Chapter 031 Uninvited Guests
I have to say that Uncle Gu's kang-making skills are really impeccable. He finished it in less than an hour, and the kang he built was very neat, fast and good.
"You can't sleep on the new kang yet. You have to burn firewood to slowly warm it up until the moisture in the mud has dissipated before you can use it."
Fearing that Ye Qing, who came from the south, didn't know how to use the kang, Gu Zhenxing carefully taught Ye Qing how to heat the kang, reminding him over and over again about every detail.
Ye Qing carefully wrote down all the precautions. When the Gu family left, she handed the prescription for pregnancy-preserving medicine that she had promised to write for Gu Weixi to Yang Dazhi.
"I only prescribed the more common herbs. Tomorrow, you can take some time to go to the commune health center to see if you can get the herbs you need. If you can't, come back and find me. I'll go back into the mountains and collect the missing herbs."
The three of them were very grateful after hearing this, and Yang Dazhi patted his chest and said:
"Big sister, whenever you want to go into the mountains, just call me. I'll be your guide anytime!"
Ye Qing really wanted to go into the mountains. Ever since she came to Changbai Mountain, the supernatural power in her body had been in a state of hunger and thirst, constantly clamoring to remind her to hurry into the mountains and eat a good meal.
But if Yang Dazhi escorts her, it might not be so convenient for her to move around.
But since she had just arrived, she really needed someone to lead the way, otherwise she might not be able to get out once she got in.
After all, Changbai Mountain not only has dense forests and vast vegetation, but is also filled with various dangers and countless types of wild animals. If you really encounter one, it would be no joke.
Ye Qing did not reject Yang Dazhi's kindness. The matter of absorbing wood energy could not be rushed. He had to let the locals take him in and let him familiarize himself with the place first.
After seeing off the Gu family, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Ye Qing quickly boiled some hot water for Grandma Zou to wash up. After she lay down on the kang, she began to give acupuncture to the old lady.
In later generations, glaucoma and cataracts were mainly treated with surgery, supplemented by medication, but that was based on the increasingly sophisticated and high-end medical equipment of later generations. In this day and age, this method is definitely impossible to achieve.
Fortunately, Ye Qing has supernatural powers and powerful flying needle techniques. The combination of these two can achieve good therapeutic effects by continuously stimulating the acupuncture points and meridians.
The first acupuncture session lasted a little longer, probably nearly an hour. Perhaps it was because the feeling of the healing power entering the body was too comfortable. By the time Ye Qing removed the densely packed needles around the old lady's eyes, Grandma Zou had already fallen asleep in a daze.
Ye Qing had anticipated this situation, so before the treatment, she asked the old lady to make bedtime preparations in advance. Now that she was asleep, she covered her with a quilt and walked out of the room.
She had not forgotten that the scraps of rice she had picked up from the fields during the day had not yet been planted. It would be convenient for her to do her work at night when it was quiet and no one would come to the end of the village.
Spread the rice grains evenly on the private plot in the yard, and then it will catalyze the supernatural power.
Although her current ability level has reached level two, it does not mean that the wood energy in her body can be used at any time.
In fact, the catalytic amount of secondary energy is still limited. For annual herbaceous plants like rice, the amount it can catalyze is only two to three acres per day from germination to maturity.
If it is a perennial tree, the energy consumed by a single tree is dozens of times that of an herbaceous plant. In order to make the tree grow to the point where it can bloom and bear fruit, being able to produce fifty trees a day is definitely the limit of her ability.
Of course, there are only a few handfuls of rice seeds now, estimated to be only two or three taels, which Ye Qing can still afford.
After the supernatural power was applied, within three or two minutes, the small private plot in the yard was filled with golden rice ears.
After finishing her work during the day, Ye Qing went to the farm tool storage room to ask for a sickle to borrow for weeding the yard. The lady in the farm tool storage room did not doubt her and allowed her to take the tools back after registering them.
At this moment, Ye Qing once again demonstrated her ability to cut rice ears and quickly harvested the rice.
