Chen Qiangwei's eyes turned red after reading the letter, and Wang Xiaomai's tears welled up after reading the letter, crying even more than she did yesterday at the brigade headquarters.

The more Chen Qiangwei and Gu Sannai tried to persuade her, the harder Wang Xiaomai cried. Gu Sannai and Chen Qiangwei looked at each other and simply stopped comforting her, waiting for her to stop on her own.

Although Wang Xiaomai is dark and thin, and seems to be unloved by her father and mother, her grandmother still loves this granddaughter who grew up in her care very much. Wang Xiaomai and her cousin both graduated from elementary school.

This letter was dictated by Wang Xiaomai's grandmother and written by her eldest cousin. Grandma Wang said she would send her five yuan a month, asking her not to mistreat herself or dwell on her family. Grandma Wang currently receives fifteen yuan a month in pension from Wang Xiaomai's parents.

It turned out that Wang Xiaomai's grandmother almost cried her eyes out after receiving Wang Xiaomai's letter and remittance, and knowing that Wang Xiaomai's unscrupulous parents brought her to the city not for her to live a good life, but to suffer in the countryside instead of their eldest granddaughter.

The next morning, Grandma Wang wiped away her tears. Her youngest son sent her to the city and went straight to the factory of her eldest son and daughter-in-law. She complained bitterly in the factory director's office about what her eldest son had done over the years.

She begged the factory director to intervene for her, a poor old woman, and have her eldest son and daughter-in-law fulfill their old-age care obligations and provide her with 15 yuan a month, calculated from ten years ago. Furthermore, she claimed she had painstakingly raised Wang Xiaomai, and demanded that her eldest son and his wife give her 20 yuan a year as a reward for their hard work.

The old lady enumerated the unfilial behavior of her eldest son and daughter-in-law in front of the factory director, and concluded, "We country folk don't know much about great principles, but respecting our parents and raising our children is a human duty and a matter of course.

The captain of our brigade said that workers are the face of the factory when they walk outside, and that large factories in the city place particular emphasis on the quality of their workers. It must be these two unfilial sons who are pretending to obey, betraying the teachings of the factory and their leaders, and committing such immoral acts of not supporting their parents and abandoning their daughter.

The factory manager of Wang Xiaomai's parents blushed and asked the accountant and the director of the Women's Federation to come to his office to pay Grandma Wang's pension for the past ten years and this year, as well as Wang Xiaomai's support in one lump sum. Grandma Wang's pension was 1,980 yuan, and Wang Xiaomai's support was 280 yuan, a total of 2,260 yuan.

The factory will pay the 2,260 yuan first, and then deduct 30 yuan from Wang Xiaomai's parents' salary every month until the money is paid off.

The factory director also solemnly apologized to Grandma Wang and promised that the Women's Federation of the factory would supervise Wang Xiaomai's parents to give their pension money to Grandma Wang on time every month.

Wang Xiaomai's parents' ugly faces were exposed by her own mother in front of the factory director. From then on, they had no chance to be advanced workers or March 8th Red Flag Bearers in the factory, and the marriage that had been arranged for Wang Xiaomai's sister was also cancelled.

Wang Xiaomai folded the letter with tears and laughter and put it away carefully.

She always thought that her unscrupulous parents had a great influence on her grandmother, but she didn't expect that her grandmother would completely explode because of her going to the countryside and severely punish the parents.

Gu Sannai and Chen Qiangwei understood the whole story from Wang Xiaomai's intermittent sobbing and patted Wang Xiaomai on the shoulder.

She said Wang Xiaomai looked like a child, and it turned out that he really was a child.

Early the next morning.

Chen Qiangwei carried a backpack and went to the locust tree with Wang Xiaomai. When they arrived, all the people at the educated youth point had already arrived.

Chen Qiangwei and Wang Xiaomai greeted everyone: "Good morning, Uncle Gu Wu, and good morning, Sister Meihua and everyone else."

Uncle Gu Wu nodded and said, "Good morning, wait a little longer, some people haven't arrived yet."

