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Educated Youth Point

The educated youth had wild vegetable and multi-grain pancakes and wild vegetable soup for lunch. Xu Nuannuan took a bite of the pancake and found it rough and a bit harsh on her throat. It tasted much worse than the multi-grain pancakes she made herself.

That’s not all. Each person only had one small pancake, so it would be hard to get full.

Lu Xinyue said, "Everyone, just make do with what you eat. This is the situation here. You'll get used to it over time."

Wang Jiajia sighed, "We're just unlucky to be assigned to this brigade. The brigade next door has a good harvest, and the food they eat is much better than ours."

"There's nothing we can do about it. Where we serve as educated youth is determined by the higher-ups. We have no say in the matter. We can only find ways to adapt."

"Why is the yield here so low, while the yields in other villages are so high?" Xu Nuannuan asked them. "When we came here, I saw that the crops in other fields were growing well, but the ones here are not so good."

"Yes, the crops on the other side of the stream grow well, but the crops on this side grow poorly. The team leader said that the soil here is not good and we can't grow good crops, so we can only starve." Qin Yuping said.

Xu Nuannuan didn't quite believe what Qin Yuping said. After all, she suspected that this woman was having an affair with Shen Mengan, and she must have a lot of evil intentions.

But Lu Xinyue and Wang Jiajia remained silent, as if they were deliberately avoiding talking about this matter.

Yu Qingqing took only one bite of the pancake and spat it out before chewing it properly.

"What the hell is this? Not only does it taste bad, it also irritates my throat. Ugh, ugh, ugh, it's so disgusting."

She threw the pancake on the ground. When several old educated youth saw the bitten pancake on the ground, their eyes lit up.

Tong Qingmin was the first to move to the pancake, ready to take it away. He looked up and asked Yu Qingqing, "Are you really not going to eat it? If you don't eat it, you'll go hungry."

"I won't eat anymore. I have something else to eat."

"Okay, I'll take it. Don't blame me for not asking you beforehand." He reached out and took the piece of cake, patted the dust off it, and ate it as usual.

Yu Qingqing curled her lips and looked down upon Tong Qingmin's behavior. Tong Danian didn't care about that. He just wanted to be able to stay healthy.

Feng Zhiwei even muttered to him twice: "You are so quick."

Tong Qingmin smiled faintly, broke off a piece of cake and put it in Feng Zhiwei's hand.

"Don't talk about me this time."

After Feng Zhiwei got the pancake, he felt much better and even grinned at Tong Qingmin.

Xu Nuannuan was a little shocked at their thirst for food, but when she thought about it, since they had been in a situation of food shortage for many years, it was not surprising that they were so hungry for a piece of bread.

She glanced at the other old educated youth. They looked normal and none of them showed any surprise.

Fu Yunqi held the pancake and hadn't eaten it for a long time. When he saw Yu Qingqing throwing the pancake, he said to her back, "Squeamish."

But when he put the pancake in his mouth, he found that he was also very fucking delicate.

However, he would not refuse to eat like Yu Qingqing because he thought it tasted bad. He would eat it no matter how bad it tasted.

At least it's better than eating shit.

The old man said that he couldn't stand the hardship, so he asked him to see if he could endure the hardship.

He would rather sit in a pile of shit and laugh than sit in a jeep and cry.

He finished the pancake in just a few bites, his cheeks bulging, which stunned Chen Dalu who was standing beside him. It turned out that this young man who had been living a life of luxury since childhood could also be so hardworking.

Xu Nuannuan and Li Miao finished their pancakes, and Wu Zhiguo also finished his meal slowly.

Yu Qingqing went into the house, opened her suitcase, and took out a box of canned meat. As soon as she opened the box, Meng Qin came over after smelling the smell.

Seeing Yu Qingqing holding the canned meat in her hand, she immediately complimented Yu Qingqing: "Yu Zhiqing, what you made smells so good."

Yu Qingqing glanced at her and said, "When I came here, I bought canned meat from my hometown."

