Chapter 8 Chapter 8 It turns out that she is the woman who delivers equipment to the heroine...
On the morning of the fourth day, the train finally arrived in Dingyang County.
This was a small station with a short stop time. People getting on and off the train were bumping into each other like bulls. Song Ruan was stuck in the middle and was squeezed so hard that he was displaced.
She secretly glanced at the "Strength to Pull Mountains and Courage to Overcome the Worlds" which was currently priced at 500 points. While struggling forward, she swore in her heart: Next time it is discounted, she will stock up to death!
After sitting on a hard seat for three days and three nights in the hottest days of summer and going through all this trouble, when she finally struggled out of the crowd, she looked like a wrinkled, smelly pickle that had just been pulled out of a jar and wrung dry - of course, the other three people were no better than her.
The four scattered stinky mandarin fish reunited at the station entrance.
Lin Xinping pushed his glasses and said with a gentle smile, "I just found out that we have to go to the county youth cadre point to gather, and then find the leaders of the various communes there to take us there. It takes 20 minutes to get there, so we have to hurry."
Originally, he should have been a considerate and reassuring image, but after the fermentation of the hard seat on the train for the past few days, Song Ruan felt that there was invisible white smoke coming out whenever he moved, and he unconsciously took a small step back.
Lin Xinping didn't care.
He looked at Song Ruan's simple luggage and wrinkled old clothes as if nothing had happened, and turned to Xiang Hongying, who had a large bag of luggage piled at her feet. Even after several days of train wear, it was obvious that it was a new military uniform.
"Comrade Hongying, you have a lot of stuff, and a girl may not be able to carry it all. Can I help you carry some?"
Xiang Hongying raised her eyebrows high: "The Chairman said that women hold up half the sky! What do you mean I can't do it because I'm a girl? You need to strengthen your ideological study!"
She threw the bag onto her back, stumbled forward a step, and stood still stubbornly, squeezing out a voice from between her teeth: "Let's go!"
Lin Xinping did not seem annoyed at being humiliated, and even said in a good-natured manner, "Then let's go."
He walked in front of Xiang Hongying considerately and said, "If you can't walk anymore, you can hold my bag."
Xiang Hongying glared at him, "What do you mean you can't move? The Chinese people are ambitious and capable, but if they can't even take these few steps, how can they catch up with Britain and the United States?"
Lin Xinping was choked again.
Song Ruan laughed out loud.
Since Xiang Hongying generously distributed white flour cakes, Lin Xinping's attitude has subtly changed. From time to time, he wanted to talk to her about ideals and life - although he was blocked by Xiang Hongying's ideological quotations every time, he kept trying despite repeated failures.
This energy would reach its peak when she ate white flour dry food and took out her pocket watch to check the time.
However, people of that era were simple and honest. For example, Xiang Hongying and Li Bing never thought about it in that way. They simply thought that he was a warm and considerate good comrade.
But what can Song Ruan say? She herself is not a good person either - what good person can scrape away a layer of the wall? Therefore, people are particularly sensitive to these trivial ghost stories from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
Perhaps because he realized that she seemed to have seen through his intentions, or perhaps it was the subtle mutual recognition between bad guys, Lin Xinping was rather cold towards her. But because she had a "sore throat" and didn't participate much in the conversation, it wasn't very obvious.
——She would never admit that she was disliked because of the cucumber and sweet potato pickle cakes she brought out.
The system sneered in her mind:
[As for your ugly black pancake, people don’t ignore it. Not discriminating is just being polite.]
Song Ruan was furious: "Say it again!"
[I’m anxious, you’re anxious]
"You're so annoying with your mouth, you deserve to be tied to me for having no performance!" Song Ruan jumped up and down.
[Shame on you! You’re so proud of yourself! ! 】
The system exploded.
"You taught me that, you deserve it!"
【you! 】
The friendship between the two that had deepened over the past two days while eating melons together disappeared.
The group walked forward dragging their bags and carrying their luggage. It was said that it would only take 20 minutes to walk, but it was probably calculated based on the locals' walking speed. They walked for more than half an hour before they finally saw the shadow of the Youth League Office.
After a while of searching, the few of them finally got on a tractor bound for Huaiqi Commune. There were already quite a few people sitting on the tractor. When they saw them coming, they didn't say anything. They just moved some space to the side, then closed their eyes and continued to rest - the train rides these days were really tiring.
Song Ruan and the others were also extremely tired. After putting down their luggage, they leaned against the wall of the car and fell asleep almost immediately.
The tractor rumbled forward, and the road became more and more bumpy as they got closer to the commune. The tractor driver seemed to be trying to show them a lesson by driving over the pits and rocks. The whole vehicle could almost be said to be leaping forward. The people in the truck bed were like roasted chestnuts in a casserole, tumbling back and forth in the smoke and sand, feeling dizzy.
No one was sleeping, but no one was talking either. Everyone was clinging to the edge of the car tightly, afraid that they would fly out if they loosened a little, and even their teeth were tightening.
They were shaken for an unknown amount of time, but when they were finally able to get off the tractor, they felt as if their souls were floating above their heads.
Just when they thought they had finally reached the end, they saw a few ox-carts and donkey-carts parked at the foot of the wall. A few people who looked like village cadres saw them coming and shouted at the top of their lungs:
"Unity Brigade! Unity Brigade, come this way!"
"Qingshan Brigade is coming!"
"Zhangjiatun, from Zhangjiatun!"
It turns out you have to turn.
The educated youth looked at the ox carts and donkey carts that were even more dilapidated than the tractors. They didn't know what was on them. In some places, the color of the wooden boards was darker and covered with yellow mud and grass leaves. There were flies flying around in the dirty things. The oxen were swinging their tails to drive away the mosquitoes. They immediately collapsed.
