When he went to work the next day, Tian Cai did not see the injured female educated youth. It was said that she was staying in a villager's home to recuperate.

Only nine were left of the original ten educated youth. Zhang Defa had previously planned to be impartial, dividing each group into two, one male and one female. Now that one is missing, Tian Cai is just the right person to take over.

So Tian Cai and a male educated youth were assigned to Group 3 under Li Guangxia.

Tian Cai didn't care which group she belonged to, as long as she didn't fall behind, she would go to the fields to work according to the team leader's instructions when she arrived at the place.

The male educated youth assigned to the same group as Tian Cai was called Li Sheng. He was a good talker and soon he infiltrated the group and became friends with several of the guys. Tian Cai could hear their laughter while he was working.

She particularly admired people with this kind of personality, who could get along well wherever they were. He had only been here for two days, but he looked as if he had lived with everyone since he was a child.

By the third day, Li Sheng's energy had mostly faded. At first, he still found it quite interesting, but later he found that this exhausting work never ended every day, and he became a little discouraged.

On the fifth day, He Yuzhen, the female educated youth who had injured her leg, was also driven out by Zhang Defa and asked to distribute summer heat-relief soup to everyone in the field.

When Tian Cai went to drink water, the girl was sitting on a dark blue shirt with a coat draped over her head and an expressionless face. Only when she saw someone coming did she ask the team members to pour some summer-cooling soup.

Tian Cai found a place to sit on the edge of a field. He picked up the water bottle and just as he drank from it, he heard a scream, "Ah!!! Rat!!!"

She looked in the direction He Yuzhen pointed, quickly picked up a piece of dirt and threw it at the rat. The rat instantly fell to the ground. Then He Yuzhen screamed even louder, "Ah!!! You actually killed it!! You are so cruel! That was also a life! You are so cruel!"

Tian Cai felt the vein on his forehead pop.

He Yuzhen was still grumbling, "A mouse is also a life, how could you kill it? You are so cruel! You are so cruel and yet you are still a doctor!"

Tian Cai could no longer bear it. "If you think I'm cruel, you can take it back and keep it in your bed. Otherwise, if it gets colder and they freeze to death or starve to death due to lack of food and water, it will be your fault! See? There's another nest over there. I'll catch it and put it in your bed for you."

He Yuzhen was so frightened when she saw several larger rats scurrying past her feet that she shut up instantly and stopped complaining.

Tian Cai threw down a sentence "What's wrong!" and turned around and left with his kettle.

He Yuzhen was left standing there alone with a grim expression on her face.

The busy autumn harvest lasted for half a month. Everyone was so tired that they were almost exhausted. Finally, they harvested all the rice, corn, soybeans and sorghum in the fields and spread them out to dry on two threshing yards.

When Zhang Defa found that the grain had been harvested, he decided to find a few people to help the educated youth clean up the houses. The two houses of Old Dong's family were not old, so at least the beams did not need to be replaced. They just needed to take down the kang, rebuild it, and put up window paper. The work of weeding the yard and turning over the vegetable patch was left to them.

The house on the south side was for five female educated youth, and the one on the north side was for male educated youth.

The structures of the houses are generally similar. The front yards are mostly dirt, with stone roads only in the places where people often walk. Each house has a medium-sized vegetable garden in the backyard.

He Yuzhen's leg had healed long ago, and now the five people looked at the dilapidated yard in silence.

"The team will be responsible for repairing the roof and the kang, and you will have to do the rest of the work yourselves. Anyway, the autumn harvest is over, so there is plenty of time." Zhang Defa walked around the two courtyards, said with a dark face, and left. He was not fair to begin with, and after the autumn harvest, he was tanned into a black coal ball.

This place is much better than the yard that was originally allocated to Tian Cai. At least the beams don't need to be replaced, which saves a lot of money.

No matter how much Qiu Xiaohuan regretted going to the countryside, she had to face reality. When she lived in her fellow villagers' homes before, she complained about the dirty bedding, the unclean earthen kang, the disgusting toilet, the poor food and the poor sleep. She wanted to move to the house allocated to them as soon as possible, so that the girls could clean up the house and barely live there.

Only now did I realize that this shabby house is not even as good as my fellow villager's house.

"Xiaohuan, why don't we ask Uncle Qiu for mercy? We won't have to suffer this when we go back. There hasn't been anyone living in this house for such a long time. I wonder if there will be rats and snakes?" Li Lili said, putting her arm around Qiu Xiaohuan. She and Qiu Xiaohuan used to be in the same middle school. Later, Qiu Xiaohuan's father was promoted and transferred to Beijing, and they never saw each other again. But this time they met on the train going to the countryside.

Although I don’t know what position Qiu Xiaohuan’s father holds, it’s definitely not low.

Qiu Xiaohuan was also quite frightened by what she said. Thinking of Yan Xudong's cold attitude towards her, she still said bravely, "It's okay, let's find a branch to knock on. As the idiom says, stirring the grass will alert the snake!"

Li Lili rolled her eyes in her heart. She was not afraid of alerting the enemy and a venomous snake darting out to bite her. However, she said, "I'm still very scared, Xiaohuan. It doesn't matter if something happens to me. At least I still have my brothers and sisters at home. You are the only girl in your family. You can't have any accidents. Otherwise, we can ask Uncle Qiu to change the team. At least it's not close to the mountain."

Qiu Xiaohuan still shook her head and refused. She went to the countryside for Yan Xudong. If she was transferred to another brigade, what would be the point of going to the countryside.

Seeing that the others were not moving, Liu Yanqing went back to the brigade headquarters and borrowed a few sickles from the team leader to cut grass. After doing farm work for a few days, the blisters on her hands broke and bloomed, and calluses formed.

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