During the break, Tian Chunwang said to everyone:

"Everyone knows that the farming has begun, so the brigade decided: from tomorrow, the members will return to their original production teams, and the educated youth will be assigned to each production team to participate in the farming. Below, I announce the list ......"

According to the published list, Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu were assigned to the sixth production team.

After breakfast the next day, Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu walked along a path in the back mountain to Team No. 6 with a blanket roll on their backs and washing utensils.

"Do you like Zhang Huifang very much?" Cao Chunfu asked Chen Wenhai.

"How did you remember to ask me this question?"

"Because Zhang Huifang's family has asked me this question several times."

"So, how did you answer?"

"I said to them: You two are just ordinary comrades. They asked me: Then why do many people say that the two of you are in a relationship? I can't even answer! ”

In fact, it is normal for love to occur between men and women. Didn't the famous German writer Goethe say something like this: 'What teenager is not affectionate, and which girl is not pregnant?' ’”

"Do you mean that there is already love between you and Zhang Huifang?"

"I don't have to answer that question."

"It's painful to bury love in your heart!"

"As long as both men and women love each other sincerely, it doesn't matter if they don't say it."

"Does Zhang Huifang love you?"

"Didn't Zhang Huifang already tell you with her actual actions?"

"Is Zhang Huifang worthy of your love?"

"Anyway, I think Zhang Huifang is a good girl!"

"Actually, we all hope that the two of you will be okay forever!"

"Then I'll thank you all!"

Team Six has finally arrived.

Captain Tian Tongsuo smiled and shook hands tightly with Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu, "Welcome to come down and participate in the farming!" Then he invited them both into the house. After the two of them sat down, they poured two cups of tea for the two of them, "Drink tea, this is the new tea that has just been picked!" ”

Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu took two sips of tea, and Tian Tongsuo asked with a smile:

"How does it taste? Isn't it fragrant? ”

"It smells all good!" Cao Chunfu said.

"It tastes better!" Chen Wenhai said.

"In the end, it is an intellectual from the city who has seen the world, not like us hillbillies!"

"You poor middle peasants bear hardships and stand hard work, are simple and kind, and love the collective, and these excellent qualities are worthy of learning from our intellectual youth!" Chen Wenhai said to the captain.

"You talk like a theoretician!" Tian Tongsuo said to Chen Wenhai.

"Ideologues don't dare to be, I'm here to receive re-education from the poor middle peasants!"

After talking for a while and drinking tea for a while, Cao Chunfu said to Tian Tongsuo:

"Let's go down to the fields and work!"

"Don't be busy, don't be busy, drink tea for a while!" Saying that, Tian Tongsuo wanted to refill the tea for the two of them.

"Don't drink it, let's hurry down to the field!" Chen Wenhai said.

Led by the captain, a group of three of them walked towards the field with scythes.

There are already quite a few people working in the fields.

"Have you ever worked on a farm before?" Chen Wenhai asked Cao Chunfu while cutting wheat.

"I did it when the school organized the study of agriculture." Cao Chunfu replied while cutting wheat.

After cutting for a while, the two of them felt back and leg pain. Chen Wenhai said to Cao Chunfu:

"It's a lot of work! It's not easy for farmers to do this for generations! ”

"That's why my dad said it's not easy for farmers in China."

"Did your dad always indoctrinate you with progressive ideas?"

"Do you need to ask? My dad is an old cadre! ”

"You can see that you are proud."

"My dad has gone through the Long March, can I not be proud?" Cao Chunfu told Chen Wenhai:

"My dad was a security guard!"

"I envy you for having such a dad!"

"Your father is from Heilongjiang, your mother is from Guangdong, Heilongjiang and Guangdong are so far away, how did the two of them meet?"

"The two of them met in Yan'an."

"Your family is a red family!"

After harvesting the wheat, we went down to the field and planted the seedlings.

Rice planting is also a bending job. I have to do it during the day and at night, and I have to do it for most of the night. When I came back from work for supper, I was so tired that I wanted to lie down and sleep immediately, but if I didn't eat, I wouldn't have the strength to work again the next day, so I had to insist on finishing the supper. It was already two o'clock in the middle of the night after supper, and by four or five o'clock, I had to get up in a daze and continue planting seedlings, and I could only sleep for two or three hours a day. After working like this for a few days, Chen Wenhai really couldn't stand it. He was so sleepy that he couldn't even lift his eyelids, and he learned to walk with his eyes closed.

During the busy farming period, they did heavy physical work, and the food was much better than usual, coupled with the hospitality of the local farmers, to save face, Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu were particularly preferential in terms of food, and almost every meal had fish, meat and wine. The two of them ate pie rice, eating at the east house today and at the west house tomorrow, and they ate in turns one by one. Some peasants' families are too poor to offer decent food to entertain them, so they have to do everything they can to improve their food and make it as delicious as possible. Seeing that the peasants' families were so poor and living so tightly, Chen Wenhai and Cao Chunfu felt unhappy. The simplicity and kindness of the farmers deeply touched the two of them, and they worked extra hard to do their work, and they simply became "desperate Saburo".

Chen Wenhai has been weak since he was a child, and he often feels powerless to do such heavy physical work, but he has no complaints, he thinks that he can exercise his will.

Cao Chunfu is the son of a cadre, his father is very strict with him, and he himself wants to leave a good impression on the local farmers, so that he can be recruited as soon as possible, and he is never lazy in his work. In addition, because of his good physique, doing such heavy physical work is nothing to him, and he treats people warmly. In this way, Chen Wenhai's impression on the peasants was naturally not as good as Cao Chunfu's.

After the end of the farming, the farm manager praised Cao Chunfu in particular, and criticized Chen Wenhai tactfully in addition to general praise, as if Chen Wenhai was afraid of hardship and tiredness. This made him feel very wronged.

After lunch, Chen Yali and Zhang Huifang chatted in the kitchen.

"Chen Wenhai was already thin, but he became even thinner after farming!" Zhang Huifang said.

"I think he must have worked very hard during the busy farming period, so why could the field manager bear to criticize him? The captain's heart is too ruthless! But it's not surprising that the field manager has prejudices against Chen Wenhai, plus there are bad people instigating him, of course, he won't evaluate Chen Wenhai objectively and fairly! ”

"Who's this bad guy?"

"It's Wang Zhiyuan!" Chen Yali told Zhang Huifang:

He is a distant relative of Tian Chunwang. Wang Zhiyuan still has relatives in Shanghai! As early as when he was in Shanghai, Wang Zhiyuan knew Chen Wenhai. He said a lot of bad things about Chen Wenhai in front of Tian Chunwang! With his support for Tian Chunwang, Tian Chunwang dared to criticize Chen Wenhai often in a loud voice! Wang Zhiyuan was so bad that he even said that Chen Wenhai turned out to be a little hooligan on the beach! Wang Zhiyuan is talking such nonsense, Zhang Jianguo still believes it! Zhang Jianguo looks very knowledgeable, but he is so brainless, is he stupid to read! Recently, the two of them had a fight. Chen Wenhai said to me: 'Zhang Jianguo is not worthy of being my friend at all!' 'Wang Zhiyuan also scolded you! ”

"How did he scold me?"

"He scolded you for being a vixen and a little slut! Say you seduce Chen Wenhai! ”

"Shen Ruolan also scolded me like this. The two of them must have colluded! ”

Revised January 9, 2022