The cannon fodder female supporting role stirs up trouble in period literature

Before Xia Yu could speak, Cheng Yan was curious. "Uncle, what's on the mountain? Are there any mushrooms or pheasants? I always hear people say that in the Northeast, people beat roe deer with sticks and scoop fish with ladles, and pheasants fly into the rice pot. I wanted to eat pheasants before I came here."

Accountant Liu smiled when he heard this. "Mushrooms are only available in the fall. Pheasants have also been scarce in the past two years. They were almost all caught during the famine years. In recent years, there are always people going up the mountain to catch them. There are not as many as before. There are a lot of wild rabbits in the mountains, but they are not easy to catch. Only experienced hunters can catch them."

After saying that, he looked at Cheng Yan with a smile, as if to say that she should forget about it given her small body.

Cheng Yan chased after Accountant Liu and asked, "Uncle, is there an old hunter in the village? Can I ask him to take me up the mountain to have a look? I'll give him two dollars a day."

Accountant Liu thought about it and realized that there really was such a person, so he said, "Okay, when the team leader brings the educated youth back, I will make a record and then take you to ask him."

Cheng Yan happily pulled Xia Yu's sleeve and said, "Xia Zhiqing, come with me to the mountain later. If you catch any wild rabbits, we can stew them together."

Xia Yu pulled his sleeve out of Cheng Yan's hand and said seriously, "Cheng Zhiqing, you just told the team leader that we are here to support rural construction. The construction hasn't even started yet, so why are you trying to take advantage of the government?"

Cheng Yan's face turned pale and blue at what he said. Accountant Liu beside her also understood, "What? Your new educated youth is not Erhua's classmate?"

Hua Rendong waved her hand, "No, no, uncle, I'm here to do publicity in the countryside, and I just met them on the way and gave them a ride. Do you think there's any place to stay in the village? Please arrange one for me, I was sent here by my work unit this time, and I can't always stay at my grandmother's house."

Accountant Liu was a little confused. "What kind of publicity is this? What is your machinery factory promoting in the countryside? Are you recruiting workers?"

Hua Rendong waved her hand, "No, no, I gave my job at the machinery factory to my elder sister. I'm now transferred to the Municipal Women's Federation. This time, I'm going to the countryside to carry out propaganda, targeting things like beating up women, kidnapping children, and beating wives."

Accountant Liu also received a few years of education when he was young, so he is better at communicating than those illiterate people in the village. He nodded and said, "Oh, I see. But we have to wait until your second uncle comes back. The current youth educated center in the village is full, and the youth educated who come back this time have to be arranged to live in the new center. I'll see if I can arrange for you to live in the new center. If I really can't, you can just stay at the brigade for a few days first."

The three of them sat and waited in the brigade headquarters. Accountant Liu even made them a cup of tea in a large teapot. After they drank the tea, they waited for almost two hours before Zhou Lai Fu came back.

Before the oxcart arrived, Zhou Laifu's loud voice came back, "You are so slow. Just walking a few steps will cost you half your life. I don't know if you are here to help with the construction or to cause trouble."

Obviously, this was because the difficult old educated youth in the village took their anger out on the new educated youth.

Knowing that they would have to live under someone else's rule in the future, the educated youth dared not say anything although they were angry. They hurried over to get their luggage when the carriage stopped. Only two female educated youth sitting on the ox cart, perhaps because they were scolded so much, sat on the cart and cried, refusing to get off.

Zhou Laifu was so angry that he kept scratching his head, "What a bunch of living dads!"

In the end, it was Uncle Zhou San who wanted to take the ox cart away, and the two female educated youth got off the ox cart after being persuaded by other educated youth.

Everyone stood in front of the brigade with their luggage, looking like eggplants hit by frost. At this time, Xia Yu and Cheng Yan in the crowd looked energetic.

Hua Rendong told Zhou Laifu the reason why she came to Taohuawan this time. Zhou Laifu had also heard from Zhou Laiying that Hua Rendong was going to work at the Municipal Women's Federation. His mouth was grinning to the roots of his ears. "Okay, okay, our family has a female cadre now. You should work hard. Second uncle guarantees that everyone in our brigade will support you. If anyone dares not to support you, second uncle will deduct their work points."

"Hehe, not really, not really. The uncles and aunts in the village have watched me grow up, and they will definitely cooperate with me in my work." Hua Rendong waved her hands quickly. She couldn't bring hatred to her second uncle because of such a small matter. Anyway, this publicity was just a cover, and she didn't care whether others cooperated or not.

Zhou Lai Fu took the educated youth to the new educated youth site. Since Hua Jindong also needed to find a place to live, he naturally reserved the best place for her.

The new educated youth site is at the west end of the village, half a village away from the old educated youth site at the east end of the village. It was originally the old house of a white landlord in the old society. It was badly damaged back then and several walls were knocked down.

There were too many new educated youth this time, and the village had no place to accommodate them, so they had people renovate three rooms in the old house of the white landlord, and rebuilt the demolished walls with mud bricks.

There were a total of ten educated youth who came this time, six of them were male, who were assigned to two rooms, and four of them were female, who were assigned to one room.

There were many female educated youth and many things, so they could barely turn over when they slept on a kang.

Zhou Lai Fu asked the educated youth to settle down first and go to Accountant Liu in the brigade headquarters to collect this month's food rations. However, there was not much surplus food in the village at that time, so if they didn't want to starve, they had to find a way themselves.

We have a day off tomorrow, so we can ask them to go to the city or county to buy some pots, pans, and utensils.

After telling the educated youth about the matter, Zhou Lai Fu wanted Hua Rendong to move back to Zhou's house with him, but Hua Rendong took a fancy to one of the slightly dilapidated houses on the back floor. It had not been demolished back then, but after so many years of wind and sun, it was now in a very dilapidated state.

But now that the weather is getting warmer, it's not impossible to live here if we clean up a little.

She preferred to live in this room by herself rather than sharing a kang with the four female educated youth.

Zhou Lai Fu pried open the broken door and took a look. He thought it would be ok to clean it up. But he thought that every time his eldest sister and the Hua family came over, his eldest sister-in-law would make endless trouble. So it would be more comfortable to let Hua Rendong live outside.

"That's fine, Erhua. You sit in the car and rest for a while. I'll find someone to clean up the house for you."

"Well, thank you, Uncle."

"Girl, you've called me second uncle for so many years, why do you still need to thank me for such a small thing?"

After saying this with a smile, Zhou Lai Fu went out and shouted to the outside. Someone immediately answered and he ran to find someone.

Zhou Lai Fu picked up the broom in the yard and went in to sweep the dust on the walls, the kang and the ground.

After the dust was swept, Hua Jindong was just about to take a basin and a rag to wipe the dust when a group of people came in from outside the yard. Some were carrying ladders, some were carrying mud bricks, and some were carrying straw. They worked together and soon the room was transformed. Even the kang was torn down and rebuilt.

The educated youth looked at them with envy, and they also wanted to have such relatives in the village.

Xia Yu watched the whole process from the side, found Zhou Lai Fu, said a few words to him, and Zhou Lai Fu nodded.