October Golden Autumn.

Xiushui County is a large grain producing county, especially rice, the north of the county is close to the large rice fields on both sides of the county road, at this time it is already a golden piece. The golden ears of rice drooped down, and when the wind blew, they swayed like golden waves.

Yan Ning wiped the sweat from her head with a towel hanging around her neck, stood on the side of the road, looked at the busy crowd in the rice field, and only felt comfortable physically and mentally.

Although he has been retired for two years, the habit of morning jogging has always been maintained.

In Xiushui County, whether it is the playground of No. 2 Middle School or the county stadium, the feeling of running in the morning is not as good as this kind of pleasure along the large rice fields and countryside, smelling the faint smell of grass and trees in the air, almost intoxicating.

After retiring from the army, she entered the Normal University, majoring in physical education, and has an understanding of sports morphology and exercise physiology.

She now clearly feels that her results are much worse than before, there is no competition pressure, her life is stable and comfortable, and it is inevitable that people will slack off a lot.

It's just that it's really nice that way!

Compared with many teammates at that time, the path she chose after retiring was the smoothest of all, and the athlete still had to return to real life after spending the most golden age, but ...... The family is nagging about blind dates again, which makes her a little irritable.

"The holidays are over!"

Yan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, shook off her parents' recent chatter, and thought that the school sports meeting should be held a few days after the start of school.

There are not many teachers in Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and she, as a physical education teacher, will definitely be a referee in the next school games, and she will be busy.

Grunt grunt –

The sound of machinery turning suddenly sounded.

Yan Ning looked in the direction from which the figure came, in the middle of the rice field not far away, a large yellow ear of rice had been cut down with a sickle, a huge square wooden barrel was placed in the rice field, and the sound of a threshing machine came from afar.

The time for the late rice to ripen is about this time, although it is almost eight o'clock in the morning, but there are more and more busy figures in the rice fields, and there is a busy scene of harvest.

Yan Ning walked slowly back along the side of the road, she had just run a few kilometers, and now it was time to walk slowly to relax her muscles and calm her breathing.

Looking at the busy crowd of people in the rice fields on both sides all the way, she used to work at this time when she was young, and now although the family has changed her household registration, as long as she looks at it, she can't help but be a little kind.

Yan Ningzheng looked left and right all the way, looking at the busy crowd, many people actually knew her, after all, a person who often gets up early to run in the countryside, especially women, is still very able to attract attention at this time.

"Huh?!"

was walking slowly, Yan Ning suddenly paused, and in the rice field of a family she knew well, he saw a familiar figure.

"It's ...... Ye Chin?! ”

Yan Ning was slightly puzzled for a while, and there were a few different emotions in her heart. Standing in the distance, seeing the busy energy of others, he didn't go up to talk, but silently glanced at it a few times, and then quietly walked away.

……

"Ye Qin, are you tired, you can rest, replace me!"

Zhang Jiadong straightened his slightly sore waist, looked at the young man who was stepping on the threshing machine on the side, and shouted with a smile.

"No need, Uncle Zhang." Ye Qin threw a handful of straw that had already been cleaned on the threshing machine towards the side of the grain bucket, smiled and replied, then grabbed a handful of rice stacked in front of him and continued the threshing work.

"Ye Qin, you better replace your Uncle Zhang, you are working too hard."

Zhang Jiadong's daughter-in-law, who was holding the practice of bending over to cut rice, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and shouted aloud.

"I really don't need to, auntie, I'm not tired, I used to help people do this at home." While stepping on the threshing machine, Ye Qin quickly threshed the handful of rice in his hand again, threw it to the straw pile next to him, and replied again.

"You kid, what a ......!"

Zhang Jiadong shook his head and glanced at his wife next to him, and he was really a little emotional for a while.

Yesterday, the two husbands and wives were busy working in the farmland, and they saw a dark-skinned teenager, asking if there was anyone who needed help with it, cutting rice and stepping on a threshing machine. A meal at noon is 30 yuan a day according to half a labor.

