This person was Guo Tianya, an educated youth from Mengshi.

Guo Tianya continued in a somewhat boisterous manner, "My name is Guo Tianya! I'm from Mengshi! I was originally the youngest in our educated youth settlement, but I'm already 17. Now, you're the youngest little sister!"

Su Ruyi smiled and nodded, but did not reply.

This Guo Tianya is truly... hard to describe.

She herself came from a well-off family and followed a male educated youth named Hu Zhenbo to this rural area. Both of them were from Mengshi.

However, after arriving here, she suddenly took a liking to Jiang Aiguo, the person in charge of the educated youth settlement.

The three became entangled, and within a week of Su Ruyi's brief stay at the educated youth settlement, they had two conflicts, with Jiang Aiguo even getting injured.

Guo Tianya herself has a stocky appearance—she is on the taller side, has dark skin, and thick hair.

When she walks, her slender waist sways back and forth, giving her a touch of the elegance of Black Peony.

In her previous life, Guo Tianya was very wary of Su Ruyi.

One day, Jiang Aiguo came to the dormitory to ask Su Ruyi to fill out a survey form. When he entered, he casually closed the door behind him.

Upon hearing this, Guo Tianya kicked open the dormitory door and rushed in, leaving everyone extremely embarrassed.

In this life, Ai Shengnan and Guo Tianya are much more enthusiastic towards her than in the previous life.

She thought about it and figured it was probably because she had moved into the west wing instead of their dormitory.

After all, the absence of conflict of interest is a necessary prerequisite for becoming friends.

Have you found the cycad?

A timid voice asked from behind.

Su Ruyi looked over and saw Shu Lan, who lived in the east room with Wang Chuntao.

Shulan had a slender figure, and her dry, yellow hair was tied into two thin braids.

She looked so thin she was almost floating, and her presence was extremely minimal.

She was also from Jiangcheng, and she and Ai Shengnan had known each other since childhood, but they were only nodding acquaintances and did not live in the same dormitory.

Shulan is the youngest sister in her family, with four older brothers. It is said that she also mails grain home every year.

"Xiao Lan, if you want to speak, just come up here and say it! Do you think we'll eat you?!"

Guo Tianya said half-jokingly, then reached out and pulled her in front of Su Ruyi, "Her name is Shulan, she's the cook at our educated youth settlement. If you want to join us, just give her your grain rations!"

Su Ruyi knew this in her previous life as well. Shulan was a very good cook. Even without oil or water and with limited ingredients, she could still come up with all sorts of ways to make sure everyone was well-fed.

In this educated youth settlement, everyone had a fixed job. Apart from preparing three meals a day and washing her own clothes, Shulan didn't have to do any other work.

There are also designated people responsible for tasks such as fetching water, gathering firewood, sweeping the yard, and tending to the private plot.

This pattern has reached a balance.

"Have you found Su Tie?" Shu Lan asked again, a question that seemed to have exhausted all her courage. After asking, she lowered her head deeply, not daring to meet anyone's gaze.

"No." Su Ruyi sighed.

This was something the four of them had agreed upon on their way back—to not reveal any information about Su Tie before he returned safely, so as to avoid any unforeseen complications.

Shulan sighed, "Comrade Su, don't worry. I always feel that Su Tie should still be alive, because I've never dreamed of him! I... don't laugh at me, my dreams are always right!"

That left her speechless. Su Ruyi could only nod and say, "Thank you! Everyone, please go back inside. I'm sorry to have worried you!"

As she spoke, she bowed to the three of them again.

"Have you eaten?" Shulan asked again in a low voice.

Hearing her question, Su Ruyi realized she was starving.

She thought about it carefully and realized that apart from the meal she had on the train this morning, she hadn't eaten or drunk a single drop of water all day!

However, she had a food box, and Su Tong and the others had plenty of dry rations, so she wasn't worried.

Therefore, she said softly to Shulan, "I've already eaten some dry rations on the way. Thank you, Shulan!"

Shu Lan smiled shyly, then her expression turned serious. She grabbed Su Ruyi, who was about to go back into the house, and said, "Su Zhiqing, someone hanged themselves in the room you live in! Li Wang said you knew about it. Do you really know?"

Su Ruyi nodded: "I know, I'm not afraid."

Shulan exclaimed in awe: "You're amazing! So young, yet so talented!"

Seeing that Shulan and Su Ruyi were about to become friends, Guo Tianya sneered at her: "That's right, do you think everyone is like you, having to wake Sister Chuntao up to accompany you when you need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night!"

Shulan's face flushed red. She smiled at Su Ruyi again, then turned and left.

Guo Tianya said to Su Ruyi, "Go and rest. If you need anything tonight, just knock on the wall!"

“You can knock on the wall if you’re scared!” Ai Shengnan added.

"I'm not afraid, thank you!" Su Ruyi thanked her again.

Guo Tianya and Ai Shengnan also went back to their room.

Su Ruyi took out her key, opened the door by the moonlight, and immediately locked the door after entering the house.

Then, she drew the curtains and slipped into the space.

Su Tie remained lying motionless in bed.

Su Ruyi went straight to the hall.

The food box was still open—she was in such a hurry when she got the marrow-cleansing soup that she forgot to put the lid back on.

However, the food inside was still steaming hot.

Su Ruyi first took out the wax balls and put them away before picking up her chopsticks.

She has already replicated seven wax pills from the acupuncture old man using her treasure food box.

Although we don't yet know what the purpose of these wax pellets is, there's no harm in doing so.

She specially found a pretty brocade box to store these replica wax pellets.

A series of rumbling sounds came from my abdomen.

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