"Brother Tian, ​​Brother Tian? What are you thinking about? I called you several times, but you ignored me..."

Chu Tianhui came to his senses and looked at Sun Weiguo who was looking at him with a puzzled expression, and smiled faintly, "It's okay, I just thought of some past events."

Sun Weiguo said "Oh" and didn't ask what he was thinking about so obsessedly.

At this time, Captain Sun came back and said, "Accountant Xu said that the meal is ready in the original canteen. Let's take the educated youth to have a meal first, and then send them to the educated youth center."

Chu Tian opened his mouth and was about to refuse, "I..."

Captain Sun glared at him, "What? Are my words as a captain no longer effective?"

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Chu Tian immediately showed an honest smile, "How could that be? I always listen to the captain..."

"Um."

Captain Sun finally revealed a satisfied smile, put his hands behind his back, and said warmly to the educated youth who had already gotten off the carriage, "Children, it's getting dark now. You've worked hard all the way. Our team will prepare dinner, and after dinner we'll send you to the educated youth camp to rest..."

Upon hearing this, the educated youth's faces, which had been frozen, now showed a stiff smile.

There wasn't much extra food in the brigade, so all they prepared was a bowl of porridge and a pancake half the size of an adult's palm for each person. Team Leader Sun thought the educated youth were going to make trouble, but to his surprise, no one did. Even the two girls who had quarreled in the afternoon didn't say a word, but just quietly ate the pancakes.

After dinner, it was already dark. Captain Sun didn't say anything, but he and a few others sent them to the educated youth site in the dugout in the south.

Seeing the semi-underground dugouts, the educated youth, who had already prepared themselves for a hard life, were stunned. Among them, a female educated youth named Song Jiao pointed at several semi-underground dugouts in front of her with a trembling finger and asked in disbelief, "This, this, this can be lived in?"

Chu Tian nodded with a smile, "Of course you can live here. This is a specialty of our Northwest Corps, a dugout!"

"Don't worry, the dugout is warm in winter and cool in summer. My family still lives in a dugout!"

Song Jiao's face turned pale instantly. "But, but the several houses we just passed by were all normal houses..."

Chu Tian still had a smile on his face as he patiently explained, "Ah, those are adobe houses. The families in our team with more labor would collect adobe bricks during the busy farming season, and when they had enough, they would build adobe houses."

"If you want to live in an adobe house, wait until the ground thaws in the spring of next year. The brigade will then send someone to teach you how to make adobe bricks. Once you have enough adobe bricks, the brigade can also send someone to help you build a house during the slack season."

The educated youths, "..."

Captain Sun, who came out of the dugout, looked at Chu Tian in agreement, obviously agreeing with what he said.

Several people helped unload the educated youth's luggage from the carriage.

"There are six complete dugouts in total. One of them has an iron pot installed, and they've even moved a table for you. You can use it as a kitchen, right? It doesn't matter whether you cook together or separately. There's only one pot anyway, so if you think it's not enough, you can find a way."

"Also, for the remaining five dugouts, the male educated youth will get two, and the female educated youth will get three. You guys can decide who will sleep with whom?"

"Okay, you guys take a rest. Your rations are sent to the regiment headquarters tomorrow. I will bring people to bring back your rations for this month tomorrow morning and send them to you when the time comes."

Having said that, without waiting for the educated youth to react, he turned around and ran away with Chu Tian and others, leaving behind a group of educated youth who were stunned.

Sun Weiguo drove Chu Tian to the gate of the old Chu family in a carriage and said, "Brother Tian, ​​can I help you move in?"

Chu Tian refused, "No, why don't you drive the carriage back and feed the horses? They've been running all day, and they must be starving..."

He also wanted to take out some food and other provisions from the space. If he asked Sun Weiguo to help move them in, how would he get them?

Seeing Chu Tian's insistence, and seeing that the horse he was driving did not look very energetic, Sun Weiguo had no choice but to say, "Then I'll go first. See you at the brigade headquarters tomorrow..."

Chu Tian smiled and nodded, "Okay, see you tomorrow."

After watching Sun Weiguo walk away, Chu Tian took advantage of everyone's busy time to take out rice, flour, an old hen, pork and other items from the space...

"Brother Tian, ​​you're back..."

Yao Xiujuan saw Chu Tian holding an iron pot with a lot of things in it, so she hurried forward to take it.

Chu Tian turned sideways and didn't let her take it. Instead, he put it on the table beside him and said, "There's something outside. I'll go get it..."

After running back and forth twice, he finally got all the things back. Chu Tian took the warm water poured by Yao Xiujuan, took two big gulps, then looked at the sleeping Wu Ya and asked.

"Why aren't you asleep yet?"

Yao Xiujuan wet the towel, wrung out the water and handed it to Chu Tian, ​​"If you don't come back, I can't sleep..."

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, then he took the towel, wiped his face and hands, and said with a smile, "I'm back now, can I go to sleep now?"

Yao Xiujuan pursed her lips with a smile and nodded slightly, "Yeah."

After thinking for a while, Yao Xiujuan hurriedly asked, "Brother Tian, ​​have you eaten? Let me go make you something to eat."

Chu Tian held Yao Xiujuan and said, "No, I've already eaten. I had dinner with the educated youth in the canteen of the brigade."

Upon hearing this, Yao Xiujuan sat on the bench opposite Chu Tian and asked curiously, "How are those educated youth?"

Chu Tian shook his head. "We only met once today. I don't know what the male educated youth are like, but two of the female educated youth are troublemakers and don't seem easy to get along with. Anyway, you should have less contact with them in the future."

Yao Xiujuan was just asking casually. When she heard that it was difficult to get along with them, she quickly assured them, "They are educated youth, and we are farmers. Why would I have any contact with them?"

After a pause, he asked the question that had been on his mind all day, "Um, Brother Tian, ​​have you met anyone from my mother's side?"

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, touching his nose uncomfortably. "Well, after we went to the city train station today, the train was late, so I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some things. When we got back to the train station, the educated youth had already arrived, so I didn't have time to look for them..."

Seeing a look of disappointment flash across Yao Xiujuan's face, Chu Tian hurriedly said, "Let's go to the Changsheng Corps to visit my parents-in-law before the New Year..."

Yao Xiujuan shook her head. "Forget it. The Ever-Victorious Corps is in the mountains to the south. It's too far away. The road is covered in snow and it's not easy to walk..."

Chu Tian held Yao Xiujuan's hand and assured her, "It's not close from our brigade to the Changsheng Corps via the farm, but there's a bus station at our farm that goes to the Changsheng Corps! We can get there in just a few hours by bus."

"We haven't been back to see my parents-in-law for almost a year. This time, we should bring some food with us so we can stay for two more days and spend some quality time with them."