Cheng Yaoyao ate most of the bowl of mixed-grain noodle dumplings in one bite. He couldn't finish the remaining half bowl, but he didn't want to leave any leftovers. He turned around and saw Liu Minxia biting her lower lip and staring at him with that pitiful look.

Liu Minxia didn't pay, so she only got half a bowl of mixed grain noodles without meat tonight. She had a big appetite, but it was obvious that she wasn't full, and the look she gave Cheng Yaoyao's bowl was very frank.

Cheng Yaoyao's lips twitched: "I can't eat anymore, but these are what I have eaten..."

Liu Minxia said repeatedly that she didn't mind, reached out to take Cheng Yaoyao's bowl, poured the remaining half bowl of noodles directly into her own bowl, and began to eat it in big mouthfuls.

Liu Minxia lowered her head and shoveled the noodles into her mouth in big mouthfuls. She didn't even notice her hair falling into the bowl. She swallowed without chewing, and the veins on her neck bulged. It was as if what she swallowed was not food, but life and self-esteem.

Cheng Yaoyao suddenly lost her appetite. She stood up and went back to the house. When she reached the door, she turned back and asked, "Is it my turn to wash the dishes today?"

Several male educated youths stood up and said, "No, no, we can wash it ourselves!"

"Yes, Yaoyao, you should go back to your room and have a rest. Don't catch a cold! We will refill your water for you!"

Cheng Yaoyao hesitated and said, "But..."

Han Yin said without hesitation: "Go home and rest tonight, don't catch a cold. We don't have any medicine at the educated youth center."

Under normal circumstances, Han Yin would definitely complain about Cheng Yaoyao being lazy and fighting with her for three hundred rounds, but today, after eating a few white flour dumplings, her tone immediately changed.

Cheng Yaoyao smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Good night."

The figure of a beautiful woman disappeared behind the curtain, and everyone was a little dazed. Why did Cheng Yaoyao become so good-tempered tonight? And more... more charming.

In the room, Cheng Yaoyao carefully stepped over the pots and pans on the ground in the dark, walked to the table, felt for a match, struck it, and lit the kerosene lamp.

The room became a little brighter. Cheng Yaoyao changed into a cotton nightgown, lifted her pink quilt, and lay down.

It was humid in the rainy season, and the bedding was always a little damp. Cheng Yaoyao was used to a high bed with a soft pillow, and it was difficult for him to fall asleep with the quilt wrapped around him. At night, there were still mosquitoes buzzing around, and Cheng Yaoyao's delicate skin was the most attractive to mosquitoes, so he had to hide his hands and feet under the quilt, and he was sweating all over, tossing and turning was really painful.

After the female educated youths had packed up, they entered the room one after another. Zhang Xiaofeng lit a bunch of mugwort and fumigated the dormitory everywhere. There were fewer mosquitoes, but the smoke made Cheng Yaoyao cough.

Cheng Yaoyao threw off the quilt and climbed up, getting out of bed to get some water to drink: "It's so painful! Why are there so many mosquitoes?"

Han Yin sat on the bed and washed her feet, smiling saccharinely: "Who made your blood sweeter than others? With you here, mosquitoes only bite you and not us."

Cheng Yaoyao looked at her in surprise: "You don't want to take a shower?"

Not only Han Yin, Zhang Xiaofeng and Liu Minxia also didn't take a shower, they only washed their feet.

Han Yin said, "I went up the mountain to see you and got soaked in the rain. Didn't you take a shower then? Who would be like you, a young lady from a capitalist family, who takes a shower every day?"

In this era, even food and shelter are not guaranteed, so who can care about hygiene? The dormitory conditions of the educated youth are poor, and there is no separate bathroom. Fortunately, it is summer now, and every night when I come home, I can just wash myself with some warm water in the basin and get by.

The original owner had to take a bath every day. Several lackeys would boil a large pot of hot water for her every day. Liu Minxia would bring it to her house, wash her hair and take a bath for her. Even so, the original owner still complained all day long.

No wonder the original owner tried every means to marry Xie San. Who can survive in this dormitory?

