a month, a meal in the morning, and a salary of fifteen yuan.

Because this month is almost halfway through, she can only work the day after tomorrow and receive half a month's salary.

Su Rui followed the workers in the garden to the residence, a very clean two-story building, because it is not yet the peak season for fruits, or as Lu's mother said, the orchard business is not good this year, and only Su Rui lives in the whole building.

The person who brought her here is called Yuan Ling, who is the daughter-in-law of the village, and the man also works decently in the park and is a technical instructor.

"Little sister, don't be afraid, there is no external recruitment this year, although you are the only one living in the dormitory here, but the workers in the park are all from the village, and there are still Boss Zhou and Boss Zhou's son Lu Lian Commander living in the front yard, and my family will also patrol the park during the day, and outsiders will not come in the staff building." Yuan Ling was afraid that she was a little girl living in fear, and said with relief.

Lu Feng's position in the army is company commander, although the official rank is not large, but at this age, he can be a company with his own strength, and his future future is unlimited, and after returning from this training, he can be promoted to the deputy battalion.

Now is a time of peace, the army is not so easy to promote, at the age of eighteen to join the army, to serve two years of military service, the ability to re-enter the military academy, three years after graduation before coming out to serve.

Starting from the grassroots level, platoons, principal and deputy companies, principal and deputy battalions, and regiments, divisions, and armies, which period does not need to be tempered for several years?

Generally, cadres who have successfully reached the battalion level are not the year of establishment, but Lu Feng was promoted to the deputy battalion in his twenties with his own ability, which shows how promising he is in the future.

If you become a cadre at the level of a military division, these four or five years old can be related to whether or not you can take another step forward in your lifetime.

That's why many girls in the orchard and the compound are staring at people.

Su Rui looked around and nodded with a smile, "I'm not afraid of being alone." "She has lived too much of a life alone.

Yuan Ling smiled, didn't say more, and helped Su Rui clean up with her hands and feet.

There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and Lu Feng knocked on the door with a lunch box in his hand.

Yuan Ling said with a smile: "Company Commander Lu is here, Sister Su Rui hasn't eaten yet, I was thinking about having dinner at noon, go home and get some food to deliver, you came with food." ”

She was so dainous that she put down what she was doing, and left with a meaningful smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Let's eat." What Lu Feng brought was a meal for two people.

Su Rui smiled and nodded and sat down, always feeling that Lu Feng had helped her too much, and no amount of thanks was superfluous.

She didn't speak, and Lu Feng was silent, but the meal was delicious.

Early the next morning, Lu Feng came over to enter the county seat with Su Rui.

"Brother Lu Feng, you don't have to accompany me into the county seat." Su Rui said: "I've thought about it, I won't go to the police station to report this matter, since the line has been drawn, I don't want to have anything to do with them in the future, after all, people have to live their own lives, look forward, you can't always stare at the things in front of you, right?" ”

"If only you could think about it." He was really afraid that Su Rui wouldn't be able to see it and live in this shadow, but Su Rui really said in front of him that he didn't care, and Lu Feng felt aggrieved for her.

Bidding farewell to Lu Feng, she first went to the river to find Aunt Wang.

"My son, look at your black-hearted aunt who beat you!" Aunt Wang said distressedly, as soon as she heard that Su Rui was beaten, she ran to Du's house, and later knew that Su Rui was gone, and she was asking around, but she was a lonely old lady and had no connections, so she thought about coming to the river every morning to harvest shrimp and see if she could wait for Su Rui to come to her.

"It's okay, auntie, now I have found a job in the orchard of Dalin Village, with food and accommodation." In the morning, time was pressing, Su Rui made a long story short: "I have to go to work tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't have time to sell shrimp in the future, today I came to take my aunt to the county where I often sell shrimp to recognize the road, there are already a few customers there, and I can sell a lot in the past." ”

"I've been collecting shrimp for the past few days, it's all ready-made, but let me go into the city..."Aunt Wang has been to the farthest place in her life is the town, and she can't help but be timid when she has to take a two-hour car to the county seat.

