Chapter 66: Are Female Educated Youths Really That Rich?
Wang Yanhong brushed her hair aside somewhat embarrassedly, "My family and Shujuan's family are not well-off. Our parents don't love us, otherwise they wouldn't have sent us to the countryside. So, hehehe... We finally found a fool, so we'll try to fool him as much as we can. We won't do anything bad, you can rest assured about that."
Zhang Shujuan's eyes suddenly reddened. She was simple-minded and didn't like to think things through. She knew that Wang Yanhong would look down on her a little in the future, but she didn't expect that even now, she would still want to live a good life.
"What are you thinking? If they can come to you, they can't come to anyone else. There might be someone watching you right now!"
"Exactly, they still want to make money off jade beads? Have they lost their mind?"
Wang Yanhong wasn't angry at all about what they said. Whether she could make money was her skill, but whether or not she was allowed to make that money was a matter of Shen Yuzhu's magnanimity.
Shen Yuzhu glanced at Qiao Wangshu. He hadn't said a word since he came in, and to be honest, she was a little worried about him.
"Okay, you can go back now if there's nothing else!"
Wang Yanhong's face lit up with joy, and she quickly pulled Zhang Shujuan away. However, the two whispered to each other at the door, and cursed as they left, as if they had suffered a great humiliation.
Lin Wanwan sighed and said, "This Wang Zhiqing really reacted quickly."
Shen Yuzhu chuckled. Indeed, Wang Yanhong was quick-witted. She was very pragmatic. Otherwise, how could she have lived such a good life in her past life? She knew when to flatter and when to distance herself. She was a smart person who wasn't bad.
After chatting for a while, Shen Yuzhu gave each of them a bag of face cream and then kept Qiao Wangshu to talk.
The two of them were already quite close, and Lin Wanwan didn't think much of it, but Liang Manxiu felt a little jealous.
As if she knew what Qiao Wangshu was going to ask, she moved her chair a little closer to her.
"Don't worry, I don't know what Qiao Nianyu did, it has nothing to do with me. Between you and her, I will definitely choose you."
"Wang Shu, you and her..."
Qiao Wangshu shook her head and said, "We weren't born to the same mother. Her mother is my aunt. After my mother passed away, both families thought that since one of them had lost her husband and the other her wife, they could make a perfect match. With a stepmother comes a stepfather. Qiao Nianyu was born to my aunt later. She is the apple of both families' eye. My maternal grandmother's family wasn't well-off and couldn't help me. I haven't had a good life these past few years. If it weren't for my sister standing up for me, I don't know if I would have survived to adulthood."
"Your sister?"
Qiao Wangshu smiled and said, "She's my stepmother's older sister. She's very smart. When I was little, whenever my stepmother punished me by not letting me eat, she would complain that the house was noisy and go to her room to eat a lot of food. After the adults left, she would come to find me with her bowl. She's a female soldier now. She was the one who wired me money last time."
When Qiao Wangshu talks about her older sister, her face is full of joy, but when she talks about Qiao Nianyu, her eyes are full of disgust, which shows how much she has suffered because of this younger sister.
Two days passed in this way, and Qian Cuilian went to the door with a basket on her shoulder.
Shen Yuzhu welcomed the person into the main room and poured them a cup of ginger and brown sugar tea.
"Auntie, what brings you here?"
"Yuzhu, hehehe... This is a thank-you gift for you. It's the recommendation letter written by the people from the Agricultural Research Institute last time, and your fiancé also submitted a report to the leaders of the garrison. Not only have the subsidies for the elderly people in our production team who are on welfare been approved, but several people in other production teams have also received them. The commune leaders said that by next year at the latest, they will have compiled a list of all the elderly people on welfare in our area and submitted it for full implementation. Although the subsidies are not much, at least they are long-term."
"Really? That's great!"
Qian Cuilian was also very happy. This winter was particularly cold. It had only just begun winter, and there had been several light rains and snowfalls. She estimated that if it got any colder, she probably wouldn't be able to leave the house.
"These are dried vegetables and mushrooms that some elderly people dried themselves, along with ten eggs. Please take them; they are a token of their appreciation."
“Then I’ll really accept it, Aunt Qian. Just when I came back from the provincial capital, my friend gave me a few red sausages. You can give one to each of your families when you get back.”
"Hey, you silly girl, the basket..."
Shen Yuzhu hurriedly took the basket to the inner room. This old lady, who had worked hard all year round, had a really strong hand and she almost couldn't snatch it away.
She took everything out of the basket and put six red sausages into it. In fact, she knew in her heart that those families were already struggling financially, so where would they get so many eggs? She guessed that Aunt Qian had added them later.
"This thing is so valuable, city people can't even buy it if they want to. You're giving so much away all at once. You don't flaunt your wealth!"
“Auntie, I know that. You put it in the basket and covered it with a cloth. Besides, those old folks aren’t gossipy people, they won’t say anything.”
Qian Cuilian raised her hand and tapped her forehead, said a few words, and then left with her basket.
She had barely left when Shen Yuzhu got dressed and went out with a pot of hot corn juice.
At the educated youth settlement not far away, Yu Xiaolin wiped his face, went to the kitchen to get a bowl of coarse grain porridge, and looked at Shen Yuzhu's back, making two "tsk tsk" sounds.
What are you looking at?
"Look at that little courtyard, tsk, among the educated youth who came to the countryside, this is probably the first one to build a courtyard, right?"
Liu Mingxin nodded and said, "Yes, Shen Zhiqing's family is well-off. I heard that she went to the countryside voluntarily. Her family was worried that she wouldn't be used to living here, so they built her a small courtyard."
Yu Xiaolin's eyes flashed, and she shook her head, saying, "Isn't this a bit too flashy? Isn't she afraid people will gossip?"
"What's wrong with that? Some of the educated youth came from well-off families and got along well with others, so they lived together. Others preferred to live alone and even built houses here in the educated youth settlement. Whether they returned to the city or got married, the houses would remain empty in the village. What's there to gossip about?"
Liu Mingxin slurped up a couple of mouthfuls of porridge and continued, "In our educated youth settlement, we don't need anyone who can cook. Some of them even eat at the homes of the villagers. I heard that next year, several female educated youths want to build houses next to Shen's house so they can live there themselves!"
Yu Xiaolin: "......"
Are all female educated youth sent to the countryside this rich these days?
He turned to look at the female educated youth. They were all busy airing out their quilts or drying vegetables. Taking advantage of the midday sun, they went up the mountain in groups of three or five to dig for mushrooms and wild vegetables.
On the other hand, only two or three of the male educated youth were so busy. Most of them were either sleeping on the kang (a heated brick bed) or sitting on the kang reading books.
Yu Xiaolin finished the last mouthful of porridge, glanced at the courtyard with a gloomy look in his eyes, and made up his mind.
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