A small bag of rice seeds can actually plant less than 100 square meters, but because Ye Qing used his supernatural powers to stimulate the excellent genes of the rice seeds to the best state, the grains of these rice are very full after the rice ears are formed and filled with pulp, and the rice ears are also long and heavy, almost bending the stalks.
This resulted in that when Ye Qing finished harvesting, the rice ears filled four large sacks, and after threshing the grains, they would weigh nearly two hundred kilograms.
Ye Qing was very satisfied with this. She was not greedy, so she just did it this time and would stop after she finished eating all the food.
After all, nearly 200 kilograms of high-quality rice can make about 130 to 140 kilograms of white rice, which is enough for her and the old lady to eat for several months.
After moving all the rice grains into the cellar and hiding them, Ye Qing returned to the ground and extracted the residual energy from the rice stubble in the yard and the rice stubble left on the ground. He then tied the straw into bundles and stuffed them into the woodshed. After the vitality was absorbed from the straw, it had completely dried up and could be used to start a fire.
When he was about to leave the woodshed, Ye Qing noticed the old hen covered in the rattan basket.
The old hen has been locked in the house for nearly ten hours without food or water. If it could speak, it would have cursed its mother long ago.
Ye Qing immediately felt embarrassed and quickly apologized to the old hen who was about to get angry and put her hands on her hips:
"I'm sorry, it's mainly because I've never raised any living creature other than humans, and I didn't even think of preparing food for you. Next time, remember to remind me, like if you lay an egg or something like that, I'll be happy to feed you because you're a hero!"
As he spoke, Ye Qing grabbed a handful of corn and sorghum flour, and plucked a handful of old vegetables from the old lady's private plot in the yard, chopped them up, and brought them in with the other vegetables.
The old hen was so excited to see that she finally had food to eat that she flapped her wings non-stop. Ye Qing was about to put down the food bowl, but seeing that the old hen was a little thin, he was kind enough to add a little wood energy to the food bowl to nourish the hen.
The dinner with added ingredients certainly tasted extraordinary. The old hen was so busy eating that she didn't even care about clucking and just focused on pecking at the food happily.
Ye Qing did not continue to guard the woodshed, because the old hen reminded her that the fence in the yard was old and had holes in many places. If she wanted to raise chickens in the yard, she had to repair the fence first.
But this was not a problem for her, because she had a rattan stick. She could just throw it over the fence and easily cover the entire fence, filling up the holes underneath.
For fear of being noticed, Ye Qing did not allow the vines to spread outward, but grew inside the fence, and their height was only two-thirds of the original fence. If one did not walk around the yard frequently and pay special attention to the condition of the fence at Grandma Zou's house, one would not notice how much the yard had changed overnight.
Grandma Zou is blind, and the only person who usually visits her home is Aunt Gu. But recently, Gu Weixi showed signs of miscarriage, and Aunt Gu must be busy taking care of her own daughter and cannot pay attention to this side. Therefore, Ye Qingyi was not worried at all that her actions in the yard would be exposed.
After finally repairing the yard, Ye Qing also built a chicken coop with rattan in a corner of the yard against the wall. After covering it with a layer of dry straw, he prepared to take the old hen outside.
What surprised Ye Qing was that in just a short while after she went out, the old hen not only ate up all the food in the food bowl, but also laid an egg quietly!
Seeing Ye Qing coming in, the old hen was quite arrogant. She puffed out her chest and cooed twice at Ye Qing proudly, as if she was asking for credit.
Ye Qing picked up the egg curiously. It was hot and a little burning.
She couldn't help but give the old hen a thumbs up.
Since this guy is so eager to achieve sales, she will have to give it more food and extra feed in the future to make it fat and strong so that it can lay more eggs!
Ye Qing was just about to squat down to catch the chicken, but unexpectedly at this moment, the old hen suddenly got angry, flapping its wings and retreating, with fear in its eyes and its feathers bared, ready for a fight.
Ye Qing was stunned and felt something was wrong, so he turned around immediately.