Cheng Yaoyao picked up her red aluminum thermos, poured out half a pot of hot water, added some cool water, and wiped the sweat off her body again.

Han Yin suddenly said, "You're so white!"

Cheng Yaoyao almost hit the basin, turned around and said angrily: "Why are you peeking at me!"

Han Yin laughed: "We have everything you have, what are you afraid of?"

Cheng Yaoyao was furious. This dormitory not only had no private bathroom, but also no curtains. The female educated youths did not even hide their faces when bathing or drying themselves.

Zhang Xiaofeng was from the north and was used to the bathhouse, so he didn't think it was a big deal: "Yaoyao, what did you eat to grow up? Look at your figure, you have a thin waist and a big butt."

Cheng Yaoyao pulled up the shoulder straps of her skirt, raised her chin and snorted, "This is called natural beauty."

Han Yin said tartly, "You tremble when I compliment you. But we both work in the fields, and you and Cheng Nuonuo just can't get tanned in the sun, and you're still so white."

Zhang Xiaofeng quietly waved his hand at Han Yin, showing a disapproving look.

Han Yin then remembered what happened tonight. Cheng Yaoyao was flirting with Cheng Nonuo. She was just talking nonsense. She said hurriedly, "How can Cheng Nonuo compare with you? Look at her, she's like a little bean sprout, and somehow she's getting whiter and whiter."

Zhang Xiaofeng suddenly uttered a "huh". The door curtain moved and Cheng Nonuo came back.

As soon as Cheng Nonuo entered the room, everyone in the room fell silent and looked at her with different expressions. Cheng Nonuo had just run away in front of everyone, and Shen Yan chased her out. The two of them took so long to come back, how could it not make people imagine.

Cheng Nonuo remained expressionless, still looking timid, quietly pouring water to wash up. The others ignored her and lay down to sleep.

Cheng Yaoyao took the opportunity to take a look at Cheng Nonuo. Cheng Nonuo's face was indeed white, crystal clear, and a white face could hide all ugliness, and it increased her beauty to ten points. But her figure was really thin, and from behind she looked as thin as a 13 or 14-year-old girl. I don't know how Shen Yan could bear to eat her.

No wonder Shen Yan was wavering between the original owner and his true love Cheng Nonuo. Although the original owner was mentally retarded and domineering, her beauty and figure were real.

Cheng Yaoyao and Cheng Nuonuo have the same father but different mothers. They both look like their respective mothers. The original owner's mother and Cheng's father were childhood sweethearts and had a very close relationship. Unfortunately, she had a difficult birth and passed away after giving birth to the original owner.

Cheng's father remarried for the sake of his daughter, and asked a matchmaker to pick a talentless and unattractive country girl, with the requirement that she must not have children and take care of his daughter wholeheartedly. However, the country girl was quite capable and gave birth to Cheng Nuonuo within a year of marriage.

Unfortunately, Cheng Nuonuo was ugly and dull since childhood. Cheng's father was dissatisfied with his stepmother's scheming and neglect of the original owner, so he took the original owner to apply for transfer to work in another place and returned a few years later.

The stepmother was terrified, and seeing that her own daughter was a hopeless case, she finally calmed down. From then on, she focused on taking advantage of the original owner and implemented a policy of flattery and killing her, and ignored her own daughter. In the original owner's memory, this sister had always had little sense of existence and looked thin and pale.

She had a high fever two years ago, and after waking up she suddenly became a different person. First she persuaded her mother, then coaxed Cheng's father into submission. Later, Shen Yan, Cheng Yaoyao's childhood sweetheart, also became her lover.

Cheng Nuonuo turned off the lights, and the dormitory fell into darkness. The girls were not sleepy and chatted away. Most of the time, it was Han Yin and Zhang Xiaofeng who talked, Liu Minxia listened in silence, and Cheng Yaoyao occasionally asked a question.

The topic somehow shifted to Xie San. Han Yin said in a girlish tone, "That Xie San today is really tall, and he doesn't look like the descendant of a landlord."

"Can the five black categories have capitalists and landlords written on their faces?" Zhang Xiaofeng laughed, "He saved Yaoyao, which shows that his nature is still kind."

