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

In just a blink of an eye, the locusts were right in front of her, a black mass, rushing straight towards her.

"Don't be afraid."

A calm and composed voice rang out. It was Nian Lin...

Nian Lin's hands gently covered Tan Yuan's eyes, and the voice was right next to her ear.

"Don't be afraid, it will be fine in a moment."

Even if you haven't eaten pork, have you seen pigs run? Of course, Tan Yuan is not afraid.

She was a little dazed when she thought about the experiences in her previous life.

In her previous life, she was unwilling to cut in line, and finally had Liang Jin, thinking that he could be her support, but in the end she was severely slapped in the face.

When I arrived at the Huaiyin Brigade, I was short of everything and most of the food had been exchanged away. I could only eat dry rice every day. I fainted in the field on the fifth day of the double harvest.

Because of this fainting, the leaders of the brigade thought that Tan Yuan was in poor health and did not dare to let her do such hard work anymore. They asked her to go to the threshing ground to dry the grain. It was because of this that she was unable to witness the arrival of the locusts with her own eyes.

Just like in the previous life, when the autumn harvest in Huaiyin Brigade was almost over, locusts came and ate up all the remaining food in the fields and the vegetables in the members' private plots.

But this year was fine, as most of the grain had been harvested. After completing the tasks assigned by the commune, grain was distributed according to work points, and the grain allocated was enough to barely sustain everyone until the next harvest.

But the scary thing is that in the second year, the eggs left by the locusts hatched, and the grain harvest in the fields was even worse than the previous year.

Later, experts from the county came and helped the team kill all the eggs left by the locusts using special methods, otherwise who knows what would have happened next.

At that time in her previous life, she had not yet understood the true nature of the Zhao family. She wrote letters to complain to them, hoping that they would help her find a job and recruit workers back to the city as they had promised her when she went to the countryside.

Who knew that the reply he received was that there was no money. Zhao Yaozu was dating someone, but the girl asked for too much in dowry, and his family couldn't afford it.

She was also asked to find a way to buy food in the brigade. Her words were about how the children of so-and-so in the street had gone to the countryside and sent so much food home every year. They had worked hard to raise Tan Yuan and even neglected their own children for her. Tan Yuan had to be grateful and not be ungrateful.

Whenever she wrote to her aunt Li Aidi and mentioned the subsidy she had with her aunt, she would just give a perfunctory response or complain, over and over again, saying that her family was having a hard time and the money was all used to subsidize the family. Without the money, how could she have grown up?

She had never been loved by her parents since she was a child, and regarded her uncle's family as her only relatives. She also attached great importance to their feelings.

In fact, looking back now, she must have realized it in her heart a long time ago, but... she just didn't want to admit it and didn't want to give up.

She, Tan Yuan, had lived her entire life with no one caring about her or loving her. She had been all alone from beginning to end. However, she had died unexpectedly in the hospital. Her relatives should have reappeared and, in the capacity of a relative, squeezed out the last bit of her value, as well as the career she had worked so hard for half her life...

"It's okay, Yuanyuan. Don't be afraid of me being here."

Feeling the wetness in her palms, Nian Lin knew that Tan Yuan must have been crying.

She really didn't expect that such a capable girl like Tan Yuan was actually afraid of insects, although so many insects did look a bit creepy.

"Linlin, you are so nice."

Tan Yuan hugged Nian Lin with her backhand.

She was wrong. She shouldn't have placed her hopes on the Zhao family. She should have looked more at those who were worthy of being regarded as friends and relatives.

Thinking of what she had found out about Nian Lin in her previous life, Tan Yuan made up her mind.

When Linlin returns to the city a year later, she will follow her. Anyway, she has a huge sum of more than 2,000 yuan in her hands, so it will not be difficult for her to buy a job.

At worst, she could ask Nianlin to go back and buy the job for her, and then go there herself. With her watching, Linlin would definitely not make the same mistake again.

His thoughts changed rapidly, and when he opened his eyes again, the locusts had passed away, and all that was left were bare rice stalks and the cries of the brigade members.

"Damn locusts! Why don't they just die? Food, my food!"

"Wow, wow, how can we survive from now on? All the food is gone."

"..."

Cursing and crying, every word echoed throughout the Huaiyin Brigade.

"Let's go back."

I don’t know who said this.

All the crops in the field have been eaten by locusts. There is nothing left to harvest.

From the team leader to the newly arrived educated youth like Tan Yuan, everyone was in low spirits. If they were one day later, or even one day later, all their food would be harvested!

Things have already happened, and no matter how much they try to think about it, it will be of no use. Tan Yuan and her group simply took hoes and started digging up their private plots.

Yesterday, all kinds of vegetables were planted in this private plot, but when I came over to take a look today, they were all bare.

Over and over again, he kept repeating the movements in his hands.

Li Xiu simply wiped his eyes with both hands.

"I'm going to the mountains to collect firewood and look for wild vegetables."

This locust plague had a huge impact on these newly arrived educated youth.

Others still have the work points they have earned over the past six months to support themselves. Even if nothing else, when the food is distributed, at least they can guarantee that they will not go hungry.

What about them? What should these newly arrived educated youth do? They have only worked for a few days, their work points are few, and their food distribution is very limited.

By then, not to mention supporting her family, even her own life would be difficult.

The more I thought about it, the more upset I felt. My voice was so nasal when I spoke, and I looked like I was about to cry.

"I'm with you."

Tan Yuan pulled Nian Lin to chase after him. There were wild animals in the mountains and she was worried about Li Xiu going up the mountain alone.

Li Xiu wiped her tears while trying to distinguish which were wild vegetables and which were weeds.

When she was a child, her family was poorer than it is now, and wild vegetables often appeared on the dinner table. Later, when she grew up, there were fewer of them, but she could still tell them apart if she looked carefully.

From now on, she would eat less food and wild vegetables, and eat as little as possible at each meal. Not to mention sending food home, she also couldn't cause trouble for her family.

Tan Yuan pulled Nian Lin and Yuan Yuan to follow behind, and they also picked wild fruits and looked for wild vegetables together.

For some reason, it was obvious that the locusts were destined to come and no one could change it. When she heard the cries of the brigade members, Li Xiu suppressed her emotions and looked for wild vegetables, she actually felt a sense of guilt in her heart.

"Linlin, did I do something wrong?"

Should she have told the team leader and the others that the locusts were coming? Wouldn't that have given them enough time to harvest all the rice in the fields? Wouldn't that have made all the difference?