Chapter 6 The Second Transaction
After taking a bath, while it was still light, everyone gathered around the well to wash their clothes.
Yes, their educated youth compound also had a well, which brought them great convenience, at least they didn't have to go to other places to fetch water.
However, they also have two large water tanks in their yard, which they usually fill with water drawn from the well.
When cooking, you can take water directly from the water tank. Now that the weather is hot, after a day in the sun, the water in the tank is warm when you take a bath in the evening, so you don't need to boil water separately.
While taking a shower, Ning Xuan had almost recognized all the female educated youths.
Besides Huang Xiaomei, another former educated youth sharing the same bunk with her was Liang Qingqing, who looked a bit younger than Huang Xiaomei, but was still 20 years old. She had also graduated from high school and had been here for two years.
Huang Xiaomei has been here even longer. She started school late and was 19 when she graduated from high school. She has been here for almost 5 years and is now over 24 and about to turn 25.
Xu Jiajia's two roommates are 19-year-old Zhao Yulian and 23-year-old He Yuting.
Huang Xiaomei was the most senior among the female educated youth, and she was also a good person with the demeanor of an elder sister. Therefore, they all unanimously recommended Huang Xiaomei to be the person in charge of the female educated youth group.
Ning Xuan hadn't met all the male educated youth yet, but she heard that there were only two of them in the first batch that came with Huang Xiaomei, one of whom was Liu Jun.
The others had long since given up and were looking for ways out. Those who could return to the city did so, while those who couldn't made their lives better through marriage.
Those who actively married and formed revolutionary partnerships with their chosen ones were considered good. Although there were no cases of female educated youth being persecuted in their brigade, they had heard that such incidents did occur in neighboring brigades.
The brigade leader was very strict. If anyone dared to persecute the educated youth, he would not show any mercy. So, some of the bachelors who originally had some ideas were dispelled by the brigade leader's iron-fisted methods.
Ning Xuan was once again relieved that the female lead's halo was still useful; thanks to the female lead, the team she was assigned to was quite good.
The girls chatted while washing clothes, and they did it quite quickly.
Ning Xuan didn't have soap or laundry detergent, so she just scrubbed. Luckily, she hadn't done any field work yet, so her clothes weren't too dirty.
Ning Xuan was worried; she was missing so many things.
However, her worries didn't affect Ningxuan's sleep. She hadn't slept well on the train, and today she was busy with all sorts of things at the educated youth settlement, so she had to force herself to stay awake. After hanging up the clothes, she couldn't stay awake any longer and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
Actually, it wasn't just Ning Xuan and Xu Jiajia who were tired from the train ride and fell asleep quickly; the other educated youth did a day's work, which, although not as tiring as during the busy farming season, was still quite strenuous.
In addition, the educated youth didn't have much contact with the villagers and didn't have many nighttime entertainment activities, so everyone went to bed early.
The next day, the new educated youth still didn't have to work. The team gave them a day to rest and recover. Those who needed anything could go to the town or county to buy things.
After getting up in the morning, Ning Xuan quickly took care of her three urgent needs and then hurriedly washed up.
He Yuting made breakfast this morning. It was corn porridge with coarse cornmeal and vegetable pancakes. They don't cook vegetables in the morning when they're not doing farm work, because cooking requires oil. They've all learned to be frugal.
The flour used for making the pancakes was a mixture of two types of flour, without oil, and was baked directly against the hot pan. Ning Xuan found the pancakes very dry and hard to swallow. The new educated youth were in a similar situation, but the older educated youth ate them with great relish.
"When we first arrived, we weren't used to the food either, but after working so hard and getting so hungry, everything started to taste good," Liu Jun said with a smile.
The other former educated youth didn't speak, but they all nodded in agreement.
Especially those who have only been here for a little over a year, they have already been tamed by farm work. They still feel tired from working, but they no longer have the right to be picky about food.
Xu Jiajia shared her pancake with Zhou Zhipeng and finished her porridge.
Ning Xuan ate two bites and then stopped, but she didn't give any to anyone else; instead, she kept it for herself.
After everyone had left, leaving only Ning Xuan in the dormitory, Ning Xuan summoned the system panel to prepare for the second transaction.
Since there has already been a transaction record, no further preparatory steps are needed for the next transaction.
Ning Xuan directly asked Wang Erya if she wanted more water, and also mentioned the pancake she had only eaten two bites of that morning, which she had torn apart to eat, so she felt no guilt whatsoever.
Wang Erya secretly fed herself and her child half a steamed bun again last night in the middle of the night, and there's still a little bit left.
Although I haven't been able to eat my fill, at least I have something in my stomach, which is much better than being hungry all the time.
Niu Niu has a small appetite; she ate a little bit of steamed bun porridge, making her the only one of the three who was able to eat her fill.
When Wang Erya woke up in the morning, although she was reluctant to finish the buns, she secretly ate half of them because she needed to travel during the day. Even though she had that magical system, she didn't dare eat all the buns until she had other food.
After eating and drinking water, they then familiarly chewed mud with the girl to get rid of the taste.
The main problem was the severe drought; there were hardly any green plants along the way. Otherwise, they could chew on tree leaves, but they would have to be plants they recognized, otherwise she was afraid they might be poisonous.
As the crowd began their journey and the sun rose and the weather grew hotter, that mysterious system stirred again.
Wang Erya quickly used her mind to open it, and then she heard Ning Xuan asking if she wanted water or coarse grain cakes.
Wang Erya was worried about attracting attention, so even though she was excited, she didn't dare to show it. She just kept saying "I want it" to herself.
The flatbreads this time weren't as big as the steamed buns from yesterday. As for the water, Ningxuan used two gourd ladles that she had traded with Uncle Shizhu for one cent when she went to get the wooden basin yesterday.
Ning Xuan asked Wang Erya to give her a copper coin and then trade her the glass bottle as well. She didn't have anything else to store water at the moment, so she could trade the glass bottle for water to her next time.
Wang Erya naturally agreed.
The second transaction ended just like that.
The water had already been scanned, so there were no points awarded this time. However, the vegetable pancake and the gourd ladle each earned 1 point, which was just enough to offset the points earned from the transaction.
Wang Erya used her mind to look at the gourd of water and the small, palm-sized pancake with a small hole in it in the warehouse, and finally felt relieved.
After eating several meals of steamed buns, although she wasn't full, Wang Erya felt that her fierceness had subsided considerably. Now she still insisted on carrying Da Niu on her back, with Niu Niu wrapped in a cloth in her arms and hanging on her chest, one hand slightly supporting her, and the other hand holding a wooden stick as a weapon for self-defense.
Fortunately, she was with a large group of people, and they were relatively well-off, so no one dared to rob them for the time being, and she was safe among them for the time being.
Meanwhile, Ning Xuan continued to pray that the system would upgrade quickly so she could continue to exchange for other planes containing useful resources.
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