Send me to the countryside? Turn around and make you homeless!

Since then, Tan Yuan never saw Zhou Cuihua again. It was said that Zhou Cuihua was sent to the farm the day after the incident.

Life on the farm was a hard time for city dwellers, and many of them would never see the day of light. But not for Zhou Cuihua. She was not one of the five black categories, so the farm work there was enough for her.

The biggest punishment for her should be that she will never see her son Zhou Xiaobao again in these five years.

Tan Yuan's life was still the same as before, still busy and fulfilling. Just like before, people from the Zhou family would take a detour when they saw her from afar, and if they really couldn't avoid her, they would simply lower their heads and not look at her.

But this matter made no difference to Tan Yuan.

Zhao Xiaosi would occasionally listen to his grandfather and send some things to Tan Yuan, usually vegetables grown in his own private plots.

Every household in the brigade has its own private plot, not only the brigade members, but even the educated youth have their own private plots.

People usually grow some vegetables in their private plots to be self-sufficient.

Thinking that she might have to stay in the Huaiyin Brigade for a full five years, Tan Yuan simply wanted to ask the brigade for her own private plot of land, thinking that she could go and till the soil after finishing her work, and sow seeds after the autumn harvest, so that she could eat the vegetables she grew in the future.

"Do you want to join us? We can take turns flipping it then?"

"Private plots? Can we have private plots too?"

Since this group of educated youth arrived at the Huaiyin Brigade, they have never had the opportunity to interact with other educated youth, so it is not surprising that they don’t know.

The private plots of the educated youth were not like those of the brigade members. The brigade members usually had one private plot for the whole family to eat, but the educated youth only had to take care of themselves, so the plots were not big. If several people could work together, one or two people could turn the soil each time.

After Tan Yuan said this, several people raised their hands. The vegetables they had eaten these days were all sent by the Zhao family. It didn't taste good to eat for free, but they couldn't eat white rice without vegetables. They wanted to pay but felt that it was not right. Of course, it was also because they didn't have much money.

"Linlin, what about you?"

Nian Lin sat there in a daze. When she heard Tan Yuan calling her name, she nodded subconsciously.

"Okay, if we all want them, let's go to the production team and find the team leader."

It was perfectly normal for the educated youth to have their own private plots of land. Team leader Lin De thought about it and allocated a vegetable plot at the foot of the mountain to them.

The educated youths’ private plots were all in that one piece of land, each person had one acre of land, which was more than enough for one person to eat.

Tan Yuan and her friends went to take a look and were very satisfied. The fields next to it were full of vegetables, and even the ridges were used, planted with beans, pumpkins, and cucumbers. There were also a few old pumpkins hanging on the racks made of bamboo poles, which looked particularly beautiful in their golden color.

The land they were allocated was full of weeds, no different from a wasteland. They probably needed to reclaim it themselves.

"Today we three men will come, you can come again tomorrow."

Wang Dong spoke first.

This wasteland was the most difficult and laborious to deal with at the beginning, but it gradually got better later on.

Tan Yuan did not object. She nodded gently: "Okay, then we will go back and cook first. You guys should not be busy too late."

There was still some sunshine when I got off work, but now it has already set. If I don’t go back to cook, I’m afraid I won’t be able to see at night.

Although we all brought flashlights, if we want to buy batteries here we have to go to the county, which is too troublesome, so it is better to use them sparingly.

The three female comrades walked towards the resettlement site. The only drawback of this private plot was that it was too far away from the resettlement site. It took half an hour to go back and forth.

"Hey, is there someone there?"

Li Xiu pointed to the gate of the resettlement site, and from a distance one could see that there were indeed two people squatting there.

"It seems to be Zhao Xiaosi."

Tan Yuan had sharp eyes and could tell at a glance that the older one was Zhao Xiaosi, who often came to bring her things.

...She gave Grandpa Zhao those candies just to thank him for driving the ox cart to the commune to pick them up.

Among the group, she had the most luggage. If it weren't for Grandpa Li, she would have been exhausted.

I didn't expect Grandpa Li to actually remember this. It's been several days now, and Zhao Xiaosi basically comes to her every two days...

Seeing Tan Yuan and the others coming back, Zhao Xiaosi pulled his sister Zhao Sanni and ran towards her.

"Sister, the reservoir is releasing water today. My grandfather asked me to bring it to you."

Above the Huaiyin Brigade is the Shuiwazi Brigade where Liang Jin is located. The Shuiwazi Brigade has a reservoir with a lot of fish in it.

There was a lot of rain recently, so the reservoir opened the sluice gate to release water. Not only now, they will release water again after the double harvest, and then it will be used to irrigate the fields downstream and catch fish.

When the Shuwaizi Brigade reservoir releases water, the big fish will not swim out with the water in the reservoir, but the small fish will. The children from the brigades downstream will take their fine and dense homemade fishing nets to catch fish, and they can catch a small plate of fish every time.

Old Man Zhao specifically asked Zhao Xiaosi to send a copy to Tan Yuan as well.

Tan Yuan took a quick look and saw that there was half a bowl of it. The fish soup was enough for them to feed these people for two meals.

"Xiao Si, you and San Ni wait, I'll go get you some things to take back."

Even if Tan Yuan was thick-skinned, she would feel embarrassed after taking so many things from others.

She ran back to the room and took out some candies for Zhao Xiaosi.

"Take some back and divide them up. Also, please ask the village if there are any seeds for sale. Any seeds will do."

There was a handful of candy, and both Zhao Xiaosi and Sanni swallowed their saliva at the same time.

Just think of the candy Grandpa brought home last time and gave it to them. They would take it out and lick it from time to time, until the candy melted, and then they were willing to eat it. They thought they would never eat such delicious candy again, but now they actually...

He really wanted to reach out and take it, but then he remembered his grandfather's instructions not to take Sister Tan Yuan's things, so he retracted his hand.

"Here, this is the fish you gave me and the reward I gave you for helping me. You deserve it."

Tan Yuan simply stuffed the candy into Zhao Xiaosi's trouser pocket.

The embarrassing thing is that the candy went in from the top and came out from the bottom the next second.

Zhao Xiaosi's ears turned red. If he had known...if he had known, he would not have worn these pants!

He inherited these pants from his third brother, who in turn inherited them from his eldest and second brothers...

Tan Yuan pretended not to see and picked up the candies one by one.

"Put your hand out."

His hands were faster than his brain. He clearly didn't want to take it, but he still stretched out his hand as Tan Yuan said, and his face turned even redder.