Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 499 - 0499 Cannot Visit Relatives 2_1

Chapter 499: Chapter 0499 Cannot Visit Relatives 2_1

The Wanglou Brigade was indeed busily bustling about, with all the children attending school returning home to participate in the labor, including Lu Tianjun.

This chap normally kept a low profile, but this year no one knew how he had communicated with his teachers and classmates, he actually brought back a whole group of town residents to help with the urgent harvest. All Wanglou’s Seventh Team had to do was to provide them with food and shelter.

Of course, those brought back by Lu Tianjun would first help his own home team, the Seventh Team.

Younger children like Song Gang and others had to go pick up wheat spikes, not to mention Feng Qingxue.

She had a valid reason for not working last year as she was on maternity leave. Now that Xibao is over a year old, he can be left for the older children to look after. So, Feng Qingxue had no reason not to work. She was about to join the workforce when Wang Zhenguo arranged for her and several other women, who weren’t great at labor work but were excellent at housework, to cook for the teachers and students who came to help, Wang Jiao included.

The food was provided by the Wanglou Brigade, as after the Seventh Team finished, they would go help the other production teams, and none of these teams would be at a loss.

As for accommodation, it was simple. As the weather was hot, many of the locals slept outdoors. There was a large open space in front of the Production Team Secretary’s office, laid with straw mats woven by the locals themselves. Men and women were separated, and if the weather was bad, they would move into the office.

The agricultural busy season was a rare time of the year to have dry food, and Wang Zhenguo did not hesitate to provide it.

He arranged for someone to take grain to the city and exchange it for processed grain. Mixed grain pancakes, sweet potato porridge with rough rice, or rough corn porridge with vegetable hotpot were available, along with an assortment of vegetables and pickles sent by the locals. They ensured the visiting teachers and students ate their fill for three meals a day.

They couldn’t fill up on the rations available in the city, so now they were working hard for a good meal.

Though they started off working slowly and poorly, all of them were smart, and within two days they all got the hang of it.

The young people were quick and nimble, they just couldn’t keep up with the rhythm of the old farmers.

But that was enough to lighten the workload of the locals.

Moreover, Lu Tianjun’s class teacher Teacher Wang called Lu Tianjun back to school to hand his letter to the principal, and then assembled another hundred or so male and female students to participate in the labor, in the name of learning the spirit of hard work and patience of the peasants.

In the past, the Wanglou Brigade had to toil for over a month during the busy farming season. This year, they finished in just over half a month.

The grain entered the warehouse, and the rice, corn, and summer sweet potatoes had been planted. Both sides were delighted, celebrating mutual joy.

The locals were grateful for the help of the town teachers and students, and the town teachers and students said that the country people were honest, always offering them ample food, and even gave them plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables to take home when they left. So, the latter said they would come back to help with the autumn harvest, to which Wang Zhenguo readily agreed, thinking of the extra two thousand acres they had this year.

When everyone had left, Feng Qingxue quietly gave Wang Zhenguo a thumbs up.

Of course, the smartest of them was their own Tianjun.

Wang Zhenguo pretended not to see, keeping a straight face and saying, "Go back quickly, I see that the clouds are a little thick, it might rain." He wasn’t worried about the rain, as they had already dried all the grain and stored it in the warehouse. The rain was just in time to irrigate the newly planted crops, so they would have a good harvest in the fall. As for the situation in the other production teams, that was not his concern.

Feng Qingxue remembered that today was Saturday, and Chen Xueniang would usually come over to help after work on Saturday afternoons. So, she gave Xibao to Lu Tianjun and the others to look after, put on a bamboo hat, got two sets of raincoats and a bamboo hat, and went to the intersection.