At this time, two of the former educated youth who had been notified returned.
Wang Shengli said to Lin Xiaoxiao and the others, "This is the village's educated youth compound. You can organize yourselves from now on, and the assignments will be handled by your team leaders."
"You new educated youth don't need to work today and tomorrow. Take a rest first, and then we'll make arrangements later."
"Once you're here, the team leader of the educated youth institute will be in charge of you. If your team leader can't make up his mind, come to me. If you need anything, get it done in the next couple of days so you don't miss work."
"Your team leader will bring you to collect your grain later. Each person will receive 50 jin of grain."
"Alright, you guys sort things out. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
Wang Shengli walked away decisively, his hands behind his back.
Lin Xiaoxiao was getting her luggage and didn't notice Captain Wang leaving.
Wang Xiangyang: "There's nothing to see. Take your luggage down first."
Everyone took out their luggage one after another.
Lin Xiaoxiao had just finished collecting her luggage when the older educated youth returned from work and started cooking.
Today is the first day for the new educated youth, and the older educated youth treated everyone to a meal as a token of their appreciation.
Some of the new educated youth were quite adept at handling things; some cut out a piece of cured meat they had brought, while others took out some white sugar.
Sun Yue and Zhao Xiaojun brought out a pound of pork, Li Mei brought out some steamed egg cakes, Lin Xiaoxiao looked at what they gave her and silently took three ounces of brown sugar, and the rest of the new educated youth also brought something as a token.
After all, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't want to owe them a meal at noon. Her idea was that if the educated youth didn't like to cause trouble, it wouldn't hurt to get to know them.
If they're the troublemakers, then taking this out means you don't owe them anything.
Let each of us live our own lives and not bother each other.
The older educated youth brought out grain and some vegetables, and everyone had a good meal together, taking the opportunity to get to know each other.
Because everyone brought a lot of things out today, we had a very good lunch: pork stew with vermicelli, potato stew with eggplant, a stir-fried cucumber, a green vegetable dish, cornbread, and a bowl of wild vegetable soup.
This meal was the best everyone had had recently. Usually, these former educated youth would eat brown rice porridge, cornbread, or thin porridge with pickled vegetables.
Seeing these dishes served, the eyes of these former educated youths lit up, and they wished they could grab them with their hands so they could stuff as much as possible into their mouths.
The new educated youth were stunned when they saw how fast the other educated youth were eating, their chopsticks moving so fast they were almost blurry. They knew that conditions in the countryside weren't that good.
But isn't the speed at which they're grabbing food a bit too exaggerated?
The older educated youth scoffed at their gazes, saying, "Just watch, filling your stomachs is the most important thing."
Sooner or later you'll end up like us, eating without saying a word.
The youth team leader's name was Liu Sanqian. He used all his strength to put down his chopsticks.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Liu Sanqian. I am the captain of the educated youth team. I have been in the countryside for 5 years. If you have any problems in the future, please tell me first, and we will try to solve them if we can."
"If you can't solve it, then go to the brigade leader. You've all noticed that the brigade leader here doesn't like us educated youth. Don't go looking for trouble with the villagers."
"Also, when we watched the educated youth eat, they all ate together. The women did the cooking, while the men were responsible for the firewood. The rest of the work was done in shifts."
"Of course, you can also cook for yourselves. It's spacious enough here. You can pay the villagers to build you a traditional earthen stove, and you can also get a plot of land to grow vegetables."
"Tomorrow you new educated youth can all rest for a day, and the day after tomorrow you will start working with us. You will understand the rest as you stay longer."
After Liu Sanqian finished speaking, he asked everyone to introduce themselves and then go to assign their respective accommodations.
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't intend to stay here, but she went along to take a look at the place. She needed to put her things inside first and ask Li Mei to watch over them.
Lin Xiaoxiao carried her package inside.
Upon entering the room, it felt gray and gloomy. Fortunately, the room was quite large, with rows of earthen beds. Apart from the beds, there was nothing else. You would need to add cabinets and other items after moving in.
Two educated youths' bedding sets have already been placed in the innermost position.
Opposite these two locations are two old cabinets, both of which are locked.
The older educated youth who came in spoke up: "From now on, we'll all live together, so let's get along well."
Everyone nodded in agreement, seemingly quite satisfied, except for Sun Yue, who wore a look of disgust.
He already had this expression while we were eating, and now that he's come into the room, the disgust in his eyes is practically overflowing.
Sun Yue spoke as if she wanted to pinch her nose and ask, "Comrade, can we move out of here?"
The old educated youth who was called "comrade" glanced at Sun Yue and put away her smile: "Okay, you can go and talk to the team leader to build another house to live in, but it's spring plowing time soon."
"It will take at least half a month before we can build the house."
Sun Yue's eyes widened upon hearing this: "What?! Half a month? Does that mean I need to stay here for half a month?"
"I can't stand living here."
The remaining educated youths looked rather grim after hearing what Sun Yue said, especially the older ones.
What does this mean? They've lived here for so long and are doing just fine, so how come in Sun Zhiqing's mouth it's all so wretched?
“Sun, what do you mean by saying that?” One of the educated youths, who had a rather short temper, felt very uncomfortable after hearing what Sun Yue said.
"Yes, we were living just fine, but what you said..."
After someone spoke up, the other educated youths chimed in with a few words.
Seeing that everyone's expression had changed, Sun Yue softened her words, which made everyone feel a little better.
Lin Xiaoxiao ignored their argument and didn't get involved. Instead, she reminded Li Mei to take the spot she preferred.
Li Mei quickly chose a place that looked nicer inside and immediately took a basin out to clean her bed.
Li Mei wanted to help Lin Xiaoxiao clean, but Lin Xiaoxiao refused, only asking her to watch her luggage first.
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