When she turned around, she met a pair of green eyes in the darkness.
Oh my god!
Ye Qing was frightened by these eyes, and the vine in his hand almost turned into a whip and swung out.
After she took a deep breath and calmed down, she finally saw who the uninvited guest was.
The half-closed eyes glowed with a strange light, but in the dim moonlight at night, one could still vaguely see its shape. It was about a foot long, with a long tail, and its sneaky and wild habits. What else could this thing be but a weasel?
The key point is that this weasel is quite courageous. Even after being discovered by Ye Qing, it did not run away. Instead, it tentatively stepped out its little legs.
Ye Qing's heart was alarmed, thinking that this thing was coming to steal his chickens, so he immediately turned around to protect his old hen.
What a joke! Whether her family can eat eggs every day from now on depends on this old hen. If this weasel takes a bite of it, all her steamed egg custard, poached eggs, fried eggs, fried eggs, and egg cakes will be ruined.
Ye Qing took a defensive posture, ready to whip the weasel with the whip in his hand at any time.
But the weasel didn't bother to pay any attention to her. The little guy rushed straight into the woodshed, ignored the defensive formation set up by Ye Qing, and went directly to the food bowl next to the old hen.
Then he licked up the remaining food residues after the old hen had pecked them.
Ye Qing: Emmm, this is hard to comment.
She was completely stunned by this scene. She stared at the weasel chomping on the chicken food. It took her several seconds to react. The weasel must have smelled the wood-type supernatural power she mixed into the food bowl and ran into the woodshed to snatch food from the hens! Is this thing a spirit? Its nose is so sharp!
Ye Qing was so confused and amused by what this weasel had done.
Seeing this little yellow-haired creature squatting there licking the bare food bowl, he looked really funny and pitiful. After thinking about it, Ye Qing got up and went to the cellar. He dug out two sweet potatoes from the bottom, injected a little wood-type power into the sweet potatoes, and handed them to Mr. Weasel, who looked like a starving ghost reincarnated.
Not expecting Ye Qing to come up to it, the weasel's eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of ferocity, and it bared its teeth as if it was ready to rush up and bite people at any time. However, the moment Ye Qing handed the two sweet potatoes to it, it was stunned for a moment, its nose twitched slightly, and its blown-up yellow hair became gentle again, and even its tail that was flying high fell down obediently.
Ye Qing put the sweet potato on the ground and took two steps back to a safe social distance.
The weasel hesitated for less than two seconds, then walked forward, grabbed a piece of sweet potato and started biting into it.
Then his eyes suddenly lit up. He stuffed the sweet potato into his mouth and held it in his mouth, then picked up the remaining sweet potato, turned around and ran away.
When it ran to the door, it turned around and looked at Ye Qing again with its green eyes, then disappeared into the night.
Ye Qing then noticed that this guy had actually climbed over along the fence in the yard. This thing was very agile and climbed up the two-meter-high fence in just a few moves. It was so smart that Ye Qing couldn't help but be amazed.
So did she build this fence just to avoid loneliness?
Ye Qing turned around again, stroked his chin and looked thoughtfully at the old hen that was trembling with fear in the corner.
The more she looked at it, the more she doubted it. Was it really safe to keep it in the yard? Would it be stolen by Wong Tai Sin while she was at work?
Ye Qing originally planned to throw the chicken into the yard to roam free, but now he has given up this idea.
She thought it would be better to keep the hen in the woodshed, and when she had time, she would build a chicken coop with a higher security factor for the old hen. Otherwise, she was afraid that the meat she had worked so hard to raise would end up being eaten by a weasel. That would be such a waste!
Over the next two days, Ye Qing's life in the village went on as planned and gradually got back on track. She adapted well to the new environment and felt like a fish in water, becoming more and more relaxed and comfortable.
But people's joys and sorrows are often not shared.
The educated youth who went to the countryside with her were all complaining and crying for their parents. They were injured or sick all the time. Their lives were like hell and they were on the verge of exploding and collapsing at any time.
