Lu Zhan was feeding the team's carriage when he picked up a bundle of fresh grass from his arm. He chopped it up neatly with a knife and threw it directly into the trough.

Li Jun ran over and said, "Brother Lu, the team leader said that we will drive a horse-drawn carriage to the county to pick up the assigned educated youth at noon. Do you want to go?"

When talking about this matter, Lu Zhan immediately became depressed.

This year is his third year as an educated youth away from home. A few days ago, he received a letter from his mother in the city, saying that she had arranged for him to marry a wife and sent someone to the countryside as an educated youth to find him.

When Lu Zhan received the letter, he frowned more and more as he read it.

The letter said that the girl was very fond of him, so her parents had decided to marry her off to their family. It also mentioned that he had been a solitary person for all those years as an educated youth and hadn't found a partner. If he waited any longer, he would soon be in his seventies or eighties...

When Lu Zhan saw this, the corners of his mouth twitched.

He is only 26 years old this year, how come he is almost in his seventies?

However, Lu's parents understood their son's character very well, and they even noted in the letter that they had sent a betrothal gift to the other party's family, and the two were officially married.

The little girl was frail and sickly, but in order to see him, she applied to be an educated youth and came thousands of miles to see him. The old couple were so moved that they asked him to take good care of the little girl.

After Lu Zhan received the letter, the more he read it, the more outrageous it seemed to him.

When his parents wrote to him urging him to get married, he was just annoyed and casually said that they should choose a marriage partner, and if he thought the girl was good, he would get married.

But he didn't expect that his parents would take his perfunctory words seriously.

He had only been away from home for a few years, and suddenly a marriage partner appeared out of nowhere?

Are his parents obsessed with having a grandchild?

And what little girl would like him? He was weak, and he couldn't help but come to him when Wanli went to the countryside as an educated youth. Why did he sound so mysterious?

He was feeding the horses in the stable nonchalantly, brushing the weeds off his body.

Going to the county to pick up the assigned educated youth had nothing to do with him, so why would he go?

Lu Zhan rejected Li Jun immediately.

*****

When calling the roll in the afternoon, the more Lu Zhan thought about the contents of the letter, the more uncomfortable he felt.

The little girl is sick and is still taking medicine...

If you are weak, just stay in the city. Why run so far?

"Brother Lu, the captain is calling your name. Didn't you say you didn't want to go? The captain is asking if you're willing?"

Li Jun patted Lu Zhan's shoulder curiously as he was obviously distracted. The captain in front was calling people to go to the county to pick up the educated youth. He called Lu Zhan's name, but he didn't hear a word after calling it twice.

Lu Zhan was patted on the shoulder and snapped back to his senses, then he heard the captain calling his name.

"Lu Zhan, are you going to pick up the educated youth?"

Lu Zhan pursed his lips, thinking of the last batch of female educated youth who came to their team. They had thin arms and legs and walked so weakly. It was obvious that they were spoiled and had never been to the countryside. Could they withstand coming to this rural soil?

"go!"

Lu Zhan casually threw away the grass he was biting in his mouth, his tone a little impatient.

A delicate and sickly child, if something really happens, his parents will write letters to bother him again...

Li Jun turned around in surprise: "Brother Lu, I asked you this afternoon, didn't you say you didn't want to go?"

Lu Zhan glanced at him sideways. He never thought that this guy was so bad at reading other people's expressions.

"Suddenly changed your mind!"

Li Jun looked at Lu Zhan's back as he left, completely confused.

*****

As the sun was setting in the afternoon, several trucks carrying people came slowly towards us.

The educated youth on the train all looked pale, had poor appetite and sleep, and had just gotten off the train and were in a hurry to get on the team's carriage.

Qingdai got off the car and found herself in a mess. There were people from the county and some were shouting at them.