Quick Wear: Passerby A's Daily Life of Eating Watermelons

The next afternoon, the team leader picked up the new educated youth from the commune.

After the educated youth were brought back, Jiang Yue and others went to help out, including moving luggage and taking the newcomers to collect food. The older educated youth had become much more mature after all these years, and they were also very enthusiastic to help, mainly because those few people who were difficult to deal with had left.

In the evening, everyone held a welcome party for the new educated youth. After discussion, Jiang Yue and the others took half a rabbit. After dinner, the old educated youth introduced the situation here to the new educated youth, and the new educated youth also introduced themselves. The five educated youth, two men and three women, were all from the same place, which was quite a coincidence. They would have company when they went home.

After the meal, Jiang Yue and the other three said goodbye, went home to rest for a while, and discussed the new educated youth. When it was almost time, they went up the mountain, not knowing that the new educated youth were also discussing the four of them.

"Captain Qiao, aren't these four educated youth? Why don't they live here? Where are they going back to?"

"They are educated youth. They don't live in this educated youth center. They live not far from us."

“Isn’t this the only youth training center?”

"Well, when they first arrived, the team was just finishing up three houses. We were originally planning to arrange for them to live over there when this place was full, but when they first arrived and met some people... well... they didn't get along well, so they moved over there."

Old Joe was stuck when he was explaining the reason. After all, it was not something worth talking about. What happened at the beginning had nothing to do with him. If he had known it earlier, he would never have agreed to do anything to show his power. Look, the leader just patted his butt and went back to the city, which made him quite embarrassed. He was a captain, and everyone thought he was the one who ordered it.

"Oh, I see. I think they are quite easy to talk to."

"If you have nothing to do, you can keep in touch. We are all educated youth, so we should help each other and unite as one."

Jiang Yue and the others had no idea what was being said here. The four of them were walking back happily. They had harvested two rabbits today. They gave away half of one in the afternoon, and received double the amount back in the evening.

The next morning, the three of them followed the ox cart to the commune. This time they went there to do a "big thing". After arriving at the commune, they carried a few rabbits on their backs to exchange six pieces of glass. Now the windows of their house were still the kind of small wooden grids covered with paper, which had poor heat preservation and poor light transmittance. This time they bought glass and planned to replace them.

The three of them carefully carried it to the ox cart, which was already covered with straw and door curtains. This was specially used to prevent the glass from getting bumped on the road. When they arrived home, Grandpa Xu had already modified the windows, because the current glass is of fixed size, so they can knock it out themselves when they get home.

However, professionals should let professionals do the work. Since Uncle Xu has experience, just leave it to others. It was already dinner time when we installed the glass. When we asked Uncle Xu for help, he didn't ask for money, so it was a good opportunity to treat him to a meal. There were still two pounds of ribs left, so we cooked them all and made a luxurious dried vegetable version of Northeastern stew.

I found the dried potatoes, beans, dried mushrooms and vermicelli. After taking out the ribs, I thought about it and cut a little pork belly. After preparing everything, I heated oil in a pan. This dish should be cooked with more oil. Not enough oil will not taste good. Then I added the pork belly and fry it. Then I added the ribs, added seasoning and added mushrooms to continue stir-frying. When the aroma of mushrooms comes out, I added the dried potatoes and beans, salt and water and started to stew.

While Jiang Yue was cooking, Grandpa Xu had already installed the windows of a room. Jiang Yue and Yao Ling looked at it and nodded with satisfaction. They opened the two small windows at the top to try them out and found them very smooth. They wouldn't need them in the winter so they would wait until the summer. After closing the windows, Jiang Yue prepared to seal them with plastic film.

Before sealing the windows, a piece of wood was nailed in the middle and around the windows. Without the wood, the plastic sheet would frost against the window. The wood was added to prop up the plastic sheet and prevent it from touching the window. After sealing the windows, Jiang Yue cleaned the surrounding area, and Yao Ling also cleaned the wood chips on the kang.

Ten minutes before the dish was ready, Jiang Yue put the vermicelli in. At this time, Wang Liang and Zhang Wei were also done. After sealing the windows, the rice was cooked. Uncle Xu had packed up and was about to leave, but he refused to eat. In Uncle Xu's words, "I haven't even warmed up for this job, so how can I have the nerve to eat your food?"

In the end, it was Zhang Wei and Wang Liang who pulled people into the house. When the aroma filled the air after Jiang Yue started cooking, Grandpa Xu stopped talking. Jiang Yue brought out the steamed buns first. Today, there were more dishes, so each person had five bowls, with two or three bowls left. Wang Liang took out his treasured wine, and they started eating.

No one said a word while they ate this dish. Yao Ling and the other two were conquered by the food that Jiang Yue cooked every day. They only remembered to greet Uncle Xu halfway through the meal. It was a bit rude, but Uncle Xu was also dazzled by the aroma and didn't react until halfway through the meal. After drinking some wine, Uncle Xu also relaxed and started praising Jiang Yue and the other three, saying that it would be great if all the educated youth were like them.

Grandpa Xu was speaking from his heart because something happened in other communes. After listening to what Grandpa Xu said, Jiang Yue was stunned. Oh my god, aren't there a group of protagonists next to them? Some one deliberately fell into the water and was rescued and married to someone else. There were also a dozen boys surrounding a girl, and there was also a female educated youth who went to the cowshed every day. As a result, she was reported to the commune, and their team leader was in trouble.

Jiang Yue and his friends were having a great time eating melons. Zhang Wei and Wang Liang were very mean and kept pouring wine for Grandpa Xu. After getting drunk, Grandpa Xu revealed a lot of gossip about the village, including the dark history of the team leader and the accountant. After they had eaten their fill, they sent Grandpa Xu home. Jiang Yue looked at the food in the pot and finished it without realizing it.

Zhang Wei drank a lot as did Wang Liang, so there was no hope of expecting them to wash the dishes, so in the end Yao Ling and Jiang Yue did it. The next day, when they got up, both boys had headaches from drinking. During the day, after installing the glass windows, the room felt noticeably warmer, so the money was not wasted.

Replacing a few pieces of glass did not bring much change to their lives. The days went on as usual. When they came to their senses, three years had passed. It had been six years since Jiang Yue went to the countryside in 3. In 68, Jiang Yue was already 6 years old.

Six years later, the house that had been renovated by the brigade became a dangerous building again. The four of them gathered together to discuss rebuilding the house.

"Then three main rooms and three west rooms?"

"Well, that's enough for us."

After reaching a consensus, they started purchasing building materials. On the day of building the house, they invited a lot of people to help. In fact, according to Uncle Xu and the team leader's idea, they could just live in the educated youth site. The site had only been built a few years ago and was very sturdy, so they didn't waste money.