A delicate and gentle educated youth came to the village, and the aloof and cold soldier king droppe

"My name is Sun Siyuan. Here, take this. Otherwise, you won't be able to sleep well at night if you go hungry."

"No need to be so polite. We're all educated youth from the same village, so we're meant to help each other out."

As Sun Siyuan spoke, his face flushed slightly, and he seemed a little embarrassed. He quietly opened the oil paper package, revealing the cookies inside with some broken edges.

He had kept these cookies for almost a month, reluctant to eat them himself.

Seeing this, Song Zhaodi and the other three quickly shoveled down a few mouthfuls of corn porridge, stuffed the pancakes into their mouths, and hurriedly left.

Seeing this, Sun Siyuan became even more shy.

Her originally thin face now showed two blushes.

However, Zhao Sulan's refusal to accept Sun Siyuan's gifts was not due to shyness or embarrassment.

Instead, the parchment paper package looked a bit dirty, and the cookies were somewhat broken when opened.

Because Sun Siyuan's hand holding the biscuit was quite close to Zhao Sulan's, it smelled of grease.

It doesn't look very fresh; it looks like it's been sitting out for a long time.

Such food made Zhao Sulan, who always liked to take advantage of others, lose her appetite, so she didn't want it.

But although she wouldn't eat such cookies, she would be a good person!

"Sun Zhiqing, thank you for your kindness, but we just met today, so it's not appropriate for me to accept your cookies."

"You should save these biscuits for when you're hungry. I still have some dry rations," Zhao Sulan said, getting up, nodding to Sun Siyuan, and then turning back to her room.

Seeing Zhao Sulan's appearance, Sun Siyuan couldn't help but feel a little flutter in his heart.

"Hey, she's not even married yet, and she already knows how to be considerate of a man. She even saved the cookies for me..."

"We must win over this Zhao Zhiqing; marrying her will definitely not bring any harm!"

Sun Siyuan really is... completely shameless.

Meanwhile, after Gu Nan returned the tractor to the brigade, he went home.

As soon as I stepped into the courtyard, I heard a violent cough coming from the main house.

Upon hearing the sound, Gu Nan quickly walked into the house.

I saw Gu's mother leaning against the earthen wall on the kang (a heated brick bed), coughing with her mouth covered.

Seeing this, Gu Nan clenched his fist, then let it relax weakly.

"You're back so late, haven't you eaten yet? There are still two steamed buns warm in the pot, go and eat them."

As Gu's mother spoke, she forced herself to cough.

Gu's mother is only forty-four years old this year, but her hair is already half white. The family had only settled in Beijing for a few years when, due to policy reasons, they were classified as "five black categories" and sent back to their village. Her husband was even sent down to an unknown place.

After being sent back to the village, the eldest son, Gu Zhendong, broke his leg in a fall on the mountain, and his wife and children have been living with her parents for a year.

When the second son, Gu Nan, learned that his family had been sent to the countryside two years ago, he also voluntarily applied to be discharged from the army and return to his hometown, ruining his originally bright future.

The youngest daughter, Gu Ningning, was born when Gu's mother was thirty-five years old. She was born with congenital deficiencies, so she was weak and sickly.

Gu Nan is usually quiet and doesn't like to talk, but after he returned from the army, he wanted to take good care of his family.

Seeing that his mother didn't want him to worry, and glancing at Gu Ningning, who was fast asleep beside his mother, Gu Nan nodded slightly and left the main house.

On the stone steps outside the kitchen, Gu Nan sat there, mechanically eating the cornbread bun in his hand, finding it tasteless.

The moonlight shone down, making Gu Nan's jawline even more distinct.

I turned my head to look at my mother's main house, and then looked up at the bright moon and sparse stars in the sky.

After quickly finishing the steamed bun and drinking a large ladle of water, he went back inside to change into some coarse cloth clothes.

The reason I'm dressed like this today is because the village chief told me to make a good impression on the new educated youth, so I'm dressing more formally.

Gu Nan placed a rusty sickle and a flashlight into a basket on his back and quickly headed up the mountain.

Hearing the noise, Gu Ningning rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked up at her mother.

"Your second brother has probably gone hunting in the back mountains again. It's alright, you can go back to sleep." Gu's mother patted Gu Ningning, urging her to go to sleep as soon as possible.

Gu Ningning hummed in agreement and went back to sleep.

On the other side of the educated youth settlement, the newly arrived educated youth were packing their luggage.

The new male educated youth were staying in a house where there were two older educated youths, so they chatted and tidied up at the same time. They were all quite talkative, except for the dark-skinned man with a buzz cut.

His name is You Wenguang, and he is nineteen years old. He doesn't talk much. He tidied up his things and went to lie down on the kang (a heated brick bed).

He didn't say much, and no one knew what he was thinking, but judging from his expression, he wasn't someone easy to approach.

In Su Niannian's dormitory, there was a large kang (heated brick bed) built by the window, which could sleep five or six people. This kang took up half of the room's space.

Opposite the earthen bed, there are two cabinets, three tables, and several stools.

They were all very dilapidated.

The cabinet even had several holes, and the wooden planks looked like they had rotted beyond recognition over the years.

The tables, chairs, and benches are in a similar situation.

"Looks like I'll have to find a carpenter to make a cabinet or something when I have some free time these next couple of days," Su Niannian said, looking at the dilapidated cabinet and table in front of her that looked like they were just burning firewood.

"It must cost a lot of money to hire a carpenter to build it," Song Zhaodi asked with some concern.

Her family was not well-off, and all the money was saved for her younger brother.

Her parents only gave her fifteen yuan when she went to the countryside this time.

This is just to keep her as a temporary measure. If she can exchange her work points for grain or money at the end of the year, she will have to send it home.

"I can ask tomorrow." Su Niannian has money now, but she won't voluntarily pay for someone else to build a cabinet.

"That's fine." Song Zhaodi thought that she didn't know how long she would be staying in the countryside this time. If she used that old cabinet, it wouldn't be safe to put her things in it. If the price was right, she would like to have a cabinet made.

Hearing their conversation, Zhao Sulan couldn't help but feel even more contemptuous of them.

Even making a cabinet requires so much fuss and deliberation, it's really...

The earthen bed is now covered with straw, which looks like it was laid out by other educated youth.

Su Niannian spread the mattress she had brought on the straw, and then took out a pillow and a cotton quilt.

These were all purchased beforehand; they are all new.

Song Zhaodi also brought a mattress and a quilt, but they were obviously old, though she had taken them apart and washed them before coming.

After making the bed and tidying up their belongings, the two prepared to rest on the kang (heated brick bed).

Zhao Sulan, on the other hand, only brought a very thin quilt. She didn't know that there weren't even mattresses and pillows here.

At that time, her mother asked her to take care of it, but she refused because she thought it was too heavy.

But it was already dark, and there was obviously nowhere to buy one. Looking at her thin quilt with its floral print, she gritted her teeth and spread it on the straw.

Thinking it best to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the county town as soon as possible to buy a mattress, or I could buy one from a fellow villager.