After a swaying train journey of more than thirty hours, we finally arrived in Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province.

The train stopped in Beijing for half an hour. During this time, with the help of the system, Bai Nuo quietly placed the eleven cultural relics that he had previously smuggled from the Shanghai Pavilion in the lobby of the Beijing State Administration of Cultural Heritage. This way, even if someone had any bad intentions, they wouldn't dare to touch them, since these items would be seen by people coming to work the next morning.

Bai Nuo felt relieved, otherwise she always felt that her great-grandfather would appear in her dreams in the middle of the night and beat her and her grandmother.

After arriving in Kaiyuan City, they still had to take a bus to the county, and after being assigned to their posts in the county, they still had to go to the production brigade.

Thinking about it this way, everyone lost their spirits.

Bai Nuo didn't have much luggage. He had finished all the food in his cloth bag, so he tied the bag to the handle of his suitcase, slung a small shoulder bag over his shoulder, and carried the suitcase as he got off the bus.

The others were carrying large and small bags, bringing everything they could.

Even Sun Yuxi was carrying two and lifting one on her back. Fortunately, the girl was strong enough that even Guo Hui, who was standing next to her, couldn't help her.

A group of young educated youth walked out of the train station in a grand procession. After the clerk of the local educated youth office picked them up, he took them to a bus. The bus ride was even more unbearable. Fortunately, the weather was not hot at this time, and it was even a bit cold because it was morning. Otherwise, it would have been even more uncomfortable on the bus.

A group of people crammed together and rode a bus for more than two hours from Kaiyuan City to Fuxing County.

Everyone, regardless of gender, felt a bit weak in the legs when they got off the bus, and wished they could just lie down on the spot.

But that obviously wouldn't work, because they weren't given any time to rest.

After everyone got off the bus, the staff from the educated youth office immediately took the dozens of new educated youth and assigned them to the clerks from various communes who came to pick them up, according to the list. Then they distributed their first month's subsidies to make it easier for the new educated youth to replenish their supplies in the next few days.

The ten yuan per person made the newly arrived, exhausted and anxious educated youth feel much better.

Most of them came from poor families, and not many of them were able to receive all the subsidies given by the educated youth office. It was really kind of the country to take care of them for two years.

Bai Nuo followed the other educated youths who had been assigned to Fuyuan County, always trailing behind the crowd, acting as a delicate and invisible figure.

"Bai Zhiqing, is this all you brought?"

Sun Yuxi was too tired to walk any further, so she slowly walked to the back of the crowd and followed Bai Nuo. She looked at Bai Nuo with a suitcase in her hand and felt both envious and worried.

“My family was worried that it would be troublesome to get things on and off the train because we had too much stuff. Luckily, the train we came on also handled postal cargo transportation. The post office here has a special vehicle to transport it, and it should have arrived by now. I can just go to the post office to pick it up in a bit.”

This express mail method costs a dollar more, but it is indeed very convenient. Bai Nuo didn't care about the extra dollar or 80 cents, so when she heard about it, she took this train directly.

"That's really convenient. I guess this kind of mailing service is only available in big cities. I've never even heard of it in my county. It would take seven or eight days to mail this big bundle to me. When I signed up, there were only three days left before I was to leave, so there wasn't enough time. That's why I had to carry it myself." Sun Yuxi sighed. She felt like her arms and legs were about to give out. Fortunately, her mother would mail her thick winter clothes and quilts, otherwise she definitely wouldn't have been able to carry it.

Bai Nuo glanced silently at the two large bundles she was carrying, then at the bundle that was practically hanging on her head; it was indeed quite troublesome.

"How about I help you carry one?"

Bai Nuo felt that by helping out, she might have a chance to exchange braised food with Sun Zhiqing in the future. Not to mention chicken feet, even the lotus root was super delicious.

"No need, no need. Your family doesn't want you to carry so much stuff. I can't add to your weight. Besides, we'll be there soon. It's alright. Thank you, Bai Zhiqing." Sun Yuxi quickly declined with a smile.

This educated youth looks like she was spoiled at home. This bundle of hers could probably block her out. We can't bully people like this.

When Bai Nuo saw that the other party refused, she blinked gently and sighed softly.

It seems I won't have the chance to switch to Sun's braised food anymore.

"Host, you can learn. The Time-Space Mall has cooking tutorials, covering everything from ancient times to the present. We can even find an imperial chef from ancient times to teach you. A simple braised dish will be a piece of cake. A regular tutorial costs one point, and an advanced tutorial costs five points. You won't lose out, and most importantly, you'll be benefiting yourself."

Bai Nuo pursed her lips: "I remember, 925 can cook."

"Even if he can cook, it's just the initial cooking skills programmed into his body, which are at best edible."

Bai Nuo felt she had been scammed by consumers. The butler robot she bought with a large sum of points only knew how to cook, and all it could do was eat.

Thinking about the teaching courses at the Time and Space Mall, and then about all kinds of delicious food, and the legendary imperial cuisine.

Slurp! Slurp!

She felt she could do it again!

but……

"I'm going to learn with 925. We don't support people who just eat and charge their batteries for free."

"You're just lazy!"

The system rolled its eyes in exasperation, feeling that its mechanical eyeballs had become a little loose from rolling its eyes so often lately.

"Alright, I'll enable a learning mode for it later."

Bai Nuo then smiled with satisfaction, her head slightly lowered and wearing a liberation cap. She was already short, so others couldn't see the expression on her face at all.

When the educated youth arrived at the assembly point, the representatives of each brigade in each commune had already drawn lots and were each holding a list to start calling out names.

"I am from Qishui Brigade of Yuanshan Commune. Now, those whose names are called, come over here."

“Sun Yuxi, Bai Nuo, Chao Xianhua, Chai Shiming, Jiang Zihang, Guo Hui, Liu Xier, come here, come here and follow me. Our brigade’s oxcart is over there.”

A tall, strong, dark-skinned middle-aged man, wearing a drab gray long-sleeved jacket with two large patches on the sleeves, a cigarette tucked behind his ear, waved to the educated youth he had just called out.

The seven people slowly gathered together and followed the uncle forward.

As Bai Nuo walked, she found herself sandwiched in the middle, and suddenly felt that... her vision seemed to be blocked, and even the top of her head was filled with all sorts of burdens.

"Huh, why is someone missing?" The uncle who was calling out names frowned, carefully looking at the educated youth in front of him. He even pointed again with his finger, but there were still six people no matter how many times he pointed.

"Did you bring back one less?" An old man sitting on the oxcart next to him, holding a long pipe, also looked over curiously.

Just then, a small, fair hand emerged from between two bundles that were being carried on someone's shoulders, followed by a delicate yet helpless voice.