Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

When everyone returned from work in the evening and saw the watery potato and cabbage soup, their expressions turned sour.

The fourth squad leader, Lu Changqing, was eating his lunchbox when he walked up to the old cripple and asked, "Are the cabbages and potatoes we stored gone?"

The old cripple said, "Yes!"

"Then let us eat our fill of water?"

The old cripple glanced at him, lowered his head, smoked his cigarette, and added a piece of firewood to the stove to boil water.

"If I'm blind, are you blind too?" he replied nonchalantly.

Even Li Chaoyang had to smile obsequiously at the old cripple's identity, and Lu Changqing naturally did the same.

Upon hearing this, he immediately realized something and turned around to look.

A large group of people were silently drinking cabbage and potato soup, and Lu Xiu sat in the corner eating along with them.

For some reason, he just felt that tonight's vegetable soup must be related to this female educated youth who was always causing trouble.

He looked slowly to the side from where she was sitting, and saw a pile of untidy cabbage stalks and potato chunks not far away!

He was stunned, completely disbelieving his eyes. The cabbages were only a bit dry on the outside; once you peeled off a layer, the inside was all edible.

For potatoes, you can simply scrape off a thin layer of skin with a spoon.

Why did you throw them all away?

He strode over, attracting everyone's attention.

Only then did everyone notice the pile of trash hidden behind the broom.

"I said there's so little food today, should we just throw away the cabbage stalks since they're still edible?"

"Look at these potatoes, they're peeled so thickly, what a waste!"

"How can we be so wasteful!"

"That old cripple has no sense of propriety!"

Despite the words of regret and accusation, the old cripple remained silent, squatting by the door smoking.

Lu Xiu, with tears in her eyes and her head down, began to cry, though her voice was soft and no one heard her at first.

Sun Guohong immediately looked at Lu Xiu, her brows furrowing. She had already guessed that this matter must be related to Lu Xiu.

Lu Changqing also looked at Lu Xiu, his brows furrowed in worry.

Wasting food is a very serious matter.

You should know how many people across the country are still starving.

"Lu Xiu, did you do this?" Lu Changqing's tone was very serious.

Lu Xiu raised her tear-filled face, "I'm sorry, I've never done this before, I don't know how!"

Lu Changqing was so angry that he spun around in circles, pointed at Lu Xiu, and then spun around again.

The others glared angrily at Lu Xiu, but seeing her crying, they couldn't bring themselves to say anything accusatory.

Sun Guohong felt a little sorry for him, so he put down the lunchbox, picked up a basin, squatted down and started picking out the edible bits.

Two other female educated youths also put down their lunchboxes and picked up the food with her.

One of them muttered to himself as he picked up the items.

"Can't she do it? Can't she ask questions? Does she think she's some kind of capitalist's daughter? Does she need to be waited on hand and foot..."

The female educated youth next to her nudged her and gestured towards Lu Xiu with her lips, meaning to stop talking.

The female educated youth pursed her lips and rolled her eyes. "If everyone comes like this in the future, we won't have to work anymore, we can just serve her!" After saying that, she looked at Sun Guohong and immediately smiled. "Wouldn't it be great if everyone were like Little Sun!"

Sun Guohong smiled but didn't reply, continuing to pick up the cabbages.

Lu Xiu's family was an ordinary family, with seven or eight members living in a large courtyard. There were two older brothers and an older sister, and a younger brother and a younger sister.

Saying they can't do chores? These days, every family's children can do chores even at a young age.

Lu Xiu clearly wanted to slack off.

Ever since leaving Kyoto, whenever Lu Xiu has been bullied, she has stood up for her, thinking that Lu Xiu is cowardly and weak.

Now she has completely changed her mind.

Even his seven-year-old sister can do simple household chores like peeling potatoes and removing rotten cabbage leaves.

Lu Xiu doesn't know how?

Sun Guohong was embarrassed for her.

Lu Changqing was so angry that he didn't know what to say. If he got angry, Lu Xiu would look like he, the class monitor, had bullied her.

