A Time Travel Effort in the 70s
Chapter 30: The Figure Echoes in My Mind
After hearing Shen Jiaren's answer, the people sitting at the table could not help but remain silent and sympathize with her.
Erya and Goudan’s parents are gone because of the rescue, but they still have their grandparents and their second uncle who loves them very much.
And Shen Jiaren, to grow up this way and become what she is now, must have suffered a lot.
In addition, when I heard that Shen Jiaren brought books with her when she came to the countryside, I felt that this child was really diligent and studious.
When Zhang Aihua saw Shen Jiaren's current state, her maternal love overflowed and she felt sorry for the child. After all, the way she looked, it was obvious that she didn't eat or drink well. Looking at the calluses on her hands, she probably did a lot of work at home.
"Shen Zhiqing, today you saved my son Goudan's life and kept a stick of incense for my old family. According to the custom of the village, Goudan should recognize you as his godmother and continue this friendship. But I think you are still young, so I won't recognize you for now. From now on, you should treat my house as your own and come back when you are free.
Also, I heard you say before that when you came down, you were still studying. My Goudan and Erya are still studying in the village primary school. If you have nothing to do, come and teach them. You can play and study together. "
Zhang Aihua said to Shen Jiaren.
After hearing this, Erya and Goudan also said to Shen Jiaren, "Sister Shen, we don't know how to do some of our homework. If you know how, can we ask you for help, or can you come and teach us?"
After hearing these words, Shen Jiaren smiled and nodded, and replied, "Okay, okay, auntie, I will come often in the future.
Goudan, Erya, we can learn from each other. I also have many things I don’t know.
Shen Jiaren thought about it and realized that she had just arrived in a strange place. If she had someone she was close to or familiar with, would she feel more confident?
At least next time when I have a quarrel with the villagers, maybe someone will come to help me?
After everyone finished their happy meal, it was already completely dark.
Shen Jiaren looked at the sky, stood up and said, "Aunt, thank you for your hospitality today. The food is really delicious. I will go home first. I am really sorry to bother you tonight."
Zhang Aihua replied, "Well, Shen Zhiqing, why are you being so polite? You saved our dog's life. If you like to eat, come to my house more often. The dishes may not be as good as today, but you will definitely be full."
After listening to this, Shen Jiaren smiled and nodded.
But I didn't take it seriously. These days everyone is tightening their belts and only eats until they are 70% full.
If I really come to someone's house every day and provide them with enough food, I don't know whether the relationship will end up as friendship or enmity.
Maybe it was because Shen Jiaren saved him this afternoon that Goudan was no longer angry at him for calling him Goudan several times. After his grandmother finished speaking, he also said, "Yes, Sister Shen, please come to my house for dinner often in the future. Although we haven't studied together yet, I believe we can definitely study hard together and make progress every day."
When Liu Hui heard his nephew say this, he slapped him on the back of his head. "I'd be thankful if you could really study hard for Day Day Up. Why did you come to study hard with your sister Shen? Day Day Up, what new ideas do you have?"
Goudan was slapped in the face, but didn't dare to say anything. After all, his uncle had not yet settled the score with him for fainting today, so it was better for him to behave himself.
Zhang Aihua looked at the sky outside and said to Shen Jiaren, "It's getting darker. It's not safe for a woman like you to walk outside alone. Let my youngest son take you there. If you feel embarrassed, let Erya go with you so that others won't see you and gossip about you.
Besides, our homes are not too far away from each other, so it wouldn’t be too much trouble for my boy to take you there.”
When Liu Hui heard his mother say this, he also said, "Shen Zhiqing, my mother is right. It's too dark. It's really not safe for you to walk at night when you're new to this place."
After hearing this, Shen Jiaren nodded and followed Liu Hui out of the yard.
After all, I had just arrived in the village and had never been out before dark. Not only did I not know the road, but the most important thing was that it was dark and it was really not safe to be alone.
After Liu Hui returned to the house and got a flashlight, he said to Shen Jiaren, "Let's go. I'll take you home."
Shen Jiaren looked at Liu Hui holding an old-fashioned silver-white flashlight. The light in front emitted a dim yellow color, illuminating the way forward for the two of them.