"Oh, canned meat. Yu Zhiqing, you are so beautiful, your family must be very well off."

Yu Qingqing was indeed praised. "My parents are both leaders in the factory. I am the only daughter in our family. All the good things will be given to me. Well, if not every family has to have one person go to the countryside, I actually don't have to go. But, with my parents taking care of it for me, I believe I will be able to go back soon."

"Then I really envy you."

Meng Qin stared at the can in Yu Qingqing's hand, her saliva almost flowing out.

Yu Qingqing thought about the bed, so she said to Meng Qin, "Sister Meng, I'm afraid of the cold in winter. I wonder if you can switch places on the kang with me? I'll treat you to two pieces of meat and give you two dollars."

Meng Qin could hardly resist such temptation. She glanced at where Yu Qingqing was sitting and said, "You sleep at the end of the kang."

"Yeah, that's why I wanted to find someone to switch with me."

Of course Meng Qin knew how bad it was to live at the end of the kang, but for the sake of money and meat, she decided to endure it. She would move back before winter or when other educated youth could return to the city.

She wanted to get more: "Yu Zhiqing, you know how cold it is at the end of the kang in winter. Two pieces of meat are too little."

"Then I'll give you another dollar for a piece of meat."

"Four dollars and four pieces of meat."

Yu Qingqing thought about it for a moment and agreed: "Okay, that's it."

Yu Qingqing gave Meng Qin four dollars and four pieces of meat, and exchanged seats on the kang with Meng Qin, but found that Meng Qin's original seat was next to Xu Nuannuan's.

But she moved over anyway.

After the meal, the educated youth returned to the dormitory one after another to rest.

Xu Nuannuan remembered what Yu Qingqing said, that Fu Yunqi had helped her on the train, and she wanted to know what it was.

She walked up to Fu Yunqi and asked, "Fu Zhiqing, I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"Yu Qingqing said you helped me on the train. I want to know what it was."

Fu Yunqi laughed and said, "It's just a small matter."

"What's going on?"

Fu Yunqi stopped laughing and said, "Since you asked, I'll tell you. On the train that day, Wu Zhiqing kept stealing glances at you. I noticed something fishy in his eyes, so I criticized him. Actually, I was just nosy and couldn't stand him being like that, so I didn't help you at all."

"I see." Xu Nuannuan also laughed: "But I still want to thank Fu Zhiqing. If this happened somewhere else and I didn't have the ability to protect myself, Fu Zhiqing might have helped me a lot."

"Oh, it's nothing, nothing to mention. If you mention it again, I'll be embarrassed."

He unconsciously raised his hand to cover half of his face: "Actually, it's really not helping. I'm a little embarrassed now."

Seeing him like this, Xu Nuannuan stopped mentioning the matter.

"Fu Zhiqing must be tired too. Go back to the dormitory and rest for a while."

"Well, you should rest too."

The two of them went their separate ways back to their dormitories.

As soon as Xu Nuannuan entered the room, she saw Yu Qingqing lying next to her. Then she looked at Meng Qin and found that she had moved the bed to Yu Qingqing's original position.

Xu Nuannuan is annoyed by Yu Qingqing, but she is not afraid of her. If Yu Qingqing dares to make trouble, she will just give her a slap in the face.

In fact, she had long planned to build a house near the cowshed so that it would be more convenient to send things to her parents in the future.

But now the top two leaders in the village are her enemies, and neither of them is a decent person. Even if she goes to them to apply for a homestead, they may not approve it, or they may make things difficult for her.

After they were ousted and a new leader was appointed to the brigade, she built a house outside and moved out of the educated youth site.

As for renting a place, she hadn't considered it yet. She didn't know the people here very well, and the educated youth settlement wasn't peaceful, so living in someone else's house wouldn't necessarily mean peace. Living there for a few days would give her a better understanding of the place.

As soon as she sat down, Wang Jiajia said in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "You new educated youth, I wonder if you understand the rule that gifts are good for getting things done. Since you're new here, it would be beneficial for you if you could curry favor with the brigade cadres here."

