Golden autumn in October.

Xiushui County is a major grain-producing county, especially rice. The north part of the county town is close to the large rice fields on both sides of the county road. At this time, it is already golden. The golden rice ears hang down, and when the wind blows, it sways and rusts, like a golden wave.

Yan Ning wiped the sweat from her head with a towel hanging around her neck, stood by the roadside, looking at the busy crowd in the rice fields, and felt comfortable physically and mentally.

Although I have been retired for two years, the habit of morning running has been maintained.

In Xiushui County, whether it is the playground of No. 2 Middle School or the county stadium, the feeling of running in the morning is not as good as the pleasure of coming along the large rice fields in the countryside. Smelling the faint smell of grass and trees in the air, it makes me intoxicated.

After retiring, she entered the Normal University. She specializes in physical education and has an understanding of sports morphology and sports physiology. The human body is like a precision machine. If you start it from time to time, it will only become more and more dusty and gradually rust and deteriorate.

She now clearly felt that her achievements were much worse than before. Without the pressure of competition, her life became more stable and comfortable, which inevitably made people slack off.

But, this is really good!

Compared with many of her teammates at that time, the path she chose after retirement was the smoothest among everyone. After the athletes passed the golden age, they still had to return to real life. But... the family was nagging blind dates again, which made her a little annoyed.

"The holiday is over!"

Yan Ning let out a sigh of relief, shook off his parents' recent remarks, thinking that the school sports meeting would be held a few days after school starts.

Xiushui No. 2 Middle School has not many teachers, so she, as a physical education teacher, will definitely be a referee in the school sports meeting in the next school sports meeting and will be busy.

Gulugulu—

A mechanical rotation sounded suddenly.

Yan Ning looked in the direction where his figure came. In the middle of the rice field not far away, a large piece of yellow rice ears had been cut down with a sickle. A huge square wooden barrel was placed in the rice field. The sound of the threshing machine came from afar.

It is almost the same time when late rice matures. Although it is almost eight o'clock in the morning, there are more and more people in the rice fields, and there are a scene of a busy harvest.

Yan Ning walked slowly back along the roadside. He had just run several kilometers. Now it is time to walk slowly to relax his muscles and calm his breathing.

Looking at the busy crowds of rice fields on both sides, she used to work a lot at this time when she was young. Now, although her family has transferred a resident household registration, as long as she looks, she can't help but feel a little friendly.

Yan Ningzheng looked around and looked at the busy crowd. Many people actually knew her. After all, a person who often gets up early and runs in the countryside, especially a woman, can still attract people's attention at this time.

“Huh?!”

While walking slowly, Yan Ning suddenly stopped and in a rice field where someone she knew was still familiar.

"This is... Ye Qin?!"

Yan Ning was a little confused for a while and felt a little different in her heart. Standing in the distance, looking at the busyness of others, she did not go up to talk to her, but looked at her silently for a few seconds and then walked away quietly.

...

"Ye Qin, are you tired? You can rest for a while, I'll give it to me!"

Zhang Jiadong straightened his waist with a slightly sore waist, looked at the boy buzzing while stepping on the threshing machine and shouted with a smile.

"No need, Uncle Zhang." Ye Qin threw the straw that had been ripped from the threshing machine in his hand and turned around to the valley bucket. He smiled and replied, then grabbed a pile of rice that had been scattered in front of him and continued to thresh.

"Ye Qin, you'd better change your Uncle Zhang. You're so hard."

On the side, Zhang Jiadong's wife, who was practicing to bend down to cut rice, wiped the sweat from her forehead and shouted.

"It's really no need, Aunt, I'm not tired. I used to help people do this at home." Ye Qin quickly threshed a handful of rice in his hand and threw it to the straw pile next to him, and answered again.

"You guys are really...!"

Zhang Jiadong shook his head and looked at the wife beside him, feeling a little moved for a moment.

