Although she thought Yi Zhiheng was still a child, the child was already half a head taller than her.
He was also very thin, but not unhealthily thin like her. He wore dark blue coarse cloth trousers with two large patches on the back, and a faded white short-sleeved shirt.
Even carrying two bags of grain, Yi Zhiheng walked much faster than her.
She jogged a few steps to catch up with him and asked, "Yi Zhiqing, why did you help me?"
Yi Zhiheng turned his head and glanced at her indifferently, then quickly looked away and lowered his head.
She didn't say anything, but quickened her pace, leaving her behind, but maintaining a proper distance so that she wouldn't catch up and ask her all sorts of questions, and so that she could see that she only wanted to help her.
Lin Qingyan racked her brains but couldn't figure out Yi Zhiheng's purpose in doing this.
She and he didn't know each other at all, so why was he doing this?
When they arrived at the educated youth settlement, Yi Zhiheng dropped off her food before she even got close, and went back to his dormitory with his head down.
Lin Qingyan didn't even have time to thank him.
It's okay, they live in the same educated youth settlement, there will be plenty of opportunities to see him.
Du Xiaoyue walked up to her and asked, "Qingyan, did you know Yi Zhiqing before? I just finished putting away the grain and was about to go meet you when I saw him carrying your grain over."
Lin Qingyan smiled bitterly: "Xiaoyue, to be honest, I don't actually know him, and I don't know why he helped me. Maybe, maybe he saw my condition and felt sorry for me."
Du Xiaoyue couldn't understand it. She felt that Yi Zhiheng seemed rather indifferent and didn't seem like the kind of warm-hearted person who liked to meddle in other people's business.
"Xiaoyue, let's go make the bed."
"Walk."
They returned to their dormitory and made their own beds.
It's summer now, so there's no need for thick bedding; the thin blanket she has at home is enough.
She put her daily necessities, such as toothpaste, toothbrush, towel, and soap, into a basin and placed it together with those of the other educated youth in the corner opposite the wall.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! What bad luck to have to live in a place like this!" Tong Jiaojiao grumbled as she made the kang (a heated brick bed).
Jiang Meihong said, "Jiaojiao, don't complain. This is just how things are in the countryside."
Tong Jiaojiao pinched her nose and pointed to the berth next to hers.
"Look how dirty and smelly her side is." She looked at the other three: "Who...who would like to switch places with me?"
Lin Qingyan and Du Xiaoyue shook their heads together. They were neither Guanyin Bodhisattva nor Tong Jiaojiao's parents, so why should they spoil Tong Jiaojiao?
Lin Qingyan glanced at the bunk but didn't find it dirty. She wondered what Tong Jiaojiao was smelling.
Jiang Meihong did not agree to switch beds with Tong Jiaojiao. She was just Tong Jiaojiao's neighbor, not Tong Jiaojiao's maid.
Seeing that the older educated youth all had wooden boxes and frames, Du Xiaoyue asked Lin Qingyan, "Qingyan, look, the older educated youth all have wooden boxes and frames. We can't keep our things in our bags all the time. We need at least a wooden box."
"yes."
Although Lin Qingyan has a spatial dimension where she can store valuable items, many other things still need to be displayed in the open.
"But who made their wooden boxes?"
"Perhaps there's a carpenter in this village. Why don't we go out and ask him?"
"OK."
When Jiang Meihong heard that they were going to find a carpenter to make wooden chests, she also wanted a wooden chest: "I'll go with you."
"Me too! Me too!"
Tong Jiaojiao immediately got off the kang (a heated brick bed).
The four of them left the female educated youth dormitory, and Tong Jiaojiao walked towards the male educated youth dormitory: "I'll go ask Chen, the educated youth, if he wants to make a cabinet, and ask him to come with us."
Lin Qingyan cursed her in her heart as a simp. The other person wasn't interested in her, so don't end up losing everything by licking her boots.
But she subconsciously thought of the child among the male educated youth. What was the child doing in the room?
She also asked him if he needed a cabinet, and thanked him for his help.
She walked to the entrance of the boys' dormitory and saw Yi Zhiheng sitting on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). Before she could speak, he looked up and saw her, and immediately turned his head away.
Lin Qingyan swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue. Was the other person afraid of seeing her?
Why?
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