Li Jia was one of the educated youth who were to go to the countryside. Her parents were both workers and were only in their forties. If the job was left to her, she wouldn't have to go to the countryside. But her mother disagreed, saying that she was only in her forties and had to rely on others for support at home, which would not sound good if it were told to others.

Li Jia has a pair of twin brothers who are only thirteen years old and have just started junior high school, so the quota to go to the countryside this time fell on her.

Few city dwellers go to the countryside voluntarily. Most of them are forced by their families, or they are those who are not valued and want to find a way out. Li Jia is the only daughter in the family and the first child of her parents. She is loved by her parents. It’s just that after her younger brother was born, her parents put more energy on them, but their love for this daughter is unquestionable.

This time when Li Jia went to the countryside, her parents prepared a lot of money for her so that she would not have to live a hard life in the countryside.

Li Jia thought that several of her good female classmates in the class had either been arranged jobs by their parents or had spent money to smooth things over, and all of them chose places close to home. Only she was going to that remote place.

The thought of this made her lose the mood to eat. Her expression was sour the whole time, and she was too lazy to respond to people talking to her. Anyway, they were not assigned to the same commune, so there was no need to maintain harmony.

When passing Jinshi, another group of educated youth got on the bus. Among them, the young man was particularly eye-catching. He was tall and straight, handsome and had an extraordinary temperament. He looked very relaxed even carrying such a large bag of luggage. He attracted a lot of attention as soon as he got on the bus.

Li Jia is also the most beautiful girl in their class. She is naturally good-looking. There are always many boys who are attentive to her, but none of them is as energetic as her.

"Look, that guy is so handsome!"

"And he's so tall, probably over 1.8 meters, with really long legs!"

"Yeah, sure there is one. It looks like he's also an educated youth. It would be great if he could be assigned to the same place as us. Maybe there would be another chance!"

When Li Jia was infatuated with the young man, she heard the whispers of several girls next to her. She couldn't help but glance at them distractedly, and then sneered in her heart. He is not good-looking but has beautiful thoughts!

"Forget it. With looks like this, there are already many good matches. The competition is too fierce, so forget it!"

"It would be great if I could become his girlfriend. Just looking at a face like that every day would make me eat two more bowls of rice!"

"Forget it, I don't have that many food coupons!"

The young man's appearance made the female educated youth in the carriage feel aroused. When they learned that his destination was also Xiangyang City, they couldn't help but feel secretly happy. This way they could get to know each other on the road, and maybe they could develop a different revolutionary friendship!

There were many girls who had this idea, and quite a few of them were very brave. Soon, the young man's information was found out by these people.

The young man’s name is Zhengzheng Yan, he is twenty years old and his family is from Jinshi. The most important thing is the last point, he has no partner!

Xiuzhen Yan looked at the chattering female educated youth around him, seeing the shame they couldn't hide on their faces. He spoke gently and politely on the surface, but he couldn't help feeling complacent in his heart. This face of his had been invincible since he was a child, and few female creatures could escape it.

Dealing with a woman is easy. Thinking about the purpose of going to the countryside and his own personality, Zheng Xiuyan adjusted his expression and looked more gentle and polite.

This made several female educated youth who had already been interested in him even more infatuated and they almost fought over him.

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When the soldiers left, it was already September. After a heavy rain, there were three consecutive days of sunny days. It was not until the sun had almost dried up the moisture in the ground that the team organized people to harvest soybeans.

In the past two years, soybeans were planted in the fields near Qingshan Village. This year, the city’s agricultural experts came down and said that they couldn’t always be planted in the same field, and it wasn’t good to plant them next to each other. They had to be planted farther away. So, they were planted in Kaoshan Village.

Tian Cai did not go to the fields for the first few days. He just prepared the summer heat-relieving soup for everyone according to the custom of previous years. The Wang brothers brought it to the edge of the field, and whoever needed it could go and get a bowl for themselves.

She wanted to take advantage of the fact that no one was at home to clean up the house thoroughly. As for the idea of ​​using her own house as a hospital ward, Tian Cai was quite helpless. If she didn't live in her own house, she would have to live in the village. Unfortunately, everyone in the village knew that there was a vacant house in her family.

Tian Cai took off the two sets of bedding on the examination bed and took them to the river to wash. Qu Ting also needed to wash clothes, so he asked her to carry the wooden basin and take up space first.

There were also women washing clothes in groups of three or four by the river. When they saw her coming, they greeted her. Tian Cai responded with a smile one by one, then chose a place where there were not many people and put down the wooden basin.

"Doctor Tian, ​​come over here, we can talk." Sun Xuelian called her from a distance.

Tian Cai refused, "The things I want to wash are bed sheets and quilt covers, which take up a lot of space."

The wooden basin next to it was indeed piled high with things. Sun Xuelian looked at it and said nothing. She decided to go over there herself. There were many people around at the moment, and it would be difficult to talk about anything.

Tian Cai scooped up water to clean the stone slab, then soaked the bed sheet in the water and brought it up, poured soapnut water on it and began to rub and beat it.

She also had to control the strength when knocking. The fabrics she used to make sheets and quilt covers were all patchwork. Even though they were defective fabrics she got from Du Chunyan, she couldn't use all the good ones to make sheets. These days, it would be abnormal if anyone didn't have patches on their sheets.

She washed this bed sheet so frequently that some of the threads were unraveling. Now she has to control the strength when washing it to avoid tearing it.

Before a sheet was washed, Qu Ting came over with a wooden basin. Tian Cai made room beside her and they both started beating together.

"My father said that there are more educated youth coming over these days. They are said to have already arrived at the commune and will be sent to the various brigades today or tomorrow."

Tian Cai had heard Qin Ling talk about this before, so he wasn't surprised. "Come on, how many of you? Can the Youth League still accommodate them?"

"I don't know. They can't just live in our house. If that's not possible, the team can just pay for it. Or if you want to live alone, you can build a house yourself. There's one like that in Qingshan Village. Just build one, big enough for you." Qu Ting's hands kept moving and her mouth kept chattering. "Just now I saw that the old lady of the He family was also released. She has lost a lot of weight. Do you think her incident is over?"

After the commune held a meeting to study the matter of Old Lady He and Zheng Wang, it was finally decided to release Zheng Wang because he insisted that he was forced by Old Lady He and refused to admit that they had committed adultery. The commune then sent someone to take Old Lady He around several brigades to show everyone the consequences of promiscuity.