Chapter 052

Chuxia was also awakened by the gunshots.

But he only woke up for a while, turned over and changed his position, and soon fell asleep again.

Sleep until the early hours of the morning and wake up at a normal time.

Chuxia sat up from the bed, woke up from a nap and got up to tidy up the bedding. While tidying up, she glanced at the empty bunk in the middle and was surprised - Su Yun actually got up earlier than her today.

But this is not something that is too surprising.

Chuxia didn't pay attention to anything else. She quickly packed her bedding, put on her clothes, combed her hair and braided it, then took the washbasin outside to wash up.

Lin Xiaohan has finished brushing his teeth.

Chuxia greeted him "Good morning" and squeezed some toothpaste to brush her teeth.

While brushing the brush, I looked around out of boredom and suddenly saw a person standing outside the yard gate.

Their yard was surrounded by a fence, so anyone passing by could be seen.

Chu Xia brushed her teeth and looked carefully, and saw that the person standing outside was Su Yun.

I brushed my teeth and rinsed my mouth.

Chu Xia asked in confusion, "Why is she standing outside so early in the morning?"

I didn't think Lin Xiaohan would respond, nor did I think Lin Xiaohan would know the reason.

Lin Xiaohan replied, "Han Ting went out at midnight yesterday and hasn't come back yet."

Hearing this, Chu Xia was stunned and looked at Lin Xiaohan.

Lin Xiaohan had already washed his face. After saying this, he took the washbasin and went back to the dormitory.

Chuxia came to her senses, washed her face quickly, took the washbasin back to the dormitory and applied some cold cream, then came out again to chop wild vegetables and feed the chickens with Lin Xiaohan.

She whispered to Lin Xiaohan, "Someone set off fireworks in the middle of the night yesterday. Did you hear it?"

Lin Xiaohan chopped wild vegetables with a knife and said, "I heard it, but it shouldn't be a firecracker."

For no reason, someone set off firecrackers in the middle of the night.

Fireworks are not free things. They are only bought and set off at the beginning of the new year, in order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to celebrate the joy of the New Year.

Chu Xia looked at Lin Xiaohan and thought for a while, then asked, "Could it be related to Han Ting?"

Before Lin Xiaohan could say anything else, the alarm in the boys' dormitory rang and everyone else got up one after another.

Seeing them coming out of the dormitory, Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan stopped talking about this.

After chopping the wild vegetables, mix them with some cornmeal and go to the chicken coop to feed the chickens.

The three male educated youth who came out started chatting again while washing up.

"Where are Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai? Why aren't they in the dormitory?"

"I don't know. Maybe he got up early and went out."

"Did you go out to dig wild vegetables?"

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When it comes to picking wild vegetables, everyone feels uncomfortable.

Li Qiao saw Su Yun outside the yard and changed the subject, asking, "Why is she standing outside so early in the morning?"

Gu Yuzhu now has many dissatisfactions with Su Yun.

She glanced outside the yard and said unhappily, "Who knows? Why should I care about her?"

If you say don't care, then don't care.

After washing up, the six people went to the kitchen to cook breakfast.

Although they were feeling angry, they still cooked for ten people.

Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan naturally burned two people and did not interfere with each other.

Then when the meal was halfway through, Su Yun suddenly called out from outside: "Han Ting!"

Hearing the sound, the people in the kitchen stood up or stretched their heads out.

After a while, Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai entered the yard.

But they did not come back on their own. They were followed by many villagers. The leader was the militia captain Wu Changming, who had a rifle in his hand. The others were also from the militia.

Looking more closely, Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai had their hands tied behind their backs.

Realizing that something was wrong, Li Qiao and the other six people hurriedly got up and left the kitchen, including Sun Yao, the male educated youth who was burning fire behind the stove. Before he got up, he stuffed a lot of branches and hard grass under the stove.

Lin Xiaohan sat behind the stove, lighting the fire without moving.

Chuxia didn't leave the kitchen either, but she stood in front of the window and looked into the yard through the window.

The militia captain Wu Changming was very aggressive, and Li Qiao and the others did not dare to ask about the situation.

Wu Changming drove Han Ting and the other two into the dormitory, had them untie the hemp ropes on their wrists, and told them, “Pack up quickly!”

