"He probably made too many things and it's hard to get them back."

"Oh, then let's hurry up and meet him. Otherwise, if we come back late, we'll have to slaughter and cook the meat, and we don't know when we'll be able to eat. To be honest, I'm feeling hungry right now."

Lin Sisi smiled and said, "I'll ask Guanghui to come with me to take a look."

"Sisi, you are so wonderful."

"It's nothing. Everyone is so busy and tired from the autumn harvest. My boyfriend hunted some wild game to help everyone recover."

Song Qingfang also came over, "Yes, yes, Sisi is just different. She's beautiful and generous, and she always shares things with us. Sisi is my favorite."

Lin Sisi was overjoyed to be the center of attention.

She went up to Lin Qingyan and said, "Qingyan, you're not feeling well. Mingzhou will bring some wild game later. Once it's cooked, you must eat a lot."

Lin Qingyan declined, saying, "I've already eaten lunch. Pheasant meat is hard to digest, so I won't eat dinner. You all enjoy your meal."

"Qingyan, don't be so polite with me."

"I really don't want to eat anymore."

Lin Qingyan went back into the house and heard Song Qingfang praising Lin Sisi outside.

"Look, Sisi, you're so generous. Our educated youth settlement is so lucky to have an educated youth like you."

At this moment, Lin Sisi was like the most dazzling star in the courtyard, and no one could compare to her.

Shen Man rubbed her stomach: "Why isn't Comrade Gu back yet? I'm starving."

Lin Sisi quickly said, "Guanghui and I will go meet Mingzhou. Why don't you boil some water first? We'll need it to pluck the pheasant's feathers later."

"Okay, I'll go boil some water." Shen Man was very diligent and quickly went to the kitchen to boil water.

Lin Sisi called to Lin Guanghui, "Guanghui, come with me to pick up Brother Mingzhou."

"OK."

Lin Guanghui lazily agreed, and in order to get some meat, he got up from the stool and walked over to Lin Sisi.

Before they even left the gate of the educated youth settlement, they ran into Gu Mingzhou, who was returning.

But Gu Mingzhou came back empty-handed, having brought back nothing.

Lin Sisi asked in surprise, "Mingzhou, what about the rabbit and pheasant you hunted?"

Gu Mingzhou was in a bad mood. He wandered around the mountain for most of the day and only encountered pheasants twice. However, Lu Zhengting's slingshot was too difficult to use, and he didn't manage to shoot a single pheasant.

Not only did they fail to catch any pheasants, but they also fell down the hillside while hunting them, resulting in a scrape on their face.

The other comrades at the educated youth settlement who were waiting for a meat feast quickly gathered around when they heard that he had returned. Shen Man and Song Qingfang, in particular, ran over the fastest, but they were all disappointed when they saw that Gu Mingzhou had returned empty-handed.

Shen Man frowned and asked, "Comrade Gu, where is the wild game you hunted? We're all waiting to eat it. I've already boiled the water to pluck the pheasant."

"Yes, Comrade Gu, Sisi said you've hunted too much game to carry, so she offered to help you. Comrade Gu, you must have hunted quite a lot of game, where is it?"

Gu Mingzhou's face grew increasingly awkward. He forced a smile and said, "Well, the hunting tools I used today were borrowed from someone else, and they didn't work at all. So, I'm really sorry I didn't catch any prey."

"Who did you borrow it from?" Lin Sisi asked, wondering who else Gu Mingzhou knew here.

“I borrowed it from a fellow villager here.”

He absolutely could not reveal that it belonged to Lu Zhengting, otherwise, if Lu Zhengting could use it to hunt prey while he could not, wouldn't that make people think he was inferior to Lu Zhengting?

"Oh, I see. It must be because the tools aren't working properly. Mingzhou, it's okay. We'll go fight again when we have better tools," Lin Sisi comforted Gu Mingzhou.

Gu Mingzhou nodded.

At this moment, Song Qingfang and Shen Man, who had been looking forward to eating meat, both looked unwell.

Especially Chen Man, who had just boiled the water, couldn't help but mutter, "This water was boiled for nothing."

Wang Qiang said, "It wasn't a waste of time; we still have to cook."

"But it wasn't my turn to cook today. I did all that extra work for nothing."

Today, Chen Lu and Hu Jiajia were cooking. Hu Jiajia smiled and whispered to Chen Lu, "Luckily, Shen Man is diligent and has helped us a lot."

Song Qingfang was also in a bad mood, sighing repeatedly.

"Oh dear, I've been looking forward to having meat tonight while I was in the field, but it turned out to be all for nothing."

At this moment, Lin Sisi was the one who felt the most embarrassed. She had promised to treat everyone to meat in front of all the educated youth at noon, but in the end, she didn't get anything.

The more Song Qingfang and Shen Man fawned over her at noon, the more they now hate her.

Lin Sisi, afraid of losing face, explained, "It's all that fellow villager's fault for using bad tools. Don't worry, once Brother Mingzhou gets better tools, he'll definitely be able to hunt."

"When will that be?"

Gu Mingzhou gritted his teeth: "I'll find another set of good tools tomorrow, and I shouldn't make a mistake this time."

"Oh well."

The others, for the time being, believed him.

Gu Mingzhou and Lin Sisi were both relieved, thankfully they hadn't lost too much face.

Hearing Gu Mingzhou and Lin Sisi's assurances, the educated youth's craving for meat was somewhat relieved, and they could only put their hopes of eating meat on the next day.

Lu Zhengting and the brigade leader's family were the last to finish work. Everyone else had to go home, but Lu Zhengting still had to go to the educated youth settlement to deliver a fountain pen to Lin Qingyan, so he let the others go home first.

As soon as he entered the educated youth settlement, Gu Mingzhou and Lin Sisi saw him.

Perhaps because Lu Zhengting had given Lin Qingyan too many things today, when they saw Lu Zhengting coming over, they subconsciously assumed that Lu Zhengting was bringing things to Lin Qingyan again, and they all secretly thought that something was wrong.

Lu Zhengting didn't see Lin Qingyan in the courtyard, but he saw Lin Zhiheng. He walked up to Lin Zhiheng and, not knowing his name, greeted him, "Young comrade, could you please call your sister out for me?"

"Okay, I'll go get her."

Lin Zhiheng called out from outside the female educated youth dormitory: "Sister, a comrade is looking for you."

"They're here."

As Lin Qingyan walked out, she wondered who would come looking for her. As soon as she stepped outside, she saw Lu Zhengting standing in the courtyard, looking like a crane among chickens.

She walked up to Lu Zhengting: "Comrade Lu, did you need something from me?"

Lu Zhengting took out a fountain pen and said, "Comrade Lin, this fountain pen is for you. I hope you can use it when you are writing."

"ah?"

Lin Qingyan was surprised and shocked.

Lu Zhengting came to deliver something again, and this time it was a fountain pen that you had to pay for.

Everyone else present was also surprised.