Educated youth settlement.

Yang Laidi and Zhao Weiguo are going to the commune today to send grain to her mother.

Yang Laidi was very happy today; she felt she had found happiness.

I never realized before that Zhao Weiguo was such a good person.

What a loss! I was just lucky.

Zhao Weiguo can be found.

The two walked together toward the commune.

Along the way, I encountered many aunties and older women cooling off under the trees.

Several older women called out, "Yang Zhiqing, what are you doing?"

Yang Laidi blushed when they called out to her.

She lowered her head, her face flushed, and said, "I'm going to the commune with Zhao, the educated youth!"

Two older women asked, "Are you dating Zhao, the educated youth?"

Yang Laidi nodded, and Zhao Weiguo also nodded.

The older women became even more excited.

"Is this grain that Zhao, the educated youth, sent to your mother? Zhao, the educated youth, is such a good person! Yang, the educated youth, you are so lucky."

Yang Laidi blushed deeply and dared not speak.

Zhao Weiguo, however, said, "Thank you, Auntie and Grandma, this candy is for you to sweeten your mouths."

The aunties and older women praised it even more enthusiastically.

The two had already walked quite a distance, but Yang Laidi's face was still red, and she didn't dare to look at Zhao Weiguo.

Zhao Weiguo laughed and said, "We've all gone far away, what are you still ashamed of? They can't see us anymore."

Yang Laidi was teased, and she glared at Zhao Weiguo: "You're a man with thick skin, but I don't have that kind of thick skin."

There was a hint of reproach in her words.

Zhao Weiguo burst into laughter after hearing this.

Yang Laidi angrily hit him a few times: "Stop laughing, stop laughing!"

The two walked side by side.

When they were almost at the commune, Zhao Weiguo said, "Wait here for me. Give me the address! I'm going to send some grain and buy you some things while I'm at it. It wouldn't look good if people saw us together."

Yang Laidi wasn't an unreasonable person; she nodded and gave Zhao Weiguo the address.

Just wait on the side.

After waiting for about half an hour, Zhao Weiguo came out.

He was carrying a lot of things.

Snow cream, clam oil, sponge cake, steamed rice cake, glutinous rice strips, and malted milk powder.

There was even a women's shirt!

Yang Laidi's eyes sparkled with joy.

"Why did you buy so much? How much did this cost?"

Zhao Weiguo smiled faintly: "Don't worry, it won't cost much. Try this shirt on when you get back."

Yang Laidi happily accepted the clothes; she loved them dearly.

In the years she'd been here, she hadn't worn a single new piece of clothing; the clothes she wore were her best ones, both with two patches.

I never expected that dating someone would be so willing to spend money on her!

She was becoming more and more satisfied with Zhao Weiguo.

This person's family must be quite well-off!

He seems very generous; if we got married, he would probably treat her even better.

Zhao Weiguo smiled and handed Yang Laidi a piece of sponge cake: "Eat up! I noticed you didn't eat much this morning, you must be hungry now, eat up."

Yang Laidi felt a sweet warmth in her heart and took the sponge cake, eating it in big bites.

This was the first time she had eaten sponge cake in all the years she'd been here. It was delicious, so fragrant!

So this is what sponge cake tastes like!

As she ate, she felt very wronged and started to cry.

Zhao Weiguo watched as she cried with her mouth wide open, her mouth full of sponge cake crumbs.

It was a bit too much for my eyes.

But thinking about what I had to do, I coaxed her, "You were eating, why are you crying?"

Yang Laidi sobbed and cried, “Zhao Zhiqing, you don’t know, this is the first time I’ve ever eaten chicken cake. Before, whatever my family bought, it was always for my younger brother. I didn’t get anything.”

"If it weren't for you, I don't know when I would have been able to eat such a delicious sponge cake!"

Zhao Weiguo's eyes were full of heartache. He said tenderly, "Alright, don't cry. I'll buy it for you whenever you want to eat it."

"Stop crying, or the sponge cake will fall to the ground."

Yang Laidi then stopped crying.

Zhao Weiguo's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.

Several people just passed by, all looking at him meaningfully, as if they had let Yang Laidi down.

It made him feel very uncomfortable.

After Yang Laidi stopped crying, she started eating the remaining sponge cake in her hand. She ate one piece and wanted more.

Looking at the sponge cake in Zhao Weiguo's hand, she said a little embarrassedly, "Um, could I have another piece?"

Zhao Weiguo!

"Eat up! This is for you."

Didn't you eat enough for breakfast?

She ate quite a lot, one pancake and two bowls of porridge, while he only ate one pancake and one bowl of porridge.

He frowned, wondering if approaching Yang Laidi was the right or wrong decision.

Yang Laidi took the sponge cake and happily ate it.

The two walked towards the main group.

By the time she was almost at the brigade, she had already eaten three pieces of the sponge cake in her hand.

Zhao Weiguo said, "Stop eating. If you keep eating, will you still eat lunch? If you don't, someone else will benefit from it."

Seeing Zhao Weiguo say this, she nodded and said, "Okay, I won't eat anymore!"

The two walked towards the educated youth settlement.

The older women were still sitting there chatting when they saw the two return. From afar, they called out, "Hey! Is that a sponge cake in Yang Zhiqing's hand? And clothes? And face cream too? Look at that, Zhao Zhiqing is so good to her. It's a pity I don't have a daughter."

“If I had a daughter, I would let her marry Zhao, the educated youth. Look at that Yang, the educated youth, she’s so dark-skinned, I don’t know what Zhao likes about her.”

"Alright! Stop talking, as long as they like it! I think they just like Zhao Zhiqing's money."

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