With the corn nearing maturity and the kernels plump and full, the brigade leader, fearing that other villages might come to steal the corn ears, organized the able-bodied men of the village to take turns guarding the field, working in two shifts, with someone also needed to be there at night.
Several people from the educated youth settlement were also called over. Apart from He Wan, the other three girls were responsible for watching over a piece of land at the foot of the mountain, while the male educated youth were responsible for the night.
The weather is hot at noon now, but it's gradually getting cooler in the mornings and evenings.
This made eating more complicated, but there were two female educated youths in the front yard.
Although Ding Shaoling and Xue Zhenzhen didn't have a very good relationship, they didn't have any major conflicts either.
After Su Ranran and the others moved to the backyard.
There's no longer any issue of men not cooking.
Wang Jianguo reassigned them, putting Wang Jianguo and Ding Shaoling in one group.
Zhang Deping and Xue Zhenzhen are in one group, and Liang Shurui and Zhang Jianjun are in another. There are now six people in the front yard, so cooking is easier. Liang Shurui and Zhang Jianjun can both cook. However, this time, the male educated youth are taking naps during the day while guarding Guangzhou, so they can't cook.
So they held another meeting and decided that Ding Shaoling and Xue Zhenzhen would cook during the day.
However, they only eat one meal in the morning during the day, and they don't eat lunch because they need to catch up on sleep. They are given a more substantial meal in the evening, and they can have a bite to eat in the middle of the night.
Tell Ding Shaoling to make more cornbread for them to take to the fields to eat at night.
As for Xie Meihui and her husband in the backyard, needless to say, they are a married couple, so there's no need to worry about them.
Wang Xiaorong, Li Zheng, and Li Chunsheng asked Su Ranran and Zhang Cuicao to help steam some vegetable buns during the day so they could eat them in the fields at night.
Zhang Cuicao was skillful and had the best cooking skills, so she made some wild vegetable steamed buns.
He Wan recently dug up a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains and gave them all to them, suggesting that they make more wild vegetable and mushroom buns.
Wang Xiaorong and the other two were quite embarrassed. When they first came as new educated youth, they had some ulterior motives, but now they saw how generous He Wan was.
Later, of the vegetable dumplings they made, two and four were given to Su Ranran and the other two, and four were given to He Wan.
He Wan had asked Aunt Juhua for some leek roots a while ago and gave some to Zhang Cuicao and the others.
Seeing that the chives were growing vigorously, Zhang Cuicao made some chive dishes today.
When Liang Shurui was on duty that night, I specially went to deliver one to him.
Seeing that Liang Shurui did not refuse, when cooking breakfast the next morning, she served him a lot more thick food and secretly helped him wash the dishes.
This afternoon, Su Ranran asked Zhang Cuicao to come back early to cook. When Zhang Cuicao saw Liang Shurui's clothes soaking by the well, she offered to wash them for him.
When Liang Shurui woke up in the afternoon, she saw the clothes on the rope and felt something was wrong.
After dinner, Liang Shurui called Zhang Cuicao to a secluded place and told her not to do that again, as it would cause misunderstandings if people saw her.
Zhang Cuicao blushed, clutching the hem of her clothes with both hands, and finally mustered up her courage to say, "Liang Zhiqing, I like you. Can we be a couple?"
Before Liang Shurui could answer, they heard a soft "plop" sound from not far away. The two turned around and saw Chen Qing, who had followed them.
Zhang Cuicao looked at Chen Qing with a mixture of anger and annoyance, and retorted, "So Chen Qing has a hobby of eavesdropping on other people's conversations? I'll have to go and tell everyone about it in the village tomorrow."
Chen Qing said with a hint of sarcasm, "How come only you, Zhang Cuicao, can confess your feelings, but I, Chen Qing, can't? I'm so old, and I'm really shameless."
"Who are you calling an old man?"
"I'm talking to you. You're twenty-one, aren't you? Do you know how old Liang Zhiqing is? She's only eighteen. A woman who's a year older than you isn't a wife. You're shameless. Besides, she's so much older. Isn't she already quite old?"
Zhang Cuicao pointed at Chen Qing and said, "Chen Qing, say another curse."
"Shameless, so what if I insulted you?"
Zhang Cuicao doesn't talk much, but she's not made of clay. If she could tolerate these words, she wouldn't be Zhang Cuicao.
Liang Shurui and Zhang Cuicao were talking in the backyard of the educated youth community. Now that they were arguing, everyone in both the front and back yards could hear them.
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