Chapter 501 A Nationwide Harvest Rush (tushumi.cc)

Cuihua frowned: "This is a bad omen. The place is only so big, we'll run into each other sooner or later."

We haven't taken any precautions in the past few years.

So, you can also subtly find out at school who's asking you these questions.

Cuihua also carefully recalled the process of her younger sisters returning home.

After the fourth son fell into the water, he was abandoned by the Ding family in Dongliuzhuang. Later, they found someone to transfer Ding Maiya's household registration and change it to Tang Cuihong.

The Ding family believed that the fourth son had drowned, so they lied and said that he had gone to a relative's house and never returned. That family had three sons.

Cuihong became deaf at the age of ten and had been frequently abused before. She was also cut by her adoptive brother, so it's impossible for this family to find her.

Especially now that Cuihong has married someone from another place, the possibility of her being haunted by relatives is unlikely.

The fifth sister, Cui Mei, was brought here by a fire; it was Da Ya who left.

Niu Tieniu and Gong Honghong, the couple from Niujia Village, are dead. Their mentally challenged son disappeared during the famine.

Moreover, she transferred the property through the village committee, generously transferring it out, and even gave the village fifteen yuan as compensation.

They can't find us here, so our identities are relatively safe.

Tang Cuixiang, the sixth child, faked her death and left Qilihe Village under the identity of Huang Dou. With the help of the village chief and his wife, she tricked the Huang family into selling the identity of Huang Dou, who had been "drowned," for ten yuan, and thus was able to settle down.

Strictly speaking, Cui Xiang's identity is relatively safe.

Even if they manage to find her, with Cuixiang's current abilities, they won't be able to do anything to her.

As for Cuifeng and Cuilan, the village chief of Nanwa Village promised them five catties of millet and two catties of red dates as a reward.

Cuifeng disappeared prematurely during the famine. With the help of the village chief, it's better to exchange her for some money and grain than to have her household registration cancelled in the future.

So, Lao Qi's household registration was eventually processed with ten yuan in cash and five jin of millet to obtain the relocation permit.

With the village chief of Zhao Family Village acting as an intermediary, the matter of Lao Ba's household registration was finally settled with five yuan in cash and three jin of millet.

In principle, there should be no problem, and they have kept a low profile over the years, so they have been able to coexist peacefully.

But then one day someone jumps out and says you look like so-and-so!

This immediately put everyone on edge.

"Leave this matter to me. I will first investigate the household registration of these families, and then deal with the specific issues on a case-by-case basis."

In mid-to-late May, schools gave students a week-long break for harvesting wheat, during which everyone rushed to harvest.

Time is tight and the task is heavy. We've finally got a good harvest, and we can't let a rainstorm ruin it.

Therefore, the production team did not allow leave, and every household had to send someone back to participate in the harvest.

The Tao family sent Tao Changyi and his son Tao An, while the Tang family sent the seventh and eighth sons. Zhai Sanhe would also participate in the work at the threshing ground if he got off work early one day.

Cuihua would come back early to cook for them, making cold noodles, cold rice noodles, cold noodles, multigrain pancakes, egg drop soup, and dried fish shreds as appetizers, trying different ways to improve everyone's meals after their hard work.

Harvesting wheat is an incredibly dirty and tiring job. You have to work from dawn till dusk, and it's bad enough that your back is so sore you can barely straighten up. You also have to endure the wheat straw flying onto your body, causing an itchy and painful sensation. During the day, the sun is so strong that your clothes even have salt stains, which shows how much sweat you've shed.

So during this period, everyone who has the strength contributes, and those who don't stay home try to improve everyone's meals.

Aside from those who were unable to work, even the children knew to run to the wheat field to pick up ears of wheat to earn two or three work points. So Cuihua, the pregnant woman, didn't slack off and took leave in shifts every day.

She wasn't the only one doing this at the township health center. To ensure the health center could operate normally, they eventually changed it to having staff work in shifts.

Of course, this only applies to the week of wheat harvest.

We've all worked so hard, and yet some people are just bored and looking for trouble.

The reason is simple: she was six or seven months pregnant, while others had just found out they were pregnant, but the treatment they received was worlds apart.

She only needs to be responsible for one of the three meals a day, but some people are treated as the only able-bodied laborer in the family to work in the fields to earn full work points.

Not only her, but even her daughter, who was eight or nine years old, had to be exposed to the scorching sun in the fields all day long.

The only freeloader in the family couldn't even cook a decent meal.

Unfortunately, he has no sense of time at all. Every time he delivers food, it's only when the other person has almost finished eating that he limps over.

Looking at the food he made, honestly, anyone who's been busy all day would find it hard to eat such dark and unappetizing dishes.

"Oh, Huang Xin brought food again? The garlic noodles you made yesterday turned into lumps. What new thing did you make today?"

"The pancakes weren't made well yesterday, so I made some today. Come on, Cai Ying, quickly call your mother over for dinner."

Sometimes things just happen to be coincidental. Unfortunately, Cuihua was late returning home because she was dealing with an emergency patient that day, which caused her to miss the same time as the others when she delivered the food.

As she hurriedly carried two baskets toward the edge of the field, Huang Xin happened to be standing there on his crutches.

She noticed the man and deliberately avoided him, not wanting to get involved with him. However, she walked too fast and lost her footing, falling into the grassy area.

Before Huang Xin could hand the basket to his stepdaughter, he heard the noise and turned around abruptly. He suddenly dropped the basket and staggered towards the direction where Cuihua had fallen.

Fortunately, an auntie who was relaxing nearby heard the commotion and quickly ran over to help Cuihua up.

"Hey, Cuihua, did you hurt your stomach? Stand for a while and see if you feel uncomfortable anywhere."

Family members in the distance noticed something was wrong and rushed over!

Cuihua broke out in a cold sweat. After realizing what had happened, she touched her stomach for a moment and then breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Auntie, it's alright, it's alright, it was just a false alarm. Luckily, the grass here is quite thick, and the basket helped to cushion the impact."

Cui Feng and Cui Lan ran over with pale faces, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Tang Cuihua was alright.

"Quick, I chilled some mung bean soup for you. Check if it spilled. I filled several jars with it!"

Tao Changyi and his son Tao An also ran over, but before they could speak, a sharp cry of a child came from behind them.

"Waaah, Mom, why did you hit me? It was clearly him! I didn't even catch it before he let go. It wasn't me who dropped the basket."

Huang Xin belatedly turned around and saw the food scattered all over the place; his face instantly darkened.

As Sun Caihua angrily scolded her daughter and squatted down to tidy up the food in the basket, she felt it was a waste and even grabbed some soil-covered vegetables and stuffed them into her mouth, disregarding her dirty hands.

While eating, he mumbled a scolding to Cai Ying for wasting food. Cai Ying was indignant and cried uncontrollably.

"Mom, can't you hear me? I already told you, when he handed it to me, before I could even take it, he dropped the basket and ran over to help that woman who fell. If you don't believe me, ask everyone. There are so many people watching. Would I lie to you?"