Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

Nan Wanwu suppressed a smile and explained, "There's no treasure at all. If there was a treasure, how could Li Anan, the owner of this house, not know about it? This must be a prank!"

Then she changed the subject: "Where did you buy this refined rice from? Why does it smell so good?"

Tian Mi's attention was instantly drawn to it. She said excitedly, "This is ours, unique! Our brigade is the first rice planting base in our area, and it was Lin Shaoyang who took the lead in planting this."

Qi Bing said cheerfully, "The pine nuts you had on the train were also unique, and now this rice is also unique."

Tian Mi said proudly, "It's one of a kind. Have you ever tasted pine nuts as delicious as mine?"

Qi Bing retorted, "Is that yours? I saw you grab it from Jiang Yanqiu's bag."

Tian Mi said confidently: "Anyway, I gave it to you in the end. If it weren't for me, would you have been able to eat it? Jiang Yanqiu ignored you stinking hooligans at that time."

Qi Bing was speechless for a moment.

Liu Yuanda quickly came out to smooth things over: "This rice is really unique. We have a piece of land near the river, which is flooded every year, but we don't want to leave it fallow. Yangzi took the lead in suggesting planting rice. This is probably the only one of its kind in our entire county and even the district.

When we first proposed growing rice, all the female educated youth rolled their eyes or glared at Yangzi. One of our male educated youth was even worried that the female educated youth would roll their eyes so much that their eyes would become squinted!

After hearing this, Qi Bing and Chu Tingnan burst into laughter without any hesitation!

Tian Mi was unhappy when she heard this and shouted, "Isn't it all your fault? You didn't even say a word when there was a rice transplanter. How can thirty people contract three or four hundred acres of paddy fields?

We even had to go into the water to plant rice. Don't you know how cold the water in Northeast China is? Don't you know how much damage it does to a girl's body to plant rice in the water? And we were responsible for our own profits and losses. And then, when there was a profit, it went to the entire team, and none of it went to us."

Liu Yuanda quickly explained: "At that time, we didn't know whether the rice transplanter could be used or not. Who dared to say?"

Tian Mi asked again: "Who said our eyes are squinting?"

Liu Yuanda remained silent.

Lin Shaoyang didn't care and said casually: "Wang Haiyang."

Tian Mi rolled her eyes playfully and said with a grin, "He looks like a decent person and usually ignores people, but I didn't expect he would say bad things about others behind their backs."

But she didn't say anything else. Wang Haiyang was the kind of person who was out of her reach, and she couldn't take revenge on him even if they met again.

Instead, he asked Jiang Yanqiu, "Jiang Yanqiu, have you not finished eating the rice yet?"

"Lin Shaoyang brought it. I had eaten mine a long time ago." She had sent dozens of kilograms to Jiang Mingzhu's house before, and the rest had been eaten a long time ago. Although there was some in the space, she had no reason to take it out.

Tian Mi didn't say anything. This rice was specially shipped by the team for Lin Shaoyang and others.

After hearing this, Lin Shaoyang said, "I still have quite a few. I'll shell them in the next couple of days and share some with you. I haven't cooked any yet. But I think the ones I planted last year aren't as delicious as the ones I planted the year before."

The variety that the brigade sent them was the one whose seeds were provided by Qiao Lei, and the taste was indeed not as good as it was two years ago.

Liu Yuanda also nodded in agreement: "I also feel that it is not as delicious as before. Not only is the taste worse, but the texture is also a bit rough. I don't know if it is because of the bad variety, the fertilizer or the soil quality."

Jiang Yanqiu smiled and said, "It's good that you have something to eat. Last year, our entire brigade didn't get any rice. We didn't even know what it tasted like. But we don't use chemical fertilizers on rice. We grow it entirely with farmyard manure."

Lin Shaoyang sighed, "No chemical fertilizers were used. It's probably a problem with the variety. I asked the team leader to send me a little of each variety after the autumn harvest this year, and then I'll ask the relevant agency to test it.

I kept samples from the year before last and last year. If the taste of every variety has deteriorated, then it's a problem with the land. If it's just one variety, then it's a problem with that variety and there's no need to continue growing it. Don't let it turn into brown rice."

Lin Shaoyang already felt that there was something wrong with the variety given by Qiao Lei, but he still wanted to confirm it first.

Jiang Yanqiu also sighed: "Rice harvest is coming soon, and I don't know how the harvest will be this year."

"So far, things are going well. This year's wheat harvest is great, but the commune won't allow us to distribute the wheat early. Secondly, they're planning to dig a canal from the Shanshui Brigade, through the grass mats, to the Corps to divert water. Construction will begin after the autumn harvest."

Tian Mi said thankfully, "It's a good thing we're back in the city. Otherwise, repairing the canal would be really tiring work. And those who compete in the work are simply trying to kill people."

Lin Shaoyang asked curiously, "Did you guys repair the canal later? Didn't the educated youth have the freedom to make their own choices?"

Jiang Yanqiu explained, "We need to repair the river embankment. It's collapsed, so the entire section in our county needs to be renovated. The educated youth must go, and all the able-bodied laborers must go, too."

Tian Mi couldn't help but complain, "The brigade made us female educated youth and Gao Feng responsible for cooking, and we had to find firewood ourselves. Other brigades went fishing in the river to improve their food, so we had to go too. But Gao Feng was the only male comrade who could do nothing but cook. We female educated youth either chopped wood or fished every day, and the food was quite greasy. Gao Feng was the only one who didn't lose weight, while everyone else did!"

Chu Tingnan thought of the person stuck in the train window and laughed out loud: "The Gao Feng you are talking about is the one stuck in the train window, right?"

"Yeah, her cooking isn't as good as Jiang Yanqiu's, and she's not good at housework either. Apart from making her gain weight, she doesn't have any other advantages..."

After hearing this, Lin Shaoyang and the others were really at a loss whether to laugh or cry. It was really rare to see something stuck directly on the window. It would probably be embarrassing to stand next to it now.

Everyone was eating and chatting, it was so lively.

Nan Wanwu didn't talk much, she just ate quietly and listened to everyone, but she really loved seafood, especially the original flavor.

Looking at her elegant way of eating, Jiang Yanqiu felt that she still had the potential to be the number one lady. Her current hot temper was probably caused by Chu Tingnan.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yanqiu couldn't help laughing. Chu Tingnan saw this and quickly handed her an oyster, saying, "Eat it quickly, why are you grinning like an idiot?"

Jiang Yanqiu said: "I told you that you will definitely be beaten!"

Nan Wanwu, who had been so elegant just now, immediately changed her expression when she heard this. She asked angrily, "What bad thing did he do again?"

Chu Tingnan's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad feeling. He quickly said, "Mom, don't listen to his nonsense. I've been working honestly recently and haven't done anything else."

Lin Shaoyang, however, did not mind the big deal. He was just thinking about what Jiang Yanqiu was thinking, so he said, "Auntie, he made fun of you today and said that you used to be the most beautiful lady in Nandu. I think he made you so angry."