She walked up to Fu Yunqi and asked, "Fu Zhiqing, I want to ask you something."

"What is it? Tell me."

"Yu Qingqing said you helped me on the train. I want to know what it was."

Fu Yunqi laughed and said, "It's just a small matter."

"What's going on?"

Fu Yunqi stopped laughing and said, "Since you asked, I'll tell you. On the train that day, Wu Zhiqing kept stealing glances at you. I noticed something fishy in his eyes, so I criticized him. Actually, I was just nosy and couldn't stand him being like that, so I didn't help you at all."

"I see." Xu Nuannuan also laughed: "But I still want to thank Fu Zhiqing. If this happened somewhere else and I didn't have the ability to protect myself, Fu Zhiqing might have helped me a lot."

"Oh, it's nothing, nothing to mention. If you mention it again, I'll be embarrassed."

He unconsciously raised his hand to cover half of his face: "Actually, it's really not helping. I'm a little embarrassed now."

Seeing him like this, Xu Nuannuan stopped talking about it.

"Fu Zhiqing must be tired too. Go back to the dormitory and rest for a while."

"Well, you should rest too."

The two of them went their separate ways back to their dormitories.

As soon as Xu Nuannuan entered the room, she saw Yu Qingqing lying next to her. Then she looked at Meng Qin and found that she had moved the bed to Yu Qingqing's original position.

Xu Nuannuan is annoyed by Yu Qingqing, but she is not afraid of her. If Yu Qingqing dares to make trouble, she will just give her a slap in the face.

In fact, she had long planned to build a house near the cowshed so that it would be more convenient to send things to her parents in the future.

But now the top two leaders in the village are her enemies, and neither of them is a decent person. Even if she goes to them to apply for a homestead, they may not approve it, or they may make things difficult for her.

After they were ousted and a new leader was appointed to the brigade, she built a house outside and moved out of the educated youth site.

As for renting a place, she hadn't considered it yet. She didn't know the people here very well, and the educated youth settlement wasn't peaceful, so living in someone else's house wouldn't necessarily mean peace. Living there for a few days would give her a better understanding of the place.

As soon as she sat down, Wang Jiajia said in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "You new educated youth, I wonder if you understand the rule that gifts are good for getting things done. Since you're new here, it would be beneficial for you if you could curry favor with the brigade cadres here."

Yu Qingqing is not afraid of gifts because she has money and things in her suitcase.

"What are the benefits? Tell me."

"What benefit can it bring? The brigade cadres here are all impartial and will not show favoritism. Giving gifts is useless." Qin Yuping interrupted her.

Her sworn enemy, Meng Qin, immediately stood up and said, "Qin Yuping, are you afraid that someone will snatch something from you? Oh, if they want to give it to you, then they can give it to you. What's it got to do with you?"

Qin Yuping snorted coldly: "I'm just worried that they'll waste their money."

Meng Qin said to Yu Qingqing, "Yu Zhiqing, the team leader and the branch secretary here are from the same family, or even father and son. When you meet them, tell them that you wanted to send them something, but Qin Zhiqing stopped you."

"Why are you talking about me?" Qin Yuping was anxious. He didn't dare to offend Shen Mengan and Shen Liangtian. "Give it to me, give it to me. Giving gifts can help you do less work. The village party secretary and the team leader will take care of you."

After she finished speaking as if in anger, she went out of the dormitory.

Yu Qingqing glared at Qin Yuping's back. Qin Yuping must be afraid that she would snatch the benefits from her.

She just didn't want to do farm work, so why not give some gifts to the village party secretary and the team leader to avoid the work?

The old educated youth got up and left before the working time, so that they could just walk to the fields when the working time came.

Li Miao quietly asked Xu Nuannuan, "Nuannuan, are you going to give gifts to the brigade cadres? Seriously, it's bad enough that we were assigned to such a poor place. We don't even know if we can even feed ourselves with our work points, and we have to pay for gifts for the brigade cadres. That's too much of a loss."

Xu Nuannuan shook her head: "You didn't see what I was wearing. Anyway, I don't have money to give them gifts."

Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan were both her enemies. Giving gifts to her enemies? She thought giving them two bricks would be more effective.

"Anyway, we're here to work in the countryside. Why should I be afraid of doing farm work? If they dare to make things difficult for us, we'll find a place to sue them."

Even if Shen Liangtian and Shen Mengan have a protective umbrella behind them, she will pull them all out.

Li Miao agreed with her: "Nuannuan, to be honest, I don't like people giving gifts all the time. It's so unfair."

Xu Nuannuan also felt that it was unfair, but social etiquette was an unwritten rule and it was impossible for it to not exist at all. However, this rule had a certain scope of application. Otherwise, if people relied on personal connections everywhere and had no rule of law at all, people would return to a primitive society.

Not long after, Shen Liangtian came again and called the new educated youth out for a meeting.

"You will go to the brigade to collect food in a moment. Before you come, your local Youth League Office has already distributed your subsidies. The food you collect from the brigade is two months' advance. After the autumn harvest, your work points will be used to compensate you."

You can take a day off tomorrow to get some things you need. The day after tomorrow you'll officially start working with the old educated youth. Okay, that's all I have to say. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you encounter anything you can't handle yourself in the future, you can come to me. Now, go to the brigade headquarters to collect food."

Six people followed him to the brigade headquarters. On the way, Yu Qingqing deliberately caught up with Shen Mengan and asked for his home address. Shen Mengan probably knew the other party's intention and told her immediately.

Jiang Ting happened to see them on the road and ran up to Xu Nuannuan. "Beautiful sister. Oh, I don't know who's older between us, so I'll call you that for now. I'm not even eighteen, how old are you?"

"I'm nineteen." Xu Nuannuan replied.

"Then it's right for me to call you sister." Jiang Ting saw that they were coming in such a large group that she knew they were going to the brigade headquarters to collect food. This was the case with every new educated youth who came. She said to Xu Nuannuan, "Sister, you guys are going to the brigade headquarters to collect food. I'll ask my brother to help you carry the food. My two brothers are very strong, especially my eldest brother. He has so much strength that he doesn't know where to use it. Let him help you, and you won't have to carry it."