Educated Youth Settlement

The group of educated youths went up the mountain together, as agreed upon yesterday.

Some of the female educated youth carried baskets, while others carried hampers on their backs. Lin Sisi lived and ate at the educated youth settlement. In addition to paying three cents a day for food, she had to pay more if she didn't contribute to improving the living conditions at the settlement.

She happened to want to go up the mountain for a stroll, planning to dig for wild vegetables and mushrooms with the other female educated youth. So she took a basket and went up the mountain with them.

Before going up the mountain, Shen Man noticed that Lin Sisi was still wearing that thing. Once she got to the top, she was determined to find a secluded spot, snatch the thing from Lin Sisi's neck, and then quickly run to another place to perform the blood oath ceremony.

If there was no hidden space inside that thing, then she would return it to Lin Sisi, tell her that she was just joking with her, and that would be the end of it.

On the way, she did not deliberately walk with Lin Sisi. When they arrived at the mountain, the male educated youth went to collect firewood, while the female educated youth picked wild vegetables not far from them, and picked mushrooms whenever they saw them.

As an hour slowly passed, all the female educated youth who had originally been in one place were now separated into different groups.

Chen Lu and Hu Jiajia were together, the two newly arrived female educated youths were together, and Shen Man called out to Lin Sisi: "Sisi, I found some mushrooms over there, let's go pick mushrooms over there."

Lin Sisi thought for a moment and then agreed: "Okay."

So the two of them went together to the place Shen Man had mentioned.

There were indeed mushrooms in this place, but because there were several large rocks nearby that blocked the view of the other educated youth, they couldn't see them either.

Shen Man squatted down to pick mushrooms first, and Lin Sisi squatted down as well.

Shen Man had just picked two mushrooms when her gaze suddenly drifted to Lin Sisi's chest, where she saw the red string hanging around Lin Sisi's neck.

If not now, when?!

Immediately, she reached out to Lin Sisi, grabbed the red rope around Lin Sisi's neck, and yanked the object hanging from the rope off.