The others didn't dare to show any expression on their faces, and didn't even dare to breathe when they entered the dormitory.

Although I really wanted to know what happened, I didn't dare to ask out loud.

Instead, Su Yun came up to Wu Changming and asked, "Captain Wu, what are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Wu Changming glanced at Su Yun, then turned around and glanced at the other educated youth.

After the sweep, he said in a deep voice, "All of you, watch carefully and listen carefully! These three people went to the granary of the brigade to steal grain last night, and we caught them red-handed! From today on, they will be sent to be criticized and paraded through the streets and sent to labor camps! All of you who dare to touch the production team's things, the villagers' things, or anyone else's things will all end up like this!"

After hearing Wu Changming's words, the six people including Li Qiao seemed to shrink in an instant.

They all held their breath, suppressed their expressions and dared not speak, their faces full of fear.

After hearing this, Su Yun's face became completely panicked, and tears welled up in her eyes.

This time is different from the previous times. Before, when they made mistakes, at most the team would hold a criticism meeting and scold them, or pull Han Ting onto the stage to criticize him.

But this time he will be paraded through the streets, and most importantly, he will be sent to a labor camp!

Unable to hold back, Su Yun begged Wu Changming in tears: "Captain Wu, we have no food to eat, and the brigade does not allow us to advance. If they were not desperate, they would not do such a thing. Please forgive them this time, we will never do it again, we will go to dig wild vegetables to eat."

Wu Changming glanced at her, then looked at the others, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "I didn't hold all of you accountable this time. I only held these three accountable. I'm already being merciful to you! If you keep talking nonsense, you'll all be sent to labor camps!"

His voice was so loud that Li Qiao and the other six people were frightened and trembled.

Hearing this, Su Yun's body began to tremble, especially her lips. Tears fell from her eyes, and she pursed her lips and dared not speak again.

Over there, Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai had already packed the necessary bedding.

Su Yun looked at Han Ting again, shedding tears, and called his name helplessly and aggrievedly: "Han Ting..."

Han Ting didn't look like he was shocked.

He looked at Su Yun and said, "It's okay. I'll be back in a while. Just take care of yourself."

Su Yun burst into tears and shook her head, thinking - how can I take care of myself?

Wu Changming didn't give them time to talk nonsense and directly urged Han Ting, Chaozi and Guogai out of the dormitory.

Watching Han Ting leave the dormitory and being pushed out of the yard.

Su Yun couldn't hold it in any longer and followed him, crying and calling softly, "Han Ting...Han Ting..."

After shouting a few times, I couldn't help but break down.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and her voice was trembling with panic and fear: "What will I do if you leave? What will I do?"

Han Ting was pushed forward.

He staggered and turned back to comfort Su Yun: "Wait for me to come back."

And when Su Yun saw Han Ting being pushed away, she felt as if the sky above her head had collapsed.

She soon burst into tears and stood outside the yard, scared and not knowing what to do.

She really wanted to follow Han Ting and catch up, but she was afraid of angering Wu Changming and causing her to suffer as well.

But if she doesn't chase after him, how will she live without Han Ting's protection?

She cried more and more and broke down.

Like a child who has been abandoned by the whole world and is left in panic and helplessness.

When Han Ting disappeared from her sight, she squatted down, buried her face, and cried for a long time.

Li Qiao and the others stood in the yard and did not go out.

Seeing Su Yun crying like that, no one went out to comfort her.

In fact, they themselves were also immersed in confusion, panic and fear.

They stood there for a long while before someone finally responded and said, "Did the three of them...go to the granary of the brigade and steal food in the middle of the night?"

Once these words were spoken, everyone naturally reacted.

They looked at each other, and their hearts were instantly filled with guilt.

After all, Han Ting and the other three did this so that they would have food to eat.

But guilt aside, responsibility must still be cleared.

Li Qiao said, "We don't know anything about this. If we knew, we would never let them do such a thing."

Hu Yang and the others also said: "We don't know either. We don't know at all."

Gu Yuzhu said: "Why didn't they discuss it with us? They almost killed us. Fortunately, Wu Changming didn't blame us, otherwise we would have been killed by them."

Su Yun was outside the yard, squatting on the ground with her face buried in her hands, crying.

