Eating melons

"Well... you all know the rules of our Educated Youth Institute. The conditions are really limited and we're quite tight on money, so..."

Hearing this, Xiao Xuemu raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, I didn't expect that there are still people in our Red Star Brigade who don't have enough to eat."

After hearing this, Liu Yang still gritted his teeth and helped explain:

"These new comrades haven't adapted yet. You know, none of them have done farm work before. This is their first time working, so it's inevitable that they'll feel a little uncomfortable."

There was no other way. If he didn't explain, it would be bad if Xiao Xuemu and the others misunderstood that he was trying to take advantage of them.

After all, he was the one who went to call the police, and he was also the person in charge of the educated youth point. He could easily be misunderstood, and he didn't want to take the blame for those people.

Xiao Xuemu knew what Liu Yang meant, even though Liu Yang might not have intended to take advantage of him.

But Xiao Xuemu doesn't think that this is all due to the new educated youth. He is just trying to put the blame on them.

Of course, it is not unfair for the new educated youth to bear the blame, because the main reason lies with them.

After all, this group of educated youth had done this many times, and Xiao Xuemu knew about it.

Putting aside other things, Zhu Yin alone was enough to almost sentence this group of new educated youth to death, and Fang Yin was not much better.

It’s not that he is generalizing, but this group of people are really not that good.

Anyway, in his opinion, the one named Cheng Qi and Wang Qiuju might be a little better, and the others are just so-so.

The guy named Cheng Qi and Wang Qiuju is just the tallest among the short ones. Without those people to contrast with them, they wouldn't be that good, especially the guy named Cheng Qi.

Therefore, after hearing Liu Yang's words, Xiao Xuemu nodded and said in agreement:

"It's true that it's not easy to adapt to the work the first time, but I've been doing it for half a year and I still haven't adapted to it. I still haven't learned it. I'm also a talent."

In some ways, this group of new educated youth are also full of talents.

They all have lofty ambitions but fragile lives, are overambitious and incompetent, and are lazy and good at eating.

This batch of educated youth arrived earlier than the previous batch, so logically speaking, this batch of educated youth should adapt faster than the previous batch.

But in fact, this is not the case. Except for the educated youth named Wang Qiuju, whose work is not much different from Wu Mei, the others have already finished the autumn harvest and have not yet adapted.

If you say that they are not used to working in the fields because they have never done it before and cannot learn because they have been spoiled since childhood, then who among their group is not spoiled at home?

Even Wu Mei had never worked in the fields, so of course, he didn't count.

Because he has a space. If he doesn't have space, he won't do it.

But even so, none of them fell behind during the autumn harvest.

When it comes to being spoiled since childhood, no one here can compare to Jiang Qi and Wei Wei.

These two people come from the future. In their eyes, even the excellent life of this era means nothing.

Forget about holding a hoe and working in the fields, you don’t even need to do housework. All you have to do all day is eat, drink, have fun, and study hard.

But even so, which one of them fell behind during the rush to harvest? Wasn't either of them risking their lives at that time?

The money and food they earn are enough to support not only themselves but also a small family.

When it comes to being pampered, no one can compare to Liu Jiaojiao, but Liu Jiaojiao did not lag behind during the autumn harvest and always worked to the best of her ability.

Moreover, the money and food she earned were enough to support herself. Not to mention eating well, but at least she had no problem eating enough.

But what about this group of new educated youth? Except for Wang Qiuju, who did a good job, none of the others could compare to Liu Jiaojiao. You have to know that there were still men among them.

Everyone has high expectations but poor skills. They are picky about their work and don't like this or that. They think this is too dirty and that is too heavy to carry.

But they don't have Liu Jiaojiao's family background to support them.

Whether this is because they are unable to learn or have a wrong attitude, even a blind person knows.

It's not just the new educated youth, but also the old educated youth. Among this group of old educated youth, there are many who work harder than Wei Wei and Jiang Qi.

