Chapter 58 A Well-Planned Scheme
Jiang Zhizhi played along with her surprise: "What serious thing happened?"
Yang Fengmei snorted coldly: "That female educated youth who drugged you, she actually used a radio to contact foreign countries, my god, what is that? She's a traitor and a spy! She was arrested and sent away by the army."
Jiang Zhizhi was quite surprised: "Her? Using a radio?"
Chen Shuangyan, that brainless woman, would actually use a radio? She's probably being used as a pawn again.
Yang Fengmei laughed with a hint of schadenfreude: "Idiot brains, how dare they use these things. They should be arrested and shot."
Jiang Zhizhi couldn't understand how stupid Chen Shuangyan was, or how much she had accepted bribes, to admit such a big mistake!
If she's labeled a spy, she'll never be able to get out of prison, and her family will also be implicated.
Yang Fengmei then noticed that the cast on Jiang Zhizhi's right arm had been removed, and was overjoyed: "Your arm is healed too? That's wonderful!"
Jiang Zhizhi gently moved her arms: "It's not completely healed yet, so you can't exert yourself or move around too much."
Yang Fengmei nodded repeatedly: "It's alright, it's alright. It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone. You just need to rest properly."
She went inside and brought out a red gauze scarf: "This arm still needs to be in a sling, otherwise people will easily bump into you."
Jiang Zhizhi looked at the bright red scarf and hesitated, "Auntie, isn't it too bright?"
Yang Fengmei waved her hand: "Bright colors are better, they're easy for people to see. Be careful with your arms. Besides, young girls should wear bright colors."
As she spoke, she wrapped her arms around Jiang Zhizhi's neck and carefully tied them behind her neck.
Jiang Zhizhi couldn't remember the last time she had felt maternal love, and Yang Fengmei's thoughtfulness suddenly warmed her heart.
Yang Fengmei felt a little apprehensive and even uneasy after receiving such a valuable gift from Jiang Zhizhi. In her more than forty years of life, no one had ever treated her so well. Whether it was back in her parents' home or after marrying Old Man Liang, no one had ever truly cared for her. Everyone took her efforts for granted!
She planned to make a pair of shoes for Jiang Zhizhi, and then use that yarn to knit a sweater for her. When the sweater was finished, only Jiang Zhizhi's figure could fit into it, and she would have to keep it even if she didn't want it.
Thinking about it, he glanced at Jiang Zhizhi's figure with a smile and said, "You're too thin. When winter comes and we can go into the mountains, I'll have Dazhuang go and hunt some pheasants or something to help you get some nutrition."
Jiang Zhizhi chuckled: "I'm not considered thin. Being thin is the trend in the city, otherwise clothes won't look good."
Yang Fengmei said with great disdain: "City people are always causing trouble. They should be sent to the countryside. They can't even get enough to eat, yet they still want to be thin. Let me tell you, I think plump girls are lucky. The girl I found for Dazhuang has a round face and is plump. She looks like she's lucky. I guarantee she'll give birth to a son in the future."
Jiang Zhizhi was a little confused: "Auntie, isn't it better to have a girl?"
Yang Fengmei sighed, "What's so good about it? Girls belong to other families once they get married. Besides, only sons can be strong laborers. If it weren't for Dazhuang, my family would have been bullied to death by the villagers long ago. I bet you'll have a son someday, with a nice butt!"
Jiang Zhizhi: "..."
Zhang Zhao returned to the mountain, first went to the cookhouse to find two cornbread buns to eat, then drank a ladle of cold water, and took another cornbread bun, eating it as he went to find Zhou Xiye.
Watching Zhou Xiye sitting at his desk writing a report, he lingered at the door for a while before calling out "Report!" and going inside.
Zhou Xiye turned to look at Zhang Zhao, whose face looked like he was holding back a question. He knew that Zhang Zhao had successfully delivered Jiang Zhizhi to the village. He ignored him and went back to writing his report.
Zhang Zhao couldn't help but sidle up to the desk and ask, "Boss, do you think you're being a little biased?"
Zhou Xiye still ignored him.
Zhang Zhao was very indignant: "Boss, we've known each other for so many years, and I've never even lent you my watch for two days. Isn't that favoritism?"
Zhou Xiye glanced at him and said, "Get lost."
Zhang Zhao didn't give up: "Boss, it's a deal, right? Next time I go on a blind date, you lend me your watch. It's settled then."
Zhou Xiye ignored him, picked up the calendar, flipped through it for a while, put it down, and got up to leave.
Zhang Zhao hurriedly followed him out, saying, "Boss, we've got a deal, haven't we?"
Zhou Xiye went to the mess hall, glanced at the recent meal schedule, and when he came out, Zhang Zhao was still following behind. He stopped and looked at him coldly: "I think you are quite suitable to be the quartermaster."
Zhang Zhao immediately stopped in his tracks: "Boss, you go ahead with your work. I suddenly remembered that I still have five kilometers to run. I'm going now."
After saying that, he disappeared like a rabbit in no time.
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Sun Xiaoyue hasn't been idle these past few days either. Jiang Zhizhi snatched half of her money and food coupons, and she couldn't do anything about it.
Moreover, Jiang Zhizhi has not been in the village recently, so she can take this opportunity to get along well with the women in the village. Whenever she has free time, she goes for a stroll by the river. If she sees someone with a child, she gives the child a piece of candy and chats with them to help them. If someone doesn't have a child with them, she offers to lend them her own soap.
At the same time, she also wanted to make a good impression on Jiang Donghua.
She discovered that Jiang Donghua was truly intelligent and eager to learn. Ever since she mentioned that the college entrance examination would be reinstated, Jiang Donghua would take out his books to read whenever he had time. Even when he was working in the fields and resting with his head down, he would take out his books to read.
Jiang Donghua also encouraged her to study together, saying that if the college entrance examination were to be reinstated, they could both get into their ideal universities.
Sun Xiaoyue wanted to learn, but she only knew a limited number of characters. She grew up in the countryside and never went to school. Later, she went to the Jiang family, where the couple arranged for her to study for half a year before she married Zhou Xiye. No one cared about her in the Zhou family, and she was already blinded by the prosperity of Beijing, so she had no interest in studying.
If it weren't for the Zhou family forbidding her from remarrying, she would have run away with someone long ago.
He died in his fifties, without knowing many words.
So, how did she get into university?
They could only attract Jiang Donghua from other angles, saying that they wanted to lead the villagers to a better life. Then they came up with an idea: to exchange money and grain coupons for flour, mung beans, cooking oil, and sugar, and make a large basket of mung bean cakes to sell in the county town.
As a result, they went in the morning but didn't sell any by nightfall. When people asked about the price, they found it was more expensive than at the supply and marketing cooperative, and nobody wanted to be ripped off.
Besides, mung bean cakes aren't a must-have. It's better to buy some meat to improve the family's diet than to buy mung bean cakes.
Sun Xiaoyue looked at the mung bean cakes in the basket with a mournful face: "Donghua, what if we can't sell them? They'll spoil after tomorrow."
She didn't have many food coupons and money to begin with, and buying these things had already used up most of them. If she didn't recoup her investment, how would she survive in the future?
Jiang Donghua also felt that Sun Xiaoyue was a very compassionate person, and comforted her: "Don't worry, if you really can't sell them, don't you know the leaders in the army? We can give these mung bean cakes to them, and they will definitely feel embarrassed to take them for free, and they will give us money and food coupons in return."
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