Chapter 8 Received a Good Item
The brigade leader dispersed the new educated youth and had the older educated youth lead them in their work.
Ning Xuan and Huang Xiaomei were assigned to a group, and they were responsible for this area of land.
Weeding is actually a relatively easy job, but you have to squat down and move forward while weeding. Plus, it's hot, so after a while, your hands, neck, and back get tired.
Ning Xuan started changing positions constantly, finding a comfortable squatting position, and when she got tired, she would just sit down on the ground without caring whether it was dirty or not.
However, she did use some of the pulled grass to cushion herself, so at least her pants weren't directly on the mud. But after a round of work, she was still quite dirty.
Huang Xiaomei reminded her, "You don't need to rush, otherwise you'll run out of energy quickly. Take it slow. It's your first day on the job, so there's no need to rush to get full work points."
Ning Xuan's eyes widened. "Sister Xiaomei, you think too highly of me. My small frame doesn't look like I'm cut out for earning full work points."
Huang Xiaomei looked at Ning Xuan's thin frame and fell silent. This was the first time in years that she had seen a city kid so thin after just arriving in the countryside. How bad must her family's conditions be?
The others may be thin, but they still have energy and spirit. Ning Xuan, on the other hand, is so thin that she looks like she might faint at any moment.
Actually, the Ning family wasn't bad off at all. Both her scumbag father and stepmother had jobs, and Ning Xuan's biological mother used to have a job as well, so the family actually had some savings.
However, Ning Xuan lost her biological mother when she was young, and her stepmother was kind on the surface but cruel on the inside, saying one thing to her face and another behind her back. Not long after her stepmother arrived, Ning Xuan was raised to be timid, weak-willed, and sensitive.
Whenever Ningxuan tried to put meat on her plate at home, her stepmother would give her a subtle look, and Ningxuan would stop trying.
At first, her scumbag father was concerned about why she didn't eat meat, but her stepmother said she was a picky eater and didn't like meat.
Ning Xuan didn't dare to argue. From then on, she never got any meat in the house again, and her scumbag father just lamented that there were people who didn't like to eat meat, and then he stopped caring.
Whether it was the father's carelessness or intentional indifference, it gave the stepmother the signal to continue. As a result, the stepmother became increasingly unreasonable, not only being stingy with food but also providing the worst clothing and other necessities.
The quilt the original owner wore at home was an old quilt that had been discarded by the family, and the cotton was all matted together. As for her clothes, although city people also wear patched clothes, it was really rare to see someone like Ning Xuan, whose family had both working, wearing clothes like that.
The stepmother's explanation to outsiders was also quite elegant: she said that Ning Xuan missed her biological mother and wore clothes that were altered from her biological mother's old clothes.
When others asked Ningxuan why she had never worn new clothes, her stepmother would say that Ningxuan only wanted to wear her mother's clothes because it made her feel like her mother was still by her side, so she didn't want to wear any other clothes, let alone new ones.
As a result, people just said that the child was pitiful, that he was thinking about his biological mother, and some even felt sorry for the stepmother, thinking that Ning Xuan couldn't raise the child properly.
Of course, some shrewd people saw through the scheme, but they didn't have the time to meddle in other people's business, especially since the person in question, Ning Xuan, hadn't made a scene, so they had no reason to interfere.
Ning Xuan was also exasperated by the original owner's personality; she was just too soft. Although there were some reasons for it, it was still really frustrating.
As Ning Xuan pulled weeds, she thought of the unpleasant things the original owner had encountered at home, and she pulled the weeds with even more force.
Then Ning Xuan suddenly realized something was wrong. Now that she had transmigrated, why should she still swallow her anger and let her stepmother keep her educated youth subsidies and refuse to give her money, coupons, and supplies for going to the countryside?
The original owner didn't dare to take it, so why doesn't she?
I need to find an opportunity to call the original owner's scumbag father in a couple of days.
Having made up her mind, Ning Xuan stopped thinking about the mess in the original owner's family and decided to let her stepmother and scumbag father run wild for a few more days.
When it came time for dinner, there were no flatbreads left, but there were cornbread buns. Ningxuan was very hungry, but she still left half a cornbread bun.
Then that night, she traded two multigrain cakes, half a cornbread, and a glass bottle of water to Wang Erya.
She didn't have a kettle yet, and the boiled water she drank was borrowed from Huang Xiaomei's kettle. She didn't have any extra boiled water to trade with Wang Erya, so she continued to trade raw water.
However, what Wang Erya traded for tonight was not copper coins, but a very beautiful jade bracelet.
Although Ning Xuan was curious, she didn't ask any more questions. After the transaction, she was so tired that she went to sleep immediately.
Wang Erya's hands were still trembling after the transaction was completed.
It turned out that they had been attacked by bandits today, but fortunately, there were a few people in the group who were good at fighting, and the leader was also a good leader who directed everyone to fight back bravely.
The refugees, who were initially afraid, thought to themselves after hearing their leader's words, "Yes, we're already in such a terrible state. If we don't resist, we'll lose our food and money, and we won't be able to save our lives. We might as well risk everything and fight back."
So everyone united to resist, some with wooden sticks, some with kitchen knives and hoes, whatever they had in their hands, they swung them at the bandits.
Wang Erya was trying to protect the two children and hide in the crowd, but suddenly someone noticed her.
To protect the child, Wang Erya quickly picked up a knife that someone had dropped nearby and desperately slashed at the nearest bandit. In a chaotic flurry of attacks, Wang Erya managed to kill two bandits.
After the chaotic battle ended, although the refugees also suffered casualties, at least they had killed all the bandits.
The ringleaders didn't keep all the money for themselves after looting the corpse; they shared it with everyone.
Because Wang Erya also contributed to the resistance, she also received one tael of silver.
She found the bracelet in her panic, and just then Ning Xuan initiated a trade. Wang Erya didn't dare keep the bracelet, and she was also very grateful for the food and water the system had recently provided, so she simply traded the bracelet over.
It was during this joint resistance against the bandits that Wang Erya became even more integrated into the refugee community.
However, she has a secret, so when she rests and eats, she still keeps a distance from others.
Ning Xuan gave her mostly coarse grains, which would be difficult for Niu Niu to eat, so Wang Er Ya saved the last bit of steamed buns for Niu Niu, while she and Dan Niu ate coarse grain pancakes and cornbread.
Of course, I still didn't dare to eat my fill, but it was much better than before.
Over the next few days, after weeding for several more days, Ning Xuan finally found an opportunity to go to town.
She called the machinery factory where her scumbag father worked.
She wanted to ask her scumbag father if a dual-income family with a combined monthly income of about 100 yuan could only afford 10 yuan for her to take him to the countryside.
If his answer is yes, Ning Xuan wouldn't mind directly complaining to the leaders of the machinery factory.
In the fifth workshop of Anshi Machinery Factory, Ning Kang heard a phone call from his family and, thinking something had happened at home, rushed to the union office.
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