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Chapter 14 Follow My Brother to Herd the Cattle

The next day, the village radio rang early in the morning.

"Comrade members, comrades, spring plowing will begin today. Attention, captains of each production team, take your team members to the production team's fields to plow and harrow the ground when you start work in the morning, and try your best to get the work done.

Rush forward to ensure that spring planting is not delayed..."

When the people in the village heard the broadcast, they got up one after another, picked up their tools and headed to the fields of their production teams. Soon the fields were filled with people carrying tools and preparing to rake the ground.

On the ridge of the fields, there were many young women carrying hoes, rakes, and loads on their shoulders. They were all carrying different farm tools, talking and laughing.

As soon as Zhao Xueer heard the broadcast, she got up, woke up her sister, and went to the opposite room to call Zhao Tianer. As soon as the weather got warmer, she tidied up the opposite room and asked Zhao Tianer to move over.

Just when she knocked on the door, the door opened on its own from the inside. Zhao Tian'er was seen having put on clothes and rushed outside to start washing up. In the room, Yun Xiaotang woke up as soon as she heard the sound of the horn. She rested on the bed for a while and saw

When her sister came back to the house and called her, she immediately jumped up from the bed and quickly got dressed.

While she was washing, Zhao Xueer steamed two sweet potatoes in the pot. After her brothers and sisters had finished washing, the sweet potatoes were also steamed.

The three of them ate the sweet potatoes and prepared to go out to work. Before going out, Zhao Xueer scooped some water and poured it into the stove to put out the fire.

In the morning, the people in the production team first drove the team's cattle to the river to graze. After the cattle were fed, they plowed the fields in the afternoon.

Yun Xiaotang was led by Zhao Tian'er and stood in the herding team. This team was almost all old and young and did not have much labor force. Anyone who had some strength had to rush to work in the fields, because in this way,

That’s a lot of work points.

More than a dozen cows were driven over by the production team leader, and the grazing groups of four production teams, four teams, headed to the boundary river in a mighty manner.

As soon as they arrived at the river, the four production teams spread out and each occupied their own territory. This also reduced the chance of bull fights. After all, bulls are aggressive and very territorial.

After arranging the cows, the old people lay on the newly sprouted grass and chatted. The children they knew well gathered around and played games.

Even so, everyone still kept an eye on the cow with their peripheral vision to prevent it from getting lost.

In the production team, cattle are extremely precious and an important public property of the production team. No matter how severe the famine is, no one dares to secretly attack the cattle.

With its face facing the loess and its back turned to the sky, cattle are the hope of farmers.

Sitting on the grass, Yun Xiaotang picked a piece of dogtail grass and put it in her mouth. She crossed her short legs and leaned on her brother Zhao Tian'er.

Zhao Tian'er stretched out his hand and rubbed her head, "Did my sister not sleep well? She is sleepy. Let's rest on my brother's shoulder for a while."

Yun Xiaotang blinked, "Brother, I'm not tired. I found this grass seems edible, it's sweet."

She took out the dogtail grass that had been chewed dry by her mouth and showed it to Zhao Tian'er. At the same time, she picked another one and handed it to Zhao Tian'er.

Zhao Tian'er put the dog's tail grass into his mouth without hesitation, chewed it, and his eyes lit up, "Really, this is sweet."

Yun Xiaotang looked at her brother with a smile, "Brother, I'll pick more and bring them to you."

After saying this, she stood up and picked the dogtail grass around her.

After a while, she came back with a bunch of dogtail grass and handed it to Zhao Tianer.

Zhao Tianer took it, and the brother and sister bit the dogtail grass while staring at the grazing cows.

On the grass not far away, there was a man lying on his back with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth.

There were no friends around him, so he was alone.

Some children were curious about him and wanted to walk over, but they were stopped by other children, "Don't go, my mother-in-law said, their family used to be evil exploitative landlords and bad elements, and I heard that his mother was a

Madman, my mother-in-law won’t let me get close to him..."

The child who was about to walk over covered his mouth in surprise, "Ah? What? Let's go away quickly."

After saying that, the child immediately took the other child's hand and walked away.

On the grass, the boy who had half-closed eyes opened his eyes completely. His eyes were as cold as cold springs. He heard the conversation between the two children, but he didn't care and didn't even turn his head to look at them.

Although the people in the village didn't like their family, at least they didn't bully them intentionally.

In this way, it is already excellent.

In his childhood in his previous life, he was not lonely. At that time, he also longed to have friends to accompany him and give him courage and hope.

Later, he was found by that man. He indeed had brothers, but they all wanted him to die.

Now those so-called brothers should all be growing up happily and carefree under the protection of that man, and some of them may not even be weaned.

Thinking of this, Zhou Nanyue gently closed his eyes and fell asleep.

On the side of the production team, in the fields, everyone is raking the ground enthusiastically with tools, and from time to time they pick up some weeds and throw them on the field ridges.

Spring plowing is the peak period for the use of cattle. If the cattle are not fed well and put on spring fat, the cattle will easily become weak or even sick due to overwork. Therefore, people use manpower to hoe the ground in the morning, and then use cattle to plow the land in the afternoon.

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Zhao Xueer held a hoe in both hands and hoeed the ground very hard. There were scorekeepers in the team, so she couldn't be lazy. Currently, their family's source of income could only rely on work points.

The number of work points directly determines the amount of income in a day. Nowadays, life is difficult. A working day is a full work, and there are 12 work points a day, which is only 2 cents in money.

Don't underestimate these 2 cents. You can buy a pound of large grains of salt at the supply and marketing cooperative. And when you add up, you can get 2 cents a day, which is six yuan a month.

But she is young, and according to her age standard, she only has six work points a day, which means she can only earn 1 cent a day, or three yuan a month.

Three yuan is a lot for them now.

As for the younger brothers and sisters, because they are young, they can only earn 1.5 points for herding cattle a day, but it is still good.

Zhao Xueer seemed to see money dangling in front of her eyes, so she worked harder, her hoe flew up in the air, and the air was filled with dust.

In the grassland beside the river here, the new grass that has just grown is enough for the buffaloes that have eaten dry rice straw all winter. The people in the herding team have to drive the cattle into the fields for the use of the production team.

Some cows stayed by the river and were beaten several times with whips before they started to move.

The large group of people began to go to the fields of the production team.

As soon as she arrived at the field, Yun Xiaotang saw her sister Zhao Xueer with her head buried in work in the field.

She called her sister sweetly, and Zhao Xueer immediately raised her head and looked at her and Zhao Tian'er. Seeing that the two of them were in good condition, she felt relieved.
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