Li Qiao and his friends were talking in the yard, trying to prove their innocence.

Chuxia stood in front of the kitchen window in a daze.

Suddenly she heard Lin Xiaohan calling her to "eat", she came back to her senses, responded quickly, turned around and sat down at the table, and went to eat with Lin Xiaohan.

Li Qiao and the others also remembered that they had not had breakfast yet.

After standing in the yard for a while, they all returned to the kitchen.

The branches at the bottom of the stove cooked their meal, so they just served themselves and sat down.

They were chattering in the yard, but when they sat down in the kitchen, they all fell silent.

The six people drank the thin soup and rice, chewed dry sweet potatoes, and breathed heavily from time to time.

After a moment of silence.

The male educated youth Hu Yang suddenly said, "The three of them have been sent to labor camps. There will be no turning back for us. No matter how hard we try, we won't have food to eat. There will be nothing but bad luck. I think it would be better for us to just disband and each take care of our own business."

Hearing this, Li Qiao, Gu Yuzhu and Chen Sisi looked at Hu Yang immediately.

It's so funny, they haven't mentioned breaking up yet, but they brought it up first, as if they really want to continue to be in partnership with them, a bunch of men who are good for nothing except eating!

Li Qiao said, "We have the same idea. Tell us how to disperse."

Wang Xiangqian said, "How else can we distribute it? The remaining food will be divided according to the number of people, and everyone will live on their own. After two months, the food will be distributed again, and everyone will get their own work points and food."

Gu Yuzhu sneered and said, "How can you be so good at dividing? After two months, each of you will get your own work points, but when it comes to food, do you eat your own food? Is the food you have eaten in the past six months just the food you have been allocated? You have eaten so much extra food, but you don't want to get more work points. Why?"

Sun Yao continued: "We eat a lot of food, but we also do a lot of work."

Li Qiao: "You work harder and earn more work points, but have you given them to us? You use your work points to make up for your share of food, but you eat more food than you were allocated! We eat less food than we were allocated, but we will have to make up for it according to our share of food when the time comes!"

Hu Yang frowned, "If you are going to be so fussy, then we will settle with you. In the past six months of partnership, have we boys done all the heavy work? The work assigned to us by the production team does not count. Did we boys take care of the private plots? You only did some light work when you were planting vegetables, and watered the plants with a spoon. We carried the water from the river! Every time we went to the mill to grind grain, did we carry the grain over? Did we push the mill? Did we carry the flour back after grinding? Sometimes, when you didn't finish the work assigned by the production team, did we help you? What's wrong with us eating more grain? Isn't it right?"

Gu Yuzhu smiled speechlessly, "What's wrong with men doing some heavy work and exerting some strength? Isn't it normal? You think you can be considered a man if you argue about such things with us girls? It's a joke!"

Wang Xiangqian: "So what if we are not men? Why should we work hard for you girls for no reason? Han Ting and the others are men, go find them!"

Gu Yuzhu: "It would be a miracle if a man like you could get married in this lifetime!"

Hu Yang: "Hey, you don't need to worry about it. I won't marry you in the end anyway!"

Three boys versus three girls.

The six of them quarreled more and more fiercely, and finally they slammed the table and almost blew the roof off.

When the quarrel was in full swing, a voice suddenly came from the yard: "What are you quarreling about?!"

The six people were so shocked that they shut up instantly. They turned around and saw Wu Changming standing in the yard.

When they saw Wu Changming, the six people became scared again.

Wu Changming looked at them and said in a deep voice: "I'll give you two minutes. Pack up your dishes and follow me! From today on, I will personally assign tasks for you and personally supervise your work! Hurry!"

Hearing this, the six people were stunned for a moment, and they all said in their hearts - it's over!

Seeing that they didn't move, Wu Changming suddenly cracked the whip in his hand and shouted, "Did you hear me?!"

With a snap, he came back to his senses.

The six people quickly stood up from the benches and picked up their own dishes to wash.

They washed the dishes at the fastest speed since they went to the countryside, and then stood in the yard.

One team for boys and one team for girls.

Su Yun didn't eat, her eyes were red from crying, and she was also standing in the line.

Wu Changming glanced at them and said, "Save your tears, because you will be the ones crying next!"