Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

Finally, Feng Chao and the tractor driver left the canteen dejectedly.

Luo Yongcai sat down and asked, "Xiao Jiang, is he one of the educated youth who came with you?"

"Yes!"

"Stay away from him from now on, that kid is obviously dishonest!"

Xiangyang Brigade was a land reclamation team, and like the forest farm, it was directly managed by the farm administration.

"Okay!" Jiang Sen didn't say anything more.

He himself felt helpless.

Before his rebirth, he had been in prison and hadn't changed many of his habits.

When the squad leader or farm manager talks to him, he will subconsciously stand up straight, lower his head, and not dare to say a word. He will only answer with one or two words.

Take your time to get used to it!

After dinner, Jiang Sen followed the others to the room where they had stayed before, while Luo Yong went to find Li Chaoyang.

As for how Liao Yongcai was interrogated and how he was dealt with, Jiang Sen didn't care at all at the moment; he washed up and went to sleep.

The next morning, after having breakfast at the canteen, Jiang Sen carried his basket to the communications room in front.

It also functions as a post office.

Jiang Sen affixed stamps to the letter from the educated youth, wrote down the address, filled out the parcel slip, and handed it over.

The person in charge here is a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a hunched back, who carries a large tea mug all day long.

His surname is Bai, and his given name is Bai Wenqu. He always says that there is a reason behind his name, but he never says what that reason is.

"Uncle Bai! It's finished!" Jiang Sen said.

Bai Wenqu looked at Jiang Sen through his glasses, a smile playing on his lips. "Of all the people who have come, you're the only one who knows how to talk! Let me see where they're all from... They're all from Kyoto! Perfect timing, there's a bus to the county town tomorrow."

Jiang Sen also wrote a letter to Aunt Zhao and sent her a package of dried mushrooms.

The time I had to wait was too short, so I could only send two kilograms.

Even just these two pounds are considered fresh in Kyoto.

After leaving this place, Jiang Sen went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Sister-in-law Ma!" Jiang Sen called out as he entered the room.

"Oh! You're here again! Are you settling in well after leaving the team headquarters? Which brigade did you go to?" Sister Ma smiled when she saw Jiang Sen.

Of all the educated youth who came, Jiang Sen left the deepest impression on me.

"What do you want to buy? I just got some soybean paste!" she said in a low voice. "Just one jar, I don't sell it easily."

Jiang Sen chuckled, "Then let's buy some. There's not much salt on the mountain; everyone's saying their mouths are so bland they feel like they're eating birds." He took down the wine flask, "Sister Ma, fill up another bottle of strong liquor for me!"

"Hahaha...drank it all already? Don't mind those grown men, they're all a jerk! Just you wait!"

Ma's wife went inside, and Jiang Sen stayed at the counter to see if there was anything he wanted to buy.

What he lost... no, he didn't lose anything; he hid it all.

Ugh, still not right, I wasted a can of malted milk powder.

But this stuff is scarce in the supply and marketing cooperative, and it's very expensive. He can afford it, but he doesn't need to buy it.

A moment later, Sister Ma came out and handed the wine bag to Jiang Sen. "Take this. I've packed the soybean paste for you in a small jar. It'll cost you one cent. That'll be one dollar and thirty-five cents in total."

Jiang Sen naturally didn't mind the small amount of money and readily paid it.

Both of these require soy sauce coupons and liquor coupons, but these two types of coupons are very difficult to obtain.

Even if Jiang Dayou and his group distributed them back then, they would spend them as soon as they received them, and if you went too late, you couldn't buy them anymore.

"What else do you need?" Sister Ma asked.

Jiang Sen shook his head and said with a smile, "Originally, there was a bear skin and a roe deer skin that the captain and squad leader had hunted. The squad leader took them to the farm manager early this morning to exchange them for some rations."

"Bear skin? Roe deer skin?" Sister Ma's eyes widened. "Roe deer skin is alright, but bear skin is very hard to get! What's going on?"

