Chapter 39 Second Update Star "Pig"
When Yang Xiuxiu and Zhao Chunjiao finally understood the "truth", their eyes towards Ye Yu changed. They no longer looked at Ye Yu as the pretty and cold educated youth, but the noble companion they urgently needed.
Zhao Chunjiao could no longer hold back and invited: "Comrade Ye Yu, you are welcome to visit our village."
"Comrade Ye Yu, do you like to eat chili peppers? I come from Jincheng, Shu, and I brought a lot of bean paste, dried chili peppers, and pepper powder from home. The peppercorns are all wild in the mountains. We call them wild mountain peppers. We have a lot of them. You can ask my parents to send them to me after you finish eating them. I also have Sichuan bitter orange shell, sweet osmanthus, yellow gardenia, etc., which can be used for cooking and seasoning. These things can be stored for a long time after being dried." Yang Xiuxiu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke. She was able to grasp the most important points from a long string of words. It seems that this female educated youth comrade is also a smart person.
Without a doubt, Ye Yu's heart was beating wildly, and his mind began to automatically recall the recipes of Sichuan cuisine with strong flavors, such as boiled fish, spicy hot pot, and pickled pepper pheasant feet.
The southwest region has many mountains and rivers, and rich flora and fauna. I feel like I chose the wrong commune.
"Wait, wait, Ye Yu is from our village. Comrade Zhao and Comrade Li, you are not allowed to seduce her like this." Hua Feifei's words were three-quarters true and seven-quarters false, in order to ease the depressing atmosphere, her expression was exaggerated.
Liu Xinghua covered her mouth and laughed as she agreed: "Yes, yes, yes, and our Xiaoyu's grandma and grandma are both in Wangjiagou. No matter how many diamonds you have in your belly, she is reluctant to leave Wangjiagou. No matter how much temptation you give her, it will be useless."
Ye Yu: ...Considering the family ties within the Wang Jiagou family, it is not impossible.
Hua Feifei and the other two grabbed her sleeves and said, "You can't... sacrifice your friendship."
"Yes, yes, yes," Han Jing and Xu Fei also nodded vigorously, "We are companions forever."
"Deep revolutionary friendship?" Ye Yu scratched his ear. "When did this thing happen between us?"
"Yes, I have!"
Very loud.
The adults who were enjoying the fun also understood that the allocation of educated youth was related to the commune and it was not so easy to transfer them.
Even if some people really didn't understand, at least they could read the atmosphere. The educated youth from Wangjiagou and the Red Flag Brigade all had smiles on their faces. They were not really arguing but joking.
The children, however, did not understand and kept shouting anxiously, “The expert aunt from Sanhai Creek is from their village” and “No, no, auntie is not allowed to leave”.
Adults are even happier.
Ye Yu didn't really understand. When did she become so popular among the adults in the village? And why did all the children in the village start calling her "Auntie"?
After this sitcom, Yang Xiuxiu and Zhao Chunjiao finally calmed down, from crying their eyes out at the beginning to laughing till tears came out.
Of course, their invitation was absolutely real. They not only invited Ye Yu, but also Han Jing, Xu Fei, and Hua Feifei.
Yang Xiuxiu's promise to "exchange" seasonings with Ye Yu was naturally true. She really had bean paste, dried chili peppers, and wild pepper, but she didn't bring them out. As for seasonings such as Sichuan bitter orange shell, sweet myrtle, and yellow gardenia, she had to write a letter and ask her family to send them to her.
Hua Feifei and the other two also discussed with Yang Xiuxiu and the others the topic of how educated youth went to the countryside to build the rural areas, and they also simplified and paraphrased some of Ye Yu's words that day.
Yang Xiuxiu and the others looked at Ye Yu with even more admiration, and regretted not going to the countryside with her. For the first time, Ye Yu's fame spread from Wangjiagou to the Red Flag Brigade.
Some people were chatting and laughing together. When they encountered bumps or uphill slopes, someone would lend a hand to help, and the mountain road to Pingquan Town suddenly became easy.
It's really lively and exciting.
So much so that when Yang Xiuxiu and Zhao Chunhua arrived in the town, they were unwilling to separate from Ye Yu and the other three, and followed the people from Wang Jiagou to the agricultural and sideline station to hand in the New Year pigs.
Ye Yu also didn't understand why it was necessary for her to be here. She was dragged here by Hua Feifei, under the pretext of witnessing her personal achievements as a result of her hard work.
But I thought that Hua Feifei hadn't been feeding pigs for many days, and she wasn't even a main player yet, so how could it be tied to her personal achievements? She was still struggling hard.
I just use random words.
There are a lot of people at the Agricultural and Subsidiary Station today.
The pigs of the 12th Brigade of Pingquan Town were basically handed in during these two days. Each team had at least 30 to 40 people who drove the pigs out from the villages.
It was clearly a major event for the brigade, but all the people who showed up were local villagers, and almost none of the educated youth came.
As a result, Ye Yu and a few others who joined in the fun with the villagers became conspicuous again.
Due to the short time, the appearance of the educated youth has not yet become rough from working in the fields. There are also differences in their behavior, and some of them have obvious local accents. The local villagers can easily identify them at a glance.
When it was Wang Jiagou's turn to weigh the pigs, Hua Feifei squeezed to the front and held her breath with the two aunts, staring at the big scale in front of them without blinking.
"141 pounds!"
"Hurrah!"
