Educated Youth Returns to the City, Driving National Economic Development

From a life of blissful idleness, "naively sweet" Su Le unexpectedly transmigrates to the arduous 1970s and becomes the little darling of her family. It should have been another life of lei...

Chapter 14 Weeding in the fields

Su Le and Xu Jiaojiao brought their own buns to the educated youth camp. Li Ming saw them and began to assign tasks. "Today's task is weeding. The old educated youth will bring some new educated youth with them. Su will be the scorekeeper today. Our scorekeeper is pregnant."

"Why?" Chen Di was the first to speak up. Su Le's eyes fell on her. Captain Li also looked at her with dissatisfaction.

Xia Wan helped Chen Di to explain, "Captain Li, the educated youth Chen means are those who went to the countryside. Su Zhiqing doesn't have any special skills, so how can he be appointed? Besides, the old educated youth have been here for so long, they should be considered first."

"We don't care about this job. We'll do whatever Captain Li assigns us. Then we'll go to work." Hao Mei directly exposed her. Then she went to work with several other female educated youth.

Chen Dong looked at the male educated youth and saw that they had no objections, so he said to Captain Li, "Captain Li, we don't have any objections either. Let's go to work."

Who would go against the team leader? Only Xia Zhiqing is stupid.

Xia Wan was stunned when she saw that all the old educated youth had left. Yesterday, she found out that being a scorekeeper was the most comfortable job. Why didn't anyone want it?

Su Le looked at her with a half-smile.

Li Ming, however, fell into deep thought because of her words. He caught a glimpse of Yao Cuifang and her family passing by and saw Li Zichen. He quickly waved and said, "The youngest of the Li family!"

Li Zichen came over after hearing this and asked, "What's wrong, Captain?"

Li Mingdao said, "The scorekeeper is pregnant. We haven't started looking for a new scorekeeper yet. You can take over today."

"Okay, Captain Li." Li Zichen agreed.

Xia Wan smiled and said, as long as it wasn't Su Le, she would take Chen Di to work.

Su Le didn't object. He pulled Xu Jiaojiao and said to Li Ming with a smile, "Let's go to work."

Li Ming said to Su Le, "We will hold an exam tomorrow. The first place winner will be the scorer. Su Zhiqing and Xu Zhiqing can come and take part."

Su Le nodded.

The two of them shared one acre of land with Yao Cuifang's family. Xia Wan and Chen Di shared one acre of land with Li Cuihua. Both were educated youth working with farmers.

Su Le calmly took out a pair of gloves from his pocket. Xu Jiaojiao saw it with her sharp eyes and said, "Le Le, do you have any more? How much is a pair?"

Su Le took out another pair and gave it to Xu Jiaojiao, "1 yuan."

Xu Jiaojiao took it out of her pocket and gave it to her. "Okay, thank you."

Li Zichen heard their conversation and looked at them.

Su Le wore high-waisted flared pants and a round-neck shirt with small floral patterns. His hair was tied up high. He looked at the pair of legs in front of him and raised his eyes. "What are you doing?"

Li Zichen took out a dollar and gave it to her, "Give me a pair."

Su Le laughed angrily, "I won't sell it!"

Li Zichen squatted down and looked her in the eye. "You are engaging in speculation and profiteering. I can arrest you."

Su Le took a deep breath, reluctantly took out a pair of gloves from his pocket, handed them to him, and pulled the money over. He weeded angrily.

She was still muttering, "You bastard! You old man! You stinky man! I'll uproot you!"

Li Zichen glanced at her calmly. He took the gloves and walked towards Yao Cuifang, who was standing behind him. "Mom, use this."

Yao Cuifang said heartbrokenly, "You prodigal son! I'm always working on the farm, so I don't need this! You'll be heartbroken if it breaks."

Li Zichen comforted her, "Mom, this is your son's filial piety to you. Please use it. You can't refuse your son's filial piety. He has finally come back once."

Yao Cuifang had no choice but to agree and put on gloves.

Xia Wan toiled away at the weeds, her hands turning red. Looking at Su Le, she couldn't help but resent him even more. With a single effort, Xia Wan pulled out the potato seedlings.

Li Cuihua screamed, "Xia Zhiqing, what are you doing?" Xia Wan shuddered and looked at the seedlings in her hands and a few potatoes lying on the ground.

"This Xia Zhiqing is such a jerk! He's really holding us back. He's even plucked out such a promising seedling!"

Captain Li and Li Zichen rushed over when they heard the noise. How could there be such a stupid person!

"Xia Zhiqing, are you blind? Grass and seedlings are different, don't you see?" Captain Li also felt sorry for Miaozi and was very angry.

Xia Wan's tears started to fall. "I didn't mean to do that. I was just looking at the gloves on Su Zhiqing's hands and lost my mind for a moment..."

Li Ming got even angrier when he heard this. "All the work points you earned today were used to buy these seedlings."

Li Cuihua quickly said, "I don't want to be in the same group with this Xia Zhiqing. He's such a troublemaker! All he does is cry all day! Your mother died and you're still crying! It's so damn unlucky!"

Li Ming nodded and re-designated an area for Xia Wan. Xia Wan looked at Li Zichen with tears in her eyes, but the latter didn't even look at her.

Xia Wan turned to the men at the educated youth camp. They lowered their heads. They couldn't even finish their own work, so how could they have time to help her? Being good-looking doesn't make you a good eater!

For the first time, Su Le found Li Cuihua so pleasing to the eye! She was so talkative that she could talk more. He laughed secretly. Someone looked over and he put on a serious face again.

Li Zichen watched this scene and chuckled. "That's really interesting."

Su Le wanted to finish the work quickly and rest early, so he could finish his section quickly. He walked towards Li Zichen and said, "Old man!"

Li Zichen ignored her.

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm done!" Su Le said it again when he saw that he ignored him.

Li Zichen corrected her, "My name is Li Zichen!"

Su Le rolled his eyes at him and said, "What does your name have to do with me? I said I'm done!"

Li Zichen turned around and ignored her, not giving her any points.

Su Le compromised, "Okay, okay, Li Zichen! I'm done!"

Only then did Li Zichen give her points.

When Su Le saw that he had remembered it, his face immediately changed, "Old man." He picked up his things and walked towards the cabin.

Li Zichen looked at her back with a smile on his face.

Xia Wan's eyes were burning with jealousy as she looked at Su Le's back with great resentment!