Since he had nothing else to do, Jiang Sen told Ma's wife what had happened, including how he had been tricked and how Liao Zhongyi had been arrested and taken to the farm headquarters.

He didn't hide it; he knew that eventually Sister-in-law Ma would find out too.

Most importantly, he could learn a lot from Sister Ma.

After hearing this, Sister Ma's eyes widened again. "That kid is dishonest. He tried to take things from me without paying before when he came down the mountain, and I kicked him out! Let's see if he dares to act up again this time!"

Jiang Sen said, "I'm doing quite well now, being one of the educated youth who came with me. The comrades at the forest farm have all treated me well. I wonder how the other educated youth are doing?"

Upon hearing this, Sister Ma got the urge to talk.

"I'm telling you..."

In just over an hour, Jiang Sen learned quite a bit of information from Sister Ma.

Moreover, the news that three female educated youths had been assigned to the forest farm surprised Jiang Sen.

As expected, Lu Xiu was restless. After being assigned to the timber factory, he started crying and complaining. The squad leader of the fourth squad kept clamoring for the team leader to replace him.

But it wasn't changed.

After arriving at the fourth shift, Sun Guohong was fine. She worked alongside the others without any hesitation, just as she herself said, she was just as good at working as the men.

Lu Xiu kept complaining when she went to work, saying that she had either pricked her hand with a splinter, bumped her foot, or fallen down because she couldn't lift something.

Fearing something might really happen to her, everyone stopped her from working and instead had her peel birch bark.

As a result, some people who were quick at peeling birch bark could peel two or three trees a day.

She hadn't even finished peeling half a tree when she complained that her hands hurt and started crying again.

Within two days, everyone had started to dislike it.

But the class monitor had no choice; she couldn't just be left idle!

Let her go back to the camp and help a veteran in his sixties cook.

The old veteran was wounded in battle, leaving him with a limp and blind in one eye. Almost everyone had forgotten his name and just called him Old Cripple.

Speaking of which, Old Cripple was a skilled hunter. People who came later all thought he was a hunter from the mountains who had been recruited by the forestry station.

The wine flask that Sister Ma gave to Jiang Sen was the one that Secretary Ma had asked him for last year.

He cooked for nearly twenty people by himself, carrying water and chopping firewood. It was hard work, but it wasn't difficult for him.

Lu Xiu was assigned to help, and the old cripple didn't say anything. Seeing her gentle and weak appearance, he didn't look down on her and let her do some light work first.

For example, gathering firewood, starting a fire, adding water to the pot, picking vegetables and washing mushrooms.

The first day was fine, nothing happened, because the old cripple had almost finished.

As a result, the next morning, the old cripple got up early to cook, but she didn't get up even though everyone else had already eaten.

The old cripple couldn't very well go and call her; she was just a young girl, and he had to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

Lu Xiu finally got up and limped over to the old cripple, saying, "My leg is injured, it hurts so much!"

The old cripple knew she was lying at a glance, because when the squad leader told him about it, he hadn't mentioned Lu Xiu's injury at all, and he was only blind in one eye, not completely blind.

Lu Xiu was lively and energetic, and not lame at all.

"Then you sit there and peel the cabbage, and then peel the potatoes!"

After the old cripple finished speaking, he picked up the carrying pole and went to fetch water.

Class 4 was lucky; the streams left on the mountain had already merged into a river not far ahead.

When he returned with the water, he saw Lu Xiu sitting on a bench, with only the hearts of the cabbages left beside her. He had only picked less than five cabbages.

The potato peels weren't even peeled.

He just glanced at it, said nothing, and went back to fetching water.

The water tank was full, Lu Xiu had just finished peeling ten cabbages and was now peeling potatoes.

It's not peeling potatoes!

She didn't use a spoon to scrape it; she used a kitchen knife, just like cutting potatoes, and in the end, less than half of the potatoes were left in the bowl.

Before the old cripple could speak, he cooked cabbage and potatoes as Lu Xiu had prepared, leaving the outside garbage untouched.