But putting her aside, this matter is far too serious.

If someone had dared to do this a few years ago, they would have either been shot or sent to a labor camp.

Do you think shedding tears will make things go away?

"Comrade Lu Xiu!" He struggled to suppress his anger. "Write a profound self-criticism of ten thousand words today. Don't cry to me, and don't tell me you can't! I've said it before, I don't keep idle people here. If you can't do it, there are plenty of people who can! Go back to where you came from! This is outrageous!"

After he finished speaking, he didn't look at Lu Xiu at all, tears streaming down his face, and said to the old cripple, "Come on, come with me to the team headquarters!"

The old cripple remained silent, went back into the house to get a hunting rifle and a basket. "Let's go! Let's see if we can hunt something to make up for this meal!"

He spoke at a moderate volume, just enough for everyone to hear.

It wasn't that he was being cunning and deliberately making things difficult for Lu Xiu, nor was it that he couldn't tolerate others just because cooking was an easy job.

It was not because he was an old revolutionary, a veteran who had honorably retired and was wounded, that he could not stand Lu Xiu's spoiled and scheming behavior.

What are you doing in Beidahuang?

They came to build up the frontier and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants.

Back when they were struggling to make ends meet, they lacked food and clothing and even ate grass roots. Seeing them wasting food like this hurt them deeply.

He had no concept of gender, nor any tenderness or pity for women.

Those female soldiers back then endured the same hardships as them, yet they still managed to eliminate the enemy.

So he ignored Lu Xiu and didn't clean up the trash; he just wanted everyone to see what Lu Xiu looked like.

He shared the same belief as Lu Changqing: Class Four doesn't tolerate idlers.

The same applies to other classes.

Those who didn't behave got punished.

I just don't know what will happen to Lu Xiu.

As expected, Sister Ma is a master of gossip, describing Lu Xiu's behavior as outrageous and intolerable.

"And the result?" Jiang Sen had to interrupt her and couldn't help but ask directly.

"And the result? Guess what? She was sent back by the forestry station, and the station chief sent her to the Third Brigade!"

The Third Brigade was the brigade under the farm with the highest degree of integration with the local villages.

After the educated youth arrived, they were directly registered in that village and managed by the village committee.

You earn work points for your work, and then you can exchange those work points for food rations.

This tactic won't work if Lu Xiu goes there again.

Who would be so eager to earn more work points to buy food to help her?

"And there's more!" Sister Ma's news was more and more explosive. "There was a female educated youth who, I heard, loved to label people as soon as she arrived at the brigade. In the end, she was reported for having ulterior motives and disrupting unity, and was assigned to clean the pigsty."

"Do you know her name?" The first person Jiang Sen thought of was Xu Lanlan.

"I forgot to ask. I'll ask them next time their team comes. Anything else..."

By the time Jiang Sen came out of the supply and marketing cooperative, it was almost lunchtime.

He carried the jar of soy sauce into the factory area and saw Luo Yongcai coming out of the factory manager's office.

"Xiao Jiang!" he called out, beckoning Jiang Sen over.

"Vice Captain!" Jiang Sen walked over.

"What are you carrying?" Luo Yongcai noticed the jar of soy sauce in his arms.

Jiang Sen laughed and said, "Soybean paste! Sister Ma said it just arrived, and we don't usually sell it to just anyone, hehe..."

"You're pretty good, kid! But it's probably quite expensive, isn't it?"

"Hmm, a little over a dollar!"

"Eat sparingly, it will last you a long time!" No matter how much Luo Yongcai craved it, he wouldn't dare to touch the things Jiang Sen bought with his own money.

Jiang Sen said, "I want to buy some to take back, dig some out and mix it with water, and pickle some wild vegetables from the mountain so that everyone in the class can have some."

Luo Yongcai exclaimed with delight, "That's a great idea! But we can't let you pay for it; your class monitor will definitely have everyone share the cost!"