Grandpa, your granddaughter and her grandson-in-law are wearing it back.

The atmosphere at the educated youth site was particularly tense today, simply because Li Baoguo and Qin Hao went up the mountain to collect firewood and brought back a pheasant.

The house where the educated youth lived was originally the home of a village landlord. It was a large blue brick and tiled house, much more imposing than Ye Jinhua's. The two main rooms were originally where the landlord's master lived, and they were very spacious.

The side rooms are independent rooms next to each other. The east wing is where the young masters and young ladies live and is exquisitely decorated, while the west wing is where the servants live and is much simpler.

When the movement started, the landlord and his wife were old and could not survive and passed away.

The young master was only 15 years old and had not yet married. The young lady had married a few years earlier and rarely returned to her parents' home. After the movement began, there was no news of her. The servants and helpers all dispersed, leaving only the young master, who was also driven to live in the cowshed.

Everyone knows that the landlord’s house is good, but if the owner is not suitable to live in it, the huge house will be left empty.

Until the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement began, there was no suitable place in the village to accommodate the educated youth from the city, and the village had no money to build houses, so the landlords' houses were used as educated youth centers.

The two main rooms were large dormitories, one for men and one for women. The single rooms in the east and west wing rooms were for those educated youth who wanted to live alone and had better conditions.

You just have to pay rent separately: 8 dollars a month for the east wing and 5 dollars a month for the west wing.

The difference is that the east wing is a suite, and there is a small hall as soon as you enter the door that can be used as a kitchen and have a separate stove.

There is no main room in the west wing, only a space for heating a kang and a small stove where you can put a pot to cook some simple food.

Now the east and west wing rooms are empty and no one lives there. Eight male educated youth and six female educated youth are living in a large bunk bed. One reason is that the room is spacious and can accommodate them, and the other is that living together saves firewood.

The male educated youth did not know how to cook, and the female educated youth were not strong enough to collect much firewood, so everyone divided the work and cooperated. The male educated youth were responsible for collecting firewood, and the female educated youth were responsible for cooking.

If everyone works together and cooperates, there won't be too many conflicts, but we are afraid of some troublemakers.

There were six female educated youth, one of whom was Zhang Zhaodi, a quiet and quiet woman who worked silently. The earlier batch of educated youth had already been in Qingshan Brigade for five years.

There is a Li Qingqing who is arrogant and looks down on everything all day long. She comes from a well-off family and has two followers, the sisters Wang Qiuju and Wang Qiuhe.

All the work that Li Qingqing should have done was taken care of by these two sisters, of course for a fee.

In addition to the rewards and daily snacks, the two of them also got a lot of clothes and pants that Li Qingqing didn't want anymore. The funniest thing was that sometimes they would fight over Li Qingqing's charity.

After the fight, they united to confront the outside world, fearing that their financial sponsor, Li Qingqing, would be snatched away by someone else. These three people came together before the spring plowing this year, and it has been almost a year.

There are two others, Li Yun and Meng Yao, who were among the first wave of educated youth to arrive here. They were high school classmates and have been here for eight years. It's not easy for them to remain unmarried at 8. They've been friends for many years and have a good relationship, supporting each other all the way to where they are today.

The situation with the male educated youth was relatively simple, unlike the female educated youth where forming cliques was as serious. However, Li Baoguo and Qin Hao came together and were childhood friends, so their relationship was a little closer than others.

The other people all appeared friendly on the surface and lived their own lives. No one knew whether they would still be so friendly when their own interests were involved.

In the evening, when Li Baoguo and Qin Hao came back with the pheasant, they happened to see the two sisters Wang Qiuju and Wang Qiuhe cooking.

When the two men saw the pheasant, their eyes lit up instantly. Wang Qiuju said, "Comrade Li, Comrade Qin, you caught a pheasant. That's perfect. Bring it here and I'll stew it. Qiuhe, go get some dried mushrooms, wash them and soak them. We'll stew the chicken later." Her natural attitude made Qin Hao very annoyed.