Hua Feifei, Han Jing, Xu Fei and other villagers cheered together. Even in public places, they were more relaxed and cheered more enthusiastically and loudly.
"139 pounds"
“Great!”
"The next one is higher!"
He roared as if he was watching some live game.
"142 pounds."
“Ah ...
People who don’t know might think that their country has joined the WTO or successfully bid for the Olympic Games today.
In fact, the purchase price for pork weighing more than 120 kilograms this year is 1.5 yuan per kilogram.
That is, Wang Jiagou worked hard to raise pigs for a year, and the total income was 141+139+142-1203=386 yuan, which seemed okay, but this was shared by hundreds of people in the village, and each person received less than one yuan. In addition, there were still two annual pigs left in the village that could be used for meat.
Having witnessed the decadence of modern people and faced the extinction of humanity in the last days, Ye Yu could not quite understand this kind of ever-positive spiritual vitality.
But she felt that she had changed during her time in the countryside, otherwise she wouldn't have been dragged here by Hua Feifei, or she wouldn't have generously given each of them a spoonful of soup when she cooked pickled fish (Hua Feifei: Is this very generous?)
At this moment, Ye Yu was also infected by the cheers and joy, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
The people from other brigades were full of doubts. They were not doubting why the people of Wangjiagou were cheering for the New Year pig. In previous years, some brigades that raised pigs weighing less than 120 kilograms even knelt down and begged the officials of the Agricultural and Deputy Agricultural Station. What they were curious about was why the villagers of Wangjiagou and the educated youth from their village got along so well.
The captain of the Red Flag Brigade and the village cadres were also there. He also saw that the two educated youth in their team were completely integrated into the team and were cheering and jumping for joy for the harvest in Wangjiagou.
???
What's happening?
The pigs raised by the Red Flag Brigade are far better than those raised by Wangjiagou, right? Not only are there a large number of pigs, more than a dozen in total, but also because they have a channel to buy a little pig feed, the heaviest pig weighs 250 kilograms.
They can definitely be rated as the star pigs of Pingquan Commune. At the commune brigade representative meeting at the end of the year, the commune president will definitely praise them in front of all the commune leaders.
What’s so great about a 150-pound pig?
Ding Xiangsong, the captain of the Red Flag Society, was puzzled. He, who had always been very competitive, even felt jealous.
When the agricultural and sideline cooperative officials were settling income for each village and issuing this year's pig slaughtering certificates, Ding Xiangsong approached Wang Zhiming, the captain of Wangjiagou.
He pretended to ask casually: "Your team's educated youth are here too? These city dwellers who are used to being spoiled are good at nothing and are always the best at making trouble. Why are you praising them? Do you think the rice you throw away is not enough?"
The other team leaders seemed to agree with this statement, and some even cited examples on the spot to strongly criticize the educated youth group, even going so far as to say that the city people were really useless.
"It takes a year or so for a new recruit to blend into the group of veterans. It's only been a few days and you're already defining them as people who just eat and do nothing?"
Wang Zhiming rolled his eyes. He had listened to the conflicts between the locals and the educated youth all the way and had thought that they were exaggerated at first, but he didn't expect that they were all restrained.
He also hopes that those young people who have left their hometowns can live a better life. He also advised: "They have been studying for more than ten years. No matter how young and strong they are, they still need a learning process."
"Young and strong? They are not as strong as the 60-year-old man in our village," Ding Xiangsong said with certainty, "Based on their ferociousness, they won't be able to earn 10 work points a day even if they are given another 10 or 20 years."
"Haha, the most capable person in our village right now is a city kid."
None of the captains believed it.
Seeing Wang Zhiming's determined face and thinking about his identity as a retired soldier, they looked at Han Jing and the others with suspicion. They also included Yang Xiuxiu and Zhao Chunjiao, who were not from the Red Flag Brigade, but they quickly excluded all the female educated youth.
Focus on the two men.
So what if Han Jinggao is tall? He is as thin as a bamboo pole and looks like the wind can blow him away. Xu Fei is a little better, but fat people are rare in this era. He is not fat, just of average height, looks gentle and wears a pair of glasses that only cultured people wear.
Still don't believe it.
Wang Zhiming didn't care whether they believed it or not, and he had no obligation to explain it to them.
At this moment, the herd of pigs that had been handed in suddenly got out of control and jumped out of the fences one after another. The people at the agricultural and sub-station were unable to control these wild boars that were rushing around for a while.
The 250-pound pig was especially energetic. It took the lead and not only knocked down two people, but also jumped out of the fence and rushed towards the crowd.
Although the fighting power of domestic pigs is certainly not comparable to that of wild boars, the sight of something weighing more than 200 kilograms suddenly rushing towards you is still quite terrifying visually.
There was a commotion among the crowd.
Before the burly men could regain control of the "star pig", a figure rushed out.
But Ye Yu stretched out his left hand to push Han Jingxufei away, and pulled
Hua Feifei leaned sideways to avoid the celebrity pig's charge and then "gently" kicked it.
Good news:
The pig didn't fly more than ten meters.
But the pig weighing more than 250 kilograms fell to the ground at once under Ye Yu's seemingly effortless kick, and even rolled over on its side, screaming twice.
“…”
There was silence.
Team leaders including Ding Xiangsong finally believed that the "most hardworking educated youth" mentioned by Wang Zhiming really existed and they dared not make any irresponsible claims again. They looked around but still could not believe that it was this beautiful female educated youth.
It’s true that you can’t judge a book by its cover.