Rebirth in a Book: The Road to Breakthrough

Xiaocao said softly to Yucongcong, "Congcong, get up. Grandma and your Aunt Liu are going to the gathering. Breakfast is still warming in the pot." Congcong turned over and replied drowsily, "Well, grandma, go ahead! I'll save some delicious food for you at noon."

"Well, remember to go to the village office to cook at noon, and don't be late." Xiaocao was still worried and instructed again.

"Yeah." Yu Congcong agreed vaguely and soon fell asleep again.

Since the village started eating from a big pot, it has developed a habit: during the busy farming season, everyone cooks and eats together in the village office. Since she was 14 years old, Yu Congcong has helped in the village office kitchen during the busy farming season when school is on vacation. Tiezhu can get 12 work points for farm work, and she can get 5 work points in the kitchen. This year is the third year. Because she cooks delicious food, everyone is convinced by her. The team leader felt that the work points given to her last year were too few, so this year he increased her work points to 8. Every year, pregnant women work in the kitchen because they cannot bend over. Women who are not particularly lazy are unwilling to come to the kitchen. Although the work in the kitchen is easy, the work points are few, and most people look down on it.

Village Office, since the militia was disbanded, the seven people have served as team leaders in the village. The seven people, Fu Qian, Fu Chao, Fu Shan, Fu Lei, Fu Yao, Fu Xin, and Fu Yan, have been the leaders of the first to seventh teams respectively. There are a total of thirteen teams in the whole village. The captains of the other teams are the villagers who moved into the village later. Since the fourth uncle's gang was dealt with, twenty or thirty families have moved into the village one after another. Some were arranged by the government to relocate because of disasters; others fled during the great famine in 60. In this way, the population of the village suddenly increased. The small village with only more than a hundred people has now become a scale of more than 300 people.

The villagers came to the village office one after another. The team leader saw that everyone was there, so he said, "Our village has always been very democratic. Our village has thirteen teams, and eight teams have always had fewer people than the other five teams. Today, the eight team leaders, you and the educated youth will choose among each other!" After that, the team leader threw the matter to the team leaders and the educated youth, and left it alone.

The educated youths were at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to make a choice, but the team leaders knew what was going on and launched an "attack" against the male educated youths. The four girls watched helplessly as the eight team leaders launched an offensive against the only three male educated youths, while Bai Hua and the other female educated youths were ignored.

The scene was very noisy for a while, but in the end, the three male educated youths, Yuan Zhe, Feng De, and Hou Bao, made their own choices, and the chaos was finally calmed down. In contrast, the remaining female educated youths were much calmer, and each of them chose their favorite team. The four team leaders didn't seem to care about the four female educated youths. Bai Hua saw that no one had asked him until now, so he had no choice but to choose Fu Chao's team.

Fu Chao looked at Bai Hua, with a helpless expression on his face, and shook his head gently. He was always a man of few words, and he was always inferior to other team leaders in speech. The members of his team were always the last in the double harvest every year. Now that this person has come, I am afraid that this year will repeat the same mistake as last year.

"Captain, these are the new farm tools we purchased this year. How should we distribute them?" Fu Yu asked the captain, holding a brand new sickle in his hand.

"Just divide it equally among the team leaders and let them distribute it themselves." The captain responded.

After the village had assigned tasks to each team, the team leaders set off.

Team One and Team Two were in the same area. Fu Qian looked at Bai Hua and gave Fu Chao a sympathetic look. Fu Chao ignored him, but he couldn't understand his expression of watching a good show! He was just afraid of chaos.

"This year, just like last year, does anyone want to change jobs?"

"Captain, I want to change my job. I want to carry grain instead."

"Captain, let me switch with Xiao Mao!" Fu Chao looked at the man's age and agreed.

"Bai Hua, you can choose one between harvesting rice, piling up rice and threshing it, or carrying millet." Fu Chao looked at Bai Hua. He hoped that he would choose to carry millet.

The team members all looked at Bai Hua, because Bai Hua's deeds had spread throughout the village yesterday.

Bai Hua was looked at like this by the team members, and he was a little nervous: "I, I will carry the millet!"

"Huh..." The team members all breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Hua was amused. It turned out that everyone was so worried about him! At this moment, he thought they were so cute.

Everyone felt a little embarrassed by Bai Hua's laughter.

"Okay, start harvesting the rice quickly, and those who are piling it up are waiting. Those who are carrying the rice and have something to do can go home first, and those who don't have anything to do can take a rest." Fu Chao made arrangements loudly.

The team members dispersed and went about their business.

Xiao Mao saw Bai Hua standing there stupidly, not knowing what he was doing, so he called out, "Hey, comrade, are you okay? If not, I'll go take a rest under the shade of the tree."

"Oh, okay!" Bai Hua followed Xiao Mao to the shade of the tree, keeping a safe distance between them.

Xiao Mao looked at Bai Hua who was quite a distance away from him and didn't care. He asked curiously, "Does this problem affect your life?"

"Ah?" Bai Hua didn't understand what it meant for a moment.

"I'm asking, does your cleanliness problem affect your life?" Xiao Mao looked into Bai Hua's eyes and asked again.

"Yes, most people dislike it, and some even take extreme actions." Bai Hua said with some sadness.

"Yeah! I think so too." Xiao Mao nodded in understanding.

"Don't you dislike him?" Bai Hua was a little confused. There were many people in the village yesterday, and they all avoided him with disgust when they saw him.

He didn't really care, and he didn't want to get too close to them. In fact, he still felt a little disappointed.

"It's good that you don't dislike me. Why should I dislike you?" Xiao Mao looked at Bai Hua and continued, "No one in the village will dislike you either. The little genius of the Yu family said that you have a disease and you can't control it. We all know and understand, but you can't affect the development of the village." Xiao Mao waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

Yu Congcong fell asleep in a daze until about eight o'clock. She slept too late last night. They had been hiding the treasure smoothly, but the diary found in the cave aroused Yu Congcong's curiosity. She couldn't sleep until she understood it. Yu Congcong and the system looked up information about the book and discussed the purpose of the book collector. They worked until very late, but still didn't understand it.

Yu Congcong cleaned herself up and filled her stomach. Then, she cleaned up her house and went to the village canteen.