After the old educated youth finished eating the stewed potatoes and meat, they slowed down their eating speed. This action left the new educated youth dumbfounded.
Zhou Zhou saw the new educated youth's expression and was not surprised. He smiled and said:
"You don't understand, do you? Once you've been an educated youth in the countryside for a year, you'll understand. Here, we can hardly eat meat a few times a year."
"This place is so close to the mountains, can't we hunt pheasants and rabbits from the mountains?"
Liu Dong didn't understand.
When this was mentioned, the old educated youth all laughed:
"Do you think the saying 'live on the mountain and eat the mountain' means there are a lot of treasures on the mountain waiting for us to pick up?"
"Isn't it?" Liu Dong was very surprised, and the other educated youth were also puzzled.
"You'll know if you try it."
The old educated youth were reluctant to engage in verbal battles with the new educated youth. Explaining was too much trouble; it was better to practice it yourself.
Afterwards, everyone ate and chatted, sharing what they had seen and heard that day, with laughter all around. In this atmosphere, it seemed as if all the fatigue and difficulties had disappeared.
After the meal, everyone did not rush to disperse, but sat together and continued the unfinished topic.
Chen Aiping and Ma Yingli were cleaning up the dishes on the side, occasionally looking up at their companions who were chatting and laughing by the fire. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
The new educated youth ate the food prepared by the old educated youth, and also took out the things they brought to share with the old educated youth.
Zhou Hongmei brought out a large handful of fried peanuts, Zhang Erxiu a bag of biscuits, Liu Dong a bag of peach cakes, and Wang Liming a White Rabbit candy. Qin Wan brought out a bag of egg cakes.
While sharing food, everyone talked about some of the rules of the brigade when working:
"Speaking of our brigade, the system is quite reasonable. Here, the maximum work points per day are ten. If you can complete ten work points ahead of time, you can leave work early. If you can complete ten work points for six consecutive days, the brigade will reward you with a day off. Of course, if you are caught slacking off three times, you will also be punished..."
The old educated youth said.
"It's easy to judge whether a worker has completed a full work score, but how do you judge whether a worker has slacked off?"
The new educated youth asked.
"Oh, isn't that what the scorekeepers have been notified of? They'll be patrolling at irregular intervals, and they'll be able to tell at a glance who's slacking off."
Qin Wan listened, her heart agitated for a moment, simply because she heard the words "full work points for six consecutive days." "Full work points," she could do it.
After sharing food and some gossip, both the old and new educated youth felt sleepy, so everyone went back to their dormitories and started to wash up.
Sleeping on the unfamiliar kang, Qin Wan thought she might not be able to fall asleep. Who knew that she not only fell asleep, but also had a not very pleasant dream.
In the dream, she was harmed by a gangster in the village, became pregnant, and was forced to marry the man who harmed her.
From then on, she not only had to wash clothes and cook for that family, but also had to earn full work points every day. Even so, she still could not escape the tragic fate of being beaten by that family.
She wrote letters home, but her family ignored her and left her to fend for herself.
When she was in labor and about to give birth, the birth canal could not be opened because it was a premature birth, and in the end, two people died.
When Qin Wan woke up from the nightmare, he still felt the pain.
Her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. The images in her dream cut through her heart like a sharp knife, making it impossible for her to calm her inner anger and resentment.
At this moment, she felt that it was not only the original owner's experience, but also her own indelible pain.
The night was deep outside the window. Moonlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, shining on her resolute face, illuminating a pair of eyes that gleamed with determination. She began to recall the plot again and realized that tomorrow was the day she would encounter that gangster.
"In my last life, you made my life worse than death. In this life, I will make your life hopeless." Qin Wan swore secretly in her heart. She knew that this was not just a dream, but a wake-up call to his soul.
Qin Wan sat up, took a deep breath, and let the cold air cool the anger burning in his chest.
She understood that if she wanted to change her fate, she had to take the initiative from this moment on and never let history repeat itself.
The next morning, the sun shone through the clouds onto the busy village road. Qin Wan went out early, having already made a careful plan in her mind.
She did not avoid the place where she met the gangster in her previous life memory, nor did she relax her vigilance. She wanted to use her foresight to thoroughly investigate the gangster's whereabouts.
She would try not to attack, but if she did, she would definitely hit the vital point.
As time passed, Qin Wan, relying on his understanding of the plot, tried hard to find the gangster who had brought disaster to the original owner and made the original owner fall into despair in the previous life.
She still remembered the gangster's name was Shi Huaizhong. Not only was he a frequent thief in the village and uneducated, he also often peeped at women going to the toilet, so he was called Shi Bad Seed.
In the book, the author explained that in the second year after the original owner's death, he was discovered by a woman's man while peeping at her in the bathroom.
The woman's husband was a vicious person. He knocked Shi Huaizhong unconscious with a punch and threw him into the manure pit outside the toilet, where he drowned.
Today is the day when Shi Huaizhong meets the original owner by chance.
Qin Wan hid in a forest at the foot of the mountain, carefully watching everyone who walked on the path.
Shi Huaizhong finally showed up. He was just as carefree as described in the book, with a cigarette in his mouth, walking unsteadily, his eyes darting around, as if he was always looking for his prey.
When he came over, Qin Wan did not alarm him. She wanted to follow him quietly, looking for the best opportunity, not to strike, but to win with one strike. She wanted to teach Shi Huai a profound lesson when he was most vulnerable.
As usual, Shi Huaizhong wandered around the village, the dark corners on the mountains and the outside world, looking for someone to attack.
He had heard that there were four female educated youth going to the countryside this time, all of them were as beautiful as flowers. If he could sleep with them all and taste them one by one, he would feel so happy that he would fly away.
As for what happened after sleeping, he didn't think about it. As educated youth, when they came to their countryside, they had to coil up like dragons and lie down like tigers. Who would care about their life or death?
Besides, even if they are slept with by someone, they dare not fart and ruin their reputation. They will be despised by everyone. At that time, not only will men take advantage of them from time to time, but even women will point fingers at them and curse them.
If that's the case, they might as well swallow their anger and pretend nothing happened.
He walked and hummed a little tune, and his mind was wandering. Before he knew it, he had come to the most remote place in the woods.
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