Holding Li Yulan's hand, Zhang Bing gradually calmed down.

Over there, Lin Yu had already begun explaining the whole matter. Upon learning that the educated youths were questioning Lin Yu's fairness, the members of the brigade were all indignant on her behalf.

"What are these educated youth doing? If it weren't for Xiaoyu's efforts, they wouldn't have had the chance to interview. Now they're blaming Xiaoyu for being unfair."

"Exactly, what an ingrate! As expected of someone not from our brigade, they're not of one mind and are always causing trouble."

"That's right. That Zhang educated youth was never a good person to begin with. Do you guys remember the time she and that Yu educated youth went into the cornfield?"

Hearing the whispers and comments around them, the educated youth felt ashamed.

Zhang Lili and Yu Haiyang felt even more embarrassed when their past was brought up again.

Zhang Lili hated Lin Yu even more and refused to back down.

Lin Yu waved her hand to quiet everyone down, and then took out the educated youth's test papers from the bag that Qiao Feng had brought.

They posted it on the bulletin board as they spoke.

"Everyone, come and take a look. This one is Comrade Zhang Bing's, this one is Comrade Song Meili's... and this one is Comrade Zhang Lili's..."

And so they posted everyone's exam papers.

"Comrade Zhang Lili suspected that I had told Song Meili and Ou Manqing the topic."

But everyone should be able to testify that my brother and I worked through the night to prepare the exam questions in the brigade office, and we didn't leave the office until the exam.

Lin Yu knew that the educated youth had many thoughts, so she was very careful in setting the exam questions to avoid being accused of favoritism. She even stayed in the brigade office with Qiao Feng until the exam was over.

Everyone in these groups knows this.

Only the educated youth, because they were all seriously preparing for the exam, were not noticed by anyone.

“Come and take a look at their exam papers. The ones in front are the four people who passed the exam this time.”

Everyone crowded forward; the educated youth came to see how others answered the questions, while the team members admired the papers of the top four.

"Although I don't know many characters either, the first few are really well written, especially the one from Yulan's family. It's filled in completely, and the handwriting is beautiful."

"I think Ou Zhiqing's exam paper is also good-looking."

“Look at Zhang Lili’s, she has the nerve to say Xiaoyu cheated. Her test paper is so bad… even my grandson’s handwriting is better.”

"Exactly, this is supposed to be a city person, how come their handwriting is so ugly?"

"This Zhao Zhiqing's handwriting is not bad, but she doesn't know many of them, they're blank."

"..."

Zhang Lili found it unbearable that her exam paper was posted there and commented on by ignorant villagers.

What right do these illiterate people have to say her handwriting is bad? Do they even know how to read?

To be honest, Lin Yu was also shocked when she saw her exam paper.

Her handwriting isn't very good, but as long as it's legible, it's not a big problem.

The key issue is that she couldn't answer 80% of the questions.

She made a mistake and smeared ink on it, or she left it blank when she couldn't write something.

He really doesn't seem like someone who finished junior high school in the city.

If you ask Ou Manqing, she will definitely tell Lin Yu that it's because Zhang Lili wasn't very diligent when she was studying.

Although she attended junior high school, her grades were consistently poor.

She wasn't smart enough, and every day she would focus on who had been sent to the countryside, who had a puppy love, and who had worn new clothes.

Naturally, their grades didn't improve.

Therefore, she couldn't answer most of the questions Lin Yu asked.

Ou Manqing was also surprised. Logically speaking, Zhang Lili should have some self-awareness and know that Lin Yu would never choose her, right?

She may have really lost her mind.

The problem with Zhao Xiumei and other educated youth wasn't whether their handwriting was good or bad; it was that they answered questions incorrectly or simply didn't know how to do them.

In short, even illiterate people could tell from these people's exam papers who had real talent.

Lin Yu is open and honest; she won't let someone pass the exam just because she's on good terms with them.

They wouldn't deliberately avoid choosing people they're close to just to avoid suspicion.

She only looks at the test results and the interview performance.

In fact, Yuan Bo and Su Qing answered the questions quite well, but when they discussed their views on the future development of the workshop, they both showed disdain and contempt.

Lin Yu believes that attitude is very important.

Therefore, they were not allowed to pass either of them.

Lin Yu calmed the storm down in a very generous way. The educated youth who were recruited into the workshop office were very happy, while Zhang Lili, who had caused the trouble, experienced what it felt like to be isolated.

The members of the Lotus Brigade all liked Lin Yu, and seeing that Zhang Lili was targeting her, their impression of Zhang Lili had plummeted.

In addition, Zhang Lili had previously been caught sneaking into a cornfield.

The older women all used her as an example to teach their children that they should never be like Zhang Lili.

Wherever Zhang Lili went, the elderly people ignored her, and some even spat on her and made sarcastic remarks.

Lin Yu was unaware of these matters. After quelling the rumors, she began to seriously assemble a new work team.

First, the workers we hired divided the work among themselves: some were responsible for washing the fruit, some for cutting it, some for drying it, and finally, they had to package it.

Speaking of the packaging, Lin Yu asked Qiao Feng, who is good at drawing, to draw the logo. It reads "Qingshan Commune - Lianhua Brigade Food Factory".

The packaging for sweet potato vermicelli is the same.

The goal is to increase brand awareness so that people will immediately recognize the packaging as belonging to their Lotus Brigade.

What she didn't expect was that in the future, people would see their packaging and come to them asking to supply goods.

Lin Aiguo has already reached a cooperation agreement with Captain Huang of the Dongfeng Brigade. The Lianhua Brigade will purchase their fruit, and they need to transport the fruit to the workshop.

It's just a little effort, and their brigade has plenty of strong laborers, so Brigade Leader Huang happily agreed.

He never expected that Captain Lin would come up with such a solution to help them sell their fruit.

If the fruit workshop in Lianhua Brigade is successful, Dongfeng Brigade will have an additional source of income.

Their fruit will no longer rot in the fields!

For a time, the entire Dongfeng Brigade was enthusiastically picking fruit.

Unlike before when they picked a few for their own consumption, this time Captain Huang required them to pick the biggest and best ones, making sure to satisfy Captain Lin.

The team members were also very happy. Although the work was tiring, they were happy to do it because they thought that the fruit could be exchanged for money.

Lin Yu handed over the production to Aunt Liang for management.

She is efficient and clean, younger than Grandma Lin, and full of energy.

Lin Yu then transferred her to the dried fruit workshop.

Lin Yu herself began to make arrangements for the educated youth.

Ou Manqing was in charge of accounting and finance, while Zhang Bing and Song Meili were responsible for office paperwork and managing the workshop staff.

As for Zhou Huanan...