"Red Star Commune is much better than my hometown in the countryside. It has beautiful scenery and a beautiful environment. There are mountains and rivers. As long as you work hard, I believe you will not go hungry. I promise not to worry you."
Jiang Yuan had lived in the countryside before, so she was full of expectations for this place and had some mental preparation.
Zhao Xuelin was least worried about her. He was most worried about Lin Shan, and he wanted to dig out some abilities from her. "Comrade Lin Shan, do you have any special skills?"
"My specialty is chatting and getting information." Lin Shan answered neatly.
Zhao Xuelin: "...Just pretend I didn't say anything."
The production team was not short of female comrades who were good at gossiping and making up stories. He often went to court for these trivial matters. Now that another educated youth who was good at gossiping had come, he felt like his head was about to explode.
Jiang Yuan seemed to like Lin Shan's personality very much. Seeing Captain Zhao's expression of being at a loss for words, she laughed happily. "Captain, don't ask any more. It's useless to ask. After all, we're already in your car, and you can't retreat anymore."
"Why!"
Zhao Xuelin wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet.
When the ox cart returned to the village, it was time to get off work. The villagers, young and old, saw that the team leader had brought back three more educated youth, all of them women, each one younger and more beautiful than the other. Everyone's expressions were very colorful.
The brigade accountant came over and saw that the three young women who came this time were more delicate and tender than the previous ones. He frowned slightly and pulled Zhao Xuelin aside and asked in a low voice, "Why are all the young women here this time? Aren't there any men at all?"
"This year's situation is different. We didn't assign them anything, we let them choose for themselves. Only three of them chose to come to our production team."
Zhao Xuelin also wanted male educated youth who were good at working, but their production team was the poorest and couldn't compete with other teams, and the male educated youth didn't choose this team. He sighed helplessly and whispered to him, "These three female comrades have good personalities and don't have any bad intentions. At that time, Li Wang was encouraging them to side with Wang Youwen and belittle us, but they took the initiative and firmly chose our side."
The accountant frowned as he glanced at Yun Huaying and the other two who were collecting their luggage. Since they had already brought their luggage back, there was no point in saying anything more. He could only say, "Alright, it's obvious they've never done any work before. We'll have to take the trouble to teach them later. You can take them to their accommodation first."
Han Zheng had just greeted the elders he knew well when he saw Yun Huaying and the others unloading their luggage. He said to them, "The accommodation at the Youth Educatorate is average and probably a bit crowded. You should go over there and take a look. If there's not enough space and you don't want to live with the older youth, I'll go find Zhao Xuelin and arrange separate accommodation for you."
"Can you arrange it?"
Yun Huaying likes to live alone and doesn't want to live with unfamiliar people. Besides, she also needs her own space, and it would be easy for people to discover her if she lived with others for a long time.
"As long as the benefits are in place, it's no problem to arrange a separate small house."
Han Zheng did not avoid Jiang Yuan. When they came back from the trip, the three of them got along well and communicated well, and their personalities were quite compatible. It seemed that they would choose to go out together in the future.
Yun Huaying looked at the other two and saw their eyes filled with anticipation. She nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the Youth Hostel first. If it's not comfortable, we'll come back to ask you for help."
Han Zheng nodded slightly, pointed to a small, isolated mud-brick house near the mountain, and told them, "That's where my grandfather lives. I'll be here with him for a month or two. If you need anything, feel free to come and see me."
"Okay." The three of them nodded at the same time and said thank you in tacit understanding: "Thank you."
After Han Zheng left with his luggage, Yun Huaying and the other two simply greeted the brigade accountant and scorer, and then followed Zhao Xuelin to the educated youth institute.
There are already quite a few old educated youth in the Dongjiang Brigade. There are more than ten people living in the educated youth home, and five or six of them chose to get married and start families locally and have moved out of the educated youth home.
Now, three new educated youth arrived, all of them female. Yang Min, the team leader in charge of the female educated youth, immediately expressed his dissatisfaction: "Captain Zhao, we have no more room here. Even if you force us to come in, there's only enough space for one more person."
Zhao Xuelin knew the situation here, of course, and was helpless. "Let them squeeze together for one night, and I'll make separate arrangements for them tomorrow."
"There's no room to squeeze in."
Yang Min wasn't specifically targeting the newly arrived educated youth. She frowned, looking embarrassed: "Even if we squeeze in, there's only enough space for one more person."
Yun Huaying looked around the Youth League Residence. It was very simple, with a large bungalow on each side. The male educated youth lived on the left and the female educated youth lived on the right. The open area in the middle was used for drying clothes, etc. There was also a small firewood room, a simple kitchen, and a bathroom and toilet.
From where she was standing, she could see the inside of the bungalow where the female educated youth lived. They slept on a large bunk bed, and with six or seven of them sleeping together, there was really not enough room for anyone.
"Captain, since you plan to make individual arrangements for us tomorrow, why not do it today instead of tomorrow?"
Zhao Xuelin didn't have a better plan yet. He grabbed a handful of his hair in frustration and said to them, "Wait here for a while and get to know these old educated youth. I'll go talk to other village cadres and come back to talk to you later."
"Okay." Yun Huaying nodded.
Seeing that the team leader had made other arrangements for them, Yang Min seemed relieved. She brought two benches out of the room and was neither too warm nor too unfamiliar with them. "You've all been tired from traveling so fast. Please sit down for a while. There's water in the kitchen. You can pour it yourself. As for food, we just got back from work and haven't prepared dinner yet..."
The three of them understood what she meant. Lin Shan hurriedly said, "Thank you, sister. We brought some food with us, so we won't trouble you."
"My name is Yang Min, just call me by my name."
Yang Min was also a pretty girl when she came here. After staying here for three years, her skin had become tanned. Seeing these three flower-like faces, she was deeply moved and pointed at the other female educated youth and introduced them to them one by one.
Lin Shan is a sociable person. Before she came here, her parents taught her to build good relationships with everyone and prepared two kilograms of candy for her. When she got to know everyone, she gave two pieces of fruit candy to each senior educated youth and called out sweetly.
Yun Huaying and Jiang Yuan both followed her. They both understood the necessary social interactions.
Jiang Yuan also brought local specialties from her hometown and gave them a bag of hawthorn cake. Yun Huaying took a bag of Yunpian cake, which she bought at the Jing County Supply and Marketing Cooperative. It was not expensive, but also not ordinary.
Yang Min and his colleagues were very tired after a day's work and were busy preparing dinner.
Lin Shan still had steamed buns and flower rolls in her backpack, as well as some leftover food from lunch. She said to Yun Huaying, "Huaying, let's have steamed buns and flower rolls tonight. We won't have to cook. I'll go borrow Sister Yang Min's kitchen and heat them up a bit before we eat."
"good."
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