Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder is Very Leisurely

After that, Wu Xianya and the other two would come to Yu Nuan's place every day after breakfast. If it weren't for the fact that their food rations were shared with the male educated youth, they wouldn't have wanted to go back. At first, the male educated youth were also embarrassed to come to Yu Nuan's place, feeling that they weren't like the female educated youth who spent a lot of time with her.

However, as the weather grew colder, they dared not light the stove during the day to save coal. They were also unfamiliar with the villagers, so they had no choice but to swallow their pride and follow the female educated youth to Yu Nuan.

"Yu Nuan, we're sorry to bother you too," Li Yu said to Yu Nuan, following behind Wu Xianya, feeling very embarrassed. The others smiled awkwardly in return. They had no other choice. This year, because there were fewer people, they received less coal than in previous years, and with the weather getting colder, no one dared to burn coal casually. Previously, there were at least fifteen or sixteen people in the educated youth compound, but in recent years, seeing no hope of returning to the city, most of them married locals, and those with family connections also returned.

Li Yu is twenty-five years old this year. All the other educated youth who came with him a year ago have settled down and started families locally, leaving him the only one still persevering. Friends have advised him not to wait any longer, but Li Yu doesn't want to spend his whole life stuck in this small mountain village, toiling in the fields every day. Li Yu doesn't know if he can keep going. Sometimes he laughs at himself inwardly, thinking that he can't even make ends meet, so what's the point of talking about ideals and ambitions?

"No, no. We won't bother you. Please come and sit down." Yu Nuan warmly invited everyone, bringing out small stools for them. "Would you like some water?"

"No, Yu Nuan, don't worry about us."

"It's Yu Nuan. You go do your own thing. We can handle whatever we need ourselves," Wang Gang said to Yu Nuan with a smile. Wang Gang was the kind of person who was very easygoing. Since he was there, he didn't act coy at all and was as comfortable as if he were at home.

"Alright! Make yourselves at home, just pretend you're at the educated youth compound." Yu Nuan stopped being so polite. Everyone would be coming often in the future, so she didn't care about these formalities.

Earlier, after Wu Xianya and the others arrived, Yu Nuan had invited the male educated youth to come along as well. Yu Nuan knew they had nowhere else to go and weren't familiar with the villagers. However, they were all a little embarrassed and declined Yu Nuan's kind offer.

"Yu Nuan, are you reviewing your high school lessons?" Li Yu asked Yu Nuan after sitting down and noticing the high school math textbook on the table next to her.

"Well, I'm just browsing since I'm free anyway. I might as well use it someday."

"Will we still need it?" Li Yu asked, staring blankly at the firelight on the stove. He had started out full of hope, but the hardships of life had now completely extinguished his hopes for the future.

"Yes, we will definitely need it. Our country can't stay like this forever." Yu Nuan knew when the college entrance examination would be reinstated, so she firmly told everyone. Yu Nuan hoped that everyone could wait with her until the college entrance examination was reinstated and get into university.

“Anyway, we don’t have much to do right now, so it won’t hurt to learn more. Maybe we can go to university someday,” Wu Xianya said.

“That’s right, I think what Sister Xianya said makes a lot of sense. Yu Nuan has always been the one guiding us in our studies, and I just realized that I’ve forgotten almost everything I learned in high school,” Zhang Nana chimed in.

Li Xiaoni didn't say anything, but she nodded after Zhang Nana finished speaking, indicating that she agreed with their statement.

“I was wrong. People always need something to strive for. I’ve persevered for so long, how can I give up so easily? Starting tomorrow, we’ll all bring our books and study together.” As the leader of the group, Li Yu’s words were heeded by everyone.

“But Brother Li, all my high school books have been burned by my mom.” Wu Jun has been in the countryside for four years now, and besides Li Yu, he’s been there the longest at the educated youth compound. He had been hoping his family could use their connections to get him transferred back to the city, but now that he’s getting older, there’s nothing they can do. A while ago, his parents even wrote to him urging him to find a local girl to settle down with, since there’s no hope of going back to the city now, and they don’t want him to end up a bachelor.

"It's alright, there's plenty of these things at the town's recycling station. You can come with us and look around first." Yu Nuan once wanted to find some waste paper at the recycling station, and then she saw a lot of high school textbooks being recycled as waste. Yu Nuan collected a relatively new set of textbooks. The original owner had also taken her own books when she went to the countryside, so Yu Nuan gave the extra set to Li Xiaoni. Li Xiaoni didn't finish high school, but her family enrolled her in the rural program. Yu Nuan usually spent a lot of time tutoring her.

“Yes, we can share textbooks now, and we can ask each other questions if we don’t understand something.” Li Yu, acting as the older brother, devised a study plan for everyone. Li Yu, now enthusiastic about learning again, couldn’t wait until tomorrow and went back to the youth center to get his textbooks. Li Yu cherished his books; even after so many years since graduation, although he occasionally took them out to read, they were still relatively undamaged.

Under Yu Nuan's guidance, everyone's learning atmosphere became very enthusiastic. At first, everyone's learning was stumbling, because everyone had been out of school for many years, or even less than two years, but there were no teachers teaching at that time, so everyone was unfamiliar with high school knowledge.

Having no other choice, Yu Nuan started teaching from the beginning. Among the male educated youth, only Li Yu was somewhat better, because he would sometimes take out his textbooks to review in his spare time. The others, however, had forgotten everything they knew as soon as they left school. Yu Nuan, after all, had taught students in a school in her previous life and later became a full-time professor at the medical school, cultivating the next generation for the country. Therefore, Yu Nuan's lectures were simple and easy to understand, and everyone absorbed the information quickly.

"Alright, that's all for today. You can read the book yourselves and won't ask me anything more." Yu Nuan had been teaching for nearly two hours and was parched. She picked up the water glass on the table to pour herself some hot water.

"Teacher Li, please rest. You don't need to do such a small thing yourself!" Wang Gang saw Yu Nuan pick up the water glass and snatched it from her hand. He then respectfully helped Yu Nuan sit down in a chair and made a gesture like a minister taking his leave of the emperor. His fawning tone and little actions made everyone burst into laughter.

Yu Nuan was also amused by Wang Gang until her stomach hurt from laughing. Whenever Wang Gang was around, the atmosphere was always so joyful.

“That’s right, Yu Nuan, you don’t need to do anything from now on. Just tell me what you need.” Li Yu said to Yu Nuan with a smile. However, Li Yu was not joking. He really felt that they had already done enough for Yu Nuan, and now they were taking up Yu Nuan’s time to teach them. They really had nothing to repay them with, and only hoped to help Yu Nuan with some trivial matters in life.

"You've all helped me so much." This wasn't just Yu Nuan being polite. Since they arrived, Yu Nuan hadn't had to tend the stove anymore. On snowy days, she didn't even need to shovel the snow in the yard. Whenever they saw dirty clothes, Wu Xianya and Li Xiaoni would wash them for her, even though Yu Nuan had asked them many times. Zhang Nana would share half of any food her family sent with Yu Nuan. No one took Yu Nuan's efforts for granted; that's why Yu Nuan was willing to spend her time helping them.