Jiang Wenming and Liu Meiling came out to greet them at the same time.
Qiao Yu and Zhao Liang both nodded and went to the well to fetch water to wash their hands and faces.
Li Xingyue stepped forward and thanked Liu Meiling.
"Thank you, Comrade Liu. You've worked hard today. Let me cook dinner tonight."
Liu Meiling smiled and waved her hand dismissively, saying, "It's not hard work. I'll do it tonight. How about we each take a day? That would be better."
If she's going to cook tomorrow, then let Xiao Che come back early and keep an eye on her secretly.
Li Xingyue accepted with an unchanged smile.
After Xiao Che washed his hands and came over, Liu Meiling quietly told him about it. Xiao Che had no objection. He figured that if he finished work early, there wouldn't be any problems with Kang Song and the villagers covering for him.
After saying that, the two went to the table in the courtyard and sat down to wait for Li Xingyue to come over and have dinner together.
After the meal, they all went back to their rooms to rest.
Not long after, there was a knock on Xiao Che's door.
Upon opening the door, they found it was Liu Meiling.
"Comrade Xiao, do you have any ointment? I injured my hand this morning."
As she spoke, she slipped him a note.
Xiao Che accepted it without making a sound.
He replied, "Oh, yes, I'll go find it for you."
"Ah, thank you very much, Comrade Xiao."
After receiving the ointment, Liu Meiling went back.
When Xiao Che entered the room and opened the note, he frowned.
Liu Meiling said that when she came back to cook, she saw a figure climb over the wall from the backyard and go to the back mountain.
She wasn't skilled enough to chase after him. She could only pretend she didn't know anything.
Who could it be? A simple thief? Or a contact person?
At that time, was Jiang Wenming the only one in the educated youth compound who came back to cook?
He carefully checked his room and found nothing unusual or that no one had entered.
He was afraid someone would come into his room, so every time he went out, he would clip a strand of hair into the door when he closed it. When he came back, there was no sign that the hair had been touched.
Since we didn't catch them, we'll just have to wait until next time.
If he's the contact person, he won't just come once.
It seems he'll have to send Kang Song something. He'll be needing Kang Song's cover much more often from now on.
I went to work as usual in the afternoon.
Liu Meiling also passed on the message to Bai Yajing.
She has now become the person who relays information between the two sides in a timely manner.
Bai Yajing was also wondering who that person was.
Everyone in the village who was supposed to go to work arrived this morning. But with so many people, she wouldn't have known if someone left halfway through. Besides, many people had already gone home to cook.
She didn't believe in thieves. Most villagers practiced military-style education, which was commonly known as: if you don't obey, you get beaten. So, rebellion was nonexistent, let alone petty thieves or hooligans.
However, other villages might have... who knows, some hooligans from other villages might come and steal the educated youth's things.
Her analysis was the same as Xiao Che's: either it was some hooligans from other villages who came to steal things after seeing the new educated youth arrive, or it was someone making contact with an informant.
If this is someone coming to make contact, then Jiang Wenming is a bit suspicious.
He volunteered to cook today, and before Liu Meiling went back, he was the only one at the educated youth settlement.
After Liu Meiling returned, the man jumped over the wall and ran away.
Thinking of this, she glanced at Jiang Wenming. He was still doing the same thing as in the morning, working while asking people for help with questions he didn't understand.
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