If we say that Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were arranged to rub corn because of their relationship with the team leader, and they both had a cheat for rubbing corn, then what about Wu Mei?

How many of those educated youth could compare to Wu Mei? They could be counted on one hand, and even among the male educated youth, there were only a handful who could compare to Wu Mei.

Xiao Xuemu and Wei Wei both knew the reason and were surprisingly lazy.

It's not surprising that there are such people, mainly because the conditions of the Red Star Brigade are among the best in the country.

With such conditions, anyone who has some connections, knows this place, or has some channels will send it here.

Therefore, most of the people who come here are those whose families can help.

In this case, those who were assigned here by luck would see that everyone else was an educated youth and that others just had to pretend to be there, while they worked themselves to death and still could not compare to others. They would always feel that it was unfair.

Without firm confidence, it is difficult to work hard.

So it seems that most of the educated youth here are extremely lazy.

After hearing this, not only Liu Yang felt ashamed, but many others also felt ashamed.

They arrived at the Red Star Brigade earlier than Xiao Xuemu and the others, so naturally they knew the situation of the Red Star Brigade.

In the Red Star Brigade, as long as you are willing to work, you will never go hungry no matter when you come.

Just like the educated youth, they usually received subsidies when they went to the countryside.

The subsidy is divided into two parts, one for the city and one for the Red Star Brigade.

However, because they want to participate in the dividend distribution and live in the educated youth residence, the subsidy from the Red Star Brigade will not reach them.

Because there are dividends, no one protests against the lack of subsidies, because they are still the ones who benefit in this matter.

They usually come in June. Even if they don't come in June, but in April or May, that's fine.

Because as long as we can hold on until around November or December, we can get food and money.

During the past six months in the Red Star Brigade, the resettlement funds given to them by the city were enough for them to buy food.

Because in the Red Star Brigade, as long as you have money, you can buy food, and you don’t need a ticket, and the food is not expensive.

Although it is impossible to buy as much as you want, after all, if you buy too much, who knows what you will do with the food.

But the amount that one person can sell to you is more than enough to sustain you for half a year.

When the food is distributed, even if you came in June or July, even if you are starting from scratch, as long as you work hard.

The food you get during these few months can last you at least half a year.

For the remaining six months, the money earned from work points was more than enough to buy food.

Not only that, there are other opportunities to get food, that is, go up the mountain immediately after the autumn harvest to pick up mountain products.

There are many mountain products that can be used as food to satisfy hunger, so in the Red Star Brigade, as long as you are not lazy, you don’t have to worry about starving to death.

So it is obvious why they organized the New Year's Eve dinner like this.

One reason is that some people have a bad attitude towards work, are overambitious but lack the skills, and are lazy, so they have no food.

Another reason is that some people are reluctant to give up the food and have their own ulterior motives.

He was also aware of some people's little thoughts, as could be seen from last year's New Year's Eve dinner.

The seven people who came last year were not short of money and did not care about those small things.

So someone must have some ulterior motives, which is why they have been reducing the amount of things produced this year, hoping that Wei Wei and the others would produce more. Anyway, they don't lack those things and don't care about them.

But they didn’t expect that Xiao Xuemu was not a pushover either.

Last year, it was true that Xiao Xuemu and his team contributed a higher share. The dishes were so good that the people at the Youth League Institute could hardly keep up.

But this year, looking at the dishes, you can tell that they don’t want to be taken advantage of.

The food they provided was what the people in their educated youth institute could afford.

This clearly shows that they don't want to be taken advantage of, and now it is even more direct, almost making it clear, because they know it very well.

So how can those who are more concerned about their reputation just keep saving face?

Seeing them like this, Xiao Xuemu knew what else they didn't know.

As soon as these words were spoken, it was clear at a glance who was trying to take advantage.

Those with righteous expressions on their faces are probably the ones who produced less.

Xiao Xuemu has a good memory. He knows these people and remembers clearly what they do at work.

Although it is not known whether they are the leaders, their purpose is obvious.