With Aunt Gu around, Ye Qing quickly integrated into the group of aunts and uncles in the village. While working, he happily watched the shows put on by the educated youth. From time to time, he could get first-hand information. It can be said that he lived a fulfilling life every day.
The female educated youth Meng Jia, whom she had dived into the river to rescue, developed a high fever on the night she fell into the water and it took two days for her to recover.
After she recovered from her illness, the female educated youth returned to work.
Then, this Meng Jia girl started her revenge action, and her action was so swift and her fighting ability was so strong.
First, on the day of work, this sister pinned a female educated youth named Liu Mei in a rice field and beat her up. She also put a sickle to the female educated youth's face and told her to be careful, which frightened the female educated youth so much that she wet her pants on the spot.
Later, she said that she accidentally lost her watch on the way to pick wild vegetables, and deliberately led a group of villagers in the village to help look for it. Then, when everyone found an abandoned thatched house at the foot of the mountain, they were startled to see a pair of wild bird in the house.
Zhao Mazi was having sex with widow Zhang in the village in a thatched cottage and was caught by the whole village. The captain and Zhao Mazi's father were so angry that they almost threw the two shameless people into a pond.
At that time, the punishment for such hooliganism in the city was very severe, but in this remote mountain village, the captain still had the final say and the situation did not get so bad that the person had to be brought to the authorities.
If it was someone else in the village who committed the same crime, everyone would at most spit and curse at them. At the very least, Zhao Mazi and the widow would get a marriage certificate and become a real couple, which would shut everyone up.
But who made Zhao Mazi such a dishonest person, stealing from everywhere and offending all the residents in the village?
Now that something like this has happened, everyone in the village is watching. No one is willing to let it go so easily. They are all clamoring to parade the couple through the streets as an example to everyone, and then everyone in the village will come and throw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at them!
The captain just felt tired, but he was not stupid. After reviewing the whole thing, he understood what was going on.
It was definitely true that Zhao Mazi had an affair, but it was the female educated youth named Meng Jia who used this incident to stir up the resentment that had been accumulated in the hearts of the villagers for so many years.
It is true that even a rabbit will bite when it is cornered. These educated youth from the city usually seem quiet, but I didn't expect them to be so cunning when scheming against others. None of them should be underestimated!
But things have come to this, what can we do?
Zhao Mazi had angered everyone, so even if Wu Yongbing wanted to go easy on him, he had to ask the people in the village whether they agreed.
What's more, since the female educated youth dared to do this, she must have already planned the next step.
If he didn't deal with Zhao Mazi seriously, this female educated youth would dare to cause trouble in the commune or even the county. If government officials were called in, the situation would be out of control.
If it really comes to that, the final outcome of the whole incident will not be something he, a small production team leader, can control.
So after thinking it over, Wu Yongbing felt that he couldn't be soft-hearted.
The final result was that both Zhao Mazi and the widow were punished by Wu Yongbing to scavenge feces. In addition, when the cat winter came, they would be forced to go to the river to reclaim wasteland. They would be punished for three years and their work points would not be counted!
What does it mean to work on the river and reclaim wasteland?
That is to dredge and open up rivers, build reservoirs and dams, and reclaim new farmland.
The reason why the Great Northern Wilderness at that time was called the Great Northern Wilderness was because of its special landforms.
There are many river basins, valleys and plains located in vast barren areas. To turn them into fertile farmland or to build them into rivers that can smoothly irrigate farmland requires a huge amount of engineering work.
At that time, there were not many engineering equipment available, unlike in later generations when people could just push excavators across the wasteland.
At that time, reclamation of wasteland and construction of river embankments could only be done manually, and a large number of strong laborers had to be recruited to participate in these major projects.
Moreover, this type of work is basically carried out in late autumn and the cold winter months, because in spring, summer and early autumn, people have to farm in their respective production teams and have no time to do this.
