Another few days passed.

The furnace-like sun hung high in the sky, spewing out endless heat, and the heat wave rolled on the ground layer after layer, and the sand and dust flew up, and the sky was white.

Under the scorching sun, the rice in the paddy fields quickly turned yellow, and a breeze blew, and the golden rice waves looked particularly fond of it.

From above, a corner of the rice field has become a semi-circular vacuum, and the semi-circle is spreading outward at a very slow speed.

"Hoo ......"

Xu Fugui straightened up, took a big breath of hot air, wiped the hot sweat on his forehead and neck with the towel on his shoulder, took off the straw hat on his head, fanned the wind hard, looked up and squinted at the scorching sun, his face was full of sadness.

The rice is ripe and the harvest season is pleasant, but working in the scorching sun is not an easy task.

The skin exposed to the scorching sun is hot and painful, and you can peel off a layer of skin in half a day, and the sweat can't stop flowing, and you have to stop and drink tea from time to time.

It is difficult to walk with your feet in the muddy water, and from time to time there are foreign objects wandering around your feet, and if you are unlucky, you can even encounter water snakes shuttling around.

At the same time that the golden rice was cut by Qi Root, the rice mangs flew everywhere, and the exposed skin was constantly itchy, and the hot weather made people even more irritable.

Xu Fugui put the sickle on the rice sown, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it with a match, took a deep breath, and spit out a large cloud of cyan smoke.

Seeing this, Lai Shun hurriedly came from the field with a cigarette in his mouth, lit the cigarette with the remaining matches, and let out a comfortable sound.

"Brother, why don't you call the rest of the village to help? It's just the two of us, and it's going to take at least five days. ”

As he spoke, he spat out a mouthful of saliva, "We don't have anything to do, who will do the work in the village?" ”

Xu Fugui put the straw hat back on, shielded from the dazzling sunlight, and glanced at him lightly, "Come on, people can't finish the work themselves, who will come to help us, the branch secretary has no privilege." ”

"The two of us are still members of the New Rabbit team, not only have no privileges, but also voluntarily serve the people."

Lai Shun glanced at his mouth, "Brother, there is no outsider here, it's useless for you to tell me this, others can't hear it." Besides, I don't understand this, it doesn't matter if I serve or not, but I can't be allowed to do it in vain! ”

Xu Fugui snuffed out his cigarette and lowered his voice, "If you know these words, don't shout them everywhere." ”

Lai Shun smiled, "I know, although I don't like to think about things, I'm not stupid." ”

"Okay, let's keep doing it, this goddamn God, I'll go back when the sun rises a little more."

Pick up the sickle, bend down and bury it in the golden waves of rice, and with the swing of the sickle, the rice pieces fall down in pieces.

He and Lai came to the field when the sky was bright, but the area of three acres of paddy fields is really a lot, and after almost half a morning, only one acre has been cut.

Moreover, the cut rice has not yet been beaten out, and threshing is also a huge project.

The harvested paddy can be dried for another day, and then dried when the sun sets and the temperature drops a bit.

"Fugui, Fugui, come to Shun."

Xu's mother's voice came from not far away, and the two straightened up from the field to see, Xu's mother was on crutches and stood on the ridge and waved to them.

Xu Fugui wiped the hot sweat on his forehead and asked loudly, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

"Come back quickly, the branch secretaries of other villages came to you, saying that they were studying and working, oh I don't understand, come back quickly."

Xu Fugui frowned slightly, looked at the small amount of rice in this field, and sighed, "Special mother, these people don't come early, don't come late, why don't they delay people to work." ”

But there was no way, the visitors were guests, he beckoned, and asked Lai Shun and himself to go home to entertain them.

As soon as I pulled my feet out of the field, a commotion came from the country road, and a group of strangers came up noisily.

"Auntie, I said that Xu Zhishu was working in the fields, so let's come directly to him."

"That's it, it's good that Old Man Xu told us, otherwise it wouldn't delay Secretary Xu's work."

"Come on, come on, let's have one more person to take two hands, and do this little work together, while it's not too hot today."

A group of people were arguing, and walked directly down to the field with their trouser legs, and before Xu Fugui could react, they did their work skillfully.

Hold the rice, use the tools of threshing the grain to threak the grain, put the beaten millet in a basket, pick it to the grain drying field at the entrance of the village and spread it out, and a group of people quickly divide the work.

Knowing that the tools were not enough, a few people came directly to ask Xu Fugui if he could borrow a few sickles and threshing tools, and borrowed a few more baskets.

"Eh, what kind of reason is this, where is the reason to let the guests come to work, take a walk, and go home with me."

Xu Fugui said with an unhappy face, making a gesture to snatch the rice in their hands, but he didn't use any strength in his hands.

The group smiled unconcernedly.

"Xu Zhishu, everyone is a cropper who grows in the ground, just do such a little work, just do it casually."

"That's it, we're here to learn from you, aren't we here to learn now?"

"Xu Zhishu, don't stand still, go and borrow a sickle and a basket, let's finish beating the millet for you in one morning, and then you teach us well, how to renovate and build, I really can't understand the documents above."

"That's right, I'm completely confused, you said that I'm a big old man and I don't know a few words, isn't it embarrassing for me."

Everyone was chattering, with a sincere smile on their faces, Xu Fugui persuaded for a while, but there was really no way, so he went to borrow enough tools from the villagers.

Seeing this, Xu's mother asked Xu's father and Changgen to put tea and snacks on the ridge, and warmly beckoned everyone to eat.

After a while, the people in the village heard that the party secretaries of other villages came to help with the work, and many of them came to see the excitement.

Watching the excitement in the countryside is not simply watching the excitement, just looking at it without working, your own face is panicked, so the idle villagers also go to the field to help.

There are many people and great strength, and the remaining two acres of rice will be cut in a short time, and the millet will soon be beaten out and picked up in baskets to the drying field at the entrance of the village.

Xu Fugui didn't do much work, he was busy greeting the big guys, the cigarettes in his hands kept coming out, and the good words in his mouth were said as if he didn't want money.

When he was free, Xu Fugui held Xu's mother's hand, "Mother, you go back and ask Cui Ping to cook the rice, cook three tables first, and take three pieces of bacon on the stove to cook." ”

"Cui Ping must be too busy alone, call Aunt Sun and Fifth Sister Zhu and ask them to help, people will help us with a good meal, and we still have to be entertained."

Mother Xu nodded again and again, "It's good to move back to the house, otherwise the dilapidated thatched house before wouldn't be able to cook three tables of people's food." ”

After saying that, she hurried home, and after a while, wisps of cooking smoke came from the roof of the house at the entrance of the village......

(End of chapter)