Xie Yuyao turned her head and saw Bei Xiao again. Why was she everywhere?
"If we're going to break up, I'll bring it up myself. There's no need for you to shout and tell me!" Xie Yuyao usually disdained to pay attention to this clown, but he kept provoking her. If she didn't teach him a lesson, he would think she had no temper.
Her low-key approach of observing from the sidelines these past few days does not mean she is timid and afraid to move forward.
Anyone who dares to displease her will be retaliated against a hundredfold.
"You! Coal briquettes are so scarce, let's see how you burn them." Bei Xiao suppressed her anger and crossed her arms sarcastically.
Xie Yuyao sneered, "I can burn it however I want, what's it to you? Why are you so jealous? If you want one, go buy one yourself. Do you think you can get it by talking nonsense?"
"Who wants it! I don't want this lump of iron." Bei Xiao said insincerely, pouting, "You're new here, how dare you be so disrespectful to a senior like me!"
"Who do you think you are, senior?"
Xie Yuyao laughed in exasperation. She thought that only government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises had seniority-based systems, but she never expected that even educated youth sent to the countryside to farm could be ranked according to their arrival order. She had never seen anything like it before.
"you!"
"What do you mean, 'you'? Can you teach me anything or give me money and food? With this kind of attitude, you dare to call yourself a senior?"
Unable to withstand her sarcastic remarks, Bei Xiao was so angry that she pointed at her but couldn't speak.
She turned her finger in a different direction, pointing at the male educated youth who was trying to reason with her, "Xiang Wenshan! Are you dead?! Can't you see I'm being bullied?!"
Xiang Wenshan's ears turned slightly red. This was a conflict that Bei Xiao had started, so what could he say? He could only half-coax and half-drag her into the courtyard.
The other educated youth shook their heads, wondering what Xiang Wenshan saw in Bei Xiao. As for Xie Yuyao, it's perfectly normal for a rose to have thorns!
Xie Yuyao didn't care what others thought. She put the other items in the basket into a wooden box and sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) to massage her calves.
The journey back was quite long, and it would have been best to have a bicycle. Unfortunately, the Phoenix brand 28-inch bicycles from my previous life were no longer in production, and what I had stockpiled were modern bicycles.
However, even if she has stock, she can't just use it. What if someone finds out she didn't buy it at the department store? She might even be falsely accused of stealing it.
We must never underestimate human wisdom and nature.
Dinner was corn porridge with steamed buns. Xie Yuyao had already eaten a full lunch, so she only had a taste before leaving the table.
The coal stove was already in use, and the water had been boiled long ago. Chen Kai volunteered to help carry water, so Xie Yuyao asked him to help carry water every day, and she paid him with fine grains.
Chen Kai agreed to help, but didn't want any food. He only agreed after Xie Yuyao insisted.
Seal the stove, take a bath, go to bed.
Nothing was said that night.
*
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Xie Yuyao woke up. Nourished by the spiritual spring water these past few days, her mental state was better than when she first arrived.
The spiritual spring water has remarkable effects on strengthening the body, but its effects take time and are not immediately apparent.
Starting today, the newly arrived educated youth will also begin working.
Xie Yuyao lingered in bed for a while, but quickly got up without her phone.
She put on a worn-out long coat and trousers, and as for those faded and tattered clothes, she only used them for disguise.
Breakfast was still a mixed grain porridge with more water than grain, along with a plate of corn pancakes. Xie Yuyao tasted it and then went back to the east room, where she ate a sandwich with milk while no one was around.
Eating secretly like this is such a terrible feeling; it makes me anxious and uneasy.
After destroying the evidence (and retrieving the body from her spatial storage), she found sleeves, gloves, a sun hat, and a headscarf, and tied her wide trouser legs with rope.
After filling the kettle with the spiritual spring water, we waited to set off.
When the other female educated youths finished eating and went back to their rooms to pack, they saw how bundled up she was and wanted to laugh a little. However, the experienced older educated youths were dressed similarly. Xie Yuyao had learned about autumn harvest gear from the older sister, Wu Lihong.
Upon arriving at the drying ground, many people gathered together, chatting and laughing.
Xie Yuyao estimated there were several hundred people; it seemed this group was quite large.
After the captain gave a brief pep talk, he began assigning tasks.
Today we're harvesting corn. The women are mainly responsible for picking the corn and cutting the stalks, while the men are mainly responsible for carrying it.
The group went to the warehouse to collect tools such as sickles, sacks, and wheelbarrows, and then went to the fields.
Sow a single grain of millet in spring, reap ten thousand grains in autumn.
What comes into view is a vast cornfield, with corn stalks taller than a person standing densely in the field, a beautiful picture of an autumn harvest.
Xie Yuyao took a deep breath and, like the other educated youth, went into the field to pick corn cobs.
*
In a cornfield not far away, a group of people were working and chatting.
“Look over there at the educated youth team, three new educated youths have arrived. Judging from their movements, they’ve never done farm work before.”
“They grew up in the city, so it’s normal that they’ve never done this before.”
"What's normal about that? They're not good at their work, they don't get enough work points, and they're taking up our food."
The brigade leader's wife, Aunt Tian, deftly used a sickle to cut the corn stalks, and whispered to Yang Chunhua beside her, "Did you take Honghui to a matchmaker last night?"
Yang Chunhua wiped her sweat from her brow, "Yes, I didn't find anyone I liked."
"If you look at a few more, you'll eventually find the right one." Aunt Tian is Yang Chunhua's neighbor, and the two families have a good relationship.
Yang Chunhua sighed, "I'm afraid that after all the picking and choosing, I'll end up with an educated youth. I don't know anything about the family situation of people from other places. It's better to be a local; we know their background and can trust them."
A troublemaker and a jealous person immediately teased, "Oh, then you really have to keep a close eye on things. Don't end up like some people, whose sons are bewitched by educated youth, and you have to break them up."
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