CHAPTER 92: CHAPTER 87 LATE

Early in the morning, Jiang Xiaoxiao woke up and went out for a run.

Ever since her rebirth, she started to exercise.

Compared with before, her body is indeed much more robust now.

There’s absolutely no issue with working.

We’re diligent laborers now; without a healthy body, how can we work?

After running a lap and coming back, the people inside the house started to get up.

Seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao come back from outside, Pan Xin rubbed her eyes and asked curiously.

"Why are you up so early?"

"Early? It’s only half an hour until we have to gather. If we’re late, there won’t be any breakfast left. Hurry up, everyone. It’s roll call on the first day, don’t be late."

Jiang Xiaoxiao said while washing her face.

Pan Xin looked at Wang Hongbing, who was still asleep.

"No way! I still want to sleep a bit more."

Thinking that anyway, she wouldn’t be the only one late.

There’s a saying about the law not punishing everyone.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was speechless.

Jia Shu was already up and went with Jiang Xiaoxiao to the canteen for breakfast.

It was just a bowl of corn porridge, a steamed cornbread, and pickles.

The two went to the assembly field.

Quite a few people had already arrived.

There were scattered groups, and some people hadn’t arrived yet.

However, the production team leader was holding a small notebook there, writing and drawing.

His face was full of dissatisfaction.

These educated youths have no sense of discipline.

Look at the time; they agreed to gather.

Yet so many people are still missing.

Production team leader Li Dahu was fuming.

These urban educated youths, they are just unreliable.

Even we countryside folks who can’t read a word know that being punctual is something we should do.

With so many tasks in the team, how can they not come when it’s time?

Dragging on like this, how many work points are going to be delayed?

With so much work in the fields, how can they delay like this!

Looks like I need to give them a good dressing-down.

With a frown and a gloomy face.

The crowd finally stopped talking and laughing, anxiously looking at the team leader.

The new team leader wasn’t going to intimidate them right off the bat, was he?

Seeing no more arrivals, Li Dahu said.

"Alright, since they aren’t coming, we’ll start working by ourselves. Now, I’ll assign the tasks. Our team has several thousand acres of land, as you can see before you. It happens that much of the fieldwork has already been done, so look, there’s not much left to do.

Now assigning tasks."

Li Dahu glanced at everyone.

Sure enough, a lot of the educated youths secretly regretted inside.

Had they known, they’d have come later too. Coming early meant starting work early.

Why should they work earlier?

Li Dahu methodically assigned the tasks.

The rice in the fields had already been cut; what they had to do now was bundle it up, then carry it in bags to the field’s edge over there.

There would be carts over there, and the male educated youths would pull them to the threshing ground.

Female educated youths worked in pairs, mostly assigned to bundling rice and carrying rice tasks.

The male educated youths were responsible for pushing the carts for transport.

Many thought carrying rice was labor-intensive.

Naturally, Jiang Xiaoxiao teamed up with Jia Shu.

Although Jia Shu did work at home, she had never done farm work.

Jiang Xiaoxiao taught her hand by hand; after all, she had been doing these farm tasks for several years.

Even if she closed her eyes while doing them, she could skillfully accomplish them without error.

The problem was that Jia Shu was stunned.

Watching Jiang Xiaoxiao efficiently and swiftly bundle the rice in mere seconds, it left her dumbfounded.

Looking at Jiang Xiaoxiao with her delicate physique and fair skin.

Those hands didn’t look like they had done hard labor.

Who knew this young girl would be more efficient than her, who was used to housework?

It seemed she had misjudged.

Among those coming to the countryside, wasn’t there anyone who couldn’t work?

Soon Jia Shu also learned to bundle rice, and mainly because someone taught her the tricks, she learned quickly, saved effort, and reduced detours.

The two cooperated with one bundling and the other carrying.

They cooperated with great synergy.

Very fast-paced.

Li Dahu watched from the field’s edge as the old educated youths taught the young newcomers.

He had mentioned before that it was best during grouping for one old educated youth to bring along a newcomer.

This way, they could help each other and learn together.

However, it was evident more newcomers grouped together; they were familiar with each other and felt farm work was easy.

They assumed they could learn just by watching.

No one took his words seriously, but once they truly started working, they understood.

Seeing those new educated youths fluster, struggling to bundle the rice for ages, even when they managed, it was loose and disorganized.

The carried rice bundles would probably fall apart before reaching the field’s edge.

Watching and frowning.

These young folks truly needed some training.

Working like this, they’d starve to death.

It seemed he’d be busy in the days to come.

With a dissatisfied face, pacing back and forth.

Suddenly, he noticed in an inconspicuous corner, two girls working enthusiastically.

Li Dahu stood and watched for a long time, nodding involuntarily.

Precisely, they were swift and decisive, not dawdling at all in their work.

They seemed like two who had done such work before.

He glanced at the list in his hand; still, over a dozen people hadn’t arrived. Did they take coming to the countryside as their family’s warm bed?

Thinking they could come whenever?

Li Dahu was getting frustrated; he wanted to see when these people would show up today.

If they weren’t disciplined, they’d never know the immensity of heaven and earth.

Thinking the farm belonged to their family.

Two hours later, Jiang Xiaoxiao was drenched in sweat.

Jia Shu was drenched too, for the first time understanding why people feared going to the countryside when mentioned.

Indeed, this work looked simple, but once you did it, you realized it was exhausting.

As she became more proficient, her strength waned.

Her arms and legs started to ache, and her back and stomach hurt.

But looking at Jiang Xiaoxiao.

The girl kept working, unphased, and it wasn’t clear where a fair-skinned girl got such energy from.

Their family must have truly trained their children.

What kind of work did they do at home?

Those not in the know would think Jiang Xiaoxiao did farm work at home.

This kind of efficiency wasn’t typical.

Finally, the remaining dozen staggered in.

Seeing team leader Li Dahu, although they apologized, their faces showed no remorse.

Seeing those in the fields working, disheveled and filthy, these latecomers chuckled insincerely.

They arrived late, but they missed out on quite a bit of work.

It seemed their timing was right, the team leader might scold them, but they didn’t lose anything physical, just less work.

Li Daniu, with an unhappy expression.

"You are two hours late; this is a production team, not your home! If anyone is late next time, we’ll dock work points. When it’s time to calculate work points at the month’s end, and you can’t even feed your stomach, don’t blame me.

Our Twelfth Production Team is the advanced team of Kenqing Farm. If you drag the team down, don’t blame me for being rude. And those who were late today, the work task remains the same, each with an acre. When you’re done, you’re done for the day.

We do have tasks now, let’s get to work."

Li Dahu wouldn’t let these educated youths have their way.

They had many educated youths before; they used to be valued, but now they were used to the laziness of these youths and noticed they weren’t even as diligent as the villagers.

The late educated youths were dumbfounded when they heard this.

There were work tasks too?

Seeing the plots allocated as two-person groups.

Then they realized, they gained no advantage.

Even the slowest had completed a fifth; theirs wasn’t touched at all.

Now they understood, laziness wouldn’t cut it.

Each with downcast expressions went to the fields.

This was becoming life-threatening.

They wished they’d come earlier, finish earlier too.