The tractor driver got off the vehicle to smoke, looked at the nest of sickly and crying chicks, and shook his head: This is just the beginning.
A female educated youth with pigtails tied with a red flower cried the loudest. She kicked her leather shoes and cried like a kettle coming to life: "What a lousy place this is! I want to go home!"
Xiang Hongying, who was vomiting due to motion sickness, noticed the battle signal and came over with a pale face to scold him: "Comrade, how can you have such a lazy and lazy mentality? We educated youth should..."
The girl with pigtails was not in a good mood either. She wiped her tears and thrust her waist inwards: "Who are you? You come here and make a scene just because you are showing off? Are you crazy?"
Xiang Hongying had not yet recovered from the dizziness from embossing the flowers, and her stomach started churning with emotion. She couldn't help but vomit with a "wow" sound.
It just splashed on Braided Pigtails' shoes.
The sound of the pigtailed girl's scream could be heard from ten miles away.
Song Ruan did not get involved in the chaos here. She listened carefully to identify the location of the Dongfeng Brigade, then rushed over quickly with her luggage - there was only so much space on this ox cart, what if there wasn't enough space for so many people? Shouldn't she seize the initiative?
She really, really didn't want to leave anymore.
She rushed to the front of the oxcart like the wind, but did not get on it directly. She first raised a positive smile and said, "Hello, I am an educated youth who came to the countryside to work in our brigade. My name is Song Ruan."
The captain of the Dongfeng Brigade sat in front of the car with a sad face, smoking a pipe - this year five educated youths were assigned to their team!
These educated youth are incompetent at anything, eat everything without leaving any leftovers, and make a lot of noise all day long. He really doesn't want them.
And he didn't even need to look closely, one "Ruan", one "Hongying" and one "Zhen", yes, three out of the five were girls! What can this do?
The autumn harvest is just around the corner, and here comes a group of people who are holding us back at this critical moment, aren't they?
The more he thought about it, the more wrinkled his face became, like an old tree bark.
He looked up when he heard the voice and saw a smiling face. Although it was a girl he didn't want, he was too embarrassed to just give her a cold face, so he forced out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Oh, then get in the car."
Song Ruan nodded obediently, glanced at the copper pipe in his hand, replaced the fruit candy she had prepared with White Rabbit, and quickly stuffed it in his hand while no one was paying attention:
"Thank you for coming to pick us up in the hot sun. You can give this to your own children."
The captain originally wanted to push it away, but when he saw that they were White Rabbits and there were only two of them, he silently took it back.
He had also heard of the name of White Rabbit, but they were in a poor place far away from Shanghai, where would they buy such precious things?
It doesn’t matter whether he eats it or not since he is old, but his little grandson has never tasted it yet.
——Two, just a token of my appreciation, not a gift.
Thinking this, he put the candy in his pocket.
"Oh, you said this, hey... then uncle thanks you."
"Hurry up and get in the car. It will take a while to get to our team from here."
Song Ruan observed the expression on his face calmly and saw that he was still a little uncomfortable after receiving the things, unlike some people who would become smug and proud after being flattered. His eyes were clear and his smile was more sincere.
This village official looks relatively simple and honest, which is good news for her.
She took her luggage and got on the bullock cart.
The captain picked up his beloved pipe again and felt much better.
Although this "soft" girl looks a little thin, she is still an okay person. She is better than the two women who are still quarreling. They look troublesome at first glance. I don't know which brigade is so unlucky to pick up these two.
Thinking of this, he shouted, "The educated youth from the Dongfeng Brigade! Here come the educated youth from the Dongfeng Brigade!"
Then he saw the two female educated youth walking towards him while arguing.
Under his horrified gaze, two people stopped in front of him. They were the remaining "Hongying" and "Zhen".
He didn't stop even after he introduced himself, and started a new round of barbs.
One said that you cannot endure hardship and are greedy for enjoyment, and you need to reform your thinking. The other said that you are just jealous and want to destroy my beautiful life. They quarreled so fiercely that they could not bear to part.
Lin Xinping tried to mediate the dispute but was scolded by both sides.
Looking at their clothes without even a patch on them and their extremely distinct personalities, the captain wiped his face bitterly and said, "Oh my God, he has brought two Bodhisattvas back."
As the ox cart moved along, the two men quarreled all the way. Their voices were so sharp and high-pitched with anger that the ox would shake its head and wag its tail non-stop.
Finally, the captain couldn't stand it anymore: "If you two keep making noise, get out of here and walk away!"
The two were silent, but still stared at each other unconvinced.
The bell on the cow's neck rang for a long time, and they finally arrived at the Dongfeng Brigade.
The team leader pointed to a courtyard built of mud bricks and said, "That's the educated youth site."
He shouted at the top of his voice: "Are Comrades Liu Yongqiang and Tian Huini here?"
There was a response from the yard, and the door was opened with a creaking sound, and a man and a woman walked out.
"Captain."
"Captain."
"This is the new educated youth. Please make arrangements for him."
Because the system, which had been silent for a long time because of being angry with her, popped up:
[I was wondering why the original body's life was so turbulent and unlucky. It turns out that she was the female supporting role who delivered equipment to the heroine.]
Afraid that Song Ruan didn't hear it, he added loudly
[Today is our first meeting]
"What?" Song Ruan was shocked.
The system put the hook, but stopped talking.
Song Ruan: "..."
She softened her voice: "I was wrong about everything. I won't be so mean to you next time."
She heard the system hum, and then a book appeared in her mind.
She was quite easy to coax. She opened the book with a smile, and then froze, her face turning into the twitching face of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
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