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Xu Nuannuan first pulled her lips towards Jiang Ye, and Jiang Ye's thin lips rarely curved into an arc, then he continued to work with his head down.

Xu Nuannuan took another look at the Jiang family yard and found that in addition to a vegetable garden, there were beautiful flowers and plants planted in many places. Mei Xiangcao and Jiang Ting must both love flowers very much.

Not long after the new educated youth arrived at the educated youth site, the old educated youth returned from working in the fields.

As the old educated youth walked, Feng Zhiwei complained, "The seedlings in the fields are so sparse, and this year's harvest is even worse than last year's. When the grain is distributed, there won't be much to go around. It's so damn boring to work."

"You have to work even if you don't feel like it, otherwise you won't get any rations."

After Zhang Lei and Lu Xinyue came back, they gathered the six new educated youth together again.

Lu Xinyue saw the deep slap marks on Yu Qingqing's face and knew that Yu Qingqing was not an easy person to deal with. She must have caused trouble again. She could only say in her heart, "Serves you right!"

Zhang Lei said, "There are some things I didn't tell you about at noon, about cooking, fetching water and firewood, and cleaning. The pots at the educated youth camp were bought with money from us old educated youth. If you want to join us, we won't charge you any more money, but anyone who breaks it will have to pay for it.

We've always had the male educated youth responsible for fetching water and collecting firewood, while the female educated youth were responsible for cooking and cleaning the yard, including watering the vegetable patch. He looked at the three new male educated youth and said, "The water fetchers and firewood collectors will form a team of two, and each team will work for one week."

"I'm in the same group with Chen Zhiqing." Fu Yunqi looked directly at Chen Dalu, and Zhang Lei understood, "Then Wu Zhiqing will be in the same group with me."

After Zhang Lei assigned the male educated youth, Lu Xinyue was about to assign the female educated youth.

She looked at Xu Nuannuan, Li Miao, and Yu Qingqing and said, "We female educated youth, like the male educated youth, will be divided into groups of two and will take turns being responsible for the food and sanitation at the educated youth site. Each group will work for one day, and the two can work separately or together."

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Miao immediately pulled Xu Nuannuan aside and said, "I'm in the same group with Nuannuan."

So, Yu Qingqing was the only one left.

Yu Qingqing originally disliked the poor food at the educated youth camp, so she told Lu Xinyue, "I want to cook for myself."

"Okay, then you'll have to fetch water and firewood yourself. You'll also be responsible for the sanitation of some of the educated youth sites and watering the vegetable plots."

"Is it up to me to fetch water and firewood?"

"Of course, if you want to start a fire on your own, you have to fetch water and firewood yourself. If you use the public fire, others will suffer."

Yu Qingqing felt a headache. She could neither fetch water nor chop firewood by herself, and she didn't want to eat with those people because the food was too bad.

She said to Lu Xinyue, "Lu Zhiqing, can I find another Zhiqing to help me fetch water and firewood?"

"Of course you can, but you need to get a separate large vat for yourself and don't mix it with ours."

"Okay, I can. I'll eat by myself starting tonight." Anyway, the food was too bad and she couldn't eat it.

"Yes, but you need to replenish the rations we had at noon today."

Yu Qingqing hadn't eaten anything at noon, but she didn't care. "I'll make up for it."

Before the meal started, Li Miao was already starving. Xu Nuannuan ate two cooked eggs in the middle, so she was not so hungry for the time being.

Li Miao couldn't hold on any longer, so he could only take out the steamed bun from his bag to fill the stomach.

The educated youth’s dinner was still very simple, almost the same as their lunch.

Yu Qingqing was alone in the dormitory, eating the biscuits she brought from An City. Because the biscuits were too choking, she needed to drink water, so she took a cup and prepared to go to the kitchen to get some water.

But when she walked into the yard and saw the red tomatoes under the south wall, she couldn't help but feel greedy, so she ran over and picked five or six in one breath. Anyway, Lu Xinyue said she could eat vegetables, so why didn't she eat more.

She returned to the dormitory and finished eating the tomatoes in no time.

Just when she finished eating and was feeling happy, a frightened cry came from outside: "Who, who picked so many tomatoes?"

Wang Jiajia shouted from the vegetable garden, and the other educated youth hurried over to look at the tomato plants.

Wang Jiajia said: "Six tomatoes were picked here, so suddenly there are six less."

"Huh? Who ate this?"

Everyone looked at each other, and most of the old educated youth looked at the new educated youth. Among the new educated youth, except Yu Qingqing, the other five had just eaten with the old educated youth, and no one went to pick tomatoes.

"Then it must be Yu Qingqing."

Wang Jiajia took the lead and walked into the dormitory. Yu Qingqing had finished eating biscuits and tomatoes and was sitting on the edge of the kang to digest the food.

There were scattered tomato peels at her feet, and a little tomato red flesh remained around Yu Qingqing's mouth.

Now it became clear that those tomatoes were picked by Yu Qingqing.

"Yu Qingqing, who told you to pick so many tomatoes?"

Yu Qingqing put on an innocent face: "As an educated youth here, you said I can eat the food here."

Lu Xinyue stepped forward and said, "I did say you can eat vegetables, but you should also consider the quantity. You ate so much by yourself, what else do you want others to eat? If I don't explain it specifically, don't you have any self-awareness at all?"

Yu Qingqing didn't think she was wrong: "The tomatoes were growing on the plants, and none of you picked them, so how would I know if you would eat them? I like to eat them, so I picked some more."

Wang Jiajia curled her lips. "Yu Zhiqing, please understand that this is the Zhiqing site, not your home. The tomatoes are first planted by us old Zhiqings, and only then are they from the Zhiqing site. You haven't even watered these vegetables for a day, so what qualifications do you have to pick so many?"

