Driven by the tractor, they quickly arrived at their destination - the big house at the end of the village!

The moment the tractor stopped, they saw the large blue brick and tile house standing in front of the mountain.

This large blue brick and tile house is the kind of building that has two rooms arranged on the left and right, with two rooms in the middle!

Seeing such nice houses in the countryside, everyone immediately felt that the one dollar a month was not a waste.

Zhou Jianfeng looked at everyone with satisfaction and said, "This house is convenient for you to live in a row of houses on the left and right. Then you can live with male educated youth on the left and female educated youth on the right.

Of the two empty rooms in the middle, you can keep one as a kitchen and the other as a shared living room, so that you can entertain people who come to visit occasionally!

If you are satisfied, just move your things in, choose a room for yourself, and then come to the brigade office later to pay the rent and collect food.

You have no food now, so our brigade can lend you 30 kilograms of food first. When the payment comes in, you can use the payment to offset the food or buy it directly with money."

After hearing this, Wang Wenxiang said directly: "Thank you, thank you, we are very satisfied and we will go to the brigade to find you when the time comes."

Xia Zhiyan also added: "And Brother Zhou, we want to ask, who should we ask for this furniture? We want to buy some furniture.

Are the kangs in our room pre-made? Could you briefly introduce to me what is currently in this house?"

"Don't worry about that. This house used to belong to an old landlord, and everything inside is quite complete.

Although the furniture is gone, the kang and the kitchen stove are intact.

If you need furniture, you can go to the house of Lao Zhaotou in our brigade. Lao Zhaotou's house is the third house on the left of our brigade office, and the office is the fourth and largest house as soon as you enter the village.

Then this is our specific office location, where you can go to get your work tools, and the branch secretary's stuff is also there.

After you get the food, you can go to Old Zhao's house and tell him what furniture you want. If he has it, he and his son will help you get it. If not, you have to wait two days."

"Thank you so much, Brother Zhou is fine now. We will go there by ourselves when the time comes!"

After Zhou Tingfeng left, everyone separated their luggage and took it to the house they chose to organize their luggage!

The male educated youth lived in the house on the left. With the gate as the basis, from top to bottom, they were: Guan Huijun, Liu Zhipeng, Zhao Wenhua and Wang Wenxiang.

Guanghuijun is the one closest to the gate. He has some martial arts skills and is not afraid of others causing trouble. Wang Wenxiang, who is sitting in the innermost part, is the leader among these male educated youth and is a calm person. Therefore, this allocation is the most reasonable.

The female educated youth also lived here, from top to bottom: Xia Zhiyan, Lin Sitian, Bai Wanting and Yun Ya.

As the eldest, Xia Zhiyan also lives closest to the gate. Although Yun Ya looks quiet and gentle, she had just had a dispute at the gate of the educated youth center.

From what she said, I knew she was not someone who could be easily bullied, so I arranged her to be at the end (.?v?v?.).

Now that Lin Sitian had made all the arrangements, she carried her suitcase and small handbag and walked into her room.

Seeing that there was nothing in the room except a kang in the corner, he opened the small box and took out a lock from it, preparing to go to the post office to get his package and then come back to pack it up. After all, there were no bedding in his small box.

Walking out of the door, he said to Xia Zhiyan, "Sister Xia, my sheets and bedding are all in my package. My parents sent them to me in the countryside. I want to get my luggage first, otherwise I will have nowhere to sleep at night!"

Seeing this cute and lovely child going to the town alone to pick up the package, Xia Zhiyan asked worriedly:

"How are you going to get there? You're all alone in this rural area, you don't know anyone here, how are you going to get there?

Why don't you just sleep with me tonight? After all, it's getting late now. We still have to go to the educated youth camp to eat dinner and then go to the brigade office to get food and build furniture.

Time is a bit tight, so let's rent a bullock cart and go to town together tomorrow. We can help you with more people, and it's not safe for you to go alone."

Listening to the worries and arrangements of the intimate elder sister in front of her, Lin Sitian felt the warmth that she had never felt in her previous life. She rushed forward and hugged Xia Zhiyan, and said sullenly in her arms:

"Thank you, Sister Xia, for thinking so much about me. My parents were worried that I wouldn't be able to live well in the countryside alone, but then I met Sister Xia, such a good person.

I must call my parents tomorrow and tell them not to worry about me. Thank you for taking care of me. Then I'll bother you tonight. I'll treat you to dinner at the state-owned restaurant tomorrow!"

"Alright, alright, Sitian, stop talking about this. You guys already call me sister, so it's my duty to take care of my younger sister.

Besides, you are the youngest among us now. If I don’t take care of you, who will? Go and pack your things, and we will go to the brigade headquarters together.”

Soon everyone came out of the room, each carrying something in their hands.

Zhao Wenhua and Yun Ya took two cans of canned fruit, preparing one for the team leader and one for the village party secretary.

Wang Wenxiang also divided the gift into two parts, both of which were about half a pound of fruit hard candy.

Liu Zhipeng brought two boxes of biscuits.

Even the usually serious Guan Huijun brought two packs of his usual compressed biscuits.

Xia Zhiyan took almost half a pound of White Rabbit milk candy and divided it into two portions. Although half a pound divided into two portions was not as much as Wang Wenxiang, White Rabbit was more expensive than fruit hard candy, so it was not a big deal.

Lin Sitian took two packs of cigarettes that her father had prepared for her before leaving.

Even Bai Wanting brought two bags of dried sweet potatoes that she had dried herself.

