Quick Wear: I and the Female Match Share the Battle Shirt

Chapter 169: Female Supporting Character in the Period Literature (4)

The end of May was not the hottest time of the year. Lu Changqing washed the dishes and wiped the sweat off his body with cool water that had been exposed to the sun. Then he put a fasting pill in his mouth and lay down on the bed for a nap.

I have to make good use of this time to have a good rest, as I still have to work in the fields in the afternoon.

It rained for several days in a row in the past few days, so everyone has to plant the sweet potato vines quickly while the ground is still wet.

Lu Changqing felt that she had just closed her eyes when the call to work came. She sat up from the bed. Qin Zhenglian saw this and asked, "Su Yun, you ate so little at noon. Will you be hungry in the afternoon?"

Lu Changqing replied while putting on his shoes: "I don't have much appetite today, so I don't feel like eating."

"Are you sick?" Qin Zhenglian said, reaching out to touch Lu Changqing's forehead.

"Maybe I'm a little tired." Lu Changqing lied.

Qin Zhenglian nodded and said, "It has been quite busy in the past two months. You came at an unfortunate time, just in time for spring planting. If you have never done farm work before, it would be a bit overwhelming."

Su Yun's life in the countryside was indeed not very good. First of all, it was the spring planting season. He first planted rice seedlings and day lilies, then harvested rapeseed, wheat, and corn, and now he is planting sweet potato vines. He has had basically no rest time in the past two months.

Lu Changqing went to the warehouse to get farm tools. The team leader was not there, and the person sitting behind the table in charge of the registration book was Ruan Tang.

Lu Changqing didn't ask any more questions. He took the sickle and backpack, wrote Su Yun's name on them, and left with his companions.

After walking a little further away, Ren Liu whispered, "I really envy Ruan Tang for having a captain dad."

Qin Zhenglian continued, "Yes, I have been here for two years and have never seen her working in the fields. To be honest, I have never seen a family love their daughter as much as they do."

"If I had a daughter as beautiful as that, I would love her just as much."

Qin Zhenglian rolled his eyes and said, "If we don't have to work in the fields, don't get exposed to the wind and sun, eat well and sleep well every day, we won't be bad either."

Qin Zhenglian's words sounded a bit sour, and Ren Liu asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Are you jealous?"

Qin Zhenglian squinted at Ren Liu and said, "Just because you have a captain dad, you don't have to do anything. Who in this village wouldn't be jealous?"

"She has a lot of laborers at home and is willing to support her. We outsiders have nothing to say."

After Ren Liu finished speaking, she saw that Lu Changqing had not expressed any opinion, so she nudged her with her elbow, "Su Yun, what do you think?"

Lu Changqing was looking at a few children running wildly on the edge of a field not far away. He pointed in their direction and asked, "What are those children doing?"

Ren Liu stretched his neck to take a look and said, "They should be digging wild vegetables."

Lu Changqing asked in confusion: "Didn't their family get any sweet potato vines?"

"There are several children in the family, plus adults and the elderly, so that's not enough." Ren Liu glanced at Lu Changqing and said, "Besides, there is only one crop of sweet potato vines to eat. If you want to eat more, you have to wait until the seedlings in the sweet potato field grow up."

"In fact, vegetables are secondary. The most important thing is grain. Every year when the public grain is paid, not much is left to everyone," Ren Liu added.

Lu Changqing knew this. When he was alive, he had heard the elders in his family talk about their childhood experiences. There was no food at home, so they could only run around outside every day to find food, digging wild vegetables and fruits. The most important thing they did every day was to find ways to fill their stomachs.

Lu Changqing thought of the sweet daily life of Ruan Tang and Lu Shaofeng in the plot, the rice, the braised pork, the White Rabbit milk candies, the "little leather shoes", and even the "beautiful lace skirt" that had appeared, and the stacks of bills. In such a difficult environment, the protagonist and the cannon fodder seemed to live in two completely different worlds.

When she had trouble getting food, but saw others enjoying delicious food, Lu Changqing felt not only unbalanced, but she even wanted to kill someone.

Lu Changqing didn't want to go back to Su Yun's home in the city, and she didn't want Su Yun to go back either. If she wanted to leave here, the safest, most convenient and most secure way was to take the college entrance examination.

It was only the end of May 73, and there were still more than four years until October 5. Did she have to keep eating the Bigu Pills during these four years? Did she have to work in the fields facing the earth and doing farm work?

Hardship and hard work are not the same thing. Lu Changqing can endure hardship, but she has no affinity for the virtue of hard work. She has to find a way to free herself from field work.

Lu Changqing didn't want to pretend to be sick and be lazy and not work. She wanted to do other work instead of doing physical labor with a sickle and hoe every day.

But what should I do?

Lu Changqing spent an entire afternoon in the field thinking about what special products the Changlin Brigade had. However, after thinking for a long time, he found that there was nothing special to show off.

Everyone is growing common crops such as corn and rapeseed. As for sunflower, it may be less grown in other places, but almost every production team in this county is growing it, and it is completely replaceable. It is not as hard as grain and does not have much advantage.

Lu Changqing had been thinking about the three points of grain, oil and meat for an entire afternoon. On the way back to the warehouse to return the farm tools, she looked at the green duckweed on the surface of the rice fields on both sides of the road, and she suddenly had an idea.

Raising pigs may not be a good idea, but raising chickens is completely possible. As for why you don’t consider raising ducks, it’s because ducks eat more than chickens.

Chickens are omnivorous poultry. They not only peck at insects in the wild, but also eat small feeds prepared by farmers. There may not be many small feeds for them to eat now, but there are plenty of insects in rural areas, such as snails and earthworms, and there is also duckweed in the fields in summer. The combination of meat and vegetables is nutritionally adequate.

As for the most difficult winter, don't we have sweet potatoes? As for the issue of public grain, isn't Lu Shaofeng a big shot? The county magistrate has to be polite when he sees him. When the time comes, let the team leader take him to the county town. I don't believe that he can't make some concessions.

Lu Changqing felt that his plan was feasible, but he would have to take time out to go to the county town to do some market research beforehand to find out where the eggs in the county supply and marketing cooperatives were sourced from, how the sales were going, and what the market saturation was.

All the young and old in the village worked together and it took two days to plant all the sweet potato fields of all sizes on the mountain. Lu Changqing took advantage of the break time to ask for leave from the team leader and walked towards the county town.

Changlin Township is not far from the county town, and it takes more than half an hour to walk into the town. Lu Changqing went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative with a clear purpose.

Lu Changqing arrived late. There were not many customers in the store at around 2:00 p.m. After entering the store, she took a quick look at the items on the counter and asked a clerk, "Comrade, do you have any eggs left?"

The teller was a girl with pigtails. She shook her head and said, "We're out of stock. Eggs are in short supply, just like meat. You have to come early."

"Then do you know where the supply and marketing cooperatives get their eggs from?"

The teller looked at Lu Changqing warily, "Why are you asking this?"

Lu Changqing smiled honestly, "I'm from a nearby village. Our team leader has responded to the policy of "one grasp and three promotions" and wants to build a chicken farm to help the villagers get rid of poverty and increase their income, so he asked me to come to the supply and marketing cooperative to do a market survey first."