As a rule, when recruiting labor for such projects, each family is usually required to send a young man. In the winter, when the temperature outside is dozens of degrees below zero and the soil is frozen, these people have to go out to open up wasteland with shovels and hoes. Not only do they need to provide their own clothes and food, they even have to dig simple holes in the ground and live there for several months.
In short, no matter whether it is river work or land reclamation, the hardship involved is unimaginable, and most people cannot endure it without some resilience.
Now the captain said that they would punish this couple for doing this, and they would be sentenced to three years in prison. After hearing this, everyone was speechless about the result of the punishment.
The old educated youth were so frightened that they gasped and were secretly shocked, thinking that this was too cruel.
Only Meng Jia stood silently in the crowd and looked at the captain. After a while, she turned and left.
But the captain knew that she had waited for the result she wanted and would not hold on to it anymore.
It was only after Aunt Gu gave Ye Qing a brief explanation that he understood what it meant to go down to the river to work and to reclaim wasteland. Looking at Zhao Mazi who was getting his comeuppance over there, Ye Qing really didn't feel any sympathy at all.
She knew that Meng Jia's last fall into the water was the result of someone's plot. At least from the surface, among the people involved in that incident were Liu Mei who was beaten and this Zhao Mazi. As for whether there were other behind-the-scenes masterminds, Ye Qing had no idea.
Originally, she thought that Meng Jia was a naive and innocent girl who was easily bullied. She didn't expect that this girl could be so fierce when she got angry, and her counterattack was so clean and neat that Ye Qing couldn't help but praise her, "Well done!"
This girl's temper towards Ye Qing made her want to hook up with this young lady.
Ye Qing was eager to make a move, but what she didn't expect was that before she could send out her friendship signal, the young lady took the initiative to come to her.
After watching the lively conversation between Zhao Mazi and the widow, Ye Qing went home after work, picked up a bag of rice and prepared to go to the waterwheel mill to pound the rice. However, just as he was about to leave, he bumped into Meng Jia who came to express his gratitude.
Seeing that Ye Qing was going to the mill, the girl didn't hesitate and directly took out a brocade box from her arms and handed it to Ye Qing:
"Ye Zhiqing, I fell into the water before, and I was saved by you. I have been wanting to come and thank you in person these days, but I have been having a high fever, so I have not been able to come up to your house."
"This is a silk scarf I brought from my hometown. It has been kept at the bottom of a box and I have never worn it. I am giving it to you as a meeting gift. I hope you don't mind."
Ye Qing tried to decline, but when she saw that the young lady was not being polite, she accepted it with a smile.
Seeing that Ye Qing was going to the mill, Meng Jia immediately came forward to help Ye Qing. The two of them carried the sacks and chatted as they walked towards the river.
Ye Qing was very impressed with what this educated young man Meng did today and couldn't help but praise him:
"Today you dealt with that scumbag named Zhao. That move was really satisfying!"
Meng Jia was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly: "Does it make you feel better? But many people in Zhiqing think I'm too much, especially because I beat Liu Mei. They all think I'm cruel and ruthless. Now those people stay away from me, afraid to have anything to do with me."
"Besides, I have offended the captain this time. He knows that I was the one who planned this, and I forced him to deal with Zhao Mazi and the widow Zhang. He must have made a note of me in his notebook. I don't know when he will make things difficult for me in the future."
Ye Qing frowned upon hearing this:
"Captain, you shouldn't do that, right? This isn't your fault. They provoked you first, and you're just retaliating. Can't you fight back after being wronged? That doesn't make sense anywhere!"
Ye Qing's words made Meng Jia's expression even more bitter and tangled.
It was obvious that Ye Zhiqing had just arrived and had not yet figured out the complicated relationships in this village, so his ideas were so naive.
"Do you know which three big families are in this village?" Meng Jia suddenly asked a very irrelevant question.
Ye Qing shook his head, puzzled: "What do you mean?"
Meng Jia explained: "In Kaoshantun, the three surnames Wu, Zhao, and Gu account for the majority, among which the Wu family has the most people, followed by the Zhao family and the Gu family."