Yu Qingqing is not afraid of gifts because she has money and things in her suitcase.

"What are the benefits? Tell me."

"What benefit can it bring? The brigade cadres here are all impartial and will not show favoritism. Giving gifts is useless." Qin Yuping interrupted her.

Her sworn enemy, Meng Qin, immediately stood up and said, "Qin Yuping, are you afraid that someone will snatch something from you? Oh, if they want to give it to you, then they can give it to you. What's it got to do with you?"

Qin Yuping snorted coldly: "I'm just worried that they'll waste their money."

Meng Qin said to Yu Qingqing, "Yu Zhiqing, the team leader and the branch secretary here are from the same family, or even father and son. When you meet them, tell them that you wanted to send them something, but Qin Zhiqing stopped you."

"Why are you talking about me?" Qin Yuping was anxious. He didn't dare to offend Shen Mengan and Shen Liangtian. "Give it to me, give it to me. Giving gifts can help you do less work. The village party secretary and the team leader will take care of you."

After she finished speaking as if in anger, she went out of the dormitory.

Yu Qingqing glared at Qin Yuping's back. Qin Yuping must be afraid that she would snatch the benefits from her.

She just didn't want to do farm work, so why not give some gifts to the village party secretary and the team leader to avoid the work?

The old educated youth got up and left before the working time, so that they could just walk to the fields when the working time came.

Li Miao quietly asked Xu Nuannuan, "Nuannuan, are you going to give gifts to the brigade cadres? Seriously, it's bad enough that we were assigned to such a poor place. We don't even know if we can even feed ourselves with our work points, and we have to pay for gifts for the brigade cadres. That's too much of a loss."

Xu Nuannuan shook her head: "You didn't see what I was wearing. Anyway, I don't have money to give them gifts."

Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan were both her enemies. Giving gifts to her enemies? She thought giving them two bricks would be more effective.

"Anyway, we're here to work in the countryside. Why should I be afraid of doing farm work? If they dare to make things difficult for us, we'll find a place to sue them."

Even if Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan have protective umbrellas behind them, she will expose them all.

Li Miao agreed with her: "Nuannuan, to be honest, I don't really like being given gifts all the time. It's so unfair."

Xu Nuannuan also felt that it was unfair, but social etiquette was an unwritten rule and it was impossible for it to not exist at all. However, this rule had a certain scope of application. Otherwise, if people relied on personal connections everywhere and had no rule of law at all, people would return to a primitive society.

Not long after, Shen Liangtian came again and called the new educated youth out for a meeting.

"You will go to the brigade to collect food in a moment. Before you come, your local Youth League Office has already distributed your subsidies. The food you collect from the brigade is two months' advance. After the autumn harvest, your work points will be used to compensate you."

You can take a day off tomorrow to get some things you need. The day after tomorrow you'll officially start working with the old educated youth. Okay, that's all I have to say. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you encounter anything you can't handle yourself in the future, you can come to me. Now, go to the brigade headquarters to collect food."

Six people followed him to the brigade headquarters. On the way, Yu Qingqing deliberately caught up with Shen Mengan and asked for his home address. Shen Mengan probably knew the other party's intention and told her immediately.

Jiang Ting happened to see them on the road and ran up to Xu Nuannuan. "Beautiful sister. Oh, I don't know who's older between us, so I'll call you that for now. I'm not even eighteen, how old are you?"

"I'm nineteen." Xu Nuannuan replied.

"Then it's right for me to call you sister." Jiang Ting saw that they were coming in such a large group that she knew they were going to the brigade headquarters to collect food. This was the case with every new educated youth who came. She said to Xu Nuannuan, "Sister, you guys are going to the brigade headquarters to collect food. I'll ask my brother to help you carry the food. My two brothers are very strong, especially my eldest brother. He has so much strength that he doesn't know where to use it. Let him help you, and you won't have to carry it."