Everyone met at the gate of their new home holding the gifts in their hands. They looked at each other's gifts. At this moment, everything was self-explanatory. Everyone tacitly did not speak and walked towards the team.

After walking for a while, they finally reached the brigade office. They stood in front of the wooden door and shouted inside, "Captain, Captain, are you there? We are new educated youth and we're here to borrow some food!"

"Here you are! Come in then!"

A strong male voice came from inside the door. After hearing the voice, everyone opened the door and walked in carrying gifts.

At this time, inside the gate, the village chief and the village party secretary were sitting at the table discussing how to obtain the advanced brigade this year, when several energetic young men walked in at the door.

Each of them held a gift in his hand, and when he walked up to them, the gift was automatically divided into two parts and placed next to him and the branch secretary respectively.

Zhou Jianguo quickly stood up and said, "Hey, hey, hey, you guys just came, why are you bringing gifts? These gifts are quite valuable. Take them back quickly. You guys have a lot to buy since you just went to the countryside."

Although Wang Jianjun coveted the gifts on the table, he also advised: "Children, please take them back quickly. These gifts are too valuable. We cannot accept them. Our department wants every penny from the people. Please take them back quickly."

Wang Wenxiang and Xia Zhiyan kept exhorting him, and after a brief discussion of China's fine traditional culture. (They shirked responsibility and finally accepted the gift.)

Zhou Jianguo and Wang Jianjun glanced at each other, feeling quite positive about this group of new educated youth, and began to introduce themselves:

"Hello, children. I'm Zhou Jianguo, the captain of this brigade. If you have any problems in the future, you can go and talk to the captain of the educated youth camp, or you can come and talk to me."

"Hello, I'm the village party secretary of this brigade, my name is Wang Jianjun. I just found out that you're renting a house outside, so please pay the rent to me temporarily.

You can pay monthly or annually. Thank you for your contribution to the brigade's economy. I hope we can make progress together in the future!"

After hearing that the rent was to be paid to the village party secretary in front of them, everyone took out money and handed it to the village party secretary. Moreover, everyone paid on an annual basis. They all paid for one year first, and the village party secretary recorded them one by one in the notebook.

The village chief then took them to the granary at the back and said to them kindly, "You have just arrived at the brigade and have no food, so our brigade will lend you 30 kilograms of food. You can decide what kind of food you want and then use the money to pay for it, or you can buy it now."

After hearing that they could buy it with money, they all bought 15 kilograms of fine grains and 15 kilograms of coarse grains. Only Bai Wanting bought 25 kilograms of coarse grains and 5 kilograms of fine grains.

After buying the food, Zhou Jianguo warned them, "You won't have to work tomorrow, so I'll give you a day off. It's time for you new educated youth to rest up in the brigade. You can go to the uncle at the village entrance and take a bullock cart to town to buy what you want. You'll have to go back to work the day after tomorrow."

"I understand. Thank you for the information, Captain! Goodbye, Captain."

Everyone carried the food in their hands and followed Zhou Tingfeng's instructions to walk towards Old Zhao's house to buy some furniture.

After arriving at their destination, Zhao Wenhua called out, "Is this Uncle Zhao's house? We are new educated youth. Can we exchange some furniture with you?"

After he finished saying this, the door opened a moment later and a slightly older man walked out and said:

"Come in with me." He gestured again, "There are some ready-made furniture here. If you like them, take them. You can exchange them for food, or you can tell me the price and anything else you need."

Wang Wenxiang said, "I want a kang table, a kang cabinet, two wooden basins and two wooden stools."

When the other boys heard this, they all said they wanted the same thing as him.

The girls also bought almost the same things. Xia Zhiyan said first: "I want a table, a kang cabinet, two wooden basins, two wooden stools, and a small wardrobe."

The other female educated youth behind her asked for exactly the same things, except for Bai Wanting, who requested a kang table, a kang cabinet, a wooden basin, and two wooden stools. She didn't ask for a wardrobe or a table; she thought a kang table was cheaper and would be fine for eating on.

After buying the things, they all tacitly paid in cash instead of using food as collateral. After paying, when Lao Zhao went out to help get the things, they started to discuss again:

"The middle room will be used as a dining room or where we all get together. Can we buy a table and some chairs?

We also need to buy two or three more things for our kitchen. How about we pay for both the kitchen and the living room together?"

"Sure, sure! But if the kitchen is OK, just buy a table. We've already bought the stools, and you can just bring them from your room when you eat."

"That's fine, so what should we buy?"

"In that case, we can just buy a table for the dining room, a cabinet for food in the kitchen, and two wooden basins for picking vegetables. We can also buy a few wooden bowls for eating and serving soup, two wooden spoons, and a wooden spatula for cooking. After all, the rest of the things can only be bought in town; they are not available here."

Everyone felt that this distribution was quite reasonable and the things they bought could be used. After Old Man Zhao moved all the things onto his wooden cart.

Wang Wenxiang came forward again and told them about the kitchen utensils and tables they had just discussed. Old Zhao told this to his son, and his son went out to pick things again. Old Zhao thought they bought too much at one time, so he gave them two backpacks.

The utilities cost about 20 yuan in total, which came to 6.25 yuan per person among the eight of them.

Soon all the things were loaded onto the wooden cart, and Old Zhao and his son followed the educated youth to their courtyard.

At present, only the wardrobes for the female educated youth have not been made yet. After all, most people are reluctant to make large items such as wardrobes, and since there is no stock, they have to wait a while.

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