"Among these three families, the Zhao family has a daughter who married Captain Wu's second son, Wu Min, so the Wu and Zhao families are considered relatives by marriage."
"This is why Zhao Mazi has been a dirty trick in the village for so many years, and no one has taken the initiative to root out this cancer."
"Because more than half of the people in the village are related to him, no matter how evil Zhao Mazi is, the villagers are worried. If they take the initiative to propose to punish Zhao Mazi, they may offend a large number of people openly or secretly."
"Today, I pushed this matter behind the scenes, which really gave everyone an opportunity to unite against a common enemy and have a legitimate reason. Everyone's guns are pointed at Zhao Mazi, so there is no question of who will be the first to speak out. Zhao Mazi has incurred public anger, and it is inevitable that he will be punished."
"But as a relative of the Zhao family, the captain must be unhappy to know that this was planned by an outsider like me."
"Besides, the other members of the Zhao family are not fools. They will definitely figure out what's going on after they go back and think about it."
"Even if the captain wants to appease Zhao Laozhu's family, he must do something to make things difficult for me. Otherwise, he won't be able to give Zhao Laozhu an explanation. How can Zhao Laozhu's family vent their anger?"
Ye Qing was dumbfounded. He had never expected that such a small village at the foot of a mountain would have so many twists and turns.
She couldn't help but feel anxious about the situation of this young woman, and asked with a frown:
"So what are you going to do?"
Meng Jia shrugged, indicating that he had nothing to do.
"When the enemy comes, we will fight him with our generals; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. We will try our best to deal with it. If it doesn't work, we will just swallow our losses. There is no such thing as a smooth sailing in life. As long as it doesn't harm anyone's life and self-esteem, and doesn't put my marriage at risk, it's okay to swallow my losses and learn a lesson."
Ye Qing thought this made a lot of sense and didn't know what to say.
But if this happened to her, she might not handle it this way, because she would rather die than live in disgrace and would never suffer loss.
Since she wanted to teach a lesson, she had to knock the opponent down, and also have a shocking effect. Even if it meant injuring 800 of her own and 1,000 of the enemy, she would go crazy and let others know that she was not to be trifled with, and scare those villains away from ever touching her again!
But people have different personalities and ways of thinking. Meng Jia's flexible and tough character also has its merits. At least Ye Qing admires this girl very much. This is the first person of her age she has met since she came to this era who she feels she can interact with more.
"Where are you from? How long have you been working in the countryside in Kaoshantun?" Ye Qing asked curiously.
Meng Jia smiled and said, "I'm from Yancheng. Yancheng is closer to Jicheng, and the compulsory policy of going to the countryside was implemented the earliest. I have been here for two years. Last year, I was almost able to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, but unfortunately, my luck was a little bad. On the day of the commune examination, I happened to have my period, and my stomach hurt so much that I couldn't concentrate on the last subject. As a result, I missed the first place by one point."
Speaking of the latter part, Meng Jia looked a little disappointed.
This is another blind spot of Ye Qing's knowledge:
"What do you mean, you can get into the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University just by taking the commune exam?"
Meng Jia saw Ye Qing's confused expression and knew that she didn't understand, so he quickly explained:
"Last year, two colleges in Jicheng resumed their enrollment. Workers, peasants and soldiers in all provinces and cities can recommend talents to go to college, and our Hongqi Commune was also allocated a quota."
"So for the sake of fairness, the Red Flag Commune organized an open examination last year. Anyone who met the requirements could sign up to participate, and the one with the highest score in the end could get a place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University."
Ye Qing was a little curious: "Does that mean it hasn't started yet this year? But it's almost October, when does this university start?"
"It's normal. Last year, the farming season was over and the public examinations started around the end of November. The results came out in December and the places were pushed up. Admission letters came out before the Chinese New Year and we could go to school in the spring."