Yesterday, the couple were working in the farmland and saw a dark-skinned boy. He asked whether anyone needed help, such as cutting rice or stepping on a threshing machine. At noon, a meal was half a man-made for twenty yuan a day.

Zhang Jiadong was just watching it on the roadside at that time, and said casually that he would not do it for a day without saying a word. Unexpectedly, the boy rolled up his trousers and got out of the field without saying a word.

This made Zhang Jiadong panic. He usually likes to joke, but he didn't expect the boy to take it seriously. He and his wife couldn't stop him, so he watched Ye Qin pick up the sickle on the edge of the field and start cutting rice.

To be honest, when it comes to the crops, they rarely hire such a young man. They are not from his generation in the early years. Nowadays, young people do little work, and they may seem a little bit of strength, but they don’t have a long time. They usually do farm work in just two or three times, and they become weak afterwards.

The boy in his early twenties who has gone out to work has been in the field for a few minutes since he was a child. Don’t just complain about being tired, dirty, sore, back and sore.

But this young man is really able to endure hardships, not afraid of fatigue, and does a good job, no worse than an adult laborer. He cut rice more easily than he and his wife, and he will not throw food around. The cut rice is neatly placed.

The threshing machine was even better than the adult in his forties. The threshing machine sounded never slowed down. The rice harvested by the couple was not enough for him to beat alone.

This is a really capable guy!

Moreover, after learning about the situation later, the couple realized that this young man was not a employed worker outside, but a high school student who wanted to earn some living expenses during the National Day holiday.

This statement made Zhang Jiadong and his wife feel even more distressed. Thinking about the boy who worked outside, he called back from time to time to ask for money. He really felt that people could not compare with others.

"When you go back early, cook two more dishes. I called Ye Qin to go to the house for a meal. I was so reckless that I didn't have time to get some food at noon." Zhang Jiadong walked to his wife and said in a low voice.

His wife gave him a blank look, and her voice was also low, "I told you, I had agreed to Lao Xie, the meat seller, to help me save a pound of pork belly. I want to say, look at the child's neatness, you have to calculate the wages for him."

"That's it." Zhang Jiadong nodded with a smile, "I'll help him with a manual."

Both husband and wife are real. Although they didn't think about asking for help at the beginning, they really found that after adding Ye Qin, the progress was far beyond expectations, and they didn't stingy with such a hundred dollars.

Although I don’t know much about it inside and outside, some things are all experienced and can be thought of.

Ye Qin didn't know what Zhang Jiadong and his wife, who hired him, were discussing, but he was still very excited.

During the National Day holiday, he originally wanted to go home. It took almost a month since the start of school to now. It was also good to go home to see his grandparents, but after thinking about it, he still didn't go back.

Although it was a busy farming season, because my uncle went out to work, there were only two elderly people in the family, and the land was contracted to others to plant. He had nothing to do except catch loaches and snails, so he simply looked around the county town to find out if someone could work in a temporary job and earn some living expenses.

If he is in a big city, he may be able to find some work to do it, but Xiushui County is very small and the economy is in a downturn. It is not easy to find a restaurant to serve plates for others and do hygiene. It is all necessary to have a long-term or acquaintance.

Later, Ye Qin thought about it and simply left the city and walked away to see if he could find him to make rice for him at this time.

He also asked many people along the way. Most people basically didn't want him when they saw him. Generally, even if they wanted to hire someone, they would have gotten up early, or they would have changed jobs to help each other. Until he met Zhang Jiadong and joked with him in the field, he agreed without thinking. Moreover, when Zhang Jiadong and his wife dissuaded him, he also stayed with shame.

In places with few opportunities, he knew very early that strength was worthless, and he could earn a little.

However, he didn't dare to tell his family about these things. With his grandfather's temperament, he would just go to school well. If he still came out to work on weekends and holidays, he would probably be unhappy!

Fortunately, there are not many opportunities like this, and school will start tomorrow. Even if there are weekends later, the time is short, and coupled with the pressure of high school study, it is not easy to take time out.
Chapter completed!