After the veteran educated youth introduced themselves, it was the new educated youth's turn to introduce themselves. After exchanging basic information, the welcome banquet officially began.

Half a roast chicken was cut into small pieces, and one piece for each person was enough. Then everyone turned to the cured meat, and only when all the meat on the table was gone did they slow down a little.

Ruan Xianxian was used to eating cornbread that cut her throat. It wasn't as delicious as the coarse grains that were refined in later generations, but it was hot and not so bad that she couldn't swallow it.

After the meal, the older educated youth tacitly agreed that the new educated youth should clean up the table and dishes.

The new and old educated youth silently divided into two factions. Washing dishes was out of the question. Ruan Xianxian looked innocent and said, "I get sick easily when I touch cold water. Can Comrade Wen do it for me?"

Wenrou glanced at Chu Li, who was waiting beside Ruan Xianxian as if she had something to say, and squeezed out her voice through clenched teeth: "Okay!"

"Oh! Thank you so much! You're such a kind person, may good people have a peaceful life."

After saying that, she pulled Mu Xia and Sun Zhaodi out the door in a swagger, with Chu Li following closely behind.

Wu Xueliang & Ye Gen: ? ? ?

Who am I? Where am I?

Once outside the courtyard, Mu Xia and Sun Zhaodi discreetly moved away. Chu Li then asked her what had happened at home and why she had gone to the countryside.

Ruan Xianxian told the whole story, leaving no room for the Ruan family to save face.

Chu Li frowned, and after a while said, "Going to the countryside isn't bad either. Staying in the city will save you from being so stupid that you'll be sold off without even knowing it!"

Ruan Xianxian was speechless.

The other person left, leaving behind a meaningful remark: "Uncle is a good way to address me; we'll call you that in the village from now on."

"You like him?" Seeing her staring longingly at someone else's back, Mu Xia gossiped and leaned closer. Chen Zhaodi wanted to hear but was too shy, so she secretly pricked up one ear.

"Don't talk nonsense! That's not true." If he were going to like someone, he would have liked them long ago. No matter how well he pretends, Chu Li is still that mountain bandit at heart.

She didn't click with these seemingly refined but actually cunning mountain bandits; she always felt that if she tried to do something bad, they would see right through her before she could even make a move.

Having been manipulated enough in two lifetimes, Ruan Xianxian, this mischievous monkey, doesn't want to continue living under Buddha's Five Finger Mountain in this life.

Three girls, enjoying the evening breeze and with the full moon overhead and a sky full of stars, chatted about their expectations for their other halves.

Ruan Xianxian: "Powerful, rich, good-looking, but not smart."

Mu Xia: "We share similar values ​​and are evenly matched."

Chen Zhaodi: "He loves me."

The two looked at her simultaneously, and Chen Zhaodi asked tremblingly, "Wh-what's wrong?"

Rolling his eyes, he left!

When Liu Xiatian returned to the dormitory, she was throwing things around and making a mess, turning the simple act of laying out a mattress on the floor into something that looked like she was tearing the place down.

Mother Liu sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), sighing softly. Suddenly, her pupils contracted, and she moved nimbly, spinning 180 degrees, bracing herself on the bed, and bending over. Turning back, she angrily said:

"You brat! What are you doing?"

Ruan Xianxian kicked off her shoes while holding a bundle of hemp rope, her foot landing on the spot where Liu's mother had just been sitting. Without saying a word, she hummed a song as she hung the hemp rope from the roof beam.

Everyone just watched as she hung the rope up, and then she hung herself up too, up there, up there…

Ruan Xianxian, nestled in the hammock, tried out different angles, then jumped down to readjust them.

This room was added later, and there's a vertical beam above the kang (heated brick bed). According to feng shui, this is bad, but feng shui isn't considered anymore.

Wenrou finally couldn't hold back anymore, her voice becoming a little sharp, "Ruan Xianxian! What are you doing?"

"Make your bed and go to sleep! Can't you see something so obvious?"

Gentle took a deep breath. "I know, I'm asking why you don't sleep in the bed you have, but instead sleep under the beam?"