Yu Qingqing gave up and said, "I've already eaten it, there's no way I'm going to give it back."

"Then you will eat one tomato every day. For six days, you are not allowed to eat any more tomatoes."

Xu Nuannuan suddenly thought of the tomatoes in her space. She didn’t take a close look when she entered the space just now. She only knew that the plants had grown quite big, but she didn’t know whether they had borne fruit.

After everyone left, Lu Xinyue went straight into the vegetable garden and picked all the red tomatoes from the tomato plants. Except for Yu Qingqing, all the educated youth got a fresh tomato.

Xu Nuannuan found that the vegetables in the vegetable garden were lush and growing well, at least much better than the crops outside.

The land in this village is the same, but the crops grown are different. It should not be because of the soil quality.

She asked Lu Xinyue: "Sister Xinyue, have we applied fertilizer to our vegetable fields?"

"Things like urea weren't available to us educated youth for growing vegetables. We only used some farmyard manure as base fertilizer in the spring, but nothing else."

"Okay, I get it now."

If it is true as Lu Xinyue said, it may be that a considerable amount of farmyard manure was used in this vegetable field, but since the soil in the village is not good, she still has doubts.

Before it got dark, Yu Qingqing took out two bags of brown sugar, a can of canned meat, a can of canned fruit, and two bags of glutinous rice noodles from her suitcase, preparing to visit the branch secretary and the team leader's homes.

She specifically asked Meng Qin about the address of the father and son, and Meng Qin told her.

She packed her things and went to the homes of the village party secretary and the team leader.

The Shen family is not the largest surname in this village, but because of Shen Dongyue, the Shen family can gain a firm foothold in the village.

When Shen Dongyue left here, there were still many people he had promoted here who served as a protective umbrella for the Shen family in the village.

The top two leaders in the village are both members of the Shen family. It can be said that the Shen family dominates the entire village.

When Yu Qingqing arrived at the Shen family, the Shen family was eating together in the yard.

There was a pile of multi-grain dumplings on the Shen family’s dining table. In fact, the multi-grain dumplings were just the outer layer, and the inside was full of white flour. Other villagers’ families could only eat pure multi-grain cakes.

Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan were both there, as well as their children and female relatives.

When Shen Mengan saw Yu Qingqing coming over with a bag full of things, he knew exactly why Yu Qingqing came.

Shen Liangtian was a seasoned man, so he naturally knew that Yu Qingqing was here to give a gift.

Shen Mengan smiled and said, "Is Yu Zhiqing settled down at the Zhiqing Center? Come to my house when you have time."

Yu Qingqing said flatteringly, "Captain, I heard that you and the Party Secretary are a family, so I came to visit you."

She presented the gift she brought with her: "This is a little something I brought from my hometown. I hope you don't mind it."

Shen Mengan's wife, Zhao Pandi, was not at all polite and quickly took it: "This young educated youth is smart and knows how to deal with things. He knows what to do when he comes here." After looking at the contents of the bag, her smile became even wider. She turned to Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan and said, "Look how good this young educated youth is. We must take good care of him in the future in the brigade. Unlike those other young people who come here and just stay at the educated youth center."

When Yu Qingqing heard her words, she knew that the gift she gave had worked, and she secretly praised herself for her cleverness.

Because she gave gifts, the captain's family took care of her. So if she didn't give gifts, would she be harassed by the captain's family?

The captain's wife just scolded those inconsiderate people. Xu Nuannuan, you are also a young and naive person, and you are also hated by the captain's family.

She said, "I thought the branch secretary and the team leader must be highly respected people, so I couldn't wait to visit them as soon as I settled in. I didn't expect that when I met my aunt, she was also very considerate and understanding. In fact, when I came here, the newly arrived educated youth knew about it, but they didn't bother to come here."

Zhao Pandi immediately snorted coldly: "They are just a few little bastards. How dare they ignore the village party secretary and the team leader? Don't they even know whose territory they are on now?"

Shen Liangtian coughed lightly and said, "Old man, please stop talking."

This was a reminder that she was being too flamboyant.

Zhao Pandi relied on the fact that the branch secretary and the team leader were from the same family and that she had someone to protect her from above. She was used to being arrogant and still looked down on everyone.

"Humph, Dad, I'm telling the truth. Those new educated youth just don't know what's good for them. This educated youth Yu is still the best." She looked at Yu Qingqing again and saw that she was wearing a beautiful blouse and small leather shoes. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, this girl is also very beautiful."

She looked up at the sky, frowned, as if she had thought of something.

"Oh, Chunmei keeps telling me she wants to buy some little leather shoes. Unfortunately, our village is so poor and our family doesn't have much money. If only our family could be as well off as Yu Zhiqing's, I wouldn't have to worry so much."

Yu Qingqing was a simple-minded person with a lot of money. She thought this was a good opportunity to please the captain's family.

Then he asked Zhao Pandi, "Aunt, a bra and a pair of leather shoes together will cost twenty yuan, right?"

"Hey, twenty yuan is a lot of money here. We are poor in the countryside and can't compare with you in the city. Oh, Yu Zhiqing's family must be well off in the city."

Yu Qingqing smiled and said, "My parents are both leaders in the factory. So, if you don't have money to buy your sister a braid or leather shoes, I have some here. I'll lend them to you. You can return them to me when you have money. If you don't have money, just consider them as gifts from me to your sister."

Zhao Pandi even pretended to be polite: "How can I be so embarrassed?"

She glanced at Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan. They felt it was not appropriate to stay here, so they stood up and went outside.