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midsummer.

The cicadas' chirping makes people feel uneasy.

In Qingshan Brigade, the situation is even more chaotic near the small river at the east end of the village.

A female educated youth who had just gone to the countryside fell into the river and her life or death was unknown. The team leader Song Guangming developed several blisters at the corners of his mouth in just a few minutes, and the doctor who was called for a long time did not return.

Song Guangming took a few puffs of his pipe in annoyance.

What is going on? When he was assigning the educated youth, he didn't want female ones because they were spoiled, couldn't do any work, and caused a lot of trouble. It would also easily lead the bachelors in the village to not find a partner and live a stable life in the village, but always think of marrying a city wife.

Don’t they think that it’s so easy to marry girls in this city?

In the village, the maximum gift for marrying a wife is fifty yuan plus a few pounds of sugar and eggs. If the conditions are better, you can also add a few feet of Dacron cloth. In this way, you can marry a capable, hardworking and fertile wife.

That city girl, not only is it impossible to marry without a 200-yuan dowry and three turns and a ring, but she can't even lift anything, so what's the point of marrying her?

Treat it as an ancestor?

Song Guangming's third daughter-in-law is an educated youth, a city girl who has caused unrest in the family. Of course, these words cannot be told to outsiders. He turned his head and glanced at Xu Yan lying on the ground, and felt that there was another blister on his mouth.

The people around were talking while secretly looking at Xu Yan who was lying unconscious on the ground.

"You're not really dead, are you?"

"Maybe. Didn't Zhang Guiying sniff her breath and say she was dead?"

"Ah? Did she say that? Why didn't I hear it?"

"Do you need to hear it? Just look at the way she winked at the captain just now and you can tell that this person is probably hopeless."

"Mom, what do you mean by no hope?" A skinny, dark-skinned little guy with bare feet and upper body came over and asked.

"Nothing," the woman replied casually. When she realized it was her son, her eyes widened immediately. "Why are you here?"

Seeing that her son was still trying to move forward, the woman grabbed him and stepped back, then raised her hand and slapped the little guy on the butt, "I told you not to come over here, but you refused to listen. Is this something a child can see?"

I don’t know if the little guy was really hurt or was afraid of getting beaten again, but he started howling at the top of his lungs, and was finally held under his mother’s arms and carried away.

When the other people who were originally watching the show saw that there was nothing exciting to watch, they turned their attention back to the female educated youth Xu Yan who had not yet woken up.

"Look at the clothes she's wearing. She must have been rescued."

"I think so, but who is so generous to cover her with such a nice dress? I don't think I've seen anyone wear this dress before. There's not even a patch on it!"

"Not only is there no patch on it, it's clearly a new piece of clothing!"

"It's pitiful to say that this little educated youth Xu is as thin as a stick. It feels like she could be blown away by a strong wind."

"Who said she wasn't? Two days ago I saw her squatting on the ground picking pig grass to eat. How hungry must she be? Wang Ermaizi from the west end of the village was so poor that he never ate grass. There were so many people in the educated youth point, and no one shared some food with her?"

"That's right. I remember that when the educated youth Xu first came here, he was thin, but not this thin. How come he has become so thin after being in our Qingshan Brigade for less than half a year..."

The chattering never stopped, but the educated youth standing nearby had grim expressions and said nothing.

In particular, there were two female educated youth who ordered Xu Yan to go to the river to catch small fish during the lunch break to improve their meals.

Guilty and frightened, their faces looked even paler than Xu Yan who was lying on the ground.

"She won't..." Qin Li uttered a few words in a whisper with trembling lips.

"No," Zhou Jingjing was also afraid, but she didn't know what she was thinking about. Her expression changed again, and she looked at the person on the ground with some malice, "It would be better if... he was really dead. No one would know anyway."

It was at this time that Xu Yan opened his eyes.

Her head was still throbbing with pain, and no part of her body felt comfortable, especially her throat and entire air cavity, which were burning with pain due to drowning. However, it was not as shocking as the information she had received in her mind not long ago.

She is from 24 years old.

On a cold winter day, he went out to take out the trash, fell and died on the spot.

It just... happened suddenly.

Her soul was floating in the air at that time. She watched the ambulance come and take her body away. In the cold hospital, when the doctor told her parents who had been divorced for many years the death news, she was still a little unresponsive.

Is she really dead?

Before she could finish her struggle, her body sank and she dived into the water.

She... is alive again?

Xu Yan became even more confused.

But she was not confused for long, because she was rescued by a man who happened to be passing by the river. She was in a daze at the time and could not see clearly what the man looked like, but she only remembered that he was very strong, and his five fingers almost broke her already thin arm.

Thinking of this, Xu Yan raised his eyes and glanced around.

The people surrounding her were all very thin, except for a few who looked a little stronger.

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and the cicadas were chirping louder and louder.

When Xu Yan looked around, people were all staring at her. The crowd that had been chattering non-stop now seemed to have their mouths sealed by something, and became unusually quiet.

until--

The little guy who had just been taken home and had sneaked back again at some point asked, "Mom, didn't you say she had no chance? Why did her eyes move?"

As soon as he said that, his mother picked him up and slapped him on the butt.

The little guy howled again with a "wow".

The others were then sure that they had really seen Xu Yan wake up, but those dark eyes combined with her overly pale face were really a little creepy.

Is he alive?!

Stop pretending to be dead.

Just then, Qian Yong, a doctor from the commune clinic, arrived. Doctor Qian carefully felt Xu Yan's pulse and said that she was malnourished and probably fell into the river due to dizziness caused by hypoglycemia, but there was no other serious problem.

The crowd was relieved.

Xu Yan woke up. No matter if she was not dead but just fainted, or had died and come back to life, Song Guangming would be happy as long as he saw her open her eyes!

The reason why Qingshan Brigade is called this name is because the village’s geographical location is really good. It is close to mountains and rivers, the annual harvest is pretty good, and the amount of public grain paid is the highest among the surrounding brigades. Although every household still only eats two meals a day and lives on a diet of water and tightening their belts, there has never been a case of starvation to death.

If an educated youth really starves to death, no matter why he or she starves to death, there will be no hope of receiving any commendation from above next year.

Not to mention rewards, there might even be punishment.

Although many people died quietly in this era, the death of educated youth who went to the countryside and drowned while fishing in the river due to hunger still had a great impact.

Fortunately, nothing happened now.

Song Guangming took another puff of his pipe, let out a long sigh, and then directed several educated youth around him to take the person back.

Qin Li and Zhou Jingjing's faces became even worse.

The two of them had been worried that Xu Yan would tell others about the matter, but until they returned to the educated youth point, Xu Yan not only didn't say a word, but his eyes kept rolling around, as if he had drowned and was stunned.