Chapter 160 Injury and Amnesia 4

Cooking is not easy at all.

Feng Qingxue thought of this on the first day of work.

Seven or eight strong laborers from the production teams came out to work, and there were crowds of people. Although they only had to cook for their own production team, and there were two women working together, the workload was still not small.

Feng Qingxue, Feng Ershen and Feng Shuanzhu's wife came from Caohu Brigade.

In addition, Feng Qingxue brought her sister.

She originally wanted to send Feng Qingyun to school, but she was too young and the school didn't accept her. Moreover, the primary school of Caohu Brigade was disbanded, so if she wanted to go to school, she had to walk to Wanglou Brigade where the living conditions were better.

While the strong laborers were working, they had to dig wild vegetables, pick leaf sprouts, wash and clean them, and come back to make soup for them to eat.

When Feng Qingxue was digging wild vegetables, she noticed the labor scene on the riverbed. Some people's legs and feet were immersed in the water, and the dug soil was put into large wicker baskets, and then some people transported the wicker baskets full of soil to the embankment to build the embankment.

Wheelbarrows cannot be used here, so it all depends on manpower, shouldering, carrying with a pole, or two people carrying together.

When she was a child, she heard from her grandparents that the soil basket could hold six or seven hundred kilograms of soil, and a larger basket could hold more than a thousand kilograms. Sometimes it was all carried on the shoulders. Moreover, the time for digging rivers and canals was basically winter. There was no busy farming during this period of the year. Many people worked in icy water and were exhausted. In their later years, they suffered from long-term illness.

However, many young and strong laborers were willing to come to work.

One is to record full work points, which is ten work points a day. The second is to save food for the family. Because it is hard work, the superiors are not harsh on food, and each person can have two three-grain flour rolls for one meal.

Sweet potato flour, sorghum flour and black flour are mixed together, and the steamed rolls are black. They taste much better than the coarse grains that are usually eaten at home. The women who cook eat half of them and hide one and a half. There are also many strong laborers who eat one and keep one, and put it in their arms and say they will take it home, either for the elderly or for their wives and children.

People from Wanglou Brigade also came to work. Seeing Wang Zhengguo, Feng Qingxue ran to him and said, "Uncle, you are back? The last few times I went to Wanglou, you and my aunt were not at home. I asked my aunt, and my aunt said you went to visit relatives."

She did not tell Wang Jiao about running away from home, nor did she ask whether Wang Jiao had been found.

Wang Zhengguo and Miao Fengqin's family kept Wang Jiao's running away from home a secret, so of course she would not offend them.

"Xue? You're here too? Not bad, not bad. We can't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We have to work and earn work points." Wang Zhengguo seemed particularly happy to see his niece. "I took your cousin to visit relatives. The road was quite far, and it took some time to go back and forth."

Feng Qingxue felt relieved when she heard that Wang Jiao was back, and a smile appeared on her face.

"Are your aunt and cousin okay? Going far away to visit relatives is tiring enough."

"Your aunt is fine, but your cousin didn't pay attention when she walked. She fell and forgot everything that happened in the past six months. So, your aunt stayed at home to take care of her."

Wang Zhengguo breathed a sigh of relief when he said this.

In the past six months, his daughter had made him have a headache, he had been injured and forgotten some things, and he lost the things he had taken from home. But he was not as weird as before. Although he was still as willful as when he was a child and would lose his temper when he was unhappy, he had forgotten that he wanted to marry Lu Jiang. When he passed by the cowshed, he despised the Lu family for their bad background and said that he should not help the Lu family secretly.