"Oh, I won't bother you. We can just stew it ourselves later." Qin Hao replied with a sneer.

"Ah? What do you mean by stewing it yourself? It's our turn to cook today." Wang Qiuju obviously didn't understand what he meant.

"What I mean is that we should eat dinner by ourselves tonight, okay?" Qin Hao was too lazy to talk nonsense with her and said directly.

"What? You want to give me special treatment?" This time she understood quickly.

"How can that be? We should all eat together." Wang Qiuju raised her voice, attracting everyone else.

"Who wants special treatment?" Zhao Jianshe only heard the word "special treatment" and nothing else, so he came over and asked first.

He was also one of the first educated youth to come here, and became the head of the educated youth site based on his seniority.

"Qin Zhiqing and Li Zhiqing caught a pheasant and wanted to cook it for themselves." Wang Qiuju thought someone came to support her and quickly complained.

"Of course they have to prepare their own meals for the pheasants they caught themselves. There's no way to share a chicken among more than ten people, and there's no reason to share it anyway." The speaker was Wu Dahe, an educated youth who was in the same group as Li Baoguo.

Before Zhao Jianshe could say anything, Wang Qiuhe said, "That won't work. We all have our food stored together and have always eaten together. If they cook their own meals, it will be detrimental to unity."

"What you said is interesting. Since we have the food together, my pheasant must be eaten with you. You are a beggar, and it is not enough for me to give you a steamed bun. I have to provide you with steamed buns for the rest of your life." Qin Hao said mercilessly after hearing this.

"Who are you calling a beggar? You are a beggar, and your whole family are beggars." The Wang sisters were anxious.

"What are you fussing about? It's just a pheasant. Don't act like you can't afford it. Just tell me how much it costs and I'll buy it." Li Qingqing also looked down on the Wang sisters' expressions. They were too cheap.

"I won't sell it. I don't do speculation." Qin Hao didn't even look at anyone, and walked towards the kitchen with it, preparing to boil water and prepare the pheasant.

I'm just annoyed by Li Qingqing's pretentious demeanor. She's clearly craving meat, but she acts like she's being condescending and giving it away. It's disgusting.

Qin Hao's behavior made Li Qingqing very angry. From childhood to adulthood, which man around her didn't flatter and worship her? Only this Qin Hao was completely unyielding.

Originally, she thought Qin Hao was good-looking, and heard that his family lived in a wealthy compound and had an official background. She wanted to develop her career with him, but who knew that this guy not only didn't know how to be gentle with women, but also had a very vicious tongue. Look, he's now engaged in speculation and profiteering.

"I don't mind your business anymore." After saying that, he turned around and went back to the house to sulk.

When Zhao Jianshe saw this situation, he didn't need to say anything more. The other party had caught the chicken themselves, and he couldn't force them if they didn't want to share it. He said, "Go away, go away." He turned around and went back to the main room to wait for dinner. It was very cold outside, and he didn't want to stay there for even a minute longer.

Everyone else also left, leaving only the Wang sisters with gloomy faces watching Qin Hao and Li Baoguo busy in the kitchen.

Qin Hao didn't care about others. He boiled water, plucked the hair and gutted the fish, and put it into the pot. He also grabbed a handful of dried mushrooms from the kitchen and threw them in.

Soon, a fragrant aroma wafted from the kitchen. Qin Hao thought, isn't it just cooking? I wasn't too lazy to learn before. This is pretty simple. I can eat it as soon as it's cooked.

The fragrant chicken stewed with mushrooms came out of the pot. Qin Hao served a bowl and placed it in front of Zhao Jianshe and Wu Dahe, while he and Li Baoguo enjoyed the rest by themselves, without caring at all whether others were envious, jealous or resentful.

While eating, Qin Hao became more determined to fight alone.