"Think of a solution? What solution can we come up with? You just talk and ask us to think of a solution. It sounds so easy to squeeze you out!" Yuan Xiao'e immediately widened her eyes and yelled.

"You can see what's going on in these two rooms. If you really want to squeeze in, there's only room for one person. You and this guy surnamed Xu, who will sleep on the box in the east room? If you put three boxes together, there's barely enough space for one person...

There is no way to sleep in the other room, as there are more boxes than in the east room, almost stacked up to the roof, so there is no way to sleep there." Jiang Wenqian said.

Before, they had discussed not accepting any new female educated youth, but they were afraid that the team leader would be angry and furious as Wei Hongzhi said, so after discussion, they decided to reluctantly accept the one female educated youth and let her sleep on a box in the east room, which had enough space for one person to sleep.

"It's not easy to sleep on this box!" Lu Pinjie frowned, unwilling. "And only one person can sleep on it, so who will sleep between me and Zhixin?"

Even if she and Zhixin were willing, only one of them could sleep, so there would still be one person with no place to sleep.

"There's nothing we can do about it. That's your problem." Jiang Wen Qian shrugged.

"Captain, I'm going to say something I shouldn't. This is all your fault. I asked you to build another room for us female educated youth to live in, but you were unwilling to do so. That's why now that new female educated youth have come, there's no place for them to live." Yuan Xiao'e suddenly looked complaining and shouted to Cheng Guozhong.

Cheng Guozhong immediately frowned and scolded with a stern face: "Yuan Xiao'e, you must speak with conscience! Don't talk nonsense... When did I refuse you to build another house for you female educated youth to live in? Not only did I not refuse, I also supported it. I just asked you to pay for it!

Although the villagers' lives are still bearable, the brigade is not rich. There is not much money in the accounts, and we cannot afford to take out a few dozen yuan to build a house for you.

There are many of you, so each of you can contribute a few dollars to build a new house. It is because you are unwilling to contribute money that we cannot build another house to give you a more spacious place to live in. "

"We, the educated youth, are here to build the countryside and help you farmers. The state stipulates that you should provide us, the educated youth, with places to live. Why should you ask us to pay for building our own houses?" Yuan Xiao'e shouted in dissatisfaction.

"That's right." The other old female educated youth immediately nodded.

"Uncle Captain, it's unreasonable to ask us to pay for building a house," said Jiang Wen Qian.

"How can you say this is unreasonable? In other brigades, the educated youth who wanted to build houses paid for it themselves. Why is it unreasonable when it comes to you?" Cheng Guozhong also raised his voice, looking angry.

Seeing Cheng Guozhong was very angry, a timid female educated youth spoke to comfort him: "Uncle Captain, don't be angry. We are not deliberately unwilling to pay for the house, but we don't have the money."

Cheng Guozhong snorted coldly, "You have no money, you are kidding me!"

There were several female educated youth whose families were well off. Their families sent money to subsidize them every month. Besides, it was not expensive to build a house, only fifty yuan. For a dozen educated youth, it would be enough for each of them to contribute a little over four yuan. They were just stingy.

I had heard Wei Hongzhi say before that the female educated youth could not stand living in such a crowded place, and had discussed with him that they should all contribute money to build a house, but more than half of them were unwilling to do so. They said that only a few people would live in the new house, and if twelve people were to sleep in three rooms, four people would live in one room. The new house should be paid for by the four people who were going to live there, so why should the other eight people pay for it? It didn't make sense to pay for others to live in it for nothing.

There was nothing wrong with what he said. The four people who wanted to live in the new house should be the ones to move in. However, a bunch of people had their own ulterior motives and disagreed. After a quarrel, nothing happened next.