Rebirth in Famine: She Thrives by Lucky Space

Chapter 1020: Mai Qiu

New book "Reborn: Not Your Perfect Wife" is available for collection!He went to the post office, took a glance inside, and since he didn’t have a letter of introduction, he couldn’t buy newspapers; he ended up buying a whole page of stamps for his wife. Then, he left.

The provincial capital is still the provincial capital, you can tell from inside the building that the supply here is much better than in the city. If we don’t have tickets here, we should swap some tickets on hand for national food tickets before leaving. At the very least, take some sugar back.

After wandering around for a while, he saw it was getting late, so he planned to head back.

Upon arriving at the guesthouse, Li Yunqiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, fearing Wei Kaiyun might be late.

"How was it?"

Wei Kaiyun knew what Li Yunqiao was asking about, so he nodded with a smile, "The supply is much better than ours. I’m thinking of buying more to bring back."

"Do you have tickets?"

Wei Kaiyun shook his head, "No, but I have national food tickets, so I can exchange them."

"No need, I’ll find them for you. What do you want to buy?"

"Brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar. My wife says she wants to make preserves after autumn, which use a lot of sugar."

"No problem, leave it to me. Your wife’s good with her hands; my wife loves the preserves your family makes."

"Because there are many kids at home and the supply is scarce, we have to find ways to let the children have something to eat."

Li Yunqiao nodded, understanding the sentiment as a father himself.

After a short while, Secretary Wu came in, "The leader’s car is here; we should get going."

"Okay, let’s go."

Secretary Wu instinctively picked up the basket, which contained a sprayer and medicine bottles.

The three of them arrived at the private room in the canteen and saw several dishes already on the table: a plate of scallions, a bowl of sauce, a plate of peanuts, and a plate of sweet and sour shredded radish.

"You three comrades, please sit for a moment; the leader will be here shortly."

The meal was quite pleasant; the dishes were ordinary but quite healthy, and the leader was kind and very approachable.

Regarding work matters, the leader suggested holding a conference where all the village chiefs from the surrounding rural areas, agricultural extension stations, and agricultural technicians would attend. Moreover, during the autumn harvest, they would send people over to oversee the process fully, and of course, colleagues from the newspaper would also go.

Wei Kaiyun had no objections at all and would absolutely comply with the leader’s instructions.

"Tomorrow, you’ll accept interviews from the newspaper, which will be presented to the higher-ups, and the day after tomorrow, we’ll have a meeting."

After the meal, the leader needed to continue working, so he had the car take them back to rest.

During this period, the nights are still unsafe, so having someone accompany them is ideal.

The family is currently harvesting wheat, and since they’ve developed a combine harvester, it’s saved a lot of effort.

Li Yungui arranged people to first clear a few rows, so when the combine harvester cuts the wheat, they fall directly to the sides; the tractor follows behind with several people responsible for bundling the wheat.

Li Yungui saw that they still needed more tractors; Xiao Wei has been too busy lately, otherwise, they would have brought back two more.

Old Niu’s cart is waiting at the edge of the field; once loaded with wheat, it hauls it back to the threshing ground to dry.

Li Yunqiao is looking forward to the threshing machine Wei Kaiyun mentioned; if they had a threshing machine, that would truly be modernization.

Because wheat harvesting is a race against time, fearing rain, the whole village was mobilized, with children responsible for picking wheat ears.

Li Family Village had a total of six hundred acres of wheat, and the two combine harvesters still took nearly ten days.

Additionally, Li Cunshan led strong laborers to cut the wheat manually, trying to save time.

The elderly women were drying the wheat on the threshing ground, and the little mule was put to use, pulling the mill to crush the wheat grains. The women used two-section flails for threshing; when all the wheat was finally harvested, half of the grains had already been stored.

Everyone in the village lost a bit of weight, but Zhang Qiu’e and Zhao Xiaoli stayed home to take care of the children since their babys can’t be unattended.

This year, Jiang Xinyu came out to work; she had done this type of work when she was young. Though tiring, she worked efficiently.

Villagers educated their children during meals, "Look at your Teacher Jiang; she’s a college student too, but look at her, she can handle any work."

Jiang Xinyu didn’t expect to become a role model for the village children once again.

The three older kids also came out to pick wheat ears; Shang Zhenkun aimed to instill the value of hard work in them.

Zhang Qiu’e was extremely busy at home; Shi Xian was at that age where he was becoming hard to manage. He could take a few steps now but would cry if unseen, so Zhao Xiaoli simply kept the three little ones together.

But Shi Xian always bullied Ah Bao, and as a mother, it’s distressing.

Ultimately, there was no choice but for Feifei not to go to the fields, staying home to look after Shi Xian and Tingting.

The little girl always sat obediently on the kang, primarily keeping an eye on Shi Xian.

Feifei directly placed the two of them on a stroller, with Mother saying that it was used by him and his brother when they were young.

Shi Xian was genuinely happy to be able to go outside, stopped grabbing Tingting’s toys, and stopped hitting; his eyes were constantly looking around.

"Aunt Zhang, Yang Bai Niang, I’m taking them out for a walk, don’t worry. I won’t go far."

Don’t be fooled by Feifei being only six, but adults were subconsciously treating her as an older child.

"Feifei, don’t stay out too long."

"Okay, how about I take some water to Mom and the brothers; these two like being around people."

"Feifei, can you do that?"

"Of course, it’s not a problem."

As it was too hot and everyone was working hard and sweating a lot, they were given water mixed with red sugar, a bit of salt, and vinegar, which was refreshing and tasty.

Jiang Xinyu saw her daughter pushing the two little ones over and ran over immediately.

"Don’t come closer; it’s too dusty here."

"Mom, I brought you water."

"Thanks, Feifei."

Shi Xian was not used to seeing his mom wearing a headscarf and mask, and he kept staring.

Seeing her son’s expression, Jiang Xinyu had no choice but to remove her headscarf and mask, at which point Shi Xian reached out, wanting to be held.

"Shi Xian, no, Mom is too dirty, and it would be uncomfortable. Go play with your sister."

Tingting reached out wanting to be held too; Jiang Xinyu eventually had to stoop down and kiss both of them before letting them leave.

The stroller was made of bamboo, and Feifei found it somewhat tiring to push. But since it didn’t matter where they were, she slowly pushed them along.

"Jiang Feifei, do you need help?" A kid came over; they were all carrying baskets, apparently to hand over the wheat ears, which also counted for labor contribution.

Feifei smiled and shook her head, "No need, I’m just taking them for a stroll around the village. You should hurry; it’s almost lunchtime."

The kids nodded at Feifei’s words and went on their way.