Chapter 30: Curiosity is useless
"Ye Zhiqing, Wen Zhiqing, let's go quickly. What are you standing here looking at?" Wang Fang pulled Ye Siran who was staring in a trance.
She felt that no matter how curious the little girl was, she shouldn't stare at others like that. The identities of these working people were already embarrassing, and it was not good to stare at them like that.
"Ranran, are you feeling unwell? Why can't you move as soon as you come in?" Wen Lin asked worriedly.
"I'm not feeling uncomfortable, I'm just curious about those people working and want to take a few more looks." Ye Siran made up an excuse.
She didn't want to tell them that she came to the farm to find her grandparents so as not to implicate them.
With so many people on the farm, trying to find someone you've never met before is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
She couldn't just ask everyone she met where her grandparents were, especially since she didn't even know their names!
"Sister Wang, can we move around freely in this farm?" Ye Siran asked pretending to be embarrassed.
From the moment she entered the farm gate, her eyes scanned everywhere like a radar.
An Tao thought Ye Siran wanted to ease the awkwardness, so he said enthusiastically: "How can you just leave? I just showed the village's letter of introduction to the farm gatekeeper before I could come in, and then go to the designated tea mountain to pick tea leaves."
"Then can we come to the farm to pick tea leaves all the time?" Ye Siran asked.
"Tea picking is seasonal. You can't come during the busy farming season, and there are no young leaves to pick in autumn and winter, so there are only two months a year."
"Ye Zhiqing likes picking tea leaves?"
"I've never picked tea leaves before, so I can't say whether I like it or not, I'm just curious about the people here."
"Ranran, your curiosity is useless. Those people ignored us. I asked them questions just now, but they didn't answer." Wen Lin pouted and complained.
She was also very curious when she first entered the farm, and ran over to ask them if they were tired, but unfortunately they didn't even look at her.
"There are a lot of people here, so don't wander around. Let's go to the hillside over there to pick tea leaves." Wang Fang pointed to a low green slope.
"Are there bad guys here?" Wen Lin asked excitedly. She had been fearless since she was a child.
"There is a military corps stationed in the May Day Farm, and those young administrators like to pester beautiful educated youth like you," An Tao explained.
But what he didn't say was that some of the newly arrived educated youth couldn't stand the hard work in the countryside and just wanted to find a partner to get married.
It’s not that all girls from the city are beautiful, but compared to girls from the countryside who are exposed to the sun and rain, they are fairer and more pleasing to the eye.
Just two months of working in the countryside can change a lot. Some girls who were originally ordinary become no different from country girls.
Seeing that they were still walking slowly as before, Ye Siran urged them anxiously, "Wen Lin, let's walk faster."
"Okay, let's go." Wen Lin nodded and pulled Ye Siran towards the tea mountain designated by Wang Fang.
"Brother An, there are already people there. Who are they?" Xiao Zhiyu asked An Tao beside him in a low voice.
"Those are educated youth and villagers from the neighboring village. It's the off-season now, so villagers near the farm can apply to come and pick tea."
An Tao said patiently that although he was thin and dark, he had regular features. If he was fairer, it would not be an exaggeration to describe him as a modest gentleman.
He also liked the handsome and charming Xiao Zhiyu, and the two of them became good brothers who could talk about anything.
"Sister Wang, I want to pick tea leaves at the highest point of the hillside. Is that okay?" Ye Siran asked casually.
"As long as it's within the tea mountain, you can pick it wherever you want, but it's best not to go anywhere else."
"Oh, I see." After saying this, Ye Siran pulled Wen Lin and walked away quickly. She wanted to stand in a higher place to continue observing.
"Did you bring any dry food for lunch?" Wang Fang saw Ye Siran pulling Wen Lin and running away, and shouted at her back.
“I didn’t bring it!”
"Yes."
Wen Lin and Ye Siran said in unison.
"Ranran, you actually brought some dry food? How come I didn't know that?" Wen Lin asked, blinking her big eyes.
"You were in a hurry to eat breakfast, how would you know that I fried egg and scallion pancakes." Ye Siran lied without blushing or beating his heart.
"The lady gave me two eggs yesterday and I ate one this morning. Why didn't you eat one?" Wen Lin was stunned.
"I fry the eggs into pancakes and we can eat them later." Ye Siran had boiled eggs in the morning, so she would not treat herself badly.
She has a lot of chickens and eggs in her space. She also makes egg and scallion pancakes, which she will fry when she goes to the toilet later.
She didn't know she would come to the farm today, so naturally she didn't bring any dry food, but she was used to drinking warm water in her previous life.
She carried two water bottles in a canvas crossbody bag, which could serve as cover while she took things out of the space.
"Ah! Do I have to bring my own dry food? I didn't bring any, so I will be hungry at noon!" Xiao Zhiyu was so shocked that his voice changed.
"If you have money and food coupons with you, you won't go hungry. You can go to the farm canteen to buy food later." An Tao said with a smirk.
When he first went to the countryside, he not only had money and tickets with him at all times, but also the Great Unity.
Unfortunately, that was more than a year ago, and now he doesn’t have a single cent on him!
Even though he gets up early and goes to bed late, he can only barely get enough to eat with each meal and has no extra money.
"I have money and tickets on me. Fortunately, my brothers and sisters told me to carry money with me at all times." Xiao Zhiyu said thankfully.
Ye Siran pulled Wen Lin to the top of the slope, and An Tao and Xiao Zhiyu naturally followed them.
Wang Fang was stopped by an educated youth from the next village: "Wang educated youth, are those two new here?"
"Well, I came here yesterday. I don't know how to do farm work, so I came here to learn how to pick tea leaves." Wang Fang stopped and said.
"Where are they from? They are so beautiful." The young wife from the next village asked curiously.
Wang Fang saw the educated youth and the young wife next door chasing her and asking questions, so she could only stop and chat with them while picking tea leaves, "I don't know, I haven't asked them yet."
"Hey! These two pretty girls are really scheming. They are not here to pick tea leaves! They must be looking for a soldier."
"Well! If it were you, I'd better find a young and good-looking farm manager. After you get married, you can follow her and be the farm manager."
"You talk so well, why don't you find one yourself?" Wang Fang was deliberately being sarcastic, but she actually knew the reason.
She had experienced it herself. When she first came here, she was full of enthusiasm and had high standards. She looked down on farm managers and soldiers.
Later, when she was overwhelmed by farm work and wanted to find a partner, no one was interested in her!
Because her fair skin had been tanned so much that it couldn't be washed clean, so she went to find a rough man in the village!
She became even more unwilling!
She always wanted to wait a few more years, and deep down she was also waiting for her family to help her find a way to return to the city.
"Ranran, my hands hurt." Wen Lin complained about the pain in her hands after picking tea leaves for only half an hour.
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