Shen Jiaren walked behind Liu Hui and asked, "Er Ya hasn't come out yet, should we wait for her?"
"No need, she doesn't know what she's doing yet, just walk behind me and follow my footsteps."
Shen Jiaren nodded, stepped back a few steps from Liu Hui, and walked behind Liu Hui. Then she remembered that she was behind Liu Hui, and Liu Hui couldn't see her nodding, so she replied, "Oh, okay, okay."
When Liu Hui heard what Shen Jiaren said, the corners of his mouth widened with a smile. At the same time, not only did he walk with smaller steps, but his walking speed also slowed down.
The two of them walked along like this, neither of them spoke, and they both felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward.
Shen Jiaren was just wondering whether she should ask Liu Hui about the status of her wooden furniture when she heard Liu Hui ask her, "How do you feel about your work these past two days? What kind of work did the team leader assign to you?"
"We were assigned to weed the new female educated youth, but I've never done farm work before and it's too tiring. I hope that after I get used to it, it will be much better."
Liu Hui looked at Shen Jiaren's body and thought that being tired was okay, but he didn't know how long it would take to get used to it. After all, the farm work would become more and more tiring, and the autumn harvest would begin soon, and it would be even more tiring then.
"If you can slack off, do so. If you can go to work on time, do so. At this stage, good health is the most important thing for you. After all, you still have other subsidies and don't rely entirely on work points to live." After hearing Shen Jiaren's answer, Liu Hui replied to Shen Jiaren righteously.
When Shen Jiaren heard Liu Hui's answer, she couldn't help but laugh out loud. Although she had just told him at his house that she had a grain certificate, she didn't expect that he would say it so seriously and let her rely on the grain certificate to be lazy.
During these two days, Shen Jiaren discovered that everyone in the production team was working very hard, with women only working half a day. Everyone was proud of getting full work points, but he was the only one who allowed himself to slack off.
Liu Hui saw Shen Jiaren smile, and then said, "I'm not kidding, I'm serious. Don't work so hard like a fool. There are only so many work points. No matter how well you work, you won't get any more. The most important thing is that you don't live on work points, so it's best to fish in troubled waters and be lazy.
You have to pay attention to the skills when it comes to taking advantage of trouble and being lazy, especially don't be lazy in an open manner. If you are caught, you will be singled out for criticism, and there will be someone to supervise your work afterwards, which will feel like losing the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.
Be sure to do it stealthily and quietly. If you really don't know how to do it, then look at how the aunties in the village around you are being lazy, and learn from them.
You should not have any psychological burden, thinking that everyone is working hard and you are being lazy. This is not a good thing, especially if you are an educated youth who has just gone to the countryside to support the construction of a new countryside.
You have to believe that everyone is working hard to build a new countryside, but the capacity for construction varies and the time of construction varies.
It's just that your time is a little late. You just need to wait until your body can adapt, or as you said, wait until you get used to it, and then be more diligent.
Just try to catch up with the latecomers.”
Seeing how seriously the other person was talking to her and explaining so much to her, Shen Jiaren couldn't help but nodded seriously and replied, "Thank you, Comrade Liu. I understand. I will try my best to remember what you said and practice it."
Liu Hui couldn't help but laugh when he saw Shen Jiaren answering so seriously.
When Shen Jiaren saw that Liu Hui was also smiling, they couldn't help but smile at each other, and the previous awkward atmosphere was swept away.
Shen Jiaren took the opportunity to ask, "Comrade Liu, I want to ask, how is the woodworking furniture I asked you to ask about? I know it's only been two days since I asked you to ask, but some things are really urgent."
Liu Hui answered, "I have asked for everything. We urgently need a foot bath tub, a bath tub, a wash basin, and small kitchen furniture. They will be ready tomorrow. I was thinking of sending them to you tomorrow afternoon. As for the big items for the house, you have to wait a few more days. I will send them to you when they are ready.
I didn't expect that we would meet in our home today.
Don't worry, I remember it all, I haven't forgotten it."
Shen Jiaren replied, "Thank you, I'm really sorry to bother you. How much is it? I'll give you the money."
Liu Hui replied, "Small urgent items are about ten yuan, and the price of large items is uncertain at the moment, because I will have to choose what I want when the time comes to confirm it."