Mrs. Wang is kind and honest, but such people have a common problem, that is, they are timid, otherwise she would not dare to fight with her stepson for family property, and she will end up with nothing.

But this time, accompanied by Su Rui, and repeatedly persuaded by her, Aunt Wang gritted her teeth, or nodded and went with her to catch the car, and the two of them took seventeen or eighteen pounds of shrimp, and they were bought not long after they arrived in the county.

This trip, it was sold for a total of six dollars!

In addition to the round-trip fee, the net profit was four yuan, and the two discussed and took out another piece from the middle, entered the restaurant and ordered two dishes before coming back.

Along the way, the smile on Aunt Wang's face never retreated, and she became much more confident.

With the money earned today and the previous savings, Su Rui finally scraped together the eight yuan of medical expenses, and when Lu Feng took it, he didn't say anything.

However, although she was relieved to repay the money, Su Rui was already in her sleeves.

And after confirming the work, Su Rui sent a telegram to Su's mother, and Su's mother called back the next day to say that the factory did not approve leave, she worked in three shifts in the state-owned unit and the factory, and she could only wait for her share of overtime to finish her share, and squeeze out the whole day to come to pick up Su Rui, so that she would have to wait for another twenty days.

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The whole orchard mainly produces apples and peaches, of which apples are also divided into apples and autumn apples, and there are some miscellaneous seasonal fruits.

There are apricots in June, peaches in July, apples ripen in the ambush, pears and dates in August and September, and continue until the next season of autumn apples in late autumn.

Now is the season of apricot ripening, the apricot orchard covers an area of not large, about one hectare, Rao is so diameter is also twenty miles away.

Su Rui was assigned to the night shift, and the picking team was all women, and although the garden was large, it was safe to work in pairs.

I went to work at two o'clock in the morning, so that the guests who came to harvest the fruit in the morning could leave after counting, and they would not delay the sale, and they would look fresh.

The person who led Su Rui to be familiar with the work was called Pan Qinghong, and there were seven people in the entire picking team.

Except for Su Rui, everyone else was tall and strong, and they were quite surprised by the appearance of the new members.

One of the strongest women stepped forward and looked at her without hesitation, "My name is Lin Mei, and you are a relative of Boss Zhou's family?" ”

Lin Mei was wearing a red and white checkered shirt and was particularly eye-catching in a team of plainly dressed women's troops, especially when she also permed her hair with a wavy roll that was fashionable at the moment.

Compared with other girls' clothes, Su Rui's clothes are indeed good in the countryside, which shows that Su's mother also loves her daughter.

"It's not." Su Rui didn't like her gaze.

"And who brought you in?" Lin Mei then asked, obviously with a little more contempt this time.

"Alright." Pan Qinghong interrupted her and said: "This is Su Rui, our new worker, everyone will have time to get to know each other in the future, there is still a task today, and it is not too early, I will arrange it." ”

Pan Qinghong finished reporting the number of catties that the rest of the people were responsible for picking, and everyone carried bamboo baskets on their backs and turned on their headlamps and scattered into the garden.

She turned around and called Su Rui, "Take this scratch hook, I'll teach you how to use it." ”

Su Rui carried a bamboo basket on her back and held a "scraping hook" in her hand, which was actually a bamboo pole with an iron hook tied to the head of the pole.

"Let's do picking, the first thing to pick the fruit, the fruit should be six or seven ripe, it is easy to rot after that, and it is too early to be unripe, and then we can't break the branches, use the hook to pull down the branches, to make skill..."

Pan Qinghong explained to Su Rui one by one, seeing that she was doing well, she was also relieved that she would enter the garden to work, and only told her to enter the garden for the first time, not to go too far, but tomorrow there will be a receipt, at least three full baskets must be removed.

Originally, there were six of them, and it was easy to arrange them in groups of two or two, but today there was one more Su Rui, and there was a task on her side, so Pan Qinghong could only leave her and go deeper by herself.