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

After the villagers finished cleaning up Honeysuckle's house, they were asked to clean up the room next door where miscellaneous items were stored.

This room was a little bigger than Honeysuckle's room, but there was no kang in it, so everything had to be rebuilt, and the flue also had to be rebuilt, which was more troublesome and required more mud bricks and straw.

The villagers were busy going in and out of the educated youth's site. It was already past noon, and according to the rules, they had to provide meals if they asked people to help with the work.

Xia Yu miraculously took out a small iron pot, two canned meats and several bundles of noodles from his luggage, and built a simple stove in the yard. He cooked a large pot of noodles with the firewood piled beside the yard, and then borrowed a bowl from the neighbor next door.

Whether it was canned meat or noodles, they were good things that ordinary villagers could not get at that time. When Xia Yu called people to come and eat, the villagers who came to help were a little embarrassed. It was only when Xia Yu asked Zhou Lai Fu to call people that those people came over, picked up the bowls and started eating in big mouthfuls, completely ignoring the scalding soup.

One pot of noodles was definitely not enough for all these people, so Xia Yu took out a bag of cakes from his luggage. They tasted delicious when eaten with noodles.

Xia Yu also served a bowl of food to Hua Rendong. Hua Rendong didn't want to eat it at first. She didn't pay anyone to help her with the work, and she didn't treat anyone to a meal. How could she have the nerve to join in the meal if someone else treated her to a meal?

But the noodles were already served in front of me, and they smelled delicious. I thought that we would live in the same yard for a while in the future, and Xia Yu seemed to be a nice person. At worst, I could just invite him back later.

As soon as she took a bite of the noodles, Hua Jindong opened her eyes wide in surprise. She really couldn't tell that the boy was a cooking genius. He didn't seem to have any technical skills when making noodles, so how could his noodles be so delicious? They were almost as good as her best friend's.

No, with the same ingredients, the noodles her best friend can’t necessarily make as good as the boy’s!

Well, I accidentally finished the whole bowl of noodles.

Seeing that Hua Honeysuckle was eating with great relish, Xia Yu served her another spoonful and handed her a piece of cake.

Hua Jindong used to eat this old-fashioned trough cake when she was a child, but she didn't have many opportunities to eat it after she went to the orphanage. After she grew up and left the orphanage, there were more varieties to choose from, and she hasn't eaten this kind for more than ten years.

It's sweet and soft when you take a bite, and paired with the salty noodle soup, it has a unique flavor.

The aroma of the noodles made the educated youth swallow their saliva, and those who brought food discussed putting the food together.

A male educated youth came over and borrowed a pot from Xia Yu. They put the food everyone brought in one pot and cooked it. There was rice, millet, sorghum rice, and corn grits. It looked quite rich, but it tasted bland. After smelling the noodles made by Xia Yu, the taste was tasteless.

In the end, it was Cheng Yan who contributed a sausage, which was chopped up and mixed by everyone, and only then was the meal finished.

After dinner, the educated youth began to clean up the rooms where they lived. Hua Jindong also cleaned up her own small room. The kang, which had been half-dried with firewood, was no longer emitting thick smoke.

But compared to the sunlight shining in from the bright large window opposite, her small room with poor lighting seemed much darker.

But thinking about Xia Yu's storage room which didn't even have windows, my room was not bad.

At around two o'clock, Xia Yu's room was also cleaned up.

The kang was newly built, the stove was newly built, and even the flue was newly built. When the fire was lit, there was thick smoke. Xia Yu ran out coughing, choking and tears streaming down his face.

Zhou Laifu smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, it's okay, the kang will be fine once it's dried. Burn it for a while longer and you should be able to sleep tonight."

Xia Yu gave Zhou Laifu the total of ten yuan for wages and materials that they had agreed upon before.

After Zhou Laifu received it, he immediately distributed it to the villagers who brought materials to help. Each of them received two yuan. They all grinned happily and said, "Xia Zhiqing, if you need any work in the future, just let me know."

Xia Yu nodded and agreed, "I will have to trouble you all in the future. We are all acquaintances now, and I will not be polite to you all."

Hua Honeysuckle was quite surprised. When he came in the car, he didn't have such a good temper when he faced the heroine.

However, since the educated youth had already given her money, she couldn't pretend not to see it. She took out ten yuan from her pocket, but Zhou Laifu pushed it back and said, "Why? You want to get paid for doing some work for my niece? Aren't you embarrassing your uncles?"

Those who helped with the work also said that they could not accept money from Hua Rendong. Hua Rendong regretted that when Xia Yu took out some food to cook, she did not take some out as well.

So, he quickly ran back to the house, pretended to take a bag of hard candy from his luggage, and gave each of them a handful: "Go back and give them to your brothers and sisters to sweeten their mouths."

This time Zhou Lai Fu let them take the candy, and those people did not refuse. They took the candy and left with Zhou Lai Fu.

The kang in Hua Rendong's room was almost burned down. Hua Rendong was thinking of going to the brigade headquarters to see if there were any newspapers or something to bring back to paste on the kang. Then Zhou Laiying came over holding a roll of straw mat.

As soon as she came in, she took a good look around the room. Seeing that there was nothing she was dissatisfied with, she felt relieved. She didn't blame Hua Rendong for wanting to live here. Given the current situation of the Zhou family, she felt uncomfortable living there.

When Hua Rendong asked about her uncle, Zhou Laiying was furious. "Those educated youths were so angry that they sent someone to mediate and tried to use ten yuan to make us shut up. What could we do? We ended up asking them for twenty yuan."

The Hua family didn't need the twenty yuan, so even if Zhou Laiying took the money, she was still unhappy. However, the person who spoke for the educated youth was also well-known, so no matter how angry she was, she had to give him face and not use eggs to fight other people's stones.

Hua Rendong also became furious after hearing this. It seemed that the suffering that the educated youth had suffered that day was not enough. She would have to teach them a lesson again later.

Zhou Laiying changed the subject and said with a smile, "You haven't been in the village these few days, so you may not have heard about it. Didn't those educated youth fall into the river that day? The river was so shallow, and I don't know how they drowned like that. I'm afraid they did too many bad things, and God couldn't stand it anymore. I heard that they had a high fever at night, and when they were sent to the city hospital the next day, they kept shouting that there was a ghost or something. I think they did too many bad things and have something to hide!"

Hua Honeysuckle nodded in agreement. She refused to admit that she was the 'ghost' that almost took their lives.

Zhou Laiying said that she would go back to Zhou County with Hua Jianshe tomorrow. She sat for a while and then left. Before leaving, she told Hua Rendong that they would go to Zhou's house for dinner in the evening.

Of course Hua Jindong would not refuse. Relatives need to visit each other. If they don't, they will become distant. She would bring some things over in the evening so she wouldn't be afraid that her aunt would have any objections.

After Hua Rendong sent Zhou Laiying back, she saw Xia Yu coming back with a mat. Xia Yu put a lock in Hua Rendong's hand, and Hua Rendong accepted his kindness.

Although they had only known each other for a short while, she always felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this educated youth from Beijing, and she had no burden in accepting his kindness.

Especially after what happened before when they worked together to trick Cheng Yan, Hua Rendong already considered him half his own.

Thinking of the five dollars she had swindled from Cheng Yan, Hua Rendong felt that she should share some with Xia Yu, and also talk to him about cooking together.