Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Wu Aiqing looked at Ma Yanna who was walking out along the wall with confusion. He walked into the yard and asked the two girls who stayed behind, "Who is that person? What is he doing?"

"Ma Yanna." Xue Li replied.

In fact, many people in those days suffered from night blindness because of the poor living conditions. Wu Aiqing's father was the only one who worked in his family, and he had several brothers and sisters. You can imagine how difficult life was. Although he was later sent to his grandmother's house in the countryside, his life was a little better. But only a little, so his night blindness was also quite serious. Now he was carrying the door panel back, and he had to rely on Fu Biao's guidance and help without any struggle.

When they heard it was Ma Yanna, everyone else shut up and stopped commenting.

Several people divided the door panel into two parts. Since the weather was hot, there was no need to put it up. They could just put it on the ground, spread out a bed and go to sleep.

After Jiang Yu, Xue Li and other old educated youth had taken a bath and cleaned up, they went into the bathroom to wipe their bodies. Showering was impossible because the ground here was compacted soil, which would become muddy once water was splashed on it. The muddy water splashed from the shower would hang on their legs, unless they laid stones to help drainage or used stone slabs.

When I finally lay down, it was around 9 o'clock. It was late at night and everyone was asleep. I could clearly hear the chirping of insects and birds outside.

Jiang Yu closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning, the red song to remind the villagers to wake up was sung. Jiang Yu straightened up, sat up from the door panel, and looked around in a daze.

"Oh my god, my old lady..." Xue Li, who was standing beside him, supported his waist and struggled to get up. "You are so young, but your waist is not good. Jiang Yu, how are you? My legs are sore and my waist hurts. It's so hard~"

Jiang Yu held his waist hypocritically, "Yeah, it's quite sore."

"Yeah, the pain will definitely be worse when I start doing farm work tomorrow. No, I have to apply hot compress at night to relieve the pain." Xue Li tried twisting his neck again, wanting to cry but without tears.

Jiang Yu hummed twice, sat up and began to tidy up the quilt and sheets.

Outside, Wu Aiqing had already started cooking corn grits porridge. This thing takes a long time to cook, so he got up early in order to fill his stomach before going to town.

The other people walked out of the room one after another, taking their toiletries and going to the front yard to fetch water.

The old educated youth were squatting in the yard brushing their teeth and rinsing their mouths. When they saw them coming, they said nothing.

Adhering to the attitude of "not taking action unless the enemy does", the new educated youth ignored their existence and washed themselves.

After dinner, when Zhuang Shouren arrived, the other six people except Ma Yanna said hello to him and set off.

When I hurried to the intersection outside the village, the ox cart was still parked there. There were only three women sitting on it, talking and laughing as they sat on the cart.

The driver of the ox cart was a lame old man wearing a round-brimmed straw hat. When he saw the educated youth coming, he waved the short whip in his hand and said, "Would you like to take a ride? It's 2 cents for a round trip. Pay now."

Several people hurriedly took out their money and handed it over, then got on the bus obediently and waited for departure.

The woman sitting at the front of the car looked the youngest. She smiled and greeted the educated youth, "I'm going shopping today. Why don't you bring a backpack?"

Several people looked at the backpacks at the feet of the three people. Yes, they all came out empty-handed. Where should they put the things they bought later?

"Hahaha~ They are all young and inexperienced. Just go to the supply and marketing cooperative in town and buy one. These are all handmade by old farmers. No tickets are needed." Another auntie chuckled. "By the way, I heard that you new educated youth didn't start a fire with the old educated youth?"

As expected, in the countryside, the whole village will know about any disturbance.

Xiong Lijin nodded, and without trying to hide the matter from the old educated youth, he told the aunties directly about the conflict that happened yesterday afternoon.

"Oh my! He even stole your food? He looked honest in normal times, but I didn't expect that he would do such a thing as stealing other people's food rations behind their backs. Tsk tsk tsk, he's really a piece of shit." The aunties immediately got excited and started to criticize the old educated youth by holding each other's hands.

"I knew that Chen Lei was not a good guy. I saw him stealing wheat ears last time!" The young woman said it with certainty, as if she had caught the thief with her own eyes.

"Last time, my husband Tiedan said that he robbed the little kids, but I didn't believe it. After all, he is a city kid, how could he do such a thing as robbing children? Now it seems that it might be true!" The new educated youth had just started the conversation, and the three women began brainstorming, digging up all the bad things about the educated youth that had been missed before.

Ma Qianqian traded eggs with villagers, and asked for 1 large eggs and 2 small eggs for 3 cents.

He Yuanchao is very good at abacus beads. I don't know how his hands are shaped, just like a butcher. He can tell the weight by just touching it. Every time he raked grass, the line would get stuck. There was no extra one. When the rations were distributed last year, he argued with the team leader's wife for a small sweet potato.

Liu Qiang is a lackey. He listens to whatever Guan Wenbin says, sticks to him closely, follows him everywhere. He says what Guan Wenbin is not comfortable saying, and does what Guan Wenbin is not comfortable doing...

Jiang Yu listened to all the gossip along the way, and when he got off the bus, the aunties' weird and tacit laughter was still echoing in his ears.

"Why did the auntie laugh so strangely when she talked about Liu Qiang and Guan Wenbin?" Jiang Yu was puzzled.

Xue Li's eyes lit up, and he took her arm and whispered to her, "That one..."

"Which one?" Jiang Yu didn't receive her signal.

"Just...a man! The one!!" Xue Li clenched his fists and raised his thumbs to touch each other.

Ginger Fish blinked her dead fish eyes.

Fu Biao couldn't bear it any longer and said in a low voice, "Rabbit God!"

What is a Rabbit God? Jiang Yu, a lone ranger in the apocalypse, whose focus in life is survival, still doesn’t understand.

"Hey, it's just two men dating each other." Xue Li stood on tiptoe and explained in her ear.

??? Is this possible? Jiang Yu, who was ignorant, widened his eyes. "So Guan Wenbin and Liu Qiang are a couple?"

"Who knows? Anyway, the aunties just say that the two of them are always sticking together." Chen Jinghan didn't think so. There was no ambiguous feeling between the two of them.

The imaginations of the country ladies are really big.

A few people first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy backpacks, and then selected the items they needed from them.

Jiang Yu followed Xue Li as they moved back and forth in front of the counter.

The supply and marketing cooperative here is quite large, divided into a food area and a daily life area. In addition to snacks and candies, the food area also has grain, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other items. The daily life area is much more messy and occupies a larger area.

Jiang Yu looked at the counter next to the cashier, with a bicycle hanging behind it. She remembered that she still had two bicycles in her space. She would dismantle them and reprocess them to generate income for herself!

Xue Li was looking at watches. She didn't want to buy one. There were many big-brand watches in her shopping mall. She just wanted to compare and find a similar one so she could use it later.