"You mean this!" The angle was just right. Ruan Xianxian got out of bed to grab her blanket and explained, "I'm used to sleeping on the top bunk at home."

When the environment changes, I become more selective about where I sit, and when I do choose a seat, I like to sing.

So as not to disturb everyone, I made a hammock.

Gentle silence. Tell me, who would be scared if someone slept on their head in the middle of the night with long hair hanging down? Just tell me, wouldn't that be scary?

She wanted to say something, but Wang Meili and Cai Shufen held her hands down, shook their heads slightly, and then smiled at Ruan Xianxian in a friendly manner.

If I get along well with this girl, will I be able to get closer to Chu Li?

Wenrou, understanding what the two meant, felt aggrieved. This shouldn't have happened! How did it turn out like this?

Liu Xiatian and her mother were delighted to see Wenrou suffer a setback, watching the show from the sidelines without saying a word.

After making the bed, Ruan Xianxian lay down and rolled over from side to side. Surprisingly, it felt quite comfortable.

She propped her cheek up with one hand and smiled at Mu Xia, who was lying in bed below her, "Don't I look beautiful?"

Mu Xia was speechless. It reminded her of that guy who liked to sleep on a rope, and she couldn't help but laugh.

Is this a version of Aunt Ru Hua?!

"Enough already! Don't you guys get to sleep either? If you don't go to work tomorrow, does that mean no one else will either?"

Because Ruan Xianxian gave up her seat, Liu Xiatian naturally returned to the kang (a heated brick bed), took it upon himself to blow out the oil lamp, and couldn't help but grumble sarcastically:

Do you know what kind of woman laughs lewdly in the middle of the night?

Seeing no response, she became even more animated, "Prostitutes! Some people just won't stop until they're being cursed!"

With no response for a long time, she became increasingly smug, but also felt bored. She closed her eyes and fell asleep!

She slept for an unknown amount of time, and in her dream she was surrounded by manure piles, with all sorts of manure being pulled by people, cows, and dogs. She tried to escape, but couldn't. The entire brigade was immersed in the manure piles.

Unable to breathe, Liu Xiatian was suffocated awake. Opening her eyes, she saw a foul-smelling foot floating in front of her chest. Fear, terror, the stench…

Liu Xiatian let out a scream, waking everyone in the room. They all groped in the dark and asked what was wrong.

When Liu's mother opened her eyes, her full head of black hair hung down from the roof beam. She was half asleep and didn't know what day it was. Suddenly, her hair moved, revealing a woman's deathly pale face.

"A ghost!" Mother Liu waved her hands frantically.

The boys in the next dormitory were awakened. Some boys, disheveled and carrying oil lamps, ran out and asked what was wrong.

In the darkness, one person screamed, and everyone couldn't help but scream along with them. Mu Xia, who was sleeping by the window, suddenly flung open the curtains.

As the gentle moonlight streamed in, everyone finally saw the mother and daughter screaming and embracing each other on the bed.

It must be said that the moon was really big and round at this time, shining into the room brighter than an oil lamp.

Wang Meili grabbed her hair impatiently, "What are you guys doing? Can't a person get any sleep?"

Once the two calmed down and realized they were frightened by Ruan Xianxian above their heads, they were speechless.

Cai Shufen looked annoyed. "Hey, Xia, I've put up with you all day. Can you stop causing trouble and just go to sleep?"

With a dark expression, Wenrou replied softly, "You can't entirely blame Xia Tian. Who wouldn't be scared when they open their eyes to find a grown person sleeping on their head?"

You agree, right, Summer?

Mu Xia was impatient; she was grumpy when she woke up. After replying to someone outside asking if nothing was wrong, she slammed the straw curtain down, and the room returned to darkness.

After this ordeal, most people lost their sleepiness and forced themselves to fall asleep because they knew they had to go to work the next morning.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but Wenrou felt as if she had just fallen asleep when something fell from above her head and, of all times, hit her right in the face...

Thump—!

Wenrou felt excruciating pain all over her body, as if her bones were about to break. She wanted to scream, but she was being held down and couldn't speak. All she could manage to say was:

"Ah! Uh! Help...help me!"