Han Qianshan and Wei Sijue also nodded to Chen Qiangwei and Wang Xiaomai. There were a total of five people from the educated youth point going to the commune this time. In addition to Han Qianshan and Wei Sijue, there were Huang Meihua, Jia Zhenzhen and Jiang Feng.

Although Xu Hongli also wanted to go to the commune, she did not receive the parcel list, and all the new educated youth went to the post office to pick up parcels or withdraw money today, except her. She felt very embarrassed and simply stayed in the room of the educated youth site and did not come out.

Jia Zhenzhen glanced at everyone's faces, then asked Uncle Wu Gu, "Uncle Wu, who else wants to go to the commune?"

Uncle Gu Wu knocked on his big pipe and said, "A daughter who loves the country and Xiaoman girl."

Gu Linger and Liang Xiaoman always come on time.

Speak of the devil, here I come, Uncle Wu.

Gu Ling'er came to the ox cart holding Liang Xiaoman's hand. Gu Ling'er was wearing a set of clothes that were 80% new, while Liang Xiaoman's clothes were older than Gu Xiaoman's.

Liang Xiaoman greeted Uncle Gu Wu first, "Uncle Wu, thank you for your hard work today."

Huang Meihua and the other three old educated youths greeted Liang Xiaoman with a smile, "Scorer Liang, Comrade Gu Ling'er, you are going to the commune too."

Han Qianshan and Wei Sijue also nodded and greeted Liang Xiaoman and Gu Linger.

Gu Linger saw Wei Sijue blush and lowered her head embarrassedly. This Wei Zhiqing was more handsome than any man she had ever seen. He was worthy of being from a big city.

Chen Qiangwei pretended not to see Liang Xiaoman. The two of them had already fallen out, so there was no need to pretend to be nice in front of others.

Wang Xiaomai naturally followed Chen Qiangwei as the leader and ignored Liang Xiaoman. After being here for more than half a month, Wang Xiaomai had figured out the situation here. As long as he didn't offend Captain Gu Aiguo, life in the Huaihua Brigade would not be difficult.

Liang Xiaoman's face froze, then returned to normal in an instant. She and Liang Xiaoman climbed onto the ox cart and chose a place to sit farther away from Chen Qiangwei.

Huang Meihua looked at Chen Qiangwei with some worry. Although the Huaihua Brigade was led by Captain Gu Aiguo, the scorer had the power to count the points, and everyone would respect her.

Moreover, Liang Xiaoman's father is the deputy captain of the Huaihua Brigade. If Liang Xiaoman goes back and says a few words, and Liang Fugui takes it to heart, wouldn't it be a loss?

Jia Zhenzhen tugged at Huang Meihua's sleeve. As a person with a backer in the city and five parcel lists at a time, no one would bother Chen Qiangwei as long as she didn't do anything stupid.

Huang Meihua understood the meaning in Jia Zhenzhen's eyes and felt relieved. Yes, Chen Qiangwei didn't need anyone to worry about her at all.

Liang Xiaoman glanced at the backpack beside Chen Qiangwei. Weiwei raised the corner of her mouth and asked Gu Linger, "Linger, didn't Third Grandma ask you to bring anything for Sister Guihua when you went to the commune this time?"

Gu Linger followed Liang Xiaoman's gaze to Chen Qiangwei's backpack. Her face instantly turned ugly. She knew without thinking that the basket must be full of vegetables. This Chen Zhiqing had taken her job.

Every time she brought something for Sister Guihua, Sister Guihua would give her some benefits, either two candies, some broken biscuits, or a red hairband. Now this benefit is gone.

Gu Linger rolled her eyes at Chen Qiangwei and snorted coldly.

Chen Qiangwei glanced at Liang Xiaoman and said, "Scorer Liang, your red hairband is really beautiful. It looks even newer than Comrade Gu Linger's."

Gu Linger's face became even uglier when she saw Liang Xiaoman's red hairband. This hairband was the one Liang Xiaoman had just asked for from her.