Since it was a welcome dinner, the older educated youth naturally prepared the meal, but Yun Shu and the others also took out canned food from their bundles to add some meat to the dishes.

The older educated youth were even happier to see this, since no one wanted to be taken advantage of. Their willingness to welcome the newcomers was just a polite gesture; if Yun Shu and the others had actually sat there waiting to eat without contributing anything, they probably wouldn't have been as successful as Yang Yue, who had been fawning over the older educated youth from the beginning.

The atmosphere at dinner was pleasant, and the addition of canned meat to the cabbage made the dish taste much better. Yun Shu and the others were all well-off, so they naturally didn't eat as quickly as the older educated youth, afraid of missing out on a single bite of meat.

After all, no matter how good or wealthy the conditions were in Fengsheng Brigade, it only meant they could have enough to eat. Who could eat meat all the time?

It is said that you can go up the mountain to hunt, but Fengsheng Brigade is backed by Langqingshan Mountain, and as its name suggests, in addition to bears and tigers, wolves are also quite common.

They could gather pig feed, firewood, and collect wild produce on the outskirts, but venturing a little further in, they were likely to encounter wild beasts and venomous snakes. It was unclear whether anyone in the brigade had died, but some of the older generation of educated youth had died on the mountain.

He was a strong man with a background in martial arts! But he was really craving meat. He heard that someone had caught two fat rabbits halfway up the mountain, so he went up the mountain alone in the dead of winter, thinking that he had to catch a roe deer or something to satisfy his craving.

He walked with a proud and arrogant air, and when he met a village child gathering firewood on the road, he boasted that he would treat him to meat. However, he didn't come down the mountain until it was completely dark at night.

The people at the educated youth settlement were worried about something happening, so they contacted Captain Xie. Parents with children also came to report. Captain Xie, fearing something might happen, quickly ordered the militia to organize people with guns to go up the mountain to search for the person. They found the mangled body only a few hundred meters up the mountainside.

It wasn't quite right to call it a body; a person weighing over 100 pounds was reduced to nothing more than a head and half an arm. An experienced hunter would immediately recognize that this was a wolf pack, because bears hibernate in winter, and the mangled remains didn't look like they were bitten by a large insect. The footprints were also so messy, so the culprits were clearly a pack of wolves or wild boars that had come down from the mountains to hunt for food due to the freezing weather.

In addition, someone blurted out that they heard wolves howling loudly in the mountains at dusk, which solved the case immediately.

……

The militia members didn't dare linger, after all, wolves are...very unpredictable creatures. So they could only quickly cover the old educated youth's body with a cloth and then hurriedly go down the mountain.

The death of an educated youth is no small matter. Even though other veteran educated youth at the settlement can testify that the educated youth insisted on going up the mountain against advice and that life and death were in his own hands, Captain Xie was indeed implicated back then.

Therefore, Captain Xie became determined and for the entire winter, he prevented the children in the brigade from going up the mountain. When spring came, he led the able-bodied men of the brigade and the militia to go up the mountain to sweep away the wolf packs.

With the arrival of spring, there are more small animals in the mountains, and the wolf packs have become more individualistic. As a result, the Fengsheng Brigade's half-month-long sweep has been quite effective.

It's unclear whether the wolf pack on the mountain was completely wiped out, but since then, fewer incidents have occurred when people go up the mountain, and fewer people dare to go to the mountainside or higher.

The old educated youth told Yun Shu and a few others about this incident as an experience and a story. It sounded very exciting and even somewhat immersive. At least Yun Shu listened with a stunned expression, holding her bowl.

Seeing this, the old educated youth who was telling the story smiled smugly. While Yun Shu was still immersed in the story, Hao quickly put a few more pieces of meat into her bowl and ate them with relish.

Lin Jingshu, standing to the side, looked at the somewhat bewildered Yun Shu and sighed inwardly for her best friend. She quickly reached out and placed two pieces of food on her friend's plate. Seeing Yun Shu looking over with confusion, she could only gently comfort her.

"Sweetie, eat quickly, it'll get cold."

"Oh, then Jingjing, you should eat too~"

The newly formed best friends took care of each other warmly, which made Jiang Xiucheng and the other old educated youth quite happy.

If the warehouse is solid, you will know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace.

To be honest, given that one can eat their fill and live comfortably, no one would willingly choose to be a bad person, except for those who are inherently evil, such as Yang Yue.

……

Throughout the entire welcome party, Yang Yue didn't say a word. She ate a lot of food, but she would still look at Yun Shu and Lin Jing Shu with a wronged and timid look from time to time.

That look was too obvious; none of the dozen or so people at the table missed it. But... as the saying goes, "He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding." Yun Shu and Lin Jing Shu brought out a lot of canned meat to supplement their meal. This was far better than Yang Yue, who contributed nothing but helped with the fire and even choked on her own food.

Even those few female educated youths who were misled by Yang Yue are now too embarrassed to speak up for Yang Yue, who is 'straightforward and misunderstood by Yun Shu'.

Therefore, this meeting between new and old educated youth was quite successful.

With the autumn harvest just around the corner, the former educated youth cherish this last bit of leisure time, because in just a couple of days they will be back to the grueling harvest season of getting up early and working late.

So after dinner, the older educated youth went about their own business. The older brother reminded Yun Shu and the others that it would be best to prepare some gloves and hats, otherwise they would easily get their hands cut by grain leaves or sunburned during the autumn harvest.

Yun Shu and the others quickly nodded their thanks, silently remembering to buy the two items when they went to the county town's supply and marketing cooperative the next day.

……

It was getting late, so Yun Shu and the others went back to their rooms to tidy up their beds so they wouldn't have a bad night's sleep.

Yang Yue also went back to the main house with several other female educated youths, thinking about settling their bedding. This was one of the few advantages of the main house; there was still quite a lot of space left, although the areas near the doors and windows were rather cold, but they were clean and easy to tidy up.

At most... there's no privacy to speak of.

Yang Yue packed up in silence, her face looking rather gloomy. The female educated youth next to her thought that she was upset about not being able to clear up the 'misunderstanding' with Yun Shu and the others that night, and kindly comforted her, saying that there would be another opportunity in the future.

But while Yang Yue forced a thank you on the surface with a somewhat strained expression, she had already cursed everyone in her heart countless times.

She was annoyed that these older educated youths were all poor and couldn't afford to rent single rooms, and she was also angry that they had taken up good spots and made her sleep by the window.

Meanwhile, Yang Yue, who only had about fifty yuan in her pocket, was filled with resentment that Yun Shu, Lin Jingshu, and the others could live in spacious single rooms and even have money to buy so much furniture right after arriving in the countryside. Her eyes turned red with hatred, and her heart felt like it was bleeding.

While she resented the injustice of fate, she couldn't help but come up with more malicious thoughts.

How could she possibly live in a spacious single room like Xie Yunshu and Lin Jingshu? Where could she get the money? It's infuriating that Jiang Zhiqing was misled by those two bitches and now avoids her like the plague, even though Jiang Zhiqing clearly looks very wealthy! If only she could date him…

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