Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

The lives of the new educated youth in Northeast China gradually got on track. After a period of adaptation, everyone had a certain understanding of the intensity of farming and farm work and began to adjust their intensity.

For example, Xue Li, the girl who is very confident, said, "I just like to feed pigs. I cut grass and feed pigs every day. I don't lack those work points. It doesn't matter if there is not enough food, I can make up for it with money."

Xiong Lijin was in a similar situation to her, but his confidence was not based on a golden finger. He went out from time to time to do some side jobs and earn some money, so he had enough money and did not demand work points.

Moreover, this guy is a cunning person. No one knows where he got a hospital certificate stating that he is in poor health. When the team leader Zhang Baoguo assigns tasks, he has to consider not tiring him out. For this reason, he often has a sullen face and is not very friendly to him.

As for Chen Jinghan, he was quite hardworking, but he also often asked for leave to go out. However, ever since the villagers knew that he had connections with the glass factory, they became very tolerant of him. Even if he was not working, they would still greet him with a smile when they met him on the road.

Among this group of new educated youth, the remaining four were considered by the villagers to be relatively down-to-earth and hardworking.

Ma Yanna doesn't want this evaluation, she doesn't want to be down-to-earth and capable at all!

But what could she do? She was excluded from the small group of new educated youth, and the old educated youth were also sarcastic to her. If she continued to ruin the reputation of the villagers, she would not even have room to breathe in this place.

Jiang Yu and Ma Yanna often bump into each other because they insist on going out, but every time Ma Yanna sees her, she walks very fast, and her calves can cause sparks from stepping on them. It is not known whether she is afraid of Jiang Yu and dares not approach because she still remembers clearly the two times when Jiang Yu knocked Chen Lei over.

Fu Biao and Wu Aiqing followed Jiang Yu arm in arm, watching Ma Yanna whizzing around them and walking away, laughing, "What's wrong with this person? She acted as if she saw a ghost when she saw us."

Wu Aiqing thought of Ma Yanna's attempt to scam him on the day she first arrived, and shook her head. "It's better to stay away from us, or I'm afraid she will blackmail us again."

Not everyone is as vigilant as Jiang Yu. If Ma Yanna had asked him for help first that day, he might have been blamed for the broken things.

Fu Biao nodded, "Indeed, we must be on guard against others."

Today men and women worked separately. Jiang Yu and the aunts went to dig beets, while the men went to repair the terraces.

Jiang Yu has sharp ears and eyes, so he doesn't need to get close to those aunties chatting about gossip. He can just stand in the corner and eat the melon.

The aunties' topic today is the landlord's son who is only heard of but never seen.

"Chi has been out for more than half a month. He should be back soon."

"What's the matter? Your old man has been looking at you for too long, and you want to see some good-looking young people to refresh your eyes?"

"Bah! You're talking as if your old man can compare to Chi brat! I just enjoy watching him! He's good looking! If you look at him more, you'll earn money!"

"I saw the educated youth from the next village on Yaoer Mountain before, the one with two big braids. Is she here to look for Chi again? What do you think this girl is thinking? Such an educated youth, why does she have to mix with the five black categories?"

"Maybe it's another old man Liang who thinks the Yi family still has money and property."

"If he had money, would Chi be so hungry? He looks like a skinny person, he has no energy to work, and the work points he earns are only enough to buy some sweet potatoes. Tsk tsk, think about the Yi family back then, they spent a month's worth of other people's food money on one meal~"

"Shh! Don't talk nonsense."

A few middle-aged women curled their lips and started talking about the educated female youth with pigtails.

"That girl is really weird. She seems to have devoted herself to Chi, but he doesn't like her. He can't even hide from her, but she has no shame at all."

"Face? What's the use of having face? When people see Chi, their eyes light up. It's obvious that they are in love with him."

"That guy doesn't like her and has rejected her so many times! Besides, what's the point of just looking at her face? Can it fill your stomach or what?"

"I don't think she likes Chi! She wasn't sad even when she was rejected. But that guy in the village cried so hard when he was rejected by Wenchang from the old Han family. That was sad! That girl is either thinking too much or she has some ulterior motives!"

"Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit like that! Tsk tsk, it's hard to say about these educated youth. They're not good at work, but their brains are definitely more flexible than ours!"

Jiang Yu's hands kept working, shaking off the dirt on the beets with gloves on, his ears perked up, taking in gossip from all sides.

Although she was just listening for fun, after all, she had no idea who the villagers were and their names were. Besides the fact that she had little contact with them, it was more because she didn't care about these outsiders.

After the aunties finished talking about the educated youth girl with long braids who was scheming, they went back to talking about Yi something Chi, the Yi family, the Chi boy, so his name should be Yi something Chi.

"Last time I mentioned that the Liang family was eyeing Chi's thatched cottage. How are things going recently?"

"Liang Shugen is really crazy, his eyes are so shallow, he can't stand seeing others doing well, right? The old and young in the Renyi family are dead, sick, and there are only two people who can move. One is still in the farm for reform, and the kid Chi is so thin that he is swollen and sick. How can he look like a rich man!"

"The Liang family is not straight at the top and crooked at the bottom. Forget about it. Stay away from them from now on. Don't accidentally provoke a psychopath."

Liang Shugen? Jiang Yu silently memorized this name. This person might be jealous and hate the rich.

The busy morning passed quickly, and Xue Li came over with a basket of pig feed on his back to find Jiang Yu to work together.

Jiang Yu took the backpack filled with beets and handed it over to the brigade headquarters to register his work points.

"The weather is getting hotter." Xue Li took off his wide-brimmed straw hat and fanned himself twice.

Jiang Yu had previously used a thermometer to test the outdoor temperature, which was about 34 degrees, which was actually quite cool. After all, the south is currently experiencing high temperatures of 38-40 degrees.

"Go back at noon and make some cooling tea, and take it with you to quench your thirst when you go to work in the afternoon." The wild chrysanthemums and other herbs that Jiang Yu had prepared earlier have all been dried. Wu Aiqing also made some fried rice. When the time comes, adding some fried rice to the cooling tea should make it taste good.

Xue Li approached Jiang Yu and asked her quietly, "Jiang Yu, can you make a fan?"

Jiang Yu nodded first, then shook his head, "We don't have electricity here. If we use batteries, the electric fan will consume a lot of power and is not suitable."

"Hey~ The conditions in the construction team are pretty good, why is there no electricity yet!" Xue Li muttered dejectedly, "If there is electricity, we can install a telephone, and the village radio can also change the channel and play some nice songs..."

The most important thing is that with electricity, people can turn on the lights at home at night without having to grope around in the dark, making their daily lives more convenient.

"But even if the village has electricity, not every household will install electric wires. The electricity bill is not cheap either." Jiang Yu feels that electricity is really not a necessity for the villagers.

However, Xue Li was used to the bright lights of later times, and he certainly couldn't adapt to this era where even using electricity is inconvenient.