Meng Jia asked Ye Qing with a smile,
"Do you want to participate this year? If so, you should take time to read books and review your lessons. The public examination consists of four subjects: Chinese, mathematics, ideology and politics, and common sense. It will cover some of the content of elementary school, junior high school, and high school. If you need it, I can lend you my notes."
Ye Qing immediately shook his head like a wave drum:
"No, no, I won't participate."
She was not interested in this Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. After finally going to the countryside and coming to Changbai Mountain, she had not yet entered the mountain to fully absorb the spiritual energy. She would only eat her fill and then force herself to go back to the city!
How wonderful it is to live in the countryside, where she can grow crops, vegetables and raise chickens. If she has free time, she can go into the mountains to hunt for game, or go fishing in the river. Life would be so comfortable, a thousand times better than in the city!
However, Ye Qing could see that Meng Jia must be very eager to go to this university. Judging from her age, she should be around 20 years old. At this age, if she continues to waste time in the village, she may not be able to withstand the pressure of age and will just marry a farmer.
But this girl is obviously ambitious and has great ideals. If she were to start a family in the countryside and live there for the rest of her life, she would probably feel dissatisfied and even regret it for the rest of her life.
Thinking about the huge wave of educated youth returning to the city after the resumption of the college entrance examination, and the fact that so many young men and women abandoned their marriages and children in order to return to the city, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel nervous, a little worried that this girl would also end up becoming one of the returning youth who abandoned their husbands and children.
She couldn't help but remind him:
"Since you were just a little short last year, your chances of passing this year should be higher. But don't be discouraged even if you fail this time. If you fail in one year, then you can try in three, five, eight, or ten years. Just like you said, life is not always smooth sailing. I think as long as you have strong enough faith and perseverance, you will eventually achieve your goals and dreams. After all, opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. Don't you agree?"
If young people in later generations heard such poisonous chicken soup, they would definitely sneer at it. But for Meng Jia, what she lacks now is someone who can give her spiritual understanding and support.
Because everyone around her advised her, even her parents wrote to her to warn her to give up the idea of going to college, thinking that girls didn't need to study so much. They kept reminding her that she was already 21 years old and must find a suitable partner to get married and have children as soon as possible, otherwise if she delayed any longer she would become an old spinster and there would be fewer and fewer partners for her to choose from in the future.
But Meng Jia was unwilling to just accept her fate. She also didn't want to be trapped in this remote mountain village for the rest of her life. She felt that as long as she could pass the exam, one day she would be able to become an eagle soaring in the blue sky.
Now Ye Qing's words resonated with her soul. She felt that she was instantly injected with a powerful energy. No matter how strong the storm was, it would not shake her faith in the slightest.
"Ye Zhiqing, thank you so much. Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. This sentence is really philosophical. I have decided to take this sentence as my motto in the future!"
Ye Qing looked at Meng Jia's bright eyes that were full of hope, and couldn't help but smile.
When they arrived at the waterwheel mill, Ye Qing poured the rice in the sack into the water mill.
This mill was built on the bank of Yazi River and used the water flow to drive the water mill to achieve automatic rice pounding.
However, the speed of pounding rice is affected by water power. If the water level in the river drops and the flow slows down, the speed of the water mill will slow down accordingly, and there is even the possibility of a direct strike.
While waiting for the rice to be pounded, Ye Qing was chatting with Meng Jiaxian. For some reason, her mind suddenly flashed back to the scene when she was at Captain Wu's house and Wu Yueying questioned her why she went into the river to save someone.
One question that had puzzled her before was what kind of deep hatred could make a female educated youth push another female educated youth into the river, and even want her to be entangled by a country second-rate guy in an attempt to ruin her life?
But after chatting with Meng Jia for a while, Ye Qing suddenly thought of a scary point, and the more she thought about it, the more terrified she became.
She immediately raised her head and asked Meng Jia anxiously:
"In last year's commune exam, you were only one point behind the first place. Does everyone know this result?"
Meng Jia nodded in confusion:
"Yes, the commune needs to publicly post the scores and test papers of the top ten, so that everyone knows who got the recommendation quota. If it is not made public, what if there is some cat shit in it?"
