"Yun Huaying, come here."
When Yun Huaying heard the captain calling her name, she raised an eyebrow and immediately stepped forward: "Assigning me another solo mission?"
"What the hell are you thinking?"
The captain hadn't slept well the previous night because of his son's disturbance. His eyes were bloodshot, and the culprit was Yun Huaying, who said with a sullen face, "Next time you make something delicious, don't serve it out to others. Just stay home and eat it yourself."
Yun Huaying: "...Who was harmed?"
"I." The captain gritted his teeth and glared at Lin Shan who was standing beside him. "Lin Shan, and you too, it's all your fault for giving Dunzi a piece of spareribs. He made a fuss all night, so much so that I almost pulled out my own spareribs and fried them for him to eat."
Lin Shan: “…”
"Haha!" Jiang Yuan behind her covered her mouth and laughed.
Yun Huaying and Lin Shan were also amused by him. They really didn't mean to do it. Lin Shan couldn't stop laughing: "Captain, spare ribs are much cheaper than meat. Dunzi and Qiaoqiao are in their growing age and are hungry for them. You should buy some for them occasionally."
Pork now costs 76 cents per pound, while spare ribs, pork liver, pork trotters, etc. are cheaper, only a little over 30 cents per pound. Big bones are even cheaper. Sometimes, if you buy more fat meat, you will get bones for free.
The food at the captain's house is actually pretty good. His father now works at the county railway station, and every now and then he brings back some meat for his two grandchildren. They also eat spare ribs on weekdays, but the fried spare ribs they make are so fragrant that they completely aroused Dunzi's gluttony, so he made a fuss all night last night.
"Your sister-in-law Xiaolan just went to the county town to buy spare ribs. Make them for them at noon. She doesn't know how to fry them. Yun Huaying, you can find time to teach her later." This was what the team leader came to talk to her about. He also wanted to try the spare ribs that his son was clamoring for.
Yun Huaying raised the corner of her mouth slightly: "Okay."
While they were talking, Yang Min came over and handed her ten yuan: "Yun Zhiqing, this is the medical expenses Liu Xiu gave me. I asked me to bring it to you."
Yang Min stayed in the hospital with Liu Xiu last night. Liu Xiu woke up this morning and was not seriously injured. He would be back in the hospital after one or two days. She was in a hurry to go back to work at the rice mill and would come back as soon as he woke up.
Liu Xiu was probably frightened after his near-death experience yesterday. He didn't make a fuss when he woke up this morning, and he didn't say much when he learned that Liu Ping had been captured.
As for the ten yuan medical expenses that should be given to Yun Huaying, she gave it to her readily, but she didn't plan to pay it herself, so she asked Yang Min to bring it back.
Yun Huaying accepted the money and didn't care about Liu Xiu's condition at all. Other people in the team did ask about it, but they were not concerned about Liu Xiu's injury, but were guessing about the punishment that the Youth League Office would impose on Liu Xiu and Liu Ping.
"Yun Zhiqing, this is for you to eat."
Wang Dazhuang squeezed through the crowd and stuffed a handful of fried soybeans into her hands.
Yun Huaying took it and put it in her pocket, then took out a hawthorn candy and gave it to him. Seeing that he was carrying a basket, she asked, "Are you out picking grass for the pigs again?"
Children from poor families have to grow up early. In rural areas, children like him who are only six or seven years old can earn work points. They are basically responsible for tasks like collecting grass for pigs and herding cattle, and can earn two or three work points a day.
"Yeah, picking grass for pigs."
Wang Dazhuang happily peeled the hawthorn candy and ate it. He had never tasted this kind of candy before. He said, "Yun Zhiqing, my mother asked me to ask you something. You asked for cotton before. My family has two or three pounds of cotton from last year. Do you want some?"
"Yes." Yun Huaying had been too busy to find anyone to exchange the money, so she said to him, "Can you ask your mother to weigh it and bring it to me at noon?"
"Okay, I'll send it to you." Wang Dazhuang said and went to reply.
Today's task is still to plow the soil and plant potatoes. There are three people from the educated youth institute working in the rice mill. Liu Xiu is short of work and Liu Ping has been removed from the list, so there are five people missing to work. Therefore, Yun Huaying and the others were arranged to team up with the old educated youth.
The remaining educated youth were not the most capable at work, but they were not slackers either. They worked together in unity and completed the tasks assigned to them on time.
At noon, when work was over, Yin Mei sighed, "Now that the troublemakers have left, the spirit of our entire educated youth team has changed."
Lin Shan laughed when she heard this. She had just been working and chatting with the old educated youth. She said with a smile, "Yin Zhiqing, only one of the troublemakers has passed away. There is another one in the hospital. I guess he will be back in two days."
"We have already submitted an application to the team leader. Regardless of whether Liu Xiu can still stay in the team, she must move out. The Youth Hostel has voted unanimously not to allow her to stay."
"Is that so?" Lin Shan had just learned about this and could understand them. "She has a terrible personality. Living under the same roof with someone like her for a long time is very tiring."
"Lin Zhiqing, you're absolutely right. We work so hard on the farm every day, and we're all exhausted. When we get home, we just want to rest quietly. But she's such a nasty mouth. She curses and spews shit all the time, and it makes us so tired and exhausted, both physically and mentally."
"Yin Zhiqing, I heard that her family is well-off and they send her a lot of money every month. Since her family is so well-off, her family can definitely pay for her to find a job in the city, even if it's a temporary job cleaning the streets, and they can transfer her back to the city. Why didn't they transfer her back?" Lin Shan was very curious about this.
Yin Mei wasn't sure either. She shook her head and said, "I don't know. Even though she's a foul-mouthed and nagging person, she's very careful not to talk about family matters. She only boasts to us about having a cadre in her family, but she doesn't say anything else. Liu Ping used to cling to her, hoping to rely on her and take advantage of her chance to return to the city. We tried all kinds of probing to find out anything useful."
Lin Shan had a hunch that Liu Xiu's family situation was special, and she curled her lips. "Perhaps her family can afford to transfer her back, but her personality is so annoying. I'd rather give her more money than call this trouble back."
"That's possible." Yin Mei thought about it and agreed.
Just as they reached the foot of the mountain, Han Zheng came back on his bicycle. As soon as he saw Yun Huaying, he said, "Huaying, there's a telegram for you."
Yun Huaying's eyes flickered slightly. Seeing that he gave her a subtle wink, she immediately put down the hoe she was carrying and turned to Jiang Yuan, saying, "Jiang Yuan, help me put down the hoe. I'm going back first."
"Okay." Jiang Yuan nodded.
Yun Huaying is usually very calm, but this time she was unusually impatient. She took the telegram and ran back quickly.
This telegram was sent by Zhang Sheng in Kyoto. Han Zheng had already read the content. The other party agreed to give Fang Ziqiang 5,000 yuan in exchange for the map in his hand. The telegram also threatened him that if he tried to deceive him, the Fang family would be killed without a burial place.
In those days, the price of sending telegrams was calculated by the word and was very expensive, but this telegram had sixty or seventy words, which was enough to show how much Zhang Sheng valued the map in her hand.
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