I am Fugui

Chapter 161

Another few days passed.

The sun like a furnace hung high in the sky, gushing out endless heat. The heat waves rolled on the ground layer by layer, the dust was flying, and the sky was white.

Under the scorching sun, the rice in the paddy field quickly turned yellow, and a breeze blew by, and the golden rice waves looked very lovely.

Seen from a high altitude, the corner of the rice field has become a semicircle of vacuum, and the semicircle is spreading outward at a very slow speed.

"call……"

Xu Fugui straightened up, breathing heavily, wiped the hot sweat from his forehead and neck with the towel on his shoulders, took off the straw hat on his head, fanned it vigorously, raised his head and squinted at the scorching sun, his face was full of sadness.

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

The skin is hot and painful after being exposed to the hot sun, and a layer of skin can be peeled off in half a day. The sweat is unstoppable, and I have to stop to drink tea from time to time.

With both feet in the muddy water, it is difficult to move. From time to time, there are foreign objects hovering around the feet. If you are unlucky, you may even encounter a water snake passing by.

While the golden rice was cut off by its roots, the rice awns were flying around, and the exposed skin was constantly itchy. Coupled with the hot weather, it made people feel even more irritable.

Xu Fugui put the sickle on the rice makeup, took out a cigarette from his pocket, struck a match and lit it, took a deep breath, and exhaled a large cloud of blue smoke.

Seeing this, Laishun quickly came from the field with a cigarette in his mouth, lit the cigarette with the remaining match, and let out a sigh of relief.

"Brother, why don't you call other people in the village to help? Just the two of us, it will take at least five days."

As he spoke, he spat out, "It's nothing for us to do, who will do the work in the village?"

Xu Fugui put on the straw hat again to cover the glare of the sun, and glanced at him lightly, "Come on, I can't finish the work by myself, who will help us, the branch secretary has no privilege."

"The two of us are still members of the Xintu team. Not only do we have no privileges, but we also have to serve the people voluntarily."

Lai Shun glanced at his mouth, "Brother, there are no outsiders here. It's useless for you to tell me these things, and others can't hear them. Besides, I don't understand these things. It doesn't matter if I serve you or not, but I can't let me do it for nothing!"

Xu Fugui stubbed out his cigarette and lowered his voice, "Just know these words yourself, don't yell around."

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

"Okay, let's keep going, god damn it, we'll go back when the sun rises a little higher."

Picking up the sickle, bent over and buried in the waves of golden rice, with the waving of the sickle, the rice fell in pieces.

He and Lai Shuntian came to the field when it was dark, but the area of ​​the paddy field of the three mu land was quite large, and it took almost half a morning to work, but only one mu was mowed.

Moreover, the harvested rice has not yet been threshed, and threshing millet is also a huge project.

The harvested rice can be dried for another day, and it can be dried after the sun sets and the temperature drops a bit.

"Fugui, Fugui, Laishun."

Xu's mother's voice came from not far away. The two straightened up from the field to see that Xu's mother was standing on the ridge of the field waving to them, leaning on crutches.

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

"Come back quickly. The branch secretaries of other villages came to you and said that they are studying and working. Oh, I don't understand. Come back quickly."

Xu Fugui frowned slightly, looked at the few rice fields in this field, and sighed, "Damn, these people don't come early or late, so they delay people's work, aren't they?"

But there is no way, the visitors are guests, he beckons, let Lai Shun and himself go home to entertain them.

Just as he pulled out his muddy feet from the field, a noise came from the country road, and a group of strangers walked over noisily.

"Ma'am, you said earlier that Xu Zhishu is working in the fields, so we can just come and find him."

"That's right. It's a good thing that Mr. Xu told us, otherwise it would have delayed Party Secretary Xu's work."

"Come on, come on, let's have one more person to help us, and we will do this little work together, before it's too hot."

A group of people chattered and walked down to the field with their trousers on their legs. Before Xu Fugui could react, they began to work skillfully.

Hugging the rice, threshing the millet with a millet threshing tool, putting the millet in baskets, picking it up to the sun-drying field at the entrance of the village and spreading it out, a group of people quickly divided the work.

Knowing that there were not enough tools, several people came directly to ask Xu Fugui if they could borrow some sickles and threshing tools, and some more baskets.

"Hey, what's the point? There's no reason to let guests come to work. Let's go home with me."

Surrounded by Xu Fugui, they said with an unhappy face, trying to grab the rice in their hands, but they didn't use much strength in their hands.

The group of people smiled indifferently.

"Secretary Xu, everyone is a farmer who grows in the field. It's just such a little work, and they do it casually."

"That's right. We're here to learn from you. Isn't that what we're here to learn now?"

"Secretary Xu, don't stand there, borrow a sickle and a basket, we'll finish milling for you in one morning, and then teach us how to do the renovation and construction, I really don't understand the documents above. "

"That's right, I can't figure it out at all. You say I'm a big bastard and I don't know a few words. Isn't that embarrassing me?"

Everyone was chattering, with sincere smiles on their faces. Xu Fugui persuaded him for a while, but he couldn't help it, so he went to borrow enough tools from the villagers.

Seeing this, Xu's mother asked Xu's father and Chang Gen to bring tea and snacks and put them on the field ridge, and warmly greeted everyone to eat.

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

Watching the fun in the countryside is not just watching the fun. If you just watch and don’t work, you will feel ashamed and flustered on your face, so the idle villagers also go to the fields to help.

There are many people and strength, and the remaining two acres of rice were cut in a short while, and the millet was quickly beaten out, and picked up in baskets to the sun-drying field at the entrance of the village.

On the contrary, Xu Fugui didn't do much work, he was busy greeting the big guys, he kept passing out the cigarettes in his hand, and said good things out of his mouth as if he didn't want money.

When he was free, Xu Fugui supported Xu's mother's hand, "Mother, you go back and ask Cuiping to cook the rice. Cook for three tables first, and cook three strips of bacon on the stove."

"Cuiping can't do it all by herself, call Aunt Sun and Fifth Sister Zhu up to ask them to help, they will help us with work and have a good meal."

Xu's mother nodded again and again, "It's a good thing we moved back to the house, otherwise the dilapidated thatched house would not be able to cook meals for three tables."

After she finished speaking, she hurried home, and after a while, wisps of cooking smoke rose from the roof of the house at the entrance of the village...

(End of this chapter)