"I don't have that much money today. Can I give it to you tomorrow?"
"Of course, we'll meet tomorrow afternoon. The time may be a little later, at least it's time for you to get off work. Otherwise, there will be too many people. After seeing you buy so much, they will gossip about you too much. It will not be friendly for you to live in the village in the future.
You will wait for me at home then, and you can open the door after I knock and answer it. "
"Yes, it's really troublesome. Thank you, Comrade Liu."
As the two were talking, they arrived at the gate of Shen Jiaren's yard.
Liu Hui watched Shen Jiaren enter the yard, and after hearing the sound of the lock being locked, he turned around and went back home.
After Shen Jiaren returned home, she was too tired to boil water, so she went back to the manor, took a bath, and prepared to go to bed.
Unexpectedly, when I was leaving the manor, I saw the mission exclamation mark floating in the sky above the manor again.
Shen Jiaren thought about it and decided that she was indeed a little too tired today, so she decided to talk about it tomorrow.
After all, I have to collect some woodworking furniture tomorrow, so I have just enough time to sort out the tasks.
After Shen Jiaren finished washing up and lying on the kang, she fell asleep immediately and began to dream about Zhou Gong.
And Liu Hui,
After Liu Hui returned home and washed up in the yard, he also went into the house.
For some reason, Liu Hui felt that Shen Jiaren's figure was always lingering in his mind.
I was either thinking about how we were eating just now, or when we first met, or her laughter when I sent her back just now.
Liu Hui shook his head, trying to get rid of all these thoughts, but found that the opposite was true and many details became clearer.
Liu Hui sat on the kang and waited for a long time. Seeing that his nephew had not come into the house and got on the kang, he could not help but shout outside,
"Goudan, are you still going to sleep? What are you hesitating about?"
When Goudan heard his uncle's call, he slowly moved into the house along the corner of the wall.
"Uncle~"
When Liu Hui saw his nephew like this and heard the voice, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "What bad things have you done?"
Liu Hui can say with certainty that he can tell what the child is thinking at a glance. He can tell what he is thinking just by looking at his eyes rolling around.
His actions were so furtive and his voice was so delicate, he must have done something bad, there must be something fishy going on.
"How could that be, little uncle? I'm so good and obedient. Aren't you afraid that you'll beat me because of what grandma said this afternoon?"
When Liu Hui heard his nephew say this, he rolled his eyes at him and said, "You knew I was going to beat you up, but you still didn't listen to grandma?"
When Goudan heard what his uncle said, he knew that he would not be beaten for what happened this afternoon, and he immediately relaxed and said to Liu Hui jokingly, "It's not that I didn't listen, I only listened halfway, and I was a little too excited at the time, so I forgot."
In fact, his family members told him many times that there were many cases of heatstroke in their area during the summer, and some people in the production team died of dehydration after suffering from heatstroke. So in addition to a river, his team also had diving pools in many places. In addition to providing convenient drinking water, they were also convenient for cooling down during heatstroke.
But he didn't listen to it. He was really lucky this time. The educated youth knew that he had heat cramps due to heat stroke, not fainting from heat stroke. Otherwise, he might have become famous after his death.
Of course, after this incident, Goudan also realized how serious heatstroke is. Next time, he will never run around without taking a rest in the middle of the day and without drinking water.
After hearing what his nephew said, Liu Hui was a little speechless. "Half and half? I think you haven't learned the lesson from this experience. What? Do you still need me to help you deepen your impression?"
"No, no, no, uncle. I'm deeply impressed. There's no need to deepen my impression of it." As soon as Goudan finished speaking, he quickly climbed onto the kang, got into the quilt and prepared to go to sleep.
When Liu Hui saw his nephew like this, he stopped talking, blew out the light and went to sleep.
Liu Hui lay in the quilt and couldn't help thinking that he would go to deliver furniture tomorrow and would see Shen Zhiqing again. Shen Zhiqing never said how old she actually was, and no one knew how old she was or how she was doing in her studies. Next time, he had to find an opportunity for her to tutor Goudan and Erya's homework.
After all, no matter how much teachers are attacked in this era, being able to read and do math is still much better than being a farmer digging for food in the soil.
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