Liu Minxia suddenly said, "Everyone in the village calls him Yue Yun."

The girls giggled, and Cheng Yaoyao turned over, hugging the quilt. Thinking of Xie San's murderous face, he curled his lips.

Cheng Yaoyao didn't know whether she would inherit the fate of the original owner, so it was better to stay away from Xie San. But before that, she had to get close to Xie San and complete her memory.

The next morning, Cheng Yaoyao was sleeping soundly with the quilt in his arms, but he was woken up by Han Yin, who even pulled the quilt off him.

"Cheng Yaoyao, get up, hurry up!"

"Stop making noise..." Cheng Yaoyao lay on the bed like a boneless person, her face flushed from sleep, the hem of her skirt lifted up, revealing a pair of slender long legs as white as jade.

Han Yin blushed for some reason, threw the quilt back at her, and yelled, "Aren't you going to go up the mountain with us to pick mushrooms? Hurry up, the sun will be so hot when it comes out!"

"Ah, I'll go, I'll go!" Cheng Yaoyao woke up and quickly got out of bed.

Han Yin, Zhang Xiaofeng, and Liu Minxia had already washed up and were waiting for her fully armed. Han Yin kept urging her, and Cheng Yaoyao washed her face and brushed her teeth, tied her hair into a ponytail, and hurriedly searched for clothes to put on.

The original owner's suitcase was full of beautiful clothes, but they were flashy and useless. Zhang Xiaofeng gave her his old blouse, and Cheng Yaoyao put on a pair of military green trousers and Liberation shoes, and was finally ready to go.

The girls in the dormitory all went out, except Cheng Nuonuo. When Cheng Yaoyao asked, Han Yin said disdainfully, "She and Shen Yan went to the town early in the morning, and they must have gone to have a good meal. Forget her, let's go up the mountain!"

Tianshui Village is nestled in the mountains and beside the water. Walking up the mountain along the path, you will see dewdrops hanging on the roadside grass, wild flowers blooming in clusters, the distant mountains are misty green, and the fresh air is refreshing.

There were wild vegetables everywhere on the roadside, such as gray grass, dandelions, wild shepherd's purse, water fern, and bamboo shoots poking their heads out from the weeds. After the rain, countless fungi emerged one after another.

Every spring, when food is scarce, the people of Tianshui Village rely on wild vegetables and mushrooms to survive. As long as you are diligent and willing to endure hardships, you can always pick up something from the mountains to fill your stomach. If you are lucky and capable, you can even hunt some wild game to enjoy.

The educated youth had just arrived in the village, and the vegetables in their private plots had not yet grown. If they wanted to eat vegetables, they had to go up the mountain. In addition to the original owner, several female educated youths often went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, at least to get some food.

Han Yin and Liu Minxia were fast walkers and had already run ahead. Zhang Xiaofeng accompanied Cheng Yaoyao and pointed out each wild vegetable he saw: "These are all edible. When we first came to Tianshui Village, it was spring and there was a vegetable shortage, so the villagers taught us how to pick wild vegetables to eat."

The original owner never participated in the activity of picking wild vegetables, and Zhang Xiaofeng did not mention it. Comrade Cheng Yaoyao is now willing to make progress and integrate into the group, so I must help her!

After walking for about 20 minutes, they finally arrived at a bamboo forest. The bamboos here were so tall that they reached the sky, and the ground was full of fallen leaves and branches. Fungi like to grow in such places the most.

Zhang Xiaofeng told Cheng Yaoyao: "Many mushrooms here are poisonous. Just pick the ones we usually eat and don't touch anything else."

Zhang Xiaofeng said as he picked a light brown mushroom from the bushes: "This one is edible, but don't touch the white one."

Zhang Xiaofeng pointed at a white mushroom on the ground. The mushroom looked strange, with a hollow net-like structure, a small white umbrella on its head, and a white skirt.

"Oh, I've written it all down." Cheng Yaoyao nodded humbly.

When Zhang Xiaofeng went away to look for mushrooms, she reached out and plucked the white mushrooms.