Zhang Jiadong was just looking interesting on the side of the road at the time, and casually said that he would not do it for twenty-five days, but he didn't expect the young man to roll up his trousers and go down to the field without saying a word.

This made Zhang Jiadong panic, he usually likes to joke, but I didn't expect this young man to take it seriously. He and his wife couldn't stop them, so they picked up the sickle and began to cut the rice.

To tell the truth, in this crop, it is rare to invite people to invite such a half-grown child, and it is not his generation in the early years, and now the young people do less work, and they may look a little strong, but they are not long, and the farm work is generally two or three times, and they wilt in the back.

The kid in his early twenties who has gone out to work has not been able to stay in the field for a few minutes since he was a child.

But this young man is really able to endure hardships, is not afraid of tiredness, and does an excellent job, no worse than an adult laborer. Cutting rice is sharper than that of him and his wife, and he does not throw away grain, and the cut rice is stacked neatly.

Threshing by stepping on the threshing machine is even better than that of an adult in his forties, the sound of the humming threshing machine has never slowed down, and the rice cut by the two husbands and wives is not enough for him to threh alone.

This is a really capable lad!

Moreover, after learning about the situation, the two couples learned that this young man was not doing small jobs outside, but a high school student who wanted to take advantage of the National Day holiday to earn some living expenses.

This made Zhang Jiadong and his wife even more distressed, thinking about the kid who was working outside, whether he still called back and asked for money, he really felt that people couldn't compare.

"Wait for you to go back early, cook two more dishes, I called Ye Qin to go to the house for a meal, and I didn't have time to get a few dishes at noon." Zhang Jiadong walked to his mother-in-law's side and said in a low voice.

His daughter-in-law glanced at him, and her voice was also very low, "If you want you to say, I will tell Lao Xie, who sells meat, to help me keep a pound of pork belly." I want to say, you see this child's neatness, you have to calculate his salary well. ”

"That's it." Zhang Jiadong smiled and nodded, "I'll help calculate a manual for him." ”

The husband and wife are both real people, although they didn't think of asking someone to help at the beginning, but they really found that after adding Ye Qin, the progress far exceeded expectations, and they didn't skimp on so many hundred dollars.

Although I don't know much about what I said, there are some things that everyone can think of.

Ye Qin didn't know what the two couples of Zhang Jiadong who hired him were discussing at this time, but he still worked very hard.

He originally wanted to go home during the National Day holiday, and it has been almost a month since the beginning of school, and it is good to go home to see his grandparents, but after thinking about it, he still didn't go back.

Although it is a busy season for farming, because the uncle went out to work, there were only two old people at home, grandparents, and the land was contracted to others to plant, so he went back and had nothing to do except catch loaches and pick up snails or something, so he simply looked around the county to find out if anyone could work temporarily, and how much he could earn some living expenses.

If it is in a big city, maybe he can still find some temporary jobs to do, but the county seat of Xiushui County is very small and the economy is sluggish, so it is not easy to find a restaurant to serve dishes to people.

Later, Ye Qin thought about it, so he simply went out of the city and walked far away to see if he could find a way to collect rice for others at this time.

He also asked a lot of people along the way, and most people basically didn't want him when they saw him, usually even if they wanted to ask someone, they would do it in advance, or help each other in their hometowns, until they met Zhang Jiadong joking with him in the field, and he agreed without thinking about it. And when Zhang Jiadong and his wife dissuaded him, he also stayed cheekily.

In places where there are few opportunities, he knew early on that strength is not worth much, and what he can earn is a little.

However, he didn't dare to tell his family about these things, with his grandfather's temperament, he would just go to school by himself, and if he came out to work on weekends and holidays, he would probably be unhappy!

Fortunately, there are not many opportunities like this, school will start tomorrow, and even if there is a weekend in the future, the time is short, and coupled with the pressure of high school study, it is not easy to find time.