The cyan sky had just faded, and the sun had not yet shown its head, and the old village chief was already holding the broken gong, and the front and back villages were beating around.

Yunshang turned over and sat up, pushed Bai Qingyue, who was sleeping next to her, and urged her to get up quickly and get ready to go to work.

The village chief came over for dinner last night, Yunshang avoided everyone, and quietly mentioned to the village chief that Bai Qingyue wanted to stay in the village to do farm work, and hinted to the village chief very unkindly, but he trained Bai Qingyue hard, and he must not show mercy to his subordinates because of Bai Qingyue's identity as the daughter of the commander of the military region.

Due to Yunshang's strange request, the village chief dispelled the idea of assigning Bai Qingyue to the team of educated youths, and assigned her next to the women who worked the most neatly in the village.

Bai Qingyue didn't know that he was pitted by Yunshang, so he got up from the kang with neat movements, put on coarse cloth clothes with solid fabrics according to Yunshang's mention, changed into light cloth shoes, hung a white towel around his neck, and then put on a straw hat, and finally hastily ate breakfast, and followed the old man out of the door in good spirits.

Qinghe Village is close to the river, and it is easy to fog in the late autumn morning, when the sky has just revealed a light red, a large cloud of fog falls out of thin air, and soon covers the originally clean and bright sky, leaving only a white expanse between the sky and the earth.

Bai Qingyue followed a few women to the cotton field, saw that everyone threw the bags of cotton on the cotton branches, turned around and went to the field next to them to pull soybeans, and couldn't help but ask the women around her curiously.

"Aunt Zhang, aren't we picking cotton today? Why did you change soybeans again? ”

"Hahaha, the girl's words looked like they were asked by the doll in the city."

Aunt Zhang smiled and joked with Bai Qingyue, and then explained the reason to her, "It's foggy today, and the dew on the cotton must be heavy. ”

Finally, the high-quality cotton was produced, but because the cotton was not paid attention to when picking cotton, the quality of the cotton was affected, and the task given by the cotton station could not be completed, and the hard work of a village for several months would not be in vain.

Someone next to him heard the conversation between the two, and also smiled and explained Bai Qingyue's confusion, "Girl, this cotton picking, it's best to wait until the dew goes down, and the sun has dried the moisture on the cotton."

However, this soybean harvest is just the opposite of picking cotton, and the soybeans have to be harvested when the dew is heavy in the morning. If the sun is big, the soybean clip will easily burst as soon as it is dried, and it will be difficult to clean up when the soybeans roll all over the ground. ”

Now this day is just right, when it is foggy, harvest soybeans, and when the sun comes out, the big guys will pick cotton again, and there will be no delay.

Bai Qingyue nodded as if she didn't understand, and followed everyone's example, tied her trouser legs in her socks, and went to the ground to start pulling soybeans.

This work looks quite simple, standing in the ridge, bending over, grasping the bottom of a soybean stalk with each hand, and with a little force, the soybean stalk will be uprooted.

Bai Qingyue saw that everyone was doing it very easily, and they also learned from each other, and wanted to pull up the soybean stalk with one hand, but the wet ground didn't even move.

"Girl, you have to pull it diagonally, you have to use skill, it's too laborious to pull it up so straight and straight." Aunt Zhang turned her head and reminded Bai Qingyue with a smile.

Bai Qingyue smiled awkwardly, and according to Aunt Zhang's instructions, it took a long time of effort, and even the palms of his hands turned red, before he finally pulled out a soybean.

A group of women watched in amazement.

Look at the appearance of this girl's fine skin and tender meat, she didn't do any work, and the fine skin of her palms couldn't stand it.

Thanks to this is a baby in the city, it will be necessary to stay in the village for a few days, if this is the eldest girl in the village, she can't even talk about her mother-in-law's family.

Others started work left and right, and directly pulled two or three rows of soybeans at a time, but Bai Qingyue only pulled out one row, and was far behind everyone in this way.

Bai Qingyue also knew that she was making a joke, gritted her teeth, endured the stinging pain in the palm of her hand, and continued to work without saying a word.

Finally waited until the sun came out and the fog dried, and when the women beckoned Bai Qingyue to pick cotton, Bai Qingyue found that several large blood blisters had been ground out in the palms of his hands.

"Yikes! Do you have blood blisters on your hands? ”

Aunt Zhang's eyes were sharp, and she saw the blood blisters on Bai Qingyue's hands from a distance, leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help baring her teeth and said, "Ouch, girl, you are helping our team work, and you don't have a centimeter to take, so you can't do it so well." If Aunt Yun sees your hand, she will blame Uncle Yun for not greeting you well. ”

The delicate and tender city baby came to the village to play, and it was less than two hours of life, and there was a blood blister on one hand.

When you go back, your parents won't be distressed to death.

Aunt Zhang's voice was not small, and several women on the team heard it, and they all opened their mouths to persuade Bai Qingyue to go home and rest.

I'm not from the village, if I want to come to the field to play, just help everyone to help, there is really no need to be like the people in the village, keep your head down and work hard.

Anyway, no matter how much you do, no matter how good you are, you won't get a centimeter.

Bai Qingyue's temperament is a bit axial, and he is a person who does not admit defeat, thinking of the purpose of his coming to the village, and then being provoked by everyone's words, that stubbornness came up.

Obviously, tears were rolling in the circles of his eyes, but he still said in a strong voice, "I'm fine, this blood is soaked in the palm of my hand, and I don't delay picking cotton." ”

As soon as these words came out, several women's senses of Bai Qingyue were not too good, and they felt that Bai Qingyue really deserved to be the baby of the commander of the military region, don't look at it as a little girl, but she has a military energy on her.

It's much better than the group of educated youths who came to the village a few days ago!

At least not squeamish.

Aunt Zhang took out a boxy cloth wrapper, pinched the two corners and tied them around Bai Qingyue's waist, pinched the remaining two corners, folded them in half and continued to tie them behind her waist, and became a big burden of cotton in front of her.

After a few people went to the ground, Aunt Zhang slowed down and gave Bai Qingyue a demonstration, covered the cracked cotton peach with her five fingers, pinched the cotton, and gently picked it up, and the white and soft cotton was pulled out.

Bai Qingyue picked them one by one like Aunt Zhang, and after a while, her back hurt, her neck hurt, and her fingers were bloody.

Picking cotton looks simple, but in practice, it's really not a trivial job.

The cotton plant is almost one meter high, a cotton plant has about seven or eight cotton peaches, some cotton peaches grow in high places, and some cotton peaches grow at the bottom.

After the cotton is opened, the cotton peach will split into five hard inverted thorns, and the fingers should go deep into the cotton petals to pick the cotton, and if the grip is shallow, the cotton is easy to leave a little in the cotton tray, and if the grip is deep, the fingers are easy to be pierced by the cotton petals.