Obviously, Meng Jia didn't think there was anything wrong with doing this.
But Ye Qing was shocked and realized where the problem lay.
Yes, the first one got the admission notice from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University fairly and impartially, and went back to the city to study happily.
But those who failed the exam may not be willing to accept it.
Then, these people will have to fight again next year.
But do these people have no idea whether they can pass the exam?
If you know that you have no chance if your grades are not good, then you may not want to win so strongly.
But what if it is possible to get in if you just try harder? For example, what about those people who were just a little bit away from getting in last year, who were ranked 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th on the score list?
Will they accept their fate? The answer is definitely no.
Since they are unwilling to accept their fate, what will they do?
There are only two ways. One is to study hard and strive to win the first prize next year.
Another way is to pull down the person who may become a roadblock in front of him, destroy the opponent, and make the opponent no longer qualified to be his competitor!
Therefore, Meng Jia, who ranked second, had become a thorn in the eyes of all the educated youth who wanted to go to Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University!
No wonder she was pushed into the river and her reputation was almost ruined by a second-rate guy.
This girl probably hasn't realized the seriousness of the problem. If she doesn't increase her vigilance, dangerous situations like last time are very likely to happen a second or third time!
As long as the number of nominations for the commune's workers, peasants and soldiers university this year is not decided, this kind of frame-up will not stop!
Especially, regarding the incident of being pushed into the river, Ye Qing suspected that the person behind it might be Wu Yueying, the daughter of Captain Wu.
Wu Yueying is a reincarnated time traveler! She traveled back to this era and set her sights on Meng Jia right away. Isn't it obvious why?
According to the established routine of general period literature, if one travels through time or is reborn into this era, one should not be interested in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. After all, compared with the universities that one gets into after the college entrance examination is resumed a few years later, the value of this Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University is too low.
But from the fact that Wu Yueying's attempt to test Ye Qing failed and ended up exposing herself, it can be seen that this female comrade's IQ is a little lacking, and she is most likely a poor student.
The poor student herself knew that she could not get into university through regular channels with her abilities, so it was not difficult to understand why she would set her sights on the place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. After all, since she was the daughter of the captain, she had the opportunity to get the upper hand.
As a career-oriented woman, Ye Qing felt that her analysis was logically sound, but she didn't know that she had overestimated Wu Yueying's intelligence and awareness. This reborn person did have her eyes on a place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University when she came back, but it was not for herself at all.
Of course, no matter what Wu Yueying's real purpose was, the final result was that Meng Jia was regarded as an imaginary enemy by this time traveler. This girl is now like a living target. She may be shot by cold arrows at any time, and she is completely defenseless.
Thinking of this, Ye Qing looked at Meng Jia with eyes filled with sympathy.
She asked curiously, "Who was the third place winner last year? Was he from our village as well? Or was he from another production team?"
Meng Jialue thought about it for a moment and said uncertainly, "The third place seems to be Jian Ming, who is also an educated youth from our village."
Ye Qing's eyes suddenly flashed with understanding: "What is his relationship with Liu Mei?"
Meng Jia was a smart person and understood almost immediately. When Ye Qing asked this question, she was stunned for a moment before she reacted. She raised her head and looked at Ye Qing in disbelief.
Ye Qing didn't say anything more, but the deep meaning in her eyes was almost self-evident, and Meng Jia's face suddenly darkened.
Not caring about chatting with Ye Qing any longer, the girl thanked Ye Qing solemnly again and turned around and left the mill in a hurry.
Looking at Meng Jiacang's hasty and chaotic figure, Ye Qing couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for this girl.
The main thing is that there is no solution to this problem. Unless Meng Jia successfully passes the commune exam and ranks first this time, and gets the recommendation quota, she will get out of this circle as soon as possible, otherwise there will be endless troubles waiting for her.
Similarly, after this incident, Ye Qing became more determined to stay away from the educated youth group. Otherwise, who knows when he will be involved in inexplicable disputes.
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